1. |
Open Door
02:38
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Open Door
Baby you put perfect love
High up on a pedestal
And when I stand beside it
I look broken down and crude
You tell me time and time again
How loving causes so much pain
But you just suffer patiently
So proud and resolute
Chorus:
You're a prisoner behind an open door
What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?
There's no need to carry round
That cross no more
There's a world outside
And there's an open door
I guess I just never dreamed
That love would ever come pristine
But I don't mind the bumpy roads
And I don't mind the flaws
But you don't have to sacrifice
Or put your happiness on ice
I don't want you laying down
And dying for the cause
Chorus
Never said I was a saint
Nothing pure I couldn't taint
But I can do without the tears
And I can live with my mistakes
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2. |
Baby Grow Old with Me
03:55
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Baby Grow Old with Me
Oh, my friend you should know
That my love for you has grown
Every year I have treasured it silently
And as our road slowly unfolds
I’m so glad that you have chosen
To make room by your side for my company
I know how it goes
Things fall apart
But my love’s like a chain
Pulls me back to your heart
Chorus:
Baby, grow old with me
Baby, grow old with me
In the morning when I wake
It’s you I want to see
Baby, grow old with me
Tell me you’ll stay with me
Without you I could never know
The man I want to be
I know that tomorrow
Is like a wish wrapped in a dream
No promises that it may ever come
But even if I am blessed with forty-thousand days
I hope that you’re right there in every one
So, honey, I’m here
Whenever you find
That this world seems so unkind
And the road up ahead climbs on endlessly
Just reach for my hand
Whenever you should fall
I’ll be there right through it all
When the night makes the going too dark to see
I know how it goes
Things fall apart
But my love’s like a chain
Pulls me back to your heart
Chorus:
Baby, grow old with me
Baby, grow old with me
In the morning when I wake
It’s you I want to see
Baby, grow old with me
Tell me you’ll stay with me
Without you I could not become
The man I want to be
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3. |
Talk Radio
03:54
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Talk Radio
I know that it’s true
Cause I feel it so strong
I don’t need to prove it
Cause I know I’m not wrong
It’s just common sense
Telling me that it’s so
That’s why I listen to talk radio
I’m a hard-working man
I’m just trying to get by
I hate when these liberals
Try to get a free ride
I pay all my taxes
I don’t think that I’m owed
That’s why I listen to talk radio
That’s why I listen to talk radio
Chrorus:
I wanna hear about these young punks
Shooting off handguns
Just a slap on the wrist
And all these single, teen moms
Living on welfare
Can’t keep their pants on
Doing drugs, having more kids
Thank God there’s somebody
Talking ‘bout this
Talk Radio, Talk Radio…etc.
Chorus
Politicians and bankers
Like pigs at a trough
Smiling and lying
And ripping us off
But there’s a tsunami rising
Of average Joes
That’s why I listen to talk radio
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4. |
Somewhere Between
04:45
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Somewhere Between
Somewhere between the words
There’s the poetry
Somewhere between the notes
There’s the harmony
Somewhere between the man you see
And the dream you had of who I’d be
There’s the heart that beats inside of me
Somewhere between
Somewhere between the pain
There’s the promises
Between the needs of each of us
There’s the things we give
Somewhere between the dark of night
And the pale grey hope of morning light
There’s the strength we’ll find to make it right
Chorus:
Somewhere between
We’ll find the love
Hiding beneath
And rising above
Nothing we dream
Out of our reach
We’ll find the love
Somewhere between
Somewhere between the pen
And an empty page
Somewhere between intent
And the things we say
Somewhere between the gentle touch
Of the canvas and the artist’s brush
There’s the life we’ll paint for both of us
Chorus
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5. |
Note to Myself
03:05
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Note to Myself
Saw a big raven on the shoulder of the road
Picking at some road-kill roasting in the sun
Made a note to myself, if I’m reincarnated
And I get to pick my next life
Don’t pick that one
Look at all the green trees
Swaying in the warm breeze
Look at all the big clouds rolling by
I’m driving in my Chevy
Going down to see my baby
Got a picture of her sweet face on my mind
Look at all the dumb cows standing there like statues
Wonder what they’re thinking as I’m driving by
Made a note to myself, I know it may be really tempting
An empty head is not the same as piece of mind
Look at all the green trees
Swaying in the warm breeze
Look at all the big clouds rolling by
I’m driving in my Chevy
Going down to see my baby
Got a picture of her sweet face on my mind
Nothing like summer and being in love
Your arm around your baby
And the radio on
Happiness raining from the heavens above
All of your troubles are gone
When I was a young man I thought I’d live forever
But now that I am older, well, I’m glad it ain’t so
Put my worries on a high shelf, made a note to myself
Enjoy it while you got it
Cause you got to let it go
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6. |
Sleep, my Darling, Sleep
03:03
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Sleep, my Darling, Sleep
Sleep, my darling, sleep
And I will wait beside you
Though the night is cold
And the darkness deep
I have made a promise I will keep
Yes, I will wait with you
In your eyes I see
A hope that I remember
All the days that cover and bury me
Fall away like snow from winter trees
Fall away, and I am free
All these things of this world mean so little to me
They're the chains that we break
when we wake from our dreams
But my love, my love will remain
Through the worlds we have lost
And the worlds we have gained
I have felt the years
Break like waves upon the shoreline
I have heard the seagulls cry my name
Saying wake, the time won't come again
Yes, I will wait with you
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7. |
Giving Point
04:30
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Giving Point
I’m sorry that I let you down
Sorry that I never found
The strength to make it good for you
And the words to make it right
I guess I had to grow a bit
Had to learn to go with it
But sometimes it’s all we can do
To make it through the day
Chorus:
So we keep pushing on
Until the giving point
And in a flash the scenery changes
And the road gets washed away
And all the things we planned
Are snatched from our hands
And here we stand
At the giving point
I know that you were loving me
But it was love I couldn’t see
A language that I didn’t speak
And could not recognize
Life can be so cruel that way
We see the truth when it’s too late
And the words we finally learn to say
Are better left unsaid
We hurt and blame
Then the pain can blind us
And simple kindness
Gets lost along the way
But through the night
The morning light can find us
And it reminds us
How everything has changed
Chorus
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8. |
Soul-Sucking Job
03:38
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Soul-Sucking Job
Monday morning comes, another weekend
Has gone before I poured myself a drink
Back to treading water in the deep end
Trying not to sink
Man, this nine-to-five is getting heavy
I’m running out of fingers for the dyke
Throw another sandbag on the levee
And watch the river rise
Chorus:
I wanna spray
Paint on this computer
I wanna take
A hammer to that clock
I wanna trade
This old life for a new one
And find a place that time forgot
And leave behind
This soul-sucking job
There’s vultures up there circling above me
Creditors just waiting for my pay
Nobody at the bank is gonna love me
I need a holiday
Cause in the end you’ll only want a little more
And in the end you wonder what you did it for
Chorus
Hey, this job sucks my soul
This job sucks my soul
This job sucks my soul
This job sucks. . .
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9. |
Warzone Lullaby
05:24
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War-Zone Lullaby
Tonight, he sends his tiny prayers
Drifting off to space
In case somebody's listening
His mother lying close to him
So he won't be afraid
Pretending she is sleeping
And all across the blackened town
There's firecracker sounds
And distant muffled wailing
And every night this symphony
Floats into his window
And he listens to its lullaby
Sleep, my child, the gunfire sings
Go to sleep, the canons ring
Tonight the bombs fall far away
And the morning brings a brand-new day
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10. |
Thank You
04:36
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Thank You
I remember as a child
The future spread out like an endless sea
But you helped me raise my sails
Taught me not to be afraid
When I first felt the wind
Now time has given me
The chance to say what I have always known
That every battle I have won
Every song that I have sung
Were from the seeds you’ve sown
Chorus:
Thank you for life
Thank you for loving me
I’ve always felt
Your quiet strength
Beneath my feet
I know you’d gladly crawl
To let me fly above it all
Thank you for life
Thank you for loving me
And we are fallen leaves
The river grabs us and we move along
Takes us swirling on our way
Spinning through the rush of days
As they go on and on
But there’s star that does not change
Always flickers when I feel alone
It’s the love that never dies
It’s the same unbroken line
That leads me home
Chorus
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11. |
Ghost Across the Moors
03:38
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Ghost Across the Moors
How many times have I waited for love
To fill up the cracks where the rain still gets in
A smooth runway when I come in on one engine
A fat Cheshire cat to my asinine grin
How many times have I used up my chances
And sat like a criminal lost in despair
But like lawyers who leap through their loop-holes like dancers
Love always stepped up to answer my prayer
And oh, I keep doubling back
To this station on the circle track
Like a drunkard's hand reaching for his pocket flask
Again and again
I believe that love will always be
The star that guides the sailors back from sea
And it shines above me like a grail
A beacon on the shore
A ghost across the moors that I have chased
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12. |
Waiting for Greyhounds
07:37
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Waiting for Greyhounds
He was a soldier
Who died without firing
Before he could see
His enemy’s face
And I was a sailor
With no star to guide me
Adrift on an ocean
In a world without grace
I have a picture
Of when we were twenty
The lines in your smile
That time would have traced
I wish I’d known then
My heart was a camera
I would have chosen
To live in the moment
Chorus:
Deep in the quiet of night
Time beats its menacing drums
Racing my pulse with the pounding
Until I am numb
But with the sun on my face
And with the wind on my skin
I can return to these ending and learn to begin
Back to a happier day. . .
One summer we traveled
West on a Greyhound
The world painted wide
And the long, endless road
But just like the mountains
Rising up from the distance
Our future surprised us
With its towering presence
Chorus
Back to a happier day
Waiting for Greyhounds to take us away
Back to the time when the world streamed love through its pores
Like the wind through the trees
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13. |
One More for the Road
04:16
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One More Song for the Road
Nights like these I ask myself
What kind of life is this?
There must have been some hidden exit
On the highway that I missed
I've played fifty-thousand songs
In faceless bars, in nameless towns
All blurred now like a single Van Gogh
Painting in my mind
Two-AM and all these lonely people know
It's another night they'll all be going home alone
And so they say
Chorus:
Hey, play us one more for the road
One more little song before you go
Won’t you stay and play us one more for the road
Oh, won't you sing us one more for the road?
While the waitress tallies up
How her night has gone
And all the lights come on
But I've got one more song I have to play
Maybe it's been coloured by
All the beer I've had tonight
But this one is for all the thank you's
I forgot to say
Two-AM and all these lonely people know
It's another night we'll all be going home alone
Chorus
Nights like these I sit at this piano
And I'm tumbling, spinning, whirling
Like a fairground ride
And I have seen
The music spray like driving rain
To wash away the painful places deep inside
And so they say
Hey, play us one more for the road
One more little song before you go
Won't you reach inside
And lighten up our load
Oh, won't you sing us one more for the road
Oh, sing us one more song before you go
Hey play us one more song just for the road
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