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Haunted 05:37
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HAUNTED Feel in your pain The sense to come in from the rain Breathe what you know This anger is breaking your soul Slip from your dream Falling unable to scream Devise a new plan Lie down with your skin on the sand. Worlds take And bonds break Confusion leads into your dark Blood endures Through paths unsure Endings make way for a start See through this night The freedom to open your eyes Reach to a day In sunlight And reasons to stay Worlds take and bonds break Confusion leads into your dark Blood endures Through paths unsure Endings fade into a start Don’t be afraid of your dark Endings make way for a start Breathe, Breathe But the earth is so heavy and haunted Don’t be afraid of your dark Endings fade into a start Breathe, Breathe But the earth is so heavy and haunted
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Chance has Followed Me (prelude to Fireflies) 01:02
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Legends 03:43
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LEGENDS Legends die slowly Heartaches fade hard Dreamers never give up at all They just throw in their cards And the wise man and the traveler And the lawyer and his wife They’d forgotten what they started for And carried on about their lives Placed that lie awake Words who won’t let go Rain falls into familiar streams Legends die slow The stories and the memories there And the songs in the wind The longing to return to where We were told to begin And the wise man and the traveler And the lawyer and his wife They’d forgotten what they started for And carried on about their lives Legends die slowly Journey’s take time Magic slowly drifts apart Until you’re not mine And the wise man and the traveler The husband and the bride We’d forgotten what we started for And carried on about our lives Legends die slowly
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Spirit Wall 03:47
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SPIRIT WALL In the spirit of the wall Designated Desecrated For the fall Call it what you will We won’t back down until In segregated scrawl The spirit of the wall Listening Glistening With the sweat of fears Pounding Surrounding Those spray painted years Those glory hounding smears win after all In the spirit of the wall Spirit of the Wall Faded Jaded Hunger racing through concrete Believing the Bleeding Pays the price of the streets A thousand miles tall The spirit of the wall Spirit of the wall The sweat of fears Surrounding concrete years Those glory hounding smears win After all In the spirit of the wall
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SPIT 06:34
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SPIT Traded to the motion Walking Backward on this line Sedated lip devotion Digging trenches Digging mine Forward the apostle Hustling secrets of the stars Receiving rank refusal Pinching pennies, pushing bars Crawling and cannibals Demon dinosaurs Humanoid animals Salivating on the floors, on the floors Fitted ties regression Sitting backward on the tracks Licking edible expression Carving shoestrings, cutting slack Designated fishbone To momentary slave Fighting for dirt’s grave One by one Playing political in the deep freeze Evolving monkey seeds Under the gun, just for fun Elated at the honor Climbing statute on your back Reforms rewinding nowhere Cashing headstones, counting stacks, upon your backs Crawling and cannibals Demon dinosaurs Humanoid animals Salivating on the floors, on the floors Designated fishbone To momentary slave Fighting for dirt’s grave One by one Playing political in the deep freeze Evolving monkey seeds Under the gun, just for fun
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Fortunes 07:32
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FORTUNES Fortunes at the bottom of a steeple Words forgotten to pray A child’s fears A woman’s years Cold taste that shallows A haunted hand Tainted in eternity Priceless dust Laying waste to rust A child’s fears A woman’s years And I will lay you in my streets Distanced by our daggers As we kneel on twisted sheets I will lay you in my streets Fingers to the edge Standing on the ledge of cracked concrete I will lay you I will lay you in my streets Mazes in the winding of the people Pasts neglecting to stay An unwritten place A lonely grace Pastel tears that hollow a frightened man Printed in his destiny Embittered touch Cutting taste to trust A child’s fears A woman’s years And I will lay you in my streets Distanced by our daggers As we kneel on twisted sheets I will lay you in my streets Fingers to the edge Standing on the ledge of cracked concrete I will lay you I will lay you in my streets
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Road Kill 02:28
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ROAD KILL Depressing driving down the pavement this time of year Homicidal chauvinists and little old ladies that can’t see Over the steering wheel Reflexes splattered in concrete Instinctive blood and guts lying where the tires want to be Sometimes I’m crawling across the middle of life’s street Fast becoming Road Kill Life’s ambitions redefined Road kill Need those tires realigned Road kill You’ve all been reassigned now that your Road kill Application bound to get declined How come everything I want is always on the other side of that double yellow line Losers on display, watching that day by day decay They don’t bother me but you best stay out of the way Or you’ll be Road Kill Life’s ambitions redefined Road kill Need those tires realigned Road kill We’ve all been reassigned now that your Road kill
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Fireflies and Lost Moons 08:04
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FIREFLIES and LOST MOONS I can tell by the spark in your eyes You’re a dreamer If you could have seen her When she was untouched But the world Took a little too much I’m sorry You don’t want to hear my story Take me home But don’t turn out the light You can tell me your game in the morning I’ll give you all you’re wanting So I can sleep with your dream tonight The skies are clear You turn away when I whisper your name This room’s so cold As I gaze out Your bedroom window And I can’t find the stars They got lost with the moon And the little boy who captured his heart In a glass jar He’ll be leaving soon That little boy Who so long ago Forgot how to dance Don’t take the chance Stand in a corner Painted Black He left without me Let the little boy be Stranded in his shadow How can they all know the same tune? He’ll be leaving soon Clear skies on a night like tonight Explain to me why I can’t find the stars They got lost with the moon And the little boy who captured his heart In a glass jar He’ll be leaving soon A song so familiar We sing it when we sleep Sing when we laugh Sing when we weep We never learned how to pray I always felt I was just in the way Someday Share the same pillow Store our love in the drawer He doesn’t listen When I say I need more Funny thing He wears a ring that matches mine I think I’ll lay in the wet grass Til the sun hits the trees The skies dark through an empty glass And it’s hard to see Because I can’t find the stars They got lost with the moon And the little girl who captured her heart In a glass jar She’ll be leaving soon Because I can’t find the stars They got lost with the moon And the little girl who captured her heart In a glass jar I’ll be leaving soon
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Captured in this Day 05:15
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CAPTURED IN THIS DAY Captured in this day You just dance away And it’s all I can hold Bow your heads and pray Fade into my mind Peace we failed to find Tears drown untold Those you leave behind Leaving And I never said good bye Believing We could forgive if we try Just dance away While I’m Captured in this day Falling with the breeze Falling on my knees Memories subside For the man A young heart Can not see Clutching to the ground To our fate we’re bound Dreams that all died When you weren’t around Leaving And I never said good bye Believing We could forgive if we try Just dance away While I’m Captured in this day

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Provoking lyrics supported by intimate piano chords, playful guitar, and endemic drums create an unusual mix of rock stories.

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released September 15, 2017

Laurie J - vocals, piano, drums, lyrics
Matt Devore - guitar, bass, piano, drums
Tom Manche - bass
J Morgan - artwork

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Closer to Wild Nashville, Tennessee

Closer to Wild is heart, spirit, my story twisting through the confusion of life. Thank you for sharing my messy, musical, poetic journey.

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