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Bluestone

by Tennessee John

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1.
Build me a city of ashes and horses Build me a city of clay Build me a city where I can recline and Let the night take the day Build me a city Build me a castle of mothers and fathers Build me a castle of stone Build me a castle to keep out the masses So I can have winter alone Build me a castle If I had a dollar for all of the follies And thoughts that have passed through my head I would be richer than cream in the morning In the coffee that sits by my bed Build me a castle
2.
My ex just texted twenty minutes ago Should I look at the phone? It's been six months that she's left me alone That she's left me alone Before three dots she has managed to say Shewalked by my old place And I'm stuck still, I'm afraid she might say What she thinks of those days If the future grows like branches then I chopped one off too soon Or I just didn't notice as it withered from the root From the root From the root I ain't done much in a night and a day I been thinkin' in haze Close my eyes, kill a couple more hours In a couple of ways It ain't get bad til the end of the night With a belly of wine When I'm silent in my bed with a voice in my head Saying you really fucked up this time If the future grows like branches then I chopped one off too soon Or I just didn't notice as it withered from the root From the root From the root My ex just texted couple hours ago Or has it been a couple of days? I was too fucked up to see her walking away But the memory stays
3.
I've just got old growing pains I've just got holes in my brain Father where will I get my prescription tonight? In the back of a bottle I notice the light of the moon The moon I notice the light of the moon The moon All the voices they drive me insane They all repeat more of the same Motherfuckers, the lot of em, 'sides I got sights On some sad supplication and sex for the night in my room In my room Sex for the night in my room In my room
4.
I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die Ain't no life in his body, ain't no color in his skin Ain't no soul in his eyes, just a pallid and thin Reflection of my mother A boy a knew but someone other Someone please explain to me How did my brother, brother, brother, brother die? How did my brother, brother, brother, brother die? Have I been shot up with heroin? An overdose of morphine for my soul I can't feel none of the hell I'm in But if I'm bleeding then I'm bleeding and I'll bleed a little more I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die Have I been shot?
5.
Alephant 03:21
There's an aleph in my eye Like a flower that is always unfolding Do I ever question why? Can I see past all of the castles that I've molded? Follow the alephant Follow the alephant Follow it home Follow elephants inside There's a palace on the ceiling, the ceiling Tell me why are you so wise? Can it be real if I can't feel it, can't feel it? Follow the alephant Follow the alephant Follow it home

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released May 6, 2016

Tennessee Mowrey: guitar bass drums keys
Tobias Butler: keys/keyboard bass
Isaac Silk: help writing a bass part
Adam Johnson: help writing a drum part
Ben Lerchin: album art
Sean Winnik: mastering

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