1. |
Jody Was A Dreamer
03:36
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Jody was a dreamer
Head always in the clouds
This little town couldn't hold her
You can't keep a good girl down
I had always loved her
From the very first day
I tried to persuade her
But I could not make her stay
Jody was a friend of mine
I lost along the way
I still wake up at night
And call her name
If I could only turn back time
So she was still here
Maybe I could change her mind
And the pain would disappear
You left for the big city
The neon's burning bright
But there's no pity
In the heart of the night
I wish I had been there
To save you from the lies
But I'm not a dreamer
Who never said goodbye
Sun's power is fading
Like the autumn leaves
In the fields all the sunflowers
Hang their heads in grief
This is the first fall
Without your grace
Steps echo down an empty hall
That time can't replace
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2. |
Someday
04:53
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I'll lift the map off the wall
Roll it up and take it home
Perhaps it'll show the way
Someday
Distant lights that glitter
Like stars across the sea
Won't shine as bright or shimmer
Someday
Hold on to all that's yours
Watch it slip away
Try to fill the empty hours
Someday
Someday we will breathe no more
All our life will be as dust
Silent waves on forgotten shores
Someday
Someday no one will know us
Neither to forget or recall
Forever and always it will be thus
Someday Someday
Smoke among tall green trees
Crouched beneath a fading sun
All that man has cut will heal
Someday
That old rocking horse you gave me
Faded paint and crooked grin
Will find a way to save me
Someday
Let the light shine somewhere
Cast shadows far away
Chains of love will bind us there
Someday
The world is full of fools who lie
And walk the streets of glory
The laws of truth shall apply
Someday
Those who lust for days of fame
And fill their hands with money
Will be pulled down and washed away
Someday
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3. |
International Harvester
04:50
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Old International Harvester
Standing in the yard
Hasn't ploughed a single wheat field
Since Audi Murphy was a star
Now you're standing in the sunshine
Wondering where it all went wrong
Looking for the answers
In the bars of this old song
Blossom falls on dirt roads
Gets ground into dust
Steel ticking in the soft heat
Gently turning into rust
Somewhere over your head
In the silver shining sky
A thought you held for ever
Goes softly sliding by
You could leave here if you wanted
Pile your life in Dad's old car
But everywhere is just the same
You could never go that far
You've never said the words out loud
That would make it all too real
You don't have the strength to say
How empty you feel
He's sitting in the willow tree
Spring song sung out loud
Nothing but young and free
With the beauty of his sound
It's so good to be alive
In the glory of this day
Lift your head up, turn around
Find new songs to play
There's an old man in the market square
His life written on his skin
He said don't waste a single thought
On the ways that might have been
When years have past and time's all gone
Like water through the sand
Don't lie there dumb and bitter
With her letter in your hand
Old International Harvester
Standing in the yard
Hasn't ploughed a single wheat field
Since Audi Murphy was a star
It's still standing in the sunshine
Waiting for the wheels to turn
Empty fields are full of weeds
Can you feel the sadness burn?
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4. |
Sell Me Some Time
03:31
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I am looking for someone
Yeah to sell me some time
I am looking for someone
Lord to sell me some time
Need to find it by tomorrow
Reaper's coming down the line
Just need a little hour
Go ahead and name your price
Just need a little hour
Go ahead and name your price
We could play double or nothing
I'm always lucky with the dice
I'm running out of chances
The cupboard's looking bare
I'm begging on my knees
Do you have a day to spare?
I'm running out of chances
The cupboard's looking bare
I'm begging on my knees
Do you have a day to spare?
When I was a young man
Didn't worry 'bout the years
When I was a young man
Didn't worry 'bout the years
Now the century is turning
And it's left me standing here
Now the days are passing faster
Like a fading memory
Yeah the days are passing faster
Like a fading memory
If I could slow them down a little
Just make 1 second last a day
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5. |
Promise To Stay
04:36
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I can hear every whisper
Every lie and every sin
Now our days are growing shorter
And the light is growing dim
On my own again
There's a sound in the darkness
Listen how the wind can blow
A door is closing behind you
But you left a long time ago
You were bleeding but it didn't show
I'm not asking for the world
Just three little words
I thought I heard
Were you lying to me
Those three little words
I thought I heard
Goodbye my love
Goodbye my love
Who can I talk to
When there's no one there
Who holds me in their heart
Holds me in their prayers
Have you ever stopped
To wonder why
The last hello
Is the first goodbye
I thought I saw you yesterday
With someone I used to be
Must have been mistaken
Like yesterday's promises
Out of time and out of reach
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6. |
Cold Harbour Lane
05:08
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t's been a long time
Since we walked down Cold Harbour Lane
It's so good to see you
And to hold you once again
Hold you once again
We've changed, yes,we're greyer
You know the years take their toll
But the Blue sky above us is just the same
And the feelings never get old
No, the feelings never get old
Days spent walking
Along cold harbour lane
Our sanctuary our solace
From a world gone insane
A world gone insane
There's an old boathouse
At the end of Cold harbour lane
And there lies an old sailboat
I named her "Spirit Of Jane"
I named her "Spirit Of Jane"
We could sail across the ocean
To the golden shores of Spain
And take the time to remember
All our days on Cold Harbour lane
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The road remains but people change
Today's loss is tomorrow's gain
Time will pass like a river flows
Reflecting sun and polishing stones
Friends you meet, you know them well
They're going to send you straight to hell
Telegraph poles in an endless line
Bullet holes in the off ramp sign
Windscreen wide like cinemascope
Psychedelic songs for country folk
Don't stop too long, night's coming in
You can't tell how long it's been
You can't make a difference
If nobody even cares
Time has overwhelmed me
And me standing here
Another day, another town
From morning's rise till the sun goes down
Broken strings on this guitar
Girl you met in a country bar
Twenty years on she's still sat there
With gold and silver in her hair
In another dream you lived that life
With a couple of kids and a pretty wife
Been running so long I've lost my way
A thousand miles in a couple of days
Little white pills can kill the pain
But you know there's a price to pay
Diamond dust and cold steel light
Endless echoes of a long lost flight
From a place where time stands still
Like an empty church on an empty hill
Praise the lord for what he gives
Who gets to die and who gets to live
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8. |
My Tomorrows
04:00
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The preacher with that pious look
His hands upon the holy book
Of lies
I've seen it in your summer eyes
So I wrote it in this song of mine
Goodbye
I asked the man who truth denies
But there was still no reply
Surprise
Oh Sunday morning
Devil's dancing on my bed
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Now I'm running down an endless hall
Don't recognise this world at all
Disguised
Wrote my name in the hazy sky
Like faded shadows in my mind
Sometimes
I'm heading for my winter home
Where days are long and nights are warm
And kind
I stopped at a faded sign
Somewhere along the line
Just for a friendly face
Coffee and a breakfast plate
Thought about the nameless souls
Tilted like busted poles
Who passed by this place
Disappeared without a trace
Don't ask me for the secret code
Hidden somewhere on the road
Behind
We are heroes of this tale
But some of us are bound to fail
Alright!
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9. |
Drifting By
05:12
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I'm a tumbleweed rolling
High cloud in the sky
The best place I'll ever be
Is just drifting by
I'm floating through your mind
Where only thoughts can fly
Sparkling silver in your eye
I'm still drifting by
The seasons are calling
Far across the shining sea
Can you hear the islands' sigh
I'm only drifting by
Kiss me like I'm drowning
In water's soft embrace
Don't ask the reasons why
Just watch me drifting by
In the town the flags are flying
Blown to rags by the storm
All harbour boats in hiding
Cradled rock walled womb
Do you ever ask a question
But there's no reply
Just empty space before you
And the world drifting by
Don't let it bring you down
Don't spoil it with a lie
It's all gone come tomorrow
It's all been drifting by
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10. |
Flood Song
04:54
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Thunder in the valley
Deluge has begun
Prayed the lord to save us
But the rains carried on
River rose through the morning
Raging torrent by mid-day
Strong enough to take a bridge
And bury it in the clay
All the family photographs
The pickup on the lawn
The life we used to live here
Everything is gone
Can someone tell me
What has happened here
What makes twenty twenty two
The deadliest of years
He's got a mortgage
A baby on the way
Just another company man
Workin' hard to earn his pay
Dynamite is loaded
Forty five second delay
A cold rain is falling
And the sky is turning grey
The good book says
The lord gives and he takes away
Well If he does exist
He sure was in a mood that day
You can't build a boat
To save the life of your family
This ship of fools won't float
On a sea of greed and insanity
Carved the top off the mountain
Stripped the hillsides bare
Filled the streams with rocks and earth
For the coal that's lying there
Been like this a hundred years
No lessons have been learned
Appalachian mothers' tears
For the ending of the world
When the day of judgement comes
All those who sinned will know
How it feels to drown in sorrow
And the winds of hell will blow
Out walking by the floodline
Saw a child's photo framed
All his plans for tomorrow
Now nothing remains
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You've been playing on my mind
Time after time after time
Like an old song on the radio
You keep playing on my mind
Dust will blow and tears will flow
Through the days of my life
Friends 'l lie and love affairs die
My dreams burned in flight
Empty stares and silent prayers
Words that echo and fall
What's the truth when there's no proof
Is there an answer at all
Memories don't leave like people do
They can't cross a wooden floor
Then walk out the open door
And run away to someone new
Shore to shore there must be more
Than this hurricane of days
Cast adrift on a sinking ship
In the whirling blue and grey
Farms and fields and turning wheels
Dust rising to the sky
Sun glints off chrome on junkyard bones
Where ancient longings lie
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