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plainspeak

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1.
Hear the bank man Pull in my driveway Roll o’er in bed Pull a pillow o’er my head You can’t see I’m only As free as You’ll let me be You can’t see I’m only Half the man I want to be Sue tugs my hand Tell her, Leave me alone Cryin’, she says, I should have known You can’t see I’m only As free as You’ll let me be You can’t see You’re only Half the man You need to be All the long, burning days Tending this land beside my wife The bank can sell, someone can pay For all my work, my time, my life Sue’s cryin’ all her tears, She grieves a life that will not grow What will be here in 50 years? And who will even know?
2.
Tom 04:06
My eyes drink Up this road All I've seen All I know Pass my home Used to be Truck hums on Won’t stop me Sun sinking Blood cloud sky Looks lonely So am I Grip the wheel Shake my head Can't stay home Can't live dead Runnin’ from What makes me Does leavin’ Make me free? I’m not free I’m not free, am I? I’m not free: I’m just alone
3.
Pool Hall 03:29
Smoke drifts up into the light Dim room shifts, sways with the night Hide my face, run from the fight Here in the dark, who knows what’s right? Pool hall rings with a George Strait song Some drunk sings, but not quite along When do you know that something’s wrong? You can stay, but never belong
4.
Death Drive 04:02
I am heading home My head is home Warm and buzzing like the grass Outside the house where my girls play There is less of home Now that the bank man’s come He sold the land that bore my mark Who am I but what I’ve done? How I failed that home I left those girls I ran down the highway Like the coward that I am I’ve been passin’ car wrecks marked Like graves beside the road White wooden crosses in the weeds Looking for prayers, or to crucify me Crooked thoughts come creeping in Like the shadows stretched thin Across the wounded road The only place I can call home A white cross waits for me The red light stares back at me I won’t be free from them But they should be free of me “Why do you look among the dead for the one who lives again?”

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released October 18, 2017

Jake Norris - vocals, guitars
Austin Sisson - bass, keys
Jono Eshleman - drums, aux percussion

Brian Busch - tracking
Andy Bryan - mixing, mastering

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