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Neon Tonight
03:44
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Please don’t bother me
I’ve got work to do
I’m working on this box
I’m working on a tune
And I need to be alone
Fore I can be with you
Neon tonight
Neon tonight
It ain’t scrapin back
What got took away
What’s going gonna come
And you won’t have a say
It’s trying to build a home
That lets it feel the rain
Neon tonight
Neon tonight
Turn it up babe I can’t hear you
Turn it up you gotta sing
Turn it up babe I can’t hear you
Turn it up you gotta sing
Bring on the night, bring on the night
I’m gearin up to share
What I’ve been working on
It might not do for you
But it might do for someone
I’m feeling kind of shy
I’m feeling about right
Neon tonight
Neon tonight
Turn it up babe I can’t hear you
Turn it up you gotta sing
Turn it up babe I can’t hear you
Turn it up you gotta sing
Bring on the night, bring on the night
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2. |
Goodtime Charlie
03:00
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Johnny wanna dive out of the rat race
Johnny wanna tall glass and a hot plate
Johnny got the whole lot down on the favourite
Cross your toes man know I gotta make it
Had us all round in the downtown
Tryna find a bookie big enough to take it
Woohoo, damn right, boy is out his mind
Woohoo, damn right, boy is out his mind
Woohoo, darling Woohoo Woohoo
Johnny got a tale tall as the moon man
Johnny from a mould all of his own man
Johnny wanna hear that song on the radio
Get your kick-drum in from the get-go
Where’s your bassline? What’s your tempo?
Tryna help you grumpy motherfuckers let go
Woohoo, damn right, boy is out his mind
Woohoo, damn right, boy is out his mind
Woohoo, darling Woohoo Woohoo
Hey, my my, look what I find
Hey, my my, look what I find
Johnny wanna hear that song on the radio
Get your kick-drum in from the get-go
Where’s your bassline? What’s your tempo?
Tryna help you grumpy motherfuckers let go
Woohoo, damn right, boy is out his mind
Woohoo, damn right, boy is out his mind
Woohoo, darling Woohoo Woohoo
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3. |
OKLA
03:10
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Oleander in the hot fall air
I love you baby, with your bleached white hair
Round the corner and get down that hill
I love you baby, with your happy pill
Hand reached out into the sky
Slip your dream into the night
You my preacher of mythology
I love you baby, with your silver screen
Surround me with your plastic sheet
I love you baby, you’re a part of me
Cahuenga in the dying light
Never felt more alive
I feel red loss, shame of the wanting
I know I don’t got all you be needing
But that’s ok, that’s ok, I love you baby, anyway
But that’s ok, that’s ok, I love you baby, anyway
Pour me liquor put your phone away
I don’t need to see your back today
Take that mirror down I can’t, I can’t
How dare you show me who I am
L.A. river only hot concrete
Say forever like it means something
I feel red loss, shame of the wanting
I know I don’t got all you be needing
But that’s ok, that’s ok, I love you baby, anyway
But that’s ok, that’s ok, I love you baby, anyway
Baby why you don’t, give me what I think I want?
Baby why you don’t, give me what I think I want?
That’s ok, that’s ok, I love you baby, anyway
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4. |
Machine
03:21
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Walk out back I always found you head inside an engine
With your rag pushed into your back pocket
Hand me ratchet pass me socket
I pretend to be taken by resistors and cables
Filters, carburetors, and fuel injection ratios
That’s when you were happy
Elbow on the panel
Smiling out the window
Listening to the gravel
She tells me like I need reminding
Things round here been slowly dying
I run out to my haven
Getting away from the fuss and fightin
Don’t come around here complaining
About surface conversation
Struggling with emotion
And bad communication
That’s when you were happy
Elbow on the panel
Smiling out the window
Listening to the gravel
You’re listening but do you hear the machine?
All that talk of global warming
Electric is the future coming
They’re going to outlaw V8 engine
Carburetor, fuel injection
And you won’t understand them
And they’ll leave you behind
Now you could understand me
But you would have to try
That’s when you were happy
Elbow on the panel
Smiling out the window
Listening to the gravel
You’re listening but do you hear the machine?
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5. |
Someone to Tell it to
03:08
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I like it when we’re moving
Then I can be slow down
I can get to thinking, and I know you’ll be around
You’re there to watch me watching, all the world go by
You’re there to hear the question, why? how? why?
Someone to tell it to, ain’t I the lucky one? someone to tell it to
I like it when we’re riding, like we part of the wave
I like it when you’re smiling, at nothing just the day
Then I feel it coming, the trouble in the tide
And I’m here for you cryin, why now? why?
Someone to tell it to, ain’t I the lucky one?
someone to tell it to
I don’t like it when we get there, it reminds me there’s an end
And I wanted to keep going, can we go again?
I had so much more to tell you, I had so much more to ask
I guess I want you to be with me, when what’s coming, comes to pass
Someone to tell it to, ain’t I the lucky one?
someone to tell it to
All the wrongs I’ve done, all the words untrue
You took my open hand and heart, and you said I love you
Someone to tell it to, ain’t I the lucky one? someone to tell it to
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6. |
Give Me Up
03:24
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I see you dance, I see you move
The freedom cut me to the bone
I want your soul
I hear you laugh, I see you smile
I want to look out of your eyes
I want your light, as mine
Rap that window all you want
This will not be your home
You put those people in your head
Now you can’t be left alone
God bless your crooked little heart
God damn your yellow soul
Hey man, wanna go, and fly in unknown?
Don’t give me up, don’t get me down
Lay your pride in the ground
I see you pout, I hear you doubt
Kick the life out of yourself
You don’t need no one’s help
I see you reach, I see you bow
Hear the yearning of your heart
But baby who you are, is not your art
Rap that window all you want
This will not be your home
You put those people in your head
Now you can’t be left alone
God bless your crooked little heart
God damn your yellow soul
Hey man, wanna go, and fly in unknown?
Don’t give me up, don’t get me down
Lay your pride in the ground
Whatever one might feel
Whatever one might see
Is a little screen in between
Hey man, wanna go, and fly in unknown?
Don’t give me up, don’t get me down
Lay your pride in the ground
Any old time you seek you will find
Will is all in your mind
Don’t give me up, don’t get me down
Lay your pride in the ground
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7. |
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Forgiven not forgotten, the stars are made of sin
The past is steady knockin, don’t you let it in
Is it so hard to believe,
That you could ever love me?
I’m no Doctor
I’m no Dean
I’m no Martin
I’m a little more Baldwin baby
Is it so hard to believe
That you could ever love me?
Oh I’m no Doctor
I’m no Dean
I’m no heartache
But there’s a little darkness underneath
So hear me now
Where you been?
Hear me now, where you goin?
Back to that old town
And that old country road?
Hear me now old friend
Forgiven not forgotten, the stars are made of sin
The past is steady knockin, don’t you let it in
If you hadn’t been there, how else would you know?
How could you have got here unless you had the road?
A little boy went walkin, out into the world
You’d hardly think to mark him, plainly he did go
He happened on a hunger, that grew into his mind
And soon it rang like thunder, shook him from inside
The past is steady knockin, don’t you let it in
A figure at the gatepost, you can’t be sure it’s him
The road is out before, your feet are made of lead
The question needs the answer, but it hasn’t got it yet
Is it so hard to believe
That you could ever love me?
I’m no Doctor
I’m no Dean
I’m no heartache
But there’s a little darkness underneath
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8. |
Shalom
02:51
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Shalom young child
Come to the way
Whisper me sacred code
Reason on fire
Hell is on call
Waiting for war to come
It don’t matter baby, where it’s coming from
Run me down on mainstreet
From your horse on high
Take me out and shoot me
Under cloak of night
Get all this down
Someone must lead
Tell me you understand
Talking outlawed
Thinking on trial
Doubting is violence
March thee with your virtue in your hand
March thee further toward the promised land
Run me down on mainstreet
From your horse on high
Take me out and shoot me
Under cloak of night
Shalom young child
Come to the way
Whisper me sacred code
Reason on fire
Hell is on call
Waiting for war to come
Devil may care where it’s coming from
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9. |
Young
03:29
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Adolesce, struggle with the thought of being useless
Wander through the fog through the forest
Happen on a creature in the dark
And the beast is hungry
Figure this one, do that little tough-boy look with your jaw
Put a little competent in your walk
No don’t look back, keep your head up, breathe, look it in the eye
Young and ready, young will testify into the night, “come get me”
All about you, every shred of pain, felt again, you mark me
Altruist, everything from comrade to populist
All of it beginning in a mystery
Seeing through the eye of a needle
And thinking makes thinking so, where am I though?
Do that little rat-race dance on the poor
Do that little tough-boy look with your jaw
What’s your God’s name? What’s your end-game
Why won’t you look me in the eye?
Young and ready, young will testify into the night, “come get me”
All about you, every shred of pain, felt again, you mark me
You, you, you, the animal
Atrophy, knowing that the end would come for everything
Happen on the creature in the forest
One last tough-boy look with your jaw
Lift it up, show your throat to the claw
Feel your heartbeat, breathe, look it in the eye
Young and ready, young will testify into the night, “come get me”
All about you, every shred of pain, felt again, you mark me
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Passing mobile Alabama, headed for Atlanta
Chrysler turned over in the road
Young boy dead on the black top
Head open, heart stopped
Bless your soul
At the border into Georgia
I could go no further
Young boy tattooed on my brain
At the lonesome place he died
His body looked me in the eye
And I had to know his name
I’ve a lot of love for you
But that won’t change the fact
I’ve a lot of love for you
But that won’t bring you back
He was Robert Delacroix
He was running from the law
He had many warrant up against his name
The Chrysler he had stolen from his father
Who would ask after the car
When the call to him was made
His Momma cried herself to sleep
Every night for many weeks
She had tried to set him straight and raise him right
But the world had cut into his soul
And only so much love can flow
Into a heart that wants to fight
I’ve a lot of love for you
But that won’t change the fact
I’ve a lot of love for you
But that won’t bring you back
In Atlanta the rain came down
I, a free man, night off on the town
I thanked my mother, for love of old
And I thanked the world
For sparing my soul
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Morning Rain
03:04
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In that morning rain, when you sang to me in the dunes
In that morning rain, when you sang to me in the dunes
I make it, out of all the memories, I can call upon
That’s the winner
When you turned to me, and you spoke the words, I had before
When you turned to me, and you spoke the words, I had before
I make it, out of all the feelings, I would want returned
That’s the winner
In that moment, nothing else could matter
In that moment, nothing else could matter
In that moment, nothing else could matter
But the winner
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Minnesota, when I was your daughter
I looked up to you
I thought that you knew all there was to know
I thought that you’d been where you had to go
Minnesota, now that I’m your mother
I see you as you are
You’re not some shining star, not a destination
You’re a growing child, that I hope to raise right
My hopes for you are my hopes for me
My dreams for you are my dreams for me
America, when I was your daughter
You meant the world to me
You held my every dream
You promised me protection
You promised me my freedom
America, now that I’m your mother
Now that you’re the younger
I’m trying to hold your hand
I hope you understand
That if you don’t move toward them
Dreams get broken
My hopes for you are my hopes for me
My dreams for you are my dreams for me
And I love you like a trouble-child
I love you like a river wild
I love you like a mother dead
I love you like a dawning
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13. |
What They Say
04:56
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Rollin’ with the devil
Holdin’ baby’s hand
Wanna get to heaven
He don’t understand
On into the Reeperbahn he knew most every soul
Cryin’ for their moms
Hangin’ for a smoke
Everything is all good
Up until its not
Punch your card with Pedro
Tell me what you got
Buddy up here waiting on your truck come into view
That other thing you like
Be right here waiting too
Davey if you’re saved then
Tell the girl hello
I don’t think I’ll make it
Headed down below
I’d have had a better shot at landing on the moon
It’s never what they say
It’s only what they do
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14. |
Push The Cart
05:15
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This is the cart that I used to push when I was a young babe
Push push the cart, push the cart
Push the cart all day
This is the tree that I used to climb when I was a young child
Hang from the bow, from the bow
From the bow till you come down
Nobody knows where it came from
Nobody knows where it goes
Try to look light upon it
It will be dark if you don’t
This is the heart that I beat since before I was born
Beat beat the heart, beat the heart
Beat the heart all night long
This is the dream that I wrote when I was a young soul
Dream dream the dream, dream the dream
Dream the dream, carry me home
Nobody knows where it came from
Nobody knows where it goes
Try to look soft upon it
It will be hard if you don’t
This is the place where I stood when my mother died
Hang, hang the head, hang the head
Hang the head down and cry
That one is you, this one is me, we are human beings
Beat beat the heart, dream dream the dream
Push push the cart, so it seems
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