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Spare Me

by Lee Bones

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1.
Spare Me 02:57
2.
The Future 03:55
The future everything's moving You'll start breathing hey just take a breath And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving Babe just take a sec Everybody I've known has had a falling spell She woke up in a strange new place alone and with herself But woke up to the news and sang along with herself Each new case of the blues only bought a brighter flame The future everything's moving You'll start breathing hey just take a breath And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving Wait just give yourself a sec Everybody I've known has had a wall inside One keeps it deep inside his heart and another's is hard to see A genius on the East Coast keeps a wall up around a feast At supper time he stares in longing oh what a sweet release The future everything's moving You'll start breathing hey just take a breath And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving Babe just give it a sec On our way meet you there It is not that far if you go by car The future everything's moving You'll start breathing hey just take a breath And inside you'll start breathing everything's moving Babe just take a sec
3.
Rain doesn't spoil my day When I smell that tinny smell it's okay It's the same when I think of you Lying underneath the standing stones I'm not sure what you would want me to feel It's like when you built your wheel I can still sense your pride It is not concealed by the land And now time is passing stranger than How it used to pass You're lucky that watches break When you're underneath the standing stones I see pictures of you as a kid And they make wonder what I did To deserve this tangled mess My head is all echoed tones But every now and then one rings out Harmonic high above the rest And it's like a sigh between the laughter A sigh borne from underneath my bones And now time is passing stranger than How it used to pass You're lucky that watches break When you're underneath the standing stones
4.
I have been angry all day And I've been saying Only the words that I've wanted to say I know I'll regret them But for now let me forget them And have some time away And have some time away Let me just take a little walk And maybe I will set the clock off I just want to calm down But I won't til I've lashed out No matter how good you treat me No matter how good you treat me I wish I'd yelled at everyone And said all of the things I have done Instead of hurting you I've got work to do No matter how red I see No matter how red I see
5.
I'm glad you're here But just to be frank What are you doing with us? You had a life At least the semblance of one And you supported yourself I heard you fought with your tooth and nail From your cobblestone roots And now you sit wondering what you will do On my money's time We welcomed you to our home Trusting that you'd give back some Past time you made some grown up choices What you think That you're better than me Because you're scared to die? Well let me tell that All of your passions Are wastes of time You dedicate all your love to them Cause they're ephemeral You can't prove that you're any good You can't prove the worst I were you I'd think real hard How to get out the backyard But it's too late to start now anyhow I'm telling you Not because I like you But because she does I'm telling you But it's not from a faith I have in your cause But pretty soon all our patience will run out Along with you You'll be running and we will be chasing Once she gives up too Go on get in your cheap car We've got plans once you get far Once you're high on the freeway We'll be safe at home
6.
Almost the first thought that I had In Sunset Park when I felt bad The night I arrived Was I should have left town tonight And after I'd made some friends Under their wings on the weekends I'd regret a thing I'd said or done In the morning I'd say That I should have stayed home last night If a person doesn't sleep The clocks all forget to keep good times And what does that say for a city with insomnia? I don't know but I've stayed And I've stayed and I've stayed every night One night in impulsive discovery A star shot right out of me Walking by grand central station it said That you should have gone someplace tonight You should have abandoned tonight Now here I am on the edge of the bed On the edge of the last words said Wondering who would I be? Did I make a mind up? Am I still in the lee of the island? Should I have left on the light? I don't know but I've stayed and I've stayed and I've stayed and I've stayed and I've stayed every night
7.
Icy Water 04:06
When the daylight hits you hard And you feel the summer all over close When the work is hard enough But the sweat makes you comatose When you've refused indulges When you've refused the slow death promises When you've seen how bad it can get But you're not ready to give up yet Icy water Take a long pull Icy water So pure you don't even think about the blues How come it can't be as simple as this When you're down in the dumps in the dark When you're there all you want is substance Bring you up bring you down just don't leave you there When you've given in to indulgences When you've made some slow death promises When you've reached how bad it can get And you're just about ready to give up yet There's icy water Take a long drink Icy water So pure you don't even think about the blues I will never understand the people Who have no trouble each day They can drink their eight cups easily All you can do is stare When you've fought back indulgences When you've made and broken slow death promises When you know how good it can get And you're determined to reach it yet Icy water Take a long draft Icy water So pure you don't even think about the blues Icy water
8.
Man I'm glad to see you're taking care of your health I've been trying to do the same Man do you believe that just a couple years Could ever bring us so much change We were born somewhere Orphaned we were scared But we ran and jumped And fell into the hands of caretakers Can't believe our birthday when it seems so far behind We are much wiser than our time on earth Suggests to the people who count such things We don't know what time is I have spent my days Finding happy ways And I know you've done the same in your own style Brother dear Hey do you remember when we took a cab to our first home We were smaller than a bread box Hey do you remember teaching ourselves to leap Over new limits We are still the same Constantly in change And we'll fight and help each other til the wind goes Away from us
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released December 26, 2020

All songs written and recorded by Lee Bones.
Mastered by Jon Tehel.
Art by Dave Ulrich.
Photo by Melinda Abercrombie.

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