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Ruby
03:27
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Ruby, don’t you dare look at me that way
I’ve been working all morning, my back still aches
No matter how hard I try to stand up straight
Sometimes you twist something once and it’s just never the same
I was standing just outside the door
You were on the other side, lying on the floor
I don’t know why my heart sinks straight down
When I get out of the car, walk up to our house
Ruby, I know that you’re hungry again
For something I don’t know that I can give
Now what I’ve got is always yours to take
But the great machine’s broke, there’s nothing new to make
I was watching while you counted the days
I was stealing from you in my quiet way
Don’t mean to imply any kind of mistake
But when I look at you now, I wonder why did you wait
Ruby, I wonder are you listening now
Wherever you’re sleeping, do you hear the sound
Of my ocean inside, of the crashing waves
They roll in and roll out, but your footprints remain
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2. |
You Are Mine (Demo)
03:23
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You’re the life of the party
A sad song in reverse
Every step that you take
Erases a verse
You’re a church after midnight
When the spirits descend
Resurrecting my joy
Erasing all ends
And you are mine
You are mine
You’re the weight off my chest
Water over my tongue
And if I should drown
You’re the air in my lungs
You’re a prayer in the morning
So holy and pure
You mend what you break
You’re the cut and the cure
And you are mine
You are mine
But I’ve belonged to you
Since you made me someone new
Since you found all the quiet in my thunder
And I’ll belong to you
Until the day our vows ring true
When I go, I will see you in the wonder
I will see you everywhere
You are someone I miss
When you’re five feet away
You’re the ache in my chest
On my loneliest days
You’re the life of the party
When there’s no one around
You dance in your circles
All silence and sound
And you are mine
You are mine
You are mine
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It’s one in the morning, are you lying awake
With the ceiling fan spinning, do you think of mistakes
That you might have made when you tried to run
Too fast to think about what you’d become
It’s ok if you’re still afraid
I won’t picture you that way
Now, two in the morning, with her breath beside
Rising and falling like some kind of tide
That pulls in the water and won’t let it out
Till it fills up your lungs with worry and doubt
It’s ok if you feel your age
I won’t picture you that way
I’ll picture you dancing in the heat of the night
Head all flames, clothes all white
All your juke joints and brass knuckle bars
And your fingers on the frets of your guitar
Youth don’t come, but you know it goes
Can’t keep it forever, so you try to hold
On to better days
Hold on to better days
Three o’clock now and the street’s so still
Nobody came for you, nobody will
There ain’t no hero climbing your walls
You never learned not to build em so tall
It’s ok if you need to be saved
I won’t picture you that way
Four o’clock fire in the cage of your chest
Fuelled by the faces of the ones you left
But if you gotta dream that I’m in that room
Dream that I softly whisper to you
It’s ok if you’re not ok
I won’t picture you that way
I’ll picture the day you opened that door
Like a storm nobody had seen before
Rattled my windows, shook my floor
But you don’t seem to do that anymore
Youth don’t come, but you know it goes
Can’t keep it forever, so you try to hold
On to better days
Hold on to better days
Five o’clock comes, then it’s gone
Six o’clock brings the first sign of dawn
Another morning, try to forget
No matter how bright, the sun rises to set
It’s ok if you’re still afraid
I won’t picture you that way
Hold on to better days
Hold on to better days
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