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Happy As A Man
03:41
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Happy as a Man~Well everywhere I go, seems I’ve always been around/I made a name for myself and I’ll never live it down/No one wants me here, but they won’t let me out/Won’t look me in the eyes, I️ guess I know what it’s about/Well everyone’s got their mind made up/I’ll never be anything but torn up in this town/Can’t even find a home on the wages I️ get paid/For all the trouble it took, well that’s all they ever gave/When you’ve got nothing in your hands, but wishes and far-off plans/They’ll say you should've found yourself a bright and sturdy lad/Instead your lookin’ real rundown mama, you’re lookin’ bad// Chorus: If I️ had a place that I️ could live, a place to lay my head/In a place that I️ could stand, somewhere I’d never been/If I️ had the sun on my face and I️ had money in my hand/ I’d be happy as an oyster /I’d be happy as a man//I’m a prude if I️ don’t and I’m a whore if I️ do/Took me a while, but I️ learned a thing or two/If you’re a little woman with nothin’, it don’t matter who wears the shoes/You can work all day and night and you can pay your poor man’s dues/But they’ll never think nothin’, but a woman of you//Chorus//Well I’d walk right in there and I’d sit right down/Start shouting orders for a stiff and sturdy round/And I’d tell ‘em all to bury it, deep down in the ground, where I cannot hear a single sound/Cause I️ don’t need their thoughts, I️ don’t need their dirty looks/Or their sympathetic nods, their self-indulgent hooks/I’m doin’ fine, in my skin/I’m getting good, not fitting in/I’m getting by, and I’m throwin’ it all to hell//Chorus//
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Golden Dime
04:48
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Golden Dime~//Chorus: I'll be your little poor princess, I'll be your golden dime/I'll be your little rockin‘ horse, show you a good time/I'll be anything you want, just say that you’ll be mine/As long as you are here with me I'll always feel just fine//Took me once to where he grew up, a golden ocean up in the hills/He’s got a heart that makes me smile and cry, and his mother loves him still/He said I could take anything I want, and it’s only him and I will/He's my handsome anarchist, I'm his country girl/Oh I'm his country girl/Well he's real nice and he's real sweet, he don’t ever lie/Unless it’s right here next to me, he’s always on my side/He told me he'd love me forever, now he can never die/I would never leave him, so neither now can I/Oh, neither now can I//Chorus//We don’t sleep and we don’t fight, sure do cry each time we part/I guess that's just what happens, when someone’s sweet on your heart/It’s the right kind of heavy, it’s the most gentle kind of hard/Aches right down to my soul and bones, but it never does no harm/I might not always have the words, but he must understand/He's the wind blowing in my sails, he's my dry land/He drives a thousand miles, and he wears callouses on his hands/Just to lie with me a woman, just to feel like him a man/Oh feel like him a man//Chorus//
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Cold Feet
03:15
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Cold Feet~I always get cold feet about killing myself/They said I should reach out, get some help/Help’s for kids and people who like grabbin’ at air/Do I want to live my life full of pain/Till I'm all hunched over that walking cane/At the ripe old age, where even the ones you raised start lookin‘ through ya//Chorus: Like you’re not there, you never was/It’s not your life, just dreamt it up/You’re not there/there never was/No hell below, no heaven above//They said it might help if I found love/Well they must not know me that much/All I do is shout and shove/Grit my teeth to sleep at night/Do I want to live my life on somebody's arm/While we run in circles causing each other harm/Years later down the road, find out your favorite bag of bones, don’t even know who you are//Chorus//Well I got a mind set on checkin’ out/And going somewhere nothing ever comes around/Losing all those things, that are so hard to live without/Do I want to live my life all alone, way up on a mountain watching the trees grow/Find out someday what all the poets know/There's nothing special about it kid, made you do what you did//Chorus//
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Gold From Rust
04:08
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Gold From Rust~Started crying, no reason why/You didn't question and I didn't mind/There's not enough time to tell you anyhow/You can ask any of the friends I've got now, about the time my heart turned to stone/Left it out too long last winter//Chorus: Couldn't tell...gold from rust/Didn't matter much, what it was/I breathed it in, breathed it in//Three hours at the sink, you’ve got skin like leather and a mind like ink/It’s messy and dark and on the brink of runnin'/Different hat with a different outfit, this one’s got a country accent/Likes smokin’ and drinkin‘/And never knows what’s comin’//Chorus//All the while the world’s still in spin/Maybe I haven’t caught the best of it/I'd be a fool if I wasn’t wonderin'/Fumblin’ over now cause you’re run down, from all of the times you really held out/Found it gone, and I know you’re still mourning//Chorus//
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Broken Gun
03:07
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Broken Gun~Without all the rhyme, without all the reason/I lost a few things, I probably didn’t need them/I wasn’t heart-broke, I was elated/There's nothin’ I like more, than being broke and jaded/It's not the way you stroke her, it's not the way you pet her/It's not the way you tell her you never will forget her/We all go blind, when we're in love/It's a kiss from the devil, a curse from above(repeat)//Well there was no logic, behind all your thievin’/You had no business just taking what they're leavin’/We all want more, than what we have got/So you can love them and please them, and give them all that you have/Yes you can love them and please them, give them all that you have/But that will not release them/It's just the nature of their trap//Well tell me did I scare you, or was that just me/I've got a past and I've got a history/I never hurt no one, I don’t think that I can/I'm a broken gun in the arms, of a loaded man//It's not the way you hold her, it's not the way you see her/It's not the way that slowly the world is risin’ up to meet her/We all go blind, when we are in love/It's a kiss from the devil, curse from above(repeat)//
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Mister Crabtree
02:53
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Mister Crabtree~Mister Crabtree, still remember when you said to me/Climb onto my time machine, this one‘s not suiting me/Sunlight would be good for me, river current, wind through the reeds/Hell, snow could fall on the eaves, and I think it’d be alright by me//If I'd a met you when I was twenty-three, boy we would’ve made a scene/Heads shakin’ and their eyes turn green, when they saw the way you walk with me//Then we could still have some things, full hearts and unbroken dreams/Places we'd yet to see and songs we'd sing/We'd have lots of time//Chorus: Won't you be mine, won't you be mine/Won't you be mine, we both know it's right/Won't you be mine, won't you be mine/And I'll be yours, we'll love each other, grow old gentle and kind//Mister Crabtree, still remember when you said to me/I was the prettiest thing you'd seen, my head got light and my knees got weak//There's a place you'd rather be/It's about ten blocks down this street/I think it'd be real sweet, just to have you there with me//I guess that's how it is/Don't know what hits ya then/It's like it's always been/You look your whole life, happens in just one night//Chorus//
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Fast And Natural
01:53
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Fast and Natural~Well I thought that I’d never find love again, but boy did I find it my friend/It was like, I never had//Standing out there in the sun and the rain, in the middle of the woods, callin’ my name, well I want you so bad//All my love and my longin‘ to kiss you/I could never tell you how much I miss you, cause I’m never gonna make sad//Stayin’ up late and not sleepin’ it off/Wakin’ up early to make love in our socks/Just happened like that//It was fast and natural it was hot and easy, feelin‘ like someone finally sees me/Just a matter of fact//Chorus: All of my love and my longin’ to kiss you/I could never tell you how much I miss you/Cause I miss you too bad/All my love and my longin‘ to kiss you/I could never tell you how much I miss you, cause I’m never going to make you sad//I don’t like goin’ to sleep at night, without my love by my side/I wake, heart's like a heavy stone// The thought of you, comin‘ back here/There’s nothin’ that could make me happier/Than the thought, of you and I alone//Chorus//
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Hook In My Heart
04:56
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Hook in My Heart~Guess this anchor's different/Doesn't come on in waves/It's a hook in my heart, trying to pull me away/From my life and my home, and the ones that I love/Over some tragedy, that I can't rise above//Don't think on it too much, but I almost caved/To the rich and the pretty, the pure and the saved/But I couldn't buy it, so I'm just the same/I guess I'll be leavin’, just as broke as I came//It's deep in my bones, this tome of white lies/Like I guess I'll go home, just call it a night/Like lately I, been doin’ just fine/I like it right here, no one’s by my side//Well I saw your bridges, condos, freeways and progress/And I saw your garden, full of hornets and regrets/I guess there's a few things, make you wanna lay down and die/Usually starts as a promise, just ends up as a lie//Well sometimes it scares me, just to give love away/Cause I tried it once, oh lord did I pay/I thought I could pull, those hooks from my heart/I just started bleeding, till I fell apart/It's deep in my bones, all wrapped in white lies/Like I guess I'll go home, just call it a night/Like lately I, been doing just fine/I like it right here, no one’s by my side//Guess this anchor's different/Doesn't come on in waves/Just a hook in my heart, tryin’ to pull me away/From my life and my home, and the ones that I love/Over some tragedy, that I can’t rise above...//
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Some Kind Of Dog
03:48
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Some Kind of Dog~I'm not trying to say that you're some kind of dog/Or there’s a reason that you may have heard that a lot/I'm not trying to say that is all that you are/Well that's just all I’ve seen before//Is that a hand-held mirror or a magnifying glass/I spent all my wishes in the life that I lived last/I spent all my hours working for cash/Mirrors are made for lookin’ back//When the hens aren’t layin' and the geese have all flown/If there's a screw in my tire I might write a song/But how will I know when I’ve been here too long/Well most of the time, I've got it wrong//People are like pictures and passing landscapes/The more the sun shines on a place, the more that the colors fade/Bleached out shades of gray, brown, and black/Well they don’t ever turn back//I like being right as much as I like thunder/But I don’t know when I started to like bein’ drug under/I remember a three-legged dog my second uncle called Finn/But I never thought to ask, what happened to him//I'm not trying to say that you're some kind of dog/Or there’s a reason that you may have heard that a lot/I'm not trying to say that is all that you are/Well that's just all I’ve seen before//So don't spend all your time looking in mirrors and writing songs/About faded-out pictures and three-legged dogs/There's not a looking glass that can tell you if you've been here too long/Or a screw that could turn you into some kind of dog//
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