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Hey Moody
02:52
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Hey Moody
You can hear this song
you can say it's wrong
hey Moody
No one has a claim
don't forget to dream
hey Moody
(Chorus)
Hey Moody - oh oh oh
Hey Moody - oh oh oh
Hey Moody - oh oh oh
Begging you please
I'm down on my knees
hey Moody
I been told you're golden
but you trust me like you're stolen
hey Moody
on the verge again
what will happen when the truth hits
hey Moody?
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
You will feel me one of these days oh yeah
on a cold cold night when you stand outside in the rain oh yeah
no one will hear you or what you have to say yeah
someday you will feel me
oh yeah yeah
(Chorus)
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Ain't Getting The Love I Need
I got loving on my mind
and I wake up anytime
That's the kind of success
that ain't too easy to find
When I look around
At nothing guaranteed
(Chorus)
But I ain't got the love I need (ain't got the love I need)
I ain't getting the love I need (ain't got the love I need)
I can stay or I can play (I can play)
any game that will get me freed.
Beautiful stories everywhere
I'm too stranded to care
there's got to be love for the end of play out fair
But I look at the way
Lovers walk the streets
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Too hard to know if I'll regret going
Right now Don't seem so bad
But love ain't showing if it ain't growing
from the best times you've ever had
(Chorus)
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Here Now Beside You
02:36
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Here Now Beside You
Life is so short you're missing out on things
Sweet smiles and songs the spirit sings
You want to fall in love so hard
but know someday heartbreak might be in the cards
Missing out on long goodbyes
tearing out your heart for all the reasons why
(Chorus)
Standing here now right beside you
Hope the bad times will never hide you
Lay your life down beside you
and set the spirit on fire inside you
Time can take away your favorite joys
It's up to you to make the choice
You stand on making one memory
or are you there to see all life is there to see?
Someday you hope for a long goodbye
You could tear out your heart
for anything you'll never try
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Maybe life will stay your friend
As long as the past and future blend
Maybe times will let you down
But you can always count on life staying around
(Chorus)
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Know Me To Love Me
03:07
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Know Me To Love Me
(Chorus)
You don’t need to know me to love me
but you sure got to love me to know me
You don’t need to know me to love me
but you sure got to love me to know me
Baby I play to win so keep me in
I ain’t losing no more
baby stay by my side
til I can decide if I can’t stand loving you no more
See that sun peeking through the clouds
and know I want to kiss you now
but you just keep your eyes on the sun
might as well be alone rather than loving someone
(Chorus)
I’m going out on a limb here baby
to find what you need from me
to give you a chance to tell me
what would make you feel alive and free
but I know time goes on and love sure grows cold
for many years I never dreamed I would get this old
with someone by my side
but it seems love has died
and now I have to make a choice
listen to the man rejoice.
(Chorus)
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Standing At The Crossroads Too Long
I'm wondering what to do about my baby
for too many years I've been wandering on
How I feel ain't no secret
I've been standing at the crossroads too long
There's nothing around gonna tell me
wish I could get out of this bind
Tired of everything maybe
Where to go and what to do this time
I've been standing at the crossroads too long now baby
Standing at the crossroads too long
Now I'm up here buried up in a mountain
with too much love to leave behind
Life used to be a bottomless fountain
Now I'm stranded in this heart of mine
Wish somebody would tell me they're coming
from somewhere to be saving the day
but I ain't got no fortune teller
Nobody to show me the way
I've been standing at the crossroads too long now baby
Standing at the crossroads too long
(bridge)
So the years go down surviving
paying down into the crime
The world is up on my shoulders
and I feel like I'm running out of time
She's got me right where she wants me
and I tell you it's the same old grind
Dreams are all gone out the window
I been looking for something to find
There's nothing where I'm gonna tell me
But I wish I could get out of this bind
(Chorus)
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Crooked Little Man
03:20
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Crooked Little Man
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
This girl taught me a lesson by treating me so bad
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
Mama, she dropped me like a ball
Mama, she dropped me like a ball
She dropped me so hard, I damn near popped
Mama, she dropped me like a ball
Mama, I'm alone like the moon
Mama, I'm alone like the moon
She used to howl at me so sweetly in a tune
Mama, I'm alone like the moon
Mama, what am I gonna be?
Mama, what am I gonna be?
Without her around howling at me?
Mama, what am I gonna be?
Mama, I'm crying for some love
Mama, I'm crying for some love
and you know crying just won't do enough
Mama, I'm a crying for some love
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
This girl taught me a lesson by treating me so bad
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
Mama, I'm a crooked little man
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Celebrating With The Blues
Sometimes need to quit in order to carry on
Well sometimes need to quit in order to carry on
Well I gotta quit thinking I'm any good
Well I must be wrong by now
Well it's never gonna be a good time to leave it all behind
Well it's never gonna be a good time to leave it all behind
Everybody's trying to make it
Except the ones who don't even have to try
Well, thanks for reminding me how beautiful life could be
Well, I'm happy for you
Unhappy for me.
I've got a zest for life I've got rock n'roll in my soul
I've got a zest for life I've got rock n'roll in my soul
That must be why I'm playing these here blues with nowhere to go.
Even though there's no need for me it's been years now I've arrived
Even though there's no need for me it's been years now I've arrived
Well the boomers may be dying
but us whisperers are still alive
Well, the moon's looking good but it don't feel the way I do
Well, the moon's looking good but it don't feel the way I do
Welcome to my party
Celebrating with the blues
I thought I could love my guitar into the one I lost along the way
I thought I could love my guitar into the one I lost along the way
Even though I don't feel it
it's the same things I still play
Back when I had it all I thought I had nothing to lose
Back when I had it all I thought I had nothing to lose
I can envy anybody when I forget they've got the blues
When I make love to you baby I'm making love to your whole life
When I make love to you baby I'm making love to your whole life
That's why I'm wondering if I'm ever gonna have a wife
Well, thanks for reminding me how beautiful life could be
Well, I'm happy for you
Unhappy for me.
Well, thanks for reminding me how beautiful life could be
Well, I'm happy for you
Unhappy for me.
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Midnight Blues
02:35
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Midnight Blues
I don't need no highway road showing me where to roam
I don't need no highway road showing me where to go
'cause I'll be gone and when I'm back
I won't be lost on my own path
I won't be lost or out of whack
and I won't be treated this way
I don't need no moonlight job to get me extra cash
I don't need no moonlight job to get me extra cash
You're always there to track me down, bail me out and buy me rounds
I don't need no bloody job
and I won't be treated this way
I don't need no mountain man telling me who I am
I don't need no mountain man telling me who I am
He can rant and chant and preach his stuff
but he don't know what I'm made of
I don't need no mountain man
and I won't be treated this way
I don't need no goody good news killing off my blues
I don't need no goody good news killing off my blues
You won't find me winning soon
Man I was born to lose
Destination searching still
and I won't be treated this way
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9. |
Girl Blues
04:02
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Girl Blues
Nearly every girl I've met has been about the same
They take your arms and they make you go insane
they show you a good time
make you dance around
until you lose your footing and you fall onto the ground
so many girls have told me
but Dan this can't be true
they tell me I am wrong but I know what I've been through
Nearly every girl I've met has been about the same
They take your arms and they make you go insane
Rachel is so beautiful she's younger than me too
whether or not she cares for me I'll never have a clue
she used to hug and kiss me and she made me feel involved
then she told me she was lonely
she needed someone strong
I said but oh come on now I'm with you all the time
then she laughed and told me I'm not what she had in mind
Nearly every girl I've met has been about the same
They take your arms and they make you go insane
Chrissie is the healthiest girl that I ever knew
the redness in her cheeks never disappeared from view
her eyes were bright and deep and she used to stare at me
she told me she would do anything for me
so then one day I phoned her and asked to take a trip
before she hung up she told me she was sick
Nearly every girl I've met has been about the same
They take your arms and they make you go insane
Janey is a nighthawk who lives just down the street
I used to be the hero of her every single dream
She told me I would marry someone who looked like her
She used to make me melt with the way she used her words
and then one day I asked her if she'd spend the night with me
quoting dirty limericks and watching old TV
and Janey said my God tonight I've gotta sleep!
Nearly every girl I've met has been about the same
They take your arms and they make you go insane
they show you a good time
make you dance around
until you lose your footing and you fall onto the ground
so many girls have told me
but Dan this can't be true
they tell me I am wrong but I know what I've been through
Nearly every girl I've met has been about the same
They take your arms and they make you go insane
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Partially Guaranteed Electricity
Piled the car full of my spending loot
and all my gear and unspoiled fruit
heading on down to Monterey
for probably one, two, three, or four days!
It's called PG&E
Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
Every summer here the air gets dry
when the sun gets cooking til it dries out your eyes
Even though we all live in a Paradise
so we don't want that to happen again anytime
so it's PG&E
Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
So I'm in the middle of shaving
don't know why I bother
probably because it just gets so dang hot here
my half faced beard will just have to do
chances to shave are far between and few
with PG&E
and Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
In the winter it's worse, believe it or not!
The infrastructure here since the fire is shot
You think you'll have power but good chance you'll get caught
with a tree across your driveway and no water in the pot
with PG&E
Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
So it's nice to feel like you're in another time
like it's some other country back in 1849!
Well I'm glad they invented all the things they did
I kind of like my lifestyle on the grid
With PG&E
Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
In the meantime going solar costs a fortune to install
and to get off the grid is a bureaucratic wall
I'd love to spend years on this hideaway
It's probably all burn down anyway
Thanks to PG&E
Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
When they send me $100 to make up for the thousands I may have lost
I can't even calculate the cost
of clients and gigs I'm set to lose
because it's a ripple effect kind of thing here in Santa Cruz!
Thanks to PG&E
and their Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
Well, really the issue isn't PG&E, it's just you and me
living in a world that's so deranged it won't do anything fast about climate change
But we've got PG&E
Politically Guaranteed Electricity!
Well, if your power goes out and you're blessed with a generator, and a chainsaw full of gas and a truck and an excavator
And if you don't mind lighting matches by the moon
you'll be doing pretty good in Bonny Doon
with PG&E
Partially Guaranteed Electricity!
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The Ghosts That Hover Around Your Door
It was an open door but now it's closing
But I'm taking all the punches this life can throw in
So I'm rolling in the morning off to another dream
Say goodbye to the fears
life ain't what it seems
I can talk to the ghosts that hover around your door
Because this ain't just about me now anymore
Staying and playing and wondering where it's gonna go
A dead night behind me at another loaded show
Trying to fit in everything I do to live
and if you give to get, you won't get to give
And I can talk to the ghosts that hover around your door
Because this ain't just about me now anymore
(Bridge)
I got roads ahead, lives behind
The skies are clear, pockets are lined
Sailing, flying, driving, the world will be mine
when the anchors are lifted, see the future shine!
Paradise now is just a state of mind
I'm a failure on paper, but I'm a success inside
And it's sad to loan out all these years
to an illusion now turned into tears
Time to look hard at the directions this steers
And the lost always have somewhere to go
Somebody new they can know
and I can always talk to the ghosts that hover around your door
Because this ain't just about me now anymore
oh this ain't just about me now anymore
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Lord, There Is No Simple Highway.
(chorus)
Lord, there is no simple highway
nor no land of make believe
make the best you can of your road
let good God show you the way.
There ain't no rhyme or reason
there's just a call you have to heed
there's no walls to guide your troubles
down the highway you've been freed.
There's no rules, no regulations
nothing you can't understand
there's no business in you living
without the grace of good God's hand.
(chorus)
You may fall and you may stumble
as you rise as high as might
may you make your way through misfortune
there is no wrong
there is no right.
(chorus)
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13. |
Killed Me To Fail
03:58
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Killed Me To Fail
Don't reach out back to me
Been too long now I've moved on
Many days I was sad and broken
Saw my own shadow what was wrong
Why even care at all about drama
and this illusion of companionship?
Someone else has your attention
Better go there for a relationship
(Chorus)
One day I'll be gone and then you'll see
who met who because of me
What kind of waves you refused to sail
how you scorned me
and you killed me to fail
Don't reach out back to me
Only trying to make something of my life
and assumed you were some kind of light
until a short time later came the inevitable knife
rage on in your pretty world
your life of friends and shenanigans
While I died you lived
Don't ever call me your friend again
(Chorus)
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