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Arrivals & Departures

by Fearless Freep

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1.
Target 03:14
TARGET we had a discussion and you said I'm on track but am I on target, or is it on my back? I'll take a number and I'll wait my turn the hardest lessons are the ones we don't learn in time and we don't choose love no we couldn't if we tried we don't ever get a say no no no and we don't choose love there's no use putting up a fight 'cause win or lose, we've got play the game I'll out your survey and I'll complete your forms everyone keeps track but no one knows the score I'll drink some more Kool-Aid maybe buy a new suit don't matter my skill set, I'll show up and look cute I'll be fine and I don't choose love ... I'll make the coffee and I'll turn on the lights I'll shut them off when I go home at night a morning commute for a job that don't pay me to care but that's not how I was raised, remember we don't choose love ...
2.
Harsh Winter 03:25
HARSH WINTER William Core in the Civil War planted 100 apple trees stand today, only four they're twisted remnants what they used to be but this year those ugly branches they were loaded, weighted down that's a sign, that's a sign of a harsh winter coming I sit alone in this booth for two I write down simple words for you but you never heard of no William Core or his 100 acres, or the Civil War but you don't need him to tell you just look at me sitting here alone you'll see that it's a sign, gotta see a sign of a harsh winter coming and I know exactly how I got here and I know exactly what went wrong it were a silly game to play but I thought it'd be okay it seemed so long, so damn long ago a stool away, see him frown he got half a pitcher down an old man with a gray beard and a house tab and lonely ear he stood up, put on his jacket rubbed his back, and he moaned he said "I feel it here when the weather turns cold son I'm old and that's a sign of a harsh winter coming" and I know exactly how I got here ...
3.
Both of Us 03:22
BOTH OF US well it’s blue in the bowl and it’s pink on the wrist you take a little off the top, take everything a two-week vacation it comes down to this you get a waiting room, bag full of magazines it’s pre-dawn for a car ride we’re going to get something off of your chest but the boy down the hall got a stuffed superhero and Smiley won’t ask, but he’ll tell you what’s best and you’re mad why you angry why you angry enough for the both us now and there’s no sense trying to worry about something you can’t change anyhow they wheel you although you could walk it we’re going to count backward from ten nine … eight … get up and get dressed cause you’re home again home again and you’re mad … and all the old women will call on the phone lines and ask Him to make it all right but you’re riding shotgun anesthesia driving and I’m in the back seat I’m seething you know I’m mad …
4.
Arrivals 02:52
ARRIVALS moving sidewalks, tiny wheels cocktail napkin chit-chat and echoing heels and I'm bound for a place that feels like it's home a three hour difference that ain't nothing you know so wait for me darling 'cause I'll be there tonight it's only a four hour flight and I'm falling ... for you there's garbled announcements from speakers above security checkpoint, they're lining us up but I keep my head down keep my music turned up keep thinking of you girl I keep picturing us so wait for me darling ... and I'm falling for you ... and you know that I'm coming home to you
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DEPARTURES (SUNDAY MORNING) why you so angry? frustrated 'cause the world won't change for you could be anything you want to be if the darkness doesn't swallow you and the shadow-speckled ground you know it's like our hearts in some places the light shines and other places dark and with each sip of coffee bring the sun a little higher in the blue sky I can you see so clearly with a smile on your lips and tear in your eye and love brings us together and in love we fall apart it can be your inspiration or leave you at the start and it's a Sunday morning I love you oh so well and I can hear you call across the miles home is a mission bell there ain't no use complaining no good spitting upwind we've got the same old brilliant ideas again and again and love we stay together and in love we fall apart oversee my renovation or strip me for spare parts and it's a Sunday morning ... and in love we stay together and in love we fall apart honey be my illumination or leave me in the dark and it's a Sunday morning ...
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Big Top Show 04:29
BIG TOP SHOW I live in the desert east of California it's been about four years gone since I jumped that circus train and threw my lot in with these hucksters on the big top show don't peek behind the curtain some things are better not to know see the lizard man his face is covered with tattoos check out the bearded lady - she's a dude from Santa Cruz the midway barker will seduce you with his lies and love and luck at first he'll pick your pocket girl then he'll pick you up ’cause we are barkers we are cheaters we are liars we are thieves we’re in the business of denial yeah we are selling you your dreams and we are good at it we’re better than you’ll ever know so come on step right up now people for the big top show Leon is a strongman, claims to lift 1,000 pounds but those barbells are hollow magnets hold them to the ground Trixie is the madame of a tent they call ‘Delights’ you can see them lining up for her almost every Friday night because we are barkers ... Lady Kathryn is our psychic she’ll tell you what you wanna hear the conjoined twins are sick today so you’ll have to come back next year the world’s largest lady she died three weeks ago we had a moment of silence for her before we buried there by the road because we are barkers ...
7.
Sarah 03:34
SARAH Sarah looks me in the eye asks me if we’re past our prime are we only marking time? I said I didn’t think so Sarah orders one more drink it’s one too many, you might think for the middle of the week but she says we deserve it Sarah don’t be sad tonight everything will be just fine I promise you that the best is yet to come Sarah make a wish and throw your penny on in now I’d give my wish to you I hope they both come true, Sarah we stay out ’til 1:30 she talks about her family she asks me if mine’s as crazy I say, "hey, isn’t everyone’s?" when we’re slowly walking back she’s got my sweatshirt on her back it’s getting hard now to relax but I think that I manage it Sarah don't be sad tonight ...
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Shorthand 04:24
SHORTHAND she says she don’t need no one to come to her rescue and that’s good cause I ain’t got no oars I’ve been adrift out in this desert float along until I see her distant shores maybe I’m the one needs rescuing tonight maybe she’ll throw me a line it’s funny how the more I feel the less I say the more free my heart, the more my tongue gets tied but I hope she knows that I’m thinking of her tonight self-park garage, a friendly hug she takes my hand – there goes the rug an August romance underneath florescent lights a nice wine buzz, a rooftop bar from up here we can so so far and I’ve become aware that my hand is on her thigh maybe I’m the one … a stolen glass, a nervous kiss the things that make relationships the tiny gestures that no one else would understand you build a language all your own hand signals, mirrors, inside jokes and over time they become a kind of shorthand maybe I’m the one … yeah I hope you know that I’m thinking of you tonight
9.
ENOUGH FOR ME there are some things i’d take back but most things that i’d give and there are some days I could crack but mostly i wanna live and there are some songs i can’t sing but no songs i cannot shout there are lots of girls i think of but it’s you can’t live without whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh but it’s you i can’t live without whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh there are things i should not say but i rarely let that stop me and there are bets i should not take but c’mon just try and top me and there are some rules i won’t break oh but most of them i do and there are some thoughts i can shake but i can’t shake the thought of you whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh i can’t shake the thought of you whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh there are things i should not smoke and drinks that i shouldn’t drink and there are things that are no joke but they still seem pretty funny to me and there are places in this world that i’ll never get to see but as long as you’re here with me girl there’s no place i’d rather be whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh there’s no place i’d rather be whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh there are signs i should obey and red flags that i should heed there’s hidden dangers along the way that i ignore i will concede that there are dreams i should give up some things were never meant to be but in the end if i’m enough for you girl that’ll be enough for me whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh yeah that’ll be enough for me whoa oh-oh, whoa oh-oh … that’ll be enough for me
10.
SHOWDOWN AT JERICHO HILL meet me there tonight on top of Jericho Hill if we don’t make our stand right now I fear we never will I got nothin’ left to say I got blood left to spill on Jericho Hill we’ll release the horses, they got no part in this we’ll clean our six guns well, tie our holsters to our hips I’ll pull my hat brim low you’ll shove a smoke between your lips and then we’ll take the higher ground plan an ambush from it darlin’ here we go I got one in my sights won’t you cover me while I reload? we might not see another sunrise but I’m proud to stand with you if this is our last fight now I’m winged in the left shoulder and it hurts like bloody hell I’ve done for half a dozen of ‘em but I’m runnin’ out of shells sheriff hollers ‘give it up young man!’ but we both know damn well that I’d take the final bullet before he’d see me in a cell and they got a length of rope for me yeah they wanna see me hung for a crime I swear to you that I never done what’s more I think he knows his deputy’s the guilty one they had to frame me up so I had to cut and run partner here we go ... they told me "come on outta there – hold your hands way up high!" as you might expect, I hollered down "you’ll never take me back alive!" I hauled leather, my six gun it hammered at the sky the sheriff fell down dead I hit him square between the eyes darlin’ here we go ... but I’m proud to stand with you if this is our last fight

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released May 23, 2012

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Fearless Freep Ann Arbor, Michigan

Fearless Freep lives in Ann Arbor and records original music in his spare time (and bedroom). His daily high-dive act involves writing about global health at the University of Michigan.

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