I will hold you in my song, i will sing you strong, (x2)
I will hold you in my song, i will sing you strong, i will sing you strong,
You will rock me in your arms,
And that will be my home and if you give me skies of grey,
I'll bring you rain to wash us clean again

I been hoping for a change, I'm still hoping, (x2)
I been hoping for a change, I'm still hoping, (x2)
Sorrow holds me closer close,
I will not bend my head to her and if you give me skies of grey,
I'll bring you rain to wash us clean again


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2. Go On And Pass Me By
(teixeira)

Go on and pass me by
I don't need your money
I don't no need no
Reasons why, I'm just gonna leave,
I'm just gonna leave

I want you to know
You ain't my ride you ain't my jelly roll
If you opened your eyes would ya wonder why
Your head is spinning through the bar room door
And you drive yourself right off of a cliff
You walk around with your head in the clouds
And you wonder why it doesn't seem real
I can't understand what you say
When your words are falling outta your mouth
I can't trust you
When you don't even tell the truth about the things that you do

So go on and try to pretend
That things never happened the way that they did
Well, i could shout it out
But you'll never hear me if you don't know how
This might be the end
The end of this old line that keeps on passin' by
So much more
In the end


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3. 'Til It's Gone
(jeremy lindsay)

God bless this beautiful morning 'til it's gone
God bless this beautiful morning 'til it's gone
How I'm gonna feel when it goes, I don't know
But that's another song
So God bless this beautiful morning 'til it's gone

Thank God for the kind of happiness you can't explain
Thank God for the kind of happiness you can't explain
By every right, late last night should've
Bled into another bad day
So thank God for the kind of happiness you can't explain

The sun is a rose and the lake is a bowl of wine
The sun is a rose and the lake is a bowl of wine
Now I got enough hope for both us, baby,
In this heart of mine
The sun is a rose, the lake is a bowl of wine

God bless this beautiful morning 'til it's gone
God bless this beautiful..........


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4. Angels Of Grace
(klein)

Here i am with a half-empty bottle of pain
Sittin' down with loneliness upon me again
But if I could find heaven instead of this place
I would leave this town with sweet angels of grace

The moon is the lover that longs for the sun
My heart is hung over my soul is undone
But if i could find heaven instead of this place
I would leave this town with sweet angels of grace

You're as sweet as honey as warm as the sun
You would love me so good lord, oh what have i done
But if i could find heaven instead of this place
I would leave this town with sweet angels of grace


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5. Drive All Night
(teixeira)

Where's your home when life's spent on the road
Where you gonna hide your eyes when your heart's come undone
It could take all day
Headin' out before the sun comes up
You could break down
Before you get out of town

What's done is done
No matter what's been said
It's somethin' how much it takes
When your friends are far away

I can't judge you
The things that you did
I'd take it all back
Oh, if i could

How can you tell
When the road never ends
She'll wrap her arms around you
As you lay your head

I drive all night
The highway lines
Just to see you
Smiling back at me


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6. To The Angry Evengelist
(russell)

Don't sing to me of saviours and sorrow
Don't sing to me of saviours and sin
Please don't say there's a crown waiting just for me
Waiting and shining there up in heaven

Don't sing to me of turning my cheek
Don't sing to me the virtues of meek
I'm sick of someday soon things will be better
That creed kept slaves, slaves of my ancestors
Faith it has beauty but not when it blinds us
Blinds us and folds us to crimes of excess
Never to lead but always to follow
Folllow sad mad men to shame worse than death

Don't sing to me of joy on the other side
Don't sing to me of waiting to die
I want joy in this life, my joy loves company
Don't sing to me that war is our destiny
This is my gospel i hope you'll share it
Stand for each other don't let greed be our measure
Put down your gun and put down your bible
Hold out your hand, we'll build a new temple

Don't sing to me of saviours and sorrow
Don't sing to me of saviours and sin
Don't sing to me of damnation and bloodspill
I don't believe it, i never will
I don't believe it, i never will


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7. Home To You
(davies/russell)

Don't tear me up or hold me down,
Trust yourself enough to let me go the road,
The road, the winding road,
Keep on winding bringing me home to you
The winding road'll keep on winding,
home to you, winding home to you

I've burned bridges like deep water doesn't exist
I tried to live without
'Cause i was scared of losing with
I never did forget you, i just can't seem to call
But i hope that you are doing well, i do wish that you were here to tell

Don't tear me up or hold me down,
Trust yourself enough to let me go the road,
The road, the winding road,
Keep on winding bringing me home to you
The winding road'll keep on winding,
Home to you, winding home to you

Dreamed or dreamer, fiction or fact
It really does not matter,
You can't take anything back
You can't take anything back or regret the road run
Not dreamed or dreamer or anyone,
Not dreamed or dreamer or anyone


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8. Green Apples
(russell)

Fog and water, mist and sea
What the next league brings a mystery
Bays and mountains lush and bleak
What you find here you can keep

Indifferent love bitter as hate
Feeling woke too little too late
Sun and rain, wind and wild fire
Storm on the headland cool the ashes of desire

A winter garden bears no fruit
The only root that thrives is rue
Let me go i long to see
Green apples flower on the tree
Let me go i long to see
Green apples falling from the tree


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9. 9 Hrs To Go
(klein/russell/avery)

Clock is ticking but i won't get up
I know i gotta pack all that stuff
Into the van and drive to Portland
'Cause i got 9 hrs to go
Up the coast through the old grove trees
Breathing in the ocean breeze
It sure would be nice to get some sleep
But i got 9 hrs to go
I sit behind a desk all day
Listening to angry people have their say
I'd like to play some songs take a walk in the sun
But i got 9 hrs to go

Pressing buttons while i answer the phone
And dreaming of a life on the road
With no goodbyes only see you so long
But i got 9 hrs to go

Oh today i got 9 hrs to go
Oh maybe then i'll go home

On route to Chicago i did this show in Milwaukee,
I'm that slam poet, I'm the samurai saki
that Ivan E. Coyote talked about on her walkie talkie,
They got on commercial drive, motor mouth cocky,
And got banned for life from lesbian street hockey,
'Cause I'm rock 'n' roll weird like ginsberg without a beard,
The whole world hates the President of the United States
Through protest and debate, but the Berlin wall did fall
While christians were on blind dates, what made Mozart
A genius was his laugh don't give 15 minutes of fame
Give me an hour and a half, i gotta go
Or i'll be late for the show

Still got the smell of Texas on my clothes
And now I'm back on the Oregon coast
This place always reminds me of home
But i got 9 hrs to go

I've been here since 6 am
Trying to do and say just the right things
But what's right for work might be wrong for me
And i got 9 hrs to go

Call the doctor, call the ambulance
Somebody hurt you, now you're doing penance
There are no answers only hard, hard questions
I got 9 hrs to go

Oh today i got 9 hrs to go
Oh maybe then i'll go home
Sweet dreams save me i got 9 hrs to go
Oh maybe then i'll go home


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10. Old Mountain Line
(teixeira)

I'm standing here
By the side of the highway
I can see the city lights
Stretched out before me
I'm coming home
My own true love
I wanna hear the voice
That i've been dreaming of
I'm singing here
By the old mountain line
I can hear the wheels turning
As i close my eyes
I'm coming home
My own true love
I wanna see the smile
That i've been dreaming of


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11. So Lazy
(klein)

I woke up out of bed in the mornin'
The sweet sunshine outside is glowin'
Take me down into the arms of the street
I start walkin' to the gentle beat
There's a store with organic food for the masses
I bought some cold cornbread and molasses
There's a man beat boxin' in the street corner
Cool rhymes for the heat and i'll be
So lazy all today...

All the fava beans are climbin' and the cantaloupes
Are nestled in the shade
Late nights and dreamy days
On a beach washed up by the waves
Somewhere there's a campfire burnin'
Songs sung and sweetly yearnin'
There's a place where life is good
There's a path to your cabin in the woods
And i'll be, so lazy all today

I've been lazy for so long
All my best friends are gone
And all this shit is gettin' old
I've been lazy i've been told
I've been lazy and i've been lost
I've been lonely and not just
Cuz I'm here all alone and blue
I've been lazy enough for 2
I've been lazy without you


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12. Texas
(russell)

The dirt from the yard still falls from my boots
Smoke from the fire still perfumes my shirt
Singing songs til the day broke, drinking wine
From the bottle carousing and laughing while today made tomorrow

The town was a full blown flower bothered by bees
There was plenty of pollen for all of us to feast
You opened your door, said make yourselves free
Even gave me your bed and got in with me
And the spring fell down on us, in music we trust
The spring fell down on us in texas

Barely acquainted and beautifully bare
In the early morning light we had few words to share
You were thinking of her, i was thinking of him
But our hands and our lips spoke the sweet tongue of skin

We rolled in like rockstars, we flew out tired and drunk
Already missing that sweet southern sun we said no goodbyes,
'Cause what's done is well done
I welcome the memory of you and your songs
And the spring fell down on us, in music we trust
The spring fell down on us in texas


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13. Ain't Life Sweet
(penny lang)
n/a


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