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Little Animal
03:32
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Took the red eye from London into Frankfurt
Spent the night in the red light district and we
Had a suspicion, that we were begin followed
Though we're all being tailed by the person we wish we could be
Played so many nights it felt like a huricane
Drank enough to fill a diesel tank or two
Though everything has already been said
Well that doesn't mean it isn't true
Go to sleep Little Animal
Take your time to find your grove
You may feel as if we never change
When that's all we ever really do
Had our first day off in a fortnight
I can tell by the waning of the moon
Ate enough to enter hibernation
turned our hotel room into a literal cocoon
I feel the world seep through my soles every time it rains
You're a fool and I don't mind telling you
Even when your feet are soaking wet
You can't walk this path in someone else's shoes
Go to sleep Little Animal
Take your time to find your grove
You may feel as if we never change
When that's all we ever really do
Well the nights, they eventually turn to mornings
And the mornings get written into songs
And those songs, they merge into a medley
That tells the story of the journey that we're on
Go to sleep Little Animal
Take your time to find your grove
You may feel as if we never change
When that's all we ever really do
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2. |
Love Me Like a River
03:29
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Dark as the night time
Close as you can
Fierce as an animal with the hunger for expanse
You gotta love me like only a woman can
Sewn like seduction
Stitched in by hand
Born with veracity, a seditionary trance
You've gotta love me as only a woman can
You've gotta love me all that I can stand
Love me like a river runs through your hands
Hold me like the only thing you'll ever understand
Speak to me in shadows revealing light
Be the fire that burns away the layers of my mind
Love me like a river
Burns like a wildfire
Ravaging the land
Hot like destruction raving from the devils hand
You've gotta love me, oh you've gotta love me like a man
You've gotta love me all that I can stand
Love me like a river runs through your hands
Hold me like the only thing you'll ever understand
Speak to me in shadows revealing light
Be the fire that burns away the layers of my mind
(x2)
Backing vocals:
Oh hold me down
Wash over me
Strike the shore
Then recede
Color you sideways, you color me black and blue
I'll shake your ground and you won't know what hit you
I'll be a circle, you be whatever you choose
You let me shapeshift you can taste this voodoo
Dark as the nighttime, close as you can
Fierce as an animal with a hunger for expanse
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3. |
Roots
03:40
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Have you ever seen the spring
In East Tennessee
Where the wildflowers all start popping up
The best damn blues
I've ever heard
You won't find in any back alley club
I've got roots here, but this is not a place I know
Just arrived this morning on an April Breeze
Country roads can't take you home
When you've got no home to go to
The more I move the less I need
On this winding road
We're rolling stones
Chasing the summer down the coast
Feet up on the dash in the passenger seat
A long way from home
There's not much we know
Just watching life as it unfolds
If you love yourself you've gotta set yourself free
Set yourself free
Rest stops in Birmingham
Gambling by the sea
Won 25 plays at the Scarlet Pearl
While up on LSD
The west is where I cut my teeth
The east is where I lean
I'm a northbound train but these southern winds
Have a hold on me
I've got roots here, but this is not a place I know
Just arrived this morning on an April Breeze
Country roads can't take you home
When you've got no home to go to
The more I move the less I need
On this winding road
We're rolling stones
Chasing the summer down the coast
Feet up on the dash in the passenger seat
A long way from home
There's not much we know
Just watching life as it unfolds
If you love yourself you've gotta set yourself free
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4. |
Roads
03:44
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Roads, marrow of stone
Purveyors of all that we thought that we know
Cousins of dirt in the fortress of time
Divided by none sans a small yellow line
Roads, the makers of dreams
In a world where nothing is as it seems
The wheels they spin, in the mud of belief
What's in too deep will come apart at the seems
Still we ride on
Through the wind and the storm
Through the reckless unknown
The broken and bold
Still we dive in
To the depths of the dark
On a promise of stars
We have what we hold
This life on the road
Bound by the ghosts of the night
In the towns that are harrowed by time
Enwrapped within rhythm but lost without rhyme
The feast and the fast are our last links to life
Still we ride on
Through the wind and the storm
Through the reckless unknown
The broken and bold
Still we dive in
To the depths of the dark
On a promise of stars
We have what we hold
This life on the road
(x2)
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5. |
Reckless
04:17
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Reckless, I've always been reckless
With my women, my money and my time
Always crawling out of a pitfall of desire
When the world is burning down
I can't help but stoke that fire
Restless, I've always been restless
Heart built to love but a soul on the run
Never staying long, always chasing that sun
Body count is rising and I'm holding a smoking gun
Always on the run, Refusing to lay low
How was I to stick around, My home was on the road
Always with the wind though, Living to get by
Never giving two licks about the passing of time
Hard times, Good times
We'll take them either way
All that really matters
Is who you're with at the end of the day
Tested, Lord knows we've been tested
Yet emerged through the pleasure and the pain
Not entirely unscathed, to the treasure goes the brave
Don't it feel too good, to be mutually insane
Always on the run, we choose when to lay low
How are we to stick around, our home is on the road
Always with the wind though
Living to get by
Never giving two licks, about the passing of time
Hard times, Good times
We'll take them either way
All that really matters
Is who you're with at the end of the day
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6. |
Tricky Love
01:57
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Love is a tricky little thing
Bends you over the sofa
Eat your heart out girl
It makes you want to scream
Its also a marching band
Its the beat, its the rhythm
Its the synapses firing within our hand
It opens you like a flower
In the warm receipt of spring
Often times of power
Loose their tone, but keep their ring
Love is a harrowing dream
Its illusion and wonder and darkness
Wrapped all up as the same thing
To share in a lucid being
You can run, you can hide
But avoidance is admittance of the thing
It opens you like a flower
In the warm receipt of spring
Often times of power
Loose their tone, but keep their ring
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7. |
Better Land
03:59
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Some come from riches
Some are born off the fruit of their hands
While others are formed in factories in search of a better land
Oh we move as a mountain
And will not tremble at the weight of our plans
All and all we scan the horizon
In search of a better Land
All together we are an orchard
Bursting through the ruble of hate
We are fragile, oh so fragile
It is our greatest strength
And we'll build it not in our image
But in who we plan to be
We'll have room to grow these seeds we've sown
Stretching outwards towards the breach
Gather your love, shine your light
Be the first morning rays after a long dark night
Join your hands, open your heart
It's just one small step, but hell that's how all the big things start
It is here, not in the future
But within our outstretched reach
All the brave and crazy among us
Are howling at the moon and stomping or feet
Just as the restless must always find a place
To lay their heads down to sleep
So do the leapers living within us
See themselves in the eyes of the righteous indeed
Its either all are in or none of it
Is worth it's weight in salt
We're just vessels for cosmic exploration
Wondering if we'll finally answer the call.
To gather your love, shine your light
Be the first morning rays after a long dark night
Join your hands, open your heart
It's just one small step, but hell that's how all the big things start
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8. |
Strange
04:32
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9. |
Pin Up
03:56
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I got my morals pinned up against the wall
Though they’ve grown since I first came from birth
I dare not let them fall for if I
Wish to have something beautiful and real
Then in patience I will build a home and to consciousness I’ll yield
Like a ship brought home from sailing by breeze upon the bay
Oh I’ll do my best to try and help you stay
I dreamt so much that my life’s become a dream
Yeah the people that surround me are the carriers of peace for in
Every moment we are who we’ve become
Our existence can be brighter than a mid day summer sun
And as a weary lonesome traveler who’s bonded to the road
I’ve seen in you a place I could call home (x2)
Oh you must let her go though you’ve got more soul than you know what to do with
Oh lord love is the hardest game around
But it’s the only one in town that I’m willing to lose
But I won’t lose
No I won’t lose
Communication is often times the key
To a door towards another world I very seldom see
And though our lives are more like rain upon a sidewalk full of chalk
I’d still learn another language so if only we can talk and as a
Weary wounded soldier come home after the war
I’m hoping that my key unlocks your door
Yes I’m hoping that my key unlocks your door.
Oh you must let her go though you’ve got more soul than you know what to do with
Oh lord love is the hardest game around
But it’s the only one in town that I’m willing to lose
But I won’t lose
No I won’t lose
When I got you
I can’t lose
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10. |
Any Of It With You
03:03
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They say time waits for no man
That's why I've gotta take my licks and get my kicks in
While I still can
You can try to make it better
You can try to make right
When it really comes down to it
You only have one life
And you can't take any of it with you X4
Oh they say love
It ain't gonna save you
From the outside honey it only acts as a band-aide
From the inside there's nothing you can do
You can try to make it better
You can try to make right
They say the ones that love the most
They live the fullest life
And you can't take any of it with you X4
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11. |
Welcome Home
03:29
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I started in this world, born to play a part
Just a reckless child with handguns
Shooting blanks into the dark
Searching for that spark
Like marbles in a sand storm
Or ice under the heat
I was transfixed upon the cave walls
Thinking all I was, was all I'd ever be
I was so lost
So lost
Emerging from the darkness
I imagined my future wife
She was imminent and faceless
And engulfed in radiant light
That refracted as in diamonds
Yeah it crashed upon my shore
I'm not the smartest man I know
But of this one thing I am oh so sure
It was you
I didn't know it at the time
But it was you
I've always been quite suborn
Yeah my mama would tell you so
I've got a laundry list of other traits
That aren't endearing as I'd hoped
There's still so much that I don't know
Yet you handle me like sheepskin
Oh you hold me tight like rope
I have a tough time giving compliments
But you truly sooth my rough and ragged soul
Yeah you, Yeah you do
So I promise to be healthy
At least the best that I can keep
Though I'm known for reaching for the things
That are barely out of reach
We'll paint ourselves a picket fence
On the back of our tour Volvo
Load it up with gear and gasoline
And drive across this world
Put a bumper sticker on the back
That says Welcome Home
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