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If we consider things that silence brings
And finesse our calculations...
Wrought with metaphor, they all want something more
Did we learn to remember?
We fill the killing room ad infinitum
We work with ghosts all the time
One is red, one is blue, one is just like you
Lest we forget, history rhymes
Today is a special day to forget what they say
Did we learn to remember?
If we walk through the snow to help with letting go
And finesse our calculations...
I've read many pages, it's the same throughout the ages
I work with ghosts all the time
One is seen, one is true, one is still just you
Let me repeat: history rhymes
There are more questions to be asked of the latest iconoclast
We've ascertained a cannon blast and details of a sordid past
When weeping becomes safe again we'll cry the tears they never can
And when we've made winter our friend we'll dry our eyes with desert sands
If it ain't broke, don't break it
If it ain't broke, don't break it
If it ain't broke, don't break it
If it ain't broke, don't break it
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Blood and Mud
05:17
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Better Being Lucky
03:59
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High / Low / None
04:06
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Anyway
02:56
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Little Boy
03:38
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Black Rain
05:08
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A Place to Burn
04:18
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Bridge and Trellis
04:26
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I crossed a bridge, you climbed a trellis
From a long way down
You followed the sound
It never seemed too steep
I asked myself about the present
Was it wide enough?
Was it deep enough?
How much was mine to keep?
Fate
Isn't up to par maybe you can crash your car
You never listen to me
Faith
Will just break your heart even if you've played your part
To a T
I saw a light across the canyon
A reflection of
A twisted up love
It's why I never sleep
And inside the box, there lie the questions
Do I have the time?
Can I make it rhyme?
When is it safe to weep?
Fate
Isn't up to par maybe you can crash your car
You never listen to me
Faith
Will just break your heart even if you've played your part
To a T
Fame
Won't get you too far unless you keep starting wars
You never say you love me
Flames
Burn it all apart but we get another start
You and me
You and me
You and me
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Ghosts of Prisoners Past
01:19
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The passionate lover
The royal bombardier
The jacket was full of blood
So I cleaned it with snow
The baptised scientist
The habitable fear
You should remember
What I told you I know
Ghosts of the prisoners past
All live in your soul
Look in a silvery glass
All covered in coal
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Nothing New
03:21
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I turned a page to find a way
To have some fun
To have some fun
That second stage overt display
There's nothing new
Under the sun
There's nothing left but a great big hole
Show me some trees
Come on, just one
A poison gas blue blood soup bowl
A war fought for
Mother Nature's son
There's a million stories we've never told
There's a million souls in every fold
Of every letter in every word
On every page of the myths that you've heard
I lift a thumb across the road
A desert white
Everything's done
A green tin cap, a grey horned-toad
A black and white
And red Verdun
There's a million stories we've never told
There's a million souls we'll never hold
The plot's no better, the themes: absurd
An empty rage in the myths that you've heard
Oh the myths that you've heard
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Ordinary Men
05:41
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Ordinary men
The right place, the wrong time
You get to decide where the devil lives
You get to decide who the devil is
Ordinary men
The wrong place, the right time
You don't get to hide behind circumstance
You don't get to lie about blood romance
In the rhyming of history we are creatures of subtlety
Can we consider things with the slow regard silence brings?
Ordinary men
You'll be the same until you're well and truly dead
Ordinary men
You've seen your way and tried to be truly well read
Ordinary men
An inherited heritage of catastrophe
Ordinary men
You will rewrite the missive that your children will read
In the rhyming of history we are creatures of subtlety
Can we consider things with the slow regard silence brings?
Take your time, plot a graph
Use the courage of your convictions
Up in flames, a giraffe
Where once was innocence distilled
Taste the shame of the last laugh
Use the courage of your convictions
Write the name of the last
Where once was innocence distilled
Take your time, plot a graph
Use the courage of your convictions
Up in flames, a giraffe
Where once was innocence distilled
Taste the shame of the last laugh
Use the courage of your convictions
Speak the name of the last
Where once was innocence distilled
Say their names
Speak their names
Write their names
Say their names
Write their names
Speak their names
Say their names
Say their names
Say their names
Say their names
Say their names
Say their names
Say their names
Say their names
Who once were innocence distilled
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Edgar Derby Denton, Texas
Edgar Derby is a hobo-folk act based in Denton, Texas.
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