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Grab hold of the morning
Stop it kicking free
One more pass at the drawing of the cards
There are two many moments all at once
wrapped up inside me
Hold out for better futures
Or build your own across your back
No hope in more and more computers
Or while your thoughts refuse to crack
I’ve been around enough to know it’s mostly all made up
And that no big ideas get to play
And you’ll spend most of the time planning for the inevitable
Knowing you’ll just wing it on the day
Rest up they say you’ve earned it
But they won’t let you rest at all
It seemingly doesn’t make the smallest bit of difference
Whose eye or even no eyes are ever on the ball
Plenty of answers
No one wants to do the work
It’s mostly just the chancers
Who hold on to all the perks
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Nail it Down
05:36
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Climb in and get comfortable
there’s a lot of road ahead
Nothing is affordable
Even if you’re considered that well read
Wash the wind away
We’ve emptied all your bank accounts
Just when you get a handle on it
It moves by large amounts
When I’m by myself
I can ratify the answers
When I’m in the crowd
I hide behind the dancers
You’ve not just changed the course
The boat has got a leak
That’s usual of course
If you won’t let us speak
Nail it down
Why won’t you Nail it down
Take a look around
They want you all to nail it down
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Night Time Ski-doo
06:08
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Enough in This Life
05:50
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Just once
In a blue moon
You’re ensconced
In a warm cocoon
But not enough enough
Not enough in this life
Find the crumbs
Where they fall
Hold your defiant thumbs
Against the encroaching wall
And that’s enough enough
Enough in this life
And they know
Exactly what is what
And you know you know
They made it up on the spot
And every balast you laid down
Will one day rot
And go back
And go back to the ground
Just once
You’d like to make it out
unscathed
You’d settle for a world
Well Behaved
That would be enough
Enough in this life
And you know
Exactly what is what
Crossed purposes
To bring us back to the same spot
And all the greedy monsters
Never will get caught
You’ve been around
Go back to the ground
The playing field
Never even in this life
You return healed
Like evolving wildlife
And you hunt and you run
And you’re never quite done
Always somebody’s son
Answering to everyone
Often Under the gun
With your one heart holding on
You’re Just about enough in this life
Yes You’re just about enough in this life
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I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I feel the urgency with every stop sign I drive through
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’m acting like signalling is just a suggestion
A suggestion I didn’t pay much mind
I’ve been grabbing what I need at the grocery
Running out the manager chasing me
And pocketing every bit of strangers change that I happen to find
Riding through every red light in the middle of mostly dead nights
Taking backroads wherever possible and leaving trucks and other cars way behind
We’ve been speeding through the great state of Illinois
A sense of determination and destination with not much joy
And I know you’d do the same if the foot was in the other shoe
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
Doing everything possible one man in a beat up ford could do
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
We haven’t paid a motel check from Sioux City to Fort Wayne
Every cop in the state of Ohio will soon surely know my name
I feel bad but we’ve stiffed every single server
in every single road side diner
If I strike it rich, their families will never want for anything again
We’ve sped, shouted and barged our best through most of the great but flat midwest
Dodging or out running state troopers a 45 in the glove box as a last resort
We stole the collection plates from churches
Nothing but a steely eyed sense of purpose
And I don’t know if we’ll make it all the way, I haven’t got a clue
But I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
But how did your baby get so far away
was it all the things you didn’t do and all the things you refused to say
If she was mine I wouldn’t ever let her go
And when she’s yours again you better behave as if you know
We moved earth and all the other planets
Turned ourselves into wanted bandits
Blew fuses and blew gaskets
Almost ended up in matching caskets
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
I don’t know if you deserve it but we persevered and saw it through
I’ve been breaking the law to get your baby back to you
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The Firing Range
02:55
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Make a change
Make a change
Walk away from the firing range
Put your life back
In your hands
Everyone around you
Understands
What’s been started
Cannot end
What’s been broken
No longer bends
Make a change
Make a change
Walk away from the firing range
Words mean nothing
Actions less
What happens next
Is Anyones guess
We’ve been ok
We’ve been the best
We’ve never been heard
Or been at rest
Make a change
Make a change
Walk away from the firing range
It’s no good
I don’t know why we should
Do the things that others would
You wouldn’t either
If this where you stood
Half way between the grave and childhood
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I will see you some day in the future
I promise, I will see you again
And when I see you let’s hope we’re both in good humour
It never ends until it ends
I will meet you, meet you in the parking lot of Nick’s Country Kitchen
I promise I will be there, so call around some friends
If it goes ok we can make it an annual tradition
It never ends until it ends
We drifted apart, we went our own way
I thought of calling you sometimes but I didn’t know what to say
But to put an end to our estrangement let’s make some kind of arrangement
Let’s not let it go another day
I’ve had my troubles just like most of us do
I’ve been living down where the road bends
I’ve been running and biting off more I could chew
It never ends until it ends
My past is littered with a lot of good intentions
And I know what kind of message that sends
Grab hold of some hope and do away with needless conventions
It never ends until it ends
Yeah it never ends until it ends
Yeah it never ends my dear, until it ends!
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As Doors Softly Close
05:04
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It was the moment
You knew they were leaving
Taking all that you’d worked for off in a van
No one would deny we were all done believing
But why destroy what we did it’s just because you can
I suppose
You hold your breath as you take that first step
Out into the cold where you hope serenity lies
Open your self and try to find comfort
Living the life in an endless disguise
and old clothes
Sometimes
I think of your hands
Long faded skin holding on till the end
All that you’d seen behind
kind but blurred lines
The wisdom we mourn with each passing trend
It’s written down somewhere but here again you go writing
The pencil can’t keep up with your angry old tears
You wish there was distance between you and the fighting
And maybe there will be in the passing of years
As doors softly close
Sometimes
I think of all your ideas
And wish that you’d shared many more when you could
There were stories and sonnets now it all disappears
the words that we cherished and often misunderstood
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Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures New Milford, Connecticut
Songwriting and banging your instruments together
The main thing I love to do is write
songs. I pick up various instruments from ukulele to piano, accordion to percussion and electric guitar to harmonica and bang them about to try and get close to the noises I hear in my head but the writing comes first.
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