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straightline
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Rock
straightline was released on February 16, 2006 by Pete Bernhard as a part of the album Things I Left Behind
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Release DateFebruary 16, 2006
LabelPete Bernhard
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM160

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Pete Bernhard
Pete Bernhard
Songwriter

Lyrics

Smooth stones have fallen once more out the sky night like rain
I'm outside on the front lawn, getting beaten black and blue again
Lookin' back now I always preferred child my enemies to my friends
It always just seemed logical to have something constant upon which you can depend
If my father was an earthquake, now then my mother was a hurricane
Me, I got my hands full walkin' in a straight line, rememberin' my own name
I was born when the trees around my home
Bled fire out into the eyes of the sky
The world snapped, beneath your feet and everything that was alive had died
I was born to a cold wind, take the words out of your mouth, the color out of your eyes
I just keep what I can carry now, and leave the rest behind
I heard stories of the city lights, I hid out among the trees
Bows bendin' like a spider web, lettin' no light in for the eye to see
Fireflies, summer skies, downward pressure, the heat
I sneak down that gravel at night till your black eye's
Hotter than the Tennessee concrete
But I was born in the trees around my home
Bled fire out into the arms of the sky
The world snapped, beneath your feet and everything that was alive had died
I was born to a cold wind
Take the words out of your mouth, the color right out of your eyes
I just keep what I can carry now, leave the rest behind
Clear to go there's a heavy load, watch the human car castle fall apart
Ill tell you right now it's more about the stomach
Out here than it is about the heart
See a man now playing in a dark café with everybody's back turned
Sometimes we've just gotta put our hands into the fire
Make sure that it still burns
Red light in that downtown Bart pulls out and puddles on his feet
I know that some of you out there are starving
But it ain't for lack of something to eat
(Chorus)
I was born in the trees around my home
Bled fire out into the eyes of the sky
The world snapped, beneath your feet and every thing
That was alive that died
I was born to a cold wind, take the color right out of your eyes
Just keep what you can carry now, and leave the rest behind
Just keep what you can carry now, and leave the rest behind
Written by: Pete Bernhard
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