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Family Trees

by Young Readers

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1.
All I Have 03:41
I was raised on blood and sweat and pain But I never once had a thing to my name And I know the things you want you have to earn As I watch my brothers work their skin to bone My mother lived on eating once a day I'll never understand how she met ends that way Bt if what they say is true then I'll be fine Without a fancy house I will get by If all I have is you Then the rest is ok
2.
Boxcar 02:50
We can run away we can live on a boxcar train Swing our feet in the sun and be safe from the wind and rain And if I spend one more day without you I'll go insane So if you feel the same we can make our plans to escape We can eat cans of beans and you won't hear me complain And the world will drift away as you and I fall asleep in the hay And all the sights that we'll see as we hop from state to state And the sound of the train is all I need to leave this place
3.
Naked 05:45
You are a featherless bird Shaken up and covered in dirt But you do the best you can to stay clean frustrated waking puddles with your wings If I could I'd help you find some thread Make you a sweater or a nest You are the changing of leaves You dance in a colorful florescent breeze But the blood in your hands rushed back to your core And the stems from your arms fell to the floor If I could I'd help you find some glue Return every leaf and paint them back to their hues But sometimes bare and naked is for the best New leaves will grow and new feathers will cover your chest Everything goes through change But I'll be there anyway
4.
Wooden Frame 04:01
There's a hole in the clouds Pretty close to where my fingers use to reach But now they stake land in pockets Walking down the muddy, tire paved streets And it takes a little touch And it takes a little brush To paint I pass by neighbors on their farms This town has little plans where I don't belong And now I'm walking between the tallest trees you've ever seen As they line up and fall right off the page And it takes a little color And some time to dry on canvas And it takes a 20x16 wooden frame To make his journey away seem sincere Away from here
5.
Blame 03:30
I hope the lights are still on When I decide to come back home Cause my shoes have worn through their soles And my skin burns from the cold And the footsteps that I take Echo the words said in vain We both make mistakes But I forget who's to blame Who's to blame? I hope the house is still warm When I lay my back against yours Cause in your bed I feel like a ghost Buried in clean sheets and dirty clothes But you're still wide awake Sinking in the tears you waste We both make mistakes And I Forget who's to blame Who's to blame?
6.
Lion Tamer 05:24
Sunlight through the cracks in you walls Repeat everything that you see Deep down there's no time to hear you out Sleep alone you sleep in your clothes You don't feel alone When you shake the walls just to get a response Stand tall beat your chest with your arms Scream loud but the volume will drown you out So you claim you're not the fool they say you are As you try to prove you're someone that you're not They don't understand the creature you've become So they lock you up and hide you in the walls

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Thanks for listening to my new EP! Stay up to date by finding me on Facebook www.facebook.com/youngreadersmusic or on Twitter twitter.com/YoungReaderz

The artwork for the album can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/76812334@N08/ where you can download and print to color on your own or rack your brain on the 22 word bank word search.
If you would like a physical copy from the first pressing I would be more than happy to mail you one along with your very own pack of crayons! Just email me here with your address and quantity, or any other concerns you may have. youngreadersband@gmail.com


See you soon!
Jordan

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released March 6, 2012

Artwork: Steven Silva
Mastered by Barry Johnston at Watershed Studios Enid, OK

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