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Almost Home (Dan Messe) Almost home Birds come fly But I still can't see the shore - The only thing I know for sure The ocean has in store Every night, open eyed I wait for the sun The world's too wide to bring me round But I'm not sorry Now the day is growing dark The waves come break on the foam I prayed for you and here you are Beside me and I see Tonight I'm almost home Curtains (Dan Messe) I found a well Lost for many years It tasted sweet I soaked my feet And I was on my way I could see him from the Main Road In the flames of the hotel A darkened sky That carried my farewell I traveled south Across the Iron Bridge I passed the signs and tangled vines And I was on my way Sent him voices on a postcard So he would not know I'd gone - A folded bird that all my words fell on Said: "No sunlight on your window No movement on your wall Strip away these sad old curtains And hear me call" It was a year When I thought of him Where I had gone what I had done And I was on my way In the fall I've dreamt of rescues And my eyes began to burn One final lie That swallowed my return Where there's no hero at your window There ain't no postcards on your wall But I'll strip away these sad old curtains And hear you call Funnel Cloud (Dan Messe) Clapboard on the houses Clothesline threading through Holding down the corners of The field where we grew Off on the horizon The same thing everyday Until a painted backdrop rises up And blows the world away, Blows your world away Carry off the blankets And carry off the trees The light you've seen can touch you now And change the way you see, Change the way you see Great Houses Of New York (Dan Messe) In the fall Shattered from the coming cold Buried in the marigolds By the garden wall Fast asleep Safe behind the window shades Dreaming of the Palisades Where we used to meet And we are not the same now Everything is wrong Waving as the train goes So long One more year Painting over famous words Overgrown with chimney birds Rising through the air I can see Roman candles in a row Light 'em up and let 'em go And they shoot across the trees, And fall behind the gate Just like you and me Back when we were great He Came To Meet Me (Steve Curtis) He came to meet me On some July morning He said he'd missed me He came without warning We walked for half the day Got lost in my neighborhood Came back another way Just like I knew we would When he came to meet me He had some stories He knew a few of mine I had not heard his voice For such a long time My mind would race a bit Come back to where we stood I could not keep hold of it Although I knew I should When he came to meet me I'd seen this whole day Like it was drawing near Sometimes I'd pray for it Sometimes I'd shake with fear Sometimes the only thought That kept me in the night Was one that I forgot In summer's blinding light When he came to meet me I wrote myself a song I could not speak what I'd done He could have been here all along He could have been anyone But there is no one who Could wake my heart like this Could break my world in two I felt a suddenness I felt a suddenness The day fell completely still The dream was a lot like this But I never knew until He came to meet me Hotel Fire (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Ten dollars for the room Torn blankets smell like old perfume Then love checks in, trips a wire Skips the bill, sets a fire And leaves the wreck that's left behind With one desire, one desire... Don't worry about the key Lock's busted and the chain is free Light comes up, the sun goes down A rented room, a borrowed town We'll burn the memories to the ground With one more round, one more round, one more round Ten miles until the dawn A sign lights up and it pulls you on So strip the bed, slash the tire - A broken home, a hotel fire You ask yourself again, am I Your one desire, one desire, one desire... I'll Dream Of You Tonight (Steve Curtis) I lay my head in a stranger's town All on a summer's day A tangled bed when the lights went down And the sun came up far away Over the great blue oceans And then over the cities filled with light I know we'll be together tomorrow But I'll dream of you tonight I cast about like an awkward guest Toward a park across town I felt the sky open up right inside my chest And your voice like a trembling sound, saying Over the great blue oceans And then over the cities filled with light I know we'll be together tomorrow But I'll dream of you tonight The world gets quiet in an ordinary minute In the middle of the afternoon We cross the street in the course of a day And our eyes fix miles away... The bird on a windowsill, he sings like a bell Like lonesome lovers do I'm sure as ever now; I'm scared as hell I'm coming home to you Over the great blue oceans And then over the cities filled with light I know we'll be together tomorrow But I'll dream of you tonight Not California (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Who's the girl inside of the blue-screen light? The sun is just pouring out And everything's out of sight Turn around, the room is just black and white She's whispering: Nah nah na-na-na nah, nah nah Nah nah na-na-na nah And it's not true And it's not fair And it's not you And it's not California here Later on you're breaking the boxes down There's nobody out tonight Nobody's hanging round So you take the drive that used to be almost right And now it's just empty lots around you All these empty lots around you And they don't know What you hold dear And they can't see That it's not California here Come a time when I may just walk away The sun is just barely on The sky is completely grey But you're the one I want to be with today Let them say: Nah nah na-na-na nah, nah nah Nah nah na-na-na nah And I'm not strong And you're not rich And we're not lost Where we don't live And it's not true And it's not fair And they're not us And it's not California here I'm the one who wants to be with you tonight And I'm the one who wants to be the one you're with tonight... Old Adam (Dan Messe/Bob Hoffnar) Old Adam, the crow Is building a home in your field Where bitterweeds grow All around the corn Will you be the father That drives the thief from your home? Or let him run wild As your first born? "Well I carried the plow And carved out a home in this world And I carried the bow To protect the corn Now the summer is over My hands are tired and slow And I can't stop loving My first born." Old Adam, the crow Is flying away from your field And you'll never know What makes him run "I dreamed of my father Who drove me out of his home And dreamt of forgiving My wild son." The Pills Stopped Working (Gary Maurer/Dan Messe) Ain't holding out for a miracle now Just holding out for the water Across the bridge that will carry me down To the Santa Rosa Spanish Quarter And I know that I don't belong with you And I know the pills stopped working for me, so If you wanna set me up I'll fall on my knees and Fix what I have broke I spent my whole life looking for land But settled on the breakers And saw the home that I held in my hand Was just some dirt inside a scrap of paper And I know that I should be long gone And I know, the pills stopped working long ago If you wanna look me up, I'll fall on my knees and Fix whatever's broke There's no place in the world that can make this right There's no home I once had that I have in sight There's no one that can come to my side tonight To save me... The whole world's sinking down in the bay The sun is treading water Suppose that you could save me someway But I told you Baby not to bother Cuz I know that I don't belong here And I know the pills don't work for me no more I don't wanna spend my whole life down on my knees To fix what I have broke Reservoir (Steve Curtis) Late last night I missed my train I walked back to the car and drove home again Just outside of Pittsburgh, it's really not that far Saw a light come shining across the reservoir The sun in California, it drops right into the sea I took a couple pictures; they don't mean that much to me But just outside of Pittsburgh, I saw it from my car The light shines to the bottom of the reservoir The starless night come fall around me Over all we've left undone I know a light that shines forever Howsoever we may run The moon hung on a hillside in eastern Tennessee With rows of honeysuckle blooming over me But the iron hills of Pittsburgh, where all my memories are Gathering light around the reservoir Too Late To Turn Back Now (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) See all the numbers getting larger See all the streets are getting stranger with the crowd You know we both been feeling reckless As we crash into the come down Take one more step into the station We'll flag the first train down and fade into the wings We got no need to change direction We just need to keep on moving So what can keep us moving forward Now that there's nothing left to burn anyhow? What will keep you next to me, my love Since it's too late to turn back now? I saw your face in the reflection I thought I recognized the corner of your smile A tired light in my direction That will keep me in the meanwhile So what can keep us moving forward Now that there's nothing left to burn anyhow? What will keep you next to me, my love Since it's too late to turn back now? It's too late to turn back now We'll Meet Along The Way (Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) Go easy now Go easy now Later on the road I'm gonna lay my body down We'll meet along the way, I know Grow straight and true Grow straight and true Later on the road is gonna break your world in two We'll meet along the way, I know We'll meet along the way, I know We'll meet along the way, I know 
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