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Justin H​.​K.

by Justin H.K.

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Folsom Prison Blues 03:16
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Folks These Days 04:29
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Folks these days been getting left behind If you listen close you can hear them trying So hard to get by It's all enough to make a grown man cry Folks these days can barely get along I know some people who would kill you for a song Imagine what it's like in their eyes Grown men that never learned to cry It's all enough to make you want To jump in the river come the dawn It's all enough to make you go To the edge and make it your home Folks these days been holding on to pain Pride remains, all that's left to their name We are all wanton and tame Release it all upon the winds of change It's all enough to make you want To jump in the river come the dawn It's all enough to make you go To the edge and make it your home If all that's left is our hate Then love's the only thing we have to gain If all that's left is our hate Then love's the only thing we have to gain Then love's the only thing we have to gain
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A Great Pretender 04:37
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Live my life in a line check the sky for signs, who am I? I don't remember Start the day with a smile haven't felt it for a while, who am I? I'm a great pretender Smoke my last cigarette blow the smoke out the door Got a fight with the world, and I'm back, I'm back for more Breathe my last good breathe placing final bets The world is but a rag, to wipe up your regrets When you dance with the devil, you're gonna' do it on four limbs When you stand in the revel, you can hear the howling winds If you're lost in the waiting, you can boil in the pot Take a spoon for the tasting, eat around the rot Live my life in a line check the sky for signs, who am I? I don't remember Start the day with a smile haven't felt it for a while, who am I? I'm a great pretender Drink my last good drink think through the glass Gives me time to think and for these anxious feelings to pass Die my last good death, blow ashes to the path When there's nothing left, it's a desperate grasp When you dance with the devil, you're gonna' do it on four limbs When you stand in the revel, you can hear the howling winds If you're lost in the waiting, you can boil in the pot Take a spoon for the tasting, eat around the rot Live my life in a line check the sky for signs, who am I? I don't remember Start the day with a smile haven't felt it for a while, who am I? I'm a great pretender
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Step In Step 04:18
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I can tell by the way you move you're step in step with me I can hear in the way you talk you're just my melody Won't you let me take you home, Won't you let me keep you warm Got a hear that's a violent storm, that I need you to transform I think I need you to love me now, I think I need you to show me how Been clinging to a bough, lost at sea I will avow I can tell by the way you move you're step in step with me I can hear in the way you talk you're just my melody Babe I see a light in you, in the darkness shining through around you what's a boy to do, but let love and hope live anew When I'm with you I see a life, a yard, a home, a beautiful wife Dancing on the edge of the knife, let's move this thing to the pale moonlight I can tell by the way you move you're step in step with me I can hear in the way you talk you're just my melody Sun falling tinted red, won't you take me to your bed Let me keep you from your head, fill it with my breath instead I'm out of words so keep my breath, circle 'round until our death Go until there's nothing left, but without you, I'm bereft I can tell by the way you move you're step in step with me I can hear in the way you talk you're just my melody I can tell by the way you move you're step in step with me I can hear in the way you talk you're just my melody
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Echoed Screams Of An Empty Ocean 02:40
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Quarantine (Haunt These Halls) 04:06
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Sittin' down at home, staring out the window look at the big outside what's it got to hide Put your face to the crack, smell the wind blow Bidin' time just keepin' mine I taste you everywhere I go So I shutter the windows and stay home I think I hear you in the walls I can't stand straight you haunt these halls I'm in a quarantine, in a sickness Trying to slow the spread I can barely tread I'll be down on my knees, to beg forgiveness Or you can strike me dead it would clear my head I taste you everywhere I go So I shutter the windows and stay home I think I hear you in the walls I can't stand straight you haunt these halls
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Step Away From The Wheel 04:55
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Step away from the wheel, step away from the wheel You've been moving on too long, and you use it as a shield Step away from the hurt, you can leave it all behind Lay your burdens down, no one here will mind Step away from the wheel, step away from the wheel You've been moving on too long, and you use it as a shield Step away from the gun, boy your shooting days are done Face against the world, walk into the sun Step away from the rake, lord the know just to take Too little too be missed, and you'll change each time you wake Step away from the wheel, step away from the wheel You've been moving on too long, and you use it as a shield
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Killer's Song 03:21
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Step forth, forget my name Step down, to lay a claim To die now ain't the American way So let that crooked smile stay Breathe life, into these hands Concede to these demands Stick 'em up into the sky Let the steel song scrape you dry Forget my brain and ride away Forgive these hands, forget the days Forget my brain and ride away Forgive these hands, forget the days I've been driving oh so long To spring life to a dying song To end up at the fireside To stoke the flames with sodden pride Breathe life, into these hands Concede to these demands Stick 'em up into the sky Let the steel song scrape you dry Forget my brain and ride away Forgive these hands, forget the days Forget my brain and ride away Forgive these hands, forget the days

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released October 15, 2021

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Justin H.K. Howell, Michigan

Justin HK is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter with no fear of exploration, lyrically or sonically.

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