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Somerville EP

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1.
go on without me and don't leave a note i don't know why you left me don't know why you'd go but i'm dying to reach you i know that i can't won't you pick the telephone for an old friend i been drinking and thinking that i done you wrong scrambling to find the words to put in my songs but i'm done i've got nothing i'm all out of hope i been more alone when i been here before i pray you know me better remember me well i've been too close and too far and too gone to tell i don't know what i've got to do but i'll try my very best i'm clear out of luck with plans of leaving town my car's broken down more times than my soul and i'm still trying to travel by these cracked and broken roads sometimes it seems like i'm running but running's all i've got you've got to break yourself down before you build yourself up and i've since thought of wasting my time with my soul cracked and broken down in your voicemail's bones but i'm too badly beaten to crawl back this time so shake the dust of the days when i could call you mine so hold on to what you recall sitting around the kitchen with the best of them all i pray you remember that i never did you wrong but i'm all out of excuses so you'll have to write me off
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Go On, Honey 01:58
the street's been looking for a place to hide my feet don't know where to go but they'll try storefront's gleam in the morning chill there's an old man dying and his body's still don't make a fool of these ancient stones that make up the minds of the people they own i'm no match for the weight of this old world so i'm lying down defeated at the feet of a girl raise up to the dying wind the seat of the city don't own my mind preach you sinner's to a soapbox lie tom joad ain't gonna let you die no tom tom joad ain't gonna let you die sit up straight son and don't you quit this world ain't easy but you're stuck in it go on honey save my soul tom joad's dying in the open road tom joad's dying in the open road
3.
Somerville 03:57
black coffee steam rising to meet me at a diner on the west side of town dreaming about the 1950s wishing i could go back in time the waitress tells me i've looked better and i tell her i've seen much worse and if you'll show up just in time to meet me i promise i won't leave here first i'm tired of walking these streets wondering about what i did just grow up and let me have it so i can get on with what i did you've been calling me a liar and i've been counting down the days until you show your face in this old town and i can tell you i've missed this place will i see you tonight at the pub downtown i'll be looking like nothing you'd want and i'll show you the smile i've been saving when you told me you weren't here on your own don't worry about what i've done to myself and i won't worry about what i've done and i'll forget about second chances and i'll leave when morning comes
4.
i've seen better days how about that i've been walking down broadway and mass ave i've been spending my time dreaming of your lips and i'm thinking of coming over remember in high school the fire escape we braved the cold to watch the darkening landscape and people came to together to share in the warmth and now everything's falling apart now i've fallen in love but i don't see you enough when the stars come out at night so i sit and watch them alone from my broken lonesome throne as the city lights drown your sky and i think we could make this better leave this place together instead of leaving town alone
5.
No-Name Boy 02:48
kick the dirt from your shoes you're heading home lost my shirt lost my love no where to go you told me i was not to follow so i stood and i watched your shadow i watched it go i watched you go so i went so i went to the back the crowd watched you weave in and out like my lingering doubt you saw me you saw me so i turned and i ran right back through the door and into the sand i don't know if you know how broken i am but i'm just trying to get back to where i stand will you call will you think i've done nothing at all when i fall back trying to come back home i'm just trying to come back home do you know what i mess i'm in do you know that my mind's been traveling do you hear the west coast singing along do you wish we were nothing at all what did you say last time i forget something about your best friends and your regret and i know you wish you could recall all the things that you said way back in the fall to a no-name boy who gave you his soul and the two lost kids who wanted the world and now your running away and i understand but i wish you could see it from where i stand and i wish we could cut out the time when i stood crushed and broken on your county line do you see what a mess i'm in do you see what a mess i'm in do you see what a mess i am
6.
This City 02:38
call me at two in the morning you know my eyes are still awake the weight in my chest won't go don't know if it's morning yet you said i was a scoundrel and i'd have to agree you said you didn't know me at all and i was gonna die in peace leave the lying to the liars leave the dying to the sad and free and we'll be drinking at that bar down the road if you ever want to talk to me and i know things won't be the same i caught with myself and all my mistakes and the freeway doesn't know my sins yet oh i'll be seeing you are this city

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released January 15, 2012

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