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Hebdomadal Songs 2017

by Joe Peppercorn

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1.
Weighed Down 03:18
All your nightmares Are getting easier to forget But your dreams linger In a haunted silhouette Weighed down Weighed down Weighed down By a ghost A porcupine crawls Across your liferaft And I misread you When you fake a heart attack Weighed down Weighed down Weighed down By a ghost Disappear In the back Of your brown eyes
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Time, when we're young all we've got is time Now it's the one thing we never find And we spend every dime Wanting more time She reminds me that I'm alive On an 18 hour drive She pulles out a mix tape From 1999 Yeah yeah She sparkles She sparkles Oh she sparkles The world around her shines We drowned out our loneliness With cacophonous miserable bliss A neon bouquet Curling round the lines of our face You so beautiful I could cry For you I would surely die But I always choke when you ask You ask you love me why? She sparkles She sparkles oh she sparkles The world around her shines I love everything about you I'm still learning how to Change
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I Drown 03:24
You're a Juliette but I'm No Romeo Throw up my hands and You aim a cross bow The streets are decayed empty Desolate dead I only wanna count the cracks In the ceiling above your bed Tonight I just wanna swim out deep Into the Ocean of your eyes Til I can't see the land And the tidal waves rise And I drown Lay my head down upon your chest Quiet sussurations of your heart at rest They cry in a whisper that I can only hear Saying come one now why Not try something real Tonight I just wanna swim out deep Into the Ocean of your eyes Til I can't see the land And the tidal waves rise And I drown Tonight I just wanna swim out deep Into the Ocean of your eyes Til I can't see the land And the tidal waves rise And I drown
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The stars are real oh the stars are my home It's not just some idea I made up On my own I navigate by the stars in the sky The stars will be home until I die Til I Die Til I die Noone left who walked on the moon Noone left who walked on the moon Darkness falling at the break of noon And if you think you're something that You're not Mistake a painting For mirror Waves wash away your scribbles now In the sand Raise a glass and watch it all disappear Noone left who walked on the moon Noone left who walked on the moon Darkness falling at the break of noon Footprints stranded on the dust of the moon Footprints stranded on the dust of the moon Footprints stranded on the dust of the moon Footprints stranded on the dust of the moon
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Valerie 02:59
Valerie, it's no secret all the good guys lose It's the price we pay I guess for all the chains That we refuse I'm forgetting what it's like to be closer to you I'm forgetting what it's like to be closer to you Valerie oh we're so rich for being poor When I look up to the sky I see the outline Of heaven's door I'm forgetting what it's like to be closer to you I'm forgetting what it's like to be closer to you
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Snow falls around you Melts in your hair You soak my pillow wet You know I don't care I wish you'd take my scarf Wrap it tight around my head Drag me by it down the boulevard Tie me to your bed Snow falls around you Catch a flake upon your tongue Make me envy that snowflake Floating round your lungs I wish you'd take my scarf Wrap it tight around my head Drag me by it down the boulevard Tie me to your bed Snow falls around you Kick a tree to knock it off your boots I'm like that tree there Desires tapping now against my roots I wish you'd take my scarf Wrap it tight around my head Drag me by it down the boulevard Tie me to your bed Snow falls around you Melts in your hair You soak my pillow wet You know I don't care
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Snow falls around you Melts in your hair You soak my pillow wet You know I don't care I wish you'd take my scarf Wrap it tight around my head Drag me by it down the boulevard Tie me to your bed Snow falls around you Catch a flake upon your tongue Make me envy that snowflake Floating round your lungs I wish you'd take my scarf Wrap it tight around my head Drag me by it down the boulevard Tie me to your bed Snow falls around you Kick a tree to knock it off your boots I'm like that tree there Desires tapping now against my roots I wish you'd take my scarf Wrap it tight around my head Drag me by it down the boulevard Tie me to your bed Snow falls around you Melts in your hair You soak my pillow wet You know I don't care
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Live Again 02:57
Everyone's born perfect Then the slow steady decline Decay is nature's code And our design Don't tell me I've been Dreaming alone Don't tell me I'm dreaming alone Give yourself a chance to live again Give yourself a chance to live again The transitory nature of our Desolate breath Hands in the air we dance A desperate arabesque Don't tell me I've been Dreaming alone Don't tell me I'm dreaming alone Give yourself a chance to live again Give yourself a chance to live again
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I fall into your arms And all my fears disappear I get used to the smell of your hair And forget the taste of my tears Every breath is yours Every move is yours All of my blood is yours I don't need myself anymore I look up at the stars the same my ancestors did And wonder the things they know now The clouds keep hid (from us) Every breath is yours Every move is yours All of my blood is yours I don't need myself anymore Every breath is yours Every move is yours All of my blood is yours I don't need myself anymore
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My heart is desiccated A field of dead trees Waiting to be set on fire Kindled by the breeze Give up the ghost Once again The sun will rise And our shadows Will take on the shape We recognize Our small shadows Cut wrinkles into our brow Pulling down our weight Til the moon makes us bow Give up the ghost Once again The sun will rise And our shadows Will take on the shape We recognize
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I was standing at the stations tonight A cold rain blowing Swirling around the neon Gas light Shadowy lady Pulls up in a black car She'd run from her husband she said With her daughter, not far Weeds growing in the gallows Trembling in the wind Everyone's asking will they Cut them down again? She said she needed Thirty seven dollars for a room I gave her fourty She looked like a ghost Who'd seen her own tomb Weeds growing in the gallows Trembling in the wind Everyone's asking will they Cut them down again? Weeds growing in the gallows Trembling in the wind Everyone's asking will they Cut them down again?
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Ghost Affair 02:20
I met you under the willow tree Studying your own headstone Startled to see me We died the same age Thirty years apart Still young enough to Burn fire in our hearts ' Walked round the cemetery every night Talking about our past lives Til the morning light Your husband stopped coming round one day Then we fell in love in our Ghostly way Try to run my hands through your hair But I just caress the air We don't age we don't change our shape And this awful cemetery we can never escape Don't wanna pretend to touch you anymore Hell is sealed shut and heaven closed its door
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Moon Dive (free) 03:29
Turn all the lights out and leave me Dreaming of your arms Hang your chandeliers over my head When it starts to storm I can't live without your private sigh And I'm drowning in your shadow When I'm swimming in Your love As the moon through your window Does a cannonball from a diving board Above Close your eyes and you dream Of her hair in a fiery rain So you learn that desire Paves the road to pain Like a fly Caught in a silver spider web And I'm drowning in your shadow When I'm swimming in your love As the moon through your window Does a cannonball from a diving board Above I can't live without Your private sigh Like a fly Caught in a silver spider web And I'm drowning in your shadow When I'm swimming in your love You blanket your red eyes with The knuckle of your green glove
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Sleepless 02:53
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Rely 02:13
You're the only thing on which I rely I send the world a line Always no reply Yellow weeds bloom in the spring They leave their wishful skeletons They blow into the brink You're the only thing On which I rely The clouds corrupt the prayers We send up to the sky The temperament of the sun Tears fall into the sink When the day is done You're the only thing on which I rely I send the world a line Always no reply
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Juliette 04:07
Juliette never flinches Juliette could stare down the sun Her heart weeps into the gutter Where cigarettes are put out in her tears Every day, it's like you're further away From where you were yesterday She runs through the dark of the morning I dream of an open window thunderstorm Her dignity in silence Against cruelty, and violent storm Every day it's like you're further away From where you were yesterday Devils sneak in through a crack in the door Try to put them back, you let in more Juliette doesn't know me She's a ghost in the attic fumbling for a taste of eternity Her shadow always haunts me Pure darkness enclosed by a light I live to see Every day it's like you're further away From where you were yesterday Devils sneak in through a crack in the door Try to put them back, you let in more
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Branches 03:13
Beyond where we can feel any pain You welcome the rain To wash the blood off the streets Skeletons shiver in the west wind When it blows through their bones When it blows through their bones Sifting through the leaves Falling from your branches Sifting through the leaves Falling from your branches I'm a kite tangled in your upper reach I'm the fragment of a shell Buried on your beach Sifting through the leaves Falling from your branches Sifting through the leaves Falling from your branches Now all we feel is sorrow Now all we feel is sorrow Sifting through the leaves Falling from your branches Sifting through the leaves Falling from your branches
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Tell me about yourself How do you establish relationships with your coworkers? Where do you see yourself in five years? What's your greatest weakness? What are your strengths? How do you see yourself fitting in here? Describe your most recent position How did you hear about this job? What do you know about this company What is your greatest professional achievement? Tell me about a challenge you faced at work and how you dealt with it? What's your dream job? Why do you want to work here? What kind of pay scale are you looking for? What time of work environment are you looking for? Tell me about a time you exercised leadership How would your boss describe you? Tell me about a time you overcame adversity? Can you explain this gap in your employment record? Why do you want to work here? How do you deal with stressful situations? What do you like to do outside work?
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Let go Let go of all your preconceived Notions of me I want more I want nothing more than Every piece of your being Eventually You're gonna burn a hole in me With your eyes on fire Eventually You're gonna burn a hole in me With your eyes on fire Drown out all the noises Of your Plans today I forget everything but Your smile When you smile Eventually You're gonna burn a hole in me With your eyes on fire Eventually You're gonna burn a hole in me With your eyes on fire Life doesn't make much sense Without you near me It's clear I don't know where I belong Except with you Eventually You're gonna burn a hole in me With your eyes on fire Eventually You're gonna burn a hole in me With your eyes on fire
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You're a ballon in a child's hand Hovering under a ceiling of nails You're a power line weighed down By a caravan of snails You're a grain of sand Stuck on Christ's sandal strap As he wandered through the desert Hazily by the devil's traps We all need to bleed sometimes We all need to bleed You're the grains of coffee discarded wet into the dirt You're the microscopic hole That made me throw out my favorite shirt You're the lightbulb over the bathroom mirror The only light I look good in You're the temptation and then the atonement for My sin You're a dead leaf buried under a welcome mat In the spring You're an unwritten melody Nobody but the wind remembers how to sing We all need to bleed sometimes We all need to bleed We all need to bleed You're the fossil of a bullet Whose tragedy diminishes with time You're a sweet and innocent charity with The face and facade of a crime You're the coin I've stared at for years Trapped inside the heating vent You're the selfish lover We forgive so easily once they repent We all need to bleed sometimes We all need to bleed We all need to bleed You're the girl at the table With the guy with the distinct drunken howl I hear him every time I listen to a live jazz album Drowning out Coltrane's growl You're a matchstick struck three times And then discarded and thrown away You're a beautiful word to hard to know To hard to pronounce that noone will say You're the thumbprint on the glass Of a ferris wheel car You're a distant planet Mistaken in a telescope for a shimmering star
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Dark Leaves 03:48
We need things we can cling to Songs we can sing too Eyes we stare into That don't want to see our skulls caved in Resentment bubbles Under words and smiles Of friends and family Who crave blood and suffering now We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky Through the dark leaves now The red sun takes off his shirt The red moon makes its bed The stars all line up at the counter Staring at their phones now We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky Through the dark leaves now We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky Through the dark leaves now Take it all for granted And then it's real It's hard to find something real You forget how hard it is We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky We can see the blue sky Through the dark leaves now Don't let it go away Your love is real
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Amanda 02:07
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I'm not feeling right The birds have lost their song Sometimes too much light You see clearly all is wrong Tiptoe around the dragon at your door Tiptoe around the dragon at your door Serenade the swelter of silence that Makes you feel so lonely You look at me and say You see no trace of reality Tiptoe around the dragon at your door Tiptoe around the dragon at your door Turns out I don't mind The knives you keep Under your pillow all the time Tiptoe around the dragon at your door Tiptoe around the dragon at your door
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My son turned 8 today i swear it was just yesterday The first time Our apartment felt so small Now a stay at home dad Tending bar it isn't bad Except for the dirty looks From suspicious moms Things are changing all the time We don't really see them change Try to trap the ghosts of memories While they're in our range Home at 4 and up at 8 What I'd give to sleep late We just get used to Tired all the time Little fingers Little toes Milk stains on all my clothes Everything is familiar But feels new Things are changing all the time We don't really see them change Try to trap the ghosts of memories While they're in our range
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A Toy Boat 02:11
Wind blows through the branches Out your bedroom window The autumn sun collapses Its heat on your haunting glow A toy boat sits on your shelf You no longer recognize A toy boat everything changes You don't age in your eyes Flamingos hover in the clouds of your waking dreams We wander through the darkness Shivering on our balance beams
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Tiny Things 03:05
When people die You don't feel them leave you all at once Even in the chest buckle of the news Right in the punch gut moment But sooner than simple They fall from your arms Little by little Like spilling tiny things Acorns Pebbles Twigs
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I felt a sting when she came in my sight Wind in the leaves swaying shadowy light Her flashing eyes like fire in the sky Lips only seen, give up and die Had a dream she ran away from me I reached out for her she turned into a tree She saw me and ran, her gown round her knees All of my pleas drowned out in the breeze Her boucning hair, the ribbons tangled there I toucher her gown, she let out a desperate prayer Had a dream she ran away from me I reached out for her she turned into a tree Had a dream she ran away from me I reached out for her she turned into a tree
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When the rain blows wild and hard Knocks you off your guard I'll be a shelter from the storm When the waves crash on your ship And all your senses slip Like Christ I'll make the waters calm You can lean against me When the world tries to knock you down When your demons start to moan You feel helpless an alone I'll stare those demons down When your friends all disappear And you dread the bathroom mirror Look into my eyes You can lean against me When the world tries to knock you down When you feel cheated you feel used Suffer all the world's abuse Know I could never do you harm When dust coats your wedding gown And life has let you down Let's make tomorrow new You can lean against me When the world tries to knock you down
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Your Gravity 03:26
Go on and bury me underneath your eyes Let me feel the dirt fall over my head Let me know the ghosts you hide there Your army of undead Go on and smother me Underneath the pillow of your heart Let me slide down the blood in your veins Cradle me in the hammock of your sweet brain I'm falling down But I wanna be in your gravity I'm falling down But I only know how to be in your gravity Go on and accuse me Of whatever you will Indict me, incite me, invite me to pain Go on and arrest me Cuff me to your will Tie me to your beauty make a bonfire Of all my desire I'm falling down But I wanna be in your gravity I'm falling down But I only know how to be in your gravity Are the storm clouds blowing away Or are they here to stay? I'm falling down But I wanna be in your gravity I'm falling down But I only know how to be in your gravity
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Pendulum 03:14
I'm in my cell Carving your name and counting Hash marks I'm in the darkness Collecting whispers And fumbling for sparks My shadow asks me Is this really what you Want to be? You remind me there's more To this life than the things we Can see There's a place we can go Where nothing will change And our memory doesn't pounce On experience and reaarange I kissed you and lost my breath Under your parents' cherry tree You remind me there's more to this life Than the things I can see There's a stark pendulum Swinging wild and free in your heart With a blade fixed on its end Slowly cutting my guts apart Go ahead cut me Tear my flesh Tear my beliefs Tear everything sacred to me You remind me there's more to this life than the things I can see
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if the rain falls hard tomorrow and the wind tears the branches from the trees and lightning rips the sky and the floodwaters rise to your knees if the rain falls hard tomorrow if the locusts come tomorrow and fill the fields and cover the sun and their hiss drowns out our cries and everything if the locusts come tomorrow love can feel meaningless in the face of things you can't control it's easy to be cynical it's so hard to be kind all the time if the rain falls hard tomorrow don't forget who you are
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My Phone 02:26
Carry it round everywhere Reflecting my eyes torn Sleep with it next to me Check it first thing in the morn My phone my phone Makes me feel so alone Alone alone Every day with my phone Ignore my kids for a while Read about people I don't know Forget about the moon and the sun Head down glued to the glow My phone my phone Makes me feel so alone Alone alone Every day with my phone I wrote the words to this song on it I would have done fine With a piece of paper and a Creative fit My phone my phone Makes me feel so alone Alone alone Every day with my phone My phone my phone Makes me feel so alone Alone alone Every day with my phone
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You seize the shadowy sun from the grip Of the moon Watch the stars fall like Sighing balloons Shadows mingle on the wall of death Waving trembly hands I call upon the flames Swallow the sand Pick your teeth up Off the floor and Clean the blood off Your door You're still alive At least for now The face of the morning turning blue Choking on the blinds The stars brush their teeth At dawn The dental floss Unwinds Pick your teeth up Off the floor and Clean the blood off Your door You're still alive At least for now It was never fun being alone Pick your teeth up Off the floor and Clean the blood off Your door You're still alive At least for now
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The wind draws its breath Swallows my song It blows in the void now I live in the void Perform CPR On the ghosts Wandering your hall Awaiting your call The path to paradise Begins in hell And when you cross the borderline Of heaven you can't even tell Trembling cold Under my eyes All of the time Now all of the time Your fate is a gift It can't be taken away You shake it and pray A phantom or a ghost will stay The path to paradise Begins in hell And when you cross the borderline Of heaven you can't even tell The more perfect you are The more you feel pain The more you live in pleasures Surrounding you
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In a desperate traffic jam Arms dangling from outside A passenger bus Smoke fills my black car I kick the window And I'm floating with the clouds Will you keep me company Through the darkness slowly settling Our shadows disappear In the indifference of the bedroom mirror Light falls on darkened eyes Like a streak of paint Permanent in my memory Cigarettes put out Against a brick wall And your leaning against agony Will you keep me company Through the darkness slowly settling Our shadows disappear In the indifference of the bedroom mirror Your tiara you stash away And a peacock pirhouettes Across the way Claudia crawl through my window at night Climb the balcony And let loose your tears Will you keep me company Through the darkness slowly settling Our shadows disappear In the indifference of the bedroom mirror
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The familiar four in the morning alone When your ghosts lean in and moan So alone I'd throw my arms around my bitter enemy Throw my arms round things only I can see You left without saying goodbye Jenny with the stars bleeding in your eyes We all can bleed any time we want to It's a choice to see the day through The smell of your skin folded in my pillow Your voice echoes in the leaves falling below You left without saying goodbye Jenny with the stars bleeding in your eyes "I love you Let's run away I love you Let's run away" You left without saying goodbye Jenny with the stars bleeding in your eyes You left without saying goodbye Jenny with the stars bleeding in your eyes
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Katie lays her arm Across your knee Leans her head on your shoulder and says It's always seemed to me The summers go so fast It's like nothing's meant to last Then she spits out her gum Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer to her She vanishes like a phantom in the darkening stars Katie borrows my shirt and says it looks better on her I try to hide my pain but I'm not a natural flirt She gardens in the morning Whispers to the trees Voice like a muzzle of bees She tells me her dreams Never closer Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer She vanishes like a phantom in the darkening stars Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer Every time that I get closer to her She vanishes like a phantom in the darkening stars
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Should have moved to California baby When we were young and we had the spark I know I'm stumbling in the dark No use looking back now French dude comes in for a last call Gives me trouble now I wonder what life is for I know there's something better for me I know you only get what you give This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand I'm fumbling for my keys up the sidewalk I'm trouble for the dead leaves under my feet I know I love the smokescreen of the fall And I fall for October's slight of hand This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand This aggression will not stand
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Swing Away 03:33
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And so The sun Tramples Our dreams And so The devil is not As he Seems I shut The door On My Name Wherever You go I will Go too Wherever you Go I will go Too And so Your hairbands On the bedstand And so I wait For the wrinkles In your Hand To disappear One day soon Wherever You go I will Go too Wherever you Go I will go Too
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Sissyphus 03:16
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He's gonna change things up He's gonna run it like a business He's gonna surround himself with the best people He's gonna make deals He's gonna make us sick of all the winning He's gonna bring back coal He's gonna bring back Christ from the dead He's gonna lower my taxes He's gonna lower your taxes He's gonna abolish taxes forever He's gonna punch back He's gonna punch first He's gonna punch every bad guy And kiss every baby He's gonna.... DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN THE SWAMP He's gonna deregulate industry He's gonna lower corporate taxes And it's gonna trickle down to us He's gonna get rid of Obamacare He's gonna make us all healthy He's gonna make my wife love me again And undo my last game of high school football where I threw the interception that blew the game He's gonna make me stronger He's gonna reunite the smiths He's gonna make it so you never hear nickel back over the loudspeaker at Kroger He's gonna take away all our pain He's gonna DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN THE SWAMP He's gonna make it so Any time you call a 1-800 numnber You will be directly connected with The person you need to get ahold of He's gonna DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN THE SWAMP DRAIN THE SWAMP
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When I think of your eyes And the striptease They do With your brilliant disguise You hair on your shoulders Your dark skin A labrynth of memory I get lost in I guess that there's a light that shines In You That makes the darkness something I know how to get through Your shadow Dark milk Spilled on the bed I'll cry over til the day I'm dead You changed me And then you said People never really change I guess that there's a light that shines In You That makes the darkness something I know how to get through
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Grey November morning I Can't find comfort in the sky I'm faded like a torn ticket stub Ah there's the rub I see a gilded chandelier In your eyes after my third beer The transformation of a tiger cub Ah there's the rub The cold draws desperation from our breath I draw my weapons stare down death The ghosts with their cigar jacket club Ah there's the rub
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If I Die 02:17
And if I die Tomorrow that's alright You'll still shine your light On the world I leave behind
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Celestial stains yellow on your cheek Your kisses cracks in eternity Through which I desperately peek On the floor of my heart Underneath the dust Are your permanent footprints And your name written in rust I try and drape a new skin Over my corroded bones Run a comb through the stars Decipher their coded moans On the floor of my heart Underneath the dust Are your permanent footprints And your name written in rust On the floor of my heart Underneath the dust Are your permanent footprints And your name written in rust
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Reduce 02:55
I crave your mouth I crave your shadowy breath When your darkness swallows me I get an ambivalence about death Tell me all your secrets Tell me all your lies Tell me everything in between when you have the time Cause I Reduce myself to nothing for you Cause I Reduce myself to nothing for you There's a sunbeam flaring in you you never let me see I only know its there by the warmth I get when you're round me Tell me all your secrets Tell me all your lies Tell me everything in between when you have the time Cause I Reduce myself to nothing for you Cause I Reduce myself to nothing for you Cause I Reduce myself to nothing for you Cause I Reduce myself to nothing for you
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Somber clouds hang from Your eyes The morning breathelss cries Through the window Gnashing its teeth And barely let's the sun fall across Your skin I'm in love with you now I've been in love with you since I was born I'll never be Ready to say goodbye to you The waves crash in your mouth The moon reflects on your cheek Everything I want is buried And lost in the shadows behind your eyes Don't let me grow old Without you And if I leave this world before you NAme a star after me I'll never be Ready to say goodbye to you
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Let me live in your eyes Forever my love Let me live in your eyes Forever my love There's a wolf a the door now I'm not afraid of anymore now I'm not afraid Let me live in your eyes Forever my love

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This is the Weekly song project from 2017.

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released January 1, 2017

Joe Peppercorn - Lots of stuff
Branden Barnett- Vocals, Guitar
Phil Cogley - Vocals, Keyboards

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Joe Peppercorn Columbus, Ohio

Joe Peppercorn is a singer/songwriter from the Columbus, Ohio band The Whiles. His melancholic pop songs were featured in the Academy Award nominated film Murderball. His debut solo record 'Darkening Stars' will be released in 2021. He is also known for his Sgt Peppercorn's Marathon show in which he and his bandmates perform the entire Beatles catalog in a single 13-14 hour performance. ... more

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