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BROKEN SONG
SITTING ALL DAY WITH A BROKEN SONG
TRYING TO FIX IT AND GET ALONG
OH MY MY ITS TAKING LONG,SO LONG
SITTING OUT HERE WITH A PENCIL AND PAD
STEALING WORDS FROM AN ANCIENT LAD
OH MY MY I'LL FEEL SO GLAD WHEN ITS DONE
AND I KNOW ITS ALWAYS WRONG TO GIVE ANOTHER CHANCE
TO ANOTHER BROKEN SONG DO I WASTE MY TIME AT LAST
OH MY MY WITH A BROKEN SONG TRYING TO FIX IT AND MOVE ALONG
WHY DO I WASTE MY TIME SO LONG SO LONG
SITTING HERE WITH A BROKEN SONG
STEALING WORDS FROM AN ANCIENT POEM ANYTHING TO GET IT DONE
AND I SIT BY MY WINDOW LOOKING AT THE CARS
AND THE PEOPLE WALK THEIR DOGS AND I AM UP IN MARS
SITTING ALL DAY WITH A BROKEN SONG
TRYING TO FIX IT AND GET ALONG
OH MY MY ITS TAKING LONG,SO LONG
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As a kid, it takes forever
Days drag on, last for years
You can't wait for tomorrow
You don't know pain or fears
You don't know the value of time
Teenage years, different story
Love is here, and you want it to stay
Count the minutes in the spaces
When you're together, they're running away
When you're together, you catch a glimpse of time
But it flies away before you find
Just a blink, and days go by
Months, years, how time flies
When it's done
And you've had your fun,
What do you leave behind?
Working man, time drags on
Fast forward through what you miss
Working man, clock watching
Stare out into the abyss
Stare out, cursing all this time
Old man knows the difference
Time flies, flickers and fades
Looking back, instead of forward
You know the price you paid
You know the value of time
When it takes a life before you find
Just a blink, and days go by
Months, years, how time flies
When it's done
and you've had your fun,
What do you leave behind?
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I don't know how hard I've tried
And I don't know how many times I've lied
But the one thing I know to be true
Is the way I feel when I'm with you
When the darkness comes to steal my soul
And I'm on the edge of losing control
I'm a sad disgrace but I'm cured when I see your face
I can't see why a guy like me
Could be the one you want me to be
I'm broken bruised and sinking on down
But you throw me a line so I don't drown
On dead end streets and open highways
You carry me through the darkest of days
Not a penny to my name but I'm the richest man on earth
How many times now can I fall
And how many times can I lose it all
I used to be so sad and blue
But I'm a different man cause I have you
I'm a different man cause I have you
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Last night I dreamt a vision
Too terrible to say
What I saw
I will not say
I awoke to sullen darkness
Where I wept ’til break of day
Lo, I cried
’Til light of day
These troubles they’re surrounding me
It’s more than I can take
Are these miseries a-hounding me
Or do I leave them in my wake?
II
Up through my morning window
Rising pure and sweet
Come sailing in
So pure and sweet
A smooth and steady psalm
With which no heartache could compete
No my tears
Could not compete
These troubles they’re surrounding me
It’s more than I can take
Are these miseries a-hounding me
Or do I leave them in my wake?
III
O’ bird slip in my window
Alight on my right knee
Share a song
With lonesome me
And when you fly away
Take my sorrows ‘long with thee
Cast them off
Into the sea
When you fly away
Take my sorrows ‘long with thee
Cast them off
Into that cold and bitter sea
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A little older now
And outta style
Walk along the lonely mile
A fallen soldier
No longer wild
Lost my way along the lonely mile
Saturday you looked so hard at me
Turned away then walked around
Summer breeze that felt so far away
Sun just keeps on beating down
Not asking for too much
Just need a little touch
Rubber legs don’t do no good you see
Keep me sitting way to still
Stationery be the death of me
Should write it down but I never will
Don’t go asking me to fight
Two arms to hold me tonight
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I found your book
You signed your name
Where no one would look
It all came back
The secrets shared
Your mom's Pontiac
And the heatwaves hum
Like the bass our
Heartstrings we'd strum
Your hair, in curls
The blanket tent to
Hide from the world
The songs we'd sing
Those melodies meant
Everything
How your mother called
Til the firefly evening would fall
The Rose Brigade
All those sweet soul plans that we made
Where did you go?
I guess there's just no way
To ever know
The games of chance
The crazy moves we'd
Make when we danced
The secret tongues
The air so sweet
Inside of our lungs
All those words
We knew
Only meant for me and for you
The Rose Brigade
All those sweet soul plans that we made
Where did you go?
I guess there's just no way
To ever know
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When its over will we crawl
When its over will you raise me up
I don't really care for all of the things
that money can buy
Just call my name
I don't sleep
when I'm high above the earth
I don't even breathe
When the wings are icing over
Out of time
Out of our lives and into another mind
I don't see you giving life like you did before
Will you please
Just shut it off for a moment again
and let me think and let me drink some fluid again
I can't hear
All of the names that they have been calling
Why would you fear
When the wings are icing over
By and by nothing lasts forever
I have all but surrendered now
Lay me down
cover me up with all of the ocean
Sing me to sleep just sing me to sleep
I must open up
and spread myself a better flower
For I will bloom again
When the wings are icing over
By and by nothing lasts forever
I have all but surrendered now
By and by nothing lasts forever
I have all but surrendered now
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no reason to post those
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A drop of rain trickles to the stream
Bringing life along the river with esteem
Answer the oceans' call even if its gone awry
Make its weightless way to the sky
A smile when the eyes meet
Hand in hand become complete
Beyond the lust of lovers' call
Once in a lifetime and for all
Both been borrowed both been blue
Brightened in the brand new
Passion's never possessed me like you do
Walk into forever past the pews
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Patrick gives us the assignment for the week. He says: “I'm on my honeymoon and dont have time to think. My challenge is write a song and make sure it doesnt suck.”
released July 11, 2017
