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Burden
03:27
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Friday night come up for air ‘cause what’s done is done
Leave your baggage over there don’t fear the rising sun
‘Cause we’re gonna be there when she starts the day
She’s used to being alone but we’re gonna get in the way
Come and lay your burden down
come and talk with me
Come and lay your body down
come and walk with me
Saturday nights are made for sin / and there’s no regrets
When sunday mornings roll around / and it all forgets
The lord watches but things can slip his mind
When distracted by the look of a different kind
Come and lay your burden down / come and talk with me
Come and lay your body down / come and walk with me
It gets so sticky down here
From fires underground
I’d give up all our secrets
But I’m honor bound
Come and lay your burden down
come and talk with me
Come and lay your body down
come and walk with me
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2. |
Stuart Adamson
04:00
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Step right up sit right down
I’ll pull this pint I’m honor bound
By the blood running through Celtic veins
And all the memories that remain
Wine without the women and song
Never really lasts that long
I got this ringing inside my head
That comes out my guitar instead
So rest my child it won’t be long
‘Till you find a place where you belong
So rest my child it won’t be long
‘Till you find a place where you belong
Wonderland is a mighty long road
Marching where the rose is sown
My time is up maybe you’ll see
Just what you’ve done to me
So rest my child it won’t be long
‘Till you find a place where you belong
So rest my child it won’t be long
‘Till you find a place where you belong
I can run I can hide
But I couldn’t keep it all inside
Only so much a man can do
To outrun these walking blues
To outrun these walking blues
So rest my child it won’t be long
‘Till you find a place where you belong
So rest my child it won’t be long
‘Till you find a place where you belong
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3. |
Dirty Frank's
04:57
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I saw Jesus on the subway train / he was sitting there all alone
Had his head buried deep in a brand new Iphone
Wearing the flowing robes with the Bob Weir birkenstocks
Over a pair of vintage Archie Bunker sweat socks
Then he got off at Prospect Park
And copped some pills there in the dark
He needed Dirty Frank's Gotta pray
Dirty Frank's Right away
Raise your glass gotta give thanks
At Dirty Frank's
Opportunity passing me by just like a yellow cab
Another rent increase to go with my covid jab
My girl she finally hopped that leaving train
In the middle of yet another driving rain
If home is where the heart should be
I’d rather live on the open sea
Or at Dirty Frank's So she’s gone
Dirty Frank's I’ll get along
Raise your glass gotta give thanks
At Dirty Frank's
Getting around always a chore
Just trying to reach my own front door
If you can run then you can hide
Like a carny on a carnival ride
Pitch the tent then take it down
Drive it to another town
Where Jesus saves once he gets clean
But never tells you where he’s been
Never looked me in the eye
took this long to find out why
Now he’s at Dirty Frank's Looking for love
Tired of searching all the stars above
Raise your glass gotta give thanks
At Dirty Frank's
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4. |
Valley Train
03:27
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Running off to find myself bumping into someone else
Another face another town another secret in the ground
The ghosts they can track you too
And set up shop before you do
So don’t think that you can hide
Ain’t no ticket for this ride
On this valley train
This valley train
Together again
On this valley train
Graffiti calling out the news of kids with nothing left to lose
Lovers line the riverbed slow dancing inside their head
Always fearing letting go
To the one thing that they know
But suffering is saving grace
If I get to see your face
On this valley train
On this valley train
Together again
On this valley train
Always fearing letting go
To the one thing that they know
But suffering is saving grace
If I get to see your face
On this valley train
On this valley train
Together again
On this valley train
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5. |
You Never Talk This Way
04:03
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All them sticks and stones and wanting to be alone
And that whispering outside the door
Turn it over in my head think about the things you said
Sleepless nights pacing ‘cross the bedroom floor
Turn your head and you might see
All these scrapbooks piled on top of me
You never talk this way you never talk this way
You never talked to me this way before
We always found a way
To temper what we say
You never talked to me this way before
Setting the house on fire with untapped desire
Window dressing to hold in place
All them dreams like a broken dam
There you are and here I am
You never talk this way you never talk this way
You never talked to me this way before
We always found a way
To temper what we say
You never talked to me this way before
Can’t pick it up it weighs a ton
From the expectations of being the only one
You never talk this way you never talk this way
You never talked to me this way before
We always found a way
To temper what we say
You never talked to me this way before
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The road less traveled always brings me down
I get lost on my way out of this town
Always searching for what went wrong
With the help of a beat up rock and roll song
I asked my family I asked my friends
You did it once but can you do it again
Can you do it again
Give up the pills give up the ghost
Give up the pills that hurt you the most
Climb a mountain or dig a ditch
Ignore the pain or scratch that itch
I might ask why but I’ll never ask when
You did it once can you do it again
Can you do it again
Once upon a time forever young
A slippery slope or a slippery tongue yea yea
I might ask why but I’ll never ask when
You did it once can you do it again
Can you do it again
It’s in the retelling that the story grows
Where it stops nobody knows
While that storm it rolls up fast
We survey the damage only when they pass
We survived the 7 deadly sins
We did it once but can we do it again
Can we do it again
We’re all liars in retrospect
From what the fuck to what the heck
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We even chased the circus away
Two years on still ain’t ok
Kids are blinded by the sun
Bone weary by the things we’ve done
All the road signs are torn down
Just their phones to get around
We even chased the circus away
Center ring buried in the clay
In case they want to make a stand
consider this the promised land
Return when the nighttime falls
Prop up these big-top walls
It’s like sweeping up an old dirt floor
I gotta wonder what we’re down here for
Test the tension of the wire
Bucket brigade for the ring of fire
We even chased the circus away
Left to steal what we cannot pay
leave the lights on all night long
Lay our heads on a favorite song
Life’s a calendar nailed to the wall
With one page that fits all
It’s like sweeping up an old dirt floor
I gotta wonder what we’re down here for
Test the tension of the wire
Bucket brigade for the ring of fire
We even chased the circus away
Two years on still ain’t ok
Kids are blinded by the sun
Bone weary by the things we’ve done
We even chased the circus away
Center ring buried in the clay
In case they want to make a stand
consider this the promised land
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It’s 2020 but you still can’t see
The wreckage that you left behind for me
Find the needle find the vein
Find the vaccine that will drive you out of my brain
If you don’t know me by now you never will
If you don’t know me by now you never will
I want to gather I want to hold you so tight
Fumble for the light at the end of the night
Cover up or bring me down
Heavy is the head the wears the pointy crown
If you don’t know me by now you never will
If you don’t know me by now you never will
Keep your distance but still let me in
Walking on a wire wondering what might have been
If you don’t know me by now you never will
If you don’t know me by now you never will
If you don’t know me by now you never will
If you don’t know me by now you never will
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9. |
Two Coal Cars
03:40
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Hometown gets buried in the rubble left behind
when memories are like a ghost train coming down the line
and that whistle causes people to flee
I got two coal cars watching over me
A young boy asked me ‘M’aam where are you gonna go?’
‘this town ain’t big enough for the things I’m gonna know.’
I said son go and see what you need to see
I got two coal cars watching over me
Since my father pointed them out
this town hasn’t looked the same
they finally got them to the top
just as their world changed
Hometown gets buried in the rubble left behind
when memories are like a ghost train coming down the line
and that whistle causes people to flee
I got two coal cars watching over me
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When it gets to that point what’s done is done
You just better hope that you ain’t the one
That stirred the pot to get us here
No more wine and no more beer
When Jackie drinks
When Jackie drinks whiskey
Watch the fear and loathing grow
Where it stops nobody knows
Even Uber drivers run for the hills
And will ignore $100 dollar bills
When Jackie drinks
When Jackie drinks whiskey
Strike the bouncer strike the tent
Away we go away she went
Shots lined up across the bow
If you don’t know she’ll teach you how
Fa la la fa la lo
It’s time to leave it’s time to go
When Jackie drinks whiskey
After hours of 100 proof
It could be cannonballs off the Mecca’s roof
I’ve got no eyes so I can’s see
Just what this woman is doing to do
When Jackie drinks
When Jackie drinks whiskey
Strike the bouncer strike the tent
Away we go away she went
Shots lined up across the bow
If you don’t know she’ll teach you how
Fa la la fa la lo
It’s time to leave it’s time to go
When Jackie drinks whiskey
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Tom Flannery Scranton, Pennsylvania
"One of the most gifted songwriters to emerge at the turn of the century"
-- The All Music Guide
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