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The Muse July Sampler

by American Songwriter

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Delta Mama and a Nickajack Man Raised their Cumberland daughter in a Tennessee band Played Springwater at Station Inn Couldn't play fast, couldn't fit in Caught a '66 Dodge in Caroline Got her education on her mama's dime She was singing in a bar called Comatose Halfway rusted on the salty coast Rock of Ages, cleave for me Let me hide myself in Thee Buried in the sand Five hundred miles from Birmingham Well Rockamount Cowboy in a rock and roll band Plugged his amplifier in all across the land Athens, Georgia on a friday night Saw that little girl, she could sing alright Spent five years going from town to town Waiting on that little girl to come around Caught in the arms of New York City To lose that gal seemed terrible pity Rock of Ages, cleave for me Let my heart forget a beat Why do you demand Calling me from Birmingham Pulled her covered wagon off the BQE Said this'll be the last you'll ever see of me Well the cowboy laughed said I know it's not true Cause there's nothing I could do to get loose from you Made a little money playing in the bars With two beat up drums and two old guitars From the Crescent City to the Great Salt Lake It ain't what you got, it's what you make When the road got rough and the wheels all broke Couldn't take more then we could tow Making something out of nothing with a scratcher and our hope With two old guitars like a shovel and a rope Rock of Ages, cleave for me Let me hide myself in Thee Now I understand On better terms since Birmingham
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I go searching through this world I wait on something to unfurl Thinking back on toys and paper dolls Now all I ever find are walls Tried to find myself out East Maybe find comfort there at least When I got there all I found Somebody burned it to the ground So let your trumpets blow ‘Round the walls of Jericho Let your mighty voices sound Until the walls come tumbling down Searched for days for you out West And I was greeted like a guest Into the desert’s open arms Finding not your childlike charms If these thoughts I hold be true I’ll lay down my traveling shoes And let the vines grow over me Let the earth swallow my dreams And let my trumpet blow ‘Round the walls of Jericho Let my mighty voice be heard Then speak not another word Throw your arrows and your slings And your other precious things Outside your gate I will stand tall As you cower behind your wall Look inside yourself to see Where these walls appear to be Let your soul step out to breathe Swallow whole your dignity And let your trumpet blow ‘Round the walls of Jericho Let your mighty voices sound Until the walls come tumbling down.
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She was a genius She won awards and stuff I was intimidated She had a prominent nose She took off all her clothes I was infatuated The love we'd share would go no where But it would be none the less The time we spent I don't know where it went We took the monorail We had a pint of ale I got a little buzz on Her movie made me cry I could not tell her why Might be the pills I was on I long to be the man that she Wanted to be with The time we spent I don't know where it went Don't mind me I'm just sleep walking Sleep walking Don't mind me The night you broke it off I had a lousy cough I had no strength to argue I knew I'd rue the day I let you slip away My genius, where are you The love we had was small and sad Like everything in my life The time we spent I don't know where it went Don't mind me I'm just sleep walking, Sleep walking Don't mind me I'm just sleep walking, Sleep walking Don't mind me I'm just sleep walking, Sleep walking Don't mind me
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Lover, you've been hesitating... you've been hanging on for that sign too long. And lover you've been leaving me waiting... and I don't know why or what it is I've done. And love don't leave me guessing... ohhh love... don't keep me here. Show yourself to me. And time you've been erasing, you've been running out on me. And times you've been a talkin' you've been sayin' what you really mean And love don't leave me waitin'... ohh love... don't leave me here. And love don't leave me guessing... ohh love... don't keep me here. Show yourself, show yourself. Lalalala... lala Lalalalalala... lalalala And love, don't leave me waiting... ohhh love... don't keep me here. And love, don't leave me guessing... ohhh love... don't keep me here. Show yourself to me. OAHHhhh... yeh!
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You say you heard the talk about where I've been but while I walked that walk there and back again I don't remember ever seeing none of them around so let me be the first to curse my name into the ground They say I'm a bad man and they're right I'm a bad man but baby I think a bad man would do you good So you broke your heart for some lonely broken man but it didn't break your heart it only broke it in and it takes one to notice when someone takes time for noticing the subtle shift of shape and shade that made them call a spade a spade and say I'm a bad man well OK, I'm a bad man but baby I think a bad man would do you good Oh I'd do you good We'll let them walk the well-lit suburbs of their heart you ain't afraid of no alleyway when you are the thing in the dark slip off what you don't want ripped off baby it's all in my way put my mouth over those stupid things you're taught you ought to say and the sun will rise like God's good eye soon everyone'll know we were never cool it'll be all over the entire middle school I mean you know the scene And they say I'm a bad man you could say I bet he makes a better bad man I bet he makes a better bad man I bet he makes a better bad man than you do good It's not love that you have for me it's not love but you said it had to be it's not love that I have for you but it'll have to do
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I was gripped with a bit of fear worried the one thing that I loved back when I was just a kid might now never be enough that the body I was in might belong to someone else Someone kinder, Someone surer, Someone innocent, young and beautiful someone purer, that's the one I know I was scratching at my skin hopin changes would begin but what laid beneath was blood well of course what the hell was I thinking of won't you take me down to the creek wash away our sins of sleep I feel so tired as though I might not wake at all on the other side.... that's no way to go. That’s no way to go. That’s no way to go. CHORUS: Oh my dear one bathe me in your glow cut out my lonely heart and bury it in the snow nothing really means nothing is the saddest thing I know so deliver me from sin and give me rock and roll Give me rock and roll ADDITIONAL LYRICS: And in the morning there'll be hope and in the morning there'll be light and if I sleep and dream up a system a solution to fend off perils of the night come on in, I'll be born again born again as someone else Someone kinder Someone surer Someone beautiful someone purer and when I am you'll know and when I am you'll know when I am you’ll know when I am you’ll know Oh mighty one the devil knows my name will salvation come and wash away my pain? for I was once a kid with a pure and innocent soul so deliver me from sin and give me rock and roll Give me rock and roll Give me rock and roll a pure and innocent soul and a pure and innocent soul Give me rock and roll Give me rock and roll and a pure and innocent soul and a pure and innocent soul Soul Pure and innocent soul Pure and innocent soul
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And you wake up one morning and you say I feel good. I don’t miss her. I can live without her And you soon learn that time will come But it wasn’t that day A bird can fly On just one wing But then why should he? Where there's sky There must be rain Where there's you There's me So do it all Get it done Be all there is to be Then wrap yourself in something warm Come on Come on Come on home to me Love can die And never know What it might have been You and I Will never know Until we try again So do it all Get it done Be all there is to see Then wrap yourself in something warm Come on Come on Come on home to me
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My soul is yawning, and I'm longing too Seen my day tiring, seen me breaking through My time is coming soon So I'm waiting I'll be waiting for you, my friend oh oh oh oh (x4) My load they buy them, that I carry too My demon hide them, all the things that I do My time is coming soon So I'm waiting I'll be waiting for you, my friend ooh you'll be safe, ooh wee ooh you'll be a friend for me They told how I stay there, all the song that's in me The road they're making, won't take me where I should be My song is coming soon So I'm waiting, I'll be waiting Always waiting, for you, my friend oh oh oh oh (x12)

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released June 27, 2012

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