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Clover
03:52
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When I saw you near the river, babe
Out near eight mile light
I was driving between the rails and the ridge
Holding on to what was left of my life
Clover
I helped you tie the lines
With my hands behind
To a heart packed deep in sand
I should have said my prayers
‘Cuz I could feel your tears
There’s no lies in a final demand
Clover, Clover, sweet Clover
You’re my fragrance of the night
Clover, sweet Clover, oh, Clover
Let me make it alright
I’ve an honest life
But they sharpened the blade
I’d cut if I could seem to care
What I found in your heart
Was a thousand little parts but
I knew I could help you there
Clover, Clover, sweet Clover
You’re my fragrance in the night
Clover, sweet Clover, oh, Clover
Come and make it alright
You said you’d read the lines in my palm
But they were too criss-crossed to reveal my heart
Heart, you took it out of me, you took it out me
You told me something, Clover in the morning
Driving on the highway, forever in the valley
I left the river, Clover in the morning
And you were with me forever in the valley
I left the river, Clover in the morning
And you were with me forever in the valley
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2. |
No Honor Among Thieves
05:36
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If he learned his lesson
It took at least three times
Driving back from Shoreham’s Bridge for the fall
He knew he saw the sign
A guy in a white shirt
At the bar in Thief River Falls
Said son, “if you fight around here, you better punch first and he better fall,’
These men will fight for love but they don’t steal ‘cuz that sting lingers on
She keeps saying that they’ll see better days
All he knows is that they better change their ways
Past the strippers of the city streets
Stopping by the lake
What he sees is something pretty
Wiping tables, taking orders, serving plates
She’s a magician, her sleight of hand diverts attention
She gives all he can take
She keeps saying that they’ll see better days
All he knows is that they better change their ways
Sandy stole his heart
And Bobby took hers too
In the heat of the city
Near Seventh Avenue
They better not believe
There’s no honor among thieves
Breaking and entering, lovers ask too many times
For confessions in their chokecherry wine
Can I trust you?
Can you trust me?
Around town crimson hearts beat the ground
For petty crimes and forced forgeries
In testimony
He keeps saying that they’ll see better days
All she knows is that they better change their ways
Jenny shot a heart in the shadows of the streets
And Sonny took one to the car for a drive into the brink
Anyone can see
There’s no honor among thieves
But there’s something they’ll still find
In any heart that’s broken anytime
Testimony, testimony, testimony
It’s all in that lesson alone
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3. |
Seeing Stars
03:19
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We would find the constellations at night
Thinking we had the time to count each star in the sky
But driving home, I might have known
One day I'd find you'd change your mind
There'd be nothing to do but wish upon your falling star
In that indigo light, you didn’t look so far
Now, Rosie, if I don’t find you
I’m just another heart that’s black and blue
Don’t think I”m crazy when I talk like this
‘Cause life seemed to have a way to twist everything that we’d say
So we would go out at night and look into the sky above
We were silently, silently in love
We would be together
You told me to pass it on
Beneath the star light
In the rain and stormy weather
Where we would be seeing stars
Sagittarius the most philosophical of all the signs
But I didn’t need no reasons
Just a little more time
(Your breathe feels hot on my neck)
I ask you to whisper it in my ear
And you say darling only heaven knows
Beneath the starlight in that rain and stormy weather
Oh Rosie you're the starlight of my night
When I see your signs in the horizon of the sky
Tell me cuz all I ever wanted to
If love passes away does it
leave any trace of you
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4. |
Van Gogh's Knife
03:46
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With better eyes than you or me
Couldn’t see beyond reality
Desperate love is found on the
Streets and on the gravel ground
Just another day with the head he carried ‘round
Blue green and yellow on the canvas he put down
The knife that cut the paint
The knife that fell the blood
I say Van Gogh’s knife never did no good
If it was sharp which wasn’t likely
To give a gift to what might be
Desperate love is seen as a
Form of insanity
Just another day with the head he carried ‘round
Her in his eyes and his hands could never hold
The knife that cut the paint
The knife that fell the blood
I say Van Gogh’s knife never did no good
In Arles I stood in his green room
That looked out on the convent garden
And I imagine that he brushed by me
In a voice he said calmly
Just another day with the head you carry ‘round
There may be colors that your hands will never hold
Don’t mind the pain, don’t mind the grief
I know Van Gogh’s knife can fall on me and you
On me and on us
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5. |
Carnival Town
04:47
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I worked my way up to you
To pay my union dues
The pain you left I earned
I’d work the weekends too
I’d hold you not change for you
It's true but insane
The secret in my heart remains
Driving down lake avenue to the gamblers I knew near the pier
Money down on 11 and like you it disappeared
When you told me that we were through
I hadn’t woken up just yet
What’s in a dream can still seem to be
You got my luck now baby
I need a lot more heart
You got my lock now baby to keep our love from falling apart
Fighting hand over fist
Made my life a mess
Deep down dead and alone
You rolled away that stone
The hearts pound on the battery
With you hands in my coat pockets
With a smile that says love never forgets
I yearned for you through the radio
Imagining you were listening too
I hid my love in that song
Who was I too prove it wrong
I’d drive around with nomadic hopes
Summer heat winter storms
Battered and bruised
I was healed by you
I felt your hands on my eyes and I knew
You got my love now baby
I need a lot more heart
You got my luck now baby to keep our love from falling apart
We got our love to see
What might be
You said that diamonds are dust
Love wasn’t meant to rust
I wait in Carnival Town
To make our deal go down
I see you at the Midway
Your bright lights and loaded games
I don’t care if things are never the same
If I were honest with myself
If I don’t tell no one else
What good is love
What good am I
If like the rest I didn’t try
I’d search alone on the desert trail
If I knew your love was there
Laid on the ground
I was healed all around
I felt your hands on my eyes
And I knew
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6. |
Our Hearts
02:28
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In the master’s cage
Talk is cheap
Promises will be made
No one intends to keep
That don’t mean nothing now
Hot summer night
Take my hand with a smile
Walk to the dance floor
Let the band slow down
We feel this coming round
Our arms were meant to take this slow dance, baby
Our hearts were meant to beat this fast
Your touch explains
The hundred miles
I’d walk in the rain
To bring back what you lost
Let the drummer count four
Can we hear them anymore?
Our arms were meant to take this romance
Our hearts were meant to beat this fast
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7. |
Stop Breaking
04:17
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You’d wait at the lost and found
A heart would come around
To drive you home
Sunrise, your eyes would see in me
A better place
When you walked out
All you said was c’est la vie
And I, I want you
I want you to know
Where you go
And I, I know you
I know you’re trying to
Prove my love, prove my love
Don’t be cruel
And break your own heart
Walking away won’t split
What can’t be broke apart
Only a fool would break her own heart
It’s more true to stay than pray
You don’t break your own heart
Beneath my chest and the surface waste
My blood pumps in empty space
Since you’ve been gone
Sometimes I see you here with me
A little flame
All that it left has been burned in my memory
And I, I want you
I want you to know
Where you go
And I, I know you
I know you’re trying to prove my love
Don’t be cruel
And break your own heart
Walking away won’t split
What can’t be broke apart
Only a fool would break her own heart
It’s more true to stay than pray
You don’t break your heart
Don’t break my heart
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8. |
Indecision Street
04:12
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Don't you think it's getting old
the same goddamn fork in the road
it's turned your mind obtuse
old habits die hard you can’t forgive them
You got to kill him
You’ve burned your last excuse
When we met I found what I thought was fire in your eyes
But now I'm seeing an old flame
it could have been me
playing halftime when you were in three four
your love was lost on Indecision Street
Blue sky turning black
The time to take them ain’t coming back
Those choices are so few
You keep convinced that more will wash upon your Southern shore
Each wave brings bottles new
Do you recall what you told your younger self before growing old
they'll be a lot of promises to be made
you said you'd prove to me the reality I couldn't see
laying there at my feet at indecision Street
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9. |
Only Words
03:28
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There may be more to me
Though I can't say
Because when you left
You took my words away
But I believe in the silence
That you will hear what you meant to me
There will be more to you
That I didn't know
'cuz I didn't ask when it was worth it so
And you believe in the morning light
I will again repeat what we meant tonight
It's only only only words
It's only only words
We read the books aloud
Echoes on the canyon walls
And when I touched your hand I tumble down the waterfalls
And we believe in the silence
That will be able to know
Truth inexpressible
It's only only only words
It's only only words
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10. |
Close to Me
03:15
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You said you’d be back
You didn’t say you be back to haunt me
It’s not one of those Victorian novels
Where 20 years later
We rescue love from the rubble
How we gonna be saved
When doing things the hard way
You said take a chance
That everything could be fixed
You didn’t say a word to stop him
Dark on the road
Breaking of glass
Took the chance
Too tight to pass
How’s he gonna be saved
When he’s working things the hard way
The road don’t roll by itself
But it holds up for nothing
It says try a little tenderness
A painting or a party dress
Because once in the black, to confess,
You’re never coming back
The road don’t roll by itself
And it holds us up with nothing
It says find it in the fallen leaves
The catacombs ‘neath the Paris streets
Because just like the lights and the breeze
You’re always close to me
You’re always coming back
You’re always coming, coming back
You’re always close to me
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