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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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Cory Branan - "Bad Man"
03:54
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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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