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(Capo on 2nd fret - e e to g am c d)
1 time through then sing
Ohhhhhooooo ohhhhhoooohhoooo ooo
Truly living out here is wonderful, cause I’m all alone.
Truly living out here it’s fantabulous in this kind of hemisphere
truly living out here on the right side of my own set of tracks man
truly living out here it’s a wonderful for single minded shelter,
start a fire and let it run wild look me in the eye and let me outside, well start a fire and let it run wild, shoot me in between the eyes and I’ll never come back.
1 time through then sing
Ohhhho ooooo hooohohoooo
1 time through then sing
We could watch it all go down together, we could lay here under the sky.
You can see all the planets from here. There’s no lights around to wash it all away well.
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I saw Ted Bundy on tv last night.
(Two times through, then sing)
So much depends on the weather we don’t get
And I repeat my question
And who jumps, and now who stops
When everyone understands exactly
For whistle and shout, bustle about
And the antidote kills you
For whistle and shout, you bustle about
And the antidote kills you
And I give out trying and it’s strangely useless
And I commend your efforts
And all the advances
we’re waiting to give you
Mining these diamonds exhausted your reason
For whistle and shout, you bustle about
And the antidote kills you
For whistle and shout you bustle about
And the antidote kills you
And all the impractical ways of hunting
I guess this takes the cake home
And I can’t help but wonder why
No one ever told you
x2
There’s turns to be taken
Wake up, you shake them
You fire, you fly, and you shoot it down
X2
For whistle and shout, you bustle about
And the antidote kills you
And I give up trying, it’s strangely useless
And I commend your efforts
And all the advances I’m waiting to give them
Mining diamonds exhausted your reason
And I can’t help but wonder why
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Timeless Uroboros
04:38
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Timeless Uroboros
Capo on 5
A to G to E
And there I was, just like everytime, looking like a fool.
See I was caught up in my own self loathing.
What was I to do?
It feels like a decade passed in the blink of an eye.
You looked past me every time,
But I seemed to never mind.
Well, maybe that’s just a thing we do,
Cause girl I get so wrapped up in you.
Girl I get so wrapped up in you.
And all of the time we spent.
And all these different mind sets.
All the time we spent.
Led me back to you.
See it’s around now that I recognized
Maybe it wasn’t me.
Maybe this whole time.
This whole thing and everything we needed girl,
Came down to you.
And that’s what brought me to this speculation
In this situation
But in actuality is
There i was, being played for a fool
Look past me everytime
Maybe i never mind
Maybe thats just a thing that we do,
Cause girl i get so wrapped up in you.
Girl, I get so wrapped up in you.
Yeah, Girl I get so wrapped up in you.
Yyeeeee ayyyyyy
Gettin on and on
Getting this on and on and on and on
All of the time wasted on
Different minds and places
Just to let you know.
You never left my mind.
You never left my mind.
Girl i never let go!
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Shapeshifter
04:38
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Shapeshifter
Capo on 3
A to C (whole song)
Intro x2
A to C
(Verse)
You wish away,
You know, it’s not how you feel.
Anyway, you go to get away from us.
You wish away,
You go,
Not how it feels.
And anyway you know,
That watchoo knew you can’t recall.
Wish away,
It’s not where we go,
It’s not how we feel
And that’s all over,
It’s all over now.
(Chorus)
Shape shifting,
Thrown over now.
Shape shifting,
Just to play with the wind.
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Dusty Desert Boots
06:48
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Dusty Desert Boots
D to C
The clouds taste so metallic now.
Everything we taste, it’s all the same anyhow, well.
No matter where we go or look, look, look around it’s,
It’s the same old wind blowing everything down.
Ah eww eww
The cloud’s they taste so metallic now,
We’re figuringin which foot to put in front of the other.
Now, everywhere we go,
Everything we see,
Reminds us of you, somehow.
A to C
It’s not like we’re here to challenge the walls from standing.
It’s not like we’re here to tell your birds to stop singing.
The only challenger around for miles is you.
You go and fuck the birds and tell em to scatter on.
D to C
The clouds they taste so metallic now.
I’m pretty sure I know what that’s about
From personal experience.
The cloud’s they taste so metallic now.
I lost myself there somehow.
I think just about all of us do.
A to C
Ingrained in our minds,
I’m not here to challenge you from standing.
If we just agreed on this somehow,
Some time we might come to an understanding.
That helps us, helps shake this.
The dull side of a shapeless vessel.
Maybe god will give you permission.
To right your wrongs or to wrong your wrongs or whatever you do when you talk to that phony guy.
God is the biggest misunderstanding in my mind.
I think I’d rather pray to any other guy.
Your god is a washed up message that’s shit on over time.
I think i’ll take a shit on anything, except your religious toilet.
Your god, my god, they’re all gypsies of the mind..
Your god ain’t nothin but a wad I used to wipe the shoe shine
Off my dusty desert boots.
Maybe, then again, I was wrong.
Maybe somewhere back there I was right.
Perhaps it’s common for someone to get something right every now and again.
Your god is just like your shoe shine….
You smear it on you shoes
Like shoe shine….
Your god isn’t even the top of the line shoe shine.
So go fuck yourself.
No, seriously go fuck yourself…, yeah.
Fuck you god and the unicorn you think you rode in on!
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Post Stamps
04:33
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Capo on 2
Real chords are: F# E B D
I’m just excited,
counting my blessings
erupting like Vesuvius
Tell me a story,
so I can feel better about
Relationships
Wake up!
It’s over, you left your 4 leaf clover
Down by the wishing well
Early this morning
chorus
Tell me are you looking at the same stars as me?
Grant me your vision, beauty, and dignity
Tell me are you gazing at the same moon as me?
And tell me quite honestly why?
Why do we do the things we love to do?
Moon river!
Breaks my heart, tears me out from the inside
Moving up to my head
Then it’s got nothing in there for me
to apply
But that’s just me anyway
[break]
Well, let’s shoot down the messenger,
Ain’t got the right post stamps for me
To get anything across to you
Whoa whoa
chorus
Tell me are you looking at the same stars as me?
Grant me your vision, beauty, and dignity
Tell me are you gazing at the same moon as me?
And tell me quite honestly why?
Do we do the things we love to do?
I’m not yelling, I’m just a little excited.
Now that we’ve crossed right over the finish line
Who’s to say that we went the wrong direction?
I ain’t no meteorologist
Tell me what you know why you get those thoughts And how the fuck you get them to go?
You’re not alone, it’s just the end of the story
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Chance For a Choice is a Chance to Change
C, G, F - verse |E > B
D, C B, C - chorus | A> B
Power chords E to Bm
I’m alone while you just stand there.
Aside from the problems.
You couldn’t look me in the eye.
Though we came here together.
A to Bm
And I’m not living here with you,
I’m not looking to change your mind.
Cause we decided we’re gonna,
Make the best of our time,
Well, here we go, I say.
Power E to Bm
I’m not gonna change the world,
But I want it to be ok.
For the ones that we bring in, every single day.
I know we don’t know…
What this world would mean to them…
What our babies might turn out to be.
What this world might mean to them,
And what they might have to say.
A to Bm
I’m not here to change your mind.
I’m not here, but I got a lot to say.
I’m right here looking on the outside.
Looking at everything,
E to Bm
On this sphere, right here.
On this sphere, right here.
Got nothing but a lot of things to say.
A to Bm
Well, I’m not all alone,
And I’ve got a lot of words to spit out
I’ve got a little bit of knowledge,
That could contribute to a better society.
I’m not all alone.
Looking to change the way you see things.
I’m not all alone.
Looking for another way to exist in today.
E to A to Bm
Ohhhhhhhh. Whoa….. ewwww..
A to Bm
I’m not here to tell you,
How to feel about this disarray.
I’m not here to tell you,
How to decide what you’re going to say,
Against the evil thing and evil nature.
Against the things that just don’t feel right.
Against the things that you were raised to never,
Let yourself be alright with, but it’s here.
Somebody ask it to stay…
Whatever are we going to do?
We just shoot each other.
And we look the other way.
We just shoot each other.
And we look the other way.
You got a gun, you’re just another pig to me
You think you’re different but you’re just another pig
We just shoot each other and look away.
That’s what we do,
That’s what we do,
That’s what we do, today
A > B
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa, awwww….
E > B
Ewwwwwwwww…
I’m not going to decide today,
What you see yesterday.
What you think about….
I’m not going to decide,
What you think about yesterday,
Though, it came clearly from the clouds.
I’m not looking back.
I’m not here to tell you what to dream about,
Though it’s clearly,
Something that we could be,
Possibly drinking in the water.
A > B
We’ve got a new president.
He seems like he blows a lot of hot air, ya see.
Doesn’t know what he seems to be talkin about.
I’m not here to tell you,
What’s the right thing to say in another day.
I’m not here to tell you,
Just how you’re supposed to feel.
When it’s so crazy.
Life is, our existence,
We make all our choices for this,
Period while we’re roaming on this planet.
This period is the end of our statement.
A > B
We’ve got a life to live.
We make good choices,
We make bad choices.
We make good choices,
And we make bad choices.
The bad choices are what we’ve gotta live with
Sometimes that shit’s just here to stay.
The bad choices are the things we have to live with.
Sometimes they’re just here to stay
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The Weather Pattern
07:11
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The Weather Pattern
A to D
If you’re lookin for the rain clouds
They’ve drifted on away,
If you’re looking for the names,
They’re callin everything today,
It’s a trick up your sleeve.
Change chords
C to D
Lost indecisions, well it’s far beyond new.
You passed through another day and it’s not coming back.
Coming back anytime soon.
Back to first chords
A to D
Everyone that’s other there is starving to the bone.
Looking for this feeling that they heard about on your radio.
There’s a lot of things that wished I could have told you.
There’s a lot of thing I can’t say anymore.
There’s a lot of things I wish I could have told you.
Now it’s pointless, now it’s gone.
There’s a lot of things that I wish I could have told you.
Lots of things that it’s better off gone.
Lots of things that I know….
Even if you think I don’t know at all….
Chord change
Tearing down the harbour just to tell you how I feel.
Watch the rains come in to the shore and sweeping it all.
All the water rose at phenomenal pace.
Take it all back home (F to C)
Keep it in your space. (F to A)
Chord change
D to C
This is not the holy site to all your future……
This is not a holy site for all your future endeavours…..
Stop
Start base notes
D to C to B
All the lessons we heard about,
This is not time, a place or a channel to hear about that kind of love.
That kind of noise.
That kind of faltering and divide.
Hey, won’t you listen, it’s only fact to speak around here. Won’t you listen.
I’ve got something to tell everybody.
Change chords
D to A
Whhhhhhhooooooooo, makes a descision
How long…….do we stand in line and wait…..
Just see it all…..just come right back out another days.
How many times a day do you wait up, waiting to hear something you’ve said.
How many times a day must you hear these thoughtless words.
There all directed at me.
Speaking when I’m not listing.
Then I’m gonna tell you how I feel but I don’t want to know anything about you.
How many times a day are you waiting around here.
Charge
End in D and C
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Reading in the Rain
03:36
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Reading in the Rain
NO CAPO
Standard tuning
Chords throughout the whole song: A to E to B to D
(Instrumental x2 then vox come in)
Still sit alone.
Reading papers in the rain.
When it rains.
We say things we really mean.
And I think to myself…
Why can’t it rain everyday….
(Instrumental x1 then vox come in)
Looking down
Aside the avenue.
Looking under ground
(Finish riff then vox)
Look down
Aside the avenue.
Looking underground
There are pieces of you,
I wish I could be.
It’s only in a nights sleep,
That I can feel as perfect as you.
(Instrumental x3 and vox)
Nick- (sing howww second and third time through and start verse)
Howwww…..
Hooowww, much living do we have to do?
Before we realize we’re good and through.
How much living do we have to do?
Before we realize we’re…..
Don’t slow down
Going in the same direction
Ahhhh
You’ll see she said...
(Riff continues 1x after last word)
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Freight Train
05:16
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Freight Train/Like it or not
V - Power chord A# to G
Whether I like it or not
You called my bluff,
And you showed it to me
You had a look in your eye
Like a freight train comin
One thing on your mind is
That your coming not going
I couldn’t stop this so
It’s like some locomotion was drawn to me
One thing on your mind is that your coming not going
It’s plain to see
Ewwww
Not that I wanted to, I had it coming you see
It was coming to me
Like a freight train coming
D# to G to F
Whether or not you come to listen to me
Whether or not the sky always falls to its knees
Whether or not your in this quick sand with me
Whether or not neither one of us is gonna ever go free
Ahh wu wu
Go free
Not from here
Not this time
Whether or not
Power chord A# to G to D#
Like it or not,
You’ve come and gone
Cause you think you know,
GOLD!
You don’t know anything at all
You’re sexy
Yaaaaaaaaaaaa (sang in a high note)
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11. |
The Strange (Reprise)
02:07
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Capo 5 A-7 fret D-6 F-5 to A-4
Waiting on the Earth to Fall
I said, I don’t wanna lose no more, can’t find a solution. As she slowly walked backwards across the room Can’t find a solution.
Ain’t no India, that conquest and its ship has sailed. There’s just some real life livelihood living lonely right down here. No, no, no, no, no......
There’s no one left around here. It’s just a spook away from a ghost town.
Waiting for the wind to blow, As it twists and turn and topples over all the trees. Waiting for the evening tide to settle all our dreams. Waiting for the Earth to fall. And bring this titan to its knees.
Waiting for the wind to blow. That’s our signal, ya see.
(jam) 4 bars
Let me sit here and breathe. I got a temperature of 103 degrees.. Let me just sit here and breathe, Cooling off with a little antifreeze, Let me just sit here and breathe I’m cooling off now, with this prestone margarita A little bit of antifreeze....
Oh waiting on the Earth to fall. Whistling waves of wind will wash us away. I’m waiting on the earth to fall. |rest| Oh, im waiting on the earth to fall And theres no body else thats stands standing with me. Im waiting on the earth to fall Im pretty sure it could be any day now.
I only hear what you want me to hear. One man’s patience is another’s disease, I only brace, when you want me to brace myself. Against this one man’s army.
(soft jam)
One man’s army.....
Waiting on the earth to fall.....
One man....
To fall....
The earth’s army......
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13. |
Silver Penny Trickery
05:41
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Intro Capo on 5 - A string 7th fret - D string 5th fret - to A string 5 - D string 4 to A string 3 - to D string 2 to G, C.
Verse Capo on 5 - A string 7th fret - D string 5th fret - to A string 5 - D string 4 to A string 3 - to D string 2.
All the money you have wouldn’t be enough to buy me from freedom.
You call it freedom, but it costs something.
Don’t put your money in my hand,
your filthy trade,
brings all the wars you wage,
extermination of innocence.
Chorus A to G to Fm, Em
I chose to make my own ending.
And I chose to make my own story.
My own beginning.
To take away the fact we got no idea where we’re going
and reinvent a place that we could celebrate as our own.
And I’m going to lead an army. We’re going to bring back a world of peace.
And I’m going to lead this journey into the falsely distorted human race.
Bridge E to A
Verse
Heyyyy how many times have you heard this conversation,
how many eyes do you look through everyday, it’s two.
Times two equals me and you
If you glance in my eyes you will see there’s no disguising it.
You will see there’s no disguising it.
Cm to G to D A to D to C
Getting this ship back to simple.
E to D?
E to D to C
We’re taking it all back where it belongs, so far away.
Bringing in the newfound glory of freedoms reign
Leave your filthy trading factors out with the rats and disease,
if you’ll please please just stay away from here.
If you can join the army.
A to E to D Em to D to C (Matt says A to C to G with a D G tag)
Taking it back.
Shit goes where shit deserves.
Taking it back.
Back down your shitty side of the road.
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Sheltering Dreams
05:03
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4/22/19
It’s the Sheltered dreams that will wear stains to your teeth. To smother the permission of the hand that feeds some so called savior. A plague kneels in melting armor. Meanwhile, all the nightmares, thrier dressed up in dreams.
Another crusade will pass us by, We listen for the sound of the changing season. You could even hear the viode coming through the riptide. You can lose all of your mind out there. . Just don’t let yourself be exposed too long...to this deconstructive radiation.
Sheltering dreams will only wear you down. And smothering the permission of the hand the feeds this so called drifting savior. Oh, a leper dies in melted armor. And the nightmares, They’re all dressed up As dreams. Tonight Oh, tonight we ignite our fantasies and set them free firely and forever
Another long night will pass, pass us by. While we listen for the sound of changing seasons, As they pass us by. Leaving our memories in the dust.
As they pass us by.
As we’re passed on by.
Just memories decaying from our lives into the dust.
Just memories we’ve shared from our lives,
pass through the dust of the decay. ,
Let it.. caress you.. Aging cracks... Of the spderwebbing window... Let it... Slip, through the clear in the open meadow.
It’s your only momentary escape from here tonight for free of an energy that’s lost on a personal hiatus and fancy
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15. |
Truth of it All (Outro)
02:06
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The Strange Truth of it All Spring Hill, Florida
04/23/21. The Strange Truth of it All have been making a little noise lately. We’ve got a new LP in the works entitled
“bone picker”. Should be available in the next few months.
The line up for this incarnation of the truth band include:
Matt Greenia
Matt Williams
Kent Aberle
Aaron Golden
Shane Simmons
James Hall
Kyle Gordon
Nick Nickerson
Adam Hopkinson
Warren Ullum
Ben Davis
... more
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