1. |
Running Man
04:51
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All day long
Rains been coming down
Running in the streets
Of my home town
Pouring down
All around
I told you once
Along time ago
That I'd return
When the tall grass grows
I had to go
Now you know
All my life I've been a running man
Running down the days
Just as fast as I can
Guide the hand
Of this journeyman
Another room
Another town
4 grey walls
Same old sounds
Sirens call
Towers fall
Washing on the line
Dogs in the yard
My mothers face
Trying so hard
Not to cry
Say goodbye
All my life I've been a running man
Running down the days
Just as fast as I can
Guide the hand
Of this journeyman
Two steel lines lead the way to go
Who knows where who can say
The place between then and today
If I ever pass your way
There's an out hall wind
Calling my name
I'm moving on
You're not to blame
A losers game
A dying flame
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2. |
Shape Shifter
04:58
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Shape shifter, drifter
From town to town
Road walker, sweet talker
Can you hear that sound
Old men laughing
Time passing
Seeds falling
On stony ground
High roller, twister
Of the truth
Card marker, stealer
Did you hear the news
Sky falling
Trees bending
From the weight
Of the talking blues
Can you see on the horizon
In the east the sky is darknen'
Judgement is coming
Time to start running
You never knew your mother
And your father was a ghost
There was no older brother
And little sister overdosed
Dream snatcher, smoker
Do as you please
Heart breaker, liar
On diamond heels
Levee's leaking
Devil's speaking
Words of fire
In the cotton fields
Night stalker, cutter
Of open veins
Slow drinker, thinker
Lord of pain
Storm chasing
Mind racing
Through the wind
And drowning rain
Can you see on the horizon
In the east the sky is darknen'
Judgement is coming
Time to start running
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3. |
Hatful Of Rain
04:20
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December snow is cold on my skin
There's a hole where the truth's been blowing in
Another empty sky awakening
That old homesick feeling once again
The midday sun from a thousand sacred hours
Has bleached all the colour from the flowers
You painted on the sign by our door
But we don't walk those rooms anymore
Now I'm sitting here
Trying to explain
Why all that I have
Is this hatful of rain
A mile of golden chains cannot bind us
If I could, I'd throw away the key
Everything but the past is behind us
This is not how it was meant to be
I remember how I found you
Broken glass all around you
And the crimson spreading stain
And how I cried out your name
So take me back where the air tastes sweet
And I can feel God's earth beneath my feet
Where I can sit in my easy chair
And make believe I can see you walking there
I can feel you near
But nothing is the same
Wish I could see your face
In this hatful of rain
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4. |
Yesterday Is My Home
05:33
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Yesterday I could see you were broken
The smiles that you gave were only a token
I could see in your eyes
A lifetime of lies
Meant that only the truth
Could be spoken
Yesterday is my home
Tomorrow is a place I don't know
Down dark alleyways
And grey skied days
Anywhere but here and now
Yesterday I watched the sunrise on the ocean
A memory from before was awoken
A promise that I made
A vow I betrayed
Why is regret my only
Emotion
So today I realise I was lying
To think I could save something dying
There's a handful of dust
A dry well of trust
And the stain of the tears
You've been crying
Yesterday is my home
Tomorrow is a place I don't know
Down dark alleyways
And grey skied days
Anywhere but here and now
And tomorrow my beautyful bird will fly
Spread her wings and kiss the sky
I'm left on the ground
My world upside down
All I have is the bitter taste
Of goodbye
Yesterday is my home
Tomorrow is a place I don't know
Down dark alleyways
And grey skied days
Anywhere but here and now
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5. |
The Old Black Man
02:47
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An old black man came into town
Carrying a long black cane
His diamond smile caught my eye
And nothing was ever the same
His boots were worn from a million steps
His watch on a silver chain
A gift he said from the dying bed
Of a man on the Spanish Main
There are those who say
He was here for a day
Others think he stayed for a year
But for this young boy
Holy hand of joy!
It's like he's still right here
He talked about the life he'd lived
Played banjo fast and clean
Through tobacco smoke the truth he spoke
Lit me up like gasoline
When I left home I was just 17
Had the fare for the West Coast Line
His words so wise with no comprimise
And a bottle of old moonshine (he said)
The Devil came and whispered low
So heed what happened to me
I fell so far; still carry the scar
From the rope on the hanging tree
There are those who say
He was here for a day
Others think he stayed for a year
But for this young boy
Holy hand of joy!
It's like he's still right here
An old black man came into town
Carrying a long black cane
His diamond smile caught my eye
And nothing was ever the same
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One day soon I'll be walking
Heading east, Carolina bound
Seems forever I've been searching
For an echo of that sound
I've been chasing
Instead of facing
The truth in front of me
Clear as a blue day, Carolina bound
I'm Carolina bound
Shout at the sky
And tell me why
I'm old
The merry go round
Has stopped for good
Now I am stood
Alone
There's girl I was courting
From the country side of town
I keep a cloth for when I'm crying
Cut from her wedding gown
Those days are over
My world is colder
She can't comfort me
Can you tell her, I'm Carolina bound
Distant thoughts fill my mind
Like a train whistle blows
Through my brain
Ink on the page I signed
Washed on the winter shore
Clean again
It's been such a long time
Since I was Carolina bound
Fading dreams and a promise
To see the sun coming round
Atlantic daybreak
Keening Kittiwake
I've been too long away
Tomorrow I'm Carolina bound
I'm Carolina bound
Shout at the sky
And tell me why
I'm old
The merry go round
Has stopped for good
Now I am stood
Alone
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8. |
The Last Letter
04:27
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When the song birds have flown
And your water's turned to stone
Soft silent tears
Won't leave you alone
When it's an endless fall
And your voice grows small
There's no answer
Just nothing at all
On a chrome cold morning
Buried deep in it's winter coat
With snow flurries fine as your wedding lace
Read the last letter, the last letter that I wrote
It's just words on a page
Endlessly re-arranged
But it's all I have
There's nothing more to say
In the long grey days
When you've lost your way
Read these lines of mine
And don't be afraid
Somebody told me and I guess it's true
You take yourself with you wherever you go
But he never told me and I never knew
That all I'd carry is the memory of you
On a chrome cold morning
Buried deep in it's winter coat
With snow flurries fine as your wedding lace
Read the last letter, the last letter that I wrote
Our love is all over now
So they can take a bow
All those who said
There was no chance, anyhow
I will never know
Why I hurt you so
All that's left is
A faint and distant echo
On a chrome cold morning
Buried deep in it's winter coat
With snow flurries fine as your wedding lace
Read the last letter, the last letter that I wrote
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9. |
Borderline
04:13
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I can't hold a day in my hand
Can't buy a bottle of sunshine
All my words are grains of sand
Lost on the borderline
I can't turn back the hands of time
Or stop the ebbing tide
Can't turn your water into wine
Away on the borderline
On the borderline
No maps or direction signs
No questions or reasons why
On the borderline
Sky and earth combine
And I can't tell what's mine
On the borderline
On the borderline
I can see the way you look at me
At the end of the long decline
You know that I can't set you free
To cross the borderline
Please don't ask because you can
We've walked this road before
Don't expect a drowning man
To guide you back to shore
The meadow green is turning brown
And the sun is hard to find
October leaves lie all around
From here to the borderline
On the borderline
No maps or direction signs
No questions or reasons why
On the borderline
Sky and earth combine
And I can't tell what's mine
On the borderline
On the borderline
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10. |
Macdowell County
05:06
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There's a West Virginia winter
Outside my trailer home
An Appalacian wind
Is whipping up a storm
I hope my dreams burn bright
And long enough
To keep me warm
My brother hasn't worked a day
Since the steel mill closed
Coal mines are silent shells
Only cobwebs at the store
GM, Ford and Chrysler
Don't want American
Steel any more
Presciption pills and moonshine
A wedding album in winter light
No words to the photographs
My mother never learnt to write
People ask why I stay here
I just tell them
It's never black and white
JFK came to see us
In the year I was born
His promises turned to dry rust
But he put a man on the moon
There's no votes in helping white trash
With cocaine babies
And a brown scum spoon
Welcome my friend
To Mc Dowell County
Where the black top ends
And you've got gravel roads for company
Take a turn off I52
And leave behind
Your land of plenty
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11. |
Silent Mask
05:57
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Silk sheets and lace
Our old secret place
Keeps calling to me
Don't know who to be
They ask me my name and the world is the same
In every way except the colour of my days
A book of lost names
Thrown on the flames
Nothing that I say
Makes sense, anyway
I can't keep time and I can't make it rhyme
It's history now under the heel and the plough
Thought that it would last
Now it's all in our past
Can't you see
When you look at me
I'm just a silent mask
I'm just a silent mask
In my minds eye
Sun silvered sky
Lying on the grass
It went wrong so fast
No one stopped to say it would hurt this way
Too much to bear just a strand of your hair
The rain still falls
Whiporwill still calls
He's forgotten his song
And the notes are all wrong
It's the same refrain but nothing remains
I'm standing here until the dream disappears
Thought that it would last
Now it's all in our past
Can't you see
When you look at me
I'm just a silent mask
I'm just a silent mask
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12. |
That Feeling
04:31
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Watched a young man out walking
Down our lane today
First girlfriend, holding hands
Wide eyed smiles all the way
I remember that feeling
Like it was yesterday
Soft skin, her taste and that feeling
Eyes flash, cute smile and you're reeling
Soul stirred, no words hands healing
Free fall, firestorm scene stealing
It's all in their future now
Childhood's slipped away
Rake thin, black haired
Long limbed, easy sway
A touch was just enough
To lead that boy astray
Used to slip out any time I could
To see my girl again
The silence of an empty hall
Broken boards and window panes
True promises that were made
And then forgotten all the same
Soft skin, her taste and that feeling
Eyes flash, cute smile and you're reeling
Soul stirred, no words hands healing
Free fall, firestorm scene stealing
Sand's been running all this time
Over years that slipped away
Wheels are slowing down
Can't keep the wolves at bay
I can still pick you flowers
And ask you to stay
Soft skin, her taste and that feeling
Eyes flash, cute smile and you're reeling
Soul stirred, no words hands healing
Free fall, firestorm scene stealing
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13. |
Tennessee Honey
03:44
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Another bottle of Tennessee Honey
Don't you think it's kinda funny
How something so sweet
Leaves a bitter taste
This house used to ring with laughter
Now in the morning after
It's the empty silence
That's hard to take
Oh Tennessee Honey
Oh sweet southern wine
Another drink will numb me
It won't bring back
That girl of mine
This summer of a thousand chances
Sunlight runs and dances
To lose it all
Is such a waste
Like a priest with a long lost lover
Afraid to rediscover
What he let slip away
In an act of faith
The liquid gold intoxication
With every glass I pour
A soft, slow sedition
I can't hear you anymore
Oh Tennessee Honey
Oh sweet southern wine
Another drink will numb me
It won't bring back
That girl of mine
In the quiet of an early morning
Sat alone and still wondering
How can I kill
This new heartache
There's a comfort in your warm embrace
And all the pain that you erase
But I'm still alone
And my hands still shake
Oh Tennessee Honey
Oh sweet southern wine
Another drink will numb me
It won't bring back
That girl of mine
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