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All That I'm Good For (Dan Messe) Leave my station where i stood To lay for a while with you I got shadows snapping at my tail Who say I'm no damn good But that's just halfway true All that I'm good for is you You know I play with all those strays Prowling outside your door It's the scraps of love you throw my way That have got me on all fours It's only fair you knew All that I'm good for is you But I'll leave it behind To lay down with you I'll stop running wild And doing what I used to do My whole wide world is out of hand So crooked it leaves me cryin' But your love is straight is narrow and It's keeping me in line This love will see me through All that I'm good for is you And I'll leave it behind To lay down with you I'll stop running wild And doing what I used to do All that I'm good for is you Betting On Trains (Dan Messe) Someone's waving Someone's counting Someone's leaving There's fifty dollars on this pony Chase him down these tracks Well won't nobody take my business I'll teach you how to come back I saw one hundred miles of steel over wood and let her go I filled my pockets up with coal black with mud and let her go I'll throw my hat off when I beat you Find it when you're gone There's straw and cotton around the station I'll make myself a new one I held a silver dollar tight inside my fist and let you go I've counted all the things I've lost that point to this and let you go The whistle's sounding You are leaving I am counting The Cuckoo (Traditional) Gonna build me a log cabin on a mountain so high So I can see my darling as she goes passing by Oh the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird and she warbles as she flies But she never says cuckoo 'til the fourth day of July Now my horses, they ain't hungry and they won't eat your hay So I'll ride on just a little further and feed them on the way Oh the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird and she warbles as she flies She will cause you never no trouble and she'll tell you no lie You can see that I have wandered by the dust that's on my feet But now I'll build a log cabin and let my true love look for me Half Acre (Dan Messe) I am holding half an acre Torn from the map of Michigan And folded in this scrap of paper Is the land I grew in Think of every town you've lived in Every room you lay your head And what is it that you remember Do you carry every sadness with you Every hour your heart was broken Every night the fear and darkness Lay down with you A man is walking on the highway A woman stares out at the sea And light is only now just breaking So we carry every sadness with us Every hour our hearts were broken Every night the fear and darkness Lay down with us But I am holding half an acre Torn from the map of Michigan I am carrying this scrap of paper That can crack the darkest sky wide open Every burden taken from me Every night my heart unfolding My home Horsey (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Blue sky and yellow sun Paint the streets and the avenues You float over everyone In your rings and your wing-tip shoes Well I can't say I'll know you when You come around You look like a giant in My hand-me-downs Taller than anythin' Riding a horsey through the town Red bird is hanging low House to house and tree to tree He holds on to what he knows So he takes a hold of me And I can't say I'll know you when You come around You look like a giant in My hand-me-downs Taller than anythin' Riding a horsey through the town Riding a horsey through the town Idle (The Rabbit Song) (Dan Messe) Broken moon in the sky Enough to pull up our eyes From the ground where we hide From the ground where we hide Gonna waste some time with you and let this world go Keep my heart idle Gonna waste my time with you and let this love go A broken heart, idle Restless stars through the trees Enough to fall to our knees Make no sound so no one sees Make no sound so no one sees Gonna waste some time with you and let this world go Keep my heart idle Gonna waste my time with you and let this love go A restless heart, idle Lazy Eye (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) There's a lazy eye that looks at you And sees you the same as before When you lay beside me every night Though now you are with me no more I can still see the hem of your dress And the comb as it's parting your hair And the person I held is still there in my Lazy eye that looks at you And sees you the same as before Leave Me Here (Dan Messe) I should wake up this town - my heart's on fire Main road and no one's around as the flames climb higher I have been here before and I know the way But love seemed sweeter and sure in the light of the day So as I rise, I will reach for the livin' And I'll say no prayer Cuz tonight he brought me to heaven And left me here I could tell by his face - those two tired eyes It's been a long night searching for grace, now the sun won't rise Now I have been here before though I know I am lost Cuz the same place that filled me with joy is just a road I crossed Just a road I crossed So as I rise, I will reach for the livin' And I'll say no prayer Cuz tonight he brought me to heaven And left me here So as I rise, I will reach for the livin' And I'll say no prayer Cuz tonight love feels nothing like heaven Don't leave me here Lord, Blow The Moon Out Please (Traditional) The bed is too small for my tired head Bring me a hill soft with trees Tuck a cloud up under my chin Lord, blow the moon out please Night Like A River (Steve Curtis) Night like a river, banks are steep Carry my burden, bury my worry deep It's like she told me some time ago There's plenty for harvest, then the cold winds blow I could live a long, long while on the sweetness of her breath And I could die for walking miles, and still not find my rest Bound and delivered, I returned Tried to forgive her for all the ground we burned Maybe tomorrow waters will clear I'll shake this sorrow and leave my worry here Sailor (Dan Messe) I'm not a sailor I'm not so strong out of my shoes Dragging like anchors Over the ocean Pearls in the sky are strung round the moon Pointing to you And I'll sail til morning Or I'll sail til I Am carried to you tonight I'm not a sailor But I'll spend the night out on the sea Out on the sea And I'll sail til morning Or I'll sail til I Am carried to you tonight Stupid Mouth Shut (Dan Messe) The sidewalk bends where your house ends Like the neighborhood is on its knees You're surrounded by a chain-link fence That keeps me out but lets me see Well I come by most every night The shutters pounding in the breeze A clothesline strung like paper kites That blow my words right back at me But someday when my heart exhales I'll tell you everything These sweet words spilling all about us I'll say please please be with me And I'll breathe so easily But instead I'm turning blue I look at you And keep my stupid mouth shut The hall light streams out through the screens And the shadows capture me in webs Just tangled up in what I've seen And every word I have not said I have not said Cuz the sidewalk bends where your house ends Like the neighborhood is on its knees When I Was Drinking (Dan Messe) When I was drinking When I was with you Living it up when the rent was due With nothing and no one to live up to You and me dying on the vine Holding hands and drinking wine Now I'm not the same girl I left behind with you Twelve bars behind us And twelve bars to go Bottles of beer lined up in a row One for each hour you didn't show You and me dying everyday Getting high just to pass away But that's not the reason I couldn't stay with you Now I am sober Now I'm alone Three years have gone by since you have gone Letting you go Letting me go on But I'll raise a glass now to you and me To lift me higher so I can see Which of these blessings are killing me 
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