Gather The Horses
Gather the horses boy
Summon the men
Say your last goodbyes to the women and children
There is fighting here to be done
Houses of pleasure and houses of pain
Down here in the low they seem one and the same
And there is a battle here
To be won
You've got to ride on
Let the people say what they want
You've got to ride on
Let the people say what they want about you
Lock, stock, and barrel shot
One smoking gun
And enough anger in you to hurt someone
And there is a battle here to be won
You've got to ride on
Let the people say what they want
You've got to ride on
Let the people say what they want
I get the message
And it breaks my heart in two
And I try to
Ride on... let the people
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Simple Things
I want to cry but I ain't got the guts
I sit and stare but I ain't thinking about much besides you
And the simple things we used to do
When the dust settles and the winds subside
Would you help me rip this thorn from my side
We'll drive it deep down into all our failures in life
Oh baby, baby, baby
This is your song
When you're lost in that house
You can't make it there on your own
I look out the window
I found our star
I tell ya, this ain't what we wished for
Without you
It's a sleepless night what can I do
Well the questions come easy but the answers hit hard
I try to turn but its circles and stars
Without you
And the simple things we used to do
Oh baby, baby, baby
This is your song
When you're lost in that house
You can't make it there on your own
Most times the sun comes up and I go down
To dream my days away
And when the sun comes up and I go down
The good in me should say
Oh baby, baby, baby
This is your song
When you're lost in that house
You can't make it there on your own
Baby's song
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Close To Home
Like a dream it was a night
A silver moon and in it I
Made my way back home
She said, "Tell me baby where you've been,
And when you up and go again,
This memory will keep you warm."
It's alright if you
If you are like the stars behind the moon
Always running from the sun
Cause I am like a cat in the street
Every shadow I meet
Feels so close to home
Hit the floor, I hit the street
And my feelings finally seem to meet
The right side of the bed
As sure as the night
Will fade into the morning light
I'll be comin' round again
It's alright if you
If you are like the stars behind the moon
Always running from the sun
Cause I am like a cat in the street
Every shadow I meet
Feels so close to home
Would you lay down your arms
Because I fight for the right team
Put away the time
Take out your summer clothes
Cause heaven knows I think the world of you
If you are like the stars behind the moon
Always running from the sun
Cause I am like a cat in the street
Every shadow I meet
Feels so close to home
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White Out
When I lay me down to sleep
I pray my soul to stay
Clear and away
From the hard hearted part
Into a better place
But I'll wait for you
Until this weight in you
It's a bitter tell
When the place you love and know so well
Does it make you long to slip your skin
And white out the feeling
You are strange
My life it changed from green to red
When from those lips you said
You've got a way and the hardest part
Is finding the strength to stay
But I'll wait for you
Until this weight in you
It's a bitter tell
When the place you love and know so well
Does it make you long to slip your skin
And white out the feeling
You are strange
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When The Sun Goes Down
Runnin' low on money
Runnin' low on friends to call
And the man in my mirror says
This is all your fault
If I could fall down into your arms
Would you pretend I was the only one you loved
She said, "I don't care babe where you go when the sun goes down
As long as you come home to me"
Runnin' from the angels
Who carry our wings
And the voice in my head
Draws me down the darker things
And when I fall down into your arms
Would you pretend I was the only one you loved
She said, "I don't care babe where you go when the sun goes down
As long as you come home to me"
And I remember when
I remember when you said
My life is like an April sky
You said, "I don't care babe where you go when the sun goes down
As long as you come home to me"
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Silver Buttons
Silver buttons
Young brothers
In the wrinkles fade your dreams
And through the walls I hear a scream
I am weak and you are strong
I said the words did I say them wrong
Little ones should always belong
I got no blue ribbons
I played no lead roles
No kisses from the homecoming queen
No game winning runs
Or taste of the gold
But I have got
A dream or two and I've been dreaming of ways
To tell you
Bright lights
Big city
And all these big city things
Welcome to the real temptation
And it's a quarter til and time for school
And another day baby to play it cool
The corner for a big mouth like me
I got no blue ribbons
I played no lead roles
No kisses from the homecoming queen
No game winning runs
Or taste of the gold
But I have got
A dream or two and I've been dreaming of ways
To tell you
At all the right times
I said all the wrong things
Lately when the words come out wrong
You know what I mean
And all I've got to give you is this
Dream or two and I've been dreaming of ways to tell you
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Try So Hard
Bless me father
I have sinned
And I will sin again
For the weight of this unholy ghost
I'm living in
I wish that I always swung open
When your walls came closing in
Tell me why we have to try so hard
To get things right
I been thinking
You been thinking
You want to hear some truth
Truth is
I'm so damn good at lying
Here with you 'cause
You always swing open
When my walls come closing in
Tell me why we have to try so hard
To get things right
You don't love me now
But you will love me when
I do something about…
It's so hard to get
You won't ask me why we have to try so hard
To get things right
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One Horse Town
I need love
It's my medication
For fragile cuts and cold calculations
When it gets a lonely kind of life
I call you up tell you everything gonna be alright
I know that my place is small and I'm a one-horse town
Still I think you should pack your bags
Baby come on down
Won't you come on down into my home
When you never laugh babe
You never cry
When it ain't cut darling and it ain't dry
I think you need a simple kind of life
I call you up tell you everything gonna be alright
I know that my place is small and I'm a one-horse town
Still I think you should pack your bags
Baby come on down
Won't you come one down into my home
All I can say is what
All I can think is why
Why is my place so small am I a one-horse town
Still I think you should pack your bags
Baby come on down
Into my home
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Captain, Captain
Captain, Captain
Please see me my wine
These headstrong winds have taken my prime
Red skies at night lord they ain't no delight
When I'm on these seven seas alone
I think of a time
And a place
And a light
And the way that your face shone
'Cause baby you are my ray of hope
In these smoke and mirrors
You are my land ho
In this shaken body of mine
In the darkness of the night
When all is fast asleep
And the moon is shining white
Make a wish, make a wish
It makes no difference who you are
When I'm on these seven seas alone
I think of a time
And a place
And a light
And the way that your face shone
'Cause baby you are my ray of hope
In these smoke and mirrors
You are my land ho
In this shaken body of mine
What it all comes down into
Is breaking up two by two
I will carry in my heart
Baby you are my ray of hope
In these smoke and mirrors
You my land ho
In this shaken body of mine
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Bay Springs Road
Phone rings
It's an old friend
And we ain't talked since I don't know when
He said, "Tell me how have you been."
I swore you'd let me go
It's good to hear your voice
I know the last time we spoke
I said some things
He said, "Their ain't another crazy mother
I could love like you."
And it makes me feel like I'm eighteen again
In my car with my friends
Singing, "the grass is green, the girls are pretty"
The kids are alright in Mississippi
Yeah
Roll down to my hometown
To the corners I once grew
I remember when
Summer skin, barefoot, and lemonade
Tell me how have you been
She said, "Their ain't another crazy lover
I could love like you."
And it makes me feel like I'm eighteen again
In my car with my friends
Singing, "the grass is green, the girls are pretty"
The kids are alright in Mississippi
Yeah
And it comes on me like a photograph
And kicks me in my head
Backseat window
Turn to laugh
Magnolia in my hair
She said, "Their ain't another crazy lover
I could love like you."
And it makes me feel like I'm eighteen again
In my car with my friends
Singing, "the grass is green the girls are pretty"
The kids are alright in Mississippi
Yeah
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How Could You
You know all my secrets
You know all my dreams
I think maybe I have told you
One too many things
How could you do this to me now
You know how to touch me
You know how to make me scream
I think maybe I have told you
One too many things
How could you do this to me now
How can you call this making love
When you don't make a sound
Tell me how
Can you do this to me now
You know all the answers
You aint nothing like you seem
I wish that all of this was something from a dream
How could you do
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Nobody Cries
I'm looking for a simple kind of life
Slow and easy
A life that won't bring me down
I'm looking for a simple kind of love
But it ain't no bed of roses in the lonely little town
Could you tell me how it's supposed to be
Because between you and me
Nobody cries when I leave
They tell me you should try to believe
When it hurts like hell,
This too shall
Pass me through the stars to a simple kind of faith
And put me up in heaven with a Burnside settin' down
I'm looking for a simple kind of touch
But it ain't no bed of roses in this lonely little town
Tell me how it's supposed to be
Because between you and me
Nobody cries when I leave
They tell me you should try to believe
When it hurts like hell,
This too shall
I've got so much love to give and I can't get it out of my head
You should know by now
My heart has love
You should know by now
Nobody cries when I leave
They tell me you should try to believe
When it hurts like hell
This too shall
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