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Escape What Replaces Me
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See that morning moon
hanging low
over the snow that's in the field?
My breath is rising slow
freed from the words that let it go
that this view the beauty escapes me
yes this view the beauty escapes me
I know I held his hands
hanging low
over the rails around his bed.
His chest was rising slow,
and I could not let him go.
If he knew I was there,
it escapes me.
Did the morphine and pain replace me?
Where I'm going now, I do not know.
I can not yield nor think to go.
Such a false light I saw,
over a ground that will never thaw
If there's a sign of relief, it escapes me,
It there's a need for belief it escapes me.
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Black Tooth Blues
02:54
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Today, I don't even feel like tryin'
Don't see no point in even cryin'
My mama told me so,
you don't know what you don't know
and today I don't even feel like tryin'
I ain't got a quarter for a taste of wine,
I ain't got a nickel for the phone
If I had a dollar
I'd find a girl and ball her
but today I don't even feel like tryin
You ever drink alone by the trains?
Ain't it evil how whiskey eases pain?
lay my dirty head down on that sorry track.
You ever drink alone by the trains?
I ain't got a quarter for a taste of wine,
I ain't got a nickel for the phone
If I had a dollar
I'd find a girl and ball her
but today I don't even feel like tryin
I feel like a black tooth on the floor
so god damn tired of being poor.
If that's my mama at the door
tell her I don't know no more,
and bury this black tooth on the floor
Tell I never had a quarter for a taste of wine,
I never had a nickel for that phone.
If I had a dollar, I'd get on the bus and find her,
but today I did not feel like tryin
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I hide my whiskey so it's always with me, it's true.
I thought you'd miss me. You said you'd miss me.
...but woman, you never do.
I am the fool.
and I can't help the crying.
I say I ain't drinking, I'm lying.
My baby doll is now a bottle tall.
I can have her all.
and when I fall, I fall for you.
It's all for you.
I can't hide my love like a bottle,
but I ain't got you. I got this bottle.
I hide my whiskey in the pocket of my coat.
Folded next to it is the letter that you wrote.
says you once loved me. Yes, you once loved me,
but sorry...now you don't. Now you don't.
Each night, I lay there and read it,
and drink my whiskey, cuz I need it.
My baby doll is now a bottle tall.
I can have her all.
and when I fall, I fall for you.
It's all for you.
I can't hide my love like a bottle,
but I ain't got you. I got this bottle.
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I have a picture of your mother holding you
On a cinder block painted blue
You know you never came for this picture of you
Was it all that hard is it true
If I could find you I would
I’d apologize and make it good
I regret, don’t you know, for where I stood
I wish I could hold you if I could
These words I said I can’t undue
But I could spend my life saying they were never true
I never held you like I should
I wish I held you when I could
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see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
what else can I do
another man is lovin you
see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
the moon has set and the sun is gonna rise
dreamt all night of your smilin eyes
Oh how it burned when I realized
I slept alone in a bed of lies
you see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
You see that sun it’s gonna burn me till I’m red
but I swing the sledge and keep my family fed
see that sun is still a friend of mine
cuz it don’t hurt like the evening time
the moon my friend it brings that lonely bed.
see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
what else can I do
another man is lovin you
see my baby she ain’t lyin in my bed
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Tenacious Bird Of Prey Barnstable, Massachusetts
Brendan O'Donnell is a musician, creative coder and writer living in Centerville, MA releasing music as Tenacious Bird of Prey.
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