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Open Letter (02:39)
This is somewhat of a B-Side to LRH. It's blatantly political and a bit trite so I left it off the album. { Tags : Bush, antiwar, Iraq }
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close [x] It's been four long years of bullshit and I don't wanna take no more Of this never-ending travesty this open-ended war Don't pull 'em out let's keep 'em in Surely that's the way to win Don't you know that freedom isn't free when we're burning billions There must be some explanation For taking me down here All this hype and speculation Is ringing in my ears Don't you see this global war is concentrated in one place? Seems to me the main objective is Operation Saving Face If we cast aside the curtain on your rhetoric repeat Are these the open arms of victory or the closing jaws of defeat? There must be some explanation For taking me down here All this hype and speculation Is ringing in my ears There must be some explanation For taking me down here All this media saturation Is ringing in my ears

The End (04:01)
This is another B-side to LRH. It's the first song I ever wrote. I had strep throat when I sang this, and it's way too long, dark and oblique. It's notable that I used a slide on this one, though. That was fun. { Tags : regrets, sadness }
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close [x] this shiny pay phone quarter says it's time to go so let your last regrets reflect against the dial tone and watch your tone of voice don't let regret come through like dying strands of stray sunlight in a fading afternoon and whether i come home and whether we're in love we could discuss in furtive whispers faintly shaking from above and whether we are right and whether we are wrong what difference does it make as long as we can fake the peace that lies uneasily in the space between our beds wide awake at three am with monsters in our heads jealousy and mistrust are merciless machines take it up with talk show hosts ghosts books and magazines so where will i go and where am i gonna sleep i'll find a vacant heart and let the silence speak and what it all comes down to is we just weren't meant to be as we head our separate ways we'll have cliches to keep repeating in the darkness when we try to sleep i thought that I could change you and that was wrong of me

The Long Road Home (03:03)
This song is about the sense that, no matter how far you've strayed from who you are and what you believe, the way back is firmly in your hands { Tags : recovery, forgiveness }
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close [x] One foot in front of the other One breath follows another They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step And I know it's true But the long road home begins and ends with you We all fall down now and then We all struggle to get back up again They say life is full of second chances, baby And I know it's true But if you can't forgive yourself, baby Who's gonna forgive you? We're all given room to roam Take my hand and I'll help you find your way home They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step And I know it's true But the long road home begins and ends with you But the long road home begins and ends with you

Alliance (04:05)
This is about the Rust Belt town in Northeast Ohio where my dad's family is from. It's based on the family stories my grandmother and dad told me as a kid. It's about family, memories, and what happened when the steel mills closed. It's a fable, sort of. { Tags : Alliance }
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close [x] They brought the towns together Forged them out of steel Built towns around the outskirts Planted corn in the fields West of town on Sawburg Road They milled cider in the fall Raised their children and their dreams And watched them both grow tall It's a long road to the end of my days I've got many a mile to travel on It's a long road to the end of my days It's a long way to Alliance My grandpa and his brother in law Built his house with their bare hands Scoured plowed fields for arrowheads Where the buffalo once ran Kept a record in the Bible As the generations passed Let it serve as a reminder That nothing ever lasts The passing years brought heartache Tragedy and fear Cheapter steel from eastern lands and a tidal wave of tears Main Street became a ghost town State Street's much the same Built a highway through my grandpa's house Citing eminent domain Subdivisions dot the vacant farms Padlocks seal the factories shut There's a used car lot at the cider mill And the railyards are covered in rust The people and places are all gone but their ghosts still remain Save the memories of centuries In this faded picture frame It's a long road to the end of my days I've got many a mile to travel on It's a long road to the end of my days It's a long way to Alliance It's a long road to the end of my days It's a long way to Alliance

Anyway (03:34)
This is a song about a relationship on the rocks. "Anyway" is the downside to the upside in "These Times," so I put them next to each other on the record. { Tags : relationship, love, loss, drinking, sleep }
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close [x] We’ve arrived at this place in spacetime And we’re not sure we belong Don’t know how we got here from point A and I say I don’t care who threw the first stone Just know that I want us to push past this disaster We find frustration in the ordinary Every day anyway I can’t sleep at all and you’re sleeping too much anyway You don’t drink at all and I’m drinking too much anyway Anyway, anyway The space between us in our bed has grown such It’s like an ocean swimming between us No matter if we see things differently You know you’re the best thing that’s happened to me and I Don’t want to lose you I don’t wanna leave Just wanna find consolation in the ordinary Every day anyway I can’t sleep at all and you’re sleeping too much anyway You don’t drink at all and I’m drinking too much anyway I think it’s time for us to come home anyway I know you I need you I’ll hold you I love you anyway Anyway, anyway

These Times (03:09)
I wrote this on a business trip in Seattle. I stayed in a hotel room right on Puget Sound and could see the amazing view but it was totally silent where I was. It's about both the loneliness of being on the road and the redemption of coming home. { Tags : Travel, Seattle, loneliness }
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close [x] Another west coast hotel room See the city but I can't see you See the sound but I can't hear a thing So much time spent in so close Myopia distorts our focus Dystopia it seems so hopeless I know this now I know I know this now I know It's these times that make me think of you It's these times that I come back home It's you that sets me free I know this now I know I know this now I know Set the watch three hours behind Synchronize you in my mind When I'm gone it's you I find So much time spent in so close Myopia distorts our focus Sometimes distance brings us closer I know this now I know I know this now I know It's gonna be alright I know this now I know I know this now I know

Ripples on the Pond (05:18)
This song is the coda for the overall theme of the album: sometimes the road home is filled with tragedy, obstacles and frustration, but if we stay true to who we are and what we believe we'll find redemption in the end. { Tags : redemption }
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close [x] I'm so happy to see you smile again To hear your laughter on the wind To feel your skin against my skin You've come home again I see that the mystery in which we believe is nothing more than what we can't see I believe if we close our eyes and live our lives We will find our way to this truth All this time I thought we were growing apart Maybe we'd gone too far But we were just expanding Like ripples on the pond I see that the mystery in which we believe is nothing more than what we can't see I believe if we close our eyes and live our lives We will find our way to this truth

Five Days Later (03:59)
In 2007 an elderly great uncle of mine and his wife died within five days of one another. While it was sad to lose them, I found a sort of bittersweet poignancy in the fact that neither of them would have to carry on alone without the other. To quote the officiant at my wedding, marriage "delivers us from our aloneness." I think that's true, and that's what I tried to convey in this song. This is my favorite song that I've written. { Tags : death, aloneness }
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close [x] I hope we live together til the age of ninety-five No regrets or debts left over from a life well lived If you should pass before me over to the other side Don’t want to wait around alone watching the years go by If you should die tomorrow I hope I die five days later No use hangin around watching the clock run out Don’t want no casseroles don’t want no cards and flowers Don’t want to wait around to see how the rest turns out Don’t want no easy chair in the TV’s ephemeral glow I’ve lived myself to the fullest and now I know Ashes turn to ashes and dust turns to dust And the leaves all fall from the trees in autumn’s fading sun And I don’t mind the coming of winter’s cold embrace Don’t want to overstay life’s welcome in this lonely place If you should die tomorrow I hope I die five days later No use hangin around to see how the rest turns out Hangin around waiting to see you again Just hanging around watching the clock run out

Keep You Up at Night (03:28)
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We (05:10)
This one's about religion. { Tags : Religion }
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close [x] Don't need a heaven Don't need a hell If you need to believe that's just as well Don't need promises of salvation Or threats so ominous of damnation All I need is you and me in the here and now You don't have to go through it alone We don't have to deal with it all on our own You don't have to go through it alone We don't have to deal with it all on our own Don't need a church to tell me why Don't need a big daddy in the sky Don't need a book to read my compass And I sure as hell don't need you praying for my soul 'Cause it's fine, it's just fine, thank you You don't have to go through it alone We don't have to deal with it all on our own You don't have to go through it alone We don't have to deal with it all on our own I am me You are you And we are we I am okay

Be Here (04:16)
This one's about trying to capture life's fleeting moments.
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close [x] On a sunny fall day I was freezing the frame You were standing in the sunlight smiling at me You said something funny I can’t remember now It was something I’d said to you years ago Trying to hang on to moments like these Is like trying to stop the river from returning to the sea Just be here, just be here Be present in this moment and alive in this time Just be here, just be here These seconds tick by but the days fly away Ohhhhh, ohhhh We were walking these sidewalks at a quarter past three I was holding your hand you were holding onto me I told you I loved you you said you agreed I said how ‘bout forever and you said “we’ll see” We turned and kept walking but I wanted to say These seconds slip by but our lives fly away Just be here, just be here Be present in this moment and alive in this time Just be here, just be here These seconds tick by but the days fly away

Page to Turn (03:17)
A song about America in 2008. { Tags : America }
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close [x] Is there anything left after we explode Is there anything left in the middle of the road Should we close our minds and scream? Do we take a dim memory off the shelf Or harbor deep doubts about ourselves Should we close our eyes and dream? We are waiting for the other shoe to drop We are waiting for the page to turn We are waiting for the forest tree to fall We are waiting for the page to turn I'm a churning hurricane on a burning sea We got gasoline eyes and fallout feet This American twenty-first century Do we take a sound bite right out of this Slice of American apple pie Does the TV lull us gently off to sleep? Sleep Dream Believe We are waiting for the other shoe to drop We are waiting for the page to turn We are waiting for the forest tree to fall We are waiting for the page to turn Page to turn

Hold My Ground (05:17)
A song about keeping it together when life gets to be too much.
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close [x] Do you go High and low Does your conscience rest on a bed of stone? Where are you When the rain turns blue Have you served your time and paid your dues? When it all comes screaming All comes swirling All comes sliding down Do you hold your ground? Have you been In between All your memories and what's yet to be? Does your pain dissolve As the world revolves And time consumes all that's wrong? When it all comes screaming All comes swirling All comes sliding down Do you hold your ground? I'm waking i'm sleeping I'm standing I'm kneeling I'm running I'm creeping I'm flying I'm crawling I'm tired I'm hungry I'm healing I'm bleeding I'm still here I can say Here today I'm not leaving yet, I'm here to stay I'll take this strength Through the years As a souvenir of my hopes and my fears When it all comes screaming All comes swirling All comes sliding All comes crashing And it all comes falling down Well I'll hold my ground

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