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Raised By Wolves
04:39
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I was going hungry and lazy here
When you stopped me in my tracks
I was going crazy; I was desolate and ready to kill
But maybe I believe in another place
If you go, you won't look back
But anywhere you go you know
The ugliness will follow you still
And you break
This into waves
We are desperate, lonely and underpaid
I'm a bitter man, I know
But listen, honey, you're no fun
I will never live like you
But you will probably die like me
All loveless, free and empty
Full of God, and God makes plenty
You will go on searching
For someone to keep you killing
If you love me, won't you leave me?
'cause I want to settle down
First you
Fade into the background
Wouldn't even call me
Had the nerve to leave me
Go ahead and love me
I'm a hungry man
Ever since you went away
First you
Fade into the background
Wouldn't even call me
Had the nerve to leave me
Go ahead and love me
I'm a hungry man
Ever since you went away
I don't know if you've got another place
Where you bury all these things
I don't know if you can see the shadow
That you cast on the ground
But maybe I can see through a lonely face
Use your feet and lose your wings
Anywhere you are, you know the freedom there
Is dragging you down
And youād break me into lines
We can shake our bodies
And wreck our minds
I'm a bitter man, I know
But listen, honey, you're no fun
I will never love like you
But you will probably hate like me
Oh lovelessly, and empty
Full of god, and god makes plenty
You will go on searching
For someone to keep you killing
If you love me, then won't you leave me?
'cause I want to settle down
First you
Fade into the background
Wouldn't even call me
Had the nerve to leave me
Go ahead and love me
I'm a hungry man
Ever since you went away
First you
Fade into the background
Wouldn't even call me
Had the nerve to leave me
Go ahead and love me
I'm a hungry man
Ever since you went away
And oh, don't you wanna love?
And don't you wanna feel?
I remember, you were reckless, you were hungry
You were real, you were so on time
Listen, I don't mind
I feel like I'm watching a car crash
And oh, this is how it ends
You will watch your friends
Take a moment, take a knife
Then they'll put it in again
This is how we are
This is how we are
We are young and stupid
And raised by wolves
I will never live like you do
I will never love like you do
I will never live like you do
I, I will never love like you do
I will never live like you do
I will never love like you do
I will never live like you
I will never love like you
I will never live like you do
No, I will never love like you
I will never live like you
We say I, I will never love like you do
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This time of night I could call you up
I'd get angry with athletic ease
Break common laws in twos and threes
If I die clutching your photograph
Don't call me boring, It's just 'cause I like you
Oh take me on back
Take me on back
And take me back
To the place where I could feel your heart
Is this the end or just the start of
Something really, really beautiful
Wrapped up and disguised as something really, really ugly
Won't you
Come by and see me, I'm a love letter away
I'd break your name before I'd say I really love you, love you
No, I don't care if you saw, I watched every inch of film
Flash across your Roman features
And I loved it, loved it, no I don't care if
You think I'm eager to shut your eyes, well
I'm sorry - everybody knows
You can't break me with your gutter prose
Would you believe it, she sent me a letter
The ring, it nearly weighs her down, she's got another boy, oh boy
Steady your ears, steady your ears and read my lips
Poetry is not a luxury, it's how I'll break this home
And when I'm really ill, won't you cradle me?
Man is not a noble animal, but maybe woman is, remember
I heard you
Inside your room, you said āyouād never really live
Until your back's against the wall,ā oh did you really mean it?
No, I never break my gaze, if just to see this scar
Remain reflected in your eyes
I think it's time to go home
Oh, tell me your thoughts, tell me your thoughts on liberty
Say there's a place where I sink to sleeping
She said āOh my vote is as red as my bloodā
Will you join me for another round?
I haven't had the chance to speak yet
Godspeed
I break the law once every week to feel your touch
What's a book to you in bed? Do you feel better, older?
Say this just makes me ill, your name is dripping from my pen
Still you're not around to curse
Oh God Iāll drop the gun now, say I'm still under you
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep, just shut your eyes and burn the past
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep, just shut your eyes and burn the past
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep, just shut your eyes and burn the past
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep, just shut your eyes and burn the past away
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3. |
Missing Pieces
04:48
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I would go to pieces if you said that this was just an act
To come and take the sleep out of my night
And I would go to pieces if you said that this was just an act
To come and take the shine out of my light
Oh and I go through it all
Oh it's a thing like habit, I know
I would feel much better if I thought there was any other reason
To keep away the beauty from the dirt
And I would do much better if I thought Iād fill any other need
And I miss you, oh
And I miss you, oh
And I would be complete if you could put me down in facts and figures
The hardest things are always black and white
And I would be complete if you could touch me once but it never figures
The easy things are never really right
Oh and I go day by day
Oh it's a thing to live for, I know
And I would feel much better if I thought there was any other reason
To keep away the beauty from the dirt
And I would do much better if I thought Iād fill any other need
And I miss you, oh
And I miss you, oh
Why don't you take a walk outside and see the mess I made
And see the mess I made
And I will be waiting with a knife, just like an angry child
Just like an angry child
And why don't you go and spread the word just like some disease
Just like some disease
I know your mother told you that you are God
But you are just a boy
And I would be much better if I thought there was any other reason
Keep away the beauty from the dirt
And I would do much better if I thought there was any other need
And I miss you, oh
And I would feel much better if I thought there was any other reason
Keep away the beauty from the dirt
And I would do much better if I thought there was any other need
And I miss you, oh
And I miss you, and I miss you
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4. |
Long Haul
04:02
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Somebody told me if you live this way
Then it's a long, long haul
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
Oh it's a long, long haul
When youāve known darkness you can love the day
Oh it's a long, long haul
I've never seen it, I just talk this way
Oh it's a long, long haul
And you lie to us both
We are words, nothing holds
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
Oh it's a long, long haul
I'll draw a little joy now of this
Place before I get too old
I'll free these troubled horses from this
Place within my troubled soul
And there is nothing, so far
If we are salt and earth and sun and stone
Then it's a long, long fall
To fixing trouble in a broken home
And if you won't, you won't crawl
Then you can walk beside me past by past
Oh it's a long, long haul
I wanna catch a love and make it last
Oh it's a long, long haul
And you lie to us both
We are words nothing holds
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
Oh it's a long, long haul
I'll draw a little joy out of this
Place before I get too old
I'll free these troubled horses from this
Place within my troubled soul
There aināt nothing, so far
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
I wanna catch a love and make it stay
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5. |
Wrecking Force
04:45
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Get dirty get clean
Get some new scene
To wipe the dirt from everything
That touches you and takes you far from faith
In body, in deep I saw you creep in
Little footsteps through my sleep and
Color me with images of faith
And you can be anyone
Or just some mother's wasted son
Oh you can be your own god if you want to
Come over come quick, come laugh, get sick
Come battle two swords with a stick
And when you've gone I'll put it through my chest
āCause listen kid everybody knows you canāt
Fit good company up your nose
And we fall hardest, better worst and best
And you can love anyone
You will believe me when I'm gone
Oh you can be your own god if you want to
Come on to my side you will define me with a knife
Spare me all the miseries that tear apart your life
Oh you can lose yourself in art
Or you can break somebody's heart in two
Jump on in, the water's fine for swimming
Look over look fast, look in look past
The motley kids and ugly cast
That smother you all radiant with joy
āCause somebody once said when I was young
That playing dead is just no fun
But these days I am a man, I'm not a boy
And you can be anyone
Or just some mother's wasted son
Oh you can be your own god if you want to
Come on to my side you will define me with a knife
Spare me all the miseries that tear apart your life
Oh you can lose yourself in art
Or you can break somebody's heart in two
Jump on in, the water's fine for swimming
Go on split the scene and let the dirty half come clean
You are the wrecking force, you are the wrecking force
In me, in me
āCause Iām a soft machine, I was hard when I was sixteen
You are the wrecking force, you are the wrecking force
In me, in me
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If you think you're throwing words to the wise
The first thing that you ever felt, itās sliding under your belt
To a place that smothers children
Cuts a space between two lives
I've seen you working, wasted and gray
You've got a delicate heart, and listen you would be smart
To keep yourself in a world of
Mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
Listen, I've come to rock this boat
The take and giving leaves no room for the living
And some of you think in loves and lovers
Death in one corner leaves a space in the other, I know
That when it's over we'll be holding one another
We only ever wanted to feel real
Two years of touching only teaches you to fight
We only ever wanted to try
And if you see this world as ugly and thin
Then you'll be so cruel to the touch, you'll
Lose the body you're in
To a land of angry soil that swallows boys and coughs up men
I've seen you taste the salt of your tears
You always stop when you start, and listen you would be smart
To keep yourself in a world of
Mothers, sisters, daughters and wives
Listen, I've come to rock this boat
The take and giving leaves no room for the living and
Some of you think in loves and lovers
Death in one corner leaves a space in the other, I know
That when it's over we'll be holding one another
We only ever wanted to feel real
Two years of touching only teaches you to fight
We only ever wanted to try
I'll raise a glass to being no one else's fool
Raise some question to the rule
who says you'd have to lose a love to find one?
Take the things you don't know
Spread them out in the sun
Two futures melt into one
Who says you have to lose a love to find one? I know
That when it's over we'll be holding one another
We only ever wanted to feel real
Two years of touching only teaches you to fight
We only ever wanted to try
I'm around, I'm around, I'm ok, I'm ok
Alive, I'm alive, I'm the same, I'm the same
We are, yeah, we know we are
We are just looking for something
With my hands in a fist, muscle, skin, jutting bone
We never grew up, we were cut from the stone
That holds you, body and soul
We are all just looking for something
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7. |
Fast Asleep
02:51
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Everybody wants a piece of some easy enterprise
Cameras will catch your face and carry the news
That you've got a gift to be giving
Cut it out, cut your loss, we don't dream we fantasize
And this is how we measure the cost, the joy and the pain
Of twenty one years of good living
When you look at me do you see someone with a future?
Music to my ears it makes me happy when you tell me
This place is like a womb you, live so well from doing nothing
One day you will learn there is some beauty
In the thing that makes you sweat
God it takes something great just to get me out of bed
And I woke up with a song 'cause I had a dream, yes
I had a vision of people lying in the sun
Sleeping on the rocks and stones
Waiting just to die
They were just fast asleep like lions
They were just fast asleep like lions in summer
When you look at me do you see someone with a future?
Music to my ears it makes me happy when you tell me
This place is like a womb you live so well from doing nothing
One day you will learn there is some beauty
In the thing that makes you
Sweat all the years of wasted time
Half divine, half what you could be
Oh, all this time they let this city
Get sad and empty
'Cause they're only half awake
Oh, all this time they let this city
Get sad and empty
'Cause they're only half awake
When you look at me do you see someone with a future?
One day you will learn there is some beauty
In the thing that makes you sweat
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8. |
Rise Up in the Dirt
04:08
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Too many times you're gonna go out river walking
Too many times you come home late
Too many times you suck yourself out of the scenery
Makes you wanna go straight
It makes you wanna go straight
Too many times you trade the bottle for the body
One drop for breath and one for skin
You say nobody knows the truth about your body
You look tired and thin
Oh you tired and thin
But if I were a good man
Would it really happen
Would you walk me home then, everyday from work?
But maybe I'm a good man, wait and let it happen
I believe in love, I'm married to my work
'Cause I could be your father, I could be your brother
I could be your flower, rise up in the dirt
We were born to live here, we were born to die here
And you know this when you work
Yeah, you watch me when you work
When you are free from the work of this house
Will you know what to do with your hands
Listen, I'm sure you've got a few ideas.
And when you wake from the shell of this body
Oh will you sink your ghost in a man?
Listen I hope you've got something better up your sleeve
Too many times you bleed your love dry for your family
And mull it over in your sleep
Roll over twice and hold the burden like a man
Something you can keep, something you can keep
You smell the scent of something burning in the kitchen
He smells the future on the lawn
These are the things we come to recognize as truth
We cut the right into wrong, we cut the right into wrong
But if I were a good man
Would it really happen
Would you walk me home then everyday from work?
But maybe I'm a good man, wait and let it happen
I believe in love, I'm married to my work
'Cause I could be your father, I could be your brother,
I could be your flower, rise up in the dirt
We were born to live here, we were born to die here
And you know this when you work
Yeah, you watch me when you work
It seems that we used to live like rebels
But now we get scared like our parents
Our struggle and fade
It's just a waste of money
And when you wake up tomorrow my son
Oh you will be the father of something terrible
It will shine throughout your life
Oh, it will shine throughout your life
Oh, it will shine throughout your life
But it won't bury you
'Cause we know
Somewhere in the darkness
You will find love, baby you will find love
Somewhere in the darkness
You will find love, baby you will find love
You will feel young again
Oh, you will feel young again
Oh, you will feel young again
And you will feel young
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9. |
Four Long Days
02:39
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Lights are fading, the feeling is back
This is the closest thing to disaster
Keep on fading, snow white into black
The kind of thing you laugh about after
We were stuck, stacking misery
Four long days, in an ugly town
And we pretend to know about misery
You never felt the cold sun beating down
But you will soon
Watching TV, and flirting with fate
He drank my cold soul under the table
Feigning fever, to risk and to lay
You shouldn't cry, you're willing and able
I have locked, in a great image here
The voyeur in an ugly stare
And staring back, it's what you bargained for
You never felt the cold sun beating down
But you will soon
Youāll have this family to support
One house and three young children
Biting at your hands
I don't pretend to understand
But listen, listen, listen
I have never liked that look in your eyes
And I am still screaming, shouting
"Please, please, forgive me for what I've done"
What have I done? Why is this taking so long?
The leatherās cold but the engine is warm
I think of home, I think of the sweet lie
Of sweating sunshine in sandals and shorts
We had The Field Mice playing on the hi-fi
We got bored in our own living room
So we got stuck with an ugly fix
That kills your days and makes you forget a lot
And then you feel the hot sun beating down
And you start to cry
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10. |
Soft & Warm
04:07
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Everyone loves a man who lets the hardest people
Build him up and cut him down to lovable size
And somebody holds a candle, by right of taste or longing
Worlds of men, blurred us and them
You love, you despise
I've seen the years go by in triple lines of gray
Oh you were always underground
You were always underground
If I could catch you I would hold you for a day
Oh won't you do this when you can? Do what you can
I've seen the hardest people soften in the spotlight
Won't you stop and breathe, tell me what you want to feel
I could draw on all these things
Baby I feel this beauty pull me two ways
Soft and warm, I know this is all I need
One day we will learn to grieve
Baby I'd leave you for the person you used to be
Everyone has a secret, so bite your mother tongue
And let the truth bleed over you, you wolf in sheep skin
You can never describe the future, but you can paint the past
In shades of blue, old money hues with new money charm
God shake this sickness, won't this decade ever end?
Oh itās been going on for years
Been happening for years
Can't face the truth, why can't things always just begin?
Because they always end in tears, they always end in tears
I've seen the hardest people soften in the spotlight
Won't you stop and breathe, tell me what you want to feel
I could draw on all these things
Baby I feel this beauty pull me two ways
Soft and warm, I know this is all I need
One day we will learn to grieve
Baby I'd leave you for the person you used to be
You are so young, so feel alive
And one day you will live on your own
You are so young, so feel alive
And one day you will live on your own
You are so young, so feel alive
And one day you will live on your own
You are so young, so feel alive
And one day you will live on your own
And you are so young, so feel alive
And one day you will live on your
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Voxtrot Austin, Texas
Born in Austin, raised by wolves, now dispersed across the USA š¹
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The new LP from Jason's other band, Tele Novella. It's on Kill Rock Stars!
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The full-length from Mitch's International Waters project. It's called 1994, but was released in 2011.
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