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Swimming In Mercury
Keep Your Faith
Girl when I see you walk my way, words cannot convey your devotion every day.
I hear people talk of love, like thunder in the night, gone with dawn’s first light.
But when I’m near you baby, I can’t help hear you say to me
Keep your faith darling; everything’s gonna be alright tonight.
So it’s through the storm we ride, where thunder clouds collide...we know that we’ll survive.
Let them call it what they will, when love is not a thrill but a promise we fulfill.
But when I’m near you baby, I can’t help hear you say to me
Keep your faith darling; everything’s gonna be alright tonight.
Heaven and Earth
Hey papa don’t you cry and don’t you worry ‘bout a reason why
We take our seat and call our cards and play the ones we’re dealt.
If I’m between heaven and earth, let me fall to what I’ve known
If I’m between heaven and earth, let me fall to where I’m from
Let me fall to where I know I’m loved for sure.
Hey Jules, don’t be sad; think of all the good we’ve had
Like the harvest moon on shepherd’s field as we made love that night.
If I’m between heaven and earth, let me fall to what I’ve known
If I’m between heaven and earth, let me fall to where I’m from
Let me fall to where I know I’m loved for sure.
It’s part of being warm blooded baby and feeling to the bone...warm blooded baby; you find yourself alone
I’ll walk the windy shore; the silver moon sees me home
with the hope that God will see a man swimming in mercury.
If I’m between heaven and earth, let me fall to what I’ve known
If I’m between heaven and earth, let me fall to where I’m from
Let me fall to where I know I’m loved for sure.
For Want Of A Nail
For want of a nail the kingdom was lost
for want of a kiss love carries a cost
We all want a world where faith isn’t tossed
For want of a nail...
For want of a nail the king he was killed
for want of a sail the wind becomes still
For want of a cure I swallow the pills
For want of a nail...
Love’s fallin’ down on everybody
We walk through this world with the weight of our breath
fighting its way to get out of our chest
We love and we laugh and we bleed and we cry
For want of a nail...
Love’s fallin down on everybody
The Branch Will Not Break
A Latvian man peddles papers in the cold dawn
dreaming of home while he wonders where his wife’s gone
He drives in the cold, counts the change in his coat; he feels so alone.
And he hates the rappers and he hates their rhymes;
he blames ‘em all for every single kinda crime
His thinking’s so blind. He says, “They are not Americans.”
The branch will not break, on this my life I’ll stake
The river will rise, wash hate from our eyes...any day now
A rock’n’roll girl’s steppin’ stiffly ‘cross the parking lot
in back of a club called somethin’ like The Loading Dock
Her heels are too high, her hair is too high, she is too high.
She listens to rap and she dates a skinny Latin guy
who can spot a plain clothes cop at least a half a block away.
They are unnamed; they will remain unnamed.
The branch will not break, on this my life I’ll stake
The river will rise, wash hate from our eyes...any day now
While perfumed cars carry hymns of teenage humor.
They travel Kochville Road, across the timeline...
Where men with cracked hands waken in the dark to blade of a strange, cold plow.
Fathers and Sons
Walking along the river road at night,
Past the turns you forgot or couldn’t get right.
Through the brambles and thorns we retrace all your steps
The cuts and the scratches that you from me kept.
Fathers and sons share a holy ghost
Standin tall between us, holdin’ up a toast
Here’s to your years and my Wonderland mirror
Here’s to the size of those Goddamn fears
Fathers and sons share a holy ghost.
Dark is the night and cold is the ground.
As we travel on we’re just chasing a sound
It’s defining this love, It’s the ringing of bells,,
We share a name and I wear it as well.
Chorus
Time’s been good to us, helped us clear away the fuss
Whether near or far, I know where you are.
Chorus
Letter From Ten Green
I hear footsteps in the hall
it’s 4am, ignore the nurse’s call
A little girl has died tonight, she struggled with this disease her entire life.
Don’t let me hear her mother’s cry...Sleep come free me.
Instead I turn on the light and to my own children I write:
Live with all your guts and soul and heart, every day. Never take love for granted.
Let her fly...Watch her fly (into the arms of the angels)
Ler her fly...Watch us cry (in the arms of a stranger)
Don't wait for the world; trust your talents as being a gift from God. Stay in the light, though you'll surely be drawn to the darkness. Give your life to helping others, to loving deeply your family, friends and lovers. Have a humble respect for all living things. Believe in other people; they're good more often than they're not.
Even when you’re very low, there are things we cannot see. This is what we call our faith; this is what we can believe...you need faith to sing; you need faith to let God love you; you need faith to know I love you. Be kind and you'll never be lonely. Be fearless; that's something to be. I caught a bad break. But it's what we do with breaks...I'm watching. Good night. The sun’s coming up.
Let her fly...Watch her fly (into the arms of the angels)
Ler her fly...Watch us cry (in the arms of a stranger)
Prowlin’
Drove to town, in a Ford, stolen Mississippi plates and a plastic Lord
on my dash, need some cash, she’s gonna wish like rain she never saw my ass
I’m goin up, I’m done goin’ down, gonna be a straight shooter from now on
Baby I’m prowlin’...can’t you hear me howlin? Baby I’m prowlin’.
It was hot, late summer, when I came home and found her with my older brother.
I did time for the crime of givin’ some religion to a faithless lover.
Chorus
Now it’s late, feels like rain, I’m gonna turn it right around...I ain’t playin Cain.
Let it go, pass it by, but when your brother does you wrong you can’t help but wonder why.
Chorus
Radio Road
I’ll take you straight from the heartland and drive you out to the frontlines,
where lovers carry their rages and place their hearts on tomorrow.
Farewell to the days of not knowing; hang on to the dreams we’ve been holding
I’ll watch this world wrapped in your arms and measure time with your heartbeat.
Radio road, Radio Road, I can’t let go...Radio Road.
On these soft summer nights I yearn for you
On these hot summer nights I burn for you, yea yea yea yea
It’s time I look for that light again, don’t know where I lost sight of it
Some people pray for it their whole lives; this time I’ll get it right.
Chorus
You’re One Of The Good Ones
Can we remember those dry Septembers and summer thunder with childlike wonder?
Point’s all about happy times, Beatle rhymes, party phones, the Rolling Stones, workin’ on the blues alone.
But how the winter wind will blow, through the rain and blinding snow
You’re one of the good ones baby.
A father’s lawn with no souls gone and fireflies that dance ‘til dawn
Friends again, thick and thin, take me back, begin again.
But how the winter wind will blow, through the rain and blinding snow
You’re one of the good ones baby.
The Valley
Everywhere I go, everyone I know; people find some reason to believe.
When things get better, and they will get better,
I will ride out of this valley, on to the higher ground;
out of this valley we will ride.
Long as I recall, from the days I’m small, clear skies and sheets out on the line.
When things get better, and they will get better,
I will ride out of this valley, on to the higher ground;
out of this valley we will ride.
Every now and then, we all begin again; on each and every life must fall some rain.
When things get better, and they will get better,
I will ride out of this valley, on to the higher ground;
out of this valley we will ride.
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