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Witness

by The Falderals

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1.
Bright lights, the city calls, tearing your eyes from my sight Another fight, don’t make me stay home, pulling my heart like a kite, The knife and rose, I was wounded once, now a scar like a flower grows A microphone, you whisper so loud but I won’t be loved like a stone Where do you go at night, where do you go at night, I don’t see there, in the place next to mine City explodes, the stars ablaze though the rocks like me wait below Don’t’ you know, once this river’s ablaze, the whole damn things gonna blow Where do you go at night, where do you go at night, I don’t see there, in the place next to mine Be Free, Be Free, Be Free…once this river’s ablaze, the whole damn things gonna blow Where do you go at night, where do you go at night, I don’t see there, in the place next to mine
2.
Witness 03:44
I’ll be the lover too blind to discover the stone You’re holding it heavy always ready to be thrown I’m going home a place I’ve never known I’ll be the witness to the distance you’ve flown Love is like weather sometimes it’s better alone I’m going home a place I’ve never known I’ll be the stranger who kisses your hand from its throne Peeling the layers with tears that tear to the bone I’m going home a place I’ve never known
3.
Oh My Heart 04:19
By the time that you hear this song I’ll be on a train I will be gone You’ll be all alone by some telephone but I won’t call my fingers have gone numb Oh my heart, strange thing, runs faster when breaking Oh my heart, strange thing, beats faster when breaking By the time that you realize what you’ve done I’ll be on a plane I will be gone You’ll be all alone, you with your regret, I’ll be in the air over your head Oh my heart, runs fast, falls apart Oh my heart, beats fast, falls apart By the time my heart slows down I’ll be on my knees in some new town You’ll be all alone with your same sad self, I’ll be somewhere new I will be fresh
4.
The Bar 03:16
The Bar looks like a jail, the girl looks like a warden The world’s a black hole at 2 in the morning, Oh no, It’s friendly tonight, Oh no, the only mortals alive Save a wife, in some other town, the one with the brown eyes, the one you let down The Bar looks like a jail, the girl looks like a warden The bottle is a way to keep from exploding, Oh no, It’s friendly tonight, Oh no, the only mortals alive Save a child, now almost grown, the one with the stoney eyes, that you’ve hardly known I’m gonna write, I’m gonna call, maybe this coming spring, or maybe next fall I’m gonna change, I’m gonna grow, gonna leave all this behind, hop a train and just go The Bar looks like a jail, the girl looks like a warden The world’s a black hole at 2 in the morning, Oh no
5.
There’s a shadow to your right, when you sleep at night There’s a memory in your eyes when you smile There’s a rib in your side that once was mine Haven’t seen that part for a while I won’t move, I won’t breathe, please, please, please, come look for me Build your towers tall and make your funeral We dig our holes so deep that we drown There’s no escape from earth, from pants and shoes and work Only tiny places to get lost I won’t move, I won’t breathe, please, please, please, come look for me In the fall when the leaves spring from their trees In the winter in the flakes of the snow In the spring, in the meadow, in the flowers in their petals In the summer’s long broad fields of gold I won’t move, I won’t breathe, please, please, please, come look for me
6.
His eyes are red, his cough is full, of bars and years that go too slow. Her nails are sharp and quick to pull out each heart that goes too slow. Don’t say goodbye, don’t say hello, just promise me, you won’t go slow He made her life impossible; she used a knife that goes too slow. The scars still there from ear to nose reminding them it goes too slow. Don’t say goodbye, don’t say hello, just promise me, you won’t go slow. Cause heaven's hard and hell is full, and inbetween, it goes too slow. Their prays now tears like rivers flow through the years that go too slow.
7.
Only Stars 03:42
Couple hundred years ago man filled a box with coal made the first engine go Things happened fast from there from cars to planes in the air chasing us everywhere oh oh I don’t know what’s wrong or right, I’m just laying by your side tonight Dreaming of a time when the light was only stars, only stars We left the land for the store, left the battle for the war, built a world of towers oh oh And we’re living longer way up high, but still so fast the years go by, chasing the wind oh oh I don’t know what’s wrong or right, I’m just laying by your side tonight Dreaming of a time when the light was only stars, only stars So many years and so much change but still one thing stays the same, it’s the only true thing that I know that’s the feeling in your arms, the blinding light, the thunderstorms, just like centuries ago
8.
Took a Bus 03:14
9.
Found my lover on the banks of a river I fell in Married her in church now she’s growing from the dirt of my skin You can pray or you can play, you can grow or decay, either way it’s the same, I’ll remain in the gray by the banks of the river in the dirt with my lover I call home Found my religion based on indecision not on bones Found salvation in the tired faces of old homes You can pray or you can play, you can grow or decay, either way it’s the same, I’ll remain in the gray by the banks of the river in the dirt with my lover I call home Found my passion in the wet eyelashes of a child I mean the screaming for desert and laughing till it hurts kind of wild You can pray or you can play, you can grow or decay, either way it’s the same, I’ll remain in the gray by the banks of the river in the dirt with my lover I call home
10.
Leave Milwaukee early, through Chicago, you can drive while I find change tolls We’ll camp somewhere near a trucker’s hole, Then it’s New York, Boston, Baltimore Chorus: I don’t mind, let the trains go by, You and I, we can take our time, There’s places I long to be But the best part’s the road with miles to go, you and me From DC now to St. Louis arches, Within a week, we’ll be in Texas Get lost sometime in New Mexico, drink too much, I wear women’s clothes Finally leave for Vegas, then California sun, San Francisco Bay, see the Funks From there straight up to the great Northeast, Portland Seattle, then to Boise CHORUS Maybe years from now, we’ll have a house, maybe three kids, we’ll be settled down That’s a different journey on a different road, different kind miles, a long way to go Leave Milwaukee early…
11.
We know things we’re never told, We love things we can never hold Minute by minute, you’re crazy you’re in it, you think it’s all strangeness where to begin it When the wind stops blowing, the sounds erased is In the space where knowing has all been wasted and Wrapped around the quiet we’ve all chased It Mile by mile, climbing the pile, the crumbling relics, years of denial When the wind stops blowing, the sounds erased is In the space where knowing has all been wasted and Wrapped around the quiet we’ve all chased It You no longer know, the things that you were told, your love’s the strongest hold, begins in your hands, begins in your hands. Breath by breath we take what’s left of the only thing were perfect with When the wind stops blowing, the sounds erased is In the space where knowing has all been wasted and Wrapped around the quiet we’ve all chased It

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released May 30, 2014

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The Falderals Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hailed as a “true taste of American folk music” by The Superior Telegram, The Falderals are a hidden gem in the Twin Cities. Combining lyrical songwriting with powerful harmonies, they are a must-see act for their unique fusion of folk and pop. Andrew and Rebecca Andestic are occasionally joined by friends, including Jim McGuinn on dobro and lap steel and Deke McCallum on uke and guitar. ... more

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