August 26, 2022
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Oklahoma Revival (1933)
Been five years since I said for better or for worse, and two years since the fields have born anything but dirt. How can love stay green when the fields won’t do the same? We were worn out as the ground, the day the dust storm came. I ran for the shelter, you met me…
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No Place Is Home
The days are getting cold – There’ll be coats this Halloween. All the children are disappointed, all their sequins will go unseen. And the pirates and the goblins will steal you far away from me, leave me nothing but hollow faces, all used up of their flame. (chorus) There’s a whisper in my blood of…
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No Blue Left
There is no blue left in your eyes The space between us shrank like your irises When I was once miraculous Held so high, I was afraid All the sharp things … And I lost my faith Broke what I gave There is no blue left in your eyes I lost it all, and now…
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Natural 20
My woman she likes to tug on my beard She says it helps keep a handle on me And I can see that As long as she’s gentle I am a delicate thing I only like the rough & tumble When it’s time to come & level up for the occasion And so I’d say…
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Molotov Swell
And if you are wine Then I must be turpentine It’s 3 o’clock not quite as dark as it could get the first frost was swept back to the sea and the rain keeps me awake with the hope of fingers on my window pane these are dangerous games for dangerous times You know, it’s…
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the MARC
are you going to New York with your guitar? or are you going off alone? are you meeting someone? will you think of me when you get there? do you think of me at all these days? this train will take you farther than I dare go just outside my head it’s 600 miles up…
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My Demons
When I am gone, maybe too young And when you mourn all you might’ve done Sipping your whiskey, singing my songs And cursing my demons, got me after all Spare me your pity, give me my due And think more of me than you do of you ‘cause you loved my demons (though you’d never…
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Matador
I am a matador, my mother told me so She brought the message to me all the way from San Francisco She said, “Hold this cloak tight in your hands, you’re destined for achievement. With it cut a swath through life and your path into the pavement.” I don’t want to say I’ve lost my…
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Love a Girl Gone
You fell for a girl fell for wanderlust first. Devil in the spirit that’s blessing and curse. Makes the holding sweeter, makes it hard to hold on, But can you love a girl gone so long? Can you love a girl gone so long? She got a soft shoulder, she got a hard eye. Fix…
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Letters From the Front
I bought a Che Guevara T-shirt and vowed my revolution, But I have yet to wear it – It’s still hanging in my closet beside the blue jeans I had on when we abandoned our stalemate. I know they’re the ones – There’s still ammunition in the pocket, and grass stains on the knees ……