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Out of time
This is my last call home
It’s a dream
to fall back to
safe spaces
where you never change.
Where soft delusions
tell you you
never have to
feel any pain.
Don’t lose yourself
in distant seclusion.
Keepers of the truth
never walk alone.
Out of time,
I’m done with confusion.
This is my
last call home.
It’s a dream
to find easy
answers on either
end of a gun.
Never forget what
made you you
and how we lived
in defense of love.
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A few hours west of the City line
About 200 miles as the crow flies
Your family farm up on that hill
A place that made time stand still
Where Saturday nights on the outskirts of town
and ways of life were hand-me-downs
Every sunrise let you know where you stand
There was love in this land
But time made other plans
In time you’ll understand
How much love was in this land
Now we’re taking one last drive tonight
To say one long last goodbye
To the land that held your family name
Thru an America getting auctioned away
By a world designed with no stop just go
That knows you never miss what you never know
That’s counting on you to forget where you stand
And all the love in this land
When the radio starts playing favorite songs
You can’t help (but) wonder, 'where did we go wrong?'
The moms and dads pass’d away
The kids flew away on the interstate
The farm is now in other hands
It’s up to you to still give a damn
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angel let down
04:08
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Don't waste time on love with no return
Two sides always makes a third
In the end the sole unknown
is the worth of words
Don't waste time on love with no return
I wanted that you found release
I wanted you lived in peace
Instead the world turned its back
On everything you believe
I wanted that you found release
An angel let you down
Tired of the work
Made a break for it, slipped town
No brakes no sound
Left no trace no doubt
Your angel let you down
There are no permanent stars
Nothing points us back to the start
No use for home
where you (always) lose who you are
There are no permanent stars
It's not on you, It's not on me
Light’s what's blocked by what we see
Things as they are (against)
Things as they should be
It's not on you, it's not on me
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All those years with you on the edge of a knife,
so many dark days set the sun on lost nights.
I hope the great beyond buries the reasons why,
and you spend your life emanating light.
Better a broken heart than a wasted soul.
Better to walk away than to cede control.
Better to be ripped apart
than forever fixing holes.
Better a broken heart than a wasted soul.
I saw you leave; you had no fear,
just calm and faith and courage beyond your years.
Carry on as the wind that carries your tears,
and on the other side of goodbye I’ll reappear.
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lonesome faraway sounds
03:16
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distant cries
of cracked-down souls
trapped underground
church bells at dawn
ringing for ones
silenced by crowds
[ch.]
high lonesome faraway sounds
filtered through the air
echoing off clouds
lost frequencies explain
the essence that remains
high lonesome faraway sounds
could be something coming
up through the earth or
falling from the sky
warning calls to stay away
no need to amplify
[ch.]
through a cone of confusion
lateral diffusion
jets descend overhead
truth blown by the wind
trains coming round the bend
you know how these stories end
[ch.]
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Sing a song for life in the morning
As the sunrise waltzes through leaves
Let all the anger and pain
And destructive refrains
Dissolve into your dreams
Maybe we’ll wake up
It’s time we wake up
Maybe we’ll wake up
Wake up time
The first thing you see before you open your eyes
Is the truest reflection of you
One day the first thing we’ll know
is a sunrise so slow
And a world renewed
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all the dreams have been blamed
all the sources have been named
there’s no hiding in the shadows anymore
all the ‘steins have been ‘stained
all the acid has been rained
there’s no overriding the code
[ch]
we’re on the other side of the end
with no trace no chance to defend
the true meaning of our being, friends
on the other side of the end
the simulation reset
everyone’s free to forget
all the ways we used to agree
and the lines of least resistance
destroyed by destroying
all the ways water courses to the sea
easy to miss when everything’s not right
the signs can hide in plain sight
[ch]
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