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I had an impulse to wash it all away
It's been so many years and it still just feels like days
We could try to start a new life elsewhere
If there's truth to what you claim
But you've made so many promises
And things always turn out the same
So you had a weakness
For exploiting mine
Why make a promise you know you'll break with time?
But you made the most of your youth
So you'd have me believe
My instincts could have saved me
But I wouldn't let them speak
Please make the decisions that I can't make for myself
Please make the decisions that I can't make for myself
Please make the decisions that I can't make for myself
Please make the decisions that I can't make for myself
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Slowly Rising Dub
07:57
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Don't call me late at night
Don't call me anymore
You were finally overtaken
By a slowly rising tide
- Jacques Granger
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The Yellow Light
01:51
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I'll burn out in a second
I'm only a warning
That you'd better slow down
You'll soon have to stop
I'm without my own meaning
A reference to another
But if you pay attention
I'll at least be worth something
- Robert Traxler
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Fall Behind
02:52
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See that man
Standing in our way
What does he want with us?
Something tells me
Not to even care
Silence sounds better
Still he stands
Repeating the same words
He doesn't know who I am
Simple concepts
Slip right by us
Why can't he catch them?
Saving our effort
Sampling our own time
Stop while we're still ahead
Sacred to me
He's never even seen
Seems like a waste of time
- Robert Traxler
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The Provincial
05:50
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Some things are always left undone
Even when you know what's next
When all the estimates are right
And you turn into someone else
The circumstances changed so fast
We had no time to react
As the familiar falls away
Unwanted memories are made
You steel yourself as best you can
When there is no way to prepare
When they all spoke out of turn
You were right to shout them down
- Jacques Granger
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Like Clockwork
05:30
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What once was here
Has now been removed
Taken away
Without a word
So now fill the space
Replace the part
Without you here
It still goes on
So much has passed
Stagnate and move
Another change
Won't mean a thing
So stay away
You're just an empty space
I don't care what you do
You've done enough
- Robert Traxler
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Doctorate
08:08
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With our best years behind us
And an end to this in sight
Made some passing decisions
That I'll pay for with my life
You lead me across the borderline
Then you disappear from view
You talk to me through the same wall
That we've spent our lives to build
There's no time for revision
And no way to make it right
When I'm trying your patience
Tell me how to stop
I need to keep you close to me
But clearly don't know how
You told me that I could be anyone
Do you have to prove it now?
- Jacques Granger
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The Family Ghost Memphis, Tennessee
The Family Ghost is a post-punk/noise band based in Memphis, Tennessee. They've been playing serious music to sparse, mostly disinterested audiences since the summer of 2001.
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