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Cemetery Sunday
02:38
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Tod said that he saw you walking
With some guy he didn’t know his name
He said that you two looked so smitten
He said he never saw you look at me that way
Cemetery Sunday I’m in Line
Maybe you could fill my grave with dirt
Looking at these tombstones makes me hurt
On the drive home when I see the sun setting
Reminds me of the time you used to speak my name
I guess there’s no hope in forgetting
No memory could be washed away by the rain
Cemetery Sunday I’m in line
Maybe you could fill my grave with dirt
Burning all your letters makes me hurt
*Inspired by the Irish Catholic Holiday, Cemetery Sunday, which I learned about from my dad, Tony Fitzpatrick, who wrote an excellent short story with the same title.
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2. |
Clearing's Light
02:38
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Sitting in my room
Contemplate for hours
Put the city on my shoes
Shake hands with the blues
Sitting on the roof
Looking at the stars that refuse to count you
Aching for the moon
Watching water move
Praying to the stream
“Let me live like you do”
With water on my shoes
The leaves hang
Wooden noose
Admiration for the trunk and the strength of her roots
New hero for my shoes
I’m the size of dust
But that’s alright
So is everything else
In the clearing’s light
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3. |
Ecclesiastes
01:48
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White bone
Bloody robe
When I go to work I feel like I start to lose my soul
Hands hold
Life now cold
Even when I’m back at home I got a troubled soul
When I start to complain I feel so fuckin’ old
And there’s a setting sun
There’s still work to get done
I got work of my own
And there’s a setting sun
There’s still work to get done
I work fine on my own
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4. |
Tall House
04:04
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Tired
Tough
Dead man
Struggles with his hands
Tall house
Peeling wood
Artwork from the land
A voice made of sand
Blood red circles
Soaked into the floor
Blame it on the downpour
Sleep uncertain
Your dreams are unsure
You’re praying for a cure
Every day is just a day just for day’s sake
When you’re fighting the waves
Every day is just a day just for day’s sake
Watch him drown in the waves
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5. |
Some Day
02:47
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Some day
Your soul will finally rest
You’ll burn a hole in Heaven
The angels will cry for mercy
And the angels will cry in Heaven
Some day
You’ll come back to the Earth
You’ll come down from the ether
The children will run in fear
And the women will greet you lustfully
Some day
We won’t have to miss you
We won’t have to look for you
In the clouds
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6. |
Rabbit Hole
03:31
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When you were young
You flew
To places new
Yeah you had wings
And an eye for shiny things
When you grew old
You set your roots deep
You lived for counting sheep
And you taught your folks to weep
Painting over monuments of old dreams
And when the stars fall into the sea
And the leaves are no longer green
And the strangers are more mean
And you’re running out of steam
Don’t go to the rabbit hole
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7. |
Living Room Song
01:58
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Everything has changed my life
Everyone has my affection
The steam is rising through the roof
Don’t hesitate to say
“I love you”
I whisper names of my old friends
Late night walks along Big Bend
Meditating on the stars
This town hasn’t seen youth like ours
Don’t forget to say “I’ll write you”
Don’t hesitate to say “I’ll write you”
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8. |
People Crying in Cars
03:52
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Sin in the water
Fill your hands
The Moon
Is cluttered
It haunts the land
Sun floods the highway
Of people crying in cars
On Friday
I see my girl
I want to hold her
She’s across the world
Sun floods the highway
Of people crying in cars
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9. |
New Hires
03:37
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Watch me trip
Watch me stumble
Watch me fall
California cannot save this
It’s in the dumpster you can’t grab it
Someone set this shit on fire
No dumpster divers
Or new hires
And I don’t want any reminders
Of past events that have transpired
And I guess we’re getting tired
Of living life like we are liars
And I watched “Man on a Wire”
And the film made me inspired
I will climb into the clouds
I will make myself real proud
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10. |
The Old Road
04:33
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Oh heart
I want to be where you are
Two hearts
I’ve got faith
And you’ve got faith
And that’s a start
There’s wind in my room
It’ll be so cold soon
There’s pain in my neck
And my heart is a tragic mess
The old road
Where did it go?
There’s rain in my bed
And my heart is pumping lead
You once said
That my heart would be a tragic mess
The old road
Where did it go?
I’m on the road
So where did you go?
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11. |
You Are the Highway
02:20
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Here’s my resignation
Where’s the wind think it’s goin’
Time’s a broken bottle
The spilling sand makes a desert
You’re in the whisper
The wind sings while I’m sleeping
You are the highway
The path I take to get back home
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12. |
Tree House
03:26
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Your name was written in the snow
That fell in the backyard
And I tried to find a light
I found it in your hands
Yeah I climbed up the old stairs
Leading to the treehouse
And I stayed up there for days
One with the floorboards
Oh the snow on the branches
A million little snowflakes
Reflect a myriad of changes
A million little lakes
Each lake has a boat
Tossing to and fro
Each boat has a courageous captain
Trying to catch the snow
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13. |
Stuck on the Moon
03:01
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Stuck on the Moon
Travel around the Earth
Look for my friends
See their lives play in reverse
See myself turn into a kid down there
See the people I love disappear
It’s like watching them die
Circle the sphere
Watching light disappear
I want a soul but my body ain’t got the room
I don’t want to see white but winter starts somewhere soon
It’s like watching Earth die
Stuck on the Moon
A Rita Repulsa Afternoon
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14. |
Birds in the Garden
03:06
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I’m not afraid to try the things I know you want to try
Now I can’t sleep
Now I won’t go to sleep
Put your heart into my hands
I’ll be your righteous man
I put my heart into your hands
A thousand miles apart
You rode the clouds into my dreams
This love won’t sleep
Now I can’t sleep
Now I won’t go to sleep
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And you don’t look me in the eye
So I’ll try not to try
And you don’t call me by my name
I know things aren’t same
Oh the past is always sweet
Blooming flowers
To falling leaves
Sometimes this loss feels like defeat to me
Something’s crumbling under the feet of me
Tossing leaves lead me to your door
A place that I don’t see much of anymore
I see your family eating dinner
Their heads turn as I ring the bell
The setting sun
Cuts through the rain
Your smiling face still looks the same
And your father answers the door
But I’m not standing there anymore
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16. |
Behind the Clouds
03:07
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I walked on down the street
The leaves they sang to me
I walked into your house
And I never walked back out
There’s wisdom behind the clouds
Some days it shines right down
Some nights my heart gets stuck
In these city lights
In this loser’s luck
Sometimes I can’t go outside
Tonight I gotta be my own light
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Sleep with a light on
Cause I’m afraid of truth
Afraid of what it might prove
Afraid of falling through
Here with my best friend
And it could rain for miles
And then we’d swim for miles
Wading through with smiles for miles
I know my way
I know where I should go
It hurts if we cut ties quickly
It hurts the same if we cut ‘em slow
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Climb the tree
Face the wind
Kiss the clouds
You make us proud
Use your hands
While you can
Make the best
And scrap the rest
No matter what you do
We’ll be so proud of you
Time paved my way
Made me bolder
Our lives are clay
But clay is colder
I couldn’t stay
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19. |
Webster Groves
03:49
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Webster Groves summer night and I can’t sleep
Go to the bridge and watch the night burn
Soon The Sun will come up like a flame
Kiss the stars goodnight and catch some sleep
Goodbye friend
I don’t know when I’ll see you again
The dew on the grass
The dead cars on the street
Pass the house I knew not long ago
There’s still a melody that sounds so sweet
There’s still that tree to climb that I can’t keep
Goodbye friend
I don’t know when I’ll see you again
And I miss you
And I miss you more than
These salt words could express
And I miss you
And I miss you more than
This one heart could lament
And I miss you
And I miss you more than
These salt words could express
And I miss you
And I miss you more than
This one heart could lament
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20. |
Hungry Ghost
05:25
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I took to waiting
For years of my life
I kept on waiting
I thought you would be my wife
Now there’s a sorrow
It’s with me wherever I go
And it ain’t your fault at all
It’s just the way that it goes
We weren’t being stupid
We weren’t being bold
We were just two people
Living a love that’s eternally old
By love we were united
By love we were blinded
And when we remembered ourselves
We forgot one another
The same
And I hope he’s a good man
And I hope that you’re smiling
And I hope that your children are strong
And I hope I get to meet them one day
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Falsetto Boy Denver, Colorado
Falsetto Boy is the songwriting project of Jim Fitzpatrick. Established in 2004.
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