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I'll Pay You Mind
03:32
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I'll Pay You Mind
If you fell in love with me my dreams would come true
(You'll love me someday)
If I looked like you people would look at me too
(You'll love me someday)
I'm never bitter I'm just crying harder for love
(You'll love me someday)
Let's pick a time when you have time enough
(You'll love me someday)
As the time goes by and you cry for the lives that you don't know
It's funny how they say they know you but it's just as easy to say they don't
(Chorus)
Money comes and money goes
But where the time goes nobody knows
Life's too short to miss out on you
I'll pay you mind and heart and soul.
I miss everyone the past won't let get away
(You'll love me someday)
You're too sweet to break someone's heart today
(You'll love me someday)
I give like a winner even for a losing hand
(You'll love me someday)
You'll see me smiling at demons again
(You'll love me someday)
You're dressed to the eights I'm dressed to the nines
but baby you're still fine
I hit the ground running all the time
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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Love Songs Cure These So Sad Times
Life's a ruckus I'm not giving away
got plans to hang around make most of my days
something tells me I've got to change my ways
I hope I'm changing for the better
She's got my hopes up and I let her down
Always forget what I'm like to be around
She dodged a bullet when I hit the ground
I hope I'm changing for the better
(Chorus)
Love songs cure these so sad times
Love songs cure these so sad times
You can ask me how I heal myself
when I'm not out there spreading my wealth
All I know is nothing matters like health
If I'm changing I hope it's for the better
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Money can buy some cheap magazines
but you know inside what you really need
Just stay still and don't intervene
Your stillness will let you know
So I hold no boundaries to who you are
You're a pebble in a neutron star
Time to beef up your vegan repertoire
If you're gonna be a sinner
(Chorus)
Not trying to win no love anymore
A lot of hearts washed up on the shore
Take your pick or settle a score
I hope you're changing for the better
I hope you're changing for the better
I hope you're changing for the
(Chorus)
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What Else Is There Now Here Left For Me?
Just trying to make sense now of the day to day
What I gave and what they took away
Don't want to have a victim mentality
but what else is there now here left for me?
They came along one by one to take something away
All I'm doing is making a living trying to get out and play
Even though I may be better as a memory
what else is there now here left for me?
I'm crying and dying inside this lonesome lie
I'd be happier to leave here and I'd be happier to die
But I pray those would be the cure for this misery
what else is there now here left for me?
Can't be much more than what I used to be
Just here to fill the blank stares that you give to me
and something maybe someday it'll be plain to see
what else is there now here left for me?
Driving and conniving no more phony smiles
Now you see the heartache of a million wasted miles
While you parade your charade of fame for all to see
what else is there now here left for me?
Paradise waves a finger at me
what else is there now here left for me?
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Fall In Love With My Dreams
I'm sorry I sang those sad songs so long
When all I want to do is celebrate now
But these songs still hold meaning for someone
It's just no longer where I'm hanging at now
(Chorus)
Fall in love with my dreams not with my story
I was born too late and missed the train to glory
I don't mind a clean slate and an end to pain and worry
when you're falling for my dreams and not for my story.
Time to find all the things this device has replaced
fire them up and call it a day
I look back at nothing but the good old days
There's more to life than Babylon's way
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I'll be traveling by forecast
My treasures in the hands of thieves
While I seek out those still looking up
at whatever magic the moment weaves
(Chorus)
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Driving Twice As Long As I Play
I'm too far where I'm from
My arm feels numb when I start to strum
I remember back when I toured with my thumb
so this life can't be so bad
I'm some nipple tassels away from fame
They can remember my songs and step on my name
steal my ideas while I'm not playing the game
but it won't even make me mad
(Chorus)
I'm driving twice as long as I play
Maybe I'll make it someday
I just want to live
If you give just to get then you won't get to give
It's why I keep on playing this riff
I think I'm good but by now I must be wrong
It's not too easy to see
These days I'm filling in for who I used to be
Knowing things I'm unhappy with will be a memory
or another brokenhearted song
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I ain't just following my dreams
I'm trying to chase them down
Kicking ass and taking names
my head's too big for this neck breaking crown
Dressing up and playing make believe
Maybe there's something real they see in me
I've been burned so many times it ain't safe to dream
Life's too short to miss out on you
Gotta find a way to slow these days down
If they knew I existed I'd never turn them down
It ain't what is said it's what you thought that counts
when a dream is just something you do
(Chorus)
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Blue Moon Mourning Dove
04:46
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Blue Moon Mourning Dove
I'm looking for a blue moon
one I can hang onto
somebody I can dance with
under these lonesome stars
She must be a fiddler
who yodels in cold shadows
see her breath in the morning
as she tickles the meadows
we'll walk along snow tipped grasses
in lands we can't afford
along these majestic foothills
with nothing unexplored
we will always be humble
even while we live high
she'll be my spirit animal
my blue moon may fly
her eyes hold forever for me
when she blinks time can stop
it's ok to love her from afar
we may still laugh and talk
I'll remember as the one
who reminded me life's a longer road
longer than some trap
longer than any tomorrows
I'll stand here on cold mornings
waiting to touch her heart
somehow the sunshine won't warm me
'til we're no longer apart
so I'll dream of her warmth around me
while I dance in dreams I live
while I wait here for her love
to find me here again
It's a hard habit to break
does this mean this love is true?
at least from where I'm looking
it's all I'm here to do
See her wings spread wide
she climbs above this sweet season
I'll be there to capture her
if she ever returns for a reason
There's words she speaks
that leave me speechless
there's highways we'll travel
that will leave us speechless
but we will swim
in the dance of gentle love
and the sweetness of the calls
of the mourning dove.
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Perseverance
02:39
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My Roots Are Calling Me
02:55
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My Roots Are Calling Me
I just want to thank you for being here for me
In the fire and the rain you were there everyday
But now something's got me down
and I just don't want to put the time in here no more
(Chorus)
And my roots are calling me
It's so long since it's run me down
My heart is running aground
and I can't change how I feel
It's up to you to let me go
Because my time ain't here to steal
Time to make it happen
Make the getaway
It's been years since I been happy, babe
and I shouldn't have to feel this way
some new scene would be nice
it would mean the world to me
I can stay here and save your heart
but it'll be the slow death of me.
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Prison Rose
03:22
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Prison Rose
I’m never fond of leaving
little things just make me go
like the way you say my name
I’m certain I’m right
There’s better ways to love a man
whose words won’t stop your pain
(Chorus)
You have faith in your world
that I’ll find another girl
and your world will be happy when I go
But you cheated and you schemed
I forgave you but it seemed
the anger bloomed like a lonesome prison rose
Now that we’re soon to part
you make me feel I’ve made no mark
I never mattered to your life anyway
but those tears deep in your eyes
are the ones you’ll never cry
because a flood once washed your wishing well away.
(Chorus)
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On Nobody's Shore
02:22
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Nobody's Shore
Now I'm believing
I'm done with dreaming
It ain't my dream come true no more
My fate is wasting
'til I'm done chasing
all these old dreams out the door
Watch everyone winning
Chances are thinning
to find out what my life is for
Now that time is just washing mine up
on nobody's shore.
At least while alone I can be here on the phone
Watching my fans make it big
they got a crowd singing aloud
Some song of theirs I'd never sing
God gave me the gift and he gave me the songs
but he could have given me more
like some rich facade and a knockout bod
not washed up on nobody's shore
I'm standing my ground
not letting me down
and staying strong for my own war
If I'd step down now without a doubt
I know I'm not the only whore
I've given enough
I've called this bluff
but I see my dream ain't set to soar
I've done my time
and I've lost my prime
washed up on nobody's shore
thank Spotify for the hard earned time
washed up on nobody's shore.
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Love Found You Before
04:56
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Love Found You Before
In a world of her own she made her way
Patterns of beauty and love every day
She laughed as she lived
this world of mine
I thank every day for her bringing me life
(Chorus)
Shadows that haunt this story to be
Will never forget the love that made me
Like having a good day in the midst of a war
You'll find love again love found you before
You'll find love again love found you before
My mother and I spent so many days
Filling this world with our creative ways
Things we made were made to last
When I look back at this colorful past
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Slowly the song begins to disappear
the melody stayed but the words were unclear
I'll be here forever on a path until I lie
With love in my heart for her when I die
She may leave this world but it's a better place
when I think back to years of her smiling face
(Chorus)
In a world of her own she made her way.
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