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Land War in Asia

by Mead Lake's Most Wanted

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1.
Ghost of Dakota 04:29
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The ghost of Dakota she is haunting all my dreams assailing my memories as I try to sleep she is issuing a nightmare and I'm sinking in too deep wandering these halls so that I cannot speak Dakota, Dakota Are you nothing more to me? Dakota, Dakota Nothing more than a dream? Bring the ghost of Milwaukee and her hundred shining teeth sharpened to a point looking for something to eat And where did I go wrong? I tried to keep it on my feet I was tipsy and tumbling but my legs were just too weak Dakota, Dakota You mean so much more to me Dakota, Dakota much more than any dream V3 The ghost of my baby she's still wandering From Dakota to Milwaukee and the spaces in between (chorus to ending)
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Facebook Friend 02:17
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I looked you up on the Internet I looked you up on the Internet It said you were a suffragette But you won’t even be my Facebook friend You won’t be my Facebook friend You won’t be my Facebook friend My stocks pay good dividends But you don’t even like my photos You don’t even like my photos My Hipstamatic Instagram photos I look like Quasimodo But looks shouldn’t be that important I’ve got a fast computer I work as a math tutor I can integrate by parts I play a mean hand of euchre Call games like Bob Uecker But I can never ever win your heart I looked you up on the Internet I looked you up on the Internet Maybe you’re just playing hard to get But you won’t even be my Facebook friend No you won’t even be my Facebook friend No you won’t even be ... my Facebook friend
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Our Shovels Sing 03:39
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Fallow is the field that hopes for grain And thirsty are the roots that pray for rain No wonder we wandered so long in the wilderness No wonder we wanted so patiently on the joy of our first kiss And our shovels sing in our blistered hands in the work that we do in the dreams that we dream as we keep the land from the shoulders we swing from the heart we will plant and when the blades go dull we will sharpen them again Humble is the heart that has been broke [i know it should be broken, but that doesn’t fit with the song] and beaten are the swords into instruments of hope though sometimes the sickness strengthens its hold on me wasn’t it written that emptiness will be swallowed in victory? I was watching the weeds on the roadside grow into flowering fields turning the world more beautiful than anything that we know from the seeds that we had sown Cause our shovels sing in our blistered hands in the work that we do in the dreams that we dream as we keep the land from the shoulders we swing from the heart we will plant and when the blades go dull we will sharpen them... when the blades go dull we will sharpen them… when the blades go dull we will sharpen them again.
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Casting Shadows 03:46
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This mornin’ I woke in pain This livin’s gettin’ to me and I don’t wanna die, wanna die in vain Tryin’ my best to hold myself together I’m burning up in water and drowning in flame Just like a submarine, you told me To wipe away my tears, to wipe my tears away Swim to the surface, breathe, believe Swim to the surface, breathe Cuz life is not a white flag, But a war you gotta fight You gotta find a way to make it through each night When every light casts a shadow There’s needles beneath my skin, a torture chamber, Like judgement day with no proper savior Another cross to bear before it breaks me I’m wandering alone in unholy favor Like a modern-day Job, you told me, baby, You gotta want redemption before someone saves ya Fall upon your knees and pray Fall upon your knees Cuz life is not a white flag, But a war you gotta fight You gotta find a way to make it through each night When every light casts a shadow
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Weather Report 02:48
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The weather report is on the radio Calling for decades of rain Let’s cut to the chase with a live-feed video Of things I’m too tired to explain The preacher is telling me it’s a miracle Everyone he loves is dead The scientist is saying babe, it’s empirical The paint tasted better with lead It gets hard to see the sunshine With your head in the clouds The prophet is crying; she’s hysterical Her visions are just deja vu The mathematician has proof numerical Of all the things he already knew The bulls got together and quit the rodeo And work in an office downtown The weather report is on the radio But the weatherman can’t be found
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Hey Robin 02:14
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Hey Robin, you been cheeping at me You've been rocking your nest in our evergreen tree And my daughter lights up like you ain't never seen Mama Robin, we're looking at you You've been sittin' on eggs dressed in baby blue Been huddled beneath a gibbous moon And when you sing, you know it makes me croon Hey robin, I'm croonin' to you Hey Robin, she thinks I’m a superhero I'm comin' atcha in supersonic stereo And if I told you I was Batman do you think you'd know Hey Robin, you're a hero ... also
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Briar's Song 04:21
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Hey hey hey Don’t ya want to say I don’t want to be your mystery queen Hey hey hey I hear ya say just come to me come here with me I’m here with you I’ve been looking for truth I’ve been fiending for you Don’t you want me too? Hey hey hey I’m coming clean We’re human beings don’t you know what I mean   I want to see what this could be throw away your fear I want you near
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Ishpeming 03:39
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We were desperate for so many things In a wilderness of misfortune Windows cracked, we traveled the road Ohh oh oh We were homeless and we headed north To a mining town in Michigan Where the earth is cracked for promise of ore… Ishpeming In the heart of the Upper Peninsula Oh Ishpeming Where the iron stains the rivers red And Ishpeming We buried our heart in the ground We toiled through our suffering Dynamite ash on our faces The blister of winter covered us so thin Like fools, we made our pick axes out of gold Like sinners we stood by the fire But our bodies remained cold And faith can be a fickle thing In the clutch of desolation But the lodestone holds our hopes and we raise them on high Ishpeming In the heart of the Upper Peninsula Oh Ishpeming Where the iron stains the rivers red And Ishpeming We believe there will be better things Oh Ishpeming We buried our heart in the ground
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My Unwritten Line 02:34
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I was talkin to a girl just yesterday She told me that her skies were mighty gray We went to a bar and we had a beer And this is what I started to say to her Do do do do do do Da da da da da da Do do do do do do Da da da da da da A week went by, I was feeling good I took her all around my neighborhood They said we were wrong and quite absurd They started sayin’ why but all I heard Now she’s with me all the time I don’t care who knows she’s mine She keeps me lovin’, she keeps me kind She’s my Unwritten line We go to a party and she starts to dance My poor old heart never stood a chance I don’t get the songs or what they have to say So I go up and ask the hip DJ And sure I’d like more time to write But she’s always keeping me up all night So then we got married and had a kid It’s still the greatest thing we ever did We taught her how to crawl, taught her how to rock A few days later she began to talk
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Lonely Day Waltz 02:02
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Dear tell me again why you left me Tell me again you don’t care It seems the well has run empty My wishes no longer live there On Sunday you told me you love me Monday was more of the same The rest of the week turned out badly And Sunday you loved me again Oh where is the true love I search for Tell me that my time is near We’ll stand proud and tall till I find her We’ll stand here for just one more beer I can tell by your eyes you’re not tryin’ You’ve given up long, long ago It looks like this found love is dyin’ And left all alone in the cold If cheatin’ is your bread and butter And lyin’ is your cup of tea Then darlin’ I can’t be your lover And darlin’ your love ain’t for me
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Kerosene 03:13
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I met my baby at the county fair Corn cob smile and cotton candy hair She burns her teeth all white and clean She rolls all her smokes with kerosene Kerosene Kerosene Gives a lovely orange flame Kerosene I drink kerosene So I won’t have to remember your name They say what doesn’t kill you makes you strong I think my crippled heart might prove them wrong She says, Let me drink from your canteen No babe, it’s filled with kerosene I work every day at the county jail A crooked cop tryin’ to make bail She looked at my love like it was gangrene So now I try to cure it with kerosene
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We Are Homesteaders Now 03:02
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We are homesteaders now We are homesteaders now You can bet your sweet ass We are homesteaders now I could blog about my brothers Who screwed me just like the others But honey I ain’t no libelist I got this here field guide We’re gonna live the real life And work on bein’ good survivalists Chorus So darlin’ pack up your bindle Put away your Kindle Say goodbye to skyscrapers and chrome We’re gonna grow some cotton Gonna do some squattin’ On land that no one else calls home Chorus Bring your camo and your flashlight It ain’t gonna be like lost night Our tracks are fresh we gotta keep movin on All our cash is in our hand We’ll depend upon the land We’ll raise our flag up high to greet each morning’s dawn Chorus It might get cold at night That just seems to make it right We’ll nibble on raw squirrel and lukewarm grubs We’ll keep a watchful eye Be directed by the sky And sleep along the windbreak of the shrubs Chorus We’ll build a house out of sticks I got my thirty-aught-six And if the G-men come I’ll blow ‘em straight to hell Every day you’ll hear me say God bless the USA! That wasp’s nest will be our freedom bell Chorus
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Icosidodecahedron (!!! version) 03:15
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I fell in love with an Illinois queen She took me for a spin in her washing machine She said I know how to get things clean And yet I still felt dirty The whole time I knew her y’know I swore She didn’t look a day over seventy-four But then one night my jaw hit the floor When she said she just turned thirty I’m just tryin’ to make it through Another lonesome day without you I went to the bank to visit my change The cowboy who’s a teller just looked at me strange “We never see bowties like that on the range” And handed me his lasso We went to punch cows but started punching each other It kinda felt like I was kissing my brother He was a con man working undercover As a king without his castle I’m just tryin’ to make it through Another lonesome day without you You learned pretty quick that my edges are even Like an icosidodecahedron I took calculus in college but thought about leavin’ ‘Cause the teacher was no Fibonacci We dated via telegraph till you said stop You showed me how to dance the diddly bop Then we cooked up some love on the stovetop Of my imported Japanese hibachi I’m just tryin’ to make it through Another lonesome day without you Now where this dark tunnel leads I can’t tell I following the arrows just like William Tell And the apple of my eyes knows it’s just as well To be shot without a warning Sometimes I wish I could travel to space And use a telescope just to map your face Instead I’ll dream about your pillowcase And kissing you in the morning I’m just tryin’ to make it through Another lonesome day without you
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Closer By Two 03:21
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There ain’t nothin’ I won’t do There ain’t no choice left for me to choose I can’t keep my mind off of you I can’t keep my heart from beating blue Baby let’s wander the night We can kiss all this darkness goodbye We can make every maybe seem right Tonight Tonight There’s a star I hold in my sight There’s a ship that guides us through night There’s a shoreline with beaches of white A paradise that makes our anchors feel light We been sittin’ by the light of the moon We been wishing on the stars that shoot We been breathing all the flowers in bloom We can feel our hearts beat closer by two Baby let’s stay up the night We can kiss by the light of sunrise We can tell by the love in our eyes It’s alright It’s all right
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Sea Change 02:14
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We found out long ago That our love wasn’t coated in gold It turns from hot into cold Every lie’s just a truth untold But don’t you leave me now Though my ship it has run aground I know I’ve let you down And I’m working to turn it around There’s a sea change comin’ I see change comin’ And the wind in my sails is right I’m amending my wrongs for right Where did we go wrong? We’ve been drifting off course too long Left a wake of sorrowful songs There be dragons that sing along There’s a sea change comin’ I see change comin’ And the wind in my sails is right Navigating by the star of your light I say I love you I say I’m crazy Crazy about you And I’ve been lazy But I implore you Don’t leave me, babe Cuz I’m starting to see the light Every wrong can be made a right There’s a sea change comin’ I see change comin’ And the wind in my sails is right The sunset is ours tonight
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Whitecap Tears 06:51
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I was woken this morning By the sound of a mourning dove A requiem for the memories we made And I fall out my bed Meant for two, sleeps one instead Remarkable how the night still turns to day And the sun, it turns sour The sky’s more bitter by the hour The rain clouds are a blossoming bouquet Picked a rose from your garden And I laid it at your grave It’s been three long years since you passed away In a song, yes a song Oh I loved you all along And I waited so very long before I found you Now you’re gone, yes you’re gone And my song swells like the sea I am weeping whitecap tears since I lost you There’s a reason for the river And a reason for the rain I have washed my sins in pools of pain They accompanied your passing And accosted me with shame You can wash away but you cannot rid a stain All I’ve left of you is buried In a closet, in a box A skeleton of a love that can’t remain There are moments when I’m lowest And I open up that treasure To bury my senses in your scent You used to call me sweetheart And you used to call me babe Now I call to you when my nightmares bear your name It is written into granite On a headstone at your grave Where my roses wilt in a pyre of dying flame
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Train to the Sky 04:07
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I am traveling to my home, Lord On the train to the sky The rails are shiny and silver I’ll see you in heaven by and by They say life, friends, is dark and troubled Full of heartache, worry, and strife But if you walk down to the station You’ll ride to the holy afterlife St. Peter, he is the conductor He makes sure you paid for your ride And Jesus, he is the driver And he wants you there by his side
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Ball & Jacks 03:14
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Driving by the hospital where I was born Out past the factories and the tall sweet corn My eyes are cloudy and my jeans are torn So when the night turns black I’ll take my ball and jacks And go back home Walking up the sidewalk to my high school Blue paint flaking off the abandoned pool Seems there’s no gold left in the golden rule The years slip through my hands like wine Just like a clock with no hands can still keep time Sometimes I’d like to drive to either coast And even leave behind the ones I love most Drinking at the bar at the place where we were wed The rice they threw like hail all around our heads Then things we said then are now best left unsaid Driving by the hospital where I was born Out past the factories and the tall sweet corn I’ve got no stories left to adorn But now it’s getting cold And I’m too old To go back home
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Singing a Song 02:46
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The storm is coming But we don’t have to go inside yet What’s that tune you’re humming Is it the one from when we first met I’m not a man Who can buy you everything But I’ve got these two hands Gliding over these strings Singing a song Singing a song Singing a song for you Singing a song And if you sing along You can sing a song too The bolts of lightning Are following their jagged paths Some clowns are frightening But I’m the one who can make you laugh I’m the kind of man Who can barely make rent I can’t afford a twelve-piece band Or string accompaniment
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William Henry Harrisons (Live) 02:27
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William Henry Harrison Gave a speech outside And William Henry Harrison Couldn’t stop talking If he tried—he said I’ll disown ya If there are no begonias From California but then He got pneumonia And thirty days after he took office William Henry Harrison died
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The Prettiest Song 02:23
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Hey little bird don't you hang your head fill the world with your voice instead It's hard to see past the bars of your cage but I promise it won't always be that way Because Someday We will be Flying around Doing as we please Until then I hope you'll be Saving your prettiest song for me Hey little dog, I feel your pain you howl all night and whine all day It's hard to run on a three-foot chain but I promise it won't always be that way Because Someday We will be Chasing around Doing as we please Until then I hope you'll be Saving your prettiest song for me Hey princess I hear your cries from your prison up in the sky But I promise there'll be hell to pay when I find the man who locked you away And Someday You and me Will see the world And do as we please Until then I hope you'll be Saving your prettiest song for me And it goes Hoo-Wee Life is Sweet Clap your hands and stomp your feet I love it when you sing along Cause that's how we make the prettiest songs
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Where We Call Home 04:13
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There’s a poetry in the moments when we raise our voice to sing A grace that comes when we bow to our belief And there ain’t no place I’d rather be when I open my eyes to see My brothers, their instruments, and me Where we call home We sing along when the heron beats her wings Where we call home We toe the water then we jump into the ring Where we call home We etch our yes into the evergreen Where we call home We hang our hats wherever we may be Where we call home The lake and the shoreline are at peace Where we call home The dam holds back the river from the sea Where we call home We stoke the fires that forge a mighty “We” Where we call home We hang our hats in wherever we may be Where we call home The moon and the stars within our reach Where we call home We wander across water sweet as mead Where we call home A music fills our hearts with a beat Where we call home We hang our hats wherever we may be
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Lakes 04:03
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I was watching the rain falling into the lake water into water and the patterns it makes like the ripples we caused with our mistakes: bottles of whiskey and bottles of wine headaches and heartaches and gathering clouds and the simple comfort I found in your arms It's late, late and I knew what you wanted were Lakes, lakes and bodies of water Please wait, wait I'm holding my promises close Down to Chicago you traveled so fine with a passport photo and those old poems of mine but the things on the shore that you've left behind The things that you carried were bending your neck like an anchor or an albatross like the little wars in the folds of your dress Like the sky below the trees on the surface, hovering, out where we cannot reach

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released June 12, 2013

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