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Frozen Road
03:31
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There's a line on Winter's palm
between Boston and Montreal
A lonely, frozen highway
in the pines
There lovers will collide
some say the road's alive
and the flurries in your headlights
hypnotize
They say it freezes
In the middle of the road
and the ice is a mirror for the sky
Where the stars are a crowd
as the moon is shouting out:
'for heaven's sake you shouldn't drive tonight'
But she is driving
at 145 miles an hour
down the frozen mountain side
And she is hoping
that the message she intended
got recorded before her cell phone
blipped and died
He is driving
in a Northerly direction
smiling at the imminent surprise
of his arrival
on her doorstep
in what is now only a couple of hours time
There's a hoot from an owl
signs rearrange their vowels
cat's eyes in the road begin to wink
but we stubborn human beings
see only what we want to see
and sometimes don't read signs until too late
They say it freezes
In the middle of the road
and the ice is a mirror for the sky
Where the stars are a crowd
as the moon is shouting out:
'for heaven's sake you shouldn't drive tonight'
'for heaven's sake you shouldn't drive tonight'
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Ever since we parted
The days have chosen to be dark
And the rain that pelts the windows
It's certainly not it's fault
And the wind that slows down walking
What did it ever do?
Still I'm blaming the weather
For breaking me and you
I don't got a problem with you fuckin' me over
But I got a little problem with not being your lover
Please, I wanna be more than friends again
And you might have a doubt about me knocking around
But I swear this time I'm going to stand my ground
I want to be more than friends again
The calendar says Summer
But the climate's more like Fall
And the fog that rolled in thick last night
Did it block your telephone call
And I don't know why I'm now standing out
In this deluge but I do
In the boots and coat that you bought me
While the water soaks them through
I don't got a problem with you fuckin' me over
But I got a little problem with not being your lover
Please, I wanna be more than friends again
And you might have a doubt about me knocking around
But I swear this time I'm going to stand my ground
I want to be more than friends again
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3. |
The Lonely Kind
01:50
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Taco Truck
03:06
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Got it set up in a parking lot,
and they don't mind cooking
at the early morning taco truck
no, they never stop cooking
I know, I'm hanging there an awful lot
I get there in the morning with the cops
and start to mop
for my food
its a swap
Deep beliefs can defeat joy
I get complete when
I've eaten well and my feet are warm and dry
You know my feet are warm and dry
I've been standing beneath the train tracks
In the morning I see evidence of crack
and I pick up trash and strew flowers on the path
then I head to where the food is truly tops
Anything they say,
anything they want
You know I'm on the job
It's an elegant exchange
for one who could so easily be lost
Deep beliefs can defeat joy
I get complete when
I've eaten well and my feet are warm and dry
You know my feet are warm and dry
I get by
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Everlasting Rose
03:43
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Everlasting rose
blooms in the hearts
of all who know
All love is learning
All love is growing
And measuring time
is for people who find
that they don't have much time to play
So they save a billet d' hotel from a trip
that they took to Paris
in 1966 when they were kids
Everlasting rose
You're still blooming
You're still growing
On and on
Everlasting rose
You're blooming
On and on
Go grow and grow
And it makes me feel better to know
that in some absurd way
this all fits together
How it wastes away and seems to dissolve
How it grows from a clipping
Everlasting rose
You're still blooming
You're still growing
On and on
Everlasting rose
You're blooming
On and on
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Jackson Hole
02:35
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We've been packing up the wagon
loading all the bags in
and the dogs are on the floor
We've been here for generations
but it's a different nation
and the way we used to live
don't match the law anymore
Trying to grow
trying to grow in Jackson Hole
Grandpa's riding shotgun
meals at Starbuck's on the run
and the teens are reading Starhawk lore
When we hit the west coast
skate park bowls become hotels
and the Western Union wire
doesn't show from Jackson Hole
Trying to grow
trying to grow in Jackson Hole
And we're getting up most every night
we're getting up most every night
you're sure to see
we're getting up most every night
and almost always standing on our knees
in Jackson Hole
Trying to grow in Jackson Hole
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Sleepy Beach
03:49
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The moon is standing guard
through the roofs many holes
spilling golden syrup over giant saguaros
back broken snake in its blood on the road
merrily the scorpions unfold
I hear your living south in coastal Mexico
fires in hot coffee cans illuminate the road
leading to the town of San Juanico
where you're living with your dog and an old surfboard
Oh, sleepy beach
hear the tide creeping through the pebbles from the sea
foaming around the roots of an old orange tree
attached to the hammock where you lie asleep
We've been fishing from the bay near your improvised home
tending to the trees in the orange grove that you own
trading those in town for vegetables
ceremonially smoking in the arroyo
Palms lying flat on a Mayan sunset
sipping at the rim of the mighty Pacific
the coast rising up the way a nicely tanned neck
might rise up from a turquoise dress
Oh sleepy beach
hear the tide creeping through the pebbles from the sea
foaming around the roots of an old orange tree
attach to the hammock where you lie asleep
Oh sun bleached bones
fires in hot coffee cans illuminate the road
leading to the town of San Juanico
where you're living with your dog and an old surfboard
and in the morning after rolling
we'll be surfing waves of Baja Gold
off the coast of Mexico
where the cactus grows
where the moon beholds
through the roofs many holes
in your improvised home
scorpions unfold
San Juanico
An electric flash at sea and the room becomes a set
You become the sage against whom many used to bet
who used to sleep in a tent in the hills outside of school
bathing in the backyard swimming pools
and in the morning after rolling
we'll be surfing waves of Baja Gold
off the coast of Mexico
where the cactus grows
where the moon beholds
through the roofs many holes
in your improvised home
scorpions unfold
San Juanico
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There's a beach in California
where the silver water spills
through the gills of giant sharks
that are feeding on fat seals.
There's a cloud above the tundra
where the eagles take their prey
and the blood of tiny rodents
pelts your head like drops of rain.
I got to see how far out i can go
before the folks at home don't miss me anymore
I want to see just how free i can be
in my barefoot, shorts and ragged t
Barefoot, shorts and ragged t
someone's got to jump into the river from the rocks
in their barefoot, shorts and ragged t
Might as well be me
Barefoot shorts and ragged t
Someone's got to jump into the river from the rocks
in their barefoot, shorts and ragged t
It might as well be me
When you get far out in the wilderness
and your pack gets light
and there's people that you miss
Lie on the rocks by the river in the light,
pitch your tent on the top of a waterfall at night
And the sky is purple and it's filled with stars
in the valley down below there's another camp fire,
one things for sure when you're this far out,
you don't gotta entertain your worries and your doubts ...
It's a successful planet
I went to the lake to see about fishing
But when we got there all the fish they were missing
And all that was there was a couple kissing
And a dirty old man by the river bank pissing
So I took a truck to the source of the river
and saw that it was blocked by a legion of dead diggers
who'd tried to burrow through to a mother load of gold
but succumbed to the gasses from the center of the world
I want to see how far out i can go
before the folks at home don't miss me anymore
I've got to see just how free i can be
in my barefoot, shorts and ragged t
all i can say is
it might as well be you
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