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To Hurry Things Along
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There are mornings where I try
to wake up with my head held high
But I suppose I'm not so strong
And there are mornings where I let
Myself an extra cigarette
I do to hurry things along
There is monotony in this
Pretending there are purposes
Behind the things that don't belong
They say that time's a precious thing
You gotta fight, you gotta sing
I guess I think that they are wrong
There is no order to this list
There is no hint or even gist
There is no reason to explain
There is no outcome that is planned
There is no super guiding hand
There is no way to stop this train
One time she came to me in tears
Her voice an octave from my ears
and writ her death inside a song
Well, now I dream of her at night
I see she's dressed in angel white
I smoke to hurry things along
Time is always treading
There is no use in hiding from its song
Life is long and lonesome
So I smoke to hurry things along
Nothing's organized by type
And fruit was picked before it's ripe
I tried to keep it all from rot
I tried to make it what it's not
But it's a game of zero sum
That always leaves you feeling numb
And picking pieces from a floor
While you are locked inside a door
I tried to wrap it in my mind
and even leave it all behind
It seems the best ones always go
Before you get the chance to find that
Time is always treading
There is no use in hiding from its song
Death it may be random
But I smoke to hurry things along
There are mornings where I try
to wake up with my head held high
But I suppose I'm not so strong
And there are mornings where I let
Myself another cigarette
I do to hurry things along
I do to hurry things along
I do to hurry things along
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It's Enough
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I rode the bench in the autumn
I played the field in the spring
I spent July in a minor league
just a working on my swing
I knew that I was a goner
I knew this year was my last
I know my present is future bound
but I'm thinking bout the past
And one day it's enough
And you’re packing up your stuff
And you say goodbye to everyone you see
If you can’t look up
From your half empty cup
You'll never know just what was meant to be
Paint yourself in a corner
Climb way up in a tree
Say a prayer to the fireman
With a banjo on your knee
Row way out on the water
Until you can't see the shore
Sing a song of how dry it was
On the land in days of yore
One day it's enough
Even though it's tough
To say goodbye to everything you've known
But if you can look up
From your half empty cup
You might see how green the grass has grown
Well I can't shag flies like i used to
I lost a step on the path
I could shower hits til I hit the showers
Now I sit down in the bath
Shall we paint ourselves in a portrait
Hang a swing from a tree
I will tell the story of how it was
To you sitting on my knee
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Goodnight, Texas San Francisco, California
Goodnight, Texas is the garage roots Appalachian collaboration of San Francisco’s Avi Vinocur (formerly of The Stone Foxes)
and North Carolina’s Patrick Dyer Wolf.
The band conjures a feeling of a different heavy era in the United States - part 1930s, and part 1860s. The trick: heaviness comes from organic acoustic instruments. In this case, a banjo, acoustic guitar and a 1918 mandolin.
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Portraits With No Color
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God Save The Meat Packers (2008)
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Avi's garage band from the mid 00s. If The White Stripes/Ramones and Beatles had a kid
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Badnight, Texas - Live in San Francisco, The Heavy Metal Capital of the World
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