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Zia 04:18
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sun sinking low mesas burning red firmament in purple four winds in my head trailing on forever the road stretches out ahead is this the middle of nowhere? or is it everywhere instead Hook: o, love of my life you will always be in everlasting light your soul shines on me I blame you for nothing the joy and the pain I grow tall and straight inside and today it rains sun rises up the mountain awakes eastward flies a falcon in its beak is a snake then there’s a coyote through the sagebrush he sneaks I forget the difference between hours and weeks Hook: o, love of my life you will always be in everlasting light your soul shines on me I blame you for nothing the joy and the pain I grow tall and straight inside and today it rains
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Westward 04:18
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woke up rode west while the world was still sleeping all doubts regrets are cargo not worth keeping bridge: when all is won and said and done and the frontier is behind us will we resent will we lament what we’re becoming the sun went down now the world is busy sleeping all fear regrets are amplified by the moonlight bridge: when all is won and said and done and the frontier is behind us will we lament will we resent what we’ve become… ambushed attacked the arrow pierced the heart lie back relax and drift among the stars hook: destiny manifest concrete from shore to shore there are riches to be made and we’ll keep making more cars and planes and trains to drive us to the brink fulfill our every desire so we don’t have to think what we don’t understand our instinct is to kill... and there is no quick fix there’s no silver bullet there is no resolve if there’s no resolution we’re broken in our souls we’re broken at our core we either run away or conquer and destroy we can’t address the cause if we’re busy treating symptoms
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Clovis 05:50
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is this what it’s about cowboys and Indians I’m so filled with doubt wish I could begin again there’s a buzz all around as tires on pavement spin a hole in the ground where a cottonwood once had been [come on, come on, come on…] standing here all by myself on the corner of all or nothing else diesel dust and old perfume hang heavy as evening fills the room all the characters I’ve seen before from the masters of none to the masters of war where every word is like the last and every fool keeps on repeating the past Peggy Sue, are you dreaming is your head in the clouds are you feeling empty would you say it out loud the plains turn to desert and your heart turns to stone turn your ear to Chuck Hardin and try to rave on is this what it’s about cowboys and Indians I’m so filled with doubt wish I could begin again there’s a buzz all around as tires on pavement spin a hole in the ground where a cottonwood once had been bridge: still I question my choices I question my direction wish I had an answer instead of all these questions wish I could get over instead of going under I’ve weathered all the lightning so I can take the thunder can you look at yourself in the mirror can you look at your own reflection can you ever look back, don’t you ever look back, do you wanna look back, could you ever look back… I’m a car in park with the engine running you’re an idle hand, waving a gun I can never look back, no never look back, I can never look back, I'll never look back now… hook: I don’t want to be alone tonight I don’t want to be alone tonight I don’t want to be alone tonight God, don't let me be alone tonight mercury falls night pulls down its shade discontentment grows as reason starts to fade everyone’s lost and alone that’s all that’s all
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Tourist 05:08
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hook: I've got a photograph time suspended for us do you get the feeling life is passing you by stuck in a photograph nostalgia is dangerous if you’re not moving you’re falling behind reading “The Moviegoer” and sipping tequila with lime losing at blackjack and keno, drowning my sorrows in wine night after night in adobe motels with the walls painted turquoise blue I should go home now, but there’s no home to go home to we could have a plot of land our own little patch of sand a trailer hitch on “66” that overlooks the Rio Grande everybody needs comfort everybody needs a home everybody needs a body everybody needs to roam hook: I've got a photograph time suspended for us do you get the feeling life is passing you by stuck in a photograph nostalgia is dangerous if you’re not moving you’re falling… lights descend over the Sandia chrome descends on the avenue all the players choose their fiction while losers like us lick our wounds what in the world has this life come to how in the world did things come to this there’s no road from here to redemption for failing to follow your bliss bridge: I could have been your star watching your spotlight from above and I I should have listened to myself and not the doubt that the doubters called love but instead here I am in the middle of the desert sun beating down upon my head feeling close to spirits and nature another year older and closer to dead
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Warrior 04:40
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well we came back again searching for a way home but you can’t retrace your steps when the path is unknown there were voices all around all trying to be heard it was just like Pentecost but they couldn’t grasp a word then they set fire to the sand and the desert turned to glass the prophets multiplied while the tellers held the mass so we looked out at the world and we saw it spinning below to the left of me was sun and to the right of me was snow now who is going to stand and undo our undoing who is going to face the storm that is brewing I don’t know I don’t know
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Trinity 04:36
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sun beating down the sand is everywhere but no ocean to be found your hand in mine there’s freedom in together on this hallowed ground no need for words the eyes speak a language our mouths never could tonight may you sleep blissful and ignorant, believing all is good hook: when eye to eye we cannot see and we forget our humanity I’ll reach out to you, so you reach out to me and maybe then I'll meet you in the middle we’re just molecules and energy we’re celestial progeny golden ratio and eternity someday Love will greet us in the middle clouds turning green uncertain is the feeling, deep within the genes all that’s unseen there’s no need to fear what’s between the in between hook: when eye to eye we cannot see and we forget our humanity I’ll reach out to you, so you reach out to me and maybe then I'll meet you in the middle we’re just molecules and energy we’re celestial progeny golden ratio and eternity someday Love will greet us in the middle bridge: when the night is through and shadows fade at dawn dread cannot break through worry is all gone it is clear that we should never fear fear again hook: when eye to eye we cannot see and we forget our humanity I’ll reach out to you, so you reach out to me and maybe then I'll meet you in the middle we’re just molecules and energy we’re celestial progeny golden ratio and eternity someday Love will greet us in the middle
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Roadrunner 00:58
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Petroglyph 02:58
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scratching at the surface to find the curve beneath a face or bird revealed jagged wings or teeth scraping out existence in unforgiving terrain the serpents swallow dust the rocks they swallow pain crawling for a thousand years across volcano fields I’m so tired of crawling to sword and gun we yield there in bones and spirit lost is flesh and will pigment has no meaning in the potter’s field carve my name deep inside the stone etch my face deep into your memory watch the stars they’re tumbling, tumbling the firmament falls and we’re in everything everything everything everything
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"Billy" 01:57
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in this hiding place I am not “The Kid” now I am no saint but show me a man who is now all the papers post a bounty on my head though the men I shot were men already dead o’ derelict, o’ scoundrel streets of Greene, I miss you there o’ father, o’ mother Saint Jude, please lift a prayer in this hiding place I am not “The Kid”
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Taos 02:16
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the heat comes in like a wrecking ball the cold stings with its bite singing the fat lady opera the darkness confounded by light caves gaping mouths of stalactite teeth diesel breath death alight terra births the creosote pilgrims spend purchasing sight the sun swallows sky behind a cloud bathes the tableau in blood 8000 feet above the earth face to face with God save us from what we've become save us from what we've become save us from what we've become save us from what we've become
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Dawn 04:10
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have I traded eyes for wings am I a cell in something bigger now inside and outside I see it’s time to put down our swords, put down our plows hook: everything they built will turn to dust once more and every glass ceiling they raised will crash down to the floor in the East the sun will rise and surely the world will turn lesser men are doomed to repeat the lessons we don’t learn I’m so tired but I’ve gotta stay awake I’m so tired of counting the souls they take hook: everything they built will turn to dust once more and every glass ceiling they raised will crash down to the floor in the East the sun will rise and surely the world will turn lesser men are doomed to repeat the lessons we don’t learn
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Departure 05:34
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I couldn’t love you any more than I could have any more than I should have… I’ve been so selfish wanting you near me but it comes to me clearly that you’re where you should be hook: now all I’ve got is a memory your blue eyes in a photograph I keep you close in my memory every note is an epitaph sun disappearing and the colors are fading I picture you waiting to see your loves again hook: now all I’ve got is a memory your blue eyes in a photograph I keep you close in my memory every note is an epitaph

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released July 15, 2016

All songs written, performed, and arranged by M. Jones.

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Men of Science, Men of Faith Charlotte, North Carolina

Men of Science, Men of Faith is a project of Charlotte, NC-based artist Mike Jones. His new album, "New York," is anticipated for 2021 release.

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