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I meet you for coffee
We get together periodically and I got a bad case I can't shake off of me The fevered wanderin round wondering how it ought to be You work in the system You see possibilities and you're glistening Eyes show the hell you're gonna give 'em When they back off the mic for once and give it to a woman I dream like a mad one Brutal fantasies I catch as catch can I'm a psychic and a laywoman I see love and I like to make it happen What we get from your war walk The ticker of the nation breaking down like a bad clock I want the pendulum to swing again So that all your mighty mandate was just spitting in the wind It doesn't come by the bullwhip It's not persuaded with your hands on your hips It's not the company of gunslingers The epicenter love is the pendulum swinger She is she is she is It's fine about the old scroll Sanskrit Gnostic gospels the da vinci code a smash hit Aren't we dying just to read it and relate it Too hard just to go by a blind faith But they left out the sisters I've been praying to a father god so long I really missed her The goddess of benevolence You should listen to your mama if you have a lick of sense left Pushed under by the main press, buried under a code of dress Relegated by the Vatican But you can't keep a spirit down that wants to get up again If we're a drop in the bucket With just enough science to keep from saying f**k it Until the last drop of sun burns its sweet light Plenty revolutions left until we get this thing right 2006 words and music: Emily Saliers |
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Back in the long stretch of loneliness
I have come to call a living I'm getting something for all this love's labor Even when I am forgetting Oh we oh oh, little perennials Where'd you come from? Daughter of my father's second cousin Loyalties, I got 'em by the dozen We share a past, we share a blood relation And that's as good as an invitation Oh we oh oh, little perennials Where'd you come from? I'm in the North Carolina mountains Just to the west of where I met my calling If you look south to the foothills of these mountains rising That's the place where it feels good falling That's the place that I know I look for words to fill the empty spaces All the life revealed in these back stages I reach for names like little puzzle pieces Oh perennial, come to me Oh we oh oh, little perennials Where'd you come from? |
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When we tried to rework all of this
Each to her rendition We painted ourselves in a corner Lost for ideas blindly fishing For a compliment or kindness Just to bring us into view But you could not interpret me and I could not interpret you I remember that cold morning when the trees were black with birds I tried to make out some connection We were at a loss for words After all that we've been through I could not see giving up Despite the picture of our coffee growing colder in the cups I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough And I believe in you and I believe in love So we went rolling on down through the years Taking time off we could steal Until the thief of things unreconciled Stuck it's stick into the wheel Now we're tumbling in a freefall No one's gonna go unscathed But it's not because you held back and its not how I behaved I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love There are avenues and supplements and books stacked on the shelf Labyrinths of recovery in search of our best self But most of what will happen now is way out of our hands So just let it go and see where it lands I want to say that underneath it all you are my friend And the way that I fell for you I'll never fall that way again I still believe despite our differences that what we have's enough I believe in you and I believe in love I believe in you and I believe in love |
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I drive a three county highway
And every one of them town's got a firework show It's 4th of July and I'm just now getting home, On the horizon I can see them all unfold It's been a warm winter and a cold spring Everywhere I've been has felt wrong to me Everything I kept What I never should have thrown away I wanted you for all those yesterdays I was wishing for you one Sunday morning Walkin down the road in some debtor's town From every church a hymn came blendin' in and everyone of them wantin' to be found Did you say it took a long time to find a lot less man and less harm done? Did you say it took a long time to find a handsome one to keep you young? One day I'm gonna make it up to you, one day we're gonna laugh instead of cry. One day I'm coming home to stay, it's true, and baby, that's the last ticket I'm ever gonna buy. It's been a warm winter and a cold spring, everywhere I've been has felt wrong to me. So put your head on my heart and lay down in the crook of my arm. Everything's okay, I've been found again, I've been found again. (Words and music by Amy Ray) |
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You don't want me calling you up
All melancholy sick from love You prefer it uncomplicated Things are tricky now I bet you hate it Your mind's eye finds the exit sign And you're off in perfect fashion And you run, that's all you've ever done It's all you know to do I can't hold that against you And you'll flee cause you're born to be free And if you go I'll understand But you better get out while you can The party's over, we had our fun Flirting with madness a loaded gun As much as nothing everything's changed I'm soaking in it, it falls like rain You seek the sun to dry off what's been done You'll heat up every corner of the world As you run, that's all you've ever done It's all you know to do I can't hold that against you And you'll flee cause you're born to be free And if you go I'll understand But you better get out while you can Can you keep this pace forever I have never seen it done Up deep burn all you leave behind you You are the surface of my sun I measure to what degree I can shape up what's been forged in me The cooper penny hissing in the pool So much for wishes so much for cooling Down this fire impossible desire The further you get the more I'm drawn And you run, that's all you've ever done It's all you know to do I can't hold that against you And you'll flee cause you're born to be free And if you go I'll understand But you better get out while you can |
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It didn't happen for you,
no one wants to hear the truth, coming from three political queers. Plucking the punk rock bloom. So you break up the band and leave us all in tow. Now we gotta figure out where to go. I caught it at a rave Did it give you vaccination? I saw it on my T.V. Did it lighten up your load? And every f**kin D.J. Did you feel affilliated, Is telling me I'm free. like you really had a home? Free to be a loser Were the ticket prices too high? Free to be a trend Were the lights too bright? Free to be a backlash over and over again. Was it all a bunch of hype? You say, "I'm losing inspiration, one band at a time. I gotta know there's someone, somewhere, out there singing for our side." Where I come up, we share the mortar and the glue. And what we build together, we share that too. And the wind may come, and the rain may fall, but we stand together or we don't stand at all. Where are you going to now, now that the goings gone? So here's to your survival and swimming up the stream, crossing over one dam after another until we get to Rock and Roll Heaven's gate. I caught it at a rave Did it give you vaccination? I saw it on the T.V. Did it lighten up your load? And every f**king D.J. Did you feel affiliated, Is telling me I'm free. Like you really had a home? Free to be a loser Were the ticket prices too high? Free to be a trend Were the lights too bright? Free to be a backlash over and over until I get to Rock and Roll Heaven's gate. |
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Oh the party's kicked up a few notches
Look at us getting loose She leans back against the wall and she watches, tugging her collar like it might be a noose. And everyone's tied to their thing to their past or their drink or the date that they bring I just get tired all of sudden taking it in. And I want to lay my head down on you Because you're the only solid thing in this room A room full of changes, strangers, illusion, confusion, I speak from my heart but I'm not really sure if it's true. I wanna lay my head down on you. Oh they say don't waste too much time planning or you'll get rug ripped out and the only way you'll be satisfied is learning to live without. But some plan for the kingdom of heaven and some take their chances and bet lucky seven I don't know what to believe, I just show up and breathe anymore. And I wanna lay my head down on you because you're the only solid thing in this room A room full of dressers, professors, lookers, hookers If I don't get out I'll do something I don't wanna do. And I wanna lay my head down on you. Was it so long ago that we sat and talked in your car your things were all packed and the place you were headed not really that far years later I think that I would have been much more alive To have taken you up on your offer and taken that drive Oh well everything that's come before us leads us to where we are now and that's simple, I know so why can't I let go of the feeling that I'm lost somehow I'm just a ghost looking in Out of my own life just visiting in search of a body to have and to hold and to keep and to sleep. I wanna lay my head down on you because you're the only solid thing in this room a room full of missed chance, slow dance, cold fate heartache I showed up for a party and saw my life story full view And I wanna lay my head down on you. |
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So money made you mean
and that's not how it's supposed to be. You're ready to challenge and defend, yeah, but for all the wrong reasons. How much do we really need? a question, if you have to ask just means what it means- the question that says everything. Right and left it's all the same conspiracy just cause you ask, doesn't make a difference to me. You could keep it all or give it away but where did it come from in the first place? Robbing Peter to pay me, and I'll just be giving it back to Peter to feel free. Now you have to fix everything that's broke cause it'll never leave you alone. Reinvent the wheel, be the butt of a joke, take the long road to charity. Right or left it's all the same conspiracy robbing Peter to pay Paul or robbing Peter to pay me. Robbing Peter to pay Paul or robbing Peter to pay me. Yeah it's just too hard, oh well, jump in. Forget about the sharks and swim, cause now you're one, now you're one. You can't deny it anymore. Right or left it's all the same conspiracy robbing Peter to pay Paul or robbing Peter to pay me. Robbing Peter to pay Paul or robbing Peter to pay me. You can't deny it anymore. |
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Fly away little bird
Any place in this open mouthed world Begs to be fed like a bed that beckons you, but you won't rest Everyone's got a need to go Most of us stick with our row to hoe But not you, you're the black crow With a straight line, and no time For the birds of prey who wreck your nest Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear I opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view You went there too Fly away little bird Find the song in you that no one's heard Strengthen your wings as you sing your solo flight Through this short life Everyone's got a deep regret We try to ground ourselves to forget But your race to the end is neck and neck You love them, you love them not The birds of prey who wreck your nest, Twice your size steal your best They set you on this course of your collision I am a stop along your way I am the words you'll never say I crossed the great beyond of fear Opened my eyes and saw us there, what a view And you went there too But all along your chosen path are Window panes and sheets of glass That you won't see You fly too fast One day it will be over Fly away little bird The saddest song I ever heard Was the one that I wrote you in my heart That never made it to the world |
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You're looking at foreclosure
and doing time, and it don't sound good this time. They found the meth and the scales, and the wife that made your life Hell. All that time you were telling me you were fine. Silly man. So I got your dog. How is that? I made it nice, I wrote a check. You cut the weeds back on my drive, 'cause you're a good guy, deep down inside. What makes a boy like you go bad? What makes a man so lonely and sad, that he's poison all he knows and in one year, just let it go? And all that time you were telling me you were fine, Silly man, you're a silly boy. It's been you and me on this frontier trying not to be suburban pioneers. Fightin' off the pavers and the associations, and the covenants against the trailers. I remember how we use to laugh at all those rotten men in camo' drag- with their advantage and their guns, up in the deer stand, shooting up a storm. And all that time you were telling me all those lies. Silly man, I'm a silly girl. You and me- we used to hibernate like bears and when we finally came up for air, everything's all marked and cleared, survey flags flying everywhere. Once you told me what, what I'll miss the most is just being the only ones- with our dirt and our dead ends and no one to turn us in. Once you told me what, what I'll miss the most is just being the only ones- with our dirt and our dead ends and no one to turn us in. |
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I wasn't looking to shift my direction
My eyes straight ahead hands ten and two The gravity of our first connection Veering off the road and into you All the people drive by slowly gawking at the scene Of the smoldering inevitable spark and gasoline All the way I met you head on full speed At the heart the blue flame burns All the way I took the crash course impact But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn No amount of playing safe could save me from this day The head seeking path of my trajectory Didn't we coolly divest of predestination Slamming into futures we can't see I know what can happen when there's more than meets the eye But there's no way to avoid it just get in the car and drive All the way I met you head on full speed At the heart the blue flame burns All the way I took crash course impact But have I learned all that I'm supposed to learn It makes me laugh, we're talking over tea When I can still smell the smoke on my sleeve Steaming like gun smoke the wreckage of our past The scene of a crime I still can't leave Oh you and me, we should let well enough be But each revisitation points to clues There's the oil slick of uncertainty And warning signs back there we didn't use At least we laugh about it now how we escaped alive It's remarkable the mess we make and what we can survive (repeat chorus) |
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They won't have me, but I love this place.
The rural life is broken, the farmlands gone to chaff. My hands are idle, my mind needs rest, the toil of the decent and the sleep of the best. I sit in diners with the old men, they talk of work cause it's all they ever did. They gave their hearts to Jesus and got serious They gave up their drinking and worked for this nothing. All this love to offer, all this love to waste. All this love to offer, all this love to waste. There's a lame dog on the highway where the old road used to be. Now you know what divides us Is just a difference someone made. Some got tired of trying, some were just too scared to stay. We gave ourselves to nothing and we let 'em have their day. Now who's gonna do the planting? Who's gonna pray for rain? Who's gonna keep the farmland from the sub-division man? All this love to offer, all this love to waste. |
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These are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you
My cryin's through I'm moving on I don't regret and won't forget A single thing that we went through But there are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you You take things so much easier than I do And you could live your life without me if you had to And you believe that in the end it all works out right And I might if not for you And if you ask one which one lives just alone for love I do These are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you My cryin's through I'm moving on I don't regret and won't forget A single thing that we went through But there are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you There was a time when all signs pointed to the warm south The planets all lined up and built a new house And everything we talked about felt like a prophecy And when you looked at me they all came true And if you asked which one wants to go the distance I do These are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you My cryin's through I'm moving on I don't regret and won't forget A single thing that we went through But there are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you I'm gonna rack my mind one last time until I cannot think I'm gonna dip into your memory and take a good stiff drink And when I'm drunk on the last drop of sadness about how we went wrong I'm gonna play this song Make some coffee black and strong Give thanks for healing time And finally make up my mind These are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you Baby, my cryin's through I'm moving on I don't regret and won't forget A single thing that we went through But there are the last tears I'm gonna cry for you |
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