Love Ain’t Around

It happened so fast
My heart skipped a beat
Breaking like glass
It shakes me from sleep
And I wake up by the TV saying

These are the facts 
This is the news
I just had a nightmare
I knew it’d come true

Oh love ain’t around
Love ain’t around when you’re gone

Big doors and buses
Two tracks and two trains
One left too early
One never came
And I go back, enter silently

I don’t read my mail
I unplug the phone
I can’t stand when it rings
I’m afraid I’m alone

Oh love ain’t around
Love ain’t around when you’re gone

I stand in the wind
I scream it just smokes
I call out your name
I hear the rattle of bones

Ashes and dust
They say raise a toast
They say you live still
How come I feel like a ghost

Oh love ain’t around
Love ain’t around when you’re gone

Outside Inside

I live like a beast most days
Famine or feast I live like a beast
Outside inside I try
To lose myself but not to hide
To tell the truth for this I lie
Outside inside

Don’t know the rules so I guess
Outside’s so beautiful, inside’s a mess
Babies crying everywhere and your Mama sings
“It’s alright baby” your Mama sings

Outside inside I try
To lose myself but not to hide
To tell the truth for this I lie
Outside inside

An eye for an eye now we’re half blind
Broadside and halfway to the other side
I never wrote the last verse didn’t care
Outside snow flies, feel cold air

Outside inside I try
To lose myself but not to hide
To tell the truth for this I lie
Outside inside

I live like a beast I live like a beast
I live like a beast most days

Come With Me

I remember a road that’s called to me
Since I was ten
Never even turned around
Now I wanna go back again
It won’t lead me home no
And it won’t set me free
But it‘ll hold me til I get back
Maybe you would like to come with me

I like to go way up north
See the timberline
Look out on an open field
And let it clear my mind
Maybe when the snow flies
I’ll go down to the sea
Stare out at the water
Maybe you would like to come with me

No I never thought of settling down
Oh it’s too late for that
I guess that road’s gonna find me
No matter where I’m at
The keys are in the front seat
Yeah I hope you can drive
Forget about the map let’s go
Maybe we can go for a real long ride
For a real long ride
For a real long ride

Holding On

It might be quiet but it’s not silent no
It might be dark but I still feel your shadow
You’ve got beliefs now you think that they’re hollow
You’re holding on holding on and it hurts

Holding on holding on
You’re living in reverse

Looking back at pictures you’ve seen before
Avoiding doors for mirrors cuz you like them more
Memories leave you where you lived before
You’re holding on holding back
Wearing out the same old track and it hurts

Your kids are tired now they got a ways to go
The ground’s on fire they never even notice no
Can’t count on roots but that’s how things grow
You’re holding on holding on
Holding on, holding on

Quit Keeping Score

The days are not numbered now
Released from the plan
The path is uncharted so
No need for a map

My smile has grown permanent
A grin etched in my jaw
From all that I got to hear
And from all that I saw

I’ve said it before
I’ll say it again
I quit keeping score
I’ll just count on my friends

So count me in boys
Show me how does this go
Let us play blindly now
And forget what we know

We’ve known love for a long long time
And we’ve seen rainbows quite a few
Looking forward to not looking back
Still learning what we knew

One day to add it up
Two days to recount
See what’s left in your loving cup
Let’s go one more round

I’ve said it before
I’ll say it again
Let’s quit keeping score
Let’s just count on our friends

My heart first and forward now
But here is gone so just move it on
Each little note is a gift to me
One more beat to the song

And I’ve said it before gonna say it again
I quit keeping score
I’ll just count on my friends

I Feel You Moving

I can feel this city I can feel you out there movin’
I can see the color of your hair
I feel you moving
Feel the weather change and time stand still
I see the beads of sweat drop down your neck
I feel you moving

Watch the traffic detour when it gets out of rhythm
You gotta watch the way that you move
Cuz I feel you movin’ baby
The noise all stops it all gets clear
The distant space and I can feel you here
I feel you moving

I can feel your heartbeat I can feel you breathing
I can feel the other side of town
I feel you moving

The noise all stops and time stands still
I see the beads of sweat dropping down your neck
I feel you moving

Feel the weather change and time stand still
I see the beads of sweat that drop down your neck
I can feel you moving I can feel you moving

Trouble in Heaven

Big wheel come rolling down 
My path someday
Gonna make me move my kin down
On the line
Believe I'll keep off them demons
If I pray real hard
But I believe there might be 
Trouble in heaven today

Daniel be singing out 
Over that mountainside
Save your sweet spirit from going dry
Daniel be singing 'bout 
Where them angels fly
But people don't listen 
And I don't know why

There might be trouble in heaven 
And the Devil he's gonna pay
Gonna put my worries 
And troubles on hold
Gotta clear out that Devil'
Fore it's judgement day 
Don't want these troubles
When I'm old

Bridges to nowhere
Snake oils and charms
Cris-crosses and curses
Blessings prayers and false alarms
It would go a lot easier 
If we just walked arm in arm

You know I worry and I fret about
The Devil in me
'Cause I've never known him 
To leave me alone
I keep thinking that Jesus
And the Devil and me
Can work this out before I'm gone

There might be trouble in heaven 
And the Devil he's gonna pay
Gonna put my worries 
And troubles on hold
Gotta clear out that Devil
'Fore it's judgement day 
Don't want these troubles
When I'm old

After All

I should live outside these walls I think I should
I can do without alcohol I wish I could
After all is said and done
Nothing’s what happens most under the sun
Just a few things matter at all after all

I didn’t find this melody it found me keeps haunting me
Tried to slam the door throw away the key won’t let me be
After all is said and done
Nothing belongs to me under the sun
Just a few things matter at all after all

Just a few things matter
Just a few things matter
Matter at all
Mmm

I should live outside these walls I think I should
I can do without alcohol I think I should
After all is said and done
Nothing’s what happens most under the sun
Just a few things matter at all after all

Just a few things matter
Just a few things matter
Matter at all
Just a few things matter
Just a few things matter
Matter at all
Mmm

Once is Enough

I could sit in this barn singing all night long
Trying to remember the words to a simple song
I heard you sing one time I wish I could hear it again
Maybe once is enough

We’re making tracks you said, the footprints tell you so
I guess I knew that I’d be staying I guess you knew you’d have to go
I heard you sing one time and I wish I could hear again
Maybe once is enough

He wrote a song for his mother at the age of 63
Wrapped it with a ribbon put it under the Christmas tree
I heard that song one time I wish I could hear it again
But maybe once is enough

Booze, pills, and bibles and a war we couldn’t win
Put a tombstone every mile now, the angels’ll hear them sing
I heard that song one time I wish I could hear it again
Maybe once is enough

Maybe once maybe once maybe once
I could sit in this barn singing all night long
Trying to remember the words to a simple song
I heard you sing one time I wish I could hear it again
Maybe once is enough
Maybe once maybe once just once

If I Had a Dollar

If I had a dollar would you stay with me
Go take a ride maybe go and see
Might find nothing but a blowing breeze
Empty handed at the edge of the sea

If I had a dollar, if I had a dollar
If I had a dollar and everything was free
I wanna know would you stay with me

If we could be lovers that would suit me fine
Take all of yours have all of mine
If we could be lovers that would suite me fine

Pass the wine, pass the test
Drink to you, you’re the best

If we could be lovers, if we could be lovers
If we could be lovers it would suit me fine

And if we had a baby would we raise him right
Would we let him be a lover would we let him fight
Would we find the courage just to let him be
Or turn him into images of you and me
Just little bitty images of you and me

Name him after you not after me
After you, after you

If I had a dollar, if I had a dollar
If I had a dollar and everything was free
I wanna know would you stay with me
I wanna know would you stay with me
Stay with me

Like Annette

Like Annette the way she moves through me
Like Annette uncanny she seems to be
Like Annette whatever made me think
That I could be just like Annette

In the corner of a quiet room whispers what might have been
I froze the more that I touched her
Couldn’t feel it I’ll never forget
In the mirror her lying grace looking back at me
Forever dead forever together
Together we’ll always be like Annette
Just like Annette
Like Annette

If I could hold onto you like Annette
I would wrap my arms around you
And promise to bring to you more than material things
I wish I could hold onto you
Like Annette

Warmer

Got a bucket of books
Not enough time
A mitt full of I don’t give a shit and a bottle of wine
Gonna sit down here
Catch a few rays
Die on the vine and let gravity have its way

We’re getting warmer
When it’s hotter than hell heaven will be on your mind

Horrible cold settled all wrong
Snow’s all gone and the mud is moving under your feet
Got a one eyed sky and a patient moon
When the fireball hits it’ll hit way too soon

We’re getting warmer
Getting warmer
We’re getting warmer

Got a lot to say
Tired of talking
Car’s all broke and my feet are tired from walking
Gonna sit down here
Skip a few beats
Watch it all burn and sit quietly by the heat

We’re getting warmer
Getting warmer
We’re getting warmer
When it’s hotter than hell heaven will be on your mind
We’re getting warmer
Getting warmer

High Road

If you take the high road 
Beware the air is thin
And it’s often crowded with sinners 
Who forgot where they been

You can take the high road
Anywhere you go 
Walk with me brother
We’re all resting below

Angels all around me now
Singing over my bed
You won’t see no halo
Over my head

There was a love we knew
Somewhere some time ago
So walk with me sister
We’re all resting below

Under the heavens
Under the moon
Under above below the love
Is gone far too soon

We’ll all go together
And we’ll all sing alone
Sing it out loud
We know the words to this song

We’re all gonna live
We’re all gonna try
It’s just saying hello
Then saying goodbye

You can take the high road

Further On

Ditch my rider before the end of the road
Be gone before the gold
Gracious at best
When it’s my time I’ll rest
Till then I’ll try and wake up with the dawn
And it’s helpful to know
The river will flow further on
A little further on

And the question at hand if I still give a damn
Did I give back what I took
And if I give a shit
Can I freely admit
I traded fairly in song
I mighta come a long way but I still know to say
I got a good long way to go good
Steady on, steady on
Stop listen and look
It’s in a children’s book
I got nothing to fear
I’ll just take it from here

I’m gonna go now
Some place I don’t know how
No shadow cast I guess I’ll disappear
But it helps if you know
The river will flow further on
A little further on
A little further on