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Hard Sell
04:57
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Love is a prison, when it’s forbidden
I got ten years of probation
Love is a sweater that smells of her hair
She knows the law to the letter
It’s a hard sell
Love is a treacherous climb
And I go marching up blindly
Love is standing naked in front of a mirror
And if you’re cruel I can take it
It’s a hard sell
I play my cards, you keep me guessing
You hear the words, you don’t get the message
I cast a line, but I’m coming up empty
You’re still trying, but you keeping on missing
Love is handing over the keys
You changed the lock on your door
Love is as frail as a baby bird
Love can drive a man to kill
It’s a hard sell
Love is an evolution
Can’t put my finger on it
Love is a sweet tea and bourbon
Love is a terrible condition
It’s a hard sell
I play my cards, you keep me guessing
You hear the words, you don’t get the message
I cast a line, but I’m coming up empty
You’re still trying, but you keeping on missing
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Couldn't Get Over You
04:20
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I love you and I hate you, that’s just the way it is
Can’t believe that we made it this far
I got 10,000 reasons to think that these demons
Are tearing us apart
I couldn’t get over you if I tried
I couldn’t get over you if I tried
Shadow hangs over my room
I’m lying awake in the moonlight
Wondering if your just the wrong one
And I’m better off alone
I couldn’t get over you if I tried (x3)
And I’m not gonna try, very hard
Then late one Saturday night
I saw you downtown with your arms all around her
You wouldn’t believe how that made me feel
Free at last, free at last
I thought I got over you that night
Yes I got over you that night
I got over you that night
Now I’m gonna smile wide
Cold and alone later on
Just when I thought you were gone
You come calling with excuses
and stories to tell
Try to be strong and look the other way
Can’t think of the words that I practiced to say
So I open the door and let you in
And here we go again
I couldn’t get over you if I tried (x3)
And I’m not gonna try anymore
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Afterthought
04:27
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We’ve had our bellies full, we’ve built a nest, our home
The mountain climb’s behind us, now we’re down in the valley
You were brave in the beginning, you were strong, you hadn’t a care
We were dangerously living, and we had no plans
But lack of planning cannot stop the march of time
And our love won’t keep burning, unless we keep that fire alive
If you take my heart for granted x 3
It might not be there when you call
It might not know your voice at all
If you ignore me, if you ignore me
When I looked at you before, I saw a mystery
Now your life is an open book, that I don’t want to read
Can love survive a look into our deeper selves?
I let my demons out and you’ve seen my inner hell
You’re not the only one, I’ve got my own disease
The drugs that once worked well enough are now too weak
Chorus
I know you love me but then you forgot
That you can’t treat me like an afterthought.
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4. |
I've Got The Bottle
04:38
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I’m gonna burn my mind out
With a night of heavy drinking
I’ll push away the banshees
That been breaking out my windows
There’s a shotgun full of bourbon
I’ve been aiming at my demons
But they always dodge the bullets
And come calling in the morning
Chorus:
I’ve been called a bitter man
But I don’t deserve the label
I was bitten on the hand
Feeding horses at the stable
If you wanna take a dive into
That murky pool of mine
I’ve got the bottle
If you’ve got the time
I climbed onto the wagon
And I held onto the side
And then it started raining
When I wanted to get dry
I took a look around me
Felt I made a big mistake
Then that road got rough, I fell off
I jumped into the lake
Chorus
I tried to pray to Jesus
But the line got crossed with Hell
And Satan’s secretary
Said I had an unpaid bill
I could afford to pay it
If I signed away my soul
But you can’t pull any water
From this whiskey filled well
Chorus (x2)
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Hourglass
03:04
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Picture all your memories
Like tiny grains of sand
One by one they’re funneling
Through the choke point of an hourglass
You feel yourself diminishing
The vessel’s almost empty
The light is getting dim
It must be so frustrating
To be so near and so lost
We keep falling into others
We keep falling into everybody else
And some have seen it coming
And some have seen it pass
With it goes a person
To be sand in your hourglass
And on and on so it goes
One mind dies and one mind grows
You fill me up and then you flip the glass
Oh god it goes too fast
We keep falling into others
We keep falling into everybody else
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We are the majesty, the grace
We are a light to all the world
We are deliverance, we are the fix
We chew up pessimists and shit out yellow bricks
Over-confident and so damn insecure
We’ve been chasing after monsters but we’re rotting at the core
Over-confident, Superficial
We’ve got damn impressive teeth
We’ve got eyes that never blink
We’ve got confidence in cosmetic surgery
We’re only once removed from a celebrity
CHORUS
You feeling down and disrespected by the world?
(We got a drug for that)
You got a flatter chest than all the other girls
You got retirement investment insecurity
You got entrenched political positions
You got back pain
You got neck pain
And you’re so damn tired
And you’re so damn tired
Chorus
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The Mutineers Portland, Oregon
The Mutineers are a rock duo that blends the twangy influences of Johnny and June with the punk vibe of John Doe and Exene, and the dark sounds of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. Husband and wife Brian Mathusek and Merry Young have been living mostly on the road since 2017, completing 5 national tours in 3 years. ... more
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