Альбом Cross Canadian Ragweed

Dimebag Darrell, God bless that man
Ripped from us by the Devil's hand
Only thing in his plan
Was love and rock 'n roll
Cowboy from Hell on a twisted trail
Swept away where the wild winds wail
Sad truth is you can never tell when it's your time to go

Bad news travels faster
Than any good news that you hear
Just one more dark disaster
Makes you wonder why we're here

Where were you in '94
When they found him down there on the floor
Guess he couldn't take no more
A needle and a gun
Where did you sleep last night
With the angels locked up tight
Love was his only light
Did she have another one

Bad news travels faster
Than any good news that you hear
Just one more dark disaster
Makes you wonder why we're here

I got a number in my pocket
Keep it in my wallet, right on my hip
When my paycheck's steady, I'm damn good and ready
I toll it up to my lip, and I go to the moon

I got my foot down on the throttle
Hands around the bottle, I think my speakers are blown
No rubber on my tire, I'm a gettin' higher
Higher than I've ever been

I can't remember the last time I touched the ground
You look at me like I'm gonna let you down
Hey, every time I come around

You got your finger on my button
Actin like it's nothing, bitchin' from your golden throne
You ain't no anybody, actin' high and mighty
Waitin' for me to explode, fire in the hole
Look out, down below, here I go

You're wasting time, why bother even coming 'round
If you know I'm gonna let you down

Sittin' there with you hair all in your face
Tears are fallin' like they're in a race
You look down, you look around, then you look up again
You get the feeling you can never win

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Tell me your troubles lonely girl
What have you gotten in
You're confused in your own world
You just want the day to go away
So you can start it all over again

Life ain't easy, I'm telling you what everybody said
Yeah, they beat that horse until it's dead
Open your window, open your heart, open your eyes to see
Everything around you girl, it's meant to be

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Could you try to keep it down I was up kinda late last night
Yeah, I'm feeling like I usually feel after I feel alright
I don't wanna hear another word about morning
I can't take the light
Could you try to keep it down I was up kinda late last night

there's something inside this world that's gone so wrong
There's a gap between the rich and the poor a million miles long
I dig the fact that you and your friends, you wanna stand up and make it right
Could you try to keep it down I was up kinda late last night

I was down at the bar like the fool I am
Dancin on the table to Son of Slam
I met a whole lotta people I still don't know
I just rolled in an hour ago
Could you try to keep it down
Try to keep it down
Try to keep it down I was up kinda late last night

I don't wanna hear about your Lollapaloza tour
Man, I just woke up and where I am I couldn't say for sure
I ain't the kinda guy to come and break all of you records
but then again i might
Could you try to keep it down I was up kinda late last night

Could you try to keep it down
try to keep it down
try to keep it down I was up kinda late last night

Atlantic City I was busted
And the wind was bitter cold
Well, I never quite adjusted
Never do, so, I suppose
The odds were in my favor
Going home a millionaire
Got all the gold in California
She's with me everywhere

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When the last rock crumbles
And the sun sinks in the sea
The last chain is broken
And everyone is free
When all is said and done
And all is used to be
When it's final curtain call
No one's left at all
It'll still be you and me

So much snow I can't remember
What it's like to see the ground
It all started in November
and now March is rollin' 'round
Let it all fall down
Let it freeze me to the bone
I'm gonna let it all ride
I got nothing left to hide
Nothing left unshown

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When it's final curtain call
No one's left at all
There'll still be you and me

I use to get stoned on my sisters record collection
Gold and platinum on vinyl was the closest thing to perfection
Rock & roll, acoustic guitar
Not even comfortable with who you are
I'd blow the roof if I had a fast car

I changed my mind in my best friends El Camino
He blew my drums that summer night in El Reno
Turning up the STP, turning down the LSD
On a bottle of booze and the best of his cousins weed

What if I was the one that you warned me about
You were the one that needs to come around
We got together and we worked it out
No one would shut us down.
If it all dried up and blew away
With a handful of checks on a rainy day
Would you turn around or would you stay
Would it matter anyway

What if I decided to take the nation
I'd break the knob just so I could feel the frustration
Yeah, turn it up til you hit top speed
Yeah, its all that I'll ever need
When you bear your heart
You better be prepared to bleed

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She's got that certain thing about her.
Sometimes it drives me to my knee.
Sometimes it makes it hard to love her.
But I always come around and see.

Hey lady, I'm nothin' without you.
Hey baby, you're nothin' without me.
We got it constantly.

One look from her eyes gets me thinkin'.
What the hell could I have done this time?
But it's love that I mistake for anger.
The woman drives me out of my mind.

Hey lady, I'm nothin' without you.
Hey baby, you're nothin' without me.
We got it constantly.

Instrumental break.

I can't wrap my mind around her leavin'.
Well, if she did they'd surely find me gone.
Tons of heartache upon piles of grieving:
Not a chance in hell I could carry on.

Hey lady, I'm nothin' without you.
Hey baby, you're nothin' without me.
We got it constantly.

She's got that certain thing about her

I gotta mind to go back to that drawin' board
Maybe we should start it all over again
When you were you and I was me
And we weren't both bored
Or pack it up
And call it off as friends

Look at you
High on your pedestal
Getting' off on looking down on me
Our situation's gone from bad to critical
And I think it's time one of us started movin' our feet

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I don't need you criticizing me
I don't need you walkin' all over me
I don't need you always tellin' me what to do
And I don't need you

Neither one of us is better than the other
You got that thought rollin' through your brain
You hate me - sometimes I see double
Now the other side of me can't be contained

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The truth be known
I could smoke you where you're standin'
But what kind of good would be done then
Rip off my gloves and do it bare handed
But then again, I'd feel better in the end

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Well it's late, and you know I've been up drinkin,
Talkin to myself up and down the hall.
Ain't it great, another fabulous disaster.
Well I can't wait, for the next hammer fall.

You may have won this battle baby,
But it don't mean I won't win the war.
And you, you don't even know what it is that you're fightin for.

Well it's early, I know you've been up waitin,
Waitin for me to finally call.
Talkin dirty, it ain't what you really wanted,
To slam another phone up against the wall.

You may have won this battle baby,
But it don't mean I won't win the war.
And you, you don't even know what it is that you're fightin for.

Well think about me when you're out there honey,
You know sometimes that I will.
Sometimes I feel like a broken stone rollin down your hill.

You may have won this battle baby,
But it don't mean I won't win the war.
And you, you don't even know what it is that you're fightin for.

I'll proclaim you to the father
If you proclaim me to the people
My father said, "Church, it's in your heart, son"
You don't always need a steeple
A preacher's truths aren't alway shown
If you follow a heart, make sure it's your own
One man's lifted up to Heaven
One man's cast into Hell
the first man's beliefs are the second man's prison
the second man's beliefs are the first man's jail
To be or not to be
Born to decide what will set you free

When it's said and done
Sit back and watch the show
When it all goes down
There ain't nobody knows

I got something on my mind
That I can't ignore
I gotta tell you the truth
The devil comes rappin at my back door
Sometimes I don't know what to do
I see the light and it starts to fade
It blinds my eyes as I turn away

The offer's on the table
The pen's in my hand
The devil thinks she's got a deal
Temptation road may be paved in gold
But the gravel one is better my friend

Hometown in my rearview,
This truck ain't got enough gas.
It ain't got enough gas to get me fast,
Far away from you.

I paid my dues in other towns:
Here, I just blow a fuse.
An' nothin' I can do that's gonna change you,
I won't change my tune.

Anywhere but here,
Anywhere but here.
Rob a little money from the cashier
To get me anywhere but here

I spent a little time in Nashville,
In the back of a limousine.
They kissed my ass and they shook my hand:
Turned their back on me.

I gotta book of matches,
And a bottle of kerosene.
Toss 'em a Molotov cocktail,
Well, maybe that'll change their scene.

Anywhere but here,
Anywhere but here.
Gather round friends, lend me your ears.
Anywhere but here

Instrumental break.

Gonna get me a rocket ship,
Aim it towards that sun.
Throw me in and strap me down,
5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1.

Anywhere but here,
Anywhere but here.
Shoot me through the atmosphere,
Anywhere but here.

Anywhere but here,
Anywhere but here.
Blow me through the ionosphere,
Anywhere but here

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You say you will, but you never do
Kind of gettin' tired of lookin' through you
Got a lot on your mind, but not as much as I had on mine
When you got everything
You don't know what it's like to lose
But everything is nothing when your neck's inside the noose
When it chokes you out and it fades to black
Leaves you wishing you could take it all back
It don't matter if it's wrong or right, it don't matter if you sleep at night
It don't matter how much you pray,'cause you'll get yours come Judgement Day

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'cause Everything comes back around
No matter how much you cover your ground
You spend your whole life running from your sins
Runnin' a race you ain't never gonna win
Gonna catch up to you in the end

Got holes in your story, got a monkey on your back
One foot in the grave and you're caught in a trap
With a fallin' down curtain that you can't stop
An iron in the fire that you didn't mean to drop
When you live in a house that's made of glass
Don't throw stones cause your walls will fall fast
As those walls come crashing down
Look at the pieces scattered all around
Pick up the ones that you can find
Try to put them all together but you're runnin' out of time

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Broke down and you're all alone
A blade of guilt cuts you to the bone
Think by now you'd have turn and run
But you can't cross a bridge you've burned

(chorus)

You know that you can't run forever my friend

Well, I gotta friend that lives south of town.
Loves to sit and burn one down.
Spin some vinyl on his stereo.
Every now and then he speaks of war:
One tour of duty on a foreign shore.
Fightin' for his way home.
Yeah. fightin' for his way home.

Returnin' home to his native land,
Left New York for Texas man.
Quieter times were in his cards.
He met a girl, she met a man:
Dropped to his knees and he took her hand:
A simple life ain't that hard.
No, a simple life ain't all that hard.

A new generation on the ground.
Nothin' in the world could bring him down,
Flyin' like he had wings.
Several years came and went,
Not one of them was poorly spent,
A good man's life he was chiselin'.
Yeah, a good man's life he was chiselin'.

Reflecting on the Viet-Cong,
Uncle John's Band and a Dylan song,
Smellin' like it's supper time.
You know, it brought a tear to his eye,
The day that Jerry Garcia died.
He said he was the genius of his time.
Yeah, A Friend of the Devil is a Friend of Mine.

Don't try to find it, make the time,
A couple of joints and a bottle of wine.
You'll be glad that you did.
With the Grateful Dead spinnin' round,
Kick your feet back and be astound,
By the life of the Brooklyn kid.

Da da da dad da da.
Da da da dad da da

She's got a smile a million miles long
Got a trail of cryin' and leavin' songs
You don't know and you don't care
You're completely unaware
Sometimes I wanna rip out your heart
And see if something's there

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Cold hearted woman
You're bringing me down in flames
Runnin' around all over town
Runnin' down my name
Gonna get me a loaded pistol
Wait, was that out loud?
Cold hearted woman
I'm gonna put you in the ground

When the money comes rollin'
I can do no wrong
When the river stops flowin'
She's burnin' up the telephone
And by the time that I find you
Yeah my money' all down the drain
Burnt it up on cheap motels
And 80 bottles of cocaine

(Chorus)

Cold hearted woman
What goes around comes around

Jimmy was a small town kid
The only thing that he ever did
Was cross that south side railroad track
Annie was a small town girl
Wanted so bad to see the world
Get on a train and never look back

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Throw caution to the wind don't ever turn your head
Cause in the end we'll all be dead
Make 'em open up their ears and listen to your song
It don't matter whose right or wrong
Headed fast out of town West on 51
Half a pack of cigarettes and a glove compartment gun
Runnin' a little short on gas she said I'll step in and pay
Got a pocket full of cash and they made their getaway

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Arizona sun sinking slowly in the sand
Got a bag of twenty bills and a sack of contraband
Steppin' down on his foot give this thing some gas
The lights in the rearview mirror are coming on us fast
Just like the wind here cane the end
They never saw it come
Jimmy knew his fate was sealed when Annie grabbed her gun
The same old broken story
I know you've heard it too
They went out in a blaze of glory with a hand held .22

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Last night I went down to the railroad tracks
To watch that train roll by
99 cars screaming into the dark
I heard the lonesome whistle cry
With her name on my arm and the rain coming down
I kissed her like it was the first time
I took her down to the railroad tracks, and her red,red lips touched mine

(Chorus:)
She said,"I wanna rock and roll
Wanna hoochie coo
Shake that thing
Baby, love me do"

The woman's got a walk to make a man cry, throw back his head and howl
Ruby red lips, liquid hips, more than the law will allow
If I told her once, I told her twice
I must of told her a thousand times
I got a red hot mind and a cold black heart
I am the jealous kind
The woman just laughed and said, "Sweet Daddy
You know you are the only one
You're my smooth lover boy, my heartache and joy
Com on let's have some fun."

(Chorus)

It was early last night, I went downtown
To a place called Johnny's Last Stand
Through the blues and the smoke
I saw her on the dance floor
She's with another man
The dead man's name was Louie Dupree
I pushed the little button on my knife
I walked up and said, "Hello boys and girls
Have you enjoyed your life?"

(Chorus:)
It's time to rock and roll
Wanna hoochie coo
Shake that thing
Baby, love me do

Last night I went down to the railroad tracks
To watch that train roll by
99 cars screaming into the dark
I heard the lonesome whistle cry
With her name on my arm and the rain coming down
I kissed her for the very last time
I took her down to the railroad track and her dead, red lips touched mine

(Chorus:)
I wanna rock and roll
Wanna hoochie coo
Shake that thing
Baby, love me do
Rock and roll
Hoochie coo
Shake that thing
Baby, love me do

Sirens wail and a flashing light:
Nothin' better to do on a Tuesday night,
But give me hell.
Where you headed, what are you out for?
Don't see much of you 'round here anymore.
I guess it's just as well.
Once upon a time you had it all:
You let everybody down.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Runnin' from your folks, runnin' from the law.
Runnin' from love; runnin' from your fears; runnin' from it all.
You keep on runnin' boy, you'll run yourself in the ground.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Her porch swing still looks the same,
She probably won't even remember my name.
Just like she didn't back then.
Is she married, is she doin' fine?
Does she know about all the nights I laid awake cryin',
Just to know her hand?
The door opens and I run away,
Just like the same old clown.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Runnin' from your folks, runnin' from the law.
Runnin' from love; runnin' from your fears; runnin' from it all.
You keep on runnin' boy, you'll run yourself in the ground.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Instrumental break.

Well, nobody's gonna miss me.
No tears will fall; no-one's gonna weep,
When I hit that road.
My boots are broken, my brain is sore,
From keeping up with their little world:
I got a heavy load.
Gonna leave 'em all just like before,
I'm big city bound.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Runnin' from your folks, runnin' from the law.
Runnin' from love; runnin' from your fear; runnin' from it all.
You keep on runnin' boy, you'll run yourself in the ground.
You're always seventeen,
Yeah, you're always seventeen:
You're always seventeen in your hometown

You got your fingers runnin' through my hair
I got my stereo loud
You're barefoot dancing in your underwear
I bet your daddy'd be proud
But he ain't nowhere around

He said he's never gonna change his mind
Man, won't you leave her alone
I bet one day he's gonna eat his pride
Choking on the bone

When I'm on the Rolling Stone
Yeah, I'm on the Rolling Stone

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Hey baby, take a run with me, smell that rubber burn
You think your life, is a tragedy feel my motor hum
You think you're headed down a one way track
The only color in your future's black
You wanna leave and never come back around
I'll put that hammer down

Tell me what you gotta lose
You aint got nothing at all
You ain't got nothing that you gotta prove
You aint against the wall
You're just fed up with it all
You're fed up with it all

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[Thanks to eimerej02@yahoo.com for lyrics]

She picked up the telephone
All she heard was dial tone
She really thought she heard it ring this time
She said what am I thinking I must be only dreaming
Or maybe it's the hundred times he's crossed my mind
Just tonight

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She said maybe I miss your lovin'
Maybe I miss your kiss just a little bit
Maybe I miss your body lyin' right next to mine
Maybe I miss your touch a little too much

Tossing and turning her skins still burning
From the fire in his hands
Runnin' on empty she needs somebody
But somebody wouldn't understand
Then the telephone rings

(chorus)

They talked about Savannah
Sweet home Alabama
And how he missed the way she always smiled
Are you coming back soon
By the Harvest moon
If I have to walk every mile on my knees

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Well I miss you baby
I gotta get back home to you
Well I miss you baby
I gotta get back home to you
Ive seen a million women
Only one of them will do

Well Im east of somewhere
You know what I mean
Well Im west of nowhere
And all points in between

Up or down
North or south
Right or wrong
Im inside out
Gotta get back

I know youre cryin
Cryin for your man
Baby, Im tryin
Tryin hard to understand

Another turn, the rubber burns
No one else is my concern
I gotta get back

Well I miss you baby
I gotta get back home to you
Well I miss you baby
I gotta get back home to you
Ive seen a million women
Only one of them will do

It's a long stretch of highway at midnight in New Mexico
It's a small colored light that shines from your car radio
It's the old motel owner who sleeps on a cot
Gives you the very last hit from her pot

It's a lonely feeling, it's what you got
It's a lonely feeling, like it or not

Well, it's the crack in the sidewalk right next to a pay telephone
Well, it's someone's recorder when you're hopin' that someone is home
Well, it's an hour to kill to do what you please
Nobody's up for just shootin' the breeze

It's a lonely feeling, it's like a disease
It's a lonely feeling, you pray that it leaves

It's your best friend from high school who sees you and wishes you well
Yeah, you try to breakthrough but you run out of stories to tell
So you bid him goodbye and you step into space
So many questions that you cannot face

There's a lonely feeling taking his place
It's a lonely feeling that you just can't erase

Well, it's three men from Chile who are tired and they want to go home
Well, they run out of money, stuck up in east Oregon
So you give 'em the small bit of change from your hand
Try to speak Spanish but they don't understand

It's a lonely feeling, it gets to a man
It's a lonely feeling that runs through the land

Well, it's a statue of Jesus that your grandmother had when she died
It's all cracked and all yellow and know you should throw it aside
But you're growin' religious the older you get
Haven't been saved but it should happen yet

It's a lonely feeling full of regret
It's a lonely feeling, won't let you forget

Well, it's a bus stop, a street cop, an old dog, the new kid, a bum
It's fright and rejected, neglected and blind, deaf and dumb
Yeah, but you look in the mirror and you're still hanging in
It's there to remind you how lucky you've been

It's a lonely feeling, now and again
It's a lonely feeling that comes now and then

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