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In the Paper
03:20
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I'm gonna get you in the paper baby
I'm gonna get you in the news
I'm gonna get you in the paper baby
I'm gonna get you in the news
I'm gonna follow you home now baby
I'm gonna follow you home
I'm gonna follow you home now baby
You better not walk alone
Everyone's gonna say they knew you baby
It's not gonna be true
Everybody wants a little fame now baby
It's not gonna be true
Light's all gonna be out now baby
No lights on at home
Light's all gonna be out now baby
Someone went and left you all alone
Better find another way out my sweet thing
Better find another way out
You can climb into my suitcase baby
Better find another way out
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Madonna of the Clamflats
03:35
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She’s from the island just around the neck
A flower in her hand like a bullet from the past
She shoots the sky down just to watch the sunshine
Bleed into the streets as she takes her guns to town
She sings at low tide to the lonely beach
A salty melody from the deep dank ocean
A mere farmer’s daughter with a heart inside
Beating out the march for the turning of the tide
Madonna of the clam flats digging in the mud
Hopelessly lonesome for you in flesh and blood
Now when the sun sets she walks the shore
All the lonely ducks are happier with her
She cuts through the pine trees where no man goes
Ever so gently floating on her tip toes
A ballerina bog dance of the finest form
As true as any blue bird dying to be born
Out of the forest with spade in hand
Searching for the queen pearl hiding in the black sand
Madonna of the clam flats digging in the mud
Hopelessly lonesome for you in flesh and blood
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Loneliness Can Find You
02:21
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She never did want you, now she will haunt you
Green grass at her graveside, bathing in moonlight
No way out except the way that you came, a path through the pain like a highway
She has broken the rule book and offered no outlook
Read a new author cause she can’t be bothered
Oh, the fire in your mind leaves smoke in your eyes, longing for the ice
And if you ever find the stream
Or the river full of dreams
Remember what’s behind you
Cause loneliness can find you, must I go remind you?
She is nothing to laugh at, in fact she’s a class act
Please water her grasses for growing the past is
Oh, the clouds are turning blue, the darkness you knew is floating like ashes
And if you ever find the stream
Or the river full of dreams
Remember what’s behind you
Cause loneliness can find you, must I go remind you?
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4. |
Calm For the Storm
03:11
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Little bird, sit quiet, don’t chirp
Your song will be prey for the hurt
Broken so long, provide us with calm, for the storm
Little bird, stay out of my sight
And I better not see you tonight
No longer mine and no longer yours, no longer a waste of words
Fly away, spread your tiny wings and go
Fly away, pack up everything you know
Die away, your memory has no home
Die away, I’ll flush you from my bones
Little bird, the trees are all bare
And you can’t bring them back with a prayer
Haul off and cry, but stay in the sky with the storm
Little bird, I sang you my song
Now take it back home to your spawn
Sing them the truth, there’s no one like you, in the calm you don’t belong
Fly away, spread your tiny wings and go
Fly away, pack up everything you know
Die away, your memory has no home
Die away, I’ll flush you from my bones
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Braided Stars
02:06
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When the gunshots rang nobody was ready to die
When the horse men came the clouds were just faking the sky
Oh the perfect crime, commitment’s one hell of a line
Oh the goal is blind, for no one will serve you their time
And it couldn’t be better I said
And it couldn’t be better off dead
And it couldn’t mean lesser instead no more or no less
A victim at best just stuck in the pen
The pursuit is long, a dessert of tangled up thorns
The belief is strong that someday you will fill those arms
Thunder, rain and scars, the buffalo have all been pawned
Under braided stars, aware of the darkness beyond
And it couldn’t be better I said
And it couldn’t be better off dead
And it couldn’t mean lesser instead no more or no less
A victim at best just stuck in the pen
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Little Rose
05:03
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Frozen in the snow, ice dangling from her nose
Left the camp to gather wood for her Little Rose
A smile on her face, taken to another place
Now the scent of death is trapped there in her clothes
They knew that something’s wrong, she shouldn’t have been long
They hit the woods and still held out some hope
But night cannot be stopped as the temperature dropped
Now what will come of motherless Rose?
I don’t know if she ever said I love you
I don’t know, I don’t know Little Rose
I don’t know if she ever even told you
I don’t know, I don’t know poor Little Rose
And when the sun crested the ridge
They found the one, the mother of the kid
Frozen in the snow, ice dangling from her toes
Left this world to wait upstairs for Little Rose
Now Little Rose is grown, a family of her own
With the dead of winter settled in her bones
But the fire needs a flame and it’s calling out her name
Out the door she leaves the children home alone
Then slipped behind the fence and couldn’t feel her hands
Sleeping under stars in her mother’s arms
I don’t know if she ever said I love you
I don’t know, I don’t know Little Rose
I don’t know if she ever even told you
I don’t know, I don’t know poor Little Rose
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Dirty Wolf
03:07
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I kept your hair in a locket til a wolf came and robbed it
And headed out for old Santa Fe
I chased him down in a Buick with a pistol and three bullets
Determined to send him to his grave
I caught his scent in Albuquerque where I stopped to buy some jerky
The clerk said he saw him there at noon
I glanced down at my watch and the hands read 2 o’clock
Two hours past for him to meet his doom
Dirty wolf stole your hair, I usually wouldn’t care
But the thing that gets my goat is your ghost to go on bare
Dirty wolf best beware, his last breath drawing near
And the thing that floats my boat is the thought of his despair
I got back on the highway where the shadows run in sideways
Thinking of the space between my gun and the dog
I cursed the nasty canine as I sped on down the mainline
When suddenly I came upon a fog
Then I had a stroke of luck when I happened on a truck
Broke-down on the side of the road
I stopped to lend a hand but when the wolf saw me he ran
Off into the sages down below
Dirty wolf stole your hair, I usually wouldn’t care
But the thing that gets my goat is your ghost to go on bare
Dirty wolf best beware, his last breath drawing near
And the thing that floats my boat is the thought of his despair
I ran down to a creek, spotting him, I shot his cheek
He howled like a mangy little goon
I pinned him with my boot as he pleaded not to shoot
I pulled one off beneath the yellow moon
He lay there in the dust lifeless from the bust
I swiped your hair and walked back to the car
Now your hair is silky safe and your ghost will still look great
As your locks shine on like braided stars
Dirty wolf now is dead, a bullet in his head
But the thing I like the most is your hair of crimson red
Dirty wolves best beware your brother isn’t here
I think I’ve made my point and I’ve made it loud and clear
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8. |
Oh, Sparrow Broken Wing
03:16
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Haunt my dreams, haunt my heart
Haunt the scenes, haunt the dark
Haunt the night, haunt the day
Haunt the loneliness away
Haunt my thoughts, haunt my hands
Haunt my walks, haunt my plans
Haunt the right, haunt the wrong
Haunt the loneliness along
Oh, sparrow broken wing
Poor fellow rambling
Oh, sparrow broken down
Heart comes pouring out
Tears come rolling down
Haunt my lips, haunt my ears
Haunt my steps, haunt my fears
Haunt my sight, haunt my pain
Haunt the loneliness away
Haunt my scent, haunt my smell
Til the end haunt my skull
Haunt my bones, haunt my dreams
For you mean everything to me
Oh, sparrow broken wing
Poor fellow rambling
Oh, sparrow broken down
Heart comes pouring out
Tears come rolling down
Haunt my dreams, haunt my heart
Haunt the scenes, haunt the dark
Haunt the night, haunt the day
Haunt the loneliness away
Oh, sparrow broken wing
Poor fellow rambling
Oh, sparrow broken down
Heart comes pouring out
Tears come rolling down
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Paper Roses
04:37
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Oh, paper houses
Oh, paper rose
Oh, paper roses
And oh, paper clothes
When I was an animal they put me in a cage
When I was only an animal they filled my heart with…
Hold me in fables, switch off the light
Take all my winter clothes and steal into the night
When I was an animal they put me in a cage
When I was only an animal of sweet and sorry rage
Oh, the sea is very still
Oh, it waits and waits
Oh, these paper things my love will turn your heart to waste
Oh, paper houses
Oh, paper roads
Oh, paper roses
And oh, paper clothes
When I was an animal they took away my eyes
They fed me with tooth and nails, they begged me not to cry
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Planet of You
02:18
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It’s a long way to the planet of you
And I don’t know how to get there all alone
I could build a boat, I could build a race car
I could build a rocket or a moat
Oh alien of my heart
I love you and you break me apart
You have no home of your own
I’ll find you don’t you leave me alone
In a long wild road down a canyon with no river
I was searching in the heat for your hand
This turning back on time what a steep and hopeless climb
I see you on the moon but darling I will find you soon
It’s a long way to the planet of you
And I don’t know how to get there all alone
I could build a boat, I could build a race car
I could build a rocket or a moat
Come down, down from that hill
The water is stirring not still
Come hold, hold my breath
I’m a stranger and I love you to death
Oh alien of my heart
I love you and you break me apart
You have no home of your own
I’ll find you don’t you leave me alone
Oh, no I’ll find you don’t you leave me alone
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11. |
The Banquet
02:24
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Across the lonely sands, below the moon
Wagon wheels advance, a party on the move
Drinking whiskey when the water’s gone
Feeling dizzy then you’re having fun
It’s a party, you’re the banquet
It’s a pity you wont make it
Along the hasty route a mile took a day
Wagons sink in salt, death is under way
Further on they march, the snow was clean
Water turned to scotch and ice turned the stream
It’s a party, you’re the banquet
It’s a pity you wont make it
Feet so swollen, frost bitten, split open
Desolation plucking out a tune
Eyes are witness, no progress, almost finished
Desperation, friends are food
Hunkered in the cold, shaken to the core
Feasting on the old lifeless in the storm
Take a shot and try to drink away the times
From now on they’ll cry hungover for our lives
It’s a party, you’re the banquet
It’s a pity you wont make it
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12. |
Rob the Bank
04:10
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You have paper eyes and a diamond liver
Rob the bank and the money is yours
The stagecoach is burning
The gasoline is burning
There is no more money
To buy me pretty things
In ten years or more you'll remember the code
You'll crack all the cases your hands fill with gold
Somebody somewhere is waiting for you
Somebody somewhere believes that...
You've got paper eyes and a diamond liver
Rob the bank and the money is yours
You swallow the river, you stand up and bray
No man in this country will find you today
Capture the hearts of the guards while they sleep
Hold their hands and betray their keep
The stagecoach is burning
The gasoline is burning
There is no more money
To buy me pretty things
Rob the bank, rob the bank and the money is yours
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Where you are going there'll be no chance for a letter to get through
But millions of sparrows fly everyday bringing my message to you
Go little sparrow go
Go little sparrow go
As the sparrow goes so I go winging my love to you
As the sparrow flies my heart flies bringing my love to you
Lovers where you go I'll be beside you
I'll send a sparrow to guide you and keep you from harm
Lover where you go and you see a sparrow
That is your arrow to guide you to my heart
Go little sparrow go
Go little sparrow go
Go little sparrow go
Go little sparrow go
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