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Donna
03:05
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It’s not the words you say but how you say it
I saved a picture where your hair was braided
They found your wallet in the cemetery
You told your daughter she was ordinary
You hate the name Junior
your husband loved his computers
Your mother never was one
the eldest of seven children
If you don’t have it then you’ll never give it
And I don’t blame you for the way you’re living
A little boy was born in February
You couldn’t sober up to hold a baby
You hate the name Donna
You love to judge strangers’ karma
We drove from New Jersey
the trucks always made you worry
Hold my hand now, time to
go to bed it’s way too late
You hate the name Donna
You love to judge strangers’ karma
We drove from New Jersey
the trucks always made you worry
You raised a saint Donna
You love to judge strangers’ karma
You’re prayin’ for a funeral
You sang it like hallelujah
You sang it like hallelujah
You sang it like hallelujah
You sang it like hallelujah
You sang it like hallelujah
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2. |
Life In The City
03:51
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Wooo, wooo, woo
And if the city skyscrapers rise over the island
Would you be glad to see Manhattan for once
I knew the dream had died JMZ line, Myrtle and Broadway
But I’d be glad to see Manhattan for once
Woah living life in the city
Woah, it will never be pretty
Ohh, ohh
Woah we can plan if we make it
Woah, we won’t let ‘em, they won’t take it from me no no no
And if you leave, don’t leave me all alone
Cause I’ll be scared I’ll be naked I’ll get cold
And I miss my dad and Cleopatra’s sittin’ on the phone
So take me back off these streets
And we’ll never be apart, together from the start
Never, never falling back alone
Woah living life in the city
Woah, it will never be pretty
Ohh, ohh
Woah we can plan if we make it
Woah, we won’t let’em, they won’t take it from me no no no
And if the sun don’t shine on me today
And if the subways flood and bridges break
Will you just lay down and dig your grave
Or will you rail against your dying day
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Gloria
03:36
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Gloria, I smell it on your breath
Gloria, the booze and peppermint
Gloria, no one said enough is enough
Gloria, they found you on the floor
Gloria, my hand was tied to yours
Gloria, did you finally see that enough is enough
Did you know me when, I was younger then
I could take the whole world with me
I would find myself, feel alone
Heaven help me now, heaven show the way
Get me back on my own two feet
I would lie awake and pray you don’t lie awake for me
Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh
Gloria, you crawled up on your cross
Gloria, you made us sit and watch
Gloria, no one said enough is enough
Heaven help me now, heaven show the way
Get me back on my own two feet
I would lie awake and pray you don’t lie awake for me
Every night awake, every day alone
Get me back on my own two feet
I would lie awake and pray you don’t lie awake for me
Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh
Gloria, will you just decide
Gloria, there’s easier ways to die
Gloria, have you had enough
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On the last time we met, your love was dead
You held my hand, bit your tongue
Shut me out, spilled my blood all around
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
Yea I took the poison praying you’d feel it too
You held your punches back and I left the room
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
All alone, you always felt
We dragged you down, gave me hell
Made your bed, now you sleep
On your own, guess we’ll see
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
Yea I took the poison praying you’d feel it too
You held your punches back and I left the room
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
I know that you tried
But you were no friend of mine
Fallin’ apart
You played it the best, a dame in distress
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
Yea I wrapped my neck and prayed that you’d feel the noose
I saw the restaurant, table for two
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
Yea it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
Yea I took the poison praying you’d feel it too
You held your punches back and I left the room
Yeah it wasn’t easy to be happy for you
Yea
Yea
Yea
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5. |
Leader Of the Landslide
05:54
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Every night I saw you there
in your old wicker chair
You were wrong, I was right
Didn’t matter any fight
Coffee mug filled it up
I always knew what it was
Been on your side for years
You can never love without crying
Is she dead, is she fine
Every day, every night
Fate has dealt me a lonely blow I say
Try to help it only hurt, in the end I made it worse
Is she dead, is she fine
Every day, every night
Give back my keys, give back my chair
Take back those clothes you always left on the floor
You drove me wild, drove me insane
Drank the whole bottle and forgot my name
All I ever wanted was a mother for the first time
Finally I can see you as the leader of the landslide
She left she left the writing’s on the wall
Please believe me, I smell the alcohol
The only thing I know is that we’re in too deep
And maybe when she’s dead and gone I’ll get some sleep
You blamed it all on your kids
We were young, we were innocent
You told me a lie, fuck you for that
Fuck all your pride and fuck all your prayers
And all this time I waited like a fool and for the first time
Finally I can see you as the leader of the landslide
She left she left, the writing’s on the wall
Please believe me, don’t answer when she calls
The only thing I know is that we’re in too deep
And maybe when she’s dead and gone I’ll get some sleep
Out there on my own, I was feeling so alone
Like a poltergeist in the afterlife
Faded by degrees, I was shaking in the knees
In the aftermath of this broken glass
Ohhh
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6. |
Left For Denver
03:16
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What time was it when you were only 18 years old
You crossed the street, you crossed your legs
You came across a little cold
It was all, it was all fallin’ apart
Fallin’ apart
What time was it when you were in the 8th grade
You brought the bikes up to the high school
You spiked a Gatorade
It was all for, for the weekend
It was all, all still fallin’ apart
I didn’t say you’d be better off if you quit
Everyone laughed as you held on longer than the rest
What made you leave and when you did you left for Denver why?
What did you know that I did not
That I did not
Is it one or is it two or is it three kids now?
They mark the time they draw the lines around your eyelids now
And is it all still for the weekend
Is it all, all still fallin’ apart?
I didn’t say you’d be better off if you quit
Everyone laughed as you held on longer than the rest
What made you leave and when you did you left for Denver why?
What did you know that I did not
That I did not
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7. |
My Cell
03:16
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Fallin’ in love is wonderful
Fallin’ in love and so alone
My cell, my pretty little cell
Painted windows, there for me
Painted windows, so I can see
Fallin’ in line is wonderful
Fallin’ in love and so alone
My cell, my pretty little cell
Painted windows, so I see
Painted windows, all for me
My cell, my pretty little cell
My cell, my pretty little cell
My cell, my pretty little cell
My cell, my pretty little cell
All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone
All alone, all alone, all alone, all alone
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8. |
Jimmy Sparks
05:56
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Jimmy Sparks went into bars and opened up his mouth
Said some things to wounded men that they could not allow
When it came to talking he was always on the run
Everyone knew what the man had done
Oh, he’ll take you for a ride
Jimmy believed in the American way
A prison guard he worked hard and made the minimum wage
He found his freedom locking men in a cage
Jimmy loved Bonnie and he fathered a kid
A baby boy but the mother had other reasons to live
She left the baby with a note on the bed
It was a struggle just to cover the rent
His jail cut hours and now his little baby was sick
He needed money and he needed it quick
It was three AM
Oh my love oh my love
Could you spare my blood, spare my blood
Jim woke his son and buckled him in the car
They drove an hour from town and found a gambling hall
The waitress babysat the boy at the bar
After an hour Jimmy doubled his cash
He took his kid and his winnings as the dealer just laughed
He said they leave but then they always come back
That’s a fact
Out on the road they caught a stranger in the lights
His thumb was up and the son asked if the man was alright
Jim said you never give a hitcher a ride
Cause it’s us or them
It was three AM
Oh my love oh my love
Could you spare my blood, spare my blood
Twenty years gone and now the boy is a man
Old Jimmy’s habits got him mountains and mountains of debt
And now the sharks are coming back to collect
They strip the jewelry and the boots off Jim’s feet
They kick Him out of the car and say we’ll give you a week
Eight miles from home and only eighteen degrees
It was three AM
Oh my love oh my love
Would you spare my blood, damn my blood
Now Jimmy’s son is trying to make his way home
His graveyard shift had ended and it was starting to snow
He sees an old man walking barefoot alone
It was three AM
His old man waved his hands with tears in his eyes
But Jimmy’s son just sped up and remembered daddy’s advice
No you don’t ever give a hitcher a ride
‘Cause it’s us or them
‘Cause it’s me or him
It was three AM
Three AM
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9. |
April
00:50
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10. |
Salt and the Sea
04:33
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Could it be I was the one that you held so deep in the night
On the back staircase you fell to your knees with tears in your eyes
All that you suffered, all the disease
You couldn’t hide it, hide it from me
All alone scared in your room, would you swear there’s nobody home
On the bed laying awake as you prayed he’d leave you alone
I’ll let the darkness swallow me whole
I need to find you, need you to know
I’ll be your friend in the daylight again
There we will be, like an old enemy
Like the salt and the sea
And they wrote all these prescriptions, they wrote me off
like a heel
Yea the doctors with their medicine left me
to rock in my filth
From the destruction, out of the flame
You need a villain, give me a name
I’ll be your friend in the daylight again
There we will be, like an old enemy
I’ll be your friend in the daylight again
There we will be, like an old enemy
Like the salt and the sea
Like the salt and the sea
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11. |
Democracy (Bonus Track)
06:44
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It’s coming through a hole in the air,
From those nights in Tiananmen Square
It’s coming from the feel,
That this ain’t exactly real,
Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there
From the wars against disorder,
From the sirens night and day,
From the fires of the homeless,
From the ashes of the gay
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
It’s coming through a crack in the wall
On a visionary flood of alcohol
From the staggering account
Of the Sermon on the Mount
Which I don’t pretend to understand at all
It’s coming from the silence
On the dock of the bay
From the brave, the bold, the battered,
Heart of Chevrolet
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
It’s coming from the sorrow in the street
The holy places where the races meet
From the homicidal bitchin’
That goes down in every kitchen
To determine who will serve and who will eat
From the wells of disappointment
Where the women kneel to pray
For the grace of God in the desert here
And the desert far away
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on
It’s coming to America first
The cradle of the best, of the worst
It’s here they’ve got the range
And the machinery for change
And it’s here they’ve got the spiritual thirst
It’s here the family’s broken
And it’s here the lonely say
That the heart has got to open
In a fundamental way
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
It’s coming from the women and the men
Oh baby, we’ll be making love again
We’ll be going down so deep
That the river’s gonna weep
And the mountain’s goin’ to shout, “Amen!”
It’s coming like the tidal flood
Beneath the lunar sway
Imperial, mysterious, in amorous array
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
Sail on, sail on
Oh mighty Ship of State
To the Shores of Need
past the Reefs of Greed
through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on
I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
Oh I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
And I’m neither left or right
I’m just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
That time cannot decay
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
This little wild bouquet
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
To the U.S.A
To the U.S.A
To the U.S.A
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12. |
Old Lady (Bonus Track)
04:17
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An old lady crosses the street
And as she waves to me
I don’t see her
And I know that one day I...
Oooooh, oooooh, oooooh, oooooh
And how I miss my mother’s mother
She became a stranger, but I still love her
And I hope, I hope she turns
Oooooh, oooooh, oooooh, oooooh
Now the day came when we left her
We couldn’t say goodbye, and I know that I was wrong
But I hope that she knows...
Oooooh, oooooh, oooooh, oooooh
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13. |
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Loneliness, oh won’t you let me be
Let me be and I will set you free
Don’t you think if it was up to me
I would choose to be happy
Let me go, the king’s on high
He picks her out of the crowd to be by his side
She walks up, staircase in white
She holds her breath, pretends that this is right
‘Cause all this, it don’t come free
And don’t become a casualty
And live beneath what you were meant to be
‘Cause cowards and heroes feel
The same as you and me, it’s real
But some will run and others persevere
Victory is in the fight
In men with hearts will bleed tonight
And only rest and rest is what is right
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The Lumineers Denver, Colorado
After years of touring in support of their debut album, The Lumineers released Cleopatra on Dualtone, in 2016. The platinum album debuted #1 on both Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart and the UK Albums Chart and featured the gold title track as well as the platinum single, "Ophelia". The tour in support of Cleopatra included two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden and one at the Hollywood Bowl. ... more
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