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She never liked to be instructed
She never dreamed in black or white
She never listened, danced her own part
Head in the stars, stole my heart
Hold on tight, we’re going up
Don’t look down
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Come back settle in my room
Absence leads me to the edge
Hide, Tick tick, boom
Absence makes the heart grow weaker
Come back sweet exotic bloom
Absence driving me to madness
Makes my heart, makes my heart go boom!
She went for cigarettes and pizza
She left the kitchen window down
She hasn’t been back home in 3 years
Still in shock, drown in cheap beers
Hold on tight, we’re going up
Don’t look down
Chorus
She never liked to be instructed
Always dreamed in color chrome
If you get this invitiation
Come back baby, come back home
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Come back settle in my room
Absence keeps me on the edge
Oh, Tick tick, boom
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Left in the coldness of your mind
Lost in young boldness left behind
Left in the darkness of a prison of your own design, this time
I won't be party to your decline
Rage at the stillness of your will
So much to do but time to kill
Rage at sadness, the bottom of a glass of swill, until
You do yourself in or have your fill
Say a prayer for you
Say a prayer for we
Hope you get what you need
Lose yourself in your mind
Happens all of the time
Fraid you're crossing the line
This time
Had enough of your last goodbyes
Giving you all but you want more
Peeling your remains up off the floor
All the hells you burning through, they shake me down to the core
This war
You’re fighting yourself, I told you before
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I tell you the story but you won’t believe
the tracks and the trestles, the voyage conceived
we’re miles down the road from the place where you thought you belong
the dust on the floor, the arena all dark
the virtuous whore in the shade of the park
the fount overflowed in her majesty’s death scene, prolonged
the friendliest faces don’t carry the load
and the gambler's good graces won’t play what he showed
the mother of sorrows don’t base her intentions on love
the cannibal nightmares of somebody’s fears
the old woman’s white hairs all mixed in her tears
the days that all follow from each step remaindered above
don’t say, no, there’s no one inside
raise your flag in fields where we died
pray for ransomed fears to subside
bitter weeds
bitter weeds
we celebrate ends but we desecrate means
the sins of our brothers, such wicked machines
and when it all caves, nobody gets a way out
the lighthouse reversed, all the ships on the shoals
the parallel planes where the ghostly patrols
they say Jesus saves but he seems like a desperate guy
I’ve tried all the exits, I’ve checked all the locks
I’ve paid off my snitches, all working the docks
I know who to trust, but I swear I don’t trust any more
so when you come round and you’re waving a flag
the flyaway boys and their overnight bags
You’re starting to rust and you can't even see the trap door
don’t say, no, there’s no one inside
raise your flag in fields where we died
pray for ransomed fears to subside
bitter weeds
bitter weeds
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So I could come home
Had to leave
So could leave
Had to come home
Have to be
Together to see
What it means
To be alone
There’s no peak
Without a valley
Need to know low
If you want to know high
There’s nothing like
The feeling of coming home
But you can’t return without leaving for a while
The longer I stay
The stronger it grows
I’ve got my roots
But I also have wings
I live two lives
At the same time
We are strange
Animals indeed
But what makes come back
What makes me leave
The feeling fades and I look to the horizon
It’s the time in between where it grows
I feel the pull without realizing
If you want to know high
you need to know low
I see families
when I’m gone
Makes me want
to return
I see roads
and railroad tracks
That’s what Makes me want to depart
when I’m back
Catch me when I’m
coming down
Sometimes I know
I fly too high
It took me this long
Just to figure out
The push and pull is
Part of life
But what makes come back
What makes me leave
The feeling fades and I look to the horizon
It’s the time in between where it grows
I feel the pull without realizing
If you want to know high
you need to know low
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Showin up a little late to the party, but I’m spikin the punch
And I’m crankin the gain
So that the neighbors feel that crunch when we vibrate their dining room table
Would you hand me a quarter inch cable and a piece of wood and a couple of frets and we’ll burn this mother down like a marijuana cigarette
Cause in America you get to regret and reset
Now don’t you ever forget
You didn’t forget how to rock n roll did ya?
You didn’t forget who the fuck you were right?
Child of a slave, child of an immigrant, child of survival the child of a fight.
Showin up a little late for my party but I’m finally here and the word on street is that even though his clothes have disappeared, some people still dig the emperor’s style, but most of us are cracking a smile. He made our great state rotten again, but there’s no use in talking to them. I’m just tryin to get your grandads rocking chair rocking again, cause I’m afraid he’s forgotten again...
You didn’t forget how to rock n roll did ya?
You didn’t forget who the fuck you were right?
Child of a slave, child of an immigrant, child of survival the child of a fight.
You didn’t forget how to rock n roll did ya?
You didn’t forget how to raise your voice and say ‘no to the fraud, no to the lies, no to the demagogue’ rise up and say no today.
Two years is two too long to wait to say you’re wrong, so I took two weeks and put it in song and in two months you’ll be singing along.
Two years is two too long to wait to say you’re wrong, so I took two weeks and put it in song and in two months you’ll be singing along.
You didn’t forget how to rock n roll did ya?
You didn’t forget who the fuck you were right?
Child of a slave, child of an immigrant, child of survival the child of a fight.
You didn’t forget how to rock n roll did ya?
You didn’t forget how to raise your voice and say ‘no to the fraud, no to the lies, no to the demagogue’ rise up and say no today.
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released January 14, 2019
