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Shane
04:38
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Shane was born in the mountains
and people say there's just no innocence anymore
but Shane had a slow way of talking
and his eyes shown like diamonds
when he'd see me at the bar
has anyone seen Shane?
You no Shane had a no count mama
we'd see him standing cold and hungry
up in the neighbor's yard
and Shane's father was always too tired from working
and from shooting up drugs with big rock stars
Has anyone seen Shane?
He knew how to love with all his heart
that's not something you can say
about most people anymore
Yeah he loved that one mean girl
and she's torn him all apart
heard him call out her name
but that's been year's ago
Has anyone seen Shane?
Lester said he saw Shane's truck flying by
down that mountain road
when he was having a smoke
it must have been just last night
and old man mohammed said Shane was down
at the corner store
he was buying two more forties of PBR
This morning they found Shane's truck
at the bottom of the holler
had a picture of that girl taped to his dashboard
Has anyone seen Shane?
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Ferris Wheel
04:25
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My eyes were shut but I still could see the darkness
and all the insanity going on inside
A corpse with a match lit my cigarette
the angels have dispersed and been shot down
A man sat in sullen silence at the party
his hair turning white from lack of love
I could not reach out to him or anyone else there
I felt I was just more trouble from where they'd come
I could not change the wrongs that had been to me
and I knew that I'd sooner or later drown
a Ferris wheels going round and round just stunned me
'cause all the people on it were just screaming
to get out of town
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the Jesus Piano
05:08
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In a broke down room with overturned furniture
lived a man named Jesus from Louisiana
And his rockets always loaded
and the piano's always on
Singing church hymns all night
and drinking moonshine
Ah Jesus your piano saved my life
Oh your soul is so pure!
But your mind just ain't right...
Now on Gallatin Road
the people all move so slow
they're so poor and overloaded all the time
wiping the sweat from your forehead
just breaks me down
you're so pure in your soul
but your mind is long gone
Ah Jesus your piano saved my life
Oh your soul is so pure!
But your mind just ain't right...
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Manchester Legs
03:22
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Manchester legs carries him to his watery death
Manchester legs
Piece of pumpkin pie was the last thing that he ate
Piece of pumpkin pie (and now he's gone up to the sky)
and god made sure he had a suffocating death
piece of pumpkin pie
High on love she strangled with her own pillow
High on love
Waiting for the joy - white fluff
waiting for the joy - white fluff all around
Irish throat did not keep him afloat
Irish throat
And the joy that he felt when he got on the boat
yes the joy that he felt did not keep him afloat
Specific toy, flowering boy
Pacific toy
Kept her from her grief
but it could never be complete
Manchester legs
And the problem wasn't eating meat
And the problem wasn't being alone
And the problem wasn't sadness -
it was potential madness.
Manchester legs carries him to his watery death
Manchester legs
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Sparkle Across the Water
02:25
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If a reindeer could tear your heart out
would you let him plunge his horns in
in a cold, cold land
where he dreams of sand?
Sparkle across the water
When I dream of my love at the end of my life
he'll be just like a warrior
his skin like leather his spirit so frail
Sparkle across the water
Oh my heart goes along with him
where even the fish are frozen
he has tried his hand in a cold, dark land
Sparkle across the water
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your famous face
04:34
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Your famous face light flashing from your eyes
shines from the park like a hundred siren lights
people can't see the truth
through all of their lies
your heart is pure
alright
This world is so hard, the prettiest people sting
seems like they are kindest when they've got no reason to be
but it won't get any colder than them
your famous face and a heart bigger than sin
Your famous face and those famous eyes
cut right through me just like a butcher knife
your friends have put you down for the last time
Alright
Oh at sunset children scream
Oh in the morning the birds all gather and sing
But I despise all these things
for the sound of your voice
and the way that you sing... God speed Justin Earle
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Kentucky birds
02:24
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Memphis boy, Memphis boy
put on your Louisville shoes
I know you like Bob Dylan,
and I like him too!
Scream your lungs out in a bar
with a cold wind blowing through
The light on your head is broken
and your heart is too
Lie down in an alley
listen to those Kentucky chimes
while rock stars dance with each other
and drink the poor bird's wine.
Sun-burnt man with a gun in his hand
wants to sell those tickets to you
he looks like Billy Bob Thornton...
Lie down in an alley
listen to them Kentucky chimes
while Kentucky birds are singing
and drinking rock star's wine
Lie down in an alley listen to them Kentucky chimes
while Kentucky birds are singing
and drinking rock star's wine
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Pine Acre
03:39
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Pine acre Santa of the salted mountains
shines his light at night
though his words are haunted
spindle trees point up towards the heavens
behind the frosted clouds hidden hills
wash your lover down
Cross-legged ranch, king of the mountain
hides his face in the cactus garden
the Jesus Christ of partying
his words are crucified
up in the Western sky
The cactus arms lit by the headlights
are rising up in prayer
then disappear
an unnamed sound from across the desert
is calling out your name
but you cannot hear...
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Rockets and Walls
04:50
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I heard you took the rockets from the walls
and blew them up in the night sky
I heard they were spectacular
and the colors could be seen for miles
I heard you fashioned one out of nothing
and it was so graceful in its flight
I heard you took the rockets my darling
to where ever they were able to fly
I heard you shut yourself up in a room
for more than a hundred years
I heard you locked yourself up in a room
for over a hundred years
when the wind blown and the water came through the walls
you were an old man screaming out my name
I heard you closed yourself in my darling
and were blown out by a hurricane
(angels sing as he arrives)
I heard the day they dropped the bombs
You were standing on the president's wall
I heard the day they dropped the bombs
you were standing up so straight and tall
I heard the bells were tolling
and racing across midnight
I heard you stood up straight my darling
you were always so damned tall...
RIP David C. Berman - Damn I could not have made it through the past twenty years without you or made this album without you.
RIP Justin T. Earle you were loved more than life.
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If a thousand birds were crossing the sky
would you want them to come down
and surround you?
in a cold, cold land
where you dream of sand
sparkle across the water
When I dream of my love
at the end of my life
he will be brokenhearted and faithless
his skin like the color of the wailing wall
Sparkle across the water
Oh my heart goes along with him
ten miles of frozen ocean
he has tried his hand in a cold, dark land
Sparkle across the water
Oh my heart goes along with him
where even the fish are frozen
he has tried his hand in a cold, dark land
Sparkle across the water
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Wish you would ask
04:36
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Wish you would ask (for what it was you wanted)
Your big ole eyes tell the story
in shots of whiskey
in shots of pool
You stand so much higher than others
what it's like up there
could we ever presume?
When the sun hangs low in the middle of town
it's 24 hours at the bar where you live
You sleep like a bird high on pills
your eyes roll back to the heavens
whatever you want I would give
Wish you would ask
for what it was you wanted
what it was you needed
And I'd give it to you
But you never ask
for what it was you wanted
what it was you needed
I would've given it all to you
In the dark end of town where the stripper sleeps
where the addict creeps and where the cars fly by
wish you would run into my arms
whatever you wanted I'd have it for you there
After a rain in Tennessee
The clouds grow taller and airbrushed gold and green
They break apart inside all that light
lies the blue and gold
exactly like your eyes
Wish you would ask
for what it was you wanted
what it was you needed
And I'd give it to you
But you never ask
for what it was you wanted
what it was you needed
I would've given it all to you
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You said you wouldn't leave me you'd be my only love
I'd never have to worry you were as constant as the stars above
but it's always the same old thing
you took off your secret wedding ring
and all you ever do is hurt me
Time is not a healer and it don't mean much to me
People don't mean anything they say
and they grab onto whatever is cheap
and darling you never came to me straight
and if you did my dear it'd never be too late
but all you ever do is hurt me
Though you desire straight talk
you're always playing games
you make sure I see you show off whoever is
the latest of your flames
and it's always the same old thing
You took off your secret wedding ring
and all you ever do is hurt me...
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The Coral Reef
04:27
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The Coral Reef living under the sea
just waited below the ocean
and its fate was
buried there
where nothing could ever touch it
but underneath the ocean
a world of imagination
and its hundred thousands palaces
and their frightening expressions
flew away
The coral reef with refracted grief
just waited below the waves
its beauty fleeting
its meaning revealed
only underneath the shoreline
and its frightened imagination
haphazardly fragmented
and a hundred kicks to its center
did not end its strangeness
and its strangeness flew away
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Spiritual Family Reunion Nashville, Tennessee
Original songs of dreams, nature, observation, and life stories, by a somewhat respected Nashville artist, writer, and musician, who sometimes has a band.Thank you so much, followers and supporters! I need you.
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