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The Deep Enders

by Matt Jones & The Reconstruction

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Come, love I'll try to be ready I will be waiting for you.
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Broke and scared 10 years Broke because I'm lazy And scared I'll disappear Attention I'd come to love Its made me tear at my reflection And curse the friends I'm thinking of Oh I've out-whiskeyed and out-gin'ed Oh I've out-grieved and out-tailspinned Always promised to begin again Gathering evidence Of all the changes I've lay claim to The sudden streaks of common sense A well-lit path ahead One look over my shoulder Invokes the circus I had led Oh I observed my spine go slack Oh I've done time for what I lack Always addicted to looking back Oh I out-whiskeyed and out-ginned Oh I out-grieved and out-tailspinned Aways known I'd begin again Memory wants me dead
3.
Invasion in good country The ranks played out One advance and one retreat Old Bluelight Could have saved your life His arms, a wilderness Lost his left, but you your right We harvest our best Now Im stuck with these bounty men Collecting their reward They desert and sign up again This war- uncivil avenged Grey, and haunted Invincible and gauntleted Always just as safe In battle as in bed Fever comes with old age This lesson comes armed to the teeth Cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees This war has civilized me
4.
Create something new Your complaints have all been used And she's beautiful when she's next to you The fever is mostly passed And its a simpler song at last that she sings to you Three cheers for the desperate dandelion hearted man Who wanted to love her so and so he did You thought you had it coming Not just now but all your remaining days You wanted someone to take the risk And she is Honestly what would you think If I sacrificed the drugs and drink And just sang to you Would you miss them too? Im careful of what I wish for now The fall is on us, the year has died out But I could live with you All the docs and wary tramps that live up through your memory man The closest they come is a half-interested glance Her hands they fold around your heart Teasing out the forgotten shards Of a fragile fool who knew he couldn't last Without the forgiveness that she gives to you
5.
Untouched for now But you'll catch it, whole regions bleeding out High on Champion Hill Where mothers go prone and daughters spill Out hearts blood for sons, mooneyed and drilled They know that time will kill you too There might be braver men But theres no heroic tales of them In slander and slur I'll bury friends Meet me tonight on highest crest of Champion Hill If you want me then by god you'll get your fill I know that time tries I'll take it arms wide You'll see that time tries to kill you too Im already old with you here
6.
Snake-railed and cheeks afire Sweat and sleep come easy Plainsong or deadman's choir, you would never hear em Grandfathers and Queen Anne's Lace in the pages of your bible Spare me all that old time grace Because I would never need it, no. Holy Lights and Cottonshots Burned beneath your bootheels To hell with all of these aftershocks Because you would never feel em Fighting praises all the time Because in your heart you know that All you want is a firing line and you would never leave it All hands high if you always feel like you're alone Make luck your bride Divorcing happiness and home May God bless you all Farewell
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On the trembling lips of age Fifteen years have gone, I sing the same While the words have slowed their rumbling I'd prefer you forgot my name And let me walk alone And let me swallow whole All that children whisper when they fall in love Dragging father's dream Through a sea of rye and gasoline Mother smiles most all the time But I think I heard her when I heard her scream "Our boy is coming back. Our boy is coming home" "Our boy is wasted on a magazine" Chasing boyhood kings While dodging wild pendulum swings Darker angels remind me that I am destined for The darkest things So don't forget my name And don't forget my voice Don't forget the golden boy who loved to sing I played a bit too hard, now I want to back out I'd love to look the part, just let me back out
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Goodbye Bluelight Your features grim perfection Goodbye Bluelight The first in our affections Always offering up prayer while determining distance Between sweating your men to grant them holy instant life. Goodbye Bluelight Your sister's right, you're poison Goodbye Bluelight A sleep content and toilsome A preponderance of praise having hidden the real smile But still baring your teeth when your patience was futile We all watched as you reached out for divine translation Witness to one holy warrior, one final invasion
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I've forgotten how to say "no way" Don't hold my hand you firebrand My bed of ice will cool you and cast you loose So soft-headed as to think "have a drink" My kingdom has come My will is undone You're sky, I'm scum We'll screw this world away One more beauty in the flame, unashamed She's young, she's strong yet dragged along The leash so long is tightened by the day Love the landscape, even as it turns red Give a whistle to all the old tunes Listed, lost and undead To the martyrs, to the victims of bright shiny midnights Know no better, pain is love and you'll find that I am gone If I could dry off, we could always sit close Bottled up here, I'm a memory at most If you could know what my heart is capable of You'd find your wings girl, and sail sober enough without me. Hardly marching I'm kind of running in place
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Juday 02:33
Why do farmer's wives take age The way they love grandchildren and Sundays It never stopped a little boy from clinging to the hemline or frostbite. I wonder if little things magnetize always to The elder memories, the makings of wrinkled skin And I wonder what I can't see gazing up with baby teeth The crow flies a straight line from seconds to "always be near me, my love"

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The easiest to make, the slowest to burn. The best yet. A Civil-War spun sprawler of an album I've been making since I picked up an instrument.

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released October 3, 2014

Matt Jones: vocals, acoustic/electric guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, attempted trombone
Misty Lyn: vocals, percussion
Colette Alexander: cello, vocals
Serge Van der Voo: upright bass
Samantha Cooper: violin, vocals
Carol Gray: violin, vocals
Greg McIntosh: vocals, banjo
Zach Nichols: trumpet
Sarah Campbell: vocals
Nicole Munchel: vocals
Jim Roll: engineer, vocals, tamborine

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Matt Jones Ypsilanti, Michigan

Well. The bio keeps changing, really. What is permanent is this: MJ was raised by a combination of circus music and doo-wop, with a healthy dose of ragtime thrown in. His music has been known to suffer from colitis. The Reconstruction is his own assemblage, and sometimes, disassemblage. The core: Colette Alexander: cello, and Misty Lyn: vox. ... more

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