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Plan B 3:320:00/3:32
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Zen Christmas 4:050:00/4:05
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Devil Music 4:490:00/4:49
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Thin Places c. 2004
All songs written by Randall Bramblett except where noted
1. Nobody’s Problem (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
You took a rolling stop through the old playground
It ain’t what you thought but look at what you found
The beautiful thing that you loved so hard
Just an old newspaper blowin ‘cross the yard
There’s a ravellin thread in the old ragtop
A board in the window where you used to shop
You pull a cracked up smile from a pissed off wind
You put your foot through the door
When you can’t come in
Empty glass shady past you’re fine somehow
Ain’t it strange how you’ve changed
You’re nobody’s problem now
Well the angel’s arms are full of holes
She walks it off outside where it’s nice and cold
There’s a sad soul song that you used to share
There’s a vacant space where you used to care
You’re a spark in the dark you burn somehow
On your way like they say
You’re nobody’s problem now
When the sun comes up we’ll still be here
When we’ve had enough we’ll still be here
When the flame is blown we’ll still be here
When it all comes down we’ll still be here
There’s weeds in the walk where the homeplace leans
Cattails crying in a dried up stream
You take a long deep breath and blow it out slow
You bring the same old shadow everywhere you go
You’re a spark in the dark you burn somehow
Ain’t it strange how you’ve changed
You’re nobody’s problem now
2. Playing Card (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
I’m not a soul who’s lost his way
I’m not a bird bangin ‘round in a shiny cage
I’m just a string a pearls on the side of the road
I’m not a pocket full of janglin change
I’m not a torn shirt hangin out in the drivin rain
I’m just an old soul peeking thru a hole in the wall
And you’re never gonna figure it out someday
And you’re never gonna know the right workds to say
Yeah, I’m always gonna take the wrong way ‘round
When I’m drivin in the rain with the top down
Hey, do you have to look at me so hard
I can never be your playing card
I’m not a picture of a long lost friend
I’m not a ticket to somewhere that you haven’t been
I’m just a dark cloud scrapin ‘cross the sunny sky
I’m not a pilgrim on a shiny path
I’m not a clown somebody else gonna have to make you laugh
I’m just a red light blinkin at the end of the line
And you’re never gonna figure it out someday
And you’re never gonna know the right words to say
Yeah, I’m always gonna take the wrong way ‘round
When I’m drivin in the rain with the top down
Hey you see the tire tracks in your yard
I can never be your playing card
3. You Can Be The Rain (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
Too many thoughts in your poor head
You left your dreams in an unmade bed
Phone keeps talkin but it won't tell you a thing
And the ink bleeds through 'cause you're paper thin
And you're one more fool with a paper and a pen
Lookin for a poem in the water stains on the floor
I'll be waitin here where the sky is clear
You can be the rain against my window
You can be the rain against my window
You don't talk much anymore
You used to get sad now you just get bored
How did everything get so damn difficult
Are you running in place are you running away
Are you just sleep walkin through another day
Follow your shadow 'til you come out the other side
I'll be waiting here where the sky is clear.
You can be the rain against my window
You can be the rain against my window
Rollin like smoke through a screen door day
Tappin out a code 'cause you just can't say
Anything you mean to anyone who really cares
'Cause the wind still blows though you lock the door
And the water piles up on the bedroom floor
Sittin on a phone book waiting for the bell to ring
I'll be waiting here where the sky is clear
You can be the rain against my window
You can be the rain against my window
You can be the rain against my window
You can be the rain against my window
4. Gotta Stop Somewhere
My faucet’s drippin and I can’t make it quit
The window’s open and you’re gone
I’m real tempted to do something rash
But it’s too late and I’m so tired
Yesterday the crowd went home
We dropped them at the airport laughin and cryin
As we watched the plane float off
It was just you and me and our burned up lives
Well you gotta stop somewhere
Yeah you gotta stop somewhere
One day it’s all been done
And you got stop somewhere
Runnin into furniture and bumpin into walls
And I’m wound up tight as a clock
Swing the door open and take a deep breath
Crank up the car and put it in the street
Well I’m drivin ‘round and ‘round
Can’t get lost ‘cause I’m goin nowhere
And I wind up leanin on the bar
To hear the famous last words of another drunk poet
Well you gotta stop somewhere…
They give you ten minutes to be a genius
My time is up and I’m busted
Busted for thinkin slow bein stupid layin low
Busted for being out of style
And I can’t be king for a day
Not this way not this lifetime
And I guess it serves me right
I want too much and I give too little
Well you gotta stop somewhere…
5. Comin ‘Round Soon
Draggin ‘round town with a broken heart
People tell me that I’ve lost my spark
Maybe they’re right but I’m comin ‘round soon
Say how’m I doin I’m doin without
Makin my way and havin my doubts
That’s alright
I’m comin ‘round soon
Oh…coming round soon
You might think that you knew me when
I was a charm you better think again
I was wasted baby
I’m comin round soon
As soon as I get it all planned out right
I’m gonna live a long and sinful life
Don’t give up on me
‘Cause I’m comin ‘round soon
Oh…comin ‘round soon
What does it take to satisfy your mind
I’m doin everything I can
Is it so wrong to want to buy a little time
You don’t need to know everything about me
6. Black Coat (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
Shiverin children at the school bus stop
Hey, don’t laugh at me
Layin in the sun with a black coat on
Woke up here soaked right through
Cold and beat and broke and blue
Layin in the sun with a black coat on
Well there’s nothing left to do but to laugh and feed the angels
Just give ‘em what they want
In the February sun
Little bitty child at the edge of the woods
You do everything they say you should
Layin the sun with a black coat on
You crawl you walk and then you run
But you goet lost like everyone
Layin in the sun with a black coat on
Well there’s nothing left to do but to laugh and feed the angels
Just give ‘em what they want
In the February sun
Drape your wings around me now
Before the sun goes down again
In the end I’m broken down
Underneath the weight of heaven
Shivering leaves in the morning light
Gather around my feet
Layin in the sun with a black coat on
This has got to be the end
To wake up and want to live again
Layin in the sun with a black coat on
Well there’s nothing left to do but to laugh and feed the angels
Just give ‘em what they want
In the February sun
7. Confident Thieves (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
A whipsmart smile and a rusty dream
Pullin roses from the rain down on I-16
Down here somethin is about to give
And the barbed wire stars whisper I might live
These mudtrack boots are full of rain and nails
The dark fills in where the light has failed
Neon dirt is turnin red as blood
You can see your story written in the mud
You and me we’re confident thieves
We’ve never been caught and we never will be
We steal our way through the chain smoke wind
And we’ll go back home where we never have been
The iceberg drunks are driftin slow and tired
The silver moon hanges on circus wires
Down here something is about to give
The barbed wires stars whisper I might live
You and me we’re confident thieves
We’ve never been caught and we never will be
We steal our way through the chain smoke wind
And we’ll go back home where we never have been
A whipsmart smile and a rusty dream
Pullin roses from the rain down on I-16
8. Are You Satisfied
She hides her laughter
Deep inside the rising sun
No one can hear it
And they leave her alone
She is smiling from the inside
She hides her jewels
Underneath the waterfall
If you can find them
You’re welcome to them all
She’s not selfish with her treasures
Are you satisfied
Are you satisfied oh yeah
Are you satisfied
Finding nothing
She walks in silence
Cannot be disturbed
The fire around her
Burns up every word
When you leave her she is not lonely
She don’t want nothing
What else can you give
She don’t need no one
To show her how to live
If you’re searching don’t bother
Are you satisfied
Are you satisfied oh yeah
Are you satisfied
Knowing nothing
9. Chet Baker (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
Paint peelin off the walls
I think about us as it falls around my feet
A little of this kind of thing goes a long way
I walk outside where the avalanche leans
Always ready to wipe this landscape clean
Just a shrug of the shoulders where the tears should be
I’m plantin flowers in the cold black dirt
Just to keep my last connection alive
And all these gods I’m prayin to
They’ll bring me everything but you
Do you walk out of your life sometimes
Do you run out to the bareboned streets and hide
Do you get inside your car and drive drive drive
I’m plantin flowers in the cold black dirt
Just to keep my last connection alive
And all these gods I’m prayin to
They’ll bring me everything but you
It’s the lonely silence in your place
It’s the empty mornings that I face
It’s the way you cry
You take me over
Chet Baker walked out of a window
Left a trail of blue notes hangin in the air so sweet
And a checkered suit layin on a foreign street
I’m plantin flowers in the cold black dirt
Just to keep my last connection alive
And all these gods I’m prayin to
They’ll bring me everything but you
10. Red Booth
Sittin in a red booth waitin on a ride
Cars lineup up on the asphalt sea outside
The plate glass window
Everybody lost in the morning news
Cross and bleary in a bright lit room
Too much information
Not a good thing
It don’t matter what you do
I’m gonna love you
For who you are
Who you are
Sittin in a red booth waiting on a ride
Somebody played “don’t make me over”
And I broke down and cried
It got to me
Even thought the winter has come and gone
I can’t shake this chill
It’s down in my bones
I believe I was wrong about you
It don’t matter what you do
I’m gonna love you
For who you are
Who you are
If I wait here long enough
Will you be my ride
If I stay here through the night
Will you be here by my side
When I wake up
Yeah when I wake up
When I wake up
Sittin in a red booth waitin on a ride
Watchin a man rake leaves into a pile outside
It’s a useless thing
And the wind keeps blowin
I didn’t want you to be yourself
Want to dress you up an keep you
Like a doll on a shelf
Well I might as well stop
The leaves from falling
It don’t matter what you do
I’m gonna love you
For who you are
11. I Don’t Care (Randall Bramblett and Jason Slatton)
I was shipwrecked in a rain cloud
And you passed me by
I was treading lonely water
I didn’t catch your eye
There’s no sunlight left to blind me
And the world drops off behind me
Yeah
I don’t care
Send the black clouds to me
I don’t mind
They just don’t move me
I don’t care
‘Cause the wind blows through me now
I was nightsick in a doorway
When the morning broke
You were in the crowd around me
But nobody spoke
You don’t have no secret hiding place
When the truth is burning in your face
I don’t care
Send the black clouds to me
I don’t mind
They just don’t move me
I don’t care
‘Cause the wind blows through me now
I was fighting with the daylight
When I turned to stone
I was crying dirty teardrops
But they were not my own
When the night has drawn its curtain
Only one thing is for certain
Yeah
I don’t care
Send the black clouds to me
I don’t mind
They just don’t move me
I don’t care
The wind blows through me
Yeah, the wind blows through me now