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by Brandon James Seyferth

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Moonshiner 04:56
I'm a moonshiner I'm a coal miner Lost a girl who could play a mean violin And if whiskey don't kill me I don't know what will I'm a barbed wire I'm a smokestack fire I'm every branch that has spoken in the wind But for every storm that's blown by me There's been moonlight coming still
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Bring up the singer The tall, wide-eyed ringer for a fool Her dress a red sunset of cranes And access road pools And I I'll try and hold the line Bring up the lights The heavy, late night flights are coming in On an iron ship, a smokestack and brick harbor wind And I I'll try and hold the line Moor up the ships Let those little girls slip through the rain Look at the clouds Let the morning sun do the same The Oldsmobile's wind will get you smiling again You can warm your feet in the sun The Oldsmobile's wind will get you smiling again You can warm your feet in the sun With your little red wagon Remember tearing down the fence Like hell had us on the run
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Smashed into a wave With a stuttering heart Storm was coming in Over the silhouetted barn The winter coming down With your closing eyes The winter coming down With your closing eyes Darlin' don't get me wrong But sometimes you get me wrong With the paints That are bleeding Through your bag Your cigarettes and pearls Your car keys took a whirl At my nose That leather strap don't hang From no buttoned-up bones Hardwood violin She caught a ghost in that machine Bent black sky says As she corners me The winter coming down With your closing eyes The winter coming down With your closing eyes
4.
Miss You 03:49
I'm gonna miss you When you go to bed Steam rise from the rooftops Pillow catches your weary head Sidewalk mutters slowly As my feet, they fall toward thee And the icy chord that plays the night With just a sigh of melody I'm gonna miss you I'm gonna miss you Should have sprung for cab fare instead 'Cause the night can take so long I'm gonna miss you I'm gonna miss you And the warmth that's in your bed tonight I'm gonna miss you I'm gonna miss you Should have sprung for cab fare instead 'Cause the night can take so long I'm gonna miss you I'm gonna miss you And the warmth that's in your bed tonight The breath on your pillow Measures footfalls and rattled keys Ain't no warmth in my bed tonight Gonna' catch me as the windows freeze
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Well the whistle's coming down And it's everywhere bound But I'm sure it won't catch My run Just a chrome-hearted yell through the woods And always movin' on Let my poor wind come And blow you along I know it's been itchin' the back of my throat To let the sun go down And keep pushing you toward the coast Well now send me letters from The right side of the tracks If the ink don't dry in gold I'm gonna send 'em right on back Well maybe then one more time Down those metal lines And I know that you don't Understand How could you know I wanna go there Keepin' time in my coat and in the palm of my warm hands To roll into town And wave my guns Where the ocean's mouth Is paved by its sons And no one ever looks back And never lets nobody down
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Tin Can 03:35
I'm so glad that it's rainin Umbrellas grateful for no wind outside Hear the water pipes say they're drainin The day in no hurry to reply This tin can that I'm draggin along Wonder if everyone hears the sound I'm so glad that it's rainin The summer regrets to say goodbye No matter what the thunder keeps sayin I'm in no hurry to walk on by This tin can that I'm draggin along Wonder if everyone hears the sound
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Long Gone 02:21
Time wakes up like a shadow on my hand A silver ring On a warm night stand A lamp shade ripped and shooting hallelujahs Toward Mars A scholar or a scoundrel in a trance Alison's arms up on a branch Some cargo for the sun on the back of a phone If I'd walked home I'd have fallen over Latch clicks over in a solemn hum Crime scenes Call girls The oven burner on And the moon The room descends darlin' Drunk on a gutter A drop of blood in the desert Crack of a gun Drill in a hole in the concrete For my mouth To put my mouth in brimstone Brooklyn smell Riding with Job of a hearse and wedding bell Babooshka flowing lightly behind your hair Holding out a note from a long gone A long gone dripping hand
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A long way to Bakersfield Mojave sun gonna' melt your mind Think you're gonna die around Tehachapi Get to Fresno on time No road runs straight to Bakersfield Can't blame no one for that All I got are bitter memories Wondering where you are at It's a long way to Bakersfield When headed out from Berdoo Pawned away damn near everything But most of all I think of you Play a sad song on the way to Bakersfield I once heard on the radio Say goodbye to all your masquerades Gonna take it as it goes It's a long way to Bakersfield Leaving Barstow on the lamb Ain't scared none of eternity I'll get salvation when I can
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Bang Bang 03:08
I was thinking of nothing that day Except how I could f*ck up I was learning some new things to say I was getting the f*ck up I was leaving and all things were strange I was turning a page I was looking at a bull in the water A small child playing in waves Away I see you driving Away I see you flying Another breath goes lost in the air Another Great Lakes night Another religious charlatan shouts "Hey buddy, it's me has the light" And speed loves company So I drive along the coast The water it shakes with a violence out there The clean air full of your ghost Away I see you flying Aways I see you driving
10.
For Tao Tao 01:12
Well I got everything That I can handle But I miss your laugh like I Missed the bus Yeah Yeah I got millions of days to pay your rent.
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The Ghost 02:21
He blends in with the crowd A beautiful, wealthy man Street hustlers And Popes Both adore him A rebel as it was A passion for his cause To fly In some forgotten air-o-plane He's a ghost in your kitchen Say his name Say his name He's the kind of man Who brings a navy down to its knees You prayed to him at a poker table Now you build his missiles You arm his trucks And you fly Fly In some forgotten air-o-plane He's a ghost in your kitchen Say his name Say his name To fly In some forgotten air-o-plane He's a ghost in your kitchen Say his name Say his name
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Human Blood 04:30
Say what you want I'm alright I'm alright I'm alright Say what you want I'm alright I'm alright I'm alright Bells ringin and fever minds Start running round Tip your hat to the daily drill As the bankers come down True love, human blood and high walls Hear the sun start to whisper off the drywall Say what you want what you want is to say I'm alright I'm all say what you want what you want is to say I'm alright I'm alright I'm alright I'm all Let the buildings start to let go Of their secrets this side of Earth Let the ancient bad news lift lightly Across the dirt True love, human blood and high walls Hear the sun start to whisper off the drywall Say what you want what you want is to say I'm alright I'm all say what you want what you want is to say I'm alright I'm alright I'm alright I'm all Say what you want what you want You know I bet we look like The cracked lips of a fight We've been up all night What you want what you want is to say I'm alright I'm alright I'm alright I'm all
15.
Songbird 03:10
Come whatever Come what may Whatever suits you honey Whatever suits you honey Down here where some kerosene shakes a flame And a crow and a songbird don't sound the same All that silver 'round your face Whatever suits you honey Whatever suits you honey
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Diane 04:14
Diane's gonna' die of pancreatic cancer at the age of 45 Gonna take some time to travel, gonna take some time to be alive If I'd a' lived six thousand years I suppose my cares Would come and go with the smell of rain She looks up toward the stars Past the lit up windows and cars And marvels that they're Still in motion She thinks of the Milky Way That vast unknown sway Swirling 'round Big as an ocean She thought 'angels are in the dust' In a thousand colors With her ancestors And I will go back home Think of the sound of water in the gutter beside me As it stands I think of my medical bills And wait for the rain to pass Just give me a laugh And a tap of the foot And I'll be alright She says
17.
My Girl 03:55
Now that you're my girl Would you be my wife The leaves are yellowed and changed I'm living in another part of town Now that you're my wife Would you still be my girl We've swung around the sun more times than one Caught our lips at lying, 29 years out the door Now that you're my wife Would you still be my girl Will we be cleaning up kids ten years from now I don't know But I think of this as the street lamps Peel the night off Chicago Think of the Great Lakes shakin' And ghostly pianos still touring the jet stream Well now that you're my wife Now that you're my wife And the headlights still burn
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Astoria 03:31
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Love is like shopping at the goodwill store What you're lookin' for you can't find But if you're not too particular It's a big gold mine I've been going through the record bin All the good ones are broken in Love is like picking up a Lawrence Welk And finding "Heartbreak Hotel" inside With love me tender on the b-side Love is like finding an old dresser Take it home and after a while Pull out the drawers when you're leavin' And find a lost love letter inside So sweet, when I read it I cried Love is like a silver buckle Sometimes it needs a little shine Found an old chuck taylor You know it was just my style I've been going through the record bin All the good ones are broken in Love is like picking up a Lawrence Welk And finding "Heartbreak Hotel" inside With love me tender on the b-side With love me tender on the b-side
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Hey Little sister I've been watching TV a lot Brown and blue shows into news Beginning to think that all the characters have been formed In this world These grey streets Hey Little sister Why were you never born There's pictures of you in my grandmother's house Warm as the breeze through the hay field outside Yellow like the light in her white hair And these days I've cold a lot mm mm mm These days I've been cold a lot mm mm mm And these days I've been called a lot mm mm mm And I've got nothin' to say You could have helped me keep the wrong girls away from my heart You could have helped me keep the wrong girls away from my heart You could have helped me keep the death from my family You could have helped me keep my legs under me You coulda' helped me keep my father standing
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Twist 02:53
A mist again Like it was I don't remember when Don't know what the wind intends When it ain't bangin on the gate in the fence I'm only watchin the hanging chimes Just hanging round A spider crawling up there within the sound Ah hell just once Ah hell just once Again Let's twist again Like we did I don't remember when Right here by the chairs again Right here by the phone that you're still in Aw your garden talks so lonely Toward the road When you'd be drilling down for oil here With your toes Just once again

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released January 21, 2014

Brandon Seyferth, Steve Hamilton, Mike Rhee, Aaron Hanna, Marty Grossman, Matt DeWine, Eric McFadden, Christian Fields, Matt Perich, Aurelio Damiani, Tim Severns, Andrew Oberhausen, Will Sexton, Troy Therrien, Joe Ketchum, Steve Smith, Victor DeLorenzo, Meaghan Owens, Johnny Lowebow, Craig Greenberg, Matt Kaminski, Ryan Raz, Geoffrey Hymers, Natalia, Abigail Worthington, Jon Roberts.

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