1. |
When I Knew Jane
03:00
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I was thinking of a time when I knew Jane
Was in love for a while when I knew Jane
Set to wander on my lonesome
Freeway home to lines
And the dust that settles in when luck has had her wine
Keeping lessons to myself now
In the valley full of eyes
Only Jane can pass her kindness off like desert lightning
To the hot springs on the hill
Where the spirits wash me in the stillness
No we’re not speaking now but I knew Jane
Was in love for a while when I knew Jane
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2. |
Boy
02:43
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Irena it’s hard
To deal with the foolish things they do
I know that it’s not
As easy as all those freaks tell you
Don’t they know that you
Would rather vanish cold
But they don’t want to see you take control
In the morning I’ll be gone
Like I told you boy
In the morning I’ll be gone
Like I told you boy
Irena it’s been years
Since I heard you whisper plans to me
I kept my head down
And promised myself they’d come to be
If the world knows peace
I’ll find you free from harm
And recognize you by your famous charm
In the morning I’ll be gone
Like I told you boy
In the morning I’ll be gone
Like I told you boy
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3. |
Getting Easier
02:39
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In the opaque we find a word
To redefine our wicked ways
Holding out a song
Asking for change in our lives
They think they’re strong enough to escape this time
And find it easier
Another life of petty crime
Pursued without a passage home
No return to life
Ancient as all human kind
Match sticks holding you up by your weary mind
It’s getting easier
So love who you need to love
But keep me in your eyes
‘Cause I won’t go very far
Not if I know who you are
Oh what a pain this life can be
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4. |
In Your Arms
03:28
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You ask for rain today
But you don’t know rain
Until it locks you out and you must roam
To fill up the blank space in your eye
In a minute love
The next cup runs
For you to take your fill
Like the loneliest of the meadowlarks
That’s the way it feels inside
Can you remind me what it feels like
In your arms
You ask the change you make
For the fare to take
Your angel wings on to the other block
Don’t you know when you’ve been had
Like the others doll
Who shook their fists
Behind them on the road
Like the loneliest of the meadowlarks
That’s the way it feels inside
Can you remind me what it feels like
In your arms
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5. |
Madeline
02:54
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Glory gives and glory takes
Through the valleys swept away
Like people make designs to keep on drifting
She took a train
Lady rose had only leaving
Was her story from here on in
You know you walk that line until it bends
On however far your money gets
All the little things I have are meaningless
Madeline’s a jagged edge
She’ll take that burden off your lot
If it drives her to the sun
Take along some man who can be kind
If she knows one
To where the air runs through the dew drops
And the spirit warms on the vine
To think god loves a kid from strip mall county
Or whoever made the pyramids
All the little things I have are meaningless
Madeline’s a jagged edge
Madeline’s just tryin’ to live
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6. |
All I Have
03:42
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Do you ever really get a clue how
Something you done went so wrong
Friends will stick around
But from a distance they will whisper ‘bout
Your wits behind the curtain of night and
To lose a friend like you I can’t bear
I know I’ve tried it many times before
And I’d give all I have
Just to start it all again and do it right
And I’d give all I have
Just to start it all again and do it right
Caught me hangin’ round so I could watch you go
And when you left I felt so low
It’s what I must believe
There’s no reason I should be alone tonight and
To lose a friend like you I can’t bear
I know I’ve tried it many times before
And I’d give all I have
Just to start it all again and do it right
And I’d give all I have
Just to start it all again and do it right
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7. |
Where the People Are
02:46
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Wonderful once again
To be knocking at your door isn’t it
What a circle of friends
So above all the second rate citizens
Well I’d rather be where the people are
Smoking another cigarette like a movie star
And don’t you want the city back in charge
You have just a perfect life honey look at you
And you sank your crooked smile in your aptitudes
So you gave up on love and you won’t
Tell a soul where you are tonight
Hope your kind attitude don’t rub off
If I cross at the same red light
Because I’d rather be where the people are
Waiting for my sweet release on a subway car
And don’t you want the city back in charge
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8. |
Why Should I Wait
02:39
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Well it seems the morning’s coming
Why should I want to cry
All the streets and the byways stirring now
Just as if you were mine
Blotting out the imperfections
Mother sun, golden light
Came to me in quiet reverie
And why do I go to the stony end
Why do I play the game
Just as they say could mean a storybook change
Oh why should I wait for the rain
Yet without my final blessing
Something makes me satisfied
All the streets and byways done for now
Leaving just you and I
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9. |
See Me Again
03:22
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I’ve got a feeling that we’ll
Be together for the rest of our lives
‘Cause you see when I’m down
And you can’t help but be around
Can you tell me why
Can you tell me why
You see me again
You see me again
You see me again
Guess I’ll never know what you found there
Watching you make it up the drive
And imagine all the steps that you took
Made a left then a right
Got dark so you flipped your light
Think that tells me why
Think that tells me why
You see me again
You see me again
You see me again
Guess I’ll never know what you found there
Got my head in my hands and I’m cryin’
Got my head in my hands and I’m lying on the floor
Got my head in my hands and I’m cryin’
Got my head in my hands and I’m lying on the floor
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10. |
I'm Here My Friend
04:36
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Why do you hurt me so
“I love you yeah, I love you yeah, that’s all I know”
That’s how I talk to you
Thursday
When the rain is due
All while I move through life
Comprehending just enough to buy my time
As if on down the line
Thought provides
Something I can’t do
My father’s seen old law
Bridges he grew up on moving through are drawn
His father at his age
So resolved
Quartered out at sea
And I’ve become satisfied
Pockets full of lonesome nothing’s quite as nice
Than when a wayward heart
Commits to
Keeping you in mind again
Saying if
Your ship comes in
Sailing a frightful wind
I’m here my friend
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