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The lone coyote comin' 'round
The lone coyote comin' 'round
Do you hear the sound?
Coyote comin' 'round
A man-o-war
Washed up on a foreign shore
Thunderheads high above the desert floor
The letter names the next of kin
Locust shell, yellow wind
Weather vane spinnin' 'bove the cellar door
The stowaway an only son
Pray the lone coyote come again
The lone coyote comin' 'round
The lone coyote comin' 'round
Do you hear the sound?
Coyote comin' 'round
So put an iron chain
On your garden gate
Watch the shadows intersectin' on the hour plate
Two bodies lost among the rye
The widow blames the Lorelei
Cursed they who read the lie upon the slate
Heaven cries and raven yearns
The lone coyote is returned tonight
So gather round
On this, our common ground
And light a beacon for the sails out in the sound
And beat the drum in a circle long unjoined for reasons only elders can recount
And let the silver hammers ring
Let departed spirits sing
The song of one was gone but now that's comin' round
There ain't a thing for you to fear
Just tell me darlin' do you hear the sound?
The lone coyote comin' 'round
The lone coyote comin' 'round
Do you hear the sound?
Coyote comin' 'round
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Old Crow Man
05:26
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Old Crow Man all dressed in black
Skippin' cut stone by the railroad track
Got a Garry Oak cane and a gurney sack
Wrinkle in time just split and crack
Old Crow Man in a cedar tree
Cawin' and-a-swoopin' on down on me
Tight claw fist on my destiny
What you don't see I tell you Old Crow see
Old Crow, leave me alone
Old Crow, leave me alone
Old Crow leave me alone
You got an old soul, so go on home
Old Crow Man by the ocean floor
Chicken scratch hand on the Magrit' door
Says you and I been here before
What the hell it don't matter no more
It don't matter no more
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Underneath Grey Havens
05:37
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I've crossed this land a thousand times
I've crossed this land and yonder
My feet are wet with the foreign shore
My skin with salt, it is tender
A thousand hearts lie in my wake
A thousand homes grow fonder
But each morn the sun on yon window breaks
With ne'er a thought I cast but onwards
And never have I felt so alone
My soul's in need of savin'
The kind that comes from owning one's own
Underneath grey havens
I was a pilgrim there north of Spain
Down to the ocean of Gibraltar
I cast my tears in the mountain rain
And still I did not falter
In the western island ocean mist
I built a castle for to hide in
And I ruled there with an iron fist
No company abidin'
It's a lonesome thing to uphold
Amidst the crows and ravens
A hermit king with a touch of gold
Underneath grey havens
I loved you well and called you friend
I loved you well and better
But upon the stars a sailor depends
Come silver night come weather
I've crossed this land a thousand times
But many a step lies before me
I'll shake this salt and ocean brine
Once more the hearth, it shall warm me
The castle has fallen to the sea
The long road home I'll be bravin'
My darling always won't you think on me
As I stand 'neath my grey haven
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Paperhat Loveboat
04:54
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We saw it coming from miles away
We felt the thunder, and we smelled the rain
Oh how it came like the lion and lamb
In shame we hid our wrinkles and scars in a skin
And joined up the dots, tracing new places with old myths from far off
With fine quills from China and India ink
When the storm broke, in spirals in gutters and sinks
Down the drain went the story that we wrote
Down with our paperhat loveboat
Alone in a room on the far side of town
I'm still breathing, but I feel it pulling me down
And all that I'm asking for is a miniature casket
To keep me afloat until somebody saves me
Or to bury my heart in at the bottom of the sea
In the half-sunken submarine painted in lavendar
In the bowl on the nightstand by the cheap kitten calendar
Red marker life-raft saving the day
Come April, babe, we'll be sailing away
If the rainshadow favors the north coast
Away in our paperhat loveboat
Paperhat loveboat sailing away, paperhat love boat sailing away
Paperhat loveboat sailing away
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Blood Sun Rising
07:25
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This dawn I saw the blood sun rising
And the sky, Lord, in the East was grey
Last night Mama sighed and
Gave up the ghost to the Great Highway
An only son, made an orphan
Born with soul debt to repay
Guess I'm gone over Jordan
Mama don't you fret on me
When Johnny comes home - a - marchin'
In the flood of the Devil's wake
Over the sun is gonna come your darlin'
There's gonna be blood on the Pearly Gates
In the fields the rigs is blazin'
With a fire, Lord, like you never saw
And in the blue, the migs serenadin' me
Mama that's the choir that's gonna sing me home
When Johnny comes home - a - marchin'
In the flood of the Devil's wake
Over the sun is gonna come your darlin'
There's gonna be blood on the Pearly Gates
They stuck a hole in the side of Jesus
To let the light of tomorrow shine
I got me this scar, and Mama it ain't healin'
And there's a blood sun on the rise
When Johnny comes home - a - marchin'
In the flood of the Devil's wake
Over the sun is gonna come your darlin'
There's gonna be blood on the Pearly Gates
There's gonna be blood on Heaven's Gate
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On broken wings, the wind she brings a song for me
She howls and moans, my spirit groans, yes she longs for me
Oh but I long for one who lives beyond my memory
In this life I know, the wind she blows not tenderly
Oh Maria of the Wind, oh my Mary weep
Your siren song is sweet and long, and it carries me
O'er the sands of time to the lands akin to me
Lo, I go where the wind blows tenderly
Once I knew what love can do to the likes of me
So I gave her peace in the earth beneath the cypress trees
Oh fool am I! Love does not die with the skin or the teeth
A shadow walks, my name she talks not tenderly
Oh Maria of the Wind, oh my Mary weep
Your siren song is sweet and long, and it carries me
O'er the sands of time to the lands akin to me
Lo, I go where the wind blows tenderly
So listen well, friend, and do not pretend you don't believe
Once I was so, now behold my ghost on this hallowed eve
Take heed these words you have well heard, lest it end like this
And seek you a place the wind does grace with tenderness
I seek the saviour with the crown
I've not the strength to turn these steps around
A dream paid and lost at the price of bone
Where my heart belongs no longer known
Oh Maria, let me go
Go lay down alone
Oh Maria of the Wind, oh my Mary weep
Your siren song is sweet and long, and it carries me
O'er the sands of time to the lands akin to me
Lo, I go where the wind blows tenderly
On broken wings, the wind she brings a song for me
She howls and moans, my spirit groans, yes she longs for me
On these canyon walls, in blood I scrawl the last in me:
"In this life I knowed, the wind she blowed not tenderly."
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Jenny skipped the goodbye
Why oh why did she go wandering
Down among them old Georgia pines
Straight like the stone crow flies?
That old river just thundering
I've been drifting
Down, down, down
Sands are sifting
And she's waiting to be found
At the bottom
Of that river in my dreams
Oh Tallulah
Bring my one true love
Home to me
Oh, but a man's got seeds to sow
Forgive me Jenny
Girl if you only knew
Now it's late, and I must go
Forget these things I know
Da doo doo da doo...
Between the bottom and the shine of beggar's gold
Between heaven and a lullaby
Between the banks of that river where we rolled
I'll be drifting
Down, down, down, down, down
Jenny skipped the goodbye
She split the blue sky
And left me wandering here in a dream
Drifting with that old river's tide
And she's with me by my side
Floating on down the stream
I've been drifting
Down, down, down
Sands are sifting
And she's waiting to be found
At the bottom
Of that river in my dreams
Oh Tallulah
Bring my one true love
Home to me
I've been drifting
Down, down, down
Sands are sifting
Down, down, down...
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Do you ever find it strange waiting on a light to change?
It starts blinking, and you get to thinking
You used to get some feeling that you lost along your way
So you walk the streets of New York City evening into night admitting
Truths that you've discovered to your sisters and brothers
To the beggars and the bottles, to the traffic lights and rain
You go out looking for that something that you lost along your way
And you don't remember where or when, will you ever find it again?
But you hear a voice calling, calling out your name
Down the block on Stanton Street, the lights are changing red to green
Ain't nothing in this world I've seen that don't fade away
I found my old companion in a bar that we once drank in
Singing songs that I had written that had all but lost their meaning
And we talked about the women, and we talked about the old times
And we saw that things were different, and we tried to put it in rhymes
But the art had fled far from us, much too far to find
And I'm looking in that mirror now, and I'm seeing for the first time how
My face is long and hungry, how her beauty stunned me
Tell me will she find somebody, somebody treats her kind
So here's one for every feeling that we lost along our way
Once we called each other friend, do you call it coincidence
When there comes a voice calling, calling out your name
Standing there on Stanton Street, the lights are changing red to green
Ain't nothing in this world I've seen that don't fade away, don't it fade away
I walk the streets of this foreign city, I spend my time committing
Words unspoken, beneath a storm unbroken
And I felt the sky weeping as I watched those words I once believed
So set in stone bleeding, seep into the evening
Just longing for their freedom, left me standing on the corner thinking
How did I, how did we get from there to here, and wondering
Where it went that feeling that I lost along the way
I feint believe that now and then I can hear a voice upon the wind
That's calling, calling, calling out my name
So I turn my head, I scan the scene
Down the block on Stanton Street, the lights are changing red to green
Ain't nothing in this world I've seen don't fade away
Waiting on a light to change, waiting on a light to change
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Northern Star
04:57
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I watched the night descend on the sky
I'm going back again for another try
Too long I've been feeling dead inside
Time has robbed the sunshine that was in my eyes
But out there in the darkness, look on the horizon
Northern star, been so long
Wherever you are, just keep holding on
Across the night I find it hard
But I see the light inside the dark
Northern star, holding on for me
There's a cool autumn wind in the air
I'll be pulling in, will she be there?
Waiting for me, the morning in her hair
On the other side of midnight, high upon a clear
Beyond the winter of my life
And I know sure as the world turns you will appear
After all this time, to see the constellations climb
And it starts anew
One by one the stars slip into blue
I can feel my heart beating strong and true
Not knowing what tomorrow holds, I keep rolling, rolling on
I know the night is coldest just before the break of dawn
Northern star, been so long
Wherever you are, just keep holding on
Across the night I find it hard
But I see the light inside the dark
Northern star, keeping holding on
Wherever you are, keep holding on
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10. |
Desolation Sound
07:30
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Do you remember?
It was such a tender
Summer love affair
Like an ember in the wind
Our love sparked and flared
And now it's going out
Alone without
The promise of a shelter from the storm
While the phantom of that old fire
Burns through the night
To keep us warm
Do you remember?
It was September
When we watched the breakers rolling in
Oh what we surrendered, my darlin'
Was something more than we could give
But when those summer winds
Blow again
We're gonna head on up the coast and anchor down
I know a little spot up there
Right off Desolation Sound
Can you see them waving, baby?
All along the pier
In procession, receding from the bow
Yes, and our hearts we'll anchor here
And watch them drift around
If the summer ever comes
We're gonna head on up to Desolation Sound
Yeah, well maybe if that loan comes through
And if I come around
Can you see them waving, baby?
Silent in the rain
The phantoms stranded on the shore
And I see the truth now, but in vain
From the blind eye of the storm
Can you see them waving, baby?
They're all but disappeared
Receding into Desolation Sound
Yes, but our hearts are anchored here
And I want to thank you, dear
Our hearts are anchored here
It's the world that drifts around
Do you remember?
It was such a tender
Summer love affair
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A Deeper Shade of Blue
03:57
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Just skippin' stones on Broadway
After the rain
All the pretty little colors got washed away
What a cheap set of finger paints! Anyway...
So you turn deep inside just tryin'
To discern the color of your heart
When it's done its bleedin' and cryin'
Why does your color wheel keep on breakin' down and fallin' apart on you?
The color of your heart runs in a shade of blue
Yeah life is hard when your love is true
They say it's fadin' but they misconstrue
You're just a deeper shade of blue
Do you remember just where we, honey
We saw the rainbow's end?
Two pink blossoms of a cherry tree
Wet and desperately tryin' to take off in the wind
Then the city was like emerald
Not all cold and grey
When will the colors be bright like that again?
Well sugarplum, you might just have to wait
For your color wheel to come around
See that love is real, somewhere, somehow
I know you feel down and out
But together we're gonna paint the town blue
The color of your heart runs in a shade of blue
Yeah life is hard when your love is true
They say it's fadin' but they misconstrue
You're just a deeper shade of blue
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When the winter comes calling
And the moon's on the wane
When the hickory's fallen
And I'm on the cane
With a lilt in my step, dear
And under my hat -
Silver threads, dear
Among the black
When you lie beside me
In your white lace and pearls
When the moonlight is ivory
In your ebony curls
On the pillows and bed, dear
And over the stack -
Silver threads, dear
Among the black
Never will I find
A color don't fade
Forever on my mind
No matter the shade
Not a tear will we shed, dear
For the hours we lack
There are silver threads, dear
Among the black
And when darlin' I've loved you
For all my many years
When the heaven above you
Is calling us near
In what lies ahead, dear
And what lies in back
Just silver threads, dear
Among the black
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