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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
Peter said to Paul
"All those words that we wrote Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go" But now talkin' to God is Laurel beggin' Hardy for a gun I gotta girl in the war, man I wonder what it is we done Paul said to Petey "You gotta rock yourself a little harder, Pretend the dove from above is a dragon and your feet are on fire" And I got a girl in the war, Paul the only thing I know to do Is turn up the music and pray that she makes it through Because the keys to the kingdom got locked inside the kingdom And the angels fly around in there, but we can't see them And I gotta girl in the war, Paul I know that they can hear me yell If they can't find a way to help, they can go to Hell If they can't find a way to help her, they can go to Hell Paul to Petey "you gotta rock yourself a little harder, Pretend the dove from above is a dragon and your feet are on fire" But I gotta girl in the war, Paul her eyes are like champagne They sparkle, bubble over, in the morning all you got is rain Sparkle, bubble over, in the morning all you got is rain They sparkle, bubble over, in the morning all you got is rain |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
I still remember that time when we were dancing
We were dancing to a song that I'd heard Your face was simple and your hands were naked I was singing without knowing the words But I started listening to the wolves in the timber Wolves in the timber at night I heard their songs when I looked in the mirror In the howls and the moons round my eyes [Chorus] So long, so high So long, so high So long, so high So long Then winter came and there was little left between us Skin and bones of love won't make a meal I felt my eyes lifting over your shoulder There were wolves at the edge of the field But I still remember that time when we were dancing We were dancing to a song that I'd heard Your face was simple and your hands were naked I was singing without knowing the words [Chorus] Then one day I just woke up And the wolves were all there Wolves in the piano Wolves underneath the stairs Wolves inside the hinges Circling round my door At night inside the bedsprings Clicking cross the floor I don't know how they found me I'll never know quite how I still can't believe they heard me That I was howling out that loud [Chorus] At times in the frozen nights I go roaming In the bed she used to share with me I wake in the fields with the cold and the lonesome The moon's the only face that I see But I still remember that time when we were dancing We were dancing to a song that I'd heard Your face was simple and your hands were naked I was singing without knowing the words [Chorus] |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
Radio waves are coming miles and miles
Bringing only empty boats Whatever feeling they had when they sailed Somehow slipped out between the notes Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit And I was thinking about what Katy done Thinking about what Katy did The fairest daughter of the Pharaoh's son Dressed in gold beneath pyramids Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise And when you're empty there's so much space for them You turn it off but then a still small voice Comes in blazing from some vast horizon And I was thinking about my river days I was thinking about me and Jim Passing Cairo on a getaway With every steamboat like a hymn Out on the desert now I'm feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Smiling just a little bit |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
I remember back in Illinois I found her
The lily of the valley the lily of the West was a rose The daughter of the biggest big town banker He kept her like a princess I stole her like the Fort Knox gold She used to pour Four Roses like it was going down the chimney Like the bottle was on fire or the boiler was about to blow She was up on the table when we hit Missouri Dancing with a movie man he was holding her a little too close La didi da da da da da da da! He made her the star of the silent movies But all she did was mouth the words all she did was mouth the words, "Oh no!" And he cast me as the villain as the sheriff's worst enemy I practiced falling off of buildings and out windows La didi da da da da da da da! The last time I saw she was tied to the train tracks I was back there with the extras riding on a tiger roan The villain on the left with the studio mustache Winking at Lillian blowing kisses from the second row La didi da da da da da da da! |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
Honey how you gonna make it on your own?
Honey how you gonna make it on your own? When you wake up in the night And see the stars just city lights And you can't find home? You act like you don't need nobody else And you dance like you don't need nobody else And all the other moths need light To circle round while you just fly Around yourself Oh I stir my sugar with a spoon And watch your white dress float around the room I try to see what you're about But even my candles are down and out Honey why you gotta hide your face from me? Honey why you gotta hide your face from me? Will I starve in this eclipse While you treat every hungry kiss Like one more mouth to feed? |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
We started looking for you
In the darker caves We had a lot of love We thought would light the way We saw the wrecks of buildings And ships that sank in starlight We saw the ghosts of angels That spoke of falls from tremendous heights [Chorus] Don't you leave us in the dark [Repeat: x4] We saw your old flames And some were burning yet It made us smile to see Just how well tended each was kept But other fires were burning too And I saw the battlefields The dying Light Brigade Stretched out upon the wheel [Chorus] Every heart is much the same We tell ourselves down here The same chambers fed by veins The same maze of love and fear We thought you were a saint But the halo was an eye It's hard to see how there could be So much dark inside the light [Chorus] |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
Honey how you gonna make it on your own?
Honey how you gonna make it on your own? When you wake up in the night And see the stars just city lights And you can't find home? You act like you don't need nobody else And you dance like you don't need nobody else And all the other moths need light To circle round while you just fly Around yourself Oh I stir my sugar with a spoon And watch your white dress float around the room I try to see what you're about But even my candles are down and out Honey why you gotta hide your face from me? Honey why you gotta hide your face from me? Will I starve in this eclipse while you treat every hungry kiss Like one more mouth to feed? |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
These chords are old but we shake hands
Cause I believe that they're the good guys We can use all the help we can So many minor chords outside I fell in love with your sound Oh I love to sing along with you We got tunes we kicked around We got a bucket that the tunes go through Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I'm a good man for ya I'm a good man Last night there was a horse in the road I was twisting in the hairpin My hands held on my mind let go And back to you my heart went skipping I found the inside of the road Thought about the first time that I met you All those glances that we stole Sometimes if you want them then you've got to Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I¹m a good man for ya I¹m a good man They shot a Western south of here They had him cornered in a canyon And even his horse had disappeared They said it got run down by a bad bad man You're not a good shot but I'm worse And there¹s so much where we ain't been yet So swing up on this little horse The only thing we¹ll hit is sunset Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I'm a good man for ya I'm a good man |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind
I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand They say working?s best cause poverty is hell on a man Now I ride a lazy river through the Mississippi fan And if the best is for the best then the best can be damned I spent a few years on the Queen of Spain She was a leaky little boat that went up in flames When the boiler blew some people started naming names But if the best is for the best I guess the best is to blame I spent a few more as the Cairo Crown A heavyweight wrestler in the Midwest towns But I was lonesome for a girl who could pin me down They say the best is for the best but that's not what I've found Now I listen to my sweetheart and I listen to my thirst I don't spend time listening to other people?s words Sometimes they're right most times the reverse They say the best is for the best when the best?s for the worse Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
I became a thin blue flame
Polished on a mountain range And over hills and fields I flew Wrapped up in a royal blue I flew over Royal City last night A bullfighter on the horns of a new moon's light Caesar's ghost I saw the war-time tides The prince of Denmark's father's still and quiet And the whole world was looking to get drowned Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew Only a full house gonna make it through I became a thin blue wire That held the world above the fire And so it was I saw behind Heaven's just a thin blue line If God's up there he's in a cold dark room The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons He bent down and made the world in seven days And ever since he's been a'walking away Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes Where neither seraphim or raindrops go I see an old man wandering the halls alone Only a full house gonna make a home I became a thin blue stream The smoke between asleep and dreams And in that clear blue undertow I saw Royal City far below Borders soft with refugees Streets a'swimming with amputees It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the wolves are howling at our door Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please The fat man is crying on his hands and his knees Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage Now he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage Lead pellets peppering aluminum Halcyon, laudanum and Opium Sings kiss thee hardy this poisoned cup His winding sheet is busy winding up In darkness he looks for the light that has died But you need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck And like good tragedy that's what we expect At night I make plans for a city laid down Like the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground Spirals and capitals like the twist of a script Streets named for heroes that could almost exist The fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem To float like the smoke from a lithium dream Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares The young women walking in the portals of prayer And the future glass buildings and the past an address And the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night The future descending like a bright chandelier And the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer In Royal City I fell into a trance Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance I woke beneath a clear blue sky The sun a shout the breeze a sigh My old hometown and the streets I knew Were wrapped up in a royal blue I heard my friends laughing out across the fields The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay Cicadas electric in the heat of the day A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land And the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand The straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts They were coming together they pulling apart And angels everywhere were in my midst In the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air Only a full house gonna have a prayer |
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from Josh Ritter - The Animal Years (2006)
Under wide blue skies
There's a place to lie For me and Evelyn to hide tonight I'll try my best to make a go But I'm not sure what I don't know Oh chariots, if you're out there Please swing low Tell me I got here at the right time If I did it's probably the first time No second guesses or secret signs Tell me I got here at the right time You're so red in the eyes Either too low or too high When I met you, you were sick But you did not know why I was a pretty poor cure But my love for you was always sure The bucket was broken But the water was pure Tell me I got here at the right time If I did it's probably the first time No second guesses or secret signs Tell me I got here at the right time Just tell me I got at the right time And if I did, it's probably the first time No second guesses or secret sighs Tell me I got here at the right time Tell me I got, tell me I got here at the right time Tell me I got, tell me I got here at the right time |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
Deep in the belly of a whale I found her
Down with the deep blue jail around her Running her hands through the ribs of the dark Florence and Calamity and Joan of Arc I love the way she looks in her underwear I lose my page then the plot then the book then I swear She makes the most of her time by loving me plenty She knows there'll come a day when we won't be getting any The stain of the sepia the butcher Crimea Through the wreck of a brass band I thought I could see her In a cakewalk she came through the dead and the lame Just a little bird floating on a hurricane I was flat on my back with my feet in the thorns I was in between the apples and the chloroform She came to me often I was sure I was dying It was always hard to tell if she was laughing or crying I thought I heard somebody calling In the dark I thought I heard somebody call Joan never cared about the in-betweens Combed her hair with a blade did the Maid of Orleans Said Christ walked on water we can wade through the war You don't need to tell me who the fire is for Oh bring me the love that can sweeten a sword A boat that can love the rocks or the shore The love of the iceberg reaching out for a wreck Can you love me like the crosses love the nape of the neck? Was it Casey Jones or Casey at the Bat Who died out of pride and got famous for that Killed by a swerve laid low by the curve Do you ever think they ever thought they got what they deserved Pity the bullet and pity the man Who both find their place in the same sad plan Who both are like the barrel going over the falls Crying all the way down I never asked to be involved I thought I heard somebody calling In the dark I thought I heard somebody call General George began the day by taking pink little pills Sent his men to the top of some hell of a hill Through the whisper of trees came artillery breeze He said I love the way the wind comes a'tickling my knees Jane shot the apple right between the eyes I was thinking of her when you came outside Lemonade on your breath sun in your hair Did I mention how I love you in your underwear? Deep in the belly of a whale I found her Down with the deep blue jail around her Running her hands through the ribs of the dark Florence and Calamity and Joan of Arc I thought I heard somebody calling In the dark I thought I heard somebody call |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
What's it take to make the dime drop?
All of these kids who think they're quick on the draw Always shooting at outlaws I'm busy keeping my Colt cocked And I'm gonna know you when you finally come Cause I got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye I'm gonna take up the Steinway Waiting for the bullet that I'll never see come I'm gonna start me a new wave I'm putting up with you lightweights Calling me out to the middle of the street Oh I've got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye My day might be coming yours is coming first I'll knock you outta your daylights And when you come for me some night You better bring a shovel and be expecting the worst Cause I got you in my mind's eye I got you in my mind's eye [x3] |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
All of a sudden now you're back again
I thought you were happy with whoever or did you dream about me now and then Did you look up at the stars and feel something for the constellations All those lovers circling round their loves Slings and arrows, dogs and lions, rivers separating touch from touch The comedy of distance, the tragedy of separation Am I making all the right moves Am I singing you the right blues Is there a chance that I could call you Just to see how you are doing? I said how is it that you come back to me? You don't need the stories of my scars or in the stars to tell you nothing's free I traded all the innocence I ever had for hesitation I said won't you tell me where you been? You put a finger to my lips and then you kissed me once and once again The crickets all leapt up and met the moon with a standing ovation Am I making all the right moves Am I singing you the right blues Is there a chance that I could call you Just to see how you are doing? I heard the night birds picking up the song You threw your hair back and sang along And I realized that I might lose you you might lose me Drift apart in the night and never know why and not know how I said what if we are like the Northern sky? What if there are things that come between us that we can't take back and we can't make right? You said I don't know darlin' but I'm here with you And we're coming to the chorus now! Am I making all the right moves Am I singing you the right blues Is there a chance that I could call you Just to see how you are doing? |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
If this was the cold war we could keep each other warm
I said on the first occasion that I met Marie We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door And I don't think that she really thought that much of me I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the bomb She just came along and started to ignore me But as we waited for the big one and I started singing her my songs And I think she started feeling something for me We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside ?What five letters spell apocalypse??, she asked me I won her over saying WWIII Oh, we smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in love with you It felt almost like a home of sorts or something And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new And I watched you with my thumb above the button Then one night you found me in my army issue cot And you told me of your flash of inspiration You said, "Fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought" And all night long you drove me wild with your equations Oh Marie, do you remember all the time we used to take Making love and then ransack the rations I think about you leaving now in the avalanche cascades And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions Oh Marie, if you would stay and we could stick pins in the map Of all the places where you thought that love would be found And I would only need one pin to show where my love is at In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground Oh, we could hold each other close, stay up every night Looking up into the dark like it's the night sky Pretend this giant missile is a old oak tree instead Carve our name in hearts into the warhead Oh Marie, there's something tells me things just won't work out above That our love would live a half life on the surface So at night while you are sleeping, I hold you closer just because As our time grows short I get a little nervous So I think about the big one, WWIII Would we ever really care, the world had ended? You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight I think about that big red button and I'm tempted |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
I thought I heard you pulling up outside
It's just the wind whisperin' through the pines I haven't seen who I'm looking for Just empty shadows in my open door The empty closet where you hung your clothes The empty hooks where you hung your coat The cellar steps or the kitchen floor They don't catch shadows like an open door Do open windows keep the rain away? Do open eyes keep the ghosts at bay? I thought an open door would bring you in Now I guess I'm gonna have to guess again I find myself hoping for a storm Each silver lining is a crown of thorns I find myself hoping for the rain You don't see shadows on a cloudy day Go to the corner where the ghosts hang out They'll all agree with what I'm talking about They'd haunt your halls and walk through walls before They'd ever set foot in an open door Do open windows keep the rain away? Do open eyes keep the ghosts at bay? I thought an open door would bring you in Now I guess I'm gonna have to guess again I'm saving nickels and I'm saving dimes I'm gonna kiss you where the sun don't shine And all those shadows gonna kiss them too Just as long as they come in with you Do open windows keep the rain away? Do open eyes keep the ghosts at bay? I thought an open door would bring you in Now I guess I'm gonna have to guess again |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
Serenade me with rocks, love
No lullabies through the locks love I locked myself in with the band But the music's never loud enough Decibels in the belfry Hey what the hell if it helps me I put a whip to the kick drum But the music's never loud enough So you're gonna have to show me How that dance is done The one where somebody leaves someone My orchestra is gigantic This thing could sink the Titanic And the string section's screaming Like horses in a barn burning up He plays pianos with fistfuls Of broken Belvedere crystal And he's trying to forget you But the music's never loud enough So you're gonna have to show me How that dance is done The one where somebody leaves someone He's impaling the front row Fighting fires with arrows And he'll act like he forgot you But the music's never loud enough So you're gonna have to show me How that dance is done The one where somebody leaves someone |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
Wait for love [Repeat: x2]
I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love [x2] |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
You're a real mean mama but you got a lot of time for me
And I know it ain't common to find your kinda love for free It's a drag and a sigh and that's not all I'm calling real long distance It's a real long distance call Telephone ringing mama please don't you leave it alone Don't leave no breaks in the line it's the only thing that's tied to home It's a drag and a sigh and that's not all This is real long distance it's a real long distance call Woo! |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
He's riding the plains living up to his name
As the next to the last true romantic He knows that his story is tragic But he can't rest Til he's next To you All the girls know his fame the men curse his name And they talk about him like he's magic But he's the next to the last true romantic And he can't rest Til he's next To you He's stolen hearts like they're horses And horses when hearts can't be found He keeps riding from one horse to one horse to one horse towns (It gets him down) He know's he's a fool to get caught up with you But he's the next to the last true romantic He can't let go of love once he's had it And he can't rest Til he's next to you There's always whiskey and women and women and whiskey around He can't tell which is worse to be dying of thirst or to drown (It gets him down) So he smiles through the pain he pinch Estelle he dance with Jane Sometimes even he don't know how he stands it But he's the next to the last true romantic And he can't rest Til he's next To you |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
There are planets you don't know
And there are moons that you don't see Invisibles between the rings of Mars and Mercury The harbors that they built for the ships to set us free And sometimes when it's all too much I know they'll come for me Come for me |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
I know the dog days of the summer
Have you ten-to-one out-numbered Seems like everybody up and left and they're not coming back The shadow that you're standing on's still here sometimes that's all that you can ask And your heart's still beating You're not the fastest draw in town now How many times you been shot down now? Seems like everybody else could see the things you never did But if you could yourself you'd probably never have made it through the things you did With your heart still beating I know the dog days of the summer Have you ten-to-one out-numbered It seems like everybody else saw trouble sneaking up behind Left you half dead in the street but that just means you're half alive And your heart's still beating |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
So save all of your light
For those who can't sleep at night And who can't even sing to their shadows Oh they ride into town And they throw the shots down And they save the last round for the windows Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart With an empty heart Don't let me into this year with an empty heart I'm inside with my friends We build fires and pretend That the night could just bend on forever While outside in the frost Are the wolves and the lost And we sing to the dogs or whoever Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart With an empty heart Don't let me into this year with an empty heart There's a friend that I have And for her I'll go back You see all of these empties that I'm holding They're too much for a man Empty arms, empty hands And she'll know me by the sound of my hoping Singing don't let me into this year with an empty heart With an empty heart Don't let me into this year with an empty heart |
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from Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (2007)
Wait for love [Repeat: x2]
I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love,Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love [x2] |
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from 하우스 (House M.D.) (2007)
These chords are old but we shake hands
Cause I believe that they're the good guys We can use all the help we can So many minor chords outside I fell in love with your sound Oh I love to sing along with you We got tunes we kicked around We got a bucket that the tunes go through Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I'm a good man for ya I'm a good man Last night there was a horse in the road I was twisting in the hairpin My hands held on my mind let go And back to you my heart went skipping I found the inside of the road Thought about the first time that I met you All those glances that we stole Sometimes if you want them then you've got to Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I¹m a good man for ya I¹m a good man They shot a Western south of here They had him cornered in a canyon And even his horse had disappeared They said it got run down by a bad bad man You're not a good shot but I'm worse And there¹s so much where we ain't been yet So swing up on this little horse The only thing we¹ll hit is sunset Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I'm a good man for ya I'm a good man |
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from By Degrees [digital single] (2018) |