1. |
Northern Lights
03:26
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(My) baby wants to see the northern lights
I just wanna see the southern sky
laying in the swaying grasses
Gonna find a place where no time passes
Chorus:
Maybe we can go out dancing
Forget everything we know
Lord we don't need it
Better yet we can go out drinking
And lose our way back home
Oohhh…
Driving in a 66 mustang
Its Cherry red with the smell of burning gasoline
Heading west down the old 118
Steady chasing the moonlight ahead of me
Chorus
Bridge:
Darling, I got a feeling
Its gonna be good
Tonight
Darling, I got a feeling
Its gonna be good tonight
Its gonna be good tonight (x4)
Alt chorus:
Maybe we can go out camping
Park on the edge of a mountain
Lord and we need it
We can spend our nights stargazing
Trying to figure out what they're saying
Its gonna be good tonight…
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2. |
Wrap Me Up
03:11
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I've got a heavy leaded heart
And its been poison from the start
What will you make me do
And my busy turned up mind
It let the devil sneak inside
What will he make me see
Got too focused on the past
Well there's no sense in looking back
I like that, lets drink to that
So poor one drink for me
Poor one drink for me
Chorus:
I aint got much to lose
But I've got you to abuse (x2)
I aint got much to lose
But I got you...
My love came and wrapped me up (x3)
My love…
And these pages give me grief
To the point I can hardly speak
I begged please, let me be
But my god damned searching soul
Kept on seeking something whole
Something more, to adore
Chorus:
I aint got much to lose
But I've got you to abuse (x2)
I aint got much to lose
But I got you...
My love came and wrapped me up (x3)
My love…
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3. |
Ghost
04:24
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Well I'm walking through a world
That aint mine, that aint mine
Yeah I'm wandering through a world
That aint hers, that aint hers
Well I'm living through a heart
I don't know, that I don't know
And I'm singing, through a soul
That I don't own, that I don't own
Well honey I'm, just a ghost in this town
Yeah honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Well I'm swimming in an ocean
And it's all mine, yeah it's all mine
And I'm running through a forest
And it's on fire, yeah it's on fire
I've been searching for a river
To lead me home, lead me home
But I wish I'd find it sooner
Cus I aint got no place to go
Honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Yeah honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Honey I'm just a ghost in this town
But for all my hard work
Yeah for all my hard work
Yeah for all my hard work
I've got to keep on
Cus I've got something in my back pocket all along
Yeah I've got something in my back pocket to hold on to
Well I'm walking through a world
That aint mine, that aint mine
Yeah I'm wandering through a world
That aint hers, that aint hers
Well honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Honey I'm just a ghost in this town
Yeah honey I'm just a ghost in this town
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4. |
Disappear
03:55
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Light highs
Heavy lows
This years, had its share of those
From the painted arched ceilings
To the barroom floors
Chorus:
When you wanna disappear my love
Stick around for a while (x2)
When the seasons they begin to change
you've run a ragged mile
Long days so I crave the nights
While the months quickly call (wave) goodbye
From the snowy Denver mountains
To my bedroom walls…
Chorus
At last the fire's burning out
The weakest flame is dying down
Now its time for me to rest my eyes
And calm my mind
Alt chorus:
But when you wanna disappear my love
You stay up all night
When you wanna disappear my love
You catch the morning sunrise
When you wanna disappear my love
You drive just to drive
When you wanna disappear my love stick around for a while…
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5. |
Sending Love From Mars
04:17
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I'm sending love from mars my dear
It's the kind of love that I know you cant hear
Its getting lonesome and cold out here
I'm sending my love from mars my dear
Well I'm in the kitchen and you're on the couch
But it feels like we're ten thousand miles apart
Feels like I've got the stake in my heart
When we're close together but miles apart
Chorus:
Oh so don't hesitate
To bring me back home to earth
And help me relay
This message I'm sending
Its never ending
Bouncing off satellite stars in space
Howling like wind from the heavens
Or hellfire burning up satellite stars in space…
Well four years of anything is a damn long time
But with you the time seems to fly on by
Its summer again and I'm reminded why
That four years of nothing is a sure way to die
This is more like a flower that's begging to grow
Than heavy hearted labor in boots and steel toe
This is more like the bluesman down at the crossroads
Than shooting for the eight ball
with no where to go
Shooting for the eight ball
when the bar keeps gone home
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6. |
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Making my way
Down route 98
Taking a break
Making mistakes
Have a little faith
Singing alright (x2)
Maybe in time
We'll be alright
House on the hill
Gardens all filled
Fading city lights
Singing alright (x2)
Chorus:
Darling it aint so easy
Being gone
Getting grown
And coming home
Darling nothings easy
No no no (x4)
Moments don't last
Times moving fast
Let's go raise hell
Ring all the bells
Banging on the glass
Singing alright (x2)
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7. |
Just A Man
03:44
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Baby don't you leave like that
cmon bb lets rewind that back
cant you see im trying
cant you see im dying
im dying for you…
Chorus:
I'm just a man
Doing the best that I can
I've burnt my bridges
And blown my hand
My baby's got a heart so kind
Makes mine look like its made of ice
Sometimes I feel I'm blinded
Other times I'm unwinding
Unwinding for you…
Extended chorus:
I'm just a man
Doing the best that I can
I've burnt my bridges
And blown my hand
I know I aint perfect
Yet she treats me like I am…
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8. |
Lowdown
04:44
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Wont you go where I go
Wont you stay awake when I am
I don't wanna demand too much of ya
But won't you stick around
My home sits near the railroad tracks
Every night the freight train comes around
Man gets to thinking
when he hears that lonesome sound
chorus:
when your low down
in your home town
I've got a yearning for the mountain side
Where a person can forget
I wanna sleep out every night
Let that raw air clear my head
I wanna scream off the edge of a broken cliff
I wanna sew back the seams of a ripped up dream
I wanna ride them rails til the road gets stale
Knocks me down to my knees
Bridge:
I don't wanna be just a character in a song
I don't wanna cause you no harm
I don't wanna be another thorn in your side
But I might
Yeah I might...
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9. |
Wildfire
03:59
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What made him so insecure
walking around
With head hanging down
What made the cracks in the wet concrete
Feel so steep
Running on no sleep
Well he's doing things his own damn way
Some call it running
Some call it faith
Getting in trouble
Seeing double
Like the good old days
I cant, wait much, longer for luck
Chorus:
When I roam I roam like wildfire
Burning down
Everything in my path that I can find
When I roam I roam like wildfire
Burning down
All the dead leaves and the pines
And the pines…
What made the nights all long as hell
Got the TV humming
But he still cant sleep
its 3:30 in the god damn morning
and he's confiding
Into these six strings
I cant,wait much, longer for luck
Chorus
Bridge:
She woke me
From a comatose sleep
Took my hand
For I was in too deep
And said I think there's
Something in you worth being loved
Said I think there's
Something in you worth being loved…
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10. |
Tell Me Why
03:44
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Well I'm driving late night in the street
In the taxi
Reading lines on my hand in the backseat
To see what they gotta say
And im trying to write that hit song
But it aint come yet
I hope its coming quick
So I can get a check
With a couple commas in my name
Chorus:
Tell me why
Its gotta be this way (x3)
I know the world don't owe me shit
But we all love to complain…
Hey mr. label man did you get that demo
That I addressed to your front desk last april
This Decembers getting cold
So throw a new dog a bone
I hear the same songs playing on the radio
Country songs about blue jeans and old rock n roll
Budweiser, truck driver, muff diver
Phony line dancing clones
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11. |
Lone Pine
04:44
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Off work at ten
Then off to a friends
Any thing to keep from going home
I've seen these streets my whole damn life
Barely made it out alive
Push the car to eighty on the backroads
Stop by Willy's on a Monday night
Always leave flying high as a kite
And try to drive the way that the cops don't go
Liza hits me up real late at night
When we dated all we did was fight
I guess she's feeling lonely
And she wants me to know
Chorus:
I wish someone told it'd be like this
But no one could've told me it'd be like this
When I was a boy
I worried bout chores
And tying my shoes tight
To show up on time
Try not to wine
And get all my prayers right
Now I'm always stressed out
Running round'
Looking for another town
To saddle up and settle down…
I really miss my pops
He used to be as strong as fort Knox
Had arms of steel and a heart of gold
We took a drive up to lone pine
That man could give some damn good advice
He knew me better than whiskey knows ice
And he told me so…
Bridge:
I watched the stars collide
I saw an old love die
While new loves burn
From the look in her eyes
The fires turned to ice
And the river run dry
The river run dry…
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