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Fort Misery
03:32
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All things pass and have a season,
But since you've gone I see no reason.
The boys keep asking "Why did mom go?".
I just say that I don't know.
Oh Fort Misery
My mouth is numb and there's no feeling.
I'm just staring at the ceiling.
Pills and bottles and tears and heartache,
I don't know how much I can take.
Oh Fort Misery
Best friend, wife and my lover,
There will never be another.
In my mind I hear you breathing,
now there's nothing to believe in.
Oh Fort Misery
credits
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2. |
Good Goodbye
03:34
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Letter’s signed and mailed out
Reminds you what you lack;
The woman who once lived here
Is never coming back.
Prayers unheard and wasted
Echo through the walls.
Half remembered numbers,
She won’t return your calls,
And the empty house catches you by surprise...
There is no such thing as a good goodbye.
Lately you’ve been drinking,
But that don’t help you out.
You wake up in the darkness,
You’re trying not to shout.
There’s someone beside you
And she’s not your kids’ mom.
All your friends they whisper
That you’re a ticking bomb.
You’re trying to find salvation
Between some woman’s thighs...
There is no such thing as a good goodbye.
What you did last Sunday,
What you’ve done today,
Is what you’ll do forever
If this won’t go away.
You say that you’re ok,
You know that’s not true.
Your pills are on a co-pay
But you’re still feeling blue.
You want to beg forgiveness
But she can’t hear you cry,
There is no such thing as a good goodbye
There is no such thing as a good, good goodbye
There is no such thing as a good goodbye.
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3. |
Let You Go
03:08
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What I didn't know then,
What I don't know now,
Can you find love again
If you only know how?
What I thought you had said,
What you thought that I heard,
Are you better off dead
Than live on a word?
And all I want to know,
If I should make you stay
Or let you go.
Can you still feel my heart?
Is there light in my eyes?
Is this how it starts?
Or how love dies?
I know it's not new.
It's as old as the hills.
Love hurts when it's true
And only love kills.
And all I want to know,
If I should make you stay
Or let you go.
Let you go.
Let you go.
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4. |
Over and Over
03:45
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Once upon some other time
When I was yours and you were mine...
A simple song in the end,
A guiding light that will not bend...
Over and over again,
A guiding light that will not bend.
Tracing circles ‘round the fire,
Is this love or just desire?
Embers’ glow reflect your skin...
If we once lost can we still win?
Over and over again,
If we once lost can we still win?
There’s a static in your voice...
Are you forgiven if you had no choice?
Codeine heart, whiskey brain
Close your eyes and ease the pain.
Over and over again,
Close your eyes and ease the pain.
I keep waiting for things to change,
But they’re all still the same.
Feel the poison leave your veins...
This won’t end if you don’t begin
Over and over again.
This won’t end if you don’t begin...
Over and over and over...
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5. |
Starry Waltz
03:41
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As you're drifting far away,
I am here with you
Hear me say it's ok.
Baby, babe it's ok.
It's ok.
Running horses on the wing,
Birds and choruses all will sing it's ok.
It's ok,
It's ok.
Love is all you are,
Shine on my diamond star.
A sunshine lullaby,
A diamond in the sky.
As the night turns into day
And the dreams have gone away it's ok.
it's ok.
I'm ok.
Love is all you are,
Shine on my diamond star.
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6. |
Blood Moon
03:53
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When nothing matters anymore,
Your flowers have washed up on the shore,
Feel me lying next to you.
I can hear you breathe,
Please don’t ever leave me alone.
Bless this love,
This love I take today.
Forget my soul,
Forgive my fate.
Stay.
A blood moon phosphoresces me,
shines down on ashes in the sea.
Childlike, broken on the floor.
Your heart breaks,
Don’t even feel the pain no more.
Bless this love,
This love I take today.
Forget my soul,
Forgive my fate.
Stay.
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7. |
Living In The Past
03:11
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Slow down, try to make it last.
Stand still, everything is fast.
Where does the time go when you're living in the past?
Drowning memories in a glass,
Come back like a fish in a net that's cast.
Where does the time go when you're living in the past?
I won't roll on that stone,
Working fingers to the bone.
For my sins I will atone,
I can't run all alone, all alone.
Going down, spring is here at last.
I tried to do the things that you had asked.
Where does the time go when you're living in the past?
Where does the time go when you're living in the past?
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8. |
The Rift
04:07
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Say
whatever's on your mind,
We don't have that much time,
It's almost yesterday.
Stop
Please don't make this hard,
I never really thought
we'd end back at the start.
When days grow long,
Who'll sing this song?
Will it be you?
Babe,
Don't hesitate to wait,
My heart's in the right place,
My mind is running late.
I'm
trying hard to be
A man you want to see,
Some day you will find
When things break down,
I'll come around,
Call my name.
If
This is how it ends,
Will we remain as friends,
Or will this be the rift?
When I am gone,
You'll have this song,
You won't have me.
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9. |
Only Rain
03:46
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I was thinking about you yesterday
And the things we didn't say.
I had hoped we'd get another day,
I would hold you and you would stay.
You were gone before we said goodbye,
No more sparkle in your eye.
I let go, I couldn't see the way,
In my heart on that day.
Nothing's real, nothing is the same.
The memories fade away and don't come back again.
I can't tell my laughter from the pain.
Can't see the sunshine through the rain.
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10. |
Living With A Ghost
02:45
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I met her at the wrong time
I wasn't in my right mind.
She asked if I was alright
When I kissed her on a dark night.
We ended back at her place.
Tears running down her face,
She told me she was lonely.
I said it wasn't only me,
I was living with a ghost.
Yeah living with a ghost.
I was living with a ghost
Oooh living with a ghost
I could see she was shaken
From the words I was making
And asked if I could move on
When she hadn't been gone that long.
I told her I was alright,
At least on that night.
We jumped into the deep end
But some wills just won't bend
When you're living with a ghost.
Yeah living with a ghost.
When you're living with a ghost
Oooh living with a ghost.
Yup!
She bought a new Cadillac
And that's when I turned back.
She said I didn't know diddley,
Come on baby are you kidding me?
We didn't really last long.
She could never sing my songs.
But I'll never be lonely,
'cause it's never me only.
I'm living with a ghost.
Yeah living with a ghost.
I'm living with a ghost
Ooh my baby is a ghost.
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After you left me
I didn't know what to do.
I was feeling so empty,
So hollow and black and blue.
I was asking forgiveness
From everyone but myself.
Now I'm looking for redemption
For what it's done to my health
Ooh baby, I never wanted to end.
Ooh babe, can we still pretend?
And maybe this comfort
Is making me blind.
When darkness comes over
I don't even mind.
Ooh babe, can this really be the end?
Ooh babe, can we start over again?
You can cry every night babe,
You can howl at the moon.
The love that was inside
has left me much too soon.
Ooh babe, can I see you again?
I want a lover but I need a friend.
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Derek van Beever Boston, Massachusetts
From the ashes of a personal tragedy, these songs navigate the aftermath and ultimate acceptance of love and loss.
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