1. |
Build a Fire
02:48
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If I tumbled in like a stormfront
would you dance in the rain?
Would you splash in the puddles
if the wind called out your name?
If I could hold onto the morning
and keep the sun behind the trees
I'd watch you dream forever
and live exactly as you pleased
CHORUS:
We can light a candle
Yeah we can build a fire
If the music made you feel like dancing
would you let me spin you around?
A little cherry wine, mixed with three quarter time
Let me show the whole room what I found
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
All I want is you
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2. |
Long Time
02:34
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It's been a long time
Now I feel my heart again
It's been a long time since I saw a woman and I needed her mine
And it feels so good to sing for something new
It's been a long time since I said I need her and it bled the truth
She likes to stay busy, like 9 am in the city
but she's quiet when she sleeps like she's waited all day to dream
She don't wanna wake up and leave it all to memory
When the clouds won't part yeah
When the rain won't stop no
Neither will my heart yeah
'cause that's all we got oh
When the whole world runs like color
Baby will you love me still?
She smiles and says "I always will"
and I don't wanna let that go to waste
So much for a mind that's clear and a heart that never breaks
It's been a long time since I saw a woman and I needed her mine
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3. |
A Drier Place
03:40
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Hearts get broke, hearts go astray
Every day, baby every day
It don't have to weigh you down
like muddy boots on April ground
CHORUS:
You can change baby things will change
but you have to want to get out of the rain
to be loved in a drier place
Close the door, unplug your phone
Let it die, fall asleep alone
When you wake I wanna see you shine
Baby we live a long long long time
Sometimes the pockets that we keep our love have holes ripped in the bottom
and it don't make sense to retrace your steps
CHORUS
I say baby why you cry
If your heart's broke I'll give you mine
Downtown is waiting baby go on and click those heels
Have you forgotten how this feels?
CHORUS
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4. |
What Pretty Girls Do
03:14
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Heard about the boy that you brought home
He musta lost his way
You were quick and swallowed him whole, yeah
He didn't feel no pain
Word travels fast around here and so do you
Love left town think nothing of it -
You're gonna do what pretty girls do
CHORUS:
It's all right
It's your love
We didn't work but whatever you're doing does
And it breaks my heart to watch you walk away
'cause there ain't nothin' that's better than when pretty girls stay
I lay on my side of the bed and I state at yours
Wish I could saw this thing in half and watch your half sink into the floor
Save me I can't lay here and not think of you
Dance inside my head tonight yeah go on and do what pretty girls do
CHORUS
Just when I think that it stopped raining
I'm under your tree when it starts shaking
My jacket is tired, its colors are fading
I swore I'd never come back to you then you went and did what pretty girls do
CHORUS
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5. |
Tell Me Somethin'
03:16
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CHORUS:
Hey pretty mama, go and tell me somethin'
How you gon' have all that lovin' and keep it all to yourself?
What's your name? What are you drinking baby?
So many questions - I know, I have to
Now that you're here I ain't leaving baby
until I know that I have you
You look lovely can I take you to the floor?
Baby you're stunning can I walk you to your door?
Are you hungry? Can I make you eggs and toast?
Yeah you can trust me I won't ever let you go
CHORUS
She says "This is as far as it goes.
I'm not the dating type and everybody knows."
I'd have to disagree
Stop fooling yourself, start making a fool out of me
So it's dinner dates, "sorry I'm late"s, dizzy on summer nights
Still she leaves me in the morning like her heart's afraid of heights
Gimme one shot baby you know I got to know for sure
before I put this cigarette out and push this empty glass forward
CHORUS
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6. |
Kerosene Can
03:28
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Kick over my kerosene can
I wanna see you crawl on my tile
Electric love don't fail me now
Let your current fall to the ground
CHORUS:
Our time fades away
And all our cares, they disappear faster than fingers in hair
She don't ask, just takes what she needs
Loves a man, hears a child
Shimmies up her skirt like she's trying on jeans
Builds me a house, out here in the wild
CHORUS
She looks down, closes her eyes
Opens her mouth like she has so much to say
but no words are coming out
Kick over my kerosene can
I wanna see you drunk on my wine
Hold up my wall and when the sun comes crashing
It will be the one thing standing
CHORUS
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7. |
Who Found the Whiskey?
02:20
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I met a girl, I wasn't tryna keep her
I ain't a lover, if she is I ain't a fighter either
When I woke up my heart wasn't buyin' what my mind was sellin'
That girl was gone, from the kitchen I heard my roommate yellin'
CHORUS:
Who drank the wine?
Yeah who found the whiskey?
I got caps in my glass so my draft has an aftertaste
of bathwater passed from my ancestor's time
I didn't ask 'fore I tapped into the cabinet for a splash
Now this asshole's harassin' me like "who drank the wine?"
CHORUS
I had just eaten a pepper and my mouth was on fire
and your faucet wasn't working and your milk was expired
So I finished off that wine but don't you think I had good reason?
And as you can see I fixed your sink and bought new milk I'd say we're even
"Man it's not even the Jack, it's the fact you didn't ask
I just woke up in the morning to find two bottles on the floor"
Ok before you start a war there's more to pour o'er at the store
When do they open?
He says "dude it's like quarter after four"
CHORUS
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8. |
Oceans
03:10
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I stood back and looked out to sea
and a big blue ocean stared back at me
I couldn't see to the other side
when I turned and walked from the crashing tide
with wet feet and dripping clothes
with an honest memory, with a heart that knows
what its like to leave a love as big as an ocean
CHORUS:
Hey hey, its hard to turn away
But if you keep going, you might find something deeper than what you left behind
A love as big as an ocean
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9. |
Ain't No Love
03:48
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If I'm a snake, I'm gon' rattle like pills in pockets
If I'm a kite, I'm gon' fly in the wind
She fell asleep next to a bottle and a glass of water
Maybe that's all our love really is
PRE-CHORUS:
Pull my drawers out
Shake my things down onto the ground outside my window
CHORUS:
Tell the whole world your side
That my love is a waste of your time
Defending my heart is a waste of mine
Cry to your mama
She says don't see that boy no more
Cry to your mama
His mind is drunk, his heart is poor
Cry to your mama
She'll say to you what his said to him
Ain't no love worth changin' for
She used to say that I felt so far away
Like a setting sun, when the day has just begun
She don't like whiskey and she don't like Christmas
I said that's crazy, she said what about you isn't
She's looking for an answer and I can't give her one
PRE-CHORUS
CHORUS
x2
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10. |
No Rain
03:55
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She grew up barefoot, played the violin
It made her mama happy
I watched the whiskey run down her chin
It's getting late now
She says she's going home, and if I could walk her
She don't wanna be along
She says
CHORUS:
Come inside, I got plenty of wine
You know I get lonely in the summertime
I'm going to commit a crime just so I have someone knocking at my door
I laugh and kick at dirt
and say I guess one glass won't hurt
She puts on a different shirt and leaves the sequins lying on her floor
It's what we do
It ain't easy to forget love I've found
A bottle only empties, a lover only leaves, a joint only burns down
There's rocks below my window
and when the sky is dark I hear 'em knockin'
Her hair melts down below her shoulders
Her one-too-many voice lights up my yard
I say
CHORUS
I miss your passion
Yeah I miss your voice, I miss your surprises
but when she's here, I could sleep through a divorce
Sometimes bad things happen
Everyone feels pain and we're no different
She's a desert
Long days, cold nights, no rain
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Jay Matthes Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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