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To The Nines
03:02
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The party came and went, you never showed
I was all prepared to see you
I was drunk and dressed up to the nines
I hope you found a bottle or two
I hope you passed out fine
A dark red misery goes well with a dark red wine
But if you said you needed to talk
I'd surely leave you hanging on
So I hope you can understand
If I just can't see you tonight
I've been crawling in and out of my skin
I've been moving, I've been shaking
I've been flickering off and on all night
I hope it's been a breeze for you
I hope your heart is fine
I hope you know I've always tried to hold you
Just a little bit above the fire
Call my sisters
Call my mother
Tell my father that I've got some hair on my chest now
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2. |
Classic American Sins
04:04
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I'm tremoring again
Pour yourself out on my skin
It's funny how the night wears the simple things I miss
I'm bending with the street
I'm all bones and hearts and sleeves
It's stranger now to see you only to see you leave
I can't shake these classic American sins
I'm borderline insane
Crawling up, out and away
From everybody I know and everybody I blame
A friend of mine told me that God was just down the street
I couldn't find him
I can never find him at night
But I got my boots on, you got your pretty dress
Get dolled up in the accents of your Sunday best
I'll meet you out on the porch where you can't lead me on
If you've got a heart you can hide it in the slow songs
You got lucky this time
Drive yourself home safe tonight
You got lucky this time
Drive the hell home safe tonight
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3. |
Carolina
03:40
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Ain't it strange how long the years are now
When you're in the throes
Of words you left to bleed out in your throat
Stepping out on 3rd, your head's caving in
The names and constellations changed
But I see you're tripping all the same
I can't believe sometimes the way you tell the stories now
Checking out on names I never heard you say aloud
I don't do so well alone, you see
I get cautious up in corner rooms
Or I get wrecked and end up calling you
And I lost my mind
On each and every long and lonesome night
Shake out of the bones that you never liked
I knew you when you were mine
On every drive through Carolina
My pockets are looking light
From all these bars and wishing wells
Oh to be a Norfolk Southern
On an ocean road that never knew our hell
I'm only ever lonesome at my best
An American girl in an upper room...
Somebody taught her how to flash her teeth
She settled rain clouds up inside my chest
And far out of my reach
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4. |
Not The One
04:20
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I reckon that I might be moving still
To the rhythm I fell so easily into with you
It's hard to write you out
When every page is filled with your name
I'm getting better somehow
But my heart still ain't quite convinced
That you're out of reach or out of mind
So I don't wanna know where you've been
Who you've been with or who you've been taking home
Let 'em have your roses and a heart to hang your hat on
Cuz it ain't me babe
I am not the one
I had a dream last night, hell, it's every night
You wore your mother's dress and your skin was blue
We danced our way through the strangest rooms
I held you closer than I'd ever thought I should
You could've murdered me
I would've stood so still
You were known for your venom
And now I'm known more for my gullibility than my despair
If I'm slipping through the night
Lead me farther down the line
If I'm all in but I'm broke
It's only that I don't feel right
If I'm pining for the fights
Call me out, call it a lie
If I'm awe inspiring
You better check yourself tonight
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5. |
Best Regards
03:09
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I chased you through September
Hell, it was well into November
Wait a minute now... I ain't done laying you out
If you tell the boys uptown where you'll be all the time
Hey, whatever gets you through the night
I know you may go through times
When you can't make up your mind
You sent me all your trouble each and every night
I could tell you all about misery
I'd send it all to you with only the best regards
It ain't like you tripped me up
Or ever left me waiting up
It ain't like you left me hanging on
It ain't like I ever missed you
It ain't like the lonesome hours ever knew me by name
Someday, you'll turn your head and see me
All dressed up and holding a tune, and believe me..
You'll remember when I made damn sure that you knew
That I would've made a little room for you
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6. |
I'll Take A Shot For You
03:55
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I've cursed your name so long that I'm not sure why you still call
Or why I still love when you do, like I can't get away from you
New Year's Eve and I'm drunk on a beach
Pocket change and a pay phone reach
Looking for you
I thought I saw you once with somebody else's love
Walking arm in arm with him like I thought you never would've been
You said autumn would leave and I could be
Much more than bones and hearts and sleeves
So I'm keeping one eye out for you
I've kicked you around and I've thrown you down
I've dragged you out into the street and left you lying there to bleed
Like that would somehow ease my grief
I've knocked you out and tried and tried so long to cut you off
Yet you still call
So here's to you
After all these empty corner rooms
And the August heat that came too soon, stayed too long
Turned me into nothing but a powder that she could walk right through
I'll take a shot for you
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7. |
Burn Somebody
02:11
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I say, "Truth"
Don't it even matter to you?
I can let you lay here and bleed all over me if that's what you need
I got your secrets and all your trouble
But this one's gonna burn somebody
If you'd wait
Let me lay it out for you
With all of this twisting and turning
Tell me now, what are we turning into?
I can let you be if that's what you need
But this one's gonna burn somebody
I never paid much mind to my own heart's health
I never saw the bad signs when I took on your hell
As lucky as I or as down as you...
Darling, just tell me how weathered is your heart?
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8. |
Country Time
04:02
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Once I knew a girl in a higher country time
When the air was thin and sweet, she left a light on and she wrote
She left me in the clothes that she hung up on the notes
Of a higher country time that smelled of wine
And market food and packs of smokes
But you'll never see me anymore
Singing for you like I sang before
Now you're nothing more than a fancy light
On the skyline of my life in country time
I cut my teeth upon the Southside streets where I was born
But I'm living in a big old house down by the river now
And I'm turning in all the clocks and I'm turning out the lights
Of a higher country time that smelled of salt
And sweet so-longs on that Carolina coast
Go on babe, light me up
If the shivers that you found just ain't enough
If you find an honest man don't let him take you home
I hope you find an honest man
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9. |
Ain't That Enough
03:02
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I'm stepping out easier now
Mary's off haunting some other boy
The last time I was careless I was closer to the coast
And so much farther south
Put your favorite record on
Call me up by the candles that you let die
It ain't like I broke your heart
Or made you feel anything at all
So please just let me be
I'm in the heat and if you ever could agree
Ain't that enough for you, my love?
Ain't that enough?
There ain't much left of you now
More than a thorn I cannot stop twisting beneath my skin
I can't recall the last time I took a breath
And didn't feel you in my throat
So please just let me be
I'm in the heat and if you ever could agree
It should've been a crime what the night did
We were tumbling out of our own skin
Ain't that enough for you, my love?
Ain't that enough?
You can have your bones back
The ones that you shook
When I was just the season that you wore for only looks
I'm stepping out easier now
Mary's off haunting some other boy
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10. |
Harvest
06:37
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If you see my Marianne
Tell her I was on the moon by the time she called
If she hung on the line and heard the minor chords
but never heard my voice
If it finally hit her that the words I used to write to her are gone
Well even the angels only wait around so long
So tell her I never lied
I died almost every night
If you see her out tonight
If she looks as if she's falling like a stone
Tell her it's alright but that if I'm moving at all I'm moving on
Tell her that I only take the long way home on sentimental nights
But I'd still bail her out if she was in a bind
Because those city boys don't know the line
They'd mix your innocence with blood and wine
And lord knows I've tried
All my life I've heard the echoes of the bells that ring
These pretty imitations always cut the same
Sounding like my mothers voice
Calling out my name from the bottom of the stairs
On Sundays in the summer when the creek would run
And the neighbor's dogs would chase me in the harvest sun
I feel it all enough, my dear
If you see my father
Tell him I still see the magic through the wires
Ive sinned the same as anyone but I payed for them in parking deck attire
I've learned to dig the Jazz in life
The times when words don't need to be part of
The things that you do for the ones you love
So just tell him I could not begin to shine a light on all he's been for me
But lord knows I'll try
If you see Elizabeth
Please tell her that my heartstrings have begun to tire
From bending, almost breaking, always aging
Towards that long walk down the aisle
The holiest vows I'll ever have to keep and carry and uphold
The comfort in the fact that I won't ever have to carry them alone
So please tell Elizabeth that I'm doing better now
The thoughts that kept me wandering the halls have left the house
And lord knows it's time
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11. |
Light Me Up
05:25
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So you think you can make me bleed?
The moon and you will always have a hold on me
You think you got enough salt for all my wounds?
I swear that you could walk right through me if you wanted to
So go on now, hold me down, and lay me out
Light me up as if you've never been in love
She said,
"I think I can make you bleed
I think I can bring you back to life like I used to every night
If the moves I make still give you the shakes
Then I can make you bend and I can make you break
I bet it'll be hard to sing with my fingers around your throat"
So go on now, hold me down, and lay me out
Light me up as if you've never been in love
The trouble with living in a river city is that I'm always moving too slow
If I'm not drowning, I'm drinking to get there
I wake up to the sound of trains and the thought of you
And on the days I wish you'd stayed
I just cannot believe that I haven't gone insane
So bathe me up in the corner light
I've never seen a night that couldn't make me cry
Waiting on Jesus 'cause I drank all the wine
I've never had a drink that I didn't like
And it's been so long since I've seen the coast
I need a soft summer night and a softer drive
I wanna burn through Carolina again
With Brewski and the smokes and the songs we loved
When the names on our jackets weren't stained with blood
When I thought there was no chance in hell I'd ever fall in love
So go on now, hold me down, and lay me out
Light me up as if you've never been in love
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Jeremy White & The Blue Hearts Richmond, Virginia
We're Jeremy White & The Blue Hearts, a four-piece band from Richmond, VA. We play a mix of Folk music and Rock & Roll. Together since Winter 2015.
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