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Pattern Break

by Song Club Sampler

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I could not write a song If my life depended on it this month. Maybe I’ve lost my touch? I wrote this song at 7:30 Sunday morning And recorded it while Gus played doctor Next to me “Listen… listen it! No one... no one fights like Gaston Listen it!” – Gussie
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Why can’t I ever find the words to say? How can I get out? Will I ever find a way?
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This house, I know These hands I’m holding are not my own It’s all I know You called, by the railroad way My phone in hand, I felt the same You saw me break my oath and like The combinations of my mother I’m held against the wind I’ve come to need this company Here’s all I care for: A night, a song, a Kodachrome, I consider myself in two when I say A moan, perfume, a day with you You know why the lights don’t fade? The candles flick and I feel the same My father sees this pattern break There’s beauty in the pending When we’re held up on our own With your hands in my hair falling out everywhere, looking at the street that we live on It’s a long line of those type of brown-eyed girls, I suppose we’re making our mettle My fingers they bleed, my hair it has streaks, we’re sitting with our face in the mirror
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Pale skin Baking in the sun Dark cloud Raining on the fun Energy Negative one Vampire Draining everyone I know I’m no Fun to Be around Dead tree Swaying in the breeze Grass stains Fucking up your knees Marley Haunting Ebenezer Thank you very much That’s the nicest thing that anyone’s done for me
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Altiplano In the rearview mirror I’ll be back someday Like Pancho headed south We fought a battle On the hill in Zacatecas May have won with my words But she would rather lose Spent a night In the heat of Torreón Perhaps we’ve lost our trust But still we carry on Cross the bridge Mine the veins for silver But there’s no spoils to give her It’s a long road She said “take me home” But we haven’t got a home And we haven’t got a long road Coming to a close Sunset on the driver’s side Took me on a four year ride Walked the ruins In Casas Grandes Where the Mormons hid Their loving from the law And when the guns come out We keep our heads and drive For a moment I feel alive Reach the Gadsden line A folly on the map Another battle awaits Like Pancho headed north The might Colorado Cuts a canyon to the sea Her currents rage Cut a chasm right through me It’s a long road She said “take me home” But we haven’t got a home And we haven’t got a long road Coming to a close Sunset on the driver’s side Took me on a four year ride It’s a long road She said “take me home” But we haven’t got a home And we haven’t got a long road Coming to a close Sunset on the driver’s side Credits Pedal Steel: Mike Dixon Electric Guitar: Dillon Hansen
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There is a green hill far away Where our ancestors went to pray To thank their god for her spring days With painted eggs, flower bouquets I know we learned a different way A man who died so he could save Other people from their pain Said it was the only way Your letter came a few weeks late You wished me joy everyday You also worry and you pray For me, in your distance way I wrote you back, I want to go To the greenplace we don’t know We’ve been hurting, we’ve been told The earth has tilted, we’re getting old
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Why’d you use me, Ball me up and throw me in the trash? Your logic confuses me, When you pretend it wasn’t just to cover your own ass. To you anything, Short of condemnation is approval, So you force me, To be the enforcer for you. It’s not how it’s meant to be. Don’t know what you meant to me. I guess we just wait and see, How everything’s gonna be now. If condemnation’s what you want, I’ve got something for you. Tired of acting like nothing’s wrong, So here’s the score yeah. I’m through with you, I’m done pretending everything’s okay, Don’t know what I’m gonna do but, I’m gonna have to find a more sustainable way. The way we know Is not the true way. The name we name Is not the full name. The truth we tell Is not the whole truth. The way that we talk about Is never gonna be The lasting way The way we know is not the true way, The name we name is not the full name, The truth we tell is not the whole truth, The way that we talk about is never gonna be, The lasting way
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I’ve fallen down I’m reaching out When I’ve found out how I’ll make it out I set out to find new faces I got lost in all new places I saw it all, and I felt just the same I will make it out I will make it out I’m underground Can’t make a sound What force compels? Only time can tell I set out to find new faces I got lost in all new places I saw it all, and I felt just the same I will make it out I will make it out
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Is the sun brighter today It’s piercing my eyes in a brand new way I’m walking home from the BART shielding my face with my arms I’m a new man In fact I’ll never be the same This is the last time you’ll see me outside without my shades You said “he makes you feel safe” Made worse by the fact you didn’t say his name It’s okay, I’ll be fine I’ve got plenty on my mind Is the sun brighter today I swear the suns brighter today
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God I want to play in a band Craft an angle, etch lines in the sand Not knowing what I gotta do But knowing it’s music with you Not gonna sit back and wonder Where all of my time went Seeing the cycle I’m seeing something new Don’t need to find a new name Don’t need a premise to claim Doing what I’ve done before It’s the step I’ve been stepping towards Not gonna sit back and wonder Where all of my time went Seeing the cycle I’m seeing something new

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released March 3, 2024

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