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Overland/Turn Back Alone
I go overland again
I don't know how I lost my only friend
There's so much time to lose
We thought of no way else to prove
If this is mine
Something I could never find
So I go overland again
And who can tell when or if this trip will end
I go overland
And there's no way left that I
Could pretend
And if it's right or wrong
There's no place where I belong
And when we collide
I won't leave it to you to decide
And go overland again
And I don't know how I lost my way again
I go overland
And there's no way left that I
Could pretend
Can my eyes find my dream
Alone
The season tells me I'm alone
Seasons behind
That left us out of touch
Beginning of the time
Time left us out of luck
Time to take
I'll take what's mine but I'll leave the rest behind
And if it's mine to break
There's nothing else at stake
Turn back your mind
And give it reason to roam
The open book contains as much as you have known
So I turn to go
I'm alone
But I don't care
So I turn to go
I'm alone
But I don't care
Turn back alone
Save Today
Did you ever have to stand on the outside
Looking in?
Did you see what you never try?
Did you ever pass on by?
Is it so hard to say something
You never thought you'd hear again?
Sit with your head in your hands
And try to understand
And if I stumble
What could you say?
And if I crumble
How would you try
to save
today?
I guess you thought I had things tied to a string
But nothing's holding me
And those old ties won't bind
And the twine is left behind
Could it help
If I cared less?
Or would you still be scared?
Hide your scars away
And leave them to bleed to say
And if I stumble
What could you say?
And if I crumble
How would you try to save today?
How would you try to save today?
How would you try
To save
Today
Separation
You're a footstep away
You're without reason today
You're keeping time with yourself
You cry out for nobody else
A heartbeat
A footstep
Is nothing to gain
Your fears chased but you can't erase the pain
I see the bars in your eyes
The ones that you can't get behind
Your blank stares are an open book
But the pages tear with each look
Your hesitance
And vacancy is your armory
The window's locked
And you're stuck and out to sea
The die is cast
You can't get past the separation
The separation
The separation
The separation
You're a footstep away
You're without reason today
You keep in time with yourself
You cry out for nobody else
A heartbeat
A footstep
Is nothing to gain
Your fears chase but you can't erase the pain
I see the bars in your eyes
The ones that you can't get behind
Your blank stares are an open book
But the pages tear with each look
Your hesitance
And vacancy is your armory
The window's locked
And you're steppin' out to sea
The die is cast
You can't get past the separation
The separation
The separation
The separation
The separation
You can't get past the separation
The separation
The separation
Untitled
Second Lover's Song
(Townes Van Zandt)
You're wakin' next to me
And tears splash across the sun
You're saying soft me
That I ain't the only one
To breathe in your hair
And caress your bosom fair
Do you think I really care?
And do you think it matters?
What do your feelings mean?
Do you think I'd love you more?
If you stood pure and clean
Of those you'd known before?
Would your words be sweeter then
Upon November's wind?
If you began again
Would your smile be softer?
Would your eyes more brightly shine?
Would your laughter be so tender?
If you'd been only mine
For as long as you remember
I don't want tears from you
Don't build your love on shame
'Cause all that we've done is through
And all we can do remains
My lady can't you see?
I love not jealously
But for you are to me
And all you'll be tomorrow
Down The Line
It's a nice feelin' slowing down
But I'm still seeing nothing round
And it surrounds me
And today we stare along the sea
And the moon waits for you and me
Hard to sleep
But if a change could be arranged
And the time could all be mine
Who wouldn't choose another way
Down the line
And if you feel it come around
Look and see not above the ground
Leanin' down
And if the light's shaded and dim
You can always turn around again
And again
The eyes that have seduced me
Are before me night and day
And to confusion reduced me
Trippin' on thoughts
Of rest in peace away
Love And Other Crimes
(Lee Hazlewood)
Inside this house called me
I live
Trying trying trying to move out again
I've taken much
That never was mine
But baby I do my best
And baby I will confess
I've commited love
And other crimes
See Through
So many scenes to see yourself in
And so many people to find out who
So many friends who told the tale on you
Don't know who you want to be and
There's no face
You can see through
You try to hide from the dreams you're havin' and
You gotta find out what to do
You never try to search your will and do
What comes so naturally and
See what's happening to you
You have a stack
Of books and magazines that
Fill your head with so many things
Tells the tale a figurine with
A heart so full of darker things
Where's the choice
See what you wanna see
And never
Trying to see through
Now you started something that
You can never see through
If You're Gone
(Gene Clark)
If I need you
If to me you're everything
If I have you
If I loved you
Just the same
If you're here tonight is rightly
Gonna fall
If you're gone I'll see the daylight
And that's all
If I stand all
Understanding what is now
If I ever need someone to show me how
If the daylight can be hidden by the sun
If you're gone then I know will need someone
If I love you
If I know how
Much I care
If I find the thing you wanted
Anywhere
If I know you
I may never know your name
If you're gone
Then there is nothing that can please
Carry On
Light
Of day breaks and shakes you
Awake
Go your way without detection
And stand by deception
And if the feeling's wrong
Will you carry on?
Carry on
Carry on
Try to feel without containment
And feel your
Pain vent
Slipping through
The darkest cracks
The lies just won't
Hold back
And now the feeling's gone
I'll carry on
Carry on
Carry on
100% Off
Will you stab in
Before someone else
Cuz it's already dyin'
And nothing
Is felt
It's so cold
So cold
And I don't know how to turn it on
And I've been told
It doesn't stop
It goes on
As you kill the sane
Could you stop the pain
'Cause you're bruising
And as you recall
Your wasted world
What are you thinking
If I left it out
For everyone
To walk around
And poke and say
I'd be lying if I didn't say
It would waste away
Make me sick
It's all broken down
Pieces in the ground
Won't make a puzzle
But it's clear to see
If I'm *** I'm gonna crumble
Can I say you did something to me
Without sounding like I want it all
For free
Can I say you did something to me
Without sounding like I want it all
For free?
Atrophy
Sitting there
It looked like you to me
If someone stared
It was there too cheap to see
See the fear
It feels so cold
See the fear it feels so cold
All the time I thought that you would come
To me from another time
When I look back
And saw where I'd been going
It was just too steep a climb
So don't even start this time
Don't even start this time
Don't even start this time
Don't even start this time
But don't even start this time
Don't even start this time
Don't even start this time
Don't even start this time
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