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Bloody Harlan
04:08
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Bloody Harlan
We had honest roads waiting for us then
I was about your age now
Houses on the rise, a theatre lit the strip
With traffic on the streets in town
I heard a rumble 'round that time through the halls of junior high
Year's end I was flunking out
They blew the hills to the sky while the world passed us by
And the ghosts of bloody Harlan hung around
Nothing coming for miles and miles
Nothing but trouble to get up to at night
We'd go down to the water with the sins of our fathers
Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl
The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl
The deprivation of decline bore a hollow of his eyes
Whisky to wash it all out
And though he's long gone when the river's calm I can
See him looking back at me anyhow
And of all those boys I'm near the last of us left
Neither elsewhere nor six feet south
I settle 'neath the weather of an easy fix
Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl
The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl
Now when the wind whistles over the hills through the broken
Windows of that old house
It chills to the bone given nowhere to go
And it kills just to live it down
You oughta never look back with the dreams that you have
The plans your always talking about
There just no good to come of a highway song
Drowning in Harlan howl
Nothing coming for miles and miles
Nothing but trouble to get up to at night
And you'll muddy up the water just like your father
Where the ghost of bloody Harlan howl
The ghost of bloody Harlan howl
Drowning in a Harlan howl
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Out Of My Depth
03:41
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Out Of My Depth
While the waves wash over me
Caught in a current
I drift on a wild wind to the foot of your bed
Swells like pitching seas of raw emotion
Carrying on since you've been gone
Learning to swim over my head
With a weight in my chest as I catch my breath
Out of my depth
At a stoplight sifting through radio static
A song that liked on a 45 we played to death
And you'd make me life until I'd cry
Now I'm doing the opposite
Carrying on since you've been gone
Learning to swim in over my head
Decades to run with, flood gates wide open
Out of my depth
Learning to swim in over my head
Out of my depth
An excitable boy and a runaway girl from the suburbs
Just children in our wedding day photographs
And thick thieves long after we'd parted as lovers
I guess we needed each other
I still loved you, always wills
And it's been a long year
Treading troubled water
Red skies at dawn, ready or not
I'm learning to swim, swept off my feet again
Carrying on since you've been gone
Out of my depth
Learning to swim over my head
Carrying on since you've been gone
Learning to swim out of my depth
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3. |
Since You've Come Along
03:53
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Since You've Come Along
Everything at once for the first time
It's a lot to take on but she don't seem frightened
I sat down to watch the news but I can't
Take my eyes off of you
No I'd never hear a word of it and maybe nor should I
Nothing doing of any use, who needs to be reminded?
Dreaming of tomorrow dawn beyond the falling sky
Out of the clear blue, with shades of multitudes to come
Riding out the storm and flying blind
By the glow of a cartoon singing nursery rhymes
Love shines through this endless night
Since you've come along
Everything at once and no let up in sight
As you wake to a world we both don't recognize
Trouble at our doorstep, a rogue riptide
But I won't take my eyes off of you
If or when this ever ends, your guess as good as mine
Born into a whirlwind torn from the Bible
Yet everywhere a wonder when I watch you for a while
A lifeline, a whole lifetime to play out in the sun
Riding out the storm and flying blind
With a bedtime story I was read when I was a child
Love shines through this endless night
Since you've come along
Where I can see trees of green
Red roses all winter through
And I think to myself how bleak it would be without you around
How would they bloom without you?
Riding out the storm and flying blind
When reason would argue otherwise
Love shines through this endless night since you've come along
Ever since you've come along
Love shines of a brighter day to dawn
Since you've come along
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4. |
This Much To Lose
03:45
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This Much To Lose
It's been years, years since I've been dancing
Spent the night walking in these shoes
Few and far between come calling the occasions these days
And it's been years since I've had this much to lose
Somewhere along the way it all became a gamble
And a leap of faith trust in someone new
To leave you hanging from a lonely limb
A young reckless wager
It's been years since I've had this much to lose
Oh what a feeling, forgive me love
If I find it hard to let go
Let go and open up
Oh what a feeling falling for you
It's been years since I've had this much to lose
It's been years since I've had this much to lose
Lonesome don't sit quiet
While you hide out in plain sight
The lights that look like sirens in the rearview
Wrapped in all your fears the thorns you pick around here
Folded at the edge of the bar as if to bet against you
Forgive me if I should stumble
On two left feet but how could I refuse?
Only a fool would let the chance slip by
From the one sure hand that you recognize
You can't turn back and you don't want to
Oh what a feeling forgive me love
If I find it hard to let go
Let go and open up
Oh what a feeling falling for you
It's been years since I've had this much to lose
Oh what a feeling forgive me love
If I find it hard to let go
Let go and open up
Oh what a feeling and what's a boy to do?
It's been years since I've had this much to lose
It's been year since I've had this much to lose
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Bryce Jardine Toronto, Ontario
Bryce Jardine is an independent songwriter & recording artist. Jardine's songs are poetic, driven by folk-rock.
His 2023 release, This Much to Lose, is co-produced alongside producer, mixing engineer & drummer, Brad Kilpatrick.
Nathan Gray plays pedal steel & lead guitar & Alan Zemaitis plays piano & organ.
Jardine's LP, The Kids Are Gone was produced by Derek Downham & featured Serena Ryder
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