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MotherFolk'nRock'nRoll

by The Rye Boys

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1.
Lucy Song 03:17
if i lie awake she can sing me to sleep and when she not around there aint no need to dream the two of us live a life out on the run sometimes i think shed be better off with the younger sons she don't care at all if i come home late and she never seems to mind if i don't know what to say she knows i can't forget how the callus of my fingers fall across her neck and how i hold her close and sing all the things i should have said she asks why oh why do you write these songs is it an attempt to right the wrong if you've only one life to live and only go so much shit to give why not give till its gone instead keeping at home for all your kids
2.
Yellabelly 01:04
I've got a yellow belly staring me down says come on and pick me up and we can drown all your sorrows and then come tomorrow we can do it again I'm gonna drink until I can't see straight i'm gonna burn all the pictures from the last three years start a fire in the alley and dance like i'm on pcp I've got a vicodin that's sizing me up think that we can duke it out until the morning comes i could sleep it off but the moon keeps screaming at me keeps screaming at me He says the cure to your problems isn't hiding in that drink the only way to fix it is to change the way you think about the world it's not so bad why else would i have stuck around this long
3.
i aint go the time for you and i can't walk no lines for you cuz i can't follow through with anything what could i say to you what could i do to convey to you that love don't have to go when i leave and that i could follow you through anything i can follow you through anything i please if it pleases me too please me go and find yourself fucked up on a couch next to someone else but if you find some sleep don't you dream of me i stay awake all night bc your in a door when i close my eyes and as you take my hand you say follow me then i can hear the steamboat in the street and see the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink and know i can't follow through on anything
4.
save me from myself if I'm going down for far be it from me to stop on the ground they've labeled me an addict for tearing myself apart but me i still haven't got that far see i walked around the world wearing other peoples shoes now i can see its just me that can't follow you
5.
Candidate 04:11
I don't know you but i think i want to and i can tell by your smile you want to know me too It'll go unspoken and we'll keep on holding on hoping that someday you'll be mine but i am the worst candidate to mend your broken heart cause i'm not whole i can't help you or myself the only thing i know is running away strangers we'll be alone separately you can have your home and i'll have mine too one day we'll look back or maybe we won't time has got a way of making me forget
6.
Yesterday 03:55
yesterday i killed my brother cause we can't ever seem to agree buried him under the rubble of the place where my heart used to be Is it a sin to murder for your country whats the use? the bible says i'm unclean but the president assures me that god is on our side just this morning i called my mother she said boy we sure are proud of you proud of what I had to wonder cause killing gives me no sense of pride then this evening i ran for cover cause i can't stand to see more people die society calls me a coward you're goddamn right i am petrified
7.
come on one and all if you hear something you like if what i got it aint for you keep on walking by see i don't need your 2 sense I've got hers and I've got mine I'm rich in opinion bitch i need your nickels and dimes mean drugs for us to eat means tonight we get to drink don't mean no goddamn thing to me nickels and dimes make this world go round so i gues thats what i need blow all you money on cheap tattoos and booze go see a shitty band buy a tshirt or two get stoned with your friends and throw the tv off the roof if you don't like to party then we ain't got time for you we tried the quiet life of working nine to five having money in our pockets was getting pretty nice but work is kind of boring and music's pretty fun so let's pass around the tip jar and you can give to us
8.
Misery Keeps 03:45
He’d been running away since the day that he could walk Been talking back since he could speak When he learned what love was he pushed away his own Turned to the road and to the drink, goddammit kids can be naive So I traded all of the stars in the sky For a couple of months with the ones on the ground I left my family and cut ties with most my friends Looking for something you can only find playing on the ground for nickels and dimes. I wandered about with 5 strings and all my things Played for the beggars and with the thieves I drank their wine and they smoked my cigarettes And they said never say good bye before you leave. I found down here at the train station the folks that look around Have the same look on their face that I’ve on mine right now No I don’t got to get away, see I’ve already found my place and tonight its drinking myself to sleep alone on a runaway train. I don’t know much but I know one day I will die, One day they’ll list some things I done To a room half full of people I barely knew Hey, so it goes, halleluiah on the ground down here My misery keeps good company We’ll waste our last two cents over something to drink And you may not care much for how we do or say But we know that we don’t have tomorrow the way we have today.
9.
Aeroplane 02:45
If I were an aeroplane I’d fly up to the atmosphere, my wings would take me there they'd abandon me on the way home, a shuttle with no way to float, that's all I’ve ever been have you heard I'm a dreamer have you heard I’m a sleepwalking man if I were a painted sign I’d scream it from the highest heights there's nowhere left to go so you should just stay home my colors they would fade away slowly turn to black and grey that's all I’ve ever been chorus if I were a barroom I’d still let you dance all over me wear holes right in your shoes
10.
Mama 02:59
Mama I know I told you that I'd be good we both know I said I’d be lots of things I never could you know I never meant to break no thing by lying I just thought that i might never run out of time now I’m marking every minute right down til the day I die and before I go what I need you to know is I loved ya now I’m dancin like the first flame in a fire we burn amber and ember all through the night I never was too scared to leave my mind behind from what I cold take away you think I lost it all the time and so I’ll write us a catchy chorus to sing to hell because I learned you cant get nowhere without help and when I make it down there I won’t sing by myself but before I do what I need from you is your love ain’t nothing out there worth finding if you cant go out and find it for yourself you may burn some bridges waking up out on park benches maybe someone on the other side will have a story to tell when we all go to hell.
11.
The yard's on fire from the night before and the water's not been working for a week or so The check left on the table says it's been returned so we'll sit out on the driveway and just watch it burn This is not how I pictured myself at 23 years old but we can't all be homeowners with pockets lined with gold I’m feeling sentimental for my teenage years when my biggest complications were my closest peers and to get a place to party where the cops won't find where maybe I'd get lucky and for sure I'd get high but I can't go back to my youth and I don't think I would though times are hard right now I'm still my own man without direction or a purpose I make a living being lost out in the world the amenities aren't much and the pay sure does suck but I've got nothing left to lose The letters in my mailbox lined with dollar signs every time I get caught up I fall right back behind if a pink slip means I've got a week to pay my bills then I'll head up to the bar and try to score some pills when reality stops by in the morning it can be a bitch so I'll sleep until the afternoon and prove that I'm a Give me a paycheck
12.
Good Time 01:53
I've got a dollar in my wallet and a pocket full of chainsaws get to steady rollin’ cause I like to keep a movin’ on show me that you're worth it before I have to up and leave ‘cause if there is a good time it's where I wanna be if there is a good time it's where I wanna be I wanna shoot some bottle rockets at some folks who don't know me I wanna listen to a story about a place I’ve never been if you've got a problem with me I’ll be leavin’ soon again i once knew a girl named lady she had freckles on her nose slept backwards in the bed with the pillows to her toes was looking for suggestions then one day she came to me I said if there is a good time it's where I wanna be if there is a good time it's where I wanna be I wanna shoot some bottle rockets at some folks who don't know me I wanna listen to a story about a place I’ve never been if you've got a problem with me I’ll be leavin’ soon again I was walking through the alley and I found this pretty rock I thought that you could keep it in the drawer with your socks if you don't really like it then I’ll try to understand but you should reconsider ‘cause I picked it with my hand well pickin’ with my hand is my favorite thing you can do it in the garden or with guitar strings we can pick together in the penitentiary if there is a good time it's where I wanna be if there is a good time it's where I wanna be I wanna shoot some bottle rockets at some folks who don't know me I wanna listen to a story about a place I’ve never been if you've got a problem with me I’ll be leavin’ soon again

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released April 5, 2014

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