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Lunar Chicken Shack
01:06
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Smile and a Lie
03:25
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Smile and a Lie
Have a friend in this position / Love has left him on a shelf
Just and empty whiskey bottle/ and some lies he tells himself
And I catch my self say’n/ things ‘ll work out in the end
Though I’m sure that there’s a difference in what we know and we pretend
There’s this girl who bags his groceries/ He just wants to try her on/ They get back to her apartment / she passes out with her boots on
And I catch my self say’n/ love will find him in the end
Though I’m sure that there’s a difference in what we know and we pretend
And he caries her to bed now/ tells himself she’s still the one
Sobers up and makes some coffee/ thought he knows that he should run
We get high/ we get high/ on the things we keep in side
we get by / we get by / on a smile and a lie
And I catch my self say’n things ‘ll work out in the endthough I’m sure that there’s a difference in what we know and we pretend
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3. |
Ballad of Robert Kent
04:57
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Ballad of Robert Kent
Yes my name is Robert Kent I’m aware of all the time I spent / Robbing banks shooting folks and doing all these deeds that it regret
Yes though I’m a wicked man my path was not always cut from stone / though I am a lonely man there was a time when I was not alone
Happy man was I happy home and happy family / until the day that I returned and found my wife with my best friend E-Lee
Children were playing in the clover by the barn/ I pulled out my 45 and shot Lee in the arm/ Steers they spooked and bolted crushed my little ones/ bullet passed through his left arm and stuck my own true love/ shot my own true love with my own gun.
When the dust had cleared looked around at all the deeds I’d done/ smiled to my self I turned ended old E-Lee’s life just for fun
With a match and gasoline I bid farewell to my oldhome and farm/ turned my back on those I loved cloud of dust and blood in old Lee’s car.
Drove that Ford across the state it ran out of gas in Tennessee/ stole my self another one and robbed the first big bank that I did see.
Police light were flashing but I was having fun/ three of those Poor bastards met the muscle of my gun/ when the night was over I was a free man/ fifty thousand dollars 45 in my right hand / gun in my right hand I’m a free man.
Three years on the road I spent robbing banks and living by my gun / money flowed from those I killed but I’ll admit it wasn’t always fun.
They caught me down in Mexico said I wouldn’t go without a fight / but when they came for me at last I threw down my guns at dawns first light.
Now I sit in this here cell you would think that it would bother me/ all the awful things I done but now I just miss my family.
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4. |
Think Again
05:21
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Think again
Lift your head and you look to the sky / See the stars and you always ask why
It's the same old song / How can all those people be / wrong
Lost it all on a deal gone bad / turn away from the friends you had
its a lonesome road / when you walk alone / and you ask him why
If you expect him to cure your cancer / or mend that hole in your heart / If you think he'll bring your wife back from the dead / you best be thinking again
there's a flood or a hurricane/ loves lost and no one's to blame
it's the same as the rain / pouring on my window/ pane
wether if you ask'n why / hold you head in your hands and cry
you can bleed through the day / or fly away on the wind
So if you expect him to give an answer / or drive a stake through evil heart/ if you think he'll turn this water into gold / you best be thinking again
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5. |
They Know
05:34
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They Know
Long this road it stretches out in front of me
These crested cliffs reach out their hands to touch the sea
these deserts dry the wind swept plains that I can see
touching down soft ground and pines of Tahachapi
Soft golden hill at the light of first dawn
I check my heart and its time for moving on
bay at night, moon bright it shines on her pale skin
opens up fills my cup and offers me come in
Follow me these alley ways and quiet abandon streets
box cars dark bars where rose and rivers meet
pedal on through cherry blossom lanes of fresh cut grass
hold on this feeling cus I know that it wont last
Soft the sand between my toes / hold on this feeling as it goes this ground it speaks as thought it knows / tall grass waves crash and the winds blow yes they know yes they know yes they know ya they know
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6. |
The Yoke
07:54
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The Yoke
It’s the same old road /Ive written it down
Oh the words they may change but the feelings remain
And I carry it around /its my burden of shame
I can wash clean the wound but the blood it still stains
There’s a falling leaf /and she catches the sun
And I thought for a moment I could change what’s been done
For if I could fly /or glide away
Like the leaf on the wind or the things I can’t say
If I said it to you/ would it change your life
Unfreeze my cold heart and unchain my sick mind
The keys to a lock that’s been buried in time
So Ill let it go /and you turn and run
Thistle down floats and reflects evening sun
There’s a blanket of leaves / hide the roots of these trees
Like a vail on your eyes that won’t let you see me
For the man that I am/ or the one I could be
If I could unfurl these wings and fly over these trees
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7. |
Yoke Reprise
03:46
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8. |
Blue Line Special
05:31
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Blue Line Special
It was 40 yours ago today on a cold November night/ they robbed the blue line special just north the county line
Oh Jed he saw coming/ and he shouted to the wind
On a tip from a woman they had working in the bank/ was said the train was loaded and easy for the take
She came around the bend / two riders did descend
Was known around the town she had the keys to Jim’s heart/ and when he had the money they would never be apart
Her daddy was a rail man and / and a rich one to
Said she couldn’t marry /no penniless fool
Oooo oooo and she haunts that line
Oh Ohhh come November time
Her red blood it stained fresh fallen snow
But her voice still calls out from below oh oh
Promised her they’d settle on a farm and make a life/ maybe have a couple children if she’d be big Jim’s wife /
He held that colt revolver/ on that engineer/
Took him to the bank safe where they found an awful sight/ the bank safe was empty and someth’n just aint right
That box car filled with law men/ it’s the end of the line
It was clear they’d been set up/ set up to take a fall they clapped them boys in irons and they led them down the hall /
Jed whispered in the darkness /it must have been that girl
Jim clenched his fist in anger / it must have been that girl
Jim He broke free that night and though he should have run/ he snuck into the armory and stole himself a gunClimbed the hill above the town where he knew the girl to live /and shot her through the heart no reason could she give/
For if she could have spoken the truth he would have known/ it was jed who sold them out that night for a pardon and the gold
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9. |
Rusty Rails
05:16
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Rusty Rails
I been riding these rusty rails /with a pistol and my pride
Been riding for days and nights with my lover by my side
I left that old farm house /at the top of the hill
I left my ma and pa so my fortune I could fill
So my fortune I could fill
Green hills like a patchwork quilt / through this box car door
Felt the heat of a summer night casting shadows on dirt floor
I could feel you next to me/ the warmth of your breath
I will ride these rails with you come sickness or come death
Come sickness or come death
We been watching this landscape pass/come sun and come rain
Sitt’n here side by side on the back of this freight train
This grat wide country side / from near to far
Been writing down these words drinking whiskey from a mason jar /we’re drinking whiskey from a mason jar
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10. |
Tear In My Eye
05:37
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Tear in My eye
I wont stand in your way/ promise not to hold to tight
I will stand guard beside you/ hold you close in morning light
And if you ask of me to leave you/ I will smile and pretend
That its not my heart that’s breaking / and somehow its not the end
And I don’t want to have to tell you/ and I don’t want to say goodby/ But as I stand here in the darkness a tear in my eye
So if I asked of you to take me / take me far from all this pain
And if somehow I could go with you/ would your heart still feel the same
So ill wait here in the snow dear / loose my self in these tall pines
Ill be waiting when you come back/ evening sun in my eyes
And I don’t want to have to tell you / I don’t want to say goodby/ But as I sit here in the darkness a tear in my eye
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11. |
I Don't Know Why
02:59
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I don’t Know Why
I don’t know why / why when I’m with you feel those holes in side filling in with something good / something real
Like the deserts dry/ like cool summer rain on the parched desert plain/ I feel the same / no more pain if just for now
And to be honest I feel scared/ and though I’m grateful I’m aware/ of the sound its just the rain pouring down on the ground
When you look at me look at me/ look at me that way I feel my branches sway/ in your wind then I begin to live again.
Wish I could ware you around/ you are my armor and my solid ground/ you arethe stars you are the sun you are the one/ for now
And to be honest I feel scared/ though I’m grateful I’m aware/ of the danger that lies there/ in the dark beyond this light I feel tonight by your side.
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12. |
Where We Are Going
05:04
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Where We’re Going
If I had a hundred dollars for every day I said I miss you what would I do
I would spend it on a ticket to some place where I wouldn’t See you/ every day
But no distance is enough to quell the stuff of love and memory / of you
Though I’ve walked so many miles in your shoes still don’t know you had to choose
I don’t know where we are going but here’s to hoping/ turns out ok/ And though these yellow lines are broken/ and where we’re going I cant say
Im so sorry for the things that have been done I know I hurt you but I hurt too
And if I were to say I loved you yesterday it would be true/ what can I do
What can I do to right the wrong that has been done and when its over love is gone
Though its true I found another there’s still a place here in my heart I hold for you
I don’t know where we are going but here’s to hoping/ turns out ok/ And though these yellow lines are broken/ and where we’re going I can't say on the edge of some horizon sun is rising we’re gonna try/ oh Ooh I gonna try to take it easy but for now its good by.
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Danville Winthrop, Washington
Hailing from the quaint but beautiful Methow Valley, Danville blends the diverse sounds of country, folk, rock and Americana with rich instrumentation and haunting harmonies. Danville's original material consists of timeless narratives of bygone times, interwoven with contemporary themes and manifestations of scenic beauty. ... more
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