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Money In The Wind
06:15
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Money in the Wind
I was a farmer in the 20’s until I took farmers lung and died.
I was a revolutionary hippy, whose bottle became his bride
I was an Aztec empire hunter who took gypsies in the dark
Back in the time of David, I slay every king who made their mark
But It’s never getting better and I’m never coming back again
(chorus) So just throw the money in the wind when I’m gone
Just throw the money in the wind when I’m gone
And let the wind sing an empty song.
Necessary evils turning good lives upside down
Television visions helping the dreamers lose their ground
Too much of everything the volume always high
I don’t know if I want to be here the next time that I die
Cause It’s never getting better and we’re never coming back again. (chorus)
I remember visions of Rome and the slaves that I kept
Of Atlantis’ tragedy how the world drowned while it slept
I now think of my children who may now remain unborn
They wouldn’t want to be here the dream that we’re living is going to see the morn,
It’s never getting better, we’re never coming back again. (chorus)
If Money makes you happy then baby, why don’t you smile?
You’re living cozy, nobody’s fool, but your smile ain’t worth a dime
It must be all the corruption; it must be all the poor
But every morning don’t matter that business suit has got to be worn
You’re never getting better; you’re never coming back again (chorus)
It’s time to wake up people, don’t you wait another day
Cause this world is a car and your drunken driver is starting to cuss and sway
The road is getting darker and we’re climbing up too many hills
And this International’s fifth gear is bound to get us all killed
It’s never getting better and we’re never coming back again (chorus)
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Dreamers, Take The Wheel
04:19
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Dreamers Take The Wheel
Don't give me no future if you won't give me a past
We're stuck here lonesome and hoping quarantine won't last
I'm a shoegazer stargazer not much else to see
I listen to the birds and the calendar stands empty
I'll celebrate with you all
soon we will be free
Dreamers can live again on a sunshine spree
take this world by the hand to a new kind of way
Someday we'll look back and this is what we'll say
(Chorus)
It was nothing but a bad dream
now we're all awake
Nothing but a mis-step of a step we had to take
so now we can thrive again
dreamers take the wheel
we don't need the greed
when we're out making our deal
We'll be cherishing freedom
dancing in the wind
no fear will guide us
feeling mystical from sin
drive ourselves to burning man to take trouble no more
we're stuck in a dream
that won't work
that can't work no more.
(Chorus)
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Don't Step On This Drunkard Anymore
The good Lord is my sunshine,
He rises with me and sets me in the cold
I spend my nights alone , cold in terror and the moonlight is my home
I’m just a poor young drifter, nothing I can do to gain control,
But pray to the good lord that the life I lead won’t sting me when I’m old
(chorus) Singing “Here’s to the sunshine
Here’s to the grass
Here's to the bed I’ve made my home.
Here’s to the people
Who hand me their spare change
Although there’s better places for their small change to go
Here’s to the waitress who takes all my money
Pities me as I stumble out the door
I must be getting older – these burdens hurt my shoulders
So don’t step on the drunkard anymore.
I want the love of a good woman
To keep me free from darkness in my heart
She’s a hunter and a fighter for the good things to keep me warm and keep me smart
I’m just a poor young drifter
A bunch of hippies taught me where to go.
Now I’m just a cowboy with a problem and a pocket full of holes.
(chorus)
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Paulette's Song
03:17
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Paulette's Song
I'm sitting waiting lonely at the door
for the happy little girl that I knew before
she ran away
she never knows what she's looking for
and never thinks of money when she's cold and poor
but she gets her way
she gets a place to play
she gets a play to stay.
She's got an old guitar that she brings along
and tries to strum a hard luck traveling song to the people she meets
they tell her someday she's gonna be a star
never give up where ever you are
don't forget to dream
don't forget to lean
on the people you need
(chorus)
She don't feel alone
cause she always feels at home
and she never counts a shadow she's been lighting
She don't feel alone
cause she always feels at home
and she never counts the shadows she's been lighting
Cinderella in a golden room lighting up the tough old sailor gloom
taking them away
to a pretty little land that they loved and knew
where everything was there just to see and do
and get their own way
well she's making their day
and she's making them pay
(Chorus)
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Lethal Fires
04:02
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Lethal Fires
Please don't take it on yourself
that you're the reason why I'm gone
The questions never raised may burn
inside your aching mind as well
before I laid it on the lines
the truth was nowhere to be found
you won't see me taking you in until you stop hurting yourself
(Chorus)
Until the lethal fires will stray
you will burn inside and wait
and your habits will leave you hiding inside
so I'm standing next to nothing
and I'm everything to you
but love don't have all the answers I'll have you know
you should sleep on it for a while.
Did my passion for living kill a dream
you had of entering my life?
but you'd evade your will to be someone
who'd be a part of me
before I laid it on the lines
the truth was nowhere to be found
you won't see me taking you in until you stop hurting yourself
(Chorus)
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Genuine Heart
04:44
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Genuine Heart – G Harmonica no capo
Chorus
(Bm7)Times to (B7)win
(Em)Times to (G7)fall
(C) Sometimes we’re (Am) nowhere
Some(G)times we’ve got it all
But It’s (Bm7)ok to (B7) be you
(Em) To grow in your own (G7) way
(C) We’ll meet your (Am) genuine heart some(G)day
(G) I know a man
(C) Who’d wondered if he’d broken (G) down
(Em) If anyone would help him
So (A) instead he came a(C)round
(G) And he made himself a hero
(B7) The champion of the (Em) pained (G7)
(C) We’ll meet his (Am) genuine heart some(G)day.
Chorus
(G) I know a woman
(C) Who never chained her(G)self
(Em) There was no shame or no (A) truth she wouldn’t (C) tell.
(G) So the people gathered around her
And (B7) they helped her find her (Em) way (G7)
(C) We’ll meet her (Am) genuine heart some(G)day.
Chorus
(G) I know a child
Who’d (C) stopped pretending to (G) laugh
(Em) and funny people came around him
Even (A) one dressed as a (C) giraffe
(G) And he laughed so hard
That his (B7) heart was out to (Em)play (G7)
(C) We’ll meet his (Am) genuine heart some(G) day
Chorus
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It's Just The Sun Shining
There's a heart lying naked
I guess you'll do what you must
There's a shadow mistaken
for darkness covered by rust
(Chorus)
But it's just the sun shining on everyone else in the world
But it's just the sun shining on everyone else in the world
There's someone high on a mountain
with a long way to go
He's dug a grave for his ambitions
somewhere nobody has to know
(Chorus)
Should he keep reaching out
and slipping and falling?
What would you do in his shoes?
(Chorus)
Life's a party we're invited
but yet your dreams are met with scorn?
You swear you've seen the light
Since way back when you were born.
(Chorus)
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The Real You Anyway
05:13
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The Real You Anyway
Should I rob on the carefree highway?
Get these goody two shoes off.
With the end so fast approaching
Nowhere anymore to stop
Not sure where we're going
Besides where we've already been to death
What are you getting from this
but the same stale sound of breath?
You can light up like a circus
that would help me in my day.
But why be anything
but the real you anyway?
Same old day to day
same old poker face
Can't complain about the weather
or the funeral parlor pace.
Same old news of lynch mobs
at least they get their way,
so why be anything
but the real you anyway?
Even if I throw in the towel
then what comes my way next?
Some karmic hell for not putting up
with paying the current debt.
Someone else frustrating
in what they do, feel, think or say?
Then why be anything
but the real you anyway?
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9. |
The Winding Highway
04:42
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On The Winding Highway
Dust off this old gem for a familiar chime
think back on all the time where we've been
she's leaving not telling me where she's gone
and I'm not alone because of what I've seen
I've seen so many things come and go
you don't grow by holding tight
there's times you've got to pass on through observe the truth holding on to you
Maybe I don't know where to go
maybe time will heal my soul
maybe love is too much pain
when you're living against the grain
(Chorus)
She's on my heart she's on my mind
I stand alone I'm doing fine
She's on my heart she's on my mind
on the winding highway there's no fly away sign
So I'm looking at my point of view
without a clue of what to do
but now I'm waking up alone
to see a new world shining through
Maybe I don't know where to go
maybe time will heal my soul
maybe love is too much pain
when you're living against the grain
(Chorusx2)
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