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Rust On The Bills
02:54
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By the light of the morning
when you open your eyes
there's people waitin' on a loan and it's no surprise
now if you get the chills
there's frost on the windows, rust on the bills
dry as the desert
green as the hills
there's wood in the whiskey
and fire in the pills
now hold yourself together
tell yourself it's only the weather
there's money to the north
borders to the south
the great migration of hand to mouth
we're spendin' money with the mobs
harder to do when your loosing your job.
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One Fool At A Time
03:29
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It's 3 O'clock in the morning
there's a pain that wells inside
does it call you by your first name, Clementine
does it burn like a candle
does it sacrifice like wine
you let a pretty little folk song do you everytime
all my stories end in warnings
bored to death of feeling blue
all possessions end in nothing
all I ever had was you
the currency of devotion
don't spend like a nickel or dime
it buries itself in a budget of passing time
so if you loose your companion
to a debt you cannot pay
remember that your lover owes the same
all my stories end in warnings
bored to death of feeling blue
all possessions end in nothing
all I ever had was you
the universe is expanding
but here's the thing about space and time
you can glue the whole thing together
one fool at a time
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Contrasting Lines
03:14
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meet me in the tall grass
I'll lay you in the darkest pines
all I see are contrasting lines
in the valentines
only with the light off
only with the light off
only with the light off will you see me
only with the light off
marry me the mountain
divorce me from the low low tide
every single wave that we ride
is calm inside
only with the light off
only with the light off
only with the light off will you see me
only with the light off
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Thunderhead
02:34
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work all day but it's never enough
car breaks down, gotta take the bus oh no
are you gonna make it there on time
to the bus stop baby
falling in love on company time
girl, you know my love don't cost a dime
are we gonna walk, are we gonna run
into a thunderhead
thunderhead?
smokestacks burn till the summers freeze
don't you know that grass don't grow on trees
if we don't stay, well who's gonna save
our muddy river baby
and if we ever run out of gasoline
we'll have to get by on our own steam
is it gonna burn is it gonna turn us
back in time baby
a thunderhead?
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we both looked our best in the windswept west
we were younger
neither death nor bottle of wine could tame our souls
you never slow down when you're filled with the hunger
but love won't stick if you're always letting go
if the memory starts to fade light a candle
it's ok to howl at a crescent moon
when that shifty old love was more than you could handle
it's ok to sleep through the afternoon
the weather turns again
and the sun calms her down
and the stars reveal no curse
for stones don't throw themselves
all of us got our own bones to bury
no one has ever walked a perfect line
we're mining for coal and working without a canary
and all I want, babe, is your little hand in mine
and the weather turns again
and the sun calms her down
and the stars reveal no curse
for stones don't throw themselves
you're everything you say
you're everything you do
if the weather turns again
I'll be coming back to you
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Shoeshine Blue Wichita, Kansas
Lo-fi, literary, blues, folk, and a little fuzz. Shoeshine Blue is songwriter, Michael Apinyakul, and a talented ship of pirates who follow him into the great sea of song. Soulful folk for soulful folks.
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