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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2. |
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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3. |
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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4. |
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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5. |
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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6. |
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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7. |
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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8. |
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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9. |
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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10. |
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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11. |
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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12. |
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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13. |
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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Simon Coverdale England, UK
Simon is a Devon based Singer Songwriter, formerly of the West Midlands.
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