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by Tommy Trull

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1.
Nobody Dies of Stage Fright 03:40
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Didn't know my heart was breaking I just thought that's how it beats Were those tears, or were you faking I don't care I might as well Ask the canyons, the caves, the deeps It's curtain up in ten And we're onstage again Tucked back in the wings While an alto sings A love song in the green room Or is it the song that's green We take the stage but don't begin the play til midnight The balcony scene is not supposed to be a suicide Don't be unkind if I forget the lines I mangled the prose but I know how it goes But they're telling lies if they say nobody dies of stage fright Can't see a thing beyond the footlights below The show must go on, so go on with the show Still see your face in the perpetual afterglow It's curtain down at last We're standing with the cast Taking final bows Bringing down the house The love song from the green room Still echoing in the wings We take the stage but don't begin the play til midnight The balcony scene is not supposed to be a suicide Don't be unkind if I forget the lines I mangled the prose but I know how it goes But they're telling lies if they say nobody dies of stage fright
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Comfort Zone 02:38
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I'm writing out a serpentine letter You say that you could do it much better From the passenger seat you're living the dream But you don't make a move until somebody screams At you Baby wishing Is not the same as wanting You like the girl with the calico eyes Think you deserve her 'cause you're so nice Nothing for her to see, looking at you When there's all this world that you don't have a clue About Baby wishing Is not the same as wanting Everybody's cheering for you And you never take the field Oh no 'Cause you'd have to leave the comfort zone Everybody's cheering for you Some of us are getting hoarse I'm giving you an impossible task First step to take? Just get off your ass Forget all the girls on your mobile display And go take a road, doesn't matter which way You go Baby wishing Is not the same as wanting
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Saddle Up 03:53
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Brothers there is so much more To what your sister’s fighting for Than whether you should hold the door Can’t believe that makes you sore Sandy woke up not a soul could she see Except for Jake Hawkins, whose ghost wouldn’t leave She’s covered in mud, all crusted her face She licked her lips ‘cause she liked how it tastes Saddle up, saddle up Jake was her lover, ‘least that’s what he claimed Said that he’d laid her, said she was tamed One day she heard how the rumors had spread Grabbed him by the third leg, and here’s what she said Saddle up, saddle up Saddle up for the ride of your life, boy You want some of hers? Better dig in your spurs Gone are the days of the knights and the maids Get with it, or kiss your ass goodbye Jake threw her down in Humility Woods Said he wasn’t leaving til she gave up the goods Four girls on horseback came from the sunset Jake found his limbs tied to a menage a quartet Saddle up, saddle up Saddle up for the ride of your life, boy You want some of hers? Better dig in your spurs Gone are the days of the knights and the maids Get with it, or kiss your ass goodbye Sandy rode back into town with a grin Lawmen were waiting and they took her in Showed her a noose, but she didn’t care Laughed like a baby, and hung like a bear Saddle up for the ride of your life, boy You want some of hers? Better dig in your spurs Gone are the days of the knights and the maids Get with it, or kiss your ass goodbye  
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King of Tate Street 02:24
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Up here on the roof The city’s tangled in the phone lines Every house on Silver’s Like a marionette Everybody worth a damn Is somewhere doing something I could be there with them But I’m not ready yet I’m going down to Tate Street Where the poets drink and meet There’s a fight at NYP The vegans in the punk rock scene I’m going down to Tate Street You can come with me Or go home alone Put a shitty band together Name is on the poster Opening for someone Who will pay us in lines Better go on first Before the Killian’s Red takes over Rock star for the night Then open Subway at nine I’m going down to Tate Street Where the poets drink and meet There’s a fight at NYP The vegans in the punk rock scene I’m going down to Tate Street You can come with me Or go home alone I’m taking classes but I don’t need to go to them I guess I’m passing but I don’t give a damn Maybe they’re all graduated, whatever, good for them I’m the King of Tate Street I’m going down to Tate Street Where the poets drink and meet There’s a fight at NYP The vegans in the punk rock scene I’m going down to Tate Street You can come with me Or go home alone
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Dark Side of Wonder 04:04
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She will be waiting for you down the road Long as you tell her you’re coming Don’t need to give her a time or a place Don’t need to leave her a number All that she asks is that you keep the past Living in you through the summer If fall comes around and you’ve let her down You’ll find the dark side of wonder She’s throwing flames on her favorite campaign Selling the race to the runner She’s throwing paint on the animal saints But lying in wait with the hunters You’ll memorize how her final goodbye Cracked against you like the thunder But just when you think that you’re safe in the pink You’ll find the dark side of wonder She looks so brave in there, deep in the cave Letting the wolves feed upon her Falling in love with her’s watching a dove Maybe not drown, but go under Boy it gets cold when she holds you below Domed like a ball turret gunner But don’t ever cross her – you think you know loss? You’ll find the dark side of wonder You fantasize with your quicksilver eyes Told her you wanted to wander Probably a mistake, not the last one you’ll make At least you were left with your honor She’ll give you a lift and then aim for the cliff She always said she’s a goner But God bless the blackness when you give her back You’ll find the dark doesn’t want her
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Secret Sun 03:47
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I know it’s late, but I’m calling To let you know I’m in town I hear that you’re raising a baby I hear that you’ve settled right down Don’t say a thing, if you don’t wanna I’m happy to just hear you breathe I know it’s not wise to be calling But I chose this method to grieve Nothing burns like a secret sun That hides its light behind the moon Though gravity might bring us down The secret sun will be rising soon The telephone lines will wind around our love Don’t pull too fast, or you’ll unravel our love Don’t do that We should have gone to Vienna That summer we started to burn We could have invested in travel Instead of just waiting our turn Our hearts cried aloud for some water So we obliged with our tears And made the decision to burden Our souls for a couple of years Nothing burns like a secret sun That hides its light behind the moon Though gravity might bring us down The secret sun will be rising soon I know you’re a friend to the animal I know you’re a slave to the dime I know that you’d swim ‘cross the channel Once you’d decided it’s time You know I’m worth nothing to you now A coward who mastered the lie A clown with the strings of a puppet Who doesn’t deserve a goodbye
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Homeboy 04:44
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Hard to come all this way now For you to show me the way out Is there really nothing left for us to save Bought my ticket to ride up The back seat of a Honda Wrote down every word I felt I had to say Can I hold you By the bonfire Let the smoke rise We’ve got all night Don’t we? Don’t we? Who’s the guy with the blond hair Stares at me like I’m nowhere Maybe I’m just a small town boy but who the fuck is he? Someone get me a bottle A quick toke from the hot box Let me blow my mind away just let me be You’re an angel By the bonfire When the smoke rises You’ll be all mine Who’s he? Who’s he? Am I just the boy who you brought from home? Cut me right to the bone Tell me to leave you alone And I’ll go (home) Guess I’ll be on my way out Your homeboy from the old town What’s left of the fire will just have to stay here and burn Hope he’s all you wanted I’m going back to be haunted Hope you sleep at night I hope you toss and turn See you dancing By the bonfire In a smoke ring You want everything But me but me Am I just the boy who you brought from home Cut me right to the bone Tell me to leave you alone Tell me to leave you alone And I’m gone (home) I’m gone (home) I’m gone (home)
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The Hero of Hide and Seek 02:21
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He’s in the last place she’d ever look The hero of hide and seek She’s checked all the ash trays, bars and the books Going on now two weeks The hero of hide and seek Taken the car keys left her the ring Calls her his big mystique She’s under the house, she’s smelling the sink Patience is at its peak For the hero of hide and seek He’s in the pictures smiling back Calling on the old days Once upon a Christmas wish Calling on the old days She’s checking the inbox, all the old girls The lovers who left him weak Wonders aloud if he’s a swine among pearls Is that what everybody else sees In the hero of hide and seek He’s incandescent every night Calling on the old days So how’d he get so hard to find Calling on the old days She’s packing it up, she’s changing the locks Leaving this world to the meek She don’t give a damn what anyone thinks She’s leaving the widow’s peak And the hero of hide and seek  
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Summerfield 03:56
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Burn it away This ain’t happening In my today I’m tired of grappling Life with you should be easy But I make it so hard I get in my own way I’m sorry I’m on my way to Summerfield Where there’s nothing to do or say or feel And that’s all right with me I want a chance to only be I’m on my way to Summerfield I don’t want you to make a big deal If you feel it’s the worst It’s the holding that hurts So let go Welcome me back You won’t believe this power Got me on track Feel like a phoenix now Life with me will be easy I’m a new deck of cards I hope it lasts I don’t wanna be sorry … Back in my head Here I am again Rather be dead The struggle never ends Life itself was so easy But I made it so hard I got in my own way I’m sorry I’m on my way to Summerfield Where there’s nothing to do or say or feel And that’s all right with me I want a chance to only be I’m on my way to Summerfield I don’t want you to make a big deal If you feel it’s the worst It’s the holding that hurts So let go
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Pulse 02:44
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Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be nothing to do someday and I’ll be all right Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be no one to save and I’ll be just fine Can’t put down the news Can’t turn off the radio-o-o Seems we’re gonna lose But man the losing comes so slow Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be nothing to do someday and I’ll be all right Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be no one to save and I’ll be just fine Fear is on the move Can’t go where the dancers go-o-o Whatcha trying to prove? Do you have truth that no one knows? Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be nothing to do someday and I’ll be all right Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be no one to save and I’ll be just fine Let’s all blame the guns Let’s all blame the safety zo-o-ones Fear the righteous ones They’re hoping for the world to blow Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be nothing to do someday and I’ll be all right Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be no one to save and I’ll be just fine Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be nothing to do someday and I’ll be all right Somebody tell me that there’s gonna be no one to save and I’ll be just fine Put down the world and step away Put down the world and step away Put down the world and step away
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Get It Together 02:42
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This all comes down to What you want from me Can’t go back now so Let’s just wait and see We said goodbye so I don’t want to meet There’s a statute of Limitations on us Try to get it together And remember we work best in the past If it’s getting tough Seek protection from above Try to get it together And remember we weren’t destined to last Remember the bad days Are they lost in all the blur We had our own place We took a tortured turn You had the sweet face I was the razor that burned There’s a statute of Limitations on us Try to get it together And remember we work best in the past If it’s getting tough Seek protection from above Try to get it together And remember we weren’t destined to last If you’re the same I know you’ll be fine I gave you power Tried you in the fire Best thing I ever did Was let you say goodbye There’s a statute of Limitations on us Try to get it together And remember we work best in the past If it’s getting tough Seek protection from above Try to get it together And remember we weren’t destined to last
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O Father I Don't Believe 03:38
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I’m going home to watch the towers fall on the TV The only music on the radio’s by the Bee Gees The baby’s crying and the wife for once wants to see me Are we at war? Is this the end? What have I done? O father never told me there was such a rush I fucked around and now it’s time to hit the crush All the things I could have been and what was I – a lush? If I’m honest I could live forever in this rush Not gonna say goodbye Not gonna say goodbye, baby No one can take my life I just fucking gave it away I’m going home to watch the towers fall on the TV I’m in a band that’s playing shitty bars in the boonies The biggest struggle that I ever have’s hawking CDs Are we at war? And will I go? What do I do? O father never told me there was such a rush I fucked around and now it’s time to hit the crush All the things I could have been and what was I – a lush? If I’m honest I could live forever in this rush Every year I watch the towers fall on a replay I’ve drifted in and out of usefulness for a decade Late at night I call my father up from his old grave Is there a war? Are we alone? When am I done?

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released July 1, 2019

Written and performed by Tommy Trull

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Multi-instrumentalist songwriter from Charlotte. Kinda all over the place.

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