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Mele By The Ocean
03:05
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Love Is In My Tears
04:35
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Love Is In My Tears
When I am lost I know I’ve been ok
After many trials and darkened days
I know smoke clears when the winds do blow
I’m sure that life will find me where ever I may go
(Chorus)
Not ready to stop dreaming
Love is in my tears
Not ready to give up on loving
Love carries me through the fears
When the sun sets and the coolness flows
I feel my desire to finish the day
tomorrow will come
without the past it goes
always takes me in a new kind of way
(Chorus)
I know smoke clears when the winds do blow
I’m sure that life will find me where ever I may go
(Chorus)
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Love Isn’t Always Just For Fools
When I feel I can’t take anymore
and my spirit’s hanging by the door
I hold on a sweet dream
knowing someday it will be
I know love always finds a way
Songs will cheer me while I wait
This love of mine will answer the mystery
Somedays I’m barely hanging on
somedays feel a million times as long
I know there’s good days but I say she’s real
Someday she’ll know how I really feel
(Chorus)
Love isn’t always just for fools you know?
I may be a dreamer but I’m schooled you know?
I know
I know
I know
I know
Somewhere out there the days go by
for a little girl not in my eye
she’s stranded in a whirlwind
of days that pass alone
I think someday when our days have kissed
we’ll think back to these days we missed
without one another
in a life so unknown
Somedays I’m barely hanging on
somedays feel a million times as long
I know there’s good days but I say she’s real
Someday she’ll know how I really feel
(Chorus)
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Hearts Of Gold
04:22
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Hearts Of Gold
All the places I’ve been to
All the faces I’ve been through
Nothing brings back memories more than staring in your eyes
The songs we’ve left unsung
the bells we’ve left un-rung
The journeys we still have to take the first step on.
(Chorus)
I’m glad you’re my soul mate
together we resonate
Make magic without effort
and share our dreams with all the world
Goodbye to the quiet sky
when we play for the tearing eye
of these strangers turned friends
who listen with hearts of gold.
It’s hard to be unknown
With all the places we have flown
looking back connecting lights
in a dim and shadowed land
If you remain my confidant
I’ll be your debutante
from New Orleans to Vermont
L.A to Newfoundland.
(Chorus)
And I know it’s lots to ask
To be in someone’s world
All I know is in the dream
I was the clown and you were the girl.
(Chorus)
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The Fountains Of Doon
04:08
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The Fountains Of Doon
The lifesaving fog is rolling in the hills of the Doon
The fires are hiding and the wood pigeons hooting a tune
Another day bought for disasters diverted
The flames will not flicker in the aftermath deserted
Give me another day of peace in my home in The Doon
(Chorus)
The night is everlasting and cooled with the starlight
The days are dry with the blue sky and sunlight
There’s nowhere I know but the top of this mountain
Where lies the elixir I drink from the fountains of Doon.
What can I say to the turn of the seasons?
Where can we go but be in touch with these feelings?
Be in tune with the moon and the days flying by us
the winds where they’re blowing and the redwoods beside us
and the creatures who mind their own business
so we can find meaning.
(Chorus)
Only disaster will ever make me leave here
the gifts of her love and the birdsongs I do hear
It’s a long road to travel but I’ve done it so long now
There’s nowhere to go but back to my snowplow
far from the Doon.
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Dafodil Hill
05:20
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Daffodil Hill
If you’re aware of what time takes away
What do you want to look back at and say?
Can a broken heart unlock this door?
Do the happy people answer anymore?
This is the only someplace left in town
Only place you can count on when you’re down.
I live on the side of the Daffodil Hill
and I roll on down when I’ve had my fill.
I’m kind of done when it comes to time
Lost a couple years but it’s no crime
Wait for winter in summer’s early dawn
Burnt myself on what the sun was shining on.
(Chorus)
They who all run together just like water down a drain
If I stay near the edge I’ll be a ghost where there was no rain
Wait until Daffodil Hill’s got me in the sun again
Can’t say nothing ’til I put music to my pain
Can’t say nothing ’til I put music to my pain.
If you’re aware of some winter getaway
Where flowers don’t grow and the cold it stays
Let me off somewhere I will remain
Chances I’ll have something to explain
I’m kind of done when it comes to time
Lost a couple years but it’s no crime
Wait for winter in summer’s early dawn
Burnt myself on what the sun was shining on.
(Chorus)
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Pretty Waltz In D
00:59
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It Ain’t Easy (Chasing The Dream Away)
It’s an uphill climb on a level playing field
You gotta be kind and you gotta be real
Wined and dined and strung out on rhymes
and there’s no guarantees it ain’t easy
You can write a new rule book out there on your own
and still not even know if your chances have been blown
if you’re spending your time so you can be shown
that there’s no guarantees it ain’t easy
(Chorus)
You can change a chord
but who says it’s better?
If it makes more sense the less it matters
They want more of your money
because they’ve found a way
Should you keep chasing that dream?
You’re just chasing that dream away.
It’s just another song in a world full of blues
Anyone else tries to one-up on you.
You hang on for the smiles that are far between and few
and there’s no guarantees it ain’t easy.
Out there in the vast unknown
You wonder sometimes if your light found a home
If you made somebody’s day but you feel so all alone
There’s no guarantees it ain’t easy
(Chorus)
You were brought up by classic radio
When Jim Croce had his own light show
But records were heavy so they lightened the load
and there’s no guarantees it ain’t easy.
The loner in the corner no longer makes it big
Now it’s homecoming queens and the quarterback kids
Now it’s Ivy-League legends with their Ukulele bids
and there’s no guarantees it ain’t easy.
(Chorus)
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Lost Here
03:13
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Lost Here
The king of the castle is fast asleep
Every single liar has been believed
All the midnight killers are out in the clear
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Oh the sweet temptation will never grow old
To spend all the money that can buy back your soul.
To watch the shades of tomorrow disappear
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Cinderella she places her sight
on the hands of the clock juggling time
She could only dream to remain right here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
Nobody told me that I would be lost here.
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Walking The Floor
03:32
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Walking The Floor
That season is over now
the season of shedding tears in snow
I’ve fallen into patterns
and I feel I will never go on
I’ve been walking along the floor here
half the night or more
Nothing left to lose or do
just playing my personal war
Playing my personal war.
(Chorus)
You may be losing your mind
but not as quickly as I
You may be losing your mind
because there’s nothing left to find
and nothing left to hide
Like I.
The votes were counted too fast
your friends said I was a loser
and you soon retraced your tracks
realized how young you were
So I’ve been walking along the floor here
It crossed my mind like a foot on a bridge
What the hell is wrong with me?
Is there no one I can be with?
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Blues Shuffle In C
02:43
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Old Roots
04:09
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Old Roots
There’s a darkness in the sky
When the docks no longer show
and there ain’t no tears that’ll ever be seen
where the river man does come and go
and I see goodbyes everywhere
in the sadness in the wind
Watching the life rolling on
and seeing the roots start digging in
(Chorus)
Old roots dig deeper when you can’t move on
and the rain sends the roots growing down so deep
Seems there’s a sun shining on the tree of life
and the miner of the roots never sleeps
Can’t you find another path?
When the old goodbyes have come and gone?
Well there ain’t no way I’m looking back
Unless there’s new ground that I’m standing on.
I’m showing no fear to the outside
as I watch things falling down.
The rain, the sky, your love, your life
I can see the twists of fate coming around.
And I don’t wait for wintertime to wear my coat up
to my chin
There’s no need me being lonesome
in this old box that I’m stranded in.
(Chorus)
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14. |
The Land Of The Free
03:55
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The Land Of The Free
I’m psychosomatically dying
My patients rotting to the core
My lungs are heavy and rocky
I can’t sleep flat anymore
If you want to be clairvoyant
these days you just have to predict the worst
It’s now or never more than ever
and if you’re not doomed you’re cursed
When misfortune costs a fortune
in the land of the free
This country rich in homelessness
feels like no friend to me.
I’m stranded cold and lonesome
even with somebody around.
Can figure out where this is all taking me
Is this just trouble bound?
When the curse is cracked wide open
Will there be a million shining suns?
If no one has guns
No one needs guns.
Wake me up when this is over.
They’re all playing it wrong and strong.
There’s some stupidity in the room now
and we should have known it all along.
Why don’t you just go back where you came from?
I think I might just do that.
Where I can freeze my ass in peace.
Hell I might even buy a cat.
Put some killer band together
where everybody plays to survive.
We can take turns playing all the instruments
and be happy to be alive.
Even if only a few come to hear us
because the fame scene is all rigged.
There’ll be magic under the radar
everywhere we’ve gigged.
Yeah, yeah.
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