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It's Only Time (The Magnetic Fields)
Why would I stop loving you
A hundred years from now?
It's only time.
It's only time.
What could stop this beating heart
Once it's made a vow?
It's only time.
It's only time.
If rain won't change your mind,
Let it fall.
The rain won't change my heart
At all.
Lock this chain
Around my hand,
Throw away the key.
It's only time.
It's only time.
Years falling
Like grains of sand
Mean nothing to me.
It's only time.
It's only time.
If snow won't change your mind
Let it fall.
The snow won't change my heart,
Not at all.
I'll walk your lands
(And swim your sea)
And swim your sea
Marry me.
Marry me.
Then in your hands
(I will be free)
I will be free
Marry me.
Marry me.
Why would I stop loving you
A hundred years from now?
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This Mountain Road (Brown Bird)
he who rides the most, when are you coming home?
this mountain road is dark and steep as hell
we'll drive until the morning comes again
there are so many roads to drive before we shed our flesh and die
our restless minds ain't satisfied at home
he who rides the most, when are you coming home?
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Buck Tempo (Dom Leone)
I don't know the time and I don't know the day
of the week or the month or the year or my name
I don't understand why it seems so important
to be somewhere when you're not sure why you came
I broke my watch when I put up my calendar
I left my map on the roof of my car
I need somebody to make it seem worth it
To search for a light switch or reach for a star
Would you be my clock if I promise not to hang you
Too close to the window or the picture of the Pope
I won't set you back and I won't push you forward
I just want to look in your face and see hope
There's so much to do and so much time to do it
I try hard to concentrate I try hard to think
I got a new oven that cooks food in twelve seconds
Now eating's so quick I've got hours to drink
Time's unpredictable just when you think that
You've learned how to save it you spend all day on hold
I need someone who can show me the difference
Between using it wisely and just growing old
Would you be my clock if I promise not to hang you
Too close to the window or the picture of the Pope
I won't set you back and I won't push you forward
I just want to look in your face and see hope
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Tell You Again (Julie Doiron)
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately, things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me (help me)
Help me
Oh, no, no, no
Uhh, ahh
Uhh, ahh
Uhh, ahh
Uhh, ahh
Yeah
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blow my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
No, help me
Ah, yeah, purple haze
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Tell me, girl, tell me (help me)
I can't go on like this
You're makin' me blow my mind (help me)
No, no (help me)
No, no (help me)
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Holiday Fair (Dan Blakeslee)
Grab your cape and mittens dear
Through the snow and follow me here
To the center of the town x2
Bells will bring us there to the holiday fair
Handmade lederhosen
A scarf for when you’re frozen
From the center of the town x2
Where cinnamon sweeps the air at the holiday fair
Zeke has found a wooden boat
A salt lick for his billy goat
From the center of the town x2
Tea and sweet cakes there at the holiday fair
Follow me jolly be At the holiday fair x2
See the men of tin and gingerbread
A dolly that is peppermint fed
From the center of the town x2
With my corduroy teddy bear at the holiday fair
A sock puppet for Veronika
A licorice harmonica
From the center of the town x2
Where the ornamental flair
Is made with thought and care
I bet you’ll find it there at the holiday fair
Where the trumpets blare
On a yule tide mare
Hear the drummers snare
Follow me there
To the holiday fair
Follow me there x2
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Handsome Molly
Park my cab on Water Street
I'm waiting for a fare
Watch the young girls in their first heels
Step like colts across the square
Fire on the ocean thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly wherever she may be
Now, I'm either in this cab or bar
Never in the choir
Sometimes howlin' and amazed
Like the wind hung up on barbed wire
Fire on the ocean thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly and what she promised me
Well, it's pretty doe-eyed Molly
Could see so well at night
It was a hard trade she made
Just to see it black white.
Now the word's gone down this north coast
And its Boy you best take care
Cut yourself with a knife
Find all the salt that's in the air
Fire on the ocean thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly who cried so easily
Now the soldiers down on Water Street
They eye the little girls
And the little girls of Water Street
Will take them 'round the world.
Fire on the ocean thunder on the sea
I think of Handsome Molly wherever she may be
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White Line Fever (Merle Haggard)
White line fever, a sickness born
Down deep within my soul
White line fever, the years keep flyin' by
Like the highline poles
The wrinkles in my forehead
Show the miles I've put behind me
They continue to remind how fast I'm growin' old
Guess I'll die with this fever in my soul
I wonder just what makes a man keep pushing on
What makes me keep on hummin' this old highway song
I've been from coast to coast a hundred times before
I ain't found one single place where I ain't been before
White line fever, a sickness born
Down deep within my soul
White line fever, the years keep flyin' by
Like the highline poles
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Outside (Laurel Brauns)
04:40
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Long Desert Train (Jason Molina)
You used to love a lot of things
You used to love talking
This you never told me about
If it's what your eyes were saying
I already figured it out
I could just tell it was bad
I couldn't tell how bad
You never took off your shades
And you stayed like that for days
I guess your pain never weakened
Your cool blood started burning
Scorching most of us in the flames
But there are things you can't change
There are things you can't change
You called that the curse of a human's life
That you couldn't change
Said you'd never be old enough - Or young enough
Tall enough - Or thin enough
Or smart enough - Or brave enough rich enough
Pretty enough Strong enough - Good enough
Well you were to us - You wanted silence by itself
Just the word - You wanted peace by itself
Just to learn - There were things you couldn't change
You got the dull pounding rain
You got the last car in the long desert train
You almost made it
You almost made it again
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San Quentin (Johnny Cash)
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me
You've blistered me since nineteen sixty three
I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die
And long ago I stopped askin' why
San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.
You've cut me and you scarred me through and through.
And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man;
Mister Congressman you can't understand.
San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
Do you think I'll be different when you're through?
You bend my heart and mind and you warp my soul,
And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell.
May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
May all the world forget you ever stood.
And may all the world regret you did no good.
San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.
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Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees)
03:32
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Stayin’ Alive
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
Music loud and women warm, I've been kicked around
Since I was born
And now it's alright, it's okay you may look the other way
We can try to understand The New York Times' effect on man
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Well now, I get low and I get high
And if I can't get in you know I’m gonna try
The wings of heaven on my shoes
I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose
And now it's alright, it's okay you may look the other way
We can try to understand The New York Times' effect on man
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Life goin' nowhere, somebody help me, yeah
I'm stayin' alive
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Rabbit Box (Vic Chesnutt)
When I was still in elementary school
I discovered Daddy’s tools
and amassed a small pile of scrap lumber
and I built a rabbit box
set it facing North
but I caught a possum and a kitten
both of which were a bitch to set free
but we all three escaped easily
Once I took my single shot gun
put on my camouflage
hid in the neighbors pasture by the cow pond
finally after a long time
a bunch of doves flew by
and landed in a huddle on the power line
so I aimed with an eagle’s eye and fired
but it was two pigeons that fell
like bean bags into the weeds
well they sure looked like doves to me
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Illinois (Anna Tivel)
03:22
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Illinois (Anna Tivel)
Underneath the heavy sky, the highway shines
A razor blade cutting down to bone
Nothing left to do but hold the wheel and drive
The dark of night, the dim light on the road
All the way from Illinois, a thousand miles of waiting for
A gentle touch, a kind, believing word
All the way from Illinois, and not one to be heard
Tell me all the ways to make a day go by
In an aeroplane high above the earth
Or standing in the kitchen in an awful fight
The brightly colored blood of ugly words
All the way from illinois, a box of clothes, a can of oil
The promise of a place to settle down
All the way from illinois, and not one to be found
And nothing hurts like crying on a long drive home
Nothing worse than hiding in the dark alone
From the beautiful lights of a dangerous love
Shattered glass, a photograph of a broken heart
A crack along the windshield of the world
The shape of something running in the untame dark
The howling out of freedom and of hurt
All the way from Illinois, the radio, the rain, the road
The dream of finding out just what is love
All the way from Illinois, and turns out nothing was
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Snow Come Down (Lori Carson)
I think you feel, the way I feel though you don't want to say
I think you feel, the way I feel though it's not the easy way
Wouldn't you like to be with me Watching the snow come down
Watching the snow come down Watching the snow....
I don't want to cause you any pain I just want to love you
I don't want to fuck up anything I just want to love you
And, I know you think I'm kinda strange I just want to love you x4
Everytime I see your face I can hardly breathe
Everytime I see your face I feel stupid and happy
Wouldn't you like to be with me Watching the snow come down
Watching the snow come down Watching the snow....
I don't want to cause you any pain I just want to love you
I don't want to fuck up anything I just want to love you
And, I know you think I'm kinda strange I just want to love you x4
I'd sure like to be with you Watching the snow come down
Watching the snow come down Watching the snow....
I don't want to cause you any pain I'd give you the world
I don't want to fuck up anything I wanna be your girl
And, I know you think I'm kinda strange I just want to love you x4
Ahhh---Watching the snow come down
Watching the snow come down Watching the snow
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Little Lover (AC/DC)
03:54
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Little Lover (AC/DC)
Saw you in the front row
Moving to the beat
Just movin' and groovin'
Killed me when I saw
The wet patch on your seat
Was it Coca Cola?
Oh baby I hope you liked the show
When the band said goodnight
I had to say hello
Little lover, I can't get you off my mind, no
Little lover, I've been trying hard to find
Someone like you
Oh baby you sure looked sweet
Cruisin'
A leg either side
Of my motorcycle seat
Just oozin'
Could have been a nightmare
Could have been a dream
But on my way home, baby
I thought I heard you scream
Little lover, I can't get you off my mind
Little lover, oh I tried so hard to find
Someone to give me the things that I need, ah
Little lover, I can't get you off my mind, no
Little lover, oh I tried so hard to find
Someone like you
You had my picture on your bedroom wall
Next to Gary Glitter, yeah
I was standing on the stage playing rock 'n' roll
I was a guitar picker, yeah
Never had a record
Never had a hit
Ooh baby, you didn't mind a bit
Little lover, I can't get you off my mind
Little lover, you know I tried so hard to find
Someone like you, you, you
Baby I know you're a
Little lover, ooh
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Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately, things just don't seem the same
Actin' funny but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Don't know if I'm comin' up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me (help me)
Help me
Oh, no, no, no
Uhh, ahh
Uhh, ahh
Uhh, ahh
Uhh, ahh
Yeah
Purple haze all in my eyes
Don't know if it's day or night
You got me blowin', blow my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
No, help me
Ah, yeah, purple haze
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Tell me, girl, tell me (help me)
I can't go on like this
You're makin' me blow my mind (help me)
No, no (help me)
No, no (help me)
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