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Worry Lines
02:59
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A jail bird never sings but she arched back both of her wings and now there's a tan line where a ring used to be.
We cut clean as chlorine in a pool that's full of leaves and now there's a tan line where a ring used to be.
I drank myself sick and I forgot to sleep and now there's these worry lines spreading cheek to cheek.
I gave her all I could, she took all that she could sneak, and now there's a dead tree where Eve used to eat.
I watch her pine box fall while my bones chill in the breeze and now there's just loose sheets that lay next to me.
Her ghost haunts this hall but I never Hear it speak.
Now she's there with me every time I blink.
I'm sick of these loose sheets that lay next to me.
Now there's a tan line where a ring used to be.
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Tornado Nights
03:31
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He knows that you don't have to be alone to be lonely, he's sitting at the bar and the tip jar is overflowing.
With I.O.U.'s and "way past dues" all of the promises just grow but you know that they'll fall through.
She keeps clicking at her heels but she's not home yet and that tornado's twist just whisked her into bed.
Knocking boots with hanging fruit. Those pillow mark scars do no harm but her ego is bruised.
They know that you don't have to be alone to feel lonely. So on this tornado night, beneath neon lights, they won't be.
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Ryan Lester Houston, Texas
Ryan Lester is a Houston based singer-songwriter mixing the dark gloom and lyrical dexterity of Leonard Cohen with the
weathered twang of Townes Van Zandt and Jason Isbell.
In September 2018 Ryan released his single “Worry Lines” in anticipation of the album while touring the southwestern United States.
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