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Champagne
04:32
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Champagne
I was soaked to the bone on arrival
In a storm right out of the bible
Riding waves that were practically tidal
When I ran aground there
There was nothing to do but the drinking
So I guess either way I was sinking
I don’t know what in the world I was thinking
I nearly drowned yeah
But after round three or four
An angel walked in through the door
She convinced me I should stay for more
So I hung around
Chorus
She drank champagne, for no real reason, she just likes to drink champagne
To celebrate all the good times that she has
And even if it’s not the weekendm she’ll be out there come shine or rain I know
Drinking bubbles, causing troubles, drinking champagne
Life is just a game to her
And nothing’s going to change her now
I know I’ll never be the same somehow, time is running on
I went out back for a smoke, thinking that it’s got to be some kind of joke
I’m not used to beautiful women folk coming on to me
So even though we’d only just met that day
It was only through fate I passed through that way
I saw no reason to delaying our destiny
Chorus
I got down on one knee and took her hand
I said ‘girl I want to be your man
I’ll love you just as much as I can if you’ll only marry me’
She said ‘I will’ and I got up to my feet
I looked her in the eye, kissed her on the cheek
This is the face that I want to wake up to until they bury me
Suddenly I’m a believer
And I know she doesn’t doubt it either
Now it’s Dom Perignon and on until she has to carry me
Chorus
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Evidence
04:48
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Evidence
They speak in discreet and whispered voices
But I hear every word they say
Convincing me that I’m all out of choices
There’s nothing left for me to lose around here anyway
It’s written all over their faces
They’re just too damned scared to face the truth
Justice is hard to find in these kind of places
You can look to me as living proof
Chorus
On the strength of the evidence provided
It’s already been decided
What will happen to me
Though the jury may well be divided
About the things that I did
I know how it’s going to be
So I’ll keep stepping tight and staying free
Apathetic attitudes will destroy you
And they’re the only kind you’re going to find around this town
Fuelled by past regrets and paranoia
They’ll take whatever they want that you’ve got unless you nail it down
Chorus
From time to time your mind may work against you
When that time comes you’ll know just what to do
You do whatever you can, you do whatever you’re meant to
You do whatever it takes just to get you through
Chorus
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Star Crossed Lovers
05:38
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Star Crossed Lovers
Cling to me now, dance me closer, look deep in my eyes
Stay with me while we grow older, don’t tell me no lies
Turn to the sky, swear you’ll never deny the dreams that we had long ago
Spin me around, dance me closer, don’t let me go
The first three days are the worst three days when you’re gone
I just lie in a daze, count the ways you amaze me, and time it just keeps dragging on
There is no end to the hours I could spend wondering where I would be without you
And I swear from this day, come what may, I will always be true
Chorus
Star crossed lovers can only be parted by destiny
I need no other, there’s no other love for me
Run with me now and I swear that I’ll set your heart free
The traffic noise while I try to sleep just makes me miss you
Keeps me awake, keeps me aching with longing to kiss you
Your body and mine all night long intertwined
No nothing ever felt quite so right
And when morning breaks we’ll awake and we’ll shake off the night
Chorus
You’ll come to find that the ties that do bind you to someone whose heart you hold dear
May play with your mind, even treat you unkind, but I’m here now so girl have no fear
I’ll turn to the sky, swear I’ll never deny, the dreams that we had long ago
Spin you around, dance you closer, and I won’t let you go
Chorus
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Loved By Trouble
Loved by trouble and troubled by love
Once I got a taste I could never get enough
Your love is my drug now, and I can’t get enough
Troubled by love and loved by trouble
I’ve been floating along like a boy in a bubble
But the bubble burst
Ain’t that the worst
Chorus
Is there anything I can do to make you love me like you used to?
I’d do anything, anything at all, to make you fall in love with me again~
Still intoxicated by your wayward charm
But chained to the past through no fault of our own
Maybe we’re the authors of our own misfortune
But when a love burns hot it needs fuel for the fire
And we burned each other up in the heat of our desire
It’s killing me, but I’ve got to leave
I tried so hard not to doubt you
But now I’m doubting I can go on without you
You know damn well that I don’t wanna walk out that door
But I can’t cry anymore
Loved by trouble and troubled by love
Trouble triumphed once again when push come to shove
I’m on the road again, it’s a man’s best friend
Troubled by love and loved by trouble
Seeking solace once again from the bottom of a bottle
I can’t stand up for falling down
Chorus
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Where good things go to die
There was a time when it all seemed so easy, like you didn’t have to try
But these days you can’t even get out the door unless you’re high
You just stay home alone, unplug the phone, and sit around waiting to die
When life catches up it don’t stop no, it passes you by
Chorus
Lately my heart has been torn, between here and the town I was born in
Lately around here well it seems so damned hard to get by
In the town where good things go to die
Drunk, tired and lonesome in a bar full of people you came here especially to see~
I’m in the same boat, how about you float on with me
We won’t make no big plans, no big promises we know we won’t keep
Just find all the romance we need inside of a glance, you’ll see
And anyway, they say ’talk is cheap’
Chorus
Lately my heart has been yearning, for bridges that I left a burning
Lately those fires burn so brightly, they light up the sky
In the town where good things go to die
When you’re defined by only your vices there’s always a crisis of identity
And if I could define all of mine maybe then I’d be free
If you do the same, and we gave them all names, and considered them our family
We could keep each other company, and that sounds good to me
Chorus (long)
Lately my world has grown cold
I’ve been longing for someone to hold on to
And as I look over my shoulder I see you
Reaching out for my hand with a smile and pulling me through
Sometimes when good things die you get to start over new
Yeah sometimes when good things die you get to start over new
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Lonesome Crow
05:26
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Lonesome old crow
When, you’re living by the sword
You get no time to waste you can afford
Yet I take, and take, and take some more
Until I can’t recall what it is I take it for
From one little acorn this gnarled old oak did grow
To become the home of this raggedy lonesome crow
And when, the wild, wild winter wind would blow
It stubbornly stood strong throughout the cold
I wash my face in the rain again
And wonder where the hell in the world I might have been this time
And if I could just find my back to then
If I’d repent for all my many mortal sins
I know a million ways to get so high that all that’s left to do is fall
And each time I survive I feel invincible
I keep telling myself that that’s just not true
But it never seems to be enough to stop me doing all the things I do
You see I love rock and roll, and rock and roll loves me
So won’t you put another dime in the jukebox now baby
Because it’s taken my soul but forsaken the rest of me
And now this raggedy lonesome crow is falling out that gnarled oak tree
When, you’re living by the sword
There’s no time to waste you can afford
Yet I take, and take, and take some more
Until I can’t recall what it is I take it for
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Better Ways To Get Free
05:09
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Better ways to get free
When you’re drinking for a reason and not that it’s pleasing you, the whiskey don’t burn like it should
And because it don’t hurt you, and helps you heal when things do, you come around to thinking that it’s good
So you don’t have to tempt me, I’m running on empty, I just can’t recall how to say ‘no’
It’s elementary, the tale of the century, you’ve no idea how far a man might go
To be free from the bad times, the long lonesome sad times, they only lead to bad rhymes, I should know
To hold back the tears, and fend off the fears, he’ll paint on a brave face just for show
When you are tasked with all that you’ve asked for turning tail and walking out that door
You won’t let that mask slip until you’ve got over it though it may take a lifetime or more
Chorus
So don’t go a mourning
If I don’t see the dawn in
It was just another warning
I was too high to heed
When faced with the daybreak
And all the new day’s heartache
Don’t go and make the mistake
Of ending up like me
For that’s one thing I never want to see
And there’s got to be better ways to get free
When you’re afraid to fall, you sit on the shelf
But fear of failure is failure itself
So take all your chances to dance out romances
You only live once after all
Chorus
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Bright Young Star
03:32
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Bright young star
Where did you go my bright Young star
Everything I knew has all been wrong
I miss you like the hunger now you're gone
Time after time I wander home
I ain't looking out for no one new
Everything I want is all in you
Chorus
I'd love to take you out again
I'd sing the songs I wrote back then
Oh oh oh are you lonely too
I'd fall in love with you again
I'd break your heart and try to mend it
Oh oh oh are you lonely too
Where did you go my priceless charm
What I wouldn't give to hold your hand
One more time across the Irish sands
Night after night I wander home
Dancing girls that let you touch their knees
One look in their eyes would make you freeze
Chorus
Oh oh oh are you lonely like me
Do you try ‘til you forget it when the memory sets you free
Oh oh oh are you lonely like me
You're my song in the morning time
You're my song in the evening time
Where did you go my bright young star
Nothing's ever going to be the same
I just want to hear you call my name
Chorus
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Lady Macbeth
05:14
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Lady Macbeth
I simply can’t be, the company you want from me, tonight
She caught my eye, and when she caught my eye she caught me
Of all the bars in all of the world
I had to pick the one with you in girl
To grace with the presence of my sorry soul tonight
Chorus
Lady Macbeth got just a drop
You must feel like you got the lot
Like you got the lot
Now there’s no use trying to wash it off
There’s no use trying to wash it off
I’ve got more time for strangers now than I have for my dearest friends
What in the world can be done to make amends
Chorus
If that’s what love leads us to
Lord have mercy on us all
If that’s what love leads to
Lord won’t you be there to catch me when I fall
Be there to catch me when I fall
I simply can’t be, the company you want from me, tonight
She caught my eye, and when she caught my eye she caught me
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Smoking In My Backyard
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Smoking in my backyard
I know a man younger than his dreams
Thought he’d done right but he’s not sure what that means
Each night I find him out watching the stars
And smoking in my backyard
Some folks they say his dreams won’t get him too far
No house on a hill, no fancy car
Just another night strumming a beat up guitar
And smoking in my backyard
Corus
Smoking in my backyard, smoking in my backyard
He’s only here because they locked up the bars
Smoking in my backyard
I know a man older than the hills
Alive today thanks to the pills
Each night I find him out watching the stars
Smoking in my backyard
Holes in his shoes and what’s left of his jeans
He’d trade all those stars to remember his dreams
He can’t remember anything now
But smoking in my backyard
Chorus
If you find yourself wanting late night company
Head around to my yard, that’s where I’ll be
I’ll spin you a line and pour you a jar
Who’d have thought we’d get this far
I know a man, he lives inside of my head
Refuses to leave until they pronounce me dead
So I’m drinking my wine out in the old tool shed
And smoking in my backyard
Chorus
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