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Anything
04:23
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You unlocked the door, you unlocked everything
You asked me to follow you; I followed you.
But after all this time, we were “just friends”
And now you’re showing off your brand new fool
But you call me up at 3:00 a.m.
You got nothing better to do
And you know I can’t stay away from you
I’ll do anything you want me to do.
Chorus
I’ll do anything, I’ll do anything,
I’ll do anything you want me to.
I got no illusions where this is gonna end
I’ll do anything, anything for you.
You let me carry everything; you keep your hands free
You laugh at everything precious to me
It’s like any old addiction, any pleasure or pain
It hollows you out but you go back again
You made me lie to my family
Lie to everyone I knew
You made me so much less than I am
But you know I can’t stay away from you
Chorus
I’ll do anything, I’ll do anything,
I’ll do anything you want me to.
I know just exactly where this is gonna end
I’ll do anything, anything for you.
I’m gonna get myself back from you one of these days
One of these days, but I don’t know when
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2. |
End of the Chain
03:56
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He didn’t know all that much outside this little town.
He didn’t know who decided to shut the plant down.
He knew they paid a bonus to the CEO.
But the guys in the shop got two weeks’ notice and the doors just closed.
Twenty years in a factory that didn’t quite keep pace –
A stunned bystander in a global marketplace,
Now he hangs out in the back room at the Red Cap Café,
With a bottomless cup of coffee, and a bottomless day.
Chorus
At the end of the chain, at the end of the chain,
Everything swings around and snaps at the end of the chain.
Last March the bank sent a letter. They called his loan.
They had to cut their losses – they took back his home,
They said they were sorry for everything he went through.
But at the end, he couldn’t pay, and the debt was due,
At the end of the chain, at the end of the chain,
Everything swings around and snaps at the end of the chain.
Everybody probably bears a little blame.
Everybody probably plays their little part.
A simple man always loses when he plays in a cunning man’s game,
As everything swings around and snaps at the end of the chain.
Yesterday the sheriff came and locked his door.
Last night he slept on a mat on his sister’s floor,
Each day he gets up and moves on the best he can,
But who would blame him if now and then he stops and asks what for?
At the end of the chain, at the end of the chain,
Everything swings around and snaps at the end of the chain.
At the end of the chain, at the end of the chain,
At the end of the chain.
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3. |
Every Day Something New
03:37
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I thought I cried all my tears a long time ago
I thought I went down as far as you can go
I thought I knew everything about a broken heart
But now everyday I learn something new
About what I lost when I lost you.
Chorus
I lost a walk around the lake with you
And a drink at the corner bar
I lost the way your back felt under my hand
Dancing in the stars
I lost the way you looked into my eyes
Lying next to me in bed
I thought it would get better soon
But now I know: it gets worse instead
I thought I knew every story about dreams that go wrong
I thought I heard every song about pickin’ up and movin’ on
I thought I knew everything about devils in the night
But now every hour and every day
Seems like something hurts in a brand new way
Chorus
It hurts whenever I go walking
And I walk at my own pace
It hurts when I look at our daughter
And know she’ll never touch your face
It hurts whenever I tell a stupid joke
And I don’t see you smile.
I thought that I’d get better soon
But now I know: it will take quite a while
They say love is a journey, well the blues is too
You never know just when it starts, or what it puts you through.
You know I cried all my tears a long time ago
I went down as far as you can go
I learned everything about a broken heart
But still everyday I learn something new
About what I lost when I lost you.
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4. |
No Camera
04:59
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That’s your picture on the screen
You and all your friends and a limousine
I know that face. It’s the face you make to show you make a scene.
You make a scene.
Cuz everything is a display.
Everything you do you do assuming someone’s watching you
Everything’s a face a part an act a play a pose you make to show.
You show.
Chorus
The camera’s on. The red light’s flashing.
You make another image of the image that you want to make today.
What if you were on your own?
What if there was no record of the life you lead to leave a record?
What if you had no way to feel but the way you feel when you are all alone? All alone.
Chorus
But the camera’s on. The red light’s flashing.
You make another image of the image that you want to make today.
You could walk right down the Mississippi River Road
Past the railroad bridge and slide down to the water’s edge
Wade out to a sandbar with deadheads and cigarettes
And no one would know where you are
No one would know, no one would know.
You would not explain.
How the way you feel today, the way you feel right now is all that matters
Everything that happens now belongs to no one, no one else but you. Just you.
No cameras on. No red lights flashing.
It’s no image here: the only thing that’s real is how it really is with you. No cameras on. No image here. The only thing that’s real is how it really is with you. No red lights flashing.
No image here. The only thing that’s real is how it really is with you.
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5. |
Hey Hey Hey
03:15
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hey hey hey hey, come on out and play
hey hey hey hey, come on out and play
i know he's comin' home tonight
but you and me could have all day
now now now, what’s the use of cryin’ now?
now now now, what’s the use of cryin’ now?
he never listens when you sing
but darlin' I hear everything
you know you'll never make a man
out of mama's precious boy
sometimes he wants a maid
sometimes he wants a toy
plz plz plz plz, honey take a walk with me
plz plz plz plz, honey take a walk with me
he don’t taste what makes u sweet
and he don't see what I see
now now now now, what did he do now?
now now now now, what did he do now?
Now it’s pointless to be true
Darlin’ let me love u
you got to paint every room in the house
you got to throw all the garbage out
you got to pick your favorite clothes
pick your favorite shoes
hey hey hey hey, come on out and play
hey hey hey hey, come on out and play
i know he's comin' home tonight
but you and me – we could take all day
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6. |
Ghosts of War
04:50
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From a vantage point so high the world seems clean and bright
Like a game board neatly laid out -- black and white
You embraced each move like it’s ordained by some elemental guide
On the ramparts of history, against the evil tide
But blood is simply blood that spills on distant sand
In streets or jungles, in any land
From a little bit lower down, you might come to understand
The simple human cost of that vainglorious plan
Chorus
The ghosts of war -- they're with us every day
You see them on the street you feel them in the air
In victory, as in defeat, the ghosts of war are everywhere.
Precious sons and precious daughters pulled from their mothers’ sight
Tender lovers parted in eternal night,
Down the years you can hear them calling out, calling still
The ones you have forgotten, the ones you never will.
There are things that a person says or does they can’t leave behind
Scars that mark the flesh, scars that mark the mind
Ghosts wander a lonely path that you can probably never find
But you must never turn away, don't be so unkind.
Chorus
From Fairbanks to Los Angeles, to the Chesapeake Bay
From Madrid to Sarajevo, London to Mumbai
From Baghdad to Manhattan, Bethlehem to Rome
Ghosts wander ceaselessly, they just want to get home.
There are ghosts in the halls of Congress and the White House lawn
Some of them fear the night, or the light of dawn
Some carry a bottle, some of them carry a gun
Some of them hope and watch and wait, some of them just run
Some of them are invisible, and some of them are plain to see,
Some of them are unknown to us, they're ghosts of memory
They're our brothers and our sisters, they're yearning to be free
They're wounded and hoping, just like you and me.
Chorus
The Ghosts of War are everywhere.
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7. |
I Found You
04:27
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8. |
Stay With You
03:10
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9. |
Turn
05:19
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10. |
Lean Back
02:39
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11. |
Rust and Blue
03:49
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I handed you my extra coat, tried to get the heat to blow.
The winter just poured in where the window wouldn’t close.
You shivered in your seat and stared up the road.
We rolled on through the dark. We both froze.
That winter broke up everything. Pipes froze and burst.
Pavement heaved up all around like maybe it was cursed.
I kept a little fire in the stove by the door.
'Til finally neither heat nor hope of spring made any difference anymore.
You loved me all last summer. You loved me through the fall.
Then the dread of the winter, sap slowed to a crawl.
You wrapped your arms around yourself, you left to find the sun.
I swore I’d follow anywhere.
Mmmmm. Mmmmm.
Cracks in the pavement fill with water everyday.
At night the water freezes, the pavement breaks away.
This old car will shake to death before I get to you,
Leave me stranded in the moonlight with a pile of rust and blue.
Mmmmm. Mmmmm.
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David Booth Minneapolis, Minnesota
David Booth’s music works the familiar literary veins of love, railroads, and the culinary arts, with musical grooves from Nashville to Plaquemines Parish to Austin to Abbey Road. These are songs from a person in “the middle of life’s way” -- and by turns they offer consolation, comfort, righteous indignation, and wry commentary on life’s strange scenes. ... more
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