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Bluefish
04:01
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Sew some buttons on the shirt that she gave you years ago
keep it in a box in a secret place
Wash it by hand like some spirit guided ritual
Think about her for a while and put it away
Keep all your photographs in a place where you never open 'em
keep 'em with your seven big mistakes
Bottle up your emotions, they're only your emotions
You'll get back to them, gonna sift through them someday
If you can catch the bluefish runnin through the season
runnin through the morning, runnin through low tide
If you can call me on the telephone occasionally
and remind me that what's yours was never mine
So fire up the main sails, set a course that you should of set long ago
with a destination warm and south
Catch the wind, crank the rudder through the water
till you reach the ocean through the river's mouth
And on the shoreline are the houses from your dream
they've all been painted with one thousand coats of grey
And you see her standing on the beach in her winter coat with the ghost of Job
and she's throwin sticks of driftwood to the waves
If you can catch the bluefish runnin through the season
runnin through the morning, runnin through low tide
If you can call me on the telephone occasionally
and remind me that what's yours was never mine
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Dogs
03:29
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You contradict all the shit you say
about the boys that come around to play.
Its hard to hear you complain.
Oh no my love, you're surrounded by dogs
All of my love will mace them away
Hold on my love, here I come
Hold on my love, here I come
You show no respect
for a friendship that's been long
And you don't deserve someone like me
maybe I was wrong
to have believed you were a healthy seed
planted in my heart
when I can't feel you growing anymore
Oh no my love, you're surrounded by dogs
All of my love will mace them away
Hold on my love, here I come
Hold on my love.
You cut the cord before we were even born.
You cut me off in the middle of my truest words
Oh no my love, you're surrounded by dogs
All of my love will mace them away
Hold on my love, here I come
Hold on my love, here I come
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Serendipity
04:24
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She sleeps on the bank of the Merrimac River
Thirteen angels weave a pattern in her hair
Serendipity
Dress shed like old skin and abandoned forever
She bathes in the honey sun warmed river
Serendipity
She waits for a man that will be her better
He walks and speaks a lot like her father
She knows she needs to ask for a little more attention
She breathes in deep and he is already there
Serendipity
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I can't remember your name
but I remember you were beautiful
and Autumn leaves fell soft and wonderful
as we walked through Moseley Pines
I can't remember your name
Even though I used to live with you
You were the kindest soul I ever knew
You left me floating in the sky
Why couldn't I ever lie
and say that I've been pining for you
Why couldn't I ever cry
when I was closing doors upon you
Why couldn't I ear lie and say I might be coming home
to be with you
I can't remember your name
But it felt like I was home again
You are my longest and most faithful friend
How did I let you slip my mind
I can't remember your name
but I remember you were beautiful
And I must seem kind of pitiful
I can't remember your name
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Bigger Highway
03:59
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Its a long way to Rockland and you won't make the time
Time to set your clock back lookin to unwind
You remember her old bathrobe in the back seat of your car
you were goin to California, wishin on a star
You take the back roads
cause they don't all look the same
And the sun don't shine
on the bigger highway
Well you'll soon be turnin forty and you're countin down the days
three days to make your mind up, four days to decide
Time for cryin in the bathroom, time for cryin on the phone
Cryin to your mother, tryin hard to hide
You take the back roads
cause they don't all look the same
And the sun don't shine
on the bigger highway
Its been a long and dry vacation and its comin to a close
Time to search the attic for your warmer clothes
You got your long and pretty red hair its all tied up in a bow
Got no pockets on your old leaf raking coat
You take the back roads
cause they don't all look the same
And the sun don't shine
You take the back roads
all the way to Portland, Maine
And the sun don't shine
on the bigger highway
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Rocket Heroes
04:18
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My family, painted up like roses
my destiny is in a circus
Sharing to the walls again
not a word reflected back to me
And you call yourself my best friend
Is this your best
Did you give it your best
Did you give it your all
Here's proof you aint no better than the rest
I still adore you even if this is your best
My family, made up of rocket heroes
my symphony, four notes on my piano
Dare I crawl out on a limb
spilling out my guts again
Who cares if I'm embarrassed
who really gives a shit
Did you give it your best
Did you give it your all
Here's proof you aint no better than the rest
I still adore you even if this is your best
I am not angry, no need for weeping
The kitchen just needs sweeping
I think I can handle that
The hallway just needs dusting
I think I can handle that
I think I can handle that
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Michelangelo
04:29
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All of my friends have surrounded themselves
within clouds colored greenish and grey
I bend over backwards to make them feel better
I feel my strength slipping away
And all of my dreaming must come to an end
Walked into her room and gave her a hug
I noticed the sculpture she'd made
Open my mouth try to share of myself
but I can't think of nothing to say
And all of my dreaming must come to an end
Slow down Michelangelo, slow down
Slow down Michelangelo, slow down
Set her down gently you ain't losin' no ground
Slow down Michelangelo, slow down
Filled up my notebook with L.A. appointments
instead of my musical words
Digging for money and a girl and a family
a year passed no better no worse
And all of my dreaming must come to an end
Slow down Michelangelo, slow down
Slow down Michelangelo, slow down
Set her down gently you ain't losin' no ground
Slow down Michelangelo, slow down
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8. |
November
02:55
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Might call some old friends
maybe I'd feel better
And I wish it were a little colder
so I could light the heater
The first rain of November
in sunny California
I want to call my girlfriend
need to write a letter
I need to find my red wool sweater
I wanted something better
The first rain of November
in sunny California
Left my sisters and my brothers
didn't bother to tell the others
I slipped outside ashamed into a brandy fog
It was raining down in Ipswich
I was hoping for some distance
And I don't need no doctor just to
figure my resistance
I was just thinking of the love
I was afraid to ask for
And I can hear that fear come
knockin' down my back door
So what ever came of it
Are you ashamed of it
It all seems the same to get
caught up in Los Angeles
Its a good way to remember
The first rain of November
in sunny California
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You were on the money when you said I'm a one eyed Jack
You don't miss me comin' round but you can never have me back
Rollin through Atlanta on a boulder in the shape of a bad vibe
Touch down, get me off, quick get me safe inside
Blackberry Winter
is rollin' from Alabama
Blackberry Winter
It's cold here in Atlanta
Somewhere in the desert is a snake they call The Desert Storm
She travels with her family, they like it where the sand is warm
Funk junkie slipped away down into a fissure hole
God give us an earthquake, something to be grindin' her bones
Blackberry Winter
is rollin' from Alabama
Blackberry Winter
It's cold here in Atlanta
Aram-piano
Steve Refling- guitar
Matt Fitzell- bass
Scott McPhereson-drums
Chandra Watson- vocals
Leigh Watson- vocals
Franco and Aram - the clap
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A Hundred Million Voices
04:24
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All night on a train, speeding through the grey
indifferent to the way I'm traveling away, traveling away
She left me in Virginia to smell the rotten leaves
I might get a job shipbuilding down around Virginia Beach
I scream when I'm way down here but you can't hear me
I'm a ghost on a morning with no sun rising
And I can't believe any of my friends are even wondering
where I am sleeping, where I am sleeping, where I am
I guess I am outnumbered, guess you need me more
than I need me, the West it keeps on calling
A hundred million voices on machines
I scream when I'm way down here but you can't hear me
I'm a ghost on a morning with no sun rising
And I can't believe any of my friends are even wondering
where I am sleeping, where I am sleeping, where I am
Your sister looks so lovely, hair cut like the roaring eighties
Wears a different kind of sunburn cause the sky here's always hazy
And I know I might find some friends soon
I don't want to go home
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Hey Dave
03:35
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Hey Dave, where you been, how's your life
Its nice to see you again
But it's a little awkward running into you
I swear I was just asking what is Dave up to
You shot the woman I love, left her for dead
Emptied out her savings down at the A.T.M.
Hey Dave I've been mad at you
but I miss the way you smile
Everybody still loves you
Everybody holds on to a piece of your heart
Everybody forgives you and wishes you peace of heart
Hey Dave I understand how at times
she makes you feel less than a man
Hey Dave I'm quite aware how she talks at you
as if you were not even there
I don't know what keeps me around
I would miss the way she smiles
Everybody still loves you
Everybody holds on to a piece of your heart
Everybody forgives you and wishes you piece of heart
"Hey Dave" is all I can say, heard you got a job
at a hotel down in Playa del Rey
or hey Dave was it a discount tire store
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Like ghosts in a season, I recognize with happiness
The Fall leaves were falling, come suffocate the sadness
and Wendy is driving her Volvo with no taillights
and comin' on over for company
The end of the Summer has fallen upon us
Again like the poetry in paintings and novels
It's everybody's birthday and a time for remembrance
So lets have a party tonight
Indian Summer is not what it ought to be
When the colors on the Palm trees don't change
And instead of a cool air it's a hundred and five degrees
and I'm a plane ride from the Topsfield Faire
So come down again, come down into Winter
Come around again, come around and tell tales
Believe her when she says we all miss you
I guess I'm just lonely and feeling my history
Through photographs and words said and technicolor memories
I've wanted your love goin' on twenty years now
and look who I'm living with instead
Now I'm waiting for the night time to come around again
so I can get back into bed
Indian Summer is not what it ought to be
When the color on the Palm trees don't change
And instead of a cool air it's a hundred and five degrees
and I'm a plane ride from the Topsfield Faire
Indian Summer is a book I read ten years ago
When you were almost my wife
Oh I'll follow your shoe-prints to heaven and back again
And I will love you for the rest of my life
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Orphan Train Vancouver, Washington
Orphan train has been the vehicle Aram has used to release original songs since 2003. Prior releases were fed to the world under his hyper Armenian banner ‘ARAM’. All albums offer up something a little different, with the thruline of timeless melodies/lyrics and production. Go fig. ... more
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