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The Real Thing
03:51
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Baby this is news to me you’ve gone away to get the real thing
A man who can make you feel like you wanna feel
But you said I know a thing or two about how to make a country girl come unglued
Well I guess that ain’t the real thing, I guess that ain’t the real thing, I guess that ain’t the real thing
Maybe I’m just a fool for you, maybe you’re a fool for wanting more
Maybe this is you knocking on my door, just to get a little bit more lovin’
Baby this is news to me you’ve come home back to the prairie
It’s no big thing but this little town has got what you need
A picket fence and a boy who sings, and tells you to go ahead and spread your wings
‘Cause I know this is the real thing, I know this is the real thing
I know this is the real thing
Maybe I’m a fool to sing for you, maybe your a fool for wanting more, maybe this is you knocking on my door, just to get a little bit more lovin’
‘Cause I know this is the real thing, I know this is the real thing
I know this is the real thing
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Easy On Me
04:24
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I’ve become a stranger in the prison of my own skin
Watching you light up like a christmas tree on the hottest day in spring
You were the resolution in the year of the black cat that I couldn’t keep
Making out like a bandit selling candles from your mansion under the sea
Yea maybe I’ve become a little bit jealous of the way you’ve made out in your life
I thought the words you spoke under the oath of blood bound us in our never ending fight
And I know we’re grown ups and we’re supposed to be able to take it all in stride
But I’m a little bit uneasy about tonight
But I’m a little bit uneasy about tonight
Under the pressure of living up to man that you want me to be
I guess I lost my sense of direction and turned my back on the things that mattered to me
You took it all on the chin, looking back you were my only friend
So, that’s what I wanted to tell you tonight, I wanted to look you in the eye,
Into those gorgeous big green eyes
Ten years down the road we’ll look back and be thankful for the good times that we had
But that don’t make it easier for me to lose my only source of light in a world gone black
And I know we’re grown ups and we’re supposed to be able to take it all in stride
But I’m a little bit uneasy about tonight
But I’m a little bit uneasy about tonight
Take it easy on me tonight
But I’m a little bit uneasy about tonight
Take it easy on me
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Crossfire
03:27
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You meant for me to stand alone, but here you are the one fallin’ apart
Should I wait to see you if you’re dead and gone?
Or follow you down, into the dark?
Of the crossfire
I remember, I met you in the crossfire
I’ll never leave you, I’ll never leave you alone
I could stand for everything that you believe, even when my legs no longer carry me
And when you’re gone if I’m still fighting to be free,
I’ll follow you along, and every memory
Through the crossfire
Alone, through the darkness and the crossfire, alone, I’ll never leave you alone
Caught in the crossfire, that's where I was when I met you, in the crossfire, I'll never leave you alone
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Yolanda Station
05:16
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Sitting’ on a porch in a lazy town, hoping’ you’d walk by
My mama dubbed me the town Casanova, knowing I was shy
But maybe just once I could dip my nose in a little bit of that soul water
You were drinking down by Yolanda Station when I saw you for the first time
when I saw you for the first time, you were looking for trouble drinking from that bottle of wine
I was driving up to the Meadow club in my old beige Toyota
With an American flag hanging off my tailgate, to remember our fallen heroes
Your long red hair almost blended in with them tall old grove sequoias
Them butterfly wings strummed across my heart strings one time and I was in love,
One time and I was in love, one diamond in the rough
My heart, your heart, together we made it through the hardest part
But it was harder yet to start over again
My soul, your soul, connected where the roots grow old
When it’s time for me to let go, I think I’ll know, Yea
Where do old lovers go when the sun goes down on the good times we had together?
Thought it was just another night, sleepless despite, that sun would rise on us forever
But I caught wind you took the 6 AM outta Yolanda Station
They say that lonesome train will come around again, I’m still hoping you’ll do the same
Baby, tell me how I can change, been listening to wind it ain’t told me a goddamn thing
My heart, your heart, together we made it through the hardest part
But it was harder yet to start over again
My soul, your soul, connected where the roots grow old
When it’s time for me to let go, I think I’ll know,
Yea I think I’ll know
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Girl Named Petty
04:21
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I just wanna catch a ride on a silver spoon
Taste that kinda livin’ for one full moon
I've been howling’ but my dreams they ain’t come true
You got the money and the girls and the fast track something
But boy when I get going, whoa the crowd is humming
Yea, gimme the keys and let’s take a little ride downtown
Well, I got way about wasting money ‘cause runnin' never did me right
But if you got a few to your name and a life worth living, tonight is the night,
I’ll bring the joint if you bring the light
I met a girl named Petty in the summer twilight
We played that rock n’ roll to the campfire light
Whoa Petty I coulda used you by my side when the old king died
I had to walk alone into the great wide open
We had danced to the king that very morning
and talked about growing young, not growing cold like a stone
Well I got a way about facing what’s coming ‘cause running never did me right
So if you got a feud and a name worth saving, we’re gonna step outside,
I’ll bring the joint if you bring the light
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Your Dream
04:41
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Someday, I’m gonna write you a letter baby,
Tell you why I went a running and never looked back, from your 57 Chevrolet
Hey Hey
It was a cool night, and you were a cool gal
But the look in your eyes, was too much for this guy, who was set on a running around
That stoned look in your eyes, It tazed me
Left me paralyzed, like a deer in the lights, you shoulda run me over,
I’d of made you my wife, Dontchya do it to me darling ill do whatever you say, wait a god damned minute! Not now! I'm waking up from your dream...
Dreaming’ bout a California Sunset with you, Up from your dream
Dreaming’ bout a California Sunset with you
Up from your dream
Someday, I’ll go back to that spot where we laid
Down by the cliffs where the Pacific ocean rises in mist through the haze
Hey hey
Those were, good times, make no mistake babe you were a real good time
and I was lost soul looking through a peephole thinking I had the key to life
That stoned look in your eyes, It tazed me
Left me paralyzed, like a deer in the lights, you shoulda run me over,
I’d of made you my wife
Dontchya do it to me darling ill do whatever you say, wait a god damned minute! Not now! I'm waking up from your dream...
Dreaming’ bout a California Sunset with you, Up from your dream
Hey hey!
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Carry Me
03:40
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Caught my eye, when the blinding sun of love had rendered me blind
Lips are cracked and swollen, fallen like a soldier in the western Texas wasteland of my mind
In footsteps of our fathers, who set forth to drink the water to return with only dust upon their tongues
I, in my own skin, had the will to venture out again, to return to the one true love who quenched my thirst
Digging in to cross the border on the run from a woman, who’d always done the best for me
Maybe finding out the hard way, the long and lonely road way,
When love was rolling like a mighty train, I’d hear it sing to the desert wind, to carry me,
Carry me away
Cocaine eyes, a sea of darkened waters, wild and uncharted, oh but this man will never know what’s beneath those waves
Ropes are frayed and broken, cast my line into the open sea as the sun of love is beating on my face
Wide eyed in the world like a child on a tilt-a-whirl, trying not to scream
Maybe finding out the hard way, the long and lonely road way,
When love was rolling like a mighty ship, I’d bear it’s bow against the wind, to carry me,
Carry me away
When love was rolling like a mighty train, I’d hear it sing to the desert wind, to carry me,
carry me away
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Beggar's Throne
04:04
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Who would’ve known the earth was gonna shake?
I said to you as I handed you a drink
Under the table set for 22, the guests had all arrived
I pulled you down only to find the earthquake was inside my heart
I was just a waiter catering to your every need
Dreaming of doing crazy things underneath the sheets
My body was a wholesome 35 but my heart was 17
I looked at you and felt the burdens of my poorboy dreams just fade away
Lately I’m the lucky one
I was a beggar ’til you slipped me through the back door
Maybe ‘cause I showed you love
But I know the reason this just can’t carry on
Your daddy’s got someone that he wants you to love
So I'm left dying on a throne
I'm left dying on a throne
I know you felt the quake ripping through the room
It grabbed you by the chest as you put down your silver spoon
Then you turned to me and said waiter won’t you take my plate away
You excused yourself and followed me and showed me everything you knew of love
Lately I’m the lucky one
I was a beggar ’til you slipped me through the back door
Maybe ‘cause I showed you love
But I know the reason this just can’t carry on
Your daddy’s got someone that he wants you to love
So I’m left dying on a throne
When being lovers is as easy as falling on the bed
But I’ve got to contend with what’s inside somebody's head
and if I had a gold watch and brand new limousine
I may not make you as happy as you can be
But people they don’t know what happiness means
So I'm left dying on a throne
I'm left dying on a throne
That you put me on
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