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Simple Fools of Faith
02:31
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You said that you'd be OK if we made it one more day
I said that I'd be alright if we made it one more night
You said that we can't be saved
I said then we'll start again
You said then we'll say goodbye
And I said that'll be the day I die
Run the line, dress the stage, you'd make a lot more money earnin; minimum wage
Hold your pride but you gotta get paid when livin' ain't livin' 'til ya say what ya say
You said that you can't give up
I said baby I've had enough
You said you'd live in a tacit lie?
I said that'll be the day I die
Simple fools of faith runnin' after me
Simple fools of faith we're all that's left, you see
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2. |
End of the Road
03:20
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It's the end of the road and the party is over
It's the end of the road and we gotta get sober, yeah
It's the end of the road, I's livin' blind
It was all out of sight, all out of mind
It's the end of the road, end of dream
I don't know it right now but it was more than it seems
It's the end of the road, end of a lie
Livin' like we're never gonna say goodbye
It's the end of the road, end of a time
It's all blowin' up and I ain't saved a dime
It's the end of the road and I'm back in my own place
It's the end of the road, I got to many things to face
It's the end of the road, end of a scene
I'm lookin' for a job and I gotta get clean
It's the end of the road, made it back alive
Sleepin' on floors and stayin' in dives
It's the end of the road, I lost my mind
Drivin' endless roads and killin' time
I never thought it would be this way
Never thought it would be this way
For you and I can dream and never say goodbye
With love and hope in your eyes
It's the end of the road and the party is over
It's the end of the road and I gotta get sober
I never thought it would be this way
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3. |
The One
04:22
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Come someone, come, can someone be the one?
Can someone be the one?
1st layered harmony: there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be the one.
Come someone, come, can someone be the one?
Can someone be the one?
2nd layered harmony: To get up be the, To get up be the, To get up be the, To get up be the, to get up
1st layered harmony: there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be there'll be the one.
3rd layered harmony: Hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope
Get up, get up, get up, get up up, get up, to get up get up get up up
Get up, get up, get up, get up up, get up, to get up get up get up, boy
harmony: Can I be the, can I be the, can I be the, can I be the
harmony 2: Can I be the one, can I be the one, can I be the one, can I be the one
Can someone be the one?
Get up, get up, get up, get up up, get up, to get up get up get up up
Get up, get up, get up, get up up, get up, to get up get up get up, boy
harmony: Can I be the, can I be the, can I be the, can I be the
harmony 2: Can I be the one, can I be the one, can I be the one, can I be the one
(ad lib numbers)
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4. |
The Hermit Song
03:55
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When I ramble with my ragged load
And the land is wearin' tattered veils of snow
In the river roars an ancient race of men
Speaking of the friends we'll never see again
I must 'a missed him this time but we meet by the river when the ice goes out of the pond
So many years he survived in the wind and the cold no one ever knew how he survived
I must 'a missed him this time but he's gone away and he was never found (never found a sign of his life)
He had a vigil of flies 'til the last fly died and the birds flew south
When the wind would howl so fiercely in the storm
He's slip into a crease under the forest floor
Cozy fire-lit big-eyed faces spun the tale
How in the white black winter night he'd still prevail
I must 'a missed him this time but we meet by the river when the ice goes out of the pond
So many years he survived in the wind and the cold no one ever knew how he survived
I must 'a missed him this time but he's gone away in the autumn wind where we go
He never said goodbye but what's comin' round's comin' back again and he's gone
(hoots and hollers)
I been waiting for a week in vain gonna leave tonight if I don't see him today
Where everyone is so far away there's a voice in the river tellin' of a last day
Must 'a missed him but it couldn't be (cause that's the way we find truth)
slowin' down layin' down on the river bank (and he's gone)
Where everyone is so far away
(cause that's the way we find hope)
a certain fine time we find the right time
(cause that's the time of their life)
By the river on the Indian trail there's a voice in the river tellin' of a lost time
Where everyone is so far away there's a voice in the river tellin' of a lost time
huhoh huhohohoh
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5. |
The Sneaky Rag
03:45
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6. |
The Bramble
04:08
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I will walk through the bramble in the blazin' sun
And I'll walk through the bramble with my bare feet on
If you and I can sing through the lonely light of day
I will walk through the bramble and I'll never look back again
Through the bramble, I always had a second mind
As I walk along the light of day I go where I would never let you roam
I will walk through the bramble in the blazin' sun
And I'll walk through the bramble with my bare feet on
It's tiny price to pay to see you've made your day
When the gods come to gamble and the faithless turn away
Through the bramble, we're gonna make it on our own
As I lost the light of day and turned to stone where I would never let you roam
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7. |
The Rising Tide
03:46
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I took a stroll down to the country store
Tryin' to pass the time before he came home
And you were starry-eyed, no, no, you were mystified
The love I tried to hide, woah woah, when he left I cried
You drowned in bitterness because you fled from home
To find a life of hurt all alone in a selfish world
And you were starry eyed, no, no, you were hypnotized
By the rising tide sweeping you off the shore
And you were starry eyed, no, no, you were hypnotized
By the rising tide sweeping you off the shore
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8. |
Nine as One
03:02
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Seventeen, said goodbye, wave to me, don't you cry
I'm seventeen and I won't be gone too long
We're together now and we got to keep holdin' on
Two years passed to the day when they left me standin' and drove away
Two years passed, I been makin' it on my own
Poachin' the river dry and makin' rounds in the
snow
Hangin' high in grand coulee damn, high above the river in god's hands
Hangin' high down in grand coulee damn
I took the higher pay 'cause it got me to the promised land
We found our swing out on the lake, we found our heaven in all the heartache
We found our swing out on a steel gray lake
And we'd take the gold when we finally got to langer see
Nine as one in cold and rain in blazin' sun and sickness and pain
Nine as one until I too am gone
We'll be together then, rowin' at the break of dawn
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9. |
Always in All Ways
03:20
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Things I though I knew, threw it all out the door for you
What were lies became the truth when i gave you my soul
Driftin' apart, said many things that I shouldn't have said,
She loves me but I love you instead, should've known from the start.
That you are my love for what you are in always, always, always in all ways
Tropical Isles and sun-filled golden hills, lean out over your window sill, we're gonna be there in time
Tested and true, play the game yeah I can play it too, but it's just down to me and you, only two can survive
If you are my love for what you are in always, always, always in all ways
You are my love when the time stands still and when the time passes by, you're always on my mind
Don't you forget, I said it a long time ago, I wouldn't trust my own soul, now I'll know to the end
That you are my love for what you are in always, always,
you are my love, for what you are in always, always, always in all ways
always, always, always in all ways
always, always, always in all ways
always, always, always in all ways
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10. |
Lonnie
04:21
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Lonnie used to have a place to stay down New Orleans
Said he took a bullet in Falluja just below his knee
Tellin' truth from fiction is too hard to say but if you're messin' round with Lonnie there'll be Hell to pay
Lonnie sleeps outside with his pistol lyin' on his chest
I picked up my guitar and Lonnie got on his harp
He sings way out of tune but he don't know, no he don't know
Lonnie used to be a junkie way down New Orleans
Said the only cure was bein' face on LSD
Lonnie told me that I ought to stay for the show but I was only passin' through to get my high for the road
And I listened to the blues from Eugene down to the Frisco bay
An athlete don't you know?
But his big gut made him too slow
60 yards out I ran and the ball landed in my hands, man he could throw, yeah he could throw!
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11. |
The Happy Rag
02:11
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12. |
Solace
04:54
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JL Stiles San Francisco, California
I would love to fingerpick and sing just like Blind Blake but as everyone knows, this is like becoming the Buddha.
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