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settle down
02:33
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Settle down before the sun sets
And rest to rise, to rise another day
Settle down just before dawn breaks
Just know that either way, either way is fine by me
Just make sure you’ll settle down with me
Settle down in the pockets of my jeans
I’ll make sure to keep you warm and take you everywhere with me
Settle down up in the attic if you please
There’s games for you to play and Comic books for you to read
Just make sure you’ll settle down with me
Settle down in the back seat of my car
I’ll drive around with you for as many a miles you want
Settle down somewhere close or somewhere far
I’ll make sure to look for until look I can’t no more
Just make sure you’ll settle down with me
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2. |
girl on the run
03:52
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He was barely nineteen the day she turned thirty-one
Anxiety be damned, he decided to ask
where she was from, little did he know
She was a girl on the run
She was beautiful trouble, independent and strong,
She poured him his last whiskey right before making
sweet love to him all night long
And then she was gone
She said “boy this was but a taste of what life has in store
you’re going to have a good one, of that I am sure
you’re just going to have to make it so,
and learn to let me go…”
She skipped town on a whim without saying goodbye
drove off to better horizons, made out of nothing
but the blues of the sea and sky
Living one day at a time
She skipped town without him and left him behind
At night he still wakes wishing for her to lie
next to him naked, honest and kind
and his for the night
She said “boy this was but a taste of what life has in store
you’re going to have a good one, of that I am sure
you’re just going to have to make it so,
and learn to let me go…”
He spent years looking all over
Walking from door to door in search of her
Travelling the world for the girl next door
For a girl who did not want to be looked for
He spent years looking all over
Driving from shore to shore in need of her
Until one day he just could look no more
for a girl who did not want to be looked for
Who’d said “boy this was but a taste of what life has in store
you’re going to have a good one, of that I am sure
you’re just going to have to make it so,
and learn to let me go…”
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3. |
in loving arms
03:36
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He’s been living! Boy, it’d be about time that he told his tale
He’s been stuck in second gear for a while now making the same mistake
The sweet sweet taste of grain does help him melt his days away
Yet all it leaves him is hungover with a growing sense of shame
Until the day he finds himself crying in his lover’s arms
At night when she’s alone and fear keeps her from seeing straight
She’s been having nightmares calling our for daddy to keep her safe
Come nightfall everything seems scarier than it really is
She longs for one place above all, however far or near he is
Until she finds herself finally lying in his loving arms
Don’t you think that everyone deserves someone with open arms
Don’t you think that everyone deserves someone with love in their heart
We’ll be lucky to find ourselves lying in a loved one’s arms
For god and country, he leaves home for lands unknown to him
He does as told like a good soldier, to him it’s sink or swim
Back home the boot is all he gets the day his service ends
He ends up cold and lonelier than war had ever felt to him
And he now longs to find himself dying with his brothers in arms
Don’t you think that everyone deserves someone with open arms
Don’t you think that everyone deserves someone with love in their heart
We’ll be lucky to find ourselves dying in a loved one’s arms
We all live on borrowed time
So I’ll make sure to spend what’s mine
In loving arms
In hope one day I’ll find myself dying in your loving arms
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4. |
a thousand smiles
03:18
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I almost die from a thousand smiles every day
As I wake up to find you sleeping here right next to me
I turn the TV on and drown the room in blue for you
I make up kisses that only will make sense to you
As long as I get to spend another day with you
I almost die from a thousand smiles every day
Every time you take my hand and grab a hold of me
I turn the radio on in hope they play your favourite song
I make up stories from a world where nothing ever could go wrong
As long as I get to spend another day with you
Sometimes, sometimes a smile goes a long long way
Sometimes a smiles means more than anyone could ever say
Sometimes, sometimes a smiles goes a long long way
Sometimes a smile simply means you mean the world to me
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5. |
my favorite thing
03:00
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We’re walking to the woods just you and I
We’re headed off to a land far far away
We could catch a train and go for a ride
To a place only known to you and me
We’re going da da dai da da da dai
We pick up twigs for you to play
Casting spells chasing You Know Who away
I can’t believe we get to play all day
Amongst wizards and witches in a world that we create
We’re going da da dai da da da dai
All that matters now is making time
Never have I gotten anything more right
You put on records that keep going ‘round
You put the needle down to make us drown in sweetest sound
We put the Boss on to make mommy smile
To Creedence we dance deep into the night
We’re going da da dai da da da dai
I’m playing songs that you seem to like
To like listening to
You sing along making up words as you like
Words only making sense to you and I
We’re singing da da dai da da da dai
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6. |
the last gunslingers
03:51
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It’s been ages since we last rode
It’s been ages since we just sat and wrote
The world moved on
A long long time ago
The world had moved on
Long before we let ourselves know
It’s been ages since we last spoke
It’s been ages lo and behold
The world moved on
A long long time ago
The world moved on
Long before we let her go
We hail from a world filled with hope and regrets
We come from a place no one ever forgets
Once a beautiful place I shared with a friend
We grew up boys, have since become men
Never to be the same again
Since she’s moved on
Like she did so long ago
The world moved on
Long before she let us know
I don’t think we ever confessed
To sins long passed yet never addressed
The world moved on
A long long time ago
The world had moved on
Long before she’ll let us go
We hail from a world filled with hope and regrets
We come from a place none ever really gets
Once a beautiful place I shared with a friend
We hail from a world that long came to an end
We come from a place none needed to pretend
What a beautiful place to share with a friend
What a beautiful wave to ride with a friend
What a beautiful place to share with a friend
What a beautiful tale to write with a friend
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