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That's My Heart
03:22
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That’s My Heart
Fearless
Foolish
Reckless
Rootless
Hopeless
Homeless
That’s My Heart
All I’ve got is this battered suitcase
Full of tears and scattered songs
All I’ve got is this road I’m travelling
I ain’t never had a home…
Fearless…
Wandering on a windswept morning
Stumbling through a night forlorn
All around this world I’m searching
Trying to find my special one
Fearless…
Trying to read a broken compass
On a night that holds no stars
Crossing over pitch black waters
Following my restless heart…
Every heart is a lonely hunter
Every one’s got a restless soul
Makes no difference where you wander
Nobody wants to be alone
Fearless
Foolish
Reckless
Rootless
Hopeless
Homeless
That’s My Heart
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Radio Tears
04:17
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Radio Tears
Midnight in the kitchen, the radio on
She sit’s there and listens to an old country song
While a scimitar moon like a sail passes through
Out the window…
She thinks of an old boy twelve years ago
Who gave her a last kiss and put on his coat
And he walked out the door
And died in a war no one remembers
Sometimes a life
Is just a long line
Of heart broken nights
To last all your years
Stars that don’t shine
A sad moon to cry
And radio songs
To catch all your tears…
She drums on the table to an old Kitty Wells
A honky tonk angel and a faded red rose
That he pinned to her dress with a promise
A long time ago
She thinks of the last time they danced to the song
He was handsome and grinning in his new uniform
And they salted ‘cross the floor as he sang every word
In her ears…
Sometimes a life…
Someday my love, you’ll come back from that war
Take me in your arms…like you used to before
We’ll dance under the stars as the radio sings
Come back to me love…and I’ll wear your ring…
Midnight in the kitchen she turns out the light
A last cigarette while the radio sighs
For war’s that take lovers
And leave nothing but tears in your eyes…
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Dirty Windshield
03:41
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Dirty Windshield
Miles and miles down rutted roads
Years behind the wheel all told
Thought we’d find the rainbows end
In blacktop oil
Starry eyed we set out once
The windows down and you were young
The Rearview like a postcard
Of the fading sun
I never had direction
All I believed
You’d crack my dirty windshield
So I could see
You crack my dirty windshield
So I can see
Highway poems and lovers hearts
Desert dreams and small town rust
Said our prayers and wrote our vows
In dashboard dust
We watched the big sky turn at dusk
Stars came out like foundry sparks
Spent the night intwined
In truck stop parking lots
And when I woke each morning
All I believed…
Miles and miles all through a life
The infinite horizon line
The only map I’ll ever need’s
My baby’s eyes
Where the black top meets the sun
When this engine’s tired and done
I’ll lay down in the warm grass
With you in my arms
I’ll never need direction
All I believe…
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Stolen Afternoon, 1951
05:06
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Stolen Afternoon, 1951
Walking slow Across the fields
The sun hangs low It warms your skin
Your long blond hair Tied in a scarf
Your tired hands Your button blouse
Your husband’s gone All Afternoon
The washing’s done Kids are at school
The curtains sway Caught in the breeze
And there you lay Smiling up at me
I don’t care what happens
Outside of this room
On a Stolen Afternoon
The sun might race across the sky
And steal you away too soon
On a Stolen Afternoon
I have never seen
The ocean’s breeze
But I see the waves
When I hear you breath
The salty air
I taste on your skin
In your eyes I see the blue
Horizon
Walking slow Leaving me behind
Back to your world Where the years fly by
You stop and turn At a quarter mile
One last wave
One last smile…
I don’t care what happens
Outside of this room
On a Stolen Afternoon
The sun might race across the sky
And steal you away too soon
On a Stolen Afternoon
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5. |
Breathing The Same Air
03:38
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Breathing The Same Air
Skin to skin
You to me
Under a magnolia tree
I held you in my arms
For the first time
Revelation of my life
Forever onwards
You’d be mine
I still recall the wonder
Of the first night…
Underneath the moon and stars
We’re Breathing the Same Air
You were there…
You were like a sparrows heart
Delicate, a paper drum
Eyes as bright as heaven’s constellations
You woke me to a love so pure
Sharing heartbeats
Sharing blood
Aching like an open wound
That still bleeds…
Underneath the moon and stars…
We’re Breathing the Same Air
You were there…
Someday you’ll be on your way
Half a million miles away
Making sense of all my
Sins and failures
Maybe you’ll find words to say
And I’ll be just a call away
When you’re crying
You’ve always got my shoulder…
Underneath the moon and stars
We’re Breathing the Same Air
You were there…
And I’ll be there…
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6. |
Can't Be So
03:56
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Can’t Be So
I’ve got this bad habit
Of not letting go
I want to be your lover, baby
Even though you say
It Can’t Be So…
You’ve got a new lover
And he’s solid as stone
And I just keep saying and saying and saying
It Can’t Be So…
You used to let me in
Now you stop me at the door
You say you’ve got a brand new friend
You don’t want me hanging around no more
You don’t answer my letters
You don’t pick up the phone
And that light in your window says
You’re not alone
So I walk these lonely streets
Like a man without a home
I used to hold the key to your heart, but…
It Can’t Be So…
You used to let me in
Now you stop me at the door
You say you’ve got a brand new friend
You don’t want me hanging around no more
You don’t answer my letters
You don’t pick up the phone
And that light in your window says
You’re not alone
I know you still love me
But there’s nowhere left to go
Like all of our promises
It Can’t Be So…
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7. |
Goodbye Knoxville
02:06
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Goodbye Knoxville
There’s a pretty girl walking up Summit Hill
But she ain’t looking at me
She looks like money but there’s rags on me
Goodbye Knoxville, Tennessee
I heard a voice say “Get outta there, son…
This side of town’s no place to be
You’re only looking for trouble round here…”
Goodbye Knoxville, Tennessee
So I might go to Nashville where the honky tonks swing
Might go to Memphis ‘find a fallen King
Might go to Bristol
There’s a girl there waiting for me…
Crooked man on a crooked porch
Could be 1923
One blind eye, One eye dead on me
Goodbye Knoxville, Tennessee
So I might go to Nashville where the honky tonks swing
Might go to Memphis ‘find a fallen King
Might go to Bristol
There’s a girl there waiting for me…
Now there’s a Hillbilly poet
Checked in for the night
At a hotel on Gay Street
He took his last breath
Of his last night on earth
Goodbye Knoxville, Tennessee
So I might go to Nashville where the honky tonks swing
Might go to Memphis ‘find a fallen King
Might go to Bristol
There’s a girl there waiting for me…
Pretty girl walking up Summit Hill
Yeah, she’s looking at me…
I see your Daddy coming after me
Goodbye Knoxville, Tennessee…
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Desperate Kind Of Love
03:50
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Desperate Kind of Love
I don’t want to hold you
Like I’m holding on for life
And I don’t want to kiss your lips
Like I’m scared that you might disappear
From my sight
I don’t want that kind of love
That Desperate Kind of Love
I don’t want to take your hand
Like I’m scared of letting go
And I don’t want to be that man
Who wait’s round your door
Every time you go
I don’t want that kind of love
That Desperate Kind of Love
Because I’ve seen that kind before
The kind that always wants for more
The kind you always
Have to reassure
Yeah, I’ve see that kind a thousand times
And I confess that sometimes I have fallen
For that Desperate Kind of Love
I won’t say I love you
Just to here you say it back
And I won’t say I need you
Forever
Just because I’m sad
I don’t want that kind of love
That Desperate Kind of Love
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9. |
Last Stand And Testament
03:34
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Last Stand and Testament
This is my last testament
Underneath this woeful firmament
I’ve been a peaceful man all my life
But, my God, that was then
You pushed me to the wall
You had to take it all…
In my house, my children sleeping
It breaks my heart to disturb their dreaming
But the wolves are scratching at the door
I never even held a gun before
Till you pushed me to the wall
You had to take it all…
Mary, go back to our bed
And hold our precious babies
Sing to them
A song of comforting
And tell them that their Daddy loves them
I’ll be outside facing East
A blood red sky
And the sound of rumbling
I’m not afraid to die
For what I love
My rifle’s to my eye
You pushed me to the wall
You had to take it all…
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This Bed’s Going To Break Your Fall
You can stay all night
You can stay till the morning sun is high
And stake your life
On the promise that everything will be alright
There’s no use stalling
When nothing’s left
When tears start falling
This bed…
Your mama’s gone
She left the house one morning with the kettle on
Your lover’s cruel
Stole your favorite songs and the abandoned you
And now you’re standing
Out on the ledge
Take one leap forward
This bed…
This Bed’s Going To Break Your Fall
This Bed’s Going To Break Your Fall
When tragedy befalls
When no one’s left to call
When no one’s round at all
Time does not mend, it breaks
Makes you relive your old mistakes
Again Again Again
This Bed’s Going To Break Your Fall
This Bed’s Going To Break Your Fall
You can stay all night
Open up your wings like a butterfly’s
And live your life
In a bed that heals you with a thousand sighs
More then a lover
More then a friend
Take one step forward
This bed…
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11. |
The Night That I Saw God
03:32
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The Night That I Saw God
What drew me out that night
I guess I’ll never know
The stillness in the air
Or the night as black as coal
Well, opaque would be the word
‘cause it blotted out the stars
Suddenly the wind was wild
The tree’s were leaning hard
The Night That I Saw God
The night I saw the Devil
Rolling in the yard
Raining a tornado
The Night That I Saw God
The night I saw the Devil
Rolling in the yard
Raining a tornado
Well, I ran back in my house
And I barely caught the door
And I jumped under the couch
And started praying on the floor
Then the picture window shattered
In a burst of driving rain
And I heard a sound so deafening
I thought it was a train…
The Night That I Saw God…
Well, I guess I prayed to Jesus
And I pleaded for my life
And I guess my prayers were answered
Because everything went quiet
And I guess that’s when I realized
My whole life was gone
And I guess I started crying
The night
The Night That I Saw God
When I finally walked outside
The damage to survey
My house was leaning over
And the roof had blown away
And like a giant dragged a bowie knife
Clear across the ground
That twister sliced an evil path
And it tore apart my town
And they never found that trucker
Tore right out of his cab
And that farmer and his cattle
Well, they’re never coming back
I know the good Lord giveth
But he takes back at his pleasure
And I’ve learned to fear the Devil
And my God in equal measure…
The Night That I Saw God
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