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I'm Losing My Mind
03:03
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1st Verse
I’m losing my mind
Or so I’ve been told
A tribulation some might say
It’s a passion play, it’s a judgement day
2nd Verse
Sane or insane?
I’ve straddled the line
And I’ve been misjudged a thousand times
It’s a loner’s curse, but it could be worse
Chorus
If you see my heart
If you see my soul
Won’t someone let me know
Won’t someone let me know
I’m alright
3rd Verse
It’s no mistake
That I can’t erase
The many sins that I’ve concealed
Both imagined and real
Chorus
Bridge
I know the sound of my own madness
And I know just what it’s like to drown in my own tears
Chorus
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2. |
Since You Went Away
03:13
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1st Verse
Yeah, I can see my heart from here
Out across that lonesome road
It’s gone, never to return I fear
Since you went away
Since you went away
2nd Verse
Changes come and lovers go
Through turnstiles of desire
Now I keep the shades pulled tight and the lights down low
Since you went away
Since you went away
Bridge
Well I’m a thousand miles from everything
And even further away from myself
And all the time
All the time I ask why
3rd Verse
Thoughts of you dance softly in the emptiness
But your sweet shadow still remains
And it’s a memory that I can’t caress
Since you went away
Since you went away
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1st Verse
Caught alone in a jagged night
Tossed back from the fray
As all my sins dance around me
With sad eyes of their own
Chorus
Flying with honky tonk angels
No one would stand in my way
I’ll right a letter tomorrow
But I think I’ll be lonely today
2nd Verse
Lost in days I can’t imagine
Found in worlds I can’t suppose
Flying over waves of tangled voices
Over and over
Chorus
Bridge
Stars ache to shine on a lonely night
Stars melt like rain
3rd Verse
I dream of landscapes without the sky
With no trace of home
They’re painted painted gray and I don’t know why
But I know they’re way past gone
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4. |
Siren's Song
05:16
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1st Verse
I live for the quiet nights
A summer breeze, no guarantees
I’ll breathe in deep and dream my dreams
And hope I float away
And then your memory finds me
And it speaks to me in a ghostly way
And I can never turn away
From your siren’s song
CHORUS
2nd Verse
There’s no light tonight except the stars
And there’s no sound except the wind
And there’s no longing in my heart tonight
Then here you come again
Now I can’t walk and I can’t run
I can’t get loose to see my way
And the black night sounds that blue refrain
Of your siren's song
CHORUS
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5. |
That Bent Thin Line
03:47
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1st Verse
That thing we used to be
That twisted in the breeze
That thing that lost its way
That thing we left behind
With eyes open, yet so blind
Such a steep hill to climb
Time goes
Time knows its way
Chorus
We crossed that bent thin line that runs between us
And now it’s gone away
It’s gone away
It’s gone away
2nd Verse
It was a time to watch the stars
To live without regard
For the writing on the wall
There was no in-between
To live the things we’d seen
To step into the fire
Time knows
Time knows its way
Chorus
We crossed that bent thin line that runs between us
And now it’s gone away
It’s gone away
It’s gone away
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1st Verse
Somewhere in the boundless sky
Somewhere there’s a reason why
Somewhere the question lingers on
Oh, why’d you go away so long?
2nd Verse
It’s a timeless puzzle of the heart
Not knowing when or where to start
Or where it was that I went wrong
To make you go away so long
To make you go away so long
Bridge
Life ain’t the way it used to be
Love’s a stranger standing far from me
With a different face and different eyes
Like no one I can recognize
3rd Verse
Like actors in a shadow play
With no thoughts to think or words to say
Only light and darkness and a song
Singing, why’d you go away so long?
Yeah, why’d you go away so long?
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Marty Tanger Mount Laurel, New Jersey
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