Jason Isbell : Foxes In The Snow

Bury me where the wind don't blow Where the dust won't cover me, where the tall grass grows Oh bury me right where I fall Tokyo to Tennessee, I loved them all

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See the windmills turn up 55

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Still got so much to learn, still feel alive

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One lonely girl is all I need

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To tie me to this world, make me believe

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Well I ain't no cowboy, but I can ride

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And I ain't no outlaw, but I been inside

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And there were bars of steel, boys, and there were bars to sing

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And there were bars with swinging doors for all the time between |

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| Bury me in the last few lines Of an obituary for these trying times Find an old live oak to carve my name Hard liquor and dirty jokes, cheap picture frames Well I ain't no cowboy, but I can ride And I ain't no outlaw, but I been inside There were men of stone, boys, and there were men of sand Long nights alone, boys, head in my hands |

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| Well I ain't no cowboy but I can ride And I ain't no outlaw but I been inside And there were bars of steel, boys and there were bars to sing And there were bars with swinging doors for all the time between And there were bars with swinging doors for all the time between

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Everything's green right now, Tennessee at the end of June

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You get a day to come down, We'll ride to Robert's in the afternoon

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Before the room gets packed, We'll claim a table at the upstairs bar

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And count the cowboy hats, And the bachelorettes that don't know where they are

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'Cause I don't say things that I don't mean

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And you're the best thing I've ever seen

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You can have my money And you spend your own

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I'm still running but I'm not alone We all get lost out here, the deepest ditches line the righteous path And God said, "hold my beer," and he made a man so he could watch and laugh But everything's good these days, we'll ride to Robert's on a Friday night And hear Don Kelley play, and I'll catch you dreamin' in the neon light 'Cause I don't say things that I don't mean And you're the best thing I've ever seen You can have my closet and my herringbone I ain't lost yet, I'm headed home

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Everything's green right now, Tennessee's looking after you You get a year to come down, and I'll put an easel in the empty room And you can dream all day, we'll ride to Robert's when we crave a steel And find some peace that way, and give your heart a little time to heal 'Cause I don't say things that I don't mean And you're the best thing I've ever seen You can have my closet for your fancy shoes Well, I ain't lost yet, so much to lose

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Started out like it always starts

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Try to hold our hunger back

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You don't anticipate a broken heart

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Can't see nothing but the track A diamond earring in a Bowery bed kicked your shoes across the floor You regret the things that went unsaid Or have you heard it all before

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Eileen, you shoulda seen this coming sooner

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Do I mean to be alone for all my days?

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Eileen, you thought the truth was just a rumor

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But that's your way And it ended like it always ends Somebody crying on the phone You tell each other you can still be friends You both know you're on your own My own behavior was a shock to me I never thought I'd have the nerve I hope you're sleeping through the night, Eileen I hope they're grading on the curve Eileen, you shoulda seen this coming sooner Do I mean to be alone for all my days? Eileen, you thought the truth was just a rumor But that's your way, that's your way

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Somebody broke my heart once And I was useless for a week I didn't leave my apartment I didn't eat, I didn't speak But then I found the letter she wrote Against the wall behind the bed Said forever is a dead man's joke And that's the only thing it said Eileen, you shoulda seen this coming sooner Do I mean to be alone for all my days? Eileen, you thought the truth was just a rumor But that's your way, that's your way

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I wish that I could be angry Punch a hole in the wall Drink a fifth of cheap whiskey and Call and call and call But that ain't me anymore baby Never was to tell the truth I just saw it in a movie and thought That's what I was supposed to do

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I was a gravelweed and I needed you to raise me

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I'm sorry the day came when I felt like I was raised

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But now that I live to see my melodies betray me

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I'm sorry the love songs all mean different things today

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I wish that I could be angry I wish I didn't understand I said your skin was like water and let you Flow right through my hands Is there a love that's not crazy? Is there a life that's not alive? All I know is that I had to go and you know Why, why, why I was a gravelweed and I needed you to raise me And you couldn't reach me once I felt like I was raised And now that I live to see my melodies betray me I'm sorry the love songs all mean different things today

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Don't be tough until you have to

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Take your heartbreak on the chin

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Don't forget the shit you went through

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Throw your caution to the wind Tighten up your belt and laces Feel the pain and feel it pass Don't be tough until you have to Let love knock you on your ass Don't be shitty to the waiter He's had a harder day than you Don't make babies stay up later Just because they're so damn cute Don't say love unless you mean it But don't say sorry 'less you're wrong Tell a story like you seen it Tell yourself that you belong Don't be tough until you have to... Tighten up your belt and laces... And if you get to feeling lonely Read out loud if you can read Take a nap if you get sleepy If you're hungry, try to eat And if you want it, go and get it Don't just pray and wait around Life will kill you if you let it So when you're down, then say you're down Don't be tough until you have to... Tighten up your belt and laces... Don't be tough until you have to Let love knock you on your ass

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The fireplace isn't real, it's some sort of LED

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Light and a mirror, but I like that better

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Tonight, sitting here with a woman I don't know at all

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She's so small And I'm mad at the sidewalk, I'm mad at the rain I'm mad at the band that played Kid Charlemagne In a bar in the village, and the solo was fucked all to hell And you could tell

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I'm dressed up and waiting for something to change

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The overhead lighting makes faces so strange

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But there's something about her that's breaking my heart and my fast

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Day after day after day after day passes

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Day after day after day after day passes

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Day after day after day after day passes by The doorman's asleep, I don't think I'll wake him He's always so sweet, he's here really late Every night of the week, letting the right people in The real friends And there's tea on the table, a dog in my lap And I might be capable of taking a nap In this New York apartment, peace in the eye of the storm It's so warm Well, I'm open and close now to minding the flame She speaks in a whisper and calls me by name And she says I remind her of Calgary, where she was raised

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It's time to be brave

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It's time to be brave

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I love my love

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I love her mouth

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I love the way she turns the lights off in her house And I love my love And her velvet bed Where she's heard me sing the words that can't be said

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And all the dreams that die unseen

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All the Diphenhydramine

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It took to put my soul to sleep

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Now it's easy I love my love Her golden hair I like to picture her alone when I'm not there I like her friends The ones I know They leave drops of blood like foxes in the snow And all the beasts beneath her bed She defeats and leaves for dead And falls asleep inside my head Seems so easy

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I love my love I love her bite I like the way she disassembles me at night I love her well I love her sick I love the carrot but I really like the stick For all the boys I could have been All the fights I didn't win They put me here against her skin She can see me I love my love I love her hands I love the way she sees the child inside of man

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I love my love I love my love I love my love

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I had it with me everywhere I've been

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Red clay under my nails, deep crimson on my skin

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You could strip me of everything I own

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And just leave me with the memories of my Alabama home

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I guess the highway didn't kill me after all

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But I thought I was a goner in that trailer fire in Arkansas

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But I just let it burn and walked away

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And crawled back to the crimson and the clay |

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| I got a little bolt action for my 9th birthday I can flip a silver dollar from a hundred yards away A 1911 under my floor mat Then one day it just occurred to me, I got no use for that Guess the city didn't kill me after all The thing that nearly took me out was loneliness and alcohol And I just put it down and walked away And crawled back to the crimson and the clay |

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See the moon in the morning, I anticipate the night Licked the spoon in the kitchen, we prayed to Martha White Little noose in a locker, brown eyes crying in the hall Rebel flags on the highway, wooden crosses on the wall Guess the small town didn't suit me after all There's still so many lonely kids surrounded by the rest of y'all And I can't seem to keep myself away So I head back to the crimson and the clay |

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You're like sleep, take what I can get

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But I've gotta make some sense of this, so here the fuck I sit

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At 3 AM, trying way too hard

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To find the words to slow my sweet, addicted heart You're like sleep, I can't get near enough And I pretend that I don't need you when I'm out doing stuff Went so deep, a lucky young man's dream And last time I tried this sober, I was seventeen

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And all that I needed was all that I had

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It was good while it lasted

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You let me kiss you on Broadway in a black Cadillac

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It was good while it lasted Last night I didn't sleep at all, I found another empty wall And I couldn't get past it And for a minute in the afternoon, I almost didn't think of you It was good while it lasted It's more than real, a plastic universe And I wanna know your secrets, even when it hurts You speak so soft, but there's something dark in there And I think I'll ask for more than just a love affair

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You're like sleep, and the nights are adding up

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Well, I wish I still smoked cigarettes and acted tough And all that I had was all that I needed It was good while it lasted With your head on my shoulder, my soldiers retreated It was good while it lasted A mattress on the palace floor and a light I'd never seen before And I couldn't get past it And for a little while this afternoon, I dreamed that I was in your room And it was good while it lasted

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Baby, let me learn from you How'd you get that shade of blue? What's it like from where you stand? Let me hold your steady hand And all that I wanted was all that I had It was good while it lasted Now I feel like a boy who got caught being bad And it was good while it lasted That night you came and stayed with me, painted on my memory I'll never get past it I got to hold a piece of you in the evening on the avenue It was good while it lasted

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Take your hand off my knee, take your foot off my neck

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Why are y'all examining me like I'm a murder suspect

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If I got a little loose, I just forgot to be afraid

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But I started out a true believer babe Lotta dangerous memories, a lot of bars in this town Those who I loved and lost and then still stuck around But I heard God in the Ryman, and I crawled out of the grave I guess I'm still a true believer babe

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All your girlfriends say I broke your fucking heart

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And I don't like it

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And there's a letter on the nightstand

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I don't think I'll ever read

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Well I finally found a match

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But you kept daring me to strike it

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So I have to let it burn

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To let it be I can't remember my dreams, I guess it could be the meds But the sound of you screaming won't get out of my head And I still remember the fever before it started to fade I really was a true believer babe

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All your girlfriends say I broke your fucking heart

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And I don't like it

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And there's a letter on the nightstand

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I don't think I'll ever read

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Well I finally found a match

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But you kept daring me to strike it

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So I have to let it burn

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To let it be Like the stain on your teeth, I'm as stubborn as wine Just when you get think I'm beaten, I get up every time So when we pass on the highway I'll smile and I'll wave But I'll always be a true believer babe But I'll always be a true believer babe

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I knew you before we met

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We don't need all the answers yet

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I'm sure time will change me some

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You see what I could become So much left to figure out I never took the easy route I was born with my boots on You take 'em off me when I'm gone?

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I love you like the morning loves the afternoon

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Like the prairies love the plains

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If you leave me now, I'll just come running after you

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I'll be the wind behind the rain I wanna see you smiling when you're ninety And I'll always see you like you are right now All my wild beginnings are behind me And I know that we can stick it out somehow Oh, I wanted you the first time that I saw you In that bar where all my friends left me behind I wasn't even fishing when I caught you But I always had your picture in my mind I love you like the morning loves the afternoon Like the prairies love the plains If you leave me now, I'll just come running after you I'll be the wind behind the rain |

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I love you like the ocean loves the silver moon Like Frank and Jesse loved the train If you leave me now, I'll just come running after you I'll be the wind behind the rain |

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