1. |
One Act Play
03:14
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Monday sorrow
Monday woke to the news
Of more detrimental violence
Scattered people
500 people in a desperate run for cover Across the boulevard
In an instant I was shattered
From the radio sounds
By midday all results had been reported
I waited patiently for the tally on another
One act play
58
58 counted couldn't pull cover
From the onslaught
Don't talk now
Now is clearly not the right time to talk about it.
In an instant I was shattered
From the radio sounds
By midday all results had been reported
From sunrise on the very first thing that I heard
I waited patiently for the tally on another
One act play
If not right now the anger slowly disappears
Raise and focus blame on the wrong people and fears
By midday all results had been reported
From sunrise on the very first thing that I heard
I waited patiently for the tally on another
One act play
The tally on another
One act play
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2. |
Try to Take Notice
03:14
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It's been so long now I hardly take notice
What I found out didn't take too long
Pack up all your things it's time to get load
Drip into the sun and act like nothing's wrong
Can't you see me calling you
Can't you hear me coming down the road
In another week it's Baltimore to Memphis
In another life I never dreamed so far
Just last year I said I never could imagine
Something so shallow could leave a scar
Can’t you see me calling you
Can’t you hear me coming down the road
Let it slip away I can't feel the fire
I miss it so much I can't get away
You wake up in the weeds and
Your head's filled with wire
I feel you coming back
But you're coming back too slow
I'm never going back to Lake Charles, LA
Yesterday it seems is too far gone
Getting home safe on a two day travel
That was a time now it's gone for good
Can't you see me calling you
Can't you hear me coming down
Can't you see me calling you
Can't you hear me coming down the road
Can't you see me calling you
Can't you see me calling you
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3. |
Buckled
03:29
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Finally fearless
Don't get buckled underneath
Rampant ignorance
Forward and in motion
Backward to the beginning of
It always amounts to nothing
This brand new chase is just the same
Nothing's ever any different to me
After all
Another warning
I can't pay attention to
Wasted words and effort
Focus on what matters least
I lost the plot at the opening
It always amounts to nothing
This brand new face is just the same
Nothing's ever any different to me
After all
Pushing downward up against faded interest
Morphing my thoughts that it had some
Great significance
It always amounts to nothing
This brand new face is just the same
Nothing's ever any different to me
After all
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4. |
How You Are
03:11
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Living all this time
Tuck the elephant under your arm
For so long
It's show
And it feels like all of a sudden
There's never time to say goodbye
It feels like all of a sudden
Either way it's hard to swallow
If I knew there was something I could do
Locked into the laughter
That last walk down Harrison Street
I could see I was gone
And it feels like all of a sudden
There's never time to say goodbye
It feels like all of a sudden
I always knew it was temporary
It was never meant to be for good
Very lucky
Everything we had to share
Same old story
Some of them we'd never tell
And it feels like all of a sudden
There's never time to say goodbye
It feels like all of a sudden
Either way it's hard to swallow
If I knew there was something I could do
Either way it's hard to swallow
If I knew there was something I could do
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5. |
These Years
03:02
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Too long on the whiskey run
Metro North train at 6:05
And I remember when I used to think
It'll be alright, we be there just in time
Catie as turns out had the right idea
Living through the wreckage
I think we both could see
Strange how it's turned around after all
These years
Five mile 10-speed ride
Pushing back south past Christown
I remember that you couldn't wait
To get back to what we both had known as home
Strange how it's turned around
After all these years
Living in a vacuum I think we both can breathe
I don't have all the answers but it's becoming so clear
I'm so sorry
Even on your wedding day
Leaving Sydney
Now I know you couldn't bare to stay
Catie as it turns out had the right idea
Living through the wreckage
I think the damages were clear
Strange how it's turned around after all
These years
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John McCabe Laguna Niguel, California
Musician / Artist based in Laguna Niguel,
California. All songs are jangly guitar, alternative, sort of alt-country stuff;
all Singles are self produced in my home studio and EPs were recorded and produced at Janky East Studios (Los Angeles), by John Kimbrough. All songs John McCabe / ©Shelf Talker Music (ASCAP). Enjoy.
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