NEVER DIE

Downtown I walk along the trail of broken dreams

Everywhere I look I see reminders of the same

I ain’t sure about anything no more but I believe

No one knows the answers to my life no more but me

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I’ll never run I’ll never lie and I’ll never die

I rode a mystery train into the promise land

I heard a prophet talking fire above my head

I stared into the eyes of every mother’s son

I turned my head but my heart would not let me run

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I have come to peace with this sweet bitter taste of a chance

As I stand at the cross roads and watch the river flow

With oh so much blood on my hands

I left behind a life that I just couldn’t live

I gave till there was nothing left for me to give

With freedom comes the highest price you’ll ever pay

But all the money cannot buy the life you’ll save

The life that I have lived well money cannot own

So now only the shinning star can take me home

I may not be the same when I go through that door

Cause nothing back there can protect me any more

NORMA

Hay Norma I ain’t asking much of you

Hay Norma I ain’t asking much of you

Now that I’ve had you for a while I see

You ain’t what I thought you’d be set me free

Hay Norma I remember you

Hay Norma I remember you

You needed someone with a helping hand

Someone who could understand you I should have ran

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Thought I could walk on water till you come along

Now I’m just a normal kind of fool

But you were giving me looks that I just couldn’t resist

How could I know that they weren’t true

Hay Norma what are we gonna do

Hay Norma what are we gonna do

All we do together is occupy this cage

We got nothing left to say or do turn the page

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Hay Norma I ain’t asking much of you

Hay Norma I ain’t asking much of you

Now that I’ve had you for a while I see

You ain”t what I thought you’d be set me free

NOVEMBER RAIN

Here I am in a desperate place

trapped between the hands of fate

the sky is clear it’s a lovely day

but my heart feels a cold november rain

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I could hear the church bell ring

I could hear the choir sing

but it didn’t mean a thing

I rode the highway to the great divide

cross the desert to the open sky

silence there it was deafening

but couldn’t drown out this cold november rain

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I could hear the church bell ring

I could hear the choir sing

but it didn’t mean a thing

in this cold november rain

I can’t remember if it’s day or night

can’t recall if I was wrong or right

all of the colors get washed away

way out here in this cold november rain

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I can’t run I can’t hide

I can’t live and I can’t die

wish my heart would let me turn the page

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ONE MORE DAY

One more day, I have made

Coming down around my head

Coming down around my bed

One more road, blow wind blow

I can hear that lonesome sound

I can feel there’s a change coming down

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Well I could walk down the street and hold my head up high

Or I could find me some alley way and hang my head and cry

Well tomorrow they’ll be a reason for today

But don’t ask me why cause it don’t matter anyway

One more night, one more fight

Is it me or the world going blind

I’m afraid to go out of my mind

One more time, one more climb

To a place I don’t really wanna be

Guess I’ll fall one more time down on my knees

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OPEN MIND

Come into my garden and I’ll take away your faith

And leave you with a sunset smile that no lies can erase

When golden raindrops fall upon the shadows of goodbye

I will be the one who gives you life

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Come together you and I

My gift to you a butterfly

Catch a breath then let it fly

Hand and hand we will survive

Now if I gave you everything you need to paint a dream

Moon lit nights a summer sun and all that’s in between

Would you take me as I am and let the flowers grow

And plant another seed tomorrow

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Now I can’t promise you a bright tomorrow

And I can’t guarantee you spring will ever come again

The questions hold a message to the answers that deceive

I hope that you agree that the only way to peace is an open mind

OPEN THAT DOOR

There’s a bond fire over by the lifeguard stand

Down on the beach man oh man

Couples backed up just to take their turn

In that little beach house they’ll burn burn burn

Come on man open that door

After the football game down at old K.C.

Mary started cutting her eyes at me

I led her on down to the locker room

The sign said closed for cleaning won’t be open till noon

Come on man open that door

Swinging my baby on her front porch swing

Is cramping my style if you know what I mean

I’d rather be somewhere away from this crowd

Like that little doll house where you can drive me wild

Come on baby open that door

Well now it’s Saturday night in the parking lot

Some fool went and left his car unlocked

Eugene’s in the backseat with some old sleaze

Me and Cinderella we’re about to freeze

Come on man open that door

PEACE FOR CHRISTMAS

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All I want is peace for Christmas

Cause peace will bring my daddy back home to me

Since daddy went to war our home just ain’t a home no more

Peace will bring my daddy back home to me

Dear Santa Clause

All I want is peace for Christmas

Cause peace will bring my daddy back home to me

Don’t want no toys this year or Christmas songs of cheer

Just mama and daddy kissin underneath the miseltoe

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Dear Jesus

All I want is peace for Christmas

Cause peace will bring my daddy back home to me

Please answer this one prayer bring daddy safely here

So we can have a family Christmas

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Dear Mr. President

All I want is peace for Christmas

Cause peace will bring my daddy back home to me

You say I should be proud you say I must be brave

But all I want is daddy home on Chrismas day

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PEACE RANT

We can stop these wars if we really really try

We can stop these wars if we really really try

Charter up the Peace train get up on that train and ride

Get on that train and ride ride it from sea to shinning sea

Get on that train and ride ride it from sea to shinning sea

Stick your head out of the window yell out to everyone you see

Yell out to everyone you see united we all stand

Yell out to everyone you see united we all stand

Stop tryin to own the whole dang world this land is everybodys land

This land is everybodys land Woody Guthrie he said that

This land is everybodys land Woody Guthrie he said that

I will fight no more forever Chief Joseph he said that

Chief Joseph he said that I ain’t gonna fight no more

Chief Joseph he said that I ain’t gonna fight no more

Well if the Indians were fightin for freedom what the heck have we been fightin for

What the heck have we been fightin for on some far off distant soil

What the heck have we been fightin for on some far off distant soil

Was it mass destruction weapons Democracy payback or was it oil

We can stop these wars if we really really try

We can stop these wars if we really really try

The peace train is a free train so everybody gets to ride

REMEMBER ME

Silently my world explodes onto desperation road

I can’t escape the rising sun but till I drop I sure can run

In this darkness that chase freedom is what I embrace

Midnight hour come for me take me with you when you leave

Spread my wings and mount the wind don’t look back and don’t give in

Sunshine kiss me one last time now I’m leaving you behind

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Remember me as a friend at the end of the line

Remember me the one on this endless moonlight ride

Kiss me sweet sweet Mary Christian for me girl don’t you cry

Off into this mystery life I ride alone into the night

Overcome by love and fear my last chance to disappear

Starlight shining over my head teardrops falling in my bed

Go insane or loose my mind or keep it straight between these lines

Neon signs and hiway games gasoline into the flame

Nothing stronger than my fear of sunshine rising in my mirror

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REST IN PEACE

I felt the haunted wind on Sunset Boulevard

it tried to lure me in but I won’t go that far

I feel the pain inside me I need someone to guide me

But I have always walked alone

A desperate situation calls for desperate means

So I will open up the door to where that leads

Come closer let me touch you I know that I could love you

If only for a little while

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I want to rest in peace tonight

I dream the sun was going down before my eyes

I tried to run but found my legs were paralyzed

Don’t let the shadows take me I can’t go back it’s to late

I ride a one lane paradise

I sleep in stranger’s rooms that now possess my name

I come and go without a reason or a blame

Don’t try to understand me I trust my heart and it leads

To where the road will never end

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RIDE WITH ME

Hot summer night and a cool Cadillac

Just cruising main with the top laid back

One arm is driving the other on is free

Does anybody wanna ride with me

Ride down the road to the outside of town

Where everybody goes to just hang around

Maybe tonight I’ll get lucky

Does anybody wanna ride with me

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Everything is always free

So come along and ride with me

The moon is rising it’s all aglow

Calling to anyone who’d like to go

Down to the lake and check the scenery

Does anybody wanna ride with me

ROMANCE

Auburn hair dangling

Down on my chest

Eyes locked can’t stop

Ain’t gettin’ much rest

Early in the morning

My pretty baby shines

Don’t need coaxing

Loves me anytime

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Oow na na na na na na na

Oow is that what our romance is

Is that what our romance is

Midnight rider

Backseat romeo

Whispers in my ear

How far can we go

Gypsy woman

I gotta know

Do you really love me

Heart and soul

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Passion river

Pulling me under

True love save me

From this hunger

SAMS GOT A BRAND NEW BABY

Standing in the front yard all the boys are waitin

Staring down the street hard anticipating

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Sam’s got a brand new baby and he’s breakin her in right

Sam’s got a brand new baby he’s gone by by

Sounds like the Devil holy rollin thunder,

Pure as an Angel easy to love her

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Well the boy’s on Johnny Bourbon Street their tryin to be cool

Still chasin Little Red Riddin Hood and worrin about the things they learned

in school

Well Sam he knows the neighbors do not like but he don’t care

He goes roarin by with baby screemin in the air

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SCHOOL OF DESIRE

Some people want fore the money

Some people want for the fame

Some people want what money can’t buy

Some people go insane

I don’t wanna be a rich man

I don’t wanna be a king

I got a new suit of clothes from the Salvation Army

I wanna be everything

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I’m from the school of desire  born a little short on luck

Never knew nothing but rain to fall from up above      

I’ve heard all them stories how you can die out along the road

But sometimes you gotta go away to get back home

                                          

Well they say you don’t want to take chances

Risk everything you got

Don’t be greedy man everybody knows

Only a fool leaves the box

Well you can call me a fool then mister

A bum and a total disgrace

But if you want to see nothing with nothing to lose

Just look right in my face

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Now I’m living up in New York City

On a rack underneath the street

The A train’s rocking me all night long

Sometimes it gets hard to sleep

But I wake up every morning

Everybody’s got a place but me

Sometimes I feel like the only one left

On the boulevard of broken dreams

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I’m from the school of desire  I ain’t waiting around on luck           

Been riding the back roads writing my book

Someday I’m gonna tell the story how I died 100 times or more

But right now me and my desire got a long way to go

SEARCHER

With a romantic embrace I stood warming my face in the sun

A young boy with fire and a restless desire to become

Down a lonely dark road from the streets they arose one by one

The dreams of a searcher never die young

From a cold emptiness somewhere deep in my chest I was born

Too young to be free of the doubt leaving me too early worn

On the outskirts of town where the sidewalks meet destiny

I swore to the searcher and the truth set me free

I left my home and the strings that were binding me

And I took a chance that the angels were guiding me

Across the borderline this time

Now with every ray of hope I longed to elope with the wind

Escape this emptiness for a sweet virgin’s kiss to befriend

In the palm of my hand forever the dues that I paid

It’s a long way to somewhere and no guarantee

But I still believe there’s a light I have never seen

And I still have faith there’s a god of eternity

I came from nothing to now and I still believe

Some things never change some things never change

The dreams of searcher never die young

TAKE ME TO THE HIWAY

I went down to the hiway put myself onboard

My final destination in the hands of the lord

I do not know the reason only know that I

Have always been a rambler on a long and lonely ride

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So if you see me tremble in a cold hot raging sweat

If you hear me talking way out of my head

Don’t go get no preacher don’t do get no gun

Just take me to the hiway and let my spirit run

Now I never knew a preacher could make me see the light

Never knew a woman could keep me satisfied

There’s always been another road calling my secret name

Never leads to nowhere but it takes me just the same

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Now the medicine man he told me gypsy told me too

Your daddy had it long ago now he’s passed it on to you

The curse of the devil’s hiway feels like you were born to lose

It’ll give to you your freedom but it’ll never turn you loose

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THE CROSS AND THE SWITCHBLADE

There’s a cross around her neck and it brings her happiness

She’s not afraid to let it show and she’ll never let it go   

There’s a switchblade in my hand even I don’t understand

And I’m afraid to let her know and I’m afraid to let it go

In the distance I can here angels singing in my ear

And I recall a melody and a time it played for me

In the lust eternal flame in the breath that speaks her name

I will live forever more in the cold dark bosom of my lord

I will live forever more in the chains of my reward

YOU GOT TO BE A WOMAN

Do you feel the passion every time we kiss

Unvailing my affection oh you’re so hard to resist

You tell me that you love me and your happy when you re

Locked inside me safely dancing rings around the stars

Was a lonely night and the tears of destiny

We were two friends on the line now you’re deep inside of me

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So you got to be a woman you got to make a stand

I can’t wait forever I got to be a man

All those night you went alone through while he was in another’s arms

Now he tells you that he loves you and he lives for all your charm

When you needed some attention and a little company

All he gave you was rejection and a reason to call me

We both shared a dream and that night it all came true

But through it all it seems he’s still got this hold on you

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WHISKEY WATER

Johnny Bourbon plays for tips inside a smoky den

Johnny sold his soul and now he’ll never love again

He was only six years old when his daddy turned away

Left him with an epitaph upon his mothers grave

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Drink me down this whiskey water lift my courage high

And I’ll be dead and gone before my prayers can be denied

Now Johnny met a blind man with a guitar that could talk

And underneath a gypsy moon he learned a sacred song

Late one night upon a southbound down to San Antone

The blind man left it all to Johnny and his final words come crashing home

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Now angels are for the lucky man to thank the stars above

And demons live inside of the losers desperate for love

Well Johnny was no lucky man so the demons took their toll

A devil woman took his body and the devil took his soul

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