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1. |
Be Plain
02:56
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mix all you want in metaphor
hold my hand down in a flame
baby it cant hold a candle
i'm not fighting you,
there ain't nothing to tame
take a stab at directness
give a girl's heart a caress
you've been predicting a turndown
and all she's wants to do is tell you yes, so
chorus
be plain baby be plain with me, baby be plain
stop all this dancing around it
all's I want is for you to be plain
you can't tell nobody nothing
folks is mostly just do as they please
you want a sign I got love on my mind
baby you know it give us both such ease if you'd
chorus
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2. |
Taken Care Of
03:06
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leaves of oak and linden are blowing down the east-west highway of my neighborhood
and michelle is in having dinner and my bike is leaning against a wall
and i have to take the trash out and wash my hands before my mother calls
and the winds have blown the cans over and someone's kitty is inside
and the storm picks up around the high school dancing all the leaves around
and everything is taken care of in my neighborhood
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3. |
Song for Judith
03:55
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new moon full day
talking telephone whiling
the hours away
barbed wire minefield
better than flat tire
mind-games -shield me from that
shield me from that
cuz it's a
refrain
new day full moon
yeah it's a new day full moon
upstairs lie down
undress me no more frowning
for u, there's no more frowning for u
love nest bird-wing
a night's rest it's a good thing
cuz it's a
refrain
new day full moon
yeah it's a new day full moon
and it's all comin true
it's all commin true
it's all commin true now judith for you
it's a new day
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4. |
Uncivil Heart
06:21
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i hope i never see you again
did you think no one was watching
did you think it didnt matter
cause i was just a girl
i only loved you
did you think it didnt matter
who was to know
who was going to stop you
in a world full of liars and whores
everyone protesting some injustice or war
the tears all through the fabric
of some girl's dress in the bushes
just the fragments of a memory
caught up in a harsh wind
and blown under the garbage
of the wreck'd civilization of my heart
just tatters for another time to heal
did you think it didnt matter
cause i was just a girl
i had nothin
i only loved you
did you think it didnt matter
cuz who was to know
who was watching
except for you o but i was there too
i was watching like some infernal witness
to your failure to make 1 and 1 two
i thank god for goodness where i find it
cuz without it id be just like you
always guessing at the truth
god it must be awful to be you,
must be awful to be you
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5. |
Johnny Cash Song
04:45
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leave supper on the table
leave the dust on the stair
there's nothing left to fight for anymore
cuz all the house is empty
all the voices have faded away
there's no one left but ghosts here to talk to
chorus
i got to find me the strength to leave
and not stand here, holding this door
cuz every passing day i lose more
i got to put my head down,
put my face into the wind
i gotta put my head down and go
there's nothing left of the roads we once knew
and all the landscape has changed
and the girl that i once was is gone
and in her place is a lie
i can't ever get by
i'm gonna have to do right by her now
chorus
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6. |
America
02:37
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i have been to see america
and she has shown me things
that were just for me to see
one river takes me this way
and another that
i'm a louisianna purchase
and a dry dakota grain
once was a man
made my heart move fast
id wait for him like a hillside
in a darkening plain
sun and moon are facing off
and where i stand the continents divide
and run a lip along the severing
finally the moon set
and the sun rose
and the boxcars reflected
in the sky on the lake
o i have been to see america
and she has shown me things
that were just for me to see
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7. |
Lonely Narrow Bed
05:54
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i should never have taken no for an answer
you've got no answers in that stare
should have dragged you screaming from the carnage
made you leave the dream you said you wanted
going nowhere
the road is a cold place for children
it's cold almost any time of year
there's precious little comfort in the bottle
and boredom that'll kill you in the meaning
of a loveless love affair
refrain
but i can promise you that the morning
that rises on a day full of harm
is harder on the heart's fragile vision
only takes a couple of truths to right a wrong
chorus
try as you might to follow all the rules for getting ahead
the pills are getting harder to swallow and love can become a
lonely narrow bed
you have witnessed too many killings
especially of what you held dear
now you wear them like a patchwork blanket
that bandaged you into another and another year
o but be careful of the ones who say they're helping
when you're helping such a thing would never come to mind to say
they will crowd the way with lies and conversation
and camouflage the road so it's impossible to find
bridge/chorus
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8. |
Shoot U Up
07:02
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u better get here quick before i fall off of this wagon
im jealous of sharing you and you're not even mine
why not surprise me? turn up at the gate around my life
meet me half way across the bridge over the highway
and take me from this prison
this prison of waiting
for your sound all around me
damn the spaces between us, put your skin on me
stain me all over with your love with your love
chorus
i want to eat you i want to spoon you i want to butter you up
i want to drink you i want to smoke you i want to shoot you up
i can feel the rail lines twisting at the turn points, taking me on another way
time and space it's all a race to be home, to get on home
don't leave me here standing alone at the platform only the wind to greet me there
meet me at the station bring all your things with you maybe we can still make that train
i'll get the tickets you bring disguises we can be far away before night falls, before the night falls and
take me from this prison this prison of waiting
for your arms like armor all around me
chorus
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9. |
Belonging
04:31
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all the quiet houses in a low belonging
the men begin to walk the morning dogs
nothing has been tampered with
it's just another frosty win
garden paths unlit for all of the unfit, like
chorus
you are outside of belonging
you are love's anomaly
once was doesn't matter
you are just a scattered memory
the elementary yard is not yet noisy
the crush of cars along the sidewalk doze
permanent the marker, capable the hand
the city council rests in stern repose
no shoes no shirt no shit no service
get yourself together or get you gone
there is no forgiveness no heart of understanding
when you've stepped across you're as good as done, cuz
chorus 2
you are the other, the unwashed spectre
you should hold your tongue and how
bite back all the longing and make your dirty comeback plans now
repeat chorus 1
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10. |
Eclipse
03:11
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let this eclipse fall down gently
let the shooting stars all find their place
let the whole darkening world around me
take me kindly in its embrace
let your face always be before me
let your heart be open wide
i need your love so dearly
it may cost me all of my pride
let this eclipse fall down gently
hmmm hmmmm
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Jennifer Leonhardt Los Angeles, California
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