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Deer Tick
Deer Tick


Background information
Origin Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Indie Folk
Alternative Country
Years active 2004—present
Label(s) Partisan Records
Associated acts Diego Perez
Titus Andronicus
Chris Paddock
Jonny Corndawg
Website Website
Members
John J. McCauley III
Christopher Dale Ryan
Dennis Ryan
Ian O'Neil
Rob Crowell
Former members
Paul Marandola
James Falzone
Diego Perez
Andrew Tobiassen



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Deer Tick Album


The Black Dirt Sessions (06/08/2010)
06/08/2010
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The Sad Sun
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Christ Jesus (re-recorded version)
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Sing choir of angels
Sing through the night
I'll be still
I'll be quiet

They took my body
They robbed me blind
There's no turning back now
No use in crying

Every lonely road is behind me
That led me through the changes I don't feel
And I lost sight of flesh and bone
Little I knew, I was going home

Sing choir of angels
Sing me to sleep
Sing soft and sweet
I'm yours to keep

I fought their battles
and I gave my life
For peace and quiet
For pain and strife

Now every lonely road is behind me
That led me through the changes I don't feel
And I lost sight of flesh and bone
Little I knew I was going home

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Raindrops like bullets on my fragile skin
Insecurities I've had are creeping within
Now i'm twenty miles outside of the place that you live
And I need one more chance now that time's running thin

Well you are the things that'd make up my dreams
When i've spent every dime that jingled my jeans
I deserve every stone that's thrown out at me
I'll think of your smile, I'm in love with your teeth

I'm losing when I am not playing no games
Now would you take me back when I've gambled my pay
And I've got no directions without her little fingers
Barbed wire, razor wire, nothing keeps me from her

And if I had no boots I'd trek through the mud
While mosquitoes are racing to draw the first blood
If you're running away then i'm looking for you
And if you've lost your way i'm seeing you through
Oh if your running away then i'm looking for you
And if you've lost your way i'm seeing you through

If your running away then i'm looking for you
And if you've lost your way i'm seeing you through
Oh if your running away then i'm looking for you
And if you've lost your way i'm seeing you through
Oh if your running away then i'm looking for yo
And if you've lost your way i'm seeing you through

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Some roads that you take
Some bonds we'll choose to break
I swore I'd no long be the pallbearer
But I carried you to bed
So you could rest your head
You were taking off a load, heavy drinking
The world it carries on
Your memories and song
And your pictures on my wall, are not forgotten
There was hymns that came from mouths
That turned crosses upside down
But it came through their teeth with great ease

And all are bobbing heads in sync
And all have got a lot on their minds to think about
But you carry on in pictures and in song
And the unmade be you slept in
Where I laid you down to rest one last time
Goodbye, dear friend, Goodbye, dear friend

Some stories break your heart
And some with such applaud
Buried deep inside, where it's ok to cry
Some boys won't shed a tear
Oh, but I tell it like this here
It can break down and get me where it hurts the most

And all are bobbing heads in sync
And all have got a lot on their minds to think about
But you carry on in pictures and in song
And the unmade be you slept in
Where I laid you down to rest one last time
Goodbye, dear friend, Goodbye, dear friend

But you carry on in pictures and in song
And the unmade be you slept in
Where I laid you down to rest one last time
Goodbye, dear friend, Goodbye, dear friend

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Seems like I relied too hard on a dream
Now tell me girl where have you really been
Cause I've only got this life right here
Wasted all and contain all the fear
But I caught your eye on a Friday night
I removed myself and got caught up in loose nights
So ask me again yes lets meet again
You know I've built a kingdom on second chances, yes I did.
Well I've been there now once or twice
Now tell me girl did you think that was very nice
And I would say it was just one moment
But it was gone just as fast as it came
So I drowned myself in a tall glass of whatever
Does it matter to you?
And the tears would come with the cold cold rain
And I know for sure that I succumb to the pain
And I'd love to tear apart your name
Piece by piece frame by frame
Well id love to tear apart your name
Id love to tear apart your days
Piece by piece, and frame by frame, and piece by piece, frame by frame

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The Sad Sun

[No lyrics]

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These words they make the world spin here in steady rotation
Until the new words turn the new world into oblivion
Well at the end of the line and this new world feels pretty rotten
Then we'll go our separate ways to put new blood in our system

I've never seen eyes so hurt, the kind that scream my name
Now what can I make of life when it all seems like a game?
I've gotta tie up all my loose ends 'fore my skin turns to mange
So I've gotta look at the sky and imagine I've found my place

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The whole world is wrong today
But you've been gone so long
That I lost count of days
When you come home
I'm gonna tell you how I got along
I'm gonna tell you, gonna tell you
Everything I thought
Emptiness was bought with your plane ticket
Not so much as a kiss goodbye
I don't want to think of the reasons why
I don't wanna think of reasons why

Most things I wanna say
They will go unspoken always
But if you look a little closer in my eye
You will know everything there is to know
You're gonna know you're gonna know
Everything I thought
Overcome the sloth, got me a ride to New York
And not so much as a reason why
I just want a kiss, a kiss goodbye
I just want a kiss, a kiss goodbye

The whole world is wrong today
But you've been gone so long that I lost count of days
But when you come home
I'm gonna tell you how I got along
I'm gonna tell you, gonna tell you
Everything I thought
Emptiness was bought with your plane ticket
And not so much as a reason why
I just want a kiss, a kiss goodbye
I just want a kiss goodbye

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Everybody is alone in this world
Touches feeling close but never touching
And everyone is alone

So long as I'm awake
I'll never dream alone again
Everyone is rolling for themselves

She lives down Elk
I say its a ghost town
When she's not, not around

Everybody is alone in this world
Touches feeling close but never touching
When everyone is alone

She don't need a thing
All I can do is give
That is some touches

She don't understand
I'll take her hand (in my hand)
Again and again

Everybody is alone in this world
Touches feeling close but never touching
And everyone,
Everyone is alone

I take her hand
In my hand
Again and again

Everybody is alone in this world
Touches feeling close but never touching
And everyone is alone

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I feel stuck between two places
Crust and the reward of your face
And I'm burning up inside
As I drive and twist the knife
Between us, well it should remain ours
Between their blood clots and scars

I won't consider advice
When they carry the deadliest vice
And I feel that I ain't done wrong
Yes it's just when I have no place to go

Nobody can be themselves
If they just act like someone else
And you know that I'd wait an awful long time
But you gave up and shoved me aside

So gouge, gouge out my eyes
Cause I know true love is blind
Now we'll envy each other to death
To be able to finish each others sentences

And I lie awake
Cause I gave up prescription drugs
My brain gets tired
As I lay watching too much time

So gouge, gouge my eyes
Cause I know true love is blind
And no one can be themselves
If they only act like someone else

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In you I was invited
So in your arms I'll die
Every other man got away
But I won't even try
Twenty coins in your pocket
Twenty nails in your coffin
With faith and salvation
Oh you must be joking

Now the moon has a watchful eye
And it bleeds in the sky
And the red rock drips on rocket ships
And you hid your eyes
cause you just couldn't take it

Years of delusion put scars on your face
And we'd make the earth quake
With every step that we'd take
You're hung on your mission
Of destroying your vision
Constricted and timid
you're a time bomb ticking

All the heavens in the clouds
Are a pendelum swinging down
So hurry up young man
Go and bury your head
And know no one's around right now
to water the ground

Hey big daddy what's on your mind?
All the things that you're thinking of
All the time
Is it heresy to speak of
Or an undying love?
If you told me it wouldn't change me
You said you'd act boldly
But your hesitating
Now I'll escape and i'll never come back around
Well you won't learn nothing
Until you bend down and taste the ground
Taste the ground

All the colors, grey
In your head made of hay
Won't you take me now?
For the hearst will stop
Then the flesh will rot
And the blood moon we see is an act
It's an act of god

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Woke up next to the king
Got up, gonna fix me some things
And it makes me sick how I can't trust him
No I can't trust him

Said the bottom of his belly
That's where he would keep me
Christ Jesus
As I'm floating
And you get a brick and you drop it down on me
Christ Jesus
Have you seen us
Down on our hands and knees
And tell us what's the reason

Like a heart that's hung in the sky
A hard-on when I die
And you passed away
And that horizon never came
No, it never came
It's the time of the week no one sees but me
Christ Jesus
As I'm drowning
And I struggle to breathe
It's your face I don't see
Christ Jesus
Please don't leave us
If in peace you'll keep us
Well then you should have believed us

Please let me inside
Hear out my desire
Come soon I may die
Yes one day I will die
I get eaten by the rust
You create and breathe the dust
And I'll kick in your lungs
And I'll bite off your tongue

Christ Jesus
Please don't leave us
Down on our hands and our knees
Oh I'll never believe, no
Christ Jesus
As I'm drowning
I struggle to breathe
It's your face I don't see
Christ Jesus


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