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Running Wheel
05:53
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Running Wheel
Even when the sun get's down
He keeps right along shining
Maybe I'm a forever blue moon
But baby I'm trying
Lonesome with the bar room blues
I'm cracked a little
And failing to bloom
As the music and the misery unwind
You can't count on city stars to shine
Was your lovin ever part of the deal
Or just running in the wheel
Someday, someday soon
I'm gonna find another way to feel
Subtle as the seasons change
You get swept up in the motions
So many times your heart can rearrange
Into an emotionless notion
Lonesome as a springtime fool
I'm dried and withered
And failing to bloom
Well I could never, I could never quit you cold
So go on and sneak out in the night when I'm not home
Was your lovin ever part of the deal
Or just running in the wheel
Someday, someday soon
I'm gonna find another way to feel
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2. |
Thrift Store Jesus
05:33
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Thrift Store Jesus
Well I never learned how not to be afraid
When I left town I had both feet
Staring down an early grave
So I put a lot of highway under my feet
And a lot of friends who had try to teach me
But protest and I were certain that I could not be saved
And then my heart fell apart
I was a man with no start
Nowhere to run, but into the dark
And I never had a backup plan for change
But I’ve got a handful in my pocket
And a thrift store Jesus dashboard saint
In the past the future never looks the same
So I’m throwing back this bottle once again
I think I can make these colours better
If I push around the paint
But when you’re heart falls apart
There you stand with no start
Nothing in your head except the dark
But you move in time how you move in time
In time you’ll move
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3. |
Vacilando
03:54
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Vacilando
I was wondering in the streets
Through my old town home
Kept fallin in on heart ache
For the black bottomless road
Where the tar and gravel run
You can shiver in your soul
But if I was better of for stickin round
It's best you never know
I bathe in more than just one house
Slept on too many a street
There aint no quota here to living friend
You learn a smiles more than teeth
I been some long years waking up
My bones are itchin now again
Whether wind or rope or feather
Take a step when you begin
Now I'll be mournin in the mornin
When the lonesome starts to set
But you understand it's just that I got
Goin left to get
One more drink or smoke or joke
Then Rosalie and I must roll
Just unsettled as the dust dear
Whenever new in town gets old
And I'm sorry babe
You know I just can't stay
I gotta hold my truth
The only way I know
...In the spirit of the great Vacilando
And I've got Old Pancake in the pocket
Of this great western denim
My brow tucked neatly underneath
A sturdy Havstad brim
These old leather boots and I
Maybe a million miles seen
But my love's still coming up
With some place else to be
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4. |
The Vulture
06:25
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Vulture
Vulture’s got a dead heart
Picking at the bones
of a dying art
You can’t feel the way a rock bleeds
How your soul sings
And your melody soars
In the city scene
The bird never was a stone
About as strange as strangers go
He’s gotta sell it to believe it
If that’s the only way you know
You’re such as sad and sorry soul
Never felt the first love
In the heart of Rock and roll
You never were one for creating
Instead you try to populate it
Get your handshake face out
Everywhere you go
Well up here the wild north don’t need you
They’ve got a family at grass roots
Honey you’re so far gone
There’s no need for coming home
I see you circling up there bird
Are you coming for me?
Are you coming for them?
Or are you just hanging on the scent
On the wind?
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5. |
Delicate Flame
04:51
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Delicate Flame
Stayed away a couple days too long
Woke up with the changing wind
Blew me around while
Tested my sails
Carried me a note or two
And then changed her tune
Maybe could have been a better song
Ah, but the ending came through
Spun me around a while
Wrung out my love
Danced on my loneliness
And I danced on it with you
Too
Drag my string if you want babe
I’m not shy around the dirt
To the cracks in the skin
Rub it in some
And I’ll be the one counting on what it’s worth
All this hurt
And if yesterday was still comin round tomorrow
Ah well she’d teach me the same one
She’d hold my hand a while
Then I’d lose again
But I’ll be what was lost
I just stayed away
A couple days
Too long
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6. |
Happiness On Hold
04:39
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Happiness On Hold
Oh brother what you doin?
Acting young and full of hope
You’re revealing all your feeling
Like you never had it broke
Don’t you know? the world is trouble
Livin’s pain, you ain’t been told?
You gotta put away your part each day
A little happiness on hold
Aw babe, you got the right idea
Holding hands with misery
Don’t go letting your heart get carried away
With all this joy you found to feel
The big screen dream, the true love scene
Is a lie that you’ve been sold
You gotta stomp that down when you come around
With you happiness on hold
There’s no shortage to the substitutes
Come on and pull the wool down hard
You’re soul ain’t nothin special kid,
Everyone’s a still-born star
So tie your ankle to the anchor
Until your love for life lays cold
And you’re standing there with your empty hands
And your happiness on hold
You’re gonna see some pretty things
That will lead you to believe
There’s a crack of hope in a coat of pain
The old moth to a lamplight scheme
But trust me when I tell you folks
It’s only panning or fools gold
Leave it settle deep and lay your head to sleep
Next to your happiness on hold
Now try to find you some reflection
There’s some things you outta face
Ain’t nobody ever laid to rest
Was content to end the race
Now if it’s hung from your potential
At least you know which card to fold
Buried ‘neath the clay, with your stone engraved
A little happiness on hold
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7. |
The Curse
03:33
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The Curse
Well you’re a beautiful waste of my time
And I can’t get you out of my mind (off of* in the 2nd chorus)
You know I wouldn’t call this love
But loving you’d be alright
a beautiful waste of my time
I’d like to sit arm in arm holding hands
Waving goodbye to setting suns
And making cliches of romance
Put that two stepper on and we’ll dance
Don’t get me wrong here now babe
See it’s a trick or a curse feeling this way
A mind is something you discover
But i can tell your picture perfect face
With one eye closed from half a mile away
Well you’re a beautiful waste of my time
Oh and I cannot get you off of mind
You know I, wouldn’t call this love
But loving you’d be alright
Such a beautiful waste of my time
Now I’m more a bottomless ocean kinda guy
But sometimes a wading pool will suit me just fine
See it’s your company that I want
And no not just for tonight
Thou that’d be a beautiful waste of my time
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8. |
One More, Someday
06:04
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One More, Someday
Trouble making hopes’ll creep
Into your heart while mind’s asleep
Stirring up the flicker…., just to fall again
Between your tired fingers
White knuckled, unforgiven,
Burning slow like winter
Oh you’re sun-lit but still cold in the end
Half moon hangs big and low
Drinks me up with it’s whispering glow
Carry on in closer, into the shadows hand
You were right about the dark
A growing stillness for my part
I’m all fooled and vacant bark
Only echo and reflection in the end
Oh you can tell my dreams
I’ll be leaving soon
Just give me one more ‘someday’
I’ll be leaving soon
Turn on sunset like a curtain blow
A tucked in, shut lid, starlight show
Nothing but the weight ... can make you understand
You can’t bring the morning closer
And fewer hours hold your head up
Buddy you just got to remember
To kiss those loving lips and hold her while you can
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9. |
Coyote
05:39
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Coyote
I got the DIrty Kid
Takin my passenger side
Cruisin mountain highways
Behind Canadian lines
Passin freight-liners whining
Up them switchback routes
Lookin for a litte somethin
That I do believe we found
I'll take another cup of joe
Keep those train beats runnin
Keep the pickin up the pace
And the melodies are hummin
I got the good-bye blues behind me
And the warm hello still comin
I'll be back this way again
But honey I won't be rushin
All the greats sing through my radio
The sun she's shinin overtime
Visions of the home I left
Are slippin quickly from my mind
The kid and I have dyin days
Make the memories shine like gold
Till the song is sung
And the story tellin is told
Friends you pick up on the way
Will help you drink those dollars dry
When You're pockets empty son
Just pull some love down from the sky
And if it's road to nowheresville
We'll roll on anyhow
I used to be a coyote
But I think I'm alright Noooooooowwwwwwww
Beer and whiskey through the night
Behind the wheel all day
Surely a man ain't got too long
Keeping on this way
While the good times are good gettin
Lord tha's where I'm gonna stay
In the cradle of the mountain
Rollin down the song highway
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10. |
Town Like You
04:49
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Town Like you
Grey sky days winter cold sways
Got a hold of my feet, slammin on the breaks
What’s a town like you doin
With a man like me?
I’m lovin your face, but some folks are strange
Draggin down people when it ain’t your place
What’s a town like you doin
With a man like me?
Well be petty and compete,
How do you sleep?
Nothins gonna improve with your shit in my shoes
What’s a town like you doin
With a man like me?
Living is in the giving
And the getting ain’t the bet
If lovin’ is all you’ve got to loose
Pour some down into your blues
My slow heart winds a whisper in time
Missing the mountains, the cedar and pines
What’s a town like you doin
With a man like me?
See I’m a fast friend, some are gun to the head
But I’ve got warm arms honey, what are the harms
What’s a town like you doin
With a man like me?
Just want to get along, to sing and strum
For ears with a heart, but your tear me up inside
What’s a town like you doin
With a man like me?
Living is in the giving
And the getting ain’t the bet
If lovin’ is all you’ve got to loose
Pour some down into your blues
And carry on the things that’ll keep you free
What’s a town like you doing with a man like me?
Go on and carry on the things that’ll keep you free
Sometimes you’re the axe, and honey, I’m trying to be the seed
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11. |
Trigger
05:15
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Trigger
Honey i'll come round and pull your trigger
I'll be mountain air that's clear and free to find
Ain't no trouble in your timing getting quicker
It's a fool who waits with winter on the mind
These fingers dance across your silver moonlight
My lips have kissed the beckon of your call
Your body sways in tides of swell and hunger
No man has felt a better kind of fall
I will tumble down between your knees of mercy
And pray in tongues at heaven’s holy door
All your peaks and valleys that were born to tremble
Will crash upon the ocean’s mighty shore
Now baby let me show you all that's mystery
No liars hand should hold a beauty down
Beggars hold their cups and ransom kisses
I won’t take no crumbs the day you come to town
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12. |
Nuisance
03:58
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Nuisance
Close your eyes darlin
Pretend that I’m someone
That your heart still belongs to
If we’re ever gonna make it
Maybe you can try to fake it
See where that get’s us to
But what a nuisance is this love without a lover
And what good is my heart?
Close your eyes darlin
Pretend that I’m someone
That your heart still belongs to
We were never going to make it
But we still tried to fake it
Look where that led us to
You’re not with me I’m not with you
I never claimed, our love was true
And what a nuisance is this love without a lover
And what good is my heart?
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Times When I Think Of You
When the sleepy blossom begins
Like she's bringin new days dawn
Leaking on the mountain shoulder
Comes to roll away the fog
There's a chirpin bustle brewin
Calling out into the morning
But the weary weight so softly lays
And keeps dreamin
When the melody so sweetly steals
Your mind and starts to stray
And wraps a heart in lovin arms
Like it's always been that way
There's a peaceful inclination
Though it might not last too long
Each solemn word, a soul has heard
And it keeps a love believing
When the silent space grows deeper still
And the darkness doubles down
And the strangers face don'tt seem to paint in
Nothin but a frown
Oh sorrow like a blanket falls
But no comfort there to find
Those tears are blind, it's only time
The one thing you'll keep needing
When the heaving wind and canopy dance
in the shadows of the pines
And the gentle warmth that brought you close
Seems a dream that won't unwind
Ain't no sadder soul than one who knows
There'll be no change of heart
Maybe lesson learned
But when a love has turned
Don't you mourn the fleeting seasons
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14. |
Somebody, Sometime
04:47
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Somebody, Sometime
Sleeping in my bed, you’re swimming in my head
You’re smokin out my scent with your fancy cigarettes
I’m the kinda man to admit when I’ve been thinking wrong
Sending signal after singal up into the city sky and now it’s gone
And someone ought to love you sometime
Somebody better get this right
I can’t be there for you darlin
It’s been too many of these nights
Your heart’s got a spark waiting
Somebody outta love you sometime
Walking underneath a halo, silver lining passing by
Well Johnny says you got it bad and he ain’t the kind of man to lie
So if you want to be a sweetheart
Well then I hope you find the light
Burning through your every waking hour baby
Everybody’s born to cry
So go on and kiss your own lips
Hold your own hand
You gotta love your own heart
Before you can find
Your own two feet to stand
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15. |
Hard Rhyme
05:30
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Hard Rhyme
Passing fast and heavy on your mind
It's hard to shake the losing hand of time
Days burn out, and end up glowing in the night
And the constant revolution rages
You and me got the same old changes
Behind the bottle and on the band room stages
Where the love is real
There's a living somewhere that you gotta find
No steady path between the falling or the climb
The wind knows you're only dust
And keeps blowing all the while
But push on friends your light is only fading
You and me got the same old changes
It's in your arms and on your close up faces
Where your love is real
And it's a long…. it’s a long hard rhyme, most of the time.
Somehow worth the fight.
I got a disposition towards pissin on my fire
Hope sparks a little, tries to kindle some desire
But I'm a foolish heavy soul, dreams still dancin in my eyes
Just another slow train rolling off the rails
You and me got the same old changes
I'll be here when you run out of places
Where your love is real
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16. |
Nothin But Nothin
05:20
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Nothin But Nothin
One dream at a time
Something’s gotta be left behind
Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right
One dream at a time
Look out lonely soul
Don’t you stay stalled too long
Pretty soon you’ll forget just how it’s done
Used to hold the light inside you
Locked away so tight
Now it’s just your shadow
That kept you holding up the night
One dream at a time
Just take what you need to stay alive
Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right
One dream at a time
It’s easy to have faith
When you’re the dawn
Around noon it gets to being
A little harder won
Are you chasing down an answer
That isn’t left to find
What’s the point to your drinking
If a body ain’t been dry
One dream at a time
All your love that bends, and breaks, and binds
Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right
One dream at a time
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Matthew Colin Castlemaine, Australia
Matthew Colin brings with him the values of histories great ramblers, 'a song and a friend for every mile behind'. It'll only take listening to one or two lines and you will find a writer of considered craft, carrying values nested in a time of country folk music where all that mattered was the song itself. ... more
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