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Small-Town City
03:29
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Wind has been blowing almost half of the year
Finding a new job is impossible here
In this small-town city, small-town city
The crime here would make you think we're falling apart
The big city kids are breaking local kids' hearts
In this small-town city, small-town city
Sometimes I'd like to run away, sometimes I'd hate to leave
West of the hills, students are struggling to learn
To be the next scientists and artists to turn
Out of this small-town city, small-town city
Half of us here think climate change is a farce
The big city kids still breaking local kids' hearts
In this small-town city, small-town city
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Harsh Winter
03:07
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Sunset is 5 o'clock tonight
The snow's the darkest shade of white
Deep freeze today, chinook the next
The air comes stinging from the west
Why don't you start, pour out your heart
Spilling through this harsh winter
Write like you're here holding me near
Warm me in this harsh winter
This is bitter season now
It's so much lonelier somehow
I can't sleep through all the breeze
And you still won't answer me
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Rust on the Train Bridge
04:29
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Rust on the train bridge
Building up like the pain of a love
That you never had but you lost anyway
Rainbows on crossings
Fading and worn like the hopes you had
Of a happier life that you thought you'd claim
The city bleeds like you
The city's pain is yours
Maybe it wishes too
It could have something more
Snow on the coulees
Blowing away like the years you spend
Waiting for an escape where you'd rather be
Weeds in the valley
Robbing the soil like you rob your days
With a meaningless work you can never leave
Cracks in the concrete
Shaped like the ones on your heart after all
The disappointments and losses from the life you had
Man on the sidewalk
Begging for coins like you beg for peace
From the stress of life before it drives you mad
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Hours Away
03:25
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I was hours away
I felt better that day
There were no reminders of painful memories
And everything around felt new to me
I want to go back and I want to stay
Hours away, hours away
Maybe a future is there for a change
Hours away, hours away
Why should I want to stay here?
It all seems better over there
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The View from Here
04:09
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It's the second half of spring
The coulees are turning green
They'll die again late in the summer
Trees are finally budding leaves
Above the ripped-up streets
And when it gets hot they'll be cover
Same as the last year and the last year
Same as the next year and the next year
How is the view from here?
How is the view from here?
I don't know, I've gotten used to it
I don't know, I've gotten used to it
The summer students stay
The rest have gone away
While the workers live like the rest of the year
They wish that they could go
Somewhere that wasn't so
Familiar after all this time here
Sometimes there's lots to do
Sometimes there's nothing new
Doesn't matter, weekday or weekend
But mostly hope the rain
Will drive the wind away
On the few days that it is sent
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