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1. |
Bound, Chained, Fettered
05:15
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Bound, Chained, Fettered
Don’t let it get to you
Loss of known
Accumulation
Taking hold
What’s done
Who’s left
What’s enough and
Who’s up next
Bound, chained
Don’t let it get to you
All alone
Late nights
Phone’s blown
Looking back
Creeping sense
Pump house whores
Discouraging
Bound, chained
Don’t let it get to you
Pooling hate
Tearing down
Accelerating rates
One is the lonely
No room for two
Nobody talking now
Got to learn new rules
Bound, chained
Don’t let it get to you
All the doubt
Catching up or even
What it’s all about
Find yourself defending
Melodrama endings
The permanent critique he is
The rascal just pretending
Bound, chained, bound chained,
Bound, chained, fettered
Don’t let it get to you
What you never
Just because you didn’t
Doesn’t mean forever
Out of fashion
Trains left
Years piling up and
All of the regret
Bound, chained
Don’t let it get to you
Drag you down
Hold you back or
Hanging on the rebound
No harmonizing
Late realizing
Times a wasting
And getting hard to find it
Bound, chained, bound chained
Bound, chained, fettered (2x)
Don’t let it get to you
Imagination bones
All art is failure
Especially if you don’t
Wanting more, who’s best
Nothing done, reject
Who’s wrong, process
Process always suspect
Bound, chained
Don’t let it get to you
For what it’s worth
Adding up and counting
Shouldn’t come up with hurting
Bitterness, envy
What you recommending
Never ever meant too
Still, obsessions never ending
Bound, chained, bound chained,
Bound, chained, fettered (2x)
Fettered, Fettered
(D F# A F# A D)
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The Lowdown
04:15
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The Lowdown
Twist it up slowly three papers wide
Stare darkly out the window maybe go for a while
But I’m not going far why should I lie
I’m here with The Lowdown
And in for the night
It’s not hard to find it you can buy it anytime
Get the download free just click on the line
But I ain’t saying anything
You heard it all twice
If you want to do The Lowdown
You will pay the price
All of the boys do, most of my friends are
Hell, even the folks did but I am the real star
Better then television
I think even then sex
It will occupy you for hours and it’s hard to forget
So hand over Mary
Hand over your wife
Because if you’re going to do The Lowdown
You will start to let things slide
Chorus: It’s like an ocean
A big ocean
Water
Just like water
Plug in the woofer man disconnect the phone
Lots to do later but you know I won’t
Because locked down here it’s a wide comfort zone
It’s easy with The Lowdown
And the heavy bass notes
A corner for it, don’t need more then that
Say good-bye later, hell she’ll probably be back
But knocking down here with a hole in your heart
You put a chain on the door and you get to choose my part
Chorus: Because it’s an ocean
A big ocean
Like water
A lot of water
The essential thing is don’t think
Just move up and down the ladder, don’t blink
Don’t matter much if you don’t do it right
You can come back later, start again and just buy a new life
I sit in my room I do as I please
Stealing the minutes I feel like a thief
Out of my mind, out of control
I lost all perspective; it’s life in a hole
That’s The Lowdown
I got The Lowdown blues
That’s The Lowdown
I got The Lowdown blues
(C# A D G B E)
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3. |
Acorns
04:42
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Acorns
Kissing in mind, maybe more
but this ragged breath I draw is a truth I can't ignore
scared to have to wait, scared to want more
scared to trust the fates that brought her to my door
I could just get up, could just walk away
shouldn't really matter it's been raining all day
shouldn't really care what went on last night
hangs in the air here now ready to bite
somethings gone wrong, got no answers anyway
I'm not exactly a basket case but today's a good day
I know she's a mind reader, she thinks I'm a clown
I know what makes her happy, she knows how to bring me down
we both know how to push hard and do all night and day
we're two of a kind and can't seem to change
Acorns, acorns
She said our luck had run out, maybe even past time
an accident of passion but that it wasn't a crime
she took my pictures off the wall, my name off the door
love letters sent, I found them tattered and torn
now I don't know where to put things
I don't know what to watch out for
I don't know when to hang up
forgot what all of these keys are for
Said she'd love me more in the leaving
and so does a runner in the middle of April
now I wonder what were all those words were for
and why all of them so hateful
Acorn, acorns, acorns
(D A D G B D capo 4)
Antonio - electric guitars, lap steel
Franco - synth
Christian – Wurlitzer
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4. |
Flowers For Claudia
01:08
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D A D G B E
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Can’t Get Back (Just Like That)
It’s an easy life imagination won’t grow
Her silence comes from shadows
An easy life, not scared of tomorrow
Yesterday’s gone, unraveled
An easy life, passing strange
The root of her sorrow
Too young to be so old
And just like that you can’t get back alone
Just like that, you can’t get back
The black phone rings, two times a day
It’s Mother, same old thing
A shivering plain, that eats away
Leaves a blank page, for do what you’re told
The work of her hands, why bother
It’s Chaucer, imagine Chaucer
And just like that, you can’t get back home
Just like that, you can’t get back
Deception eats away everything good
A congregation of vapor
Some might even say reckless
Living that way is feckless
Reckless feckless
You could end up with all of nothing
Everything you don’t need
Living parts would only tickle
Hooked up that way is a beast
Heaven forgetting, spun off the track
The go-cart spilled over
The best parts held back, held back
And just like that you can’t get back alone
Just like that you can’t get back home
Just like that, just like that
(E G# B E B E)
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6. |
Scientific Rendezvous
04:27
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Scientific Rendezvous
So strange got a name
Not sure which one to use
My size and sisters
X-rays offer clues
Don't know what is
The cause of or to do
Just letters in Latin
But ask us we'll show you
Chorus:
What happens when daddies
Do what daddies sometimes do
Real quiet in black rooms
Lying never proof
What happens when daddies do
Do sometimes what daddies do
Years later it's final
Scientific Rendezvous
Quick start, it's a heartbeat
Loud pinging time
Blood flows home, keeping beats
A parade of sighs
Questions years later
Some things are never through
Here now all hooked up
Answers coming through
Chorus:
What happens when mommies
Do what mommies sometimes do
Real quiet, secrets
All in plain view
What happens when mommies
Do what mommies sometimes do
It’s paid for, doubled
Scientific Rendezvous
Double, trouble, years later, it's true
Trouble, doubled
Scientific Rendezvous
(D A D F A D)
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7. |
Signed Blue Angel
04:11
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Signed Blue Angel
The light will guide you to the sweetest
Angel the sun can find (2x)
Calm, if you can be calm
You can be strong
The butterfly will fly you
To things you’ve never seen (2x)
Maybe things
Things better then the world
Your body will adjust
Your body may fly away (2x)
Leaving your soul in charge
Leaving
Adjusting to the new angel may be hard
But you may be happy (2x)
That your body is gone
Your body is gone
I know Grandma was happy
When her body is gone
Calm, if you can be calm
You can be strong
(C G C G C E)
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8. |
Jawbone
04:19
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Jawbone
You dream your dream
And then it’s time
Nobody knows, can tell you why
But there you are
With what you find
The Twist
But then it’s done
You took your licks
You’re marked for good
The limp
The journey’s done
That’s what it is
All of it, all of it
But hold on ocean
Hold on island
Mountain grow on
Ice now must flow on
For the rest of
Just jawbones
Jawbones, jawbones
Back to water and sand
The long road home
Muscle and blood
Sinew and bone
Silence
Footstep
Alone
Jawbone (4x)
(D# F# B F# B D#)
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9. |
Reminiscent
05:14
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Reminiscent
I’m just another passenger, out here on the road
I paid the full fare and for the jug I drink alone
I take care of my own self
Don’t want to worry about you
That’s just the way I like it
Suggest you learn the same thing too
I’m just another rider, moving down the line
Anticipate no problems
Except the who I’m trying to find
Tampa to St. Petersburg, Tallahassee hadn’t changed
Mobile to Atlanta but I could not stand the rain
I-10 I see is still full of a whole lot of hurt
Sure enough going to teach you some of life’s long, long words
Yes we got a situation
Why I did it in the first place, why I ever came back at all
Tracking down some memory now
For a reason I cannot clearly recall
Chorus: I just don’t know why
Was a ravel of a scent
Not enough to go by
But just Reminiscent
Ride the old Dog is steady
It'll get you there slow
With time enough to get acquainted
With the lonely in your bones
But air tickets cost a fortune if you can’t afford to go
And all my friends are tapped out
I called everyone I know
The meter’s jumping lately all the way at the right
Makes you want to holler hide everything you own out of sight
And just be gone
The weathers turned to freezing
It can settle in your chest
Galveston’s been calling
Port Bolivar express
I miss my calling
It messes with my mind
Baby where did you go now?
Why you so damn hard to find?
(D G D G A# D)
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Terry Lee Hale Marseille, France
Currently a resident in Marseille, Hale has been releasing albums for more than three decades. Hale’s work is stubborn and transcendent of genres and deeply evocative in a way that only a true original can be.
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