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Stop Caring
03:28
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Maybe if I just stop caring at all
Maybe if I just stop dreaming
Then I’ll finally lose that awful feeling I got one life to live
But I’m not doing it right
Maybe if the money was just a little better
The days would be sunny and nothing would upset her
But for all my trying the baby’s crying
She says I just want you
Here when you’re here
Maybe it’s the reason like healing is to health
The impulse for asking
The thing unto itself
And the unmoved mover
Pursued and pursuer
The light in the dark
The why
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2. |
Turn the Radio On
03:39
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There is no answer I can offer
When all your patience has worn through
The lights are dimming in the corridor
The heartsick thrumming of our youth
As we bear witness to the passing
Of the age we thought we’d know
The kind of love that’s everlasting
A certain sense that we’re arriving
A certain sense that we’re arriving
A certain sense that we’re arriving
A certain sense that we’re arriving
A certain sense
The world is stranger than they told us
We feel unequal to the task
Gaslit that shit and then they rolled us
You know the past ain’t even past
Are we to wonder at the sadness
That animates the quiet hours
Just keep the people cold and callous
To keep the powerful in power
And everyone I’m passing on the stairway
Seem to see right through me to my bones
We’ve become the dashes on the highway
But you don’t wanna leave it alone
A pattern moving
And you don’t wanna leave it alone
You don’t wanna leave it alone
You don’t wanna leave it alone
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Glory, Gloria
02:59
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Well I love you but you make me crazy
You stuck around now and it’s sort of amazing
‘Cus I’m mad sometimes
Can’t let it go
Barking like a dog on a chain
And on the weekend we bend the bottle top
My wasted youth like the fruit that rots on the vine
But given time
Becomes a spirit of a whole different kind
Glory Gloria
Glory Gloria my love
You’re my one and only
Glory Gloria
Glory Gloria my love
You’re my one and only
Gloria
You grew up beside I-85
You learned to drive and decided right then
That you’d ditch this town
When you turned 18
Go out and shake it like no one’s ever seen
And I met you on west 54th
I was trying to be a singer
And you had such a pretty voice
And I told you so
You said buddy I’m just here for the show
Glory Gloria
Glory Gloria my love
You’re my one and only
Glory Gloria
Glory Gloria my love
You’re my one and only
Gloria
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Blind Curve
02:45
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It’s hard to feel unnoticed
When my work requires that I
Find a stage in a dark room
To tell some strangers all my secrets
Cus I feel a strange transcendence
When I get some words to rhyme
I don’t understand the purpose
But it makes my father smile so I am
Betting on a blind curve
I’m betting on a blind curve
I’m betting on a blind curve
I can’t see what’s to come
I thought it’d be more certain
Than life has proved to be
But if love still runs the game
Then love is proof enough for me
To keep on calling all my friends
In the struggle and the doubt
You need not die to make it holy
We’ll just try to sing about it ‘cus we’re
Betting on a blind curve
We’re betting on a blind curve
I’m betting on a blind curve
I can’t see what’s to come
I’m betting on a blind curve
I’m betting on a blind curve
I’m betting on a blind curve
I can’t see what’s to come
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6. |
Alice
03:28
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Alice wrapped around a cold beer
Second-handed necklace
The pockets of her jeans
Beautiful and restless
With a preference for a gap in your teeth
Laughing like a jackal with the fellas
They’re all catch and release
She speaks in koans quotes and sonnet
Some crewneck sweatshirt college
A self designed degree
She said she learned enough to know
That learning had become obsolete
You could almost find it funny
If it wasn’t for the blood on the streets
Alice cigarettes and lipstick
Bad debts got her homesick
A hero in retreat
The golden age is waning
But a sunset is still something to see
They’ll take all that’s worth taking
But there’s nothing there that you really need
Alice
Alice
Alice
Alice
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God
01:11
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I want to thank you
More than I
Know how to
I’m not in the practice of praise
I thought I’d have to chase you down
And wrestle you to the ground
Wrestle you to the ground
Wrestle you to the ground
Not quite my mother
Or my father though
I love her
And he said there’s one thing that I know
Love is a river that flows
And can’t but carry you away
Carry you away
Carry you away
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Home
04:06
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Home
The home I made with you
Four walls and a garden
And room for children
Maybe one or two
Home
Ten thousand dinners there
Pencil lines on the doorway
For every birthday
Sing a birthday tune
If the bankers come
And lock the doors on us
I may spit and I may cuss
But it can’t undo
The home I found in you
Home
We lie in the dawning light
Your hair on the pillow
The open window world is waking up
Home
You’ve got a painter’s eye
And I am a singer
And there together
Learn to stretch a dime
If the bankers come
And lock the doors on us
I may spit and I may cuss
But it can’t undo
The home I found in you
If the bankers come
And lock the doors on us
I may spit and I may cuss
There’s one thing they cannot touch
No they can’t undo
The home I found
Home I found
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Morning
02:53
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10. |
Nurse
04:00
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You were happy when I knew you then
You were studying to be an obstetric nurse
Perfect moments like they’d been rehearsed
Stage black moments like they’d been rehearsed
We’d dodge traffic like we’re toreadors
Late night chinese ‘fore the place would close
You’d laugh easy like you did back then
Before it had to end
And I’d be singing “Wild Horses”
You’d sing with me on the choruses
Fading passion softened promises
You would dream of places I had never wanted to go
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J.E. Sunde Minneapolis, Minnesota
Songwriter/composer J.E. Sunde writes beautifully unusual music. A classically trained musician with a love of songwriters and performers like Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, and Paul Simon, Jon writes densely poetic songs with a bent toward the philosophical. Also, his voice sounds like some sort of weird angel. ... more
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