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From Here To The Moon
03:26
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Won't you come and have a beer? / There's somebody that you've gotta hear playing downtown / I suppose you've got your choice / But tell me have you ever heard a voice like a sundown? / And no one's immune / From here to the moon / Don't she make you feel lonely? / The future and the never-was / Disappear into a whiskey buzz while she's singing / The bourbon is a hundred proof / But there's nothing stronger than truth that she's ringing / And no one's immune / From here to the moon / Don't she make you feel lonely? / Pour us up another round / As we genuflect inside the sound of an old soul / A thoroughbred is turned to glue / And a honky tonk is turned into a cathedral
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Breaking Up The Band
04:40
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Her family moved from Pittsburgh / In the middle of the winter / She cried herself a river / That she skated into town / Trial by committee / Magnet school inner city / The boys thought she was pretty / But she hung around with clowns / Trailer park in Dandridge / His arm wrapped in a bandage / He really couldn't stand it / He could barely play guitar / Dreaming 'bout the new girl / Listening to Steve Earle / The images they unfurled / Like tape from a VCR / Breaking up the band / I always will remember / But I'll never understand / Speak now or hold your peace / Breath out a final curse / It's funny how a limousine / Can look just like a hearse / Chicken wings and sloe gin / At the Tipitina Ten Pin / She rallied to defeat him / Turkey in the final frame / Mulling over his fate / He wondered was it too late / To take back the cassette tape / That he'd labeled with her name? / With headphones like a tight fist / She listened to the tape hiss / Laughing 'cause he was no Kris Kristofferson of course / But he was in denial / On Cinco of De Mayo / Proposed to her in style / Margarita Trojan Horse / Breaking up the band / I always will remember / But I'll never understand / Speak now or hold your peace / Breath out a final curse / It's funny how a limousine / Can look just like a hearse / Children lose their childish ways / Blood brothers go their separate ways / We all know / Guitars are pawned for diamond rings / I never thought I was something you'd outgrow / Baptist church in Dandridge / I showed up empty-handed / The family disenchanted / With my tardiness I'm sure / Loitering by the punch bowl / Topsiders and no stubble / As I watched the happy couple / Dance each other cross the floor
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Caroline, Ugh
03:02
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We're drinking on the steps after the doors are locked / You're placing one more bet / I'm pouring one more shot / You're a few dollars up but I'm not down / Recklessness is contagious in this town / I think I'll keep you around / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Keep me in your mind / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Seek and you shall find / I believe that all you need is time / The parking lot's alive / The tow truck is unkind / Our debutantes arrive / But we pay no mind / Cover bands are competing from all sides / Wrestling contraband from teenage brides / What's written on their backsides? / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Keep me in your mind / Caroline, ugh / Love will find us / Seek and you shall find / I believe that all you need is time / That I can't afford / 'Cause I want you more / Than the things I've chosen / Time, oh it slips away / Where I still can't say / So I just keep hoping
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Big Black Dog
03:44
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Big black dog / Just a fur-covered pollywog / Lookin' worser than waterlogged / Starin' through the trees / He's got no name / Got no ball just a broken chain / Wet nose upon a window pane / A caravan of fleas / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Big black lab / Crooked ear and a broken pad / Walkin' sideways like a soft-shell crab / Wobblin' at the knees / He's got no tags /Just a tongue and a tail that wags / For the home that he's never had / But he's always gonna see / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Tell me what it takes / What it takes to be / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Somebody to you / Because you're everybody to me / Big black dog / Dishwasher and a mattress hog / Tennis ball and a mornin' jog / Chase away the geese / He knows his name / He knows his place in the world untamed / Is next to me in the pourin' rain / Pullin' on the leash
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You're coming to a fork in the road / How will you choose? / I wish I didn't know what I know / 'Cause either way I lose / You'll know it when you find it /You don't need to hide behind a vow / Can't you see you're meant for me? / Blue eyes don't fail me now / I've fallen to the back of the queue / I must confess / The only thing I don't wanna do / Is be your second best / But darling why am I still waiting / For what I know you won't allow? / Can't you see you're meant for me? / Blue eyes don't fail me now / And I don't need to know / Where you've been just where you want to go / Stealing a kiss at the bar / What used to be so easy got so hard / Tell me who you want me to be / And I'll comply / Although it isn't easy for me / To see the reason why / We worry about tomorrow / When all we have is here and now / Can't you see you're meant for me? / Blue eyes don't fail me now
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Scared Away The Song
03:29
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Turn your eyes away, my darlin' / There's only debris for you and me / Singing to the brokenhearted is not what it used to be / Can't you see? / If you keep heroes in ones and zeroes / How can you be sure / That they were ever real at all? / Smoke and mirrors are so much clearer than what I'm looking for / The singer scared away the song / Listen to the breeze, my darlin' / Raising its voice / Surface noise / Everybody's ears are starving / Begging for change / Ain't it strange? / If you keep heroes in ones and zeroes / How can you be sure / That they were ever real at all? / Smoke and mirrors are so much clearer than what I'm looking for / The singer scared away the song / Freedom isn't for the faint of heart / These corrupted files stretch a thousand miles / I don't know where to start / I don't know who to believe / If you keep heroes in ones and zeroes / How can you be sure / That they were ever real at all? / Smoke and mirrors are so much clearer than what I'm looking for / The singer scared away the song / Do you still want to sing along?
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Whippoorwill
02:56
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Melody on the breeze / Bringing me to my knees / Oh I've been ignoring you too long / I've been turning the other cheek / In search of a word to speak / When I only had to sing along / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / I've been bangin' on my guitar / Inside of an empty bar / Feedback knockin' me back off my feet / There must be a better way / To say what you want to say / Without putting the clientele to sleep / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / You're on my windowsill / Whippoorwill / Sing me to the break of dawn / I was wrong, I was wrong / Sing me through the lonesome night / You were right, you were right / You were right as the fallin' rain / Rap-tap-tappin' upon my pane / Soaking my imagination through / Never again will I / Be so lonesome that I could cry / Crying only makes me think of you
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Unglued
03:52
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Listen to the coffee grinder grindin' / Rattlin' the kitchen like a downtown train / It took you half a cup to make your mind up / Divvied up the dogs / Gave back my name / Now I'm only brewin half a pot / I only know that I am where you're not / You fired in the dirt /But still it's gonna hurt / Forever and day for what it's worth / My heart won't come unglued / I wonder if you are / Belly to the bar / Swayin' to the rhythm of a steel guitar / My heart won't come unglued / I can feel the cast iron cast aspersions / Servin' up the bacon with a side of smoke/ The sirens are a-singin' / And my eyes are stingin' / I'm choking back the tears / And holding on to hope / That I'll hear your key inside the door / That it's only me you're looking for
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Creature Of Habit
03:46
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Creature of habit returns with the same sad smile / There’s nothing left here to learn / Nothing worthwhile / You used to talk out loud / I was spellbound / They couldn’t strike you out / They bulldozed the playground / Creature of habit sits down at the same bar stool / No one to buy you a round / So you break your own rule / There's nothing that these eyes couldn’t burn through / I hate to see these eyes with no one to turn to / Wait for tomorrow for a thousand years / I could drink about a thousand beers / We'll always be in the way / But we have nothing to fear / Creature of habit returns to the old high school / Carved on a desk are your words / And they seem so cruel / Bullshit poetry in the first degree / Bullshit poetry but it speaks to me
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Lightning Rod
04:03
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I saw you pick a fight by candlelight / I saw you grind the world to a halt / The only maitre d' in Tennessee / You had him crying out "it's not my fault" / All the while is that a grimace or a smile? / No one can tell / A hundred miles / Now we're waiting single file to wish you well / They're ringing out the bells / Lightning rod, lightning rod / Close your eyes / Prepare to meet your god / Lightning rod, lightning rod / Close your eyes, close your eyes / Another coat of paint don't make a saint / You've gotta chip away your whole life / If you don't feel at home in flesh and bone / You know you got at least one thing right
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Jake Winstrom New York
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