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Young Man in America
04:13
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My mother gave a mighty shout
Opened her legs and let me out
Hungry as a prairie dog
Young man in America
Young man in America
Hungry, hungry, running every which way
Young man in Americay
I come out like a cannonball
Come of age of alcohol
Raven in a field of rye
With a black and roving eye
Black and roving eye
Ravenous, ravenous
What you got, it's not enough
Young man in America
Oh, shelter, mother shelter,
Mother shelter us
Oooh
My father was a lord of land
My daddy was a repo man
Put me out onto the street
Didn't give a damn for me
Did not give a damn
Daddy, daddy, gonna wish you never had me
I'm a young man
I'm growing right before your eyes
I might grow to such a size
Blow in like a hurricane
Everyone will know my name
Everyone'll know my name
Blowing in, blowing up
Shadow on the mountaintop
Young man in America
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2. |
Living Room
03:41
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My good friends speak
Like they did last year
Last night’s just a blur
Through a head full of beer
My good friends speak
Like they did last year
And last year's just a blur
Through a head of full beer
Where's your wisdom
Put that broken bottle down
Let the wind in your sails
Take you out of this town so sad
I think I'm dying
And if life's just a living room
Then I'm in the hall and I'm glad
If life's just a living room
I'm in the hall and I'm glad
Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad
Now the dawn it has broke
Still the night don't clear
Memories falling in the mornin' rain
I'm up too close, to see it clear
And last year's just a blur
Through a head of full beer
Where's your wisdom
Put that broken bottle down
Let the wind in your sails
Take you out of this town so sad
I think I'm dying
And if life's just a living room
Then I'm in the hall and I'm glad
If life's just a living room
I'm in the hall and I'm glad
If life's just a living room
I'm in the hall and I'm glad
Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad
(Na-na-na)
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3. |
Did Galileo Pray?
05:21
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When he looked
Into a starry sky upon Jupiter,
With it's cold moons
Making their weary rounds.
Did he know that the Pope
Would claim that he ran with Lucifer
And a prison cell
Would be where he’d lay his head down?
Was he wearing a thorny crown?
When he plotted the motion of planets,
Was Mercury in retrograde?
But he found the truth when a lie was what was demanded.
When the judges asked him pointedly
He was a' trembling that day.
Did Galileo pray? (x4)
And he said,
"Tell Ptolemy, tell Copernicus,
That the Sun is at the core of us
The Church, the Pope
Can’t deny the Milky Way
And every flower that follows the sun,
Has known all along what God had done
They whisper truth as the seasons each give way.
Don't shoot the messenger,
The postman delivers Truth today.
And Truth will march in Birmingham
It will block the tanks in Tiananmen.
Put the judges on the witness stand
Let’s see what they all say.
Did Galileo pray? (x4)
In the heavens you'll see it
As God has conceived it.
Oh, believe it.
Oh, what does it take to believe?
Don't shoot the messenger,
When the postman brings you truth today.
Because truth will march in Birmingham
It will block the tanks in Tiananmen
Put the judges on the witness stand,
Let's see what they all say.
Did Galileo pray? (x4)
Don't shoot the messenger, don't shoot the messenger
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4. |
Nashville
03:59
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On a childhood highway through a night alone
I was barely breathing, I was crawling home
Well it's not quite London or the south of France
Or an Asian island or a second chance
Going back to Nashville, thinking about the whole thing
Guess you gotta run sometimes
Maybe I'm a fast train rolling down the mountain
Watching all my life go by
You're a distant memory, you're an exit sign
I was talking crazy on the driver's side
And I know I hurt you but I won't confess
Was that blood or a wine stain on your wedding dress
Going back to Nashville, thinking about the whole thing
Guess you gotta run sometimes
Maybe I'm a fast train rolling down the mountain
Watching all my life go by
Going back to Nashville, laughing at a bad break
What's the use in wondering why
Maybe I'm a storm front rolling through the valley
Tearing up a good July
And it's safe and warm where nothing ever happens
Would it be so hard to realign a star or two
Change a southern night for you
Well it's not quite evening, and it's not New York
There's a scar in the blue sky by the old airport
And I'm talking crazy on the driver's side
I will always love you like a long goodbye
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She was kind of quiet and shy
Oh when that first look caught my eye
I said “hello”, she took my hand
Before long there were wedding plans
Now fifteen years have come and gone
I can’t believe i’m so alone
For all those years, she was my wife
‘Till two things came to wreck my life
Rolling rock and rock ‘n’ roll
Got ahold of baby’s soul
Things aren’t how like they were then
‘Cause she ain’t coming back again
It ain’t like it used to be
Our love burned out at 33
Tried it once and lost control
Rolling Rock and Rock ‘n’ Roll
She’d stay home alone each night
While I pursued the party life
I’d come home late and there she’d be
TV on and off to sleep
Until one night I filled my mug
I was slapping backs and getting hugs
My crazy friends
And then surprise!
I’m staring into baby’s eyes
(Chorus + Instrumental)
I’ve learned my lesson, i’ll go straight
I’ll be home every night by eight
I’ll walk the path that’s straight and true
And I’ll do what i’m supposed to do
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6. |
Morningside
03:33
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Am I a fool at this late date
To heed a voice that says,
You can be great
I heard it young, now I hear it again
It says, you can be better than you've ever been
Don't want to waste what I have to give
In all of the time that I've left to live
Don't want to waste what I have to give
In any of the time that I've got left
I can do more than I thought I could
Work brings more luck than knocking on wood
There's random bad and random good
Work brings more good luck
Good luck
You ask the world
And the world says, no
It's the world's refrain
Mine says, go
You ask the world
And the world says, no
It's an old world refrain
Mine says, go
Don't want to waste what I have to give
In all of the time that I've left to live
Don't want to waste what I have to give
In any of the time that I've got left
I can do more than I thought I could
Work brings more luck than knocking on wood
There's random bad and random good
Work brings more good luck
Better be off
I've got dreams to dream
Though it seems uphill and a little extreme
If I can find hope in this fading light
Then I'll find you on the morning side
If I can find hope in this fading light
Then I'll find you on the morning side
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7. |
Most Promising Officer
03:27
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Well I wondered the trail a mile or three
a day or maybe a week
‘Till I came to that crossroads place
I could no longer speak
Raise my face up to the sky
Where the prairie sun burns white
On the lonely Llano estacado
At the place of the Mackenzie fight
He was the most promising, most promising officer
He was the most promising, most promising officer
Ah the ghost ponies wail in their bloody swale
Where their bones bleach white in the sun
An idle light flashes across the sky
Where the thunder stallions run
And up north in the Big Horn snow
Where the Tongue’s clear waters flow
There’s a cut-throat pony in the blizzard night
Where the old one’s feet were froze
There was the most promising, most promising officer
most promising, most promising officer
Well, I guess its true when they say
Custer died for our sins
I figured he got what he deserved
For the rest of us, well the judge it’s not in
Mackenzie could not bear the burden
And he could not still the cries
He could only dream of a cold army 45
Right between the eyes
He was the most promising, most promising officer
most promising, most promising officer
Raise my face up to the sky
Where the prairie sun burns white
On the lonely llano estacado
At the place of the Mackenzie fight
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8. |
Some People
02:49
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Some people tell you just what they’re feeling
Some just let you know
Some people compel you with eyes so revealing
Your gaze cannot let go
A smile of flirtation, that coy invitation
You wonder what the night has planned
Then without asking phone number on a napkin is placed in the palm of your hand
Welcome to a slice of life
with all the sweet delight of some people
some people read you like you’re a mystery
some like a valentine
some people meet you at a point in your history
with a heart that’s right on time
Divine influence or coincidence
All the stars have aligned right here
Now she’s closer than the drink on your coaster address whispered in your ear
Welcome to a slice of life
with all the sweet delight of some people
If love’s a roll of the dice
maybe chance is underrated so goodbye to the tragic point of view that your world is complicated
Welcome to a slice of life
with all the sweet delight of some people
Welcome to a slice of life
with all the sweet delight of some people
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Every night i lay my head down
Every night i think about you
In the morning, raise my head up
Watch the sunrise and think about you
Now the smoke hangs over the meadow
and the sun shines warm upon my face
In the deepening of the stillness
I close my eyes and think about you
The air's a-buzzin' like it's full of hornets
And a-crashin' like thunder in my ears
And john gilbert from jefferson county
Standing next to me disappears
We sit together in the smoke and fire light
He plays his mouth harp so soft and slow
In the deepening of the stillness
I close my eyes and think about you
Sometimes words get left unspoken
Sometimes words just vanish in the air
We are here for but a moment
Before we whisper our last prayer
Did I show you how much i love you
Did I tell you the words written in my heart
In the deepening of the stillness
I close my eyes and think about you
In the deepening of the stillness
I close my eyes and think about you
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10. |
Just Like a Woman
04:23
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Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows that baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
Yes, she does, she makes love just like a woman
Yes, she does, and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess that baby can't be blessed
'Til she finally sees that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls
She takes just like a woman
Yes, she makes love just like a woman
Yes, she does, and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that I just can't fit
Yes, I believe that it's time for us to quit
But when we meet again, introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman
Yes, you do, you make love just like a woman
Yes, you do, then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl
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