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1996 (Volume#1)

by Dan Frechette

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Waiting On You 02:25
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Waiting On You I'm hurt I'm wasting for you Love is worth much more than questions doubts and fears I'm waiting on you soon we'll laugh about this problem Time is short again we will be lovers afraid our hearts can't take the strain of building up again I'm waiting on you soon we'll laugh about this problem I understand I have sympathy for you but see your friends help to curb their loneliness for you I'm waiting on you soon we'll laugh about this problem I'm waiting on you soon we'll laugh about this problem
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Bucking The Trends 02:44
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Bucking The Trends I'm bucking the trends I'm making amends I'm coming back home again If I had my way I'd rather play that wicked old game again It's the one where you lose your love and the blues are hard on your life Take me back to that wasted old track any old time. I'm bucking the trends I'm making amends I'm coming back home again If I had my way I'd rather play that wicked old game again It ain't got no rules it's from the old school It was part of my life Take me back to that high school shack any old time
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Give Me The Freedom Of Choice 03:57
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Can't Say Goodbye 02:49
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Can't Say Goodbye If you want to love me it's up to you to try If you want to love me open up your eyes Just because you're far away from me and I can't say goodbye today Night descends on the park colorful displays of moonlight reflecting dancing waters I miss you Just because you're far away from me and I can't say goodbye today can't say goodbye today - can't say goodbye today - can't say goodbye today
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Why Do I Cry? 03:39
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Why Do I Cry? I could go away without you on my heels but the message I could give would be ideal If I held you closer than before But it's over now I won't you hold you anymore (Chorus) Why do I cry? Why do I cry? Why do I cry? I need you still you're an innocent girl and I love you I need you still you're an innocent girl and I love you You can go away and everything will fall My life will be a bloodied voodoo doll If I held you closer than before But it's over when you can't cry anymore
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Life Is Good 02:18
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Life Is Good Life is good for a change there's no need to complain I'll find a way when the moment has been lost and forgotten don't find it for me. Life is good for a change there's no need to escape yeah I have faith tomorrow's hell will always bring me home don't find it for me. Life is good for today It was time for a change I'll be shooting shooting for the stars I'm sure they'll fall they lie before me. Life is good for a change things seem to be going my way I'll find a way before it all gets lost and forgotten don't find it for me.
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Thinking Of Giving Up For Good 02:36
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Thinking Of Giving Up For Good I've been hungry for a couple of days a couple hard nights and a thrill to kill she showed me a sense of what I was missing wishing I was on top of the hill oooh I was thinking of giving up for good ooooh I was thinking of giving up for good She'll be my Delilah we'll kill trends together make a map of the holes we burrow through she'll give me some sky to put in my pocket a little bit of heaven to pull me through oooh I was thinking of giving up for good ooooh I was thinking of giving up for good (Bridge) Does this make me wonder where she is now? These words that kill when they touch me Does this show you I'm into dying to to hold her for the first time? Does this make me wonder where she is now? These words that kill when they touch me Does this show you I'm into dying to to hold her for the first time? ooooh ooooh This part coming up gets good I was thinking of giving up for good I've been hungry for a couple of days a couple hard nights and a thrill to kill she showed me a sense of what I was missing wishing I was on top of the hill oooh I was thinking of giving up for good ooooh I was thinking of giving up for good
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Janey Got Straight 02:13
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Janey Got Straight Janey got straight 'cause she ain't a crook she didn't really know what she wants but she took all her pills and it was all her own will she gained two lives a knife and a smock she lived in her smock and went over the top stealing her best friend's cash Janey got straight she could hardly wait to sell her deposit box stash. Janey got straight she couldn't tolerate the boogey man knocking at her door she got some good juice and burnt herself when her spoons fell and started fire to her drawers she couldn't quite fit with the crowd full of shits who gambled with her money all the time Janey got straight and she got a nice mate yuppie Eugene living on daddy's dimes. Janey had a nice little alibi for her new lover Eugene genius man she said she'd been straight since before she was eight and she never met the hungry boogie man Eugene believed he was not being deceived although she looked gaunt and unkempt she traded her stash for some good honest cash bought a golden ring and placed a few bets a golden ring and placed a few bets.
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Old Man Blues 02:30
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Old Man Blues Old man don't need sunglasses old man don't need no leather old man don't need no job old man don't need no racket I want to be an old man I hate my generation Old man don't need no spanking old man's got his own fashion old man don't take shit from no one old man don't clean no asses. I want to be an old man I hate my generation I want to be an old man I hate my generation Old man don't comfort a woman Old man don't blow his cool Old man don't make no targets or play the dirty fool. I want to be an old man I hate my generation Old man ain't called a dummy he don't clean up his mess Old man don't say I'm sorry he just say what the heck I want to be an old man I hate my generation I want to be an old man I hate my generation.
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Living In A Borrowed Hole 03:02
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Living In A Borrowed Hole I seen you on the corners I've seen you on the floors you're messing in the doldrums you're playing with the whores there's no one among you to call there's no two ways to fall (Chorus) Did all the living in the street, kid just wash all your faith away? Living in a borrowed hole and there's nobody home you're walking down a tunnel the tunnel is getting thinner you think you're so smart yeah there goes a winner there's no one among you to call there's no two ways to fall (Chorus x2)
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A Memory Can't Say Goodbye 02:09
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A Memory Can't Say Goodbye Was it hard to forgive the girl with the French guitar left you cold on that same lonesome road you knew so well before a memory can't say goodbye Did she know any better than to leave in that car with two stoned boyfriends pulling at her heart like she pulled at yours a memory can't say goodbye Did she die in the gutter thinking of you? Sweetest man she'd met did she recognize that yet? all the regrets he couldn't cry a memory can't say goodbye Live on my brother she's never far away she's always smiling and in your heart to stay she'd want it that way a memory can't say goodbye a memory can't say goodbye a memory can't say goodbye
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Life Without Home 02:38
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Life Without Home They say come on home where the weather is fine Where the good old stories still are alive and the old man always has a new tale to tell without it I'd be living in hell (Chorus) Life without home would be a mighty dead road I pulled out my harp and I couldn't even blow I know you sing like you dance in the sun But you've got your roots and I've gotta run. Mama and Papa don't see that I'm grown I've made a million memories digging your gold I ain't saying we don't talk about the past But I'd like to tell you something new when I get back (chorus) I'm tired of rolling the same old cigarettes making bets on that race track long out west I'm going home more often now I guess my folks must be thinking I'm a worn out mess (chorus)
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You Are So Far Away 02:35
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You Are So Far Away You may want to be there and you love me all the same but the words you use sound dead and you stay because you can't fly the distance grows we're colder now the deadly voices die connections bad You aim the truth a spear my dear it's much too heavy to cut through even the clear I pray the wind blows this love back to you surrendering to memories I'm only trying to forget you are so far away (Chorus) You say I'm acting like a child but the way it is sure ain't easy I'll play the game the way you say it's gonna make me smile but the way it is sure won't heal me Why don't you come here? Trust is just a kind word I'm living in a fishbowl beercase and you stay because you can't fly and the distance grows we're older now say goodbye I'll die connections bad (Chorus)

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released December 31, 1996

All songs written by Dan Frechette (Copyright 1996/SOCAN)

Dan Frechette: Vocals, Acoustic 6 and 12 string guitar, harmonica, Octave pedal "bass", percussion.

All songs written and recorded in Toronto in 1996 mostly on a Tascam 464.

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