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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Wampeter (ABR Single), It's Always Darkest Before The Dawn, Yellow Flowers (single), JAM, The Saturday EP, Highway 222, Cerchio #9 (Single Version), All Things Must Change, and 8 more.
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Solemn Eyes
04:52
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A place where nobody cares which side of the river you're from
Burnt up faces, their main concern is getting out of the sun
Everybody's taking a rest, counting their last cigarettes
So much beauty when it finally pours, and the world is wet
But it'll go fast, drink it up with the animals too
Knew it couldn't last, man's too obsessed with the colour and hue
Polluting in the soil, in the sky, and get poisons back
Never been time to care about things like white or brown or black
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Our home is dying, our temple's burning down
Hear young folks crying out cause you won't be around
There's no salvation here on Earth, or in the sky
Roaming thru the stars, you'll see thru solemn eyes
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So if I take a stand, I will be a man, and do my best
Bloody feet and broken hands, looking for a safe place they can rest
Gonna let 'em in, gonna be a friend to the rest of humankind
Gonna end the hate, but it's almost too late to detox their minds
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Our home is dying, our temple's burning down
Hear young folks crying out cause you won't be around
There's no salvation here on Earth, or in the sky
Roaming thru the stars, you'll see thru solemn eyes
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Lean over the edge, while we watch our deadlines drawing near
Meanings have been changed, smiles into blank heads froze in fear
Soon as a solution does well, they call it madness
Doom and no retribution, can't tell when we're ruled by fascists
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Our home is dying, our temple's burning down
Hear young folks crying out cause you won't be around
There's no salvation here on Earth, or in the sky
Roaming thru the stars, you'll see thru solemn eyes
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All Things Must Change
03:19
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Feeling like a stranger back at home
Dealing with dangerous feelings all alone
and this Fall might be the last
that I'll spend where my whole life's been
Twenty years are gone and now one more's in the past
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Spending lots of time behind the driving wheel
And it's unreal
The loneliness I feel when I get home
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Think it's time for me to be moving on
Been drinking glasses of wine, and smoking reefer all day long
And when I wake up again
See the sunset thru the trees
Like the twenty-one years I'm reflecting on within
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Passing lots of time in my mind when I sleep
It seems so deep
The loneliness that always comes with dawn
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Passing lots of time behind the driving wheel
And it's unreal
The loneliness I feel when I get home
Passing lots of time in my mind when I sleep
It seems so deep
The loneliness that always comes with dawn
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Going Back Home
03:10
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Well I'm going back home
Into that twilight zone
Where I got no need for heavy flesh and bone
When we drowned in dispair
Went farther down for air
Not a care the once clear water held my stare
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Everywhere I roam, there's no home without us there
And I got no place to be
Just wanna dream indefinitely
One more cigarette, and then I'll leave
'Cause I got no place to be
Just wanna dream indefinitely
One more cigarette, and then I'll leave
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Well I'm going back home
To sit on my porch stoned
'Cause right now I wanna be left alone
And it's been made clear
That I should be leaving here
But why try when reality is your biggest fear
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Everywhere I roam, there's no home without us there
And I got no place to be
Just wanna dream indefinitely
One more cigarette, and then I'll leave
'Cause I got no place to be
Just wanna dream indefinitely
One more cigarette, and then I'll leave
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Stars
03:47
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Loner in the town
You won't see me around
Thinkning that it's time
To see just what I'll find
Walk the same old ground
gone around and around again
We've done things, I can't pretend
They're not still within my mind
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Only one way to spend the day
Staring at the stars
Can you say how far away
Answers really are?
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Thought I knew the truth
Left it behind in my youth
Could pursue but I won't
The more you know, the more you don't
I'm remaining aloof
Becoming a recluse again
I know things, I can't pretend
It's within my heart they haunt me
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Only one way to spend the day
Staring at the stars
Can you say how far away
Answers really are?
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It's Been A Year
02:23
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When I wanna leave I close my eyes
Can't just fly away I'll get too high
I've given up, throw my soul into the sky
And already, a whole year's gone by
So throughout this year what have I learned
Think that I'm a man who's misery was earned
I've come pretty far, but I'm still concerned
Hope you're staying out of trouble and the lessons been learned
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Hate myself for the things that made you cry
Back towards the end, so sure I'd die without you
Often think back to that February sky
Because of our nights, I'm a better guy
Well, ever since you left my soul just walks alone
At times it's hopeless, at times I can't go home
I don't wanna think, and that's why I'm staying stoned
And I hope that it might be you calling my phone
I don't wanna think, and that's why I'm staying stoned
And I hope that it might be you calling my phone
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Ascent
01:10
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*Instrumental*
Sample from an Alan Watts lecture on the Nature of Thought
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Moonwatcher
03:42
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When did I first go walk with you
Beneath the pale blue glow of winter's moon
When Orion returns, I'm thinking back
'Cause winter's coming soon
And in the night when we held hands
On the streets where I still stand
Never been much of one to make demands
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I'm older now and leaving soon
And whats a ghost like me to do?
Getting colder now and I assume
You must still love to watch the moon
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When did I first try to talk with you
Outside of which school, which afternoon?
Wish we could be children once again
Before that time was thru
And in the night when we first kissed
In simpler times that I'll always miss
Sometimes these days, it's hard to just exist
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I'm older now and leaving soon
And whats a ghost like me to do?
Getting colder now and I assume
You must still love to watch the moon
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I'm older now and leaving soon
And whats a ghost like me to do?
Getting colder now and I assume
You must still love to watch the moon
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Best Friends
02:17
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I miss ya man, and it's been so long
Don't think I've seen ya since our last show
Lately negativity has been so strong
I've been fucked up and I think that everybody knows
Feels like I lost my best friends
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One of us ended up way out west
One I drove off and I don't blame them
One has responsibilities and I guess the rest
Kind of care but the chances do seem slim
Think that I lost my best friends
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And I hope that I am probably wrong
The ones that I had around for so long
Just fade away from here like I'm a ghost
Find a way far from who I love most
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I've seen it coming for a while now
Another spiral after those good times
Guess I should be leaving anyhow
Keep on searching for the new home I'll find
But I don't wanna lose my best friends
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And I hope that I am probably wrong
The ones that I had around for so long
Just fade away from here like I'm a ghost
Find a way far from who I love most
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Northridge
03:34
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You been walling for miles, and forcing smiles
Dragging all your woes behind
And back inside those minds you happen to find
That you stay with for a while
In the close past when you said it wouldn't last
When we were both still teens
Even stuck in-between, life was still a dream
Wish you wanted it back
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And I swear I'll do anything I can
Try to make things right and understand
No I don't think I ever stuck with a plan
Just try to make things right, and be an honest man
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As of late spent your days drifting in a haze
Back to smoking cigarettes
They burn away regrets cause I can't myself yet
Return your longing gaze
I guess until then I'm gonna turn within
Sleep all alone in the sun
Soul's on the run, and really life's just begun
Did I expect to be here again?
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And I swear I'll do anything I can
Try to make things right and understand
No I don't think I ever stuck with a plan
Just try to make things right, and be an honest man
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And I swear I'll do anything I can
Try to make things right and understand
No I don't think I ever stuck with a plan
Just try to make things right, and be an honest man
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Goodbye,Brown Eyes
02:21
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Goodbye brown eyes I miss your stare
And the way you sparkled when I said I care
Gotta be a way that I can fix this mess
Well, I'm not a man who's sure, but I won't rest
Until I see her, 'til I can confess
Goodbye brown eyes, you were the best
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Well, I'm not much of one for letting go
I'm painfully aware my time is flowing on
And you're long gone
Guess all I can do is put it in this song
About how you were right, right all along
Swore I'd never lose your brown eyes, and now they're gone
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Night Trippin'
05:05
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If I feel nostalgia, then I'm probably feeling down
Think I'll stop imploding on the day you come around
Hollow feeling and it never ever leaves my chest
Same old hollow feeling that replaces all the rest
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Thinking in a new way
When I think I'm okay
Half asleep until the day
Night trippin' my time away
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When I burn out scatter what is left among the trees
After ashes settle may my heart and soul have peace
Another state in which these attachments are no more
Now I'm in another state of mind, and nothing seems sure
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Living in a new way
Never feeling okay
I wont sleep until the day
Night trippin' my time away
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