january 14, 2021
featuring:
brendan steuart / drums
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easy
if i can’t have you
if i must walk right past you
please make it easy on me
take my eyes so i can’t see anything
oh anything
and maybe when my eyes are dark
it’ll spread down to my heart
that’ll make it easy on me
take my eyes so i can’t want anything
i don’t wanna see anything
oh was i darlin
was i anything to you
oh what was , oh what was i
if you can’t feel me love
then i’ll become what you want
no it won’t be easy on me
but i’ll become something you need
oh you will need me
and when i finally hear the truth from your mouth
i’ll believe you
and i’ll take this to my grave
and you’ll live like i was never made
oh was I darlin
was i anything to you
oh show yourself darlin
i’ll rip everything from you
oh what was i, what was i
phantom burn
you swore you’d never do them no harm
like the moon above you were steady and calm
but in the dark hours of the night
you were a sitting storm
as they fell onto your matches
your tears felt warm
the sky turned red as the roof came crashing in
you lifted your head and you smiled
confessed your sin
you said i ain’t no outlaw
oh it’s same as what they did
now these next 40 years i’ll be running
but i won’t be no kid
now those fields all have grown up past your eyes
over the hills you recognize
those leaves all are dancing in the light
this ground ain’t been so holy since the fire
but those flames are still roaring in your sleep
well you tried for revenge
oh but found no peace
you’ve been feeling that phantom burn
on your hands and your feet
you’ve been praying
the devil don’t take you underneath
dagger
i’m sorry i just couldn’t lift my eyes
to meet yours as you left
all i could do was pray you’d feel regret
and come back to me when you had nothing left
oh come back to me when you have nothing left
well i know that you were never mine to lose
but i felt that dagger twisting in the wound
it was there before you, it was nothing new
oh it was there before, but you made it new
i thought that after all that’d come before
it’d laid the path for you
but if you’d loved me then what would you not do
well i should’ve known that it could not be true
oh i should’ve known that you could not be true
well don’t expect me to be waiting here for you
all the right words
would i finally have you
speak plainly to me now
would you finally kiss me
and let all the right words flood out
let all the right words flood out