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Everything Comes True
04:07
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First few words, carpet burns, rebellion from the folks
First few steps and arguments you run away from home
Television, skepticism of the one percent
Tunnel-visioned, passion led indictments of the rest
Surprise diagnosis; had they caught it soon instead
My Dad might’ve kept a little hair up on his head
It comes so quick and heavy that you won't know what to do
Good or bad, everything comes true
Summer days, heavy heat, weekends that don't last
And all those girls you'd love to meet would come and go so fast
Most lovers know to leave you when the weather gets too rough
As summers turn to winters when you think you’ve had enough
Pessimism, aneurysm, overwhelming guilt
God imposes sanctions on the people he won't kill
And takes the strength of everyone you've ever looked up to
Good or bad, everything comes true
Good or bad, everything comes true
A pregnancy unwanted is not a blessing in disguise
But the lawmen does not give you any choice if not to try
So you grow your silver lining to a good man of his own
To be humble, righteous, horrified by all he can't control
It's all a mess, his happiness are lines out on the road
He blows right through those little towns, they lead him by the nose
And goes white as a ghost every time he's feeling blue
Good or bad, everything seems true
It comes so quick and heavy that I just don't know what to do
Good or bad, everything comes true
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It's All Happening
03:23
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It's been a while since I met a girl that I don't understand
Most of the ones where I come from are too quick to show their hand
This problem that I have, says nothing about them
I get lonely touring and I fall in love again
It's like a pattern
You came a-walking across my mind when I woke up today
I musta seen your initials somewhere driving around LA
On a menu in Korea Town or a custom license plate
You came a-walkin’
You came a-walkin’
I'm like a different person now you wouldn't recognize
You could see me on the street and I wouldn't catch your eye
The business makes me cold, it happens time to time
When it's all happening
When it’s all happening
Surrender to the notion that everything comes true
Yeah it all comes true
Sometimes in the ways we want, sometimes just because
More often just because
Oh it always does
When it's all happening
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Obligated
03:27
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Mary mother of God; I denounce you but I
Think it's wrong I feel that I have to
Ain't that just the way a good Catholic boy should feel
Obligated
I tilled your fields too long, like broken wheels I dragged along
Down the row-lines, sowin’ seeds in
Whatever grew between us was never cultivated I felt
Obligated to cut it down
It was all a glimpse of the dream and then I woke up
Screaming from a distance, begging for forgiveness
I may have been the culprit, honey, but now I am the victim
Obligated to let you down
I'm fightin’ in the streets, like any high score I can't beat
You eat away at me on my arcade machine
If we weren't competing, the game would be elating now it's
Obligating to get back in
It was all a glimpse of the dream and then I woke up
Screaming from a distance, begging for forgiveness
I may have been the culprit, honey, but now I am the victim
Obligated to let you down
It was all a glimpse of the dream and then I woke up
Screaming from a distance, begging for forgiveness
I may have been the culprit, honey, but now I am the victim
Obligated to let you down
Obligated to let you down
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Queen on the Money
03:49
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I'm a son of a gun when I'm on the run
A tail without a kite
But just like a friend, Mom or an Aunt
She always sets me right
When I’m overdrawn, she's my queen on the money
'Cause she always knows what's good
After a long day, when I'm in the clouds
You bring me down
The ruler of one, she's never outdone, and kinder than I deserve
She's more than a friend
And had I the nerve, or any good sense, maybe I'd tell her then
I meant what I said
When I'm overdrawn, you're my queen on the money
Cause you always know what's good
After a long day, when I'm in the clouds
You bring me down
Son of a gun, you're my queen on the money
‘Cause you always know what's good
After a long day, when I'm in the clouds
You bring me down – right on the money
On the money – you're always right on the money
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5. |
Avenir
03:42
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Avenir
You've grown to know you’ll never know what's coming
And the more you age the more you tire of running
What was opaque is starting to be clear
Avenir
What first you thought would all work out easy
Hurts you now and nothing can appease you, so you're
Waiting for your bearings to appear
Avenir
When the going gets too tough for you
And you know there's nothing you can do
Find a little shelter from the storm
Or learn to disappear
Avenir
It takes time
For the choices that we make to feel justified
In the way a witness doubts if they should testify
When the D.A. asks them to appear
Avenir
They won't commute a sentence we deserve
Take that as a comfort, not a burden and walk in the light
Let go of your fear
Avenir
When the going gets too tough for you
And you know there's nothing you can do
Find a little shelter from the storm
Or learn to disappear
When the going gets too tough for you
You wonder if you’re gonna make it through
And you know there’s nothing you can do
Find a little shelter from the storm
Learn to disappear
Avenir
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6. |
Mendocino
04:01
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Talk to me of Mendocino
Closing my eyes I hear the sea
Must I wait, must I follow
Won't you say come with me
I bid farewell to the state of old New York
My home away from home
In the state of New York I came of age
When first I started roamin’
And the trees grow tall in New York state
And shine like gold in the Autumn
I’ve never had the blues from whence I came
But in New York state, I got 'em
Talk to me of Mendocino
Closing my eyes I hear the sea
Must I wait, must I follow
Won't you say come with me
And it's off to South Bend, Indiana
Flat out on the western plain
And up into the Rockies down on into California
Out to where but the rocks remain
Let the sun set on the ocean
I’ll watch it from the shore
Let the sun rise over the redwoods
I'll rise with it till I rise no more
Talk to me of Mendocino
Closing my eyes I hear the sea
Must I wait, must I follow
Won't you say come with me
Won't you say come with me
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7. |
Probably Not
03:55
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Driving through America tonight
I'm looking for a pattern in the hashed white line
As I think about the moon and more elusive celestial bodies
I wonder who else drives on through the night
Traffic wasn't busy in the end
Down here where the lights have turned to red
The air is clearer than the papers said
I've been breathing fine
Should I be glad to live here and simmer in a melting pot
Maybe California will take pity on the dreams I got
Probably not
So I wonder now;
Does anyone that live in LA really exist?
In this expansive simulation or apocalypse
I left a message with a friend in Encinitas
I got no reply
In learning to be gracious for the opportunities we've got
Will the universe reward us for an optimistic train of thought?
Probably not
Probably not
Probably not
Probably not
Probably not
Does anybody living out here really exist?
In this expanse of simulation or apocalypse
I surrender to the notion that everything comes true
Well am I willing now to give it all I’ve got?
Probably not
Probably not
Probably not
Probably not
The desolation across the desert floor
Holds you in a trance you can't ignore
Something feels different than before
But you don't know why
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8. |
Promise of the Road
04:08
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When the morning light came shining – I was on the run
Headed down to Vernon
Like trying to paint a feeling with these keys
I'm trying to get a feel for ya
Postcards that you wrote got to me
I'll send some of my own along eventually; a new song or a note
A quick sketch of the road you travelled down many years ago now
I've been trying to figure, I've been trying to tell
What all of these postcards do so well
Oh maybe it's a secret that you're never gonna tell
Wrapped up in the promise of the road
When you're across the water – I'll be in the States
You always said that everything comes true
Like any other rounder looking up to you
And learning how to live
He might try to figure, he might try to give
All he has to offer, whatever all that is
Still eludes him like a secret that he’s not supposed to know
Something like the promise of the road
True love, and affection
I want to touch the hands of inspiration that you hold
On safe passage to your current destination
I want to learn the promise of the road
Waiting for a taxi, waiting for a train; you await my answer to your question
Should we pack it in, and cut our gains
Or hang around and try and play the game?
You’ve been trying to understand, I’ve been trying to tell
This passion never really stands to do us well
And maybe there’s a secret that we’re not supposed to know
The subtle truth the long passage of time has yet to show
The answer to life’s questions anywhere I go
Are hidden by the promise of the road
Oh promise of the road
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9. |
Blackout
04:37
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Part of me has never tried to leave your side my dear
The other part is always many miles away from here
If leaving on the regular is what I’ve gotta do
Until I’ve cut the record that I’ve always wanted to
Don’t blame yourself you never could contain me anyway
Forces hard at work on me will hurt you every time
Like waking up to find your lover’s left a note and run
And took his pound of flesh from you in more ways than one
Poor honey you’ve been hurting something
Trying to wrap your head around me now
I’ve been burning down a highway headed south but you can’t watch me leave you
Like a blackout again
You take it on yourself and you let the darkness in
Blame my deviations on a detail you’d forsaken
The King he had his dancing and the Beatles had their hair
Like them you compensate for quality that was always really there now
Poor honey you’ve been hurting something
Trying to wrap your head around me now
I’ve been burning down a highway headed south but you can’t watch me leave you
Like a blackout again
I wanna show the recommended sentiments this time
Lay a little love down on the line
The return is not the sum of all the effort that she put in
If I can’t reciprocate the love she does give
Poor honey you’ve been hurting something
Trying to wrap your head around me now
I’ve been burning down a highway headed south but you can’t watch me leave you
Like a blackout
Any time I try and be more than just a friend
It’s all lights out
Like a blackout again
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10. |
No
04:24
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I did the dance of a runaway with a hardened highway criminal
When my life was in disarray she brought me back again
Maybe I was in need of a friend on the brink of my uncertainty
But when she up and said to me she would leave for Silver Lake
I said: No
No
No
No
I was left with a bitter taste like I get when love don’t stick around
When she refused we would entertain any plans to settle down together
I was made to heal myself on the road forever, between these towns
Like an EMT turned refugee who the borders turn around
I’m comin’ in hot
No
No
No
No
I was distraught so I took a job in sales in Nashville, Tennessee
To sell my soul without a second thought of what the hell that meant to me
I took a gig as a fader rat making Elvis slap delay
I wrote love songs for the radio on the road back to LA
No
No
No
No
Nowadays when I look around, having landed in a better place
Who are all these friends I’ve found and this love that’s come my way
Maybe all our aspirations really can come true
For those of us who stick around and see our hardships through
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Sam Weber
Sam Weber has spent the last decade variously honing his craft as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, a road that crests a scenic new mountain with the arrival of his stunning new album, Everything Comes True. Expanding on the ambitious canvas of his recent New Agile Freedom EP, Weber has delivered his most compelling release to date, one stacked with remarkable songs. ... more
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