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Interrupting Patience
03:38
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They're interrupting patience
The machines made of faces
The sea monsters
The murdered waves of youth
Their instruments disarming
The ransom of their longing
A military lavender and new
They bring with them their treasons
The ushers of amnesia
A century of hands
Was rendered mute
Though they guilted us with plenty
I can't think of anyone
Who has a conscience left to lose
They'll sacrifice the nation
Serve that savage reputation
The needs of many for the wants of few
The billions stand the bombing
The bondage of the bargaining
The band is playing champagne on the flute
They're interrupting patience
The engineers of cadence
The heavies coming
From the land of doom
Hear them through the droning
Hostage to their holdings
There's no faith that they had thought it through
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I'm Afraid of People
03:07
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I'm afraid of people
They're everywhere
I go I can't stand to greet them
I'm too scared to get close
I See how they treat you
They're like cannibals
I'm afraid of people
I don't want to know
I'm afraid of people
I know I'm not alone
All my friends are strangers
And this isn't my home
I'm terrified they'll see me
For the things that I don't show
I'm afraid of people
I don't want to know
I'm not gonna pretend
Like I'm not culpable
I know that I can't beat them
I know we're on our own
I'm afraid of people
They're right outside my door
They don't think we're humans
And I think they're animals
The closer that I keep them
The further that I go
I'm afraid of people
I don't want to know
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Let's Be Alone Together
02:48
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Let's be alone together
When we're alone it's better
There's got to be some place where we can hide
We'll change our names to never
They'd never know we'd ever
Be alone together till we die
So let's be alone together till we die
We fall like Rome whenever
We're alone together
Our kingdoms are just ruins rich in time
Let's merge our homes together
Then roll like stones down river
Let's be alone together till we die
Let's be alone together till we die
Out in the thick
out in the thick of it all
Out in the thick
out in the thick of it all
Don't hold on
It's about to drop
Let's be alone together
We've dug this hole forever
They'll never haul us out of it alive
That's how it goes I guess
When we're alone together
Let's be alone together till we die
Let's be alone together till we die
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4. |
Noble Chore
04:38
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When at once
The hand
The mouth
The thick saliva
The crusty bank
Fresh faced
So young
They're looking at you
Grab your silly house coat
And pack all of your heat
Shy away from strangers
That you meet on the street
Hang your locks from your door
We won't survive
This noble chore
Bugs that walk
Like classical
Are stripped from the world
As we move
Just like humans do
By the hand
Without thought
Flowers too big for the stalk
Hang your locks from your door
We won't survive
This noble chore
The ugly strange
Their work is done
We've made arrangements
We'll live in gutter mansions
Hang your locks from your door
We won't survive
This noble chore
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When all of the world hated me
The armies of symmetry
The soldiers of atrophy
To each my penance made
Each night
We dance death's dance and she lets me lead
The animals of need
Subjected to the speed
They do not bother me
And the words Given unto them
The drivers of the pen
The scavengers called men
Go light
Guided by mother's hand
The labor of her skin
Her ghost success laid bare
When all of the world hated me
The ordnance of meat
The objects of pedigree
To each luxuries grave
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6. |
Times Get Harder
03:43
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When times get harder
We'll feast on fodder
Or fast until your family's fed
We'll feast on fodder
When times get harder
Lest the dead bury the dead
We'll whet the blade
We'll train our gaze
And fall upon the blackest sheep
Then true's our aim
That sheep will bay
For forgivness and mercy
Sha La La La La La La La La La La La Ahhh
When times get dire
We light them pyres
And burn it bright for all to see
We'll build them fires
With our desires
And then we kill it with our dreams
We're gonna hang
The weak with blame
All that pomp and pageantry
The ritual games
We all must play
To see who follows and who leads
Sha La La La La La La La La La La La Ahhh
Where's the war we orphaned at your door
It bites the hand it feeds
It hunts in its sleep for more
Sha La La La La La La La La La La La Ahhh
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7. |
Get Yourself Together
02:30
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Get yourself together
Powder your nose up
Grab your cash
Honey let's go
Get yourself together
They know
Get yourself together
Let's go
Get yourself together
Button your coat up
Grab your stash
Buddy let's go
Get yourself together
They know
Get yourself together
Let's go
You know you can't
Take it with you
It's true
So it don't matter
What you do
Get yourself together
Straighten yourself up
Grab your keys
Come on let's roll
Get yourself together
They know
Get yourself together
Let's go
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8. |
Run Out of West
03:38
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The engines of rot
Brought their wounded home
From wars they never fought
The hads and the have-nots
Fed the fires of their furnaces
With want
This is what happens when you run out of west
Remember it once flew
In its golden age
Its teenage waste perfumed
So much of little use
For them talking dolls
The mirage stands in ruins
This is what happens when you run out of west
You'll find everyone you love has gone
The band no longer plays your song
Their language is their silence
Your face won't wear what you've become
The flowers wilt beneath your thumb
Your name's only spoke in tongues
This is what happens when you run out of west
The witness was watched
Once they testified
The harsh gaslights called for blood
What's left of resistance
Brought the brunt end of
Their capital across
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World Outside
03:59
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There's a world outside
That we don't belong in
The colossus fallen
Their chariots litter the streets
Their followers famines are feast
There's a big star burning up
The dust of our decadence
The blank inhabitants
Their arrogance litters their pleas
Their deaths deemed to be obsolete
I thought the figures of doubt
Had all been figured out
I can't trust anything now
That's made of sight or sound
There's an engine turning up
The ghost of irrelevance
Bodies of regiments
Their agreements written in steam
Their results fall in to the sea
There's an empire running through
The heads of the lesser-thans
Regimes that treason wed
Their followers subjected to lead
The prophets of their suffering
I thought the figures of doubt
Had all been figured out
I can't trust anything now
That's made of sight or sound
It's all the comforts of a
War abroad
With the convenience of a
War at home
Mother of
Exiles has
Abandoned us
The Golden Door
Is closed
There's a world outside
That we don't belong in
The titans have fallen
In fields of their followed decrees
They fell at their followers feet
There's a world outside
That we don't belong in
The monolith's fallen
There's a world outside
That we don't belong in
There's nobody calling
There's a world outside
That we don't belong in
I'm short on longing
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Tired of the Scene
03:21
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Your unwashed lips
Your garish boots
Ah your Ottoman suits
From your family's empire
Those honeyed days
Oh Mercury waves
And we ate parakeet eggs
In our perfect attire
But I'm tired of the scene
And It's tired of me
Now we're dressed
In last years magazines
Syphoning gasoline
To keep our cooking fires
And I stole you a Bellows book
From someone I mistook
For a friend for awhile
But I'm tired of that scene
So why don't we leave
To some far off land
Where the privilege ends
A place to stow skin
Where they'll visit
When we're old
Past the age
Of serenades
Once the piper's played
And we're tossed aside
Remember us in our vain youth
When we were of use
Once the living proof
That we tried
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Ashley Raines & The New West Revue Colorado
Ashley Raines is an American songwriter, lyricist, composer & multi-instrumentalist.
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