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Addict's Lament
I always wondered how you dented my pride
You took me in for a bumpy ride
Fair-haired maven with your perennial wish
Eight days a week, you know I can't resist

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Life without you
Could be so thoughtless
So clean
When your away
And without you there's no tomorrow
And without you there's no today

A work in progress for so many years
You took me in with those empty tears
I'm lookin' back and I can say no
One more kiss before I go

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I hear the monkey chanting all night long
The rhythm is right but the music is wrong
Her lips are sweet and her body so strong
I hear the monkey chanting all night long
All night long
All night long
All night, all night, all night long

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Gut-wrenched heartache put fear in its place
These blood-shot eyes just can't be erased
How do you love me when you don't know my name
Exquisite nights and heavenly pain

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Adjust the Light
You grab my hair, you slap my mouth
You make me cry, you make me shout
You pull me in and you turn me out
What’ lies is lies, what’s doubt is doubt
It’s Miriam and Chip; and Uncle Bud
Cousin Rick and Elmer Fudd
All these things that make-up me
Adjust the light, I don’t care to see

A policeman came to sort it out
He came into my house with no name
When a peasant screams, there ain’t no doubt
Gutter-faced boy is goin’ insane
He tows the mark and he stands in line
Ethnic rules always redefine
All these things that make-up me
Adjust the light, I don’t care to see

Steal the silence, break for home
(Tell me what would your Mama say?)
Steal the silence, break for home
(Tell me what would your Mama say?)
Oh, Mama where is home
(Just what would your Mama say?)
Oh, Mama where is home
(Just what would your Mama say?)
(Can I give it up now)
Oh, Mama this ain’t home
(Just what would your Mama say?)
(Can I give it up now)

I put the gun inside my mouth
The barrel’s cold and short on feelings
It’s hard to say what comes about
I reek of thoughts and I have misgivin’s
I know that I was born to stray
Breathing only what gets in my way
All these things that make-up me
Adjust the light, I don’t care to see
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Blind Justice
It's the sight of the crow
When the moon realigns
It's how we say it
It's not to die

The dirt and the stone
The freak and the whale
There's something missing
I'm not sure I care

Nonsensical night by a color TV
A port or a pathway to eternity
I don't understand
What it's doing to me
It's overload

The man and a glove
A racist at heart
Contempt of court
Contempt that's smart

A bomb explodes
In soft morning light
A message from God
A message that's right

I look to a system
That's terminally gray
Soft morals, hard fibre
It's concrete array
A pile of bad money
Forget ERA
It's overload

How do we stand
With giants that crawl
Hard hitting and singing
They don't ever call
Monster demure
I promise you this
A kick in the balls
And a slap on the wrist

Calling blind justice
Tip the scale and run away
Calling blind justice
Tip the scale and run away

We pick-up papers
We pick-up straw
The needles are hard to find

When did time grow hands and feet
Clap of thunder
Radiant heat
Pulse or tone just can’t be beat
When did time grow hands and feet

Operator, call back later
Message flashing red
Operator, instigator
They can’t hear what I’ve said
Operator, interrogator
A pretty wound is this
Operator, let’s speak later
To immortalize this kiss

Calling blind justice
Tip the scale and run away
Calling blind justice
Tip the scale and run away

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Breakin’ the Sound
Yellow eyes, starin’ right in front of me
Yellow eyes, seeing more than they need to see
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack

Yellow lines, Strechin’ out in front of me
Yellow lines, being just what there supposed to be
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack

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The morning come and I seek the highway
Carbon fuels just push us along
We hear the sound of the pistons grinding
All along breakin’ the sound

Being first, not all it’s cracked-up to be
But being first, is a part of this destiny
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack

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Is this just a force in time
That makes these things just fall in line
The recent class of ‘69
And I can’t find you

I’m looking-up the frozen past
Things I though would always last
The darken thoughts that shadows cast
And I can’t find you

The victims breach, they run and crawl
Your face appears upon the wall
We live among the short and tall
You are mine

Two times nine, what a sense of immorality
But twilight time, gives it all finallity
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack
Here’s where I wanna be
I know where I wanna be
Runnin’ ahead of the pack

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Broken Face
Baby, there’s something strange about you
Maybe I could never live without you
I know that you’re ever-holy
And that you want me only
I know that you kneel and pray
And you want me every day

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You’re looking at me with that broken face
Describes us now without a trace
It’s hard to believe and it can’t be erased
You look at me now with that broken face.

Save me—you know I’m at your mercy
And it’s crazy—’cause it always makes me worry
That I want to feel your rock and sway
Drop a line and drag away
This feeling that you’ll never know
Why don’t you just tell me to go

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Well it’s evening that rips me up and it tears me open
And we’re even, how do you make me feel this way?
I know you’re pleasing, when you wrap me in those arms of thunder
And you’re teasing, ’cause I know you’ll never stay
And I know you won’t obey
Here I am, here I am, here I am…

How could you, expect me to be more than human
It’s a vacuum—that you always seem to put me into
This kind of game you like to play
Trash the rules except the pay
You’re searching for a heart of gold
This one’s already borrowed and sold

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Daddy Said
In the sleepy town of Thompson
Where people turn their heads
A young boy listens to his father
Absorbing all he says
I want you to be like I…
’Cause I need you to see, it's why…
We hate them, hate them, and that is that

His life becoming more explosive
Mix gas and Ivory Snow
Dark Angels gonna be the faction
I think you ought to know
I am going to be like he…
Expects me to be, you see…
I hate them, hate them, and that is that

White is white and black is red
Remember what Daddy said
Twelve dead birdies hangin’ on a thread
Remember what Daddy said

In the 82nd Airborne
Lobo caught his eye
Come shave your head and join the family
’Cause white men never lie
I want you to be like I…
’Cause I need you to see, it's why…
We hate them, hate them, and that’s a fact

White is white and black is red
Remember what Daddy said
Twelve dead birdies hangin’ on a thread
Remember what Daddy said
White is right…oh, this I’ve read
Remember what Daddy said
Tonight I’m gonna earn my spider web
Remember what Daddy said

Jump into the back seat of that black,
Chevrolet Cavalier
Stepin’ out to Squire's club for some
Kidney pie and Guinness beer
Later over to Hall Street
Where things always seem
To be kind of dark
This fist of fierce-flashing metal
Is here…
To make its mark
This fist of fierce-flashing metal
Is here to…
Make its mark
It's here…
To make its mark
It's here…
To make its mark

I’m ashamed to tell you that I knew him
And I wonder why?
I'm livin’ in the town of Thompson
Where white men never lie.
I want you to be like I…
’Cause I need you to see, it's why…
We hate them, hate them, and that is that

White is white and black is red
Remember what Daddy said
Twelve dead birdies hangin’ on a thread
Remember what Daddy said
White is right…oh, this I know
Remember what Daddy said
Eenie, meanie, meanie, minee, moe
Remember what Daddy said

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Dance the Dance
Kiss me now
C’mon and kiss me now
C’mon and kiss me now

You waltz on over I steal the rose from your teeth
I feel your body start to sway
A light breeze is blowin’, I can see what’s underneath
It looks like you came to play

Our arms out-stretched, a kind of a lovers-lock
The tango is cryin’ to start the beat
Toe-to-toe and pushin’ cheek-to-cheek
The rhythm, ah, the heat
Now

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Are you ready to dance the dance?
A new age slip and slide
Is this lovin’ or true romance?
Bite my heart and just ride

Is it true that we’ve done the disco twice
It’s hard for me to disagree
A pleasant change to my current slice of life
There’s no place I’d rather be
Now

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How can I feel you inside?
Am I here to de-mystify you
How can I feel you inside?
I wanna try, I’m gonna try,
I wanna try, I’m gonna try,
To satisfy you all night

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The morning comes and we smell of heaven scent
The bodies of fragrance fills the air
I know now what Apollonaire once meant
"Dansert sur le papier"
Now

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Don’t Tear This Heart Away
Fiery night is calling me
I see her
Strutin’ fine across the floor
This night is remindin’ me
Of you
She is you and nothing more

Whirlwind moves and stormy sighs
I want you
More than you will ever know
Fiercely fighting this fallen archer
Know that
Your the cross and I am the bow

Let’s go love
I hear her calling
Let’s go love
Hit it, hit it

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(Don’t tear this heart away from me)
Don’t tear this heart away I’m beggin’
Don’t scare my soul from me, please
Don’t scare this heart away I’m beggin’
It is mine so let it be

Summer time is about to fall
Bringing queens and basketball
You steady your blade on your field of ice
Thinking twice about this sacrifice
I know that…

Scarab eyes reach their mark
I feel your
Soothing hands all across my pores
She’s the one that pulls me in
To you
With a dream and without the dawn.

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Dysfunctional Human
Reach for a purpose that needs no explaining
A change is on it’s way
You ask me to love you with no preconditions
I do not understand
I feel the moon as it’s pulling me under
I feel it’s dark and grey
It’s gravity is slipping and sliding
How do I pull away, yeah

Tell me that I’m just a dysfunctional human
And I will understand
I know that I’m just a dysfunctional human
’Cause I’ve heard the buzz word, yeah
I feel the weight of time wrap around me
It makes me cold and numb
Is it just me that creates all these moments
As I watch them go ’round and ’round, oh

Faith…, I want you to stay
Faith…, I want you to stay here with me
Faith…, I want you to stay
Faith…, I want you to stay here with me

Feelings winning over me
That’s when I beat the bone
Feelings winning over me
That’s when I beat the bone
Feelings winning over me
That’s when I beat the bone
Feelings winning over me
That’s when I beat the bone

Please give me hope or a little desire
I’m sure it’s all worthwhile
How do you keep all those claws misconfigured?
I can’t image how
The night is long as you cry out my name
And I can’t hear you howl
Your voice is wading through deep and shallow
Rushing waters won’t go down, no

Tell me that I’m just a dysfunctional human
And I will understand
I know that I’m just a dysfunctional human
’Cause I’ve heard the buzz word, yeah
I feel the weight of time wrap around me
It makes me cold and numb
Is it just me that creates all these moments
As I watch them go ’round and ’round, oh

Faith…, I want you to stay
Faith…, I want you to stay here with me
Faith…, I want you to stay
Faith…, I want you to stay here with me
Faith…, I want you to stay
Faith…, I want you to stay here with me
Faith…, I want you to stay
Faith…, I want you to stay here with me

Feelings winning over me
That’s when I beat the bone

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Flowers in the Rain
Sweet friends in the afternoon
It’s a quarter after tea
It falls apart so easily
This fragile break away
Side-line breaks and corner takes
You’re screamin’ after me
It falls so easily
When we finally break away

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We stand…
Like flowers in the rain
We bend…
Like flowers in the rain
We fade…
Like flowers in the rain
We rise…
Like flowers in the rain

A thrilling part of history
A fractured crack in time
Our hearts beat with a pitter-pat
That never ticks away
We speak within our limits
The weather here is fine
Our hearts beat with a pitter-pat
That we dare not give away

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Cross-eyed weak and rumpled
I make it to your door
The reason for existence is…
Nothing at all
The passion must have died with age
A bloody biker war
The reason for existence is…
Anything at all

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Fly Away Home
The morning is filled with a mud-riden sky
It’s to hard to walk, but perfect to fly
I reach for the lever and never say die
The morning is filled with a mud ridden sky

I climb to the top with a thunderous roar
Where gravity’s grip won’t hold me no more
These wings on my back will help me to soar
I climb to the top with a thunderous roar

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So, fly away, fly away, fly away home
Three thousand miles I can make on my own
Scissors cut paper, but never cuts stone
So, fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away home

I’m skimming the level where the clouds touch the sky
I’m too you for romance and too young to lie
I’m never to old to just mystify
But, I’m skimming the level where the clouds touch the sky

The invisible sun burns a hole in my wings
They never taught me how to handle such things
Tumbling and falling with no time left to sing
The invisible sun burns a hole in my wings

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Please reset heaven I want to come in
The risk was a factor not only a sin
On the back of a bird and a vertical spin
Please reset heaven I want to come in

Saint Peter ignores me as I walk through the door
My broken wings dangle and drag cross the floor
The repair shop, I see, has been used before
With Amelia and Christa I fly ever more

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I Love Ya, Baby
Travelin down the road with two weeks spent
Look at your blouse, it's soakin' wet
Smellin' like smoke and alcohol
A regular chick, a china doll

Ooo, I love ya
I'm always thinkin' of ya
Come on baby, wrap those arms around me
Ooo, I love ya baby
Ooo, I love ya baby

Invite me in don't be so shy
Unless you've been with another guy
A creep or a slime or a virgin queer
Is that what you do when I'm not he

Ooo, I love ya
I'm always thinkin' of ya
Come on baby, wrap those legs around me
Ooo, I love ya baby
Ooo, I love ya baby

Hang your body, hang your body,
Hang your body, hang it all over me
Hang your body, hang your body,
Hang your body, hang it all over me

Is this a case of terminal fear
It's time to scream in the other ear
Do what you want cuz I'm no fool
I'm a workin' man with a crafty tool

Ooo, I love ya
I'm always thinkin' of ya
Come on baby, wrap those lips around me
Ooo, I love ya baby
Ooo, I love ya baby

Hang your body, hang your body,
Hang your body, hang it all over me
Hang your body, hang your body,
Hang your body, hang it all over me

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Invisible Heart
Crawlin' down life's road
Wonderin' where I'm at
I know I'm all alone
So what's wrong with that
They greet you at the doorway
To the impossible fit
The bridge between amoré
And the eventual hit

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It’s hard to see the invisible scar
A train wreck comin' that's so bizarre
You examine it close and you tear it apart
It’s then you see the invisible
The invisible heart

Walkin’ down life's road
’Cause it makes no sense
It's time to say "how are you"
In the present tense
The road ahead is clouded
It over takes our view
The world of indecision
It’s custom made for you

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Runnin' down life's road
Cause it's makin' me sick
The beast is over-grown
And we're a part of it
It goes beyond the stairway
To that place down the hall
It goes deep within you
Its what makes you crawl

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October Morning
October morning
Twist, pull, tear, slide
I’m born
Into the arms of a newly world
My parents loved me
They didn’t know me at all
So I moved on
Into a larger world
First conviction, drug addiction
That’s not me
The market’s rising, not appetizing
That’s not me
These dreams we’re making
Are slowing breaking
Why must we wait

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Tomorrow, tomorrow
Just one more hour and part of a day
Tomorrow, tomorrow
What do we have when we throw it away

AIDs related, constipated
That’s not me
Unrelying and never-dying
That’s not me
The dreams we’re making
Are surely breaking
It’s never to late

The sorrow the pity
That breeds in the city
The greed and the rightside
The inside the outside
Religion and freedom
And nowhere between them
Do race, creed, or color
Mix in with vanilla
The gears of the war
They don’t understand "isms"
That’s all they need to say
Don’t think
Yes sir
Reset your mouth
Or the federal war prison
Rescinds your dossier

October morning
Finally east meets west
Isn’t it funny
How it all turned out
It’s a ground-breaker
But it’s not earth shaking new
Why can’t we learn
Not to walk away

The landfill cramming
The poor folks jamming
That’s not me
The human nation
Forced occupation
That’s not me
I’m unrelying and never dying
Why must we wait

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Passed Us By
Two old man sitting on a park bench
Two old man with nothing left
What happened to Lyndon's "Great Society?"
Damn elephants know their A, B, C's.
It's come down to you and me
This ain't the way life was supposed to be
Life has passed us by

Women to man…gender at odds
Woman to man…the freak-master dealt these cards
She says, "You're a pig. Leave me alone."
Then she says, "Daddy come here make me moan."
It's come down to you and me
This ain't the way life was supposed to be
Love has passed us by

Is it true that we are not birds-of-a-feather
Holding out for win, lose, draw, and/or better
Replace those creeds and lying right down to the letter
Holding on to what they told us,
Would be
There if,
We would just wait.
Time has passed us by

God to us…a piece of fiction on a slate
God to us…Eve wrapped her soul around the snake
Faith is hard for use to see
Christ guilt fed animosity
It's come down to you and me
This ain't the way God was supposed to be
God has passed us by

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Realize You
Fair-haired boy, he strolls into the town
Brings his baggage and no—no heart
Is it just the way he puts you down?
Is he really that smart?—I guess
A power base that spans the continents
Does he really reach me?—maybe
Oh my God it’s just this circumstance
Preachers, fakes, and would-be’s
I don’t think so!

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How can I realize you?
Lousy games you play on me
How can I realize you?
Lousy games you play on—on me

Middle ground and wearing Oxford clothes
A white man’s image, so what—what’s new
Pink and brown and no one never knows
Is this just this new blues—I guess
A freak of time, oh, please don’t tread on me
I’m feeling of the freedom—oh shit
Queers and Jews and niggers make us say
We are the ones forgiven
I don’t think so!

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We’re the faceless, but we know we’re strong
Regardless what you tell us—guess what?
It’s the way we sing the glory song
A reason to be focused—I guess
So how can you expect for us to pay
The dues that have been given?—oh yea
It’s not the right, upstanding moral way
The white man is religion
I don’t think so!

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Sea-burnin’ Love
When this sea-burnin’ love
Surrounds this sinking heart
I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok,
I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok,
I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok,
I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok, I’m ok…

As we melt and sweat in each other’s arm
It’s ecstasy
Make believe, Make believe,
Make believe, Make believe,
Make believe, Make believe,
Make believe, Make believe,

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Love in the wind
Love in the wind
Is this real the things you do to me
Fragrance sweet alluring mystery
Please give back the things you took from me
Pour my fate and drink it warily
Love in the wind
Love in the wind
With your eyes you turn me all about
Backward, forward, even inside-out
Please give back the things you took from me
Pour my fate and drink it warily

Once a fool, but always a little boy
I’m back again
Give it up, give it up, give it up,
Give it up, give it up,
Give it up, give it up, give it up,
Give it up, give it up

Cold rain and snap collars bring me back
To reality
Is it real, is it real, is it real
Is it real, is it real,
Is it real, is it real, is it real,
Is it real, is it real,

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Solo Love
words by James and Vogler—music by Vogler
You came this morning riding your high white horse
You came back this afternoon driving a white sports porsche
You came again tonight wearing only moonlight
Waking, found it a dream
Things are not what they seem

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And I make love to you
Solo love to you
And I make love to you
Solo love
Solo

Come here with me and save my soul
Religion couldn’t do what you do to make me whole
And if I’d told you so you would vanish and go
Into your own black hole
Where I fly so low

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There’s a cold moon a risin’
Behind pine needle lace
There’s a cold moon a risin’
Wearin’ an old man’s face
There’s a cold moon a risin’
Love’s final quarter phase

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You came this morning riding your high white horse
You came back this afternoon driving a white sports porsche
You came again tonight wearing only moonlight
Waking, found it a dream
Things are not what they seem

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Union County Blues
Here I am stuck in Union County jail
It’s been three weeks no one’s even placed my bail
I’m tired of sleepin’ here on this concrete floor
Ain’t got no cigarettes, no dope, no way to score
Oh, dear Lord haven’t I paid my dues?
No, not until you’ve paid them with your Union County Blues

Assassin’s here beside me, he’s in the next cell
I’d really like to tell him he could go to hell
I’m trying to keep warm and dry wrapped up in my coat
I don’t dare go to sleep or he may slit my throat
Oh, dear judge your honor won’t you listen to my views?
I can’t spend my life livin’ with a Union County fool

They told me come Sunday I get chicken for lunch
I guess I was the joke of the local bunch
They laughed at me and said, "You know that ain’t the way,"
"You got to make your reservations before Saturday."
I’d rather be in a bar room tappin’ my shoes
Than being sick and hungry with these Union County blues

George leans through the bars to given me some advice
He said, "You know I’ve been here maybe, once or twice."
Then I found out he’d been here several years
Something ‘bout a frame-up and the payroll for Sears
I’d rather be on Long Island taken in the view
Than takin’ some advice from a fool like you

The court gave me a laywer, he works for the DA
He walks me to the corner says, "How much you gonna pay?"
I said "If I’d had money, I’d a made my bail
Or do you think I like it in your crummy jail."
He walked from my cell said, "There ain’t nothin’ I can do."
"‘Cause the law’s a little hungry down in Union County too…"

Here I am stuck in Union County jail
It’s been three weeks no one’s even placed my bail
I’m tired of sleepin’ here on this concrete floor
Ain’t got no cigarettes, no dope, no way to score
Oh, dear Lord haven’t I paid my dues?
No, not until you’ve paid them with your Union County Blues

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The Wheel
On a hot summer morning
Nightgown pressing to her skin
She hears footsteps on the stairway
She doesn’t want him to come in
Daddy’s home, he won’t harm you
He’s the one who loves you
Daddy’s home, he won’t harm you
Flowers on edge and the stamen comes to leave its mark

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It’s time to ride the wheel
Dance the edge, pirouette across the standing steel
Time to ride the wheel
You can’t tell no one
You can’t tell no one
Darkness falls and it brings emptiness

Maturing don’t come easy
Teenage man at your door
You understand all his troubles
He’ll be yours forevermore
It’s ok, he won’t hurt you
He’s the one who loves you
It’s ok, he won’t hurt you
Rings and kids; and we’ve finally reached forevermore

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Twilight falls, as it brings the empty nest

She comes to a conclusion
Revealing where it started from
It’s a farce to annouce it
Sudden visit with a gun
Baby’s home and she won’t harm you
She’s the one who loves you
Baby’s home and this won’t hurt you
The hammer falls, the tickets punched, it’s time to get on board

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Whistle the Tune
It seems like yesterday
When the sun trickled on these fingers
And told me what to play
It’s communiqué
As I reach for the ears
That pull the words away

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And we whistle the tune
When we don’t know what to say
And we whistle the tune
When we don’t know what to say
And we whistle the tune
As the words fall away

We speak in foreign tongues
And we fake the motions
That we know we’ve never done
You listen to the words of mine
You put them in your vacant space
And relate them to your time

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You put yourself in my shoes
Your head begins to spin
Oh, what a liar
And all the things you’ve been
My shoes begin to hurt your feet
And now you realize
You can’t live in my life
And you can’t see through my eyes

Oh, hear your heart
When it turns your head inside out
And tells you when to start
Don’t seek someone else’s mind
Until you relieve the pressures
Of your own ill-fated time

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They fall away
They fall away
They fall away
They fall away

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Wonderful World
I could say that I really knew you
And I wouldn’t be wrong
I could say that the sun and stars
Are right where they belong
I knew you had a thousand faces
And I knew that your body was strong
And only if I can fly away
Will I see what you have done

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Lover, lover, can you tell me what you’re after
Lover, lover, can you tell me why
That it’s a wonderful world, wonderful world
When I be with you I found
That it’s a wonderful world, wonderful world
When I be with you

I believe that I’ve reached my limit
Troubles mount in my head
I feel like a tired swimmer
Sleeping in a watery bed
You knew I was a tin-made woodsmen
Brains, brawn, and know heart
It’s seem to be a bad director
Who’s always rewriting the part

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I use to wish upon you
Ignoring what I’d been told
A shinning light always keeps its promise
Even when its flame is cold
Rafting down this spirit life-line
Look at what I’d become
Powder blue and crystal magic
They call me the prince of fun

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