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WHEN WE GONNA GO
03:55
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We are settled in here like matchsticks
Side by side in this box
There’s potential for explosion
But we are safe behind these locks
We fight the fire that’s not burning
When we try to up and leave this place
We walk on walls like friends of kings
And it’s tattooed on our face
CHORUS When we gonna go
Or are we gonna stay right here
It is the alchemy of soldiers
That keeps us marching to our death
We were raised to follow orders
Even when they take our breath
We love love until we run the numbers
Then we run away from love
We calculate the over-under
But it’s never good enough
CHORUS
Let’s make this dream that we’ve been having
Or we can huddle here in fear
If we just grow where we’re planted
Our roots may disappear
CHORUS
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CURE THIS TOWN
03:57
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Closed up the house don’t wanna talk no more
Not a word walk on by
You’ll never know ‘em ‘til you stand in their shoes
And even then you don’t ask why
We’re not the kind of people who ask why
Pulpits and politics turn us to ghosts
We become enemies
The songbird’s sound can soothe our souls
But we can’t cure this town’s disease
We can’t cure this town’s disease
CHORUS We can’t cure this town
And we can’t leave
We got nothing left to learn ‘cept maybe history
A little science wouldn’t hurt
Nothing left to kill but the demons in our heads
And nothing lost we can’t convert
Nothing lost we can’t convert
This paradise we were promised
Rests in the hands of these thieves
The songbird’s sound can soothe our souls
But we can’t cure this town’s disease
We can’t cure this town’s disease
CHORUS
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HOLD
03:51
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We’re strangers on the interstate
We calculate our interest rate
Then tell a story well-defined
For binding us all to the crime
That we committed long ago
Before the world went mad
We started running far away
Learned to say that I’m okay
But I don’t feel the way I said
We were fed a comment thread
That we kept feeding all night long
Until the world went mad
They say that it’s all temporary
Where we just momentarily
Lost our way along the trail
We’ll course correct when we exhale
We keep waiting to exhale
But I can’t exhale
CHORUS Let’ s put this on hold
Let’s hold on a minute
Before we lose sight
Of the people who are in it
Let’s hold each other close
Pull each other close
Let’s hold
We love the things that separate us
Educate and decorate us
We wear the labels sold to us
Controlled by what is told to us
By heads that talk on our machines
Since the world’s gone mad
There’s this thing that I have found
As I’ve traveled all around
There’s good folks in the north and south
If we’ll just shut our mouths
And hear their hearts in pain
We all want to get out of the rain
CHORUS
When the steeples all fall down
When the king has lost his crown
We’ll gather ‘round what remains of us
Trust there’s something in the dust
That we recall from long ago
Before the world went mad
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COMPLICATED
03:39
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I wanted to say hello
My name is Angelo
Patrolman Mancuso
What I don’t know could fill this whole room
I’m the one in the ballet tights
I’m out here on these streets at night
I always seemed to be starting fights
But fights are not the things I wanna win
You can tell if you talk to me
I ain’t got no advanced degree
But this place got a hold of me
I read philosophy and it changed my life
CHORUS You’re the unspoken premise in my enthymeme
You carry the water for my daydream
I know I am exactly as I seem
But I will be more than that some day
I’ll be complicated
It’s more than sophistry
It’s more than theology
I’m squaring my geometry
So you can see I got me some angles
I feel invisible
Like I’m the one whose criminal
My impact here is minimal
I spin the wheel of fortune and I spin again
CHORUS
I wanted to say hello
My name is Angelo
I know I got a ways to go
I got more to know
But I’ll get there and I’ll be complicated
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THIS HOUSE
03:51
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This house, so divided
Cut, collided
Lights are out
This house, knuckles writing
Poets fighting
Got my doubts
CHORUS On the road to Jericho
With horns marching past our door
On the road to Jericho
I don’t want to live here any more
This house, on the border
Out of order
About to fall
This house, can’t ignore her
Or civil war her
Can’t build a wall
CHORUS
This house, was our debut
Where we pulled through
When we were young
This house, was our rescue
Where our kids grew
It’s where we’re from
CHORUS
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SOMETHING GIGANTIC
05:03
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Whether it ends in fire and ice
Whether or not we paid the price
After we have rolled the dice we wait
It’s bigger than me and bigger than you
It’s the dropping of the other shoe
It’s evolution pushing through the gates
Your profile pic’s our epitaph
But life is more than photographs
I feel you laughing lying next to me
You have left us stranded here
With nothing left to fear but fear
It’s not exactly clear what we should be
CHORUS Let something come of it
Something gigantic
This kind of love needs to survive
Let something come of it
Something gigantic
It’s keeping all of us alive
We fear when we return to dust
That no one will remember us
After we are crushed beneath the earth
But we were then and we are now
Not I and It it’s I and Thou
Love alone allows what we are worth
Even when we change machines
Nothing’s ever as it seems
Left is right and right is left behind
No matter what may come of this
We were built for this abyss
I just want your kiss if you want mine
CHORUS
BRIDGE Lord, let me die, but not die out
Don’t let me disappear
Lord, let me die, but not die out
We’re still here (5x)
Let something come of it
Something gigantic
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7. |
BRILLIANT FALLACY
03:26
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You pull the trigger pushing you to pull that final punch
You punch the ticket sold to send me back
You bite the bullet meant for me
And pay up all my rent
You become all the things I lack
You’re set against the sentiment that sends me off to war
Your search and rescue mission’s losing ground
But you tell me tales of reverie
And soothe my troubled mind
You stay with me all the way around
CHORUS It’s your brilliant fallacy
You see things I can’t see
Oh, your logic baffles me
Your brilliant fallacy
You bought the things I busted up
And brought them home to stay
You populate this house with hope and dust
We tear apart the terror
Waiting just around the bend
We’ve become exactly what we must
CHORUS (2x)
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8. |
WAITING FOR THE BULLET
04:24
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I want good times and you want good times
But every move we make feels like a crime
We broke the rules and you knew we would
We can break ‘em again and you know we should
Thought if I drank more wine and shook more hands
Thought if I’d take more time and take more stands
Thought I would make it to the final curtain call
But in the end the bullet’s coming for us all
CHORUS If I knew all that maybe I’d live free
If I knew all that maybe you’d see me
If we did all that under the chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me
Waiting for the bullet
The story’s all been cleaned and the crowd ginned up
Voices quarantined and poured into our cup
Dinner’s served and the table’s all been set
But we don’t have to sit down ‘cause we’re not dead yet
CHORUS
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GLITTER AND HUM
05:00
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He sounded like lightning
Put her doubts to rest
His words were her thunder
He took her breath
He took her breath
He bought her a train, he bought her a ship
Carved out the ocean
With a diamond and a whip
With a diamond and a whip
CHORUS She knows what she needs
Not his fist or his creeds
She’s gonna push ‘til he leaves
Then she can breathe
He said she was broken
From the beginning of time
Original sin
Was the scene of her crime
CHORUS
She shines like a cymbal
She beats like a drum
She fills us with wishes
It’s her glitter and hum
CHORUS
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10. |
TRUE RELIGION
04:42
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Everybody’s talking ‘bout true religion
Everybody hears the train
They just wanna make big decisions
I just want to walk with you in the rain
I don’t care if you cross over Jordan
I just want you to cross over here to me
It doesn’t matter which train you’re boarding
Just get a seat where you can see
CHORUS I tried your true religion
And it was all right with me
I tried your true religion
We’ll see what we can see
Everybody’s talking about true religion
And man they’re talking loud
They use it like hollow point ammunition
And they aim it at the crowd
Sittin’ in this bar tonight
Man, I don’t want to start no bar fight
I just want to hold you tight
I just want to be free
Everybody’s talking about true religion
Everybody hears the train
They just want to make big decisions
I just want to walk with you in the rain
That’s true religion
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11. |
HERE WE GO AGAIN
04:32
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She grew up hard and early
With her hands balled into fists
She took what she had coming
And not what she had wished
A lifetime of playing the fool
Living by someone else’s rules
There’s a winter deep beneath her bones
And deep under her feet
She can start a flame
But she cannot feed the heat
One log alone can’t hold a fire
Sometimes fate drowns out desire
Well she’ll be here again
‘Cause she’s been here before
Her blood runs methamphetamine
And burns through her like war
She waits for her troubles to begin
She pays the wages of our sin
And there she goes again
It’s not like the movies
Where the hero gets there just in time
Every day’s like Sisyphus
With nothing but the uphill climb
If she makes the rent this month
She’ll be doing fine, doing fine
With the fist of her ancient god
And the fruit of her beliefs
A mind like Deuteronomy
And hands like common thieves
She waits for her troubles to begin
She pays the wages of our sin
And there she goes again
There she goes again
We wait for our troubles to begin
And we pay the wages of our sin
Here we go again
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12. |
WHERE THE MIDDLE LEADS
02:59
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They ask when I’m gonna leave, where I’m gonna land
But I’m rollin’ up my shirtsleeves, cutting through the tall weeds
Got a place to stand
I don’t always line up, with the politics and creeds
But I’m sticking around here, where the middle leads
CHORUS I’m sticking around
In the same damn town
Where the sounds of my neighbor
And manual labor
Are the common ground
Not heading to the West Coast
At least not to stay
I’m sticking around here
For another day
Not sure what I believe, coming off the rails
No guarantees, don’t have a Socrates
Don’t have a heads or tails
I don’t always wind up, with the saints or with the thieves
I’m sticking around here, where the middle leads
CHORUS
World’s not gonna get me (3x)
CHORUS
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13. |
WE INVENTED MONSTERS
04:03
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We invented monsters
‘Cause we’re afraid to die
We put them in closets/Put them under our beds
Put ‘em in our battle cries
We invented monsters
‘Cause we need to be afraid
We stand at attention/Stand at altars
We march in your parade
We invented monsters
They’re all tooth and claw
No mercy/No forgiveness
And they’re coming for us all
The only thing for certain
Is that nothing ever is
And nothing is ever the only thing
We invented monsters
To give our fears a face
We are fragmented/We read the good books
We can’t keep pace
We are fragmented/We say the right things
We can’t keep pace
We are fragmented/We get the good looks
We can’t keep pace
We are fragmented/We blame the bad guys
We can’t keep pace
We are fragmented/We buy tombstones
We can’t keep pace
So, we invented monsters
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WORLD OUT THERE
03:31
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We ride our shiny bicycles, wear ribbons in our hair
We talk about our future, and you teach us not to care
You fill us up with fairy tales, and whip us in a rage
Then you send us door-to-door, to make this world our cage
You medicate our pain, and you educate our weakness
You sell us down the river, and you make us think it’s Jesus
The walls that you build, keep us from asking questions
But our memory’s improving, and you’re losing our affections
CHORUS There’s a world out there (3x)
Let’s go
Here we are, sitting in the margins of the error
You’re trying to convince us, that we don’t have a prayer
But love isn’t shattered by a bully or a fist
And god doesn’t give a damn whose lips we kiss
CHORUS
I do not apologize, for my lack of decorum
I once had some manners, but I forgot where I stored them
Gonna mean what I say, and I’m gonna be mean when I say it
You can lay down the law, but I won’t obey it
CHORUS
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Brett Miller Springfield, Missouri
Brett Miller is a singer-songwriter from Springfield, Missouri. After over 15 years writing songs, singing, playing rhythm guitar, and recording three studio albums with his band Brother Wiley (also known as Mincks & Miller), Miller released a solo album of 14 original tracks, recorded and produced by fellow Midwest musician, Barak Hill. ... more
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