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There Were Times
04:36
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There were times
When days were longer
Our voices stronger
When we were young
The wind was softer
Sun was warmer
And our lives
Had just begun
When the songbird
Flies for the winter
To the warmth
Of distant shores
I'll will cherish
Our days together
Now we can't make them
Anymore
This is just my simple song for you
To say thankyou
All these ancient words I wrote for you
Are still brand new
They still ring true
I still miss you
But life is sweet
And death is bitter
Nothing I say
Can ease the pain
As we pass
Through worlds of wonder
Always your face
Always the same
I can hear
The churchbells ringing
Skylark singing
In fields of green
Across the valley
The sound of laughter
Just like the way
It's always been
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2. |
Sunshine Woman
04:00
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The sky is breaking from the
Heat of the sun
That's burning the mist off the sea
Another day with you has begun
Pour your warmth over me
Sunshine woman
You are my sunshine woman
No clouds with my sunshine woman
No rain with my sunshine woman
The way that you walk
Is like liquid sunlight
Through leaves on a summer day
Dancing across
This old wooden floor
A beautiful ballet
Under magnolia trees
We walk hand in hand
It's one ten in the shade
Old dog's so hot
He doesn't care if it's
Fahrenheit or centigrade
There's a darkness grows
In the hearts of men
Who knows what keeps it there
You have the way
To fill me with light
A breath of sweet summer air
When winter lies deep
Hard on the dawn
Like steel inside your head
Remember the times
Our hair was bleached gold
And our days were chromium red
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3. |
Slipped Through My Hands
03:42
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Sit down my friend and I'll sing you my song
For it is a strange affair
It's of glances cast and looks that last
Sweet perfume on the air
If you don't mind I'll take your time
For I need to tell you why
There's no time to cast aside
Or your life will pass you by
It will slip through your hands
Like trying to catch the rain
Hourglass sand
Falling grain by grain
Falling grain by grain
A young bird's cry, sun's high in the sky
Over fields of Southern Spain
I close my eyes and my memory flies
And she's here with me again
I think my life is a crooked road
That leads to who knows where
Will a stranger'smile last a while
Or leave me standing there?
Leave me standing there?
The first rays of dawn on a mid winter morn
Or the sounds of a summer fair
All these things and more I can't tell
Are made for us all to share
I once had a girl who filled up my world
But I never knew how to give
I let her down like a country clown
And I'll hurt for as long as I live
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Have you seen it coming
Rolling down the road
It's high and wide as a mountain
That's what i've been told
That's what I've been told
I've been told
You better warn all the cheaters
Backsliders and deceivers
'Cause that's what I've been told
Rich man sleeps in his fine house
Poor man sleeps in his coat
Rich man thinks he'll go to heaven
But I've been told he won't
There's a stanger lyin' by the roadside
He's bloodied and he's cold
There's no glory if you walk on the other side
That's what I've been told
Money changers in the temple
Where your faith is bought and sold
You can't buy your salvation with 30 pieces of silver
Or a hundred pounds of gold
Well I'm just a god fearing mother's blue eyed son
Never been in trouble, never hurt anyone
I don't drink I don't gamble
I don't stay out late
Guess I'll see you at the pearly gates
If there's dust on your bible
Dirty deeds in your soul
Well my friend there's a storm a coming
That's what I've been told
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5. |
Southward Drift
05:04
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6. |
Back Roads Love Affair
03:40
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You tell me that you're leaving him
Your marriage is beyond repair
But his ring is still on your finger
I'm tired of this back roads love affair
Meeting up outside of town
And jumping every time
Someone turns their head around
In case they're a friend of mine
This back roads love affair
A losing game we play
Like a Cheap prize at the country fair
It's not worth the price we pay
It's a treacherous nightmare
That's tearing me apart
The deceptions and the lies
Tell me why did we start?
We're running down an empty road
It's not going anywhere
Up ahead's a dead end
Like this love affair
In the mirror I see a face
It's me but I'm not there
I'm gone without a trace
Buried by this back roads love affair
This back roads love affair
Has left us cold and lost
The whispers and the stares
Of friends we've double crossed
It's a treacherous nightmare
That's tearing me apart
The deceptions and the lies
Tell me why did we start?
Lets walk down main street
Together if you dare
No more sidestreet shaded
Backroads love affair
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7. |
Night Comes Down
04:20
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I can keep you out of mind in daylight
Push doubts aside
Hold back the tide
While it stays bright
I can watch children playing in the sun
Take my ease a while
Say the day is mine
While it still shines
Oh.............then the night comes down
Yeah...........The night comes down
My head is tumbling
My thoughts unravelling
And my legs are running
Through the rye
Old demons are chasing
My heart is racing
And the sky is falling
Down to die
There are long shadows on the fields
A dancer in the corn
Hiding since I was born
But it's not real
There are dark chapels in your eyes
A heart made of stone
Beating on a breast of bone
Where the truth lies
Miday heat
Air is sweet
My thoughts are slow and lazy
Midnight cold
Fears unfold
And I go a little crazy
I'm on the train that's leaving today
Just a seeker of the truth
Searching for the proof
That's passed away
There's a headlight to cut down the dark
A blanket to keep me warm
Waiting for the distant dawn
To bathe me
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There used to be a forest
Of sweet dappled green
Now it's a city
Of roaring machines
Where the air is poison
And the streets are mean
That's what happens
When the time slips
In between
Where once was a mountain
That reached for the sky
As wide as forever
And twice as high
Is now grains of sand
Washed by the sea
That's what happens
When the time slips
In between
When the words drip
From your cold lips
And the clock ticks
And the time slips
In between
New paint like sunshine
On the day we came home
Fresh bridal flowers
In the kitchen window
Now the paint is faded
Like an old pair of jeans
That's what happens
When the time slips between
You turn away to look behind
All the places that you've been
But yesterday will steal you blind
Like a fading movie scene
Your smile's the same
As it's always been
As big as the love
That you gave to me
There's silver in your hair
Where the black used to be
That's what happens
When the time slips
In between
I was once a believer
In God up above
A hopeless dreamer
Who trusted in love
Now I don't care
Too much for these things
That's what happens
When the time slips
In between
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9. |
The Hollow Man
05:05
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Hollow man in a shining silk suit
Holds his trophy wife
With a plastic smile and cuban heeled boots
He burns his way through life
You were the beauty of the high school
Oiled and golden at the pool
But you gave up everything
Lost it all too soon
First in line for the tennis club pro
It's harder every day
Where did all the good time years go
Lost along the way
White powder, pills and best rose wine
To get you through the day
Adrift beyond the borderline
Where neon turns to grey
You're trapped in a house of mirrors
With walls of polished glass
You can't see beyond them
You never stood a chance
He keeps in your tower
Behind imagined doors
Just a word away from freedom
You can't feel it any more
You're not getting any younger
Only his girlfriends are
He's meaner and quick to anger
Dark glasses and face powder
Can't hide the marks
Small town girl flew too high
Where the air is cold and thin
Like his fingers on your shoulder
You still belong to him
It's time to leave this poison city
Find your way somehow
Everything that once looked pretty
Sure isn't pretty now
Red tail lights on the highway
Streaked by windscreen rain
Pacific ocean coastal skyway
Takes you home again
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10. |
Hillside Snow
03:47
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Blackberry blossom like hillside snow
Windscreen wipers moving back and fro
I am returning from the valley below
Black crow flies on charcoal wings
A shadow across the face of spring
Such a sweet song but he can't sing
Cause the past has a way of creeping up on you
And then one day all your lies come true
You kneel and you pray and you hope for a sign
But you're washed away on the rushing tide
There's a silence still in the green halls of waking
Where thoughts unspoken are silently waiting
Floating down off the hills and filling the valleys
While wind chases words down dream dark alleys
I am built from blood and bone
A breath of dust that turns to stone
No one told me I'd need anyone
Let's all gather at the gallows tree
That grows in the garden of gethsemenee
30 pieces of silver to set me free
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11. |
The Old Travlin' Man
03:04
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I was only five in '69
The year that changed my life
I wrote this song so you'll understand
This little story of mine
An old travlin' man came into town
Carrying a gold topped 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 swear 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
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12. |
Far Away Look
04:16
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You've got that far away look
In Your eyes
I can see something's changing
Because you're an open book
It's no surprise
Something new is calling
There's a thousand roads you can walk
Endless towns that echo
To the passing beat of pilgrims feet
And the whispers of tomorrow
I have no clever words
To turn your head
Turn that other grass to grey
I can't deal
Some better cards
No brighter games
For you to play
There's a thousand men with hungry eyes
And better songs than me
They'll take you to a higher place
But is that where you want to be?
If you ever change your mind
I will still be waiting
Endless hours the clock may chime
I will still be here
It's the same dream every night
You're waiting by the window
Lines of age on your face
And silver in your hair
You look beyond these walls
To another world I'll never see
I know that the future calls
I have to set you free
I see your bag is packed
And stashed away
Behind your favourite coat
Your old records stacked
Out by the door
I'm reading from your final note
"There's a hundred times I could have left
And muffled tears I cried
I just want more than I've had before
This love of ours has died"
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