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It's So Hard To Hold On
03:37
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It’s So Hard to Hold On
There’s a branch lying still by the ocean
Time goes fast, grab your lover and hold them
it’s the same
Oh, the years come rushing back
Yeah, I don’t remember that
Stuck at dawn falling fast like the weather
Sing a song in a way that you never did before
Oh, the screens have all gone black and they won’t be coming back
It’s so hard, it’s so hard to hold on
It’s so hard, it’s so hard to hold on
Steady now, it’s a long way some days just won’t go
Turn around don’t tell me what I’m missing
I already know, I know what this isn’t
Hold it down, just pretend for a minute
Man it crawls, yeah it crawls when you’re in it
Man it crawls, yeah it crawls when you’re in it
Man it crawls, yeah it crawls when you’re in it
It’s so hard, it’s so hard to hold on
It’s so hard, it’s so hard to hold on
It’s so hard, it’s so hard to hold on
It’s so hard, it’s so hard to hold on
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2. |
Starting Over
03:45
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Starting over
Starting over ain’t so bad
Not the home you thought you had
Amputating heart to heart, burn it to the ground
Make the beds up go to work fall to pieces have you heard
Prairie breaking full of nerve let’s get out of town
Oh it’s draining a change of pace
Hasty visions hide your face
Don’t let go
Don’t let go
Clouds above me clouds below
Where’d you come from where’d you go
Wear your boots out on the road, you could break my heart
At the airport up all night
Blurry vision what a sight
Get me through just one more night then I’ll turn it off
Sure as hell I’ll get back to you
Pieced together ran right through
Don’t let go
Don’t let go
Don’t fool around and fall apart
Silhouette dreams right from the start
Cards that play now let me stay now I’ve been gone so far away
I still stay up much too late, here we go again
I found love it was for free
Singing oceans drowning me
Can you hear it, can you see
You could break my heart
My address you know it don’t change
Out of time out of range
Don’t let go
Don’t let go
Don’t let go
Don’t let go
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3. |
Central Hillside Blues
03:24
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Central Hillside Blues
Alone for a while, I guess it’s true
I lose everything at the sight of you
Take me alive, I dare you now
I’d beg for forgiveness but I don’t know how
Shaking leaves an empty frame
You left without warning in the pouring rain
Tear it apart and look inside
Your poems and polish ain’t no way to hide
Perched on a limb, yeah it’s killing me
Not much to accomplish nowhere to be
Hallelujah broken glass
A song ain’t worth nothing if it doesn’t last
Something building drinks are spilling on a floor in a town I love
So far from here
They ripped up the streets in old Duluth
A violent reminder of an older truth
Nothing’s the same, how could it be?
When I’m not the devil that I used to be
There’s a simple blinding light
That left without warning on a summer night
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On The Highway
03:32
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On the Highway
Outer reaches come and go and I’m forever grateful
Come and tell me long and slow exactly what I’ll wait for
Better times yeah better times somehow I don’t believe it
Built a house up long ago just to up and leave it
There’s a bright light in the cold dark night so bloom where you’re planted
Still I pray to the summer rain and every heart that’s slanted
Border lines and severed ties and the crickets in the meadow
Form a line and say goodbye to such a lucky fellow
Out on the highway
Like a portrait in the rain
Out on the highway
We’ll never be the same again
Whittled like a mousetrap queen of the sky oh tell me i’m forgiven
Simulated pilgrims why oh why won’t they take me with them
Sell me something bright and shinier than I can imagine
Parting ways those summer days so happy to have had them
Out on the highway
There’s a storm out in the west
Out on the highway
Oh god I’m such a mess, once again
Out on the highway
It all comes crashing down
Out on the highway
Yeah where would we be now, I don’t know
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5. |
A Lifetime To Find
03:38
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Lifetime to Find
Oh death oh death I was just getting dressed
The place is a mess
I was hoping you’d forget
But iI can feel you in my chest, I can feel you in my chest
Oh yes, oh yes, death never rests
I can see you've done your best
The problem is just this, it is too late for regrets
I am here to collect
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
Now you’re mine
Oh death I confess I should've known what to expect
But you're so hard to accept last time that I checked I was neck and neck
As happy as the next
Yes yes yes you were blessed
Blessed in the past tense
But it's too late now to make it make sense
It is too late to pretend this day won’t ever end
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
Now you’re mine
So alright today’s the day and tonight is the night
There’s no reason or no rhyme
It’s just time to go goodbye
Oh but why can’t you try to ease what’s on my poor mind
Oh let’s not obsess it's the best i can do to help you see the light
And help the light to see you
It’s true there is a truth there was you and only you, never knew
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
It takes a lifetime to find a life like the life you had in mind
Now you’re mine
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6. |
Nothing But Blue Skies
04:16
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Nothing but Blue Skies
There’s nothing but blue skies
Ain’t it strange how a heart dies
Tied up on the inside with nowhere to run
Part dirt from the dark woods
And part of a greater good
I know where I’m going
By the look in your eyes
My lights are not blinking
And my ship is not sinking
Oh but lately I’m thinking
I’m not the same anymore
I drank more than I should
I can’t help it, it felt good
I’ll see you tomorrow, if you open the door
I’m out where the wind blows
I fell for it I know
I think maybe I’ll go
But I always stay
But there’s nothing but blue skies
Ain’t it strange how a heart dies?
Tied up on the inside
With nowhere to run
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7. |
Burlesque Desert Window
02:59
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Burlesque Desert Windows
Ooh
Sandy little pasture rolling like a wave in the middle
A pony in the sunset will break your pretty heart just a little
I see what never left and I put the paintbrush back inside
Ooh
Buy one of everything there’s a car waiting for you and it’s raining
Maybe I’ll see you in the spring with those hard headed pills that you’re taking
Go on and tell me it ain't love as I wipe the tears right off the wall
Empty locker freedom I’ll see you in a little while
Yeah honey you should see em their faces take up half the night
Draw a portrait of a pilgrim put it under plow in the summer
Cook it till its real done I been looking over and under
Yeah we sing with everyone and we like to keep those kids outside
And I remember breathing a solitary light in a hovel
Hot and surely bleeding now can you get me out of this bubble
I’m in a disappearing town where everyone grew strong and tall
Isotonic freezer, honey can you feel me die
Blankets in the breeze were silhouetted by the fire
Ooh Ooh
Go on and tell me it ain't love as I wipe the tears
As I wipe the tears right off the wall
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All the Good Times are Gone
Hold out in the blackboard autumn
Sit down right where you want em
High tide, on a yellow morning
Besides all the good times are gone
Homesick I left Cincinnati
Take it just don’t point it at me
Right now might be all that matters
Look out all the good times are gone
Paintings on a wall so sober
Night rings like a blanket over
Your head, yeah it don’t come easy
We’re blood red all the good times are gone
All the good times are gone
All the good times are gone
All the good times are gone
All the good times…
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9. |
We're Alright
03:40
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We’re Alright
Brainchild sleeping made of glass
In a room near the overpass
Smokestack music whines from long ago
Yeah the streets are soaking in a summer night
I grab the bus to a former life
Selling heirlooms, you got to learn to let it go
And we’re alright
We’re alright
Pine trees swaying like hula girls
You woke up in another world
The sky was purple in the worst possible way
A flying pheasant with razor wings
A small green house what a joy it brings
I can only hope for one more day with you
And we’re alright
We’re alright
Under most conditions I would bleed
There’s a lunch bell ringing in the factory
I would quit right now if i had somewhere else to go
But i met you at the perfect time
With a switchblade knife and some cheap red wine
I could love you baby till the wheels fall off you know
And we’re alright
We’re alright
Yeah we’re alright
We’re alright
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10. |
Quiting Is Rough
04:02
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Quitting is Rough
I hear voices everywhere
Partly gone and partly there
Sing that one you used to sing to me
I was worse on summer days
I don't know why it went that way
An inside job, well who’s to say
What’s right or wrong
Yeah quitting is rough you know it is
I can't love you more than this
Climb out, climb out
See the stars up high above
Love me with a painless love
Someone might pull the rug out any minute
Jack and Lucy Eden too
Two from me and one from you
I don’t know just what I’d do without it
Yeah quitting is rough you know it is
Come and show me what I miss
Climb out
Climb out
Climb out
Climb out
All the dark departments I know that
I love to say that I won’t be coming back
Swallow every inch of life
Rooster crows but that's alright
He’s got no idea now what’s coming
Confidence in decaying leaves there’s a whisper on the breeze
There’s a poet on his knees in the gutter
Yeah quitting is rough you know it is
What’s the point of any of this
Climb out climb out climb out climb out
Climb out climb out climb out
Climb out
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11. |
The Party's Over
03:37
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The Party’s Over
Old dirty floors and old smoky barrooms
There’s someone on stage
Can you please let me in
I used to sit there
When I was a young man
It’ll be real good just to see you again
Horses and forces beyond my horizon
They push the world right on by
Yeah the party’s over
and I can’t believe it
It’s time to say goodbye
I mounted a pony
The curtains were swinging
I once was a writer of disparate means
The landlord is smoking a butt in the hallway
My instincts get duller the more that I drink
Hi-ye hi-yo the hands are all singing
The ominous weight of it all
Yeah the party’s over
and I must be dreaming
I went right over the wall
I’ll get us a taxi or an old wooden sailboat
Inside it’s pouring but outside it’s fine
The sweet breath of chicory in your light prairie garden
We were drunk on each other and Croatian wine
The music remembers intelligent forces
The wet city sidewalk in June
Yeah the party’s over
And I’m left here thinking
Of the dogs and the moonlight and you
Yeah I’m left here thinking
Of the dogs and the moonlight and you
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Trampled by Turtles Duluth, Minnesota
Trampled by Turtles are from Duluth, Minnesota and were initially formed in 2003. While the members were newcomers to
playing as a fully acoustic band, they quickly began carving out a fast, frenetic sound that owed as much to rock & roll as bluegrass.
They've gone on to chart on Billboard, appear on TV, major festivals and tour relentlessly around the world.
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