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Home on the Range
05:45
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Take shape
and run from my tongue
My body is broken
and there's work to be done
I hear the whisper
in my belly and lungs
So I drink the potion to unleash the flood
On this grey highway
it seems I've lost the trail
Burned out this machine
it was destined to fail
I'll push it over
and break me a paint
Lope towards the river
where I know she waits
She's home in the garden
serenading soil
Stirring a tincture
of wildflower oil
She chants to the canyon
howling me home
In the flash of the morning
Where the Buffalo Roam
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Cairo
04:57
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Green skies over Memphis
black sludge in New Orleans
Ghost towns in the delta
broken hearts in Tennessee
Bathe my love in muddy water
warm snakes in the weeds
If the hydra takes the throne
I'll steal some land for you and me
When there's no hope for California
to Cairo I'll disappear
Pharaoh of the Mississippi
king of the final frontier
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Man's Best Friend
04:06
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Ain't like my dreams are coming true
may as well waste an afternoon
Stare while morning glories bloom
let the fog burn off to blue
I'll swallow some sun
filtered through the smog
there's nothing in my head just a little sense of dread
Dip my paw in mud and wine
meditate on power lines
Phone cut off for three days now
wish I had a plot to plow
tomatoes on the vine
linens on the line
a family to feed through this ugly misery
Now fear
no way to crawl back out
Hung dry
no shadow of a doubt
In my worried mind
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Road, Kill
03:29
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I got it out of my system
fruit stand mystics, gas station roses
Sweat it out on blank pages
cocktail napkins with lipstick traces
Asked the binary sages
burned a hundred, felt no changes
Heard the eagle scream
Licked my wounds clean
Road, Kill my pain
Lonesome, On'ry, and Mean
Saw your ghost on the highway
skin and bones clutching that bouquet
Threw a famous look my way
a little luck for that mangy stray
Dreamed your name in a tattoo
while I was burning bushes just for someone to talk to
Walked a crooked mile
put my guts on trial
Walked a crooked mile
green eyes high and wild
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Tire Fire
04:32
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I could make the river home
Throw the dog a bone and grow my own
I could get to know your soul
Watch your mind unfold and just get old
A nightly sunset stroll
Among the catacombs and garden gnomes
Then we'll cozy up around a tire fire
And watch the ashes float across the sky
I'll torch and till the the land
If you'll take the simple hand of a well fed man
In a mansion made of tin
We'll wash away our sins in bathtub gin
I got a michelin star chef
To cook your crystal meth, so get some rest
Then we'll cozy up around a tire fire
And watch the ashes float across the sky
Cause peace ain't hard to find
If you're willin to unwind
With an arsenal and a bunker in the barn
No peace ain't hard to find
If you paint your own road sign
"private land we don't call 911"
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Retrograde > Big Sky
09:29
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Build yourself a shrine
to stare at when you're stoned
Cloth from foreign lands
pictures of your home
Light your sacred heat
travel through the flame
Red wine weeks gone bad
killers for your pain
Blame it on your name
It's how you became
Lit up like a disco ball
hanging by a thread
Holy Water, Holy smoke
boiling in your head
Left for dead in a living room
a failed attempt to swoon
So honey, bottle up and go
drown them baby blues
Blame it on the moon
You goddamn fool
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Lay me down on broken wings
Wash my feet with gasoline
Strip my bed of every stricken sheet
and let me slide
To Big Sky
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Drone on the Range
04:38
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Morning came
and on her breast
my poor skull was laid to rest
She struck me down
the night before
To rest in her arms
could I ask for more?
Wrecked my brain
the whole night through
Sang "I Only Have Eyes for You"
an eastern room
a cactus bloom
and those waking eyes would be my tomb
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Cowboy Stuff
05:35
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I gotta find a place to stay
Til something better comes my way
But I tend to roam and my friends are all knocked up
I'd like to write the word someday
But it's easier to run away
And the less I work the less I want to
And the Hydra's out on the campaign trail
But I see no chosen king to end this tale
And when the big one hits the bay
And I watch the city melt away
There's always Montana
Down on luck cowboy stuff
Get high and spin roses and skulls
Call my boys and cook up a plan to
Rob a bank before it's too late
Blow it all and float in space
And comedown slow beside a swimming pool
And as I recline in the sky
I see her blue veins going dry
But if it all turns out to be
A simulated reality
There's always Montana
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