This is not for you

this is for me

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Josh Garrels-Jacaranda Tree

Sitting on porches Since Friday while the sky Tilts like a watery glass We wait for downpours A drenching joy A carnival sky But what I don’t say What I can’t say Is that with this joy Comes a mourning Something left behind Blue lined, teary Mingled I move on All things will change We wait for the rain And the promise remains Live life fully Peeking through fingers Slung in our hammocks Cocooned Skimming the water Trapezed above time We glide like slingshot angels Belly up and Floating we see The promise in the sky Up to Orion’s ribs We climb this tree And listen For our pulse All things will change We wait for the rain And the promise remains I flung loosely Into that world I stayed heavily I’ll be a Jacaranda Tree In Indiana I say Greenhoused and sung to I pray light will Leak from out pockets We’ll be drenched, overcome At night the fireflies Streamers at our sides Silent flaming arcs of hope

All things will change We wait for the rain And the promise remains

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Horse Feathers-Curs In The Weeds

Lover of things, Won't you agree How the winter could bring The darkest spring? With hell on your face, Dirt on the walls In the back of the place, You grew and complained. Father of three, Won't you believe, That the ones in between, The ones that are blamed. Of fickle faith, Cynics that seethe, How their children are cursed, Cursed to believe. It's like marrow without bone. To live in a house with no home. Where the son is the darkest seed. He crawls with the curs in the weeds. Where had you been son? Not in the street, not in the yard. Only once, I'll call off the dogs, if you call off your guard. Where had you gone? Where had you been?

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Matt Costa-Cold December

I've been waiting, pacing along the halls ever since you left here I've been cleaning, scrubbing the plates and weeding out the garden dear I can't fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me Swallowing glass just to stay pure All the birds are heading down south but you're staying up north you say I've got jackets blankets and sheets, its going to be a cold december It could be warm you see, a statue next to me Swimming away from the ice and snow Could I have failed to see the signs in front of me Warning and flashing symbols, subtle and simple I couldn't see I couldnt see If only time could slow down, maybe I could come up It's such a cold december It's such a cold december Its so cold I cant fall asleep to your mystery slowly blowing from the shore I have not failed to be what you'd expect of me Swallowing glass just to stay pure Summers come and summer has gone  Your christmas cards cant comfort me You've found new friends and tied all the ends It's freezing in the loneliest winter It could be warm you see, a statue next to me  Swimming away from the ice and snow Could I have failed to see the signs in front of me Warning and flashing symbols, subtle and simple I couldnt see I couldnt see If only time could slow down, then maybe I could come up It's such a cold december It's such a cold december It's so cold

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Say Hi To Your Mom-The Stars Just Blink For Us

My girl oh well she drives me where I need to go She needs some and she's got a gun Sometimes when we play games she cheats and I let it go I'm the most lucky man I know Oh and the stars, oh Oh and the stars Well they don't make no fuss Oh and the stars, oh Oh and the stars Well they just blink for us My girl oh well sometimes it just don't add up She says she's here but I know she's there And she talks a lot and I doze out it works out pretty fine She's got the looks and I've got the time Oh and the stars, oh Oh and the stars Well they don't make no fuss Oh and the stars, oh Oh and the stars Well they just blink for us

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Levy-Rotten Love

I think about you And what you've done I think about you And what you've become I said tonight is the party Would you like to come But she said no I can't James And he smelled of He smelled of rotten love He smelled of rotten love He smelled of rotten love I think about Regina And what she's done for me I think about Regina She's so sweet I said tonight is the party Would you like to come But she said no I can't James And he smelled of He smelled of rotten love He smelled of rotten love He smelled of rotten love I think about me And what I've done I think about me And what I've become I said tonight is the party Would you like to come But she said no I can't James And he smelled of She smelled of rotten love He smelled of rotten love He smelled of rotten love She smelled of rotten love

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Angus and Julia Stone-Mango Tree

I wish I had a mango tree In my backyard With you standin' next to me Take the picture From her lips I heard her say Can I have you Caught up on what to say

I said you do I said you do I said you do Through my eyes I can see A shooting star Weavin' its way across the sea Somewhere from mars Down the street we would run To scratch our names in the path Young and free in the sun Wheels upon the tar

I said you do I said you do I said you do I said you do

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Josh Ritter-The Temptation Of Adam

If this was the cold war we could keep each other warm I said on the first occasion that I met Marie We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door And I don't think that she really thought that much of me I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the bomb She just came along and started to ignore me But as we waited for the big one and I started singing her my songs And I think she started feeling something for me We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside What five letters spell apocalypse, she asked me I won her over saying WWIII Oh, we smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in love with you It felt almost like a home of sorts or something And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new And I watched you with my thumb above the button Then one night you found me in my army issue cot And you told me of your flash of inspiration You said, Fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought And all night long you drove me wild with your equations Oh Marie, do you remember all the time we used to take Making love and then ransack the rations I think about you leaving now in the avalanche cascades And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions Oh Marie, if you would stay and we could stick pins in the map Of all the places where you thought that love would be found And I would only need one pin to show where my love is at In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground Oh, we could hold each other close, stay up every night Looking up into the dark like it's the night sky Pretend this giant missile is a old oak tree instead Carve our name in hearts into the warhead Oh Marie, there's something tells me things just won't work out above That our love would live a half life on the surface So at night while you are sleeping, I hold you closer just because As our time grows short I get a little nervous So I think about the big one, WWIII Would we ever really care, the world had ended You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight I think about that big red button and I'm tempted

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Andrew Bird-Scythian Empire

Five day forecast bring black tar rains and hellfire While handpicked handler's kid gloves tear at the inseams  Their Halliburton attache cases are useless While scotch guard Macintoshes shall be carbonized Now they're offering views of exiting empire Such breathtaking views of Scythian empires Scythian empire, horsemen of the Russia steppe Scythian empire, archers of an afterthought Routed by Sarmations, thwarted by the Thracians Scythian empire Scythian empire, exiting empire Scythian empire, exiting empire Routed by Sarmations, thwarted by the Thracians Scythian empire Kings of Macedonia, Scythian empire

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Earlimart-Nevermind The Phone Calls

No one likes to be alone Coming down on the telephone Across the city across the sea Come back baby connect to me Wrote you a letter sent to your heart Backwards rewinds to the start Sweet little words of therapy To come back baby connect to me And the phone calls And the shooting stars We'll be fine Oh, yeah, nevermind, just nevermind And the phone calls And the shooting stars We'll be fine Oh, yeah, nevermind, just nevermind And the phone calls And the shooting stars We'll be fine Oh, yeah, nevermind, just nevermind No one likes to be alone But coming down's better on your own

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Grand Archives-Torn Blue Foam Couch

Hold on the further waves are high Sleepless every night Lie down shading your eyes from everyone Hey darlin' don't you look fine So blue all the time When you're terrified Over and over the lines You memorized in time Now you're so tired And the telephone's too far away Phone lives have taken all your time Taken all this time For the rest of our lives we're terrified The photographs they've taken make you look blind Your costumes made of twine Now you're forgetting all of your lines again But hey darlin' Don't you look fine Your two front teeth shaved Like ice and sharp as razors Hey darlin' don't you look fine The dull look in your eyes You're terrified Holding the hands of our crimes Darlin' don't you look fine As brave as we were those days Doing the best we knew how On a torn blue foam couch As brave as we were those days Holding the hands of our crimes Darlin' don't you look fine As brave as we were those days

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The National-Lucky You

Every time you get a drink And every time you go to sleep Are those dreams inside you head Is there sunlight on your bed And every time you're driving home Way outside your safety zone Wherever you will ever be You're never getting rid of me You own me There's nothing you can do You own me You could've made a safer bet But what you break is what you get You wake up in the bed you make I think you made a big mistake You own me There's nothing you can do You own me You own me Lucky you Tou own me There's nothing you can do You clean yourself to meet The man who isn't me You're putting on a shirt A shirt I'll never see The letter's in your coat But no one's in your head Cause you're too smart to remember You're too smart Lucky you

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Whitley-The Submarine

Eye of the storm I have the form Willing to keep me I'm safe and warm Away from this war But bleeding is easy And when I find my way I'll take you home And when we see lightyears I'll take you home You're dying to breathe I watch your chest heave Breathing is easy All is not lost I am not lost Needle is easy And when I find my way I'll take you home And when we see lightyears I'll take you home The ghost hangs in you, love Where fathers make, mothers fall Will you call to above And prove you're not the man your father was

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Ryan Adams-Dear Chicago

Dear Chicago, You'll never guess You know the girl you said I'd meet someday Well I got something to confess She picked me up on Friday Asked me if she reminded me of you I just laughed and lit a cigarette Said That's impossible to do Life's gotten simple since And it fluctuates so much Happy and sad and back again I'm not crying now too much I think about you all the time It's strange and hard to deal I think about you lying there And those blanket's lie so still Nothing breathes here in the cold Nothing moves or even smiles I've been thinking some of suicide But there's bars out here for miles Sorry about the every kiss Every kiss you wasted bad I think the thing you said was true I'm gonna die alone and sad The wind's feelin' real these days Yeah and baby it hurts me some Never thought I'd feel so blue New York City you're almost gone I think that I've fallen out of love I think I've fallen out of love I think I've fallen out of love with you

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Sea Wolf-Blue Stockings

Open the window up The one besides the armoire I need some cool autumn air In this baroque hotel room While you put on your stockings On the rocker by the mirror "Put on a record," You say We're both relieved at the idea We're both relieved at the idea

It crackles like a fire The sounds caress our fears And we've put off the silence That hung so long in stale air That used to be a mystery A secret book to unlock But we've stopped writing in it Or thrown away the key

And as I watched you sitting there In the chair that you're rocking I can see that there's a tear In your new blue stockings

As I watch you sitting there In the chair that you're rocking I can see that there's a tear In your new blue stockings

Shapes dance on the wallpaper Headlights through yellow leaves Just like they did last June The first night we hared a room Back then they were alive A lively jitterbug in bloom But now they're dancing in slow waltz And the'll be gone tomorrow afternoon

As I watch you sitting there In the chair that you're rocking I can see that there's a tear In your new blue stockings

As I watch you sitting there In the chair that you're rocking I can see that there's a tear In your new blue stockings

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Chelsworth-Little Red

All through Spring, and Summer too, We laughed and filled our cup 'Til autumn brings a certain chill, To know those times are up My dearest friend will you give your hand, And drink one last good drop For Winter too will pass away, And Summer return love Now let me speak with careless heart, Those words of Winter For now the time has come at last, When we must say farewell Though the days have gone as the river runs, The sunlight streaming gold We'll never walk these hills again, As in the days of old Through all these years I've known your love, So bright and great and clear And clouds were dark in skies above, And drama deep with spit He touched my heart and stilled my mind, With words that sing like chimes I'll never leave your side again, In dark and lonely times I'll never leave your side again, In dark and lonely times I'll never leave your side again, In dark and lonely times

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Gregory Alan Isakov-Light Year

I woke you up with poetry and stones The ragged and the bones Strewn around the room I recall another hazy may Take a round in the ring Gone hungry for the win Here's the part I just lose everything I cracked a spark just to hear you sing sing I took it out The papers and the trash Old among the cans This golden love gone bad Shined it up Aiming at the sun Just a light year from us Hop a cab ride and we're off And all the ravens came along to play The simple notes you sang just went astray Everything was up, it's coming down Everything was up, it's coming down Coming down

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Seabear-I sing I swim

When the birds are sleeping That's when the trees sing You left your winter clothes,  And your teeth marks in my skin So shake the leaves, off the trees,  Watch them float down the stream Your son, your daughter Swimming in the water And I miss you, even when you're around I'm a black cloud,  Sending lightning to the ground So darling please, show your teeth Just one more dance to help me sleep Whirl, cold water eyes Fill the past with friendly nights Human skin, can be hard to live in You'll feel better in the morning Wash your hands in the lake You've got a heart, some way Trails lost in the snow Make way for winter's eerie glow And that black rock in your bedroom I hope you'll climb it soon In your boat, tied to a tree I hope you'll find the sea Throw me a dream please, it's been a dreamless sleep For such a long time, such a long time Sing myself awake Watch the branches break No one could ever take your place Wash your face in the lake You've got a diamond under your skin