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Promises
03:40
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I should have warned you that I wasn't what you wanted
I should have told you from the start
When I look at you all I see is a target
An actor cast in the wrong part
I'm an accident that's happened
And I'm happening again
I wish I could fall asleep with the promises I keep
'Cuz I like sleeping alone
I probably shouldn't talk so much
I probably shouldn't tell you what
Has been on my mind
I never asked to get so personal with you
I didn't think it out too well
We were drifters in a world standing still
Peddlers with nothing to sell
I'm an accident that's happened
And I'm happening again
I wish I could fall asleep with the promises I keep
'Cuz I like sleeping alone
I probably shouldn't talk so much
I probably shouldn't tell you what
Has been on my mind
In the end there's nothing I can say or do
That hasn't been done or said
I am not the person I once thought I knew
I'm a fantasy instead
I'm an accident that's happened
And I'm happening again
I wish I could fall asleep with the promises I keep
'Cuz I like sleeping alone
I probably shouldn't talk so much
I probably shouldn't tell you what
Has been on my mind
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Help Me Tonight
04:33
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The ocean's wide
The sea is deep
But I will drink them dry
I'm a poor, poor stranger
In a dead end town
Where no one's on your side
How can I be sure I'm here
When everything is dust
It's a long, long way to higher ground
When you don't know who to truts
So help me tonight
I'm falling fast
Help me help myself
I'm here I'm waiting
I can almost see the light
So please help me tonight
I'll take the walk
But I won't run
The world will run for me
Dawn is coming
But always fades
It's all I want to be
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Put down your weapons
Look at my scars
Feel my pain it's just a prayer up past the stars
Teach me lessons
Maybe I will learn
Maybe I'll ignore them and get what I deserve
I don't want no enemy I don't want to start no holy war
What's that you're thinking and what is this fighting for?
You don't see me and yet you drop the bomb
You best surrender 'cuz I have been ready all along
Put down your weapons
They ain't worth a dime
You cannot kill me if you're only killing time
You've been abandoned
You've run away
You've left me empty and with nothing left to say
I don't want no enemy I don't want to start no holy war
What's that you're thinking and what is this fighting for?
You don't see me and yet you drop the bomb
You best surrender 'cuz I have been ready all along
I know how a troubled mind works
I've seen the pain
I've felt the hurt
I know its strengths and its weakness too
So there's nothing left for you to do
Do you need color to brighten up your life?
Or are you happy with the good old black and white?
Do you feel me?
Can you feel at all?
Are you having trouble climbing up that old stone wall?
I don't want no enemy I don't want to start no holy war
What's that you're thinking and what is this fighting for?
You don't see me and yet you drop the bomb
You best surrender 'cuz I have been ready all along
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Promises (early demo)
03:10
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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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