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Side 2 (The Dog That Flew)

by Simon Coverdale

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1.
Shadow of Nashville 04:33
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There’s a colour that the sunset brings A girl down at the Bluebird sings Things that make me think of you We got cowboys dressed in Prada You and me we were working harder To make a simple dollar, to get through You always wore those boots of cherry red Up there dancing for the suits and for the dead We’ll make it through that’s what you said So much I knew, so much unsaid Walking through the valley Of the shadow of Nashville Just like angels of the night we got our Hands in our pockets boys Feathers in our bonnets We’re the searchers, just looking for the light Walking through the valley Of the shadow of Nashville You and I Days and lovers come and go Just like melted footprints in the snow Ran out of places you could hide There’s streets out to the east of here where Fifty dollars kills the fear Part of you just up and died All of the songs that you would cry to All the men that you would lie to Always the ones that you would fly to They’d show you how but never why Walking through the valley Of the shadow of Nashville Just like angels of the night we got our Hands in our pockets boys Feathers in our bonnets We’re the searchers, just looking for the light Walking through the valley Of the shadow of Nashville You and I They got icons they got bygones, old men still talk of Saigon In the bars and in the diners on the strip I hear every word you’re saying When they’re not drunk they’re busy praying You finally found a place where you could fit You with your heart so full of certainty Me with only doubt to set me free There’s a bar not far from here Where they serve whiskey distilled from tears Walking through the valley Of the shadow of Nashville Just like angels of the night we got our Hands in our pockets boys Feathers in our bonnets We’re the searchers, just looking for the light Walking through the valley Of the shadow of Nashville You and I
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Johnny Blue 04:01
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She says Johnny when you kiss me Sometimes I get to thinking That all the world is sinking And nobody throws a line Baby when you do that thing The one that makes my body sing You may not say you love me but I need you to be mine She says Johnny when you hold me When I’m sleeping, when I’m dreaming I hear the whole world screaming I’m just reaching out to you Run your fingers down my spine Say you are forever mine Oh my Johnny, oh my sweet sweet Johnny Blue He dreams of the princess that the dawn could never kill The one that always loved him just the same Johnny Blue oh how she loved you and how you broke that heart Remember how she said your name Remember how you played the game She says she’s trapped by all these choices All these questions all these voices One and one it well It don’t always add to two
So she made a map of all his scars His tattoos of a dying star The black black heart, the heart of Johnny Blue He dreams of the princess that the dawn could never kill The one that always loved him just the same Johnny Blue oh how she loved you and how you broke that heart Remember how she said your name Remember how you played the game He’s picking up his biker rings His voodoo dolls and other things That old black leather jacket went for rent He searches for his bunch of keys Finds ‘em and he goes to leave Thinks on all the words they said and what they really meant He dreams of the princess that the dawn could never kill The one that always loved him just the same Johnny Blue oh how she loved you and how you broke that heart Remember how she said your name Remember how you played the game
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Open Door 04:00
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Farewell Senhorita I guess I’m gonna miss you But I can’t wait you take too long You say that life is full of rules And liberty is just for fools Equality, its all the same to me Sweet like you always seem Crazy like you’ve always been All the things you mean to me Down where the river flows There’s a place we used to go My Senhorita and me They’re slicing up the buddha With their blunt and with their bloody knives Telling us they’ll make our lives A better place to be And me I can’t be staying With all these fools a praying For a place that none of them have seen Down the cantina There’s my sweet Senhorita She loved me even when my Heart was down She took me to the river And washed me in the water And held me even when I thought I’d drown You can’t ever let it be Your people always charge a fee Everyone in this room belongs And there’s no place for me Your endless quest for sainthood Interpreted by Hollywood These houses of the holy In the hills above the sea Wrapped in his broken wings The angel takes his time to think Standing on a corner With his suitcase and a sign I’m pushing on this open door So everybody hit the floor I’ve returned to take what’s mine Yes everybody hit the floor I’m using on this open door I’ve returned to take what’s mine
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Shiva on the Wall 04:32
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Summer’s end, river bend, not much to do None of us were working in the days when I met you I sort of loved you but I was empty ground Shake my moneybox and I don’t make a sound And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall Heroin, India and Rock n Roll Sell a little bit of innocence to buy a little soul My heart was broken, my lips were cold and sore I gave you nothing you never asked for more And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall The gentle sin of leopard skin, silence of a smile Lovers in a rest stop on the long and lonesome mile You painted with a crow’s wing and the symbols of the road An image of your mother and the stories that she told And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall Said I didn’t know, exactly how to feel Takes me all my time to work out what is real I think I’m sliding but I don’t know for sure Half way into something and halfway out the door And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall Gave me a book to read upon the bus It was just you and me and never us Broken hearts get mended by something less than love In the summer land before the flood And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall And Shiva was dancing on the wall That summer night before the fall
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Dancers 03:05
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There's a priest up on the tonight who prays the world will end Men out on the highway writing words they never send We were packing early we were heading down the road Looking for a place we used to go Pack up all the money that we made in all those dead end jobs Can’t take it with you when you’re gone Everybody’s leaving, nobody’s left believing Don’t have the strength to carry on Here by the sea under the blue Loving you’s just what I’ll do Tom Petty on the radio, early morning, empty road Snakes out of the mountain to the sea We’reoing where the wild wind blows, doesn’t matter who you know Life doesn’t come with guarantees I could fall out with this whole damn world today I guess sometimes I rearly do I drag a smile across this sorry soul of mine Bite down hard that’s what I do Here by the sea under the blue Loving you’s just what I’ll do The road goes on forever as I look out there tonight From the eastern cities to the setting sun A hundred thousand headlights backed up all the way to yesterday Sit back and wait for day to come Sit back and wait for day to come Sit back and wait for day to come
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Love Song 03:57
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Never wrote a love song Never had the words to say Never wrote a love song But you know I loved you anyway Never had a broken heart Except the tattoo on my arm Never knew that leaving part Could cause a body so much harm I was just a lost boy You’re my golden girl You were going my way I lost the highway Found the world Never say I love you Now that’s a fact But you know I love you And you love me right back Never wrote a love song Never said But you know I love you anyway You know I love you anyway Never wrote a love song
Never told you how it feels 
Waking in the lonely hour
So cold and so unreal Lying in the dead of night
Reach out and I hold you near Bell rings across the bay
Count the ways I need you here
The wind just takes your breath away Rain cuts cold across the sea Storms break on the island It’s hard to breathe It’s hard to see Never say I love you Now that’s a fact But you know I love you And you love me right back Never wrote a love song No I never said But you know I love you anyway You know I love you anyway I always wake now in the cold light of the morning 
Drink my coffee while you sleep Times are hard and not much makes them better 
But I got you and you got me 
 Never say I love you now that’s a fact But you know I love you And you love me right back Never wrote a love song No I never said But you know I love you anyway You know I love you anyway You know I love you anyway
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Merry England 03:51
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Saw you drinking gin, on the fore deck of the steamer You had a little sadness in your eyes, was it something meaner All those roads you travelled down, all those bones don’t make a sound History she binds you like a curse In your house upon the hill, those skies goes on forever Your children and your servants dancing slowly from the grave A moment stuck in time, those boys forever hold that line Tried so hard there’s not much they could save Take me back, take me back to The old dole queue and the heart attacks When Bobby O’Reilly he got the sack Those days I spent with you Pack me up and send me back The Irish bombs the Afghan black Kissing you by the burning shacks Those days I spent with you On those stones a sacrifice, a vow to forgo paradise Stone by stone Jerusalem is handed back No more to war we’ll ever go, they called us up but we didn’t show Keep your bloody shilling in your purse Take me back, take me back to The old dole queue and the heart attacks Bobby O’Reilly he got the sack The days I spent with you Pack me up and send me back The Irish bombs the Afghan black Kissing you by the burning shacks Those days I spent with you Take me to that moment when we met in 1983 I saw you, with your brown eyes, you saw me in my surprise Before they buried you among the factories and foundries Built one million call centres where all your children work for free Shine a light, shine a light Take me back, take me back to The old dole queue and the heart attacks Bobby O’Reilly he got the sack Those days I spent with you Pack me up and send me back The Irish bombs the Afghan black Kissing you by the burning shacks Those days I spent with you Take me back, take me back to The old dole queue and the heart attacks Bobby O’Reilly he got the sack Those days I spent with you Pack me up and send me back The Irish bombs the Afghan black Kissing you by the burning shacks Those days I spent with you Those days I spent with you Those days I spent with you Those days I spent with you
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Misfit Heart 04:14
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High like a kite on a holy mountain Got nothing in our hands Ain’t see a friendly face Since you and I made land Maybe the birds will fly When the sun begins to shine Maybe these rains are over Maybe you’ll be mine I keep listening to the same old songs Over and over again I love the way they make me feel so Close to you again So if I hold you, the way I used to Would you hold me, the way I need you to Like the sun and moon and of those stars at sundown This misfit heart was made for you Got cut up rough in that roadside cafe With the miniature legionnaires I only had money for one small coffee Some bread that we could share You can drag the mule to the water You can even make him drink You can tell him to bray and what to say But you can’t tell him what to think We’re all the same Living in chains All of us drowning in debt Some dreams I’d pay to remember And some I pray to forget So if I hold you, the way I used to Would you hold me, the way I need you to Like the sun and moon and of those stars at sundown This misfit heart was made for you Peaches and plums oh those boys with their guns They don’t care if you’re black or you’re white If you got the money well they’ve got the honey A room a meal for the night I wrote you a letter that fair broke my heart From the dreams of a traveller stranded I used my last money to buy you a stamp So I slept by the road under plastic I keep listening to the same old songs Over and over again I love the way they make me feel Close to you again So if I hold you, the way I used to Would you hold me, the way I need you to Like the sun and moon and of those stars at sundown This misfit heart was made for you Like the sun and moon and of those stars at sundown This misfit heart was made for you
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Beauty of the Word 02:52
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My lover wears a dress Made of love and nothing less Stitched with tenderness but She don’t care Standing in the spotlight With the children of the night Fighting over ticket stubs And little scraps of hair All those vampires on the dance floor Man they just scream for more and more Give them just a taste of blood and they will want it all They’ve got you living with your back against the wall You, you should be dancing honey You, you should be free They offered you it all but you deferred I know you’re crazy, but you get heard Oh to live within these rules Is so absurd Honey you’re just like me Captured by the beauty of the word My lover rides the train Bound for hell and back again Me I broke down in the fast lane Were you there? You know she took the test But she failed like all the rest All those French girls they confessed All her old friends laid her bare All those vampires on the dance floor Man they just scream for more and more Give them just a taste of blood and they will want it all They’ve got you living with your back against the wall You, you should be dancing honey You, you should be free They offered you it all but you deferred I know you’re crazy, but you get heard Oh to live within these rules Is so absurd Honey you’re just like me Captured by the beauty of the word My lover never dreams She shouts but never screams She never seems to care Who loves her
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Broken Song 04:19
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The children of love They gave it all up Headed back to the farm Gave up on punk man they gave up On junk Gave up on sweetness and charm Me I went back to the place that I’m from No-one was there all my old friends were gone So I got wasted that whole week long With a girl that I hardly knew Those were the days when we all got our fill Ripped it clean and bloody from the bone There were nights we’d still hear the song Of the life we tried to postpone You and me honey well we don’t know the words to the song They say every god, has one favourite son Christ knows well that ain’t you or me See you down the beach in old Galilee Like a bullet from a gun Sent prayers up to the sun I was just a runner, you were free There on the sand With my heart in your hand We would dance To the night’s Broken song Random Raquel she got this vision of hell She’s got this ten stage programme of love She always knows When the weather would snow And the songs that you’re dreaming of She said to me boy if you want to go free You got to find something of your own Tie yourself to that big book of life See what’s under the stone With her healing spells And that big Chinese bell She put me back On my feet Now me I smile All the pretty while For these people That I seem to meet You and me honey well we don’t know the words to the song They say every god, has one favourite son Christ knows well that ain’t you or me See you down the beach in old Galilee Like a bullet from a gun Sent prayers up to the sun I was just a runner, you were free There on the sand With my heart in your hand We would dance To the night’s Broken song There on the sand With my heart in your hand We would dance To the night’s Broken song
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Maria in the Desert 02:38
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The dream is over but We keep sleeping on At least you know what nothing means Now everything is gone These games we keep on playing Out here where no one rules Prayers they aren’t worth saying to These gods so burning cruel But no one’s asking Any questions anymore The answer’s always nothing That ain’t freedom, that’s for sure You love your magic potions and The smoke against your skin Stole a red Ferrari And you drove away from him You hate to venture theory About how the aces fall Never known that siren’s love Without the siren’s call And all these beasts within this bedlam Those that crawl beneath your toes Waking with these bodies You’re pretending you don’t know I remember you once told me That your heart was growing cold Saving up your pennies For these dreams that we were sold So follow that coyote Where the desert flower grows Beneath this burning city To the ending of this world Elvis Presley got to Heaven Sat by the door for years King was just a name we gave To all that we hold dear Elvis got to Heaven Sat by the door for years King was just a name we gave To all that we hold dear
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Soul to Save 03:04
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There was you Sitting at the bus stop Looking for a soul to save. There was me, I was looking like a rock star Heading for an early grave Here comes angel All dressed in black Turn around and Never look back When you get there Give me a wave Here we are Stuck on this earth Won’t be long For what its worth I was dreaming about lying in your arms I was dreaming of this life and all its charms You like to pray To the god of the big sky With his eyes so blue You got the jacket You got the stickers Got the patches too You pray so hard Can’t sleep at night You try so hard Never see the light I’ll be your cut out doll For you to try Here we are Stuck on this earth Won’t be long For what its worth I was dreaming about lying in your arms I was dreaming of this life and all its charms There goes me Keep on walking keep on talking Keep on bringing keep on singing Words of love, words of laughter Words that tell you what I’m after Words that shoot me down with beauty Words that keep me keeping on And old pop stars They dance the same As when we were young And our hearts were flame Magritte he wore a red sombrero Shit is shit Wherever we go Here comes angel He found a way To make it back So he could say That calling God an arsehole Wasn’t what they meant by pray Here we are Stuck on this earth Won’t be long For what its worth I was dreaming about lying in your arms I was dreaming of this life and all its charms Here we are Stuck on this earth Won’t be long For what its worth I was dreaming about lying in your arms I was dreaming of this life and all its charms
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Last Train Home 04:02
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I met you when the world was young We were fleet of foot and sharp of tongue We knew the words of the first songs sung We were common, wild and free You loved a girl she had kitten tattoos From her tongue to the soles of her feet You found a home in her sea green eyes And the taste of that ocean was sweet But you can’t come back like nothing’s changed No you can’t come back like it’s all the same You can tell everyone you were with me You can make me your alibi Riding the last train home Like we did when we were kids Riding the last train home Screwing up like I always did Riding the last train home Always making those same mistakes Riding the last train home Like I always did with you Take it as read I got thoughts in this head That never stop spinning around A child of the bomb and the wind and the rain I scream but you don’t hear a sound No you can’t come back like nothing’s changed No you can’t come back like it’s all the same You can tell everyone you were with me You can make me your alibi Riding the last train home Like we did when we were kids Riding the last train home Screwing up like I always did Riding the last train home Always making those same mistakes Riding the last train home Like I always did with you Sugar she always said it’s hard to find the good ones Hold on tight for there’ll be calm in the eye of the storm Don’t blame yourself, you can’t love everybody Not much space between the strangeness and the charm Riding the last train home Like we did when we were kids Riding the last train home Screwing up like I always did Riding the last train home Always making those same mistakes Riding the last train home Like I always did with you Like I always did with you Like I always did with you

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The second album made during the great lockdown days.

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released October 1, 2022

All songs written, recorded, performed, mixed and mastered by Simon Coverdale.

Artwork by Cathy Squire

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Simon is a Devon based Singer Songwriter, formerly of the West Midlands.

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