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A-Hunting We Will Go (Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) Overland Through the rye Gun in hand Bird in sky Calling out to the world below A-hunting we will go Every field Ripe and fine Every man A friend of mine On the trails that we name or know A-hunting we will go Throw some light on me Tell me what you see Every mystery grows like a vine Reaching out to the sun for a while And holding the soil forever and ever Now the sun Has not stirred Rusted gun Fallen bird Side by side in the world below A-hunting we will go The Beautiful Sea (Dan Messe) Me I imagine places That I have never seen The colored lights in fountains, Blue and green And I imagine places That I will never go Behind these clouds that hang here, Dark and low But it's there when I'm holding you It's there when I am sleeping too It's there when there is nothing left of me It's hanging just beyond the burned out factory Out of reach but leading me Into the beautiful sea And I remember something It feels a lot like fear Some kid is wild and shouting Coast is clear And it's there when I'm holding you It's there when I am sleeping too It's there when there is nothing left of me It's hanging just beyond the burned out factory Out of reach but leading me Into the beautiful sea Carry Me Home (Dan Messe) We were raised in the nettles And they showed us how they grow-- Where a poison comes to settle And what a poinsoned man comes to know So me and Jessie, we left Ohio-- Left him bleeding on the valley floor I felt so dirty I could hardly stand it-- Carrying Jessie on my back She said, hold on, I know you'll bury him for me Hold on, I know you'll bury him for me Hold on, I know you'll carry me and carry me and Carry me home Tell me nothing's wrong there Tell me nothing's wrong there Tell me nothing's wrong there Nothing's wrong there Nothing's wrong there Nothing's wrong there Dance With Me, Now Darling (Steve Curtis) Dance with me, now darling - make me late I've been hanging 'round this barroom, and I can wait I can wait, now darling, don't you know Dance with me, now darling, sweet and slow I've been here in the corner, playing it cool But I could hang off your shoulder like a fool Like a fool, now darling, all night long Dance with me, now darling, to this song Take me home in a big car - drive it slow And if we turned off the highway, who would know Who would know in the morning's yellow light Where these two lost lovers were last night An Easy One (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Here's an easy one Since it's getting late Since you're half asleep And I couldn't wait For the tired sun With its tired light To wake up the world Just to see you tonight I know you don't believe me But I have something to tell you I know it's not so easy But Baby, hold me now If I have to leave Like I always do Will you look for me As I look for you In a passing glance From a passerby I could cross the world To be near you tonight I know you don't believe me But I have something to tell you I know it's not so easy But Baby, hold me now The Fire Thief (Dan Messe) Wouldn't be the first time love made a fool of me Wouldn't even care but now you're here to see It comes as no surprise Just leave the light on What I wouldn't give if you could have it all The sun that's going down the bed that breaks the fall The cradle and the bow So you can take comfort now You can take comfort now... Sometimes a heart can break and make its own relief The way a cold dark night invites the fire thief He wants to show us how So we can take comfort now We can take comfort now We can take comfort now Leave the light on... Hollow (Steve Curtis) Sometimes when I lay down at night I swear I can see to heaven For it's in dreaming that the things I always knew are the only thoughts I have And when I look up at you, love Handsome as a magazine Wild as the sun, like nothing below could ever pull you down But it's a hard road that we follow The saddest cities, and the darkest hollows People cross this world Over and then back again Never even one time lift their eyes Or think of what they say But I hear it in your voice, love Like someone sweetly willing The hope of all these years, the prayer of a time that we don't even know But it's a hard road that we follow The saddest cities, and the darkest hollows But I hear it in your voice, love The strongest sound I've ever heard Like water from a well so deep in the ground I'll never thirst again But it's a hard road that we follow The saddest cities, and the darkest hollows And everything that's far away And was lost from me I see it all from here in you Jackson (Jerry Lieber/Billy Edd-Wheeler) We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout, We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out. I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around, Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson, Look out Jackson town. Well, go on down to Jackson; go ahead and wreck your health. Go play your hand you big-talkin' man, make a big fool of yourself, Yeah, go to Jackson; go comb your hair! Honey, I'm gonna snowball Jackson. See if I care. When I breeze into that city, people gonna stoop and bow. All them women gonna make me, teach 'em what they don't know how, I'm goin' to Jackson, you turn-a loose-a my coat. 'Cos I'm goin' to Jackson. "Goodbye," that's all she wrote. But they'll laugh at you in Jackson, and I'll be dancin' on a Pony Keg. They'll lead you 'round town like a scalded hound, With your tail tucked between your legs, Yeah, go to Jackson, you big-talkin' man. And I'll be waitin' in Jackson, behind my Jaypan Fan, Well now, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper Sprout, We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went. I'm goin' to Jackson, and that's a fact. Yeah, we're goin' to Jackson, ain't never comin' back. Well, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout' And we've been talkin' 'bout Jackson, ever since the fire went... Lucky (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) There's a man in a cutaway Buying drinks for the room All the cheer raining down on the day Comes to nothing and leaves by the broom On the streets named for presidents Where the kingfishers blew All the cornflowers sewn in the fence Keep the memory from tearing in two But if I should lose I'd wake up feeling lucky If I should take a fall Or throw it all away I wouldn't mind lying beside you The rest of my days The storms came down out of Mackinaw As the weight stations closed There was a terrible darkness I saw Pulling up on the side of the road But if I should lose I'd wake up feeling lucky If I should take a fall Or throw it all away I wouldn't mind lying beside you The rest of my days So I'll drink to the wealthy man And I'll pray for the poor And I'll hold onto you while I can In the darkness just to be sure That if I should lose I'll wake up feeling lucky If I should take a fall Or throw it all away I wouldn't mind lying beside you The rest of my days My Father's Waltz (Dan Messe) Forty years since you washed ashore Carried out of the sea On the mast of a man-o-war That once brought you to me Throw your overcoat over a chair And lay all your lazybones down May this night keep you here til tomorrow Now The Day Is Over (Traditional) Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep, Birds and beasts and flowers Soon will be asleep. Pacific Street (Dan Messe) Let's go out walking, I know where to meet The corner of Pacific Street Because I feel restless and I can't sleep I need to show you something See where we stood There are oceans in our neighborhood And for leaving things they're just as good Well I don't know you except in the way A traveler knows a traveler The way a station can tempt you to stay And spend some time inside it Stay where we are We'll wash up at the corner bar Because leaving things is just too hard for me Stay where we are Washed up in some corner bar But I swear I've never been this far before I swear I've never been this far before No I swear I've never been so far before Receiver (Dan Messe) Hey Dear, you know I hate to go Just lay here listening to the radio Upstairs hiding from the world below The day fading on the dial Downstairs wait for the mailman On lawn chairs spread across the tableland Somewhere flowerbeds to lay your hand in mine If you stay then I will Time fading on the dial I will always love you like I do I'll always love you like I do The song is fading still it's true When I'm here beside you You said you want a wing to fly A loose thread hanging from the gingham sky We knew that we would have to say goodbye C'mon, if you would then I'd stay The sun pulling in the driveway I will always love you like I do I'll always love you like I do The song is fading still it's true When I'm here beside you I will always love you like I do I'll always love you like I do The song is fading still it's true When I'm here beside you The song is fading... Redwing (Dan Messe) Hey, was that you floating past the tree-line? Hey, was that a feather in your hand? No I don't mean to ask these questions No I don't mean to rush your heart I swear I saw this accidentally No I don't mean to start Hey, the rain falls straight into the sidewalk Hey, the clouds hang heavy in the sky But I don't want to still believe in The gravity of solid ground The world below is not so big That it can keep us down We are standing on the rooftops We are circling like sparrows We are tiny, we are trembling, Scared of everything But the heart is still a red wing Fly above the houses and the schoolyards And fly until you cannot feel the Earth No I don't mean that it's so easy And I don't mean that it's so small But the world below is not so mean That it can make us fall We are standing on the rooftops We are circling like sparrows We are tiny, we are trembling, Scared of everything But the heart is still a red wing Strays (Dan Messe) In the summer of my wedding As the corn burned in the field Oh I lay down for my Baby And let the sweet smoke stain my heels Well I lay there til the midnight When the dogs, they run through town And I rose up just to listen And I never lay back down Then the morning, it came upon me And I set my soul to search From the tall grass down the main road To the stained glass at the church Lord my shepard help me pray Though I left my heart to stray Though I left my heart untrue I can follow I do I do And I can name them in my dreaming I can set my soul to rest I can chain them to my body Let them settle at my breast Now see them coming to my wedding Where I will teach them not to stray Oh they'll carry my salvation Oh they'll carry me away 
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