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Come By Boat
03:05
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I’m shipwrecked on a concrete island
Looking for my silver lining
Maybe baby’s gonna come and save me
I’m tryin to be an optimist
Digging through my survival kit
But sorrow’s tide keeps rising to my feet
Come by boat
Come by plane
Come my love to this place
I need help
So much help getting away
I hear the song you sing
Carried by the ocean breeze
Waters now rising to my knees
Ain’t it damndest thing
To see what you had after you leave
Treading water in your misgivings
Come by boat
Come by plane
Come my love to this place
I need help
So much help getting away
Come by boat
Come by plane
Come my love to this place
I need help
So much help getting away
Come by boat
Come by plane
Come my love to this place
I need help
So much help getting away
Come my love
Come for me
You're the fading light I see
As I sink down beneath the big blue sea
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2. |
Flaming Tongues
03:46
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Black clouds plume
In the rearview
Red moon risin' up ahead
The fire burns down
The hills towards town
Soon they'll be evacuating
Get out now
There's gas upon the ground
And this house will soon burn down
From these flaming tongues
Walked in the door
TV at a roar
Kings we've elected to rule us
The smell of fumes
Filled the room
You could not hear what we’re saying
Get out now
There's gas upon the ground
And this house will soon burn down
From these flaming tongues
From these flaming tongues
Love lead the way
We'll drive through the night
Don't look back as we leave our home behind
His truth is always changing
Fear the narrative
Sadness has become the flint
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3. |
Hummingbird
04:05
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Open door above the street
I feel the sun reaching for my feet
Hummingbird looking for his sweet
While the flower waits for the bumble bee
Rise and shine my darling
Here comes the spring
You are the mountain we are the stream
Carving canyons inside your being
We are the motion you hold steady
Wild waters rage to the sea
Rise and shine my darling
Here comes the spring
Peel your eyes my love
Nothing will be what it was
Hold your breath here comes the wave
Hold on to nothing for nothing is safe
Times are changing they’re changing fast
Love should be the only thing you grasp
Love should be the only thing you grasp
Rise and shine my darling
Here comes the spring
Peel your eyes my love
Nothing will be what it was
Was
Was
Was
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4. |
Little Bird
02:27
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Little Bird, she cried tonight
Sitting on her perch
As she looked into his eyes
Her heart began to chirp
"Do you know what you want with me?
Do you know what you want with me?
I've clipped my wings
But I will leave as soon as they grow back"
How can he say what should be said?
Spoiled for so many choices
Little Bird is pecking at his chest
"Do you know what you want with me?
Do you know what you want with me?
I've clipped my wings
But I will leave as soon as they grow back"
Ooh
Life does not hand you an answer
Time will only reveal
Little Bird flies alone
Will you just stand still?
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5. |
Honey Bee
02:47
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A boy sits with a blank stare
Getting reprimanded in his high chair
Showin' no respect for his honey bee
Buzzin’ far too long in his toxicity
You’re gonna lose your honey bee
New orders come
A new set of plans
Last cigarette dangles from your hands
There are plenty of boys with money in their pants
But there won’t be no sweet cause this bee won’t dance
Lose your honey bee
You're gonna lose your honey bee
Lose your honey bee
Oh my boy what an appetite
You have for the fruit on the vine
You let the flowers go and die
Queen Bee left you to your own device
How does it feel to pollinate alone at night?
A boy sits with a blank stare
Getting reprimanded in his high chair
Showin' no respect for his honey bee
Buzzin’ far too long in this toxicity yeah
Lose your honey bee (Lose your honey bee)
Your honey bee (Lose your honey bee)
Lose your honey bee (Lose your honey bee)
Your honey bee (Lose your honey bee)
Your honey bee (Lose your honey bee)
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6. |
Golden Line
03:43
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In the dark of the night
I will walk by your side
My little one
My reason to believe
Across the blackened fields
'Neath the milky way
In your eyes there were stars
That slowly began to fade away
In the dark of the night
With eager eyes searching for the line of morning
The golden line of morning
I know you're scared
There is confusion on the radio waves
Little fighter, my conviction
Don’t listen to what they say
Don’t listen to what they say
In the dark of the night
With eager eyes searching for the line of morning
In the dark of the night
With eager eyes searching for the line of morning
The golden line of morning
(Golden line of morning)
(Golden line of morning) The golden line of morning
(Golden line of morning) The golden line of morning
(Golden line of morning) The golden line of morning
The golden line of morning
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7. |
Orion's Belt
04:16
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I got home from work last night
Saw Orion’s Belt in a moonless sky
Opened the door to our apartment
The smell of lavender from the bath
You’d already hit the sack
Made some soup turned on the TV
Drank a beer and watched a film by Disney
And it bummed me out
Oh I’m tired of this place
I need something to change
I try to say what I want
But these words just fail me
Dark waters of my mind
I feel like I’m drifting
Friends have long moved on
While I’m still looking
For the lonely ache release
Between the effort and the ease
On a gentle wave you are drifting
This bed you float far from me
In the dark I hear you sing
From a distant dream
I play name that tune to slow my breathing
'Til the ship of sleep comes for me
You've got to have some faith
Have some faith
I try to say what I want
But these words just fail me
Dark waters of my mind
I feel like I’m drifting
Friends have long moved on
While I’m still looking
For the lonely ache release
Between the effort and the ease
The lonely ache release
Between the effort and the ease
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8. |
Slayer On Cassette
03:50
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She's a certain somethin’ at the caffeine dispensary
Pale and pretty, dressed for the 90’s
A transplant angeleno
If you want to go to college you’d better learn to accept
A millstone of debt hangin’ ‘round your neck
Unless your parents can pay for it
So she listens to Slayer on the cassette
Seasons in the Abyss
It’s a good way to rage
A healthy way to forget
When head banging girls
Head banging girls get depressed
It's exhausting to keep on smiling
To people so belittling
Just a cog in their machine to get what they need
She prefers the world on the screen
So she listens to Slayer on cassette
South of Heaven
It’s a good way to rage
A healthy way to forget
When head banging girls
Head banging girls get depressed
I’m sick of your mantra
Lazy dressed self-righteous bullshit
The world's on fire
The bees are dying
And you're the one
Binge watching
And she listens to Slayer on cassette
She wants to get destroyed in the pit
It’s a good way to rage
A healthy way to forget
When head banging girls
Head banging girls get depressed
Oh head banging girls
Head banging girls get depressed
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9. |
Erasing Lines
04:08
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Well he met a girl
She could sing in key
He had some words, a guitar
They started a band
And they sat on her bed
Rehearsing those tunes
With eyes tracing and erasing the line of just friends
"Maybe you should stay a while?"
She said with a smile
"We could try some harmony lines
Doesn’t that sound nice?"
Underneath a blue moon
Behind the venue
She took a drag from a clove cigarette as she said
"Man I hope you find
A little peace of mind
And a love to derail you from
The tracks in your head
Maybe you should stay the night?
Give us a try
Maybe you have all you want
Here in your arms”
Alone in night
They thumb through the screen
Looking for love with so many good leads
While we run down the road
To our next gig
Underneath the desert stars
Muse about raising kids
Maybe love is all we need
If we choose to see
That beauty is in everything
If we choose to see
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10. |
In The Night
03:58
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As every day fades to evening
The dark is left by the setting sun
She covers us with her blanket
Eventually takes everyone
In the night I wait for you
In the night I'll wait for you
In the night I wait for you
Cover the buildings
Cover the streets
Cover the houses where the families eat
Cover the bedroom
In our apartment
Cover the pictures we’ve yet to hang
In the night I'll wait for you
In the night I'll wait for you
In the night I'll wait for you
You were never good at lyin'
There was no truth you were hidin'
Your love a light that was definin'
I watched it fade into the blue
Cover the highways we rode together
Cover the bars where we sang
Cover the home we made
Cover the stories that are blank
In the night I’ll wait for you
In the night I'll wait for you
In the night I'll wait for you
You
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11. |
Entertain Us
02:48
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Blinking lights where are your friends?
It's sad to lose so we'll pretend
He's overboard it happened again
How long do you think he'll swim?
Bystanders, we're not dangerous
Don't try and preach boy
Entertain us
And all will be as it's been
Don't try and preach boy
Entertain us
Inverted sky overhead
Snowing ash raining lead
I don't mind it's in our food
We need to move
Consume consume
Bystanders, we're not dangerous
Don't try and preach boy
Entertain us
And all will be as it's been
Don't try and preach boy entertain us
Entertain us
Entertain us
Everything's fine
Everything's fine
And we're just bystanders, we're not dangerous
Don't try and preach boy
Entertain us
And all will be as it's been
Don't try and preach boy
Entertain us
Don't try and preach boy
Entertain us
I forgot why I cried
Oh yeah, I saw balance in this life
I find hard, hard to try
You stopped listening
Never mind
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12. |
Tell Me How It Ends
03:55
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Two dirt roads from separate towns
Merge out in the desert
Painted lines and road signs
Vanish into the distance
“A trick of the eye”
Said the rational mind
"Parallel lines never come together"
I like to muse that we’re all drawn to
A unifying perspective
A pencil dot that consumes our world
Gives life
If we turn the canvas over
Tell me how it ends
Tell me how it ends
Two young boys from separate towns
Rode the beast through the desert
Steel track lines to better lives
Vanish into the distance
It caught my eye the other night
A book with the same title
I like to muse that we're all drawn to
A unifying perspective
The least I could do was sing a tune for you
A prayer
For safe passage
Tell me how it ends
Tell me how it ends
La da da da da da da
Tell me how it ends
Tell me how it ends
Tell me how it ends
La da da da da da da
Tell me how it ends...
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13. |
Glow Globe
02:19
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Where would you like to go this evening?
I ask my love staring at the earth from above
This world is glowing here inside our bedroom
Trace Magellan’s path to the cities we want to live in
Walk the cobblestone streets of Paris
The labyrinth of Florence to the coast of Oregon
Rest your heavy head upon my shoulder
And dream with me of a world so small and sweet
Of a world so small and sweet
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The Graylings Utah
BIO
The Graylings are a neo-classic folk rock group, led by wife and husband Zachary
and Bridget Galanis. The band was created in Sierra Madre, CA and consists of a rotating cast of musicians, whom also perform in other bands and solo-projects.
Their debut album “Tell Me How it End” was self-released in January of 2020 on the precipice of the pandemic.
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