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1. |
| 4:02 | ||||
through the dust bowl through the debt grandma was a suffragette blacklisted for her publication blacklisted for my generation go go go raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything just go go go feed the fire and fan the flame i know you kids can stand the rain i know the kids are still upsetters 'cause rock is cool but the struggle is better go go go and raise your hands raise your hands high don't take a seat don't stand aside this time don't assume anything i said this time now don't assume anything just go the truth is i was afraid i felt inferior i felt i excelled in competing with others and i knew instantly that these people were not competing at all, that they were acting in a strange, powerful trance of movement together and i was filled with longing to act with them and with the fear that i could not did they tell you it was set it stone that you'd end up alone use your years to psyche you out you're too old to care you're too young to count did they tell you, you would come undone when you try to touch the sun undermine the underground you're too old to care you're too young to count i said go go go i said this time don't assume anything just go go go go go go go go go |
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2. |
| 4:14 | ||||
Kelly mountain road
Saw a heavy load With a sagging heart And a break apart Voices in me Stood as thick as thieves With no sympathy For the beggars art I have passed these pines 'bout a million times Effortlessly (effortlessly) Now I grip the wheel Fear is what I feel At the slow unraveling of (slow unraveling of) Me (me) (ah) (ah) But you tell me it's temporary (tell me it's temporary) It's a matter of time (it's a matter of time) By god Don't you think I know it's in my mind (in my mind) And it's right over left (right over left) And healing the then (healing the then) I'll soon be to nothing But I don't know when Well the way I flee (daylight) On my crooked feet Barn happy horse (fading) On a one-track course Then I self despise (daylight) Cryin' out my eyes 'cause the happy trail (fading) Led me to remorse, But the road is long (but the road is long) And the song is gone I blow empty In my cicada shell If I saw my choice (if I saw my choice) I might find my voice But I don't know when (don't know when) And I just can't tell (just can't tell) (ah) (ah) You tell me it's temporary (tell me it's temporary) It's a matter of time (it's a matter of time) By god Don't you think I know it's in my mind (in my mind) It's right over left (right over left) And healing the then (and healing the then) I'll soon be to nothing But I don't know when Deep behind my face Is a safer place But old gears are hitched tight To the gate It?s a daily grind Waiting to unwind Till I hear that click That unlocks my fate (ah) (ah) Yeah But you tell me it's temporary (but tell me it's temporary) And it's a matter of time (and it's a matter of time) By god Don't you think I know it's in my mind It's right over left (it's right over left) And healing the then (and healing the then) I'll soon be to nothing (I'll soon be to nothing) But I don't know when I'll soon be to nothing (I'll soon be to nothing) But I don't know when I'll soon be to nothing But I don't know when (but I don't know when) |
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3. |
| 3:28 | ||||
Think I'll bag that trip for two Pack it up for Kakadu Honey it's not for the weather Or a lack of lovin' you I got all this in between Something I could not foresee And all the deals I made don't matter if I can't just let you be Gone again, gone again There ain't no way that I'm gonna' let this heart mend Gone again Walked in King's Cross for awhile Gave a junkie girl a smile We both traded in for danger Or the company of strangers She said all her family Was at the welfare agency then she swindled my last twenty for a kiss and some poetry Gone again, gone again There ain't no way that I'm gonna' let this heart mend Gone again If I don't make Kakadu I'll be at the Rainbow Room I'll be courtin' some disaster With the Melbourne wrecking crew Honey all this is to say Every dog don't got its day If we take the love we're given And we throw it all away Gone again, gone again There ain't no way that I'm gonna' let this heart mend Gone again |
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4. |
| 4:49 | ||||
trouble came around here here in the south we fix something to eat steam risin' up off the greenery and we welcome the strangers we meet alien sick growing in these walls like moss in a crack that time made i brush a guy in the airport whistling it's a small world after all and the prices are higher but the kids still selling lemonade get to the point of it (get to the point of it) get to the sense of it (get to the sense of it) i'm in a hurry to get through it i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) a hurricane flag flappin' in a bad storm same color of the spider underneath my nail that bit me in my dream and who would take out the dominican republic and send god's sweet children floating down a poison stream a secret society of conference rooms i pledge my allegiance to the dollar and when the clergy take a vote oh the gays will pay again yeah 'cause there's more than one kind of criminal white collar so get to the point of it (get to the point of it) get to the sense of it (get to the sense of it) i'm in a hurry to get through it one day the war will stop and we'll grow a peaceful crop and a girl can get a wife and we can bring you back to life sacks of flour and rice or poker chips greasy palms or systems underhanding (...shelter...) and maybe we'll take a walk on pluto yeah but be no closer to the understanding (...what i wish...) get to the point of it (get to the point of it) get to the sense of it (get to the sense of it) i'm in a hurry to get through it yeah i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) i am in trouble (i am in trouble) trouble (trouble) trouble (trouble) trouble (trouble) trouble (trouble) ah |
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| 4:52 | ||||
I'm heading out of Alabama So you'd better think fast The wind's gonna pick me up now And the rain won't stop I'm heading down to Georgia So don't lose track Of where you been and where you going now And who you've seen and what they lack And why you come undone Every time you go there And how you come undone I know your heart's in danger And so is your life You'd better learn to trust a stranger And stop & rest for a night See a sign up in the headlights And a moon up above won't be enough Light the embers of another and the night won't seem so rough Sister.... There was a bloody beast of burden On a dark Texas road And a woman in a family way And a car that lost control I'm studying the distance From the blanket to the gun It's ten hours to Natchez And another ten home I know your heart's in danger And so is your life You'd better learn to trust a stranger And stop & camp for the night See a sign up in the headlights And a moon up above Light the embers of another and the night won't seem so rough Sister Go ahead Come on now It was trust that brought me here And trust will bring me home |
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6. |
| 4:11 | ||||
honey pick the red corner shoes the ones that hardly ever get used i knelt in front of my whole collection and i'm picking you a special selection on a no news is good news middle of mid-year day i feel no ill with time to kill i wanna play let's make peace tonight (let's make peace tonight) the moon is bare and shining bright (moon is shining bright) let's make peace tonight in a good time (let's make peace tonight) i'm callin' on my good friends today you know the drive's about an hour away and we'll be pitching up a tent by the trees and we'll be wading in the river to our knees oh now love's been planted and we're checking out the yield it's two black dogs and a white one their running in the field let's make peace tonight (let's make peace tonight) the moon is bare and shining bright (moon is shining bright) well let's make peace tonight in a good time (let's make peace tonight) oh oh oh well we used to have some money but we spent it (used to have some money but we spent it) yeah so when we want to have it then we rent it (when we want to have it we rent it) but we're cuttin' up the rug and i know you love me love me (we're cuttin' up the rug and i know you love me) and the best of everything here is free (everything here is free) oh when things get messy then we tidy up the room we'll be no stranger to that dustpan and the broom let's make peace tonight (let's make peace tonight) the moon is bare and shining bright (moon is shining bright) let's make peace tonight (let's make peace tonight) the moon is bare and shining bright (moon is shining bright) let's make peace tonight in a good time (let's make peace tonight |
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7. |
| 4:41 | ||||
grandma o. "...he did, he observed saturday as the sabbath" amy: "what...what kind of faith does that make him?" grandma: "uhh, he didn't have one" amy: "oh, ok" grandma: "he didn't believe in any one thing, he would go out on the street and all the kids would play the... with a drum like thing, some kind of an instrument, yeah, and mama played the organ. she had a _ organ and she played that and she got a real big kick out of it." oh ozilline the moon is almost full and you don't need a torchlight to see into these woods now sister bring the medicine to keep you from decline but it's the waxing and the waining that's always on your mind i said oh ozilline (oh ozilline) i feel for you i said oh ozilline (oh ozilline) i feel for you as soon as the corn's in the deer will come to feed and when the berry ripens the bird will come to eat you build by the river it's pretty but you'll pay 'cause the springtime brings the flood plain and your cutbank washes away i said oh ozilline (oh ozilline) i feel for you i said oh ozilline (oh ozilline) i feel for you i had to put the dog down before i hit the road yeah i watched that sweet old life become a bag of bones so when you're body's broken and your heart wants to give in and you hear that hoot owl callin' just like she was a friend i said oh ozilline (oh ozilline) i feel for you i said oh ozilline (oh ozilline) i feel for you i said ozilline she don't let you cry if you ask her where it hurts i said ozilline she don't let you cry if you ask her where it hurts she said what a blessed sky words and music amy ray the spoken voice is ozilline walker, amy ray's grandmother |
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8. |
| 3:20 | ||||
the girl's known trouble the wind's to blame it blew her to anytown usa that's my middle name and where we go remains nameless a motion picture alive and framelss and we are together finally and the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hysterically and we are together you and me yeah eah ah yeah we are together together she's got that sadness she twinkles like a witch and you conjure a love spell i'm gonna give a five-year itch low to the ground high in the holler (we are together) in any old february (together) hot under the collar (collar) and we are together finally and the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hysterically and we are together you and me yeah eah ah yeah the setting sun at sadness beach just in view and out of reach resign myself to solitude when love is hard to get and rude and though i said i did not care (oh oh oh oh) it was way before we'd gotten there winded by the fruitless chase (oh oh oh oh) until i saw you face to face (face to face) together finally and the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hysterically and we are together you and me (.... the whole world) we are together finally (finally, finally) and the dog caught up with the rabbit is laughing hysterically and we are together you and me yeah eah ah yeah eah ah yeah |
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9. |
| 3:58 | ||||
all of my days have been misspent stuffing out the sofa and the antenna's bent inside my heart's bustin' out at the seams i work for the impossible american dream i got a job at the grocery store a few bucks an hour and not much more the world comes in just to take things away they eat it all up and then they sleep into day i try not to care i would lose my mind running 'round the same thing time after time only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control now once upon a time i was nobody's fool (once upon a fool) two jobs and showing up for school i guess it comes apart so little by little you don't know your there till your stuck in the middle i try not to care i would lose my mind running 'round the same thing time after time and only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control sit down (sit down sit down) the room is dark (the room is dark) the blurry graffiti on the benches across at the public park the plastic's black and buttoned (the plastic's black) the haze is blue (the haze is blue) and all i want is nothing to do 'cause it's a long walk to the bus stop it's a long wait for the turning clock it's a two-tired car sitting up on the blocks and things i put aside like that pile of rocks i try not to care i would lose my mind running 'round the same thing time after time and only two things bound to soothe my soul cold beer and remote control yes i try not to care i would lose my mind (all of my days have been misspent) running round the same thing time after time (stuffing out the sofa and the antennas bent) and only two things bound to soothe my soul (inside my hearts busting out at the seams) cold beer and remote control (i work for the impossible american dream) yeah cold beer and remote control (i said i guess it comes apart so little by little yeah) yeah beer and remote control (i said i guess it comes apart so little by little yeah) yeah |
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10. |
| 2:47 | ||||
you wear the cloth of finest lands the touch of women the toil of hands undress me now before i bend from the weight of everyman when i'm walking through this world i need to hold your hand let me take you on this ride i hope you understand i'm not asking for a compromise now you defend exhume begin again it's the riddle of a skeleton we're all diseased so count the coup i can't image stopping you when i'm walking through this world i need to hold your hand let me take you on this ride i hope you understand i'm not asking for a compromise so the earth we scorch we breath find some comfort on our knees you find your worth in words that wind pleasures i don't comprehend when i'm walking trough this world i need to hold your hand let me take you on this ride i hope you understand i'm not asking for a compromise asking for a compro asking for a compromise |
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11. |
| 4:01 | ||||
andy do you love me do you think about it will you say turning brushwood into blazes turning summer grass into hay turning sharply past the graveyard to the lakefront with the black waves licking up the stones to the swayed back screened in front porch who could ever stay the weight of flesh and bones andy aren't you tired from the sun and rain and river soaking you from the beer cans on your dashboard and the bullet hole glass spiderweb staining your rear view i have watched you watch an empty road is it only her upon which you all of you is depending to fill your twenty hour work day while all the fences in this county still need mending hey and in the night i do my checking and fix the broken parts with visions of rare beauty but in my heart i know i'm second forever fixed in your pursuit it is my duty hey andy will you toss me a little scrap of something that i can taste instead of dust from all the leaving and the smell of summer lying here to waste under the burnt pyre of all the cast away the tiny shoots will spring like questions will you take me out to the fenced hill sprinkled with horses wild in resistence to the taming will you break me will you break me |
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12. |
| 11:22 | ||||
on the night they killed faye tucker
i was gambling away my last dime yeah well i pulled down the lever and i sent up a prayer that my luck would not be denied my luck would not be denied so roll out the head of faye tucker yeah well never you mind what they say well you may be reborn but it's all just for scorn and that's what you'll take to the grave that's what you'll take to the grave well the minister wants you to live now and the governor wants you to fry and whatever it was that you thought might occur well they got something else on their minds they got something else on their minds if you live they gonna make you a campaigner (if you live they gonna make you a campaigner) if you die they gonna make you a grave (if you die they gonna make you a grave) either way it goes down (either way it goes down) your life's not your own and that's why killin' don't pay (hey your life's not your own) that's why killin' don't pay oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh i thought i heard the angels bells but they were just the hounds of hell i thought i heard the angels bells but they were just the hounds of hell what did you learn faye tucker yeah what will you take from this world yeah well mercy could prove us but nothing would move us to rise above just being cruel to rise above just being cruel |