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Autobiography EP

by Boy Without God

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Goodbye 2006 06:46
Happy new year did you escape your fears in the arms of some second-hand me? it’s okay babe, I know it’s hard to wait I’m alone now she has flown from my chest and freedom is mine yet again that crippling sight of endless colored lights the same fears plague me consistently, someone give me a pretty face and break my neck before I let her down If you only knew how I’m coming unglued at the mere thought of you in your room but take your time, I’ll just be lying by the door no don’t bother bout me, just wake me up when you know oh and lady please, leave the light on when you go nothings broken lift up your head and walk out that door these lies hurt bad but you can be your own god and go into the river in the water I was born again at last and that morning with some whiskey in my flask I set out once and for all wanting finally to be free from all the rise and fall singing: I won’t be afraid! stole an airplane with a medal round my neck flew it out of range of all the cigarettes and in the silence of the sky I heard the voice of god and it was me and it said: I won’t be afraid! I won’t be afraid! I won’t be afraid!
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand beside a river in the dark, where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: Right here, nowhere else; right now, never again.
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i don’t ever want to stop caring about things I can’t ever fix i don’t ever want to try and picture you and ache as you wait, veiled, just out of view I don’t want to be haunted by what might have been I don’t want to be chased and ruined forget the ambitions, the tours and the records I’ll stay home with the children forever and ever the fifteen minutes where that life is better will wear away under friction and slow pleasure I won’t ever stop loving you and you won’t ever stop loving me I tried to tell you but you didn’t believe me it all means nothing without you next to me maybe I’m crazy, and maybe I want to be don’t look at me that way, babe, it’s like you didn’t know me and I won’t ever stop loving you whether or not you want me to
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I saw you break the heart of every soldier send them aching off to war or someplace colder and I was cool and calm we sang a leonard cohen song together and from a thousand shaking towers I watched you two come together and fall apart like a wave, or an echo, or a premonition someone told me lies and broke my shoulder while I watched on a television screen and I was wild-eyed I rode into the rising tide whistling and hearing of my gift of song the mermaids swam from miles off to devour me but I cried no, I cannot rest in your beds, too soon it will snow I once fell for a girl who wanted only to live her own life backwards and flipped over she said when you’re born upside down you spend your life tying things to the ceiling and wondering as they shatter on the ground is it myself or god I’m deceiving I said “we’re all building castles out of cards” she said “I must be leaving” and on a subway car I found your secret written on a sticker among graffiti I can’t believe I missed it for so long, I felt a fool, it was so obvious it said every single song that has been written since the dawn of man was about you you’re the muse, and I place this humble tune at your feet, and I turn and walk into the dunes you have my number if you ever need a scapegoat or a lover remember I’m never any further than the seagull from the ocean but even as I say this I can see your mind is clear your eyes are closing oh well I wish you all the best and a long road to hell

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More songs about girls and redemption. Recorded at my parents house just before I went on my first long tour ever, playing saxophone in The One AM Radio

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released January 1, 2007

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