1. |
Ghosts Of My Hometown
03:59
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I was born in the valley where the three rivers meet
The Ohio, Monongahela, and the Allegheny
And along those river banks sit the faithless factories
My father’s ghost haunts those halls with every breath I breathe
I saw what they took from him and I swear…
They won’t do that to me
I was born in the shadow of the penitentiary
Where the poor work and toil believing they are free
And the sweet bells of mercy float on the evening breeze
Winter comes early and the still waters freeze
The gothic cathedral stands with an eye…
That never blinks
Chorus:
The ghosts of my hometown
Follow me around
From the West back to the East
Into the arms of the South
Like a shiver I can’t shake
Or a high and lonesome sound
The ghosts of my hometown
I remember the South Side under a blanket of snow
Standing in the cold tossing rocks at your window
You’d climb down from your room and the city would come alive
We’d take the 10th Street Bridge to Oakland, strung out like Christmas lights
But now those days are gone and I’m left haunted…
By how you died
Repeat Chorus
I was born in the valley where the three rivers meet
And just like those rivers I’m always trying to leave
And the spirit of the Iroquois and Shawnee haunt these hills
Like the echo of my father’s voice in abandoned steel mills
And the ghost of the girl I loved who took too many…
Designer pills
Repeat Chorus
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2. |
Rings Of Saturn
03:44
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Janey I've been wondering
Why the light seems to fade
Janey I've been wondering
Why everyone I love goes away
Janey I've been wondering
Why you always cried
Janey I've been wondering
Why you had to say goodbye
Chrous:
Did you ever see the lights around you?
Did you ever get the timing right?
Did you ever know how much I loved you or how I cried?
Did you ever see the rings of Saturn
Or fly through the Milky Way
And are you ever coming
Back to stay?
Janey I've been wondering
Why this life seems so cruel
Janey I've been wondering
Why my heart is a useless tool
Janey I've been wondering
Why angles have to die
Janey I've been wondering
Why you had to say goodbye
Repeat Chorus
Did you ever want it?
Did you ever need?
Did you ever want it...
The love inside of me
Repeat Chorus
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3. |
Key Bump
03:26
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I see the crowd you’re running with
They don’t know just where it is
They’re just kinda’ crawling in their skin
All these cocaine scavengers
Circle the bar like gaunt vultures
Looking for the guy with the powder
Chorus:
It’s just another key-bump in a bathroom stall
It’s just another night of feeling nothing at all
It’s just another key-bump in a bathroom stall
And I ain’t missing you
And I ain’t missing you
And I ain’t missing you
At all
Every night starts the same way
A shot and a beer to ease the pain
Then it’s on to heavier things
All these dark and sketchy bars
Tattooed strangers with scarred hearts
Getting numb in classic cars
Repeat Chorus
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4. |
Stolen Car
05:40
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We started off all broken and battered
We’re gonna’ end up all reborn and beautiful
We were covered up in scars,
Our wings were clipped like bugs in jars
Honey I feel you in my soul
So don’t let it go
Don’t let it go
This town is a trap
We need to get out
Before it brings us to our knees
I know a place we can go
We can drink and talk, take it nice and slow
I know I place we can be free
So don’t let it bleed
Don’t make me bleed
Chorus:
I know that I’m damaged
I’ve seen many hard seasons
I don’t remember how I got this far
All I know is I’m
Loving you for all the right reasons
We got tonight,
We’ve got this stolen car
Mary I got us this fast car
Let’s drive until we hit the coast
The streets are alive tonight
They’re paved in gold
And bathed in the city’s light
They’ll take us wherever we wanna’ go
So Mary lets go
Heaven’s waiting down the road
Repeat Chorus
Blow away these walls that keep us in
Wash away this life of vulgar sin
That we’re in
You have my heart
Now take my hand
We’re off tonight to the Promised Land
Repeat Chorus
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5. |
Sarah Says...
05:56
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Sarah says
She’ll forget all of this
The doctors are gonna’ wash her mind
An electro-shock
Straight to the brain
Take away the pain, it just might
She’s afraid of the outside world
So she hides behind her door
So afraid that she’ll wake to find
A wasted life
It’s such a bore
Chorus:
Sarah says she’ll forget all of this
Sarah says she’ll forget all of this
So she takes her pills
One at a time
With a vodka-Sprite to wash them down
One of these days she’s
Gonna’ make a change
She’s gonna’ throw the whole bottle down
She’s afraid of the outside world
So she hides behind her door
It’s something that no one sees
It’s her own disease and she’s breaking
Repeat Chorus
She’ll forget my name
She’ll forget who I was
She’ll forget everything
Of our love
Our love…
She’s afraid of the outside world
So she hides behind her door
So afraid that she’ll wake to find
A wasted life
It’s such a bore
Repeat Chorus
Sarah’s eyes
Open real wide
To a stark, new day
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6. |
San Andreas Fault
03:27
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California's fallin' in the ocean
California's slippin' in the sea
Since it took a fall it's not worth its weight in salt
And it's all San Andreas Fault
They really got it made in Nevada
They really got it made over there
No need to run and hide when it is high tide
Sittin' pretty on the other side
Chorus:
Sand on our shores is what we used to have
Now it's in our living rooms since we've been blown off the map
We'll go swimmin' in our kitchens and fishin' in our halls
And it's all San Andreas Fault
We're the laughing stock of the country
Yeah, we're the laughing stock of the world
The North has grabbed their guns since we seceded from the Union
Oh, Hawaii here we come
We've been spendin' all our time and money
Gettin' everything ready for the crowd
Well bring the kids we'll show you how that Disneyland is Sea World now
An earthquake can't keep a good town down
Chorus
Verse 1
Chorus
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7. |
Rosalita Falls
04:56
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Tonight she packs her bags for
Tomorrow she’ll walk the paths
That’ll take her across the border
To somewhere less sad
She crosses at the levee
Past the stone and wire
She reaches a darkened desert
With hope for a better life
The border patrol haunts her steps
As search lights streak the sky
She struggles hard to catch her breath
As coyote cry
Rosalita falls down
Rosalita falls down
She comes upon a city
Looking for some work
But all the doors shut on her
Without papers she has no worth
She thinks of her home and all she’s lost
The family she’s left behind
She takes a job in a garment shop
Working nine to nine
Rosalita falls down
Rosalita falls down
Rosalita cries without a sound
Rosalita falls down
Now she has a quota
She works till her fingers bleed
She’s a faceless seamstress
Unheard and unseen
The foreman’s steps pound in her brain
She’s chained now to his will
He strikes her down with a single blow and her blood spills
Repeat chorus
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8. |
Atlantic City
06:07
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Faithless Town Atlanta, Georgia
"Faithless Town.. lead you on a journey. It crosses genres, changes pace as quickly as the songs change, and brings to life
the modern day American dream.”- IMPOSE
"Faithless Town sounds like if Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, and old Kings of Leon had a bastard child and nobody knows who the father is." - 99X Radio
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