By and By

by Noah Gabriel

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1.
Coming Off The Rails 04:34
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Screaming like a far off train Coming off the rails Your steam and steel Breaking like a paper chain No evidence of fate Truths are more defined And no one ever waits They just waisting time There's a bird up on a wire Singing songs of melancholy A murder of one That fell from the tree It shakes leaves They'll bend to the wind You gotta learn how to give And start over again Your molitov mouth Couldn't spark the sun Words so weak You settled for the gun There's blood upon the hand Set it down in the dirt But love to don't grow From these seeds of hurt
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Put Me On 03:25
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Put me on to sunny days Mean ol' sky gone gray, gray, gray I said rain, rain Please go away Put on to solid ground It always seems to shift around Every time I root on down It's giving out Every time I root on down It's giving out Put me on to quiet dreams The nights are long And my head just screams Every night I'm on my knees Searching for some sweet reprieve Worry has got a hold on me Worry has got a hold on me So put me on to sunny days
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I'm Gonna Change 03:05
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I've got 15 hours and 16 days I've got 17 minutes and 18 ways Go and leave the light on When Iock that door I'm gonna steal the darkness You're gonna beg me for more I'm gonna change I'm gonna change my ways Kill the lights We're gonna bury the dead I've got a silver bullet Gonna put it to bed I'm haunted In my dreams I'm lying next to you Love ain't easy when love is true I'm gonna change I'm gonna change my ways
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Can't Come Down 05:16
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Think sharp like a razor blade Speak soft You better pull your weight Count the bones It's a dead man's wage Yeah we clime to the sky on a chemical train High as a kite and you can't come down Wrong way runner Can't turn it around Head under water Boy you're starting to drown High as a kite and you can't come down They break 'em at an early age Tell you not to steal and keep on pulling it away You ask for a hero You get a paper saint So you lie to yourself to keep from going insane High as a kite and you can't come down Wrong way runner Can't turn it around Head under water Boy you're starting to drown High as a kite and you can't come down
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By and By 03:11
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Put them bullets in the clip And strap that pistol to my hip And box me in my favorite suit I've got some business down in hell Say goodbye and fair the well The devil's gonna need the good Lord tonight By and by We try and try To bring that heaven down to earth By and by Throw that whiskey in the well I've been dizzy for a spell And I can't get on the good foot with that liquor in my legs Tell Regina not to cry That I'll see her in the sky But the devil's on the dancecard tonight By and by We try and try To bring that heaven down to earth By and by By and by We live and die Only some of us can choose to kick these earthen blues By and by Sweet Loretta, she could sing She could make those mountains ring With one breath birth a continental drift But she took to many pills Got buried in them hills And a man ain't meant to see his little girl put in the ground By and by We try and try To bring that heaven down to earth By and by By and by We live and die Only some of us can choose to kick these earthen blues By and by Put them bullets in the clip And strap that pistol to my hip And box me in my favorite suit I've got some business down in hell Say goodbye and fair the well The devil's gonna need the good Lord tonight
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Worth The Hurt 03:03
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I don't want to know Don't need to see those things you done Don't need to see the past The rear views fade The future's coming fast You're crying now but soon you'll laugh Mama told me "Son don't let your heart get trampled on" And Daddy, he agreed But there's some things worth the hurt they bring Like falling in love or chasing a dream A holy roller, a devil's soldier A sinner, a saint and everything between I've spent my days in purgatory I want it all but it ain't free It ain't the hand but the heart It's the heart that bleeds I don't want to know Don't need to see those things you done Don't need to see the past
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Sometimes 04:12
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Lost her head in a box of red Layin down and playin dead Let her go She moves to slow Got her chained down to the floor Mysitfied, compromised Soul got weary and my heart, it died Tranquilized and put to bed Hell broke loose up in my head Sometimes... I get so weak Sometimes... I get so weak
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Sunset Lake 03:25
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There was a young girl Whose name was Bright I swear she bore the sun When she went away A darkness came and hung upon everyone Bright, Bright My distant light Why'd you go away Down, down I'll follow you down Down to Sunset Lake Soft skin pale And hair so red With fire in her eyes When she disappeared the cold drew near Set my soul on ice Red, red The embers burn As your fire fades Down, down I'll follow you down Down to Sunset Lake I tell you Bright, she lit the night And held the stars for me Now she's dressed in pine And sweet moonshine keeps me on my knees Now she's dressed in pine And sweet moonshine keeps me on my knees Bright, Bright My distant light Why'd you go away Down, down I'll follow you down Down to Sunset Lake Down, down I'll follow you down Down to Sunset Lake
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The Lion, The Snake, The Dog and Me 03:41
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I tried to be a lion I turned into a snake Then I turned into a dog begging at the gates You could lock me up And throw away the key As long as I'm with you You know that I am free Holy is the night Lifting beggars from their knees Putting ghosts back in the grave Making kings out of the queens Holy is the night Lifting beggars from their knees Putting ghosts back in the grave Making kings out of the queens (Round and round we all fall down)
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Healing Kind 02:47
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Goddamn the crooked man's calloused, crippled heart Heaven holds the hand of a healing kind Incarcerates rejected for innocents' protection We've got an infinite collection of sin in detention And pity for the man who gonna rot inside Goddamn the crooked man's bitter, twisted tongue Heaven holds the hand of a healing kind Political pollution Police and persecution Propaganda pushers got no solution Just pity for the man who's gonna rot inside

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An ecclectic album of experimental indie sounds cut at home with a single microphone.

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released September 29, 2023

An album by Noah Gabriel

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Noah Gabriel Aurora, Illinois

From 2005's debut solo effort In Aurora to 2015's Easy (as part of the power-trio Noah's Arcade), 2017's thematic concept album, Dead Reckoning, about illness, death, and grief, and his newest, 2020's Summer's Gone...Gabriel's songs are powerful dissections of characters in desperate times or taking even more desperate measures. ... more

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