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Going to Boise

by Josh Belville

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1.
25 Miles 03:02
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25 miles, 25 miles to go why do i always sing about leaving? my blood has rooted me here 25 miles, 25 miles take a train, take a bus, take anyway just as long as it gets me there is it wrong to leave my family for a fresher breath of air? 25 miles, 25 miles to go why am i obsessed with your absence? my bones are feeling so hollow 25 miles, 25 miles bridge inst bridge 25 miles, 25 miles to go how will i ever forget you? i sleep with you on my mind 25 miles, 25 miles
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Going to Boise 04:23
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5am, the streets are all empty for the sunrise i am packing quickly and quietly the hallway's cold and silent my new sneakers are heaven sent masking the sound of the plan that i have devised when i am gone, they will all wonder why they shunned me wandering their pretty little home i'm on my way to boise canopied by the city of trees i'm sure the bus ride there will be my clarity city of boise, city of trees i don't know why but the gem state needs me city of boise, city of life come wrap me up and take away my 20-year-old strife this weird old man, he has been staring at me all day in his beard are pieces of his lunch i try to keep my head low the music's in my earphones i hope i'm not that strange when i'm old and gray pre-chorus i'm going to boise i'm going to boise the bus driver plays 'ghost and the darkness' on the tv screens what a movie to watch when you're trying to sleep and the day grows long and i'm still seated during hour fourteen from the plains of kansas i take my leave chorus 5am, the streets are all empty for the sunrise our bus lurches into the station i've found my way to boise canopied by the city of trees the foothills here may be where my treasure lies
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Storage 03:30
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i need a place to hide this broken heart before it dries and falls apart i need a place to keep my feelings warm i need a place to weather this cold storm why won't you take it storage? why won't you take it storage? i am begging i am pleading for you my house and car are getting full of shit i am tempted to toss most of it pictures and letters and trinkets left and right i need a place to get it out of my sight chorus all of this fighting has left me tired and worried and wary oh baby why can't you see this is the last thing i need i'm packing it up, i'm taking it out i'll kick and i'll fight and i'll scream and i'll shout this is the best that i can do to forget you chorus x2 i need a place to hide this broken heart before it dries and falls apart
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Attaquin Beach 04:42
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attaquin beach in the morning when the sun glints off of the sea how i long for you to be here with me when the waves crest i am an ocean to be sailed upon delicately how i long for you to be here with me the seagulls cry dirges above as i twist and turn without love on attaquin beach the sand never goes dry i remember the knots in your shoulders and the freckles that dotted your smile the beach has been alone for a while i have thought of all i could dream of all the ways that i could beguile but this beach has been alone for a while chorus
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Heart, Meet Sleeve 02:21
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i am trying to forget you but it's hard to explain i wish that i had never met you but you won't go away i can't get you out of my head and my heart's feeling half dead what am i supposed to do tonight? i am trying to defy this got my heart on my sleeve but i'm longing for a sweet kiss why'd you have to leave? i can't get you out of my head and my heart's feeling half dead what am i supposed to do tonight? heart meet sleeve while everybody's watching take those tears and dry em dry em dry em [x2] is it better to be your friend when i know that we once were more i am sorry that i wasn't good enough sorry i was such a chore chorus x2
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Oceans 02:31
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caught up in the undertow in line for the bottom of the ocean sinking so effortlessly let you go so you'll be free i find i'm breathing a salty air at the bottom of the ocean all the dolphins swim and stare i try to look like i don't care but i do don't know about you sitting down on the coral reef we try singing songs that we remember but the melody becomes a blur and our harmonies are quite unsure you with your hair floating in the waves at the bottom of the ocean i can't think of how to kiss you are you wondering if i want to? well i do don't know about you in the sea we'll be together you and me together with our hearts so intertwined we'll leave the ocean behind
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These Bruises 02:42
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i was a little flustered after last night two weeks in and already a fight i tried to be kind but sometimes my mouth just doesn't think that night the bar had some really good drinks i tried to be sorry but the words didn't come out right i had a couple of questions after last night why, when you're mad, do you have to bite? these bruises shaped like little incisors these bruises shaped like little incisors chorus x4
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Don't Want Me Around 02:54
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it's frosty outside and i'm crying my tears they don't hide they just freeze along the ground and if i don't die then i'll be lying cause i know i know that you don't want me around these icicles dry as they dribble on the pavement and trees all sigh as spring is on its way but you and i we were never heaven sent and i know i know that you don't want me around these wallpaper walls are aging nicely the torn and tattered fall like they never held at all and you by my side is like a ghostly memory oh darling can't you see verse 1 bridge verse 2
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Falsetto 03:12
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set me down i don't want to go i'm twirled around face down in the snow they come in cars in ambulances in frozen cars and ambulances oh europa sings silently we fall the light she brings backs against the wall our time has come laying out the plans our time has come blisters on our hands oh
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The Rebel Song (O Conquistador) 03:10
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in the street tonight we have a million people working loving you in the light but now you're turning shades of gray i was privy to your faults i knew all of your weaknesses tried to take you down but you were slippery o conquistador were you studying the stars? before the morning breaks you will rot behind bars pitchforks and torches we agrarians unite! storm the castle gates to take you by surprise we have you bound by dawn heads stuck on the pitchfork barbs a new regime will watch the sunrise! chorus
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This is All 02:28
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this is all i can think about just the sound of the pouring rain and your hands, oh your gentle hands stretching out the strain this is all i can talk about how your eyes make the sun seem cold on your lips is a mystery i will do what i'm told i wish i could say what i wanted to say you will always be the one who got away this is all i've been dreaming of just to have you sleeping here in your old torn up underwear for the rest of the year this is all, all a memory just a hope bottled in my mind tossed into frozen ocean waves something no one will find chorus
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Boise [original demo] 02:44
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boise, you are the cauldron in which i simmer from table rock i can see the stars but my own keeps getting dimmer this city of trees has canopied my decline but people still think i'm doing fine boise, you are the ashtray that's always full we chain smoke our lives away lured by your loving lull when i'm with you i always feel so behind but people still think i'm doing fine boise, you are the lover i'll never miss the one who puts you down and cringes at a little kiss when i'm with you i feel so behind but people still think i'm doing fine boise, you are the cauldron in which i simmer from table rock i can see the stars but my own keeps getting dimmer this city of trees has canopied my decline but people still think i'm doing fine
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The Last Song I'll Write 02:00
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put these words to paper put these words to mind i will never sing again as long as i'm alive i will find my fortune in dirt i am shielded from the light resting on a pile of shirts this will be the last song i write fingers growing soft callouses denied if i die right now i think i'll be fine casket made of cardboard and tape put my body out of sight in the end i've made my escape this will be the last song i write

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The "quieter" of the two albums I released on April 25th. This one is acoustic, Goodnight is a "band."

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released April 25, 2008

Josh Belville - guitar, vocals, handclaps, drumming on guitar, etc.

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