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Bad Blood
05:08
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Cant you keep it together, cant you take it in stride?
Cant you give me the time of day even if its just for one night?
Well we got bad blood, bad blood and i aint sure how
Maybe i'll start coming around again when you start to come around
You don't make it easy
Why don't you just take it easy
On your friends you know we tried
To understand and take your side
You grin and bear an awful grudge
I'm blushing for the both of us
Now hold your course don't hold your tongue
We're all listening.
Now where's the kid, the kid I miss
Who could take a joke just like he took a piss?
Drop your guard and drop the act
No one's talkin back.
Now where's the kid, the kid I miss
Who could tell the truth and make it stick?
Was there ever a question was there ever a chance
We could shrug it off and blame it all on circumstance
Well we got bad blood, bad blood and i aint sure how
Maybe i'll start coming around again when you start to come around
But you don't make it easy
Why don't you just take it easy
On your friends you know we tried
To understand and take your side
You grin and bear an awful grudge
I'm blushing for the both of us.
now hold your course don't hold your tongue
we're all listening.
now where's the kid, the kid I miss
who could take a joke just like he took a piss?
drop your guard and drop the act
no one's talkin back.
now where's the kid, the kid I miss
who could tell the truth and make it stick?
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2. |
Larry's Song
03:28
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won't you come and meet me, meet at the border
somewhere in between what each of us believes
let your sweaty palm soak right through to my shoulder
tell me there's no time. say there's nothing here to grieve
right now right now
you were not the first one. i know that these things happen
you held my like a father i tried to play my part
i'd give my sense of humour just to hear ytou laughin
i'd give me ear to hear you laughin at this breakin heart
right now right now
this is just the whisper, this is just the whisper now
when the fever breaks don't you ever let it break it down
this is just a shadow this is just a shadow now
when the fever breaks don't you ever let it break it down
you know i try to keep, to keep from feeling lonely
but even when i am i call andrew when i can
you were proud of that kid you were proud if only
you could see the man, if only you could see the man
right now, right now
crying in the back of a baltimore cathedral, staring at his hands
he's just staring at his hands
thinking about you and a loss he knows is evil
if god were a man maybe she would understand
and how and how
this is just the whisper, this is just the whisper now
when the fever breaks don't you ever let it break it down
this is just a shadow this is just a shadow now
when the fever breaks don't you ever let it break it down
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3. |
Missed the Mark
05:10
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You're all decked out in your leather and chains
Another morning chasing down the train
You travel north by northwest, tell me I can't guess
Why you'd get so lost in someone you just met
In the back of the silent car.
We miss our friend, we miss our friend
When you're here you're always half past gone
We heard you laughing with the maker
At the mark, cause you miss you missed the mark.
We miss our friend, we miss our friend
When you're here you're always half past gone.
We know you're wrapping
Your bony fingers around the locks.
Who's gonna take your dog out for a walk
And pick up after your friends passed out in the park
Not me, no not me the world has got me worried
Much to worried now
About how the world looks after dark.
We miss our friend, we miss our friend
When you're here you're always half past gone
We heard you laughing with the maker
At the mark, cause you miss you missed the mark.
We miss our friend, we miss our friend
When you're here you're always half past gone.
We know you're wrapping
Your bony fingers around the locks.
If you were here, we'd shave our heads and paint them green
And ride a tandem bicycle through the crowded city streets
But great minds drink alone, great minds drink alone
I heard that great minds drink alone, only great minds drink alone.
Wish you'd come out from that four foot crawlspace
Wish you'd come out and meet us for that drink
You are the sugar cube in my absinthe
You are the dirty dollar jammed in the juke box machine.
We miss our friend, we miss our friend
When you're here you're always half past gone
We heard you laughing with the maker
At the mark, cause you missed you missed the mark.
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4. |
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Go on grab your metal detector
Go on grab your cheap plastic shovels
We're gonna drive down to the harbor
And float off our curses in green glass bottles.
You can see
Our conversation is in need
You can see
Its gonna take some heavy lifting
To get you up on your feet.
We're gonna get down to the bottom of this
I'll be your friend, I'll be your wreckingball archaeologist
We're gonna get down to the bottom of this
I'll be your friend, I'll be your wreckingball archaeologist
So go on on grab your jackhammer
Go on, grab your jack and generic cola
We're gonna pregame the party and never show, never show
Tear the street down and build it over
You can see
Our conversation is in need
You can see
Its gonna take some heavy lifting
To get you up on your feet.
We're gonna get down to the bottom of this
I'll be your friend, I'll be your wreckingball archaeologist
We're gonna get down to the bottom of this
I'll be your friend, I'll be your wreckingball archaeologist
You gotta trust me, you gotta try
Its just lost love, it will be nothing in no time.
You gotta trust me, you gotta try
Its just lost love, it will be nothing in no time.
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5. |
Caving It
04:03
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Kid you really got it bad this time.
The hounds tracked you down the twisted bruised bloodlines.
Your jaw has been cracking in your sleep.
You've been tock tock talking like a broken clock
Through some flat gray cliche movie set day dream.
You're stuck in
Stop motion again
The feeling's got you down
The feeling's got you down
But are you ever coming out?
It's pulling you apart and pushing you around
But are you ever coming out?
Kid you dug your foxhole far too deep
With your dirty fingernails and nervous teeth.
You say tomorrow is strung out whisper thin
And you see nothing you see nothing
But frayed wires spitting sparks on the other side of it.
You're stuck, stuck in
Stop motion again
The feeling's got you down
The feeling's got you down
But are you ever coming out?
It's pulling you apart and pushing you around
But are you ever coming out?
You built yourself a muzzle, you wear it like a medal
As if your silent courage could somehow make you better
You built yourself a muzzle, you wear it like a medal
As if your silent courage could somehow make you better
The feeling's got you down
The feeling's got you down
But are you ever coming out?
It's pulling you apart and pushing you around
But are you ever coming out?
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6. |
Shortcuts
02:57
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It's been a long time since I've seen you,
Since I've seen you at your best
We're getting older, so much older now
Becoming more of ourselves
But you know you
You're just becoming less, just becoming less
Who knows, who knows how much we wasted?
Who knows who knows for how long?
We thought we had all the shortcuts right but
The address was wrong
You're leaking secrets that you only tell
When you won't remember what you've said
Go to the kitchen and compose yourself
Give all those promises a rest
Well you know you
You'll just believe them less, just believe them less
Who knows, who knows how much we wasted
Who knows who knows for how long
We thought we had all the shortcuts right but
Even when we wanted to stay in control
You know we never could, you know we never could
If it all fell apart or if it all fell into place
You know it never did us much of any good
Even when we wanted to stay in control,
You know we never could, you know we never could
If it all fell apart or if it all fell into place
Never did us any good.
Can we forget about last weekend
And call it quits on what we owe?
The world gets bigger every morning
We need our lies, we need our friends they've all gone home.
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Guarantee
06:03
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Typical saturday evening
You're splashing your neck with cologne
Flexing your arms in the mirror,
Putting on a burlesque mirror show
Your eyes, your eyes escape out through the window
Your eyes your eyes just said it all
I know that look, I know that look
I know just what you're after
I know it all, I know it all
All too well
Scan the bar through an empty glass
Man, check the girls coming in from the rain
You're shaking hands in your lap
Just trying to think of something charming to say
Your eyes, your eyes retreat under the table
Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes just said it all
I know that look, I know that look
I know just what your after
I know it all, I know it all
All too well
It's an easy guarantee
It's an easy guarantee
Your beer clumsy fingers fumble
With all the keys wrapped on your chain
Slump against the front door
Pretend that the locks never change
Your eyes, your eyes sink a little further
Your eyes, your eyes, just said it all to me now
I know that look, I know that look
I know just what your after
I know it all, I know it all
All too well
It's an easy guarantee
It's an easy guarantee
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8. |
Crater
05:19
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When the beer cans win the war
And they take over your bedroom floor;
When the spine on your sketchbook starts to crack
Will you stop drawing faces on the shadow of a man?
Who took nine years away,
Away from you?
Don't search the mouths of thieves
When you're searching for the truth.
If there are lies in this house
You let them crash too many nights on your couch.
You always let your lies crash too many nights on the couch.
You were a volcano, man
You were a volcano, man
You were a volcano, man
But you're just a crater now,
Just a crater now.
When the cop car swallowed you whole
You bore your teeth like you'd never bare your soul
Eyes red as warpaint glistened like two crystal balls,
And you glared through the glass like a kicked and kenneled dog.
If you had your way
I know that you would blame us all
As if we were the links in a choke chain
Rubbing your neck raw
If there are chains in this house
You let them crash too many nights on your couch.
You always let your lies crash too many nights on the couch.
You were a volcano, man
You were a volcano, man
You were a volcano, man
You were a volcano, man
Its time, it's time
That you light the escape fires now
Outrun the trees
Outrun the trees before the forest burns down.
It's time, it's time
That you make all those plans you been talking about
Outrun the trees,
Outrun the trees before the forest burns down, down
Take my hand
I'm reaching out.
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9. |
Undertow
05:53
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When I hold you
Up to the light, the light
I can see right,
Right through the bullshit spite
You've been flashing like a switchblade.
I miss the messy nights we used to know,
We used to know
I can't keep chasing your reflection down in the undertow.
You know i want to fall in with your flood
You know i want to follow
But you're washing all your bridges away
Don't make me watch you dam yourself up
You know i want to fall in with your flood
You know i want to follow
Can't you understand my reasons
Can't you understand?
I want to keep you,
Keep you honest with yourself,
With yourself
But i can't help, can't help but notice
A brother means as little as anyone else
I miss the messy life we used to know,
We used to know
I can't keep chasing your reflection down in the undertow
You know i want to fall in with your flood
You know i want to follow
But you're washing all your bridges away
Don't make me watch you damn yourself up.
You know i want to fall in with your flood
You know i want to follow.
Can't you understand the reasons
That we can't understand each other these days?
Go on go on, use all my old lies on me.
I'm counting the months.
You're counting your drinks like prayer beads.
Go on go on. Play that game of sharks and minnows.
Outrun your friends, outrun your friends,
Just to outrun your devils.
Go on go on, use all my old lies on me.
I am your friend, iI'll be waiting longer than you want me.
I am your friend,
I am your friend, I am
Whatever that means
I am your friend,
I am your friend, I am
Whatever that means
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Stag Baron Richmond, Virginia
Stag Baron is a Richmond based indie rock quartet devoted to crafting catchy pop songs that are both heady and heartfelt.
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