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Sensitive Heart
04:16
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Take her in your arms
Don’t ever let go
Take her in your heart
Give her all that you know
You cannot wait one moment in time
Like I did when she was mine
She’s got a sensitive heart
Knows no other way
Got sensitive blood
Don’t slam the door
She’s got a sensitive heart
They want her to break
Got sensitive blood
Don’t slam the door
Sometimes you lead
When you can’t follow
Sometimes you give it all
When you can’t receive
Buddy don’t take it
Don’t take it from me
And don’t take her love away
She’s got a sensitive heart
Knows no other way
Got sensitive blood
Don’t slam the door
She’s got a sensitive heart
They want her to break
Got sensitive blood
Don’t slam the door
Take her in your arms
Don’t ever let go
Take her in your heart
Give her all that you know
She don’t need more lies on her shelf
She grew up and got away
She’s got a sensitive heart
Knows no other way
Got sensitive blood
Don’t slam the door
She’s got a sensitive heart
They want her to break
Got sensitive blood
Don’t slam the door
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2. |
Sin & Redemption
05:09
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Well I came first
Or second if you want to get technical on that
I took the brunt of my daddy’s broken heart
From the end of a baseball bat
Julie came along and everything she touched
Couldn’t have turned more gold
Well I loved her too but, man, I was out in the cold
First day of school they dropped us off
And the teachers wondered
How I fell into so many doors at home
While Julie never fell
It wasn’t ’til I made my own friends, drank all night and slept all day
That I felt good
Man, I’d never felt that way
Me and my sister, we went different ways
But little sister did I try
She left home and started a brand new life
All them things they taught me as a kid
They’re all just a big old lie
Sin and redemption
I got one down cold and the other I’m fightin’
Fightin’ ’til the day that I die
Well from time to time I call her up just to see how her kids are doing
I’m talking to them through clouds so thick
But I love how they call me uncle
Her old man, he don’t like the way I just show up unannounced
Aw buddy - everyone’s got a cross they gotta spike in the ground
Me and my sister, we went different ways
But little sister did I try
She left home and started a brand new life
All them things they taught me as a kid
They’re all just a big old lie
Sin and redemption
I got one down cold and the other I’m fightin’
Fightin’ ’til the day that I die
Well I got a call from my mama last week
My daddy, he had died
She wanted me to tell her why every time she wanted me to visit
I’d make up a lie
Well I ain’t got the heart to tell her I never fell on my own once
That broken heart, it don’t need another punch
Well Julie called me up when it was all said and done last night
She said mama wanted her to tell me she knew it wasn’t right
Me and my sister, we went different ways
But little sister did I try
You left home and started a brand new life
All them things they taught us as kids
They’re all just big old lies
Sin and redemption
Got one down cold and the other I’m fightin’
Fightin’ ’til the day that I die
Yeah I got one down cold and the other I’m fightin’
Fightin’ ’til the day that I die
Fightin’ ’til the day that I die
I’m a-fightin’ ’til the day that I die
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3. |
Smiling In The Rain
04:17
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We went through love and devotion
We saw some sorrow and pain
It took many years to get myself right
But now I’m smiling in the rain
Bluewater fish in the ocean
You always liked them in the spring
The way the sun reflected off of the water
It always made you sing
The cold hard truth
We lived fast and loose
I wish I could explain
Now every mile I roam no matter how far from home
Well I’m smiling in the rain
Yes I’m smiling in the rain
Down on these golden state streets
Where the shadows and the silhouettes meet
The magnolias in your hair
It all feels too real
It’s just love’s lost dream
My love, the time it has passed
Each memory catches me less than the last
All it takes is just one drop
And I’m right back, yes I’m right back
The cold hard truth
You live fast and loose
It all gets set ablaze
Now I can be on my own no matter how far from home
And be smiling in the rain
Yes I’m smiling in the rain
The cold hard truth
You live fast and loose
It all gets set ablaze
Now every mile I roam no matter how far from home
Well I’m smiling in the rain
Yes I’m smiling in the rain
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4. |
Long Road To Barstow
05:03
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Those songs out of a bottle
They were my only hope
But I’ll be damned if I didn’t drink ‘em down to the last note
Falling off a barstool was all I ever did
I never gave a damn
Just never had a damn to give
Another boozy night going nowhere
I hit the gas but I was moving slow
Something in the road or something in the air
Made me feel it was time to go
Pick me up and lead me down the long road to Barstow
Sunrise in my rearview
A bass drum in my head
I had a heart full of sorrow and a right foot full of lead
A radiator leaking
A crack in the grill
It was another night of drinking
And mixing in, mixing in the pills
I don’t remember too much after midnight
But I heard it like an echo in my soul
I couldn’t turn around
I couldn’t face the lie
I couldn’t suffer what I didn’t know
Pick me up and lead me down the long road to Barstow
Barely 10 am
The Death Valley Motor Inn
I parked around the back before I stumbled in
To my 30 dollar room
I put the smoke to the fire
Peeling back the curtains I saw the blood
The blood on the tires
Another boozy night going nowhere
I hit the gas but I was moving slow
I feel it in my bones
They’re gonna find me, Lord
And send me to the devil down below
Pick me up and lead me down the road
Pick me up and lead me down the road
I’m hidin’ out driving down the long road to Barstow
Down the long road to Barstow
Down the long road to Barstow
Down the long road to Barstow
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5. |
Sweet Virginia Morn
04:24
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Wide open, underneath the sun
Darryl calls out to his mom
We have everything we want
Why are we on the run
These tall cornfields
They’re not where I grew up
These stars above
They’re not the ones I know
There’s something that happens when dreams don’t come true
Something I don’t ever want for you
I knew it when I picked you up on that sweet Virginia morn
I knew it on the day you were born
We were young, son
Didn’t know just want to do
We thought we’d thought it all through and through
Early each morning I used to go to work
Your father too
For our pentecostal church
It wasn’t like something happened
Some incident or crime
Most things, Darryl, they happen over time
There’s something that happens when dreams don’t come true
Something I don’t ever want for you
I knew it when I picked you up on that sweet Virginia morn
I knew it on the day you were born
I don’t think, my baby
It’s penance or it’s fate
That pushed us to the interstate
Under this sky in Indiana
I’m hoping it’s not too late
These tall cornfields
They’re not where we grew up
These stars above
They’re not the ones we know
Colorado or New Mexico
Or California - they’re not our home
There’s something that happens when dreams don’t come true
Something I don’t ever wish on you
I knew it when I kissed you on that sweet Virginia morn
I knew it on the day you were born
Yes I knew it on the day you were born
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6. |
Diamonds In The Dark
05:42
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I got a dream hanging on by a thread but I’m learning how to sew
I got a dream hanging on by a thread but I’m learning how to sew
I never been too good with fingers but I’ve tied lots of rope
I got a hard head and a mallet, feet dragging on the floor
I got a hard head and a mallet, both feet dragging on the floor
Sometimes a man’s got to move before he knows how far to go
I got grapes of cabernet planted in my yard
I got grapes of cabernet planted in my backyard, yes I do
I’m staring out the front watching diamonds in the the dark
I’m back in the storm
I’m back in the storm
I don’t know where to go
I’m back in the storm
I’m back in the storm
I’m staring out the front watching diamonds in the dark
I got a dream hanging on by a thread but I’m learning how to sew
I got a dream hanging on by a thread but I’m learning how to sew
I never been too good with fingers but I’ve tied lots of rope
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7. |
Runaround Town
03:12
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I grew up in a suburb
It was in Toronto
I didn’t like it, not at all
It didn’t feel like part of the world
I set out to start over on new, foreign, hallowed ground
Born again I promised I would never go back to Runaround Town
I made it to the city
Well Times Square still had porno
Well the bus driver told me
Said, “Kid watch your back
There’s trouble around every corner”
I thought I was in heaven
Bob Dylan Woody Guthrie bound
And Neil Young had also packed up and left Runaround Town
Take me back to the sounds
Early every morning
I’d get up with my guitar
I’d run as far as I could run
From who I was back when I had no choice
I went down to Texas
I put the earth into my sound
Late at night I’d wonder about my old life in Runaround Town
Take me back to the sounds of Runaround Town
That’s all we ever did was run around town
Runaround Town
That’s all we ever did was run around town
I never thought I’d get out
There’s a big old church at the end of my block
At daybreak it’s all that I see
They’ll lay me down at the end of my days
In that big old church next to my baby
I threw them all away - the dreams that once tore me down
But they followed me all the way
Right back here to Runaround Town
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I think I love you too much
I paint your face with a needle and brush
I walk the streets all alone at dusk
I think I love you too much
Don’t know what I’m gonna do
I can’t let go - it’s just the truth
To find your way in a world untrue
I don’t know what I’m gonna do
Didn’t know how anyone could
Talk so loud and not be understood
Hold so tight it don’t do no good
I didn’t know how anyone could
There ain’t nobody who wants to walk on their own
Once their heart’s been taken to sea
Well I’ve got these shoes and the water’s close
Your heart still beats in time with me
Think I’m gonna take a long ride
And remember how I felt such pride
The day you appeared in front of my eyes
Think I’m gonna take a long ride
There ain’t nobody who wants to walk on their own
Once their heart’s been taken to sea
Well I’ve got these shoes and the water’s close
Your heart still beats in time with me
I think I love you too much
I paint your face with a needle and brush
I walk the streets all alone at dusk
I think I love you too much
I walk the streets all alone at dusk
I think I love you too much
I think I love you too much
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9. |
L.A. Dreams
03:48
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I’m riding in another world
Another world from mine
Been lifted to another place
Another day and time
Got lots of dead weight
Buried in the San Fernando hills
I’ve given up on fate
Runnin’ out of roles to fill
My heart is heavy
My sails are full
I’m off to where the demons collide
With the dreams
I held in another life
Before my love was ridin’ by my side
She’s always ridin’ by my side
Well I’ve counted off all the ways
A man can let himself down
It’s easy not to find your place
When it all comes crashing to the ground
I almost drank myself to death
I burned my eyes on all the tears
Took it out on all my friends
A lot of good that did me for years
My heart is heavy
My sails are full
I’m off to where the demons collide
L.A. dreams
I held in another life
Before my love was ridin’ by my side
She’s always ridin’ by my side
Well I musta known it then
Way back when
Way back when
Every now and then
Now and then
I turn around
My heart is heavy
My sails are full
I’m off to where the demons collide
With the dreams
That I held in another life
Before my love was ridin’ by my side
She’s always ridin’ by my side
She’s always ridin’ by my side
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Sittin’ in the kitchen
It’s raining outside
Talk talk talk, baby what’s on your mind
The devil’s in the details
That’s what she said
We’re makin’ more money but we can’t get ahead
We ain’t lonely, we ain’t high
Oh Katy, it ain’t easy
Running in circles like the hands of time
Oh Katy this ain’t living life
We gotta find something more
Well we’ve gotta find something more
Than just gettin’ by - oooh oooh
At least we got love
Ain’t running out of that
It’s more than just a place to hang your hat
There’s mansion on the hill
It’s empty inside
A rose without water’s gonna shrivel up and die
We ain’t lonely, we ain’t high
Oh Katy, it ain’t easy
Running in circles like the hands of time
Oh Katy this ain’t living life
We gotta find something more
Yes we gotta find something more
Than just gettin’ by - oooh oooh
Just gettin’ by - oooh oooh
Sittin’ in the kitchen
Still raining outside
Talk talk talk, we ain’t satisfied
Oh Katy, it ain’t easy
Running in circles like the hands of time
Oh Katy this ain’t living life
We gotta find something more
Yeah we gotta find something more
Yeah we gotta find something more
Than just gettin’ by - oooh oooh
Just gettin’ by - oooh oooh
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