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When you hear the roll of the coming wind
Tell me if you know that a storm is in
Rustling your hair and a touch of skin
You must think that I lost in the end
Are you looking up at an auburn sky?
The sea washed in and it filled my eyes
I turned to the west where it all went grey
But the ships don’t sail for another day
Hidden with the rock on the jagged shawl
Where the mountains sing and the prairies howl
It was all laid bare on the open ground
Yet the summer falls quiet on a lonely town
If I’m lying down in a bed of snow
And tip-toeing on the old railroad
Will you take a hammer and the broken frame?
Listen out for the sound of the rain
The years were long and you seemed so frail
The stars were bright and the moon was pale
We lay right here on the turning blue
But the winter came and it took you too
The winter came and it took you too
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Midnight in a 7-Eleven
Late summer at a college by the sea
Tried hard to get used to the weather
All the hours spent in the driver’s seat
Neon sign on a small-town dive bar
21 or a 20-dollar bill
We arrived somewhere we could be younger
It could change but we never ever will no
We stay, this has only just begun
In this way, we are only chasing the sun
Will you stay? This has only just begun
In this way, we will not forget we were young
Bright lights and a view of the city
Small apartment by the train lines going down
Cheap flights and a one-way ticket
A dozen friends in a house on the edge of town
Looking back, all the seconds were longer
Ain’t it strange just how much we thought we knew
Didn’t pack, never thought we’d get older
We could change, but we never ever want to
We stay, this has only just begun
In this way, we are only chasing the sun
Will you stay? This has only just begun
In this way, we will not forget we were young
It felt like it would last forever
But then we found the end
It felt like it would last forever
But then we found the end
Stay, this has only just begun
In this way, we are only chasing the sun
Will you stay? This has only just begun
In this way, we will not forget we were young
Please do not forget we were young
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Light comes through the old porch door
Just a sliver
We sat by the river
Time has aged me, don’t you think?
There’s a stranger
Here for me, I’ll wager
I was digging in the dirt
Now I am trying to get the stains off this old shirt
I was swimming in my doubt
But I can ride out to get the train to some old town
Somewhere else, somewhere else
Somewhere else, somewhere else
Telephone lines reaching out
Overhead
Cast shadows on the bed
A house lies empty, by the lake
The door is closed
With boards on the windows
I was digging in the dirt
Now I am trying to get the stains off this old shirt
I was swimming in my doubt
But I can ride out to get the train to some old town
Through my searching I have found
What you say to be some comfort on this solid ground
Thought I’d heard it all before
But today it doesn’t matter to me anymore
Anymore, anymore
It doesn’t matter to me anymore
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You say what you are, but you know that I want you
Left a part of myself in California
We could lay in bed, or we could take a ride
To a sun-kissed place by the seaside
And now I’m wide awake
I see the sky but I didn’t see the rain
And I couldn’t hide and I couldn’t feel the pain
And I know a way and I know what to find
But I want to stay in the summertime
You’re trying to hide, but I’m trying to run
From a pretty face and a loaded gun
So we’ll save our money, buy a car
Drive it across America
Before it gets too late
I see the sky but I didn’t see the rain
And I couldn’t hide and I couldn’t feel the pain
And I know a way and I know what to find
But I want to stay in the summertime
I want to stay in the summertime
And you say courage, my old friend
I’ve heard it all before
I’m digging up the flowerbeds
You’re lying on the bathroom floor
Take the load off tired feet
Call this place your home
You’d rather watch the city sleep
I would rather go
I see the sky but I didn’t see the rain
And I couldn’t hide and I couldn’t feel the pain
And I know a way and I know what to find
But I want to stay in the summertime
I want to stay in the summertime
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Fourteen years have gone, I was working on a diesel train
You thought of moving on, but I guess I didn’t feel the same
And now I find myself with a drink in a rowdy diner
Two blocks off the interstate in a town in South Carolina
You never call a place your home
You try to take it on your own
We level ‘till the break of day
But we always fade away
When everything is said and done
When we go like everyone
I could be at work ‘till late
Or in the sunshine state
Do you know my name anymore?
I haven’t felt the same, and two holes in the floor
You’ve been moving out in the face of change
Brought up in my doubt
Trod in with the rain
Rolling on a rapid road, with the dusty desert heat
Hauling on a heavy load with a rusty metal sheet
And when I thought I heard you say, that all we’d ever be
Is robbers on a getaway, or an end to the entropy
You never call a place your home
You try to take it on your own
We level ‘till the break of day
But we always fade away
When everything is said and done
When we go like everyone
I could be at work ‘till late
Or in the sunshine state
We always fade away, we always fade away
We always fade away, we always fade away
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When you're fading in the daylight,
I could take you, I could take you away
Cause I'm chasing, what I can't find
And I'll make it, if I make it, I'll stay
We would talk forever, all those nights we spent together
We're good at getting better and it's you I'm used to
Thought it couldn't change us like the neon lights in Vegas
Now we're strangers and I'm holding on to you
Stay 'til you're sober
And I don't mind, don't mind
Say that it's over
We could work it out
And hey, doesn't matter
If it's one time, one time
I know you better now
I know you better now
When I look back, will I see you?
Cause I'm moving, cause I'm moving, I'm gone
And I lost track, breaking in two
But I'm proving, but I'm proving, you wrong
We would talk forever, all those nights we spent together
We're good at getting better and it's you I'm used to
Thought it couldn't change us like the neon lights in Vegas
Now we're strangers and I'm getting over you
Stay 'til you're sober
And I don't mind, don't mind
Say that it's over
We could work it out
And hey, doesn't matter
If it's one time, one time
I know you better now
I know you better now
Stay 'til you're sober
And I don't mind, don't mind
Say that it's over
We could work it out
And hey, doesn't matter
If it's one time, one time
I know you better now
I know you better now
I know you better now
I know you better now
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The North-East Corner
02:36
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Just another day in mid-September
I was thinking of you
I was thinking of a place I remember and a song we’d journey to
So can we leave it all tomorrow?
Can we do it all again
Can we do the things we’re dreaming about,
‘Cause the years are going quicker than they were back then
More mistakes than I’ll ever admit
But they faded when the sunlight hit
On the lake out in Idaho
Where the forest hears all I know
I’m terrified of what I’ve become
I’m forgetting all the things I’ve done
I thought you said I would see you again
Guess the words came easier then
I know I belong back there
And this road I’m travelling, it goes nowhere
You tell me that I’m stuck in the past
But the signs are telling me I’m going too fast
I always knew it would be something I’d miss
But I couldn’t ever know that it would hurt like this, so
If you want to go for one last ride
We can take this old car and leave the world behind
California never looked so pretty
We took a trip out of Oklahoma City
Like we did many years ago
Take the turning off the highway that could bring me home
Count the stars in the summertime sky
Watch the ferry boats getting so high and I
Hope you’re wishing for the same things too
And I hope that you could love me like I’m loving you, so
Can we leave it all tomorrow?
Can we do it all again
Can we do the things we’re dreaming about,
‘Cause the years are going quicker than they were back then
Can we leave it all tomorrow?
Can we do it all again
Can we do the things we’re dreaming about,
‘Cause the years are going quicker than they were back then
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Break, fall to my knees when it thundered
Hide it right out of the way
Take, all of my seas that are sundered
The tide will be out any day
And all of my sorrows, I’d leave till tomorrow
We could just stay in this place
But here I am stalling, hear how she’s calling
I might just be leaving too late
I hoped I would find, there’d be some kind of sign, only then
We drove through the pines, where we lost track of time, once again
Where did so many days go
Dark, speak to my senses in passing
The forest we stand in will burn
Stark, weakened defences by asking
And now I’ve got nowhere to turn
All of this pleasure, I’ll take in each measure
The silence I’ll gladly receive
But now comes the roaring, I’m desperately crawling
And pain in my chest when I breathe
I hoped I would find, there’d be some kind of sign, only then
We drove through the pines, where we lost track of time, once again
Lost track of time once again
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I have witnessed this before
The bitter sound of a closing door
But who am I to alter the rivers course?
Times have changed and spirits die
But you have never left my side
You are as much my blood as I am mine
The years are closing over head
And everything we’d left unsaid
Grips me by the chest every now and then
But what if we could break away?
Turn our ship around and stay
It is not too late for things to change
‘Cause I am busy running on an ending
And caught up in a journey I’m remembering
When I find the place to
I will have my dreams to show
You and I will come out of our hiding
And move along the road forever winding
Through the sights I thought I’d seen
City streets on silver screens
Throwing down our load when we need rest
Watch the sun hanging low against the Midwest
Aching in my heart I’d say
Home is half a world away
The hills are turning blue above the burnt trees
The ocean just a whisper in the calm breeze
Part of me that I’ll have then
Where I cannot go again
Though you said we’d be okay
A shadow of a doubt remains
Of working out what I tried to evade
When I looked inside myself
I had lost what I had held
But you picked up my pieces where they fell
Back when promises were kept
Before the time that I would spend
Searching for the things I thought I’d left
So let the storms turn me around
I have seen enough and now
All I want is the dream that we had found
‘Cause I am busy running on an ending
And caught up in a journey I’m remembering
When I find the place to
I will have my dreams to show
You and I will come out of our hiding
And move along the road forever winding
Through the sights I thought I’d seen
City streets on silver screens
Throwing down our load when we need rest
Watch the sun hanging low against the Midwest
Aching in my heart I’d say
Home is half a world away
The hills are turning blue above the burnt trees
The ocean just a whisper in the calm breeze
Part of me that I’ll have then
Where I cannot go again
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I’ll see you on the other side
If it’s not too much to ask
Only thing I had to hide
Was how I knew it couldn’t last
‘Cause all I have are photographs
Taken on a summer day
And though we left it in the past
It doesn’t have to be this way
Ooh, ooh, I fall apart
Will I see you at the ocean
See you at the ocean?
You know it’s not the end
Will I see you at the ocean
See you at the ocean?
I fall like a stone
I guess you wouldn’t understand
Everything I’d ever known
I left upon the golden sand
‘Cause when the tide is coming in
I’ll swim until I get to shore
Feel the heat upon my skin
‘Cause this is what I’ve waited for
Ooh, ooh, I fall apart
Will I see you at the ocean
See you at the ocean?
You know it’s not the end
Will I see you at the ocean
See you at the ocean?
See you at the ocean
[Will you stay?]
See you at the ocean
Ooh, ooh, I’m at the start
And the sky has almost faded
Sky has almost faded
This time I’m holding on
‘Cause I know that we can face it
Know that we can face it
Ooh, ooh, I fall apart
Will I see you at the ocean
See you at the ocean?
You know it’s not the end
Will I see you at the ocean
See you at the ocean?
See you at the ocean
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I find myself in the place I’d made
As the embers of my memories fade
Under the roof I once called home
Will I be a stranger in these old stones?
Listen to the voice inside my head
Taking everything I’d left unsaid
Telling me in words I can’t explain
Everything I know won’t stay the same
Thinking back to the world I left
I’ll go there again someday, I guess
How different a beginning from the end I've found
Know that the feeling hurts, for now
I ache to come back to where I was before
And how I had so much more with you
But it has gone too soon
My castle that once touched the clouds
Feels much closer to the ground
Though I sit on a lofty crown
My kingdom is only this old town
And so I searched for paradise
I fought so hard and paid the price
When I could see for miles and miles
I was standing alone on a lonely isle
Thinking back to the world I left
I’ll go there again someday, I guess
How different a beginning from the end I've found
Know that the feeling hurts, for now
I ache to come back to where I was before
And how I had so much more with you
But it has gone too soon
I run back to the meadow
And all I see is golden
I run back to the meadow
And all I see is golden
I run back to the meadow
All I see is golden
All I see is golden
All I see is
Thinking back to the world I left
I’ll go there again someday, I guess
How different a beginning from the end I've found
Know that the feeling hurts, for now
I ache to come back to where I was before
And how I had so much more with you
But it has gone too soon
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