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Look Now!!!
02:27
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I had a dream a friend called me up from the war
Said he was lying out on the desert floor
And every time the tanks rolled by he just let out a sigh
And dreamed of the days when he had stars in his eyes
On Valentine's Day with the bartender buying his girl drinks
And the drummer playing a drumset we all know stinks
He said he didn't change, he just rearranged
The way he always thought about his name
So you're moving away and marrying a cop
When we were young and dumb would she be there to stop
All of our actions and what would be your reaction
If it were her facing staring back at all our satisfaction
What are you gonna do now that all you have is time?
How you gonna go on loving her when her eyes don't shine?
And you've got memories of old days and a fifty cent raise
And she's out on Lady's Night at the firing range
Ah, but look at me I don't even have a job
I just sit around a write down every little thought
That comes in my head when I should be working instead
To make my dreams come true before I end up dead
At least you have your loves, I only have me
I chased someone who says she's still got a lot to see
I got no where to go and nothing to be done
I'm staying still but old memories got me on the run
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VERSE 1
It's early in the morning and it's dark as night
Everybody's waiting around for the sun to rise
I've been sitting here not moving for far too long
I look out my window and see Jesus Christ on my lawn
He's got a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other
Says his wife just left him, found out about his other lover
His father told him, "Son, you know I think that you better move on"
He's says he gonna start on crying just as soon as it hits dawn
CHORUS
I've been drinking with Jesus Christ but he says, "It's alright
I've only had a few I can drive tonight"
I'm a little bit worried 'cause he keeps on swerving over the line
I ask him how he's doing and he says that he feels like dying
VERSE 2
It seemed to me that Jesus needed to forget his troubles with a night on the town
So we hopped in my Camaro just to see what kind of action was going down
At Sam's Saloon, he met a girl, told her he was the savior of the world
She just looked at him funny and said, "I don't think I'm you're kind of girl"
"Let's go," he said, "I know a different scene,
And if someone asks me to perform a miracle I'm liable to get mean"
So we drove across town to a honky-tonk he said he knew
We just drank a lot of beer and danced the night away with girls home from school
CHORUS
VERSE 3
The band wouldn't listen when Jesus requested "If You Could Toucher Her At All"
So he threw a bottle at the bass player and started a big ol' barroom brawl
The bartender kicked him out said, "Son, don't come back here no more!"
I found him an alley with a bloody nose talking to some whore
"Let's go," I said "It's time we get on down the road"
"My luck's run out," he tells me, "I've got nowhere I want to go
Both the women I loved, what I did well it made 'em both leave
I always thought that I found God but he never found me"
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I Saw Red
03:29
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When Karenin was lying there on that couch
I looked you in the eyes and said we can die now
Notice the author didn't leave us out of breath
He left us as dying instead of just death
Looking back is a way to rediscover the fear
To remember all those promises I made every year
'Cause there's nothing in tomorrow to make me do a thing
I'm immune to anything the world may bring
CHORUS
I saw Red
And this is what he said
Absolutely nothing, nothing to explain
So I could only thing that he'd gone insane
I saw red and this is what he said
He said nothing
VS. 2
In an unadorned living room in the south of Spain
Can you believe I'll go and listen to all this shit again?
The family's worried the marble's not good for the baby
They ask me what I think, I say, "I don't know, maybe"
Let the violin player in on what we all know
She can collect her check when she walks through that door
We've decided instead to go with the fiddle
You know it's more down home, it's more up the middle
I saw Red
And this is what he said
Absolutely nothing, nothing to explain
So I could only think that he'd gone insane
I saw red and this is what he said
He said nothing
Baby, baby all I wanna do is drive a van
And I don't care if I can
I may have had a few too many, so I'll quit tomorrow then
And I don't care if I can
I got drunk last night and I died my hair all pink
Tell me, what do you think that cute little waitress over there thinks?
If it looks like she don't have the time of day
I know some who always do as long as we can pay
He was a nice kid, I can't believe he left
I asked him to help out and he said yes
But there's the boss going with his final paycheck
Just pass him this note I'll convince him yet
I saw Red
And this is what he said
Absolutely nothing, nothing to explain
So I could only think that he'd gone insane
I saw Red and this is what he said
He said nothing
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Your Name Again
03:05
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VS. 1
I thought I'd found a woman who could be my friend
Someone to hold and love on whom I could depend
But then I saw you across the room with your arms around him
And I told myself I'd never think of your name again
VS. 2
I guess I should try and forget the color of your eyes
The smell of your hair, your skin, and the story of your life
Forget about you and find a new life to begin
But I know I'll always be thinking of your name again
BRIDGE
Now everytime I try and concentrate on the day
You're memory comes walking my way
And I know how each day will end
With me thinking of your name again
VS. 3
When I think of how much heartbreak and how little love
Did come from those days when I'd just pray for your touch
I know against thoughts of you I should defend
But I know I'll always be thinking of your name again
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Darling
12:30
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Darling, is this really the way that we want it to end?
'Cause when we're talking it feels like we're playing pretend
Like we were just playing house and now we're just playing friends
Darling, I'd love to be lying with you in my arms
Though the night is hot we used to keep each other warm
Like we were in winter's cold and stopping autumn's storms
It's been a week since I fell asleep in my own bed
That's the place where I woke up and our love was dead
At night you were by my side, in the morning there wasn't even a note
Remember being happy lying in the sun on the beach
I remember waking in the night and feeling your body within reach
Wasn't a day I could see, wasn't a day I could see......
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Washington's Rain
05:24
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Oh my poor boy, you've gone and done it again
Now the cops are at the door and she is at her end
Saying you'll kill the cats if you're left alone
She's lying and you know it, this is some kind of home
They're calling for the rain, saying it'll flood again
Summers can get so nice, it makes you forget the gray
Sometimes it's hard to keep your head above water
When you're living in such a state
But folks they move on in Washington's rain
Oh my poor girl, you've gone and made yourself sad
And all those walls full of drawers don't look like dreams that you had
You say if things don't change you're just gonna leave this town
In a city full of strangers, no one sees your frown
They're calling for the rain, saying it'll flood again
Summers can get so nice, it makes you forget the gray
Sometimes it's hard to keep your head above water
When you're living in such a state
But folks they move on in Washington's rain
Oh my poor boy, when will things ever change
As all your friends move on, you stay the same
Walking these same streets, drunk and broke
Six years and still you call this place home
They're calling for the rain, saying it'll flood again
Summers can get so nice, it makes you forget the gray
Sometimes it's hard to keep your head above water
When you're living in such a state
But folks they move on in Washington's rain
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Beer Sandwich - ESB
06:31
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I see all my friends now
But for a few they're all just gutter dolls
Eaten alive by teenage wasteland
It's been awhile since we have called
But I could have never been like them
I always had a warm fire burning back home
And no matter what I told myself
I could never be alone
All I have is a beer, Red Hook ESB
And wild, innocent songs sung by Springsteen
Rememberin' when the poet said, "don't be denied"
Why go home? 'Cause that's where I can see my life
Picked up a guitar one day
It never hooked me I just never put it down
But I never told anyone
About the songs I played when they weren't around
Six strings never wooed the ladies for me
It just gave me something to do
I always wish that I had a girl
That I could sing songs to
I know I'm just a boy, but the life of the working man I've seen
Ever since the age of 12 I've been in the fields or on the sea
Between poverty and prosperity I know which one I'd choose
It's better working all week than living on the street with nothing but your blues
Righteous sinner standing on a hill, what right does he have to judge
See the sky about to rain, see all the songs that sound the same
Out on the beach I had to steal all the words
But it's okay man 'cause you'd never listen even if you heard
Now I'm gonna make some money playing guitar
'Cause I'm in a damn find rock and roll band
The drummer loves to rock, the bass player loves to roll
And the singer believes in the soul
Me I'm just playing some chords
I'm just trying to write a song
Big rock and roll ones that'll make you smile
When you turn your radio on
They burned down Woodstock, set fire to the hippie dream
There's something playing on the airwaves that loathsome, on'ry and mean
No passion out there and no reason to save
I'm the rock and roll god and apocalypse is today
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Capra Press
03:31
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All the lessons we're supposed to have learned
Never let us know if we've earned
The right to say if we're right or wrong
We're just offspring of a time
When our parents had a mind
To give us better than what they had known
And I'll stop if there's someone listening
Though I'd know they'd like to hear me sing
It's their gift, I'm their voice and damned if I know what that means
No matter how you plan to last
You're always living with your past
It's not a thing you can ever leave behind
All our questions are just matters
Of opinions meant to flatter
All the thoughts that we thought to be so divine
And I'll stop if there's someone listening
Though I'd know they'd like to hear me sing
It's their gift, I'm their voice and damned if I know what that means
It's so hard trying to say someting
When you know that there's nothing
That hasn't been said a thousand times better before
I just hope I'm never past my peak
When I'm eighty I'd like to speak
As thought I were never weak
And I'm no longer trying to seek
For anything but my own folklore
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