Nathaniel Rateliff - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Album Lyrics

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I Need Never Get Old

Can we be there
Oh, just think of the time
Thought of love so strange
Said you never knew
While I try my best
To cover our eyes
It's a common way to blame and hide the truth

I know that some will say it matters but little babe
But, come on and mean it to me
I need it so bad

I needed to try
I need to fall
I needed your love I'm burning away
I need never get old

Taking our time ah just standing in the rain
Meaning what you said ah and mean it to me
All of these lies oh and never again
Come on and say it now say it's a game

I know that some will say it maters but little babe
Come on and mean it to me I need it so bad
Mean it to me I need it so bad

I needed to try
Needed to fall
I needed your love I'm burning away
I need never get old

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Howling At Nothing

Some are waving it around
Someone carried me home
One was never noticed sleeping on the floor
But I know we were there

Some were playing in a round
Some were dipping so low
It never seemed to matter as the night slipped away
Cause there was soul in the air

We were howlin at the moon
We were shaking our hips
Danced until we flat out falling into bed
But I won't let you go

Let me in or let me down
Let me lay here so slow
Baby just keep holding got to move our feet
Cause you know it ain't end

Step it in or step it out
Cut it all in and run
Kept on till it mattered baby I don't even see
But I know we were there

We were howling at the moon
We were shaking our hip
Danced until we flat out falling into bed
Said I won't let you go

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Trying So Hard Not To Know

You keep changing your mind for so many reason
From what I can tell
You just might as well
Lay down and choke on your own

I can't give you enough to just keep believing
This shit don't run well
It's burned out as hell
And it's trying so hard not to know

You're filling it up just to turn out on empty
God damn, I know just how it feels
I'm gonna tear out all that's inside me
Look away from here cause nobody cares
And they're trying so hard not to know

You take all of you want haven't found any answers
Look down and stare and I run around and yell
That it might not rain any more

You never stand up long enough to pull it together
Well who gives a damn and very few can
When they're trying so hard not to know

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I've Been Failing

Well I needed you and not just someone
I've been so long failing you dear
I said I'd care for all of this darling
Yet I buried all of it again

Ah yeah come baby
It could be good
Honey
It's just the two
Of us now

Now that all seems dark and light has gone away
I've been out there bending in the wind
Now I'm standing here to be beside you
And for all I know and all I care

I said don't you weep and don't' you worry
Don't you weep and don't you worry

I've been failing you

But I can't stop trying

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S.O.B.

(with The Night Sweats )

I'm gonna need someone to help me
I'm gonna need somebody's hand
I'm gonna need someone to hold me down
I'm gonna need someone to care
I'm gonna writhe and shake my body
I'll start pulling out my hair
I'm going to cover myself with the ashes of you
And nobody's gonna give a damn

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

Now for seventeen years I've been throwing them back
Seventeen more will bury me
Can somebody please just tie me down
Or somebody give me a goddamn drink

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

My heart was breaking, hands were shaking, bugs crawling all over me (x4)

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
One more night
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

Son of a bitch
Give me a drink
Son of a bitch
This can't be me
Son of a bitch
If I can't get clean
I'm gonna drink my life away

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Wasting Time

Think of all the time time time
You get to know it
Think about the world I found spinning awry
Remember all the clothes I wore to hide it from you
You said let's take the long walk home tonight

Think of all the falling down and hiding under
Think of all the time time time time time
Think of all the hours I spent in constant reflection
Well it gets you down but, it don't make it right
I made it my personal intervention
What a waste of time time time time time

I got a feeling I, I can't get over
Maybe all we had has always been right
Think of all the love you gain when you send it over
Think of all the wool I've spun to be here tonight
Think of all the time time time time time
Think of all the time time time time time

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Thank You

Spend your years
Spend your time
With all these tears
Not all were mine

I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you pretty baby for getting me through

Can't hide your fears
I can't hide mine
In spite of all this dear
I think we're fine

I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you pretty baby for getting me through

I was looking back their lord
Could have been no one else
I would have been so cold
Laying here by myself
Ever since you found me yeah
Never be anybody else
Yeah baby

I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you
I just want to thank you sweet baby for getting me through

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Look It Here

Look it here baby I'm coming out
On my knees begging please
Look it here baby I'm calling out
Crying now here me here me plead

Look it here baby I'm lucky now
When I weep let me be
Look it her baby it's all I got
One more time here me out

I got a love so hard I can't stand it
And with a heart so weak and abandoned
You'll have to bury this man
And if that's what it takes for a love that must be proved

Look it here baby I'm coming out
On my knees begin please ya...
Look it here baby there's no one else
Come on now here me out

Look it here baby I'm coming out

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Shake

Shake baby
I feel it when you
Shake baby
I really want to
Shake baby
Come on and just
Shake baby
Never gonna stop, feel it when it hot

Get on your knees and come to me now
I hope you really like to swing wild
Why don't we step in just see now
Curl your lips gonna be while

Take off that dress don't make a scene
Stick out your hip and squeeze me a while
Curl your back start to swing now
And let me think it's what you mean

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I'd Be Waiting

If I go home oh with a howlin' bend
If you ever get lonely, if you never did
I count the hours till you come round again

I'm just saying um um baby
I'd be waiting ah baby
I'd be waiting ah baby just to dance with you

If all this seems like I carry my head so low
If I don't sing, I'd be waiting on call from home
My moan and wait, can't carry this on and on

I'd be standing in the corner
I'd be waiting just to hold ya
I'd be
Waiting pretty baby just to dance with you

Somehow they're gone
Somehow they're playing
I'm tired and worn
But I'm still standing

I'm just saying um um baby
I'd be waiting ah baby
I'd be waiting ah baby just to dance with you

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Mellow Out

Someone came in rushing dragging feet and nails and I could pretend
Wanting more of nothing, feel it wearing on me
Just keep it hid

Mellow out, and find a better way you're feeling it shut down
Take it easy baby, maybe find some time to just calm down
Keep on telling me

Laid a scaring on me, I was thinking maybe I got it in
I could hand it to you, It doesn't matter if you're not in the busy
Way to pressure till it's looking like it finally broke down
Let's burry it together and maybe find some time to just sit down
Keep on telling me

Mellow out, and find a better way you're feeling it shut down
Take it easy baby, maybe find some time to just calm down
Keep on telling me