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Your Ghost
03:00
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I saw your ghost the other day
Inside my head where I locked it away
It did not have a lot to say
Neither did I, I liked it better that way
I don’t think that I can wait
Another month or another day
So I guess I’ll have to meet the day halfway
I felt your touch under my skin
If I was wrong, well then that’s my sin
I thought I could forget about you
Even though I never wanted to
I don’t think that I can wait
Another month or another day
So I guess I’ll have to meet the day halfway
Well you told me that you loved me
I believed you, now that’s funny
But if everything we said was true
The lazy eyes and the smoke-filled room
What it comes to is I’m just a fool
Who’s burning his time on dreams of you
In a world that’s so ugly
If you live too long you’re ugly, too
If you live too long you’re ugly, too
If you live too long you’re ugly, too
And you’ll meet the day halfway
You will meet the day halfway
You will meet the day halfway
You will meet the day halfway
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I used to know where I was headed
Or at least I thought I did
Chasing love and other glory
Like some pharaoh kid
But things have changed and times are different
And those pleasures have fled
Feeling lost and feeling empty
And trapped inside my head...
There are ghosts of friends and lovers
They carry on and on and on
In this house of special purpose
Where their memory has gone
She told me once I shouldn’t worry
At least that’s what she said
As dreams became tarnished and faded
And that road reached its end
But listen close and hear the whispers
As they still carry me
We are holding out for nothing
In the sweet cacophony...
There are ghosts of friends and lovers
They carry on and on and on
In this house of special purpose
Where their memory has gone
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3. |
You Used 2 Laugh
06:36
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You used to laugh...when I’d tell a joke
Seems so long...seems so long baby
You used to laugh..our eyes filled with smoke
Seems so long, seems so long baby
Now things just aren’t amusing
Ever since you started using
Pull us out of this trap...if we’re stuck there’s no turning back
You used to laugh...sitting by the fire
What happened?
You used to laugh...when I said you were all I desired
What happened, what happened baby?
Up all night...my head is ringing
I know I’ll….never shake this feeling
With nowhere to go...
I’m just a number...stuck in your rodeo
You used to laugh when I tried to make you dinner
I’m so low, I’m solo baby
You used to laugh when I thought I was the winner
I was so wrong, so wrong baby
Now things have gotten so serious
Like John Candy, I'm delirious
Don’t shatter my dreams...Stay up North...don’t go to New Orleans
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4. |
The Man with the E Beard
03:54
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You wore your Evertt E beard for years
And you just couldn’t let it go
Fingers pulling scruff
but never release their grease
Another day of the boredom
Two strokes of peace
If I could seal temporal cracks, I would
fractured skulls and broken time withstood
Cleaning up your wipeouts from the curb
Knowing that nothing’s assured
You headed out to California
With a shitter in your van.
Drove until you saw the water
Your carefulest plans
Absent for three years
It’s a silence we’d try to understand
If I could seal temporal cracks, I would
fractured skulls and broken time withstood
Cleaning up your wipeouts from the curb
Knowing that nothing’s assured
Strange to lose someone you could never depend on
I’m still waiting for you to show up
If I could seal temporal cracks, I would
fractured skulls and broken time withstood
Cleaning up your wipeouts from the curb
Knowing that nothing’s assured
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5. |
New Cedar Creek Road
05:06
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You can’t fit into your old clothes
And you can’t go back to Cedar Creek Road
But you can walk out in the sunshine
And you can lay down in the fields of time
The days pass by at the usual rate
Some things you love and some things you hate
The water’s cool and it freely flows
We follow that river as far as it goes
I’m a man who leaves no traces
I’m a man with a thousand faces
One for every open road
You can’t run from what tomorrow knows
And you can’t repay yourself the things you’re owed
After the hungry and thirsty years
The wages earned in silence and fear
They’ll never call you by your true name
Some things are different, some things are the same
But you don’t fit into your old clothes
And you can’t go back to Cedar Creek Road
I’m a man who leaves no traces
I’m a man with a thousand faces
One for every open road
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6. |
Secret Heart
03:19
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I have got a secret heart
That you could not get to
I knew it from the start
What this would come down to
But I never meant to let you down
And I never meant to make you cry
It always seems to be
The kindest cut that lies
I feel I'm down, I'm on my knees
I’m begging, baby, please
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I feel like I can't believe
In anything I used
To feel was true, to feel was me
I don't want to know
I have got a secret heart
And I did not trust you
I should have known by now
The things that it can do
But I can’t believe myself sometimes
And I can’t believe the things I do
I always seem to wear
The unkindest disguise
I feel I'm down, I'm on my knees
Begging, baby, please
I don't want to know
I don't want to know
I feel like I can't believe
In anything I used
To feel was true, to feel was me
I don't want to know
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7. |
Oversexed Winter
03:09
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Sun casting all the wrong illuminations
feeding the fire of primal elations
it burns till it reaches passing months
the light will fade into the shade
I’ll find a lover then
and I might have an oversexed winter
The birds sing my songs of isolation
voices draft through the air’s frustration
carrying the lick of fresh grass’ touch
The leaves will turn
I’ll not longer yearn
I’ll find a lover then
and I might have an oversexed winter
I reach for some new pages
looking for the word of God
but the only book I find is by the fucking Marquis De Sade
Sun casting all the wrong illuminations
feeding the fire of primal elations
it burns till it reaches passing months
the light will fade into the shade
I’ll find a lover then
and I might have an oversexed winter
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8. |
Crushin'
04:23
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The words he wrote to try and win her back
The envelope he placed them in but never stamped
We gave our love, we gave it everything
We set aside the last of these foolish things
I’ve been crushing for so long
And my mind’s made up now
I don’t want to hurt no one
The amethyst on a chain around her neck
The demons from her past it kept in check
We gave our love, we gave it everything
We lost our faith in this great awakening
I’ve been crushing for so long
And my mind’s made up now
I don’t want to be alone
This lonely road that led me to your door
The redness in the west that brought me back for more
We gave our love, we gave it everything
We made ourselves believe in what tomorrow brings
I’ve been crushing for so long
And my mind’s made up now
I’m just trying to get back home
You know that feeling is so wrong
But your mind’s made up now
I’ve been crushing for so long
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9. |
Savannah Something
04:04
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Hastily assembled from the things she left behind
This world was never meant to last
Running blind with your hands tied behind your back
Now you’re stumbling through the past
Who put your heart on lockdown?
Who started it all?
I heard it was Savannah Something
Searching for the hardest truth there is to find
You have to learn to live with loss
It starts and stops with a single step
If you can make your way across
Who put your heart on lockdown?
Who started it all?
I heard it was Savannah Something
Who set your mind on fire?
Who tore down the wall?
I heard it was Savannah Something
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10. |
Elizabeth Says
05:01
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Elizabeth says that she needs to travel
She can’t stay in a place for three years
Elizabeth knows that she’ll unravel
When she downs a couple of beers
Liz’s fears don’t phase her
In the nighttime when she’s bold
Liz’s tears don’t hurt her
Or so I’ve been told
Liz wakes and holds her book
It’s her answer to a world that’s weak
Over her heart to protect from crooks
She can’t fail like the meek
Liz’s love doesn’t move her
And she wishes on a stone
Liz’s strength it lifts her
And she’s lighter when alone
She sneaks a glimpse into the life of a belle
Can’t take the rationality of humanity abuzz with love
And Liz sneaks a glimpse into the life of a belle
Can’t take the rationality of her humanity abuzz with love
And she releases her false realities.
To the beauty of one sweat night
To the beauty of inextinguished light
To the beauty of Lilith speech
To the beauty that truth can’t reach.
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Professional Person Kalamazoo, Michigan
Five of us first gathered to make music more than two decades ago in Southwest Michigan under the name The Empty Handed Painters. Eventually, that came to an end. With the loss of our friend/drummer/founder Glenn and geographic dispersion, we now make music together online as "Professional Person." ... more
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