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Something From Nothing EP

by Folksy Mama

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1.
Well I won't say I'm great but I'm good at pretending. You pointed and laughed while my life was ending. Now I'm dead inside with no hope of return, to the man I once was, coming into this world Well, I'm learning to cope with my hopes and regrets, this pain in my heart from this weight on my chest. Now I'm leaving town and I wont soon forget. All the memories we've shared, and all the people I've met. Well you can't get something from nothing It's like trying to bleed a stone. Well we've got no home so lets hit the road and make this life our own. Sing me a song of compassion, teach me how not to be afraid. Because I hate feeling like I'm the last one, that still wears a true honest face. I need you to show me a way out of here, Because I can't find a path that's not covered in glass. I know that it's out there but I've been left behind Now my feet bleed and I beg for the grass. Well you can't get something from nothing It's like trying to bleed a stone. Well we've got no home so lets hit the road and make this life our own.
2.
Oh pour that whiskey, light the gasoline. Lay your eyes on something that you've never seen Because the world is already burning hot, and you belong to the flame whether you like it or not. Roll the bones, throw the stones This is the last act, of your show You know they're gonna send you down below To saw your fiddle with a broken bow. Saw your fiddle with a broken bow. You're a temptress, a devil in a red dress, A mastermind behind a crime without a witness! Your words are venomous, but they sound so pulchritudinous. Never did it sound so good to throw it all away. All away. I see that you're stressed out (Foot inside your mouth) Always just too loud (Followed by rain clouds) Kill mother nature (A chase for the papers) Spreading such hatred (Between our neighbors) Running and running burning and burning getting too hot to keep propagating Running and running burning and burning getting too hot to keep propagating Oh money on the table with a seven and two. Everyone around has had enough of you You got one more hand so you best behave Or we'll send you down to your watery grave. Out with the old, in with the new Finally gonna finish what you said you'd do Now we're bringing it back for the average home, While you're sitting in the corner and growing old Sitting in the corner and growing old. You're a temptress, a devil in a red dress, A mastermind behind a crime without a witness! Your words are venomous, but they sound so pulchritudinous. Never did it sound so good to throw it all away. All away.
3.
Well, I think that I've gone crazy See my head's been such a mess. I've got nothing in my pockets, And I keep dead plants as pets. When I see the sun it burns my eyes because I haven't been out for days. You ask me how I wound up here? Just let me count the ways. It might be one for the money and two for the liquor I'm runnin through a jungle that keeps getting thicker. I slip and fall but after all I guess it could be worse! Because it's a long way down to the bottom of the pit we've been drinking ourselves in. All the efforts we made for the short-lived pay goes to show you never can win. And we can't seem to find no reason or rhyme why we should ever stop. Been climbing this mountain for many years and I still can't see the top So come on down! I think I need another, to get me through the night. Because every time I close my eyes my nightmares come alive! I've got skeletons in my closet, monsters underneath my bed. seems like nothing in this world could kill those voices in my head. But it might be one for the money and two for the liquor I'm runnin through a jungle that keeps getting thicker. I slip and fall but after all I guess it could be worse! Because it's a long way down to the bottom of the pit we've been drinking ourselves in. All the efforts we made for the short-lived pay goes to show you never can win. And we can't seem to find no reason or rhyme why we should ever stop. Been climbing this mountain for many years and I still can't see the top So come on down!
4.
From accross the room,she gave me that look From across the room, she got me shook I can see it in her eyes, the devil in disguise Now what she wants, she's gonna get And once she's got it she wont let you forget I can see it in her eyes, the devil in disguise I should have known, right from the start That a woman like her, is only out to break hearts I can see it in her eyes, the devil in disguise Well she has tempted me beyond all that i can resist and her poisonous lips could end me with just one kiss I've fallen for beauty projected by darkness below I know what she is yet the attraction still grows Her surreptitious intent is easy to see but she still has a hold on me! From across the room, I gave her my heart From across the room, she tore it apart Well I can see it in her eyes, the devil in disguise Well I can see it in her eyes, the devil in disguise
5.
I got cigarettes and bus tickets on my mind, now I'm sitting on the corner till closing time, so I can busk my way to the end of the day maybe make a little money on this street of mine I've got no job and I've got no car but I've got a mandolin and an acoustic guitar so I'll play some songs for you nice folks, standing right here on the side of the road Chorus: But I'm really not waiting for anything to go my way because I've been to the bottom and back, still walking on the same track Heading anywhere but where I'm from because I've learned to make a home out of my scar tissue and broken bones and people that I hardly know Verse 2: Lately Ive been feeling a little to much that I might be down on my luck The whiskey's been my only crutch but i guess its lost it's touch I've made friends that last for an hour or two but at the end of the night I'm still singing the blues I got bloodshot eyes and a mouth so dry that I'm just begging for one more drink Chorus Bridge: So I'll play my stage beneath the streetlights I'l sing my heart out all night break my strings, take my change tomorrow I'll do it again because I'll still be broke and hungry because I had to pay my rent But in the end with you my friends, I guess that it was all time well spent Chorus X2

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Our first EP. It took quite a while to get it online because Dan is a lazy ass. But better late than never!

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released November 21, 2016

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