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Wild Card
04:34
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Wild Card
Music by Nathan Graham
Lyrics by Nathan Graham, Grahame Lesh, & Andrew Erickson
There’s always a story
Of a young minded fool
From back in the days
He broke all the rules
Always a smile
To cover up the truth
Why hold out on the wild card?
Burning a hole in your hand
Digging a hole in the ground
In a vast graveyard
This ain’t the story
He thought I’d tell
He was honest and true
When he couldn’t lose
No more smiles
For the last damn time
Why not wait for the wild card?
Burning a hole in your hand
Digging a hole in the ground
In a vast graveyard
There’s always a story
Worth being told
Every life has
A fortune to roll
It’s like in a movie
As the credits roll
Once it’s over there’s no wild card
Burning a hole in your hand
Digging a hole in the ground
Burning a hole in your hand
Digging a hole in the ground
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The Sailor & The Sea
04:20
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The Sailor & The Sea
Music by Grahame Lesh & Connor O’Sullivan
Lyrics by Grahame Lesh & Elliott Peck
It was just becoming morning
The shadows faded fast against the light
I could see your trepidation
Against the hope that brightened in my eyes
It was just another journey
Never too far from the comfort of your arms
Each return is shorter than the last
Before I’m back out chasing stars
I won’t run when I should be diving deep
Let the current lay me down to sleep
When I’m gone away don’t weep for me
For even a drowning sailor loves the sea
I’ve been left with naught but memories
To give me company through the days
Being left at home can make one
Think hard about the ways to run away
Even in my darkest moments
I know we had no choice at all
Hoping from a distance
That you’ll still answer when I call
I won’t run when I should be diving deep
Let the current lay me down to sleep
I won’t go where you can’t follow me
For even a drowning sailor loves the sea
Keep a light in the window for now
When the stars hide behind clouds
And I won’t wander too far anymore
You’re the compass that leads me to shore
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Good Days
03:29
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Good Days
Music & lyrics by Elliott Peck, Grahame Lesh, & Nathan Graham
One, two, can you come and find me?
Three, four, why are you still standing there?
Sometimes seems like love is for the lucky
But that ain’t me
All my days are losing hours
I feel the darkness on the first of June
If I could hold your hand a little tighter
Would you guide me through?
Those were good days
When the rain soaked our shoes
Every winter I stayed wrapped around you
We might find fortune and have nothing to lose
Like the birds in the sky painting clouds of white and blue
Lately I’ve been losing people
I wish that wasn’t part of getting old
Makes me hold you closer through the seasons
I have my reasons
Those were good days
When the rain soaked our shoes
Every winter I stayed wrapped around you
We might find fortune and have nothing to lose
Like the birds in the sky painting clouds of white and blue
Those were good days
We had fortunes to lose
Every winter lay fresh & new
Every morning were the colors white and blue
When all I wanted in the evening were songs that we both knew
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Earthquakes
04:09
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Music & Lyrics by Grahame Lesh
The storm gathered just out of view
Hidden by the sky’s brightened blues
Wide eyed and dancing, running down the path
We always thought it would last
Storm raged on through
Take a close look, and see it’s true
Flames roared higher, chasing our last stand
Like the storm was fighting all our plans
I dreamed of earthquakes and lilac rain falling down
I saw the waves crash endless without a sound
I heard you tell me,
Without a warning,
All of this will end without a doubt
A storm is coming
Time was never fighting for me
We could never trust that storm to leave
We will have to gather, just out of view
We become the storm, and rage back through
I dreamed of earthquakes and lilac rain falling down
I saw the waves crash endless without a sound
I heard you tell me,
Without a warning,
All of this will end without a doubt
A storm is coming
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Give Away The Ghost
04:05
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Music & Lyrics by Elliott Peck
One night on the stairs
Raised the back of my hair
Red lace on her sleeves in an intricate weave
And a look of despair
“Have you lost your way?”
She had no words to say
“Can I help you find where you need to go?
Will you be ok?”
Way down in New Orleans
The past is carved on the graves
Where the souls, the souls that nobody knows
Are seen until they’re saved
They’re saved
Later that spring
She came back in a dream
She spoke of the living, the dead,
And those who live somewhere in between
In the full moon glow
Things I was shown
I wished her well, but what came of her
I will never know
Way down in New Orleans
The past is carved on the graves
Where the souls, the souls that nobody knows
Are seen until they’re saved
Down, down in New Orleans
A river that ends at the sea
Where it flows, and flows, and nobody knows
When living souls will be free
Lost in the wings of mysterious things
Your candle blew out by the door
Now you roam out on your own
Your spirit’s not chained to this floor
On the last day in May
She stood in the hallway
“Can I help you find where you need to go?
Will you be OK?”
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Coyote
03:44
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Music & Lyrics by Elliott Peck
Tears dry quickly
In the beating sun
Your eyes look tired
But you’re not the only one
This run’s over
What’s your next move?
Are you caught between the darkness and the shadows of the moon?
Did you walk, did you run through this border town?
Did you breathe with relief when you felt your feet leave the ground?
Oh Coyote
Was there a better way out?
Did you stumble through the glass, the gravel & the doubt?
Oh Coyote
From the love of a friend
What is worth risking
For the making of amends?
The light is blinding
The dust won’t settled down
Your heartbeat won’t slow
Till you pass through this town
This run’s over
but you barely got through
They asked for escape and laid their burdens on you
Did you walk, did you run from this border town?
Did you breathe with relief when you felt your feet leave the ground?
Oh Coyote
How did you ever get through?
With their eyes and intentions all centered on you
The bones of your failures are now the dust on the road
You swore this is was the last time you’d sell them your soul
Oh Coyote
Oh Coyote
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Stars Falling
04:11
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Music & Lyrics by Grahame Lesh
There’s a clarifying moment
When it all has come and gone
Just an image long forgotten
From a moment hard won
If I’d told you how it ended
Would you do it all again?
In that moment we saw the stars falling
All the edges had been faded
All the focus narrowed down
But the melody never wavered
Though trouble came around
I could tell the happy ending
But life had other plans
I’ll go back to when we saw the stars falling
I will raise my head high
While thunder plays and gods cry
I turn my gaze to the night sky
And it will be like stars falling
It’s more than just an ending
As the aftermath begins
More than a reckoning
I need to build again
You could walk among the wreckage
And lead me back to home
But my north star will not rise tomorrow
I will raise my head high
While thunder plays and gods cry
I turn my gaze to the night sky
And it will be like stars falling
Where were all my warning signs when I had the eyes to see?
Threw my caution to the wind but it flew right back at me
All the roads we could have roamed, I will walk them on my own
Maybe one day I will live to cross your path again
I will never see the forest
I focus on the tree
So much life is left forgotten
I can only work on me
You left me no direction
No North Star left to find
What’s left but letting my heart decide?
I will raise my head high
While thunder plays and gods cry
I turn my gaze to the night sky
And it will be like stars falling
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Mississippi River
04:36
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Music & Lyrics by Elliott Peck & Grahame Lesh
Back in the lowlands after many years away
Vines long and twisted cast a shadow on this space
Cracks in the foundation can’t support the weight you face
I’m a stranger in a land where we don’t have a place
Faces familiar, unwelcoming to most
I was a hostage now float free like a ghost
I came to make amends with all the family I can find
But a foreign land is lonely when they don’t like your kind
He was a long lost friend never knowing he was wrong
I walked off that land the day I turned 21
It’s hard to keep your boots on underneath this blazing sun
Let the Mississippi River carry all your lost souls home
Made up my mind long before that day
Went north to Chester where there was no one to betray
Takes a child to choose a path, and a man to stay away
But the Mississippi calls me every time I’ve strayed
He was a long lost friend never knowing he was wrong
I walked off that land the day I turned 21
It’s hard to keep your boots on underneath this blazing sun
Let the Mississippi River carry all your lost souls home
Took up a trade so I could send some money home
Found a bed to share so I would never be alone
If I could know for certain I would be satisfied
The past could be forgotten and my hand will come untied
He was a long lost friend never knowing he was wrong
I walked off that land the day I turned 21
It’s hard to keep your boots on underneath this blazing sun
Let the Mississippi River wash away the sins
Let the Mississippi River wash away the sins
Let the Mississippi River wash away the sins
Let the Mississippi River carry all your lost souls home
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Silent Lonely Drifter
02:57
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Music & Lyrics by Nathan Graham
Sometimes I feel like a
Silent lonely drifter
Or maybe a whisper to the wind
On my ear, another year
gone by and we’re still here
Bright September Moon
Thanks for shining on me
Sometimes I feel like a
Freight train leaving Texas
Ain’t no time for breakfast
We got to go
Deepwater rivers, always delivers
Highway songs and rye
Big Hunters Moon
Thanks for shining on Me
Sometimes I feel like a
Seaside vacation
Looking for validation
And some boardwalk fries
To the coast, where we will toast
the good times and the bad
Strawberry Moon
Thanks for shining on me
Sometimes I feel like
A silent lonely drifter.
Or maybe a whisper to the wind
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10. |
We're Not Alone
04:37
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Music by Connor O’Sullivan & Grahame Lesh
Lyrics by Grahame Lesh
I can hear them all coming
All full of gin
I hear all my old friends
They’re right round the bend
But I’ll be gone
Carried on the wind
I’ve been a-waiting
For more uncut gems
One day they’ll find me
I don’t know when
Full hearts
Lead to open arms
Here alone
It can get you down
I’m not alone
Those days are gone, days are gone
Home for a day
Maybe two at the most
Never a weekend
It sounds like a boast
I don’t know
Where I am this time
I haven’t seen you
But maybe you’ll call
I hope and I pray
And I howl at the wall
But the time
Slowly fades away
And I’m here alone
It can get you down
I’m not alone
Those days are gone, days are gone
I never run from danger, dear
It’s easier to hide
Until my dying days have gone
You’re only in my mind
Until I’m found
Yeah I’ll be found
We’ll be found
I hear all you fuckers
I hear you again
Just one more sign
That we’re nearing the end
And the time
Slowly fades away
There’s nothing to say
Nothing to win
I see in your eyes
Everywhere you’ve been
And I know
We are here to stay
I can hear them all coming
All full of gin
I hear all my old friends
They’re right round the bend
But I’ll be gone
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