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The Broken Family Album

by Broken Family

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Christopher Ballard It's finally here, and it's as great as I'd hoped it would be.
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1.
I Don't Think This World Is For Me 03:25
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years, they go by, they just keep getting worse in vain we try to tame that unquenchable thirst well, my lips form a prayer but the sound is a curse and I don't think this world is for me and I've tried and I've tried to make some good of this life but I always end up on the edge of that knife I guess there's just no one else with the patience for strife and I don't think this world is for me each day I wake to the sun going down and every new place is the same broken town I think we've lost all our good to the bad that we've found and I don't think this world is for me so once more, here I'll sit looking into the night and I'm hopelessly searching for some guiding light but this is the last time that I'm gonna fight cuz I don't think this world is for me
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My Friends Are All Mountains 03:26
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my friends are all mountains, they hold my whole world up and keep me from falling into that great abyss and when they ain't around me my world's flat and frightening no, hills just ain't company it's my mountains I miss trials they beat me down, endless and merciless to keep from giving in is all I can do so I'll climb me a mountain and its air will revive me remind me there's so much more living I've yet to do my friends are all mountains, they don't care bout no cities and the woes of the people well they'll pass in time when I'm forlorn they hold me in the cool of their shadows and bring me the breeze, dry the tears from my eyes my friends are all mountains it's only them I can count on my friends are all mountains so friend won't you come with me, I see that you're struggling and I'm sorry your wants exist only in dreams well the mountains they'll heal you if only you'd let them so won't you climb with me and see just what I mean my friends are all mountains it's only them I can count on my friends are all mountains
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Country (ADD/C) 02:22
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originally by ADD/C I want to move to the country and get away from the city and let my mind be free from the rhymes of another advertising jingle or the hit new single and the war for peace or was it peace for war? because here I can ignore all of the headline news and CNN and that it's negative ten in Wyoming again and that even the papers say we're doomed and there's toxic fumes and my vote didn't count again I want to move to the country and get away from the cities these empty boxes where we store our empty lives if I want to know about the weather I can step outside If I want to know about the news I can just make up my own lies this place was built on destruction and waste but if you want, you can move out to my place and build a shack because our lives are the only point of attack
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I Know I Don't 02:57
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I know I don't fuck up any more than anybody else does we're fed up misfits calling it quits yeah everybody's sick of something hate goes 'round but I just feel that we weren't meant to have quite this much fun we don't gotta fight this one out I know you got it just as bad as I do seasons die but who's still breathing? I hope that next year things get better I know I don't fuck up any more than anybody else does El Dorado to the shithouse you want it but you're never gonna need it high above, all swollen up cut it open, you've got to bleed it something's wrong, we just can't face it no one's ugly but everybody's stupid and what you got ain't worth a damn if you can't see someday you're gonna lose it I know I don't fuck up any more than anybody else does loving ain't always the same things we're all just trying to find a home you gotta choose between the jagged edge and being left to die all alone I know I don't fuck up any more than anybody else does
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Porch Song 03:06
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well I'm sitting here smoking my third cigarette I'd go to bed but I just haven't yet I'm thinking of you and the things I regret I'm scared I'll never love this way again daylight draws near so I guess I'll lie down and when I rise late I'll just wander around but ghosts follow me everywhere in this tiny town sometimes I feel like I'm a ghost too and some things go slow and some others go fast years in a heartbeat but heartache won't pass and if I die young let me turn into grass and let your new love lay down on my bed if ever a new friend fell into my arms may all these sad lessons keep them safe from harm I hope someday I can escape from this dark before it takes me down with it for good but now I'm sitting here smoking my fifth cigarette one day I'll be happy but I'm not happy yet and stars shine on down from way up overhead it makes me think of the way the world turns
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Junk 04:48
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you walk through the door, there's blood on your shirt when I asked how it happened you said, "don't you worry it's just from work" and I know something's wrong but I just stare at the wall I don't feel no regret, I don't feel much of anything at all and I hope that these pills bring relief and I hope that they help us to believe that maybe we don't have to give up for good if we only give up for tonight and you're here in my arms but you're not on my mind instead all the world's problems they won't stop feeling like they're mine and I wonder if there's a heaven, you say "you don't think so" I ask when we'll be ok, you say "we've got a long way to go" but these pills they won't help us feel sane when the world outside just stays the same but if you think that they'd help us to see another day bust 'em out and I'll pour us some wine and the pressure leaves my head as I tuck you into bed it's a warm safe feeling I hope this is what it's like when we're dead I sit around, hours pass and then I start to feel my feet well, the sun's coming up, I guess I'll just wander out into the street and I hope that these pills kill the pain but we both know this world it ain't gonna change but if you think that they'd help us to see another day bust 'em out and I'll pour us some wine
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If I'm Gone 04:20
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if I'm gone babe now don't you cry I never really cared about living this lie and if you love another guess I might as well fly fare you well, you'll never see me no more I love you baby but I used to have my doubts I kicked the dirt up in the flames but they just wouldn't go out now I'm begging for you back you keep on turning me down guess I'll roll, you'll never see me no more another one you got 'em shining in your eyes you look my way it's like the day turned into night count the stars up in the sky to help me pass away the time until I'm gone and I don't see you no more if I'm gone babe don't be surprised I'm moving on to find myself a different lie maybe when it's over I will finally be alright I love you still but you won't see me no more and if I'm gone babe now don't you cry I never really cared about living this lie and if you love another guess I might as well fly fare you well, you'll never see me no more I love you still, but you won't see me no more
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Flowers Keep Growing 04:26
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in the liquor a bottle fell from your hand and then it smashed all over the floor there was a smile on your face and tears in your eyes no more lies, no more lies we both need something more then back at the house you disappear into your shadow and the booze it don't ease your state of mind i try to reach you but you're running from the devil through the door, down the hill and then you're out of my sight and I found you down by the creek near your house in the grass had your head bowed down I tried to say anything, you put your hand on my mouth and put your hand on your gun will I come, will I come? and I know that this darkness it seems to last forever and the voices are most vicious at night but take my hand, don't you slip away into the shadows please stay with me here in the light, in the light and there's flowers growing where you saw yourself forever in the valley where the rivers wind on down and it's beautiful but won't you let them flowers keep on growing this place ain't going nowhere and I like having you around this place ain't going nowhere and it's so cold under the ground this place ain't going nowhere and I like having you around
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Silver Skies 04:40
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open up, you know the way that you feel it's just not enough to help what we are hold on tight to the ones that you love they'll slip away if you let them get too far but silver skies draw the line between me and you and what might have been flowing graces lighten dark places when I can't see I feel where you are and the sun went down too early on all of us we're hiding out in our house and our shame what you've done, it's made us think deep deeply made us think about making that change but silver skies draw the line between me and you and what might have been flowing graces lighten dark places when I can't see I feel where you are you're better off not stuck digging graves with the rest of us, cursing and ragged you're free to fly, not shackled by chains weighted down, stuck to staying the same silver skies draw the line between me and you and what might have flowing graces lighten dark places when I can't see I feel where you are
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Colors Pass 03:10
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oh the colors that pass from the light of the sun to the dark hues of death our fingertips wind 'round the time we have left we make space for the blues as if we had a choice but the falling leaves say we're leaving so soon when is it time to rejoice and take these gifts we've been given make a beautiful noise with these gifts that we're given gotta fight for the truth lord knows sometimes it's the hardest thing to do but you ain't gotta stick up for me I'll still stick up for you and there's lessons we learn and many we don't how come the people we love are the ones we hurt most there's dark clouds overhead so come take my hand let's embrace each other and what we don't understand like these colors that pass from the light of the sun to dark the hues of death our fingertips wind round the time we have left

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released December 4, 2020

Broken Family at the time of this recording is:

Chris Head - vocals, guitars, bass, hope
Sarah Gwendolyn - fiddle, courage
Hale Hudson - drums, truth
Xandy Chelmis - lapsteel, light
Colin Miller - guitars, organ, wisdom
Zed Haze - live bass, live guitar, soul
Aria Alexander - live bass, heart

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Colin Miller

All songs by Chris Head & Broken Family
except "Country" originally written by ADD/C

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