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Dreamcatcher
05:36
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Over and over again, this battle’s raging on in my head
about what I could have done differently, the past it haunts me
cause I can’t let go the payment of my debts,
these things I should have said, these painful regrets
When no one’s left to forgive me cause they’re gone,
and I can’t find the strength to just move on
Lying awake at night trying to make all this right
while the holes I’m diggin in my sleep ain’t ever as deep when I wake up in the morning
and the blackest black loosens up its grip on what I’ve got left to do
while the suffering that surrounds me seems to be indiscriminate about who it’s bringing down
Somehow at the end of the day I’m still standing and I got to find my own way out
If I carry all
this weight upon my head until I’m dead and gone
then I will no longer
see to be myself to live my life
the only way I ever thought I would know how
it ain’t these dreams gonna catch in the tangled web
that I’m weaving
oh they’re leaving me behind
I didn’t pull the trigger, but I seem to keep on digging
a grave to bury my own salvation down, deep into the ground
cause I put a gun into her hand and then sat quiet while she did what she felt like she had to
and in the days after I paid the devil what he was due
Every time I make excuses it always ends up useless
leaves me feeling even more shameful for the not one, but two lives I have wasted
I don’t have any room inside my mind for these angels of destruction
but I’m blinded by compunction
If I carry all
this weight upon my head until I’m dead and gone
then I will no longer
see to be myself to live my life
the only way I ever thought I would know how
it ain’t these dreams gonna catch in the tangled web
that I’m weaving
oh they’re leaving me behind
trying to hold myself to account of what is wrong and what is right
ain’t nobody gonna gain from my suffering but I’m just standing around here wondering
If I carry all
this weight upon my head until I’m dead and gone
then I will no longer
see to be myself to live my life
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Jagged & Raw
05:47
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Autumn breezes never felt so free
to be twenty-three and falling into winter like a leaf drifting off a tree
Trips over the bridge for love down second avenue next to the river
where another’s eyes were piercing into her soul
Long legs and a mouth that’ll turn you inside out
a smile so captivating it kept him from making advances
all the while she’s getting entranced by the one who’s making it easy
behind these eyes he hides
So he sits this next one on the side while tears fill the gap
like a crack in the blacktop as the temperature drops it gets wider
it turns out those icy blues have cut through to a different heart
and now it’s two ways that he’s falling apart
behind these eyes he hides
and it feels alright
He doesn’t allow his soul to speak, or let fly these words so sweet
even though this fire yearning is burning him up in desire
Oh he buries it all, afraid to say something cause he don’t want to change nothing]
and it makes him feel flawed
It tastes the way words do that can never be taken back
still hanging on his lips but feeling slapped in the face
cause after all that turmoil he ended up with her boy
but she found a dirty magazine and couldn’t put back what she was imagining
inside a box, that’s where she put him, cause he wouldn’t
ever be satisfied without a man inside
and so he locked it up and threw away the key, determined to never let anybody else see
behind these eyes he hides, and it feels alright
it feels alright
he doesn’t allow his soul to speak, or fly a flag so sweet
even though it’s already mired in the complexion of his desire
Oh he buries it all
ashamed what they would think, other people, if they saw what she saw
and it makes him feel flawed
when he’s just jagged and raw
Oh he buries it all
this frame that contains him, these labels they could never name him
but they make him feel flawed
when he’s just jagged and raw.
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3. |
If I Let You Go
03:48
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I’m smelling roses on a sunny afternoon
taking my time just thinking this through
but when your door closes
only in my mind I’ll be holding you
The full moon’s rising, it’s dancing on the sea
as your hand inches closer and closer to me
my body’s writhing
just thinking about what could be
But this night’s not gonna last forever
and when it’s gone, I’m gonna feel so wrong
if I let you go
so I gotta let this feeling show
Oh I got to let this feeling show
Let my body take control
I got to let it show
Sunday morning and the sky is so blue
there’s only one thing left for me to do
throw back these curtains and let me love shine through
cause this life’s not gonna last forever
and when it’s gone, oh my only wrong
is if you never know
so I got to let this feeling show
oh I got to let this feeling show
let my body take control
I got to let this feeling show
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Falling for You
03:30
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These days I seem to just start crying
and I don’t know why there are tears falling from my eyes
cause it feels like joy and then it feels like sorrow
and in the end they wrap back around again and leave me tangled up inside
Sometimes the road skips when I go running
and I bounce along to the sound of the world drowned out by my own drumming
in time I’m gonna trip and I’ll go stumbling
head over heels oh I won’t stop calling
when I’m falling for you
Long drives and sleepless nights are getting to be a ball and chain to me
cause the open road when you do it alone isn’t all they make it out to be
I keep charging down these freeways always making a new acquaintance
when all you got is three days it turns friends into strangers and I don’t know if I can sustain this
Sometimes the road skips when I go running
and I bounce along to the sound of the world drowned out by my own drumming
in time I’m gonna trip and I’ll go stumbling
head over heels oh I won’t stop calling
when I’m falling for you
when I’m falling for you
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Enough of Your Love
03:37
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Blue jeans and a worn out t-shirt make the best kind of pajamas for you girl
when we spend the afternoon just laying around
It really drives me bananas when you stop by just to say hi and we end up loosing
all track of time
cause you try to say goodbye and then I give you hug
but that’s just a drop in the bucket cause
you got your hands in my pockets and give me a little shove
pull me closer and I’m tingling up from my toes it slides down my back
and that’s when I know just what’s gonna happen
cause you got your arms around my waist you give me a little taste of your
sweet, sweet honeysuckle flipped up under the covers
until the morning comes
oh and I’m reminded that I can never get enough
Enough of your love (your love baby!)
oh enough of your love (your love baby!)
cause you fill me up (with your love baby!)
but there’s never enough (of your love baby!)
You say we should go get coffee sometime, and I say yeah, that’d be nice
just a couple of friends sticking together through this lonely life
oh but I always end up spending the night and waking up to the morning light
pearing through the windows at as we sit there wondering just what to do about the situation
in which we’re both participating
it’s out of control
like a time bomb ticking it’s bound to blow but as soon as I know it you
got your arms around my waist you give me a little taste of your
sweet, sweet honeysuckle flipped up under the covers
until the morning comes
oh and I’m reminded that I can never get enough
Enough of your love (your love baby!)
oh enough of your love (your love baby!)
cause you fill me up (with your love baby!)
but there’s never enough (of your love baby!)
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6. |
Country Girl
05:00
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Wherever this road leads, you know I will follow
sure as the wheat flows into glasses of beer
til the day that my pride I will swallow
that’ll be the day when I know you grow near
Late nights by the campfire drinking strong whiskey
the embers are burning full of desire
I spent all my money smokin the kind
but I got one more bottle of wine that you can drink with me
We’re in love and that’s how you do it in Texas
you don’t need no diamond ring or necklace of pearls
you take me on the town and leave me under the table
that’s why I love you, you’re my country girl
My momma always told me, there’d be good days and bad
and hell you can tell her that she was right about that
but she never could have told me how good it would be
to have you on the bed of this dried up old creek
We’re in love and that’s how you do it in Texas
you don’t need no diamond ring or necklace of pearls
you take me on the town and leave me under the table
that’s why I love you, you’re my country girl
The’ll be plenty other birds singing out my name like they have for too long now
but don’t you worry baby, I ain’t no damn fool
I could never look at another the same way anymore
I been down that road before
I want to lay you down under an old oak tree
and take my time poring over this heavenly deed
if you promise not to leave oh then never will I falter
at the foot of God’s altar won’t you marry me
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7. |
All Over Again
04:55
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Long blond hair and sleepy blue eyes
luring in from underneath those lids of deisre
the deep release of a satisfied sigh
blow against my cheek with your face pressed next to mine
and the beads of sweat sliding down curves of an hourglass figure
casting shadows of my tears rolling down the breast of another
inside, grains of sand reach towards her thin wasteline
to land on the memory of a happier time
Oh I feel like I am doing this all over again
cause I don’t want to be lonely and I think you’re the only
one who will come my way, before it’s too late
I will hold you all night long until the sun comes up and starts singing this song
cause even though it’s all new, I know that I’ll never love you.
Enamored like a crimson fox, into my coup you’ll slip
under the cover of darkest night, when sharpest hounds of mind are nowhere in sight
to hear soft tapping on my heart’s closed door
and chase away the emptiness you’ll find when no one is there to give you more
but the open space beside me
whispers to the empty place inside me
and pulls down a veil of innocence to blind me from reality
so I can feel better for a night
and I can pretend that everything is gonna be alright
Oh I feel like I am doing this all over again
cause I don’t want to be lonely and I think you’re the only
one who will come my way, before it’s too late
I will hold you all night long until the sun comes up and starts singing this song
cause even though it’s all new, I know that I’ll never love you.
If I touch your body, it’s gonna feel like love do
so please don’t tempt me lady
it’s gonna hurt the same way too
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8. |
Living Out of Love
04:48
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I woke up this morning to sirens in the media
sounding the alarm of another attack on our freedom
This time it came down in Tucson, Arizona
Blacksburg, Virginia, Oklahoma City
Oh how well do we know ya’
Now we’re sitting around pointing fingers at each other,
leveling the blame down on our sisters and our brothers
as I stare down the barrel of this life as an American
I find myself in the sites of a loaded gun.
Outside that cactus town there lives a deserted man
whose eyes pierce right through you like an army sharpshooter
battered though not broken, this gentle cowboy so soft-spoken
finds his strength buried deep down in the ground
while his countrymen are nowhere to be found
Cause teachers, doctors, patriots,
we just can’t seem to pay for it
they say “please, we all gotta tighten our belts a little”
but we’re already getting squeezed in the middle
while record profits line the pockets of those who already got it
see cause this is Ameritocracy,
not American democracy the way the founders thought it.
Oh we’re living out of love
green’s the color of new beginnings but under all this paper we’re just suffocating
we’re living out of love
if you got something real to bring it ain’t worth shit
cause we ain’t gonna value your contribution til you figure out how to own something.
When I woke up this morning they had taken everything from me
robbed me of my livelihood and of my human dignity
the officer he told me wasn’t much could be done,
to find those who had perpetrated this act or to keep it from happening again
That night I heard a knock on my door
the same officer appeared in my window he said, “son, you can’t sleep here anymore,”
“See the neighbors they been complaining about a vagrant in their front yard
and while they’re sleeping safe and sound inside their own homes
you gotta move on down the road, move on down the road,
move on down the road”
Cause we’re living out of love
I’m gettin real sick and tired of people talking about how it’s just the economics of the situation
we’re living out of love
hell yes we’re bankrupt but it’s not the money that we’re missing it’s all this love that we’re living out of
They can keep on passing laws down out of Washington
but until they’re in the hearts of men it ain’t gonna make any damn difference
Cause this ain’t about whether any government or the free market can lead us better
if we’re gonna make a change we’re gonna have to figure out how to fucking treat each other
Cause we’re living out of love
honking horns, waching porn on the internet
never stop to think that maybe people shouldn’t live like that
oh we’re living out of love
send our children off to war just so we can keep on getting more, getting more
getting more
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9. |
Better Me
06:09
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I’ve been trying to fly
like a bird oh higher and higher
on the wind it’s less restricted
and I’d rather be winged and feathered than bound and tethered
With my feet back on the ground
I can feel my way to walk around
cause my wheels have been grinding and wheezing with nothing to seize on
I could keep moving forward if I could find something to grab a hold of
I’ve been just a little too long in the saddle to be tamed
but your sweet love has set me free
to be the man that I want to be
a good woman ain’t gonna take nothing away
you’re gonna make a better me
July days and December rain
don’t feel like they used to
never thought it could be real, what you would get me through
what it means to believe in somebody
oh there’s power in one but love only comes by two
and I’ve been just a little too long in the saddle to be tamed
but your sweet love has set me free
to be the man that I want to be
a good woman ain’t gonna take nothing away
you’re gonna make a better me
You ain’t an anchor, you’re gas in my tank girl
the extra weight don’t slow me down, you give me strength now
with my body up against you the friction sparks my interest
lights a fire inside to do what I need to
oh I’ve been just a little too long in the saddle to be tamed
and I know that you never ever wanted it, wanted it that way
but your sweet love has set me free
to be the man that I want to be
a good woman ain’t gonna take nothing away
you’re gonna make a better me
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Suite: Higher and Higher
08:58
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Bye, bye little raven, I see you playing on the wind
as you fly off to another place won’t you tell me where it is that you are going
cause there’s a parade of others waiting in line just to follow you out
while my feet stay planted on this cold hard ground
And I’m stared down by the moon like it’s got something to prove
keeps going round in circles, full one minute and it’s working
then back to nothing into blackness, it always wanes faster than it waxes
and at times this is so effacing meaning is so evasive
it’s real then it feels fake
something changes and then nothings ever the same again
I will fall along the way won’t you catch me if you can take me by the hand
help me keep all this bitterness at bay
sometimes it seems like I can preach but I don’t practice,
these words are speaking louder than my actions
Though I know it sounds familiar won’t you help me to remember
what I said yesterday
It’s the small things, baby steps are what it takes to change the way another thinks
but it’s the same choices every day that left me lost and alone
when you’re searching for solutions you try to find out what’s not working
you end up spending all of your time
buried deep down in the holes left by the trees you can’t see the forest for
I will fall along the way won’t you catch me if you can take me by the hand
help me keep all this bitterness at bay
sometimes it seems like I can preach but I don’t practice,
these words are speaking louder than my actions
Though I know it sounds familiar won’t you help me to remember
what I said yesterday
I look down at my feet I’m running again the wind’s blowing in my hair
I look up and the sky is blue, white clouds are floating by overhead
I’m going higher and higher
I’m going higher and higher and higher and higher oh and higher
I look down at my feet I’m running again the wind’s blowing in my hair
I look up and the sky is blue, white clouds are floating by overhead
I’m going higher and higher
I’m going higher and higher and higher, I reach the top and I don’t stop
no, no
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11. |
Hurricane
05:20
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Skinny dip tock ticking on the clock
like the time was for the taking
you and me down by the swimming hole lying naked
to the world outside we were blind, just looking for salvation
not a lover or a mother, you can’t lay me down at night and whisper and my ear
tell me everything is gonna be alright
but I’m still sleeping next to you
wondering what I’m gonna do when you decide it’s time for something new
When you go I hope that you know
that I feel my heart breaking every time I see that you’re walking away
and it doesn’t get any easier to say
that it’s all the same to me if you stay or if you leave
cause every time we get together
it’s like you came in on the wind and blew that stormy weather out to sea
we’re in the eye of the hurricane just you and me
I’m starting to wonder if it’s not worth it cause when you’re gone this hurt
it makes it all so uncertain.
When two brothers share the same love but not the one for each other
oh there’s bound to be trouble
somehow we made it through
learned how to endure those things that might divide us
in spite or in righteousness
but these wounds have cut me open and your blood runs through me
just like my own does
and sometimes I don’t feel anything pulsing in my veins
and I wonder if I could ever love anybody else the same
When you go I hope that you know
that I feel my heart breaking every time I see that you’re walking away
and it doesn’t get any easier to say
that it’s all the same to me if you stay or if you leave
cause every time we get together
it’s like you came in on the wind and blew that stormy weather out to sea
we’re in the eye of the hurricane just you and me
I’m starting to wonder if it’s not worth it cause when you’re gone this hurt
it makes it all so uncertain.
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