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Have You Ever Been In Trouble?
Have you ever been in trouble?
Do you remember how it feels?
Or are you living in a bubble
Caught between the wheels?
Tonight you feel the danger
Rising on the wind
Tearing at your jacket
Ripping at your skin
Have you ever been in trouble?
You slipped by somehow
Have you ever been in trouble--
The kind you're in right now?
There's freedom down the bending avenue
Do you see someone coming?
Something you can do?
Flip the coin forever--heads or tails
Winner gets the upstairs room
The loser cries and wails and sorely grieves--
How do you believe?
Ask and you'll receive
Have you ever been abandoned?
Did you ever run at night?
The streets a maze beneath your feet
Your heart concealed in fright
Prayed in desperation
Felt the Holy Ghost
Coming down the alley
Just like a megadose...
Have you ever been in trouble?
You slipped by somehow
Have you ever been in trouble--
The kind you're in right now?
There's freedom down the bending avenue
Do you see someone coming?
Something you can do?
There's one thing I know for sure is real
The moment you surrender
The wounds begin to heal
Here's your reprieve
Ask and you'll receive
How do you believe?
Ask and you'll receive.
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2. |
That Gang Of Mine
04:05
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That Gang Of Mine
In the ballroom alone--the party's moved on
The bottles are empty and everyone's gone
What ever happened to that gang of mine?
We had big plans laid out in red
For walking on water and raising the dead
Whatever happened to the summertime?
What ever happened to that gang of mine?
On the curbstone tonight--to look down the road
To see someone coming or somewhere to go
A stoplight bobs and weaves on the powerline
Some cops came to spy and pass right on through
Trucks rolling by--the ice wagon too
Whatever happened to the summertime?
What ever happened to that gang of mine?
There was a light rain falling on the fields at dark
As our music played low
Laughing, joking, blind words spoken
I must admit that I was choking in the afterglow
I had to go--
Whatever happened to that gang of mine
Whatever happened to that gang of mine
All that's left are here right now, so
There's no past and no tomorrow
Tho' something sweet's been left behind
We're cut loose from the double bind
Whatever happened to that gang of mine
Whatever happened to that gang of mine
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3. |
Downtown Nowhere's Blues
04:37
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Round-the-Clock Diner on a weekday night
Big T and the gang try'na start a fight
Political talk--don't make sense
They crowd around the table and the room gets tense
You know we don't get along Downtown Nowhere
At the corner on a microdose of LSD
She fiddles with the jukebox and her destiny
The walls are moving--the food is dust
One song keeps playing to T's disgust
And you know we don't get along Downtown Nowhere
You know we don't get along
You know we don't get along
Downtown Nowhere
You know we don't get along
You know we don't get along
Downtown Nowhere
Back table there's a kid's been painting vans
Just returned from Afghanistan
Candy-c0lored stripes and shapes go far
They can airbrush a galaxy on your car
Try'na how to get along Downtown Nowhere
Out front by the curb they're making noise
A bunch of old men that act like boys
Big T turns to me while I'm try'na chew
Says "If I had a dog half as ugly as you
I'd make him walk backward through Downtown Nowhere
And you know we don't get along
You know we don't get along
Downtown Nowhere
You know we don't get along
You know we don't get along
Downtown Nowhere
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4. |
Eyes Of Love
05:26
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Eyes Of Love
I fix my eyes on lines of strangers
Lift a song--sweet--stolen from a king
Never guess the meaning of kindness
'Til you turn to me
With the eyes of love
With the eyes of love
With the eyes of love
Love's to the reason
what eyes are to the mind
I stumble and fall without knowing
Where I stop or who walks by my side
Never hear the words of forgiveness
'Til you let me see
With the eyes of love
With the eyes of love
With the eyes of love
Love's to the reason
what eyes are to the mind
I climb back up--return to battle
The peace we crave--just another kind of war
This cold land--lost and forgotten
'Til you set me free
Through the eyes of love
Through the eyes of love
Through the eyes of love
Love's to the reason
what eyes are to the mind.
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Give me five minutes more
To sell this thing
To tell my story
And straighten it out
Give me five minutes more
To see her one more time
To fix the trouble
And try it again
Give me five minutes more
Only five minutes more
Give me five minutes more
To answer the question
To find the solution
To look it up
Give me five minutes more
To explain myself
Win or lose
To turn it around
Give me five minutes more
Five minutes more
Give me five minutes more
Only five minutes more
To get it straight
To let it go
To say goodbye
To say hello
To pick it up
To put it down
To make them laugh
And calm them down
Give me five minutes more
Only five minutes more
Settle for less
Look for proof
Expose the lies
To check on the roof
To tell them why
To plug the leak
Acknowledge the fool
And protect the weak
Give me five minutes more
Only five minutes more, etc...
To discover the worth
Quiet the moan
To inherit the earth
And rewrite this song
Give me five minutes!
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6. |
Wandering Days
03:39
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Barely fifteen with no memory of being a child
Happy carefree--so glad to be set loose in the wild
The world is so wide
I had to see it from the other side
Talking 'bout the windblown wondering
And these wandering days
Post office--we were staring at the mugs on the wall
Gone to sign on with the union at the Maritime Hall
Through the portal of blue
The sea's a highway leads me on to you
In these windblown wondering
And our wandering days
Then I saw you there--with your eyes all ablaze
Bringin' 'em in through the astral-blue haze
The waves were so high--the sunlight so cold
On the crest "Do or Die"
As the ship pitched and rolled
Across the Northern Bay with the sailors
Who were rolling the bones
We'd gamble on the quays on our knees
While the fog-whistle moans
The Milky Way round our necks
Hammocks swinging on the open decks
In these windblown wondering
And our wandering days
Landlocked in these rooms
There's not too much to say
Never fond of my sleep--
Now I'm sleeping all day
We'll get to the end
Some have to shatter 'fore
They learn to bend
Talking 'bout the windblown wondering
And these wandering days.
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7. |
Ancient Sunrise
04:18
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The cuckoos were hollering
in the Juniper trees
We stole wild honey
Got chased by the bees
Hit the shortcut--headed for home
I open my eyes and I wasn't alone
It was you and me--
Just you and me--
In that ancient sunrise
The shadows were deep
You could feel it might right rain
Hear the minor chords wailing
from a passing freight train
At the all-night station
we were syphoning fuel
As that big red ball bounced up
by the school
It was you and me--
In that ancient sunrise
In that ancient sunrise
when the world began
For a five-letter woman
and a four-letter man
A couple of children
caught by surprise
Good things can happen
But first you get wise
There was a kid out to get me
He looked like a man
He said I'd been kissing
on his girl friend Lu-Ann
We just laughed and took off
to the shadows of night
We were standing there shivering
in a cold streak of light
You and me--
Just you and me--
In that ancient sunrise
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8. |
The Flying Crow
04:09
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The Flying Crow left New Orleans
At Shreveport took a crew
Changed water in Texarcana
And the driver said "Push on through"
Don't you know we're gone
Got two lights on--
Two lights on behind
The red light that means trouble
Green light's a wandering mind
Twenty-five minutes past seven
A cup of coffee and a slice of cake
We'll be all the way to Kansas City
Before the driver ever hits the brake
Don't you know we're gone
Got two lights on--
Two lights on behind
The red light that means trouble
Green light's a wandering mind
You can take your money, baby
throw it against the wall
You can keep everything that sticks
They'll take everything that falls
Don't you know we're gone
Got two lights on--
Two lights on behind
The red light that means trouble
Green light's a wandering mind
How soon 'til you forget me, baby?
Why do you hide your face?
I'm begging you for mercy
You're making it a federal case
Don't you know we're gone
Got two lights on--
Two lights on behind
The red light that means trouble
Green light's a wandering mind
My woman's got a mouth
Like a lighthouse on the sea
Everytime she looks my way
She shines her light on me
Don't you know we're gone
Got two lights on--
Two lights on behind
The red light that means trouble
Green light's a wandering mind
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I had no way of reaching you
I still don't know if I got through
The room was dark, so was the park
I wondered if I'd ever spark
That girl in love with a shadow
That girl in love with a shadow
We were down in South L.A.
I finally had a job to play
There was a night I spent in jail
I saw the light but lost the trail
Of that girl in love with a shadow
That girl's in love with a shadow
Pencil numbers on the wall
That night I must've tried them all
A voice said "she's not around
She's gone out to the edge of town
To chase a ghost where shadows fall
--Can't say if she's coming back at all"
That girl's in love...
I had no way of keeping track
Tho' I'm still trying to bring her back
Through the years that come and go
Pulled out in the undertow
That girl's in love with a shadow
That girl in love with a shadow
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10. |
4D
02:07
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INSTRUMENTAL
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11. |
Brand New Book Of Rules
05:12
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A cup of coffee
Corner spot
It ain't much
But at least it's hot
It's cold inside
This bag of bones
Too late to cry
For the Rolling Stones
Heard a story
Evening news
'Bout the Capulets
And the Montagues
private highway
Airport bound
The convoy speeds
Past shanty town
Th gates knocked down
The deck is cleared
The thieves escape
The victims cheer
They come on strong
Fool like ghouls
And don't think twice
About the book of rules
Lower Main Street
Soaking wet
Wondering 'bout
The safety net
Boats up river
Won't come down
Believe to my soul
We're water bound
Lost your taste
For hearing truth
Got lost in a
polling booth
Don't know what
You're talking about
Don't seem to care
If you ever find out
Slur that song
Hail to the chief
You can't afford no more
To chew with teeth
Leveraged force
And power tools
Taking all apart
Your book of rules
The only trick
I know is this
The meadow hangs
In the great abyss
The drama ends
The curtain drops
The lights go down
The music stops
Long-tailed monkey
Short-haired dog
Do the dance on a
Hollow log
Big-necked goose
Wild and strong
Turns on you
And the book is gone
Oh
Oh yeah
The book of rules
Your book of rules
A-la la la
Your book of--
A da da da-ba da da da
Your book of rules
So I signed on board
A pleasure yacht
Had to turn over
Everything I got
From raising Cain
And driving mules
'Til all I had left was
A pack of Kools
The ship weighed anchor
Trimmed the sails
Through summer storms
And winter gales
'Til we lost all hands and
Went doen blind
But the book of rules
Stayed on my mind
Said "So long Chief
I'm on my way
Won't be back
For many a day"
Rode out the tempest
On the sea of fools
with the blessings from
Your book of rules
Your book of rules
Your book of rules
yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah
Your book of rules
Oh
yeah
Oh yeah
Lookin' for the answer
In your book of
yeah yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
I'm lookin' for the answer
In your book of rules
Oh yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah
Talkin' bout the book
Your book of rules
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