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Pitchfork
03:30
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Better Days
05:16
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There's gotta be somebody writin' songs for me
While I blister my hands workin' for the man
Five days a week
There's gotta be a better way to make some pay
Besides breakin' my hands and my legs and my neck
and my back all day
So now I'm shootin' empty bottles at a 4-way stop
They're all I got to show for the lies and games and
pain and heartache you brought
And I'll be shootin' blank stares at the TV screen
Cause the worst of you got the ever lovin very best
of me
I always thought today was gonna be my day
Was gonna be day
I always thought today...
Buddy OD'd in a bathroom stall
With his dying breath, muttered something bout being
a star
Then Judy stepped out in the cold black night
Stomped a cigarette out
Fired into those flashing lights...
I always thought today was gonna be my day
Was gonna be my day
I always though today...
Look back to better days
Look back to better days
Look back to better days
Look back to better days
When ya ever gonna change your mind?
When ya ever gonna wake up and check the time?
Do you really wanna spend your whole life
living on someone else's dime?
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3. |
Picture Show
03:27
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I'm looking for a different color
I'm looking for my naked wife
She's making it in the movies
Sees the world in black and white
I'm looking for a brand new loveer
In color and stereo
I'll hide my own Easter eggs
Laugh at my own stupid jokes
And you can have a front row seat
To the picture show of your own life
While she's in the back seat with some other guy
I'm giving up on Ella
I'm finding her a desert home
I'll stop for smokes and coffee
On the South side of Calexico
And you can have a front row seat
To the picture show of your own life
While she's in the back seat with some other guy
They'll talk you up and bless you
Every day since your father left you
You'll hang your head in shame
At how short your greatest effort came
And you can have a front row seat
To the picture show of your own life
While she's in the back seat with some other guy
Welcome to the picture show of your own life...
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4. |
They Marched Us Off
06:51
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I'd like to take a minute just a minute or two
I'd like to take a few minutes to talk to you about you
I got all the time in the world
Just talk to me, talk to me about you
I seen you cussin' the old folks
I seen you knockin' the flag down
You hate your mother and you hate your dad
You hate your freedom and you hate the fact that
you're sad
Well let me tell you something friend
Red water runs the deepest
Red water runs the deepest
Where I live there ain't a minute of peace
They burn the flag back home, wanna burn us in effigy
I been seein' them boys go down in the ground
While you were cryin' about your job
They marched us off
I'd give a million dollars just to wait in line
At the longest red light until the end of time
But the desert sun's callin' me, I got to go
Got to carry that cross today for everyone
It's not like I still don't disappoint you
In all the same ways, you're just used to it now
Don't think I think there ain't no better place for ya
A hundred million miles below
Where I live there ain't a minute of peace
They burn the flag back home, wanna burn us in effigy
I been seein' them boys go down in the ground
While you were cryin' about your job
They marched us off
No hell now sustain you now ever perplexing
And lawless many parasites, try to bring us down
Pathetic old rant, your right to say
Until I watched ya burn Glory
I watched ya burn Glory
Where I live there ain't a minute of peace
They burn the flag back home, wanna burn us in effigy
I been seein' them boys go down in the ground
While you were cryin' about your job
They marched us off
Lord, While you were cryin' about your job
They marched us off
While you were cryin' about your job
They marched us off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
They Marched Us Off
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10 and 2 Lookin' at 20
05:00
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I stay awake and I always gotta watch my door
Baby sometimes I'd get so irate with you
Don't know why I let it slide before
Baby that's good loving gone bad
Might just be the best you ever have
Now you know I spent my younger years
Doin' hard time in Pensacola
If them dirty bastards ever catch me out of state
Guaranteed to get five more
Oh I'm never ever goin' back
I'll make my disappearance off into the black
10 and 2, lookin' at 20
This ain't no kind of life anymore
Someone's hair and blood in the back seat
Empty shell casings on the floor
Drinkin' from the devil's cup
Playin' Blackjack with the Lord
The bottle sings a hollow tune
To its only true friend on the floor
Oh I know it all too well
They'll seal my ragged fate today when they close
that cell
10 and 2, lookin' at 20
This ain't no kind of life anymore
Someone's hair and blood in the back seat
Empty shell casings on the floor
10 and 2, lookin' at 20
This ain't no kind of life anymore
Someone's hair and blood in the back seat
Empty shell casings on the floor
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6. |
Back To Texas
04:22
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I'm an awful long way from where Oklahoma starts
Lost my mind back in Texas with my girl and my heart
I paid 'em what I owe and it left me with some scars
If I come back to Texas will you ever be far?
Got a void in my mind from fadin' memories gone black
Tryin' not to buckle beneath the weight
of my actions on my back
It's harder every day with that conscience bearin' down
If I come back to Texas will you be in that town?
If I come back to Texas
Will you ever be far?
If I come back to Texas
Will you know that I was gone?
Lord I gave 'em my heart and they invaded my soul
I came from nothin', got tired of diggin' holes
Got my mind on my saddle and this pistol in my hand
If I come back to Texas can I still be your man
If I come back to Texas
Will you ever be far?
If I come back to Texas
Will you know that I was gone?
If I come back to Texas
Will you ever be far?
If I come back to Texas
Will you know that I was gone?
If I come back to Texas
Will you know that I was gone?
If I come back to Texas
Will you know that I was gone?
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7. |
Taste of Blood
05:27
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Baby slow down and you might find a way
To admit to the bad jackassery of the twisted games
you play
Poor deluded girl, struggles every day
To showcase her animosity in a brand new clever way
You might be the limp in someone's hopeful stride
You might be the flat tire on a nervous midnight ride
You might be alive, just a little faint
When Karma throws a curve ball at that smile upon
your face
Took me down so I would feel it slow
Faster when my fragile heart explodes
Took me down so I would feel it slow...
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
You might be the big star in some deleted scene
You might be the dark spot in a humble person's
dream
You might be the lion, you might be the saint
Demonize the victim of the fiction you might paint
Took me down so I would feel it slow
Faster when my fragile heart explodes
Took me down so I would feel it slow...
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
One taste of blood and I fall right down
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8. |
I Won't Be There
04:46
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Please, please. Where did you think you'd hide?
As deep as the asphalt grinds
You were the loneliest girl I think I'd ever seen
You were homesick and you were cryin'
I won't be there when the rain the rain comes down
I won't be there when the ship goes down
You're on your own now to sit around and rot in this
one horse town
I won't be there when the ship goes down
Please, please. Say you'll get right this time.
Say it's a different crime
You were the loneliest girl I think I'd ever seen
You were homesick and you were cryin'
I won't be there when the rain the rain comes down
I won't be there when the ship goes down
You're on your own now to sit around and rot in this
one horse town
I won't be there when the ship goes down
Please, for the life of me
If you think you know these woods like me
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Synapses Misfired
02:17
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Synapses misfired to the good old somber tune
Of good men swinging in the gallows
As their characters lie in ruins
The blind man don't mind playin' fiddle in the dark
And it's much the same in the way
You lay those bricks around your heart
I don't know why those synapses misfired
Maybe it's just the way that we were wired
Galileo rode the raging crest of his mighty fine research
On a guillotine slot straight to hell with a cross at every
turn
Old Socrates had a fine plan for settin' everybody
straight
But the primitive thinking of the mass at the time
had sealed the poor man's fate
I don't know why those synapses misfired
Maybe it's just the way that we were wired
Tell me why'd they have to take John Lennon with 'em
Tell my why they're tryin' to put every good man
in a hole
I don't know why those synapses misfired
Maybe it's just the way that we were
Wired
Wired
Wired
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Heaven Knows
05:02
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I wish upon a falling star, I did my best to reach you
Among the things I can't explain
I did my best to teach you
I had a dream a sweet angel was waiting in bed to
greet me
To let the changes I've endured not shatter my
soul completely
Cause Heaven knows I'm one of those
I'm too complacent to decide of I've
Had enough for several lives and I'm
About to wreck this one thinking about it
We all want the greatest offer
But sometimes settle for the very first
Disaster that happens to come our way
And leave us for dead tomorrow
You never know how far it goes
Until you ride that beast every step of the way
A mile short of the promised land
One step over the ledge
Cause Heaven knows I'm one of those
I'm too complacent to decide of I've
Had enough for several lives and I'm
About to wreck this one thinking about it
Cause Heaven knows I'm one of those
I'm too complacent to decide of I've
Had enough for several lives and I'm
About to wreck this one thinking about it
Baby my heart's feelin' frail
God how I fought to keep you happy tooth and nail
Baby my heart's feelin' frail
I can't believe the way you'd smile when I'd fail
So pick up your paintbrush baby now
If you think you're watching another martyr get
stuffed in the ground now
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11. |
Mescal Breakdown
02:00
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12. |
2 Time Loser
07:00
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No such thing as a 2 time loser baby
Get off of my train or I'll kiss ya baby
No excuse for ya this time pretty baby
Get off of my train or I'll kiss ya baby
Cause when I fly off of this track
You know ya ain't goin' back
When I fly off of this track
You know ya ain't goin' back
No such thing as a 2 time loser baby
Get off of my train or I'll kiss ya baby
Cause when I fly off of this track
You know ya ain't goin' back
Cause when I fly off of this track
You know ya ain't goin' back
When I fly off of this track
You know ya ain't goin' back
When I fly off of this track
You know ya ain't goin' back
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Daniel Payne Lubbock, Texas
Daniel Payne is a Countryblues / folk songwriter from the town of Lubbock, out in the west Texas high plains. His music has traditional country and folk roots and features an edge for compelling and original storytelling.
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