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Rusted Bolt
04:31
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Rusted Bolt
Schillace/Lac La Belle
Days coming down and don’t you feel
Like a rusted bolt on a broken wheel
Memories up from the past
It’s a suffering I can’t outlast
Fox doesn’t hunt behind a gun
Teeth and Claws will get it done
Polished rifle always nigh
A sack of silver a man to die
A lifetimes gone from riding on and on
Bury me inside someone’s beating heart
Mid-day sun doesn’t work it out
Burning bright but love without
Where were you when I set to Hooves?
Seared to sin on a barroom stool
A lifetimes gone from riding on and on
Bury me inside someone’s beating heart
The night’s a cloak, it doesn’t heal
Tried to buy but had to steal
Cashing out won’t get it back
It’s a bitter deal off of that stack
A lifetimes gone from riding on and on
Bury me inside someone’s beating heart
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2. |
The Border
04:13
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The Border
Knaggs/Lac La Belle
Wait for stars to cross the border
not a sound can tip the breeze
Get our fill last drops of water
to cross the sands of the desert deep
I think I've walked a hundred miles
with a man I scarcely know
There’s no reason when it comes to your child
and there’s no measure for how far you'll go
Come right in
The dreams that I have cherished
Come right in
The stories we've been told
Come right in
Each step a new world rises
Come right in
I need a chance to know
A piece of paper held with a pin
Script “Unknown” in the tattered wind
This worn wooden cross marks the line
between a life that’s theirs
and a life that’s mine.
I've got to know
Oh, The lengths that I will go
Cross the valley from below
I've got to see
what that land can do for me
and my baby
Come right in
The dreams that I have cherished
Come right in
The stories we've been told
Come right in
Each step a new world rises
Come right in
The light is getting brighter!
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Passing Arizona
03:16
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Passing Arizona
Schillace/Lac La Belle
The waterline is fast but still
Eroding earth with time
The passengers that have no name
Slowly drifting by
The evening light has drifted out
Behind the earth to hide
The firelight awakens the days
The mind has tried to rest
Why would you go
To a place so remote?
Why would you go
To a place so remote?
No further from your fears
You’ve only kept them near
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4. |
Spoils Like Venom
05:24
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Spoils like Venom
Schillace/Lac La Belle
Skipped that last train going out
Ain’t no way to carry me home
I drove a thousand spikes through steel
Rail stretching miles of land
I started on the east coast of the country
I ended at the shores of the Pacific
The first one we took she was headed
Baltimore, Chicago bound
The taste of spoils like venom
and we burned that iron to the ground
When we rode off I could still hear crying
But the night just swallowed me whole
A killer’s disease won’t temper
What an ocean of pearls can’t sway
Working that line like butchers
Cutting our hate with greed
I remember the roil of my brothers
Shooting at stars that shattered like crystals
Three down and two in the desert
Last one bleeding out in the sand
Reckless and wild I continue
No force left for a locomotive now
I buried friends in the shadows under mountains
Cold valleys, shrouded in cloud
Murder only buys you terror
Money doesn’t spend on fear
I started on the east coast of the country
I ended at the shores of the Pacific
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Lions of the West
03:11
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Shadows of a Dream
04:03
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Shadows of a Dream
Knaggs/Lac La Belle
I long to see the sun go down
With my love sided with me
I long to leave this hallowed town
and go across the sea
What leads a man to a cursed fate?
How could he choose that rugged road?
As dreams that haunt follow close behind
I too, bare a heavy load
He shot three men in German Town
for pennies on a dime
He's a devil for a fool to love
still I hang on every line
As the darkness folds around me
it quells the pain and bitter chill
Yet the dawn comes back blinding
for a life forever still
Some toss their wishes coin for coin
each refined with golden sheen
I willed my heart to fates employ
to chase shadows of a dream
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7. |
Carry Me Under
03:50
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Carry Me Under
Schillace/Lac La Belle
Take all my memories, and most of my dreams
A few of my lies and those things in between
I’m going to bed early and, Lord, sleeping in
If I ever get rested I’ll try it again
A penny ain’t worth a cent of good luck
or the time that it takes to pick that thing up
A quarter’s no better
you know after all
It won’t even buy you a game of pinball
Carry me
Carry me
Carry me under the ground
I’ll write you a check for the things that I’ve done
The one offs, the regulars, and all them often
But don’t come asking to start over again
‘Cause after I’m busted I’m open to sin
Carry me
Carry me
Carry me under the ground
Bent up metal and a seat threadbare
Overgrown meadows and a heart unaware
If you can’t take the hunger stay away from the bone
Turn back around and leave me alone
Carry me
Carry me
Carry me under the ground
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8. |
Breezy Sunday
03:42
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Breezy Sunday
Knaggs/Lac La Belle
Sunday
Breezy Sunday
Warm sun on your skin
Lazy
Dreams hazy
Breathe deep, Love
Take it in
Hard times
We all hit hard times
Calloused hearts, false starts, hard hands
Lovely
Life can be so lovely
before the tide reaches the sand
The curl of a leaf tells of storms that brew
like a song our voices must twist to croon
We pray, though there is no good deed we could do
to stop the wind
for a balance skewed
A coin flips
A switch trips
Day rolls into evening
So enjoy, Love
Do take full advantage of
the good life you're receiving
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Clarion
04:37
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Clarion
Knaggs/Lac La Belle
Dry sand beneath my feet
The desert walks with me
No divine plan for me
just endless yearning
The night was cold and dim
and I was wrought within
No divine plan for me
just endless yearning
I thought I saw a light
flash on the mountain side
A tiny glimpse of star
that slowly faded
I felt it was my right
to wish upon its might
Or how could I ever be
what’s truly meant of me?
I will wait along the dark aisle
I will wait with barren fields
A clarion, the starlight,
that kissed away my fears
I thought I saw a light
flash on the mountain side
A tiny glimpse of star
that slowly faded
I felt it was my right
to wish upon its might
Where so few seedlings grow
it must be mine to know
I waited for the sun
that shown on everyone
I will wait along the dark aisle
I will wait with barren fields
A clarion, the starlight,
that kissed away my fears
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10. |
St. Michael (Day Star)
06:26
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St. Michael (Day Star)
Schillace/Lac La Belle
What time does make, of hard fired days
Troubles the young man creates
The longest tooth is the sharpest too
His gold just stone
Stone is all he leaves
Better to be gone
Not failed so much as incomplete
When past has cut the future becomes
Dust burdens the blade
The hardest truth is the darkest too
For time is fate
Fate is all he needs
Welcomed when it comes
No show of hands just indiscreet
Oh, he was a friend too long
The devil‘s only right when he’s wrong
Released from the place he belongs
His hand so swift and strong
Mask the day
Fall to the night
A whisper his only call
But the fairest touch is the fiercest too
Path unknown
Without need
Cast out and left to roam
You know him well
He knows you too
For he was a friend too long
The devil’s only right when he’s wrong
Released from the place he belongs
His hand so swift and strong
Oh, he was a friend too long
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Lac La Belle Detroit, Michigan
Nick Schillace and Jennie Knaggs form Lac La Belle, a Detroit duo who perform original music blending generations of North American folk styles with modern aesthetic.
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