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1. |
hemispheres
03:19
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I’ve been thinking about new songs
I’ve been thinking ‘bout singing some
I’ve been thinking of what I want to say
I’ve been thinking about my hemispheres
And how the right one cut off the left up here
I’ve been thinking about how to save the day
The world outside is a crap shoot
False rewards and bad news
This song isn’t about you
And for that, I’m sorry
This one’s about me and my
Temperamental internal life
And how I’m unwilling to shed my skin
As though I’m covered in pesticide
For the way I’ve been for my whole life,
I keep hoping someone will let me in
The world outside is a crap shoot
False rewards and bad news
And this one isn’t about you
And for that I’m sorry
But they can’t all rhyme and flow in time
They don’t just spill out from my mind
In perfect measure and every line just right...
Still I’ve been thinking about new songs
I’ve been thinking about singing some
I’m not sure of what I want to say
This ones about me and my
Temperamental internal life
And how I’m so unwilling to save the day
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2. |
Televisions
04:11
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dressed up phrases in a song
turned my head and you were gone
And the time
the time goes rushing by
summer sighs under bright wide open skies
leaving staying, never change
I’m a dad and a divorcee, like you taught me
I fought so hard to be
brutal with my brand of honesty
Passing pages blue and white
Televisions casting light across the sky
Like fireworks tonight… like fireworks tonight…
Walk the ice so carelessly
Never fear what you cannot see
And the story?
I guess I’ll never learn
That, sometimes, it’s the ice that really burns
Passing pages blue and white
Televisions casting light across the sky
Like fireworks tonight… like fireworks tonight…
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3. |
My Father's Flag
02:40
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I still have my Father’s Flag
under the bed where I lay my head
And I still remember what he said
when I asked him about the war
He said he’d done some things that he’d still regret
25 years and it hurt no less
He came back alive, he came back dead
With less illusions than he’d had before
More disillusioned than before the war…
He used to sing me songs about gambling men
Rambling rogues with tarnished hands
And that is how I still remember him
Straining for the highest notes
His voice cracking on the highest notes
My father, he always hated his name
My father, he gave it to me just the same
And I have never been ashamed
Now he’s buried in a field with a thousand men
With the same white stone from the government
That held him to his back taxes
I guess some things will never change
I still have my father’s flag
Under the bed where I lay my head
And I go on living with what he said
When I asked him about the way
When I asked him about…
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4. |
Forget My Name
04:26
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Plunge another knife where the knives don’t go
If you don’t know the difference, you should take it slow
Your hands will form an empty heart in a lover’s pose
And what’s a day off if the noise won’t stop
Long enough to pause and let your mind catch up
Who are you reminded of when the needle drops?
Back in the old days
We could find some way
To release the pressure
Why not anymore
Descend into the comfort of a deep, dark hole
Until the bombs stop dropping and you feel the pull
Back up to the light above, leave the dark below
But if the air feels toxic then it probably is
And if it’s always off how do catch your breath?
It might take some reaching out to find a way through this
Like back in the old days
When we could find some way
To release the pressure
But not anymore
Working all day now
Day in and night out
Think to myself, “How
did I forget my name?”
How did I forget my name?
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5. |
Let's Not Talk...
03:51
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Whiskey Sunday - I don’t know
How the winter comes and goes
Ain’t it funny - Where we’ve been
Still we end up home again
Winding rivers - Winding roads
Which one follows which one grows
It’s just a feeling - Chasing rabbits
Are we outrunning our old habits?
Near and far and near again
Arms outstretched embracing sin
In the hollow morning light
Let’s not talk about last night
Never lonely - You’re around
Where would I go with this love we found?
Climb the ceiling - Across the stars
Pick a point and there we are
It’s just a feeling - Chasing rabbits
Are we outrunning our old habits?
I don’t know so many things
Is there love in diamond rings?
Looking out across the stars
I’ve outnumbered them with scars
By far
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6. |
But Will It Last?
03:28
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Wandered across the bridge
With a bottle to your lips
And tore your jacket off
Punched your brother in the mouth
Told his wife you wondered how
She ever smiled
Ripped another line of coke
Off the table that you broke
& slammed the bottle down
Woke up with a start
And fought back through the
Layers of a dream
Will it last?
Jumped into your car
Headed to the nearest bar
And ordered up a round
Flirted with the girls
And challenged every other man
Who showed his face
Swung on a couple cops
As they tried to help you up
Out in the alley way
And as they stomped your brain
All the stress and all the pain
Melted away
But will it last?
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7. |
Under January Stars
03:06
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We don’t know what you were thinking
Sitting in your mother’s car
On a January evening
Under January stars
Of all the things that we’ll remember
We will remember laughing hard
For now, Connecticut is weeping
Under January stars
Were you desperate, were you seeking?
Did comfort seem so very far?
Were you treated like a demon
While your demons broke your heart?
We’ll understand if you were tired
And you needed something hard
To take away the things you felt
Under January stars
I wish I knew what you were thinking
Sitting in your mother’s car
On that last January evening
Under those January stars
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8. |
Paper Clips
02:34
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you spend half your life looking for something
and the other half trying to be someone that you could never be in a million days
but I refuse to be bound by conventions
relationships are all good intention, reactionary looks, and social grace
you believe in some things I can't believe
it doesnt mean that I dont love you, all the same
paperclips don't hold my little mask in place
there's no seams left to hide, there's nothing.
you can tell when I'm lacking conviction
I hesitate, looking for wisdom
climbing through my words, my conscience crawls
like my skin when I'm mired in liars
telling lies so useless and tired, going into shock if facades fall
to the floor where they're destined to marry
the wood and worms, the surface I'm buried
up to my eyes and ears and still I know
that if you show me just one sign of weakness
I'll break your heart to show you I could have
any single time you turned to go
you believe in some things I can't believe
it doesnt mean that I dont love you, all the same
paperclips don't hold my little mask in place
there's no seams left to hide, there's nothing.
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Welcome to Dad-Rock
03:35
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Got some new denim on my shoulders
I'm a couple of years older
Than I was the last time I thought to check
Some grey in my whiskers
Who the heck says whiskers?
Come to think of it, who the fuck says heck?
Welcome to Dad Rock and the next chapter
In the story of our lives
Welcome to the softening in the middle
Where the commercials make you cry
And you don't know why...
Welcome to dad rock
Give me a golf club and a cold beer
And some pills to chase all my fears
Down the road so I can get ahead
Of the slowest curveball
The stop motion free fall
I just hope, I can see my kid get a hit
Welcome to Dad Rock
The saddest day I ever knew
Was nothing in comparison to
The way I feel today
about the way I'll feel tomorrow
And I knew how I felt about
The age that I am feeling right now
Ten years ago
But I'm not ready to swallow
I got some new grey in my whiskers
Who the heck says whiskers
Come to think of it...
Welcome to Dad Rock
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10. |
Where Oh Where
04:31
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Where oh where oh where have I been
Digging holes and climbing on in
Why oh why oh why did I go
Raising the devil from the fire below
What oh what oh what have I seen
From this world to make me believe
Where oh where oh where have I been
Making my bed and climbing on in
I don't know how
I don't know why
I don't know where
And I can't say I
Even care...
Day in, day out, day in again
Search the horizon for my only friend
Night in, night out, night into day
Maybe it's best to let it decay
I don't know how and I don't know why
I don't know where and I can say I
Don't know how and I can't say why
I don't know where and I can't say I even care
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11. |
What If I Don't Wake Up?
02:48
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What gives and who controls the breaks
And once you’re made whole who forgives mistakes
This life will bury you alive if you let it
I never let it, but I always was tempted
I woke up and I was forty two
3rd times a charm and you were slipping too
Aches & pains getting magnified
I went to bed and I was terrified
What if I don’t wake up in the morning
What if I don’t wake up in the morning
What if I don’t wake up in the morning
What if I don’t wake up…
The light is too bright when I step outside
Sweat through my shirt across the black divide
Breathe to stay steady and I head to work
Spending my days pondering its worth
All of the time not writing here
Recording things that no one wants to hear
What if I quit, what if it wins
What if I sleep and don’t wake up again
What if I don’t wake up in the morning
What if I don’t wake up in the morning
What if I don’t wake up in the morning
What if I don’t wake up…
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12. |
A Real Life
03:18
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a brilliant butterfly
spreading fairy wings
an offering to you, but you just sigh
like you have done for most your adult life
say only what you mean
and you’ll never have to scream
oh by the way, its you that you don’t like
so wipe me from the record of your life
yeah strike me from the record of your life…
and sing “bye bye love”
its quite enough
this photo of a real life…
consider it a dream that didn’t mean a thing
lovers can’t be liars, so it seems
that I’d be trading honesty to see
all the things you’d never mean to me…
sing “bye bye love”
its quite enough
this photo of a real life…
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Keith Michaud Boynton Beach, Florida
South Florida musician. Plays well with others.
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