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Hello, how are you
How are you today
Hello, hello, hello
I'm sorry my son but I must be on my way
Off in this world all alone
Oh farmer oh farmer you plant just what we need
Hello, hello, hello
I'm sorry my son but the plants have turned to weeds
Off in this world all alone
Oh Johnny Oh Johnny you've done a great wrong
Hello, hello, hello
You've got up and left from where you belong
Off in this world all alone
Hello, how are you
How are you today
Hello, hello, hello
I'm sorry my son but I must be on my way
Off in this world all alone
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It's a long way from East Colorado
Oh to my home
It's a long way from East Colorado
Honey to my home
Been a long time since I've seen my sweetheart
Come a long way
Been a long time since I've seen my mother
Come a long way
Well I've heard the engines runnin'
Oh as I sleep
and I've thought of things I'm becomin'
Oh as I sleep
Now I'm bound for Massachusetts
Why I can't tell
Soon I'll be in Massachusetts
For how long, I can't tell
And I know she's still out there somewhere
Lookin' out for me
Yes I know she's still out there somewhere
Lookin' just for me
Take my hammer to the captain
Tell him I'm gone
Take my hammer to the captain
Tell him I'm gone
It's a long way from East Colorado
Oh to my home
It's a long way from East Colorado
Honey to my home
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Come all ye fair and tender ladies
Take warning how you treat your man
They're like a star on a summer's morning
They'll first appear then they're gone again
They'll tell to you some lovin' story
They'll make you think that it's true
Then the very next evening they'll court another
Leave you be feelin' so blue
My daddy was a handsome devil
He had a chain five miles long
On every length a heart did dangle
Of another maid he loved and wronged
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Valerie, you're shining
I need to see the truth
Valerie, love's dying
Still you have no proof
You wander Emerald City's streets
Huntin' for Dorothy
But she's been vacant for seven centuries now
So are you proud to wear
The cloak of hidden thorns
When you know
Where you'll end up next
Valerie, you're smiling
In faces so indifferent
Valerie, beguiling
To those with cruel intent
Dance 'round the fountain
Dance 'round the wood
Dance 'till your heart is sore
It won't do any good
Valerie, you're shining
I need to see the truth
Valerie, love's dying
Still you have no proof
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Honky tonk angel
Come to me now
Let your spirit glide
A renegade dancer
As you can plainly see
Let me take you for a bride
The sinjons are angry
Wanting the scalps
Of your friends and kin
Their howlings will find you
And drive you insane
But don't let them in
Honky tonk angel
Darken my door
I can smell your perfume
Nobody's waiting for you
To hold out
Drink some gin
In my room
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love comes to everyone
and it calls, calls our names to run
and it chains like the sun upon the trees
and then it leaves
i thought, thought I heard a wave
crashing like my sin that you forgave
how i twisted you and cut you with a lie
and watched you cry
gone, the sun was gone away
i settled back on all that you forgave
and i know if i'm to give to you my life
that i must die
oh the moon that rests above our heads
lights a path for all the dead
i am blistering and racing for its light
with all my might
man must fight the final rest
if he's on the trough or on the crest
i will live like the sun upon the pine
and make you mine
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It's a rough and rocky road I have to climb
If I want to get to you my girl
They say that what you seek is what you find
I hope pretty soon I'll have you in my world
Oh, pretty darlin'
I often find myself in times of trouble
Thinking of you and your selfish ways
You know that I'd be there on the double
For you I'd kill some hours or even days
Oh, pretty darlin'
Time is of the essence drawing close
Still you will not return my calls
Everything you think that matters most
Ain't the same when you're behind these walls
Oh, pretty darlin'
TIme and time again I will complain
Your raven hair's to beautiful to know
There's something here that I just can't explain
It strikes me just whenever you don't go
Oh, pretty darlin'
I love you
I love you
I love you
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Killing time on the overpass
Wonder if good things are meant to last
Crystal in your neon light
Cast your shadow deep into the night
Intruder
Darkening my door
Intruder
Make my body sore
Intruder
Come away again
And burn my candle to the end
Intruder
Connected by the crosswalks
Never stop to think or even talk
She just kept on moving
Wonder if she's sinking or improving
Intruder
Darkening my door
Intruder
Make my body sore
Intruder
Come away again
And burn my candle to the end
Intruder
No I don't know why you walk in the wind
Bending to any form
You say you want some fun
But you're hurting
Hurting everyone
Coming out of Cactus Flats
The Milky Way won't show you where it's at
Just have another dose, dear
It's very clear to you what matters most
Intruder
Darkening my door
Intruder
Make my body sore
Intruder
Come away again
And burn my candle to the end
Intruder
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Portraits
04:11
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Portraits in a hall
Remind you of me
Portraits all in all
A milk white fantasy
What will they show you
In the dark of the night
What will they show you
When the world's gone bright
I don't want you to know
I don't want you to know
Sunshine fills the air
Who, who was there
In that Florida scene
I made you and me
All forgotten
In the wild hurricane
All forgotten
But who couldn't explain
If you should leave me now
Take some sweat from your brow
Portraits in the grave
They've had it made
Portraits of the war
And the one
The one I adored
The one I adored, well, babe
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I am a winter sailor
And my heart is glazed with frost
There's no time on the brine
to care about the cost
I do my work, I do it well
Upon the mighty seas
For 20 years I've travelled through
The waves, wind, and disease
I am a winter sailor
and I'm rising with the moon
I always work in darkness
To escape the sun's gloom
I'm drunk from all the whiskey
That I've hidden in my pail
But all my efforts just to lie
Have been to no avail
I am a winter sailor
Upon galactic tides
My cosmic readout damaged
Like my ego and my pride
I've learned to get along amongst
The hardened Martian frost
I wonder if my knowledge will
Repay the deadly cost
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Run Down the Shoreline
03:21
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Lost in illusion
I wander blind
And when I see you
I want to be near you
Oh, oh, always
There were no signs
Those roads of plenty
Bemused but empty
Where are the farmer's feasts
Unalive
Still yet to be born
The darkness untorn
One day will open up
Upon the world
The hail of gunfire
Yet no one tires
Who remembers progress?
I don't know
Run down the shoreline
One life will be fine
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On the 16th day of September
In 1928
God started riding early
Rode 'till rather late
In the storm, in the storm
Somebody got drowned in the storm
He rode upon the ocean
Chained lightinin' to his wheel
Landed upon West Palm Beach
And the wicked hearts did yield
In the storm, in the storm
Somebody got drowned in the storm
South Bay and Pahokee
They say they both went down
And over in dear Chosen
Near everyone got drowned
By that storm, by that storm
Somebody got drowned in the storm
All 'round in Okechobee
All scattered on the ground
They counted up the corpses
2500 drowned
In the storm, in the storm
2500 dead from the storm
(guitar solo)
In the storm, in the storm
Somebody got drowned in the storm
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