1. |
the wind knows your name
04:34
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the wind knows your name
Screen door keeps time to a storm at the window
we might be socked in for the night
In this room theres a feeling that memories still linger
thru the leaves someone calls out her name
fork in the road is the coming attraction
find drama in the smallest of things
thought we had finished writing this chapter
where the villain gets stripped of his game
satellites circle the dark at the center,
where the calm gets sold for a song
looking for shelter, running scared thru the rain
only the wind knows your name
out in the fields, you wait for a twister
you cue up for a seat in front row
heavens overrated and hell is here and now
and the forecast calls for more of the same
sadness or truth its the constant reminder
that is learned to forget all the same
lost in the hour where minutes turn days
and only the wind knows your name
sadness or truth its the constant reminder
that is learned to forget all the same
lost in the hour where minutes turn days
and only the wind… knows your name
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2. |
million
03:13
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Million
sat down to write a letter
put a pen down on 15 years
a lot of rivers gone beneath
that rusted bridge
remember one night
lying awake
strarin' up at drunkard's moon
wondering' if you could
see it too?
miles divide and years can fade
but i'll never forget the night you stayed
as the stars went black
just before the morning came
there's a million lonely people
on a million lonely streets
and a million climb the steps
but never see
there's a million different answers
to a million types of questions
and time has put a million miles
'tween you and me
sat down to write a letter
put a pen down on 15 years
tell you darlin' how i missed you so
there's a million ways of saying
and a million ways we don't
and a million times completely
missed the boat
there's a million open endings
to a million roads to go
time has put a million miles
'tween you and me
sat down to write a letter
put a pen down on 15 years
a lot of rivers gone beneath
that rusted bridge
miles divide and years can fade
but i'll never forget the love we made
as the stars went black
just before the morning came
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3. |
black rose crown
04:18
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black rose crown
black like branches
that are scraping at the sky
waving half expecting
to find your arms open wide
Hope is an ocean
I keep on swimming' out
well i always thought id find you,
but now i have some doubts
there''s a hole in this row boat
and i think i'm going down
with some unfinished business left unsung
weightless as a feather
well i'm never touching down
but i dream of you my lady
with a black rose crown
back rose crown
washed along the shore line
i can see the town from here
when you wish for ever after
said it comes then disappears
so we waited for a signal
while the clouds all circle round
and nothing was delivered
but a black rose crown
a black rose crown
there's a hole in the ceiling
and I think it's gonna rain
with a unfulfilling thirst to taste you again
and there pulling up the draw bridge
and there packing up the town
black pedals a fallen'
from a black rose crown
black rose crown
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4. |
lost from the moment
03:43
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that's me standing outside
turn my back on a landslide
and i'm lost from the moment again
always somewhere else then
the place i should have been then
and i'm lost from the moment again
mystifies me how a man
can look the other way
when he knows it all the while,
but is not man enough to say
well i know you're seeing something
in a million miles of nothing
and you're lost from the moment again
am i the one you try embracing
transparently erasing
and you're lost
from the moment again
always somewhere else then
the place i should have been then
and i'm lost from the moment again
yes i'm lost from the moment again
still i'm lost from the moment
again
© chris merola 2007
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5. |
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sorry's such a bottomless word
sorry just don't mean much anymore
you can say it as you walk right out the door
you house burned to ground and the sky came crashin' down
sorry's such a bottomless word
your politics don't carry that much weight
arriving at conclusions far too late
and time flew off and you missed your train
beneath my bed you rolled a hand grenade
sorry's such a bottomless word
excuse me while i continue fucking up
i know i crashed your car and your dad's gonna
string me up
he can't stand the way i look and tried to mess with me
there's a smile with a face carved of misery
sorry's such a bottomless word
why oh why do we make amends?
when you're staring down the barrel on the other end
pushin' all the buttons when it only takes one mistake
sorry's such a bottomless word
why oh why do we make amends?
when you're staring down the barrel on the other end
pushin' all the buttons when it only takes one mistake
why oh why do we let it roll
when everything about you's on permanent hold
too bad you can't trust yourself enough
to break away...
sorry's such a bottomless thing
sorry's such a bottomless word
sorry's such a bottomless word
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6. |
vacant hospitality
03:12
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vacant hospitality
pick-up trucks and road way signs
she's the one that comes to mind
when night falls
it falls way too hard
when night falls
it falls way too hard
last, last comin' fast
throw your money into the glass
make your bets and bring your money to me
i said, ake your bets and bring your money to me
high, high, close your eyes
walk along the rails at night
way out back she makes sweet love to me
i said way out back
she makes sweet love to me
gone, gone down the junction
this 'ol world is killin' me
oh my wild magnolia
this 'ol girl she's done with me
auctioneers and ragged play things
idle hands who thought could say
gotta vacant kind of hospitality
i gotta a vacant kind of hospitality
gone, gone down the junction
this 'ol world that's killin' me
oh my wild magnolia
this 'ol girl she's done with me
pick-up trucks and road way signs
she's the one that comes to mind
when night falls
it falls way too hard
when night falls
it falls way too hard
gone, gone down the junction
this 'ol world that's killin' me
oh my wild magnolia
this 'ol girl she's done with me
i said now this 'ol girls done with me
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7. |
(lol) misguided no.4
05:17
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(LOL) Misguided No.4
missed my stop again on the 6 train
downtown
while i was thinking' bout a friend
so determined not to stick around
it's been said that everyone of us
has desperation floating thru our veins
while on 28th st down came the rain
stumbling' out like a drunk
who first hits the air
from the west end down to
chelsea, and the union square
feel like gravel on a paved road
another stranger out on a download
(lol) misguided no.4
looking down 5th avenue
all eyes on the empire state
it took off like a rocket ship
another sucker lost in space
now there's talk in the cafes of baghdad
they say its crashed outside it's jail cell door
(lol) misguided no.4
time to address the union
old man in front he just yawns
he's headed to a tag sale by the steps
to the white house lawn
you see every crook and outlaw
george will give the ten cent tour
(lol) misguided no.4
(lol) misguided no.4
(lol) misguided
no.
4
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8. |
then
04:00
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then
i wasn't looking
but then you appeared
across the room you drew me near
i want to go back when
i want to go back then
my friends all said i didn't stand a chance
but strange it was a set of circumstances
never could pretend
didn't know you back then
i want to be where sparks collide
and floating was so easy
with you by my side
to return again
to go back then…
i wasn't looking and you slipped away
across the hall from yesterday
i want to go back when
i want to go back then
i wasn't looking
but then you appeared
across the room you drew me near
i want to go back when
i want to go back then
i want to be where sparks collide
and floating was so easy
with you by my side
to return again
to go back then…
© chris merola 2007
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9. |
trouble does
03:32
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trouble does
i heard the alarm rattlin' thru a paper wall
you turned in your sleep
a tidal wave of dreams
we all rushed down the stairs
as you laid in a pool
wondering how this could be
you never heard a thing
nothing at all, well…
trouble surrounds…
as trouble does
you know turmoil becomes you
that's because
that sheltering smile, you laid on me
like a planet gravitating
you come to me
right to me
like trouble does
i felt the pull of a thousand horses tug
so restlessly upon my soul
i felt the sting from my only lovers tears
smashing like glass upon the floor
on the floor
trouble surrounds…
as trouble does
you know turmoil becomes you
that's because
that sheltering smile, you laid on me
like a planet gravitating
you come to me
right to me
like trouble does
down on A and 2nd. St.
looking' for salvation thru your vein
well it's no time to preach
when the sermons said
it's time to find you before
to find you before
trouble does, trouble does
trouble surrounds…
as trouble does
that sheltering smile, you laid on me
like a planet gravitating
you come to me
right to me
like trouble does
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10. |
the man that never died
04:48
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the man that never died
shake the hand of a troubled man
who never had the chance to change his life
he's the man, that could never die
stood by caesar at the fall of rome
for centuries he walked alone
he's the man, that could never die
pages blow through history books
his pictures just take a look
he's the man, that could never die
it's not time that's on his side
well it's a curse that has gotten worse
on the road of lonely rides
for the man, that could never die
'twas the darkest night that was known to man
as he led the charge thru barren lands
not river could wash the pain away
with napoleon at waterloo
a musket shot just rang right thru
no mortal man could bring him down
pages flash like fireflies
on an endless string
of long goodbyes
he's the man, that could never die
it's not time that's on his side
well it's a curse that has gotten worse
on the road of lonely rides
for the man, that could never die
when the crash occurred in twenty nine
he'd seen it all before hundred times
and it all goes round again
from enola gay to JFK
to the next desert storm
he's the man that could never die
he's the man that could never die
he's the man that could never die
© chris merola/peter wilson 2007
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