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Gotta trust my name No fork in my tongue Gotta trust my name Never saw it blow Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow The clouds rained money Never saw it blow Shoulda locked my jaw The words are devils Shoulda locked my jaw It wasn't what I saw It wasn't what I saw Their barrels pointing Wasn't what I saw Their barrels pointing Wasn't what I saw Ahead of the storm Is wher...
I come from nowhere I was nowhere bound never once believed this was my restin' ground but somewhere between here and that rest I heard ya callin' my name All for this, I have traveled All for this, I have roamed All for this, I have stumbled All for this, I will carry you home 9 days of rain washed across my face 9 days of liquor, 9 days of fate watched me blow it up to blow it back again but...
Got an earthquake shack near Elbe. Got a garden of dyin' cars. Covered up deep in the mud of the powerline road. And at night I can hear the lockjaw, And the swagger of the devil's tongue. Comin' on down from the wires of the powerline road. Sayin' that tomorrow's just a cheap shot at today. And that we've gone beyond our reckoning. And if we don't face the troubles now, our families will betr...
written by Alex Chilton Driving in my big black car Nothing can go wrong I'm going and I don't know how far So, so long Maybe I'll sleep in a Holiday Inn Nothing can hurt me Nothing can touch me Why should I care Driving [ ? ] [gas?] It ain't gonna last Sunny day, highway If it rains it's all the same I can't feel the fear ? I can't feel a thing [ ? ] Big black car Nothing can hurt me Nothing ...
Out past the trees there is nothing to burn Just an empty gas station, left to me in a will Just a plate of bad habits and plenty of salt for the wounds Just a plate of bone china and plenty of salt for the wounds At night there are voices By the old station house They come from an angel with a kerosene tongue She say's: quot;there is trouble, a trouble that no one can namequot; She say's: quo...
tongue tied, said my prayers 20 years or more seems like yesterday hung your secrets from the judas tree watched 'em blow down to the valley floor blowin' home, watched 'em blow away and what I fear is what we all fear a fortune lost, a fortune gained cursed by the power of the blue head flame got so drunk, I took things back things I never said things I never stole from anyone dug in the clay...
Well the fires are tended And my blood it just boils Hey there pass your hat And the fruits of hard labor Have been drowned in snake oil Hey there pass your hat The dead are thin Their houses fat Once you steal you can't give back From the scaffold greed explodes Down to nothing Down where nothing brings you down Well we've all been to heaven And we've all been to hell Hey there pass your hat ...
I can sleep it off, Sleep it back to sleep, I can be most anything I want. A long way from the shade, The north side of the moon. Down here only rich men lose their shirts. And John Law wakes to sweep, The morning off the street, But no one cares if he has done his job. And postcards never came, From race tracks by the sea. From a gambler who says: quot;You are still my lucky thing.quot; Borde...
It soon appears Long rented shores Too big to name And second to none Save horses' hair In pockets deep Remember skies Second to none Black rain Black rain will come Black rain Black rain will come Word to the wise Don't you sit on this fence Electric and live With evangelistic zeal Spin doctors gave you All those remedies to choose So you'd be the weathervane For clouds that never move Black ...
The season has come When nothing gets done Save copycat killin' Away from windows asleep on the floor The wheel of misfortune spins in the yard And by the way And by the way I'm . . . And by the way And by the way I'm almost moving breakneck speed Good news is no news The whole things comes down To character murder Cattle are driven To market or prison Hindsight a genius lost in the blood And ...
When Abilene was young and gay And thunder storms filled up the days The cattle roam outside the town Sleeping in the midday sun Sleeping in the midday sun Sleeping in the midday sun Sleeping in the midday sun Then tracks were laid across the plain By broken old men in torrid rain The towns grew up and the people were still Sleeping in the midday sun Sleeping in the midday sun Sleeping in the ...
written by Nick Drake Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere Underneath you know well You have nothing to fear For the dreams that come to you when so young Told of a life Where spring is sprung You would seem so frail In the cold of the night When the armies of emotion Go out to fight But while the earth sinks to its grave You sail to the sky On the crest of a wave So forget this cr...
It's breathin' time In Christmas Valley herons fly by night and crash into the pines and when we're gone from Christmas Valley no one will remember you leave nothin' to remind to remind climbed up onto Fort Rock and I looked unto the town the aquifer works so hard to consecrate the ground all the way to Wagontire just a shimmer in the haze all the way to Wagontire no one's beggin' us to stay I...
painted so many towns painted them up and down down to the broken ground pointed the last one, for now soon I will stow away into the cool nightshade watching fireworks fly in the reservation sky found only hell to pay draggin' these bones all day sun-up to cocktail time dragged 'em till I was blind the field full of also-rans stealin' my used up plans all of my friends were there They couldn'...
I wanna be close to you, baby, as I can get Close to you, baby, as water is wet Close to you, baby, as hair on your head Close to you, babe, you better believe what I said I wanna be close to you, baby Yeah, let me be close to you I wanna be close to you, darlin' Till you don't know what to say or do I wanna be close to you, baby, as white is to rice Close to you, baby, as cold is to ice Close...
Wake up dead man, there's a noise You must attend It will not quit Wake up dead man, there's a noise Your sleep is done Your secret's out Dead man rise You're been away from here too long Dead man rise Dead man rise Wake up dead man, fate has spoke I'm yours to kiss He's yours to forget Cause much has changed since you've been gone Love's grown wise It's rules have broken Dead man rise You're ...
Why would you run ? I beg stars above A thing of such beauty Must be called love Why would you go And give me to cry? A thing of such beauty Might never die You bust loose from heaven And now your life starts So soon you will see You've broken two hearts And when you discover The love I still know You'll worry dear darling Why you had to go Why would you run? I beg stars above A thing of such ...
Black light fades, headlights switched off The engine burns as we're rollin' to a stop Let's get out here lie down in the middle of road Ain't no cars comin' Only stars and stars alone, the city at our backs Did you really think that it would last? Heaven's trace, a trail of starlight gone The city best forgotten Did the wind hit you in the eye? Or were you just about to cry? Desert skies This...
Quick, burn it down to the wick Burn it down to the heart So the ending can start Here, behind the riverhaus door With an unloaded gun And an unsettled score Well I'll never drag this river I'll never drag this river X2 I'll never drag this river down You, nothin' comes to you slow Nothin' comes to you hard Though you beg like you're hard And me, don't shake the barrel ar me And don't treat id...
Every morn at sven o'clock There's twenty terriers drilling on the rock And the boss comes round and he says to the ? "Come down hard on the cast-iron ?" And drille terriers, drille." Drille terriers, drille For it's work all day For the sugar in your tea Down behind the railway And drille terriers, drille Now our boss is Jim McCann My guardian's the ?? ? ? Drille terriers, drille For it's wor...
Someone told someone and someone told you But they really wouldn't hurt you, not much But since everyone tells the story With his own little personal touch Do nothing till you hear from me Pay no attention to what's said Why people tear the seams Of anyone's dreams is over my head Do nothing till you hear from me At least consider our romance If you should take the words Of others you've heard...
Storm it shook ya down From the burial ground There was mud on your face Barely lost and barely found And the shrunken heads around your neck Just replicas of thoughts Whose day had finally come You drag it fast You can drag it slow But don't drag it this way End-in-tow Walked beneath the river bridge And grabbed the ol' rope swing Said quot;Out there You'll see the bottom And it swallows whil...
I can still remember the coat I wore that day yellow as a plastic moon with a weave as thick as chains walkin' past the sideshow tents drunker than we knew could never fill my brother's shoes got them Fairground Blues got them Fairground Blues was gone so long, I didn't know if my brother'd still be there when I got back to the burlesque show four cops were standin' on the stairs brother's han...
In a trailer park with hungry dogs Eat stolen bread With stolen credit cards With half a brain I'd torch this mess Have all these things So I don't ask for more Never sure it's about to happen Wait for sweepstakes in the mail What you don't know it will rip you open Feast or famine Feast or famine Took a leave from better sense A hypocrite who bit on every line Have no time for another laugh B...
Lord, I feel like going home I've tried and I fell and I'm tired and weary Everything I've done is wrong And I feel like going home Lord, I tried to see you through But it was too much for me Now I'm coming home to you Yeah, I feel like going home Clouded skies are closing in And not a friend around to help me Of all the places I've been Lord, I feel like going home Lord, I feel like going hom...
Will you crash the engine of our ruin? Who'll spill the flat cars of our shame? I'm beat up tired from always doin', What I shoulda done in the first place. You can call in sick, no need to fear the morning. You will drink by numbers, I will drink by faith. The stairs are crashin', so is all the danger. Shoulda took a breath, but I's too drunk to wait. Can you still prescribe, The remedies and...
Findlay was on his last legs But he made the rules Said suffer fools gladly But never end up as the sufferin' fool He shook me down Though it was my first week on the job Said travellers will trick you But you will find out all them things for yourself Yes you will Findlay he threw me the keys As he walked outside And he turned on the big neon sign But only half of it burned And I was there fi...
Come back in the winter, Won't steal away too long. And when I'm back I'll set it all ablaze. Got Jesus in my pocket And matches in my coat. I won't have to work alone this time. From the trees upon the hill top, I'll watch the old house close. You can guard your back but my patience will be endless. And all your stiff-jaw quiet, won't conceal what you have done. You warned us all to sell or p...
The city's shiverin' Shivers in the heat That we call summertime And I'm deliverin' The one piece of the puzzle That you could not find Follow me an angel Follow every fool I can tonight Follow me an angel From the rooftops These streets Don't seem so bright The clocks have lost their hands The clouds take off their shirts And show their scars to me And we're out kickin cans Chasin' sirens Pas...
Streaks of light On the graveyard walk Your bright star was crashin' Crashin' the dark Dreamed of a cold night To freeze it in place Dreamed of ship bells and thunder Ringin' us under Dreamed all the way home That you'd never go Talked up and down it Mornin', noon and night Alone in the optimists chair Said our instincts were right But now I know the clean choice Was the worst choice of all I'...
Bang out the night song on an old kettle drum don't ask for no ransom ain't payin you none ground to a halt with suspicion for all you say "watch me fly" I suppose that you're gone but I don't care to look don't give me the truth give me shackles bang out the night song from deep in my chest are you listening? But last night Oh last night late last night late last night last night, you were fo...
Every night before I go to sleep I find a ticket And I win a lottery I scoop them pearls up From the sea I cash them in and buy you All the things you need Every night before I rest my head See them dollar bills Go swirling 'round my bed I know they're stolen But I don't feel bad I take that money, buy you Things you never had Oh baby It would mean so much to me Oh baby Buy you all the things ...
These are the ghosts that I half believed Guns liquor the carnival freak But then one day the whole world shook And I got arrested for stealin' a look And the glad nation's death song sings X2 And I wanna hear you sing And I wanna hear you . . . . hear you sing Well they dragged me down to the deptor's jail Where no one cried 'cause the drinks were free And there I met you, you were passin' th...
A crooked road on a country mile The widow walks from a letter found And ties her hands in knots and chokes her disbelief That what's done is done and it's dine for good Afterwards Aftershocks in afterhours The truth it blurs O glass palace O glass palace Cleaned his guns for those who dug his grave The bullets flew, his luck it finally came That crooked road was long and he would never see it...
see my silly watch every second lost, hmm lost in a strange arcade got drunk on girls night out If they're the good years, I don't know what you call the hard years If they're the good times, I don't know what you call the hard times just let me know if you can see the gold just let me know if can you see the gold? lay these knuckles bare strip the varnish back did we ever use to kiss? did I e...
Maybe you should disappear, And now I've warned you so. Bury your clothes out in the woods, And hide your letters 'neath the stove. There's a big house down in Wilkeson, where you can dance on tabletops. There's a card room in the back, where you can dance on tabletops. You'd better light a fire, underneath yourself, You'd better light a fire, right here where it counts, You'd better light a f...
Wisecracks and hijacks And contracts to sell Old wine in new bottles Times are the same Diggin' the ditch quick And quick to escape The patent is pending On flood tides and bones Goodbye To all that Goodbye To all that Brittle and hollow And sharp as the hills It hasn't rained on us In 25 years Home fires burning The branches of trees No train well No train has ever stopped here Goodbye To all...
In this town The blood will make you rich Yeah, in this town The blood will make you rich In this town I will do you one better I'll change the truth When I change the weather In this town The blood will make you rich And when you're down You can buy the Jesus pose 'Cause in this town All roads lead to this And when you're down I will kill it again I'll give ya something To forget about him In...
Hangman take these heads from me And swing 'em from your money tree Hear me laughing in my steps These heads are yours, they're yours to keep Please don't skip the last details Rewards are yours beyond the pale And if you slip, just look around Your wrists are shackled to the crowd Hangman is your passenger Hangman is your passenger Hangman is your passenger The hangman is your passenger tonig...
Harbour lights will change your plans More than judge or jury can What a sight Flickerin' like prayers of grace How could you ever lose this place? What a sight But I'm sure I don't stand A ghost of a chance To stay here past the time, when all my checks run out To stay here past the time, when all my checks... run... out Chinese junks are driftin' in The foghorn blows its low warnin' Across t...
This is where it starts This is... where it stops And when it finally stops I hope, starts right up Walk the glitter mile Past hotels of sand People say'n lots of things Ain't my job... to listen I don't believe What they say you've done Don't believe in anything Anything that lasts for long Everytime I change my mind... You say I'm heartless... but I want the same thing as you This is where i...
Rolled in the mud But I could never come clean Counting blessings on my middle finger There in the back shed Pricing heads to the pound Told to shut up, I was only breathin' Hell's soup kitchen There you're listening now Heard you coming I heard you deep in the ground The job was dizzy on the carnival wheel Coins a-flipping a siren's screaming Told quit the ride And you'll go straight to the d...
hightimes, undermine tell me somethin' I don't know hightimes, can chase em 'til your blind tell me somethin' I don't know now you're lyin' next to me the one place that you shoulda' stayed lyin' next to me now you're lyin' next to me the place I said you'd always be hightimes, gone away let go hit it on the money let it go, let it go, let it go let go hit it closer than you wanted let it go, ...
Carved your name on the numbering hill, Now it looks on the town with the promise to kill everything. We lit this valley with atomic power, But the lights went down in the closing hour yesterday. And ghosty Bonny spins atop her grave. Sayin' we had better save what we can save. Oh no, Oh no, hole in the mountain. No this ain't the end of the world. But I'm sure you'll find it waitin' its turn ...
Well it should have been the first place But instead it was the last It was a place that only you could love All the gin was spiked with water From a fever or a storm All the business went as usual Ripped and forever torn I'm going home as found Going home as found I'm going home as found Going home as found It was a good day for the panther It was a bad day for the sheep It was a shot of cert...
Said this was our town The joke it was on us We were just passin thru' On the way to givin' up Joked this was our town That someday we'd be thrilled By anything we loved And everything we killed But the biggest risk we'll ever take Will be to stay here in one place Swearin' gold is struck On the way to givin' up I try not to forget How close we came to it Ooh -- Immaculate ... ooh -- Immaculat...
I'm up to my neck In the mud of Inauguration day They say it's one in fifty years That storm, that blew my dog away And they say the road has been washed out From Rockport to Concrete And all the trees are falling down And now, heaven's at my feet My wishes do my beggin' for me And like a beggar they do [learn / laugh] Frozen fingers touch my face They tie a blindfold 'round my eyes And I'm st...
Jack Candy was as old as my father But still I took a likin' to him He said: quot;You will be somebody's treasure, But no one has discovered you yet.quot; Jack Candy lived on Sky Valley Road And that's where he did business I guess Some say he sold a suitcase of cocaine But he never showed me any of that This is a story that I've prayed to tell X2 About the day they drove him from this town Ab...
Fair young maiden All in the garden Strange young man Passed her by Said: "Fair maid Will you marry me?" This, then, sir, Was her reply "Oh no, kind sir I canot marry thee For my beloved Who sails out on the sea He's been gone For seven years And still no man Shall marry me Well if he's in Some battle salin Well I will die When the moon Or if he's drowned In the dark salt sea I'll be true To h...
Dressed in jealous clothes She drove to the black hole Out past to where the roads turn into sand No crmies worth a dime 'Less you look it in the eye And she drove And she drove Past the debts that he owed Past the ends she can't meet Jumping off is the air that I breathe Jumping off is the air that I breathe And I should have swindled And I should have lied And I should have jumped When the c...
This is the last ditch ever I dug Once there were motives but they have been lost Dig through the sand still you end at the rock This is the ditch that I dug These are the blankets that we should have worn Now marrow is soaking and taken with cold Us rag and bone merchants have just greed to lose This is the ditch that I dug The ditch it lies empty and waits for your laugh My head was your sho...
These are your last tears for the century don't cry them for me these are your last tears, before the party starts don't throw them away use em' wisely, use em' large use em' soft, and use em' hard once were flush but now we're skint as bone can ill-afford to waste our tears alone these are our last tears for this century don't blame them on me this is our first, and surely, our last attempt t...
Why we can't fake it you won't ever say Both arms hangin' from the ball and chain Tongue tied and twisted from braidin' the rope Both arms hangin' from this faded hope Both arms hangin' from this faded hope Heard it in a whisper Heard it from a jailor's song Packed it in a suitcase Lost it halfway 'round the world Out beyond harm's way you gave a lift Past the shipyard and the empty pit And yo...
Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfield We can listen to it burn We'll hide behind the oak tree Hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger till I return Oh, it's so, oh, good on a cold night To have the fire burning bold and bright You hide behind the oak tree Hide behind the oak tree Stay out of danger till I return Let's burn down the cornfield Let's burn down the cornfi...
Been a lot of rain out there Rainin' blind Summer's comin' slow ... this year It's rainin' blind If ya come back tonight .. I'll let it ... fall away If ya come back tonight Ya better have ... the guts to stay Gravel's loose ... and the load is shiftin' Dreams are heavy ... they could use ... some ... liftin' Come back now ... lay all your burdens down And with a little luck ... I'll lift your...
written by Neil Young Once I thought I saw you in a crowded, hazy bar, dancing on the light from star to star Far across the moon beams, I know that's who you are. I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire. You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye. And I'm getting blown away. There's somewhere safer where the feelings stay. I wanna love you but I'm getting blown away. I am just a dr...
Beyond the reach There are rows of tender hooks Where nothing seems To justify a second look And not a soul is found To tear them hooks on down Famous times Tattooed on this burlap skin And gun cold days Shot to pieces above my head Now tell who's that clown Who pulled this veil on down Long black veil Long black Long black veil Long black If light's a brighter grey Please then turn it up This...
If you want good times I know where to look And if you want good times I will They're thrown on your bed With your junkyard religion At the best of the western motels Thrown with the pawns And the hardscrabble rooks Thrown with our ransom of kings But if you want goodtimes I know where to look And I know it's goodtimes you want Long time here X2 I'll keep you around Holding this ground I'll ke...
It was the dirty end of winter Along the loom of the land When I walked with sweet Henry Hand upon hand And the wind it bit bitter For a girl of no means With no shoes on her feet And a knife in her jeans Along the loom of the land The mission bells peeled From the tower at Saint Mary's Down to Reprobate Fields And I saw that the world Was all blessed and bright And Henry breathed softly In th...
Way up north, my love lies sleepin' Her lonely grave, beneath the pines How sadly I recall her memory She was my own true love divine One night I found her with another They did not know, I was around In a blinding rage, I drew my pistol I killed them both and fled that town For many days, I wandered over Across the sea and desert sands My heart was filled with grief and sadness I could not cl...
If I could loose If you could choose For this next dance you might choose me I ain?'t no pussy with the blues Just step out on the floor and see Can?'t follow a man from Reno Follow a man from Zurich Follow a man from Italy Can?'t follow a man with brain grass Follow his long long eye gas Follow a man from Munich Running out of luck Running out of luck In the midnight Zodiac killers drain thei...
Steal it from the yard Medicine hat she wore Mother's protection Protection from the open sun What is gone was never here And what is here is second-hand Trust in only shadows 'Cause they never know they're wrong Steal it from the yard Medicine hat she wore What is gone was never here And what is here is second-hand Medicine Hat Medicine Hat You could all but disappear At the drunk electric sh...
If you're ready and the creek don't rise If you're ready with the furnace full Trees were shakin' and the break was good Finally lost him in the neck of the woods If you're ready and the creek don't rise Mr. Clancy was a dog of prey Took the decent and the laughin' sheep Mr. Clancy took his hand to you But I'm not waiting just to prove it's true If you're ready and the creek don't rise There's...
Man came down from the field A lonely horseman Headin' back to the stable Said he was sorry But his cain was not able To save us all from ourselves Man sees the blood on every door And hears the laughter In the good people's hearts Their pocket's empty And their coats ripped apart And the man makes a promise to the town I wanna give you my murdering stone Give you my murdering stone Happy-go-l...
The nightbirds stumble in Like broken pendulums The nightbirds stumble in Flown from thick to thin 'Neath a cloud of suspicion You're a lucky man Say it again The nightrain's pourin' down As the nightsky hits the town The nightbirds stumble in There are orders to be filled There are tall ones to be killed There are songs of praises to be sung Will they all go south on us? With the crazies, wit...
Check the main road one more time. Check the main road but I'm sure that you will find. It is late and closin' down. There are lights out there but they do not seem close. Take these long knives for the ride. One for every day we missed. Cut it deep, then cut it wide. 'Til the blood runs clear. On the night drive. Lizards blinded by the center line. Lava black, let mystery take its own sweet t...
our healin' mark was reached above this floodlit street beneath a sliver moon undone leaning with intent to fall your gaze a perfect blade my hand, a shadow drawn These secrets come and go but every secret knows it's better to ravish than to hold are we right back where we were? or just right where we are? can't see it for the stars but we'll know it when it's gone No one the wiser No one the ...
Instrumental
Spent another season in the valley of the bones But higher grounds was callin, callin me back home 109 answers to 110 proofs Back up to my bed o' nails and my leakin roof Hold me sober and hold me still Hold my past up against my will Nothing's wrong when your head is gone Nothing is a stranger to me now All that good behavior I knew it wouldn't last At the funeral of fossils, I buried up the ...
Now all of us knew Old Crow as the patron drinker's curse. He paced along the barstools, beggin' quarters for his thirst. Nobody knew where he came from, And nobody cared to ask. Then along came Billy Sunday, tellin' stories 'bout the past. He said Crow had stole some gold and sunk it in the lake, Held down by cement blocks in a broken apple crate. Billy said it came from the murdered father o...
written by Neil Young The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away All my pictures are falling From the wall where I placed them yesterday The world is turning, I hope it don't turn away I need a crowd of people, but I can't face them day to day I need a crowd of people, but I can't face them day to day Though my problems are meaningless That ...
Behind the bric and brac There will be no lookin' back And between Hell and hello There will be no lettin' go, no there won't And you can't be serious No, you can't You won't really do him in Well, you might Hey, this all seems like a joke Yes, it does, but it's not Where I laugh before you've spoke Stuttered words, poisoned love And the trumpets lean and barren And the sirens shrill and darin...
Lead you over to the water, Said quot;Hold it down until it does not breathe.quot; Tried drowning it on dry land for too long, But it was not supposed to be. This recklessness might kill you, But I know you would miss it if it died. This recklessness is not a curse, It's just the old convictions runnin' out of time. Pass me on over, Let it pass me by. We'll keep on movin', Leave this shit behi...
If the wild-bird could speak He'd tell of places you have been He's been in my dreams And he knows all the ways of the winds Polly, come home again Spread your wings to the wind I felt much of the pain As it begins Dreams cover much time Still they leave blind the will to begin I searched for you there And now look for you from within Polly, come home again Spread your wings to the wind I felt...
How can you tell me how much you miss me When the last time I saw you, you wouldn't even kiss me The rich guy you're seein' must have put you down So welcome back, baby, to the poor side of town To him you ain't nothin' but a play-thing Not much more than an overnight-thing To me you're the greatest that I've ever found And it's hard to find nice things on the poor side of town I can't blame y...
When you burn your kingdom Through the ashes I will come I know it makes no difference But I can't leave ya to your fun Usin' up your torch song gifts Why do you rush the end along? Actin' like you'll soon forget The end is comin' on its own Just this once I'll say a prayer for you Though I won't pretend to help Just this once I'll say a prayer for you Burnin' up the floorboards Burned every p...
Promise me my soul to keep. And promise me you'll never sleep. And promise me that when it's over, We will drink the whole world sober. Promise me that lines get drawn. Point no point to wish me well. Promise me there's no denying, And you will stop to wish me well. Oh promise me. Promise me it'll all get done. And a lion's share of good will last. Promise me you'll turn away first, And promis...
Gathered by the riverside the current pulls 100 years each way savin' souls and singin' songs They beg and smile, but murder just the same watch me slip into the trees breakin' brush past darkness and the cold gray crosses mark the ridge reached her grave and fell down in the snow that's when I dreamed that I was Rebecca Wild that's when I dreamed who she was who she was Rebecca stood in the u...
Highwater is everywhere, highwater is telling me to go There's poison in the course it runs, there's ashes from the factory on the hill Watch it all fall down From the mountain to the ground Watch it all say no River Blood Oh, River Blood I've always found that river Test my grip and then I'm sure you will believe that I cannot let go I live on fruit I have preserved in mason jars beneath the ...
The sky is always heavy here, And the mules they roam in packs. And the skulls we dragged from waterholes, By the woodshed in a stack. And fear don't ever come out alone. And the bad moon flies by night. And the choices made won't come again. 'Cause the first choice wasn't right. No time for me to wash, The sand gravel. Downwinders, we still watch the sky. And each cloud has a name. Thunderhea...
How many times have you heard someone say "If I had his money, I could do things my way?" Little they know that it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind Once I was waitin' for fortune and fame Everything that I dreamed for to get a start in life's game Suddenly it happened, I lost every dime But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind Money can't buy back your youth when ...
Howling like a banshee in the middle of the night Don't you know it's me at your back door I'm wounded and scared with no place to go Won't you give me a home for the night Shelter for an evening, shelter from the rain Just for tonight, you'll never see me again I'm wounded, oh baby, can't you see? I got no one to blame but me And I know this shit is killin' me I can't stop, no, I can't stop A...
written by Jagger/Richards Saw you stretched out in Room Ten O Nine with a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye. Couldn't see to get a line on you, my sweet honey love. Berber jew'lry jangling down the street, make you shut your eyes at ev'ry woman that you meet. Could not seem to get a high on you, my sweet honey love. May the good Lord shine a light on you, make every song [you si...
We need a better idea, here quick Before the sun's beatin' down on our necks We need a better idea Watch us speed, to the end of the world Promise all, that we've already heard And still we're nowhere I don't care to know all the details How you left him to shout down the stairs I don't care to know Slow Red Dawn is gonna come Slow Red Dawn is comin' on Slow Red Dawn Do you see that thin strip...
Swept the floor of dreams Live ones in the cracks Crawling from the woodwork Just to break your mother's back Hail the future king No surprises left Formula is widely know by chemists And the minds they've blown Smokestack Smokestack Smokestack Count 'em 1 in 10 Can't hold on to those threats Not-so-distant cousins Of the nails on which you slept Amateur contortionist With pyrotechnic skill Th...
Mr. ten dollar man Let me tell you where you're bound When you drink your green liquor Lord, you'll roll to the ground But you come around here With your money in your hand Tasted my woman You'll die where you stand Snake Mountain's gonna crumble Lord, and fall from the sky 'Til that woman of mine Keeps on telling her lies If I'd die Lord, she'd weep And she'd weep and she'd mourne As soon as ...
Oh one night of mercy Give me one night of merciful Shocks to the skull Watching these specimens grow Small miracles stuffed In old powder kegs Can't mix boot leather With common-sense rags Watching these specimens grow I may know nothing But it never says no Won't answer in good turn Earth rumbling below Got hope in the backseat And truth on the roof Look out below This rumbling needs somewhe...
All dressed up for the day of the dead I have been waiting It's coming soon enough The doors are open and the prowlers have all fled So tired of waiting So tired of hanging tough Stir the ashes round Underneath my shoes Just stir the ashes round Make 'em dizzy, in the mud Make 'em dizzy Round and round and round Come and sit by the lonesome potter's grave Come and pull the weeds Come and write...
don't wait any longer not a second more don't wait for the century to click ya' never can be sure put my hand just where you want it been movin' much too slow move your hand just where I want it and don't let go and if we let this devil ride I swear he's gonna take the wheel and drive straight to the stars can't wait any longer straight to the stars the sky is only gettin' darker now stars on ...
Deaf as a fence post Alone on a winter's night I'm drunk as a racehorse But I'll never fade outta sight There's a wild below me A wild up there in the stars There's a history behind me A child gone cold in my arms Tell George and Tammy I'm ripe for the taking these days It's a good year for roses And a bad year for runnin' in place But if they don't believe me I'll do what I always have done I...
Fourteen and one half years You know I was good fortune's slave Road map on my face Up to my neck in lucky breaks Cover your eyes Don't look now And durin' all that time You know I wore this reckless coat Filled up with matchstick men And all the bibles that you wrote Cover your eyes, Don't look now X2 First I'll get even And then I'll make you proud Revenge is sweeter When you can laugh out l...
Lose your coat and roll your sleeves This is demolition time Inventions full of spit and blood With blinders for the faint of heart Fortune's ashes crowd this map But if I lose, well I don't care As long as I get good and gone Let the anvil break Steal door lies into a whisper Now who can wait for the perfect fit I'm hearing the anvil sing I'm hearing the anvil sing Machine he took a picture o...
Trying hard to remember your voice it seems so faraway all choked up by the heat and the dust it seems so faraway I'm gonna give you a call, from this air conditioned bar gonna give it one more crack before these cocktail lights all disappear like the night wind on my back I'm not the leavin' kind but I've got leavin'on my mind from Jim Town, to Halfway, then back across the riverside it's not...
I go to sleep, before the devil wakes and I wake up, before the angels take all my worldly desires all my yardsticks of fear all my secrets untold all my motives unclear hangin' down in the fire burnin' them higher won't take them away from here and long after we're gone the light will stay on X2 watched the city ... city of crows watched them fly, watched 'em all flyin' low out above the floo...
I'm the nightwatchman and nothing gets behind my back Work out at the goldmine in a tin can shack Don't come up behind cause I won't be mincing my words Don't play twenty questions with all of the scavenger birds I'm the nightwatchman It's up to me and the devil to do all the dirty work Got a thousand dirty secrets rolled up in the sleeve of my shirt Don't come up behind me, I will be playing ...
Down here everyone says that the River People don't really belong here. I know what it's like to be a stranger and divide a town beside a frontier. People want your business and little more I've watched shadows lengthen from a closed door. Mountains wide, nothing is clearer to the River People than what the others try and hide. You spoke, pushed your chair back at the meeting and I could tell ...
well the fog's rollin' thick in the trees and the fire burns deep in the hole my conscience a wound with no salve it betrays me wherever I go said the best way a man can go down is to die with his face to the street and you guessed that the way I'd go down like a gambler who rolls off to sleep but that night on the mountain, I staged my own death left my clothes scattered far down the trail an...
Well, I'm going away to leave you And I'm gone for a while But I'll come back to you someday When I've gone ten thousand miles Where the storms are on the ocean And the heavens will cease to be And this world may lose its motion If you don't come back to me When I left you in whiskey valley With the crimes upon your face And the storms were in the deep part In the deepest, darkest plain Where ...
Knock yourself And knock again Roll it all into your hand And let it spin There's a wind blowin' hell From the bottom of the well Let it fall Below the belt Calm, cool and collected Who could have known Just how it felt There's a wind blowin' hell From the bottom of the well Anytime at all Anytime at all sallysallyusa.net
Liars left their roost last night I heard it from some talkshow host Fangs and venom working hard In simulcast from coast to coast Hey ho, 'round we go This rotten tree will never grow Hey ho, 'round we go This rotten tree will never grow Dogs and colonels laugh in packs And take us for the fools we've been Some patriots got drunk and begged To all go bottoms up Hey ho, 'round we go This rotte...
I don't care how long it might last don't care anymore don't care about that I don't care how long it might take I'm still wide awake out walkin' late Till I reach you wait until I Till I reach you wait until I Till I reach you I don't care if it takes half the night or a life or if it's all a slow dream ain't no answers in me every slight of the hand every brick every stone I can face it alon...
Last time that I saw you, you were on the killing floor Last time that I saw you, all the tears had turned to clay Still I haven't panicked, come and pull the stitches tight No room for the panic, come and pull the stitches tight There is late train to Mercy But I hope it never comes There is late train to Mercy But I hope it never comes Well it moves like winter, it moves with brute force Wel...
Gettin' stupid ... crooked feet A pinball on ... Scott Walker Street Gettin' stupid ... in a bar Not goin' home ... til the band plays "Superstar" Everything's on the edge of everything else You're hittin' a stride, that cannot be stopped People been callin' all the way from Florida Ya said, you're going down there, for a week or more Tremble goes ... Tremble goes the night Tremble goes ... Tr...
Well I dreamed I saw the devil's club Growin' by the burnin' bush And I dreamed that all your razor teeth Grabbed tomorrow by the root And I dreamed the long arm of the law Was a one-armed acrobat Yeah I dreamed Unholy dreams And I dreamed that all the sacred cows Had been trampled under hoof And I dreamed the moon had finally crashed And lit fire to your roof And I dreamed that there were sig...
You're an open gate On a barbed wire fence Swingin' back and forth You know it scares me half to death Funny how it moved From a blessin' to a curse Ain't it funny how we moved From the cursed, to the doomed Will you Will you unwind This heart of mine? Heart of mine Busted but not broke Shaken up and stirred Watch out who you tell This night is hangin' on each word But when the mornin' comes A...
The graveyard sits by the Prescott mill. Where my old man lost his arm, And for that I was ready to kill. But he just looked tired, And said: quot;Don't bury me near that place.quot; When he finally died I was in the desert war. But no one makes a funeral wait, So they dressed him up in his wedding clothes, And buried him by the mill, In the place he said he'd never stay. All you gotta do, is ...
even the mightiest rivers will bend before they vanish, in the sand even the tallest of timbers will fall easy to fall, ain't easy to land well that's a curse of mine seems everything I find keeps fallin' till it cannot fall well that's a curse of mine in the best of times keep fallin' till I cannot fall That's when fortune smiled on you I'd say fortune smiled when you went runnin' away from t...
Into the heart of this old sunken ship A white knuckle journey you won't soon forget Out where the deepwater goes Into the veins of this old lizard skin To Tierra Del Fuego and then back again That's where the deepwater goes That's where the deepwater goes Soon you will fathom how deep it goes down And the bottom's a good place to start Our bottle is empty The searchlight is off Oh, the bottom...
Cross your heart gently The best days are with us Don't be dark-hearted You'll just disappear Trust you won't stumble I trust you won't walk blind Trust you won't miss What has never been found Whereabouts no compass, no bearing Whereabouts unknown leave it alone Whereabouts no compass, no bearing Whereabouts unknown leave it alone Fortune it tells you It's time for the good news Came on the p...
Whiskey hold me well And never let me spill From the blind man's bluff Across the frozen lake Oh chance me, chance me not, With the last chance that you've got Keep it rising like the river And sinking with my fear Somewhere out of these Somewhere out of these woods Somewhere out of these Somewhere out of these woods Whiskey hold me well Ain't nothing you can't kill Now the pain is just forgiv...
I waited all day And it seemed like one day too many To find out who knows what And why all the gallons are hanging Deadmen are sneaking Over thr hills Something forgotten Is going on there still I waited all day and still it seemed like one day too many Down in the basement With gunfire closer than distant And upstairs the band Played a cynical waltz The whole world a blamin' When it's everyo...
When death shall close these eyelids And this heart shall cease to beat And they lay me down to rest In some flowery-bound retreat Will you miss, miss me, when I'm gone Will you miss, miss me, miss me when I'm gone X2 Will you miss when I'm gone Perhaps you'll plant a flower On my poor unworthy grave And come sit alone beside me When the roses nod and wave Will you miss, miss me, when I'm gone...
I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown With my hands of ivory And my nerves of steel I'll break the jackpot open Just to prove it's real I'll break the jackpot open In a wondertown, wondertown
T'was a cold wintry night Not a star was in sight And he north wind was howling down the line Went a brave engineer With a sweetheart so dear With an order to pull Old 9. His heart hung with his song And his train rolled along Black smoke was pouring from his stack His headlight it seemed To brighten his dream Of tomorrow, when he'd be coming back Well he sped round the hill And his brave hear...
written by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan If you want money in your pocket And a top hat on your head A hot meal on your table And a blanket on your bed Well today is grey skies Tomorrow is tears You'll have to wait til yesterday is here I'm going to New York City And I'm leaving on a train And if you want to stay behind and wait Til I come back again Well today is grey skies And tomorrow is t...
Lay my body down By the shallows of the creek You can lay my body down Lay me in your reach And when my body's down We'll steal the thunder from the rain And when my body's down We'll shake the dirt right from the pain I was going nowhere Nowhere very fast Threw my poison out the window But it came blowin' back Out along the highway Right through the night of crime Somewhere in the darkness Yo...

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