|
|
2000 |
1. | |
2. | |
3. | |
4. | |
5. | |
6. | |
7. | |
8. | |
9. | |
10. | |
11. | |
|
. . .
|
|
What I feel is like an old freight train
Five miles long in the pouring rain
Rolling out of Detroit loaded up with shiny cars
And I'm sitting in a Cadillac smoking on a big cigar
What I feel's like an engine room
Open it up and smell the perfume
I love that diesel burning up the atmosphere
When you hear me blow well honey baby know I'm here
CHORUS:
Well I'm going down to Lincoln town
Turn your pretty little head around
Take the next train outward bound
Carry you out of Lincoln town
Well babe you know my home is with you
There ain't no town or city will do
I need a rolling partner carrying me down the line
and I'm a-comin' into Lincoln town baby right on time
Well love is like an automobile
or maybe a freight train dependin' on how you feel
Well rubber or steel honey baby I don't mind
CHORUS
When you see that old black smoke
You know it's time to pack you a coat
Meet me at the station about a quarter to nine
You can ride in my Cadillac honey you can ride the blinds
CHORUS TWICE
. . .
|
|
My baby's gone and I don't know why
she let out this morning
Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky
left me without warning
Sooner than the dogs could bark
and faster than the sun rose
Down to the banks in an old mule car
she took a flatboat across the shallow
CHORUS:
Left me in my tears to drown
she left a baby daughter
Now the water's wide and deep and brown
she's crossing muddy waters
Tobacco standing in the fields
be rotten come November
And a bitter heart will not reveal
A spring that love remembers
When that sweet brown girl of mine
her black eyes are ravens
From a jug that she'd been saving
CHORUS
Baby's crying and the daylight's gone
that big oak tree is groaning
In rush of wind and river of song
I can hear my sweetheart moaning
Crying for her baby child
or crying for her husband
Crying for that river's wild
to take her from her loved ones
CHORUS TWICE
. . .
|
|
CHORUS:
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
What do we do now
When it's lying there with a busted heart
Like a piece of glass where do you start
Do we pick it up or say goodbye
Is there one tear left for us to cry
CHORUS
What if I can't stay
What if you can't stay
What if I can't leave
What if you can't leave
What if I believed
Every word you say
What if you believed
Do we call the kids
Or call the cops
Can you hold me 'till
This howling stops
CHORUS
Gimme back my steel,
Gimme back my nerve
Gimme back my youth
For the dead man's curve
For that icy feel when
You start to swerve
Give us back the love
We don't deserve
'cause we rode it long,
We drove it hard
And we wrecked it
In our own backyard
CHORUS
. . .
|
|
I woke her up twice in the middle of the night
To ask what her name is and where she might live
To ask how many fingers she saw in this light
To ask if she might know what gives
She said we rolled that Camaro like a cowboy cigarette
Out on the highway in a puddle of beer
That's just about how close to death you're gonna get
Till the only thing standing is fear
CHORUS:
Singing, oh darling, faces were changed
The names of the innocent, the story at five
Oh darling, faces get strange
But only the song survives
She said, now don't you remember they put a patch on your eye
Like Dread Pirate Roberts, you looked so unplanned
They cut off my wedding ring and you started to cry
A one-eyed Niagara Falls man
I said, but I never married - I said with surprise
And is this the diamond you said that you lost
It was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyes
Hell and I don't know what the thing cost
CHORUS TWICE
But I woke up sweating to breakfast in bed
And there were my children, and there was my wife
Post-traumatic stress, of just a bump on the head
Or maybe the ride of my life
CHORUS TWICE
. . .
|
|
CHORUS:
You gotta lift up every stone now sister
Gotta lift up every stone now sister
Gotta lift up every stone now sister
Gotta clear this field and build that wall
He was the prince of the county to the manor born
The sheets were bloody and dirty and torn
Nobody saw nothing, not out this way
And they probably won't until the judgement day
CHORUS
There was a mighty whispering down at the church
About the son of the father of a woman got hurt
They were looking all over for somebody to pay
And that's you and me sister now every day
CHORUS
Now the sun is bloody red
Don't you cry a tear for me
Because I did what I could just to be free yeah
You gotta lift up every stone now sister
'cause one is the truth and the other's a lie
You gotta lift up every stone now sister
'till they tear down the wall to make you cry
CHORUS TWICE
We gotta clear this field and build that wall
We gotta...
. . .
|
|
Take everything that we have
Take it and burn it to the ground
Some things were never meant to last
CHORUS:
Take it down, down, down
Take it down
Take it down, down, down
Take it down
I'm still married to it all
That ain't no place to hang around
My love is 50 feet tall
CHORUS
I've grown accustomed to the way
You hurled us into space
I'll never make that trip
Tears all rusted on my face
And I'm just an empty place
Where your love used to fit
South carolina where are you
We were once lost and now we're found
The war is over, the battle's through
CHORUS TWICE
. . .
|
|
Gone like my last paycheck gone, gone away
Gone like the car I wrecked gone, gone away
Gone like a fifth of gin gone, gone away
Gone like the shape I'm in gone, gone away
My baby's gone away
Gone like a Nixon file gone, gone away
Gone like my landlord's smile gone, gone away
Gone like the furniture gone, gone away
Gone like the rest of her gone, gone away
My baby's gone away
Gone like the silhouette there by the bed where she undressed
Gone like the candlelight where we made love so sweet and bright
Gone like the one last turn she took before Atlanta burned
Gone like everything I learned gone, gone away
.
Gone like my last paycheck gone, gone away
Gone like the car I wrecked gone, gone away
Gone like a fifth of gin gone, gone away
Gone like the shape I'm in gone, gone away
My baby's gone away
Repeat
. . .
|
|
Take back all those kisses that you stole from me
Take back mister and misses to your family
Can't take broken dishes when we fight all day, hey
Take back all best wishes, did I hear you say
We were shooting for the sun
I guess the darkness finally won
Take it back, take it back
All that love has done
Take back the sweetest memories I have ever known
Take back the blood you let me get out of this stone
I can't take another minute of this misery, no
Take back what we got in it, lord it's killing me
We were shooting for the sun
I guess the darkness finally won
Take it back, take it back
All that love has done
We were shooting for the sun
I guess the darkness finally won
Take back, take it back
All that love has done
Take it back, take it back
All that love has done
Take it back, take it back
Take it back baby
Well...
We were shooting for the sun
. . .
|
|
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son
Now he's gone I ain't got no one
Daddy died when I wasn't half a man
Oh my daddy died when I wasn't half a man
Mr. Stanley took me in raised me the best he can
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son
Now he's gone I ain't got no one
Six white horses coming down to Tennessee
Six white horses coming down to Tennessee
In the middle of the night to take Mr. Stanley away from me
. . .
|
|
We came through the forrest
Of jealousy and greed
All our loved ones before us
Gave us everything we need
To cross that great river
Of every tear was ever cried
'till we find ourselves staring in God's golden eyes
In the desert love waited
Licking salt water from her skin
We could have been sedated
For all that we put in
We thought it was some devil
Who put the crying in goodbye
Till we found ourselves staring in
God's golden eyes
We found ourselves staring in God's golden eyes
And we did all we could do
We did the best we could
No matter how hard we tried
Like babes we come whining
For some forgotten sin
Surprised to be shining
Just like diamonds in the wind
Every facet so perfect
And every cut the proper size
When we find ourselves staring in God's golden eyes
We find ourselves staring in God's golden eyes
. . .
|
|
I've been sleeping for some hours
Just woke up and you were there
Like the morning, like the flowers
Sunlight whispering in my ears
Red tail hawk shooting down the canyon
Put me on that wind he rides
I will be your true companion
When we reach the other side
.
I will try, I will stumble
But I will fly, he told me so
Proud and high or low and humble
Many miles before I go
Many miles before I go
.
Can't decide which way to travel
On the ground or in the sky
All my schemes have come unraveled
All that's left is you and I
.
And I will try, but I will stumble
Proud and high or low and humble
Many miles before I go
Many miles before I go
Here I go
.
Ghosts on the trees, there's
Ghosts on the wires
Asking questions and showing signs
Shivering with truth, they're lighting fires
Lighting fires all down the line
.
And I will try, and I will stumble
But I will fly, he told me so
Proud and high or low and humble
Many miles before I go
Many miles before I go
.
Proud and high or low and humble
Many miles before I go
Many miles before I go
. . .
|
|