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Almost Home
The Burnt Over District (Instrumental)
Curtains
Funnel Cloud
Great Houses Of New York
He Came To Meet Me
Hotel Fire
I'll Dream Of You Tonight
Not California
Old Adam
The Pills Stopped Working
Reservoir
Too Late To Turn Back Now
We'll Meet Along The Way

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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