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Water
03:42
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Father I know in time this will all go to waste
Mother I keep a little back just for want of the taste
Lord if I knew how it feels when we break in the end
Would I have taken so much more than I gave
I'm gonna drink like the water is fine
a little more will be alright
I’m gonna drink like the water is fine
Know if this one taste should prove to be the end of me
I’d return for more after the plea
What I’ve left is less than what you thought I’d be
But I'm gonna drink like the water is fine
Mother I can’t seem to find a way to follow this through
Father I’ve fallen short of what it is you need me to do
Damn this confession and how it feels when it’s true
I’m gonna drink like the water is fine
a little bit more will be alright
I’m gonna drink like the water is fine
So I’m gonna drink like the water is fine
a little more will be alright
I’m gonna drink like the water is fine
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2. |
Tired
03:59
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Sweet temptation Lord done gone to my head
Quarter past last chance to know what the good book says
I hear the choir sing / Lord have mercy on me
After all this time so damn tired of hope
That only serves to shake a man to his knees
One step short of the path laid out before me
All gonna meet in the end you just wait and see
I hear the choir sing
Father watch over me
God I’m so damn tired of all this talk
As we’re led down a path by men who clearly don’t see
Push your words onto me
Proselytize to all you see
Don't question what is
Spoken through me
In touch from my hand
Sure enough all gonna pay for what we believe
As time spent in guilt paves the path I’ll shoulder your greed
I hear the choir sing
Tithe it all to me
All your wasted time spent spreading the word
Of a tired old book you’re too stupid to read
All your wasted time spent spreading the word
Of a tired old book you’re too stupid to read
So much wasted time spent spreading the word
Of a tired old book you’re too stupid to read
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3. |
Lessen the Load
05:40
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Save me again
I know my friend
I know that I weigh you down
I know that I weigh you down
If only time could bend
So much I’ve taken
I know that I let you down
I know that I let you down
Time won't lessen the load
Until I’m gone
Take this all away
My life on you today
I hope that it brings you down
I Hope that it brings you down
Time won't lessen the load
Until I’m gone
So lost cannot see
Time will tell If I believe
I know what will bring you down
The words that’ll bring you down
Nothin more left to break
You give me love and I take the bait
know that I brought you down
The words that’ll bring you down
Time won't lessen the load
Until I’m gone
Time won't lessen the load
Until I’m gone
Time won't lessen the load
Until I’m gone
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4. |
Her Life
05:34
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I’ve got a girl
Who wears a frown
And where she goes
She brings you down
Don’t make a bet
Don’t be a fool
Don’t pick her up
You’re gonna lose
With that shade in her eye
There’s no way she'll recognize
Her reflection in the mirror
Should she choose or so decide
One day she'll realize
My tattoo's on her neck
Oh bad love
Fits like a glove
In her life
I loved a girl
Skin and bones
When she cries
The whole world knows
In her head
She took the fall
But I turned my back on love
No regrets at all
Does no good to wish away
Lost years and what it says
About giving my best
If only what I want to say
Could help to wash away
What’s left upon her neck
Oh bad love
Fits like a glove
In her life
Countless hours days and nights
Regretting what we'd said
Letters numbers emails sent
Regretting what we'd said
Just takes time my mama said
Make peace and look ahead
Does no good to wish away
Lost years and what it says
About giving my best
If only what I want to say
Could ever take away
That tattoo on her neck
Oh bad love
Fits like a glove
In her life
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5. |
Discursive
04:52
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I’ll ask again if only
What falls will rise again
While deliberate intention
Obscures the frame I’m in
What if I
Could show you in time
To follow my
My discursive line
Though these lies
Pacify our need
Surely now
We’re better off to see
I'll pass again if only
What fell can now withstand
As the weight of expectation
Chose the name I gave
What if I
Could show you in time
What’s behind
My discursive line
Through these lies
We’ve pacified our need
Surely now
We’re far enough to see
I’ll let you in if only
What’s left will not condemn
As the water I once welcomed
Conflicts with who I am
What if I
Could hold you as time
Uncovered my
My discursive line
Know these lies
Remain a part of me
Surely now
There’s more to what you need
I’ll ask again if only
What falls will rise again
While deliberate intention
Obscures the frame I’m in
What if I
Could show you this time
What’s behind
My discursive line
What’s behind
My discursive line
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6. |
Above it All
02:59
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If only by the way I've held the lie
True I've been though far from free
Closer now aligned through compromise
Silence hides the want in me
If solely in the way I push the light
Revealing what it is to be
Part of more than what was shown
In these simple views confounding me
From this shift
Starts the fall
As I stand
High above it all
If only in the look we shared tonight
I push this past just wanting you
Tempted by a life gone past
I can’t see the way the others do
Push this down so long as I deny
Use their words to shelter me
Know what’s left unsaid may strengthen
Your view through my complacency
From this shift
Starts the fall
As I stand
High above it all
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7. |
Furlough
05:48
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I smell the coffee on the bus
Feel around for my glasses in a rush
And I wonder when I’ll return to my home
If the band books another furlough
Anytime the breezes blow through these songs
Open arms and take a breath to breathe you in
If only for a moment I were the elastic on your belt
I’d relax for just a second and sin
Somewhere in vacant lots there’s a part for me
A part for me and my Marie to some degree
Some degree of purpose and a baby born to be
A baby who’s born to be
Stop and dust the hood off my old car
Hard to believe a '73
Could purr like this, wish my heart could hum like this
But I’m leaving back to the show
As I passed our old house in the bug
Pause and close my eyes and dream of then
Imagine if I were the perfume on your neck
I’d drip down your valley and sin
Somewhere in vacant lots there’s a part for me
A part for me and my Marie to some degree
Some degree of purpose and a baby born to be
A baby who’s born to be
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8. |
Lines Erased
04:39
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Through experience I’ve learned
How to know before it comes
Awash in what I can only describe as now
Should I have taken time to share
Thoughts complete though wholly unfair
As I vacillate between your need and mine
Will these lines I’ve erased
Ever find a way to
Matter more than what I’ve given you
Through experience I’ve seen
Desire fall to what’s binding
Confliction overwhelming what is now
Feel the sound in between
Time in steps separating
To know you this way and never show
If these lines I’ve erased
Never find a way through
Will you know nothing mattered more than you
Thoughts now fade as I return
Lines erased are never gone
To tell you this way and never know
Absent the sound in between
Time lost contemplating
Truth felt in ways we’ll never share
If these lines I’ve erased
Ever find a way through
Know that I intended them for you
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Elk Creek Cincinnati, Ohio
Elk Creek’s sound is rooted in the singer-songwriter style of artists like Neil Young, Ryan Adams, Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, and Iron and Wine. On top of that, rock and blues influences such as Blind Melon, Two Gallants, and Sonny Boy Williamson shine through. ... more
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