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Where did that girl go
When did the light
Go out
For her
She was the brightest Jewel in the night
And I’d follow her from sunset to many a sunrise
Drag me down every rabbit hole in town
Then disappear without a sound
Then she’d turn up in hours or in days
I’d shake my head and ask her what she had to say
But she’d just smile and knock me off me my feet
All my questions, swept away
They say these lives play out infinitely
So I pray that in those others she’s here home safe with me
Now she’s gone for weeks at a stretch
And each time my Jewel, she sparkles less and less
Turn away from this slow motion wreck
Can’t look at the marks left by Demons she’s keeping comfort with
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Wrecking Ball in my hand
Feel like tearing down everything we have
Floor by floor I swing it round
Till there’s nothing left but a hole in the ground
Wrecking Ball sure wish I could
Relieve myself of your constant pull
Year after year you drag me down
Till I’m lying at the bottom of a hole in the ground
And the see-saw sends me up and down
And the dizzy spin of the merry-go-round
So build it tall, build it strong
And that Wrecking ball can’t ever lay us low
And when the years have passed us by
We’ll be together staring at the stars with tears in our eyes
And the see-saw sends me up and down
And the dizzy spin of the merry-go-round
So don’t pick up what you can’t put down
Wrecking Ball sure wish I could
relieve myself of your constant pull
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I concede the point
There is no virtue
In continuing to watch this sad parade
And though she’s lovely to look upon
I knew all along
The line would never end
She’s so insecure
And so insincere
Goodbye Miss Today
Miss Yesterday is here
Well I hear you talk
I just don’t agree
That changing yourself into someone else
Is the same as beauty
And it’s so much work
For so little reward
Because through it all I still see
She’s so insecure
And so insincere
Goodbye Miss Today
Miss Yesterday is here
And I want to say
Don’t go down that road
It only leads to sorrow
I know you think you’re looking fine
Sometimes the biggest lies are the ones we hold inside
Miss Yesterday
Don’t play that game
Miss Yesterday
I want to tell you one more time
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Red Marker
03:25
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A red marker on your skin
tells you where you’re body has been
But your mind can’t recall
So you question the meaning of it all
You dig yourself a hole
Deeper than you can crawl from on your own
And you hide from the world
Till it all comes crashing in on you like a thousand pounds of dirt
I promise you
I promise you
You won’t go down like that
I promise you
I promise you
It won’t go down like that
Every heartbeat is pure
Every cancer has a cure
They’re all just songs with no words
And melodies that have never been heard in this world
So step out of the dark
And shine the jewel of a heart Every scar plays it’s part
Walk you back to the child you were At the start
Red marks along your skin
Tells you where you’re body has been
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Save yourself, for I am lost
I knew the price, I paid the cost
And when the scales of justice finally caught up with my cause There was nothing but skin and bones left subject to your laws
And all I am is in your hands
And all that’s left of the sands
In that hourglass rain down on me so cold and unkind
I would cast it down upon the floor if I thought it’d give me back my life
But in your eyes I’m just a guilty man
Tried and convicted for the color of my skin
And the nightmare descends again
Still the heart beating in my chest
And Lay my soul to its rest
Send your children to their sleep
Safe from knowing the bargain you keep
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I’m on the run Don’t want to die
So meet me around the back
Before the morning light hits the sights of their guns
I’m on a swing
Cut me down from this limb and let me sing
Of alibies I never had
And all the trials that made me the man that I am
Climbing a mountain of anger
Swimming an ocean of hurt
Telling my heart to forget her
And everything in this world
I was on the outside looking in
She was beautiful, said, “Can you do this one little thing?”
Her man was mean, and it was me she loved
And we would be together once he was gone
A flash and a man falls to the floor
And a last long look before my final day dawns
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Low Ebb
Feels like I’m running down Slowly
Like an antique watch come unwound
Don’t you try and tell me that tomorrow’s another day
Because it only feels like some kind of sentence
In this hell that I have made
The devil took my hands
But he left me my eyes
So I can still see wrong from right
And if it wasn’t a crime
They why does it tear at my insides
Day and night
Slow time
The kind you can’t pretend can ever lead to anything
Anything useful or worth defending
Leave you high and dry just like that tide
Rolling out, for the last time
Sleep only comes
If I drink myself blind
To chase these demons from my mind
And the devil pulled out my eyes but he left me my hands
So I can take this one final step
Spring the trap that was set
Take this message to my mother though she will not understand
There’s no hell that burns hotter
Than the one I now
Release myself from
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Brian Ledford Port Townsend, Washington
Brian Ledford draws from his roots and what’s close to his heart and transforms it into great
songs.
Music as much informed by The Clash as The Flatlanders. At turns as lush as Lanois, or as direct as Cash. The son of Oklahoma concrete finishers and Oilmen, he was born and raised in Texas based in Lubbock, Ft. Worth and Austin before relocating to the Pacific Northwest.
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