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The Road You Led Me Down
04:30
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I’d cancel your subscriptions
Delay those travel plans
I’m descending on your hometown
Spreading fairy dust around
I’ll ravish your religion
Suffocate your pain
She is coming to anoint you,
She'll be coming back again
How can I sustain
the unforgiving rain
while residing, and dying,
on the road you led me down?
Well, I’d table your ascension
To the board of good trustees
I am coming to absorb you
With mystical degrees
How can I explain
the business that pertains
while I'm choking on the fumes
of the road you led me down?
I’d erase the call he left you
He’s just a shill, a capital gain
I intend to canonize you
On the road you led me down
I picked you up in town, in a Saab with the window down,
We drove half way to the keys, when the roof caved in
Now it seems like years since New Years ’99
I’ve traveled light years just to leave you far behind
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2. |
Faith
03:51
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Can’t you see, I don’t like what’s become of me
And I’ll buy that faith, if it’s guaranteed
So where you been? I’m a stranger in a town of sin,
But I’ll be your whipping boy, if you lose your grip
So here I stand, stumbling on this shaky land
And I see those angels rising, hand in hand
And I'll hang your picture, if you swear to look away,
and I'll read that scripture, if you shine your light away,
I can't stand those promises, they take your breath away,
breath away
And I won't cry,
I won't laugh I don't wanna die,
Just send (sin) a little sign, we'll get in line
What kind of plan, has a father in a godless land?
Well I say my prayers, before I, before I take a stand
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3. |
Stowaways
04:50
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And the memories fade like the figures,
I’m standing on the platform,
As the train goes out
And the music plays forever,
Lingering like a prayer,
I can hear it now
There’s a fire,
And it’s dying in the woods without a witness
And the fire,
Is swallowed by the moon they might remember
There’s a baby,
Crying in his room without a reason
Cause he’s looking
At the forest through a window frosted over
Cause I’ve seen them, and they don’t know
Stowaways can’t hide, they’ve gone away
And I know them, yeah, I’ve never seen
Thinking is all I’ve got to do now
There’s a ship of ghosts,
With several hundred stowaways between them
Under moonlight
They’re lying side by side, the flame between them
Have you seen them? Yeah, I don’t know
Stowaways can’t ride, they’re gonna stay
And I know that, yeah I don’t know
Leaving is all I’ve got to do now
So, I’m on my way,
On and, on and, on and on they go,
They remember me, as a stranger
Cause I’ve seen them, and they don’t know
Stowaways can’t hide, they’ve gone away
And I know them, yeah, I’ve never seen
Healing is all I’ve got to do now
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4. |
Midnight on the Planet
03:46
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You're out of luck, out of time,
It's midnight on the planet,
the lights are flashing green to red
as the doctor cries in vain
for wounded love, it's so sad,
he cannot find a heartbeat
jumps into a frozen lake
breaks a leg and slides away
How can you break the dark from the light,
How can you see the wrong in the right
Where we go, baby you're in my life to crumble,
How do you know? Maybe you're in my life to fall
There's a girl, downtown,
Her eyes locked on the telephone,
but midnight comes and goes without a ring,
she crawls to bed
And thinks of love, it's so sad,
Take my hand, we'll climb that bridge tomorrow
Stowaways of past regrets,
Runaways of love to shallow
And in my darkest hour,
Sadness takes her hand,
And as I wake she follows,
across the golden sand
(And as I wait she follows,
into the darkest land)
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5. |
Corners II
03:11
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You know I never learned to pray,
So tell me what I should or shouldn't say,
Do I kneel or do I pay? Gotta find you
Cause I've hid in all your corners,
I'm just panicked by the light,
And I'll round your bed by orders
under cover of the night
And I don't believe you've come and gone,
Don't believe you've gone
So get it over now and let the truth be told,
cause I am warming to your torture
as your kiss is growing cold
Get it over now and let the games begin
cause I am busy working overtime
to borrow back my sin
You know I miss the pain you bring,
it's like a branding iron on my skin,
I feel you deep within, gotta have you...
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6. |
Keeper
04:38
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I heard you left today,
Stole daddy’s car and a rolled up twenty from his ash tray
You didn’t leave a single trace
And no one braved upon your secret place
No one ever will,
From the valley, to the crest of the hill,
But hey, I’m the keeper
On a shapeless autumn day,
In disguise I crept through the family archway
The curtains from you windows were gone
Dad was planting angels on the front lawn
He cried out and raised a fist; it’s a move he can scarcely resist,
But hey, I’m the keeper of your heart
In the fall we got a letter in the mail,
Postmarked from the county jail,
They sent her clothes, a box of letter and a key,
The only picture, of us three
And no one ever will,
From the valley, to the crest of the hill,
But hey, I’m the keeper
So stand a little straighter,
Maybe you'll find your way,
Walk a little closer,
Maybe you'll learn to stay
With me, forever, down here...
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7. |
(New Years) Gone
05:09
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Why deny, when you’re feeling like
All your time, has been wasted
In disbelief, slowly counting the
Waning nights, of your dreams, have you
…lost your way? Are you dreaming of
Something more? Can you follow me
On the road, we don’t wanna waste time…
So you’re gone
Why believe, when it grants you no
Solace here, from this space we will
Disappear, never to re-turn…
So we’re gone
So why should I, try to prove who I
Am inside? I already know
What I’m worth, but the world remains
Blind…
So I’m gone
Home
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8. |
Radio Dawn
02:58
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Radio, you’re crazy, I’m alive,
As I choose your babies, they collide,
Can you sing me to sleep now? My head hurts and I’m down,
Radio, forgive me, I survived
Lover, please believe me, I denied,
Engineering feelings, but I lied,
And if you leave me to brood, I won’t hold it against you,
Lover won’t you love me, like I tried?
If you stay all night, would you help me out, would you keep me up,
While I count my sheep, while I watch them follow you,
As I count your waves, would me ears still bleed, would my head still ache
But I need you here, before I disappear
Evidence you fake,
Evidence you make me,
Innocence you bleed,
Innocence you leave me
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9. |
Footprints
07:20
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And it rise like smoke
And darkness out from underneath your bed
And I know it’s coming right away
And the midnight’s rolling
Like a spinning wheel, you never said,
You’d ever be running far away
And I know that you’re coming, eyes like smoke
And could I love it more
And I know that your business is far away, between us now
Still beside me, don’t say I know them anyway
I know it’s serious, so come on back from the war
Stay beside me, don’t say I love them easy,
I know it’s critical, so come on back to me
And of this I’m weary
Blackened eyes I’ll thank you all for that
I know you will it all away
And her eyes like daylights,
Disappear on the open road ahead
Oh, our business is work that you can’t afford, in my way
Still happy, don’t say I know them anyway,
I’ve got some serious, so slum on back to me
Still beside me, don’t say I love you really,
I know it’s critical, so come on back to me
Still inside me, don’t say I love them really,
I know it’s anyone, so come on back to me
Hey, you left your footprints everywhere
Just go, you left your footprints everywhere
And the smoke from your eyes that
Weighed on me as tried to make it alive
I don’t know why I’m going far away
And the bridges are burning,
That we might have crossed a year from now
I don’t know when the river got so wide, between us now
Criticize me; don’t say you knew them really,
I know it’s anyone’s, to come on back to the war
Stand beside me; don’t hear you know I’m easy
I know it’s critical, swim on back to me
Stand by me, say ‘I know they’re easy,’
I know it’s serious, so come on back to me
Don’t say you’re about them, don’t say you love me anyway,
I know it’s anyone’s, anyone’s fault by mine
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10. |
Stargirl
06:10
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And if they tell you, you have to act yourself
Don’t remind them, you think of no one else
And if she tells you, she’s seeing someone else
Don’t regret her, don’t try to hurt yourself,
She’s eyeing me now, as if to call me over,
I’m getting closer, she turns away
I’m getting stood up, to my own funeral,
But I’ll forgive her, she loves me anyway
Someone let you down, but not me
Someone broke your heart, don’t blame me
I deny any involvement,
Don’t distract me with your movement
Keep the windows closed, it’s cold out
Keep denying what you told me
Who could possibly believe, what you told me?
To send a signal, I wasted all my strength,
It’s gone a light-year, not reached your wavelength,
But I’m still searching, another distant being,
Can restore the echoes, can understand me
Someone let you down, but not me
Someone cut your signal, across to me
And the sun, let it never melt away
And the boy, let him never feel the same
And your lies, let them shield you from your pain,
and my mind, let it rest so I can sleep...
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John Shepherd New Jersey
John Shepherd is a singer/songwriter from Los Angeles, CA. He now lives on the east coast, writing, recording, and performing solo material and contributing to multiple alt-rock outfits.
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