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Where Were We Again?
03:57
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Where Were We Again? (Lyrics co-written with Selena Bewsky)
Come on over darling got a story I wanna share with you
It's been a long time coming it's got me feeling lonesome and blue
Saw an old friend the other night he said you were doing fine
Come on over darling let's share some sweet red wine
Been thinking about the good old days dancing naked in the summer rain
Come on over darling need some loving to ease my pain
(Chorus)
Good old stories never end
This story teller could use a friend
To turn the pages we couldn't bend
Now where were we again
Where were we again?
I caught your sound the other night your ghost it gave me a chilling fright
So come on over darling let's get this old thing right
This ain't the way our story end let's find new meaning to the story
Come on over darling over here's a sweeter road to glory
(Chorus)
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2. |
Northern Girl
02:27
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Northern Girl
Got a pretty little northern girl she always tells me "howdy"
gets me drunk and rocks the bunk and leaves me
good and rowdy
(Chorus)
She's my northern girl
never wanna let her go!
'cause once you've had a northern girl
It's way down south you go
Met her when the snow was high and sun was hanging down
shortest day and the longest nights I'm glad she came around
(Chorus)
When I'd go drifting through the miles I'd always see her there
She'd wait for me to pick a little tune and pick out a dress she'd wear
(Chorus)
Her eyes were of the coldest blue her hair was hot like snow
took her to her neighbors farm where the icy winds did blow
There she kept me up three nights and laid low three full days
Ain't no time before in my life it happened that a way
(Chorus)
We never cuss or waste no time fussing through the day
Too much love for living on to have killing on the brain
We'll grow some grapes up on the walls
and then we'll have the wine
if she ever lives with me
I'll treat her true and kind.
(Chorus x2)
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Feels Like I'm Waiting For A Train
I wake up in the night
Heart just don't feel right
Sometimes it seems I'm waiting for a train
I try my best to fight
sometimes I do it right
But there ain't no one out there carrying my name
There ain't no one out there carrying my name.
I been out there running wild
Didn't mean to have this child
There's no one worse in the world to care than me
Because I'm just not ready yet
for nothing but regret
and there's just too much I'm still
too scared to see
I'm still on my side
But the cracks are in my pride
there ain't no cure but time for all these blues
I'm guessing what's to come
so I'm holding out my thumb
cursing all the dead who've been in my shoes
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Honesty
03:55
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Honesty
You could find better things to do
better ways to see
this ruin of you and me
friends are all that matters now
and if you can't make it work somehow
better take a break and be free
(Chorus)
There's lies everyday being told
and ain't it a heart once made of gold
turns black and dies away
there's just one thing that's on everyone's mind
you can't be living blind
when all we want is honesty
So we can wash this cloud away
promise things we're gonna say
be the dream that we could be
but the wind of dreams blows away the ground
around the walls we're safe and sound
hiding behind every day
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
There's a dream I'm living for
If I can't find the floor then I don't need the door
You can't be on your own when you know that it's the war
we have to put away.
You could find better things to do
better ways to see
this ruin of you and me
friends are all that matters now
and if you can't make it work somehow
better take a break and be free
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5. |
Next Time I Miss You
03:56
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Next Time I Miss You
(Chorus)
Next time I miss you I wonāt call on you
Iāll just see what I can find
If love is blind why must I see the pain
in the love I left behind?
It does me in with every quiver
and to hear just how your heartās gone dead
next time I miss you I wonāt call on you
Iāll just find someone new instead
First time love left the station
there was singing in the trees
we didnāt know where we were going
but there was laughter in the breeze
when the train it took a turn
I just didnāt have a clue
that thereās two sides to loneliness
and a million shades of blue
(Bridge)
you know love dying aināt no fun
who wants to be alone
thereās always something better
waiting by that telephone
(Chorus)
Maybe time will heal the blues
but Iāll never see your smile
the way you used to when you stood with me
before we walked a broken mile
and every picture tells a story
itās so sad but itās so true
I just see how glad you used to be
and every memory makes me blue
(Bridge)
(Chorus)
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6. |
Dirty Little Girl
02:35
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Dirty Little Girl
I just got dropped out of a dream
I can't believe the things I've seen
and not know where to turn to now.
I don't know what to make of your lies to me
the world is crumbling around
while you've gone downtown.
(chorus)
You're a dirty little girl
dirty in this little town
dirty dresses you put on
and dirty liars run around.
I can't take this suspicion
it's my new thought religion
it haunts me all damn day
because I've watched you lie to me
without a sign or a trace
and it's hard to accept the sweet things
that you now say.
(chorus)
You were so sweet to the others
when you were looking for new lovers.
I don't want to doubt your heart
but it's tearing mine apart.
(chorus)
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No Need For These Walking Blues
Get out these traveling shoes
No need for these walking blues
The high roads I've got to choose
Nobody taught me how to lose
Hanging on for another day
I'm certain you will get your say
I won't have a place to stay
lonesome blues on a sunny day
Time to find my way alone
I'm talking Texas far from home
Illusions paid me wasted poems
and now the stranger spits and roams
Days roll by with washed out plans
Scolding eyes don't understand
Burning anger behind these hands
Poached with pride for stolen lands
For sake of future looking back
There ain't no challenge losing track
Shock hearted by fate's cold attack
I'll cut my losses and burn my books back to back
Get out dead or alive from this burn
there never was anywhere to turn
But I hit up the karma man to earn
what lady luck and I failed to learn
Get out of these traveling shoes
No need for these walking blues.
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Don't Be Closing Down This Party Floor
Don't be closing down this party floor
there's some good people here for you and me
they came over just to walk in the door
and give us some good company
just because your heart is broken now
because of something I shouldn't have said
don't be closing down this party floor
get the hard times out of your head
We been strumming now and picking along
and now it's two or three
the look on your face is killing the song
that Jake sang just for me
I know you're working tomorrow we don't care
you just letting the boss man win
just let us party until we pass out here
and wake up and do it again.
When you say, "hey baby - there's the rising son."
I'll say, "we fought the man last night a little war got won."
Hey, more folks are coming they're bringing wood and the kind of beer that you drink
when you're fun then we start getting good
and so gone that we just can't think
because life is so short and beer is cheap
and we just ain't just doing no harm
let's sing that Marley and that Johnny Cash
tune so loud we drown out her alarm.
When you say, "hey baby - there's the rising son."
I'll say, "we fought the man last night a little war got won."
Don't be closing down this party floor
there's some good people here for you and me
they came over just to walk in the door
and give us some good company
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9. |
Keep On Living
04:06
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Keep On Living
I've been hauling out in the cold
meeting pain every heart I behold
Looking for some solid gold in the life I made
and all the cracks are in their holes
and all the ritz are in their Rolls
everything I see is sold
or on it's way to being paid
(Chorus)
And I will keep on living
though nothing is right with me
keep on giving though I get back debris
from a world gone wrong
and Iāll just keep on hoping
though my echo is wearing on
singing out like a brand new
blue Manitoba dawn
And I canāt complain
that my work wonāt feed me right
it was my choice to keep shining bright through
the crumbling cain
and thereās some good in it all
when I see a little true love smile
a little song I sing āem down the aisle
when the teardrops fall
(Chorus)
When my daddy dies
Iām gonna see those blue stained eyes
see them burning through my lies everywhere I go
Iāll get out while I can
from this aching since time began
never gonna live in regret for as long as I grow
(Chorus)
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10. |
My Father Blues
03:04
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My Father Blues
My father he was a rambler
his whole long life he worked and prayed
kept us all before religion
and told us how he had been saved
he worked the fieds in Malo County
pulled his weight for all his sins
and when he told us his life story
with his love of prayer his story begins
When he aged to see his children
grow defeated, squandered and lost
he kept praying for love and mercy
and survival despite the cost
I grew restless and I was rambling
broke many women and saved no soul
I did not pray or see salvation
in all the future my misery stole
That was when I saw my father
in a dream he came to me
he was lying and he was crying
in a bed of kerosene
there was a match held high above him
and he cried with eyes of rage
he said the devil would surely take him
he'd seen his children in an evil cage
And when I woke my father called me
on the phone from a sick bed
as I rushed there the dream was screaming
in the echo of the words he'd said
I met my father and found him sleeping
he was dying
soon in his grave
and as he turned one last time toward me
it was the first time
I'd kneeled and prayed.
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11. |
Working On The Line
02:43
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Working On The Line
Well my love it never dies
I've been roaming the same old ground
I've been working on the line
many a year now
(Chorus)
I'm working on the line
working on the line
I'll be working hard 'til the day I die
I wake up at 5 and go to bed about 9
I'm working on the line and my mind ain't mine
Someone left me long ago
someone left me on my own
but now I can do what I choose to do
I'm not clicking my heels in some
other souls boots
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I've lost all but my loneliness
no one would take a man in debt
and pull him through ooooh
It's hurting myself twice as hard
losing all the hearts I dream to win
Faces I've seen and hearts I've believed
Tired of living all wired and beat
telling me off their restless rage
captured in memory and remembered in vain
(Chorus)
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12. |
Pop Culture Town
04:21
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Pop Culture Town
I think I should be on TV
because I didn't that bum a buck
I made my girlfriend get breast implants
before I let her drive my truck.
Crystal meth weekends at the folk fest
that's where we'll go to die
and when the end comes near
don't you hide my beer
and I won't hide your hair dye.
(chorus)
I got your text message
while I was surfing your porn.
Under my wal-mart ballcap
is a mind reborn.
Decided I'd quit trucking
fucking around.
I'd rather be drug dealing
in a pop culture town.
Take you out on cruise night
show off my metaphor
and they'll let us in at the meat mall
without charging at the door.
My ride's a Datsun
big hot rod on the scene
crank up the radio
for some good 'ol hip hop
and new country.
(chorus)
I'm praying to God
we'll get to live our dream
to be on American Idol
or reality TV
but 'til the talent scouts find us
wasted in this bar
we're gonna stay in this big shot town
we're all gonna be stars.
(chorus)
My folks think I'm crazy
because I never read
but I know clothes with no logos
just ain't up to speed.
Too many big words
when the news comes on.
I take a hit off the spliff
'cause I don't give a shit
and I'm good as gone.
(chorus)
Don't call me down
'cause all I watch is sports.
I cheer for the team
embroidered on my shorts.
Fistfights in the bleachers
and throw some beer around
so many attractive features
I can't leave here in my
pop culture town.
(chorus)
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13. |
Waikiki
02:04
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Waikiki
Four in the morning
TV's on
she's scratching her head and putting coffee on.
She's going all out for the 7 to 3.
Saving for a house in Waikiki.
She don't cuss
she don't cry
she makes good money in her golden prime.
Golden prime
golden prime
she makes good money in her golden prime.
Well she meets a man at the karaoke bar
he's got fine clothes and a fancy car
he moves in with her, loses his job
she's fallen in love with the golden slob.
Golden slob
Golden slob
he promises payback when he's back on top.
Back on top
back on top
someday golden slob is gonna be back on top.
She loses sleep and she starts to fade
her boss starts to heckle all the plans she made.
"You know your slob ain't gonna live for free.
How you ever gonna get to Waikiki?"
Waikiki?
Waikiki?
Seems to be a question that's worrying me.
Worrying me
Worrying me
I'm wondering how I'll ever get to Waikiki.
Well she worked real hard for three months or so
stole his car when he wasn't home
sold it for a ticket and spending spree
by the time he came home she was in Waikiki.
Waikiki
Waikiki
with the world at her feet in Waikiki
world at her feet
world at her feet
she finally made her way back to Waikiki.
Moral of the story is you've got to work
if you got dreams not to lose your shirt.
Put your heart aside if they're holding you back.
Kick them to the curb
get back on track.
Back on track
Back on track
Kick them to the curb and get back on track.
Waikiki
Waikiki
if you want a little spread out in Waikiki.
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14. |
The Ocean Of Your Eyes
04:03
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The Ocean Of Your Eyes
My world is burning so I can see your tears
My back is turning away from these empty years
aināt it strange how life is funny sometimes
and how things come your way to change your mind
but Iāve fallen in the ocean of your eyes
Times are harder harder than theyāve been
love is stronger than any love Iāve seen
and itās sad how hearts can meet on roads
and each heart carries a heavy load
but Iāve fallen in the ocean of your eyes
(Bridge)
The ocean of your eyes is loveās pure disguise
and heartache burns through my years
If I could sooth you now and show you how
far I will go to stray your fears
lights are on in the tunnel of your heart
I will stay there all the times weāre apart
and aināt it so how they say you will know
when the time is right to leave it free to grow
Iāve fallen in the ocean of your eyes
Iāve fallen in the ocean of your eyes
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15. |
TV Land
04:59
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TV Land
In TV Land
I don't know my old man
he sits there 80 hours a week
checks the weather and falls in deep sleep
he has a story or two to tell
and he ain't been feeling well
I hope I can find him someday
in TV Land
(chorus)
Outside
I can't remember your smile
please forgive me it's been a long while
outside
there's a world out there standing empty
until the day the power dies.
In video land
I don't know my friends
We fight over remote controls
but what goes on is out of our hands
because it's a pipe dream we play to stay cool
in conversation in the halls of high schools
I hope I can find them again
in video land.
(chorus)
In computer land
I don't know myself
running around checking email and porn
and sending my spirit straight down to hell
while the world waves goodbye
rotting away in some new age high
I hope I can find the answers
in computer land
(chorus)
In TV land- I don't know my old man.
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16. |
No Time To Hide
04:11
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No Time To Hide
Had enough of this old town
and all the folks I've run around going down
gaining ground
I know it began with me
and all the realities I see are up to me
to reconcile the dream
(Chorus)
Too many old wounds and burned up bridges
too many closed roads and worn out privileges
Got to make up for all the folks I've denied
this ain't no time to hide
no time to hide
no time to hide
no time to hide
Sure I can call this a mean old place
and I can say this is my fate I ran aground
It ain't this town
There's no use in my running around
talking all these people down
when they're just friends who weren't befriended
(Chorus)
A little setback is understood
don't play games like I thought I could
I find it's just wasting time
Letdowns are just part of the game
you try your best to name the road you're on
like a familiar song
(Chorus)
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