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(townes van zandt)

Well, won't you lend your lungs to me?
Mine are collapsing
Plant my feet and bitterly breathe up the time that's passing
Breath i'll take and breath i'll give and pray the day's not poison
Stand among the ones that live in lonely indecision

Fingers walk the darkness down
Mind is on the midnight
"gather up the gold you've found,
You fool, it's only moonlight
And if you try to take it home your hands will turn to butter
You better leave this dream alone, try to find another"

Salvation sat and crossed herself and called the devil partner
Wisdom burned upon a shelf
"who'll kill the raging cancer?"
Seal the river at it's mouth
Take the water prisoner
Fill the skies with screams and cries
Bathe in fiery answers

Jesus was an only son and love his only concept
Strangers talk in foreign tongues and dirty up the doorstep
And i for one, and you for two ain't got time for outside
Just keep your injured looks to you
We'll tell the world we tried

Keep your injured looks to you
We'll tell the world we tried

Down along the railroad track
I ran into my old friend Jack
He was dressed in his Sunday best
but his face was mad and his eyes was a daze

He said `I lost Marina
and the last place that I'd seen her
she was making off
with my best friend'

I took him to the water
I spent fifty dollars
on something that would take him to the moon

Well he must have gone to heaven
cuz just before I left him
I tried to wake him up
but he would not move

So come on Carmelita,
you drunk too much
and I can see that
soon you're gonna need a breath of air

We'll dance across the wheatfields
There's a place I know just east of here
It wouldn't take too long to (____?)

We'll sleep out on the ground
and in the morning when we wake up
we'll leave town

And I picked my last tobacco leaf
Soaking wet up to my knees
out there before the sun has (arise?)

You can have a drink of water
but don't you look at my daughter
or I'll come down there and cut you with this knife

So come on Carmelita
You drunk too much
and I can see that
soon you're gonna need a breath of air

We'll dance across the wheatfields
There's a place I know just east of here
It wouldn't take too long to (____?)

We'll sleep out on the ground
and in the morning when we wake up
we'll leave town

There ain't any flat man
but if you are a black man
they'll put you on a plane
back from where you're from

We'll sleep out on the ground
and in the morning when we wake up
we'll leave town

(Neil Young)

Well, he shot four men in a cocaine deal
and he left them lyin' in an open field
Full of old cars with bullet holes in the mirrors
He tried to do his best but he could not

Please take my advice, please take my advice
Open up your tired eyes, open up your tired eyes

Well, it wasn't supposed to go down that way
But they burned his brother
They left him lying in the driveway
They let him down with nothin'
He tried to do his best but he could not

Please take my advice, please take my advice
Open up your tired eyes, open up your tired eyes

Well, tell me more, tell me more, tell me more
I mean was he a heavy doper or was he just a loser?
He was a friend of yours
What do you mean, he had bullet holes in his mirrors?
He tried to do his best but he could not

Please take my advice, please take my advice
Open up your tired eyes, open up your tired eyes
Please take my advice, please take my advice
Open up your tired eyes, open up your tired eyes

She writes him a letter to see how he's doing
She's stopped up for words on a pen she keeps chewing
The light from the window flows through her graying hair
The pen on the page is the proof that she still does care

'Cause in the long run the story's told
and in the long run the young grow very, very old

He sits in the park in the dark by his favourite tree
His mind is all lost in a haze of how things used to be
She carried him so far but then had to let him go
He wanted one more chance at least to let her know

'Cause in the long run the heat grows cold
and in the long run the young grow very, very old

He doesn't do much now, just sits by the window light
His hair is so long and his unshaven face so white
His heart feels a part of the breeze that is blowing outside
His eyes now see magic around him at most times

'Cause in the long run the story's told
and in the long run the young grow very, very old

She walks in the morning, it's best before seven
It's that time of day that seems closest to heaven
She finds herself dancing and singing songs out loud
Songs from her childhood suddenly come around

'Cause in the long run the farm gets sold
and in the long run the young grow very, very old

He's ready to go now, he's done with his living
He's gone where he's going, he gave what he's giving
The thousand and one times, he (said?) before dinner
The thousand and two times, (their lives?) growing thinner

'Cause in the long run the story's told
and in the long run the young grow very, very old

(robert johnson)

If i send for my baby and he don't come
If i send for my baby, man, and he don't come
All the doctors in hot springs they sure can't help him none

And if he gets unruly, things he don't wanna do
And if he gets unruly and thinks he won't do
I'll take my 32-20, now, and cut him half in two

I'm gonna shoot my pistol, i'm gonna shoot my gatling gun
Yeah, i'm gonna shoot my pistol, i'm gotta shoot my gatling gun
You made me love you, now your man have come

Baby, where you stay last night?
Yeah, i said baby, where'd you stayed last night?
'cause you got the hair all tangled and you ain't talkin' right
Where'd you stayed last night?
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He got a .38 special but i believe it's most too light
He got a .38 special but i believe it's most too light
I got a 32-20, got to make the camps alright

If i send for my baby, man, and he don't come
If i send for my baby, man, and he don't come
All the doctors in hot springs sure can't help her none

Her .38 special, boys, do it very well
Her .38 special, boys, it do very well
I got a 32-20 now, and it's a burnin'

If i send for my baby, man, and he don't come
If i send for my baby, man, and he don't come
All the doctors in wisconsin sure can't help him none

Hey, hey baby, where'd you stay last night?
Hey, hey baby, where'd you stay last night?
You didn't come home until the sun was shining bright

Ah-oh, boy, i just can't take my rest
Ah-oh, boy, i just can't take my rest
With this 32-20 laying up and down my breast
- - - - - - - - -

To lay me down
once more
To lay me down
With my head in sparkling clover
Let the world go by
All lost in dreaming
To lay me down
one last time
To lay me down

To be with you
once more
To be with you
with our bodies close together
Let the world go by
Like clouds a-streaming
To lay me down
once more
To lay me down

To lay me down
To lay me down
To lay me down
once more
To lay me down

To lie with you
one more
To lie with you
with our dreams entwined together
To lie beside you
my love still sleeping
to tell sweet lies
one last time
and say good-night

To lay me down
To lay me down
To lay me down
one last ime
To lay me down
To lay me down
one last ime
To lay me down

(chris etheridge & gram parsons)

You may be sweet and nice
But that won't keep you warm at night
'cause i'm the one who showed you how
To do the things you're doing now
He may feel all your charms
He may hold you in his arms
But i'm the one who let you in
I was right beside you then

Once upon a time you let me feel you deep inside
And nobody knew and nobody saw
Do you remember the way you cried?
I'm your toy, i'm your ol' boy
And i don't want no one but you to love me
No, i wouldn't lie
You know i'm not that kind of guy

Again,
At the end of the rainbow
Again,
No gold to be found
Just this cold unmade bed
The last 3 words you said
And this buzzing on the telephone line

Paris, well, there is fog on the seine
Amsterdam still courses through my veins
All these dark crazy sights,
Wouldn't be so bad
If i could just taste your breath once again

Honey i saw your daddy
Lying by the roadside
His feet sticking out of a sack
Honey they'll be calling
To tell you that your daddy
Never will be coming back

Again
At the end of the rainbow
Again,
No words to be found
Just this voice sad and alone
Me wishing i was home
And the silence on the telephone line

(Bob Dylan)

Listen to me, baby
There's something that you must see
I want to be with you, boy
If you want to be with me

But if you gotta go, it's all right
But if you gotta go, go now
or else you gotta stay all night

It's not that I'm questioning you
to take part in some kind of quiz
It's just that I have got no watch
and you keep askin' me what time it is

But if you gotta go, it's all right
But if you gotta go, go now
or else you gotta stay all night

I am just a poor girl, baby
trying to connect
I certainly don't want you thinkin'
that I haven't got any respect

If you gotta go, it's all right
But if you gotta go, go now
or else you gotta stay all night

It ain't that I am wanting
anything you never gave before
It's just that I'll be sleeping soon
it'll be too dark for you to find the door

If you gotta go, it's all right
But if you gotta go, go now
or else you gotta stay all night

Door slams, car starts, he's on the road
she's left there sitting, angry and alone
thinking what she should have said
well, maybe she should have gone to bed
Now his words are swirling around in her head

He said and she said
and they both yelled together
neither one hearing or listening to the other
Words like 'You never..' and 'You don't understand'
One word, then another
and then the whole thing's out of hand

But love's still there
it's just hiding in the dark 'cause it's scared
Hang on to those feelings that you know are true
and remember that this person means everything to you

Siren screams, breaks through her dreams
she rolls to the right
She realizes that he's still lost to the night
She gets out of bed both worried and mad
She prays that he's safe, her hanger holds back the drape

But love's still there
it's just hiding in the dark 'cause it's scared
Hang on to those feelings that you know are true
and remember that this person means everything to you

Door opens and in walks her baby
with a look on her face, says 'I'm sorry'
Now's not the time or the place to play games
so you hold out your hand and he does the same

And love's still there
it's just hiding in the dark 'cause it's scared
Hang on to those feelings that you know are true
and remember that this person means everything to you

Love's still there
it's just hiding in the dark 'cause it's scared
Hang on to those feelings that you know are true
and remember that this person means everything to you

I met her in a church on a Sunday evening
not late on Saturday night
She sang Ave Maria
a little flat and out of time
but that's what drew me to her
so that's alright
As she placed a nickle in the basket
that I held before her
I asked her to be my wife

And there's one cardboard heart
for every time you said 'I love you'
A painted star for every secret that we shared
A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
because you cared

I hear their talk and I watch them swap
their old black and whites
Bitter and beaten
they talk of life's cheatin'
like old boxers comparing scars

All I remember is a smile at the top of every working morning
and a shoulder always willing and able
and all those nights that we'd spend just sitting
and talking around our kitchen table

And there's one cardboard heart
for every time you said 'I love you'
A painted star for every secret that we shared
A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
because you cared

Five rooms made stronger by the breaking and the healing
of the two hearts they protected within
Now one heart left aching
just piecing and painting
these walls with the memories of all that is real

And there's one cardboard heart
for every time you said 'I love you'
A painted star for every secret that we shared
A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
because you cared

And there's one cardboard heart
for every time you said 'I love you'
A painted star for every secret that we shared
A dried lima bean and small plastic birds
because you cared