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| 1. |
| 3:11 | 
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three hits to the heart son
and it's poetry in motion one could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered would you trade your words for freedom that's a barter for a blind man three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion are you levee'd like a treasure only words can help me find you and this world's a fickle measure i would painfully remind you from a wise man to your red hand you lay covered ion our best sins three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion well i dream you constant stranger with your best bloods and your anger you say mother do you claim me my beloved do you blame me well the first two might release you but the last one sings in me son three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion three hits to the heart son and the last one sings in me |
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| 2. |
| 4:13 |
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Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode I try to trace them to my youth And then you had to bring up reincarnation Over a couple of beers the other night And now I'm serving time for mistakes Made by another in another lifetime How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight And then I think about my fear of motion Which I never could explain Some other fool across the ocean years ago Must have crashed his little airplane How long 'til my soul gets it right? Could any human being ever reach that kind of light? I call on the resting soul, of Galileo King of night vision, king of insight I'm not making a joke, You know me, I take everything so seriously If we wait for the time 'til all souls get it right Then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation In my lifetime, I'm still not right I offer thanks to those before me That's all I've got to say 'Cause maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime Now i have to pay... But then again it feels like some sort of inspiration To let the next life off the hook But she'll say "look what I had to overcome from my last life I think I'll write a book!" How long 'til my soul gets it right? Can any human being ever reach the highest light? Except for (the resting soul) Galileo, God rest his soul (of Galileo) King of night vision, king of insight... How long...? (until my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long...? ('til my soul gets it right) ('Til we reach the highest light) How long... |
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| 3. |
| 5:14 |
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There's a letter on the desktop
That I dug out of a drawer The last truce we ever came to From our adolescent war And I start to feel the fever From the warm air through the screen You come regular like seasons Shadowing my dreams And the Mississippi's mighty But it starts in Minnesota At a place that you could walk across With five steps down And I guess that's how you started Like a pinprick to my heart But at this point you rush right through me And I start to drown And there's not enough room In this world for my pain Signals cross, and love gets lost And time passed makes it plain Of all my demon spirits I need you the most I'm in love with your ghost I'm in love with your ghost Dark and dangerous like a secret (don't tell a soul) That gets whispered in a hush When I wake the things I dreamt about you (don't tell a soul) Last night make me blush Then you kissed me like a lover Then you sting me like a viper I go follow to the river Play your memory like the Piper And I feel it like a sickness How this love is killing me But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly And dance the edge of sanity I've never been this close In love with your ghost Unknowing captor You'll never know much you Pierce my spirit But I can't touch you Can you hear it, a cry to be free... Oh, I'm forever under lock and key As you pass through me Now I see your face before me That would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island As the sand beneath me slips As I burn up in your presence And I know now how it feels To be weakened like Achilles With you always at my heels And my bitter pill to swallow Is the silence that I keep It poisons me, I can't swim free The river is too deep Though I'm baptized by your touch I am no worst at most In love with your ghost (In love) You are shadowing my dreams (with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) (In love with your ghost) |
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| 4. |
| 3:34 |
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you said the world was magic
i was wide-eyed and laughing we were dancing up to the bright side forget about your ego forget about your pride and you will never have to compromise and you were only joking you were only joking brother we talked about our mothers kissed the wounds of our fathers i could have been your sister i would have been your brother you kissed me like i was a soldier headed for a war i dying man but i don't know what for and you were only joking you were only joking brother you were only joking (wide-eyed and laughing) you were only joking brother (dancing up to the bright side) gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet i bruised my heels on the swollen street we were girls in bars boys on the town bumping like a pinball off a careless crowd you said good friends are hard to come by i laughed and bought you a beer it's too corny to cry well sentiment given oh sentiment lost you shake it off with a smirk and a toss and you were only joking you were only joking brother you were only joking were only joking brother and you were only joking (gravel and glass on the bottom of my feet) you were only joking brother (i bruised my heels on the swollen street) you kissed me like a soldier heading for a war (joking) i'm a dying man (you were only joking) and you were only joking (don't know what for) (dying man) you were only joking brother (don't know what for) and you were only and you were only and you were only joking brother one two three four ah yeah sha la sha la sha la sha la sha la (wide eyed and laughing) sha la (dancing up to the bright side) sha la (wide eyed and laughing) sha la (dancing up to the bright side) |
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| 5. |
| 4:08 | 
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| 6. |
| 4:37 |
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Guess I wasn't the best one to ask
Me, myself, with my face pressed Up against love's glass To see the shiny toy I've been hoping for The one I never can afford The wide world spins and spits turmoil And the nations toil for peace The paws of fear upon your chest Only love can soothe that beast And my words are paper tigers No match for the predator of pain inside her I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through And where there's now one, there will be two I was born under the sign of Cancer... (love will come to you) Like brushing cloth, I smooth the wrinkles for an answer... (love will come) And I'm always closing my eyes (close my eyes) (Wish you fine) And wishing I'm fine (Even though I) Even though I'm not this time (know your not this time) And I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through Where there's now one there will be two Dodging your memories (dodging you memories) A field of knives Always on the outside looking in On other's lives I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through (I have offered up to you) Where there's now one there will be two And I wish her insight To battle love's blindness Strength from the milk of human kindness A safe place for all The pieces that scatter Learn to pretend There's more Than love That matters... |
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| 7. |
| 4:44 |
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A love-struck Romeo
Sings a street-side serenade He's layin' everybody low He's got a love song that he made He finds a convenient street light And steps out of the shade, and says something like "You and me babe, how about it?" Juliet says, "Hey it's Romeo You nearly gave me a heart attack" yeah well He's underneath my window, now she's singing 'Hey-la my boyfriend's back' You shouldn't come around here Singing up to people like that Oh, anyway, whatcha gonna do about it? O Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start And I bet... and you exploded into my heart And I forget, I forget, the movie song When are you gonna realize It was just that the time was wrong Julie Well we both come up on different streets And they were both streets of shame You know, they're both dirty, both mean And yes even our dreams were the same But I dreamed your dream for you And now your dream is real, so tell me honey Now how can you look at me as if i were just another one of your deals? Now you can fall for chains of silver And you can fall for chains of gold You know, you fall for pretty strangers And the promises they hold Well you promised me everything, and then And then you promised me thick and thin And now you just turn away And say Romeo? I think i used to have a scene with him O Juliet, when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above Gonna love ya till I die There's a place for us I know you know this song Now when you gonna realize It was just that the time was wrong? Julie, I'm so in love So in love, yeah But I can't do the talk Like they talk on my t.v. screen I can't do a love song Not the way you sung it to me I can't do anything but I would Do anything for you I can't do anything except Be in love with you, yeah Now all I do is miss you And the way it used to be, you know And all I do is keep the beat I keep bad, bad company And all I do is kiss you Through the bars of this rhyme When, Julie, I'd do the stars with you, anytime Ah Juliet, when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above I'm gonna love ya till I die There's a place for us I know, you know, the movie song One day we're gonna realize It was just that the time was wrong Julie, Julie, Julie Now this love struck romeo Sings a street-side serenade He's lettin' everybody know He's got a love song that he made He finds a convenient street light And he'll step out of the shade and he'll say something like You and me babe, how about it? |
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| 8. |
| 5:28 |
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Some will strut and some will fret
See this an hour on this stage Others will not but they'll sweat In their hopelessness in their rage We're all the same The men of anger And the women of the page They published your diary And that's how I got to know you Key to the room of your own and a mind without end And here's a young girl On a kind of a telephone line through time And the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend So I know I'm all right my life will come my life will go Still I feel it's all right 'Cause I just got a letter to my soul When my whole life is on the tip of my tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughs in my face You say each life has its place The hatches were battened Thunderclouds rolled and the critics stormed Battles surrounded the white flag of your youth But if you need to know that you weathered the storm Of cruel mortality A hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof So you know it's all right Your life will come your life will go Still you feel it's all right Someone will get a letter to your soul When your whole life was on the tip of your tongue Empty pages for the no longer young The apathy of time laughed in your face Did you hear me say each life has its place The place where you hold me Is dark in a pocket of truth The moon has swallowed the sun and the light of the earth And so it was for you when the river eclipsed your life But sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me And it was my rebirth So we know we're all right Life will come and life will go Still you'll feel it's all right Someone'll get a message to your soul (And then you'll know you're all right) And when my life is on the tip of my tongue (Then you'll feel you're all right) Empty pages for the no longer young (The you'll feel it's all right, and it's all right) You said each life has its place (The you'll feel it's all right, and it's all right) And you said each life has its place And it's all right |
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| 9. |
| 5:44 |
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i am an only child
born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend your time defending my plan dead dog on the highway median cats are growling at me i turn my lights on brighter counting through the night ride and it's one more life for the taker chickenman one more song for the maker chickenman on the road to Athens i saw a dead deer on the highway i slipped into a desert five prairie dogs and a rabbit i was running down on queen street i saw a woman on the sidewalk she was beaten by a stranger danger danger danger nd it's one more life for the taker chickenman chicken-man chickenman hold my hand one more life for the maker hold my hand chickenman i was on the road to Austin i met a man on the highway he sold me junk and conversation he was wise and dirty from the weather i said darkness into darkness all the carnage of my journeys makes it hard to be living he said it's a long road to be forgiven and one more life for the taker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand one more song for the maker chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child born of the wild riddled to spend my time defending my land you are my only one born in the sun riddled to spend you time defending my plan i went looking for a car found myself beneath the stars i went looking for a girl found a man and his world chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand i am an only child hold my hand chickenman chickenman chickenman hold my hand |
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| 10. |
| 3:21 |
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Up on the airplane
Nearer my God to Thee I start making a deal Inspired by gravity (inspired by gravity) If I did wrong, I won't do it again Cause I can be sweet and good and nice And if I had enemies, they're friends I hold on, to my life, with the grip of a vice... And I'm up the airplane (up on the airplane) Nearer my God to Thee (nearer my God thee) (count on the plane) I start making a deal Inspired by gravity (inspired by gravity) That little spot on the ground is my home town Like to call it my home and it's sweet I'd rather take a seat down there than a throne up here Up above 30,000 feet... And I'm up on the airplane... I never should've read my horoscope Or the fortune on the bubblegum strip Saying, "what you think won't happen will" Great thing to read before a trip... On an airplane... Thought says the big blue sky's like a swimming pool Big fluffy cloud's like a feather bed But I'd rather have a real pillow underneath my head Lying in my bed, which is in my hometown Which is on the ground Far from an airplane (My bed, my hometown) Far from an airplane (On the ground. My bed, my hometown) Far from an airplane (On the ground. My bed, my hometown) On the airplane [On the ground] [I'll be making a deal] I'm up on the airplane (On the ground) (I'll be making a deal) On the airplane (I'll be making a deal) (I'll be making a deal) (I'll be making a deal) |
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| 11. |
| 3:57 |
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As I drive, from your pearly gates
I realize, that I just can't stay All those mountains, they kept you locked inside And hid the truth, from my slighted eyes I came to you with a half-open heart Dreams upon my back, illusions of a brand new start Nashville, can't I carry the load Is it my fault, I can't reap what i sow Nashville, did you give me half a chance With your southern style, and your hidden dance away You dance away And you dance away All these voices, they whisper through my walls They talk of falling fast, they say I'm losing it all They say I'm running blind to love of my own But I'll be walking proud, I'm saving what i still own I fell on my knees to kiss your land But you are so far down, and i can't even see to stand In Nashville you forgot the human race You see with half a mind what colors hide the face Nashville, I'd like to know your fate I'd like to stay a while But I've seen your lowered states today I've seen 'em today Honey, I swear I've seen 'em today Now I'm leaving I've got all these debts to pay You know we all have our dues, I'll pay 'em some other place Ah, I never ask that you pay me back We all arrive with more, I left with less than I had Your town is made for people passing through A last chance for a cause I thought I knew But Nashville, you tell me what you are gonna do With all your southern style, it'll never pull you through Nashville, I can't place no blame But if you forget my face, I'll never call your name again No never again, no never again I fell on my knees to kiss your land But you are so far down, and i can't even see to stand In Nashville you forgot the human race You see with half a mind what colors hide the face Nashville, I'd like to know your fate I'd like to stay a while But I've seen your lowered states today I've seen 'em today Honey, I swear I've seen 'em today I'm running away, I'm running away I'm running, I'm running I'm running away |
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| 12. |
| 3:54 |
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sticks and stones
battle zones a single light bulb on a single thread for the black sirens wail history fails rose-colored glass begins to age and crack while the politicians shadowbox the power ring in an endless split decision never solve anything from a neighbor's distant land i heard the strain of the common man let it be me (this is not a fighting song) let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong) let it be me if the world is night shine my life like a light well the world seems spent and the president has no good idea of who the masses are well i'm one of them and i'm among friends we're trying to see beyond the fences in our own backyards i've seen the kingdoms blow like ashes in the winds of change but the power of truth is the fuel for the flame so the darker the ages get there's a stronger beacon yet let it be me (this is not a fighting song) let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong) let it be me if the world is night shine my life like a light in the kind word you speak in the turn of the cheek when your vision stays clear in the face of your fear then you see turning out a light switch is their only power when we stand like spotlights in a mighty tower all for one and one for all then we sing the common call let it be me (this is not a fighting song) let it be me (not a wrong for a wrong) let it be me if the world is night shine my life like a light |
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| 3:46 |
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You dug a well
You dug it deep For every wife you buried You planted a cedar tree The best... The best you ever had... I stand where you stood I stand for bad or good And I am green And you are wood The best... The best he ever had... I dig a well I dig it deep And for my only love I plant a cedar tree The best... The best we ever had... |
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| 14. |
| 3:17 |
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three hits to the heart son
and it's poetry in motion one could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered would you trade your words for freedom that's a barter for a blind man three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion are you levee'd like a treasure only words can help me find you and this world's a fickle measure i would painfully remind you from a wise man to your red hand you lay covered ion our best sins three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion well i dream you constant stranger with your best bloods and your anger you say mother do you claim me my beloved do you blame me well the first two might release you but the last one sings in me son three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion three hits to the heart son and the last one sings in me |
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| 4:52 |
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Guess I wasn't the best one to ask
Me, myself, with my face pressed Up against love's glass To see the shiny toy I've been hoping for The one I never can afford The wide world spins and spits turmoil And the nations toil for peace The paws of fear upon your chest Only love can soothe that beast And my words are paper tigers No match for the predator of pain inside her I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through And where there's now one, there will be two I was born under the sign of Cancer... (love will come to you) Like brushing cloth, I smooth the wrinkles for an answer... (love will come) And I'm always closing my eyes (close my eyes) (Wish you fine) And wishing I'm fine (Even though I) Even though I'm not this time (know your not this time) And I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through Where there's now one there will be two Dodging your memories (dodging you memories) A field of knives Always on the outside looking in On other's lives I say love will come to you Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through (I have offered up to you) Where there's now one there will be two And I wish her insight To battle love's blindness Strength from the milk of human kindness A safe place for all The pieces that scatter Learn to pretend There's more Than love That matters... |
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