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Sights We Rarely See

by Zack Miles

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The drive between the places that I love Is much shorter than it used to be The service roads can take me Where I need to go The early riser waits at the station Patiently alone The people nod, the lot will board the trucks The engines make the earth to shake Passing by the lake and Trees in perfect rows The hardest worker leans against a rock He waves hello Light falls away straight down the hill Trucks have left out for the day The land is slowly carved away The place I can call home The hardest worker drives away Happily alone Chorus The fun will end, the work has moved to the far north home Passing stations that we left a long time ago He tended gardens by the gate for 10 years now They'll grow and love to shade the place For the dogs and the cows
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The Captain 05:17
I'll just be here - moving with the shade Their clothes smelled like beer. - They're just kids drinking all day Throw my coat on - I sneak out with the crowd And left the attic lights on - They'll know I'm gone by now Our friends will be fine - as he barrels through the leaves And sounds like footsteps - falling constantly He stands his ground when - snow weighs down the trees The time and place for - sights we rarely see Chorus The captain laughs in your face Says you have no other place To come and go as you please Where it's still hot in the shade
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Could you wonder what they've seen From the hanging branches blowing Courage to look down without fear of falling But any other time, face down outside The sun heats my back as the world goes by Could you wonder what they've seen 2 inches from the ground pushing away dirt and leaves They barely make a sound They'll forever be free from a war torn land To burrow underground never seen again Frostbitten hands from working in the cold Dreaming of the day when we get to go home 'Cause I've gone days out here without saying a word Until he switches off the light The only one we've known The sprawl has left the lights At the end of alleyways With wasted spoken word Of better past days To an empty dark room the words bounce and they fly They'll never find an ear. They'll never know why. Chorus Pull yourself together, we're both bad a looking busy Watching a tire swing fill with snow Blocking view of our only window
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There's a note left under a rock at the edge of the table The air is dry, the sky is grey The thunder is making it's way
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Postcards 03:24
He thinks out loud as he leans across the table Hiding steps away for the willing and the able The wind's cutting deep and the world here holds fast As he learns to appreciate a good nights rest Still the ones in front will have something to say About sleeping on ground and the price to pay As they move at night it's been like this for days The father of the modern age escape Now Ihave to wonder how much time has passed Since the first to walk here stopped to take a rest The lay of all the known routes we see today Then teach them how to deal with the worst of a winters day Bridge Where the wind blows cold air over rocks down at the creek They'll still find you The trees up here are the best to hide but the worst to have to run through If you have to Chorus Still from what I've heard They talk about us in the places that we've been From the timber line to the looney ridge They said hello from the back of postcards
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The Old 500 05:18
It's the answer to a fear of the dark What's been watching us right from the start Whatever breaks the light that shines under your door Just let it know that we had a lot to give But not a whole lot anymore I'd like to help you take back what's yours So he can climb to the rafters and watch the door Through dry summer dust its hard to know exactly what he sees But I'll take your word I still know the list of things it could be Chorus But if it helps you sleep at night We've been here for years doing fine But the old 500 won't have a home to go to Half will fade away the other stays young underwater
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Parking Lots 06:39
I can now see differently The parking lots where we used to drink Passing by the early days With the best of luck in open space Falling out a bit too far into colder nights a lit cigar Is watching me cross the street Through smoke and fog You'll never see his face We drove out here on sunday nights The gates still locked, Door shut tight It's more than we would ever need Runway lights flashing green To the beat Engine steam, is all they'll see
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5 to 1 he is halfway to town His friends hold the fort down They can't be trusted but they'll do for now The smell of gasoline and the taste Of the quiet life, through the whole night before the rest came down to say Our friends somehow know too much but they can run out to the lines They have seen everything at once When I found the spot on the WMA There was only one way in or out Of the cleared out spot we talked about He said I'll be here for weeks Don't tell your friends or family Where you found me Now he's moved away to the southern haunt He sees a never-ending landscape He sees everything at once Chorus Past the lines in the dead pine trees The foundation barely stands The water stays frozen till The early spring begins The systems here underneath the ground Of rivers and caves alike The creatures that can't walk by day Can roam here all the time
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Halloween 04:04
The crossed out lines on the map sometimes Look like places we've never been before Making coffee stains on rotten planks We roamed outside today just to stay awake The afternoon on Halloween was quiet cold and welcoming The furnace burns a bit hotter than it has In the past years I can recall It's just we waited here all summer long The car still sits on blocks outside John drinks and pretends to drive It will run one day just give him time And he'll drive back years later to see The house was much more fun when it was empty Bridge This afternoon on Halloween, throwing rocks down the well Just to find out how deep This disaster that came to mind of the long forgotten north Of flood and of fires I would guess Chorus I hope these lights don't cut through the fog It's our excuse when everything goes wrong It seems our safe place has had a few close calls So keep it up while we're gone
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The night itself will clelebrate the empty feild Soaked earth left hanging out to dry And back to my corner where I wait for the call Regarding bad weather did it say sorry at all You should stop by for a moment if you can at all What kind of bar has last call at 10 Back to the feilds pitch black night We're still a force to be reckoned without time on our side Chorus Just make up stories to make sense of what we don't know And go to far off places with no place to go If he calls to say he'll be there early He probably means lunch but he's good for the money Now the forward thinking minds Saw the sign of the times What have they found before me What will they find when they leave And back to the feilds in the pitch black night We're still a force to be reckoned with time on our side

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released February 5, 2016

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