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Well, I’m exiled on Main Street again
As the sun comes up over the Schuylkill River bridge
While the Clark Street hustlers are riding the bus downtown
I sit on the sidewalk till you come back around
I thought I saw Old Willy the other day
But those dreams of California took him away
It hasn’t been the same round here since he’s gone
Don’t you wait too long before the dawn
Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be
When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury?
I can see thе Bedford Towers begin to fadе
While the marching band plays “When The Levee Breaks”
Oh, tell me momma, can you say it isn’t so?
Is there trouble with our lady of the snow?
Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be
When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury?
You're exiled on Main Street
Can you feel the fire under your feet?
The freedom, the daylight
All your memories shattered in the moonlight
Nostalgia, it's unplanned
When you're playing in a rock and roll band
Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be
When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury?
Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be
When it’s all done, could you forgive me Tisbury?
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It calls you back to somewhere else
Foolishly you’re laughing in the front seat
Wondering if your life’s already gone
Remembering what she said
“You can’t find the way from here but you’re back now”
And It feels just like you’re walking on a line
You’re holding onto someone else to feel alive
You’re reaching out to anything that you can find
You’re holding up your stereo
Wishing that they could only hear you
Like Peter writing letters to the saints
It’s only whеn you’re feeling down
You can’t get out of bed somеhow but you’re trying
Hopefully this feeling comes to pass
You’re holding onto someone else to feel alive
You’re reaching out to anything that you can find
Still far gone on the second line
Reaching out for a second sign
It calls you back to somewhere else
Foolishly you’re laughing in the front seat
Wondering if your life’s already gone
You’re holding onto someone else to feel alive
You’re reaching out to anything that you can find
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You’re decomposing all your edges now
You misinterpret all the signs
You began to descend down that tree
With Napoleon behind
And if the rain it falls too hard, then you will know your plants are growing
And if the day turns into night, then you will know my light is burning
Don’t follow suit, don’t say goodbye, just follow me into the garden
I’ll follow you to say goodnight, say goodnight
Keep patrolling your horizons
Keep your typewriter upstairs
Cause those deep red lights will enter
When the mammoth secret stares
And if the rain it falls too hard, then you will know your plants are growing
And if the day turns into night, then you will know my light is burning
Don’t follow suit, don’t say goodbye, just follow me into the garden
I’ll follow you to say goodnight, say goodnight
Can’t you see the morning’s coming
Your windows are gone, they’ve fallen
Don’t hide behind those sacred symbols
That are keeping you warm
And if the rain it falls too hard, then you will know your plants are growing
And if the day turns into night, then you will know my light is burning
Don’t follow suit, don’t say goodbye, just follow me into the garden
I’ll follow you to say goodnight, say goodnight
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Ten Years On
04:28
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Ten years on and i’m alone
It’s been a long time since i’ve been home
Ten years on, it's all the same
It's been a while, lemonbrain
But will I turn around to see the rock?
Like a genius off the clock?
Give me life and tell me why
I can’t go back, i can’t rewind
Trade my liver to save my lungs
The water’s rising but my head won’t budge
Will I walk into the blazing sun
Before the people make me run?
And if you leave me in the hive again
Leave my lying in my bed
I can’t forget, and i know why
I can’t go back, i can’t rewind
Leave me dead and leave my head
If i have reservations
A kiss for you, a kiss goodbye
I can’t go back, i can’t rewind
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You feel like you’re running out of time
You shot the moon and you’re losing your mind
This providence was promised by fools
You’ve been jaded by the rich and the cruel
So if you’re locked into silence
On an ocean of violence
And those tears you were crying came to town
I’ll pick you up when love knocks you down
The bends take a tender age to bloom
Both love and death barge into the room
The dream you tossed was falling away
Like a voice in your hеad, like a moth to a flame
So if you’re lockеd into silence
On an ocean of violence
And those tears you were crying came to town
I’ll pick you up when love knocks you down
You disappear like a shadow in a glasshouse
Will everything go back to how it was before?
You dread the days you spend alone in darkened rooms
But i will try, we’ll flip it over, and move forward from the night
So if you’re locked into silence
On an ocean of violence
And those tears you were crying came to town
And we don’t have no money
And our faces look a little funny
And those tears we were crying came to town
I’ll pick you up when love knocks you down
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La Mancha
03:07
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She bought a ticket to Spain cause she could not take it any longer
Life’s flimsy, like paper, it falls apart in her little fingers
Woo!
Everything she wished for, it all just showed up in her timeline
The masses were waiting but no one met her at the airport
You can not go backwards, you can not stay
A history of violence, add or subtract any way you want it
Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha it’s too late
Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha keep the change
Adventure, it falters, like holy rollers just tipping over
The people, the culturе, pour over them with your coffee filter
Your horsе and your best friend, they are supplying you all the answers
Farewell to the losers, they’ll follow you off into the sunset
Yo tengo un secreto, nadas importante
We are just a bunch of plastic bags floating in the river
Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha it’s too late
Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha keep the change
Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha it’s too late
Oh La Mancha, Oh La Mancha keep the change
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As the fanfare stops, the murder was recorded
In the bedroom where you told the story to yourself
This house was not a home
Johnny had a hit: It was born, not written
It was living proof that the stars will fumble all the same
In their old, forgotten cars
Now we’ve grown too abstract, all our passions are regional
Our fortune’s ignored and we’re facing the ridicule
Is it closing in on you like it's closing in on me?
While the surprise crooks all drove south to heaven
You were digging your hole down to the poison in your heart
Leave it in your judgement drawer
Meet me at the drop, I will be your cover
In the the thrill of the night I’ll be waiting down on Massachusetts Street
With the shovel and body parts
Now we’ve grown too abstract, all our passions are regional
Our fortune’s ignored and we’re facing the ridicule
Is it closing in on you like it's closing in on me?
Now we’re naked and cold, all our heroes are liquefied
We’ll be forty or fifty and our minds won’t be satisfied
Is it closing in on you like it’s closing in on me?
Living life with schadenfreude
It’s a sacrifice for the midnight gods
It's harder now than it ever was to keep it all alive
We’re on the run, in harmony
It’s in our blood, it’s in New Jersey
It’s all you keep when all your demons go in for the night
Now we’ve grown too abstract, all our passions are regional
Our fortune’s ignored and we’re facing the ridicule
Is it closing in on you like it's closing in on me?
Now we’re naked and cold, all our heroes are liquefied
We’ll be forty or fifty and our minds won’t be satisfied
Is it closing in on you like it’s closing in on me?
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Paulette
02:46
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I hope you’re listening, I hope you’re well
I‘m still missing your perfume smell
Take me with you, it will be alright
I’ll call your bingo numbers into the night
Paulette
Paulette
It’s time for work already
And now my heart feels heavy
No reason in my life to
Practice french vocabulary
I know you’re listening, I can see you now
Take a seat with me to help calm me down
When you leave I will remember your smile
I’ll feel that hurt again but not for a while
Paulettе
Paulette
The spring turns into summеr
A walk with awe & wonder
And in the sky I see your
Bright blue earrings hangin' on ya
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When A Switch Flips
03:01
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You find it alarming, I break with a bark
I find it way harder to poeticize the start
You live in the daylight, I fight with the sound
On corners that take time to lift up off the ground
I work for a way to say to you
It’s once and for all (once and for all)
We’ll search for the lock before the fall
It took me a decade, I wore a grey suit
The guards and the ushers took promises to boot
We’ll turn all the lights off and say both our names
The ones we were hiding and the ones that stay the same
I work for a way to say to you
It’s once and for all (once and for all)
We’ll search for the lock before the fall
But when the switch flips, I feel oh so compromisable
So detrimental to your health
And when that flipped switch meets a object so unmovable
It takes a buzzsaw to itself
Let’s meet in the middle, Let’s kiss on main street in France
We’ll push our noses together and teach our eyes to dance
I work for a way to say to you
It’s once and for all (once and for all)
We’ll search for the lock before the fall
I’ve given you nothing (nothing at all)
The rattlers hate my point of view
With their bowling ball (the bowling ball)
You feel it in your abdominal wall
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Language Of Luxury
03:58
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You slipped through the upstage club again
I found you singing in the band
The summer’s over but you’re ready to go
There’s homeless surfers sleeping on the floor
Quick stint of quarrels in the night
Insults and always starting fights
All the horrible first times in your life
You’ve broken your teeth and you’re rolling the dice
But you’re speaking my language, baby
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
There’s no way it’s life sustaining
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
You know you mean so much to me
Even when the snow falls at your feet
The power’s out and the the money is gone
We dread the dark but we’ll sell all our songs
We’ll take the highway to LA
Where the sun will shine on us all day
We don’t have much but we’re having fun
Cause tramps like us are born to run
But you’re speaking my language, baby
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
There’s no way it’s life sustaining
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
Around the corner the heat is waiting
Let’s move it along, let’s move it along
So turn over the record baby
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
All the ghosts in this town, they’re here to stay
Can’t ask a question, they’ll turn you away
It’s in their expression, it’s in their expression
At the midnight sky, we’re screaming out
It’s just me and you, what a terrible sound
Hear our confession, hear our confession!
But you’re speaking my language, baby
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
There’s no way it’s life sustaining
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
Around the corner the heat is waiting
Let’s move it along, let’s move it along
So turn over the record baby
We’ll move it along, we’ll move it along
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11. |
Exile (On Main Street)
04:37
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You're out there walking through the streets tonight
You know that you can’t get very far
Your memories are a frequency in stereo
Like the grooves on the record of your heart
When your dreams are shattered in the moonlight
And you hear the hum of old guitars
Are your memories exiled on Main Street?
Are you fighting the sleep off in your car?
Staring at photos from yesterday
Of the streets residing in your your heart
The streets residing your heart
It's so easy to look back in anger, my dear
One day we'll both be 64
And we’ll go back to the town where we used to live
And realize we never needed more
When your dreams are shattered in the moonlight
And you hear the hum of old guitars
Are your memories exiled on Main Street?
Are you fighting the sleep off in your car?
Staring at photos from yesterday
Of the streets residing in your your heart
The streets residing your heart
Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be
When it's all done, could you forgive me, Tisbury?
Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be
When it's all done, could you forgive me, Tisbury?
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The Tisburys Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Indie Rock; new album, EXILE ON MAIN STREET out now.
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