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Say Hello Or Say Goodbye
04:10
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Say Hello Or Say Goodbye
What I'm doing is just getting by
Can't stand the plan to drift and die
There's so much to do
every minute of life
You can't always find
a new way to survive
a new song to sing
a new world to try
without even leaving your home.
We're so blessed to be connected everyday
We'll just have to rewire ourselves this way
This may no last forever we pray
There's so many hearts trying to find a way
Take me back home
where I might forever stay
without even leaving your home.
(Chorus)
Call me up
send me a hello or say goodbye
There's no reason for anyone
to sit out this life
I wrote a song so I could be alive
Call me up
send me a hello or say goodbye.
Summertime is going
it's going away
It's always here inside when I seize the day
can't expect that we're all just doomed to die
can't anticipate that freedom will never fly
can't be desperately on the ground
searching the sky
without even leaving your home.
(Chorus)
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Unknown Stars
03:51
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Unknown Stars
We all shine like the unknown stars we are
shining into the unknown
may this shining take us far
May the shining sweeten the day
for someone somewhere someway
We all shine like the unknown stars we are
Got a backpack that I take out with me on this hike
It saves me when I'm miles away when I'm needing a spike
Kind of like a smile before the journey has gone on too long
Got a backpack I take out with me on this hike
Tired of being of true
so few see
I can sell out on this game far too easily.
We all shine like the unknown stars we are.
Not much now to do but keep on shining
Not much to say but it's all in the timing
where do we go when we don't know
when no one sees what we do?
Not much to do now but keep on shining.
and we'll all shine like the unknown stars that we are.
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Another Day Away From The Grave
The neighbor men they hold the line
we're all safe from the blazes
Will we see our homes again
and friendly neighbors faces?
(Chorus)
When does this end?
When do we stop paying
someone to save us?
This year has been so waiting/frustrating
I'm getting tired of looking out at elephants in the room
I'm tired of being bombarded by moments and ages of doom.
(Chorus)
The days they just look like fear
The sky is breathing black.
The only thing keeping me looking forward now
is looking back.
(Chorus)
Not everyone's made for the game
but we all gotta survive.
Prayer is a strong thing
when we've all got to survive.
(Chorus)
The days they just look like fear
The sky is breathing black.
The only thing keeping me looking forward now
is looking back.
(Chorus)
Now I have nowhere to go to lay my banjo down
Another way away from the grave.
There's nothing but sad storms now.
(Chorus)
Good people with bad karma
there's power in your song.
Love don't cast a shadow
we'll stay where we belong.
(Chorus x2)
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Wherever Our Daydreams Belong
I'm so blessed with you
you're in my life and you're near me every day
So many years have all gone by
I now see them on the way
(Chorus)
I know I love you
I know I'll want you
so stay with me.
I know I love you
I know I'll want you
so stay with me
We walk everywhere
sharing our cares
and filling up our hearts
and make memories
with this girl that I love
she shows me where freedom starts
Freedom to share these dreams
Joy in these warm sunbeams
Even if you won't hold me enough
I know that it's right
Even if I know you just want to live rough
I know that it's right.
Sing me a song - invite me along
won't you play with me again?
Can't go on
it feels so wrong
when love is a hurricane.
I know it's hard to be in this game for so long
It's sad but we know at least we have the songs
Take me away wherever our daydreams belong.
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Skeleton Heart
06:06
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Skeleton Heart
She tried so hard to get to the top now she's looking over the hill
She's paradise on paper looking for a limosine thrill
(Chorus)
Why must you take on another dame
just to send her on her walk of shame
can't you see she needs a special man
who'll love her time and again
and be her friend from the start
not pulling these bones from this skeleton heart
She's the answer to your prayers not some keeper you'll let go
When you learn love don't make money heartbreak sucks on the banjo
(Chorus)
and when the bad blood starts boiling down
and your lover turns into a toy store melt down
can't you see she needs a special man
who'll love her time and again
and be her friend from the start
not pulling these bones from this skeleton heart
(Bridge)
She's always smiling like there ain't nothing wrong
She's been looking on the bright side for too long
She fell from heaven she's an angel on the run
she's no tirekicker bride for anyone
So if you know you will love her
give your friend a smile
give her a sweet memory and won't you dress those dreams in style?
(chorus)
she'll be happy when she knows you'll stay
not another break up bill she'll have to pay
can't you see she needs a special man
who'll love her time and again
and be her friend from the start
not pulling these bones from this skeleton heart
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Nothing But Time
03:25
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Nothing But Time
Those horseback riders approaching
Sillhouetted by the western sky
have broken a law or two, boys
but they've got nothing but time
before their memory plunged into darkness
and their conscience drenched to the bone
they had suffered a lot from their innocence
before they let their bad side show
(chorus)
It takes a man to show a man
how much love he's already lost
before they fight each other
for a girl who wants to call it off x2
Those horseback riders approaching
Sillhouetted by the eastern sky
stands a man with a tale or two
but he's gained something in time
before his memory plunged into darkness
and his conscience drenched to the bone
he'd suffered a lot from his suffering
before he let his bad side show
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The Audience
02:13
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The Audience
I wonder if you
will ever hear me out?
There's clouds in my eyes
and the stars won't come out.
I can't read the future
if you don't like my song
those dreams I have dreamed
won't be in the flesh long.
(chorus)
Would you like me to sing a lullaby?
Oh no
oh no
oh no
Should I be your lover
should i bear my soul?
blue stood my heart when
my blood was running cold
I tried for your comfort
by showing you mine
while you told your stories
and I sang there blind.
(chorus)
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Seems Like Only Yesterday
Seems like only yesterday we caught the dream train heading for the coast
and dreamed of grimy dungeon traps and circus men still stranded in the storms
(Chorus)
In a land that time forgot it's hard for us to stay for long
wait until the monkey man is gone
face the music and dance along
there's nothing stranger than this song
to keep you thinking nothing's really wrong
Seems like only yesterday that we were lost and trying to get home
We lived among these missing links and savage sailors trading love for gold.
(Chorus)
Tonight let's drift past dungeon traps and circus men still stranded in the storms
and let's climb fancy mountaintops with flags in hand and shovels to dig holes.
(Chorus)
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I Don't Care If The Coast Is Clear No More
I'm too tired to rest
Maybe I'll see you
on the other side.
I'll tell you all the things I should have
when the walls were tall and wide.
Everybody's so busy doing so much
They don't get nothing done
I'm marooned off the coast of "I don't care if the
coast is clear no more"
And I'm trying to ignore a fever
but it's everywhere it seems
You and I lived the big grand life
of adventures and dreams
But now you're wondering what all
these dreams were really for
and I'm living with the truth
I don't care if this coast is clear no more.
Crosses on the highway
people had somewhere to go
I was hoping to make it further
but I might be pulling over slow
What if this is what the reaper
was really waiting for?
To be living off the coast
not certain that the coast
is clear anymore.
I'm too tired to rest
maybe I'll see you on the other side?
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10. |
Under The Same Sky
04:07
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Under The Same Sky
When the stars began to fade in the sky
we could then find escape from the fire inside
those were the days when we'd await the night
when we lived under the same sky
You were forced to live with a broken heart
like the sole survivor who'd let down her guard
but we were the kind who could tough it out
when we lived under the same sky
(Chorus)
We still have yet to meet someday before I lose all I can give away
there'll be nothing but shadows living on our street
and a bridge that's never been crossed
We still have yet to meet someday
and I fear that since you left that day
I'll stand alone 'til the anger dies
and I'm not the only one
From the allies of the distant past
to the lovers who lost out on romance
or condemned to drift dwelling in their pasts
we all lived under the same sky
(Chorus)
When the stars began to fade in the sky
we could then find escape from the fire inside
those were the days when we'd await the night
when we lived under the same sky
when we lived under the same sky
when we lived under the same sky
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11. |
Second To Nothing
03:05
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Second To Nothing
You are second to nothing
waiting for the night
it's not that I can love you
it's not that I can't try
something tells me you're hard to please
under some spell or some kind of disease
for your time is due and your man has not arrived
You are second to nothing
but anguish lies beneath
it ain't the tune you're blowing
it's the fact you're out of reach
don't alter your impression
or falter my obsession
don't you know you shed the tears I weep?
what makes me love her so
whose path I never crossed
I once loved a love I knew for her display of trust
but I see despair in her soul casting shadows on the road
for the time is due and her man has not arrived
for the time is due and her man has not arrived
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Soldier Solitaire
03:53
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Soldier Solitaire
I loved her from the start there was doubt in the past
a storm was on the loose the night it was ahead
she was afraid of the danger I could tell by her eyes
she was a solider solitaire with something to hide
Loneliness was cold so I held her so tight
she gave me her warmth like a flame in the night
everything I fought for was not mine to last
she got up and crept off toward the twilight so vast
She left me too early she's a soldier solitaire
with one thing to live for something to hide
since she abandoned me I hope she'll learn that it's clear
that we all need each other when the end seems so near
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