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Innocent Row
03:55
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They say I’m guilty
My head is on fire
Can’t seem but help to walk a crooked mile
The fever burning here on innocent row
Can break me down but I won’t let go
The streets are poison
I was trying to belong
Trying for good but it all goes wrong
When darkness gets ahold it seems to explode
Can break me down but I won’t let go
Goodnight, old halo
I know that i was born a fortunate one
Can’t seem to reconcile the way that it’s gone
Sometimes you get high but sometimes you go low
Can break me down but I won’t let go
Goodnight, old halo
Just up ahead I see a fork in the road
Can’t go back and I can’t go forward
Spend one more night with me on innocent row
Can break me down but I won’t let go
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Echoes and Overtones
04:37
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In the light of the morning
When the snow is falling down
If you listen you can nearly hear the whisper
This never really was a battleground
My mind is nothing if not worried
Better lay low, the winds will blow
I’m fighting against the storms of habit
By flying on the wings I can’t outgrow
Sometimes you’re going through the motions
Sometimes it’s just like screaming at a stone
But inside every seashell is an ocean
An echo and an overtone
Spent your whole life flipping through the seasons
Drawing shades over windows
A hush comes rushing swiftly up the valley
If you’re careful it it will get between your bones
You’ve given all you’ve got to offer
Sometimes it feels like taking orders given through the phone
But inside every castle lives a pauper
An echo and an overtone
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Bleeding Sun
04:12
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Didn’t mean to end this way
But you couldn’t bring yourself to stay
You’re leaving
You’re leaving
You’re leaving today
Bleeding Sun
Short on funds you took the train
Looking out the window at your brain
Clouds of the storming breed
Squeeze the sun until it bleeds
Fires burning in the field
Chasing down your turning wheels
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Easy On My Mind
04:43
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Wind is blowing in paradise
And it howls from across the garden
Pulling the petals right off the petunias
And we can’t ascertain how it started
If we knew how it started
Then we might know where it came from
If we knew where it came from
Then we might figure out how to stop it
But after days like this spent picking up the pieces
Of the world you thought you belonged in
Gonna need something easy,
Something easy on my mind
All the while the dogs keep barking
And the rivers start running black
I’m not getting much sleep these days
Can’t separate the dream from the fact
If we could separate dream from fact
Then we might might know where we were going
If we knew where we were going
Maybe we’d go ahead and get there.
But after days like this spent
Picking up the pieces
And after days like this spent
Running through the wilderness
After days like this spent
Working through a heart attack
Spending fifty to get one back
Gathering up the growing slack
Of a world you were told you belonged in
Gonna need something easy
Something easy on my mind
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Souvenir American Gun
05:53
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We’re fine but on the inside we’re shivering stone
Our hearts are harder than bone
Can’t hear the wind for the highway’s dull moan
In the distance the sand hills groan
It’s a faint and a far-off memory
Of something that I’ve never seen
Made muffled and weak by the plastic and cheap
A souvenir American gun
Look to the sky to find what it all meant
Where all the buffalo went
Bury my hear in the grass as I wept
Where were the Indians sent
Did they go to hell for opposing God’s will
That would make a bearded man kill
For fortune and fame some dirt he could claim
With a souvenir American gun
Down highways on prairies goes a papermade sun
The sky turns to colorful crumbs
Families go to dinner on the side of the road
Inside their shivering stones
Either you take the Bible or the bathtub drugs
And somewhere an Indian shrugs
As he loads the barrel and he pulls back the arm
On his souvenir American gun
The bed has been made now we’re watching it burn
Not sure which way I should turn
It’s a modern dilemma of guilt build on sands
Of the work of another man’s hands
Near Whiskey Creek truck stop in North Platte, Nebraska
A shrine to the conquering ways
But I won’t be muffled thought thunder repeats
No surrender,no defeat
As I lay down for keeps
My souvenir American gun
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Murning
01:13
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I Love You Love Me
03:15
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If you weren’t mine then who’s would you be?
If you weren’t crying then what would you see?
A mother’s a daughter and a daughter is free
Well I love you love and you love me
You wanted a house and you wanted a home
You wanted someone not to leave you alone
Well I’ve got this place it’s high up on a hill
And I’d like to share it with you if you will
You love me
And I love you
Will I be lonely when it’s time to die?
Will my heart end up all empty and dry?
A father’s a sun and the sun’s in the sky
Chasing the moon, you get what you try.
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In the Summertime
03:43
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If in the summertime you don’t feel any better
And you’re not just waiting for a change in the weather
And you feel like going away on a holiday
In the summertime it can wait
We had it bad
We had it bad
Happy or sad
Happy or sad
To give or to take
To sleep or to wake
To make or to break
To make or to break
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A Minute of Your Smile
04:20
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Holy fire couldn’t get us a down
A candle in the wind don’t make a sound
I will speak a thousand poems out loud
Just to catch a minute of your smile
Running with the whispers of the night
Love will come like the dawn coming carrying the light
In this town without you I’m glad even to remember the sight
Of these early mornings
When I catch a minute of your smile.
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