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Let Me Back In
03:48
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I saw something I wasn’t supposed to see
The kind of future never meant for me
Hope and beauty, god-like clarity
What were you thinking, giving yourself to me
Let me back, Let me back, Let me back in
Just when I thought that I had nothing left
You woke me up from my sleep of death
Your love found me, and I took a breath
All who love must face so many deaths
Let me back, Let me back, Let me back in
Life travels fast on a one-way track
But I can’t help myself, I’m always looking back
A pillar of salt, some kind of heart attack
A life that wasn’t mine, a life I can’t get back
Let me back, Let me back, Let me back in
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Saturday Matinee
03:01
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Another long, hot Saturday
And I’m headed to an afternoon matinee
To sit and stare at a bigger screen
No one at home to ask where I’ve been
I could make a change, I could run away
I could live in my head till my hair turns gray
But I’ll sit right down and get a little bit lost
And find another coin I doubt I’ll even toss
It’s time to distrust my memories
And disregard the sweet things you said to me
For a couple of hours l’ll be someone else
Feel a little something I haven’t felt
Yeah, I think I’ve seen this one before
About the guy who loses his old girl
To help the good guys win their noble war
Yeah, I think I’ve seen this one before
There was a piano player in some dark bar
And a guy who didn’t think he could love anymore
Ill-fated romance and sacrifice
Our sad-sack hero with his heart on ice
When in walks in a love from the past
Good omens, man, they just never last
“Nobody ever loved me that much,”
He uttered that line, and I was crushed
He felt the same things that I was feeling
Damn, cruel fate, and the cards he’s dealing
It was dark and raining when I finally left
All the actors I’d seen, undoubtedly dead
But it’s nice to know I’m not the only one
Who carries a heart that weighs a ton
Yeah, I think I’ve seen this one before
About the guy who loses his old girl
To help the good guys win their noble war
Yeah, I think I’ve seen this one before
There was a piano player in some dark bar
And a guy who didn’t think he could love anymore
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Ghostwritten
04:31
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You’ll hear from me on my darkest of days
In the letters I write just to throw them away
We’ll see each other in my dreams again
I walled you up inside of my mind
To keep you safe from the passage of time
Just one thing I can hold until the end
I’m getting tired of putting words in the mouth of your ghost
I’m living like, I’m sinking like a stone
I’ll never quite, never quite be alone
Scars cut, memories etch into bone
Life is halfway a story you write
A struggle, we’re put upon, obscured in the night
But I keep trying to find a way to you
A diamond in the rough, the lady of the lake
Sometimes it feels like it’s save or be saved
Most times there’s nothing you can say or do
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Toughest Guy I Know
03:13
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I ain’t the toughest guy, I know
I never wrestled death, he never had me by the throat
If courage was buoyancy I doubt I’d float
Ship to shore, I'm safely moored
I ain’t the toughest guy, I know.
I never left my hometown
I ain’t no big shot, never thrown my weight around
Ankle deep in water, and I’d probably drown
Never darkened a foreign door
I never left my hometown
I’d like to give my heart away
It’s a heavy thing to carry on any given day
She made it feel weightless, but I could’t make her stay
Heartache can never be ignored
I’d like to give my heart away
I ain’t the toughest guy, I know
But if I keep on fighting, for just a little bit more
I might glimpse that sun rising on some distant shore
Add a bit more courage to the store
I’ll be the toughest guy you know.
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Ampersand New Jersey
From the swamps of South Jersey
Existentialism and Nostalgia
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