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Missouri

by Derek Nelson

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Bridgeport 03:12
dad's got work in bridgeport today took a train and two buses but he found the way there's a long gone woman who is asking for change yeah, dad's got work in bridgeport today. plainspoken pastor's got tears in his eyes says he'll figure it out, he just needs some time he wanted it all, he got it so soon the calls of the choir just fill the room dad's got work in bridgeport today the damp dark forest gettin' further away the lake and the hills are just bills to pay yeah, dad's got work in bridgeport today. i saw a tornado twist a town on its back saw a city of diamonds, but no one kept track saw the moon getting heavy in a silver a sky and i woke up that morning, started asking why i was 12 years old, put my hands on the wheel i had figured it out, i knew what was real i am no one now, but i'm from somewhere and the moon's getting heavy and it's dark out there. dad's got work in bridgeport today the house in the valley will have to wait we're biding our time and tempting our fate yeah, dad's got work in bridgeport today.
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I Am There 04:14
i left home that morning to walk these crooked miles made a home in the wind, returning strangers' smiles in the morning check your mailbox, take a walk outside don't write as much as i hoped to, it felt good to pass the time it felt good to pass the time. mother, i am there wherever i will be the wind took me from you so you'll have to wait and see. mother, i am there when your window's opened up i may not be beside you now it'll have to be enough i am there. i was feeling nameless, these boots still on my feet the summer left me aimless, spinning circles in the street but brother i will call your name out by the railroad tracks the sound bouncing at me now, is that you howling back? is that you howling back? brother, i am there wherever i will be the wind took me from you so you'll have to wait and see. brother, i am there at the bars and at the lake the dream doesn't die no, we all just come awake. i am there. all we kept inside us, and all we left behind all the rolling engines still turning in our minds. i will be there with you when our grayest day goes black the sound bouncing at you now, it's just me howling back. it's just me howling back. mother, i am there wherever i will be the wind took me from you so you'll have to wait and see mother, i am there when your window's opened up i may not be beside you now it'll have to be enough i am there.
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Oh, I went up to Gaslight Manor with some wine I’d held on to And I looked up, and in a cold drunk stammer, asked the last time they saw you. The clouds were swirling white Your sister run inside But the voices were there they were howling like headwinds they were breaking like waves in the bay But it's the strong, not the heavy hearts that are rarest in these parts Now I've just got my wine and you've got a start. I was there skimming my bible when the manhunt shook this town and I was there when that big door wobbled 'fore the Glasgow took it down. They were writing out their wills when the cops crossed up that hill and by eleven that night They were hanging like portraits They were gone like some good memory. And it’s the clear, not the sorry eyes That are rarest since that night Oh, I’ve got just got my wine now you’ve got a fight. I took my turn, started driving like the rain when Tulsa gave that wheel a nudge. And I’d return as the wind-weary traveler I walked the world but I never looked up. I could tell that you weren’t there in the streets or the market square It’s so easy to find you You sing like a reason You stare like some new emerald. But it’s the gold, not the gilded songs That are best sung once you’re gone Oh, I’ve just got my wine now I'll just sing along. I packed by bags, I dissolved out west she knew me as a blond-haired child My head was lagged, the sun was a test and the coast was an ancient smile. My eyes were lost at sea for days found something to make me stay but I remembered you still Yeah, you walk like a dancestep you float like the smoke on a fire. But who I’ve loved and all I’ve done It’s all the same to me but one Oh, I’ve got just got my wine now you’ve got the sun. I lay down on a day like tomorrow The wine seeps out like a soul. And I let go of the you I borrowed when the world was vulnerable. There were bullet trains and fields cathedrals and ferris wheels and there I lay just counting my blessings I was filling where you once belonged. you said all our boys will fall when wars and women call Oh, I’ve just got my wine now you’ve got it all.
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Missouri 01:40

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The lyrics of MISSOURI, my third EP, were mostly written in my head during many trips from Illinois to Missouri and back again. These are songs about driving and wandering and getting older. Here goes.

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released January 6, 2014

Recorded and mixed by Neil Strauch. Mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room. Recorded at MINBAL in 2013 in Chicago, IL. All songs written by Derek Nelson. Additional musicians: Pete Falknor (organ), Alex Winter (bass), Brian Sharpe (piano, guitar, vocals), Sarah Jane Goldstein (vocals), Philip Vickers (lap steel). © 2013 Derek Nelson.

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