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Take It Easy
Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load I've got seven women on my mind Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me One says she's a friend of mine Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy Lighten up while you still can Don't even try to understand Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Winslow, Arizona With such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to take a look at me Come on baby, don't say maybe I've got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me We may lose and we may win But we will never be here again Open up I'm climbin' in to take it easy Well I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load Got a world of trouble on my mind Lookin' for a lover who won't blow my cover She's just a little hard to find Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy Come on baby, don't say maybe I've got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me You know we got it easy We oughta take it easy |
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| 2. |
| 3:40 |
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Our Lady Of The Well
It is a dance we do in silence Far below this morning sun You in your life, me in mine We have begun Here we stand and without speaking Draw the water from the well And stare beyond the plains To where the mountains lie so still But it's a long way that I have come Across the sand to find this peace among your people in the sun Where the families work the land as they have always done Oh it's so far the other way my country's gone Across my home has grown the shadow Of a cruel and senseless hand Though in some strong hearts The love and truth remain And it has taken me this distance And a woman's smile to learn That my heart remains among them And to them I must return But it's a long way that I have come Across the sand to find you here among these people in the sun Where your children will be born You'll watch them as they run Oh it's so far the other way my life has gone If you look for me, Maria You will find me in the shade Wide awake or in a dream It's hard to tell-- If you come to me, Maria I will show you what I've made It's a picture for our lady of the well |
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| 3. |
| 4:17 |
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Colors Of The Sun
Colors of the sun Flashing on the water top Echo on the land Picking for a coin Many other tiny worlds Singing past my hand Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seeming just to be this way Dying men draw numbers in the air Dream to conquer little bits of time Scuffle with the crowd to get their share And fall behind their little bits of time Voices in the air Sympathetic harmony Coming from the trees Hanging at my door Many shiny surfaces Clinging in the breeze Oh, leave me where I am I am not losing If I am choosing not to plan my life Disillusioned saviors search the sky Wanting to just to show someone the way Asking all the people passing by Doesn't anybody want the way I say goodbye to Joseph and Maria They think I see another sky And from my fallen window I still see them I'll never free them from the sky |
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| 3:45 |
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I Thought I Was A Child
It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing And came upon the wisdom in your eyes Surprise-- I've spent my whole life running 'round Chasing songs from town to town Thinking I'd be free so long as I never let love slow me down So lonely and so wild until you turned and smiled By now I should have long been gone But here I am still looking on As if I didn't know which way to run It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to me As if you know how it feels to never be who you wanted to be I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of time Alone within the boundaries of my mind I thought I was a child |
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| 4:40 |
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These Days
Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days-- These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do For you And all the times I had the chance to And I had a lover It's so hard to risk another these days These days-- Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long I'll keep on moving Things are bound to be improving these days These days-- These days I sit on corner stones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them |
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| 6. |
| 3:59 |
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Red neck Friend
Pretty little one How has it all begun? They're teaching you how to walk But you're already on the run Little one-- What you gonna do? Little one-- Honey, it's all up to you Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news Mama's with a friend, lately she's been so confused Little one-- Come on and take my hand I may not have the answer but I believe I got a plan Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line And see if we can't get in touch with a very close friend of mine But let me clue you in, it ain't like him To argue or pretend-- Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend Well they've got a little list of all those things of which they don't approve They've got to keep their eyes on you or you might make your move Little one-- I really wish you would Little one-- I think the damage would do you good Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line We're going to forget all about the battle It's gonna feel so fine 'Cause he's the missing link, the kitchen sink-- Eleven on a scale of ten Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend Honey you shake and I'll rattle and we'll roll on down the line I'm going to try to swing you up into my saddle And then we'll run but you'll think we're flyin' Now honey don't just stand there Lookin' like this dream will never end Honey let me introduce you to my redneck friend |
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| 3:39 |
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in the time we've known
that we each are a part of one another we've lost as much as we have won and as our lives have grown we have found that it only brings us pain to hang on to the things that we have done still i've loved the times you've come when you went away taking all that i built my false road on i dropped my life and couldn't find the pieces now you come and go and it's hard but i feel my strength returning we'll see how far this new road reaches we'll see a little more each time we come everybody's gonna tell you it's not worth it everybody's gotta show you their own pain you might try to find your way up around it but the need for love will still remain now we're lying here so safe in the ruins of our pleasure laughter marks the place where we have fallen and our lives are near so it wouldn't occur to us to wonder is this the past or the future that is calling? you know i've loved these times you've come |
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| 3:36 |
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Ready Or Not
Someone's going to have to explain it to me I'm not sure what it means My baby's feeling funny in the morning She's having trouble getting into her jeans Her waist-line seems to be expanding Although she never feels like eating a thing I guess we'll reach some understanding When we see what the future will bring I met her in a crowded barroom One of those typical Hollywood scenes I was doing my very best Bogart But I was having trouble getting into her jeans I punched an unemployed actor Defending her dignity He stood up and knocked me through that barroom door And that girl came home with me Now baby's feeling funny in the morning She says she's got a lot on her mind Nature didn't give her any warning Now she's going to have to leave her wild ways behind She says she doesn't care if she never spends Another night running loose on the town She's gonna be a mother Take a look in my eyes and tell me brother If I look like I'm ready I told her I had always lived alone And I probably always would And all I wanted was my freedom And she told me that she understood But I let her do some of my laundry And she slipped a few meals in between And the next thing I remember, she was all moved in And I was buying her a washing machine My baby's feeling funny in the morning She says she's got a lot on her mind Nature didn't give her any warning But she's feeling better about it all the time She says she's ready for some meaning After all of her running around Well bless my soul, she's got a rock-and-roll bandman Thinking 'bout settling down |
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| 3:25 |
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Sing My Songs To Me
Sing my songs to me Sing them to me softly Sing me sunlight and shadows Orange groves and meadows Let your voice ring back my memories Sing my songs to me Bring my dreams to me Bring them from the darkness Let the minutes and hours Show my mind strange new flowers But I'd like to know where they go when the morning comes Bring my dreams to me Because it seems to me that there may never be A better chance to see who I am Come timelessly dancing Through my dreams to me |
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| 5:57 |
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For Everyman
Everybody I talk to is ready to leave With the light of the morning They've seen the end coming down long enough to believe That they've heard their last warning Standing alone Each has his own ticket in his hand And as the evening descends I sit thinking 'bout Everyman Seems like I've always been looking for some other place To get it together Where with a few of my friends I could give up the race And maybe find something better But all my fine dreams Well thought out schemes to gain the motherland Have all eventually come down to waiting for Everyman Waiting here for Everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand Waiting here for Everyman-- Don't ask me if he'll show -- baby I don't know Make it on your own if you think you can Somewhere later on you'll have to take a stand Then you're going to need a hand Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one Who can give them the answers And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun Where sweet childhood still dances Who'll come along And hold out that strong and gentle father's hand? Long ago I heard someone say something 'bout Everyman Waiting here for Everyman-- Make it on your own if you think you can If you see somewhere to go I understand I'm not trying to tell you that I've seen the plan Turn and walk away if you think I am-- But don't think too badly of one who's left holding sand He's just another dreamer, dreaming 'bout Everyman |
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