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Highway 54
04:56
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VERSE:
Working this highway
These days they are so long.
My bodies been beaten by the sun.
All I smell is diesel and pine.
And loneliness not felt in a long long time.
CHORUS:
Mile after mile
The dirt is in my eyes
I know I can’t go back
I know that’s for sure
I just keep working on highway 54.
VERSE:
Night after night day after day.
Thoughts of remorse and what I didn’t say.
You know people don’t change overnight
At least that’s what my Momma she told me
CHORUS:
Mile after mile
The dirt is in my eyes
I know I can’t go back
I know that’s for sure
I just keep working on highway 54.
VERSE:
Working this highway
These days they are so long.
My bodies been beaten by the sun.
CHORUS:
Mile after mile
The dirt is in my eyes
I know I can’t go back
I know that’s for sure
Mile after mile
The dirt is in my eyes
I know I can’t go back
I know that’s for sure
I keep working on Highway 54.
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2. |
El Sendero
05:08
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El Sendero
Verse:
I see it on the horizon where Arizona ends
Past the barbed wire and the never ending fence
I’m not moving all that fast but I guess it’s not that slow
The devil’s not a stranger but a friend I’ve always known
Out East I see the morning glow
The devil’s not a stranger in these parts I’m told
Thought I saw him on the side of the road
Think he resides in the canyons down below
Verse:
I’d like to leave this place with these wind swept lonely streets
Houses boarded up old people whither in their seats
No change in me in nearly twenty years
Longing for the coolness of the salty ocean air
Out East I see the morning glow
The devil’s not a stranger in these parts I’m told
Thought I saw him on the side of the road
Think he resides in the canyons down below
Verse:
Verse:
The sun is blistering and this old ford has no air
Heat is blasting in my face and through my dusty hair
Statics all I hear on this transistor radio
Rolling out my bedroll hear coyotes call
Out East I see the morning glow
The devil’s not a stranger in these parts I’m told
Thought I saw him on the side of the road
Think he resides in the canyons down below
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3. |
Observatory
04:06
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Observatory
Cruising across the desert on the loneliest road around.
The war planes zip by with a deafening sound.
And miles from nowhere that the mind long forgot.
On top of this mountain, radio waves never stop.
Chorus:
I hear the squeaky slide of the dereks down below.
How many hours have passed the Lord will only know.
The only sound is the rattling of the windows.
My face is in my hands resting on my elbows.
My eyes can’t see as far as they can see.
Cause all the haze is lingering in between.
All that’s up here are broken bottles and faded porno mags.
And bullet shells and dirty clothes in bags.
Chorus:
I hear the squeaky slide of the dereks down below.
How many hours have passed the Lord will only know.
The only sound is the rattling of the windows.
My face is in my hands resting on my elbows.
Not an exciting place out in this desert breeze
Waiting to hear a signal I can barely breathe
I know they’re out there somewhere, even closer to our home
No signal coming in the observatory dome.
Chorus:
I hear the squeaky slide of the dereks down below.
How many hours have passed the Lord will only know.
The only sound is the rattling of the windows.
My face is in my hands resting on my elbows.
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4. |
Saguaro
04:58
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5. |
Don't Waste Your Breath
03:32
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Don’t Waste Your Breath
Verse:
Don’t waste your breath, don’t waste your breath on me
I’ve heard this all before
I’m at the end, the end of my rope
And I don’t have hope for this no more
Verse:
We’ve been this way right from the start
All these go arounds gave me this calused heart
It’s just easier to walk away
Don’t waste your breath cause I’ll never stay
Chorus:
The lines of the road are drowning in my lights
Miles and miles with no one else in sight
Another place it all feels the same
Don’t waste your breath, don’t waste your breath on me
Verse:
I like my feet with no weighted chains
Why does it seems things always have to change
There’s no one who will ever pull me down
Silence now is such a lovely sound
Chorus:
The lines of the road are drowning in my lights
Miles and miles with no one else in sight
Another place it all feels the same
Don’t waste your breath, don’t waste your breath on me
Don’t waste your breath, don’t waste your breath on me
Don’t waste your breath, don’t waste your breath on me
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Rolling Steppe
02:40
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7. |
La Gitana
04:54
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La Gitana
Verse:
I walk the wide muddy delta to find a greener place
Hopefully God willin I will see your face
Everything I had blew away with the dust
If I stay here in this hellhole my heart will turn to rust
Chorus:
Now the sun is sinking low
And the night is getting cold
The stars begin to glow
Verse:
The dawn is breaking so off I go
Everything is in hand and laying low
I have nothing to lose except maybe my life
In the end its worth it when I reach the other side
Chorus:
Now the sun is sinking low
And the night is getting cold
The stars begin to glow
Verse:
The ground before me doesn’t seem to have an end
Long days stretching outward but I can’t go back
Just keep moving forward I look at every step
With dreams of my new life fill my thoughts inside my head
Chorus:
Now the sun is sinking low
And the night is getting cold
The stars begin to glow
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8. |
Sand Creek
04:38
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Sand Creek Massacre
I just passed the sign
Of the Sand Creek Massacre
Spirit’s there are all strewn about
A cresent moon’s on the rise
Here I sit in this musty old room
This way of life’s not for me
Gas flares dance upon the breeze
No fortunes I can see
Chorus:
I don’t have no letters to send
And I don’t have no money to spend
I want to go to where that wagon trail goes
leave this roughneck scene
Leave those honky tonks far behind
Before it’s the end of me
Chorus:
I don’t have no letters to send
And I don’t have no money to spend
I just passed the sign
I just passed the sign
I just passed the sign
Of the Sand Creek Massacre
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9. |
Prison Break
06:42
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Prison Break
Verse:
Run the trail to Chocteau Creek
5 miles from Springfield and the life I hate
Swim up the river to get away
Run through the fields til I run out of day.
There’s a long straight bridge, seems to have no end
Gotta hide out for I have no friends
Keep moving westward leave the show me state
Past the fairgrounds and the Super 8.
Need to catch a ride but no seems to stop
Duck in the pastures when I see the cops.
Chorus:
Oh please warden you’re no good to me
All the hours in solitary haunt me in my dreams.
I can’t get caught no I won’t go back.
Next time around I won’t last.
Verse:
Take the trail to Chocteau Creek
Hide my scent so they can’t find me.
Gotta keep on runnin and give it all I got
This is no way to live no way by God
Chorus:
Oh please warden you’re no good to me
All the hours in solitary haunt me in my dreams.
You’re on your own in the next life too.
A man who has no mercy for himself has none for you.
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10. |
Until It Ends
03:38
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Until It Ends
I have to leave this bottomland behind
Head up north to the Mason Dixon Line
This southern road sits below the water line
I just passed the Vicksburg county line
Chorus:
I’ll ride this river til it ends
Jump into the sea and make amends
For all the bad things that I’ve done
But that river’s gone dry and doesn’t run
I’m headed for the dusty plains
Where the air is dry and it never rains
New memories flood out the old
Everything’s more peaceful from up above
Chorus:
I’ll ride this river til it ends
Jump into the sea and make amends
For all the bad things that I’ve done
But that river’s gone dry and doesn’t run
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