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No Goddess
03:14
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She turned from me with no face left to save
One kitchen table taking secrets to the grave
Forced to feel at home but it didn’t take
Where we s’posed to go with all those ceilings in our way
Aphrodite looked upon me with favor
It didn’t keep me from breaking her heart
I bet that she told all of the neighbors I played her like a hand of cards
But no goddess who’s honest would boast such a radiant star
She said: “Composure is no right that’s a luxury here
And this mistrust of me, of us it don’t fit there on your sleeve”
‘Cross the midday sky I wonder what exists
When I hear a voice cry out: “Love’s my favorite ancient myth”
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Maple Valley
04:05
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Gone broke over a bookmark that says it’s never too late
I hope someday it’ll find its place in that backordered play
About moments disappearing and what we can’t take away
Forty miles change you in a manner hard to take
Tomato spilt on my favorite sweater
You and that singer gonna sleep together
Love cannot fix anyone guess you’ve been right so far
Night’s pitch black in Maple Valley
Held my breath for a grand finale
Pulled up to your house, you told me: “Stay in the car”
Those hometown boys you seem a little sweet on line the street
They’re running for the zoning board and coaching little league
Safety’s found in the familiar, rescue’s within reach
So keep ‘em close in case those dreams wind up in pieces at your feet
Piss poor timing takes one more tally
You with your ex’s mother, me alone at the bar
We can try to connect all the lives we have led but they might be better kept apart
Your hand stamp bled on my favorite sweater
Something warm that we wrecked together
Love cannot fix anything that was not fine to start
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Teachers and Poets
03:53
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Oh what a perfect mess we create
Secrets and shortcomings on display
Teachers and poets point the way
Winter makes me feel I’m suffocating
And I’d’a held on forever for you if I’d’a known you were there
And I just wish that it mattered to you
Impressions she left are here to stay
This heart’s been broken in just the same
Teachers and poets share our fate
Don’t it feel like everything’s beyond escaping
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4. |
Two Sides of a Sea
05:53
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Well I’ve neglected you quite a few years now
And I figured that someday you’d say goodbye
Oh but right when I was changing ways you tell me: "Baby, it’s over"
Then you left me under a starry Texas sky
So come morning time my sober twin is bound to scratch his head
And he’ll wonder why his body’s sore and where his money went
But speculation’s gonna have to do him I suppose
Because blackout is the state of mind he chose
And oh isn’t impulse a deceiver
And oh ain’t it true that we can only be so
Matter of fact about matters of the heart
It’s hard to rationalize which to follow and which to disregard
Is it only wasted effort trying to argue who we are
I need another new beginning with a slightly better start
You know mouse clicks are the rainsticks of the workplace
Except ‘stead of soothing they’re driving me insane
If I could find a place left in this world that ran on pen and paper
I would smash this CPU to smithereens
Well strangers on the bus will guard their backpacked treasures with a measure of care I wish I felt for anything
While it’s you and it’s me on two sides of a sea
And a year feels like forever now that I’ve got no one left ‘round here to notice me make a scene
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The Rebound
05:01
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I’m on the rebound from life here tonight but you can’t make the same mistake twice
Once it happens again it’s a trend
So I'll try to pretend I'm not me I’ll be whoever you want me to be
I’ll keep compromising and keep on denying it I wish somehow you could see
I always had nothing to lose until I found you
Now I’m just scared of the truth
Because if you ever knew about the whole mess of two decades I've been through
I swear to God I'm a different man
But you won’t want to hear or believe it and then that’s the end
I could never explain all of this to a kid what a terrible father I’d be
And I guess that makes me less appealing
Nevermind, I’ll never live that long to answer for everything that I’ve done wrong
My liver won’t make it to see my heart break and I hope you don’t cry when I’m gone
I’m on the rebound from life here tonight and a sweet dream or two would be nice
There’s just too much I can’t put to sleep
And it’s all gonna catch up to me I just need one more day to put it off
Then maybe my liver won’t make it to see my heart break
Least I know you won’t cry when I’m gone
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Brendan & the Strangest Ways Buffalo, New York
Brendan & the Strangest Ways is the moniker adopted by songwriter Brendan Shea to create music for the restless spirit. His songs are heartfelt reflections on countless miles traveled in a search for something that always feels just a little out of reach. Brendan’s peers have called him a true songwriter’s songwriter who expertly crafts his lyrics like a mason building a brick wall. ... more
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