Name: Fifty Yards of Freedom
Duration: P00H04M02S
Description: This song is for those people that broke into their high schools and went swimming on the flooded football fields. You know who you are.

Fifty Yards of Freedom

from Knoxville by Andrew Fleming

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This song is for those people that broke into their high schools and went swimming on the flooded football fields. You know who you are.

lyrics

Losing our minds, losing ourselves, losing our clothes,
Leaving our thoughts back there under the water.

She lost her keys on the way out. Good thing we found them.
Good thing they're not back there under the water.

Never have I hopped a faster fence,
And Fifty yards of freedom never looked so good.

We lost our minds. We lost ourselves. We lost our clothes.
We left all that shit back underwater.

I'm not a man whose reason for talking
Keeps me from saying what I have to say,
But who cares anyway?

Watering can, it's still drip and dropping.
Who even said we wanted our hands to stay clean?
When our thumbs and our eyes are green?

You know what I mean, when you're fifteen.

Can't comprehend, her couture is of cobwebs,
Fast-shipping attic-fulls of convoluted machines
And boxed up memories.

Missing in action, biting your tongue helps with Progress,
Wandering hearts, wondering, "What the hell does it All mean?"

A sunny day, holding our heads low,
Wishing you'd stare back at me baby.

And look at all the love I've found.
Here's to the second time around.
So ground me and keep me down.

credits

from Knoxville, released July 21, 2011
Harmonies
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Logan Peterson

Background Vocals (All them doot doo's)
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Katie Akin
Joseph Barrios
Jacob Carroll
Andrew Fleming
Margaret Fleming
Jae Claire Hechinger
Will McGee
Molly Mulroy
Conner Nix
Logan Peterson
Colleen Sauser
Michael Scully

Recording Engineer
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Jason Gillespie

Mixing Engineer
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Mike Wilson

Mastering
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Larry and Kevin Nix

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Andrew Fleming Memphis, Tennessee

My life's a broken record of brunettes and bad coffee,
but I know that this isn't just some 80s movie,
because all that I need is for you to speak softly,
and two parents to come home to who think everything is groovy.

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