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The hills of Virginia
Don’t look bad with you
Standing at the front of the frame
The bars in Chicago and the booze in Colorado
Left a fuzzy, half formed, thought in my brain
Columbus, Ann Arbor
You know these names and the magic they harbor
They’re places that we’ve never, places that we’ve never been
If you want to talk about a roadmap romance….
Come on in
I was flipping the pages
Yea consulting the sages
Of a dog-eared in-flight magazine
When the planes and the causeways
The backroads and the highways
Caught my eye
And then, I started to dream…
Of Dallas and Jackson
The spaces between and the things that would happen in....
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Strange Designs
04:23
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I know you think that I’m a fool for sure
But when you close your eyes your world is a blur
Like mine, and to this degree we’re siblings
And that’s fine
Spinning wheel that winds
Strange designs…
You’re sending gargoyles, demons, goblins and ghouls
To haunt the kings and queens asleep on their stools
They don’t mind, in fact they know the book
you read from line for line
Spinning wheel that winds,
Strange designs
Your court is guarded by a rosebush so deep
Where all your suitors cut their hands and retreat
And take their time
While you sleep and dream of rooms
where old friends dine
Spinning wheel that winds
Strange designs
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Upside Down Crown
02:39
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If there’s nothing to say here
I must be on my way dear
If you made up your mind then
I doubt that will change
If you’re ever in the neighborhood,
And could use a good laugh
Well I’ll be around, and I’ll always be your clown
You’re on steady ground with the new kid that you found
You’ve got a crown and you wear it upside down
Left my phone on the table
After stoic goodbyes
When I turned around once more
Saw the tear in your eye
If you’re ever in the neighborhood
Well I’m easy to find
With this crooked crown and I wear it upside down
You’re on steady ground with the new kid that you found
I might be a hound but I hope I’m not hellbound
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Captain
03:56
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I play ‘em slow cause that’s how I like to play
You said speed was what you need
Remember those nights when a balance struck
And stereo was all that we would need
Rock and roll on a static drip feed
You can’t be that sure that I am the captain of a sinking ship
I can’t be that sure that you’re not the person that kissed me in the rain
Ballroom dancing with a riot squad officer
On a tightrope over Crater Lake
We question our gifts and what to do with them
While the kids go bleeding down the interstate
And the idiots take over the radio waves
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Mend Ya Shoe
03:40
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I could walk away right now if I wanted to
and I could run to San Fransisco where the sky is blue
I could leave this grind that throws my thoughts askew
So could you
So could you
So don't tell me you're stuck mending your shoe
when your tv's on and blasting channel 2
don't protest that the road holds nothing new
that's not true
I could trace a line as high as the blackbird flew
and i could roll them tumbling dice and bring it home to you
that'd be just enough for us to start anew
if you wanted to
if you wanted to
So don't tell me you're stuck mending your shoe
when your tv's on and blasting channel 2
don't protest that the road holds nothing new
that's not true.
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In a smoky bar with the lights down low
You can find me just sitting there
With a margarita and a nice pink straw
And little umbrella and ice in a jar
But when Lucinda comes in stinking of gin
You can try to smooth talk her but you just can’t win
Cause she knows, she knows who you are
you're the of the honky tonk stars.
In the gilded cities of a new space age
You’re an ancient traveler who can’t go home
You got leather boots and a rhinestone suit
they’re drinking brandy with brunch
You’re sipping lone star alone
On the strip in Vegas, at the Taj Mahal
Beneath the big beer glow
That where you belong
At this LA bar, where no one knows who you are
I can hear the people laughing when you start your song
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Spokes
03:23
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I told her to go away.
I must have been crazy
Positively insane
For don't you know she's all I've ever known
By way of shelter from the rain?
I stuck a stick in your bicycle spokes.
You went sailing through the blue skies
Past the unmanned handle bars
And I did not mean to hurt you
I just kinda took a joke way too far.
I left an old true friend behind.
He's still living up in Boston
with his dog at the foot of the bed
He took good care of me when I was feeling low
Then I got better and had to go and move out west
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Enthusiasm
02:17
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They like enthusiasm
I'm not an enthusiastic guy
I'd like to turn down their eyes
and be with you
But the moment it's true for someone
it's gotta be rotten and wrong for someone else
and the more that you try to hide it
that's just the folly of the unenthusiastic and unlucky few
Come from a long line of misfits
they came here on the Mayflower
did I make you drool you pretentious new england fuck?
just kidding they came from the dirt
and they descended from the dust
Dolphins have a special fin but
are they a match for machines?
Doom citadel that humans build in the clouds
But you know the moment it's true for someone
it's gotta be rotten and wrong for someone else
and the more that you try to hide it
that's just the folly of the unenthusiastic and unlucky few
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Tyrant
02:39
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you're a tyrant in sunglasses
you're a murder weapon's mark
ringleader of jesters
no good after dark
that's why they all long for you
I'll still try to break through too
Closing time at Shay's
Just grab a seat and drink of fast
Do they even know the speed at which
we melted into glass?
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10. |
Maybe Love Hurts
04:02
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it's fading fast in the western sun
you're the only one
that gets it the way that you do
even though skies are not always blue
maybe love hurts
cause we've still got more to learn
or at least i do
i don't know about you
you lifted your hand like joan of arc
in the morning dark
and the pool sharks all thought now's their chance
what i'd give for a moment's romance
with you
maybe love grows
in old fleabag apartments with transistor radios
places no one else knows
maybe love hurts
cause we've still got more to learn or at least i do
dear i'm counting on you
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