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Night Light
04:31
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Darkness Comes our way
After the light of day
Light it shines on you
After night time passes through
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The man who will smoke anything is crinkled up inside
The soles of his shoes are worn and his breath he tries to hide
He hasn't seen the light of day since his wife and kids left town
And he's wondering this time how low he'll get till things turn around
The tavern that he prefers keeps the lights low and music loud
Keeping down the things in his mind he prefers and finds profound
To much time spent in the mind take him from here to nowhere
So the man who will smoke anything, his drinking nights abound
After what feels like eternity the man's eyes open wide
He's locked in some cheap motel and the sunlight burns his eyes
Three nights spent pacing back and forth, calling back for more
There's a missing piece of a dusty window blind laid on the floor
He wishes for a pickup truck, he wishes for a job
He thinks about sticking up a place, cause he feels robbed
If life is just a carousel, this one's run its course
He's had enough, it's a quick give up, and then a pistol on the floor
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3. |
Caught in the Cove
04:43
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Eli Jones he steps out
His whole life is full of doubt
Parkersburg gave his kids a cough
Got to find a place where he can get lost
He got caught
Caught in the cove
Trying to find where
He can make his happy home
High school is over now
Get a job anyway that you know how
Find place to make your stand
Raise a family maybe work on the land
He got caught
Caught in the cove
Trying to find where
He can make his happy home
Sally Till she's speeding away
Tired of where she has to stay
All that money spent on nothing at all
Trying hard to avoid a fall
She got caught
Caught in the cove
Trying to find where
She can make her happy home
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4. |
Lay Me Down
02:34
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Lay me down
In Hardin County
Lay me down
That cold cold ground
I'll wait for you
My little darling
Mine earthly plot
Will long be found
I woke that morning
As any other
Heard a sinking, deathly sound
In my darkness
Cried out please save me
Light cast o'er
My solemn brow
What will the people
Think of me
When I'm laid down
Lord, dead and gone
Life that lasted
But a twinkle
Remembering me
Less long
Lord send the angels
Down for me
Hear my humble cry
This life is full of
Pain and sorrow
Felt no more
For I'm to die
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5. |
Flicker
04:17
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That man is down on his luck
A one time rambler whose life is crashed and stuck
Now cold and lonely
Thinking where he's been
Then he jumps a train
Hoping to start again
Smoking wasted butts, nowhere to rest
Hearing what others say about his looks in his distress
He had chased a ghost nearly all his days
Hobo hopping
Till the city lights fade away
Give me the last flicker of hope
Give me the last glimmer of hope
Lost out in the darkness till you find your rope
Give me the last flicker of hope
Stop in a small mountain town
Faces look elsewhere
But he didn't care
Just wondering from here to there
Maybe this is the place where he needs to fall
Maybe he's found his ghost after all
Give me the last flicker of hope
Give me the last glimmer of hope
Lost out in the darkness till you find your rope
Give me the last flicker of hope
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6. |
Pavement
05:41
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Well this girl I've known to be
Everything lying next to me
Unseen future and I must know
Like an aperture scratching out on my window
This road I've seen before
Traveled over and down and more
The way may be old
But the pavement is new
This town, not new to me no more
There's a bar, a school and a grocery store
The people in it give me such a bore
I feel like running away
This road I've seen before
Traveled over and down and more
The way may be old
But the pavement is new
What's the new road
That I must take
Is it filled with smiles and birthday cake?
Or low down dirges that make your soul shake?
Answer me that question man
This road I've seen before
Traveled over and down and more
The way may be old
But the pavement is new
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7. |
To What End
04:13
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From across a big expanse
came down before
finding ways and all the things
that I'd been looking for
and as it passed over
I knew I was alive
suddenly someone spoke
as I began to cry
The pain was bigger
the second time around
deep inside I knew to hide
from the view laid down
ask in tones of reverence
my answer came
there I was staring at my shoes out of frame
To what end will it be
What is the end for me
You must think it's easy
to speak and not be heard
to tell a lie that makes
even truth look absurd
I may be gone but not forgotten
tried and sometimes true
you can't even think a lie
as big as the one that i've construed
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Something about the Rain
04:22
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River keep rolling, rain hasn't slowed down for days
If it keeps on coming down, flood waters will take this house away
I haven't been home for weeks, wonder if anyone stopped by
Probably just the mail man with news that will make a grown man cry
The train that I'm on, won't slow until the night ends
I'm riding away from Michigan, following the rails to some rusty state
My sadness follows along, I try to beat it but it's strong
Wonder when I get there, will she take the blues that I'm on
If I see you coming, I'd probably let you pass by
I want to stop and talk, and figure out how you made me try
But you'd look to important, dignified in your easy way
Maybe I'll try next time, when I have something left to say
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9. |
They Were Wrong
04:25
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They were wrong
Innocent, my opinion don't matter no way
We dissent, feeling better off that way
Lives are spent, working stiff without no pay
Same old shit, burn it down it's the only way
They were wrong
Spit on and curse you, drag your name on through that mud
Stupid and ignorant, boy I'd kill you if I could
Maybe you, shouldn't been born anyway
Go on back, from where you come from's what I say
They were wrong
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10. |
Blood and Bone
04:12
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I wish I could sing it all in a song so plain
Wish we had time for a long refrain
But the world is getting ugly now
There is no time to wait
Is it a revolution that will set you free?
Are we walking into tyranny?
Right and Left, Love and Hate
On the razors edge, what will be fate
The world is upside down
Disaster's everywhere
Change is in the air
Will it be blood and bone
With a voice so loud and information so just
Is it open your mind or in God we trust?
Build a wall or tear it down
Time to swim or else we'll drown
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Loose Roosters Boone, North Carolina
Loose Roosters
Finer gentlemen, you’ll meet few
Writing songs that are all
brand new
Live in the mountains with a kangaroo
And boy who cries about the age of two
Many have tried to play as they do
But the soul of a rooster is required of you
Tell all you know to come from far and near
The roosters are loose so lend them your ear
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