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Trisha Please Come Home
03:37
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You don’t call me ever on the phone
Am I supposed to listen to Thin Lizzy
& get high on my own?
I went by the restaurant
Becky said
you don’t work there anymore
She said one guy too many made a pass at you
& you walked out the door
You dropped your apron in the parking lot
& never came back for your last paycheck
I don’t see you ever at the bar
I’m always on the lookout
for your busted ass Windstar
Your name’s off your buzzer
There’s no welcome mat
sitting outside your door
Your neighbor said the landlord raised the rent ‘til you
wouldn’t pay it anymore
You cleared the whole place out in a single night
& you were up & gone before it was light
You used to get so mad
I couldn’t take you serious
I’d make one stupid joke
& you’d act furious
You even warned me once
that you’d get out somehow
I guess you’re somewhere laughing now
Wild one wild one where’d you go?
Wild one wild one where’d you go?
Trisha please come home
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2. |
Might of the Moose
02:31
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On my way home from Traverse City
I hit a moose it wasn’t pretty
Walked til I found a Citgo payphone down the road
& I called your house it’s the only number that I know
You picked up & said this is surprising
I stood in the dark apologizing
for the cheap way I ended our good thing
& I asked if you would call a tow truck for me
I walked up the road in the direction
of the hatchback I just had wrecked &
I thought of last night the fight we had in there
& I thought of the way the light looked in your hair
I expected to find the beast embedded
in the windshield the way I’d left it
but there was just blood & glass on the smashed hood
I guess he came to & ran back through the wood
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3. |
Christmas in Dearborn
02:54
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On the train to your hometown
at stranger’s side on Christmas Eve
Dozing in the window seat
your laundry in your lap
Your brother’s pick-up truck is in the lot
engine running
Steady snow the dog’s asleep
your mom complains about the tree
Cousins come at dinnertime
with babies & partners
You’ll talk about your job or talk about
your apartment
On the bed where you first slept
with your husband at seventeen
Read your yearbooks back to front
with TV on & your skirt off
& counted all of your teachers who were
younger than you now
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Pamela
02:57
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Your dad was seventeen
& dumb as a drum machine
A star & a goat
on a chain at his throat
Sold acid & mescaline
but even when he was clean
he still had the smell of weed in his coat
You were named after a fake I.D.
Smaller than you should be
with eyes just as black as the sea
Your mom was sixteen
& sweeter than saccharine
Always said her prayers
unless he was there
She worked at Dairy Queen
& no matter how she cleaned
she still had the smell of death in her hair
You were born into a world of sin
You are the devil’s kin
The sign of the beast on your skin
You have come to fulfill a prophecy
To level humanity
& burn everything that you see
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Christmas in Milwaukee
03:21
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Troubled water
I’ve got six feet in my house
Baby daughter
with goldfish in her mouth
Got your letter
You want a Christmas in Milwaukee
I’ve got trouble enough
I’ve got trouble enough
Bells are ringing
I’ve been drinking all my cheer
Fill the tumbler
when the spirit’s cold in here
If I’m the good one
Brother it’s by default
The folks in their graves
have been doing summersaults
I’ve got trouble enough
I’ve got trouble enough
Chevy Nova
rusted out underneath
They broke the window
took the radio & wreath
Drove the long way
just listening to the breeze
I’ve got trouble enough
I’ve got trouble enough
I’ve got trouble enough
I’ve got trouble enough
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Summon Satan
02:23
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You had tried to summon Satan
but screwed up the incantation
& left an open portal
on your parents’ kitchen wall
& the demons you released that day
have stayed with you you along your way
Screaming in your ear
Kill them all
You can worry about the future
You can worry about the past
You can worry about how long
this curse is going to last
You were walking through the park one night
angry looking for a fight
when you heard a busker
playing accordion
You stuck him twice & down he fell
Sealed your passage straight to hell
& you knew at once
that you would kill again
You can worry about the future
You can worry about the past
You can worry about how long
this loneliness will last
You can worry about the future
You can worry about the past
You can worry about how long
this curse is going to last
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My love for you
It’s not an atom bomb
My love for you
It’s not a lightning storm
My love for you
It’s like a puppy underfoot
Better watch my step
You know I could trample it
My love for you
It’s not a movie script
Doesn’t make sense
To my friends when I describe it
My love for you
Is quiet and it’s sweet
Better keep you close
You know you’re my family
My love for you
It’s a small thing
My love for you
It’s a real thing
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Most of the snow’s melted it’s just lumps of ice
& plastic bags strewn in the yard
I’d go & get us a bottle of wine
but I’m pretty sure that they card
Lansing is ugly it smells like a bus
but it’s better than where we came from
& you’re the only girl I can talk to
You’re the only other girl from back home
You got a job & you got me one too
& we hated our jobs pretty bad
but there was this one boy we both thought was cute
This Hessian dishwasher named Chad
& I took him home knowing you liked him first
& you cussed me out on the phone
Now you won’t even talk to me
& you’re the only other girl from back home
I ran into Case-Man an hour ago
He was just passing through town
He said this junior took gasoline cans
& she burned our old high school down
& I ran out to find you I looked everywhere
though you said to leave you alone
But you’re the only person that I thought should know
You’re the only other girl from back home
You’re the one single person I wanted to tell
We’re the only two girls from back home
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9. |
Nephew in the Wild
06:13
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Alicia
she married young
The year she was widowed
she had a son
On Christmas
or when you’d pass through
You’d bring Danzig records
for your nephew
In hard times
kids grow up fast
Please be there for him
your sister would ask
He’s trouble
just like you were
With girls & with teachers
Without a father
Like you
when you were a child
A young nephew out in the wild
At sixteen
he dropped out of school
Took off with some jewelry
his dad’s coat & tools
He called you
from the bus depot
With his girlfriend pregnant
& nowhere to go
You told him
that he should go home
& said you were sorry
& hung up the phone
Then no one
heard from him at all
When Alicia came crying
you didn’t mention his call
Like you
when you were a child
Your nephew’s out in the wild
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Kitty Winn
05:31
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We got married in September
The baby came the next December
So I got off the road
It’s the longest I’ve been home
since I remember
I wake up earlier these days
to dress the kid & fix her eggs
Then we’ll walk down to the park
if it’s nice out
There’s a swing set where she plays
I’m not out looking for something
I haven’t found
You won’t see me around
I’ve got a family now
I used to drive all night no stopping
like a Batman with no Robin
& then sometime around dawn
I’d wake up with my seatbelt on
to some cop knocking
I’ve seen a lot of wrecks & burnouts
& nights the crowds just didn’t turn out
& I’ve drunk myself so ill
& nearly got myself killed
more times than I would care to count
I’m not out looking for something
I haven’t found
You won’t see me around
I’ve got a family now
I watched The Exorcist again
& recognized Kitty Winn
from The Panic At Needle Park
with Al Pacino
She played his girlfriend
It felt like seeing an old friend
the way I wondered where she’d been
As I sat & pet the cat
with my wife’s head on my lap
on the sofa in the den
I’m not out looking for something
I haven’t found
You won’t see me around
I’ve got a family now
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Advance Base
Melancholic electronic story songs made by Owen Ashworth in his basement
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