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Cruel World
03:31
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Cruel World (Kwartler)
Well she left me on a Monday with phone call and a threat,
Cops pulled up to tell me “Boy u ain’t seen nothin yet,
We’ve seen it all before, from every kind of girl,”
It’s a cruel...world,
Now I was born in Brooklyn with a defect in my heart,
The kind that beat too quietly then got broken all apart,
And I put back together, like a mussel in a pearl,
It’s a cruel...world.,
My grandpa played baseball, threw that leather hard,
Would have made the big leagues but tore a muscle in his arm,
Cancer stole him away, but that ball he could hurl,
It’s a cruel world,
Wish I could drive down to Reno, lay my money down,
I’m tired of living so scared and so anchored to the ground,
I wanna burn it up so hot, that my hair will uncurl,
Its a cruel...world,
Now I’m staring out the window to see what’s coming next,
Poppin’pills to heal my troubles then go dealin’ with my ex,
Piles of papers, payment plans, worry and deferrals,
It’s a cruel world.
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2. |
Millionaire
04:39
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Millionaire (Levine)
Daddy he was a millionaire, Mama always said, “Hey life’s not fair.” Daddy bought himself a fancy car. Mama got a job at the corner bar, Her shoes were always sticky and they smelled like beer,
She said,”That’s what you get when you work around here.
”Daddy got himself a brand new wife, Mama always said, “Hey that’s just life.”
They bought a big house on a great big hill,
We moved by the tracks and we’re living there still,
Put a penny on the rail and your feet in the dust,
and watch that copper turn to rust,
Late at night when the train rumbles by,windows rattle their lullaby,
I lie still while the crickets cry, Pretend I’m sleepin’ don’t know why, Daddy took me shopping every Saturday, Mama always said
he was good that way. He’d take me to his office so I could see that nothing in life was ever free,
His wife would go to bed before the day would start, I guess everybody’s got a little ache in their heart.
(chorus)
Daddy liked to say he was a lot like me. Mama always said, “It’s just a family tree,
Some branches you can climb some you wrap around, Some stay rooted in the ground.”
So wrap your arms around me and we’ll dance real slow, some things stay and some things go,
wrap your arms around
me and we’ll dance real slow, some things stay and some things go...
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3. |
The Lesser of Two Evils
03:11
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The Lesser of Two Evils (Kwartler)
Sometimes it’s the first, Sometimes it’s the sequel, Sometimes it’s
just the lesser of two evils,
Sometimes you spend your life with all the wrong people, Sometimes it’s just the lesser of two evils,
Every light in the house is on, Every word from your mouth is gone, Every line that you wrote was wrong, wrong,
Sometimes it’s what’s left unsaid with all things being equal,
Sometimes it’s just the lesser of two evils,
Sometimes you spend your life with all the wrong people,
Sometimes it’s just the lesser of two evils,
Every gift that you gave fell through, All the pieces of your heart wouldn’t do,
Every doubt in your mind rings true,
Sometimes it don’t feel too bad, Sometimes it feels lethal,
Sometimes it’s just the lesser of two evils,
Somedays it’s just time, Sometimes it’s just days,
You can pass away the night getting out of each other’s way,
You can hold on to what’s right but soon you’re gonna pay,
Sometimes you smile inside your car as you pass the old cathedral, Sometimes it’s just the lesser of two evils,
Sometimes you spend your life with all the wrong people,
Sometimes it’s just the lesser of two evils
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4. |
Buffalo
04:44
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Buffalo (Levine)
There's a hard rain beating on the windshield like a million bullets from a million guns,
It is blinding, I close my eyes you keep on driving, And I wish that we were flying, so much further yet to run,
It's a hundred miles to Buffalo, A hundred more to Ontario, Refugees on an endless road, A hundred miles to Buffalo,
The kids are whining, They sit so close they can't help fighting, They get distracted by the lightning, counting down til the thunder comes,
We only took what we could carry, Just some clothes and
faded memories, and those three photographs you took of me every time a baby came, (Chorus)
And it stops just as suddenly as it begins, The sky so bright that I have to close my eyes again, And I don't know how it started or how it ends, or where we go after Buffalo,
We keep moving forward. You keep
your eyes on the border,
I keep my left hand on your shoulder, We don't look back (Chorus)
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5. |
One String
03:29
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One String (Kwartler)
There’s one string missing from my guitar, and without it I can feel all it’s scars,
Well I ain’t no Keith Richards but I sure have travelled far with this one string missing from my guitar,
There’s one string missing from my coat, and it’s worn and dull and wrapped around my throat, And the
place from which it’s gone is a thousand miles long, There’s one string missing from my coat,
For all these years I’ve been turnin’ inside out, Running down the road tryin’ to turn this thing around,
Picking up the pieces that have fallen from my mouth, and throwing out the wishes that have burned my houses down,
There’s one string missing from my heart, and it’s big and round and should have been there from the start,
But ever since the day I was born, there’s a space from which it’s torn, There’s one string missing from my heart (Chorus)
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6. |
Wishing
02:41
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Wishing (Levine)
I could wait all night for you to come home, I could read all your lines with a fine tooth comb, I could hang on every word like they all were true, I could wish on me but I've been wishing on you,
There's a half-empty glass by the telephone and there's a half-full bottle of wine, guess I'll drink it alone,I am thinking of you like a love-sick fool, I'm not wishing on me I'm just wishing on you,
If I close my eyes and I count to ten, and I hold my breath would you come back again?
Cuz the devil I know beats the devil I don't, And some wishes come true but some just won't,
There's a star falling out of the sky and I've got
one last wish I've got one more try...
I could lock all the doors before you get home, I could tear apart your
lies with my fine-tooth comb, I could listen to your words and know not one is true, I could wish on me instead of wishing on you, I'm gonna wish on me 'stead of wishing on you, Wish on me...Wish on me
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What Keeps Us In This World (Kwartler)
50 times around the sun but before you reached #51, I saw your face in front of me like an older played-out memory,
You looked like you but not the same as years
ago when we were game for anything that would come our way, but that was in our younger days,
What keeps us in this world? I can’t tell you friend, Is it just the medicine? Does it make a difference?
What changes when we change the gears? What stranger comes to claim the years? The hurricane that floods the tracks, The final straw that breaks your back,
50 times I thought of you running round and acting cool,
Were you scared like that back then too?
We were all too young to know the truth,
Can it be just one big joke? Some trick of light behind the smoke? To bare your heart and run in place as bullets fly right by your face (Chorus),
I told you once, I told you twice, You better blow real hard
when you roll the dice, Hold on tight when you take that ride, It’s gonna tug that shade off your disguise,
So run,run,run with your sword and shield,The devil drives a fine set of wheels, Keep on movin’ or he’ll run you down the next time he rolls into your town (Chorus)
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8. |
Lay Down
03:21
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Lay Down (Levine)
We've got nothing to do, We've got nowhere to be, So take my hand and lay down with me,
Cuz it's been too long, and it's too bad, It's been too hard and too sad, So lay down with me, Lay down with me, Lay down,
There's who you are, who you've become, The weight of the world changes everyone,
You can hold it up but just for tonight you can let it go,
Give up the fight and lay down with me,..
I watch the shadows spin round from the cars going by on their way out of town,
I know that used to be me, running fast as I could trying to set
myself free, But lay down with me..
So you can stand right there like a work of art, with your sad eyed smile and your wounded heart, But in the broken light of this fading day I am letting go, asking you to stay and lay down with me, lay down with me, lay down.
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9. |
Windtalker
04:54
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Windtalker (Kwartler)
I thought I saw a sign by the side of the road,I am not made for this world,
It was written out before me like a Windtalker’s code, I am not...
I was covered in the blankets of a thousand lost souls, I am not... And I rose up like a fire burnin’ out of control, I am not...
Every time I see your face, Every dream I have replaced, Every road I have retraced, Every punch that I’ve embraced,
Good fortune may find its way back to you, I am not... But nothing good comes from nothing good to do, I am not...
Every time I see your face, Every thought I have escaped,
Every time I found a little faith, Every picture I’ve erased,
I thought I saw a sign by the side.
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10. |
Diamond Rain
05:23
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Diamond Rain(Levine)
A piece of something beautiful is beautiful itself,An echo of the sweetest
sound's still music ringing round and round like bells,
The kindest heart can fall apart and tumble to the ground like diamond rain, Put it back together now and somehow it's still love forever
changed,
So you keep that piece of me you can hold on to, And I'll keep that piece of you that makes me feel strong, And at the end of the day when the world's gone away, There's a piece of us that will always belong,
Last night I dreamed I was running free through miles and miles of
trees,The air was clear the branches bare and I was scared but did not care 'cuz I could see,
That from the dirt we'd rise up hurt but build ourselves a home of solid stone & count ourselves
the lucky ones cuz we are not alone (Chorus)
Memories of lives we lead are cursed and they are blessed, The heart keeps all the ones it needs the glories and the tragedies and disregards
the rest, so we know some sun will show and comfort us with fragile rays of light, Is it our consolation or salvation, or just the piece that we got right? (Chorus)
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11. |
Deportee
04:47
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The Lied To's Boston, Massachusetts
The Lied To's are Susan Levine and Doug Kwartler, two award-winning songwriters who came together in 2013. Taking their name from the Everly Brothers' song "When Will I Be Loved," the Americana duo has been praised for its gritty instrumentation, impeccable harmonies and honest songwriting. The Worst Kind of New is their 3rd studio release. ... more
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