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The Farmer and the Son
02:01
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Fire Ants
03:33
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The highway makes it hard to hear
Unless you speak right in my ear
The wind's a thief that tries to steal
The words you yell across this field
And I've lost this time
With fire ants on my mind
And I've lost this time
With you on my mind
At 3 am I fell asleep
The sweat and secrets that I keep
Of the books I'm crammin in my head
On the filth of someone else's bed
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The preacher man says he's going to heaven
Because of the good book he found,
But that woman says I can go to hell
Because I'm never around
And all the time that I've spent in my truck traveling
I know it wouldn't be safe
If I wound up laying in her bed
And settling in just one place
But I know where the wind is blowin
I know where the wind is blowin
I know where the wind is blowin
It's catching my sails
The highway's shining at this time of night
As I'm headed to my next town
The stereo's playin old gospel music
I can never escape that sound
But the words I heard screamin in my ear
There is only one way
But what good does it do when I can't believe
And I don't know how to pray?
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Sweet Imogene
02:44
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You were smart and you were funny
When we were in high school
and you had a plan to catch that next Greyhound
But somehow you got all tangled up
with this hardheaded fool
So motherhood and a diamond locked you down
Oh, Imogene
I'm sorry that I treated you so mean
Sweet Imogene
You deserve a better man than me
Well eighteen is far too young
To give up on your dreams
and you were pining for some city with a stage
But it's hard to save up money
when you're working at that laundromat
and even harder with
a baby on the way
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I can barely stomach parties
or even dinner with some friends
it's too much this building tension
keeps me locked away again
to study chapters of the empires
the rise and fall of men
and their concepts of religion
of morality and sin
I would rather be alone
until I head back to my home
to the garden that I've grown
the best love I've ever known
I don't wanna drink your whiskey
wanna keep my vision clear
to remember why I'm working
and remember why I'm here
and to pour over the pages
of these long forgotten years
so you can keep your party going
but I have to be sincere
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Jerry's Meltdown
03:31
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Jerry spends his time alone
Working on his truck
and riding his motorbike
he keeps his windows blacked out
to avoid the light
he lives in fear of his neighboorhood
his cameras catch the goings on
of the people near his home
but he's all alone
what leads a person to live that way
to keep suffering in that pain
he could've opened his heart
to someone once before
but he's all alone
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Ben Abney and the Hurts Memphis, Tennessee
Performing since age 4, Ben Abney grew up singing in churches and a country line-dancing hall in West Tennessee. By the late 90s he began playing in punk bands. In 2005, his attention shifted back towards the sounds of country and gospel that he grew up with. The son of a preacher, his stories of struggling with faith, death, poverty, oppression, and love weave through his writing. ... more
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