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Blue-Eyed Wanderer
04:15
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Blue-eyed Wanderer
I keep getting caught on barbed wire thoughts
Of old girlfriends and wrong things I've said
Turned the map upside down blacked out and came around
In strangers' and hospital beds
But I always mind my manners
And I don't mind biding time
In plans best laid and errors made
Regrets are there to find
I'm not the last of the blue-eyed wanderers
Though tonight I walk alone
And wear the hat that's holding down
The fact I'll soon be gone
I pray you'll raise a glass and carry on
I'm cleaning wounds in hotel rooms
Leaving lost love and blood-stained sheets
There are habits I can't break and measures I should take
To be the man mama hoped I'd be
Now it's always "please and thank you"
Even when I'm eating crow
Wells was right when he wrote that line
Losers are last to know
I'm not the last of the blue-eyed wanderers
Though tonight I walk alone
And wear the hat that's holding down
The fact I'll soon be gone
I pray you'll raise a glass and carry on
Pete's out climbing rocks in Colorado
Porter he's got three years in the ground
She said come home I guess I oughta
Stop this running town to town
At seventeen that pen felt awful mighty
By twenty-eight I'd sharpened up my spear
And at it's point watched the ones I've loved
Fall victim more each year
I'm not the last of the blue-eyed wanderers
Though tonight I walk alone
And wear the hat that's holding down
The fact I'll soon be gone
I pray you'll raise a glass and carry on
Carry on
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The Dream
03:29
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The Dream
She used to run like a top, boys, that's the God's honest truth
Thousand-dollar paint job, blood red, white and blue
Kick you back in your seat when she's catching third
And her quarter mile scream was the sweetest thing I'd ever heard
She made me feel like we could make it real
And roar through the dark of night at the speed of sound
It broke my heart the day the dream broke down
We used to cruise up Broadway summers on Saturday nights
Turn around at the drive-in and park under the ball field lights
Bobby played short stop he used to like to talk so tough
'Til the light turned green and he could see he didn't have enough
She made me feel like we could make it real
And roar through the dark of night at the speed of sound
It broke my heart the day the dream broke down
Proverbs and the old men say there's pride before the fall
Beware the ghost in the machine
Living on the red line with out any care at all
And wind up losing everything
She's parked 'round back now hasn't caught a light in years
Dust on the dashboard, thrown rod and stripped-out gears
If you listen real hard you can almost hear that scream
And relive the glory of the gone but not forgotten dream
She made me feel like we could make it real
And roar through the dark of night at the speed of sound
It broke my heart the day the dream broke down
She made me feel like we could make it real
And roar through the dark of night at the speed of sound
It broke my heart the day the dream
Broke my heart the day the dream
Broke my heart the day the dream broke down
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Drive-Thru Town
03:56
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Drive-thru Town
It's a drive-thru town
Stop and think about it it'll drive you down
Don't you dare to doubt it, son, we're nowhere bound
There's no road out of a drive-thru town
They build a river town on the banks of the Ohio
Rolling slow the water's low
A wife and a baby in a house up on Union Hill
You'd work the steel 'til they closed the mill
The old men would say "you gotta carry on"
But they're all gone
They're all gone
It's a drive-thru town
Stop and think about it it'll drive you down
Don't you dare to doubt it, son, we're nowhere bound
There's no road out of a drive-thru town
What was lost ain't coming back
No matter what words you pray with the faith you kept in tact
Here hearts sink like broken stones
Pin on a nametag try to keep you're power on
You get high in a cinder block building out River Road
We all know where lights stay low
Walk 'round back and to the bank and start sinking down
And quietly drown and not be found
It's a drive-thru town
Stop and think about it it'll drive you down
Don't you dare to doubt it, son, we're nowhere bound
There's no road out of a drive-thru town
It's a drive-thru town
Stop and think about it it'll drive you down
Don't you dare to doubt it, son, we're nowhere bound
There's no road out of a drive-thru town
No road out of a drive-thru town
No road out of a drive-thru town
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My Southern Heart
03:18
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My Southern Heart
Once upon a time you kept a toothbrush here for me
In that too small silver cup on the shelf above your sink
It wasn't quite as heavy as a weighted golden ring
But it was mine
Tangled there we'd sleep under the window cracked just so
Enough to let the night air chill the button of your nose
Last call 'til the morning you were there for me to hold
So many times
Oh, my southern heart
Always finds a way to tear a damn good thing apart
I know some night
You'll find another underneath those northern lights
In the morning you'll bring coffee to that table by the bed
And I'll consider mentioning that book you never read
The one I left a year ago that said what needed said
About the crime
I'll call you from some western town to ask how things have been
And blame it on the miles apart that keep us only friends
Knowing that the hand that took the life what might have been
Is clearly mine
Oh, my southern heart
Always finds a way to tear a damn good thing apart
I know some night
You'll find another underneath those northern lights
Oh, my southern heart
Always finds a way to tear a damn good thing apart
I know some night
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5. |
Hey, Heartbreaker
03:54
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Hey, Heartbreaker
Falling down outside the bar and I came tumbling too
We spent that summer in my car
Talked to strangers after dark 'bout my guitar and your tattoos
You swore we'd never fall apart
In my dreaming we're the same
When I'm asleep your mind never changed
Hey Heartbreaker
Don't go thinking I don't think of you
Everyday you're not around
Hey Heartbreaker
We did our best to dance away the blues
Now I hear'em coming down
It's Friday night in Tennessee Bobby's trying out new songs
They all sound the same to me
She's ready for another drink I say it's time you take me home
Before we're too far gone to leave
In the dark I still pretend
These arms of mine are holding you again
Hey Heartbreaker
Don't go thinking I don't think of you
Everyday you're not around
Hey Heartbreaker
We did our best to dance away the blues
Now I hear'em coming down
That lonesome sound
Hey Heartbreaker
Don't go thinking I don't think of you
Everyday you're not around
Hey Heartbreaker
We did our best to dance away the blues
Now I hear'em coming down
Hey Heartbreaker
Hey Heartbreaker
Don't go thinking I don't think of you
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6. |
Cold Civil War
03:55
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Cold Civil War
There's no blue and no gray down here today
No men trying to break free from chains
No Red Scare to fear we're all family here
Fighting on Thanksgiving day
Your mom started preaching some words that she'd read
"Beware your sworn enemy"
I worry she'll find behind the front line
You'll still look like you and I'll still look like me
In this cold civil war across social divides
Reason held siege under attack from all sides
It makes no real matter the truth from the lies
When you're just trying to settle the score
In this cold civil war
As kids we would march Fort Donelson park and
Pretend to be rebels and yanks
Paying no mind when it cam to decide
Who shoots and who rolls down the bank
Dad voted Reagan afraid of the nukes and
Made sure that Momma did too
We grew up watching live on TV
What fear can make people do
In this cold civil war across social divides
Reason held siege under attack from all sides
It makes no real matter the truth from the lies
When you're just trying to settle the score
In this cold civil war
We've wiretapped ourselves gone to bed scared
Locked out our neighbors and friends
Turned a blind eye then justified
Giving up all we once were time and again
There's no blue and no gray down here today
I still hear them rattling chains
In this cold civil war across social divides
Reason held siege under attack from all sides
It makes no real matter the truth from the lies
When you're just trying to settle the score
In this cold civil war across social divides
Reason held siege under attack from all sides
It makes no real matter the truth from the lies
When you're just trying to settle the score
In this cold civil war
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Jailbird Song
03:23
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Jailbird Song
The path is long but it ain't too wide
Temptations on either side
Another snake in the garden
Trying to show me what I don't know
How'd I'd wind up never crossed my mind or
What'd be waiting when I crossed that line
'Til I was in the backseat
And the lawman told me so
He said you'll wake up every morning
'Fore the break of dawn
But it won't matter much
'Cause the lights are always on
No women, no work, and no bills to pay
Just sit in the cage and think all day
About how in the world you came to sing
The jailbird song
Looking back I can plainly see
Rotten fruit hanging from that tree
And the sour truth I was tasting
Taking that first bite
Lord, I never thought it'd be me
Fingertips stained with ink
Looking straight in the camera
Getting ready to go inside
Where it's wake up every morning
'Fore the break of dawn
But it don't matter much
'Cause the lights are always on
No women, no work, and no bills to pay
Just sit in the cage and think all day
About how in the world I came to sing
The jailbird song
The price you pay is a mighty fee
Behind these bars wishing you'd get free
When I get home, honey, then you'll see
It's gonna be clean living each and every day
Don't give a damn what the devil may say
Nothing but sticking to the righteous way
For me
Now it's wake up every morning
'Fore the break of dawn
But it don't matter much
'Cause the lights are always on
No women, no work, and no bills to pay
Just sit in the cage and think all day
About how in the world I came to sing
The jailbird song
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8. |
The Devil Drinks Scotch
03:54
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The Devil Drinks Scotch
Give a man a job but take away his chance
To ever do better than take what you'll hand him on down
Send him down in that hole lungs full of coal
And before he grows old leave him down under that ground
Somebody somehow help me understand
Who pays the rent on the soul of a man
And who pays the toll on the road to the promised land
While the devil drinks scotch with the world in his hand
Let the girl be a mom but tie both her hands
She'll work double shifts at the bar trying to manage her time
Get them up out of bed in the mornings and fed
And come home half dead too late to tell them sleep tight
Somebody somehow help me understand
Who pays the rent on the soul of a man
And who pays the toll on the road to the promised land
While the devil drinks scotch with the world in his hand
It's a hard troublesome way
For those who've been counting on fate
To deal out some cards they can play
And gambling their hope
Promises dance like the truth
When you've spent your whole life being used
Your heart like a head in a noose
At the end of your rope
Somebody somehow help me understand
Who pays the rent on the soul of a man
And who pays the toll on the road to the promised land
While the devil drinks scotch with the world in his hand
That old devil drinks scotch with the world in his hand
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Sitcoms
04:02
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Sitcoms
We grew up on sitcoms and lost all our touch
Sometimes there's true love sometimes that ain't enough
To make up the difference in all we had lost
Or build enough credit to manage the cost
So we'll settle down slowly nurse these broken heart
Spend paychecks buying right clothes
And clock in for the part
Julie went to college Matthew went to jail
For smashing out the windows of the house up on the hill
All of ten years later they both still lie awake
Wrestling with the fear of dying empty and afraid
What drugs could never ease a newborn baby might
At least then there's be something more
To keep them occupied
Hey baby it's just another day
Promise there's no need to run away
Listen close there's something you should know
Sha-la-la I'll never let you go
No one when we're younger tells us everyone will fall
We might not take the crown baby
We can't lose 'em all
I think all we need to know is when to make a stand
Dig in your heels and take my hand
Hey baby it's just another day
Promise there's no need to run away
Listen close there's something you should know
Sha-la-la I'll never let you go
Hey baby it's just another day
Promise there's no need to run away
Listen close there's something you should know
Sha-la-la I'll never let you go
Sha-la-la I'll never let you go
Sha-la-la I'll never let you go
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Corner of the World
05:10
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Corner of the World
Judas from the redbud and Jesus on the hill
Now I hear that dogwoods don't grow the same way
She kept a picture of him framed in the kitchen by the door
So she could see faith on the wall right where he hanged
Forever battle ready from the alter to the ground
I guess the only honest enemy is time
Thinking on it now I wish I'd told her then
If you can't walk on the water drink the wine
And find a corner of the world that makes you happy
Find a corner of the world to call your own
Don't give up all your light in the shadows of the fight
And wind up in the dark and all alone
Most of my whole life I've been told the end in nigh
And there ain't much more than pray that we can do
Some signed up to fight while others worked the farm
The they shipped off to Japan in '42
There will come a day they say when every mother's son
Will have to pick a side and steady off to war
If he returns he'll know the truth only flags and faces change
And sing the same song that his father sang before
So find a corner of the world that makes you happy
Find a corner of the world to call your own
Don't give up all your light in the shadows of the fight
And wind up in the dark and all alone
To your corner of the world take your lover
Someone who can feel your very soul
Wrap up both yourselves in one another
Find a corner of the world to make your home
Find a corner of the world to make your home
The sky's been falling all this time
Cry heralds of demise
Fall into each other's arms
And trust the sun will also rise
Find a corner of the world that makes you happy
Find a corner of the world to call your own
Don't give up all your light in the shadows of the fight
And wind up in the dark and all alone
To your corner of the world take your lover
Someone who can feel your very soul
Wrap up both yourselves in one another
Find a corner of the world to make your home
Find a corner of the world to make your home
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