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Daylight
03:21
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Daylight
I never want to say
I should have gone or stayed
Want to know what to do
So that I’ve lived this whole thing through
To know I’ve had a blast
Cuz good times never last
And if you think they do
I’ve got some things to sell to you
Daylight
just around the bend
Don’t feel no sun but I see violets and reds
Daylight
So hold on if you can
Until you feel the sun come rising up again
Cuz night falls awful quick
And night can leave you sick
And night can feel so long
Lord knows it’s nights that have made me strong
Daylight
just around the bend
Don’t feel no sun but I see violets and reds
Daylight
So hold on if you can
Until you feel the sun come rising up again
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2. |
Madman
04:34
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I keep dreaming I’m on a plane
I got a one way ticket to feel insane
And I don’t know where this thing’s going to land
But the flight is long and the ride is rough
And just when I think I’ve had enough
I have to take much more than I can stand
And I am standing at the waters edge
madman on a window ledge
Looking for a way to get back in
Cuz in the ocean nothing lasts
Waves just keep on rolling past
And I’m waiting for the next one to begin
I can’t wait till I wake up
Wish something would interrupt the
Sleep that much too long I’ve lingered in
I want so much more than this
All the things I’ve ever missed
I swear to God I’ll never miss again
And the way
That the waves are rolling in
Is the same
As the way its always been
And I am standing at the waters edge
madman on a window ledge
Looking for a way to get back in
Cuz in the ocean nothing lasts
Waves just keep on rolling past
And I’m waiting for the next one to begin
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3. |
Weigh Me Down
05:04
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Hit the lights and kill the TV set
Cuz there ain’t nothing on I ain’t seen yet
Basic cable cannot save me
From the cards the dealer gave me
But when there’s a way to carry on
Then there’s a way to carry on
So nothing going to weigh me down
Nothing going to weigh me down
It ‘s not you or me or us or them
It’s not who or how or why and when
Fuck good luck
I’ll take my chances
On my present circumstances
But when there’s a way to carry on
Then there’s a way to carry on
So nothing going to weigh me down
Nothing going to weigh me down
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4. |
Run Like I'm a River
03:34
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I will ask you plain
I just got one way to speak
Help to make me strong
Because the world has made me weak
I remember when I started
How there wasn’t anything
Any man or any country
Any court or any king
That ever kept me from my calling
No wall so tall I could not scale
But now I feel like I am falling
Lord don’t let me fail
Let me run like I’m a river
Let me travel like a trail
Won’t you make my heart a pillow where the world can lay its head
While it once provided comfort
Now its cold as stone instead
Won’t you give me back the laughter that I traded to be right
Cuz the sound of rightwous silence is no comfort in the night
At night the stars are all my sorrows
Their light so cool and far and pale
I pray the sun will rise tomorrow
Lord don’t let it fail
Please don’t let me fail
Let me run like I’m a river
let me travel like a trail
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5. |
Drop Down Dead
04:38
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Go down
And don’t you get
back up
I’m warning you
Look around
The people here are marked for mourning
so
why don’t you just leave it alone
There’s some things you really should have ought to have known
From down
below I see
the stars and curses
Don’t want
no jell-o, blood, morphine or nurses
No I will never leave it alone
There’s some things you really should have ought to have known
Knocked down dead stand up
Stand up I will just keep repeating
Knocked down dead stand up
Shake it off and take the beating
Fight
Well alright
Well alright
I rope a dope and roll with all your punches
And when you’re done you’re going to drink your lunches
And
Pretty soon you’re all punched out
There will be some things you’re going to find out
Nevermind those punches landing
Winner is the last one standing
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6. |
Sunday
04:29
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There’s a name for what you been doing
Sewing seeds in the land of ruin some say
Staying out past the point of pardon
Sleeping late in the devil’s garden Sundays
Your going to have to learn the hard way
Monday are crash and burn
And take your turn
Like anybody else
Don’t believe with the life you’re living
Have to take what the devil’s giving for it
Or set a price on the things you value
Poison kills it won’t matter how you pour it
Time is a gift you must adore it
Or drink to what your told
And bought and sold to everybody else
Don’t you talk to me like a dead man
I can do anything that you can better
I’m alive and I know the reason
Gonna have me the biggest season ever
And that’s the trick that makes me clever
Sunday the clock struck now or never
Just like it will for everybody else
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7. |
Rise and Fall
04:08
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I’ve been to nowhere
Over and over
Its up from the ashes
and into the clover for me
I want history written
right off of the pages
Fed to the fire
and released from the ages and freed
You must admit that what is happening here
Should never have occurred at all
But in the end I will be standing here long
After you rise and fall
Don’t want to be
any part of the story
of those who were brave
but have gone to their glory amen
It’s a tired old tale
and its tattered and broke
made of busted old words
that should never be spoken again
You must admit that what is happening here
Should never have occurred at all
But in the end I will be standing here long
After you rise and fall
I’ve been to nowhere
Over and over
Its up from the ashes
Up from the ashes and into the clover
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8. |
Fourth of July
06:13
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Crossing the country
West to the Eastern Coast
Headed for Summer
Places I love the most
picking out stations
Looking for songs I know
Finding the voice of
American radio
Bluer than Elvis
Blacker than Memphis soul
Whiter than country
Redder than rock and roll
Sound of treason
Got the look of a lie
But it feels just
like the 4th of July
Faded old songs but
Faded old songs ring true
Out on the highway
They’re starting to sound brand new
Cuz it’s been a long time
since anyone stopped to see
That freedom means something
other than victory
Washington’s waving
Waving that flag for you
And it makes me see red and
Makes me feel black and blue
All the colors falling
Falling out of the sky
And it feels like
It’s the 4th of july
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9. |
Lived to Tell the Story
03:53
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I spent the time and did the things I had to do to get up off the floor
And I kept my concentration on the feeling of my walking out the door
And I played the broken record of a hypochondriac
And I won the war that started with a cheap shot sneak attack
And I lived to tell the story Jack
Now I’m leaving and I’m never coming back
Well I itched and scratched and bitched and moaned and punched a nice sized hole into a wall
And I held my shit together with the help of heavy pharmaceuticals
And I learned to say go fuck yourself a thousand different ways
To a thousand different people on a thousand different days
And I lived to tell the story Jack
And I’m leaving and I’m never going back
And now I am the owner of the story that nobody wants to hear
Yeah but now that I can do it let me take the time to set the record clear
Don’t you come and ask me unless you want an answer back
And if you’re wearing armor then I’m looking for the crack
Cuz I lived to tell the story Jack
And I’m leaving Lord and never going back
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Your Luck is Going to Change
Fading into view
Everything that’s true
Comes to pass it must
Just like the ocean leads to
rust
It’s a cover up
Poisons in the cup
Drink the drug and see
Love or misery
Born to break your back
But if you want then take your
hacks
Always time for tea
Thanks love none for me
Your Luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
Your luck ain’t going to be there no more
It’s in the mail the clock is running
I’ve been on the junk
On the ship that sunk
Know the ocean floor
I know the shape the size the
Score
And to rise again
Broke but learned to bend
Your Luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
So say what you will
See your look to kill
Raise you what you want
I know the nature of a
Stunt
And what’s in my hand
World at my command
Your luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
Your luck is going to change
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Coby Brown Los Angeles, California
Coby Brown is an L.A. based songwriter and composer. His songs have appeared in many films and tv shows.
His 4th full
length, Everything Looks Different To Me Now, will arrive in January of 2023. He's currently music supervising the Sony / Stage 6 feature Downtown Owl based on Chuck Klosterman's novel. He'll score the upcoming features Fight Like a Girl and Freud's Last Session.
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