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Wildflower
02:53
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WILDFLOWER
Something down the road didn't happen yet Something you'd forget
Like that night in the shower
You got that tattoo on your lower back
You said you'd regret In a month or an hour
Don't speak too soon
You might lose your breath or your fear of death
Or the way that you went to your mother's house
After you ran out on me while I
Was in the shower
I'm stuck here still
Like a wildflower on the side of the highway
Your fingers grip the wheel
As you're pullin out your parents driveway
You're staring down the road
Burying your heart in the ash tray
You think it's gonna grow
Like a wildflower on the side of the highway
You got stopped by the cops putting lipstick on
For the junior prom
You looked so pretty he let you off
You always said that it creeped you out
And it let you down
And it made you think less of the law
We can sleep on the floor cause you're scared of heights
And you see yourself turning into your mother
I'll sleep on the floor facing your headlights
on a school night
i'll be outside your front door
I'm stuck here still
Like a wildflower on the side of the highway
Your fingers grip the wheel
As you're pullin out your parents driveway
You're staring down the road
Burying your heart in the ash tray
You think it's gonna grow
Like a wildflower on the side of the highway
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2. |
Lace
04:29
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She is the one with the diamond colored smile
Raspberries dripping from her lips
Sapphires and rubies between her hips
She never cared for lovers of old
She never cared for diamonds or gold
She admires the friend that keeps her from the edge
Side of the tracks at 3 AM while the others dangle their feet off the yellow ledge
She was too scared of the fall
She was too scared of it all
Tying lace around her neck like the chains around her thighs
There’s mace behind her back and there’s blood behind her eyes
She says tell me about all the things that I can never be
When all I wanted was to be a little bit free
It won’t be long ‘til she’s walking into the pool in her white dress and her satin shoes
Yelling this is the life that I happen to be living
But it ain’t what i choose
She is the one with the flowers in her eyes
Her silk billowing over the river
All you can do is stand there and shiver She wasn’t scared of the fall
She wasn’t scared at all
Tying lace around her neck like the chains around her thighs
There’s mace behind her back and there’s blood behind her eyes
She says tell me about all the things that I can never be
When all I wanted was to be a little bit free
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3. |
Chains
01:11
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4. |
Just As Well
05:23
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JUST AS WELL
Their bodies lost borders and night lost it's dark
In the cold heat of winter their hearts hit their marks He said I may be strong
But be gentle, I'm weary and low
She laid beneath him and sometimes she cried
and said baby this love makes me terrified
My heart is so dark and my candle blew out long ago
He said it's useless to mention cause it's not your fault
But you told me that you'd never leave me is all
And I told you that I couldn't lay beside anyone else
But please love another, and love her just as well
Oh, please, find another, and love her just as well
She never favored sleeping alone
Although he didn't mind being there on his own
'Till he saw a strand of hair on the place where she once laid her head
He said it's useless to mention cause it's not your fault
But you told me that you'd never leave me is all
And I told you that I couldn't lay beside anyone else
But please love another, and love her just as well
Oh, please, find another, and love her just as well
He said it's useless to mention cause it's not your fault
But you promised that you'd never leave me is all
And I told you that I couldn't lay beside anyone else
And she said, you'll move right along in your time
Love me fiercely forever and all will be fine
But please love another, and love her just as well
Oh, please, find another, and love her just as well
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5. |
Bloody Money
03:54
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BLOODY MONEY
Hold on to your resolve
And your leather book of lies you tell yourself to sleep at night
I hope you choke on the smoke and the smog
While you tell all the parishioners stand up and fight the good fight
It's a vicious cycle, it's a cheap suit wearing sisyphis it's just people, it's their way
Do you people got the guts to say—
I don't want your bloody money
You sell your souls and say it's us who need redemption, ain't it funny
You lick it up, that bloody money bloody money bloody
Sweat and simmer and seethe
You repeat the words, you play the part
Watch the bullet hit the heart
Sit and heel and take what you receive
Puppets in the darkest little comedy we've ever seen
It's funny and its tragic
It's disgusting, somehow beautiful so we cant look away and
It's spineless, you can never say
I don't want your bloody money
You sell your souls and say it's me who needs salvation in the land of milk and honey, just look at all that
Bloody money bloody money bloody
Snorting lines of teenage tears
Watch them lose their golden years watch the headlines feel no shame taking money, not the blame
Call me the one thats blind
But we both see the bodies left behind
Because of all the bloody money
You wash your hands but
You're still spoiled to the core All the souls what is it for?
The bloody money bloody money bloody
You don't remember all their names
You turn your face and take your pay
The bloody money bloody money bloody
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6. |
Muscle Memory
03:49
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MUSCLE MEMORY
Clenching your fists on the wheel
Saying it's fine, hold my hand, say you're mine
Reflexes kick in, my ex lover's words from your mouth
Baby you're okay
We're okay
The song that plays on as the titanic sinks
The look in your eye when you're lost in your drink
The anchors ain't sinking, we're drifting to sea
When saying I love you becomes muscle memory
Muscle memory
Fingers they fumble for answers
Push down the keys like it's nothing to me
Saying i'm sorry, i play to make up
Make the call take the fall and wake up
Baby wake up
The feeling you get when it hurts just to be
Letting the ocean just push and pull me
The anchors ain't sinking we're drifting to sea
When saying I love you becomes muscle memory
I can keep saying it's fine but it won't break the tide
And it won't make you mine
I could keep lying to you but we both know it's true
That all that we do is muscle memory
Muscle memory
Muscle memory
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Mel Bryant & the Mercy Makers Nashville, Tennessee
heart breakin' soul shakin' indie rock band comprised of lovers and friends making songs for their lovers and friends.
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