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Blush and Bruise

by Drive North

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1.
Wound 03:31
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Where’s the levity that now looks so brief and that thin brevity itself a sort of thief the trees slope with grief where there once was some gain one more morning filled with frost the same dragon never slain if theres a puzzle laid in words like a maze we might have learned (observe?) then there’s a siren that we heard and our steady climb deterred I see you’re gearing for a fight such a pugilist tonight I am cross but I’m not armed never had a heart to cause you harm Chorus Cradle these words like a wound or evidence of room to heal the things we said and did or the things we just assumed And so I am twice the thief ‘cause I never got relief just laid there on a leash insane with disbelief I’ll no longer nurse my heart with the bitter milk of hate A better day yearns And I will not be late Chorus Cradle these words like a wound or evidence of room to heal the things we said and did or the things we just assumed
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Heavy Bored 03:14
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Berryman admits that he is heavy bored Of these things I've been informed We've been charting the start in the stars Exactly when it was she got born She must think I am irrelevant She must think I am her elephant Something she can't take down Or put her arms around Her face lifts like an early fog Shaken loose by the clumsy dawn Lines on her eyes crawl on Her voice boils like a frog Lights blot the street like bruises A catwalk striped bright where it chooses this promenade of empty lanes --release the victim from the blame like a path cut straight from Abel to Cain Drained like a bathtub full of mud Or a broken nose dripping blood Drained like the ink from a pen Or colorful life drawn from the dead
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Face 02:48
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the smell of gas stains hours drained away off the worn down edge to the river’s dredge old thoughts drop like flies from the reach of my mind shrunk like the atoms we can’t find imaginary sublime we should be in our prime transcending our time but like thickets in a rhyme our powers subside now there’s freeways i can’t hide and a bridge that i can’t find I follow lights slung through the air like a tired strung out stare we’ve got water in our shoes babies born blue as chicago coming out they sing for air but the breath just isn’t there and if we were broke as bone then I would push for big reform if our spirits are bruised I see why they shoot it’s making them crazy to stand in our shoes pulling teeth at the root sinking in truth if he don’t seem to try he’s already died we should be in our prime transcending our time but like thickets in a rhyme our powers subside now there’s places I can hide Gonna bridge my darker side the shallow lights aren’t even there i am tired, strung out bare we’ve got water in our lungs cause we couldn’t make the hollow coming up we try for air but the breath just isn’t there and if we were broke as bone then I would do this alone
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Sunflower 03:05
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More coastline to shoot and no more love to loot we are lighter for what we lose like empty hands we bruise I can tell that you got someone else to take down off your shelf someone to keep close to the spaces you like most This sunflower bends toward the sun but I am the moon Now these creaking dawns they don’t live long after restless purple nights the heavy morning feels wrong so lets call this a treaty like in your well lit graffiti secret artists painting flowers only in the hidden hours i’d paint a steady porch fireworks like a torch i’d paint a waterfall so tall that it’d lead up to the stars i’d paint the red tooth of a peak like a warm blushing cheek i’d paint a tower and a car a few books and a guitar there were places we got to go things between we came to know and now I know what you know and I will leave it alone
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Constellation 02:35
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If you wanna hear my story let me see your stars let me dive into your window and i’ll navigate your scars I’ll read the history in your bones map out the trail to you like streetlines in headlights connect the things we do But baby don’t you know I cannot stay and I cannot stay away even as I fall to the ground i just miss the earth and turn around i think you came here to erase me take the memory of my name like wind can take the hillside and turn it to a flame you told me that i need someone who is more like me I want someone I cannot defeat I can see now you won’t stick around for one more retreat
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Waiting On The Floor For You 03:57
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the hollows of the evening are waiting for you the hardness of the floor darling will soften for you the windows are all resting their eyes for you the cupboards are all creaking anticipating you I've memorized your features imagining you if your plane don't arrive on time there’ll be a broken law between us somewhere down the line my tired eyes are sinking here without you the lesser men are drinking lamenting you But I’ve worn the edges off a picture of you I’ve got my fingers crossed your flight comes through or the hounds will go out and bring me to you

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released March 1, 2013

Tyler and Joe

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Drive North Oxford, Ohio

Tyler lives in Alaska and Joe lives in Ohio. They put together these songs and no one ever tells them how to do that. This is how they want it to sound. Have a listen. These songs came a long way to meet you.

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