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Volcano
02:07
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Coyote
04:13
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Oh, no, what have I done | I didn’t know you were gone | But if I see it again | I can’t expect it to end | Oh, no, what did I say | I didn’t know it drove you away | But if I’d seen you go | I would never have known | (pre-chorus) All these things that we had are all gone (x2) | (chorus) If the coyote lets me sleep, I’ll dream of you (x2) | Please don’t go | I can’t hold my own | I’ll change if you stay | And I’ll never push you away | (pre-chorus) | (chorus) | (bridge) | (pre-chorus) | (chorus)
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3. |
Give Up the Ghost
04:54
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I won’t see you | You’ll still be there | In the pictures | In the pictures | In the air | I’m not crazy | You’re not sane | We’re no different | We’re not the same | I don’t wanna see your face anymore | I don’t wanna hear your knock on the door | (pre-chorus) Broken inside / Dying outside / Leavin’ me hangin’ (x2) | (chorus) And it’s hard to resist you / And it’s hard to forget you / But I’m leanin’ on somethin‘ else (x2) / And it’s hard to forget you / And it’s hard to let you go / But I’ll give up that ghost / I’ll give up that ghost | I won’t wait up for you | I won’t be here | I won’t buy into that hoax | That has hooked me all these years | I’m not crazy | You’re not sane | We’re no different | We’re not the same | I don’t wanna see your face anymore | I don’t want to hear your footsteps right outside my front door | (pre-chorus) | (chorus) | Leavin’ me broken / Leavin’ me dyin’ / Leavin’ me hangin’ (x6) / And I know you still haunt me | (chorus) | I’ll get you off my mind (x2) | I’ll lean on something else | I’ll wish for something else | And it’s hard to forget you | And it’s hard to let you go | But I’ll give up that ghost | I’ll give up your ghost
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Interloper
04:37
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It’s always a stranger | Who seems to overhear | All our private conversations | Whispered in each other’s ears | But please don’t follow through | If you give all there is more to lose | (chorus) I don’t want anyone to know / I don’t want anyone to hear / Please hide me away / From the interloper / When he’s near, o-oh (x2) | You’ve kept this secret from me | I don’t need more than what you’ve said | But you know he’ll find out | He’s always in our heads | We shouldn’t have to be afraid | We shouldn’t have to whisper always | (chorus) | He knows all our frustrations | He knows that he’s one | He does nothing for our problem | He’s only just begun | (chorus)
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Kerosene
02:55
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Let’s start a fire right now | While all the lights are still out | Let’s make them watch our new game | Nickel and dime them for a clue | Diamonds and rubies for some news | On how they plan to make us pay | (pre-chorus) We’re hiding under bushes / Trapped between walls / We’re fighting off demons / And we’re stuck in their claws / We keep hearing sirens / We keep hearing screams | (chorus) You hold the matches and / I’ll hold the kerosene | Rip up your books, dear children | It’s time to watch the television | Buy into all that shit they say | Don’t fight against your captors | Just tell them what you’re after | Dear god, don’t let them get away | (pre-chorus) | chorus) | Oh oh-oh oh, we’re going down together / Oh oh-oh oh, we’re gonna live forever / Oh oh-oh oh, let’s hope the lights stay out / ‘Cause we’re goin’ down | Let’s start a fire right now | While all the lights are still out | Let’s make them watch as we play | (pre-chorus) | We’re losing our patience | We can’t get what we need | We keep hearing voices | We keep hearing screams | (chorus)
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6. |
Aftermath
05:38
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hrow caution to the wind | Make it known that this is not a sin | Make them understand what they’ve done | And you won’t ever have to run | And it’s all right now | And it’s all right now | Don’t wait around for the aftermath to bring you down | It’ll be all right now | Don’t leave me in the dark (x10) | Don’t make me wait | For you to fix me | With a bible and some words | Recited through your teeth | And a god you’ll never see | A god that’s not for me | With no power over me | No power over me | And it’s all right now | Don’t wait around for the aftermath to bring you down | It’ll be all right now
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7. |
Tiny Houses
04:02
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Take your shoes off in the doorway | And leave them on the floor | There are columns in the foyer | But no room for the poor | This town’s too big for everyone | But still too small for some | (chorus) And there’s no room for these tiny houses / In a town where there’s only mansions to see | The place where you grew up | No longer exists | They bulldozed it five times over | And no evidence persists | Where you slept is ash and rubble | There’s a new town built above | (chorus x2) | It’s too early to wonder why / These houses just get smaller / As time goes by | (chorus x1) And there’s no room for these tiny houses | In a town where there’s no room for me
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8. |
She Wants Revenge
03:57
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You told her no | You closed the gate | You closed your eyes | And you pushed her away | You kept them shut | She tried to fight | And as she cried | You stayed quiet | Now she’s stormin’ | Up and down your street | She’s got an army | With all the same needs | You’ve driven her wild | With all the wrong choices | The bullshit propaganda | Has left her voiceless | (chorus) Well she wants revenge (x2) | You are the reason | These wars still rage | You’ve stolen her life | Now it’s time you pay | You’ve apologized | Tried to make amends | But you’ve done so in light | Of your ceaseless demands | (chorus) | And she’s waiting for a time | When you’re not around | ‘Cause she knows she’ll be buried | Where she’ll never be found | And she’s tried to resist | All the thoughts in her head | Surrounding your politics | And all that you’ve said | And as always, when someone else’s life is at stake | You don’t care what you’ll do or the risks that you’ll take | And as always, it’s just your self-righteous intent | Well, she wants revenge | She wants revenge | (chorus)
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9. |
Behind the Roses
04:06
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ake a look outside your comfort zone | Don’t let me fall from this danglin’ rope | I’m sorry to tell you that I have to stay | Oh, and please might you steal away | (chorus) Oh, for a min- ute / Suspend your doubt / And wait as we watch as it all burns down / Come sea, come fire / Come hell, come higher / I will always be here | Waste all your hours on useless speeches | That all come down to whether or not you mean it | Oh, say, can you tell me what lies I should say | Oh, and please, might you steal away | (chorus) | Sneak out the back behind the roses | Show me you mean all you wrote me | I’m sorry to tell you that I have to go | Oh, but please don’t let her know | (chorus) |
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10. |
Speaking in Technicolor
04:16
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Don’t turn, the dragon won’t bite | Behind you is a majesty that might | Never yet endure all our crimes | Yet left untouched by unsober
eyes | It seems no matter what we’re woken for | Speaking in technicolor | There’s a curtain right before my eyes | It twists in motion growing in its size | It’s well known you’ll fall from this high | Even when you’ve already lost all track of time | (chorus) It seems no matter what we’re always / Speaking in a technicolor haze | A thousand visions float before my eyes | Waxing and waning and changing their disguise | (chorus) | Now, sober and normal, we’re drifting away | But somehow, some way, we’ll make it back to this place
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11. |
Calling for Soldiers
06:27
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for Ferguson and Baltimore)
Don’t put down your torches | Don’t wake up the horses | Tiptoe just beyond the dark | To the edge of the graveyard | (pre-chorus) I don’t believe it / If I can’t see it (x2) / There’s safety in numbers / We’re not undercover / We’re still behind / We’re still sinking faster / And it’s been (x3) so long / Since we found our way home (x2) / (chorus) It’s not over (x3) until the bullets stop flying / This city’s fallin’ / Don’t let yourself fall in / It’s not over if you’re still breathing | This city’s dark tonight | No more flashes of light | In the sky there’s no one waiting up for us | No more boots kickin’ up the dust | (pre-chorus) | (chorus) | Shooting off rounds at the sky | Hiding behind a billion a billion bright lights | The nights are getting colder | We’re still calling for soldiers | (chorus) | It’s not over if you’re still breathing | It’s not over if you’re still breathing
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12. |
Not Your Fault
03:52
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I’m not a princess | I’m not glamorous | I’m just a person like everyone else | Don’t tell me to smile | ‘Cause we all feel things | That aren’t happy once in awhile | (pre-chorus) And I can’t expect you to realize | And I can’t do enough so that you see our side | (chorus) And I know that it’s never enough / And I know that it’s not your fault | I refuse to be classified | I refuse to be glamorized | Don’t put me in a box | I refuse to be edified | By those of your kind | I refuse I refuse | (pre-chorus) | (chorus) | It’s the movies, it’s your teachers | It’s the churches, it’s the preachers | (chorus)
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13. |
The One Before Revelers
03:17
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I will never leave you | I won’t have to worry about you | I will never leave you | If you promise you’ll never leave me too | Oh... |
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14. |
Revelers
04:58
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| There’s a summer breeze blowing through my open arms | It calls your name | And every night at sundown there are whispers | And they all do the same | And how do I know that you are for real | How do I know you’re not in my head | And how do I know that you’re not an imposter | Come to take back all that you said | (chorus) And if I were different / Would you even notice me (x3) | So I’ll stand with my shoulder to the door | I won’t let you near | And I have nothing to hide anymore | I have no fear | (chorus) | (et cetera)
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Legends of Et cetera Baltimore, Maryland
Legends of Et cetera formed in Baltimore in 2013, when the oldest member was 16 and the youngest 14.
They are Serena
Miller on guitar and vocals, Graham vonBriesen on bass and vocals, and Jakob Coburn on drums. (Mack Watson, the band's original keyboard player, recently left the group.)
They release their second record on January 6, Serena's 20th birthday.
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