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Nazarene Sheen
04:40
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no, it wasn't like that with nazarene sheen
first learned to freebase when she was thirteen
nazarene drives a schoolbus in an old mill town
what used to be a new mill town
and all of the seventh grade boys
wearing their black lipstick
ollie the sheriff's pool
tape over the tricks they miss
they call out her name
like a long silk sleeve
don’'t even know
what her name means — nazarene
nazarene! nazarene
nazarene! nazarene
nazarene— nazarene
nazarene is a woman of particular tastes.
sharing the end of her drink with the rain
she'll scroll through the photos at 4AM
touching the hearts underneath her friends
and all of the busted jeeps
duct tape their rollbars on
keeping their knuckles shined
losing the mud they cross
they call out her name
like a long silk sleeve
don’'t even know
what her name means — nazarene
nazarene! nazarene
nazarene! nazarene
nazarene— nazarene
nazarene keeps her earrings in a Folgers can
her body has nothing to do with your hands
nazarene’s got a spot on the levee she parks
i've asked and i've asked but i'm still in the dark
all of the gunmetal fog
spooling the redwood trees.
there's a heat in the human ribs
they say tops a billion degrees
(rpt chorus)
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2. |
Face Full of Charcoal
06:27
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take me like a sparkler through the woods in the dark
drinking Dr. Pepper and Makers Mark
jump in the ravine in our underwear
break into the mill, show you I ain't scared
of dying here
i know you read Camus back in high school
but you still get sentimental over waning moons
want you like a furnace wants a perfect brick
sandals on the guardrail in
the wind
i was born down the street from a long black train
it's coming for me, i know it's coming for me
you can bury your clothes, you can change your name
you know it's coming for you, you know it's coming
for you
face full of charcoal, we all fall down
face full of charcoal we fall
face full of charcoal, we all fall down
face full of charcoal we fall
eating all the peaches straight from the tin
throwing your couch off the green bridge
did you hear the one about the PE coach?
bones on the levee and the van
that they found them in
here's where your mom fell asleep in the car
this right here is your permanent scar
count all the pull-ups i do off this branch
you tell me what kind of man
i am
(rpt bridge and chorus)
if you lay your hands here / the shaking will stop
you tell me but i don't believe
if you lay your hands here / the shaking will stop
you tell me but i don't believe
trust me just trust me / oh baby just trust me
yeah that's the problem i think
i was born down the street from a long black train
know it’s coming for me, i know it’s coming
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always give the cowboy directions
you never know when he might help you out
he’s kissing his boyfriend’s eyebrows
the night it doesn’t hang so much as drown
always bake an extra potato
you never know who’s coughing up their lunch
when I carried you I wasn’t frightened
when I put you down oh God I was
sorry for the ashes in your bathtub
sorry for the sherbet on your shoes
sorry for the spider at your book club
sorry I let go of your belt loops
how about the fire of forgiveness
how about we try to get too close
how about tonight calls up tomorrow
and argues that it doesn’t have to know
my favorite shade of memory is faded
firefighters practicing on poles
my favorite shade of history is fuck it
these polar bears that I keep feeding coal
sorry for the words with all their edges
sorry for the tinsel on your floor
sorry for the ice cube in my jacket
sorry I don’t know what love is for
how about the fire of forgiveness
how about we try to get too close
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4. |
If You Go It Careful
05:13
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i been with the daughter of a democrat
i been with a hippie and an alley cat
broken into swimming pools late at night
made a lot of promises i wouldn’t make... twice
i been down in kitchens and on attic floors
moaned into being and i been ignored
called a lot of names here on god’s green Earth
trust fall forever in this fucked up... world
but if you are / straight up with me
imma be / straight up with you
let’s pretend / we know what we need
make believe / this feels new
and if you go it careful / with my heart
imma go it careful / with your heart
if you take it easy / on my night
imma take it easy / on your night
promises? secret codes
promises? secret codes
i been asked over over SMS
buy the same hustle time and time again
tricked myself religious down in certain beds
hallelujah in the morning watching you get… dressed
i been too afraid to move my arm
when somebody pretty is sleeping on top
i got down to nothing in a lightning storm
chase another wave that I can’t wash… off
(rpt bridge and chorus)
promises! secret codes!
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Clementine Was Right Denver, Colorado
clementinewasright.com
Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of Denver-
based poets Mike Young and Gion Davis.
Chronicling years of uprooting, the music gallops and sways through lyric-driven, hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo, harmonizing and storytelling.
Reach out at: clementinewasright@gmail.com
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