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The Anywhere EP

by michael ilios

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1.
It looks like rain 04:25
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It Looks Like Rain Staring out the window, watching the waters rolling in And the house just down the hill looks like its filling up again I can see the whole town. You know its safe up on the ridge Where the dead cars look like lost toys floating down under the bridge But don’t But don’t Don’t get me mistaken Cause I don’t give one damn at all Cause even though ten years ago I ripped your picture off the wall I still feel forsaken, as though my destiny is pain Now every time it looks like rain I hear your voice Whispering my name I remember when they found you in the trees With my gun wet in your hand With the blood washed off the leaves I was broken down, tried to find the kids all day Little Katie was in Mexico, Bobby Jo was locked away But don’t But don’t Don’t get me mistaken Cause I don’t give one damn at all Cause even though ten years ago I ripped your picture off the wall I still feel forsaken, as though you did this to me, Jane Now every time it looks like rain I hear your voice Whispering my name I have given up, let the shadows wander in There is whiskey in my cup and there is ice beneath my skin But I’m listening, and I’m closing up my eyes For I’ve seen the gray clouds sweeping in and darkening the skies But don’t But don’t Don’t wait for me in heaven Cause I’ll be haunting our old place And even they tear it down I’ll still be searching for your face Among the broken walls and the foundation down below And when it looks like rain, I’ll hear you Jane And I’ll know where to go Know where to go
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Shelby county line 03:44
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Shelby County Line Guess what. You’ve been struggling all your days If you’ve failed to amend your ways Lord it ain’t from lack of trying, no I guess people get messed up as they grow old And their shoulders become cold And they ain’t no good for crying on And these people live like mannequins Standing around all day Pissing their lives away What would you expect me to say? And the grossest corruption is most of the things once held aloft Have either gone brittle or soft And are sagging and crumbling today You’re better off lost somewhere in Memphis You can leave your troubles behind You get all boozed up and useless Grow numb to the passing of time You get busted on the inside But the outside will be just fine When you leave your mind on the Shelby County line Guess what. Life never turns out quite like a dream And no one alive even cares what you mean It’s a deaf ear words ever lie upon I guess people possessed of a broken soul Are eager to wrest any sense of control But it ain’t much worth relying on And these people with their haircuts and their self esteem Global conscience and living clean What the hell does that even mean? And their closets got more skeletons than the Smithsonian Especially the born again Better stay the hell away from them Woah you’re better off lost somewhere in Memphis You can leave your troubles behind You get all boozed up and useless Grow numb to the passing of time You get busted on the inside But the outside will be just fine When you leave your mind on the Shelby County line
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Oh, the dust 04:20
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Oh the dust Stepping through my back door, there ain’t nothing but sand And a breeze so small, fit it all in my hand Ain’t no heaven, no highway, no Indian ride Through the dust to this ghost town by which I abide Try to keep my head high, well above the gloom Where no memories can hide in the corners of the room A blindfolded mind’s eye, nail it on if I must Like some long-shuttered ballroom shrouded in dust Like the dust in my eyes, the dust in my coal black lungs From which one is made, one becomes Like the dust in my eyes, the dust in my coal black dreams In dust I’ll remain so it seems, so it seems… Beneath the whip of this desert, we’re all quick to grow old Its all sunsets of violet, blood red and gold And not one word of wisdom has ever been told And not one brittle husk of a man has gone cold And the dust in my eyes, the dust in my coal black lungs From which one is made, one becomes Yeah the dust in my eyes, the dust in my coal black dreams In dust I’ll remain so it seems Oh the dust in my eyes, the dust in my coal black heart Lingering there from the start Yeah the dust in my eyes, the dust in my coal black dreams In dust I’ll remain so it seems, so it seems
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Once upon a time 03:40
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Once Upon A Time Once upon a time, we were trashed and lonely Living on the rind, playing at some holy light Not so long ago, it was you and me against the world Now we’re living in the hive, tooth and nail to stay alive Don’t dwell on what you can’t find Being lost is a state of mind. Oh no, hold on Don’t dwell on what you left behind Cruel wind whipping up the sands of time Oh no, hold on Once upon a time, we were close to cleaning up Finishing the rhyme that crystallized the meaning of This whole broken world, the reason every boy and girl Is inching toward the fall of war and death and fuck it all Don’t dwell on what you can’t find Being lost is a state of mind. Oh no, hold on Don’t dwell on what you left behind Cruel wind whipping up the sands of time Oh no, hold on Steady crawl towards a downfall Still thinking there’s a ways to go Oh no, hold on Steady crawl into freefall Start thinking you could lose it all Oh no, hold on once upon a time
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I hate new york 04:52
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I hate NY Guess we were born here, so mama this is our town Besides we got family, roots in the ground If there’s only one thing I’ve learned about folks compensating for lack Its everyone I’ve ever known goes away but ends up coming back To the cold days, and the colder nights Where a sunless haze weighs down on a failing light Cannot stay, gonna leave today You’ve had your say and I don’t wanna play no more Cause I hate New York Everyone else here knows how I feel There summers grown shorter year after year They point to old pictures and brag how they smiled despite what they’ve been through And ignore how the shadows hang heavy and dark in the eyes of the old and the new In the cold days, and the colder nights Where a sunless haze weighs down on a failing light Cannot stay, gonna leave today You’ve had your say and I don’t wanna play no more Cause I hate New York Guess if it’s anywhere, this is the place That put salt on my soul and put lines on my face But anything that’s come to pass would have born out regardless of where we were So why not fill the car up with gas and head out cause I know you’d prefer The beautiful days and the beautifuller nights Where the palm trees bend and sway like Arabian kites By the sea we’ll be all right A sacred land on the golden sand So take my hand and say, as we toss the cork Get lost, New York
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Fourth of July 02:53
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4th of July 4th of July on a hilltop in the sun Waiting for night to fall, night to come Lady twilight, from her home down in the ghetto Wanders in and calmly waves around her gun But who’s that madman chasing people off their blankets with a knife? Who moved the neon, and why does no one else here care to spare their lives? Moonbeams dance on the county reservoir Where hippies dog-walk down the old romantic promenade What silent horrors lie in wait outside the car? Vengeful trollops of some long forgotten demigod Shadowless comrades, flag a spacecraft down, the wolves are chasing after us We got to cut loose the dead weight and kill the headlights, can’t this thing go any faster?! On the sand, under starlight pure and grand Running screaming from the black obsidian obelisk While briny tentacles glissade across the land Well, lets be honest, is anyone else here really feeling this? Sometimes the devil wears a white dress- an attempt to fool the pastor While all us legitimate beauty queens lay choking on our libertine disaster
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Don't come to town unless you're a pariah 06:37
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Don’t Come to Town Unless You’re a Pariah Don’t come to town unless you’re a pariah And don’t hang around here reporting on the fire Wrapped like a noose around this place, and tightening down Don’t want to see your perfect face staring up at the moon from a hole in the ground 400 yards away from where we’re standing Machine gunner gods are from stairways and steeples commanding: “Empty your pockets and pile up your shoes and get on the train. Now you’ve got nothing of value to lose except for the clothes on your back and your name.” Children cry out. Their screams resound unabated. Grandfathers cower and stoop as they’re cruelly corralled and berated Women just stand on their toes and wave, desperate not to fall out of sight Of heartbroken men who dare not misbehave, but stare down bayonets they’re unable to fight I watched them go, heard the doors creak shut and the axles groaning The sun settled lonely and cold in the steam cloud the engine exhaled with a moan If not for the long-shadowed tracks in the dust, you’d think no one was there And even the footprints will go when a gust of wind blows out the smoke that now hangs in the air

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released November 23, 2014

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michael ilios Ontario, New York

Self-produced recordings of ontario, ny based power folk indie songwriter and monster guitar player. Michael sings his ass off about love, death, booze, misery, sunshine, and the overtly plastic affectations of our thoroughly diluted postmodernity.

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