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Mr. Jefferson
04:52
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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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Back to Boston
04:12
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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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Haley's Comet
04:05
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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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House on Lee Street
04:50
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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
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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
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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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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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