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Tough Luck Times
02:13
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I wanna go back to my school
This quarantine is not too cool
I wanna stroll through the dollar store
I can’t remember what my fingers,
remember what my fingers are for
I wanna shake hands with my friends
I wanna dance until the music ends
I wanna tell a secret in your ear
I’m going crazy waking up in,
crazy waking up in fear
These are… Tough Luck Times
Can’t wait to leave them behind
Tough Luck Times...I’m sure that I’d lose my mind
If I didn’t have you
I wanna sit in your living room
Don’t wanna talk to anybody on Zoom
You’re mouth doesn’t sync with your voice
I’m at the edge of forgetting,
forgetting that I once had a choice
I wanna lose myself in the crowd
I’ve found my voice is just a little too loud
I never liked to be pushed and shoved
I get annoyed by the void, I’m destroyed by the absence of love
These are… Tough Luck Times
Can’t wait to leave them behind
Tough Luck Times...I’m sure that I’d lose my mind
If I didn’t have you
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Know Where You're Going
02:12
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Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
Know when to stop and when to begin
These words of advice are words of wisdom
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
Washing cars, counting stars, tracing your scars
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
Know when to stop and when to begin
These words of advice are words of wisdom
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
Stacking bales, marking trails, telling your tales
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
Know when to stop and when to begin
These words of advice are words of wisdom
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
We all get lost sometimes
We find our way with a beacon that shines
My grandpa’s words are mine
He said...
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
Know when to stop and when to begin
These words of advice are words of wisdom
Know where you’re going, know where you’ve been
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Black Sugar
03:53
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Sweep your stoop
Dust your hood
Do a loop
To see you're good
It's a ritual morning
and nobody needs a warning
Black sugar
Fingerprints
In red and mint
See the tint
of ash and flint
It's a ritual morning
and nobody needs a warning
Black sugar
City cracks
Beneath the stacks
We cross the tracks
For new attacks
It's a ritual morning
and nobody needs a warning
Black sugar
A calm of blue
You blink, it's through
You could sue
But who?
An industrial poisoning
The company finds annoying
Black sugar
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Bessie Delany
02:59
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Bessie Delany was 104
One day she said “Don’t want to live anymore”
She died in her sleep
Without so much as a peep
And that’s the way I want to go
That’s the way I want to go
Right on up to heaven with a tag on my toe
Look down on those mourners as they cry o’er my grave
And sing Hallelujah! My soul has been saved
Now Bessie Delany was a hero of mine
Well educated and ahead of her time
She conquered her fears
Throughout all of those years
And that’s the way I want to go
That’s the way I want to go
Right on up to heaven with a tag on my toe
Look down on those mourners as they cry o’er my grave
And sing Hallelujah! My soul has been saved
Now Bessie Delany never married, you see
Why waste all that passion on the birds and the bees
Her message to you, “Do the best you can do”
And that’s the way I want to go
That’s the way I want to go
Right on up to heaven with a tag on my toe
Look down on those mourners as they cry o’er my grave
And sing Hallelujah! My soul has been saved
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Move to the Mountains
03:57
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Looking back on a lifetime of living
On all that I gave and all I was given
I was born in a Pennsylvania town
I worked the steel mill but it just got me down
I left for Ohio and a college degree
But that life of academia, well, it didn't suit me
The song of New York is always looking for a singer
I moved to the city but I was too young to linger
I thought I'd stay forever for a minute
Got a room at the Chelsea but my heart wasn't in it
I went out looking for the ghost of James Dean
But those Hollywood Hills, they hid a haunted machine
So I roamed the canyons and drove the coast of Malibu
I heard a whisper and knew what I had to do
I saw my past in the rear view mirror
I moved to the mountains where the air is clearer
I woke up from my California dream
And I began building these Northwest memories
The road is long and the road is wide
I'm glad to have had all this time on my side
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Cryin' Shame
03:03
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He was my buddy and my best friend
He was the apple of my eye
He had a real keen sense of humor
And he could not tell a lie
He got along with everybody
And his future looked so bright
But the switch got flipped
And he started to slip
And he just couldn't see the light
Crying shame, what they say
When they sit and talk about him
But they never knew the pain he held inside
Cause when those demons take control
They terrorize his soul
And somewhere I think I heard the angels cry
I coulda blamed his high school teachers
I coulda blamed the booze and drugs
I coulda blamed the kid who snitched him out
I coulda blamed those other thugs
I coulda blamed the treatment programs
They've been through it all, you can tell
I coulda blamed myself
Coulda blamed the devil
Coulda blamed the wishing well
Crying shame, what they say
When they sit and talk about him
But they never knew the pain he held inside
Cause when those demons take control
They terrorize his soul
And somewhere I think I heard the angels cry
Now we prayed that he'd get sober
How we prayed that he'd get straight
And we prayed he'd come around again
Before it was too late
And we prayed he'd find the answers
He'd been searching for some time
We prayed loud and clear
Hoping God would hear
I guess he needs more prayers than mine
Crying shame, what they say
When they sit and talk about him
But they never knew the pain he held inside
Cause when those demons take control
They terrorize his soul
And somewhere I think I heard the angels cry
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Pandemic
00:40
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Pandemic, pandemic
Can't do nothin' in a pandemic
Sit all day on your big fat ass
Have another drink and smoke a little grass
Pandemic, pandemic
Can't do nothin' in a pandemic
Turn on your TV, stare at your phone
Watch your dog for an hour chewin' on a bone
It's a pandemic
Can't do nothin' in a pandemic
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