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Lights
04:02
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And the light I’m looking at doesn’t blink
Unlike these tired eyes
And the meter beats on like a drum
And these lines they peak then fall to take me home
As the sirens sing these
Lights hesitate to find me
While busy hands they search for life
They found a pulse beneath the strife
This stifling cab moves on
Lights change to welcome dawn
From the gurney to the floor it's three feet down
We roll on past the door
As the night replays itself in my mind
These reasons ask more questions than I’d like
As I was driving in the car
To leave home for good but not too far
The plan was set not to return
To take the leap with no concern
I’m burning every bridge
Sirens echo from ridge to ridge
Don’t take me too soon
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And we fight to stay afloat
And we hold on
To hope so weary
These callused hands still held aloft
Growing tired of the pain and the loss
Give me faith, for I have none
But give me pride
In all I’ve done
But give me love, I shall return
For a soul without love has so much to learn
Now my pen bleeds the love of my mother and father
Even when I can’t be bothered by the time
And I found my soul in the place I came from
It was hiding ‘neath the shadows of my mind
And we’re all from somewhere else
And even though we’ve lost ourselves
Well we’re finding home on the streets we roam
We’re finding home
Keep count the hours I’ve been lost
We’re finding home at any cost
Along these Boston streets I’ll earn my keep
We’re finding home
Now my pen bleeds the love of my mother and father
Even when I can’t be bothered by the time
And I found my soul in the place I came from
It was hiding ‘neath the shadows of my mind
And we’re all from somewhere else
And even though we’ve lost ourselves
Well we’re finding home on the streets we roam
We’re finding home
Along these Boston streets I’ll earn my keep
We’re finally home
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3. |
City Lines
03:23
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And I’m twenty miles from the city line
When I get to you, you’ll be mine all mine
I’ll bring you flowers of the finest kind
My heart must skip a beat with each road sign
I’ll get to you by this morning’s light
These shades of winter are a sorry sight
But I, I have miles left ahead
Take this heart and take this soul
They’re yours to keep, so keep them whole
For I have miles before I sleep
I’ll count the steps still left in store
From the city lines to your front door
Where I can finally rest my head
Take these weary eyes, and send them both to bed
The sun will rise on the streets you roam
The same sun rises on my long road home
These legs will carry me passed morning time
I’m chasing cobblestones passed city lines
I’ll get to you by this morning’s light
These shades of winter are an awful sight
But I, I have miles left ahead
Take this heart and take this soul
They’re yours to keep, so keep them whole
For I have miles before I sleep
I’ll count the steps still left in store
From the city lines to your front door
Where I can finally rest my head
Take these weary eyes, and send them both to bed
Take this heart and take this soul
They’re yours to keep, so keep them whole
For I have miles before I sleep
I’ll count the steps still left in store
From the city lines to your front door
Where I can finally rest my head
Take these weary eyes, and send them both to bed
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4. |
Neversink
03:11
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I’m tired of waking up in this beat up old town
With the weight at our feet just keeping us down
And we’re knee deep in irony and forgotten in a blink
While we’re all stuck here to drown, stuck here to drown in Neversink
We eat our toast on the butter side down
Someone should be the spark, be the spark to light this town
And I can’t pretend that we’re going anywhere soon
Forget these plans I’ve been drunk since noon
And every night I dream of one way tickets
Never thinking where to pick
It’s easier to dream and live how everybody thinks
While it’s just natural for us waiting here to drown in downtown Neversink
We eat our toast on the butter side down
Someone should be the spark, be the spark to light this town
And I can’t pretend that we’re going anywhere soon
Forget these plans I’ve been drunk since noon
It’s here you’ll be the missing link
While we’re all stuck here to drown
In this old town that never sinks
I’m tired of waking up covered in all these cans
The smoldering fire burning all my future plans
It’s easier to dream and live how everybody thinks
While its just natural for us waiting here to drown in downtown Neversink
We eat our toast on the butter side down
Someone should be the spark, be the spark to light this town
And I can’t pretend that we’re going anywhere soon
Forget these plans I’ve been drunk since noon
We eat our toast on the butter side down
Someone should be the spark, be the spark to light this town
And I can’t pretend that we’re going anywhere soon
Forget these plans I’ve been drunk since noon
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5. |
The Note
03:23
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And hung up on the door
Where you said you’d leave it
The notice that you’d gone
Too many days off shore
You said I hadn’t done shit
I’d been away too long
And I did it all for you
I did it all for you
The money I was making
It didn’t mean a damn thing
It only made things worse
The ink your hand was shaking
Wrote a happy ending
But this blessing is a curse
And I know
This house is not home
It’s just a shell
Where our love used to live
These empty chairs
Where our love used to sit
My heart’s a roof with nothing under it
Well I’m borrowing my smiles
From the empty glasses
Spread around our floor
Well I’m happily exiled
I’ll pay back as time passes
For I know not what’s in store
And I know
This house is not home
It’s just a shell
Where our love used to live
And these empty chairs
Where our love used to sit
My heart’s a roof with nothing under it
Well I’m losing sleep
I haven’t been to bed for weeks
And these eyes won’t close
I haven’t done a thing but think
This restless mind should never drink
I’ve found the brink
The most that I sleep is when I blink
When I blink
And I know
This house is not home
It’s just a shell
Where our love used to live
And these empty chairs
Where our love used to sit
My heart’s a roof with nothing under it
And I know
This house is not home
It’s just a shell
Where our love used to live
And these empty chairs
Where our love used to sit
My heart’s a roof with nothing under it
My heart’s a roof
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6. |
Bones
03:38
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Leave my bones to the Atlantic
And the grave will understand
That I’ve taken up the space
That I was given as a man
Send my ash to New York harbor
Where I know I’ll finally rest
While the years of tides return me
You will only miss me less
Oh these restless nights
You hold the book and I’ll turn the page
You brought the candle to my flame
And helped me burn it all away
And I can’t be asked
To sell my soul for better days
I’ll shed my flesh so we won’t sink
And carry you along the way
I’ll carry you along the way
Leave my bones to the Atlantic
And the grave will understand
That I’ll fill them in with memories
Of what it was to be a man
Let the wind take back my breath
Cause I won’t need it anymore
Cause Christ I wouldn’t know the difference
If you left me on the floor
Oh these restless nights
You hold the book and I’ll turn the page
You brought the candle to my flame
And helped me burn it all away
And I can’t be asked
To sell my soul for better days
I’ll shed my flesh so we won’t sink
And carry you along the way
I’ll carry you along the way
And you left me with my eyes closed
Dreaming by the water's edge
Know I’ll be with you as the tide goes
While every wave holds you instead
And you can talk about the glory
And the hardship all the same
So leave my bones to the Atlantic
And I will carry you along the way
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7. |
Absolution
03:00
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And the moon was shining soft as silk
In the winter air my soul was still
And the shadows pass and flicker through
In the shapes of ghosts and loves we knew
And I’ve marked my sins along my arm
As if seeing them would keep you safe from harm
Cause each chapter’s just a notch you see
This’ll one day be the death of me
And we prayed for absolution
For the things that we had done
I’m a slave to retribution
But I’m not the only one
No I’m not the only one
I’m just a slave bound to my bedside
Beg for the life I’d never known
And by the sea where the waves will set me free
I’ll be alone
Let the waves awake my soul
I’ll be alone
And we prayed for absolution
For the things that we had done
I'm just a slave to retribution
And I’m not the only one
No I’m not the only one
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8. |
No Sun in Ohio
04:40
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Just a few miles out passed the county line
As Sullivan shrinks in my rear view
And the clock in the dash reads a quarter past nine
There’s just so much that I haven’t told you
I’ll head west towards the rust belt and pastures
For in this place I can no longer dwell
I must banish myself to the azure
For the love that I feel I must quell
For you won’t find the sun in Ohio
I’ve been searching for days all on my own
With my hand to the page every word is still caged
Fingers stutter and slip all the while
There’s just so much that I haven’t told you
As your face reappears in the rear view
But the words in my head just get caught in my throat
Writing letters that I’ll never send you
No sun in Ohio
Let these highways take me home
No you won’t find the sun in Ohio
I’ve been searching for days all on my own
With my hand to the page every word is still caged
Fingers stutter and slip all the while
There’s just so much that I haven’t told you
While your face reappears in the rear view
But the words in my head just get caught in my throat
Writing letters that I’ll never send you
No sun in Ohio
Let these highways take me home
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9. |
Born of Words
05:22
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I’m carrying out the last of my sin
I’m hiding behind this weathered old grin
Carry me home, carry me home
Cause these hands couldn’t bury a heart of their own
I’m crossing rivers on the backs of broken dreams
While her body swells to burst at the seams
I’m holding both her shores with the weakest knots tied for sharper swords
And I can only blame myself for the end
Born of words this life is nothing but pretend
Cause I’m drowning in phrase oh each word how it weighs
Keep the coins on my eyes for the tolls I will pay
Cause I’m drifting back to when and where I lost control
This villain’s tongue wasted the time to save his soul
Carry me home, carry me home
Cause these hands couldn’t bury a heart of their own
I’m crossing rivers on the backs of broken dreams
While her body swells to burst at the seams
I’m holding both her shores with the weakest knots tied for sharper swords
And I can only blame myself for the end
Born of words this life is nothing but pretend
Born of words this life is nothing but pretend
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Ash
03:30
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Hold on to hope in spite of the loss
Cause I’d like to be remembered as the man I never was
And I’m filling in graves with those misspent old days
That I’m trying so hard to forget
And I can’t forget them yet
Keep my eyes but burn my flesh
Cause you know I won’t be happy till there’s nothing left
Cause I’m empty as a bottle
Cause you know I’m not one for being subtle
And I won’t be found where you last left me
Please write me down
Thoughts long bereft
See I would love to steal a page from your diary
But I can’t steal a thing
Not your heart
No not a thing
Keep my eyes but burn my flesh
Cause you know I won’t be happy till there’s nothing left
Cause I’m empty as a bottle
Cause you know I’m not one for being subtle
Shake the ash from your shoulders
All those churches you fared
Not a bridge left behind you
And darling you ain’t fit for a prayer
Oh darling
Carry me home
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11. |
Slave to the Present
03:58
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In the late May sweat come the cheap red eye jets
And we’re on our way to moon lit shores
And the white sand beach and the dunes we must breach
Between us and the deep we’ll explore
And it’s there I’ll be slave to the crest of a wave
In the swell of the soul I adore
As the wind picks up, chills this cider filled cup
As these leaves cascade to the ground
And the branches they creak as if daring to speak
And the trunks and the roots remain bound
And it's there I’ll be slave to the words I’ll engrave
In the trunks of the trees that surround
But we both dismissed
All the lies that we’ve told and the loves we once kissed
In this new life we start
With your hand on my sleeve just beside of my heart
And it’s worth every pain
As the seasons they pass only love can we gain
As the seasons they pass, the seasons they pass
From the last pumpkin cake to the first snowy flake
We move slow in the cold winter’s air
And for gifts we must rush through the snow and the slush
As we purchase our gifts with great care
And it’s there I’ll be slave to the present I gave
For the present is all we must bear
But we both dismissed
All the lies that we’ve told and the loves we once kissed
In this new life we start
With your hand on my sleeve just beside of my heart
And it’s worth every pain
As the seasons they pass only love can we gain
As the seasons they pass, the seasons they pass
This winter’s last breath it felt nothing like death
As the snow melts away to the stream
With the sun shining through on the blossoms we knew
Sprouting buds in the thick morning steam
And it’s there I’ll be slave with the weather worn grave
Where I’ll lie in the sun's lasting beam
Where I’ll lie in the sun's lasting beam
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12. |
Six Feet Down
03:32
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Well I’m hanging in the graveyard
For some honest company
And I’m laying out my cards
Cause nobody plays but me
I’m not bothered by this void of sound
Well I’ll be damned if I stay home
Not much talking comes from six feet down
Here in this graveyard I will roam
Well I’m hanging in the rail yard
Watch the trains that pass me by
They go from town to town and discard
All the baggage they don’t like
I’m not bothered by this constant move
Well I’ll be damned if I stay home
I’ve got loads of problems left to lose
Here in this rail yard I will roam
Well I’m hanging out on this stage
Cause it’s right where I belong
As this life turns its next page
You might as well just sing along
I’m not bothered by this concert sound
Well I’ll be damned if I stay home
Let your chorus ring up from the ground
Here in this envy I will roam
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Neversink Boston, Massachusetts
Neversink is a Folk band based out of Boston, MA. Lead by singer and writer, Alex, Neversink has played all over the North East since 2011.
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