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Brother Brother
04:48
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So you came into the city, with hopes and dreams just like the ones before you
Ain't got a thing to call your own, if thoughts were things then you wouldn't be a pauper
So don't tell me that you figured the price of solitude, a price for which your heroes ain't got a quote
In the deepest depths of the nighttime, there's something competing with that sorrow
So I've only got to tell you, why everything falls apart
At the seams when in dreams so gently, it's not that hard
to even go around the world
You can go around the world
So you're a big shot now I guess
A few ones here, a couple there, you figure
So that's the way I must confess, to stray from that path for yourself, you've beaten'
But go on, go ahead and you'll become a vagabond in time
Another price to pay for your broken dreams
In the deepest depths of the nighttime, there's something competing with that sorrow
So I've only got to tell you, brother my brother stay
Oh but brother brother, I tell you it's okay
I could bless your soul like a prophetess but it still wouldn't do ya any good I guess
You're too damn blind and you're too far gone from thinking you're a bonafide paragon
That deserves the treating of a baroness, when you know you're just another pawn
Even Joe deserves a little extra too, from doin' all the things that he's supposed to do
So I've only got to tell you, brother my stay
Oh but brother, brother, I tell you it's okay
You can go around the world
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Josie
03:51
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Oh tonight, your eyes are silent with your head upon my knee
Like before, in the softest gesture are things, still enclosing me
When you leave, as I kiss you goodnight, who knows what the morning will bring?
Just take your time as slowly as, as slowly as you need
Oh Josie, you're not the last one
For sure, you're not the first girl in the world with these questions at hand
But questions oughta make us try a little harder
Even if in the end we're meant not to be
You're the kind of girl, I never thought, would ever wanna come around here
After all you still haven't found the remedy for all your worries and fears
Take your time, take it slowly, take it slowly as you need
There's still time left the find the man, that you ain’t found in me
Oh Josie, you're not the last one
For sure, you're not the first girl in the world with these questions at hand
But questions oughta make us try a little harder
Even if in the end we're meant not to be
Even if, you think you've made up your mind and it's the end
You may find, that there's something left to salvage deep inside instead
Take your time, take it slowly, take it slowly as you need
So fragile are the softest notions of fairy tales that we breath
Oh Josie, you're not the last one
For sure, you're not the first girl in the world with these questions at hand
But questions oughta make us try a little harder even, even ...
Even if we're meant not to be
Oh you're not the last one
For sure you're not the first
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3. |
Back To Sleep
03:50
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I’m a barefoot beggar on Muhammed’s doorstep, with a conscience fadin’ into the ether
Like a band of prophets on a magic carpet, oh that would steal away at the blast of a trumpet
I could blame it on the weather, when I crashed into the sea, oh the tides for sure that’ll rock me eternally
Rock me back to sleep my love, ‘cause that’s the way that it aughta be
Back to sleep my love, it may not be fate, it might not be destiny
Oh I know, it’s too late to tell you, I know that you’re too far gone
To rock me back to sleep, back to sleep, my honey don’t you know
Your resume says you’ve done the whole world’s savin’
With your downtown wine and cheese and your Tango dancin’
If your life were a week, you’d make plans on a Friday
Just like I met you dozin’ off on the subway
If the nature of things could have its way, it would multiply my greed
Into the softest verse of velvet that any man could ever breath
Back to sleep my love, ‘cause that’s the way that it aughta be
Back to sleep my love, it may not be fate, it might not be destiny
Oh my words they may seem empty, they filled you up you know
To rock me back to sleep, back to sleep, my honey don’t you know
Whether a pauper, or prince without a Queen, I thought I’d fit the moment this time
But I’m still a court jester that’s only guaranteed, the same old tale with the same old ending to tell
Though my words they may seem empty, they filled you up you know
So rock me back to sleep, back to sleep, my honey don’t you know
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4. |
Pierce It Through
03:48
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I don’t want you comin’ round here, I don’t want this anymore
This heart of mine was tattered every which way
Now it’s a torn a little more
You should go back where you came from
I’ll keep on ramblin’ myself
We’ll play if off like nothin’ happened at all, like a bad pair you’ve been dealt
You put the hurt on me real good my darlin’, like there’s no memory to save
‘Cause I could feel that you were already leavin’ in the first kisses that you gave
And that’s the way that you’ll stay
Stay away from me if that’s what you want and get on back to your kind
You keep on doin’ what you think that you aught to, I won’t waste your precious time
You put the hurt on me real good my darlin’, like a nail right through my shoe
Maybe somehow there is some consolation for wantin’ what might not be you
After you pierced it through
By now if I wanted it different, it still would end up the same
I’d turn it into anything that I want to, in every possible way
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5. |
The Amazing Worth
04:52
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With my hands in my pockets and my winter wayward strut
Contemplatin’ strands of worry, yet undone
From a landscape smile similar to one once owned
Long ago in the east by wonderin’ veteran of cobblestone
But if you can’t find an answer to a very simple question that’ll keep a woman up at night
Then I guess I didn’t say it right
When all I should have said was that I really don’t want you to go
If hearts agreed on a notion, they would conquer sorrow
There ain’t tellin’ what the future’s got to show
But it’s comin’ around the bend, sooner than an angel could portend
With lips as sweet as wine and noticeably worthy
Love is back in action, in the here and now
Reminisce until you’re tired of this lonely town
Busy yourself with the nerves that’ll spread you thin
Til the ashes of desire have been scattered to the wind
We used to translate on the hours into what seemed more like minutes
Like somethin’ we were born to do and without anything to prove
When all I should have said was that I really don’t want you to go
Oh if hearts agreed on a notion, they would conquer sorrow
There ain’t tellin’ what the future’s got to show
Though it rocks me to the core, more than any princess could adore a sleeping prince’s sigh
Amazingly worthy of a try
You take steps forward and I’ll go back
We’ll talk about this and talk about that
That’s the way that it aughta be
There ain’t tellin’ what the future’s got to show
But it rocks me to the core, more than any princess could adore a sleeping prince’s sigh
Amazingly worthy of a try
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6. |
At Least For Now
03:02
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You’re not used to lovers always by your side
A thousand times you’ve made your case, while I study the lines on your face
I got tired of takin’ everything in stride to a rhythm I don’t know and a dance that’s not my own
By now I’ve figured out, what you need there’s no doubt
It’s fine with me, oh that’s for sure but it doesn’t make it easier
Did we do the best we could?
Was it more than my desperate longing should make me miss you even more at least for now?
I’m not empty, but now exactly full pride
From the tears that linger yet and feelings of regret
In the morning, reachin’ for you by side like a hole in a bucket by a well already dry
By now there’s no doubt, you got what you need you’ll figure out
It’s fine with me, oh that’s for sure but it doesn’t make it any easier
That I know it’s so damn true, that lovin’ each other ain’t meant for you
It just makes me want you more at least for now
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Matthew Check New York, New York
An American roots musician whose career encompasses everything from Emmy-nominated bluegrass bands to critically-acclaimed solo albums, Matthew Check has never been afraid to mine his personal life — including the vices, victories, loves, and losses of a man who's spent much of his adulthood in a creative whirl — for musical inspiration. ... more
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