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Mother of mercy I heard you were there with the lights down low
And Father of the Nation why did you let your people down
When all that is shed still comes up behind you again
You with a rifle and me with a ball and chain
Let’s talk about guns after 26 years of this loneliness
Let’s talk about bombs when religion ain’t going your way
I’ve seen you build castles with licorice stains on your finger tips
But they all ran away when the walls would come crumbling down
Now here we are without grace
Now here we are in this place
I found a calm after staying indoors when the winter had come
You found a God after nights where you drank all that whiskey alone
You turned the heads of the Ministers trying to change their names
And I shut my mouth and always turned the other way
You brought out the blow torch when you couldn’t get a candle to light your way
I brought a knife to the fire drill for the people that went astray
We both have grown old with Licorice stains on our fingertips
When nothing gets clean, you just hope to get dirty again
Now here we are without grace
Now here we are in this place
Now here we are without grace
Now here we are in this place
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I don’t know what you want to do
Leave or stay the choice is up to you
We’ve said it all there’s nothing left to say
If I get a vote I’m hoping that you’ll stay
I’m not gonna sit by the phone
I’m just gonna leave well enough alone
We lost our way we drifted out to sea
We’re past the point of no return for me
So grab your key and gather up your stuff
Cause I can tell when you have had enough
I’m not gonna sit by the phone
I’m just gonna leave well enough alone
And I’ll tell you this no one will miss you more than I will
If you’re moving on I’ll try to stay strong if you’ve had your fill
We’re not the first we will not be the last
You cannot change the screw ups of your past
So if you leave I’ll show you to the door
Or stay a while and make me smile some more
I’m not gonna sit by the phone
I’m just gonna leave well enough alone
I’m not gonna sit by the phone
I’m just gonna leave well enough alone
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I WON’T BEAT AROUND THIS BUSH TO LONG F - G - AM
THERE’S AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
WHY’S IT SO DAMN HARD TO GET YOU OUT OF MY MND
WELL WE BOTH PUT IN OUR TIME
AFTER ALL THE FIGHTS G - F
AND WORDS WE REGRET SAYING
GUESS WE FINALLY SAW THE LIGHT EM - G
WE’RE TWO SIDES OF A COIN C - AM - G - F
LIKE SUNSHINE WHEN IT’S RAINING
ENDLESS LOVE AND WAR
ARE THESE BROKEN HEARTS WORTH SAVING?
WE’RE TWO SIDES OF A COIN
THE LOVE WE HAD JUST FADED
YOU’LL ALWAYS HAVE MY HEART
BUT WE’RE BETTER OFF APART
I STOP MYSELF SOMETIMES FROM PICKING UP THE PHONE
JUST TO SEE IF YOU’RE ALRIGHT
WHY’S IT SO DAMN HARD TO GET YOU OUT OF MY MND
MUST BE THE FEW THINGS WE GOT RIGHT
IF YOU’RE ALONE TONIGHT
WITH SOUNDS OF OUR LOVE PLAYING
WELL I’M NOT TOO FAR BEHIND
CHORUS
WHEN WE BOTH FEEL BROKEN DEEP INSIDE DM - G
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO HIDE
SOLO - CHORUS CHORDS
CHORUS OUT
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My head is such a mess
There's pain in my chest
Eddie hurts, poor old Eddie
Eddie's lungs, are sandpaper
Eddie
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v1:
You know I'm a criminal, don't you?
Don't you?
It may be subliminal, but some things you just can't see through
It's time to wake up & fight
But something tells me that ain't right
ch:
Did I have to be reckless
Why'd I try to leave you... breathless
I skipped over the kindness
You should've settled for nothing less
You should've settled for nothing less
v2:
You didn't have to be so kind, did you?
Did you?
How long until you find, some lies you just can't fly through
You never said a single word
You had a bridge that needed burning
ch:
Did I have to be reckless
Why'd I try to leave you... breathless
I skipped over the kindness
You should've settled for nothing less
You should've settled for nothing
br:
I never thought to be scared
Wasn't what you'd call self-aware
Always running, always bound for somewhere
Somewhere
-- guitar/harmonica fantasy --
v1.5:
You know I'm a criminal, don't you?
Well, don't you?
ch:
Did I have to be reckless
Why'd I try to leave you... breathless
I skipped over the kindness
You should've settled for nothing less
ch:
Did I have to be reckless
Why'd I try to leave you... breathless
I skipped over the kindness
You should've settled for nothing less
You should've settled for nothing less
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oh, that first night
You took the first bite
I knew I’d seen you there before
Oh, I should have known
I should have known
You had your script tight
Read all your lines right
And I believed every word
Oh, I should have known
I should have known
So cry your tears
Til it all disappears
You know how to play your part
so sad that we’re through
I know it’s true
Not the first to break your heart
Oh, how you twist me
Each time you kissed me
Won’t let it happen no more
I can’t go on
I can’t go on
Looks like I froze up
Here comes your close up
I’ve seen this movie before
And I know how it ends
I know how it ends
So cry your tears
Til it all disappears
You know how to play your part
so sad that we’re through
I know it’s true
Not the first to break your heart
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I
Cold hard bed
Dark crooked highway
All worn down
Clouds ahead
No wind blowin’ my way
All worn down
All worn down
All worn down
II
My good days
Were wasted in a hurry
All worn down
My heart stays
Weighted with worry
All worn down
All worn down
All worn down
III
Speak her name
I wish I’d never known it
All worn down
Watch that train
Count the days’til I’m on it
All worn down
All worn down
All worn down
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Skyline view, Tennessee
Monday morning creeps into view
Found my love in Carolina
Left her there fading into blue
I’ll see you there underneath the cedar trees
Where the water meets the wind so I’m told
A dragon’s tail, a winding road, the coolness of a breeze
Bringing in God’s children from the cold
Bringing in God’s children from the cold
Lonely road, down the mountain
Smell of burning brakes fill the tomb
Highway life, not for nothing
Reckon I’ll be home this afternoon
I’ll see you there underneath the cedar trees
Where the water meets the wind so I’m told
A dragon’s tail, a winding road, the coolness of a breeze
Bringing in God’s children from the cold
Bringing in God’s children from the cold
Always this, the peace of leaving
Leaving them alone but with a view
I’ll be back to Carolina
Maybe then I’ll find somebody new
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AG Y’all - Black Sun
03:12
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Hiding in the shadows, sleeping with the dead
Promising tomorrows, to someone else instead
Praying for a landslide, staking out your claim
Hide behind that mask you made, face without a name
In the black sun...
You can grin it if you open wide
You can win it if you’re up for the ride
Don’t want to risk it staring into a gun
No time for dealing til you’re done
In the black sun...
Pacing round the boulevard, soldier with a dream
Light another candle, running out of steam
Praying for a miracle, luck is almost spent
Left behind your state of mind, gone before it went
In the black sun...
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Someone once invited me to go and be reckless
A little careless as I recall
Something about how I needed to take my chances
Cause circumstances have hit a wall
I'm not inclined to stand too far
Out a limb alone
The words and tunes roll
Through my head but
Never seem to stick around for long
There's dust on my guitar cause I haven't played it
Still I've been persuaded to write a song
And reckless is the word that comes to mind when I do that
Cause who in their right mind would risk the fall
The text he sent me said "Don’t be afraid
to write bad songs"
I must admit it's kind of freeing
Guess it's time I learned to play along
That dust is staring back at me
It’s time I should clean it
Time to get dreaming and see what comes
So when you listen to this song I hope you’ll remember
It’s only September
And I’ve got nine more weeks
Of being reckless
I'm gonna be reckless
So damn reckless
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In The Fog Of Love
I made believe I was the great pretender
In the fog of love
You know that I can never remember
In the fog of love I’m looking fo a friend
In the fog of love I thought I’d reached the end
I wrote it down on a sheet of paper
In the fog of love
Threw it off of a high skyscraper In the fog of love
In the fog of love I hide behind the pain
In the fog of love I forget about the rain
Toot toot baby on the circle line
Push push baby through the crowd
Where I go well I don’t mind
As long as I get out
Leaning on a lampost at the five and dime
In the fog of love
Sitting on the stoop with the loving kind
In the fog of love I’m looking for a friend
In the fog of love I forget about the rain
I shook hands with the idol maker In the fog of love
I pushed down on the elevator In the fog of love
n the fog of love I hide behind the pain
In the fog of love I forget about the rain
Toot toot baby on the circle line
Push push baby through the crowd
Where I go well I don’t mind
As long as I get out
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I placed the chains I want to hold me down
free as I want to be
after my soul is gone
these links will still live on
connecting these things to me
something to be said
for the chains you create
anchor me always
I'm bound but these chains are mine
free as I want to be
by design
I ask myself do I want this
enough to bear the weight?
what if I can't hold on
become what it is I hate
always had a choice
was never forced to choose
I chose the souls I connected to
I'm bound but these chains are mine
free as I want to be by design
where ever I go I bring in tow
the tethered love I want to be mine
bound by design
love is a chain you shackle yourself
like that it's short at the start
time goes by and the longer it grows
and you get further apart
the further I get from the opposite end
the more I want to follow it back
I'm bound but these chains are mine
free as I want to be by design
I keep it close watch it grow
the things that I want to be mine
I'm bound by design
free as I want to be
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V1
It all goes in
It all comes out
It all goes in
It's all about
V2
The gravity
It captures time
No dimension leak
No matter crime
CH
The ubiquity of reality
Is the uniquity in a singularly
Intro
V3
We're headed there
Eventually
To the radon cloud
To a nebulae
V4
Once it slows down
It accumulates
Goes back around
Black hole awaits
Ch
The ubiquity of reality
Is the uniquity in a singularly
V stuff on out
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I've not much power, but the one of persuasion
Brand new Rayovac in the clip of this ray gun
Found the length of a cold carafe, the length aside
The ones you love, set to call asunder
With the ones you hide, like a low-life lie
Neither one, never to cop to
Spinning yarns and spilling wine
Lock in your go-to, caress to abrasion
Toes in and hydrate, dance around contagion
Gotta live until the blow come 'round, come a lethal size
The ones you love, set to call asunder
With the ones you hide, like a low-life lie
Never once stepping in, never to cop to
Spinning yarns and spilling wine
I've got no power, but the one of persuasion
Brand new Rayovac in the clip of this ray gun
Found the length of a cold carafe, the length aside
The ones you love, set to call asunder
With the ones you hide, like a low-down lie
Neither one, never to cop to
The ones in the sun, lick a laissez landing
Cimarron trident, like a three-pronged lie
The ones were cut short, never get to
Spinning yarns and spilling wine
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Everybody but me
's afraid to reach up in the tree
Cause the wasps are having a fig party
Lord knows them figs are juicy and sweet
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