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1. |
Have Had Enough
03:06
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Have had enough
Not gonna be your rockstar
Not gonna be your rolling stone
Not gonna set your watermark
Just gonna sing my poems
Do do do Do do do
Do do do Do do do
Not gonna take your lickin
Not gonna make a living
Not gonna walk your tightrope
Just gonna sing a song of hope
Do do do Do do do
Do do do Do do do
Not gonna have had enough
Im gonna to fall, fall in love
Not gonna bear no great depression
Im gonna sing my confession
Do do do Do do do
Do do do Do do do
Not gonna be a dying star
Barely shining in the dark
Not gonna be no pile of bones
Lying neath an ol gravestone
Not gonna have had enough
Im gonna to fall, fall in love
Not gonna bear no great depression
Im gonna sing my confession
Do do do Do do do
Do do do Do do do
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Hanging On A line
04:26
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The Saltwater Well
03:36
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I drank from the salt water well
I lost my way and became
A briefcase of ballads hanging
loosely on the shoulder of a style
Where I wade in the soft depths
Of the murky red ink
Washing my bones on the shore
I drank from the salt water well
It was ten years away from a lifetime ago
And i saw a lightbulb floating down
A river of thought
Casting shadows on my heart
And I wade in the soft depths
Of the murky red ink
Washing my bones on the shore
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Honeypot
04:40
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The Day You Fled From Me
03:44
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The Day You Fled From me
l'd drink the sea away
To lie with you in your grave
I made this resolution on your birthday
With my oar in the shallows
Shipwrecked and splintered
My head In the gallows
Singing a deaf song
With words beautiful
As a pink sky at night
Sailers delight
On the day
You fled from me
It was as fresh as spring
But we were barren as the fall
The seasons distancing me
from your memories
But the devil in my minds eye
Is burning bright for you
He’s for your beauty
He can’t have you anymore
l'd drink the sea away
To lie with you in your grave
I made this resolution on your birthday
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Favourite Fantasy
04:01
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The Ratacomb
03:10
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I Told You So
03:30
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I Told You So
The wires barbed with thorns behind my glazed eyes
Guard the chorus of trumpets in my head
I wrap myself around the highway arteries
And merge together the broken face
A late night misplaced phone call
from the scene of flashing lights
but you wont say I told you so
If I lost my fear
When I needed it
Would you nurse the ice
On my black eye
Cause I took the high road with the pride of lions
Eating me alive
But you wont say I told you so
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Make Them Alright
03:46
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Make Them Alright
The fix is in the cities veins
Changing the street names
I guess i always knew that i’d forget about you
I don’t want to make things better
I just want to make them alright
Roll your blind eyes
I accept that you cant see
That i never meant to do this do you
It happened to me
I don’t want to make things better
I just want to make them alright
The way it seems
i think i must be trying to lose you
There’s guards at the bridges between us
Acting under orders from above
I don’t want to make things better
I just want to make them alright
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You Came My Way
03:21
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they say its good to be different
cause when things change
they’ll come your way
and now i think i know what they meant
cause things they changed from yesterday
the day you came my way
back in the days i was by myself
i didn’t know there was someone else
who could understand the way i felt
but things they changed from those days
the day you came my way
and now that ive got you
please say you wont go
i know things will change
but loves wake holds us in tow
but if you’re ever gonna leave me
please tell me so
tell me so
no one knows what the future holds
but i hold you close as we grow old
we’ll stay together cause love is bold
and things may changed from yesterday
but today you’ll came my way
and now that ive got you
please say you wont go
i know things will change
but loves wake it holds us in tow
but if you’re ever gonna leave me
please tell me so
tell me so
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Andrew James Barker Toronto, Ontario
Mercurial Toronto musician and artist Andrew James Barker has been zigzagging between identities for the past twenty years. Barker cut his teeth in the budding Toronto scene of the naughts as a multi-instrumentalist sideman (most notably with the band Bruce Peninsula). Songwriter, composer, jazz guitarist, producer, and engineer, Barker has consistently been crafting albums of note since 2005. ... more
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