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Raised on the Roar
04:28
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Well, I was raised on the roar
Of a woman scorned
And just like me
Her daddy was gone for too long
And her mama gone crazy
Packing them kids up again
They’d beg, not again
And how long can we let this cycle spin
Cause, I was raised on the roar
Of a woman scorned
And our second daddy
Showed his love with bloody hands
Yeah, he’s drunk again
And our mama, she gone crazy too
Scrubbin’ blood down to bone
She’s all alone
But I’ll be damned to let it happen again
But, sometimes
The ones we love
Get that poison blood
You just go numb
Yeah, I was raised on the roar
Of a woman scorned
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Bright Lights
02:45
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The freeway is just a two-way street
A back and forth no need to speak
A light in each life we pass
When you need your nighttime highway thing
Bright lights won’t keep on blinding me
They build but then they pass
If I never say all that I mean
Could you think yourself unhappy
And dig beneath our house
Because bright lights
They grow then pass
Yeah, when you need your nighttime highway thing
I’ll build our house unending
And give this light I have
Bright Lights
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3. |
How to Raise 'em
02:17
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The secret in how to raise a man
Is to raise them like a woman
Ain’t no secret in how to raise a strong man
Just raise them like a woman
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4. |
Tender Beast
09:12
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He's already dead
The man who taught us how we work
Ain't working. Never did.
Already dead
He’s still hissing reprimands
Yeah, he ain't laid down yet
Held down, he’ll come back ragin
Let out, no fiend to find, but friend
Already dead
Ain't nothin tough in lonely
My brother's love, ain't no sin
Already dead
Let that old man die this time
Mama‘s givin’ birth again
Held down the beast is agin’
Let out another tender man
Held down he’ll come back ragin’
Let Out the tenderness of man
We all got lost out there, looking for our truth to speak
When all we had to do was listen
And if our tenderness is seen as weak
Our brother's love is all they're missing
So stand beside, before and behind your loves
Not just your lovers but your kin
This fight ain't nearly over yet
Then tender beast will rise from him
How can we be our sisters brother without the love of men?
How can a boy know how to love if we don’t take him by the hand?
Yeah, How can we be our sisters brother without the love of men?
How could a man show me how to love if he never knew where to begin?
Its only us… thats where it ends.
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5. |
Puppy Dog Blues
04:36
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How long can it really burn
If I take it back can you let it all be done
Like all them kids running through those loose streets
Today's a fight, tomorrow a new game
Cause I've learned it's harder than you'd think
To break the back of an old family
How deep could those roots be
To break our minds dreaming of usetacouldabes
When I've learned there ain't no freeway
That takes you back to where you never really lived
Yeah I've learned it's harder than you'd think
To turn your back on your own family
How long can it really burn
If you take it back could I let it all be done
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6. |
Hands Down
02:51
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Hands down
The best I'd ever
Hands down
The best yet
I saw you early
Took you real slow
You saw me early
Still had to go
Hands down
The best I'd ever
Hands down
The closest yet
I'd still come runnin’
Hands down
The best I'd ever
Hands down
Is how we left
(I feel it love) High
(It's all around you) Raise them high
(Do you feel it love?) Held high
Hands down
Hands down
Time to raise them
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Keener Family
“The Keener Family’s rich melodies float languorously atop warm guitars and strings heavy with reverb— When Christopher and Aubrey Ann sing together they sound like Bill Callahan and Emmy Lou Harris”
-Chicago Reader
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