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Scream

by Shannon Murray

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1.
Fine 02:16
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I don't know why I feel the way I do Maybe it's too little sunlight, maybe it's just too little you 2,000 miles is a long way to drive And I don't have the money to fly I don't have the money to fly But I say I'm doing fine Everyone here is speaking in a minor key All the differences between you and me 2,000 miles is a long way to drive And I don't have the money to fly I don't have the money to fly But I say I'm doing fine I don't have the strength to wrestle my body from this bed There are too many memories at war in my head 2,000 miles is a long way to drive And I don't have the money to fly I don't have the money to fly But I say I'm doing fine
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Silver Spoon 02:30
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I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth But I was born to privilege just like every white everybody else And now I am beginning to see that old argument's not so convincing But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me Because the system is set up so the system can take all the blame Then you and I can breath deeply and feel a little less ashamed Because the system took their land, it took their lives, yeah it took their lives But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me Who we gonna blame for our mistakes Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes So we don't have to pay I am heiress to the burden of manifest destiny Because everything that I have was stolen from somebody else just for me If we could just stomach the truth then maybe the truth would set us free But hey hey no way, you know it wasn't me Who we gonna blame for our mistakes Tell me who we gonna blame for our mistakes Yeah who we gonna blame for our mistakes So we don't have to pay I mean no disrespect to the people who like pawns secured the empire's land But how can we look at cause and effect and still not understand Let's get out of the business of pointing our fingers and throwing up our hands Yeah way, yeah way you know it was me
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Bicycle 03:38
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Love is a bicycle with no front wheel Love is faking it until you remember how it feels You'll never know how close I came To saying those words that way again Love is a dirty dream and you are its muse Love is me screaming as you reach for your shoes You'll never know how close I came To saying those words that way again Less of something's always more than more of nothing Invitations to coffee pose the questions I avoid I want to say yes this time just to prove that I could You'll never know how close I came To saying those words that way again Less of something's always more than more of nothing Love is a bicycle
4.
With You 03:43
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We are spirits wrapped in bodies that do not last We are moments over once we have passed And we pass I am with you I can't be where you are but the distance between our hearts is not so far But I am with you We are of this earth, we are of the sun We are powerless to say when and where and how we should return And we return I am with you I can't reach you by land or sea, I can't explain life's cruelty But I am with you We are travelers maples underneath the stars We are simple songs that fade into silence but we return We return I am with you I can't reach you by boat or rail, I can't even send this love through the mail But I am with you We are forest fires that rage and then expire We are answers, we answer every question We do I am with you I can't hold you in my arms, I can't say we are safe from harm But I am with you
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All I Have Forgotten 03:11
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She sees, oh she feels The water recalls all I have forgotten the carefully packed suitcase returning in ruins the origin of stains fading on denim jeans imprints of a journey that filled the in between of fall and spring She sees, oh she feels The water recalls all I have forgotten and i have forgotten it all even your face but she remembers you she remembers that place two days by bus and one by train a freezer full of chicken (Tom Waits singin' the refrain) She sees, oh she feels The water recalls all I have forgotten a ten minute drive to the deepest blue you'll ever know to the sweet, sweet voice of the undertow singing throw yourself onto these rocks below throw yourself below must you die never knowing what it is to really let go
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Daughter 04:12
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Mother Jones never ran for office Oh hell, you know she couldn't even vote They told her women didn't speak in public But she just smiled got up on her soap box and she spoke Virginia Wolfe didn't march down the streets of London There were too many untold her stories to tell She was wrapped up in the rapture of a feminism she knew so intimately well I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong We are no longer barred from the ballot box And the law declares us equal enough to men But you know laws will never change attitudes And attitudes are slow and hard to change I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong The political sphere has been and still is of, by and for rich, white men Some things are sure to change but until then We've got to check our anger and put this energy to good use Through outright subversion we've got to back to our roots I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day And I'll be damned if I'm going to waste one more song Reciting the angers of a past gone wrong Through the years they come to me Through time and space they comfort me Through humility and grace I see We are only the stories that we tell I am a daughter born of a heart full of rage I am a feminist standing at the dawn of a new day
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Somebody Save Me 03:23
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His father died at the age of 80 And he was just a little boy of three His momma, she was still a young lady So she got down on her knees Crying won't somebody save me She'd settle for less just to be able To keep the banker from foreclosing on the farm And old prince charming didn't like children So she took her only son into her arms Crying won't somebody save me She carried him all the way into the town Took him to the place where children go when they have nowhere else to go she said oh please won't you take me baby then she turned to face the cold October snow Crying won't somebody save me And when he was 12 years old he just ran away Working on the railroad Working in the coal mine Saving childhood for another day And when he was seventeen he joined the army Oh and Vietnam would bring him to his knees Crying won't somebody save me So I grew up nit knowing my grandpa Because that little boy grew up to be an angry old man They say you can't know someone until you have walked in their shoes I don't know much, but I know this to be true So I'm crying, no I don't blame you
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A Good Intention 04:53
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Tonight you're coming on through the rain Just to prove that you still have a heart And you know the really really funny part is That I thought I could find a way to explain But a good intention is just a bad excuse And now you're locked up tight as an armored car And you know the really really funny part is That I thought I could find a way to explain But your laughter betrays your fears And that motive reappears I can see right through this show I know enough to know That it is over You fit like a glove made for my right hand on my left foot Oh but hey you know I don't mind And you are the answer but tell me what was the question Am I just wasting our time? Tonight I'm coming on through the rain Just to prove that I still have a heart And you know the really really funny part is That I thought I could find a way to explain Your laughter betrays your fears And that motive reaapears I can see right through this show I know enough to know That it ain't over A good intention is just a bad excuse And now I'm locked up tight as an armored car And you know the really really funny part is That I thought I could find a way to explain
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Means to An End 02:35
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I don't know where you are tonight, but I have got a vision of you You and the moon on an ocean shore and the wind and the view Are conspiring against you to bring years to your eyes And oh how I am feeling like I should just get in the car and drive But I've been known to speak in circles round the truth What you don't know is that the truth would just kill you Yeah I've been know to change my mind a time or two But you should know, I've never wondered about you The flood waters are biblical in scale and the banks of this tiny river Are powerless beneath the waves and the earth moves in The wind shakes water from the sky I am you and you I And oh how I am feeling like I should just get in the car and drive But I've been known to speak in circles round the truth What you don?t know is that the truth would just kill you Yeah I've been know to change my mind a time or two But you should know, I've never wondered about you When nothing seems to go just as you planned you've got to start wondering why Why even chart the course for the journey before when everything behind is in ruins All a means to an end
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Goodbye 05:24
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You could throw this all away And with the seasons change You could throw this all away Blame this feeling on the rain Dylan's playing on the radio He's singing some sad little song Yeah Dylan's on the radio he's asking me what went wrong And I don't know Faith can move mountains But there's not enough faith to go around And I always play the martyr But I won't play the martyr for you Yes this love goes on forever that's still true But truth is I just can't be with you Because faith can move mountains but there's not enough faith to go around I could throw this all away Just wach the seasons change I could throw this all away Blame this feeling on the rain Faith can move mountains But there's not enough faith to go around And I always play the martyr But I won't play the martyr for you Yes this love goes on forever that's still true But truth is I just can't be with you Because faith can move mountains but there's not enough faith to go around
11.
Solomon 03:19
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I'm not your baby, no I'm not your girl So why all this fuss and fight You'd rather King Solomon tore me in two Than let another man hold me tonight Ooo It's not about love Ooo You know it's never been about love It's just your pride, and she'll be your only bride Ooo You know it's not about love Ooo You know it's never been about love It's always a tragedy with me and you So why do we even try I'd rather Solomon tore me in two Than have to say goodbye again to you Ooo It's not about love Ooo You know it's never been about love It's just circumstance, and are we going to take that chance Ooo You know it's not about love Ooo You know it's never been about love While I'm searching for the final verse Something in these words I rehearse Say I'd rather Solomon tore us in two Than leave in anger in a year or two We've got stars in our eyes but our feet won't leave the ground I was the moon you were the sun But when the sun rises to meet the moon He'll arrive to find she's gone Ooo It's not about love Ooo You know it's never been about love It's just circumstance, and are we going to take that chance Ooo You know it's not about love
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Scream 02:49
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I'm a schizophrenic poem swimming laps in a ballpoint pen I'm just a little shy of knowing the differences between me and them I wake in the light of another gray sky sunrise One more faded shade of tragedy to transcend I'm calculating the distance between bed and bath The benefits of good oral hygiene and the uselessness of math I'm a willing heiress to my own demise I trespass on bits of sorrow lashed end to end I want to feel like there is more to this Than a pocketful of days strung up Like cheap tinsel on a dying tree Cheap tinsel on a dying tree God skipped town with a suitcase full of deodorant spray and chewing gum So it's hard to have faith in anything even the saviors on the run Ever since that day we looked into the sky Heard buy canned cream corn, plastic wrap, bottled water and bb guns I want to feel like there is more to this Than a pocketful of days strung up Like cheap tinsel on a dying tree Cheap tinsel on a dying tree We're all Republicans in training or so it seems Another generation of muscle for the American machine But remember what Mary Jones said about changin' the scene Your voice is more powerful than CNN and ABC Open your mouths and scream
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Casualty 04:46
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I could write song after song And never seem to get it right But I guess it's better than drowning I'm just treading water here tonight Searching for something that is more More than you, more than you and I combined If there's a lesson here I have lost it Or maybe its just me I needed to find Wrapped in the ease of omission I am the casualty of unspoken fears Let the tears tell a tale I am too weary to speak Let the silence weave a web for you, for you and I dear They say that home is where you'll go When you have nowhere else to turn These string, of this thing, these songs Carry me along when I have memories to burn Wrapped in the ease of omission I am the casualty of unspoken fears Let the tears tell a tale I am too weary to speak Let the silence weave a web for you, for you and I dear I called you up to start a fight Because resolution is my favorite motif Love is just a cheap disguise for compromise What you get isn't always what you need Wrapped in the ease of omission I am the casualty of unspoken fears Let the tears tell a tale I am too weary to speak Let the silence weave a web for you, for you and I dear

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released January 1, 2004

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Shannon Murray Bemidji, Minnesota

Shannon Murray is a folk/punk singer-songwriter. Tackling guitar playing, and songcraft like it’s a contact sport, their music is intensely political, and deeply personal. Shocking and delighting audiences everywhere with their quirky stories, passionate songs, quick wit, and contagious energy, Shannon has been making folk a threat again since 2001, and is proud to call Bemidji, MN home. ... more

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