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Live at Windows 5​-​4​-​2011

by Cougars in America

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Get Low 05:30
Everything is a dream again A dream, a velvet glove Morning light, take me with you Take me with you, take me home Lucky just to find myself and follow all along Take me with you, take me home Take me with you, take me home Take me up beyond the lights on crystal caravel Floating on a cloud to call my own Draw me near a picture, call it paradise Take me with you, take me home Show me how to remember why I'm breathing all night long Whisper something sweetly, something sacred something's wrong Take me home When I'm low Take me home, take me home When I'm low Take me home, take me home Mixing whiskey in my sorrow falling backwards in this recipe I know I'm feeling low And only you can come and take me home When I'm low When I'm low When I'm low When I'm low
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Well I sat down at the bar and I imagined my own father Speaking fairly through a voice that was uncannily like mine He looked at me through my own eyes with foam stuck in our whiskers Breathing wisdom that I knew without a sign Knowing you may hope to be a better man than I who never wondered of your brilliance and shine Dull and bruised we must begin to wonder in our consequences I've got yours and you've been blessed with mine. Another glass knocked over and the crowds are moving frantically bewildering and carried off in sound If we linger we won't catch them, if we hurry we'll be late So let's borrow what we can't afford and leave the rest to fate Oh growing old may never be as simple as it sounds But I know I'm gonna make it anyhow Glittering respectably or withering in principle oh father, don't look down! This time it passes quickly but I don't wonder why I'm trying to look busy, just staring at the sky And if I'm dizzy I've been reckless If I'm reckless I'm a fool for thinking I could be like anyone but you. Oh growing old may never be as simple as it sounds But I know I'm gonna make it anyhow Glittering respectably or withering in principle oh father, don't look down! Oh father, don't look down! Oh father, down't look down on me!
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Girl you can't lead this life of lingerie and credit cards You never chose this life nor does it choose for you Only certain kind of people think that only certain kind of people ought to have what's good for me and you So let me cast aside your diamond rings and fashion magazines You don't need them and there is no place they're taking you Everybody knows that everybody knows the rules And darling that's no good for me and you Die-dee-die-dee-die-dee-die just don't leave that rifle empty Oh oh oh oh oh oh no there's no getting over you plea ea ea ea ea ease please please come down to your senses Tear down your fences Your walls, crawling over you How deep is the well you've been drinking from How fast can you go down and see Is it sure enough to last beyond this century Pure enough to wash your conscience clean I see 7 billion miners digging holes in you, girl But me I can't be bothered Lend me some of your I'l send you some of someone else's Pennies for you thoughts Connecting all the dots Die-dee-die-dee-die-dee-die just don't leave that rifle empty Oh oh oh oh oh oh no there's no getting over you plea ea ea ea ea ease please please come down to your senses Tear down your fences Your walls, crawling over you
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Don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone Just throw my bleeding heart out the window Don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone Just throw my bleeding heart out the window You know that I have seen it all before Don't ask me why I don't saddle up and fly across an ocean to the week before I met you I was proud as I was young Reading politics and thinking of the good that it has done in this whole world that I've been shaking like a tree But now you see me on a ladder with a basket with no fruit And I scream somebody must be listening I have nothing except all that you have given me I'm crying foul for what's merciless and pitiful Holding sacred to the things that I have got I'm crushing diamonds with my teeth and searching anxiously for someplace I can spit.... And I'm beggin you Don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone Just throw my bleeding heart out the window Don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone Just throw my bleeding heart out the window You know that I have seen it all before Don't ask me why I don't saddle up and fly across an ocean to the week before I left you I was sitting in a park Watching fairytale processions of my past and they were drinking from a can that I've been shaking endlessly But now you see me bursting open, foaming white, sticking to you I scream somebody must be listening I am bleeding on an alter you have given me Still crying foul for what's merciless and pitiful Spilling cups that you are filling with my blood I'm shaking mountains with my rage and searching endlessly for someplace I can sleep And I'm beggin you... Don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone Just throw my bleeding heart out the window Don't leave me alone Don't leave me alone Just throw my bleeding heart out the window
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The River 05:20
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The Tower 05:50
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Too Much 04:59
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Recorded Live at Windows in Brussels, BE 4-5-2011

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released May 4, 2012

Lyrics and music by Scott Hamilton
Guitar, Vocals - Scott Hamilton
Drums, backup vocals - David Koczij
Contrabasse - Paolo Melindi
Sound engineer - Stefano Capone

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Cougars in America Brussel, Belgium

Cougars in America is the new alt-folk project of Canadian-turned-Bruxellois singer-songwriter, Scott Hamilton. Poet, multi- instrumentalist, and troubadour, he transforms his world into song. His music has been compared to Bonnie Prince Billy or Sufjan Stevens, and serves in equal measures American Folk, Blues, and Indie Rock. ... more

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