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High Water
03:20
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o high water - have you come to pass
maybe the kind of love i wanted
is just the kind that doesn't last
a song so familiar - i can sing it from my head
i was alone before i met you and
i'll be alone again
yeah, we were staring at the open sky
and all the troubles we knew were just clouds and they were blowin' by
but then the wind rolled in, and the rain came pourin' down
well honey i knew right then that our luck was goin' back around
o high water - have you come to pass
maybe the kind of love i wanted
is just the kind that doesn't last
a song so familiar - i can sing it from my head
i was alone before i met you and
i'll be alone again
hell, i could see it for a country mile
and all of the worries i had were just wearin' on me all the while
then the shoe fell, and all i had to do was wait
now i blame myself or chalk it up to cosmic fate
o high water - have you come to pass
maybe the kind of love i wanted
is just the kind that doesn't last
a song so familiar - i can sing it from my head
i was alone before i met you and
i'll be alone again
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2. |
Things Change
03:15
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now I don't have the clearest recollection
of the car you drove nor the colour of your eyes
but you've been turnin' up again in conversation
now and then to my surprise
well there's a buzz around your latest exhibition
and all the glowing adulation that you've had
me i've fallen out of practice i haven't
put the paint to canvas since you left
and i keep learning more about you
and all the changes you've been through
well i changed too
yeah i changed too
and there's a general consensus you seem happy
and that you laugh and smile and sing a little more
it's not a compliment i've gotten
but i'm not gettin' out as often as before
and i heard you'd settled somewhere in the country
you even made the final payment on your house
well i thought maybe you'd come back
but I'm not half as confident about it now
and i keep learning more about you
and all the changes you've been through
well i changed too
lord, i've changed too
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3. |
Still Hurts
03:52
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all night roadside, and coffee by the pot
but i never thought i'd call you 'til the quarter hit the slot
the tape plays the same way
and there goes all the money that i've got
red eye, white line, carter/cash lp
but i couldn't hear the music for the grindin' of my teeth
found out dry mouth
doesn't put your name in magazines
and now i'm yearnin for something
and haunted by the scars
maybe love's not coming
maybe life is just too hard
pay phone, love song and the glow of tv screens
but a 4x5 inch photograph throws shadows over me
one more cup for every broken heart that i can see
well how bout three
cause i'm yearnin for something
and haunted by the scars
maybe love's not coming
maybe life is just too hard
but i get high and it's nothing
i get drunk and it's worse - been a
rough couple years, but i'm still here
and it still hurts
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4. |
The Final Act
03:04
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broken down at the last road house in town
the bourbon runs like water
a river deep and golden brown
dirty bed, for to lay your weary head
and dream of california gold
and a claim you never had
you remind me of a great american outlaw
with your blue eyes cryin' in the rain
and you'd be riding on a dustbowl buckskin mustang
lord if hang 'em high were made today
lookin' back on the last few heart attacks
when clurman cues the curtain
for the third and final act
railroads rust, the roman empire turned to dust
you ride out on that sunset, lord
with the houselights comin' up
you remind me of a great american outlaw
with your blue eyes cryin' in the rain
and you'd be riding on a dustbowl buckskin mustang
lord if hang 'em high were made today
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well i road highway one
through golden prairies of wheat
where the bow river runs
where it curves and it climbs
through trembling aspen
and lavender wild columbine
be here now
i feel like lightning
when i'm coming down
well we weave and we rise
we watch the ravens and grouse
under clear mountain skies
while the cold water streams
out from the canyon
and down into green lake louise
be here now
lord i feel like lightning
when i'm coming down
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6. |
Cheaper Wine
02:35
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well the last time we met i was doin' pretty again
the grass got mowed and my hair got combed
never had to call collect
most saturdays i'd be up and out at quarter to eight
well the heat stayed on and the chores got done
credit cards were getting paid
now everything's a little late
'cause when you left i got used to
an empty bed and stayin' out at night
i went from the high life to the low life - without you
i'm sleepin' less and drinkin' cheaper wine
the clock used to tick, the kitchen faucet didn't always drip
well the weeds got pulled and the fridge stayed cold
apricots were gettin' picked
now it's all gone to seed, and i can't tell you if i brushed my teeth
well my beards grown so baby i don't know
if it's ever getting trimmed again
that's the longest that it's ever been
'cause when you left i got used to
an empty bed and stayin' out at night
i went from the high life to the low life - without you
i'm sleepin' less and drinkin' cheaper wine
ya i'm sleepin less and drinkin' cheaper wine
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7. |
Cult Island Gospel
02:35
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o, loretta she could sing
she had the kind of voice that made your eyelids sting
when her band hit the stage
lord you'd feel the mountains shake
roll on, loretta, roll on
and old king kyle, he was free
well he grew the greenest purple haze you'd ever seen
from the kootenay mountain mine
down the pan-pacific line
roll on, king kyle, roll on
sewn like strawberry seeds
from the gospel and the scriptures we would read
but in the eyes of god we were soldiers for the cause
and alone from the garden we'd reap
on that island we had faith
that through the trials and tribulations we had faced
that when his ship's upon the shore
we'd be first to climb on board
roll on, and carry me away
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8. |
Buckets
02:27
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five in the morning and the teardrops never stopped
and only ten more minutes 'til the sun starts comin' up
standing by the window i can see the breakin' light
well maybe i'll be honest for the first time in my life
though i long to hold you, and though i love you still
it wasn't 'til i watched you walk away
that i knew i always will
well into autumn, and the winter's comin' soon
but i've been cryin' buckets since the second week of june
one more night sittin' tight and wishin you were here
but honey i've been hurtin' for the best part of a year
though i long to hold you, and though i love you still
it wasn't 'til i watched you walk away
that i knew i always will
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9. |
Sad Songs
03:03
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in the van ride home, the storm clouds lifted
moonlight on the wheel
well you've been gone eleven months now, comin' sunday
but it never felt so real
'blue' played over the airwaves
sendin' heartaches to my ears
and somebody said 'i could change it'
lord it's all i wanted to hear
keep singing those sad songs
keep singing them sad songs
well i won't complain if the chords never change
i'm not bothered if the words don't rhyme
if the beat don't bounce and the groove don't swing
if the verse sounds flat 'cause the group can't sing
if my boots ain't bumpin' to it i don't mind
as long as i cry
keep singing those sad songs
keep singing them sad songs
keep singing those sad songs
keep singing them sad songs to me
sad songs, keep singin' them sad songs
sad songs, keep singin' them sad songs
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