| 1. Greg Macpherson - California |
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I’m California bound I can hardly wait to lay my beach towel out The sky is closing in I can feel the future on my skin Glistening like a horse...
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| 2. Greg Macpherson - Hotel Motel |
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We walked out of the nightclub, two deer right on the street I moved like the black man I’d seen on the big screen Collar stiff, I moved slow like...
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| 3. Greg Macpherson - Genuinely Frozen |
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The sidewalk's cracked and the people don't look so good on my street. Our fences are so tall there's not much hope anymore left for the...
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| 4. Greg Macpherson - Good Times |
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Good times coming back again I seen them touch down on the runway I seen that old face staring back, pressed against the glass I heard a brass band...
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| 5. Greg Macpherson - Two Haircuts In One |
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Are you trying not to sleep? In the back seat with a bottle, Went too heavy on the throttle Stuck in a ditch Some son of a bitch, tall, slow pitch...
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| 6. Greg Macpherson - Concrete |
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I don't care no more I've seen the cities on the coast I watched the seasons come and bounce right off the street meet me down by the burned out...
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| 7. Greg Macpherson - Pressure |
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I cut my arm open It was all red and blue and golden streamers like a Chinese parade An eight-legged dragon reared up And bells shook Mrs. Ming...
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| 8. Greg Macpherson - Kingston |
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I came back from a year in Kingston, Holding on and pushing away Saying, “Everything here looks so small now.” And, “Didn’t anybody ever...
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| 9. Greg Macpherson - Invisible |
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Nobody wants you here but everbody looks you in the eye and says they don't mind that you're here. It's nothing personal, it's just they guess they...
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| 10. Greg Macpherson - The Apartments |
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7 stories down from where she lives below the floor and past the voice that says that things are his through carpets, talking, paint layered on the...
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| 11. Greg Macpherson - Churchill |
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It wasn't so cold yesterday. I walked along the river path down where the water starts spinning like car tires. I wore the sweater my father wore......
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| 12. Greg Macpherson - Heatwave |
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Every second sticks in air so thick I'm on the stairs and I'm moving slow feel the pressure rise under western skies until it's go nowhere else to go...
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| 13. Greg Macpherson - Man Overboard |
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I wear my summer clothes at night A man looks capable when he’s dressed in white Stroll on the leeward side Never dress in white on a rising tide...
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| 14. Greg Macpherson - Buy A Ticket |
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Buy a ticket and get on. Sail out into the great beyond. Write me if it's any good there at all. Fly out over the sky and the ocean. Look down upon...
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| 15. Greg Macpherson - Summer's Over |
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Summer's over. Calming down. All of my long sleave shirts are too big for me somehow. Out on the staircase their eyes are closed counting the seconds...
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| 16. Greg Macpherson - Weak |
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Weak at the best of times there's not much else for us to be cross country smiles cutting through time zones like thieves in the distance holding...
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| 17. Greg Macpherson - West St. James |
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I was already on the plane. I met a man from west St.James. We talked about the exposion at Orest's barber shop and St.James highschool. I looked...
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| 18. Greg Macpherson - Southern Lights |
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They woke up on a northern river delta On the border between east and west Terry took one last half-assed look around him Pulled the weight of their...
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| 19. Greg Macpherson - Windows |
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There's no windows in here they boarded them all up last year I'm white as a fish in the sun and hard as the butt of a gun bent over sweating steal...
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| 20. Greg Macpherson - Lawn |
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Who's that out on the lawn old and forgettable and all liquored up? Sometimes it seem like the farther you climb the further you fall. Go away. Are...
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