Pockets

from No Dial Tone by Ben Hughes

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so today is tomorrow, and yesterday is today
everything, to me, gets lost in the month of May
I found your twenty on the couch downstairs
I almost took it, so I could start paying you back.

oh, I'll see you tonight,
and I'll love you more than I do now.

I had some money, but no pockets to put it in
I got some pants, and now I got no money to put in them
so, I went home to the sunniest part of the USA,
but now I'm broke, so I'm selling my house today.

oh, I'll see you tonight,
and I'll love you more than I do now.

'cause the longer we live, the louder the sound.

wearing pockets as flags, using my hands as cups
I hold them out, and wait for any city resident to just fill them up
on the streets, there's no one nice to meet,
so I start to weep, and think of how life used to be

when I'd see you at night,
and you loved me more than you do now.
why can't I see you tonight?
wish you loved me like I love you now.

'cause the longer we live, the louder the sound.

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from No Dial Tone, released February 10, 2015

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"...channels musicians like Elliott Smith, Bright Eyes, and Sufjan Stevens, as on Hughes’ previous releases. But this record immediately calls to mind Pedro the Lion’s Control, with its deep-voiced chords and melodies, lyrical themes of corporate hell, and Hughes’ slurring voice. It could stand as a complimentary album to Control just as well as it stands on its own."

-Nick Tate, WXPN
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