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| 1. |
| 3:30 | 
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Hearts and flowers, forget love letters
Pain and anger, forget forgiveness Love ain't waiting for a guy like me Debutantes and champagne, diamonds and cocaine I ain't the son of outrageous fortune Cash ain't status for a guy like me Put me on a cool river Take my worries from me Fly me high on a big blue sky Well, there's no one here but me, just me Long black limousine, pictures in magazines All night parties, beautiful people No super model for a guy like me I'm just a good man, I work with my hands I get the picture, I heard the message Hell, ain't waiting for a guy like me Put me on a cool river Take my sins from me Fly me high on the big blue sky Well, there's no one here, just me Put me on a cool river Take my pain from me Fly me high on the big blue sky Well, there's no one here, just me Yeah just me Hearts and flowers, forget love letters Pain and anger, forget forgiveness Love ain't waiting on a guy like me So put me on a cool river Take my worries from me Fly me high on the big blue sky Well there's no one here but me Put me on a cool river Take my worries from me Fly me high on the big blue sky Well, there's no one here but me Yeah, just me |
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| 2. |
| 4:03 |
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Some things I've done make my conscience burn
My very spine shudder and squirm I only hope that I've learned from my sin I heard a voice when I was thirteen Got baptized, washed up clean But the world has a way, if you know what I mean To scuff you up again and again I can't explain a blessed thing Not a falling star, or a feathered wing Or how a man in chains has the strength to sing Just one thing is clear to me There's always more than what appears to be And when the light's just right I swear I see poetry Now, somebody made every natural thing From the soul, inside out to Saturn's rings How my baby smiles and how Ray Charles sings Of course we were created The clouds make rain, the ocean makes sand The earth breathes fire, and lava makes land Now that took a mighty hand And a wild imagination I can't explain a blessed thing Not a falling star, or a feathered wing Or how a man in chains has the strength to sing Just one thing is clear to me There's always more than what appears to be And when the light's just right I swear I see poetry The dreams I dreamed came back ten-fold The friends I have, the woman I hold I look down and I'm on streets of gold After all the mud along the way And sometimes the big old mystery Just leans right on me And whispers that I'm home and I am free And I'll take that any day I can't explain a blessed thing Not a falling star, or a feathered wing Or how a man in chains has the strength to sing Just one thing is clear to me There's always more than what appears to be And when the light's just right I swear I see poetry |
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| 3. |
| 3:26 |
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Might stand out in the wind
Out on Mustang Island Might stay up all night Hangin' out with Hank Williams and cryin' I slept out on the sand so many nights that I can't remember Yeah but love is love and life is hard And one undoes the other Summer gold, Winter blue Where ever I am whatever I do Wrapped in you Might find me in Paris France, Someday soon Might drive this Malibu all the way to China Never can tell what I'll do I'm busted, shot clean through Where ever I am whatever I do Wrapped in you Held you once through April And in summer set you free Now the cold, cold nights are coming And I've lost everything I've never been to Paris France Never even seen Mustang Island Ol' hank was gone before I was born I'm not the kind to stay up cryin' May never go far, but here's the truth Where ever I am whatever I do I'm busted, shot clean through Whatever you want is what I'll do I'm wrapped in you. Wrapped in you Wrapped in you |
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| 4. |
| 4:04 |
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Mile upon mile, got no direction.
We're all playin' the same game. We're all lookin' for redemption. Just to pray, to say the name. So caught up now in pretendin' That what we're seekin' is the truth. I'm just lookin' for a happy endin'. All I'm lookin' for is you. [Chorus] You came upon me, wave on wave. You're the reason I'm still here, yeah. Am I the one you were sent to save? You came upon me, wave on wave. I wandered out into the water, An' I thought that I might drown. I don't know what I was after, Just know I was goin' down. And that's when she found me. Not afraid anymore. She said: "You know, I always had you, baby. "Just waitin' for you to find what you were lookin' for." [Chorus] Wave on wave. Wave on wave. [Chorus] The clouds broke and the angels cried: "You ain't gotta wipe the floor." That's why it put me in your hands. When it came upon me wave on wave. [Chorus] To fade. [Chorus] |
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| 5. |
| 4:29 |
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Hello California,
Sure is strange to be here today. What's a boy from down in Austin Doin' in the city of angels anyway? So won't ya come on out here with me? Find out what you can or can not see Maybe gain a new perspective Why we're so infected by our dreams Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming And thinking about the life we could have Yeah but you're back home in Texas, And I'm wondering when's the next time I get to hold you I just wanna hold you It's the sweetest kind of poison Tackle you and take away your faith Whiskey for a lifetime Wreck your soul with the smallest little taste Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming And thinking about the life we could have. Well I'm stranded in Los Angeles Wondering when's the next time I get to hold you, I just wanna hold you. I am just a guitar man That fell in love with you Times good or bad, I'd take ?em all the same You could have some 9 to 5 man comin' home to take your hand You know he's never gonna do Is this the life I dreamed of? Guess it's just the way it all went down Damn right I sure am happy With the crazy piece of life that I have found Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming And thinking about the life we could have Yeah but you're back home in Texas, And I'm stranded in Los Angeles Wondering when's the next time I get to hold you, I just wanna hold you. |
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| 6. |
| 3:55 |
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Pouring rain, cracked front window
I turned off my radio and reached for my boot For my favorite sterling horseshoe flask To take a drink of what it holds She was looking at her feet When I saw her on the street She was holding tight to someone else's hand So I kept on rolling and now here I am And I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying The earth is slow out west of llano Better pull this car of mine off-road awhile And reached to the back for my daddy's old martin Hold it oh so close to me I'd sing me some Jones or sad Newberry song I'm Gonna Sing 'til I stop crying Pull out my smokes, I pull out my Zippo And fire it up cause there's nothing left to do Well, the morning sun its a coming on Guess its safe to say that I won't make work today But a Roger Miller song sure sounds fine to me I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying Conway run to Miss Tammy Willie would you find Miss Emmy Lou Cause I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying |
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| 7. |
| 3:17 |
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Born lucky, I guess
Didn't hurt that I was in the right place At the right time too. That girl she was dandelion beautiful, Damn she was beautiful. The winter wind blows her like a bird And the petals on the flower fly away Sometimes it don't matter what you say All the good things fade away All the good things fade away I found me a game out towards Shreveport Couple days just hiding from the sun. Good with the cards and Good with the dice You could say I had a lucky little run. But what it all made it just a little bit more today But all the luck you have is just the bills you left unpaid All the good things fade away, All the good things fade away. Seems sure to me there has to be Such a thing as the good ol' days Some day somewhere my hair like my memories Will all just fade out to gray But they're all right now, And I'd just as soon keep it that way. All the good things fade away All the good things fade away All the good things fade away All the good things fade away |
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| 8. |
| 3:54 |
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Finally free
Finally gone Finally breathing again Finally back out on my own Finally here In an otherwise empty room Where there's no one here to tear me all apart [Chorus] Yeah tonight I'm gonna go out I'm gonna get a little wasted Yeah I'm one of those guys I'm one of those guys I gotta run Gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby Yeah and speakin' of faith I finally found me a song I'm in the same old place But there's a lot less screamin' and carryin' on Too much pain Too much hate Not enough fire Now its way too late [Chorus] You're looking back at me with your pretty little eyes And you want so bad for me to try and change You tried that one before Win the battle lose the war Just count your losses baby, and go Just count you losses baby, and go Well I gotta run, gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free Don't hold me down No baby |
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| 4:04 |
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We must be headed in the wrong direction
Cause there's nothing but pain out there I heard you say something about the cross upon your back The truth is, baby, life ain't always fair Your whole life is water running down a sidewalk You Followed the rocks and the cracks as you crawl cross the ground I ain't seen you smile in so long You must of built a house in the misery you found I'm tired, I'm tired now Tired of playing the same old game You got to get yourself together Say to yourself I ain't going down this way I ain't going down this way Sifting through your memories deep in the ground with the dead Maybe you were high on the top of the cloud with the dragon that lives in your head Maybe you were dragging your wagon with your thoughts like old wooden toys Maybe you were looking for something that you lost when you were a boy You eat when your hungry You sleep when your sleepy You drink like there's a hole in your soul All of your problems are begging to leave But you never want to let them go You never want to let them go It's a fine line between living it up and losing it all It's a fine line between getting up and moving on It's a fine line between living it up and losing it all It's a fine line between living it up and moving on If you stay one more day babe Don't you know your going to die, your going to die |
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| 3:57 |
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She holds the key to Eden's Gate
Somewhere deep inside When she gives to me her patience And a hundred smiles none the same Her eyes are the ocean I am drowning constantly I am lucky just to linger In the corners of her scene [Chorus] I am lost inside the walls of Eden Don't you ever set me free I am lost inside the walls of Eden I'll never go back, no I'll never go back again Outside the world's a bastard The son whose father never cared It keeps on raging like some crazy storm But not in here [Chorus] All it cost me was my whole life All it gives me is everything A love like fire, the taste of skin The feeling of falling again and again It's a long drink from a cool well It's everything, baby It's everything, baby, it's eveything I am lost inside the walls of Eden Don't you ever set me free [Chorus] |
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| 3:46 |
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A thick plush blue carpet at my feet
A peacock stained glass window staring back at me A nine foot crushed white velvet sofa in the hallway There's a TV in the kitchen She's cooking in her panties Flipping them little sandwiches likes she's flipping her hair Sure is nice to have someone to hold me I'm the king of kings you see Everything you need Baby, I'm Elvis I got a hundred golden records in this one room I got fifty golden knobs upon my door I got one black twenty-five foot stretch Cadillac to drive you home Downstairs there's a room in the basement It's mostly made of yellow and black Some folks call it the jungle I just think its a nice place to relax Once a year they all come to see me I watch them throwing flowers at my toes There's a line that stretches down the driveway Past my plane and ends at the gift shop |
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| 12. |
| 4:08 |
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Close my eyes
And ask myself a question Why is I do what I do Am I looking for some happy definition? Life, and love and the corners of the truth Or am I just some curious bystander Looking at the world through a child's eyes Sunlight, always shining on my shoulder While the storm rages on deep inside And it seems so hard To keep it all together When the walls are fallin' down On every side I'll be damned If I give up on you easy I've worked too hard To put the barricades aside This world is a stage We're meant to play on Direction from inside On what to do I don't know how I could have all the answers When inside I don't have a clue And it seems so hard To keep it all together When the walls are fallin' down On every side I'll be damned If I give up on you easy I've worked too hard To put the barricades aside Tell me something And I'll be okay Told myself I'd be alright No doubt So when do I know When I've been lyin'? I can't believe it took 30 years To figure that shit out And it seems so hard To keep it all together When the walls are fallin' down On every side I'll be damned If I give up on you easy I've worked too hard To put the barricades aside |
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| 7:25 | 
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