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Strange Houses
05:26
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Strange Houses
2015 The Attic Tapes
Words and music by K.Brubes
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Waking up to the songbirds singing
At the break of a peaceful day
There’s no point in checking
The weather’s going be OK, today
Looking out my window
At the green green grass of home
It’s a yard of faded intentions
But none of them I can call my own
Living in houses that are not mine
Strange houses
Strange times
Waiting for a shock to the system
Something that melts my eyes
Something that breaks the pattern
Something rare and so sublime
There’s a vision not yet rendered
Dancing in the back of my mind
I am trying to gently coax it
Into a place where it can just unwind
When it comes there’s no place to sit
When it’s dirty there’s no place to bath
When it’s lonely no one will notice
When it’s brilliant it’s never saved
Living in houses that are not mine
Strange houses
Strange times
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2. |
Sins of the Father
04:50
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Sins of the Father
2015 The Attic Tapes
Words & music by K.Brubes
The sins of the father
If you can call them sins
Are not forgotten
I’m re-visiting them
They hauled me out lately
And they took me to dine
And I let them fuck with
One more time
There’s a poison run thru me
And it turns my heart black
It drives me to punish
And uncovers my back
And now it is spreading
Through generations it’s grown
Blackness to sunlight
That tempers the glow, It tempers the glow…
I’ll take them with me
When I go
I’ll take them with me
When I go
The sins of the father
If you can call them sins
They are sins of defiance
The will to never fit in
There’s a mask on the table
That I will not put on
So I move to the corner
And let the party go on, I let the party go on…
I’ll take them with me
When I go
I’ll take them with me
When I go
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3. |
Runnin' Outta Time
04:21
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Running Out of Time
By Strange Houses
Days go by
Find me sitting here all alone
Staring like a moron
At my way too smart phone
Sometimes I wonder
Wonder if I did something wrong
I had so many days once
Now I’m stuck here with this song
Oh and sometimes it feels like I’m running
Running out of time
Oh lord I’m running, running out of time
I have big ideas
They go floating through my mind
All my big ideas
They’re just sleeping in my mind
And I wonder, I wonder where I went wrong
Oh can’t you see that I’m running
Running out of time
Oh lord I’m running, running out of time
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4. |
If I Can
03:53
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If I Can
2015 The Attic Tapes
Words & Music by K.Brubes
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If I can
Feel the wind blowing again
I’ll be reborn
By (like) the lightning in the storm
The days go by
The night is long
And I am singing, (over) again
(The same old song)
Whoooo-ooo
Whoooo-ooo
So soft the touch of the chains upon my soul
I will remember to surrender when I’m told
But I won’t be told
I won’t be told
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5. |
My Valleri
03:19
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6. |
Slow, Low Blues
04:11
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7. |
Someone
02:32
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8. |
Blows Me Away
05:09
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Blows me away
K. Brubes
Truth is just an illusion
As vapid as a fart
Finding it is folly
Bending it is art
Upending it is madness
But a satisfying kind
That lifts the shroud of echoes from your mind
And blows them away
Life is more about constructing
The most coherent lie
An edifice of logic and love
Impossible to deny
A monument to something
That the mirror thinks is you
Or a close enough approximation to
It blows me away
Hard to know where I am standing
Objectively speaking of course
Or where these words are landing
Or the truth that they endorse
All around me are the ruins
Of the best-constructed lies
They fill a void that’s deeper than the sky
And blows it away….
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9. |
Too Much Wine
04:25
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