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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 All The Pretty Horses (Traditional) Hush-a-bye, don't you cry Go to sleep-y, little baby. When you wake you shall have a cake All the pretty little horses. 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 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 Cincinnati Traveler (Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) In the sawed off light Shooting down across the quarrel Onto Lee They will rise and fight On the Bay and on the Sorrel To the North and Cincinnati Riding low in the roll-eyed burr Charging out from 'neath the soldier's spur As a Traveler turns From the darkness in the valley Toward the fire from Cincinnati The City And The Traveler (Dan Messe/Steve Curtis) When I saw a light Carve a crown into the quarry Over me I'm a king at night And a poor man in the morning How will anybody know me? Hide the key in the roll-top drawer Walk the countryside from door to door And as morning falls And keeps falling ever after Bless the city and the traveler Crazy Arms (Ralph Mooney/Charles Seals) Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel There's a storm brewin' in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream, I know that it's real You're someone else's love now, you're not mine Crazy arms that seek to hold somebody new But my burnin' heart keeps sayin' you're not mine My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed And that's why I'm lonely all the time Please take the treasured dreams I had for you and me And take all the love I thought was mine Someday my crazy arms may hold somebody new But now I'm so lonely all the time Crazy arms that seek to hold somebody new But my burnin' heart keeps sayin' you're not mine My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed And that's why I'm lonely all the time The Golden Day Is Dying (Traditional) The Golden Day is dying beyond the purple hill The Golden Day is dying beyond the purple hill And when the wood is dark yes the nightingale will sing And when the wood is dark yes the nightingale will sing And soon beyond the meadow the silver moon will swing And soon beyond the meadow the silver moon will swing The Lark that sang at noon day end dusk the wood is still The Lark that sang at noon day end dusk the wood is still Idle (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 Oh No (Dan Messe/Gary Maurer) Mean are the winds that tear at the palms A tiny baby is crying then calms And curses ring out instead of the psalms I don't know And black are the sounds dragged from the trains They leave a trail of rust in the rains Great Lakes are spilling across the Great Plains They swallow up everything Oh no, oh no Board up the windows and shoot at the crows And lay every might thing low Well I didn't know that day that I fell In Terre Haute at the Paris Hotel Where I lost something that I'd never sell I let go Now all that I see keeps me afraid I count the years by the marks that they made And watch the sun from a circle of shade That swallows up everything Oh no, oh no Board up the windows and shoot at the crows And lay every might thing low The Present (Dan Messe) When I saw him by the river He just smiled and closed his eyes He said you know that you're gonna give her One more present - one more lie I didn't see him for a while then Though I heard his name around So I walked down a hundred miles when On that Iron Bridge it was him I found I said you know that I have wandered By the dust here on my feet For every present that I have squandered On every false heart that I meet But I can't take back what I gave them No, I can't make right what I've made wrong I can't pretend that I tried to save them When they were drowning in my song So I don't come here for a new scar For to cover the things I've done I just come here to see how you are Maybe see how I've become Well he lay there on that Iron Bridge Where the Earth and the waters part He said Hello there well ain't you gonna give One more present to your own false heart Radiation Vibe (Adam Schlesinger/Chris Collingwood) Are you alone now Did you lose the monkey He gave you backaches And now you slouch He didn't mean it He's just a dumb ape Reading Playboy On your couch And now it's time to say What I forgot to say Baby baby Come on, what's wrong It's a radiation vibe I'm groovin on Don't it make you want to get some sun Shine on, shine on, shine I went to Pittsburgh And joined a pro team Talk about a bad dream Broke my knee But I can still croon Make all the girls swoon Isn't that the way life's Meant to be And now it's time to say What I forgot to say Baby baby Come on, what's wrong It's a radiation vibe I'm groovin on Don't it make you want to get some sun Shine on, shine on, shine And now it's time to say What I forgot to say Baby baby Come on, what's wrong It's a radiation vibe I'm groovin on Don't it make you want to get some sun Shine on, shine on, shine Shine on, shine on, shine Rainy Night In Georgia (Tony Joe White) Hoverin' by my suitcase Tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night Heavy rain a-fallin' Seem to hear your voice callin', It's all right Rainy night in Georgia Rainy night in Georgia I feel like it's rainin', rainin' all over the world Neon signs a-flashin' Taxi cabs and buses passin' in the night A distant moanin' of a train Seems to play a sad refrain through the night Rainy night in Georgia Rainy night in Georgia I feel like it's rainin', rainin' all over the world I find me a place in a box car So I take out my guitar to pass some time Late at night it's hard to rest I hold your picture to my chest I feel fine Rainy night in Georgia Rainy night in Georgia And I feel like it's rainin' all over the world Rainin' all over the world 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 So. Central Rain (Bill Berry/Peter Buck/Mike Mills/Michael Stipe) Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The trees will bend, the cities wash away The city on the river there is a girl without a dream I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Eastern to Mountain, third party call, the lines are down The wise man built his words upon the rocks But I'm not bound to follow suit The trees will bend, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another home, this choice isn't mine I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The ocean sang, the conversation's dimmed Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Tennessee Waltz (Redd Stewart/Pee Wee King) I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee waltz When an old friend I happened to see I introduced her to my loved one And while they were dancing My friend stole my sweetheart from me I remember the night and the Tennessee waltz Now I know just how much I have lost When I lost my little darling the night they were playing The beautiful Tennessee waltz I remember the night and the Tennessee waltz Now I know just how much I have lost Yes I lost my little darling the night they were playing The beautiful Tennessee waltz The beautiful Tennessee waltz 
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