Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock Album Lyrics

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Knock Knock

Better things come to those who wait
Then appearness left for all too late
Greatness achieved, and darkness defeated

Ram shack crew with something to prove
And the truck blew up believe it

You see me go, there's something coming your way
Everything I want, and everything I need

So say it to me, say it to my face
There's no time to be reserved or safe
Call just chill, whenever
Glory till the end
Everything I want, and everything I'll get
It's coming now, It's going down
The stars are falling, walls are coming all of hour

Knocking on the doorway, look who's coming your way
Everything I want, everything I need
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Uh-u-u-u-uh
Uh-u-u-u-uh

No one's gonna know it
The right ones are green
Ṗroving wrong the other one's winning
we're fine, when I'll win

Look what's in the door
There's something coming your way
Everything I want, everything I need

Knocking on the doorway,
Hey look what's coming your way
It's Everything I want, It's everything I need

Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door

Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door
Knocking on the door

 

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How To Live

When I'm giving advice to others
I take more than I can give
It's a birds eye view of what I want you to do
or how to live

And I really don't have to suffer
I still do it anyway
I'm a diamond in the rough
or I'm a dirt clod in the clay

Guess what
I lost my job
It's just my luck

Reveal you've always been the actor
and those puppy dog eyes
Well one of y'alls tellin' the truth
the other one is lying

And it's someone else's fault so often
You're gettin' rude, you're gettin' tall
it's a great big world darlin' your translation is just a little off.

So what,
You made a mistake
You try to hide the time
The time is life
Gets a little bit larger everyday
And it grows till it's out of control

I've been giving my advice to others
trying to tell them how to live
A little lying, a bit of truth
what I'd like for you to do
and how to give

And I really didn't need to suffer
I still did it anyway
What a great big world
I better find some way to stay

Guess what?
You're gettin' old
Still gotta grow up.

 

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Slow Cruel Hands Of Time

The biding of time getting stuck in my mind is a boat to roll.
Two hours later, back in my neighborhood where everything just stalled.
It still looks the same.
They remembered my name, steppin' in for a cup full.
There's a big city man, I used to rumble with him back in high school.
The slow cruel hands of time.
Turn you into molten lava, ohhh my

A place on the rise you can stop for awhile,
look-out for the police man.
There's no street lamps, only three buildings and one of them's vacant.
It's taking all day. The packs feeling heavy and soon the night.
Backwards down the mountain, the axle is grinding, pull into the wrong drive.
The sky is in the yard.
The stringy cotton candy is the fall.
The slow climb, the hard the fall. Sometimes I don't want it at all.
I've done this so long, its something I oughta know. Sooooooo long.

Finally up on the pieces disrupting and the birds fly.
Trapped for a moment, the sheriffs department got the wrong guy.
The towns reveal the law.
Visible wind through the fall (fog[?])
The slow cruel hands of time.
Turning you back into a child.

 

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A Little Biblical

Welcome to another world
Look at the water
Look at whatever
Broke the last one apart
and out it back together
it didn't matter.
It's a little biblical
a little bit tragic
maybe fantastic.
Every once in awhile
every little thing, every little thing.

I'm old enough to know
If I'm holding on for something
I'm old enough to see
If I'm not the only one

When we get back to town
back from the islands
back to where I live
Well we need to have a word
a topic to touch on
the topic is touchy
Yea, this is pitiful
a lack of reception
you never listen
I don't need another round
nothing is perfect
this isn't worth it

I'm old enough to know
If I'm holding on for something
I'm old enough to see
If I'm not the only one

Yea, smashed it apart
and the rains wouldn't start
till everybody was gone
moving on to the next one

I'm old enough to know
If I'm holding on for something
I'm old enough to see
If I'm not the only one
[x2]

 

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Shut-In Tourist

Wooo oooo ooo o
Wooo oooo ooo o

Every time you try to pick up just the pieces,
Feelin' bad for yourself.
Watching all the foreign cars or fags in breezes,
from a window instead. From a window instead.

Find it hard to see the good or face the music,
looking backwards again.
Over sentimental staring halfway horizontal,
when I think you're a new man. When I think you're a new man.

[Chorus]
Soon I'll repeat what you said. Soon I'll repeat what you said.
Soon I'll repeat what you said. Soon I'll repeat......

Morning calls us early birds my babes and beagle, still resting their heads.
Their waking up to noisy doors or stomping feet,
of a restless old man. Of a restless old man.

[Chorus]

Wooo oooo ooo o
Wooo oooo ooo o
Wooo oooo ooo o
Wooo oooo ooo o

[Chorus]

 

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Dumpster World

Worn and tattered
Evils of the western world
Real better
Over in America

The weather
So serene and calm
Unseasonably warm

Light a candle for the suffering ones,
Light a candle for the weak and the small.
God damn it there's a lot of 'em.
You kind of think that in the modern world

Holy terror
Asleep when the alarms went off
You're in the mirror
Studying,
you're cold and lost

...and I love you.
Let's marry when the time is right,
or whenever you like.

Well, say a prayer for all the people that died,
Say another for me once in awhile.
I hit rock bottom
getting old.
I was really hoping that the modern world...

Happy living in a dumpster world
Break out everybody in the jail
Let's get it on.

(Let out the wolves) Let out the wolves.
I'm happy living in a dumpster world
(Bring on the booze) Bring out the booze
Start it all.

And we won't be arrested, for nothing at all.
Don't you pick up that trash, put more of it on the ground.

(Bust out the drugs) I'm happy living in a dumpster world.
(Everyone in jail) Everyone in jail
Yeah let's get it on
(Let out all the wolves) Let out all the wolves
I'm happy living in a dumpster world
(That's mine now) That's mine now
Come and get it on
(Bust out all the drugs) Bust out the drugs

Light a candle for the suffering ones,
Light a candle for the weak and the small
Say a prayer for all the people who've gone
There's no hope for any modern world.

 

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Electric Music

Listen to the motor
Getting louder as we go
One way or another
Gonna make it back home

Mountains to the water
Chewing up the scenery
Fog it only hovers
Or it blinds us on beams

This it what it does
Traveling the open road

Get here on the double
We'll make it right away

This is what it loves
Traveling the open road

Now she's talking dirty
I'll get there in a hurry and see
You don't have to worry
A secret little birdie told me
Keeping things in motion
Baby keep on running from me
The static on the radio
I'm picking up speed

Hear me out mama
I don't mean for you to weep
Back to you tomorrow
Now don't you lose sleep

This is what it does
Traveling the open road

Ooohhh,
Ahh, Ooohh

Hey it's 9:30
My vision's getting blurry to me
I'll get there in a hurry
But the police are following me
But keep it in perspective
And maybe come and visit for free
And I hear it on the interstate in Nashville, Tennessee

Hey, Hey,
Hey, Hey,
Hey, Hey,
Ooohh

Keeping things in motion
Babe you're running from me
The static on the radio
I'm picking up speed

Hey, Hey,
Hey, Hey,
Hey, Hey,
Ooh, Oooh

 

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Everything's Gonna Be Undone

Started building up a fortune
Stashed away in a hidden place
We can hide if you want to
We can hide up in one day

Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Oooo Ooo oo oooo

How'd you get to be wound so tight
Never seen somebody such a mess
Try you will and you try you might
We be falling .......

Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Oooo Ooo oo oooo

You know that it will
You know that it will....

So many things I could have written down
In the passing of a restless night
Some of those were worth keeping
There are things which you should never write

Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Oooo Ooo oo oooo

You know that it will
You know that it will....
[x2]

You think you found another loved one
Now you know that you were never apart
You know that everything you leave undone
You couldn't take another broken heart

Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Everything's gonna be undone
Oooo Ooo oo oooo

 

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Feud

Oh, oh where we get this hope
I can't tell the weak thing is tough
You better get this go
But that is space I want to go on
And I've got to move far, at my own pace
I don't want it no more, more

Feud, yeah you got an attitude
Today you're on the T.V., I need you to tell, let's give hell.
Just a little justice
I sing this...

Give a little money and a house and the car
Filling up your pockets but it's all that you got

I want you to feud, feud

It's just a freak show, wait till you see it from the inside
He was caught sleeping, steady dreaming when the ship caught fire
I'm out of time
I dressed up my heart, my heart

Give a little money and a house and the car
Filling up your pockets but it's all that you got

I want you to feud, feud

 

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Long Vows

Hey little darling
Sweet little love of mine
well it's only a matter of time.

And all that you see,
all you set out to find
don't let anything change your mind.

At the break of day
In the middle of the night
remember me and don't go out.

I'm in the running, in the running
ohhhhhhhh
you got me where you want me, where you want me
ohhhhhhhh

It's harder to recall
Half the many bad times
or the frame of my mind, the frame of mind.

Who could even blame me in hindsight
you snuck around with that guy
It wasn't right.

It isn't funny, isn't funny
ohhhhhhhh
No it's nothing, it's nothing
My wits don't show me the way
The blankets fold it have stayed in place
Just as they were made.

I'm in the running, in the running
ohhhhhhhh
You got me where you want me, where you want me
And no ones gonna show you the way
When it gets cold you can find yourself babe
Back in the hole from which you came
And everything will fall into place.

 

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Heartbreak On The 101

Did you think that I'd just slowly start to fade
You could steal my livelihood and send me on my way
I know it's old but I was caught out in the rain
So I rested under a bridge
And I made some new friends
And I wept, and I wept.

Did you really think that I'd just stand in line
Wait around for you until whatever time you'd like
And I took the pieces of a broken heart
And I had no choice.

Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
I'm over it.

You leave me more damaged everyday
You took my entire world and threw it all away
It's cold outside, I need a place to lay
So I rest beneath the bridge with the friends that I made.

Couldn't really think that I'd just stand aside
Take up something new, or start another life
Look at the pieces of a broken heart
And see what you can do.

Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
Yea, I'm over it

You can't think that I'd just slowly fade away
You can put me on the sidewalk with a suitcase
I know it's over and it sounds a bit cliche
But I want you back so bad
leave the pieces where they lay

I pray for your return
There's no sight
I'm sleeping with my one eye open
just in case you might
And though nothing ever works, it's just a waste of time
I can't seem to get it right

Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
Everybody's watching, come take a look
Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
Everybody watch, everybody look
Heartbreak on the 1-0-1
Heartbreak on the 1-0-1, heartbreak on the 1-0-1.