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Suicide 05:35
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Up and down I ride the tide, but I never felt closer to suicide Lately I've been nervous About what I've been told I'm lazy and I'm foolish Now I'm growing old I'm confused about a lot of things Most of them are me Up and down I ride the tide, but I never felt closer to suicide Lately I've been thinking Correct me if I'm wrong But every day is shorter And every night is long And every time I try to change The changes never come Up and down I ride the tide, but I never felt closer to suicide Nobody gave me a second look So I wrote it all down in my mystery book And when I thought that I would break I hung my head and I tried to fake Indifference to the memories Indifference to the shame Indifference to all the things I once thought I'd be Indifference to the memories Indifference to the pain Indifferent to the people that I'll never see again Lately I've been thinking Correct me if I'm wrong But every day is shorter And every night is long And every I try to change The changes never come Lately I've been nervous About what I've been told I'm lazy and I'm foolish Now I'm growing old I'm confused about a lot of things Most of them are me Up and down I ride the tide, but I never felt closer to suicide
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Salvation 02:04
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Who's that knocking on the door? The paranoia shows Who's that staring at the ground? Drowning in the sound You've got a lot of things to do You don't need salvation to see it through Who's that hiding from it all? The second hand just crawls Who's that dying from inside? And running out of time You've got a lot of things to do You don't need salvation to see it through
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Song Of L.A. 02:28
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Strange words in the kingdom of the mind A hurricane that came unsigned This the song of L.A. Never gonna do it now 40 years gone, and you're left with what? (In your mind) Empty hands and your eyes sewn shut (It's time) Sad song in the kingdom of the mind (It's sublime) The hurricane came and it left unsigned (It's only dying) This the song of L.A. Never gonna do it now
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Drowning From The Waist Down 04:08
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When I'm Gone 00:46
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A dream in the morning Where do you go? With no warning I just thought you should know Who will you be? Where will you go? What will you see When the wreathes lay low? What will you feel, and will you be afraid?
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Step Backwards 00:52
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You step backwards And I state mine Never knowing your father To find his way home Find your way home
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The Crooked Path 00:48
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The White Roots Of Peace 04:43
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You think the broken bottle hears you crying out As you raise your arm to stop another blow Whenever in your life were you taught to suffer in silence And throw away your knife? You seem lost in this strange gathering Where you hide your face behind the paraffin You run your fingers across your cracked lips and you wonder: "How can I leave this place?" Oh, mother tell me: where are the white roots of peace? When you're lying on the floor Praying to your wooden god "Deliver me or let me wander in peace! For in this kingdom of one word answers I am cowered like a dog I need someone to believe in me!" You watch the televisions floating down the street You sat to my left as the devils and the angels played along But his hands are heavy, and the world is wide And you die a little deep inside Oh, mother show me: where are the white roots of peace? When you're slamming every door, pressed against the wall Just pretend and let it go to your head "For in this kingdom of tears and cancers I am sinking like a fog I need someone to receive me!" But I was so much younger then And though I never saw your pain It stays with me to this day And I wonder where you are And do you ever see the stars That shine so bright and so clear? Oh, mother find me: here in the white roots of peace I'm still lying on the floor (what more can I say?) For in this kingdom of broken dancers I give to you my song I need someone to believe I need someone to receive I need someone to grieve me
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Jackdaws
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The Buddha Drum
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The Man Who Was Taller Than God
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The man who was taller than God Stood on my shoulder and saw the common way He stood in silence and his face grew long As the life within me slipped away The man who was taller than God Held out his hollow heart and drove the flock away Still your struggle when you hear that song Rise up, gome home, and face the day When you are empty and alone I fill the void with ash and bone Before me angels turn to stone See all the things that do not show
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Maryknoll 00:37
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Night comes down like a lid Be careful with what you give A long, long time ago Ellen lived on Maryknoll
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Life After The Hourglass 01:42
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Instrumental.
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Wash Me Away 02:17
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Can't you see that I am not afraid of it Golden bones, life is what you make of it The mystery and the pain Time unwinds and time it unravels All these years, so many wasted candles It's time to shed the chains There comes a day When everything washes away Wash my sins In the cool of the river And everyone knows It's just the way life goes You wash me away
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Queen of the Bleached-Bone Scene
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Build me a ship And I'll sail it in effigy On a lead gray sea With the waves washing over me I'm lost I'm a blank disenchanter Drinking from a bone decantur Wondering at the crucifix Broken, my faith unclicks Should I sail out from the west? Would my mother shame me, knee bent? All I need is to be thoughtless Like a hatchet and a broken hope chest You lose what you set out to find When you kill the strange thoughts in your mind Never let them go Go face the Queen of the Bleached Bone Scene She always says what she means And I'm alone in the frost Of my Petersburgh lost
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'Til The Day You're Heavy-Footed
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Joshua 03:39
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Joshua says all things fade away The sunshine lays him low He's cashing checks from the government His brother tells me so Joshua gets by through the U.S. mail Death by a thousand drinks The Joshua I knew then was the best of us No matter what he thinks Joshua, are you there? What can I do to help you break Your thousand yard stare? Joshua, are you there? Joshua sleeps through the afternoon He's writing a lot, they say An unpainted wall in an empty room Fading day by day Joshua dreams of his innocence All things possible and true He holds fast to his memories The mirror is so cruel Joshua, are you there? Were love and loss and life all so much More than you could bear? Joshua, are you there? Considering life Is like staring into the sun. You missed the starting line Now you're too tired to run. There is a time for all things Every man has his season Cross-eyed and howling In a land where hope is treason Joshua, are you there? Your photo looks right through me, old friend Are you beyond repair? Joshua, are you there?

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released October 25, 2012

All songs written and performed by Daniel J.S. Lewis unless otherwise indicated.

Recorded and Mixed by Daniel J.S. Lewis at Dead Dog Studio.

Copyright 2012 CV Music. All rights reserved.

Special thanks to Richard Kegler and P22 Type Foundry, Buffalo NY for help with cover design.

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The Tomorrow File comes at you with smart hooks and penetrating lyrics. A singer/songwriter with an eclectic ability to fuse genres in an originally singular way.

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