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Dusty Old Man
04:08
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Dusty man, there goes my dusty old dusty old man.
He loves my mouth, he loves my hips
Piece of my mind don't make no difference
He don't bow down and don't make plans
He's mean as a snake, he's my dusty man
He say
Love me enough to right my wrongs.
Love me until the scars are gone.
Young man think he seen know everything
My baby's broke in long and lean
More real living than that young boy could stand
You take a young boy, I keep my dusty old man
I say
Love me enough to right my wrongs.
Love me until the scars are gone.
Dusty man, here come my dusty old dusty old man.
Calloused hand and tear stained heart
The world can't won't hand you what you want
Sometimes all you can do is say goddam
Give your love to your dusty old man
Singing
Love me enough to right my wrongs.
Love me until the scars are gone.
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2. |
My Boat
04:33
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My boat, is being made to order.
Right now, it's at the builder, my boat.
My friends, room for all of my friends
I'm serious about this, my boat.
George, Gary, Chuck and Jim, room enough for all of them,
And my baby, I won't go without my baby.
Stories, a place on board for stories,
My own and everybody's, going on and on.
Short ones, true ones, and the made up,
The ones still being written on my boat.
Cherries, chicken, cheese and wine, everything good my friends like
And my baby, on my boat.
No one will be denied on my boat, on my boat.
No getting ahead or falling behind on my boat, on my boat.
Just having a real big time on my boat.
Singing, eating and laughing down on my boat.
You can do whatever you want, on my boat.
We may go a little way down the coast on my boat.
Listening to the The Rolling Stones on my boat.
I've always wanted a trip like that -
But if it don't work out with my boat, my boat.
No one will be denied on my boat, on my boat.
No getting ahead or falling behind on my boat, on my boat.
Just having a real big time on my boat on my boat.
No one will be denied on my boat, on my boat, on my boat.
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Icarus
03:54
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I found him out in the field up there
His clothes were torn, glue in his hair
Feather down over everything
On the ground, his broken wings.
I washed his hair and I held his bones
I nursed the way he felt alone
Keeping watch over his fitful sleep
To Caught him falling out of dreams
Oh Icarus
There's a wing down in each of us
Faster than the speed of sound inside
Everything flies
A rush of breath, a turn of touch
The up and down arch of loving so much
The way your heart will race and rise
A tear handing in long, slow dive
Oh Icarus
There's a wing down in each of us
Faster than the speed of sound inside
Everything flies
Night comes on in fits and stalls
Twilight colors looking on
As all the evening dust kicks up
A small hope lands where doubt once was
Oh Icarus
There's a wing down in each of us
Faster than the speed of sound inside
Everything flies
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Eastern Light
04:46
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Light on the water makes it look easy to be free
I dream ways back to you and you a way back to me
Those days rush back, rolling in
Like the eastern light like on the tide changing
And there’s my shadow is waiting for you like it always used to
Hanging around and looking behind for you come up beside me
In the eastern light
How did we lose each other like something at sea
Was I so hard to love and so love let go of me
Out in the eastern light on the open wind
Is broken love ever forgiven
And there’s my shadow waiting for you like it always will do
Hanging around dragging behind me so that you can find me.
In the eastern light.
Eastern light, fill my eyes so no one knows I’m crying
Eastern light, my love is gone despite all of the trying
Eastern light, can you see the way I’ve come apart
When I think of how we did each others hearts
Light on the water makes it look easy to be free
I see it on your face and your arm around me
Somewhere in the eastern light, I am holding you
Across the eastern light, will you hold me too
And there’s my shadow waiting for you like it always will do
Hanging around and looking behind me for you to come home beside me.
In the eastern light.
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Something Came Over Me
04:17
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Late night city after a train
A corner dressed in flyers and rain
Something came over me, something came over me.
Without asking, it came right in
To my bones, through my skin
Something came over me, the way it came over me.
Something so loud without a sound at all
Like a sweet old song, playing there all along
And it came over me.
At lot like a seeing a ghost you know
Or the beat in the water way down low
Something came over me, something came over me.
A thread in a thread, I felt complete
Like lightening made by summer heat
Something came over me, something came over me.
Something so loud without a sound at all
Like a sweet old song, playing there all along
And it came over me
I forgot my heart had room like that
Open spaces through all the cracks
Something came over me, something come over me.
I stood there thinking how good it is
Wasn't any different than a night like this
Something came over me, something came over me.
Something so loud without a sound at all
Like a sweet old song, playing there all along, and it came over me.
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6. |
Love Soldiers On
03:32
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Bruised Up and skinny as a stray
No one I know so underpaid
Been around the block about a 100 times today
Love soldiers on, love soldiers on.
There’s nothing you can do, love soldiers on.
Lock it out and don’t return its call,
Swear you’ve never seen its face at all,
Throw it in the river, lose it in the storm,
It will show up in its bandages tomorrow at your door.
I know you’ve been hurt before, but it’s beat up even more.
Scars you’ve never seen before, from every country and every war.
You think that love is lost.
You’re swear you’ve run it off.
But it hardly asks for nothing, it’s got courage like the wind
Out there in the streetlights waiting to come in
Love soldiers on, love soldiers on.
There’s noting you can do, love soldiers on.
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Traveling Alone
05:15
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9. |
Feel Of The World
04:24
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10. |
Another Country
04:33
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Tift Merritt Raleigh, North Carolina
Raised in North Carolina, Tift Merritt has released five full-length albums and two live records,
including a recent
reissue of her debut album Bramble Rose earlier this year. The New Yorker
has called Tift Merritt “the bearer of a proud tradition of distaff country soul that reaches back to
artists like Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry.” Emmylou Harris calls her a diamond in a coal
mine.
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