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Wounded City Night
03:45
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Wounded City Night
well you can feel it on those fired up
sweaty back, race track summer nights
when the bodega boy rips a fire hydrant open
oh lord what a sight
puts a greasy rainbow
in an ashtray sky
a jeve fuck you finger
wearing a big, gold indian ring
uptown baby
running from the crown
a beers a dollar fifty
and you slam your dominoes down
uptown I’m gonna learn to love you right
and we will know just who we are
in the wounded city night
well this old tin can
looks less and less like the isle of man
take what you darlin, while were young
while we can
they sold the arch down in the square
the king he drew his big, thick line in the sand
but the rats and roaches
always win the greasy day
so raise your fuckin glasses
for the dirtbags and the masses
for now i’m gonna have to up and haul my proud poor yankee ass…
Uptown baby
running from the crown
a beers a dollar fifty
and you slam your dominoes down
uptown I’m gonna learn to love you right
and we will know just who we are
in the wounded city night
Billymark he closed his drunken doors today
they drove him out to keep them rock and roll types far away
where will the powder girls blow
where will the chippy boys go?
go down to Charleston, South Carolina
get a shrimp in your bloody mary cocktail drink
go to Nashville, somewhere in Tennessee
it’s a little cute out there baby, for you and me
don’t you think?
the mission bell still rings in San Francisco
but the streets are paved with solid gold
go on down to Juarez City
you never have to worry but going out or growing old
uptown baby
running from the crown
a beers a dollar fifty
and you slam your dominoes down
uptown
I’m gonna learn to love you right
and we will know just who we are
in the wounded city night
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2. |
Red Moon
04:06
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Red Moon
million dollar baptist eyes
could not hide your sad disguise
red moon longs to shine it’s light on you
tell your mama, tell your pa
I will take you very far
real soon got to throw my love on you
red moon
burning down the highway’s end
red moon
put your hand right here my friend
it’s along run gunning
but honey I can see it your eyes
engines running
there’s a red moon coming
used to run with chippy types
kept it cookin Friday nights
no fog ever lifts me like you do
only need that summer dress
where we’re going, maybe less
red moon, never could it set on you
red moon
rising down the highways end
red moon
put your hand right here my friend
it’s along run gunning
but honey I can see it your eyes
engines running
there’s a red moon coming
i can see it in your eyes
red moon coming
tell your mama that we’re leaving
let her know we sail today
tell your mama that we’re leaving
let it go
let it fade away in time
I ain’t leaving from this door
till i have you by my side
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3. |
Back To Yours
04:16
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Back to Yours
It took a lot of nerve to come
took a lot of strength to go
and all the joy that we could find
seeking all we didn't know
and we played our songs till dawn
and we hung it on the line
now you run on back to yours and I to mine
our chance may never come again
paths may never quite entwine
you'll think about it now and then
when our satellites align
I may never once again
fill your glass with harvest wine
when you run on back to yours
and I to mine
every word you said
every touch you left
burns a little hole
don't look at me like that
time can leave you mad
time can break your bones
time can turn your heart
look at me
every single word you said
is a tattoo on my mind
all my colors have turned red
and I'm reckless, flying blind
all I’d ever need is you
if i could ever stop the time
now you run on back to yours
and I to mine
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4. |
Getaway Car
04:33
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Getaway Car
when we met girl
hot grease and water
a senator’s daughter
a country boy faking
you bought us a cab home
the driver was screaming
no way we were leaving
take the longest way home
never been home
you come like a getaway car
pull me out from where ever we are, running
don’t let me run outta road babe
where I can’t get back
don’t let me run out of road.
I don’t know from gold dust
i was built outta saw dust
don’t know what I trust
that’s all that I know
I know that you have
a love that’s like lightening
hits me so hard it’s frightening
leaves me sober again babe
can’t remember quite when babe
you come like a getaway car
pull me out from where ever we are, running
don’t let me run outta road babe
where I can’t get back
don’t let me run out of road.
Everglades City
doin thirty five over
no one out to move over
the mosquitos are sleeping
and what’ll we do babe
when we get to the ending
of this road we’ve been bending
where we started again?
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When I Didn’t Think About Her
there may have been a time
when i did not think about her
when i kept an idle mind
and my heart wasn’t fixed on what to bring her
there may have been a time
when I did not think about her
when i held my brothers’ lives
in the heart of my two hands
on the wild, wide Shoshone river
I believe there was a time
when i did not think about her
and it came at such a price
one and one fifth liters
and when I came around
all my inner space was outer
I believe that was a time
when i blackened out my mind
and I did not , did not, did not think about her
I am told there was a time
when i didn’t think about her
a child in the womb, sublime
a heart too soft to shatter
but I know that’s a lie
as I know her holy canyon eyes
my love is just as raging
my love is just as ancient
as the wild, wide Shoshone river
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6. |
Two Souls Alike
04:18
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Two Souls Alike
you were kissing the rain
all painted with pain
and the sky was bowing to morning
the boardwalk was flames
the calliope strains
were weeping for dreaming
what's a sweetheart in flight
doing tracing the night
in a city so starving and yearning ?
so movings your tune
Carolina by noon
but there's still hours for learning
somewhere between springtime and autumn
sou were the north
I was the bottom
and much in between
and So it would seem
we are two souls alike in dreaming
wrong places wrong times
wrong faces wrong lines
have followed us since we've been breathing
always pulling away
another town another day
always loving and leaving
somewhere between springtime and autumn
sou were the north
I was the bottom
snd much in between
snd so it would seem
we are two souls alike in dreaming
I was walking down main
rearranging my aim
and your poster was hanging the marquis
and the lines in your face
still perfectly placed
and your guitar was beaming
somewhere between springtime and autumn
you were the north
I was the bottom
and much in between
and so it would seem
we are two souls alike in dreaming
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7. |
Queens Of The Gully
03:31
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Queens of the Gully
the queens of the gully
in the city of kings
hustling for poppers and plastic rings
don’t show their faces in constant spring
the queens of the gully
in the city of kings
so Sad to say boys
she’s on her way
won’t come back before judgement day
gone to the whipping post heard them say
so sad to say boys she’s on her way
went to the party
in her high cut dress
her cover got blown by one knew best
left with a bully knife in her chest
went to the party in her high cut dress
we kissed the queens goodbye
the cargo hold was cold but dry
the queens of the gully in the county of kings
hustling for poppers and plastic rings
far from the places where others swing
the queens of the gully in the county of kings
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8. |
Calm Before The Bomb
03:53
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Calm Before the Bomb
I paid my ransom
I hit the floor
my shoes were shining like a devil at your door
I gave you forty
you wanted more
we drop the killers by the dozens and you change how we keep the score
soldier, did you misplace your place?
did you leave it back at home on your mama’s door?
you're just muscle and bone now
air in the brain
pain is just something that you used to know
the calm before the bomb
as life goes on mundane and slow
you feel your in control
in the calm before the bomb
you didn’t see it
you step in line
you didn't hear you it
you step in time on the dotted line
didn’t feel it
you step in line
you won’t even care to notice when the medicine bathes your spine
leaders, your bleeding empty seed
with your hand upon the shoulders of our faceless, wasted youth
truth, one of your golden words
you polish golden turds
you see the plane from your throne, but you know they can’t be heard
I got my sharp
I got my kit
I got a pocket full of foggy for the fun of it
I got some quiet
I got some peace
I got nothing but air hanging beneath my knees
i got my right hand
it’s working well
I got a big slice of heaven to forget this hell
I know that one day
but not today
I’m gonna have a little party and just fade it away
the calm before the bomb
as life goes on mundane and slow
you feel your in control
in the calm before the bomb
as life goes on
mundane and slow
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9. |
Every Way You Come
03:34
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Every Way You Come
I won’t tell you
to dry your weeping eye
when were living
in the dark all the time
i won’t tell you
to lift your little chin
when my own loving heart
is doing itself in
But I’ll know that moment
we’ll walk in the sun
I’ll take you black out
i’ll take you white hot
i’ll take you every way you come
I’ll take you black out
i’ll take you white hot
i’ll take you every way you come
you had a lover
became a friend
gonna keep you living safe
keep you clean until the end
and he told you
love was two become one
so tell me loving darlin
who did you become?
i’ll know that moment
we’ll walk in the sun
I’ll take you black out
i’ll take you white hot
i’ll take you every way you come
I’ll take you black out
i’ll take you white hot
i’ll take you every way you come
I’m just what the doctor ordered
no contact with the sun
love shall be made twice a day
three times on sunday so we can know that we’ve won
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10. |
More Miles Ahead Of Us
03:56
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More Miles Ahead of Us
she’s gone out on roads again
those lonesome old one-nighter trips that never end
those high school dreams
playing modern radio records
making all them skinny little baby girls scream
I’m just sitting here counting cars
from one or another wounded junk-sick seaside bars
lonesome as a tree
thinking somewhere between rome and tupelo
one of them she’s singing on might be me
we don’t know
how to slow these wheels of time
we don’t know
how to hide these ancient eyes
darkening lines
come home love
there’s more miles ahead of us than behind.
I hung my hat on this old guitar
we make it out on a friday night on the Via la Mar
my hometown scenes
folks come to dance and watch the dying sun
all the songs we wrote for everyone’s dreams
we don’t know
how to slow these wheels of time
we don’t know
how to hide these ancient eyes
darkening lines
Come home love
while there’s more miles ahead of us than behind.
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11. |
Wild Aurora
04:05
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Wild Aurora
we met upon the silver road
a million miles out from my home
she told me she was rock and roll
i told her I was broken soul
she said honey, can't you see I know ?
she didn't wear no diamond ring
I didn't ask her anything
just to tell me all her pain
all her joys and back again
she left before the lights came down
one foot always in tomorrow's town
i felt like she had took away
a loving part of me that day
i told her so
does he know
shes a wild aurora burning in our midst?
does he treat her like
the loving angel the weeping world knows she is?
when she pours her drink too long
can he lay her easy down
with a simple loving song?
we crossed again down Florence way
her smile had all but run away
how’d you forget to show her teeth
and all your hiding underneath?
she said honey, I can see you know
she calls me daddy with a bourbon grin
calls me baby when she's drinking gin
when she doesn't drink at all
weeks go by and she don’t call
does he know
shes a wild aurora burning in our midst?
does he treat her like
the loving angel the weeping world knows she is?
when she pours her drink too long
can he lay her easy down
with a simple loving song?
they tell me that this life is long
and no one knows what's going on
except the rags of growin old
oldest story can’t be sold
…
lord I know
she’s a wild aurora burning in our midst
i would treat her like
the loving angel the weeping world knows she is
when she pours her drink a little long
I could lay her easy down
with a simple loving song
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12. |
She Brought The Spring
03:06
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She Brought the Spring
she brought the spring
I knew that she would
without a fight
she turned my cold heart good
she brought the spring
I knew that she would
she brought the flowers
in her hair
gobbled up my cares
no blues nowhere
she brought the flowers
in her hair
sure enough
time will have it’s way
graduation day
summer jobs
meet my boyfriend…
she brought the song
across the deadly sea
a sweet, simple tune
she pulled it out of me
she brought her song
across the cruel cold sea
sure enough
time it moves along
I’ll be done and gone
make a song
carry on
she brought the spring
right on time
she took my heart
all down the line
she brought the spring
right on time
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13. |
With The Radio On
03:19
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With the Radio On
lord let me die with the radio on
an old rusty station a calvary song
i wouldn’t feel no pain
if that old song kept playing
auld lang syne what a way to go
behind the wheel in the late year snow
lord let me die in a mercedes benz
an old 57 with rusted out ends
white walls have faded black
fine leather starts to crack
keep keeping time till the ghost ascends
lord let me die in a mercedes benz
I knew a man, drove out his mind
playing the same old song 10,000 times
was caravan, by van the man
and I won’t go out like that
lord let me die with the radio on
don’t care which station, don’t care which song
i wouldn’t feel no pain
back in your arms again
do what you will with me when I’m gone
lord let me die with the radio on.
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Clinton Curtis New York, New York
I am a NYC-Based Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Performer.
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