John Murry : The Graceless Age

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The air is filled with lead Lights are going down They told me to forget you They never told me how I sleep here in the parlor With my boots still on my feet Living down in the darkness I pray your ghost to keep, I pray like this... Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do... I saw the skies open up Above a blood red moon The city lights were choking all the stars The cry belonged to you, it's your turn, cry like this... Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do... Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do... The curtain's getting heavy The lights are coming up I'd wish you all the best If wishing were enough All these fading pictures All so tired and bent I'd tell you goodbye, mama If goodbye was what I meant, watch me wave goodbye Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do... Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do... Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do... Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do-do do-do do do do-do-do Do... Do...

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. | I've beaten my brain with benzodiazepines Momma won't tell ya that love is a monstrous thing The sky's a blue vapor, it's painfully true I prayed it would rain and drown my feelings for you

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I drove the fire roads at night in a busted up car I searched the skyline in vain for one goddamn star This city's a dream, but I'm wide awake Caught up in their lights with nothing to say My soul has been bled, I don't know for sure If my heart is breaking, is yours breaking, too? I've heard the Mission bells ring through the salty breeze I've seen politicians born on a thousand TVs There's a knife in every back and one in every hand And I swear it ain't you, it's California I can't stand I'll be right there with you when the last lamp runs dry When the last hands been played, when the black banners fly When the songbirds have all broken their throats When the fire of St. Joan is nothing but smoke I've seen the fog rolling in and the flashbulbs throw sparks We suffer in time, but illumine the dark There's a knife in every back and one in every hand and I swear it ain't you, it's California I can't stand I swear it ain't you... It's California...

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Up above the moon and underneath the gun

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Far away from Mississippi all the buttons come undone

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A hornet's nest inside my brain, rattling like a submachine

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A black nickel, a needle and a spoon

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You say this is ain't what I am?

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Well, this is what I do to warn your ghost away

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I know you don't believe in magic

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This uniform is stifling, it's hotter than the heat That's smothering my shoulders and burning up my feet Every word's under review, but the jury's guilty, too... Saran Wrap and little colored balloons A black nickel, a needle and a spoon You say this is ain't what I am? Well, this is what I do to warn your ghost away I know you don't believe in magic Well, nobody does, not anymore I watch the waves roll in and roll out just the same Like a song and dance, it's the oldest of his games I shut my eyes but through these tears a mean old world reappears Saran Wrap and little colored balloons A black nickel, a needle and a spoon You say this is ain't what I am? Well, this is what I do to warn your ghost away I know you don't believe in magic Nobody does, not anymore Why try and tell you, when you don't give a fuck? You don't believe in magic, you don't believe in luck There is no "right", there is no "wrong" Same damn chorus, same damn song Saran Wrap and little colored balloons A black nickel, a needle and a spoon You say this is ain't what I am? Well, this is what I do to warn your ghost away I know you don't believe in magic Nobody does, not anymore |

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I held my hands out, blood-stained and I got my doubts I tried to wash it off, yeah, I tried to wash it off Red as Southern clay, blood-red as Mississippi clay And yes, it still remains, goddammit, it still remains! Where is Pilate's water? Tell me, where is Pilate's water? Nightmares in daylight, I'm stealing the birthright Off 16th and Mission! Off 16th and Mission! I took an ambulance ride, they said I should've died Right there on 16th and Mission, on 16th and Mission I still miss you so much, I still miss you so goddamn much On 16th and Mission, I'm right here at 16th and Mission Sing it!

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I wish we weren't below a blanket of smog

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Jesus Christ up above watching it turn

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I still remember how fire feel from the skies

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I watched the tears from your eyes burn holes in the street

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Save the photograph of you laughing at yourself two summers ago Learn to smile in between Led down, before the crooks and the crown Before the weathered and worn-down, the tall and untouched I've been unnamed since the day I was born With a crest made of thorns, in a world of gunpowder

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Save the photograph of you laughing at yourself two summers ago Learn to smile in between It gets worse here, I know It gets worse here, I know It gets worse here, I know It gets worse here, I know

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You know the sickness

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Was the pain that much?

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We weren't there to watch it burn

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What we had never did return

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But it burned They taught me early on Too soon, I believe How to wipe my face off With spit on my sleeve We weren't there to watch it burn What we had never did return No, I wasn't there to watch it burn But it burned Now to kill your ghost I lay down on this couch With chiva in my blood And your belt in my mouth We weren't there to watch it burn They way things were never did return I wasn't there to watch it burn But it burned Let it burn down Let it all burn down Burn!

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The haze settles round this city, chokes it like a noose

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All of us, we live and we die, we ain't gotta choose So long ago when I first saw you, before it all began I fell in love and I still remain tattered and out of tune

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What keeps me alive is gonna kill me in the end

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'Cause "nobody's baby" is everybody's friend The ocean laps the seashore in crystal blues and greens I wanna take you with me to stare into the sea What would it matter? You say you're doing fine All these haunted memories of you are remnants of ghosts here in my mind What keeps me alive is gonna kill me in the end 'Cause "nobody's baby" is everybody's friend It all comes pouring out in these stagnant melodies Don't act like you've been crucified when only you can set us free Yeah, you can set us free I don't need nobody, I'll tear down this machine Then build it back with my bare hands until it's all routine I oughta head out to the woods, 300 grains a shell Take the side of ignorance, and blow the whole damn thing to hell What keeps me alive is gonna kill me in the end If "nobody's baby" is everybody's friend I've said my vows in silence, I've cried your name in vain I've stumbled through these city's streets, I've bathed my soul in rain I want you back beside, the broken days have passed If love is what we give, I wanna be your last What keeps me alive is gonna kill me in the end She's nobody's baby but she's everybody's friend (Can I come back in now)

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I woke up to the sound of it

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Sashaying down the hall

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Remnants of secrets

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Our precious lives

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And I'm terrified of it all I've got no past There is no future This sickness follows me around I've got no time The hour's nearing

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And I'm gonna burn this old house down

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She knows my face, my broken body

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And I still see it in her eyes That crucifix, that bound our bodies Underneath the southern sky Trapped in the crowd, cheated by misfortune I pray his light will be her guide Into my arms, these crooked arms Underneath the southern sky The devil's paintbrush Holds just one color It pushes out your form As you laughed and tell me Playing with matches Will only keep me warm The stars were falling All around us In this filthy little town And while I slept there You screamed into your pillow And I'm so sorry but I never heard a sound She knows my face, my broken body And I still see it in her eyes That crucifix that bound our bodies Underneath the southern sky Trapped in the crowd, cheated by misfortune I pray his light will be her guide Into my arms, these crooked arms Underneath the southern sky |

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She knows my face, my broken body

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And I still see it in her eyes That crucifix that bound our bodies Underneath the southern sky Trapped in the crowd, we were cheated by misfortune I pray his light will be her guide Into my arms, into these broken, twisted arms Underneath the southern skies

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Pistol in my pocket, a hand down the front of your pants And you say, love only makes me bleed That bitch wipes her face off, that faggot combs her hair And you say, how much romance could you need

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It's me, baby, it's just me

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And do you want to know the truth

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My hand's tied behind my back

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And I'm holding out for you So debonair, so fucking full of shit And you believed it all Give me another hit, put me to bed Carry me back home It's just me, baby, it's me And do you want to know the truth My hand's tied behind my back And I'm holding out for you If I'm to blame for carrying a torch Then let the guilt me mine Let it break me, let it strangle everything Let it kill me in time It's just me, baby, it's me And do you want to know the truth My hand's tied behind my back And I'm holding out for you To tell the truth and to tell it well It takes another lie So you tell that fuck to make it good And then you say goodbye 'Cause it's just me, baby, it's me And do you want to know the truth My hand's tied behind my back And I'm holding out for you

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I wake up to you laughing in your sleep Beneath telephone lines, above burned out basements You spit every word your pretty little mouth won't keep Then you wonder out loud how the world keeps spinning I want everything inside that shed out back All those penny nails and useless fertilizer I wanna hear bolt cutters and breaking glass Burning violins and your old man's motorcycle

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This isn't love, but I need it just the same This isn't love, but I need it just the same This isn't love (this isn't love) This isn't love I want Tim to fix my transmission and say it's alright That it'll work out fine, for Tim to say it one more time While someone else's satellite creeps across a flat black sky 'Cause one I built in Fifth Grade never left Mississippi This isn't love, but I need it just the same This isn't love, but I need it just the same This isn't love (this isn't love) This isn't love |

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You and me we were born apart with the same last name, the same distance between us I can still see the breath between our faces: frozen spirits in the air that night I don't wanna see their smiling mouths now turning against me, turning to rust You kiss like a stone, but I need it just the same This isn't love, but I need it just the same This isn't love, but I need it just the same This isn't love (this isn't love) This isn't love (this isn't love) This isn't love

John Murry : The Graceless Age
2012

The Ballad Of The Pajama Kid

California

Little Colored Balloons

Photograph

Things We Lost In The Fire

No Te Da Ganas Dereir, Senor Malverde?

Southern Sky

If I'm To Blame

Penny Nails

John Murry : The Graceless Age 2012