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| 1. |
| 3:43 | 
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(Nanci Griffith)
I am a clock without hands I'm walking through the midnights Counting all the moments Of the loves I've left behind Crying on the shoulders of the days I've not forgotten now I am frozen in time Like the battles of the soldiers Left displaced of time Where their tears still fall Loves that wreck out on the track Far beyond my looking back to recall I'm just a clock upon the shelf Without hands to give the time of day For love at all Chorus I am a clock without hands No one understands this That when the autumn comes I see no reason for a fall Spring can fail to move me With its tulips and its clover Now the time for love is over I am a clock without hands I'm just tickin' and that's all I recall a time When love still had the power To reach inside this clock Where my hands held a dream The innocence of passion And the words of Saint Teresa chiming in And I recall the faith Of the love of my life And the loosing of my hands Which he took with him when he died I'm crying on the shoulders of his love That I'm remembering now It's been ages since this heart has ticked a beat of love So I've forgotten how Chorus |
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| 2. |
| 4:03 |
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(Nanci Griffith)
Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through this part of you Chorus Where are you amongst this madness On the streets of Saigon? Where were you in 1969? When I was but a youth Oh, here were you You were traveling through this part of you I'll make my way now on my own Back to my home to live alone I have traveled through this part of you Yet, I will save this time and place For the time when I can say I traveled truth this part of you Repeat Chorus You were an American boy Whose innocence was lost here in the wat And I wear your scars While traveling through this part of you Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreameed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through this part of you I'm traveling through this part of you I'm traveling through this part of you |
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| 3. |
| 4:27 |
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(Paul Carrack)
Tell me where Would I be now without you Without an angel Watching out for me Took a long, long time For me to realize All my faith in you Was so justified Tell me where Would I be without you Where would I turn To find the truth I need I could never go back To where I used to be I've got so used to having All the love you give to me Tell me where Would I be without you now And every time I stumble or fall I call your name and you'll be there Or if I should fly too high I know your love will reach me anywhere I could never go back To where I used to be I've got so used to having All the love you give to me Tell me where Would I be now without you Would I be lost Just drifting out to sea If I could start all over I wouldn't change a thing 'Cause I know you'll always Be there through thick and thin Tell me where Would I be without you now |
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| 4. |
| 3:59 |
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(Nanci Griffith)
Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula Where the Black Hills know your name Is the snow piled high around your window frame? Is there enough frost left to write our names upon the pane? Chorus Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula I am down in Rio where I cannot find the sky Our savior on that mountaintop has taught my soul to fly I am singing Gershwin and children's lullabies And wondering of you And if you're sleeping in Missoula tonight? Chorus I'd love to climb your hilltop and look out upon Missoula lights Sing Samuel Barber melodies with your viola sweet and high But I am off to Liverpool on an early evening flight And wondering of you And if you're sleeping in Missoula tonight Chorus Repeat First Verse Chorus Are you sleeping now? Do you know how much I love ya? Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula |
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| 5. |
| 2:51 |
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(John Stewart)
Any given day there's a jet flying somwhere Oh, we bought a ticket and vanished in the sky And how was I to know he was leaving in the morning I never heard him go and then he never said goodbye I've learned to love the night cause the light's gonna get ya Right between the eyes in the morning like a gun And reaching out your hand and he's not there beside you Oh, what can I say, I lost him in the sun Hey and what have I done? I lost him in the sun I lost him in the sun Chorus Oh, I lost him in the sun Oh, I lost him in the sun Yeah I lost him in the sun Yeah I lost him in the sun Fire up your hearts cause the wind is getting cold It always get cold for the riders of the night You carry that scar when you know what lonely is Looking for a home like a bird, like abird in flight Oh and what have I done? Yeah I lost him in the sun Yeah I lost him in the sun Chorus |
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| 6. |
| 3:03 |
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All the papers lie tonight
But falling over you Is the news of the day Angels fall like rain And love, is all of heaven way Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade away The race is on, I on your side But hearing you my engines died I in the mood for you Or for running away All the stars come down in you But love, love, love you cant give it away Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade Inside you the time moves and she don fade away Dont you know she don fade Dont you go it makes no sense And all these talking supermen Just take away the time just to get it away Aint it just like the rain Cause love, love, love, love is only heaven away Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade away Inside you the time moves and she don fade away The ghost in you she don fade A man in my shoes runs a light But all the papers lie tonight Falling over you is the news of the day And love will not fade away And love love love will not fade away |
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| 7. |
| 3:06 |
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(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker)
Oh love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet as sweet of rose on vine It's the thorns upon the vines That sometimes tear two hearts entwined It's a gentle breath upon your cheek That is so truly fine Chorus Love is something truly fine Love is love and truly blind Love is only human kind Love is something truly fine Oh love is something truly fine Something never looked to find Yet truly something fine You and I are roses Chose to wither on the vines With you, you're back to love With me, I've run from mine We are some kind of weather You're the storm blown 'cross my life I am leaf of autumn A fallen tear of something fine Chorus From the shallows of the Mekong To my Liffey, Dublin's wine The tide turned me around And brought the taste of something fine And something's truly lost As I'll not try to change your mind The thorns of taking chances Made it something truly fine Chorus |
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| 8. |
| 2:42 |
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If I came back to the land of cotton,
Would you love just me? Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten: That's the way it's supposed to be. Are you short or are you long? Are you easy to see? Are you weak or are you strong? Makes no never to me. All the ballerina sees when her world's on fire, Is where she puts her feet. If she burns her toes, she'll just jump higher, Never skip a beat. I've been good most of the time, Since you last saw me. You come 'cross my mind from time to time, Now look at me. I'm standing at your door with my heart in your hands. Ain't you gonna ask me in? If you say: "No", I'll understand, dear, And never come south again. If I came back to the land of cotton, Would you love just me? Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten: That's the way it's s'posed to be. |
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| 3:27 | 
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| 10. |
| 3:36 |
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(Nanci Griffith)
He still sends her roses on the 4th of July They're always white roses and she never asks why She still doesn't know where he goes Thursday nights But his wedding band rests, on the bedside that night He was a soldier in the Vietnam war He lost half his right leg whilst daydreaming of her She lit a candle each holy hour he was gone "You Were On My Mind" was their favorite song Chorus Love is a mystery From birth 'till we die It's cross words of a morning By evening entwined It's all that we dream of, sometimes it's not right Love is white roses and you never ask why He's the hands of a draftsman, he's built a good life She works for a season during IRS time Two children they've had though their boy has now died When they wake of each morning, he's still on their minds Their friends would all tell you they're like day and night Their daughter's an actress, she is strong and she's bright He meets with his pals from the war Thursday nights She still treasures those roses every 4th of July Chorus Love is white roses every 4th of July |
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| 4:45 |
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Snowing - through South Dakota I once drove
With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into the winter Of December in the cold Off to see Mount Rushmore staring through the snow And to gamble with the boys of Deadwood As we drove Snowing - I am shaking out the snow Oh, the cold that is within my heart I'm gonna shake out all that snow Riding years ago Through those South Dakota roads When the laughter could thaw Enderby And shake me from the snow Like a hurricane through Florida I'll shake out all this snow Snowing - one Christmas morn' when I was four My brother told me it was warm So a swimsuit I adorned Then he sent me to the weather And behind me locked the doors A four year old in a swim suit and brand new plastic skates Out into the snow to catch this cold I cannot shake Snowing - yeah, it snows in Tennessee The place where I now make my life Is still snowing down on me I'd prefer Antarctica Perhaps the land of Enderby Where the weather is my heart and I'm closer to the sea Since I cannot ever seem to shake the snow Out of me And all across the states you see the tractors and the plows Clearing out the roads And the bridges north and south Something they did learn And I just don't seem to know How to clear a passage And shake out all the snow |
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| 12. |
| 3:32 |
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(John Stewart)
Black boy in Chicago Playing in the street Not near enough to wear Not near enough to eat Don't you know he saw it He saw a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon Young girl in Calcutta Barely eight years old The flies that swarm the market place Will see she don't get old Don't you know she heard it On that July afternoon She heard a man named Armstrong Had walked upon the moon He heard a man named Armstrong Had walked upon the moon The rivers are getting dirty The wind is getting bad Wars and hate are killing off The only earth we have But the world all stopped to watch it On that July afternoon To watch a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon To watch a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon To watch a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon And I wonder if a long time ago Somewhere in the universe They watched a man named Adam Walk upon the earth |
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| 13. |
| 2:40 |
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(Nanci Griffith)
If I promise not to cry Will you look me in the eye And tell me that you've known me? I was your late, your lonely child I am enhanced by all you've shown me And in my youth I did defy you to the end Please forgive my wildness then Even I can't comprehend What a mother's love has lent To all that is me And will you sing this song again? Let us sing it hand in hand While the band is till playing Before the light can loose your hand Before I lose my voice again Let us sing while it's playing And if I promise not to cry Please look me in the eye And say you've truly known me 'Tis the sweet sound of goodbye Amazing grace how sweet the sound Between your soul and mine If I promise not to cry If I promise not to cry |
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| 14. |
| 2:49 |
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In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep You lie awake and think about the girl And never ever think of counting sheep When your lonely heart has learned its lesson You'd be hers if only she'd call In the wee small hours of the morning That's the time you miss her most of all When your lonely heart has learned its lesson You'd be hers if only she'd call In the wee small hours of the morning That's the time you miss her most of all |
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