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Down Today
02:10
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1. Down Today.
Landscape sure is pretty
when no one needs a cure
but I got a trouble gamblin
and a woman that ain't sure
down today and low down all night long
Things been up and down
they been up and down the bend
I can't baby sit no feelings
but I sure can be a friend
down today and low down all night long
people who confuse me and just want to bring me down
can just go on forever without me hanging around
down today and low down all night long
wonder why I never fit into this crowd
because I'm still waiting to say "look who's laughing now" down today and low down all night long
You can't mold me into something that you know I just ain't some people say I'm crazy - some say that I'm a saint down today and low down all night long
Get out your dictionairies and look beside my name - there ain't no definition any smart ass ever claimed
down today and low down all night long
down today and low down all night long
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Train A Coming
03:30
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2. Train a Comin
Train a comin down the track
I wish I had my baby back
Train a comin skies turned black
listen to the whistle of her big smokestack
workin for a dollar a day
diggin with the rhythm of that drivin train hear the iron horse clickety clack
I wish I had my baby back
wish I had my baby back.
Wish I heard my baby say
you can keep me happy with your dollar a day
I won't leave if you won't stay
I'll stand by my man anyway
I told her I'd move down the line
looking for a shovel just to ease my mind
and I can dig my life away
cause I know how to work but I ain't learned to play
standing there digging for a dollar a day.
I look back at setting suns
thinking back to all I'd done
I see her sad face riding high
and there ain't a day that I don't die
Nowhere can my baby be
that ain't the place I'm meant to be
there ain't nothing sadder than the whistle stack singing I wish I had my baby back
I wish I had my baby back
Train a coming down the track I wish I had my baby back
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Counting The Miles
04:02
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3. Countin the Miles
She's got a hole in her heart that keeps growing out everyday and the money's rolling in but inside it ain't turning that way she's got dreams to be destiny's child
but there ain't no fun in diggin when you're running wild
and there's a soft cold promise that is whispered at the end of the day.
She's got two fat children and she just can't afford to eat.
and there's a catwalk waiting everytime that she hits the street. and the whistles ain't paying her spiritual bills
and she's living on wits and empty thrills
and there ain't a future coming there's a past chained onto her feet
and she's counting the miles - counting the miles wearing down the edges of her wheels
counting the miles - and the bigger her pride
is the better and the worse that she feels.
She's got two stops to go and then she's back on her own drowning her trouble and looking to be solid gone
and the man ain't sent her no cheque
she's been getting good at saying "hey what the heck
there ain't a grease money who is gonna take me on no more."
she's gonna get straight cause there just ain't no other way there's just hell on earth for the people who just don't pay she's got a busted down 89 cherokee
and she's bought a little gas and she says to me
"honey you know I'm sick of just running away".
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Deal With It Tomorrow
02:52
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4. Deal With It Tomorrow
I'm homing in on a scrap it seems all my patience is gone She's gonna let me go and I'm tying one on
Everyday I see her and she sings me the blues
I can't stand to imagine anyone In my shoes
if she's driving, I'm drinking - turn out the light and deal with it tomorrow like we did last night.
She's hellbound to perfection getting low on my cash she knows how to style me when I'm letting her crash lights go red and I run right through
she's drunk on my rye and I'm singing the blues
well I think she assumes I ain't burning too bright deal with it tomorrow like we did last night.
Sometimes I wonder if I've had enough whipped in a world of her conditional love
she lives on a treadmill of thrills and chills adds fun to the mix of this world of ills
there's nothing like living on the edge of a fight Deal With it tomorrow like we did last night.
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Time To Drift On
03:31
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5. Time To Drift On
I been all around this world
low down and dimed a dozened pushed from town to town made into what I wasn't
and it's time to drift on baby
meet you on the other shore
put your new heart on
cause you can't love with the old one anymore.
I been looking for money
I've been looking for fame and old friends are drifting by that I just can't name
Missing nobody
is just the cry of the lonesome having nobody
to wait on you to toe the line
Your heart beats colder
and the colder you get
is the harder you walk
when you're falling behind.
Things just ain't the same
as they were when I was a child keeping up to the machine
just trying to survive.
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Heartbeat Without Blood
03:22
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6. Heartbeat Without Blood
Remember who you are
remember what you know
remember there's a new world waiting everywhere you want to go
remember how it feels
to be left out in the cold remember all the people
you didn't want to get to know
Don't wait for life to happen another day don't let your wheels spin in the mud there's always places to go
people to meet
what's a heartbeat without blood?
Dreamers disappearing everytime we age
watching people turn to hatred they can rely on rage
let the children love freely let the children dream
we can learn a lot from children
cause nothings changed but you and me
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Ashes In The Sands
04:00
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7. Ashes in The Sands.
Forty years since this journey has begun
we've seen many dreams and pretty setting suns there's no turning back the years have made us one and the minutes melt into the melting hours.
and as I see you softly reach for me.
there's a hero in your eyes I still can see
although time has been your enemy
there are clockbells shining in their tallest towers
there'll be your ashes in the sands of my hourglass there will be rain with your blue eyes in my songs there will be laughter and tears in your photographs but there will be no goodbyes until you're gone.
Sacred nights when you still can reach for me
I hold on to whispers of your melody.
we're waltzing through the greatest mystery
and I hope the fiddler makes it to the morn
there's someone inside you that pain will never hide the dream is gone the dreamer never died
and as I watch you wash away with the tide I kiss the joys of knowing you were born.
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8. Ramblers, Gamblers, and Bums
Billy was a friend of mine
he took me to the city
he made me feel so good inside
he was always laughing with me
and I had no friends for years on end until Billy came a walking
when he first met me in a slow boxcar and then we got to talking
I said "you know boy it seems everyone just wants to get paid or laid
and it ain't about the friends you got but how much money you made"
and he set me straight said he couldn't relate
and said "boy it's the other way around-
it's all about friends Danny Boy and you got a good one now."
And we were riders into the night
we were strangers but only in the light
and until on an old guitar lady luck strummed we were ramblers, gamblers, and bums.
We rambled up and down the west coast line and
served ourselves well
he always got a couple dollars for a good song he could sell
and I was his foil and his ham boy and that's just what I did
and when we got out to tulsa town he asked me just to come on in
a house he bought in his gambling days was busted up and beat but for a time it was all we had from being picked up off the street and there was odd jobs and pockets to rob but little did we know within a year we'd be changing gears when with that wind we'd go.
chorus.
Billy I miss the rambling life being free wherever I go
I got some folks up in Pistol River who take me in off the northwest coast the weather's getting darker and there ain't too much light left to see
It's hard to outshine darkness I won't let it catch up to me
Billy I will look you up when I get out to the coast
sorry I can't stay here long but good friends let good friends go looking hard into the future to bring me new memories
until I find you again billy boy we'll be just spirits in the breeze.
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I Always Dream
03:48
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9. I Always Dream.
I always dream of taking her places
showing her the mountains
walking by the sea.
And I always wish for a deck of aces
and I'll take anything good fortune hands to me.
I see her smiling softly at my bad joke.
I hear her laughter echo in my mind
I'll feel the wheels take me where I miss her long shadows pass before my lonely eyes
She's the ocean I've always wanted
she's the meaning to the long story I told
she's the caress that I want in my longing
she's the greatest hand that I know that I can hold.
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Dance And Play
02:21
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10. Dance And Play
I love it baby when you dance and play I love the sun shining everyday
See the mean world slipping away
and I'm gonna love you baby
I hear the train coming down the track
she's an old fashioned mama with a big smokestack
and a man shovels coal just to keep her warm
you know we're going places when the sky gets storming
We'll hop the train when the rain comes down we'll give the engineer his holy crown
"take us away, captain" we'll say
ain't no place heavy that we're gonna stay
You bring your guitar and I'll bring my drum we'll be a dancing on the caboose
I'll hug you baby so you don't trip and fall I'll hold you tight keep you on the ball.
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Restless River
03:10
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11. Restless River.
You say you've never been too far from home
take a quick walk with me to where the restless river goes I've got a thing or two to make you blue
and it's reflections on the world that I thought I knew.
I've seen corruption of the highest kind
they'll sell mother nature for another axe to grind. for another fiscal week of peace of mind
and blind progess is just another tie that binds.
I'm walking away from these traps I'm in Technological adventures I don't want to be left in because evolution is just looking back
cause where we been is someplace not far away from the dark old rusted track.
Blinded people who will shoot the bull
about the things they own and the slates they run full and all you can do is keep up the race
because deep down inside you feel you have no place.
there's mass murders when they globalise entire cultures killed by corporate supplies and all you can do is sit and moan
your prescription ran out
you're on your own.
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Hurricane Heart
02:46
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12. Hurricane Heart.
She likes dusty stars and sweet hellos I like hearing music I don't know
She likes golden sunsets soft embrace I like having new light on my face
she likes talking poetry and life
I like cutting bullshit with my knife
she likes back massages shiny crowns I like how it feels when we get down.
She likes murder mystery theatre plays I like walking round on rainy days
she likes sweetened tea and apple pie i like wondering how I'm gonna die
she likes money and talking with her friends I like when all the chatterboxing ends
she likes to think I love her when she smiles I like driving miles and miles and miles
"If you've got a hurricane heart try to see new light on your face and give music to the world keep your mind on the new life look up and ahead
and never give into the ghosts that hold you down with chains of guilt and disappointment"
She likes talking poetry and life
I like cutting bullshit with my knife
she likes back massages shiny crowns I like how it feels when we get down she likes dusty stars and sweet hellos
and I like hearing music I don't know.
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