1. |
Back on Track
04:36
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Hey little brother do you remember
that one winter we tried so hard to figure it out?
But this train we’re on don’t stop too many stations
Gotta make it back from New York any way how.
Gotta get back get back get back get back
get back get back. Get back on the track.
Well I should stop complaining, We’ve all got problems
My girl don’t like when I go, I keep running around
This rockn’roll man, I loose control
But I don’t wanna fight anymore I just wanna get out
And get back get back get back get back
get back get back get back get back
get back get back get back get back
get back get back get back on the track
Well look out over yonder at that horizon
The smokestack’s rising and the steam is burnin my ears
That long distance hundred mile an hour lonesome freight train whistle that you can’t even hear
It’s calling me to
get back get back get back get back
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2. |
Coast to Coaster
03:32
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Come on boys lets ride out and take our chances try’n to make people dance out in Austin
Where I know about a cheap motel where we can get down on South Congress
We been working, getting too tired, too wired, losing our minds
In the dust clouds, in the truck driving, in the double yellow line
I tell you I can’t hold on much longer man
All this riding around has been wrecking my heart
Think I might drive to the sunset
Try to find that Western Star
Don’t matter how far!
Don’t matter…
Well I told you from the get go honey I was a coast to coaster
Across the map, west to east, south to the Great Northern
Wherever the railway runs there’s a wheel inside me that’s turning
Like a fallen sun or the 101 I’ll be rollin out into the ocean
I tell you I can’t hold on much longer babe
All this riding around has been wrecking my heart
Take my hands lets ride till the sun sets
Help me find my Western Star
Don’t matter how far!
Don’t matter…
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3. |
Burnin' Downtown
04:35
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I been running’ I been running’
runnin’ runnin’ runnin’ for so long.
I been runnin’
I been tossin’ I been turnin’
There’s been screaming and shouting I can’t get to sleep at night
Too much fightin’ baby
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Oooooooooooooooooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo
When the lightning struck the courthouse
I could see the smoke rising in the streets there were riots
In the eyes of the people I saw the dream dying
They shouted burn it all down for the north to the south
which side am I on
of this Mason Dixon Line?
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Oooooooooooooooooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo
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4. |
Since I Learned to Dance
03:29
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Riverside park people were groovin
I took one of what they were all doing
now I’m locked in a mood
with the rest of these fools
the bus don’t stop on 82nd street
it don’t stop at least it don’t for me
aint been home since i learned to dance
coming back chemically enhanced
don’t know how long I’ve been awake
since i learned to dance i just shake
riverside park southside boogie
gave me the southside blues in a hurry
you can’t take em home
the move too slow
the trains already around the bend
don’t stop at least it won’t again
going fast and coming cheap
two weeks gone and two nights sleep
don’t know how long I’ve been awake
since i learned to dance i just shake
loose in the groove of some half ass tango
between the notes and the bars in the shadows
ill never make it now
little suzie showed me how
riverside park downtown shuffle
two stepping in now man I’m in trouble
it don’t come free
but you can learn it from me
waiting on a white dodge or a chevrolet
to take me back to tenessee plates
the broken glass hits the ground
I’m in love with that sound
don’t know how long I’ve been awake
since i learned to dance i just shake
loose in the arms of some double time waltz man
with a chemical smile and hips full of contraband
ill never make it now
everybody’s learning how
don’t know how long I’ve been awake
since i learned to dance i just shake
don’t know how long I’ve been awake
since i learned to dance i just shake
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5. |
Just Another Man
04:27
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Up the stairs next door, third floor I try to smoke my blues away
Just before I step out onto the stage
I will sing for you my favorite song
And even though it makes you kinda blue won’tcha please sing along
Yea cause I don’t wanna be
Just another man
I don’t wanna be just another man
I don’t wanna be just another man
When she walked into the room everyone started talking faster
Looking over shoulders at her. What’s the matter tell me what’s all the chatter for?
Is it the way that she moves? I know y’all like the way that she moves
The yellow color of her hair, the way the light is shining down through the room
Yea she looks good don’t she.
But she don’t wanna be
With just another man
She don’t wanna be with just another man
She don’t wanna be with just another man
I don’t wanna be just another man
She don’t wanna be with just another man
I don’t wanna be just another man
She don’t wanna be with just another man
Just another man
I am just another man…
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6. |
Other Hand
02:15
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Once I had it all
Started to fall
Thought I had it made
Yea but fate sure could cut ya man
Constructing the Universe
Though just we Two I thought we’d be the first
to hear the call
And counter the curse
Then there was a Third
sacred secrets that he’d overheard
I spoke em in verse
but cha still, yea ya still misunderstood
Let me tell ya something man
Oh oh oh oh!!!
Well ya find out in the end
It’s on the other
Yea, love is on the other hand
So once you have it all
This that and the other
Understand, that the other
Will drop the ball
I could see the three
The Jack the Queen and the King
Standing on that pyramid
As it started to lean
Reaching with the right
For the Golden Ring
Yea but love
It’s on the other
Always on the other
Yea love is on the other hand
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7. |
Lookin' for Action
04:06
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I took your ring to the pawn shop
Tired to make a hot swap
For something, something cool
Gotta keep my mind off the hard knocks
And all of that soft talk that you
Yea you been dishing out
You had me out on the streets every night
Yea you, staying up waiting on the morning light
Yea you and I been dragging this out for too long
You and I been singing that same old song
Yea You
Yea You
Yea You
Yea it’s all your fault
I get consumed with a passion
I keep trying to get a reaction outta you
yea you
So I been cruising around downtown
Looking for action
The kind that you haven’t been laying down
You had me out on the streets every night
Yea you, staying up waiting on the morning light
Yea you and I been dragging this out for too long
You and I been singing that same old song
Yea you
Yea you
Yea you
Yea you
I wanna blame it on you
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8. |
Driving in the Zone
04:39
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I remember when I used to could sing a song
About anything at all can't be wrong
Nothin but a thought in my absent mind
telling me to keep on little farther down the line
Till it meets the Skyway that far off lonesome highway
where anyone can fly.anyone
When the bright lights come to take me I won't even know
How long have I been driving down this long and winding road
And when the lights of this old coastal town fade out far below
Ill look back and you'll be a sleeping reflection in the window
So don't talk to me I'm driving
I'm driving
So far, So far alone
Don't talk to me I'm driving
I don't need no direction
I'll make it fine I'm driving in the Zone
Take your turn behind the wheel, never slow down
never loose control, never yield
Take your turn as I remember, that animated ember
shining like a star, burnin in your heart
flying though the air, and all around in my thoughts
never heard the sound
When the bright lights come to take me you won't even know
you've been in the backseat sleeping or playing on your phone
and if the lights of the oncoming traffic ride me off the road
Ill come back into your dreaming like some space invader ghost
Don't talk to me I'm driving
I'm driving
So far, So far alone
Don't talk to me I'm driving
I don't need no directions
I'll make it fine I'm driving in the Zone
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9. |
Part of the Deal
03:29
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Well I went riding round with my best friend
We got all the way out to California and back again
Broke down at Milo’s in the back of the Caravan
Now we’re back at it rollin in a good times van
We’re gonna keep it runnin’ as long as we can
It’s a hard road, but we both know, yea we all know
It’d be part of the deal
It’s a part of the deal
We met a man down south, he’s a swindler
He’s a no good two time double dealer
We both almost lost our last pay check
Once you spin the wheel you can never go back
You might land on red, you might land on black
But you learn real fast, you gotta be quick
And you’ve got to stick to you’re part of the deal
Part of the deal,
You gotta stick to it man
Stick it!
Now I locked lips with a winner
She’s the kinda chick that don’t take no for an answer
She’s a midnight snack, middle of the kitchen floor dancer
She keeps trying to make a man out of me
Trying to give me a heart attack
She likes it when I get down on my knees
She said, “Boy! When you’re out there on the road, feeling all alone
won’tcha pick up the phone for me, I wanna hear ya moan for me!”
She said, “I’m sorry baby but you knew this would be a part of the deal.”
It’s a part of the deal!
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10. |
Paper Leather and Lead
04:52
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Nobody’s here to write it down, who would remember but you and me?
So lets put it down for the history books, just some back pages in my diary.
While I write these words brother please won’t you draw a picture for me?
I’ll sing you a song that’ll hold on like a memory.
In a little house on a cliff by the beach watching the knights sail into the breech
Riggin’ it up and working it out just like the hero’s that we read.
Odysseus, Poseidon, The Old Man and the Sea
all know you can’t get a little bit of love without a little bit of misery.
Hear the rush of the waves and the wash of the water over the docks and the deck
Hear the wind of the cannonball that’s rollin through my head
Will anyone remember us after all is done and said?
Well they will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead.
Yea they will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead
They will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead
We got a fire set on the stone as the sun starts to do the same
Shadows of the masts mingle with the silhouette of a salty dog mountain range
So come warm your hands sailors, share in singing my songs. The words are falling off my page
Into the sand where they start to rearrange
I could stay here forever or we could settle down back east
But I hear that western whistle wail and cry out the name of the beast
So while the old men wait up in the lighthouse warning sailors of the bar and the beach
Some of us will keep on sailing ’til we’re far out of reach
Yea some of us will keep on sailing ’til we’re far out of reach
Hear the rush of the waves and the wash of the water over the docks and the deck
Hear the wind of the cannonball that’s rollin through my head
Will anyone remember us after all is done and said?
Well they will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead.
Yea they will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead
They will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead
They will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead
They will as long as we keep pushing paper leather and lead
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