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Sharing with us what he knows Shining eyes are big and blue And all around him water flows This world to him is new This world to him is new To touch a face To kiss a smile New eyes see no race The essence of a child The essence He's born to shimmer, he's born to shine He's born to radiate He's born to live, he's born to love But we'll teach him not to hate True love, it is a rock Smoothed over by a stream No ticking of a clock Truly measures what that means Truly measures what that means And this thing they call our time Heard a brilliant woman say She said you know it's crazy How I want to try to capture mine I think I love this woman's way I think I love this woman's Way she shimmers, the way she shines The way she radiates The way she lives, the way she loves The way she never hates Sometimes I think of all of this that can surround me I know it all as being mine But she kisses me and wraps herself around me She gives me love, she gives me time And I feel fine I feel fine But I cannot change time So here's to looking bakc You know I drink a whole bottle of my pride And I toast to change To keep these demons off my back Just get these demons off my back Cause I want to shimmer, I want to shine I want to radiate I want to live, I want to love I want to try to learn not to hate Try not to hate We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate |
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I am in motion I am blue Love is an ocean I'm anchored in you and I am a dreamer so you sent me away sometimes we dreamers just get in the way but i've always known since I was a child that the road is my home and my spirit is wild And I have my memories and I've got lots of time And I'm stoned in San Francisco with you on my mind And I have my memories and I've got lots of time and I'm stoned in San Francisco with you on my mind I said I'm stoned in San Francisco I am in motion I am blue And Love is an ocean and I'm anchored in you Love is an ocean |
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she grew up with the children of the stars in the hollywood hills and the boulevard her parents threw big parties everyone was there they hung out with folks like dennis hopper bob seeger sonny and cher now she feels safe in the bar on fairfax and from the stage I can tell that she can't let go and she can't relax and just before she hangs her head to cry I sing to her a lullaby I sing everything's gonna be all right rockabye, rockabye she still lives with her mom outside the city down that street about a half a mile and all her friends tell her she's so pretty but she'd be a whole lot prettier if she smiled once in a while cause even her smile looks like a frown she's seen her share of devils in this angel town but everything's gonna be all right rockabye, rockabye I told her I ain't so sure about this place it's hard to play a gig in this town and keep a straight face seems like everyone here 's got a plan it's kind of like nashville with a tan but everything's gonna be all right rockabye rockabye everything's gonna be all right rockabye rockabye |
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She cooks him ham and ho-cakes at 5:30 every mornin'. She does the dishes and she irons his uniforms. And she thinks she might have loved him once but that was so long ago. And the rain pours down like a holy waterfall over the gulf of mexico. Boardwalk's deserted and the beach is all closed down. And the middle school punkrockers ride their skateboards through the town. And she looks back and she daydreams about things and people she's never seen just to keep from being blue and she gets home about a quarter to four and drives her brother to the liquor store on Ocean Avenue. And i'm parked on the state line on this cold November day and pretty soon I'll be a drivin' fool somewhere down this lost highway. And I hear a voice from my soul's core sayin "freedom's just a metaphor and you got nowhere to go" and the rain pours down like a holy waterfall over the gulf of mexico (x3) |
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September in seattle waiting on a train And I smoked my last cigarette standing in out of the rain. There's a cool wind blowin' down the alley by the depot Amtrak down the coastline to the city of the roses. Mama's hangin hand me downs Daddy's in the hotel bar kids reciting mother goose running naked through the yard. You see the best and the worst here the richest and the poor from the mansions on the hilltop to the red dirt floor. Pull into the station the sun's settin outside. The pushers and the pullers tryin to take you for a ride. Portland is a small town with a bitter city smile and as I walk these streets around I might just hang here for a while. |
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I met him on the cliffs of Twin Rocks Oregon he was sittin on his bedroll lookin just like Richard Brautigan I thought he was an old man he wasn't but 37 he said he'd been ridin trains for 15 years drawin portraits to keep his belly full of beer but it looked to me like he'd died and missed the plane to heaven but he was a nice ol' guy for a younger man he had a bottle of mad dog he held in his hand that he waved around a lot to make his point and I listened as he told his tales of wine and women and county jails and we finished off that bottle and smoked a half a joint he said "I came here to watch the sun disappear into the ocean 'cause it's been years since I smelled this salty sea" he turned his bottle up and down I saw him lost and I saw him found he said "I don't know what i've been lookin for, maybe me..." Well, I told him I too had been travelin around livin out of my van from town to town playin for tips and whatever records I could move I said "I don't reckon i'll be makin it big, you know it's hard to get rich off a tout of coffee house gigs" and he said "yeah, but ain't it a blessin to do what you wanna do..." and I told him "yeah, I pulled off here to watch the sun disappear into the ocean 'cause it's been years since I smelled this salty sea" and he turned his bottle up and down he saw me lost and he saw me found and I said "I don't know what I've been looking for, maybe me" I said "it's getting kind of late better be heading down the interstate can I give you a lift to san francisco bay?" he said "nope, I think I'm just going to sit here and rest and maybe wait on the tokyo-montana express I might just lay here and dream my life away i'm going to sit right here, i'm going to watch the sun disappear into the ocean 'cause it's been years, it's been years i'm gonna turn my bottle up and down you can see me lost and you can see me found" I met him on the cliffs of twin rocks, oregon he was sitting on his bedroll looking just like richard brautigan just like him |
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february rain smoky mountain fire like a hummingbird to cane just following desire watch the firelight throw shadows across the room many miles away not far from cannery row he beats on his guitar and does his little show and all the people say you got balls to play the game this way it's one in a million so he fills all the holes with good wine from mussel sholes and the cencemillian these streets were bound to cross maybe lifetimes ago whenever innocence is lost we got a long way to go we got a long way watch the firelight throw shadows across the room and on a rainy night two lovers held each other tight in the moonlight (he felt so good in her arms) in the moonlight (he felt so good in her arms) in the moonlight (he felt so good in her arms |
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maria lays in the tannin bed and reads the tuesday news she's down there every week at the same time with the same ol' blues she reads the funny papers and then the classifieds and if she ain't too lseepy there's the weather report on the flip side and this kansas life is a hard one for a girl from miami you're just staring out at the oil fields and that's all that I can see her old man's in the same place since the company let him go just sippin the pabst blue ribbon and cussin amoco maria drives home from the tannin bed and the black clouds roll across the sky she pulls into the trailer park, pops the trunk and calls the kids outside said there's a twister comin and you haven't got a clue I ain't going to sit here in this double wide and wait around for you cause i'm taking the microwave oven and i'm takin the color tv and i'm packin up the chevy with the kids and what's left of me this kansas life is a hard one for a girl from miami just staring out at the oil fields |
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like fallin rain the days go by can't kill the pain and you wonder why be strong hold on lotta love to go around stay wild soul child don't you let 'em bring you down it's like a dream wake me up when it's over somewhere in between enemy and lover walk proud sing out loud it always hurts to wonder why one more mile my soul child you'll never know until you try like fallin rain the days go by can't kill the pain and you wonder why be strong hold on lotta love to go around stay wild soul child don't you let 'em bring you down walk proud sing out loud it always hurts to wonder why stay wild my soul child you'll never know until you try you'll never know until you try you'll never know until you try |
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| 3:19 |
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my name's billy jo mckay I just turned 16 yesterday I'm gonna get the nerve one day to get outta here my ma passed on 3 years ago they said it was cancer and it took her slow and ever since then i've been sayin no to my daddy and my tears now when you come down our road you gotta watch the bump right there across from the garbage dump you can find me out back jumpin on the trampoline and in the springtime we'll be skippin school we sneak off to the cantrell's swimming pool man, you can't get much cooler than me and my friend darlene now my granddaddy's hands are worn from 50 years of growin corn back behind the houe where I was born before he had to sell and my cousin eddie, he got shot in the walmart parkin lot yeah this little town's changed a lot, he said it hurt like hell my name's billy jo mckay, it's a hot mississippi summer saturday daddy's on the porch with uncle dave drinkin dixie beer 16 years of being bored my window's open, forget the door hope there's some gas in the old man's ford cause i'm outta here I'm outta here, i'm outta here I'm outta here, i'm outta here I'm outta here maybe i'll go down to biloxi or maybe to new orleans or maybe hotlanta |
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I had a dream I was in school reading your autograph pages of green in seventh grade now like an epitaph alone in your room with and artist inside of you you died way too soon but I still can feel you warm in a circle of friends how have you all been we'd never die just go through hell and re group again so button it down so the wind won't blow it all away and pass it around like champagne on a holiday pass it around there's a lot of that to go around |
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well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt and I shaved my face and combed my hair and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day i'd smoked my brain the night before with cigarettes and songs that I've been pickin' but I lit my first and watched a small kid cussin' at a can that he was kickin then I crossed the empty street and caught the sunday smell of someone fryin chicken and it took me back to something that I'd lost somehow somewhere along the way on the sunday morning sidewalk wishing lord that I was stoned cause there's something in a sunday that makes a body feel alone and there's nothing short of dying half as lonesome as the sound on the sleeping city sidewalk sunday morning coming down in the park I saw a daddy with a laughing little girl he was swingin and I stopped beside the Sunday school and listened to the song that they were singing then I headed back for home and somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing and it echoed thru the canyon like the disappearing dreams of yesterday on the sunday morning sidewalk wishing lord that I was stoned cause therels something in a sunday that makes a body feel alone and there's nothing short of dying half as lonesome as the sound on the sleeping city sidewalk sunday morning coming down |
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I've been on the road too long And Ive been stuck inside a song and you know our love has been through rougher weather but our passion's like a rose the season's tell it how it grows and not much compares to the times we've shared together cause love -heals everything we're no exception -to the rule you mean everything -to me So if there's anything at all all you got to do is call and you know that Ill drive 2000 miles Just to show you that I care Just to kiss your honey hair and pull you close and hold you like a child love -heals everything we're -no exception --to that rule you -mean everything you -mean everything you -mean everything --to me |
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Sharing with us what he knows Shining eyes are big and blue And all around him water flows This world to him is new This world to him is new To touch a face To kiss a smile New eyes see no race The essence of a child The essence He's born to shimmer, he's born to shine He's born to radiate He's born to live, he's born to love But we'll teach him not to hate True love, it is a rock Smoothed over by a stream No ticking of a clock Truly measures what that means Truly measures what that means And this thing they call our time Heard a brilliant woman say She said you know it's crazy How I want to try to capture mine I think I love this woman's way I think I love this woman's Way she shimmers, the way she shines The way she radiates The way she lives, the way she loves The way she never hates Sometimes I think of all of this that can surround me I know it all as being mine But she kisses me and wraps herself around me She gives me love, she gives me time And I feel fine I feel fine But I cannot change time So here's to looking bakc You know I drink a whole bottle of my pride And I toast to change To keep these demons off my back Just get these demons off my back Cause I want to shimmer, I want to shine I want to radiate I want to live, I want to love I want to try to learn not to hate Try not to hate We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate |
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