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Old Judgments

by Jersey Water

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1.
Jersey Water 03:20
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You can tell me that you’re all right if you want to And I'll tell you not to worry even if you oughta You will leave when you’re all better We all gotta put our cold shirt on Don’t feel the same when I do it myself Like the last kid playing in the swamp The beautiful twin is dying I can tell them about Ocean Grove How I'd hide from my lesson And you tell them about the shit you stole And the salt in the air They call the cops if you're in their yard Just drinking from a garden hose, you were But in your dreams we’re a water slide Go down more often than we do in life, all right We will leave when we’re all better And keep the shoes we have The sand won't leave the beaches, no Just like summer's just a season Shiny Camaro in the Seaside Heights You drive so fast Love, love, love's a waiting like my tide will wait Love, love, love's a coming like my rocket ship The beautiful twin is dying
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Our Hill At Henry Hudson 03:49
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I see you in this room Doing something wild, I say I don’t think you believe all the things you’ve done to me We’re weird I’m pretty sure There’s no one in this house, you say We might as well take the tour ourselves and then You consciously step onto the stair We are cool, shadowed grass beneath the trampoline Past our hill at Henry Hudson And the same afternoon you had bowed your head I drew I’m listening as we go to someone else's prayers I know The movie starts, oh never end Until the part where we begin to see the light There was a storm when you were born The first sound you heard was rain, I’m sure I clear my throat and shut the door All these gestures have been made before And it’s pouring out We are cool, shadowed grass beneath the trampoline Past our hill at Henry Hudson And the same afternoon you had bowed your head I drew What’s it mean to be good I’d live there if I could, you know There’s a movie of a busy street In a town where children tap their feet And it does exist You lived there with your friend She helped you with your beard and swept the kitchen floor A hundred holes The interviewer sails to shore Then the movie starts We are cool, shadowed grass beneath the trampoline Past our hill at Henry Hudson And the same afternoon you bowed your head I drew
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Driftwood And My Baby 02:17
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So I'm on the other side So come on over Do you hear what I'm saying This advantage you have over me is unsettling What would I be besides driftwood and your baby If I hung out with circuit boys Diplomats I'm sorry I'm so far away I lost my temper
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Lion 04:00
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You never mention the wind But I’ll always wonder how it found its way in You offer me some and I take it From there we go upstairs There’s sand in the hallway There’s sand in our hair It gets so dark in the backroom You say I taste like the sea And gentle the saltwater ghosts of us linger You got a tattoo of a lion We find our way off to sleep And dream of the truths we have yet to discover It gets so cold that you can see your breath Don’t say that you’re leaving And I won’t say that I’m leaving I got this fear of doors closing Cause once they close they never open again Don’t say that you’re leaving And I won’t say that I’m leaving I got this fear of doors closing Cause once they close they never open again
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The Pier, My Lord 02:50
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I wanna die At least for a while And the walks I’ll take while no one is around Would you recommend me to a friend Cause the walks I’ll take They’ll only bring me down Don’t look away My body has swung Towards a color we’ll all be thinking of When we’re tired and gray I’d hate to be there in a while I should have known with these rusty limbs I’d be swollen for you and everything Ladies, hide me under the pier, my Lord Ladies, hide me under the pier So if I’m gonna die At least for a while Oh, the walks I’ll take while no one is around Would you recommend me to a friend Cause the walks I’ll take They’ll only bring me down Oh, look away My body’s so plain And, oh, when we used to haunt ourselves so strange We moved by ourselves I’d love to be there for a while I should have known with these rusty limbs I’d be swollen for you and everything Ladies, hide me under the pier, my Lord Ladies, hide me under the pier
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I Had My Dog 03:01
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I had my dog She had her river I found her body hanging on a fence While my mother she was flying TWA And my daddy was dancing with some other lady I can’t remember all the houses I lived in There’s too many to name All the banisters feel the same to me They all lead me down to darker rooms And on the turnpike where it hurts to be alone At mass I saw Father Manning and he asked me how I was When I get grown, I told him I wanna live with my lover I don’t want to live with my friend Success might be just what he’s after I don’t know
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Chandeliers 02:34
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Chandeliers made of wagon wheels Here I go again dreaming up ways your spirit feels And I’m looking down on a house I used to live in My sister cried as we rode by All I could have counted Nowhere fast, all the broken glass Blowing all the breath outta your mouth into my mouth And better on the floor than in our memories Anything to conjure up your greatest fears And all I could have counted
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All The Whales In The World 03:16
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And so tonight I’m all about what’s gone now Now this drink takes the place of my heart Our most vulnerable body part The one that is rarely seen in the daylight He was my friend, my love, my only true love And I walked right out the door He was my friend, my love, my only true love Saw him walk out the door But when I past the church I overheard, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah Tonight I’m all about what’s gone now Now this drink takes the place of my heart Our most vulnerable body part The one that is rarely seen in the daylight I got my books, my poems All of them words tell me where I oughta go I got my books, my poems But none of them words are telling me where I wanna go But when I past the church I overheard, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah I hid the poems inside the belly of a beached whale And all of the whales in the world I remember one of them About a boy who falls in love without leaving home Now he’s singing to a moon that’s gone behind a cloud In its summertime I hid the poems inside the belly of a beached whale And all of the whales in the world But when I past the church I overheard, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
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Blithewood 04:18
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Students used to live inside the mansion in the 60’s Tomorrow you will drive over the Tappan Zee Having lodged yourself successfully back into my spokes You drop me off at the photo lab then be on your way This is how we speak These are all our voices growing old inside us This is why we’ve come Dressed in clothes all left undone Well I photographed this corner Then you sang about it later And the fireworks at Blithewood in the summertime They are accidents, my boy I take them all back to the room so dark This is where we drink and where we’ll never drink again This is where we feel the freest we have ever felt Hey, you blessed thing Who won't ever let me go You left me waiting for your horn and then it came Crash and burn We drink ourselves into conversation Our tongues soaked with wine And your steady green We are animals, my boy Take me all back to the city blues Wide open hallelujah landscape This is where we swim and where we’ll never swim again This is where we dive Going down in it three times but we’re only coming up twice* Hey, you cursed thing Who won't ever let me go You left me waiting for your horn and then it came
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The Science Place 03:23
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One hundred miles away from that big dusty house I read you so clear and so loud The unfinished race from Liberty State Park to the science place I can still see the flags from the fire escape I'm ready now There’s solace here They’re sleeping right in Jersey City In Bayonne we’re never told but they’re dreaming How I’ll go blue and turquoise and sapphire and Malibu I could have gone the whole way if I wanted to I’m ready now I’m ready now for the sweetest peach I’m ready now to study stars And I’m ready now to be as old and ordinary as the summertime And I’m gonna try a new karaoke song And I’m gonna try not living so alone And I’m gonna wait here for this loneliness to leave from my side And it will And it will And if you want cherry bombs You can have cherry bombs

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released March 15, 2006

All songs by Ryan Doyle.

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