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From the Noise

by Levi Stevenson

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What part love don't you understand It's one part woman and one part man Think you got a good hold of it think again What part love don't you understand Need someone to see you when you're out of sight Always be there for you in the darkest night Don't be askin' questions just because you can What part love don't you understand What part love Ain't good enough for you What part love Something you won't do What part love Makes you less a man What part love Don't you understand Only thing you gotta do is treat her right Don't leave her alone too many nights If you gotta fight don't you raise no sand What part love don't you understand What part love don't you understand The part about happy not feelin' bad Moses never made it to the promised land What part love don't you understand
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If you were not mine I would borrow you If I got left behind I would follow you I will not let time Rise up and swallow you These things I know are true Hear what I say I wanted to be blind And no longer see On my own so long Freedom's slavery I never could belong To anyone easily But you had me From the first day If one thing was all That ever stayed inside my mind Just one vision living For all time It would be the first time that You told me You were mine You were mine I use to run away From everything Every single day Tried not to think The world just passed me by Like invisible ink I was on the brink Of blowing away The world would be the same If I had never been Free to chose the way I been traveling Trying to understand just a little bit Before the rest of it Fades away
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Heartline 04:29
Turn the lights down low I confess You look so fine Little black dress I'll never know why you chose me but you just go With what you see ain't no stopping now I don't care I'm not layin' low Too much to share Gotta little love last forever Never gonna go any place but home So much grace together Draw a heartline straight down to my soul Soul, soul, soul Wish we had met At seventeen Got to forget The in between You shine so bright Burns my memory Feels so right Way it's supposed to be Turn the lights down low I confess You look so fine little black dress
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100 miles from anywhere 100 years away Memories may be forgotten Some things stay the same Words we have spoken So awesome they are true Promises never broken Not a thing we do You are taken as you are And how you're gonna be I know you can depend on You'll do the same for me Hope you will forgive me If I ever let you down Hope you don't forget me Cause I'll always be around I'm leaning on love now To get me through I got the know how How to love you I'm leanin' on love now Night and day I'm leaning on love now The love we made A sad girl said she believed You're born and die alone What happens to her in between Guess I'll never know Time ain't just a river Something long and blue It's more about the livin' How much of it is true In the presence of each other Got no place to hide No need for fabrication We're on each other's side Every bit of waiting Every long hard night Fate was on my shoulder Brought you to my side
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Hold On 03:34
Tried to stake a different claim What was new was not less strange Did not want to stay the same But it hurts so much to change Got in trouble don't ask me How long is eternity We'll just have to wait and see No one can explain Hold on to nothing It's what remains Might become something Some day Hold on to nothing If that's all you got Nothin' will ever stand In your way Got a gone spot n my heart Kind of like a vacant lot So long past just forgot Like it was never made Whisper secrets in my ear Here's your chance to disappear What was far now is near Shadows guard the shade
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Veins of desperation Are full of blood Full of blood I'm told Entire congregation Misunderstood Every color Young and old The seeds of inspiration Survived the flood I'm told In my imagination I'm never old No matter what I been told In the middle of a hurricane you still can the sky Harder it blows bigger the eye Write it down in big old letters boys Separate the music from the noise Just let go If you're seeking information Go read a book I'm not the one You need Trials and tribulations Shine like chrome Make you strong and free Searchin' for salvation Just burns my eyes Save my place For a member of the tribe It defies analyzation At least to me Just give'm hell Cause heaven's also free
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Smoke finds the mountain Feathers line the fountain South of the Fourth of July Bones of the ocean Lie in blue motion Dark and deep As time Nothing remains Broken the chains Stillness rides The wind as it blows Out the lights Of old Mexico Rise with me Sweet innocence Ride the tide Of the Sea of Cortez Sand shields the treasure Real gift is measured Hours minutes Days Alone all together Birds of a feather Never fly Away
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Gino's Gone 04:54
Gino said we're left for dead Found somebody else instead Some standup hero with something to lose Golden boy always In the news Anybody but me Down here it's warm never mind the storms Everybody stays out late In the neon find the map One that tells us Where we're at Tells me where we're gonna be Okay for you You were goin' away Never had to tell you what to do or What to say What am I gonna do Is it gonna be ok Promises they guide My way The best dreams they let you sleep Kind of like company you keep Floatin' softly ocean blue Nothing ever touches you Find an empty place to land Gino's gone puddles on the lawn Nobody on the street Behind the window inside the door Places I can't go any more Takes a different kind of man
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The once upon a timers The reason and the rhymers Tryin' hard to tell me what to do They're through with realizing Their way of fantasizing Is going out and buying Something new Deep down in the stillness Broken hearts and illness Runnin' through their veins like a dose Rakes and shovels Up against the hovels Never gonna find The treasure trove I'm gonna run You can't catch me I might be the one You never see Feels so auspicious But I get suspicious Especially when the lights Are turned down low Write a shorter sentence Get a new apprentice Never tell them Everything you know I don't need a callback I don't have a six-pack Least not the kind you cannot drink Failed at mind reading Despite very careful breeding and I don't give a damn what you think Dreamed I was the winner Made it to the dinner Everyone was wasted In the end Leave a neon label Glowing on the table Wrap it like a package You will send Write me a postcard Tell me you tried hard I'm your one and only friend Don't tell me that you owe me Cause I know you'll only Find a way to break instead of bend I'm gonna run...
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The road to river Sure wish that I could Just hear it running Down through the woods Luck ain't no liar It just don't care Just tries to tell you Life ain't fair Feel like I'm sleeping On a bed of bones I'm always dreaming About being alone Maybe forever Just for a day Night has its reasons When it wants to stay To me the real deal It's not what I feel It's not what I say Not what I play Everything I know Don't matter no more Everything's changed Since the first came And I'm never ever ever Gonna get home What I don't know That ain't what hurts Gonna find out For better or worse Can it be done Without paying a price Just this one time Get to live twice I'm down at the river Like to get in Somewhere far downstream Gonna get out again I know I'm supposed to keep myself dry Maybe feel better On the other side
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First came the fire A Goddamned liar Desire crawling in the ashes Never saw a sign It just was time Get some satisfaction he was kind of out of his mind the hard part was over quickly he was alone inside out soul nothing more he could be one more sure thing this time heard him say don't forget the the sun and moon are real far away never had the chance to find a better day it don't matter where you might go if you won't stay what he once was don't matter because nobody livin' can remember all things to some men keep comin' back again whisper by the door while it's ending so here's to the fight turn out the lights it gets dirty in the darkness be sure that you try real hard before you die stars mark the trail your heart leaves

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released November 1, 2011

Music and Lyrics by Steve Levine, Copyright 2011

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Levi Stevenson Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Here's what I know. Went to Asheville late summer 2006. Had mountains out my window till you couldn't see any further. Went to where rivers begin as drips off leaves and morning dew. Walked through streets that I realized I'd already seen many times before in my dreams… And when I got home, I was able to separate the music from the noise. ... more

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