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"Sometimes People Know"
04:14
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How are you doing today?
They don't ask me
They don't ask me
How is ol' What's Her Name?
They don't ask me
They don't ask me
Sometimes people know
Even though
Even though they don't
Sometimes people can tell
Even though
Even though you won't
How are you without me?
I'm not asking
I'm not asking
'Cause the answer hasn't changed
I'm not asking
I'm not asking
'Cause I see the apology
In your eyes
When you see the hope in mine
The Hope in mine
Sometimes people Know
Even though they don't
Sometimes people can tell
Even if you won't
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"The Bartender"
05:53
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Drunks pay my bills
Alcoholics pay the rent
I don't work here just for the money
I work here to earn back
Some of that self respect
That I'll spend when I ain't working
I live on the table scraps
Of joy and of romance
From the hands of my masters
And I still take the rest
The sorrow the sadness
I chew the fat that doesn't matter
Save a drink for The Bartender
The greatest friend you've ever had
'Cause they may need that drink worse than you
Soon as this night's through
I ride my cigarette buzz
Hold tight to my topped off coffee cup
This is a sport with performance enhancements
I watch the room fill up
Spin around and fall down
As I walk through people dancing
And I love the closing up
When the lights are low down
And I'm alone with the glow and the echo
They say it's a young man's business
That bitch is such a cruel mistress
She loves everyone but she's coming home with me.
Save a drink for The Bartender
The loneliest person in the room
'Cause they may need that drink worse than you
Soon as this night's through
And don't say to me your glass is half empty
'Cause from over here- it looks half full
And don't get in the habit of leaving things unfinished
Take it from somebody that would know
Save a drink for The Bartender
Your greatest friend and enemy
'Cause they may need that drink worse than you
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"Monster"
04:14
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So you think I shoot to kill
Like some kind of Wild Bill
That's an awful hard pill to swallow
I don't think I follow you
'Cause I feel I'm as bland as sand
I'm slow and short like the hour hand
In need of reprimanding
For standing too still
I wish that I was a Monster
With your pity and your fear
It'd be clear to me
As you're running away
Where it is I stand
You're always right here
You're picture perfect and you're crystal clear
There's no need for escaping
There's no need for you to do it
As I feel bad for the vampires
And I admire the werewolves to
But it's no use- I'm not a monster
Just a guy in a suit
I wish that I was a Monster
With your pity and your fear
It'd be clear to me
As you're running away
Where it is I stand
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"Deep Sea Diver"
05:19
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And I wonder why I don't
Just leave, leave myself alone
As I wander to and fro
Searching, searching for the source of my hurting
In the Deep Beneath the Blue
Up in their glass bottom boats, floating
As I watch from below
As they rock and as they roll
They're so noisy
But all I hear is the hum and the drum and Nothing
And it's Something that I've been searching for
Not paramours going overboard
They're so proud but they would drown Beneath the Blue
And now I'm a Deep Sea Diver, that's for certain
It takes me longer to get done hurting
The heart that's larger takes longer to heal.
As I walk along the floor
Through the shipwrecks from storms
Forgotten or ignored
I remember treasures,
Old bottles full of letters,
And skeletons still clutching their swords
Oh, the memories in The Deep Beneath the Blue
All the bottles full of letters
That'd be better off
Never written at all
The bottles rain down
They catch the light just right
And they look like stars falling through the night
And I'm reminded
I once believed
Believed in our love
Our love was a dream
A dream I'll wake up from
Another wish has come to live Beneath the Blue
And now I'm a Deep Sea Diver, that's for certain
It takes me longer to get done hurting
The heart that's larger takes longer to heal.
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"Naturally"
03:30
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I adore you
Baby, can't you see
Yet I'll ignore you
Should we fall short of fantasy
It ain't easy but that's how it goes
I am not the man I hoped I would be
Do I owe an apology to you
For doing what comes Naturally?
Maybe, baby, that is just how love goes?
It's not supposed to be an easy road.
It's an answer that I can't question,
And a lesson that's ongoing.
Do me a favor:
Hear my story, then don't worry.
Beautiful lady- you gotta be suitably crazy to be with me.
It ain't easy but that's how it goes
I am not the man I hoped I would be
Do I owe an apology to you
For doing what comes Naturally?
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Casey Ruff Seattle, Washington
A singer/songwriter residing in Seattle, WA and originally from Custer, MT. Known by migrant beet laborers as "El Dragón de las Altas Llanuras". Former high school mascot. Future nihilist. Acting Vice President of the M. Bellucci Fan Club. Sounds like AmeriContra, Gravelvet, and Frontier Orchestral ... more
Casey Ruff recommends:
The Conor Byrne EP
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I love being a Cupholder, and I think that a certain beligerant appreciation of camaraderie comes through in the music. Fantastic record!
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Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde
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"Blood Red Wine" is the spiritual b-side to my song "Wingman", and an important intrinsic object for future scholars of Casey and Liam to refer to when wondering about their lives in 2013-2016 A.D.
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Secret Kids
by Virgin of the Birds
The song "Summer Palace" makes me wonderfully nostalgic, in that it gives voice to the longings of a certain Age's time and place so poetically.
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