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| 1. |
| 4:59 | 
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A stranger came by traveling
He went to every door He said he'd lost his people He'd come to look for more And many did believe him As he talked upon the square The spell he wove upon us Fills my body with despair And in his eyes Was the flame of the west Until it burns He never rests He had the voice of an angel And the face of a saint And though they fell behind him I knew what it was he meant His eyes where full of demons As he made his message clear He strode the world like Caeser With a trident held as fear And in his eyes Was the flame of the west Until it burns He never rests It's just how it's always been One man with a ruling dream And everyone falls for him Heroines in an ancient film It's just how it's always been One man with a ruling dream And everyone falls for him Heroines in an ancient film Called the flame of the west Look out for that stranger If you pass him on your way He never sees a danger In the darkening of the day There will be dollars in his hand He has all hell to pay And he will pass them to you If you promise you will stay |
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| 2. |
| 4:28 |
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I feel the way the wind blows
It tells me where you've been through I watch the way the sun sets Until the night's inside you Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I need to bury The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let salvation be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me..... had to walk with me I watch the way the crow flies And though it seems so easy But if I see it in a grey sky Can I be sure about the way it leaves me Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I call upon The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I watch your soul run free I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me Some days will stay a thousand years Some pass like the flash of spark Who knows where all our days go ? Out here we lie together Outside the thunder gathers Why care about the weather It always ends in dark I looked west in search of freedom And I saw slavery I looked east in search of answers And I saw misery Some days I just don't worry I let it pour through me Some days I walk into The very depths of me So I wait out here to the east of Eden I let my conscience be I was waiting, I was watching Would it ever be there for me ? When I felt that hope and a lucky card Were all I had to walk with me |
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| 3. |
| 4:38 |
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Here I stand with my own kin
At the end of everything Finally the dream is gone I've had enough of hanging on I came here with all my friends Leaving behind the wait of years Leaving alone in a flood of tears Out on a prospect that never ends All the landscape was the mill Grim as the reaper with a heart like hell With a river of bodies flowing with the bell Here was a future for hands of skill We built it all with our own hands But who could know we built on sand But now it's barren all too soon There is no miracle in ruin We set the flame and it burned so blue With open eyes I watched it grow A sea of palms in an ocean of snow Hands with the courage to start anew Here was a home for the lost and scared Out of the yards and run dry dock The call of the steel that would never stop Here was a refuge for those who dared In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me There I stand with my own kin At the end of everything Finally the dream has gone I've nothing left to hang upon In a steeltown When the heat's on I went down And the heat turned on me |
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| 4. |
| 4:58 |
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We're at war All the papers say
We will win I read today We are strong It wasn't us We are right Who started this? Leave your work I just left school Leave your home I am no fool Take up arms It left me strong Sound alarms The school bell rings Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever Join up here I wave goodbye We need you Oh my breast sighs Have no fear I must try God will be with braver men Take the vow I know its right Praise the flag The good fight We're at war I'm on my way We will win Why do I pray ? Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever I wait here in this hole Playing poker with my soul I hold the rifle close to me It lights the way to keep me free If I die in a combat zone Box me up and ship me home If I die and still come home Lay me where the rose is sown Sons of men who stand like gods We give life to feed the cause And run to ground our heathen foe Our name will never die This time will be forever |
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| 5. |
| 4:55 |
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The day they had a party
Right out in the street Flags and flowers and singing For the homecome hero's treat I sat in the kitchen Without a fire on the range I knew this house had lost the cause To ever make me warm again Come back to me Days are all too long Come back to me You never should have gone I was so young and full of pride And you were wild and strong I never knew how weak I was I watched them gather round him When he stepped down from the car While tears fell on my cigarette He handed out cigars I have your child inside me But you will never know I never will forget you While I watch that child grow Come back to me Days are all to long Come back to me You never should have gone I was so young and full of pride And you were wild and strong I never knew how weak I was I was so young and full of pride (I never, I never, I never…) I will always be here Fading by the day I will wash the bloody hands And cast the bowl away As the years hang on me You will always be young And one day I will lie down Where the rose was flung Come back to me Days are all to long Come back to me You never should have gone I was so young and full of pride And you were wild and strong I never knew how weak I was |
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| 6. |
| 4:37 |
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I dreamed I heard that you were dead
I dreamed I searched an empty bed For a sign of you And the sea called hard to me Like a cell without a key And I felt the distance I watched the tall ships go With the drift wood on the flow With pride that grows in hardship And I knew you were below I hear your voice And it keeps me from sleeping Why must it always be dreams When your voice comes to me I dreamed you felt the typhoon spit And walked into the heart of it While the sea gulls cry I know how to feel that call It never suited me at all But some are born to it And you seemed so bright and hard Like a bloody edge of sword But if you’re an enemy Then you look a lot like me I hear your voice And it keeps me from sleeping Why must it always be dreams When your voice comes to me I dreamed you sailed me to the swamp In a black boat You spoke to me of things Of the shame that years will bring And I felt your hand shake Though you always seemed so hard Now I never see the sword And I find the enemy Has to feel the same as me I hear your voice And it keeps me from sleeping Why must it always be dreams When your voice comes to me |
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| 7. |
| 4:46 |
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You make me smile with all the feeling
That you deal in like a gambler It makes me feel that I'm a winner Or a sinner and I'm branded I feel your skin so warm beside me And I can hide me in your dreaming You hold me near inside your fear And I can feel the blood that's running Just like Josephine, it will not be tonight Still I have the dream, still I have the sight Will you and I always be like this, will you and I always have this I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning It's all we have, the time between us And no one's been us for a moment You talk to me just like no other Like the brother that I never had I look at you and you will turn and smile For a little while be happy I want you with all that loving brings Like a church bell rings for the morning Just like Josephine, it will not be tonight Still I have the dream, still I have the sight Will you and I always be like this, will you and I always have this I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning Oh be my woman and I will be your man Like I know I can if you let me Just fill my heart and I will fill your soul Like I know I can if you let me “Alexandra” will never sound the same Not a Roman game just a feeling And I will know the time I heard that name Will never be the same only better Just like Josephine, it will not be tonight Still I have the dream, still I have the sight I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning I only see those sad grey eyes, I only hear you singing I am the ticket, you the prize, when begins the winning |
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| 8. |
| 4:19 |
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If I hold my hand to you
Though you never asked me to You will know it’s time for the rains to come And you must help me through If you feel the fear on me That I know the eye can’t see It comes with the sadness that the autumn brings So we know what has to be In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run We are not dust we are not stone Just as the wild seed is sown No one knows how we bring it home We only take as we have grown When you put your arms on me Are they meant to set me free Or hold me like his master’s voice And put the spell on me I only have these hands I only have the land I fear you like the frost that the spring can bring Or the fire of a cattle brand In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run We are not dust we are not stone Just as the wild seed is sown No one knows how we bring it home We only take as we have grown If I hold my hands to you Though you never asked me to You will know it’s time for the rains to come And you must help me through When we take all this to town And I buy the wedding gown We will find the newborn year As the winter crashes down In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run In the rain dance, I cool it all down It is the year to come, oh when this one’s run |
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| 4:49 | 
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| 10. |
| 5:36 |
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It went so well for you
With a place right where you wanted and the ones to fill it to But some blows break the spell That it hits you every day until you need to hit as well It's just a shadow of the man you should be Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled And it feels like hell It all seemed fine for you Till the struggle of ambition turned in violence upon you Sometimes a landslide comes If you're hiding in that avalanche you need a place to run It's just a shadow of the woman you should be Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see And you have no thought of answers only questions to be filled And it feels like hell I know there is no need for what's been done I know there is enough for everyone Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear And there's never been a hand Did we ever have it good While we lived in Eldorado did we find the gold we should If it really was the truth Why are faces filled with anger that should only shine with youth It's just a shadow of the people we should be Like a garden in the forest that the world will never see You have no thought of answers only questions to be filled And it feels like hell I know there is no need for what's been done I know there is enough for everyone Frustration brings a heavy hand to bear And there never is a hand outside that cares Still the promise comes of living fit for all If we only get our back against the wall I look at backs that pushed the wall for years Scarred by many knives and too much fear |
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| 1:39 |
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| 12. |
| 5:17 |
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Just as one life turns from birth
Just as the ring finds its worth Just as the leaf turns to gold So you and I will be sold Chorus Sold for the work done While we could feel young Sold for the new son Gold for the pure one Where does our home lie When is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown Dark comes the night on the aged Hard comes the day still unpaid yet All in a bed still unmade it Chokes like the tomb and it says its Chorus (three times) Unknown, unknown Chorus Where does our home lie When is our own Lonely the cold cry Only unknown Unknown, unknown |
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| 13. |
| 4:47 |
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Texas
That's where I Belong It seems to me Texas Lonesome star Shine on The big country Texas With open skies And you For company Texas Oh prairie rose How happy I should be Hey hey You can take it from me Hey hey I'll be coming, you'll see Hey hey Oh what a state to be in Hey hey You're tantalising me Texas I will compose In fancy rhyme Or just plain prose Texas A song of praise to you Prairie rose Texas Though I'm not sure I can explain Your strange allure Texas Prairie rose - A crown of thorns A scented flower Hey hey I'd better leave right away Hey hey I can hear you calling me Prairie rose |
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| 7:08 |
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If you could feel
How I must feel The winds of quiet change If you could see What I must see Still hidden in the rain But when the thunder rolls It comes and covers up my soul And you will take my hand And be with me in wonderland Chorus I am an honest man I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too If you could hear What I must hear Then nothing would replace The fifty years of sweat and tears That never left a trace But when I look at you I see You feel the same way too And you will take my hand and be With me in wonderland Chorus You still remember other days When every head was high I watched that pride be torn apart Beneath a darker sky With innocence within ourselves We sing the same old song And you will take my hand And make believe it's wonderland I need the love of you I am a working man I feel the winter too Chorus Wonderland (four times, fading out) |
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| 15. |
| 3:17 |
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The stories of the world are sung
In places that were never young I have counted every one Chorus All the clouds will come to you So the sun never comes through And we will hide From twenty years of winter sky The faces of the world are hung In places I was never born Some will smile while others moan Chorus Pictures of the world are shown In places I have never known Who will know who shaped the stone Chorus Still it turns and says to me In words that come uneasily Answers are not meant to be Chorus |
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