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Julianne
04:36
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Julianne
Darling we'll go to Jamaica when the cold long winter breezes start to blow
Drinking out of coconuts and swaying in a hammock to and fro
We've got it great out here you know the summer love never cease to shine
and everywhere I go it seems I run into another friend of mine
So I don't mean to be so sad so sudden darling understand me when I go
I have to make a living playing guitar for all the folks I'm gonna know
Doesn't matter what you do just stay true you know your place is where I'll have my fun
You put so many verbs in our life sentence it doesn't even feel like one.
(Chorus)
Going 90 miles an hour with your love
I'm doing what I have to do
and making just enough
I don't want to die and go to heaven
I'd miss your caring hands
I want to be in your arms soon again
my Julianne
So wish me some good luck as I go hit the old hard road on my own
Money separates us but that's just the case with every love I know
so when the winter rides you'll be by my side and wearing cozy clothes
I can't wait to feel my darling by my side when the loving overflows.
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The Country Radio
03:20
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The Country Radio
I miss the lonesome heartbeat
of the pretty girl who phoned
love will keep us together
sometimes you win sometimes you don't
no matter where I'm going
she's in my heart to stay
and every other soul would want
the song to play that way
(Chorus)
Her sweetness echoes calmly like the lines along the road
or the tune we sang a crackling from the country radio
May I now wind up being lonesome
everywhere I go
without her magic I become someone
I don't want to know
there ain't no cure for darkness
but the light you find at home
love will keep us together
sometimes you win sometimes you don't.
(Chorus)
Can't begin to tell you
no matter what you think
Can this just stay between us
I can swim or I can sink
She's run my whole world for me
there's nowhere I can go
without seeing her beneath my footsteps
in every honky tonk I go
(Chorus)
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Follow Your Heart
03:28
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Follow Your Heart
Don't want to waste another day
on a plan or a place to stay
I'm gonna find my way through time
I never get tired of looking around
to see what's on this little old world I found in time
Nothing to do but hold on
to a dream I'm folding on
I can get so much done
I'd rather watch the rising sun go down
(Chorus)
Follow your heart
follow your dream
see where love leads you
and you'll be happy
What puts you together is gonna tear you apart
like a small town with the big city heart
she's gonna have to find her way through time
I'm making amends with having no news
having no answers
having no clues
I'm going to have to find my way through time
making my way to the golden chain
send another prayer to the big old brain
making me stay just another day
I'd rather watch the rising sun go down
(Chorus x2)
(Bridge)
People will say it's crazy
that it's a shame
but it's better
than being too afraid
to make a mistake
(Chorus)
Don't want to waste another day
on a plan or a place to stay
I'm gonna find my way through time
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Oh, What A Dream!
03:31
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Oh, What A Dream!
I don't care about you it's plain as day
You're with me here but I can't wait to get away
I can't believe that life brought you to me
Oh, what a dream!
I've bigger better places I can get
but I find that every day I lose my bet
Looking past you for better things to see
Oh, what a dream!
(bridge)
You've tried so hard to satisfy my mind
by trying to care I've wasted so much time
hope there's something in this joke for me
Oh, what a dream!
You've changed your life your friends your hopes for me
I've led you down a path of misery
You've told me that this hell's a two way street
Oh, what a dream!
(bridge)
I can never afford the time or energy
to be the perfect friend I could have been
There's so many out there for me to deceive
Oh, what a dream!
I can't go on feeling this way
I don't care about you at all it's plain as day
maybe the devil's charm is all I need
Oh, what a dream!
Oh, what a dream!
Oh, what a dream!
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Give Me Back My Darling
02:59
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Give Me Back My Darling
Give me back my darling
she's been running for so long
I can't find nobody
this wasteland feels so wrong
I been trading and conniving
and now there's hell to pay
give me back my darling
and then I'll have my way
Tired of being friendly
when life ain't in my control
there's lots that I owe
lots I'm told I don't know
there ain't nothing left to lose
because it's all gone by the way
so give me back my darling
she's got nothing left to say
she's burdened and she's broken
the lights have all faded away
there's no talking of the future
there's no place left to play
I watch her silhouette as she cries beyond repair
give me back my darling
there was something there
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Lucky Even When The Times Are Bad
Even when the road is long
and I can carry you only so far
and the dreams are fading
and on my world is a heavy scar
even when the lights are down
and the power ain't around
and this guessing game is getting sad
I'm lucky even when the times are bad
When the wind throws us around
and the ocean roars at night
and the untouchable ones
roll clear out of sight
and the wisdom we're getting
is from surviving right
there's just no way you'll see me sad
I'm lucky even when the times are bad
(Chorus)
I'm lucky even when the times are bad
I'm lucky even when the times are bad
stranded on the (hobo) superhighway
I'm lucky even when the times are bad
Carry around a heavy heart
and sometimes when my mind starts
it don't know where to go to slow down
sliding on the frozen ground
sometimes the blues regrets the things you choose
don't matter how you wound up glad
somehow I believe
I'm lucky even when the times are bad
(Chorus)
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Dreams Of Silver And Gold
Some people they say farewell
Even though you've done them well
Even if it ain't no hell
everywhere they go
They don't want to be seen
chasing an endless dream
No chance for the movie screen
or a heart full of soul
(Chorus)
If you can still be kind
after life has robbed you blind
you'll be the friend who has designed
dreams of silver and gold
and everywhere your comfort shines
you'll have lovers reflect designs
of a cozy fire of the farm and the pines
with Valentines on the panes of snow
Silver stars and old man eyes
and wishing wells and old goodbyes
and broken talks and wavy lines
on highways lost like fragile minds
Some people they say farewell
Even though you've done them well
Even if it ain't no hell
everywhere they go
(Chorus)
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Singing In The Sun
02:43
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Singing In The Sun
I met you singing in the sun
Under lonely blue skies
I held your gaze
looked into your eyes
and I was gone
and if dreams were old mountains
tried and true
baby I'd climb
all over you
I met you singing in the sun
under lonely blue skies
I held your gaze
looked into your eyes
and I was gone
I've seen dreams vanish
like the mists from the past
hauntingly cold and seemingly vast
but gone and soon the path is clear
gone to beauty
gone to freedom
the strangeness still near
I met you singing in the sun
under lonely blue skies
I held your gaze
looked into your eyes
and I was gone
so if I met you once again
and you sang in the sun
you'd be the one
you'd be the one
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Played For A Fool
03:51
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Played For A Fool
I tread lightly on the fortune path
I found fortune was too much to ask
Change your heart around
looking through the edges of town
Make it pay for another night
but this future don't seem so bright
Golden and broken
shards that cut through your lies
(Chorus)
I can feel you on the run
I can feel you with someone
I can feel things coming undone
being played for a fool
I can feel you on the run
I can feel you with someone
I can feel things coming undone
being played for a fool
Karma played a trick
I watched many rising suns
waiting up wondering what
little could be done
I tread lightly on the fortune path
I found fortune was too much to ask
change your heart around
looking through these edges of town
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
This is another guessing game
how many words can I waste?
If the truth was free to roam
where ever it would go
there would be no lovers
no games to behold
no truth and lovers paths to follow.
(Chorus)
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Don't Sleep Too Deep To Dream
I spent my childhood on the straight and narrow
Jessie James didn't reflect me
and my old man had a silver spade
for my grave astray from thee
but I recall when I was younger
my dear mother would sing for me
and her words were like silver daggers
"Son, don't you sleep too deep to dream"
(Chorus)
Son, don't sleep too deep to dream
don't you lose what you can keep
I know that God ain't gonna pay your rent
So son, don't you sleep too deep to dream
I washed my hands in muddy water
and I crossed that deep red sea
and I prayed from perdition
but I'd never sleep too deep to dream
(Chorus)
Out in the murky meadow
stands a man who's lost his steam
he spent his lifetime in utter worship
sleeping too deeply to dream
(Chorus)
I spent my childhood on the straight and narrow
Jessie James didn't reflect me
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She Left Me Oh So Cold
04:35
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She Left Me Oh So Cold
I've watched you become enchanted
so enthralled at the whims
I've pulled you aside to tell you
how my sunken heart won't swim
underneath this old battalion
stands the cold blood that poured
hot over a desert
while your jury cried for more
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I hated you in Austin
I hated you in the scene
I hated you out in Boston
Pulled you out in Tennessee
Told myself I was a bachelor
tried to ruin the sweet taste
made a mountain of a fountain
and seemed to sink without a trace
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I shook the boundaries cold
made your old heart a pale lit fog
threw out your holy bibles
not impressed by your laws
spent my last days in communion
with a heart that was unsold
I took her to the sunshine
and she left me oh so cold
I made the world submerge her
I made a life this way
Took out all the bones
and swallowed all the soil away
I dug her body deeper
and sent memories to a cage
nothing deep about it
I was head deep in all the rage
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Made me want to disappear
the way you kissed my mouth
reminds me of all the women
you headed for down south
I'd like to slay your demons
but you love them all the way
now there's old nights that you told me
how you saw love as your slave
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I recall marrying promises and
being divorced by the lies
showing up like heroes
wearing these badges in disguise
and I made you want to love me
but guess who's fighting now
I want to disappear
send the soft wind from my mount
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I shook the lanterns knowing
the flames would lick the night
now I see stars are fading
and I won't need the light
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