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Like a Black Dog
05:06
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Walking the streets at night
It’s at your shoulder
Waiting for now
To follow you home
It’s like a black dog
It fades like a mist
It only knocks once
And leaves like it’s always gone
I know I saw it once
The streetlights went out
One by one
As it walked by
It came up beside me
I could hardly breathe
But I felt it stare
When it said to me:
“What you know may carry you
But what you love will bury you
And sit howling at your grave
In the soft morning light...”
Yeah, I am followed
By a big black dog...
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She sat alone across the room
And the plainest girl spoke beautiful truths
If there is silence beyond our ringing ears
We wouldn’t hear it anyway
If we were masters of our destinies
We wouldn’t leave here anyway
If we had all the riches that ever were
We couldn’t spend them anyway
If there is silence beyond our ringing ears
We wouldn’t hear it anyway
Anyway
And I can see her lips make words
But I can’t hear, they talk over her
Nobody listens anyway...
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The night I saw the silent wild white horses
The town was in the square
Everyone but me
In the desert night
The came like ghosts
White from black
To drink water
No one would believe what I felt
When they saw me they ran...
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O My September
03:38
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O my September
O my Judas
You turn me into embers
That soon cool into ash
You know this bird will rise
They bow their heads with eyes closed
The pilgrims as they pray
But Lord, my eyes are open
To see you light the way
Lord guide me by your light
Fear and doubt surround me
But I will not let go
Wolves may chase and hound me
But I will not let go
I’ll never let You go
O my dear lost friend
O my counsel
You to be your own end
I’d not lose you as well
Have hope and use your time
O my September
O your headstone
The dead do not remember
I’m haunted now alone
Dear friend, now be at peace
O my September
O my God
How you cool my temper
And float me through this flood
Now heal me from this fire
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Autumn is Over
02:48
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And the leaves kept falling
Like the trees didn’t care if the world went grey
Now autumn is over
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The days grow darker and the sun only sets
Lungs only empty and we can’t draw breath
Eternal sleeping but we cannot rest
Persephone dances with the Lord of Death
Such faithful bridegroom, yes he treats her well
Life springs eternal in the depths of Hell
Arms of another, we are left bereft
Persephone dances with the Lord of Death
No hope now Persephone
We lost our Persephone
Death is with Persephone
Death without Persephone...
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I am the boy who
Carried the world on
His shoulders...
I feel the weight in
My arms and it flows
Into my chest...
The weight turns to a stone in my heart
It stymies my blood and I grow weak
This time I’m not strong enough
I can’t be the one to see us through...
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Bring Me My Skeleton
03:30
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Bring me my skeleton
Let it rattle and dance
Teeth and nails, fall apart
Free at last, free at last
Let my soul breathe the air
The air my body left
Let it fill itself and be full
Burdened by body no more
Bring me my skeleton...
Bring me my skeleton
Let me lay beside it
And reminisce all the days
The days we never spent
Bring me my skeleton...
Let the earth collapse in on itself
Let the earth collapse
All must end, all must end
And all must come to rest
Bring me my skeleton
Let it rattle and dance
Teeth and nails, fall apart
Free at last, free at last
Bring me my skeleton...
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Spring
05:08
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Black out your windows
Board up your doors
You can’t stop the sunlight
Spilling out across the floor because
Spring is breaking through the surface
I’d been sleeping
Sleeping far too long
Before I heard the birds come out
And call their morning song and saw that
Spring was breaking through the surface...
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Greyhands Adelaide, Australia
Greyhands is the acoustic project of Adelaide artist JC Finlay. Taking influence from Death Cab For Cutie, Radiohead, Animal Collective, and Leonard Cohen, Greyhands seeks to create unique acoustic music that is both raw and emotionally honest.
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