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The Avett Brothers – Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise
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This song, in the broadest sense, is about conflict and contradiction. Lyrically, each line/verse presents a sort of contradiction (darkness vs light, wrong vs, right, black v
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The Avett Brothers – Shame
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Okay so I was wrong about / My reasons for us fallin' out / Of love I want to fall back in / My life is different now I swear / I know now what it means to care / About somebody
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The Avett Brothers – The Fire
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[Verse 1] / A young child sits quiet, the forest is dark / Possibilities overflow his unbroken heart / I ask him well after the brush takes the spark / What do you see in the fire
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The Avett Brothers – February Seven
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[Verse 1] / I went on the search for something true / I was almost there when I found you / Sooner than my fate was wrote / A perfect blade, it slit my throat / And beads of lust
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The Avett Brothers – No Hard Feelings
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[Verse 1] / When my body won't hold me anymore / And it finally lets me free / Will I be ready? / When my feet won't walk another mile? / And my lips give their last kiss goodbye
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The Avett Brothers – Dancing Daze
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I've seen the way you deal with things / The troubles that this life will bring / If it gets to you then I can tell by the way you sing / You act like it just doesn't mean a thing
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The Avett Brothers – Untitled #4
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[Intro] / One, two / One, two, three / [Verse 1] / I don't need another collar / I don't need another hat / I don't need to leave this small town / It don't matter where I'm at / [
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The Avett Brothers – I Wish I Was
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[Verse 1] / I wish I was a flame dancing in a candle / Lighting up your living room, high on a mantle / I could bring some romance without any scandal / And then when you were done
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The Avett Brothers – Black, Blue
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Nobody will call / Not as long as I keep my phone off the line / Not as long as I keep my voice down inside of my mouth / But it's getting harder to hide / And the brightness of
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The Avett Brothers – The Ballad Of Love And Hate
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The Ballad of Love and Hate is the story of a couple, whose characteristics resemble love and hate respectively, as well as a personification of love and hate and how those
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The Avett Brothers – Salina
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Salina, I'm as nowhere as I can be / Could you add some somewhere to me / Ah Kansas I'm kneeling, ah Kansas please / Cleveland, I ain't never felt nothing so strong / Been
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The Avett Brothers – Ain't No Man
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“Ain’t No Man” was originally written somewhere in 2005 or 2006, but it was never recorded until The Avett Brothers started making demos for True Sadness in 2015.
The song is
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The Avett Brothers – Life
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[Verse 1] / One comes of it, love it, love it / Let go of it, love comes from it / We're not of this world for long / Faith and promise, keep me honest / When starvation falls upon
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The Avett Brothers – Die Die Die
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She's fighting with the sky / She thinks she can / Livin' within a lie / She thinks she can / Nobody knows what lies behind / The days before the day we die / Die die die, die die
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The Avett Brothers – Matrimony
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Things didn't work out like they should / Farther from how you thought they would / Do you still want my hand? / Do you think I'm still your man? / I'll change everything I can
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The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City
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One of the standout songs from The Avett Brother’s EP “The Second Gleam.”
Scott Avett talks about some hypotheticals in this song. He explains his wishes should he be murdered, as
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The Avett Brothers – Yardsale
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I wonder if this blade ran through someone's side / The blood wiped away to hide / How evil you grandfather was 'fore he died / But war can make monsters out of us all / I'm sure I
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The Avett Brothers – St. Joseph's
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We spent the night at St. Joseph's / Shaking and shivering in fever / Nurses and criminals before us / I will stay here with you…my love / We sat at Lake Junaluska / And cried over
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The Avett Brothers – High Steppin'
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[Chorus] / I'm a-high steppin', high bettin' / Love givin', I'm a-love gettin' / I'm a stranger, I love stretchin' out my wheels / Overnightin' on the desert strip / Makin' time
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The Avett Brothers – Another is Waiting
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It's a fake, it's a hoax / It's a nowhere road where no one goes / Anywhere, anyhow / Well you're followin' your heart rate down / She's a rose, she's a queen / But she's starin
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The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You
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The title track from the Brothers' 2009 album, one of their most popular songs.
The subject seems to be about leaving their current lives behind, and pursuing their dreams of
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The Avett Brothers – Paranoia In B Flat Major
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“Paranoia in B Flat Major” is about a man that constantly feels that he isn’t accepted by anyone and loses sight of who he really is. No matter what he says or does, his anxiety
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The Avett Brothers – You Are Mine
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[Verse 1] / You are mine / The edge I need when I am out of line / The air I breathe when I believe I'm dying / I guess you are there / [Verse 2] / It is told / With age, our
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The Avett Brothers – Live and Die
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The song is about a guy who feels very similar to the girl he is in love with, but he is unsure of whether she feels the same, or even knows that he exists.
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The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls the Strings
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Baby's in the cradle / Mama's in the bed / Sparrows on the window sill / And the devil's in my head / Devil's in my head, mama / The devil's in my head / Baby's in the cradle / And
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The Avett Brothers – Have You Ever
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Have you ever wandered lonely through the wood? / And everything it feels just as it should / You're part of the life there, part of something good / If you've ever wandered lonely
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The Avett Brothers – Vanity
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I've got something to say / But it's all vanity, it's all vanity / I found a tune I could play / But it's all vanity, it's all vanity / Call off the guards / Call off the search
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The Avett Brothers – Kind of in Love
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She's as sweet as the summer time / And strong as the sunshine / And I don't want to know her / I let myself down / I'm cold as a winter's storm / I'm soft as a grind stone / And I
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The Avett Brothers – Ten Thousand Words
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Ten thousand words swarm 'round my head / Ten million more in books written beneath my bed / I wrote or read them all when searchin' in the swarms / Still can't find how to hold my
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The Avett Brothers – Divorce Separation Blues
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna keep on livin' / Even though I sometimes do / Fantasize about disappearin' / Down in the ocean blue / Just to get some peace and quiet / From the warfare
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The Avett Brothers – Victory
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[Verse 1] / I don't write 'cause I don't think / I don't have a need to speak / I don't see the bright side, quite as clear / Accolades and happy days / They don't ever last
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The Avett Brothers – True Sadness
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[Verse 1] / You were a friend to me when my wheels were off the tracks / And though you say there is no need / I intend to pay you back / When my mind was turning loose and all my
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The Avett Brothers – The Once and Future Carpenter
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The first track from the album The Carpenter, released in 2012.
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The Avett Brothers – Offering
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Babe I'm lost / Cause I don't know what to say / Hmmm I love you / Want to make you my wife someday / Don't wanna steal you / Of a young woman's light / To me it's perfect / Just
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The Avett Brothers – Famous Flower of Manhattan
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And I found a flower in a field / A field of cars and people / Rows of concrete, paint, and steel / Manhattan is where it grew / And I thought to cut it from its stem / And take it
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The Avett Brothers – Tear Down the House
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Tear down the house that I grew up in / I'll never be the same again / Take everything that I've collected / And throw it in a pile / Bulldoze the woods that I ran through / Carry
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The Avett Brothers – The Perfect Space
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I wanna have friends that I can trust / That love me for the man I've become / Not the man that I was / And I wanna have friends that will let me be / All alone when being alone is
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The Avett Brothers – Living Of Love
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For just one chance to find / Love was someone that you loved to find / For just the sense to try / To walk ahead and leave the pain behind / If the days aren't easy and the nights
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The Avett Brothers – Back Into The Light
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[Verse 1] / All of these fathers with their bald spots / Pull to the car line dropping kids off / The sons and daughters of their parents' wounds / Parents of their own / [Chorus
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The Avett Brothers – Salvation Song
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If you take my heart / Don't leave the smallest part / I've no need to live if you're to come up gone / An as my life turns to a song / And if and when I treat you wrong / No I
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