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I Bet The Justice
02:39
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I Bet The Justice
(Chorus)
I bet the justice
I bet the justice
I bet the justice
and you bet the law
Morning gonna find me
trapped in jail
not hurting anyone
the sirens wail
they stretch me right out
right to remain silent
I got this song out
I'm considered violent
(Chorus)
Never struck no one
robbed no money
stole no one's woman
no commandment broken
told no stories
shed no skin
they just made me a criminal
to fit me in
(Chorus)
now they found me
not drunken drivin
not doing slander
not making reckless
morning gonna find me
trapped in a prison
not being hurting
not being hurting
(Chorus)
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2. |
Hung Out To Dry
04:01
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Hung Out To Dry
When you let go of everything
That's when nothing is gonna stop you
You don't have to walk every trail to its end
You know the stars are gazing at us too
A lot of people hate me and I don't know why
If it's meant to be you won't have to try
(Chorus)
Oh the bridges that are easiest to burn are the ones that are hung out to dry
Oh the bridges that are easiest to burn are the ones that are hung out to dry
I'm not going down no memory lane as much as I did before
I'm a stranger on the lands you can't find
I don't have to try to be obscure
I'm killing the song inside me on these nights that never die
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Don't hang onto something that isn't there
You'll never find love in a void
I'm going on tour to play while the world is dying or at war or unemployed
It's hard times everywhere but this music will never die
These people you never see are still shining they just gave up wasting their time
Waiting is a thing of the past.
If it's meant to be you won't have try.
(Chorus)
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You'll Just Have To Fall In Love
When I meet you
I'm meeting you halfway
You'll just have to fall in love
Winning me over a little everyday
You'll just have to fall in love
Someday I'll be like who I was in the past
For now I'm believing love's lot meant to last
I can still smile pretty for a new photograph
You'll just have to fall in love
I can't be running like a puppy everywhere
You'll just have to fall in love
I'd love to live with this heart out on a dare
You'll just have to fall in love
I'm fresh out of promises, sticking around
I can be alone, maybe I'm glory bound
Until I climb high over this wall of sound
You'll just have to fall in love
Reality paves the highway every day
You'll just have to fall in love
I don't care what all the other people say
You'll just have to fall in love
No longer will another soul run this show
Unless I'm certain there's a mutual flow
and if you love me, you're gonna have to let me know
and you'll just have to fall in love
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4. |
The Road To Glory
04:18
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The Road To Glory
If your stories aren't heard
your oppressors will write your story
and your past ain't gonna be your future
Your forever home away from home is on your road to glory
and your past ain't gonna be your future
I'll be happy for your joy and your gain
and I'll be praying through your times of pain
waiting to say
(Chorus)
We're all walking on this world with one heartbeat
can we hear it when we're quiet on the dead street?
If there's a future, we will complete never compete
Is there somewhere in the middle where we can meet?
Maybe on this road to glory
It's a challenge to change this world
amidst the vast price increase
yes, but this past ain't gonna be our future
Every day we briefly skim the news for a little world peace
yes, this past ain't gonna be our future
It's a slow death when you can't find your tribe
surrounded by an ignorant vibe
hoping to hide
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
The energy we use to vandalize
Would be used if we could strategize
some resolve in disguise
(Chorus)
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5. |
Caught In The Big Time
02:45
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Caught In The Big Time
Stood in some crowd last night
People speaking their upset minds
Talk about some layoffs in a place that everyone works
so I tried to act alive just to keep it off my mind
Someone said, "that ain't good enough,
because it looks like we're down for worse."
(Chorus)
So I said, "We can reach the sky in the long run
We can shed our despair
We can walk through clouds together
and tell our troubles there.
Ocean blue below us, man,
and when we walk the line,
if we fall, we fall together
caught in the big time
caught in the big time
So this I told to the man who talked
and he just said, "boy, that's some crock"
he asked me if I wrote that
and all I could say was yes
Then I turned and walked away
one foot in front of the other, man
I'd said all I'd needed to say
These words were pounding in my brain.
(Chorus)
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Have An Open Heart
04:34
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Have An Open Heart
Have an open heart
all they want is your love
You want to take their love
bad love just ain't enough
Gotta have an open heart
and love them all that you can
Life short enough to forgive
some wayward master plan
(Chorus)
Nobody's gonna con you or let your sweetheart down
You're not driving on a cliff-side with no one else around
There's people there who need you
even though you are humble now
Don't be so damn humble
there's nowhere to go but now
The masterminds of darkness
they're all gone in your past
Start laughing anytime
tears don't ever last
you can sit around be bitter
feel sorry for the grass
growing more than you are
if you're staring at the past
Have an open heart
all they want is your love
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7. |
Old Man The Beast
02:44
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Old Man The Beast
I don't like the way that you pick on your kids
Kids when they'll grow they will never forget
they try to hold on hoping maybe you'll love them someday
They know they'd be hopeless without you
Mommy's too drunk to care
When they grow up they'll be pulling the same wear on you
(Chorus)
One grows up to be a killer
The other a freaky old priest
They'll reminisce with one another
about the days with the old man the beast
about the days with the old man the beast
Someday when you'll turn 55
the kids will be stronger than you
you'll struggle and cry when they come play their tricks on you
You'll shout, "I'm your father, respect me"
and they'll laugh with their guns in their hands
it'll be so sad to see they're not living up to your plans
(Chorus)
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Harem Blues
02:45
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Harem Blues
I could start a little harem
but baby, you're the girl I love
Collect all their numbers and give their little push a shove
They can keep on looking my way
I'll just smile to myself and say,
"I could start a little harem
but baby, you're the girl I love."
Well I tell them all about you
they don't seem very happy for me
They say, "give me a back rub, I got wine, a tub, and Vivaldi"
I can't wait 'til you get back in town
They won't talk so silly when you're always around
I tell them all about you
they don't seem very happy for me
They keep asking me for coffee
Hoping that you'll understand
When you come back home they say you'll find a better man
But I told them I disagree
that better man's hiding up a real tall tree
They keep asking me for coffee
Hoping that you'll understand
I keep missing your laugh, and your happy little face and your love
When you're with me, baby, you really fit me like a glove
Well we fit so well it's swell
I could tell them all to go to hell
I could start a little harem
but baby, you're the girl I love.
I could start a little harem
but baby, you're the girl I love
Collect all their numbers and give their little push a shove
They can keep on looking my way
I'll just smile to myself and say,
"I could start a little harem
but baby, you're the girl I love."
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9. |
The Trouble With Blame
02:24
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The Trouble With Blame
Guess I been all alone too long I'm the odd man out in a cage full of groans
Time will tell who will give me some truth
is it me who's wrong or the world or you?
(Chorus)
The man with the cuffs said that's about enough and he's taking me away for a brand new shirt, boy
Don't let me be misunderstood
I got a lot to learn and I was up to no good
Yeah, oh maybe, should I? Oh no.
That, my friend, is the trouble with blame you get branded by a man who's had a pretty bad day
Now you'll see just what I mean because the looks you've been given you better hide behind me
(Chorus)
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10. |
Bad In A Good Way
05:56
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Bad In A Good Way
I'm dying to be with you, baby
Dying and you saving me
I'm dying to be the change you need, baby
making life make sense to me
I've prayed for something like this a long time
Now I believe there's an answer to prayers
Someone who wants me the way I am
and love me deep inside so rare
If it ain't bending no time pretending
no use wasting time away
I used to have a future now all I have is a past
that's why a worn out heart has gone astray
I'm dying to be with you, baby
Dying and you saving me
I'm dying to be the change you need, baby
making life make sense to me
(Bridge)
I'm embracing this beautiful gem of a soul
No matter where these shattered pieces will land
Asking for affection is like running in the dark, babe
and I don't ever want to live that life again, yeah
I'll know how it feels when it's working
When I fill it with joy and peace
Why did this town have a church for sale?
Well it's harder than it had to be
Tomorrow unveil itself for you
like a flower on a heart-worn highway
I'm counting the days til my next sunrise
and I'm dreaming these walls away
(Bridge)
Give me soul over scenery any day
I'm playing a 5 string nowhere
I'm famous to all those who matter
Don't hang on to something if it ain't there
Don't know where I'm going
But I guess it never stopped me before
You gotta do what you won't regret
when you just can't do it no more
You're bringing back memories I didn't have
Living up anything I'm living down
You see me smiling but I'm dying inside
I didn't know hell could be so high off the ground
Bad in a good way, no matter what the people may say
And I can be good in a bad way, it could go either way
Bad in a good way, no matter what the people may say
And I can be good in a bad way, it could go either way
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11. |
Is This The Way It Is?
03:27
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Is This The Way It Is?
(chorus)
Hey is this the way it is?
If we can't find a better way
than this is the way it is.
Found a job I'll only try so hard to keep
My song is a living free with meaning that runs deep
(chorus)
Found a love with whom I'd like to carry on
My song is passion and devils play and not stringing my time along
(chorus)
I can find my home and family
My song is belonging and still somehow flying free
(chorus)
living no lie in my community
my song is a path I understand by genuinity
(chorus)
(Bridge)
Oh yeah well we can't find a way
this horizontal nuisance surrounds us everyday
(chorus)
My regrets I can not find this kiss
the path has my heart broken down
nowhere I want to miss
(Chorus)
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12. |
No One
02:27
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No One
I was once a no one and I just wanted to be high
I thought I was seeing things and the whole damn world was blind
(Chorus)
What does a no one say right, yeah?
What does a no one say right, yeah?
What does a no one know?
Nobody knows what a no one knows
knows
knows
I once used to walk these streets and wave to people no one knew
Every stranger that I'd meet didn't seem to need a point of view
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I want to live and never die
I want to care and never mind
I want to laugh and never smile
I want to sing and never try
I was once a no one and I just wanted to be high
I thought I was seeing things and the whole damn world was blind
(Chorus)
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13. |
45 Days
03:42
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45 Days
Get me going
Get me rolling
Get me gone x2
I can't see past what I'm doing today
But it sure feels right, to me anyway
Get me going, get me rolling, get me gone
Well I'm pining for your silver lining right now
Well I'm pining for your silver lining right now
We can carry the baggage to the shore to dry
I'm in your world, baby, and you're in mine
Well I'm pining for your silver lining right now
Well you'll have me to yourself in 45 days
Well you'll have me to yourself in 45 days
Baby you're rambling easy on my mind
While I'm in this routine tired of these lonely times
Well you'll have me to yourself in 45 days
you're gonna have me to yourself in 45 days
oh yeah.
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Nothing But Hard Luck
03:03
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Nothing But Hard Luck
It's so sad that you've been so run around
in a disappointment I call life
You're a happy victim and I look up to you
you give more than you got
(Chorus)
You were given nothing but hard luck
in a troubled time and place
but I know you'll be so sadly missed
you don't cry
you inspire
Everyone knows you as the happy kid
whose daddy died and that paid the bills off
only now could you have that new wheelchair
what a void it couldn't fill
(Chorus)
Now your energy is gone and you're still loved
Not a bitter bone sticks out from your skin
and the price of the doctor don't matter
people pitch in from far away places
(Chorus)
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I Thought I Knew Enough
04:01
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I Thought I Knew Enough
What am I gonna say
when I'm trapped inside and the rain set in?
I think I'll find something to say
Those who cry and try won't try again
(Chorus)
It's been a long time since I wrote you a letter
It's been a long time since I picked up the phone to call
I thought I knew enough but I should have known better
You loved me and I didn't do anything at all
I thought you weren't impressed by me
You never looked at what I saw
I inspired all your hopes and dreams
and you denied my every flaw
(Chorus)
Bet you'll find someone again
You don't want me anymore
You got over me way back when
And I don't know what you loved me for.
(Chorus)
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