1. |
All Eyes
04:05
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We’ve been weened on dirty water
We’ve been growing through concrete
Made to worship at the altar
Of these gods with bloody feet
For heavens sake
Don’t take the bait
If we can still smell when it’s raining
If we can still feel the sun in the sky
If we can still feel love and wonder
Why can’t we stand up for our lives
All eyes alright
Keep your love burning
Through the night
So when it’s cold outside
You can still feel the fire
All eyes alright
We’re still drinking dirty water
We’re still growing through the cracks in the street
But we’re your sons and we’re your daughters
And we’re not here to be trampled under your feet
All eyes alright
Keep you love burning
through the night
yeah it might be dark
but baby you’re the light
you’re a rose through the street
you’re a fucking landmine
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2. |
The Trap
05:26
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Is this a trap
Breathe through our masked faces
If everything is alright
Why are we sheltered in our places
And everything we’ve known is change
It’s just this time seems out of place
Can we get back
All the time we have wasted
Or maybe we had
To stand in line with a grave between us
For this to be our one big chance to change
We could learn to love
No it’s not strange
Oh it was a nice thought anyway
Across the map
Across all time and spaces
Like a stinging slap
Across all of our collective faces
Is it time we learned that nothing’s changed
That all of our lives are worth the same
Oh it was a nice thought anyway
And can you look at what we got now
There’s no such thing as sacred ground
And though I know I can’t touch you
You surround my heart.
This is the trap
Run the same tired races
Though nothing is alright
If we’re together we can break it
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3. |
M.I.A.
04:44
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If you want to see my mind
It’s all over the floors of a warehouse
Where I walk in circles all night
Slowly I beat it out of me
I did so silently
And alone in this place where
The fans all wail the same tune
The song of the blood sweat and tears
We’ve spilled for you
To oil the gears in this machine
Ten million hours a day
Scrawled on the walls what does it say
But kill me now because I can’t get away
Slowly you beat it into me
That yeah we’re here voluntarily
But just try to escape
The fans that wail the same tune
The song of the blood sweat and tears
We’ve spilled for you
To oil the gears in this machine
Did you light our way
Telling stories of heaven
Or are we MIA
Just lost on the brightest road
You paved for us to hell
How can this be the way
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I felt no flame I felt no spark
I felt strange in my skin
And alone in the dark
Then you said
It was not your fault
You can give all you got
And not get what you want
Pick me up and guide me on through
Like a torch in the night you’ve ben singing my truth
No matter how hard
No matter how blue
I’ll keep the wheel spinning for you
And no one can hold a candle to you
Yeah you felt sick I’m sure you know
Were there days you gave in
Baby you’re not alone
Oh no
And it was not your fault
You gave all that you got
It was not your fault
Pick me up and guide me on through
Like a torch in the night you’ve ben singing my truth
No matter how hard
No matter how blue
I’ll keep the wheel spinning for you
No one made me show up
No one made me grow up
No one mad me choose love
Like you
And no one can hold a candle to you.
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5. |
You look like love
06:11
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6. |
Never Stop
05:00
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Will you put your hands in mine my love
I wanna say some things I’ve been thinking of
The years flew by We can’t stem that tide
But baby look what we got
I’m so glad I met you
Let’s never stop
You are the sun the moon and the stars
You’re the air that I breathe
No one can see tomorrow
But I know it’s you and me
They say it’s been so long
But how can that be true
Those promises we made
They still seem new
We were children of the wild
Now we’re keepers of this fire
It doesn’t seem so long
When I look at you
You are the sun the moon and the stars
You’re the air that I breathe
No one can see tomorrow
But I know it’s you and me
Oh how These clouds
Are made meaningless
Cause your love lights my way
Turns out Through our hopes and doubts
Your shine Just never seems to fade
I thought I knew a lot
I guess I didn’t know much
Til I knew you
When you put your arms
Around me my love
A million year dream
May I never wake from
Yeah it’s been quiet
And it’s been loud
But with you I’m never lost
I’m just proud
I’m so glad I met you
Let’s never touch ground
I’m so glad that I met you let’s never stop
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7. |
All Eyes ('unplugged')
04:03
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8. |
(falling off) the Wagon
04:28
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I just fell off this wagon again
and it feels like I've hit every rock on my way down
but it don't take away my fear or my pain knowing right now
how to miss that ditch if I make the next go 'round
What are you afraid of
if it's failure baby we'll get through
I heard it's not if you will or won't fall
but how you do it with your feet on the ground
I know inside it feels like you hit a brick wall
but know that you shone brightly til you flamed out
What are you afraid of
if it's failure baby we'll get through
What are you ashamed of
there's nothing wrong with you
As many years as it's been
aren't we all just feeling around in the dark
As bright the sun is as blind as we are
I just fell off this wagon again
but it don't feel like falling when I'm with you
As many years as it's been
aren't we all just feeling around in the dark
(you are all I ever need in the dark.)
As bright the sun is as blind as we are
you are all
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9. |
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I felt no flame I felt no spark
I felt strange in my skin
and alone in the dark
and then you said
it was not your fault
you can give all you got
and not get what you want
Pick me up and guide me on through
like a torch in the night
you've been singing my truth
No matter how hard
No matter how blue
I'll keep the wheels spinning for you
and no one can hold up
No one can hold up
no one can hold a candle to you
Yeah you felt sick I'm sure you know.
Were there days you gave in
baby, you're not alone
and it was not your fault
you gave all that you got
it was not your fault
Pick me up and guide me on through
like a torch in the night
you've been singing my truth
No matter how hard
No matter how blue
I'll keep the wheels spinning for you
yeah no one made me grow up
no one made me show up
no one made me choose love
like you
and no one can hold up
no one can hold up
none can hold a candle to you
no one can hold up.
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Hansi Richmond, Virginia
- Late '80s: Hansi started playing in punk bands in San Diego, CA
- 1996 decided to write/record/perform
solo acoustic music influenced mainly by Elliott Smith, Richard Buckner
- 1999 forms Truxton in Oakland, CA
- 2013 Truxton plays their last show in San Francisco
- 2024 Hansi is currently writing and recording music in Richmond, VA but is slow to get ‘out there’ as he can be a shy dude.
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