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The sun was slowly sinking down to the bottom of the sea Mr. Jefferson was sleeping, somewhere behind these steps and me Off in a distant distance, the summers come to haunt again, Someone's sunset had faded and forgotten what it meant Someone's sunset had faded in front of me, Mr Jefferson said, She's still a part of me Just over the edge there's a light shining somewhere But you had gone, just as I had gotten there Mr. Jefferson said, this is not the way to spend a day Watching sunsets slowly fading away Maybe we can take tomorrow and turn it into yesterday Fallen footsteps on the floor Told me that you did not care anymore So I looked back to sea the sky, the blue and the green And I wondered what it all means This sun never seems to set It dances upon the horizon like the day that we first met I walked by a swing yesterday and remembered when I pushed you to the sky And how you used to shine, but baby so did I I look back and I see a little boy that did not know What the hell it was behind those shadows Mr. Jefferson said, stars shoot now and then He catches me falling towards her again Mr. Jefferson said, this is not the way to spend a day Watching sunsets slowly fading away Maybe we can take tomorrow and turn it into yesterday There are things about me that nobody knows They're the kinds of things that keep me, me I guess I loved you more then anything It's wrong to believe in those kinds of things Mr. Jefferson said, this is not the way to spend a day Watching sunsets slowly fading away Maybe we can take tomorrow and turn it into yesterday
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A daytime moon in an empty sky, through our bedroom window frame A coffee cup left on the deck, half-filled up with rain A lonely arm in an unmade bed that you splattered with drops of paint And me standing there on the front porch steps holding postcards from our pain Chorus The pictures of your exhibition came in yesterday’s mail And so I get to see once more how we managed to fail The souvenirs of our inhibitions splayed there on the page Your frigid touch, an empty glass, and all my pointless rage I can’t stop staring at the one of our son, fallen in the backyard dirt You framed his head with yellow light, like a halo that’s not quite done He’s got a busted truck, a face full of mud, and grass stains on his shirt And you painted us both there in his face, our tears streaming down in the sun The pictures of your exhibition came in yesterday’s mail And so I get to see once more how we managed to fail The souvenirs of our inhibitions splayed there on the page Your frigid touch, an empty glass, and all my pointless rage Instrumental Verse There’s a rainy glaze over everything, battered trees stretching for the sky Kids playing ball, a street full of cars, a coffee shop’s neon sign Fire hydrant yellows and new car reds, riding on asphalt gray And I see it all through your window frame, and you see it all from mine The pictures of your exhibition came in yesterday’s mail And so I get to see once more how we managed to fail The souvenirs of our inhibitions splayed there on the page Your frigid touch, an empty glass, and all my pointless rage
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It's perfect in you The falling away, the sleeping and the dreaming, the breathing She says, This year is gone and we've got a little something, and maybe still-life angels will pray over us." And Haley's Comet comes shooting 'round the moon And Haley's a little flower, she's just waiting to bloom Through the winter and all through the night She just wants the daylight There's something about being a little gone that takes the edge of the night these days It doesn't mean anything She says, "Slip into something I might recognize, and help me remember me, God! I miss me." Chorus So don't let me fade away, it's been raining since Tuesday - just another someday Just pull the shades down and lock up all your doors, and hide behind those broken angels again And shooting stars come falling from the moon Haley's a little flower she's just waiting to bloom Through the winter and all through the night She just wants the daylight So, don't fall away from me Or drift away on Sunday Just take the ground from me And catch my scattered eyes Till you can feel me And make me Shine
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Falling asleep makes tomorrow come too soon she said, "stay up with me tonight, we can talk about the moon." Anything but a house up on Lee St. that's framed in June, that I drive by late at night, whenever Autumn comes too soon Here comes another spiral, here comes another face Here comes another girl, I probably won't erase but it's just that time of year when all this starts to bloom but she don't know how I got lost Every song stays a reminder, of October air that hovered outside a house on Lee St. when you and I were there and all those things come tumbling by me year after year why do I seem to collide with everything that doesn't disappear this blur goes by, it aint for me we sit and wait for things to change on Lee St. when you leave a raindrop falls and these clouds go by another year lived and another year it died, without you Here comes another spiral, here comes another face Here comes another girl, I probably won't erase but it's just that time of year when all this starts to bloom but she don't know how I got lost I'm not good at much of anything these days since I left you inside that house on Lee St. between a shadow or two but there's a mix-tape somewhere that says all the things I thought I knew If I could only remember, I may have missed that blur of you this blur goes by, it aint for me we sit and wait for things to change on Lee St. when you leave a raindrop falls and these clouds go by another year lived and another year it died, without you Here comes another spiral, here comes another face Here comes another girl, I probably won't erase but it's just that time of year when all this starts to bloom but she don't know how I got lost in the moon
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Smoke Rings 05:38
She laughs and tosses herself down on the bed Traces circles on misty window panes down deep in her head She laughs at the orange halos down on the street below And she says, “It’s all the same, it's all the same.” She got a pretty red car to go with her pretty red eyelashes Gonna make the world better one pretty red fingernail at a time Between the darkness truth comes down to her in flashes She says, “Don’t look at me like that. Happiness aint no kinda crime.” She looks back at me, strums “Help” She says, “I need somebody, too.” Puts her cigarette out on the floor She says, “I don’t know what else to do.” “Maybe it’s just me, and all the trees are dead Maybe I just haven’t come too far. You know I just haven't come too far.” So, I put something away for a rainy day Tucked it down inside where nobody could see And now it’s pouring down, but I’ve got nothing to say I've got no one to be with, no one to be “I’m all right,” she says. “Don’t worry.” She’s apologetic, but she’s not sorry.” Laughing and shooting a smoke ring towards the ceiling She says, “It’s hard to be alone with all these feelings.” So, I put something away for a rainy day Tucked it down inside where nobody could see And now it’s pouring down, but I’ve got nothing to say No one to be with, no one to be She rushes in pale and empty Alone and scattered and scared at the world. She finds a finds a faithful friend in the moments that never passed But they were never meant to last So she he hides from a gray world under pink blankets and pajamas. She doesn’t like what she sees, gonna dream up another world. She says, “Take me away” and she knows that she’s worth it. Through the misted windowpanes a new world will unfurl.
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Jackie 04:45
Jackie don’t you walk the other way Don’t you ever hear anything I say? You know how much I want you here to stay So Jackie don’t walk the other way Alabaster skin beneath your sunburned hair A pretty boy, diamond rings, and matching shoes Pretending you don’t know, trying not to care These things will never let you sing your blues Jackie don’t you walk the other way Don’t you ever hear anything I say? You know how much I want you here to stay So Jackie don’t walk the other way So beautiful, so sweet, so everything-you’re-supposed-to-be You’re in a crowded bar on another Friday night That man up on the stage, singing songs to make you free He’ll never see what Jackie longs to be Jackie don’t you walk the other way Don’t you ever hear anything I say? You know how much I want you here to stay So Jackie don’t walk the other way In your room on Sunday night, listening to the rain You can hardly stand the quiet in your head Don’t listen to the silly boys who’ll take away your pain They’ll never see the tears you’re gonna shed . . . Over midnight moons, come falling in your room, Seafloor dreams and coffee spoons, measuring your life Into catchy tunes, the autumn days are coming soon, Perfect lawns, matching kids, and being a wife Jackie don’t you walk the other way Don’t you ever hear anything I say? You know how much I want you here to stay So Jackie don’t walk the other way

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released January 1, 2009

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Hat On, Drinking Wine Worcester, Massachusetts

From 2006 to 2011, Hat On, Drinking Wine recorded two albums and played hundreds of shows around the New England area. Once dubbed "Worcester's answer to Wilco" by music reviewer Craig Semon, HODW was known for their heartfelt songs and marathon shows while fusing rock, americana, folk, blues and roots music. The band has been on hiatus since 2012. Matt Robert has released an album in 2013 ... more

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