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Critical Songs: Tales Of The Boom Box Volume 1

by Small Folk

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If You're Gonna Make A Deal With The Raven Queen, Best Believe You'll Pay Up Eventually 04:25
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Well I've never had a better friend than you And you know it, don't you? Never had a cause or point to prove Gotta keep you safe I Might be gone but I will linger on In parts of all of you Inside of each of you Well I've never had a better friend than you But my hands are cold you Don't accept it's what I always do Rushing head first without Slowing down to think my actions through Cause it's what I always do Gotta keep you safe, I do Let me quote some sentiment (Cause) I'm not sitting on the fence Life is lived like gold gets spent And I'm finally bankrupt Gotta say I'm finally bankrupt CHORUS: I'll watch over you As you live like people do Moving on or through And I'll keep an eye on you All I want is for you to be happy All I want is for you to be happy So I'll watch over you In the longest afterlife So there's nowhere left for us to travel to Cause I'm so damn tired and No one really knows what we've been through Though our story's famous there's No one left who doesn't know our names But it's really not the same No it's really not the same Let me let you in my life Lost my sister and my "wife" I'm as quick as any lie But a deal is a deal Yeah, a deal is a deal
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Nashville Big Emo (Back From The Dead But Not Right In The Head) 03:59
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I can't believe I called you friends I should've known better, yeah I should've known better I can't believe you shorted me again I should've seen it coming, hell, I should've seen it coming CHORUS: We're not, we're not really good people Though we like to pretend we are And we lie to ourselves But we go to, go to far How could you do this to me? I'm not the same anymore You're certainly sure that I am better alive But let the fate decide Cause I might die, and die again How could you tell her these things? Don't you know happiness brings Responsibility to lead A life she might need My blood left to bleed But I plan to die and die again I needed space but you took it's place And you breathed in all my oxygen I needed trust but you took too much And you took my love But you took too much I needed space But you took it's place And left me no choice at all
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Deserve The Good 04:46
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We danced around each other I couldn't give a reason why We danced around each other Was I so afraid to try? We danced around each other Though everything it seemed alright This dance was just my cover I couldn't look you in the eye CHORUS: So I went away Seemed like a day or two And I stayed away From you Cause I want to be good for you And I played this game I should've been straight with you So I'll stay away One day I might deserve the good in you We danced around each other Like particles or magnets do Attracting and repelling But I'm my best when I'm with you We danced around each other And honestly I can't explain You changed a part inside me You changed me now I'm not the same BRIDGE: Everything that I deserve Are the worst things in this world But you always see the light in me Every day that I walk on Is my reason I belong And I'm looking back on who I was and who I'm going to be Suddenly I start to feel the light in me
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Upset 03:39
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You destroy me When you say you want to leave Because you're hurting But you're hurting me, you're hurting me So go destroy me Bring me down onto my knees You need the distance I need protection From the people we seem to be CHORUS: And I know myself So I slow my breath I won't give you the satisfaction No I can't give you the satisfaction Of seeing me upset Over you You never listen And you wouldn't listen now So now you're leaving You say you're leaving Because of what we did right now (So go destroy me) You never knew it Though I loved you all the same I didn't know it I didn't know it until the moment finally came (Until you finally said my name) COUNTER: And I know myself, yeah I know myself
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Think We're Better 03:51
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We can think, think we are, think we're better than But sometimes we're just at our worst And I'm done trying to impress you with my words Let me actions take the stage And you'll never chain me down like you want to And you'll never own my soul CHORUS: And this is the part where I come up with a clever analogy That correlates with our relationship But you're not even worth the breath it takes my lungs to sing The words that I might choose to verbalise You can try, try to hold me down with guilt But my heart is numb to that And I'm done trying to outsmart or outlast you I'm just giving up on you
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Tibs 03:26
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Oh these memories that we all made and though there is pain There is a pride from deep inside that you would fight for all that is right And though you're gone, we carry on like you would want And if we had another way, but you will stay forever young and we will sing another song for you tonight We know where you're from and where you are now We'd bring you back home but time won't allow This sentiment is wearing through my skin Pieces of your cloak, a steady stream, emotion chokes Me like a hand and if I can, I hope you find yourself again And maybe death, this stupid death, that leaves us left in shadow realms The feeling comes, the feeling goes, it under minds and overwhelms me once again
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Fate 03:37
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Everything has an end And everything has it's time We've just been cheating ours Now it's our turn to cry Everyone has a choice Everyone has a path We've been ignoring ours But Fate has her final laugh I need you Like you need me We're our directional centres Like a compass when you're at sea We can all roll the dice We can all have our plans But no one escapes themselves We fall or decide to land We've been running We've been running for so damn long We've had this coming We've had this coming now all along
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Trust Anyone (Insight Check) 03:43
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Based on these current events We never seem to get away from our past Something always comes back To haunt us or to pay us with some payback CHORUS 1: Why can't I trust anyone? Why can't we trust anyone? Based on the way (that) we've lived We always seem to make enemies so quick (And sometimes we're a) step away from a friend But we're too quick to shoot and then ask questions CHORUS 2 COUNTER: Stabbed in the back Friendly attacks Foes with an aligned purpose Betrayed one by one All that we've done Words & their weapons hurt us I'm better safe than sorry I can't believe your story I'm better safe than sorry I just can't believe your story Insight check
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The Phantom Twin 04:49
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We used to be matching set We used to be a pair We used to be inseparable But now you're not here We used to be a little opposite We're used to being together But now you're guarding the dead for, the Raven Queen At least you'll live on forever Blood is blood and death can't end my love Love is strong and death won't hold my heart We used to be unstoppable We used to run this town But there is no returning things After what went down
10.
The Way We Go 02:27
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We save the world In a way, several days in a Row seeds we sow Will come back And we'll know It was always one of us It was always what we chose It was always on the cards In the dice, in ways we go We sing the songs Cast the spells With our voices Louder than yours Gives us pause But we don't stop trying You were always one of us We were always trading blows But a friend is more than that More than blood, more than empty notes Peel back the lies We're on fire But you might hide Who you might be Mysteries But get them straight

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Songs inspired by Critical Role's Campaign 1 characters, Vox Machina.

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released August 8, 2020

All songs written, recorded & produced by Brendan Horn.
All instruments performed by Brendan Horn except flute & recorder on Tibs performed by Gemma Horn & additional vocals on The Phantom Twin by Cameron Horn, Dominique Horn & Gemma Horn.

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