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Hoop and Wire

by Boy Eats Drum Machine

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1.
Hoop + Wire (free) 03:21
I made a picture of you with fire all around but you escaped you configured a way out the frame crept back at the seam and you slipped away just a thief and you crafty devil how do you do it? you pick the lock and it makes us wonder how you're just swift enough you jumped far enough you got over the hoop and wire you're just swift enough you jumped far enough but I'm stuck over in the middle of the fire but real friends don't dwell on envy so neither will I after all you're still the same inside you found a girlfriend to feed you and thousands and thousands to need you you crafty devil how do you do it? you pick the lock and it makes us wonder how you're just swift enough you jumped far enough you got over the hoop and wire you're just swift enough you jumped far enough but I'm stuck over in the middle of the fire
2.
where the forest meets the sky now there's a warning sign pouring out between the leaves the glowing, curling, crackling leaves before the fire comes on like a wave you'll lose everything but we escape when you look up at the constellation I'm the lowest light but here in your time of need I see you finally call on me before the fire comes on like a wave you'll lose everything but we escape the ground turns black the air so thick your chest can't hold it down there's no discussion unless we go now there's no way out come on now there's another place on the other side I can get above the trees we're cheating death this time before the fire comes on like a wave you'll lose everything but we escape the ground turns black the air so thick your chest can't hold it down there's no discussion unless we go now there's no way out over the trees where they meet the sky there is a warning sign pouring low over the trees there is a place where we can cheat the flames so we must go
3.
ABQ 02:19
4.
Syncopated 03:38
we slept outside we opened the sliding glass we layed on our backs and stared into space and laughed every satellite holds a path above the sky we don't need to know how it draws a streak from your side of space to mine it circles the world it makes a reflective line with our backs to the ground seeing millions of years through the lights in the sky I love you I love you I'll never leave your side when I'm old and useless I'll draw your face to mine and as the weight of the ground holds onto the sky we won't need to know how
5.
my dear, I have returned from looking for advice the answer is always "maybe" it's all you ever hear I told you I would show with something in my hands the fact is I don't believe you when you tell me you don't mind that there's no gold left in the hills my hands are filled with shaking bones they're just shaking in their skin they cheat to receive you they don't deserve your touch because they're empty like the hills they're empty like my word the more they dig the more they see you hiding that disappointed look cuz there's no gold left in the hills
6.
Lolo Forest 03:57
so my love there's an opening where the road cuts across the plains and scales the mountain's back and one side meets the other there's a flood burning in the hills and smoke throughout the sky circling the west circling the long way home we all draw a curving line we follow just to find where it leads (I'm. on. the long way home) circling I'm just on the long way home (I'm. on. the long way home) and my love there's a rolling space your wheels push the ground for days a mile above the sea and I wish that you were sitting here as the clock wears down the hills a second at a time one second at a time we all draw a curving line we follow just to find where it leads (I'm. on. the long way home) and I'm circling on the long way home (I'm. on. the long way home) the long way I-5 Pacific on the left where your eyes squint away the sun and I'm just a bag of bones circling the long way home the long way home my love
7.
I see the grave without a worry I have no bones to pick, oh no Cuz when you hold a grudge you start to worry and slip into your grave too early, oh It's like I have said since day one Walk without a worry, oh my son and let they who mix their words be certain Of their shifting place and time We make our own light Where we want We make our own sound Whenever we need We didn't dance we didn't move We didn't, when the band marched our way It's no concern if it's not burning I don't find much to be concerning There are those who try to please By changing colors and evolving lines But I give advice as one who lives And makes their own time and place We make our own light Where we want We make our own sound Whenever we need
8.
People tell me you're feeling dark And you scored your funeral They found your crumbled up papers On the floor Tell me, are you expeditious Or are you just depressed? I brought a song to be an aid And the flashing horns Will take you by surprise The pieces fit together And never pull apart And I wrote a major chord To follow you around It's melody always sincere And a rhythm, you can tell I picked it on my own Sometimes it fits Sometimes it don't And the flashing horns Will take you by surprise The pieces fit together And never pull apart Apart Apart Sometimes it fits Sometimes it don't And the flashing horns Will take you by surprise The pieces fit together And never pull apart So when you gonna cheer up? when you gonna cheer up?
9.
Mr. Train 02:50
Mr. Train, you've got nerve to talk now frame by frame, lumbering by as you run with the river on your right it's water blurred in the morning light there you go on the two and the one always in the same direction I've got tricks burning holes in my sleeves from a place you just can't go Mr. Train, where did you sleep last night in the car in a small town when you wake with the sun in your face different stop, same place are you pleased with sum of the parts are you pleased with the story arc there you go on the two and the one always in the same direction I've got tricks burning holes in my sleeves from a place you just can't go
10.
there's a wind without a sound as light gets through the glass again turn the key and drive New Mexico to old Arizona the wind moves without a sound and it gets across the open sand miles and miles without a sound pushes grains around but I'm the one blowing by I'm the one just borrowing time through the glass again New Mexico to Old Arizona the ground moves without a sound ground moves without a sound
11.
there's a light that never dims can you see it? with our faces pale in the flame we needn't ever let go and the cold sinking night can you feel it? but we, side by side we needn't ever let go and with the morning still outside my love, look out, the hills you see I'm only on the other side where rusted yards of relics measure time and seventy miles an hour just slip right by, behind look out the hills you see I'm only on the other side will you be faithful to me?

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released March 2, 2010

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