1. |
Leaving Song
02:46
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i can't hide
sometimes i think about leaving
no matter how close we are
never close enough
i cant stop feeling and thinking
feeling too much
i can't sleep
i daydream
of never speaking
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I used to think nobody but you could see the things i love
you were sweet to me as an empty bar
all i could do was play guitar and drink
from here to st augustine
i was a walking jukebox
you didn't want me at all
you just loved to talk
i'd take your words
put it right in a song
where did i play...
paris & pleasant mountain
my green swinging ship
alabama room of leaves
to the crocs in new orleans
to the seattle rain
the burning phoenix flying J
singing
"I hope you never come home baby"
you used to sing your so cool
i wrote you a thousand little books
you were sweet to me like all the broken cars
all you could do was play guitar and leave
from here to st augustine
you were a walking jukebox
you didn't want me at all
you just loved my words
you could take them
put it right in a song
and where did you play...
paynes prairee
cascade mountains
watching the cruise ships
wallingford blue bridge rain
lincolnville alone on my birthday
to the dogs of carkeek
walking forever in my dreams
i hope you never come home baby
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3. |
Skateboard Song
02:13
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been dreaming alone so long
days in a row just me and my dog
just me and my dog
while you go to work
while you play your shows
while you stay at home
you got a good home
yeah you got a good home
and maybe soon i'll get me one of those
maybe i'll remember how to stay at home
'cos i can't stop
i'm losing everything i love one by one
but i can't
lose me
'cos i can't lose you anymore
been dreaming alone
all along
days in a row
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4. |
The Prettiest Place
04:28
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i'm painting faces at the zoo
i'm singing sorry baby
i'm painting faces at the zoo
singing goodbye baby
i'm playing softball on the zoo crue
and i'm yelling i'm sorry from the outfield
i'm painting faces at the zoo
singing sorry baby
she's yelling "shut up holly" to that little chihuahua
she's yelling "shut up holly"
she don't sound friendly at all
she's yelling "in or out holly? I'm gonna leave you out there"
and then she says so sweetly
"now... come on lil mama"
goodbye albuquerque just for a little while
goodbye LA just for a little while
goodbye to my own little hotel room down at 5th and iron
it's not that i don't love you
i just love the road more
the prettiest place i'd seen
i was alone in it
the prettiest place i'd seen
i was alone in it
all the places i'd been
thinking of you in 'em
the prettiest place i'd seen
i was alone in it
well they'll kick you outta mittens just for singing and playing
and they'll kick you outta casey's just for singing and playing
but down at wall drug
one by one they come out saying
"could you play that one again
about the mother praying?"
the grasslands are beautiful
til you get stuck in 'em
the grasslands are beautiful
til you get stuck in 'em
and i ain't one for leaving til you tell me i can't
the grasslands are beautiful
but they're neverending
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5. |
Western Way
03:28
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well it's getting warmer on this hemisphere again
but i still feel the same way that i did back then
you're still gone
i'm still singing the same songs
lonesome and lowdown at the bottom of the hill
getting lower still
so far past the bottom i can almost reach the top
words they say talk (talk talk toxic turtle doves)
stutter and drop
the sun's been staying up too late
i think it's got on its brights
and i see something dark gathering
in all this light
and i know new things will grow
i'd like to push every flower back into the ground
who even told the spring it could show its face in this town
it's springtime in this winterlude
but i'm an autumn kinda dude
still i'd give the wettest kiss to all the flowers and the blue sky
if you'd come back with them
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6. |
Becoming A Mystery
03:59
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you dreamed me so many nights
then you left and died
now where do your dreams go?
is there some part of me
forever in the blue spring
now more alone than alone
now i dream someone real frightening
he haunts the room while i'm sleeping
he doesn't mean any harm
still its like saying goodbye
all the time
learning duets in the dark
a mystery if you're still dreaming me
my friend, where'd you go?
when i dream of sweet jane
i'm looking round her room again
trying on all of her clothes
i see me in the mirror
me under a sheet
i'm following her everywhere she goes
i'm sweet to you then i'll change
i'll make you think you're seeing things
i'm here for you then i'm long gone
it's you i'm scaring
your friend is disappearing
ghost stories if i've ever known one
a mystery, what's happening to me
when i don't know where you are
my sister's fixing up old reels
she knows most the way i feel
she's been watching this movie since day one
and though there ain't a frame that she ain't in
still the fade to black moment's forever gone
i long to be a dog i know
he always comes when he's called
the promise is all we got
so please give me a new name
let me start again
and my old life
no one here will ever know
'til mysteries don't mean much to me anymore
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7. |
Classic Water
02:47
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what am i gonna eat
there's plenty everywhere
where am i gonna sleep
the ground's comfortable now
what am i gonna dream
i like to dream of you running to me again
so what am i supposed to do
i guess i'll go for a swim
somewhere i've never been before
where the water's cold and deep
and there are plenty of things to see
where there's still plenty of things to see
and what are we gonna talk about
i wont say anything else
what am i gonna see
i'll see a conclusion
what am i gonna drink
i'll drink all this classic water
what am i gonna feel
and who am i gonna be with
i'm gonna be alone with you again
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8. |
Tucson AZ
03:31
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well they're friendly and they're waving their hands at me
but they don't sway like i sway in a desert
inviting me then you hurt me
it's ok
you're wild
just like me
and you stand there for so long under the sun
i still wanna live
in the summer time
i'll melt
the clouds they sit there like space ships
the sun on the right side
nothing for miles on the left
and the sky is soaring to tomorrow
but i'll stay here, right here
as long as i want
i still wanna live with you
for just a part of my life we could melt
who could be happy way out here with me?
i still wanna live
in the summertime i'll melt
yeah i still wanna live with you
and at the end of my life
i'll melt
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9. |
Carbon River
03:24
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rolling country
not the only one taking care of me
i've been slipping away so quietly
rolling carbon river
i laid right there on the rocks
i've been freezing away
jack, you woke me up
broken in spokane
she was there with me
drifting, drifting away
out of a cold cold dream
albuquerque here i've been remembering
i've been letting you go quietly
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10. |
Driving to You
03:51
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driving to you through new mexico
feels like i'm flying
i need to be all alone
i just can't keep from crying
if this is no home for me
big enough to dream
i'm gonna love you like i love the road
well i'm not afraid but
you're afraid of dying
i'm only afraid of the midnight hours of my mind
and if dying won't set me free
then i'm ready for everything
i'm going along for a ride
on all of my old flying dreams
and i'm gonna fly right over the sandias
if only you'd let go of me
i could only follow you
into the blue
loving you like i love all my memories
i'm driving to you through new mexico
i'm driving to you through new mexico
i'm driving to you through new mexico
and it feels like i'm flying
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11. |
Anywhere I’m Leaving
01:56
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it's hard not to long for what used to be
whenever i remember her
life was shining
like a bridge over louisiana
like the streets of st augustine
like the glistening water
here to ol' ginnie
like her tears
like anywhere i'm leaving
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12. |
Watermelon Mountains
04:08
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oh my little blue truck
i fixed you up
everything but the buckle
and a big bench seat
room for jack buster and me
we watch the road like a tv screen
bouncing up and down
catching nuthin at fenton
rolling backwards to the 4
scaring my poor mother
and on a dark dark mountain
i said goodbye to a friend
walked roses up the hill
buster licking all my tears
to the watermelon mountains
rainbows in the stream
dogs running wild and free
still here with me
singing oo de lally
to lil birds and lil doggies
goodbye caballo goodbye t or c
walking by the golden
cottonwood forest
along the rio grande
every october
and from the greyhound station
farewell to a girl there
someone who could really care
she never minded my tears
to the watermelon mountains
thunder and lightening
the dogs run wild and free and come back to me
i was a stranger in barelas
just working the days gone
doing time in my own cell
still i made a friend there
watermelon mountains
rainbows in the stream
oh to everything still here with me
watermelon mountains
the dogs run wild and free
i can't wait to wake up and see
see you again
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