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A Long Way To Go
04:44
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Heaven knows the price of fame
Son of God won't know my name.
As I lie in beds that I have made
From the bricks that I have laid.
Looking back in time
I've been scared and I've been blind
And I've been running hard.
Sometimes fear
Can make the reason in a man just disappear.
And there's a long way to go.
There's a white line in the middle of the road.
There's a time for being nervous.
And there's a time to be alone.
And there's a long long way to go.
Friday night when I get home
I'll pack my things and I'll be gone.
No note no phone call nothing left
Cuz that's the way you loved me best.
Looking back in time
I've been scared and I've been blind
And I've been dying slow.
Sometimes fear
Can make the reason in a man just disappear.
And there's a long way to go.
There's a highway and an FM radio.
There's a time for being nervous.
And there's a time to be alone.
And there's a long long way to go.
Darling all we need is to take a little time.
Darling all we need is to take a little time
To walk upon that line.
We all need a little time on our own.
We just take a little time
To walk upon that line.
We all need a little time on our own.
Oh God I know.
And there's a long way to go.
There's a white dress in the middle of the road.
There's a time for being nervous
And there's a time to be alone
And there's a long long way to go.
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2. |
Fast Asleep
02:58
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I want to tell my story
I want to sing it loud.
How those lonely days
Those blues and grays
Have faded now.
I want to roll right over
The terror of this town.
And though I've prayed
I'm still afraid of waking now.
Cuz I am so fast asleep my baby.
I am so fast asleep.
Please wake me now.
Late at night when the sun goes down
The bottles empty and no ones around
I know I'll make my great escape.
Sooner or later you knew that I'd leave
Won't hear your sorries or you begging
Please don't go.
You know it's much to late.
I'll miss rocking you to sleep.
But you're a promise I can't keep.
I want to tell my story
I want to sing it loud.
How those lonely days
Those blues and grays
Have faded now.
I want to roll right over
The terror of this town.
And though I've prayed
I'm still afraid of waking now.
Cuz I am so fast asleep my baby.
I am so fast asleep.
Please wake me now.
Wake me up!
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3. |
My Only One
03:26
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I changed my story
I thought that you'd sleep better
And sleep you did my love but never in our bed.
And now I'm worried
That I've changed things forever.
My morning coffee doesn't taste as good.
I hope there's ever after beyond the sun.
And know there lurks disaster disguised as love.
My only sin.
My only one.
So if I threw you
God I'm sorry honey.
I'll walk in circles until you get up.
Cuz I'm just some pony.
And you're my doe eyed rider.
Forced to wander around the carnival.
I hope there's ever after beyond the sun.
And know there lurks disaster disguised as love.
My only sin.
My only one.
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4. |
Half A World Away
04:51
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Why do I always think of you
When the worst is over?
Cuz with a look over my shoulder
You're half a world away.
And with the thought of needing you
Comes the fear of weakness.
And a wish just to be fearless
If only for a day.
Following this beaten path
I'm falling more behind.
Leaning on my second chances
Losing what was mine.
And oh
I was looking for a sign.
And there it hung up on our door.
Take what's yours and leave what's mine.
You're not welcome anymore.
Remember when those city lights
Where the lights we could believe in.
And the fire we would breath in
Would lower all the shades.
And welcome in the velvet night.
It had a power that would move me.
And your body it would soothe me
Until I faced the day.
Following this beaten path
I'm falling more behind.
Leaning on my second chances
Losing what was mine.
And oh
I was looking for a sign.
And there it hung up on our door.
Take what's yours and leave what's mine
You're not welcome anymore.
Why do I always think of you
When the worst is over?
Cuz with a look over my shoulder
You're half a world away.
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5. |
Never Sorry
04:17
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Is anybody's soul worth saving?
Is anyone so bold
To admit the games we're playing
Leave us anything but cold?
And I can hear your voice so clearly
Even when I am alone.
Are the prayers I am praying
All I've been banking on?
Oh me.
You were never sorry.
You walked across the street so softly.
Back to Ohio.
Back to Virginia.
Back to the place where my face
Is a memory.
You were never sorry.
84th and Lexington
Oh God I'm such a fool
For starting to believe again
After what you put me through.
And you will chase those city sirens
As soon as day turns blue.
Are the prayers you are praying
All you are banking on?
Don't be.
You were never sorry.
You walked across the street so softly.
Back to Ohio.
Back to Virginia.
Back to the place where my face
Is a memory.
You were never sorry.
Oh this is for my heart.
And this is for my brain
And this is for the three long years
That I thought I was insane.
And this is for the humbled lovers
Who feel that they're to blame.
Are the plans they were making
All you were banking on?
Don't be.
You were never sorry.
You walked across the street so softly.
Back to Ohio.
Back to Virginia.
Back to the place where my face
Is a memory.
You were never sorry.
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6. |
Our Earthquake Dreams
02:42
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In your eye there's a color of blue.
I've never see before I met you.
How they danced in the light
Of those telescope nights.
All alone before I met you.
All alone before I met you.
In your eyes there's a color of green.
All the places that I've never been.
Locked away deep inside
There's a mansion we hide.
Safe to store all our earthquake dreams.
Safe to store all our earthquake dreams.
In your eyes there's a color of gray
Where the color has melted away
Oh were did it go?
What the hell do I know?
What do you really want me to say?
What do you really want me to say?
Stay with me.
It will all work out somehow
You'll see.
In your eyes there no color but white
So I'll choose a color tonight.
When the past is today
In your arms I will stay.
It's so wrong but I know it was right.
It's so wrong but I know it was right.
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7. |
Native Son
04:01
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You say that there's a road to travel
I'm it's native son.
I walked until my soul unraveled
Toward my chosen one.
And swore there was a fire burning
In the iron deep.
But your love was like a child turning
Over in it's sleep
So if I leave tonight
Will you be there first light
To watch the sun
Rise so high?
I heard it in a screen door slamming
In on summers end.
And lost it in a cold room crying
Shake aching my head.
Because of the night I saw
The thunder in her eyes.
As she slipped into the ocean
Silent naked and alive.
So if I leave tonight
Will you be there first light
To watch the sun
Rise so high?
I know that you are softly sleeping
Waiting just for me.
I know that your my heart that's beating
God, who would I be?
So if I leave tonight
Will you be there first light
To watch the sun
Rise so high?
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8. |
It's Alright
03:23
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It's alright baby.
I don't know you anymore.
And it's alright baby.
I don't know you anymore
I won't grow old and gray
With you.
It's alight darling.
I'll rake the leaves up on my own.
It's alright darling.
I'll rake the leaves up on my own.
I won't grow old and gray
With you.
Can't you see the snow is falling?
All limbs so cracked and heavy.
And I thank God I know.
And I thank God I know.
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Anniversary Smoke
04:06
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Seven dollars for a pack of smokes
Seemed like a lot
But I was drunk as hell.
And told the bartender to go fuck off.
He pointed to the door.
No one says much anymore
In the place where you belong.
Evening summers gone I'm blinking light.
I'd had enough.
But it's never enough.
And there I wondered how to let things go.
A heart of ash and lead
Only feeds the living dead
In the place you belong.
By lie lie
By lie lie lie lie lie lie
Dodging sparks down Ditmars Boulevard.
Down to the end
Where the east River ran.
Here a watched a year just drift on by.
Two pillars in the sky
Fell like tears I could not cry
In the place where you belong.
With hopes of heaven fueled by fear of hell
I threw a stone
Into our wishing well.
And turned my gaze toward the island south.
Through this anniversary smoke
Let this river take your ghost
To the place you belong.
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10. |
Long Day's Done
04:46
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Under cathedral skies
Kneeling next to your blue dress
Is no way to say goodbye.
I know that you wish you could
And so do I.
How did it get this far?
It took a sow parade
To remember who we really are.
But I never could find your hand
In the dark.
When long days done
Everybody needs someone.
Who's reaching out?
Who's holding on?
When long long days are done?
I know that I'll wake up soon.
The dreamers always first to go
When the dream starts coming true.
But now just let me sleep
And dream of you.
And I know that you're not there
But I feel you everywhere.
I'm aching for a ghost
The one I thought I'd never need
Now I need the most.
When long days done
Everybody needs someone.
Who's reaching out?
Who's holding on?
When long long days are done?
And I know that you're not there
But I feel you everywhere.
I'm aching for a ghost.
The one I thought I'd never need
Now I need the most.
When long days done
Everybody needs someone.
Who's reaching out?
Who's holding on?
When long long days are done?
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Songwriter Steve O'Connell and producer, multi- instrumentalist Joshua Wentz weave folk pop dreamscapes as Silvergirl.
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