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Neon Lights
03:22
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Off she goes again with her short skirt on/ out to paint some silence/ turn this small town on/ we love watching crashes with the TV on/ you left the front door open, said a word and then you were gone/ was i digging my own grave when i let you get away/ every man’s best friend pretty girl and a bottle of gin/ whispers and leans in neon lights turn me on/ neon lights really turn me on/ was i digging my own grave when i let you get away/ lost you out dancing with your high heels on/ there she goes again with the short skirt on/ yeah you love her anyways/ neon lights turn her on/ neon lights really turn me on/ was i digging my own grave when i let you get away/ lost you out dancing with your high heels on/ neon lights really turn me on
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Old Faithful Pulse
03:43
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How’s a man to leave? walk away silently/ tear down the curtains throw a bottle of beer/ is it our destiny? i’m not sure i believe/ smells like a set up for a fool like me/ even the old faithful pulse is mortal like man/ you are a mystery i can’t understand/ so i go overseas so i don’t go back to sleep/ but the same snares await too good be fake it’s still calling me/ and maybe it seems like i’m fucking around/ but i will come straight faced and proud if you call me out/ even the old faithful pulse is mortal like man/ you are a mystery i can’t understand/ sometimes it’s misery i can’t understand/ with legs intertwined so much beauty in life/ it’ll come crashing down a terrible sound/ you’re making this hard on me
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Middle Man
03:39
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you can’t trust a middle man to get your business done/ you kiss me like an actress in a play/ oh sometimes it seems like they all got it out for me/ always someone want to put you away/ if it all ends tonight i’d like you to feel alright/ how it all went down/ i hear you speaking but i don’t get a word/ you move like an assassin that nobody heard/ and trouble was your middle name when they hung you out to dry/ oh you were swaying in the breeze when broke the morning light/ if it all ends tonight i’d like you to feel alright/ how it all went down/ you’re sucking off the money tree you’re licking at the demon teat/ you’re just another dancer on a stage
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I Don't Want To Love You
03:55
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darling take a walk down to the end of the street when you reach the end don’t turn around/ oh i set you free i know it’s hard to believe but it ain’t right to keep you anyhow/ and there’s many heartbreak men just begging to get in/ all the hustlers at the corner store/ i must be your poison i’m a dirty little pill/ i can’t stand to drag you down/ i don’t want to love you/ i don’t want to care anymore/ and i will set you free/ just walk away from my door/ you were out there in the night you were acting alright/ i found you dressed up at the bar/ pretend you don’t see me i’m the other right out of reach/ you don’t speak a word to my face/ there’s many heartbreak men begging to get in/ all the hustlers at the corner store/ and i must be your poison i’m a dirty little pill/ i can’t stand to drag you down/ i don’t want to love you/ i don’t want to care/ and i will set you free just walk away from my door/ we were talking out goodbyes you were crying out your eyes/ it’s hard to let a lover let you go/ i still smell perfume from your dirty little room way back up north in our hometown
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Country Girl
04:18
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lived a long long time many times before it’s a long way til i hang my coat/ honey i promise i will come home/ now i’m fooling god while you’re tearing it down dance with the devil on the hills outside of town/ honey i promise i will come home/ if i may if i might see your face by the morning light/ road to hell i knew it all too well i was born a would be preachers son/ guess i fell hard for a country girl/ now i’m fooling god while you’re tearing it down/ dance with the devil on the hills outside of town/ if i may if i might/ see your face by the morning light/ now i’m a king just on yankee hill/ making stacks and trying not to feel/ like i fell hard for a country girl
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Making Plans
03:50
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i’m out on the highway with nowhere to be/ well the woman i could learn to love yeah she don’t love me/ and there are miles and mountains too much space in between/ i am following the skyline it’s easy to believe/ that one up my sleeve trumps two in your hand/ and while you were sleeping i was making plans/ to get away from here/ i am drinking alone in a hotel room/ the super don’t like it he said it seems rude/ and there are freeways and streetlights that are keeping me awake/ oh well i once had a vision it was too much to take/ and one up my sleeve trumps two in your hand/ and while you were sleeping i was making plans/ to get away from here/ when i finally reach the ocean with a western view/ when i finally quit my drinking and i come home to you/ when i finally tell my story what’ll it be/ am i easy to dismiss or am i hard to believe?
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Heartbreak Man
04:04
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I was a dimestore cowboy they called me the king of make believe/ fitted suit cheap pair of boots a couple of aces up my sleeve/ if you know what i mean/ honey i wish you well where i’m going no one can tell/ i don’t think you ever knew me well i’m a heartbreak man/ i miss my life out on the west coast/ i forgot my true identity/ no one here knows my god given name/ they’re just in love with a fantasy/ honey i wish you well where i’m going no one can tell/ and i don’t think you ever knew me well i’m a heartbreak man/ i’m going to leave here in the morning or maybe undercover in the middle of the night/ i don’t think you’re going to miss me pretty darling/ in fact i think you’re going to be just fine
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Jesus
04:00
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Jesus
there are clothes in every corner there are secrets lost in time/ there’s a riddle on your lips while jesus waits outside/ swimming through the white noise fakers fight to feel alive the house at night looks empty but the killer waits inside/ all your family’s gold is buried in the backyard/ all your father’s suits are hanging in the thrift store/ and jesus is not the lone forgotten one/ yeah jesus and a million bastard sons/ i bought a flashlight from a gypsy at a midnight corner store/ lit out on the freeway but i did not escape the war/ spotlight interrogation on an eastern texas road/ the free world lies before you but it’s future has been sold/ all your family’s gold is buried in the backyard/ all your father’s suits are hanging in the thrift store/ and jesus is not the lone forgotten one/ yeah jesus and a million bastard sons/ the policeman don’t care nothing for the magic that you see/ when you’re face down in an alley in a city built by machines/ sleeping like a baby in the perfect dark serene/ sleeping like a baby but you don’t know what it means
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let your hair hang down it’s my last night in town/ when tomorrow takes me away we’ve all got debts to pay/ that’s no way to apologize/ shut down city street widows mourn while the ocean sings/ still waters run deep bot are filled with cruelty/ that’s no way to apologize/ now you read between the lines sea faring strangers in the night/ dignity’s a badge you keep touching bodies under sheets/ that’s no way to apologize
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Don't Fail Me Now
04:53
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life fell apart at the seams lady luck stopped hanging around/ broke down shit the bed some one skipped a madman from his tracks/ when my back’s against a wall where’s the home town i recall?/ in the shimmering light of dawn wonder why i don’t come round any more/ let’s cash out at the ticket machine get out ahead no guarantees/ when my back’s against a wall/ where’s the hometown i recall?/ don’t fail me now/ your name’s inlaid upon my crown/ cut it out it’s out of hand you’re making moves i don’t understand/ it ain’t the world it’s you believes in lies they tell like truth/ when my back’s against a wall/ where’s the hometown i recall?/ don’t fail me now/ your name’s inlaid upon my crown/ when my back’s against a wall/ where’s the hometown i recall?/ don’t fail me now/ you take the mountain i’ll take the crown
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Paying Up
04:45
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my youth was like gold in your arms i fell asleep to your charms/ and my oldest friend what have you done went and found someone?/ so tell me what’s wrong pretty babe/ they got you tied up like a slave and though i am sure as the sun or should i give up?/ i sold my soul for rock and roll/ but it ain’t paying up/ tell me the truth one last time/ you got me laid out on a line/ and where have been oh girl you came to ruin my world/ i sold my soul for rock and roll/ but it ain’t paying up
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