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Behind the line of power
Who’s a hero and who’s a coward
There sits a lonely king at the bottom of a hill
From a monarch to a moth man
Bare knuckled fist gone soft man
If you only had the weapons and the weapons and the will
You're outgunned but they're outnumbered
You’re not dumb but they’re not dumber
You don't have the blood to spare
And even less to spill
To hold your disposition
You need better ammunition
If you only had the weapons and the will
If you only had the weapons and the will
The sweetheart of the picket line
Is marching in three quarter time
Knowing there's no better time to swallow bitter pills
It's a thrill to kill a mockingbird
That's the meanest thing I ever heard
You don't have the weapons or the will
Behind the line of power
Who’s a hero who’s a coward
Let them have them have the streets they're determined to die on
My one true love was sent by fate
Testing the mettle of a police state
If you only had the weapons and the will
If you only had the weapons and the will
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Oasis In The Yard
03:18
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Loosen the law
You can't put the genie back in the bottle
The demon threatens my unborn career
I want for nothing and already it’s here
Got a fuzz pedal and a wooden firebird
I can't believe life used to be so hard
Riding go carts through the K Mart parking lot
Listening to Oasis in the yard
A standard transmission
Read it in a Creem magazine subscription
Relatively young and certainly dumb
I’m on the record there's no place like numb
Got a fuzz pedal and a wooden firebird
I can't believe life used to be so hard
Riding go carts through the K-Mart parking lot
Listening to Oasis in the yard
The royal me
I don’t want no deathbed epiphany
Bring me the horizon from behind the Taco Bell
I wanna know if this is heaven or hell
Got a fuzz pedal and a wooden firebird
I can't believe life used to be so hard
Riding go carts trough the K Mart parking lot
Listening to Oasis in the yard
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What do you get the girl with everything
A box of love letters she’ll never read
I got a song you can sing
She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart
I’m a diamond
Put your hand in the hand of your sisters and brothers
One squeezes tighter than all of the others
Another I’d rather not be
She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond
She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond
I’m a diamond
What do you bet the nothing to lose
The Ace of Regrets, the Queen of the Blues
I’m holding yesterday’s news
She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond
She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond
I’m a diamond
What do you get the girl with everything?
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Myna Birds
03:22
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Myna birds
Myna birds
Empty affirmations noisy chatter while they preen
Sound like human voices but I don’t know what it means
Inside jokes
For outside folks
She said you seem different and I said so do I
You just found your walking stick and I just learned to fly
Myna birds
Myna birds
Coffee grounds and egg shells all across the kitchen floor
Feathers falling to the ground as I fly out the door
Myna birds
Myna birds
Nests in a gale
A lullaby in a minor scale
Whistling past the graveyard and singing in the rain
Fake it till you make it is the myna bird’s refrain
Myna birds
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Landlines, rabbit ears and nachos for one
I am no fun, the elephant in the room
I'd give riches untold for a map that I can fold
A book that I can hold by the spine
It’s been a long time since a kid sat at the table
Mighty Casey went and struck out on his own
It's beer and blood is mixed in with the mud
The kids can't rock and roll
I've wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings
Drug by six white horses and broke 56 bones
Suffered and shamed by the blowing winds of change
I will not throw you a high-five
It’s been a long time since a kid sat at the table
Mighty Casey went and struck out on his own
It's beer and blood is mixed in with the mud
The kids can't rock and roll
Landlines, rabbit ears and nachos for one
I am no fun, the elephant in the room
I'd give riches untold for a map I can unfold
A book that I can hold by the spine
It’s been a long time since a kid sat at the table
Mighty Casey went and struck out on his own
It's beer and blood is mixed in with the mud
The kids can't rock and roll
No the kids they cannot rock, the kids can't roll
No the kids they cannot rock to save their goddamn souls
The beer and blood is mixed in with the mud
The kids can't rock and roll
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Crazy Alone
04:02
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I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy alone
If I could crawl out of my skin
And shed the one I slither in
You know I would
The world gets flatter everyday
What would it matter if I stay
For good
I'm going crazy
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy alone
I wish someone would come along
Tell me what I'm doing wrong
So long
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy
I’m going crazy alone
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God Of The Sea
03:04
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I am the God of the Sea
All of the fish want to be just like me
Though it may all be a dream
I am the God of the Sea
I am the God of the Moon
In the fontanel forest we sleep until noon
Though it may end too soon
I am the God of the Moon
Winters will spring and summers will fall
Children will run off to school
I will remain while the world goes on changing
I get to make up the rules
I am the God of the Sky
None of the angels fly quite as high
I’m not your average guy
I am the God of the Sky
I am the God of the Sea
All of the fish want to be just like me
Though it may all turn to steam
I am the God of the Sea
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Let's talk about a hard won birth
Let's talk about what your worth
And how it hurt last year on Christmas Eve
5 dollars in a cigarette machine
All alone with your unsown seeds
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I never said I wouldn’t change a thing
Let's talk about DUIs
Some pigs weren't meant to fly
The emergency room is no place to lose your keys
Oh Morgan don't you be so mad
Them stitches is a hell of a badge
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I never said I wouldn’t change a thing
Pack up your presents now child you've earned 'em
Take your lessons out back and burn 'em
Gonna move to the country change my name to Tree
Tell me again about your plans to leave
The future ain't what it used to be
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I never said I wouldn’t change a thing
I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing
I never said I wouldn’t change a thing
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The Judas Table
04:05
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When you wake up in the morning what pulls you out of bed
Voices on the radio or voices in your head
The dogs of war are scratching at my door
I am just a poor boy on a mattress on the floor
Summer child on the run
It's New Year's Eve
What have you learned
Do as you please break the law
Out on a limb the sweetest fruit of all
It's a hotter lake of fire than the one I had envisioned
Let's raise a little hell before they throw us all in prison
Come on into my kitchen, I won't ask you where you've been
It takes more than money to pay the rent
Summer child on the run
It's New Year's Eve
What have you learned
Do as you please break the law
Out on a limb the sweetest fruit of all
And when your day is over and you turn out the lights
What puts you to sleep what keeps you up at night?
David v. Goliath? Biblical surprise?
If the good Lord's willin' and the meek don't rise
Summer child on the run
It's New Year's Eve
What have you learned
Do as you please break the law
Out on a limb the sweetest fruit of all
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High on style low on cash
An outlaw fetish and a French mustache
Baseball, hotdogs, Junior Johnson country ham (I said a country ham)
An open road and a liberal stance
A beat up bus and an Alabama license
I put my Blundstones on one foot at a time
I belong in the Country Music Ball of Flame
Flyin’ high through that little ol’ sky with all them Hanks
I belong in the country
I belong in the country
I belong in the Country Music Ball of Flame
But last call don't pay the rent
And part time doesn't cut it
Here in the real world
They won’t take your job and shove it
I never had a number one hit record
But I've polished up a couple number twos
I belong in the country
I belong in the country
I belong in the Country Music Ball of Flame
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Sunderland
04:04
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Where the flags forever fly at half-mast
Never may they wave
Heroes around here are falling off fast
They never die of old age
Bells are ringing in the Appalachian hills
As I hold your little hand
Underemployed on opioid pills
Out in Sunderland
You are my hero
It’s not enough to just survive
You never looked so frightened
As you walked into the thunder and the lightning
You never seemed so alive
Broken hearts don’t need to stay that way
Broken dreams can still come true
Broken promises and doubting Thomases
They’re only shadows of you
You are my hero
Kicking out the footlights again
The hand that I gave you
I wanted to save you
What can I do but be brave for you
Out in Sunderland
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The name of the ghost is home
Shadows and shackles
Shudders and boards
The name of the ghost
From pillar to post
The name of the ghost is home
The name of the ghost is home
The name of the ghost is home
Shadows and shackles
Shudders and boards
The name of the ghost
From pillar to post
The name of the ghost is home
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Drunken Prayer Asheville, North Carolina
"Morgan Geer is the real thing - a songwriter with a heart as deep as the Marianas Trench and sensitive as the wet hands of a raccoon."
- Rennie Sparks, The Handsome Family
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