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Round 36, Week 1

by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Your smile is a lie You’re trying to hide (but) It’s all on your face I know you deserve Those three little words You want me to say But girl, you’re mistaken My heart has been taken She took it away But we can still do The things we used to When she was with me Oh baby, I can’t give you my heart I hate leaving you out in dark but I’ve Got no heart I can spare It’s just not there I know that you’re sad Don’t focus on that Don’t focus on bad Stay with me tonight I’ll turn down the lights And light up your life (yeah baby) Just let the music play Melt all your fears away Passion and ecstasy all through the night I’ll give you the world But ooh baby girl, I Can’t give you a lie (hey!) Adlibs: I know it’s unfair I can’t give you my heart, baby You’ve been reaching for something that’s not even there anymore
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v1: Standing in front of this wonder wheel Wondering what's the deal What am I doing here? Don't tell me how you think that I should feel I'll probably do my best to disappear v2: Might take the back roads, covered in dust There's something's I must put away or put behind There's no way of knowing who to trust But I'll do my best to keep an open mind ch: All the good times that I've had and the bad, I reckon, too have all added to this thing I seem to be going through No, I'm not leaving home I'm just looking for something new v3: This night ain't useless as I thought it was We'll do our best because It's what we do Ashes to ashes, that ought to be enough to inspire new adventure You think that's true? ch: All the good times that I've had and the bad, I reckon, too have all added to this thing I seem to be going through No, I'm not leaving home I'm just looking for something new -- some sort of bridge or solo -- v1.5: Standing in front of this wonder wheel Wondering what's the deal What am I doing here? ch: All the good times that I've had and the bad, I reckon, too have all added to this thing I seem to be going through No, I'm not leaving home No, I'd never leave you all alone No, I'm not leaving home I'm just looking for something new
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The moment's come The time is now Time to figure out if this can work somehow I'm with you You're here with me Still we're hung up on the possibilities Been down this road before Don't want to wander anymore I’ve been waiting Far too long For this broken heart of mine to come along And I think You’ve felt the same Could it be these two hearts have a home again If you wanna be with me Like I wanna be with you Show me that you love me I recall Younger days When I didn't care who I hurt by mistake But now I've changed A better man A man who wants to share his life until the end Love has won the game I'll never be the same If you show how me that you love me Show me that you love me For all my life I've waited for that one to come along and show me how How to live for someone else and give me hope in the here and now The moment's come To see this through I've been waiting all along for only you Show me that you love me Show me that you love me
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I I went for a ramble One pale winter’s morn The sky overhead gave no hint of a storm I reached for my pipe But I fumbled my pouch Match-sticks and tobacco and all did pour out Hi-O II I went for a ramble One pale winter’s morn The sting of the air was no cause for alarm I strolled at my leisure I strayed from the trail But this worried me not, for the way I knew well Hi-O Then a cloud came and swallowed What there was of the sun I wondered aloud, "Lord, what have I done?" III I went for a ramble One pale winter’s morn I huffed in my hands and I tried to keep warm But my fingers were stupid And deaf to my will Then the frost bared its teeth and it gnawed at my heel Hi-O
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Stoic in the loss Grafiti walls and train exhaust Breathe out Couldn’t give a toss Spider blue, no matter the cost Be loud Jackson Heights and Queens Born and raised in New Orleans Moved out Back in ’63 Lost her daddy and she blew town Northbound Bright lights, big city Errant girl, living on the tiles Found a loving man Promised her the moon And like the tides he was gone too soon Gone too soon Summer, 85 20 years and still lost Like a child Taken for a ride City never sleeps All hell runs wild Solomon’s Empire Makes her home in the alleyway Behind The seedy part of town Where perverts go yearning to Unwind Bright lights, big city Errant girl, living on the tiles Found her a loving man Promised her the moon And like the tides, he was gone too soon ‘Bout that loving man Loved his drink and then Rode the lightning out Shot a man inside She brought the gun And now he baits Hellhounds Bright lights, big city Errant girl, living on the tiles Now beneath Roosevelt Avenue Mother rides, she’ll be gone too soon Gone too soon
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Painter with oils and words and guitar strings You make me with I could skate or fly or sing In that easy way that you do Like a kite on a summer breeze With so much beauty and truth You make me want to be free You captured the morning air, all crisp and clean On a notebook page, crowded with desert dreams And the mirages of the heart Its always up to some scheme Coyote has to play his part It's an endless game of hide and seek Joni you showed me the world In a melody and a phrase From the cessna glass It’s just a backgammon game Joni you showed me your soul In harmony and rhyme Under the microscope Of love and loss and time Companion in my mind, heard not seen Through all these years, and so many frozen streams I wouldn’t have it any other way Deep blues and a little green Springing spirit into the gray Beautiful ghost in my machine I’m singing about you now like you were mine But Amelia I know you belong to the sky You are the moon hanging low You are the sun when it’s on fire The chickadee and the black crow You make me want to reach higher Joni you showed us the world In a melody and a phrase From the cessna glass It’s just a backgammon game Joni you showed us your soul In harmony and rhyme Under the microscope Of love and loss and time
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Here's a piece of art I made don't know what I tried to say but when I made it I thought of you you can put it where you like on a wall or on a shelf you can choose the room I'd be happy in a closet too this is so you can take a thought put it in a place where you can find it whenever you look it can be of right now it can be of a memory this is where that thought lives now remember me as you will
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Kneel, Young Man Jed grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas His daddy was a small-town sheriff there Mama ran off long before he could memorize her face On daddy it became too much to bear Daddy’d come home from work with his fists balled up full of grievance He had Bushmills thick on his breath Didn’t take too long, before Jed did something wrong And those fists came flying at his head He'd say, Kneel young man before your god For I am he, right now, right here Young man, don’t beg For I'll grant no clemency Won’t help to show fear At 16 Jed took off in a stolen F-150 With his Daddy’s state issued firearm The only other thing that he took with him for luck Was his mother’s gold necklace with a rose charm A boy gets hungry fast, so he took to robbin' Any man for anything he had He felt strong and liked the terror in his victims’ eyes And the grip of the Glock in his hands He'd say, Kneel young man before your god For I am he, right now, right here Young man, don’t beg For I'll grant no clemency Won’t help to show fear Inside a two-floor false front, just east of Travis County Jed met a girl whose curls fell in her eyes He never stayed too long, but every now and then He had the extra coin to stay for the night Five months passed the way they came, sweltering and slow The girl with curls oh she started to show Jed snuck off in the dead of night, never to return Left his mama’s rose and a note… "If I were any good I’d stay, but I ain't And I got Rangers on my tail who would love to say…" Kneel young man before your god For I am he, right now, right here Young man, don’t beg For I'll grant no clemency Won’t help to show fear The girl with the curls, named her newborn baby Rose The last maternal act that she performed Rose knew who to blame when her mama killed herself She was lovesick, grieving, and forlorn - Break - Decades pass and now we're in a Juarez cantina Jed’s hands shake as he lights a cigarette He’s thinking of his life, each second a regret When he feels the barrel of a gun on his head Kneel, old man before your god For I am she, right now, right here Old man, don’t beg For I grant no clemency Won’t help to show fear He felt the blood run hot down his face He welcomed death and he felt no alarm The last thing that he saw swinging from her neck Was his mother’s necklace with a rose charm
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Can't help but be the person that I am Hide out in the darkness, never understand Linger in the moonlight, Suffer in the shade Take a bullet, and hand grenade I'm a creature, of habit - bad habits I'm a creature of habits, can't have it Stopped making sense, when I first hit the floor Opened up the window,  slammed the front porch door Sadly it's ecstatic, wallow in the muck Obviously I don't give a fuck I'm a creature, of habit - bad habits I'm a creature of habits, can't have it
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So Many Days I will not confess And I would not complain But I’ve been around the world for so many days I’ve been around the world for so so many days Spent some time playing Rock n Roll If you’ve been down that road then you would know It’s Covered in quicksand rather than Gold I’ve been around the world in For so many days I’ve been around the world feel like I’m trapped in a maze i’ve been around the world it more like 800 days … I’ve been around the world for so many days I thumbed a ride on the ole freight train I arrived empty handed it was such a shame Looking for Main st standing in the rain Hands in my pockets searching for some change Just a crumpled piece of paper that’s beginning to fade Telephone number I can’t remember the name I’ve been around the world in For so many days to I’ve been around the world feel like I’m trapped in a maze i’ve been around the world it more like 800 Days … I’ve been around the world for so many days
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She took a 30-year at five and a half Poured a glass of pinot and had herself a laugh Went ahead and wrote her epitaph She knew how this one ends But the wine went sour and the job went south Drained the cupboard dry just to feel the drought And she lost her faith in the words her mouth Kept lying to her friends shadow hearts and diamondbacks You paint us red, we fade to black They spin the wheel, we lost our perfect pitch It seemed so real, but now it’s smoke the dagger vanished in the cloak It’s hard to tell the scratch marks from the itch He loved to dig the dirt and drop the hammer down So he started on the beat down in whiskey town Made some shady friends, tried to get around Got a little close to the source He sang his own praises like a battle cry Shoulda know better, smoked his own supply They’re shutting down the paper, left him out to dry Too stoned to feel remorse shadow hearts and diamondbacks You paint us red, we fade to black They spin the wheel, we lost our perfect pitch It seemed so real, but now it’s smoke the dagger vanished in the cloak It’s hard to tell the scratch marks from the itch
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Call me crazy, call me clean Whichever way it means to you Fighting for the truth Questioning the proof Inspector on the left Inspector on the right Discount detectives on the beat Web weaves rational retreat Run… back to the before times Something like 1999 War in the East and war in the west take up a bottle and you give you my Best Take on the solution as our minds meet Forget again by morning’s defeat Hope… that we make it out in time And see past 2099
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Let Me Down Old Black cloud's a'stirring, time to hitch up Head down to SLO Town tonight Get them batteries humming, load up Roll them numbers tight Look out now 'cause love is breaking It's time has come again Let me down, I've had enough My old brown hat is buried in the back yard It's time the alchemy's all done Tonight, it just might be the night, opportunity's afield We're plowing up the Golden One Look out now 'cause love is breaking It's time has come again Let me down, I've had enough Carrie knows... Look out now 'cause love is breaking It's time has come again Let me down, I've had enough My old brown hat is buried in the back yard It's time the alchemy's all done Tonight, it just might be the night, opportunity's afield We're plowing up the Golden One Look out now 'cause love is breaking It's time has come again Let me down, I've had enough Old Black clouds a'stirring, time to hitch up Head down to SLO Town tonight Old King's got me hummin', choked up I think we've finally got it right Look out now 'cause love is breaking It's time has past, again Let me down, I've had enough
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Come lay your head down on my shoulder babe All our adventures are done for the day The coats are hanging, the dog’s on the floor Let’s raise a glass to the great indoors Drinking in a little home life We been working hard and it’s time To party like we’re thirty all night Ain’t it good to be right where we are? We don’t gotta paint the town red We just gotta lay in our bed Saying "Ain’t it good to be right here?" Ain’t it good to be right where we are? No reservations, no RSVP Nowhere nobody expects us to be Nothing but freedom and a 1000 square feet And babe it’s everything that we need
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Sometimes I speak before I think Sometimes I chain smoke while I drink Oh I get lost in my head Sometimes I talk to the dead Oh I know Just what you're sayin to me But my mind races on  No it don't wait for me Oh it don't wait for me No it won't wait for me Despite every plea It won't wait for me I know I'm late for everything I'm always low on gasoline Lost the plans I drew up For a time machine Oh I know Just what you're sayin to me But my mind races on No it don't wait for me Oh it don't wait for me No it won't wait for me My mind races on No it don't wait for me Sometimes I speak before I think Sometimes I chain smoke while I drink Oh I get lost in my head Sometimes I talk to the dead Oh I know Just what you're sayin to me But my mind races on  No it don't wait for me

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The first assignment this round comes from Jerry:

"In honor of my upcoming trip to Toronto, write a song inspired by your favorite Canadian artist. It can be as simple as just writing a song on your acoustic guitar and calling it a Neil Sound homage. Bonus points if the inspiration is Loverboy.”

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released March 7, 2022

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