The Gracious Few Album

Another child without a mother
A bastard son tired old man
Just wasting away as the pipe becomes his lover
Not a man in this world should understand
Just wasting away as the pipe becomes his lover do you understand?

Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy trigger finger and you know you ain't got the right

Another year on city streets
that child's child the casualty
Not a book in the world could ever re-teach her belief
That there's more to this world than just death and debris
Not a book in the world could ever re-teach her belief do you understand?

Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy trigger finger and you know you ain't got the right
Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy trigger finger, the look, the lips, the appetite.

We all need some loving sometimes (x4)

Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy trigger finger and you know you ain't got the right
Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy trigger finger, the look, the lips, the appetite.

With a riot in mind
Comes an angry young man
With a stone from the pavement
Comes an army of unrest
Stripped bare by her bachelors
Stripped bare on the ground
Knuckles bared and still bleeding with the blood of this town

They take my home they take my land the flower of my life
They take my friends; they take my love and cut me like a knife
I spit these words at vile lies the worlds forgotten men
Ain't no work
Ain't no work
For an honest man

In a daze of confusion
Lies a troubled broken land
As the feast upon my table
I am left with an empty hand
Stripped bare by her bachelors
Stripped bare on the ground
Knuckles bared and still bleeding with the blood of this town

They take my home they take my land the flower of my life
They take my friends; they take my love and cut me like a knife
I spit these words at vile lies the worlds forgotten men
Ain't no work
Ain't no work
For an honest man

For so long we've been told
That our paths lead us home
Are we safe from ourselves?
Have we strayed have we failed?

I got a
Guilty fever, feeling buzzed
Thinking bout your love
I've got to see you babe
For I think I might give up
I wanna shake it baby
I wanna shake things up
You know I want you baby,
Oh better days to come

You got
Foreign kisses & sugar drips
Oh the sweetness of your tongue
You got me burnin babe
And I think I'm going numb
You got me shaking baby
You got me shakin up
I got to quit this quick
Oh better days to come

I gotta get away
I gotta lose your love
For you got me runnin crazy
I gotta get away

I got a
Guilty fever too much love
Babe you got me high
I couldn't quit you
And I feel I'm gonna die
You make me crazy baby
You got me so shook up
I gotta quit you baby
Better days to come

Don't you step your dirty foot in here brother
And don't you ever think to come around here no more
You've gone and done it you'll never be the same again.
I want blood and I want it now yes
Everything you see is everything you'll lose so
Let it be baby we'll entertain you
They let you in I showed you out the only way I can
The only way I thought I ever could destroy you.

Wrapped up in the grapevine
We're gonna raise it
Bound and tied
We're gonna break it
Hold your breath
We're gonna face it
You're going down, yeah we're gonna turn it up loud

Whose side are you on and whose race you runnin
Give it up you nearly killed yourself last time
Everyone you see is everyone that knew you were wrong
They want blood and they want it now yes.
A little bit of what you thought was never gonna surface
Its come around its been brought to attention
We let you in we showed you out the only way we can
The only way we thought we ever could destroy you.

Wrapped up in the grapevine
We're gonna raise it
Bound and tied
We're gonna break it
Hold your breath
We're gonna face it
You're going down, yeah we're gonna turn it up loud

We're gonna raise it
We're gonna break it down now
If you never believed baby believe in this
We're gonna face it
We're gonna turn it up loud
If you never believed baby we're leaving this town

Walk away I know
You're not coming back
No one was ever told and you dared not to ask
I had this feeling you'd rehearsed
Cause all the words you spoke were so divine
Left beside myself your silhouette just passing by.

I hear you breathing fast asleep
Is it really so?
I'm tangled up in plaid and basking in the afterglow
I have this feeling we been here too long
The circles worn upon these floors
I stand beside myself a sea of change addressed unsure.

If you feel you've got to break my heart
That nothing here could ever heal you
If I could be the mend the case, restart
Would you let me fix the rest of you?

I wipe away the years
You've blossomed through it all
Had my knees been there for me I might have never fallen
I want this feeling to deny it all, deny you felt the same and I
I left you by yourself my faults were there
Waving their goodbyes

If you feel you've got to break my heart
That nothing here could ever heal you
If I could be the mend the case, restart
Would you let me fix the rest of you?

You've gone uncomfortably quiet & I am comfortably sad
I've given in and resigned you held the reins in your hands
My hearts divided, I've been placed securely under your thumb
My betters been best and I am feeling unsung

Walk away I know
Baby you're not coming back
No I was never told and I dared not to ask

If you feel you've got to break my heart
That nothing here could ever heal you
If I could be the mend the case, restart
Would you let me fix the rest of you?

Did you ever want out of this, out of this life?
Did you ever think about love, from time to time?
Did you believe in everything they said,
They're saying thing I just don't know?
How did you get so far my friend, so far from home?
Did you ever draw outside of, outside the lines?
Did you mean to make others hurt, from time to time?
Did I tell you what's been said,
What they're saying it's so untrue
How could you ever let this life get the best of you?

All these memories but you're still alone

It's crying time but there's still love.
Oh & I tried so hard to get to you
I know you never meant,
You never meant those things you'd done
I never meant to leave you but
It's crying time this time for you.

Did you ever look back and wish, wish you'd have shined
Did you ever feel less that low or more than high?
Did I tell you I believed in everything they said; none of it true.
I could've been a better friend, a better friend to you.

All these memories but we're still alone

It's crying time but there's still love.
Oh & I tried so hard to get to you
I know you never meant,
You never meant those things you'd done
I never meant to leave you but
It's crying time but there's still love
Oh it was tryin times so hard for you
Oh it's crying time this time for you

Ohh (x4)

It's crying time but there's still love.
Oh & I tried so hard to get to you
I know you never meant,
You never meant those things you'd done
I never meant to leave you but
It's crying time but there's still love
Oh it was tryin times so hard for you
Oh it's crying time this time for you

I could be set aside
Forgotten, drained and burnt alive
Oh, I could be buried beneath your grounds
I could be left outside and tossed around
I could be here and there whenever you head out
Standing by your side amongst this battleground

Ooh lover better settle down
Ooh lover better settle down

I could be anything
Invaded and surrendering
Another step beneath your feet for you to walk upon
I could be tattooed, scared and past bygone
I could be all you need the night the dawn
Give you shelter from the pains that life has set upon

Ooh lover better settle down
Ooh lover better settle down

It's such a silly thing I been waiting forever
It's such a simple thing I was under your cover
If you'd rush through me and blushed my cheeks
And reminded me who I'm supposed to be
I would, I could for you.

The closer that we grow, always high always low
The harder that we fall, always right always wrong

I have been wronged by you
Someday you'll someday you'll see
What has been done brings you
Closer to closer to me

Unbroken, and reborn, second sight & well worn
Unbridled and restless, reminded & venomous
I have been wronged by you
Someday you'll someday you'll see
What has been done brings you
Closer to closer to me
Did you say you never meant it?
Did you scream it out loud?
Someday you'll someday you'll be
A ship afloat an endless road an empty soul & nothing to me

I never thought about, all the ins and outs
We said forever vows baby can you do without
Can you do without me?

I know we've had our doubts, our sun is setting now
Who said it's over cause baby I can't live without you,
Can you live without?

You and me and our debris
And everything that made it seem
Like you and me supposed to be
The envy of most everything and now
What's wrong?

How could we never try, to see each other's side?
I was so wrong but baby everybody hurts
And you hurt me sometimes

How can we stitch it up, the scars, the wounds, the cuts?
Are we so broken and bruised that we can't feel the love
The love that started with

You and me and our debris
And everything that made it seem
Like you and me supposed to be
The envy of most everything and now
What's wrong?

What's going on
Baby how could we have ever
Let the melody we made together
Get so far from where we started;
Get so far from where we started

You and me and our debris
And everything that made it seem
Like you and me supposed to be
The envy of most everything and now
What's wrong?

I am the harvest moon
My autumn spry
As summers rapture comes to close,
Aglow of orange at night

These leaves they lay upon me still
A seasons resting place
Careless and free, I am the winter's stay

For days upon days I've sailed for your shores
These waters between us all crashing and cold
I said I could change for your season I would
I said I would change

I have grown older will, by another name
My days have grown shorter filled,
A bit more life upon my plate
I cannot return to days of yore,
I commit to time, speed forth
Relentless and rife, splendor, encore

For days upon days I've sailed for your shores
These waters between us all crashing and cold
I said I could change for your season I would
I said I would change
No house for my rage insecure & diseased
Your beaches all littered with death and debris
I said I could for your season I've changed

I awake and I am dazed
I return a gilded man
My life has made me calendar
My life is flatland

For days upon days I've sailed for your shores
These waters between us all crashing and cold
I said I could change for your season I would
I said I would change
No house for my rage insecure & diseased
Your beaches all littered with death and debris
I said I could for your season I would
I said I could change

I listen to your summers' breeze
I listen to your heart and breathe
I listen to your pulse racing
Baby you got nuthin but luv

In the vain of my reflection
In the ruin of its remarks
In my broken down confession
I prepare and I embark
I am mistaken misdirected
Overacting and a fool
No captain on this sea of love
A spinning whirlpool

I listen to the song of trees

Sweet lady walk with me
No matter where the journey
Baby you got nuthin but luv

I listen to your rhythm sing
Laughing dancing everything
Sing baby make me believe
U got nuthin but luv

Song in mind keeps me right it seems I,
Seems I've worn through the soles of my
The soles of my books take a beating,
A beating I've known,
I've known days into weeks into years I've run
Seattle to Austin the apple and on
So on with the boots and on with the soul
On with the people and on with the show

And I wanna sing, sing my song
I wanna sing, sing my song
And I want to feel alive
Cause I want to sing I wanna sing my song,
I've waited so long

Can you see in my stance it seems I,
I've awakened the ghost of my
The ghost in my mind and I'm guessing,
Guessing who'll show
In hours and minutes in seconds so close,
So close to the beating the chanting the roar
So on with my boots and on with my soul
On with the lights and on with the show

And I wanna sing, sing my song
I wanna sing, sing my song
And I want to feel alive
Cause I want to sing I wanna sing my song,
I've waited so long

I'm barely breathing still I,
Step to the stage heart beating
The lights descend upon me,
I take my place and I am song

I wanna sing, I wanna sing my song
I wanna sing, I wanna sing my song
Oh this song in my mind keeps me right it seems I've
I've worn through the soles of my
Yes the soles of my boots take a beating I've known.
Oh it's on with the boots and on with the soul,
On with you people and on with the show
Will you, sing, oh won't you sing my song
I wanna sing, I wanna sing my song,
I wanna feel alive,
I wanna feel alive,
I wanna feel alive,
I wanna sing my song,
I've waited so long

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