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Shell Shocked
03:48
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I’ve been waiting for a smile or some grand forgiveness
it’s no consequence i’ve been feeling alone and i've been missing the point
In the silence I found out who I really was
And now I'm stranded at this juncture stuck in the mud
I am ready to sit in the eaves of peace
In the call of the present I wanna be
I am ready to sign the treaty
With the part of me that's the enemy
Baby, I'm shell-shocked
Try to forget, all I wanna do is run into your arms
Baby, I'm shell-shocked
Slap my face, I can’t slow the pace that's come over me
All you wanted me to do was come to my senses
Well I felt frozen trying to swim in a sea of black roses
Drove up from Providence on 95 cursing every exit
There was a problem I didn't fix it and patience grew thin
Stuck in the moment and I blame myself for it
I am ready to sit in the eaves of peace
In the call of the present I wanna be
I am ready to sign the treaty
With the part of me that's the enemy
Baby, I'm shell-shocked
Try to forget, all I wanna do is run into your arms
Baby, I'm shell-shocked
Slap my face, I can’t slow the pace that's come over me
All you wanted me to do was come to my senses
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2. |
Walk
03:23
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Eleanor what are you doing this for, hell and oil
You're gonna burn up from the insight
You're gonna end up blind on the outside
If and when that time comes again
When you've sat down with your options and then
At least you'll know what you stand for
When you run to that bus stop
Or maybe you could walk on
Walk
Walk on
Walk on Home
Dusk and dust, your timing is fresh out of luck
And every card that you draw is off
Turn the switch but the bait is gone
Tackling with your best right-hand hook
Still in the fight, but you're just the damn rook
Lick your wounds, Hun, your game is done
Wait for the bus, or maybe
Or maybe you could walk on
Walk
Walk on
Walk on Home
Listen quick to the life you've been stealing
Forgiving yourself is a difficult feeling
To work on by yourself
Better that than anyone else
Sometimes the right way to get there
Is the long one
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3. |
Acetate Love
02:41
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4. |
American Radiation
03:42
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Too soon to call it, Too quick to get sick
Don’t know what else to do, Stand in front or sit
Heres your courtesy call, the changing of the trouble on your mind
A teenage dance hall trick
Staring at your screens when the time of need enters
Who are you kidding, Who are you trying too hard to be?
There’s a tireless song singing through the night;
Sings of what’s good, true, and right
There’s a change in the water, There’s a change in the times
What’s it gonna take for you to change your mind?
Is this a half-life of dreaming?
Oh, where is that fine line?
Isn’t it a poison? Isn’t it a crime?
Isn’t this a far cry from freedom’s eyes
See the blindness in your choosing
Or see the choices you are losing
It’s American Radiation
It’s gonna get you
Something in the air penetrating through us
Maybe I’m just confused, but seem to think it’s true
Did we make this way along,
Is a change coming soon?
You say let’s blame it on times
So many people listen to lies
They wanna make it easy for you
I just want to make you think
It’s American Radiation
It’s gonna get you
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5. |
Survive
04:20
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Sun’s going down
Back from your running
Sitting on the front porch
Praying to the sun
Long ago it came for you
The calling to this city
Now you sit and wonder
Why don’t feel ready
Doubts weighing heavy
Sometimes you have to fight
To keep the dream alive
To Survive
Trying to keep the upper hand
Familiar with the feeling
Working yourself to the bone
But you know you’re not alone
Take a night job to pay the rent
Try a new thing everyday
Seems like every day you get
The night is further away
The dream seems closer today
Sometimes you have to fight
To keep the dream alive
Just go ahead and take it
Sometimes you have to fight
to Survive
Survive
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6. |
Tear Your Eyes Open
03:47
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We've been trying to work every day of our lives
Doing something that will make us feel good inside
But it's hard to get ahead when you're living a lie
If you're doing what you love, you're not gonna survive
Everybody wants to make the world a better place
There is always some resistance there is too much at stake,
If we all did our dishes and recycled our trash
If we give to those who need it maybe love will come back right
Come on world
We can do it if we want to
Come on world
Tear your eyes open
Everybody's fighting over how to live right
There are rules and regulations and they're changing all the time
Some look to the future and some look to the past
But no one's gonna know if their presence gonna last
Me I always felt we could all release
From this selfish systematic tragic social disease
You can dance around the subject just as much as you want
But its always gonna be there, its always gonna walk all over you
Come on world
We can do this if we want to
Come on world
Tear your eyes open
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Jeff William Butcher Dayton, Ohio
Jeff Butcher is an American singer, songwriter and Instrumentalist. Jeff has toured Nationally and in Europe, solo and with several projects spanning different genres, blending Folk and Early Americana with Soul, British Rock, 70's Power Pop, and New Wave influences. ... more
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