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Love Me Twice
03:25
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Girl I been walking through the rain all these midnight contemplations bring historic situations
I been going insane but the writing on the wall don’t seem to speak to me at all
But if I give you my forever would you say that you would love me twice- as much as before
Girl I’ve been turning off my mind pour your shadows in the glass this present perfect like the past
I’ve been trying to go blind blind blind but your image like a curse pours upon this world of hurt
All these things I wish I could change my eyes looking solemn out into a moonlit night
But to be dancing free from this world of grief I would give anything oh girl I would give anything for you
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Surrender This
03:01
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Walking through the winter through the cold watching all the air I breathe turn to crystal and rise like smoke
And don’t I feel it begin to rise inside my soul thinking ‘bout the things that keep on growing but don’t grow old
And it feels so sweet cause it’s nice just to see you girl it’s good now to meet you surrender this
To drive the lonely highway ain’t so bad all the things that used to burn me up now even they don’t seem so sad
I’ll tell you like I did before that it’s living on right through the door and now I guess that I can live with that
All these words now they fall into your empty ears but I never wanted you to- never expected you to hear
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Ghost Man
04:39
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Crooked smile flashes cross these lonely crowded streets he never takes his life for granted or forgets a face he meets
Sitting on the sidewalk with pad of paper and dripping pen he’s busy taking observations of what he’s seen and where he’s been
He pulls out a worn down six string and he plays a quiet tune his words are muffled in this madness lost in the shadow of the moon
But still he keeps on playing though his message is never heard he’s got to try to pass his wisdom he’s got to try to spread the Word
He’s a poet in his spirit he’s a lover in his soul to the rest he’s something different they neglect to see the whole
But if they ever stopped to listen instead of tossing lonely dimes they’d know he wasn’t just a Ghost Man haunting fourth and pine
He sings “the world is moving faster but we’re doing less every day I’ve come to you as a messenger I’ve come to take your fear away
Just walk with me and I’ll show you how to get yourself back on the road please don’t turn away from me I’ve come to take you home”
But tired faces pass him by lost in superficial dreams they scream God damn this hellish place and God damn all the pain it brings
And though he’s scrawling out the answer and he’s pouring out his soul there are never ears to hear the words of a prophet who’s growing old
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Careening through the stratosphere on a trip to blow my mind where inside I try to find what’s been hidden from my eye
And who can say it’s better just to always live in glass where the mannequins you pass all just laugh behind your back
All these things are not quite what they seem I try to sleep cause you’re still in my dreams
Purple magic flower parades are racing through my head it’s like the purple cat he said it would be strange if we were red
But the sight of him was just enough to bring me to the ground and though I wandered through the town I couldn’t turn it upside down again
It wouldn’t be quite true to say that always I feel fine cause sometimes I do find that it’s best to lose my mind
But though it seems to be so simple here well I can’t help but feel like I’m tied against this wheel it’s like I’m trying to make it real again
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One Sunday Morning
05:46
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Sunday morning a quarter past nothing ever seems to last these days
The sky is turning gray people just walk away but how can I be alone in a world so full
Full of life full of light you know it makes me hurt so bad sometimes
Down at the station a girl was singing a tune turned to me said “you look so blue you wanna tell me your situation”
I said “girl I’m tired. I’ve been running for so long. It all seems wrong and kind of inside out.” “Well,” she said, “don’t check out.”
“cause you don’t wanna waste your life like that and you don’t wanna burn your pieces like ash in the ground
You say you’ve been feeling down and you say you been feeling sad this time but we all feel sad sometimes”
Monday morning everything looks the same nothing ever seems to change these days
But if I could bleed tonight maybe I would see the light or maybe it would be the same on the other side
Oh maybe she’s right when she says
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Stay Tonight
03:30
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I was cruising down the interstate I was pushing ninety-five had the windows down and the music loud trying to make it come to life
She came just like a little girl with the mystery in her smile and she said, “come on love don’t break it down don’t break this heart of mine”
So baby won’t you stay with me tonight cause I’ve been tying to find a reason to wanna stay alive
Baby won’t you help me rest my mind cause you know you make me feel so good even when the world don’t feel right
I was walking through the emptiness and I was holding on inside but it was growing wild like a garden lost from the gardener of life
I think that I would be so glad if you’d come and help me give it back cause you know I want your love so bad
I was walking long the ocean where the water meets the sky and I was trying to find that silence to fill this empty heart of mine
I just can’t place it but I know if you would be forever I would be forever too
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Black and White
04:27
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Well you seemed so certain love just a moment ago when you turned with a smile and sent me staggering back home cause I was falling on your floor again
You didn’t have any sympathy all those things you said you spoke from your head your words like poison darts you kept dealing the wrong cards
but it’s all in the way that you look to me tonight and it’s all the way you dream when you’re lonely and
Everything’s turning black and white when everything’s turning black and white and the colors bleed from your eyes
In the evening when the air is cool I like to stroll on down the avenue with my mind loaded like a gun like I’m escaping on the run
Cigarettes streaming through my veins to replace those things that you took away and it feels so good to hurt so bad sometimes well I feel just fine
Wild horses wild horses racing through my head like all the things I wish I said they’re so much clearer looking back in retrospect
But even so I wouldn’t change a thing cause I still don’t have that diamond ring and your love is like a speeding train running wild- it’s cutting up this place
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Queen of Hearts
04:25
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Well I’ve been listening to your records with the lights off while I drink soft words they linger in this room soft rain cascades it clouds the moon
But if it’s true then tell me soon cause I don’t want to wait another minute for this thing that never seems to finish
Take me back to the day where the world was a game when I always had the Queen up my sleeve
Because I don’t have another card to play but I don’t want to fade away I just want to burn up bright
Ten thousand miles ten thousand miles is not too far to go for you is not too far to crawl to you if you would only do it too
But you say nothing makes you burn and I never seem to learn I only know to give it all it’s not enough
Each hour bleeds into another the dying moon is almost covered and now you’ve become forbidden stretch my fingers to your skin
Imagine flowers in your hair dream you descending from the stairs from that room where we were lovers from that love oh
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Guess I Will
02:52
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Well I’ve been blowing down this road girl I’ve been raking o’er my mind
I’ve been aching without you girl I’ve been lost like an orphan child
But I just wanted to be your lover and I guess I love you still so if you ask me to wait forever then I guess I’ll say I will
Ain’t it funny way that moon shine light the road like a shimmering sea
I think I’ll sail away to you girl bring that love back home to me
Watching the sun go down she’s been sinking slow I’ve been burning out now her colors bleed the sky like falling rain
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Tired of Falling Down
03:29
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Well this sky it always seems to rain when I need some inspiration need some time just for myself
And these eyes grow so full of clouds now they cast their lonely shadows all over this- all over this love
Did you ever think that this would be your dream?
Did you ever dream that you would be so tired of falling down
That you turned yourself around?
Don’t turn me down
Now my mind is running like a clock I can’t see their faces when they smile don’t hear the door when they knock
And this air smells just the way it did when we’d stroll the silent evening of our hearts sipping smoke and fallen leaves
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Seems so many things have changed but I can’t help but feel the same cause I can’t seem to understand why you’re gone
Situations running through my mind racing faster like I’m chasing time but I can’t ever seem to find my way through
So baby just run leave me here I won’t cry another tear don’t look back until I’m gone
Cause baby you know that I’ve tried oh but now my hands are tied don’t look back until I’m gone
I’ll be gone
Strange the way we used to talk when now we can’t even seem to pass a thought and now all these broken words just cough through the room
Look into your eyes of fire for the flame that used to burn desire but now it seems all the smoke just clouds your heart
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12. |
Highway Blues
04:02
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Well I’ve been walking down this lonely dusty highway I’ve been feeling a bit forsaken and confused
I’ve been wandering trough this empty desert wasteland for so long my feet are blistered and badly bruised
There’s a woman on the other side of freedom they say that she can cure me of my blues
I don’t know if she’s really got the answer but I’ve sunk so low I got nothing left to lose
If she can show me to the drinking well or at least mend my highway shoes
I met a man walking slowly by the ocean he said that he could cleanse me of my sin
For twenty dollars said he’d get me straight to Heaven he said “listen son there’s no way you can’t win”
“Because there are men who’ll take away your life” rob you of your dignity well they’ll cut you with a knife”
“But I know that what you need’s a friend” I’ve seen your troubles I’ve seen where you’ve been”
Well he took my twenty dollars then he turned and kicked me in the shin. what a friend
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Ian McFeron Seattle, Washington
Ian McFeron’s writing has been compared to Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Ryan Adams. Over the course of a decade-long independent music career, he has attracted media attention stretching across the Atlantic. He currently tours in support of his 7th album Time Will Take You, recorded in Nashville with members of Ryan Adams band The Cardinals as well as Patty Griffin and John Hiatt’s touring bands. ... more
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