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Wolves

by Eliotwilder1

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1.
Broken Places 04:48
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How long can I keep this going on How long can I endure My legs are weak, my arms are achin’ I am insecure Seen a lot of terrible things Seen lots of crimes It’s the age we are living in, yeah These are hard times The world it takes its toll Tears you down It leaves its traces The world breaks everyone and afterward Many are strong at the broken places How do you know just what to believe When everything is a lie Those on the right want to live in the past While those on the left merely sigh What do I say to my own kid How can I explain it I’m leaving this world in such a shitty state And she must maintain it Come together, come together You gotta come together Nothing I do will make a difference Nothing I do will make a change I have nothing, no say in the matter I’m a stranger to the strange All I can offer are these words All I can offer is this simple plan Turn your back on all you know And escape while you can
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Too Old to Fuck Around 04:33
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How many days do I have left Don't know for sure but it's not a lot I can't be wasting my time With what little time I got I know I'm being foolish I know I'm being dumb Might as curl up in a ball And suck my thumb What I am seeking it can't be found And I am too old, too old to fuck around The clock is a-ticking And time is just flying on by The things that I thought I knew Gone in the blink of an eye Wanna hang on Wanna hold you with all my might But when I open my eyes I see you've taken flight Got get on with it Before I lose yet another day Got to let you go Much to my dismay Once I had all the time in the world At least that's what I thought I fooled around and fell in love A tempest in a teapot I believed had tomorrow But tomorrow has come and gone And all that I got left Is a measly denouement
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Come to Think of It 04:50
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I am trying to see it From a realistic point of view Who do I think you are And who is actually you Are you a saint or are a scoundrel Or are you somewhere in the middle I don't know 'cause how can I know When you are an endless riddle Come to think of it You must be somewhere in between That's what I can make of it 'Cause I don't know what you mean I'm trying to understand Why I can't stop the way that I feel Not a second goes by When my feelings don't feel totally real If this is not love, if this is not passion Then what exactly is happening I've felt it for so long The feeling is so strong And it shows no signs of slackening There's a glimmer I feel And shines and shines and shines It has shot right through me Like an arrow through a valentines I feel helpless Like I can't control my emotion You have cast a spell on me With your strange and powerful potion How can you stand back And act so indifferent When you see me in agony Please do something 'Cause if you don't There'll be nothing left of me
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Shredding Me Up 04:31
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I wrote me a book to explain just how I feel To make what I feel be real And the reason that I did it Was to get through to you But you were through with me Now you’re shredding me up You’re shredding me up You’re tossing me out with the waste Yeah you’re shredding me up You are shredding me up You are doing it post haste Wouldn’t have done it without you So I only have you to blame It took all I had and then it took some more And in the end I was beaten up Beaten up and broke down Like it don’t mean nothing I t don’t mean nothing It don’t mean nothing at all to you I wrote me a book to explain just how I feel I wanted to say my piece And a whole lot more But to you I am a busted toy And you will put me in the trash When you are done
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Happily Ever After 05:20
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They were good together, like pen and paper They wrote their own history They talked about their problems They had some laughs, their love was a mystery While so many others had failed They had somehow prevailed Happily ever after They lived happily ever after In their own little world They were pragmatic, had separate interests Never shot each other down He liked stamp collecting, she liked books Saturday nights they went uptown They would go out to dance Never forgot romance She worked for a magazine He stayed home with the kid At night they came together And talked about all the things they did It was not perfect, just pretty close Their daughter has a legacy When she thinks about them She feels joy, she know she has a family tree She has a wonderful life So fulfilled and so rife We're all in this together
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To the Brutal End 04:16
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Where you lead I will follow I will follow you down And I will stick right by your side Here, there and all around I will never let you go, I will never let you drown When I mate I mate for life just like an albatross And when you walk your final road I will carry your cross I will love you like no one loves you I will love you, my friend I will love you like no one loves you To the brutal end When you think you are alone I'll be holding your hand And when you think nobody gets you I'll be there to understand When you think you ain't gettin' no lovin' Well I will be your biggest fan When I love I love real hard I get you in my grip I don't take no for an answer No I don't take no lip I will be your lovin' man I will hold you to my man breast I will be your lovin' man I know how to love you the best When you feel so down and out When no one sees your face I will look you square in the eye I will see your grace So just look up, don't you miss it I am on the case When I say I will do it You know you can believe in me When I say that I will love you I mean that for eternity
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The Last Time 04:14
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Wandered out among the stars Searching for a home Need a place to plant my flag A nice thick slice of loam I've gone knocking on the doors But no one shows their face And I swear it's the last time You will see me in this place I used to know my town Now it's all but disappeared Don't recognize my street It's worse than I've feared My local is now a chain And my apartment's been torn down And I swear it's the last time You will see me hanging 'round Don't you tell me about progress We ain't going nowhere Gotta keep moving along Even though I got to place to go No one looks me in the eye I'm no one they need to know Everything's got taken away It might as well be outer space And I swear it's the last time You will see me in this place
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Miles From Here 04:33
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Over yonder lies a valley And everyone is happy there They all got just what they wanted And they got it fair and square They are dancing in the streets They are jumping for joy They are shouting at the top of their lungs This is the real mccoy Hi, hi, hey, hey Hi, hi, hey, hey Over hill and over dale Way beyond the dusty trail Miles from here Miles from here In and out you hear them shout Counter march and right about Miles from here Miles from here There is a kingdom in the forest Just beyond the weeping trees The light's a hazy shade of amber The smell of lilac's on the breeze People live with simple pleasures They take only what they need No one wants for nothing more Satisfaction's guaranteed Over yonder lies a city It is just around the bend All the streets are paved with chocolate And everyone is your friend Do you think that I am lying Do you think it don't exist But if you don't try to go there You won't know what you missed
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The Last Day of St. Stephen 04:02
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Once upon a time I had the world in my hand And once upon a time I had the world at my command But those days are gone And I'm left all alone Yeah those days are gone And my heart is as dead as stone Once upon a time I had a room with a view And once upon a time I lived on Skyway Avenue But those days are past And my life it lay in ruin Don't have a friend to ask Just what the hell am I doing Once upon a time My word was sacrosanct And once upon a time I made the girls all faint But those days are over And I am nearing the end It hurts me to look back Unless I pretend
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No Bless Yous for Giacomo 04:31
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How many days do I got left Not too many I can say for sure I’ve kind of had a run of bad luck This dead end and that detour Just when I think things would get better My shit blowed up like gelignite No bless yous for Giacomo Not even a gesundheit How much love will I extract Before my life comes to a grinding halt All the spice has been wrung out And I am left in a bland broth of salt I’d like to say that I still got it That I’m ready to put up a good fight No bless yous for Giacomo Not even a gesundheit I know that you are sick me Hell I am pretty sick of me too So I am sure that you won’t mind If I bid you a sweet adieu I’m on a taxi to the terminal zone And my plane is ready to take flight No bless yous for Giacomo Not even a gesundheit
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Wolves 05:19
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The wolves dragged me out of my bed And took me to their hidden den And they shared their bounty and their blood And they made me one of their brethren And they told me stories of their lives How they hunt their prey and gore their kill How they mate for life and bear their young How they never hurt just for the thrill The wolves opened up their den that day And we sat around and watched TV And when it got past 10 they said to stay And that seemed just quite all right by me They made me one of their very own I ran with the pack as a show of might And I fell in love with the gray-eyed girl When she slew me with her killer bite I turned my back on the city life And I lived among the snakes and trees And I never spoke a human word And did just what the hell I please

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I turned my back on the city life
And I lived among the snakes and trees
And I never spoke a human word
And did just what the hell I please

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released October 6, 2023

Back in 2003, I met Dave Westner, a wonderful musician and engineer/producer who worked out of a studio here in Boston called Woolly Mammoth Sound. We played around with a few of my tracks and he encouraged me to write more. I didn’t think I had it in me, because I had stopped making music altogether years earlier when I had a band in Los Angeles called Catch 22. With Dave's support, I wound up recording four albums. But because I was paying for studio time I couldn’t afford, I started to figure out how to do it all on my own, which I eventually did. But Dave and I kept in touch, and I would occasionally send him a track and he’d play on it. Here is a collection of some of the songs we collaborated on. I think it’s among my best stuff, and even though it was done over the course of five or six years, it feels of a piece.

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With the exception of the albums "Wolves," "The Far Country," and "Mercy," these songs were recorded in Boston at Woolly Mammoth Sound between 2004 and 2009. Big thanks to Dave Westner and Natalia Cooper.

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