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MEET ME WHERE THE RIVER FLOWS
A full moon gave all my secrets away
I was camped on the edge of town
Staring at the page with an empty rage
I was trying to make it back down
I lost myself in a fever
A stranger says hello
Out of the grey came a blue sky day
Sometimes you just have to go
Come on now are you listening I can tell you what you what you want to know
Take the road out back and the train down south
Meet me where the river flows
I burned my bridges in the pouring rain
I nearly choked from all the Smoke
I kept on running but the dream remains
When night fell and daylight broke
I stood too long looking at the view
Thinking I could hitch a ride
The road was long I was on my own
Heading to the other side
Come on now are you listening I can tell you what you what you want to know
Take the road out back and the train down south
Meet me where the river flows
Follow me down where the river seeks the sun
Follow me down and watch it burn
Come on now are you listening I can tell you what you what you want to know
Take the road out back and the train down south
Meet me where the river flows
I walked through towns that were long shut down
The folks had upped and gone
They all had enough when the going was rough
The fever consumed them all
Don’t be swayed when some might say
You may have lost your mind
The road is clear when your heart is true
Step up and leave it behind
Come on now are you listening I can tell you what you what you want to know
Take the road out back and the train down south
Meet me where the river flows
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A Little Daylight
03:31
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A LITTLE DAYLIGHT
In the middle of the winter
I couldn’t see the truth had enough of darkness
Had enough of you
My temperatures falling
The rain is getting me down
My tears are heavy
I can’t see them hit the ground
Who needs a reason to get out of here
Who needs a reason when it’s all so clear
When your days are loaded
With the same old beat
Looking for a rhythm lots on the wrong side of the street
When you’re all out of favour and everything you do is wrong
You got to roll with the punches say goodbye its gone
Who needs a reason to get out of here
Who needs a reason when it’s all so clear
Come on let’s go my friend and throw it all to the wind
Come on let’s say goodbye and let a little daylight in
So pull back the covers Step outside and breath
The moons got a fever burning come on and share some daylight with me
Who needs a reason to get out of here
Who needs a reason when it’s all so clear
Come on let’s go my friend and throw it all to the wind
Come on let’s say goodbye and let a little daylight in
Let a little daylight in
Let a little day light in
Let a little day – light … in
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USED TO BE A FRIED OF MINE
I should have been a sailor
On the high seas
I should of chased down all my dreams
Instead they are chasing me
I'm paying for tomorrow
Before I reach today
Cos some boy in the city
made off with all the hay
I'm heading for forgiveness
I have fallen far behind
I'm looking for my last chance
She used to be a friend of mine
You burned my house to cinders
You have taken all I hold
Paved my path with broken glass
And left me in the cold
I spoke a word of wisdom
But I spoke it out of turn
They nailed my verse to a cross
While all the singers burned
I'm heading for forgiveness
I have fallen far behind
I'm looking for my last chance
She used to be a friend of mine
I'm walking through the east end
Where the shadows meet the sky
The river turns a ghostly grey
And washed out your lies
I have seen the rolling hills
As they burst through fields of green
A spark of life from misty eyes
And all is not it seems
I'm heading for forgiveness
I have fallen far behind
I'm looking for my last chance
She used to be a friend of mine
Maybe if you see her
you can tell her what I say
Welcome back with open arms
and i'm on my way
You can chase me across the country
Hunt me night and Day
She waits with open arms
I'm on my way
I'm heading for forgiveness
I have fallen far behind
I'm looking for my last chance
She used to be a friend of mine
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Hold On
04:32
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HOLD ON
I roll in the shadows , of a big block of steel
Somethings cost money, somethings are real
Sometimes you please lord, then you make amends
Cast a thought back, when we were friends
Cuts these timbers, slash my ropes,
In she falls and on she goes,
Sail away no matter how tall
Into the heavens, we will crawl
She is the tide and the tide is strong
Hold on, hold on
She is the road, and I’ll follow on,
Hold on, hold on
Lost and found I’ve been before,
Sink beneath the heavens, I cry no more
She looks so pretty against the west coast sky
Tomorrow the sunsets, today we fly
I was born and raised and sold to please
Of these lands, the air I breathe
Dusted down I’ve been spared this time
Strangers against love we may find
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ALL MY ANGELS HAVE FALLEN
I could barely reason with the answers
I was hiding far from the truth
Somewhere beyond the distant
Silence of a different view
I could barely hold on in the evening
I was wearing hope on through the night
I could barely move in the morning sun
But I can taste the blood from the fight
All my roses have fallen down
All my angels swear
All my devils wear long white gowns
And they say they’ll meet me there
I stare across the desert tomorrow
I weep for the sands today
All my footprints have walked off
and a dog howling sin will say
Even a cold wind whisper something
For every blind man that holds a cane
For every dark night finds a candle
and the warmth flickers in the flame
All my roses have fallen down
All my angels swear
All my devils wear long white gowns
And they say they’ll meet me there
I see the dust clouds rise on up
I see the storms coming down
I feel the air catch on fire
As the world hits the ground
I see the warning in your eyes
As your love turns to stone
All my rivers are on the rise
these dreams leave me alone
All my roses have fallen down
All my angels swear
All my devils wear long white gowns
And they say they’ll meet me there
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Don't Fail Me
03:44
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DON'T FAIL ME
Listen like a soldier far behind the lines
crouched in the shadows waiting for a sign
the air is thick and thunders getting close
will you take me home will you let me go
if only we were ghosts
Ill take you story and ill carve it into stone
Long after life is gone and the lands are overgrown
All these tears are lost in the dust
All our fears in god did we trust
Don’t you fail me
Don’t let me down
Don’t you fail me don’t make a sound
Done you fail me now
Remember summers when were just kids
Throwing stone breaking rules laughing as we hid
These days seem close but its 10 years or more
Crouched in fear laying low praying its just stones
Don’t you fail me
Don’t let me down
Don’t you fail me don’t make a sound
Done you fail me don’t let me down
Don’t you fail me now
Hell mend this province when the sun is always cold
Where the roads you take often break and shake you to the core
Ill make it home when I am crawling through my days
I know your lying ways
I wish to god that I could take your place
Sick of dying for such a disgrace
Those days shine bright when we were 23
But we didn’t need this to set our spirits free
Don’t you fail me
Don’t let me down
Don’t you fail me don’t make a sound
Done you fail me don’t let me down
Don’t you fail me now
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7. |
Take The Blame
03:48
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Do you here the fire on a cold dark night
when the dogs howl and the wind does bite
yeah the winter’s pretty you gotta get out of town
you gotta leave this city and head underground
If you take my love you take the blame
if you take my love you’d feel the same
If you take my love you take the blame
if you take my love you’d feel the same
I could have been someone that I don’t know
from a far off land a thousand mile or more
I had to learn to play with broken rules
so maybe I’ll stay amongst the fools
If you take my love you take the blame
if you take my love you’d feel the same
If you take my love you take the blame
if you take my love you’d feel the same
I was frozen out, never got in nearly lost my cause
‘cause I never win
now I roll with the wind on a high plain breeze
and I sail with the sun over distant seas
If you take my love you take the blame
if you take my love you’d feel the same
If you take my love you take the blame
if you take my love you’d feel the same
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8. |
Seven Cold Curses
03:40
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SEVEN COLD CURSES
Lately I’ve been kicked around
Fallen from my seat
a bitter wind brings a dead man down
sunk in waters deep
I’ve been walking with the blind
lost in a troubled wood
paid my penance did my time
I never understood
Seven cold curses carved in stone are burning in the fire
words lie crushed, fuelled by my desire
seven cold curses are no more they are dying in the light
drowning in the whisky and the sky is mine tonight
She walked through the door when the morn’ was young
There was a chill in the air
the ester cried when she said goodbye
there were roses in her hair
Smoke fills up my lungs
I can feel it through my skin
all that passion in my heart
let rise from within
I see the world stretching out
where the seas quench the land
I watch the curses blow away
to be buried in the sand
A distant voice is crying out
high above the hills
chasing gold is a fool’s friend
if you do you never will
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Hallowed Ground
04:11
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HALLOWED GROUND
Where were you when they took my name
Left a son with all the blame
With a church high on the hill
where my love lies it’s broken still
Where were you when they took my sky
Robbed my spirit and spit in the eye
Left my pockets full of dirt
Left me crawling through fields of hurt
When I find love i'm gonna lay it down
Gonna get myself a higher ground
When I find love i'm gonna lay it down
On hallowed ground
Where were you when I made my piece
And eased my worries and all this grief
Did I ever cross your mind
Were you busy in some other time
When I find love i'm gonna lay it down
Gonna get myself a higher ground
When I find love i'm gonna lay it down
On hallowed ground
Where were you my kindred heart
Spent our days too far apart
From the mountains that I know
To the rivers we will flow
When I find love i'm gonna lay it down
Gonna get myself a higher ground
When I find love i'm gonna lay it down
On hallowed ground
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10. |
Who Why When
03:44
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WHO WHY WHEN
What am I doing here
This is not where I’m from
This is not what I set out to be
Tell me what went wrong
Why did I walk through that door
Why did you say to me speak no more
If I could return
From where I did run
Would you tell me the who the why and when
If I could see
What it meant just to be
the who the why and when
How did I fall so low
And sink beneath the sun
This old town had the very best of me
When did the river rise
Am I drowning to feel alive
Keep your distance or it will take you in
If I could return
From where I did run
Would you tell to me the who the why and when
If I could see
What it meant just to be
the who why and when
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11. |
This Side Or The Other
03:46
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THIS SIDE OR THE OTHER
I couldn’t find heaven on the clearest day
In the heat of the summer I lost my way
I couldn’t find water in the deepest blue
I’m lost and everything’s in two
I raced for tomorrow to lose today
I ducted for cover to keep my past at bay
I changed my roads for a fine line
Down through the depths of time
Tomorrow I will run to the wilds I love
And the sea and the sky are heavens enough
Until that day wont you take good care
This side or the other I’ll see you there
This side or the other I’ll see you there
I’ll have double shot whisky and a ham and rye
Threw back my head and I cursed the sky
This wasn’t my plan it wasn’t meant to be
Come and help a poor boy see
Tomorrow I will run to the wilds I love
And the sea and the sky are heavens enough
Until that day wont you take good care
This side or the other I’ll see you there
This side or the other I’ll see you there
I looked high and low from hills to seas
And called out loud and fell on my knees
And all I hear is an empty call
Meet me when I fall
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