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Firelight
02:24
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When the levees broken
Best learn how to swim
If you wanna gamble
Better know you’ll win
Eden burns
Through the night
I see past the firelight
In the air
Recognize
You can’t stop the firelight
Withered scenes divided
Arguments unwon
Little things won’t get you
Drop your heart and run
Eden burns
Through the night
I see past the firelight
In the air
Recognize
You can’t stop the firelight
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Aching Heart
02:52
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Can't sleep this evening 'cuz there's too much on my mind
The way things are going I won't make it through the night
Always waking up wishing it was morning time
But it's still so dark and I'm just a little sick of trying
Chorus:
Don't you know I need you
More than anyone has before
I have this aching in my heart
I'm worried all the day and I can't even sleep at night
Can't think straight with you running all around my brain
I'm thinking too much about when I'll see you again
(Chorus)
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Well if you’re going nowhere
And you need to get there fast
I know a shortcut nobody’s tried
And if you’ve run on empty
Since the day you left
Don’t be afraid to give it all back
The new sun attacks
It’s too nice to stay inside today
Won’t you come in closer
So I can make you out?
Don’t hide in a corner where nobody sees
The rows and rows of houses
Mirror side by side
But nothing can warn them of days left to come
Beneath the new sun
It’s too nice to stay inside today
Somewhere on the mainline
The tracks were laid out wrong
The streets are filled with curses dressing as dreams
Sink into the sunset
Watch it all unfold
Hear all the engines rattle apart
And if you were smart
You wouldn’t even start
It's too late to be outside
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Woke up this morning feelin' blue
Struggled out of bed with an aching in my head
Woke up this morning feelin' blue
Can't get my baby off my mind
Since we said goodbye all my days drift slowly by
Can't get my baby off my mind
Wish I could get another chance
Since she said goodbye all my days drift slowly by
Wish I could get another chance
I told myself I would be alright
That I could cry through the tunnel light
But I just worry the whole night through
And wake up in the morning feeling blue
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Bluegrass
02:54
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This old town
It sure is night
Fields of green
Where rivers flow
But my love
Is not around
So I believe
I'll have to go
Chorus;
I'm going down
To see the bluegrass
For that's where my baby stays
I will walk
Both day and night
Through the wind and through the rain
Just like times so long ago
I will bring her back to me
Chorus
Though I roam
From town to town
With the wind blowing at my back
But he weary sun
It leads me on
Soon I will return to her
Chorus
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Erik Ritland Saint Paul
One of the last great American songwriters in the tradition of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, William James, G.K. Chesterton, Jeff Tweedy, and Jim Varney.
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