Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues Album Lyrics

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Familiarity

It's on
Again you hate it but you know it then
You know it and so do your friends
And you can sing together when
It's on
Pretend you love it because you love them
As you explode out of your phones (amen)
to make some music of your own (amen)
You can hate it softly to yourself alone
A man among amens

A ringing bell, or programmed drums or both
I couldn't tell but I rejoice

A smoke machine or a swinging thurible
it was hard to see but I lifted up my voice
We've come together over we know not what...

A call to prayer, or the last for alcohol
we didn't care; We knelt and bowed our heads

Or did we dance? Like we may never get another chance to disconnect
We've come together Over we know not what to say I love you

I love you, I love you
I mean it, I want feel it
God help me feel it
I love you
God knows I mean it
God help me feel it
God knows we mean it
God help us feel it...

We lie in bed
The wireless dancing through my head
Until I fear the space between my breath
I see an end to where I don't love you like I can
Cause I've forgotten how it feels (amen)
To love someone or thing for real (amen)
Darling when you wake, remind me what we've done
That can't be shared, or saved, or even sung
It's on
Again you nod your head and take my hand
Though im not sure where we'll go (amen)
To worship more than what we know (amen)
As long as you're there I won't be alone
A man among amens

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Julep

I died happy in my sleep
I died happy in my sleep
Our children around and you looking down
Heaven's a julep on the porch
Heaven's a julep on the porch
You and me rocking
A grandfather clock is tick, tick, tocking to time
We used to wind it

She brought the sugar and the mint
She brought the sugar and the mint
And he brought the whiskey
Asked for my blessing
Yes sir I know she's
Heaven's a julep on the porch
Heaven's a julep on the porch
You and me rocking
A grandfather clock is tick, tick, tocking to time
We used to wind it
Got time
We used to wind it

Now the time stands still
We drink our fill
Out of silver
God will never
Tarnish like we will

You were just a girl that I should meet
You were the girl that I would meet
For drinks in the backyard
A beautiful daughter
Lifetimes of summer
And love ever after

I died happy in my sleep
I died happy in my sleep
Our children around and you looking down
Heaven's a julep on the porch
Heaven's a julep on the porch
You and me rocking
A grandfather clock is tick, tick, tick, tick, tocking to time
We used to wind it
Got time
We used to wind it

Oh it's tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tocking to time
We used to wind it

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Passepied (Debussy)



[Instrumental]

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I Blew It Off

The sun hits the back of my neck
Through a crack in the window shade
I blow it off
I blow it off
'cause I keep outside
In the eyes and ears
Of friends I've never met
I blow it off
I blow it off

There's nothin' to say
That couldn't just as well be sent
I've got an American share
Of 21st century stress

Your trouble vibrates the table
Interrupts my reverie
I blow it off
I blow it off
'cause if it's that bad
It ain't gettin' better
Face to face with me
So I blow it off
I blow it off

There's nothin' to say
That couldn't just as well be sent
I've got an American share
Of 21st century stress

Go ahead and bloody up your knuckles
Knockin' at my door
I'll blow 'em off
I'll blow em off

'cause there's nothin' to say
That couldn't just as well be sent
We've all got an American share
Of 21st century stress

See the oceans rise and leave the nations
Cryin' at heaven's door
I blew it off
I blew it off

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Magnet

I pinned her to the wall and said
I wanna take you home
I wanna take you home, think about it
She threw me to the floor and said
I wanna take you home
I wanna take you home, think about it

What's the center between two centers of attention?
Is there a center between two centers of attention?
All our attention between two centers of attention and then there's

Cause I'm a magnet
And you're a magnet
And we're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
Baby I'm a blank cheque
And you're a blank cheque
To whose order we going to pay?
To whose order we going to pay?
To whose order we going to pay?

I laughed away to tears and said what if you took me now
What if you took me here, think about it
She locked the hallway door and said
You gonna take me now
You gonna take me here, don't think about it
But I've thought about it

What's the center between two centers of attention?
Is center of attention is some center of attention?
All our attention between two centers of attention and then there's
Oh yes

Cause I'm a magnet
And you're a magnet
And we're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
Oh baby I'm a blank cheque
And you're a blank cheque
Our very own order to pay
Our very own order to pay
Our very own order to pay
Cause we're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
Cause we're pushing each other away
We're pushing each other away
Baby I'm a magnet

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My Oh My

Rise up, blinking in the sun
Wrapped in invisible wire
Something beautiful's gonna come

Out from underneath our thumbs
So let freedom vibrate, not ring
'Cause we can't listen to everyone
Wanna hear ourselves sing

My oh my, what a wonderful day
We're having, we're having
Why, oh why, are we looking for a way
Outside it, outside it

I see the green grass below
I feel the warmth of the spring
Is it beautiful (maybe not, maybe not)
But maybe so
But if it keeps us singing

My oh my, what a wonderful day
We're having, we're having
Why, oh why, are we looking for a way
Outside it, outside it

How long, oh Lord, can you keep the whole world
Spinning under our thumbs?

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Boll Weevil

Boll weevil told the farmer
"You better treat me right
I'll eat up all of your cotton
Sleep in your grain rail tonight"

Boll weevil told the farmer
"You don't need no Ford machine
I'll eat up all of your cotton
Can't buy no gasoline"

Yon comes the spider
Crawled up and down the wall
He must've been going
To get his hash's haul

I don't see no water
But I'm about to drown
I don't see no fire
But I'm burning down

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Prelude (scriabin)



[Instrumental]

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Forgotten

Help us on the way
I guess it wasn't mine to say
We're too far gone
But I've been here before
And though it's changed, I know the door
Locks on the outside

A wolf nipped at my heels
I tried to reinvent the wheel
With sticks and straw
And the wrong half of the hourglass
Was full when I heard her voice
On the outside
On the outside
On the outside

Hey there, it's all gonna be fine
You ain't gonna die alone
You ain't gonna be forgotten
[x2]

It's on the outside
It's on the outside

Hey there, it's all gonna be fine
You ain't gonna die alone
You ain't gonna be forgotten
[x4]

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Between 1st And A

I've never dwelled on leaving
Only getting somewhere

But darling I'll miss these evenings
In my fourth floor walk-up
Villagers stumbling below
Trying to catch each other on the very street where I caught you

With three drinks, maybe more
Four blocks in the summer air
And one kiss at my door
We brushed off the cabs
Looked up past the fire escape
To find us looking back
At what we're leaving to get somewhere

Darling I'll keep that apartment
In some loud and reckless recess of my heart

I moved there alone to live with a girl like you
Your love drives it home and I might look over my shoulder
But I'll never dwell on leaving
If I'm getting somewhere

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Little Lights

Look at us we're glowing
Tripping the dark fantastic
Singing the phosphorescent pinks and blues
To beloved tunes in beloved rooms
I can love it all to the distractions with this

Look at us hold each other spellbound
Every moment a polished silver
Link in a chain forever rattling through
Our beloved tunes in our beloved rooms
God I've loved you all to the distrations with this

This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

Shine little lights of ours
Like Orion's Belt of stars
Connected only from afar
Shine little lights of ours
Like Orion's Belt of stars
Guide us back to where we are
From where we wanna be