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open book

by Tom Woodman

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1.
route i took 08:48
we're hiking deep water. we're all covered up. screaming hearts out. face down in the rough. plant the right hooks & wait for them to blossom. preparing the way the fall we'll try to soften. it's just the route i took. why don't you take a look. read the open book. your heart is being shook. i pull back the whispers. but the windows a fall. we climb out the pit. but at sunrise we fall. we brave the weather. to find a circuit breaker. the light we trip on's a foundation shaker. it's just the route i took. why don't you take a look. read the open book. your heart is being shook. the rain it washed away our selfharm. awoke the wounded sailor. who set of the alarm? it'll martyre the first or last. but when it's sunday morning. head down begin the task. it's just the route i took. why don't you take a look. read the open book. your heart is being shook. you'll drink it all up. and eat away your crazies. i'll sit and write reams of unused pages. spend your life sighing. questioning if he's dead. say's too much yet leaves it all unsaid. it's just the route i took. why don't you take a look. read the open book. your heart is being shook. i'll drive around for hours. bleed through my pen. let the rats run upstairs. round and back again. three blind days a recipe to read. the stove is burning yet the carving knife's freed. it's just the route i took. why don't you take a look. read the open book. your heart is being shook. slowly weave this tapestry of time. peace by piece a picture foms in our mind. by the time we awake we can't get back. the birds have eaten all our breadcrumb tracks. it's just the route i took. why don't you take a look. read the open book. your heart is being shook. it's just the route i took. it's just the route i took.
2.
easy rider 03:12
its a nasty trick or treat but i gotta play this cat race free to lose but i gotta find the right place now i'm back on the scene i kick the sounds to your taste tested & deactivated but i need a taste to get back on form for a while i was so forlorn so give me a smile baby make me laugh lady i thank god that your my baby but it's crazy but lately everything around me just a changing and fading it's all rearranging i was trapped in a beam of light when i gave up the fight walking on a tightrope and the tightropes too tight it's time to take flight out of this plight it ain't right i think i've finally found sight heard a noise in the darkness i walked right towards it would you believe it all most fell right over it i bang my head but when my head came too bouncing over mountains like a kangaroo and i jump ship quick out of this shit and i came on running back to you hey baby i know i'm going crazy lately pretty soon i'll be an easy rider i know hey baby i know i'm going crazy lately pretty soon i'll be an easy rider it's a modern day consolation prize? well no it's a couple thousand years of pride c'mon my brother no more lies stop being so irrespective with your eyes why do they shame us it don't seem senseless damn right we were on the defensive but fuck it man were only humanly tempted think about it hard it makes us exempted it's a fabricated steal or we make the nightmare real keep on walking further gotta make make the real deal heard a noise in the darkness i walked right towards it would you believe it all most fell right over it i bang my head but when my head came too bouncing over mountains like a kangaroo and i jump ship quick out of this shit and i came on running back to you hey baby i know i'm going crazy lately pretty soon i'll be an easy rider i know hey baby i know i'm going crazy lately pretty soon i'll be an easy rider
3.
busted me put me in a penitentiary a self made cemetery but i will rise up from this grave and prove you wrong and prove you wrong and prove you wrong don't hold me down i have to break free if only to breathe and i will rise up from this water and prove you wrong and prove you wrong and prove you wrong i did wrong i know but so did you i guess sometimes we just have to start a new but we can rise up from our graves and prove you wrong and prove you wrong and prove you wrong quick to judge but never asked to see just what it means to be free i'll thank God for this day and stand up strong and stand up strong and stand up strong
4.
open book 03:25
just 'cus i have this name you'll place the blame on me one day you'll see your shame the light that shines you'll see my mother told me so that this is how it'll be carry the weight for you but you won't thank me an open book so blue but i can start a new i'll look straight ahead hold my head up high hold my head up high la la la la la la..... you won't get far without a little sacrifice i know it sounds so hard you might not understand but let me tell you it might be worth your while gotta walk that bit further over the stile over the stile la la la la la la..... i see the waters edge climb in the boat so free sail across the sea what will be will be no i don't need no thanks don't need no thanks from you but just know that i'll always think of you always think of you la la la la la la.....
5.
factory 02:15
their heads are on fire and their running steaming low crowded in from the cornered train with their tempers bound in tow and all the while it's set in stone  maybe they just don't want it to be true oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh well you can't always get what you want don't always like what we see yeah jaded george has had his fill of working in a factory 'cause he can't always get what he wants and he don't like much of what he see's oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh now their minds are in motion with their running dreaming glow drifting in from the ocean tamed with their faces hanging low and all the while it's set in stone for them too see maybe they just don't want it to be oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh 'cause you can't always get what you want don't always like what we see jane is fed up of living in your penitentiary 'cause she can't always get what she wants and she don't much like what she sees yeah jane's fed up of living in your penitentiary oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

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released March 8, 2008

tom woodman - vox/all guitars/dobros/bass/wine glass/ percussion/harps/bed springs/loops/general noise

all songs written & performed by thomas arthur woodman

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