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The Last Days
03:35
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At least we can say that we made it to the last days
At least we can now ride out across the great plains
I tip my hat to the bad days
And I lift my arms to the wrong ways
That I couldn’t be all and more
Couldn’t be all and more in my days
I’ll rise up to all of these people
I’ll rise up to all of these people
There’s Jackie and Billy and Mama and Baby
All here
Now I keep my ears to the rail lines
And I keep my eyes to the night sky
So I can know there’s something more
Know there’s something more than all this
I’ll rise above all of these places
I’ll rise above all of these places
There’s Georgia and LA and the Tennessee Valley
All here
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Well you left town on a bad day
It was an awful day
I know that now
Yeah you left home without a thing to say
But that’d been the way
And I know that now
There was nothing I could do
But to stand aside and to know it true
That there was nothing more to say
The day that you went away
But believe me
You’re the reason I’m anything
The reason I know things
Anything upon which to call
But sometimes anything ain’t anything at all
Yeah you left town on a dog day
We’d spent the summer in pitiful shape
Still I did not foresee you leaving me
On that awful day
But I’m somehow proud
That there that was nothing I could do
When you stood back and understood
That there was nothing more to say
The day that you went away
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How am I to know where the good ones like to go
When everywhere I’ve turned in my life’s been wrong and low
But when you got back on Sunday it was like it had been years
It was so good to see you and so tough to hear
That I’ve been hard to live with
I’ve been so angrily
I’ve been trying hardly
And you’ve been none but loving me
I’ve been so low and hard
I’ve been tied to anchors deep
But I’ve been working to remind me
Of the life I rarely keep
How am I to know where the good ones like to go
Cause I’ve never been much for lingering on
But something has changed and I like it this way
Just taking it slow, tit for tat
And going where the good ones at
It’s been too long baby
Since we went out and saw all the ones we love
I’ve been trying to get out and have some fun
Just trying to be a good one
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4. |
Night on the Lam
05:04
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Night on the lam
Alone I run from them
Night on the lam I pray
That my old friends still think well of me
I hope they do think of me
I hope they do think of me
Though they’ve got better things to do
Than sitting around here lugging you
Yeah they’ve got better ways to be
Than waiting on some memory
You left town with a bound
You left town and you sailed around
You left town with a bound
And all the trouble that you made
They won’t ever forgive
All the lying and the lion shares you kept
They won’t ever take you back
I’ve made mistakes
Sometimes my mind can’t fend
And on those days I can’t take the pain
I wish I’d kept close watch on my friends
I wish I’d kept close to them
I wish I’d kept close to them
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5. |
Evil Joy
02:16
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My friend said he saw her driving down Main
With no aim
Just riding free
My friend said he her singing “devil may
care but I can’t”
So loud it rang
And my friend says that she was better off leaving
On a back porch summer day
As the rain came
And my friend calls them the roughshod riding days
Cause like a devil on horseback in the wrong
Oh was I wrong
My friend says that I should sing out “devil may
care but I can’t”
Too
But that time of my life’s now over my shoulder
And that image sends an evil joy coursing
Through my veins like cannonade
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Long Hard Days in April
03:06
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Let’s get going
Wild or under
It doesn’t matter to me much, no
Now that’s it’s all backwater
Holding to the wrong places
Still in this old age
It’s like a company town now
Of your friends and family
Do they all remember April?
When what seemed hard
Seemed hard in all the right ways
Like harder to stay apart
But there was a long way back
A long way down the hatch
And with everything that happened
We couldn’t put our goodwill back
Let’s get going
Wild or under
Just trying to make my way back
To that April hunger
Where dust and lace
Were in a country corner
And every time I tried to leave
I was a little older
Then they said they saw me
Running down every which way
Without a light on
They said I was all wrong
So somebody save me
Just herd my scraps
Cause with everything that’s happened
I haven’t put my goodwill back
Long hard days in April
Let’s go back
Forever
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Pure Joy
02:19
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Have you ever been to daybreak?
Have you ever had it tailor-made?
Have you ever been okay?
Have you ever had a perfect morn?
Have you ever felt a little peace?
I hope I someday have the means
To get pure joy when I wake in the wet wood
To get pure joy when I wake in the barn
To get pure joy when I’m there at the labor
To get pure joy when I first see its arms
Had I known that you were there for me
I’d have had a little modesty
I’d have had a little shame
Have you ever gotten good praise
For the fact that you are here today?
I try to give it to my friends
And I pretend one day when
I get pure joy when they visit my lane
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When the trial ends
And you’re on your own again
You won’t recognize your body
Oh how hard on it you’ve been
When the trial ends
And you’ve got your home again
You cannot look for love like you always did
Though drained and beat you’ve got to steal away
Ride out, ride out
Don’t try to stay
Though long and spent you’ve got some stillness now
Ride out, ride out
And leave this town
But please do not come to me
You will not find me in my distance
You’ve got to find your distance
And keep yourself at bay
You cannot come to me
You will not find me in my distance
You’ve got to go your distance
Don’t look for love again
Just steal away
Well aren’t you good and free and wild
I know how hard it’s been in love this while
Just steal away
Well aren’t you good and free and wild
I know how hard it’s been in love this while
But when the trial ends
And you’re on your own again
You won’t recognize your body
Oh how hard on it you’ve been
When the trial ends
And you’ve got your home again
You cannot look for love like you always did
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Wyoming County
03:37
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How I missed you when you were gone
I learned of highways and I learned of milage
Oh how I missed you
I missed you through rain and snow
And when you came on back in August
I looked at you and thought
How I could live without you
Though we had a good day
We sang songs together
And watched the eagles play
It’s almost like we were still up in Wyoming County
But did I miss you when you were gone?
I cannot know now
I can barely remember the sound of your yelling
The sound of you revving
The sound of you turning over
But not catching anything
When you let me down
Though I’m a red bird now
With the wild blue yonder’s arms around
So what’s it matter if I missed you anyhow?
It’s almost like we were still up in Wyoming County
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