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Favorite Secret
03:12
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We took a step
And we never stopped running
We placed our bets
Went double or nothing
You call my name
I knew there was something
You’re my favorite secret
When I say your name I mean it
When the days turn into evenings
It’s you it’s you I believe in
We closed our eyes
And we never stopped dreaming
I met you that night
I knew you were different
Say goodbye
I know you didn’t mean it
You’re my favorite secret
When I say your name I mean it
When the darkness breaks in the morning
It’s you that I need
You’re my favorite secret
When I say your name I mean it
As time speed up it’s moments I hold dear
It’s me, it’s you, I believe in
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2. |
The House Always Wins
03:06
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Love remains in the darkest parts of us
Truth lies beaten against the rocks
You tell yourself that you’re not letting go
I can tell that you’re heart is closed
Someday maybe you’ll understand
This aint exactly what we planned
You can only play the cards in your hands
Don’t you know the house always wins
The truth we seek in our hour off defeat
Is a pale horse a phantom in our dreams
A dog barking to the void of the night
crying out for something like someone’s on the line
Someday maybe you’ll understand
This aint exactly what we planned
You can only play the cards in your hands
Don’t you know the house always wins
I close my eyes & I pretend
That maybe just maybe that this isn’t happening
Someday maybe you’ll understand
This aint exactly what we planned
You can only play the cards in your hands
Don’t you know the house always wins
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3. |
West Of Corpus Christi
04:35
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West of Corpus Christi
In a town called Alice
It feels like a Mexican prison
a couple hundred miles south of Dallas
A man can’t let go
he must see it for himself
for him to see that it is so
That's why Im letting go
I traveled west
then I headed south
the heat was surrounded me
I could feel it in my breath
a man has to follow
what’s inside his chest
there’s something about a love
that slipped out of your hands
that makes you question where you stand
that's why I'm letting go
What are we running from?
In a world come undone
I’m looking at sky full of stars
just wondering where you are
are the questions that rattle our bones
going to guide me home tonight
I’m lost somewhere in Texas
Looking for a girl
But I was the one who left her standing there
and now I’m the one who’s hurt
I knocked on your mommas door
to see where you were
she looked at me like we never met
but i guess that’s what I deserve
she told me you were married
with a man of the lord
I starting looking at artifacts
all the photographs of your kin
her mother was telling me stories the conversation was growing thin
I’m headed back to Atlanta
not much better than when I left it
This is probably what I deserve it’s true
I better get use to feeling blue
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4. |
The Stories We Tell
03:12
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See all the cars on the highway
chasing something they don’t own
You find yourself somewhere
Lost in the great unknown
All these destinations
It’s been a while since you called home
All these stories
Chapters that we close
We tell ourselves anything
To keep us going down the road
We grew up cause we had to
Choices are for those on a different path
They called us old souls
It’s sounds better than little adults
All those expectations
What we fear aint bigger than what we love
All those times
They don’t seem so bad
Everyone’s got a sad story
But you know nothing lasts
These old scars
Don’t tell you much
It’s a good story
If you got the time
Ain’t no reason
To be who you ain’t
God it feels great
To be alive
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5. |
Outsiders
03:35
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I was standing in the town where I was born
A blue town in a red state in my troubled south
I can’t relate to calling or a faith in vain
That’s for kings and politicians and preachers anyway
I was on the outside looking in
I was troubled until the end
All the believers (are lost again)
We are afraid of the unknown
How can we deny ourselves because we can’t let go
I can’t relate to calling or a faith in vain
That’s for kings and politicians and preachers anyway
I was on the outside looking in
I was troubled until the end
All the believers (are lost again)
I can’t pretend that this all makes sense
That this all one big wish
I won’t bow, kneel, or give in
I was on the outside looking in
I was troubled until the end
All the believers (are lost again)
I can’t pretend that this all makes sense
That this all one big wish
I won’t bow, kneel, or give in
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6. |
Letters To Marie
03:51
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People keep asking where Ive been
I followed love down to the bitter end
I was a fool but now I’m back again
I dont want to talk about it
Ive been wronged
Once you get to the bottom or the end of the song
You can either cry about it or you can move on
Livin well is the best revenge
I’m not going to hang my head
I wish you well like all the rest
I know my best days they’re up ahead
All these trials and tribulations
Ive been through
Circle around my mind until I’m blue
What I found in my darkness is that I dont need you
It ain’t the rain that teaches you to swim
It ain’t the hurricane were drowning in
It’s all shallow water stand up breath again
Livin well is the best revenge
I’m not going to hang my head
I wish you well like all the rest
I know my best days they’re up ahead
You dont have to know
Once you love its hard to let it go
You will love again someday
Or be haunted by her ghosts
Livin well is the best revenge
I’m not going to hang my head
I wish you well like all the rest
I know my best days they’re up ahead
Don't let her
Don't let her make you cold
It gets better
At least Im told
Some girl some girls gonna love you
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7. |
Belgrade Ave
02:40
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You stood there
Flowers at your feet
You stood there
You were feeling incomplete
Just like a breeze
Whistling through the trees
Sometimes life it ain’t that good
Things dont ever work out like they should
Baby we did the best we could
We were standing in the rain
You were lost
Like a page of words
You were lost
Like a song that no ones heard
You needed no one one
To tell you I was there
Sometimes life it ain’t that good
Things dont ever work out like they should
Baby we did the best we could
We were standing in the rain
This ain’t a one shot rodeo
This is the road that I must go
Down the mountain and back again
I may stumble now and then
Like my momma said
Gotta fight until the end
Sometimes life it ain’t that good
Things dont ever work out like they should
Baby we did the best we could
We were standing in the rain
Sometimes life it ain’t that good
Things dont ever work out like they should
Baby we did the best we could
We were standing in the rain
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Future, love, disappointment
that big bad thing
It’s all wide open
It’s door you walk through
It ain’t a cross to bear
love ain’t easy
Life ain’t fair
The world is mean
Just like your mama
May her arms find you when you need em
Just to see the innocence
Before it leaves your eyes
I could tell you all my truths
But those truths are mine
You’re eyes are a window
To a kindness I never could express
I’ll try my best
To make you feel
The wonder
In this mess
Daddy ain’t always right
I hope you don’t find that out until it’s time
But kights fly against the wind
They don’t quit and they don’t give in
Just to see the innocence
Before it leaves your eyes
I could tell you all my truths
But those truths are mine
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9. |
Misunderstood
03:17
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up and down the road again
bad ideas detours and dead ends
Ive made mistakes ive done some again
We laugh about because it’s funny as shit
I should have known
That hearts throws stones
Where did time go?
Don’t let
Dont let me be so misunderstood
waves break on a empty beach
Could I be something other than what you need?
What is the world other than what we crave
What is love if in the end it goes away
I should have known
That hearts throws stones
Where did time go?
Don’t let
Dont let me be so misunderstood
Ive got friends by my side
Some to the left and others to the right
None of em are saints
fewer have taste
A bunch of misfits but we know what we ain’t
We dont have as many friends as we did
But those that are will be there to the end
Light it up, order another round
We are here and all we have is now
We should have known
That hearts throw stones
Where did time go?
Don’t let
Dont let us be so misunderstood
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I don’t know what I don’t know
and that’s alright with me
I fell so hard
I fell so fast
I was down on my knees
Wake me up
Stop me now
Im caught in a dream
I don’t know what I don’t know
and that’s alright with me
You can make a fool out of me
I have fallen for lesser things
A heart like this doesn’t break it sings
It was dark
Damn it was dark
I felt so far gone
I was lost
Yeah I was lost
I knew I had to move on
The thing about being lost
Its the closest to being free I know
I am free
Yeah I am free
There’s no place Id rather be
You can make a fool out of me
I have fallen for lesser things
A heart like this doesn’t break it sings
You can make a fool out of me
I have fallen for lesser things
A heart like this doesn’t break it sings
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