Julie’s got a brand new window pane Hanging out with me at the end of the lane And I got a brand new set of strings A couple new songs I’ve been trying to sing And she says, “Could you sing that song for me? The only someone else wrote ‘If It Makes You Happy?’” She says, “But if you’re too tired then it ain’t no thing.” She says, “It ain’t no thing at all.” And all my friends were talking about places they were staying And I was in the kitchen when the band had started playing I maybe should’ve listened to all that you were saying when you said it Maybe nobody means to be a heavier stone We just get all caught up in these weights of our own And if I’d spent last time digging up crushed bones Maybe I could belay it But still you said, “Hey girlfriend, put your dancing boots on We’ve got another five minutes before they shut it down And if you ask the band real nice if they know our song maybe they could play it.” That’s when the band started playing Alright so Jim’s got the same bad habits as me That’s how we all ended up here on Christmas Eve He even introduces me to his family And his kid says she’s gonna give a gift to me So she gives me this crystal hanging from a string To be honest I don’t really believe in that sort of thing But I’m never as right as I’d like to be No, sometimes I’m not write at all So when she took that necklace and she placed it ‘round my collar It was all that I could do not to lose my shit and holler When really I know I should just say “Hey thanks for the offer” I still have that necklace somewhere That’s when you said “Hey girlfriend, don’t you know you’re not special At least no more and no less than anyone else is anyone else is special So stop trying to make yourself some kind of exception and maybe start living your life for once.” So I went to to the gazebo for the last time that night And I stayed up way too late and I almost missed my flight It’s Nick says, “Don’t you know you can be just as strange as you like But don’t be a stranger.” No, I don’t want to be a stranger.

I want the roads to rise to meet You I want You to scrape death off your boots I wanna love You in September and call it an Autumn truth and I do not like Your step father of the way that he talks to You and when I think of You yeah when I close my eyes You are wearing something blue because You-o-o-o-o-o know what I are yeah You-o-o-o-o-o know what I are and I am sorry about your brother but I am happy you were brave and I promise I am trying not to be another person you have to save and I will sing your praises for all that art you made and I am trying really hard to see you today because You-o-o-o-o-o know what I are yeah You-o-o-o-o-o know what I are and I have dreams of falling asleep in Your car if only things could stay the way they are credits credits

So many things to do when I woke up today that I went back to bed. And so many things I still want to change but I got high instead. And I was born in a hospital but I was baptized by the sea And I have seen the things that are destroying you And I'm gonna try not to let them destroy me. Chorus: Because I once was broken but now I am whole And the universe, well, it's forgiven me for all those things I stole And there's a garden growing when all of my blessings get old. The wild is my religion and this garden is my practice So many things I have yet to learn and so many things I have yet to give. But they'll still find my cell phone snapped into two pieces too late Sitting softly in the sand at the bottom of my beloved Long Lake. (chorus) And there's this girl I love, she knows what I've done but she lets me sleep in her bed. She gives me the peace I could never find in any of those books I read. And I could walk backwards from Jerusalem and still not know where I've been Or go back to the time before I lost my mind and realized I'm okay with it. (chorus) credits

Phone call from the gas station Got my car turned around in a government office Follow the headlights, missed my exit, I missed the next one I wasn’t paying much attention, I’ll just be honest I drove my car at a wall You return my call I was screaming bloody murder just like Shelley Duvall Wondering if the time was right I had a box of our stuff Packed in the trunk Not much, just some shoes and a picture of us Don’t know what I’d say if anyone should stop by It’s a drive I’ve made 1000000 times before It’s a drive I might never make again And all the signs bleed into the colors of the forest And the lines on the highway begin to bend It’s getting late yeah it’s a quarter past two I start think maybe I bit off more than I can chew Still I never meant to disrespect you It’s Halloween so if I get home by three I’ll be walking around town just like Jamie Lee Wondering where my friends have gone And it’s true there’s been some sideways rain here It’s true that there’s been some ringing in my ears It’s true there’s been monsters standing way too near Still it’s the end of the line it’s the end of my turn I’m gonna make it out of here just like Marilyn Burns with the blood dripping down my face Because if that’s what it takes then that’s what it takes I put the car into gear and I ease off the brakes If that’s what it takes that’s what it takes. .

wet dog wet wet river its sure been a long long winter its sure been a long year so meet me at the avenue You'll walk with me, I'll walk with you who is the third that walks with you? that shines like a wide open sky. like a wide open sky wet dog wet wet river I know I'll always be a sinner I know that I am what I am so if you see old Mister Wallace sayin' you're so great, and you're so boss get yourself down off that cross, my eyes you can't look me in the eyes you can't look me in the eyes wet dog wet wet river you can't make me eat my dinner you can't make me do anything so if you see my friend theophilus heard he came right back, he's a bit pissed of we got that portrait of him all wrong, not right we did our best at the time it was our best at the time I was a sailor and you were my captain and you went down with the ship and I am a failure yeah I'm a proud failure proud to fail at everything

Pretty Ty, he says to me that down here in DC we only smoke these it was PCP but he did not tell me i got lost on Potomac St. in what he said to me i'm going down i'm going down i'm going down down down to the canal. so you can stop and stare i don't really care i'm not really there just some bones in some clothes i wear so when you stop and stare i would shoot Voltaire if i even cared i'm going down i'm going down i'm going down down down to the canal. what was that thing what was that thing that we used to have? if i could remember i'm singin', if only i could remember i think i could get it back. but i'm going down. i'm going down. i'm going down down to the canal.

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and i stood out on your front porch tonight the clouds were purple and gray in the moonlight and i talked out loud like you were still around and here is what i had to say: "i hope i'm doing this right. i want to live an honest life I want to take your advice I to try and live a good life but between an honest life and what I am there is a sea and Lily waved on her way to the hospital I think she died later that night so I will sing this loud cause you are no longer around to hear that which I have say "i hope i'm doing this right. i want to live an honest life I want to take your advice I wan to do my family right but between an honest life and what I am there is a sea

You showed up w a gun To pick up your prescription And you hand that note to the cashier you turn to run Push past those policemen Get to the car, get to the highway to disappear If the exit 20 loop doesn’t kill you maybe you’ll spiral forever to hell And wake up in a hospital wake up in a holding cell Cause God’s flashlight beam could never reach that far down this well And I really do not want to go back out there. I wanted to be a good thief But I was on the wrong side And I wanted to be a good wife But I guess my body just was not built right So if dextroamphetamine doesn’t kill me I hope I spiral forever to hell I want to wake up in a hospital I want to wake up in a holding cell Now I know God’s flashlight beam could never reach that far down this well And I really do not want to go back out there

last night's dinner is still sitting on the porch and the people that I came with are all passed out on this floor and everyone's a-running just to see what went down and I'm homeward bound I'm homeward bound Yeah I'm homeward bound and I have walked through every street like chemotherapy running through your bones yeah I have walked through every street ambulance poetry, they're cutting through my clothes and I went out walking just to see what I could find they told me that hatred looks in all directions but only my love was blind and everyone's out shuffling, just to see what might be around and I'm homeward bound I'm homeward bound Yeah I'm homeward bound well Jonah came from the belly of the beast said yeah we're gonna party when we get back east yeah we started singing, started dancing started drinking bottles of wine in the garden of eden yeah thats how it was yeah thats how it was and I have walked through every street like chemotherapy used to run in your bones

I know I left you for myself and western medicine my God, where are you now? I thought you left me for a stolen dose of klonopin but oh, look where we are right now. I left the wedding 'cause I was nervous about the party tricks you know, the water to wine and in the garden I fell asleep when you went off and wept and I woke up later that night, and you were gone you were gone do what you want but will you please excuse my reticence I think we've been here once before all by myself up in your house with walls of venison and I woke up Like a whale beached on the shore we got the news in hotel rooms across the continent the message falls, the message falls in the night will you wake me up will you wake me, wake me before they bury him I need to say my goodbyes my goodbyes, this is my goodbye and now that you're gone, giving yourself out to the ages what should we do? you said hold on to the memory, bring it to the future it is in you it is in you it is in you