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Ain't Done Yet
03:26
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Vultures on the hitching post
Shoo fly shoo
You gotta’ ward off those
Yea they gotta’ do their job
But given the chance
They’d dig in the claws
Carry some unfortunate one off
Circling ‘round above my roof
Just wanna’ scream out loud
Don’t size me up so soon
Well I ain’t done yet
More dreaming left to do
People sitting at their desk
Nothing changes but the tie on their neck
Everybody wears a yoke
The weight of the past
A future unknown
I don’t want to live a life like that
Circling ‘round like troubles do
I just wanna’ scream out loud
Don’t size me up so soon
Well I ain’t done yet, more dreaming left
I may not be young
A lot of songs are sung
But when you’re half way up
Ya never count the rungs
Buzzards on the hitching rail
Keepin’ a watch out over the trail
Let ‘em go and prey on someone else
Circling ‘round above my roof
I just wanna’ scream out loud
Don’t size me up so soon
Well I ain’t done yet
More dreaming left to do
Ain’t dead yet
More dreaming left to do
Ain’t dead yet
More dreaming left
More dreaming left to do
More dreaming left
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2. |
Drawing the Head
02:47
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What if I fail
Oh no
Afraid I might splinter
Into sunlight
Charcoal lines
Lost in the eyes
And the mouth just lies
It ain’t nothing but practicing, practice
Drawing the head
Yea, the rest of me’s riddled with doubt
All in my head
Pencil and pad
Half light
Trying to render it all
Shafts and shadows
Scars on the face
Fragile like a doll
It ain’t nothing but practicing, practice
Drawing the head
Yea, the rest of me’s riddled with doubt
All in my head
It ain’t nothing but practicing, practice
Drawing the head
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3. |
Lowest Low
03:22
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Safe in the room
Spin a cocoon
Safe in the room for now
Face in the steam
I don’t want to be seen
I don’t want to bring you down
Not like this
Not at my weakest
Not at my lowest low
Safe in the wings
Fade into the scenery
Safe in the wings awhile
Heart in the game
What do they mean?
Walk out and fake a smile?
Not like this
Not at my weakest
Not at my lowest low
Not like this
Not at my bleakest
Not at my lowest low
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Aim this bird in your direction
Gotta’ get me home
Been draggin’ ‘round my case too long
Starved of sunlit days
Waking to an endless dawn
But a man ain’t made to be this strong
I got a ways to go
The stars are all that I can see
But I’ll be there before you know
Just leave a light on
Leave a light on for me
Well I miss your face
Being the first one that I see each day
Talk on the phone is not the same
But is it wrong because I love it when I do my job
And I just ain’t found no better way
I got some miles to go
The stars are all that I can see
I’ll be there before you know
Just leave a light on
Leave a light on
Leave a light on for me
Leave a light on for me
Aim this bird in your direction
Gotta’ get me home
Feels like time is moving slow
But it’s so dark outside these windows
Mama, here we go
One more circle ‘round the globe
And when you’re fast asleep
Let me come into your dreams
I’ll be there before you know
Just leave a light on
Leave a light on
Leave a light on for me
Leave a light on for me
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Mourning Dove
04:12
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Empty handed you enter
Empty handed you leave
On the long walk, temptation gleams
Like silver coins on money trees
Open hearted you enter
Open hearted you step
To be dazzled by fortune
The things we chase that can't be kept
One day I’m gonna’ lay my head
In the long cool shadow of the dogwood
Lay back and let the cotton clouds go by
White blossom of the mountain laurel
The wild flowers and the smoke bush
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
On the highway there’s suffering
On the highway there's loss
Many tolls on the road that turns
Great miles to cross
One day I’m gonna’ lay my head
In the long cool shadow of the dogwood
Lay back and let the cotton clouds go by
White blossom of the mountain laurel
The wild flowers and the smoke bush
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
One day I’m gonna’ lay my head
In the long cool shadow of the dogwood
Lay back and let the cotton clouds go by
White blossom of the mountain laurel
The wild flowers and the smoke bush
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
No weeping when the mourning dove arrives
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Sometimes you wake up in Charleston
At the height of summertime
Crack open the window
Hear the bells of Emanuel chime
You seek out the shade when in Charleston
Walk along Meeting and Queen
Live oak and azaleas
And the white crepe myrtle trees
Folks, they hold the door out
And they offer you "God bless"
How you wind up in Charleston
Is anybody's guess
Sometimes you wake up in South Carolina
Rain in the gutter outside
Tapping away like a snare drum
As you wipe the sleep from your eyes
And nothing moves fast, here in Charleston
The cars on the avenue crawl
Like a funeral procession
Barely moving at all
The folks, they hold a hand out
And they offer you "God bless"
How you wind up in Charleston
Is anybody's guess
In the holiest city of Charleston
Where men were once enslaved
They keep the railings polished
Azaleas on the grave
Sometimes you wake up in Charleston
Sometimes you wake up in Charleston
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Gather up your children
The earth is reelin’
The seas are bound to swell
The ground, it trembles underneath your feet
Awaken to the warning bell
Gather up children
Don’t you wait ‘til mornin’
For the nightingale has sang
Skies are weeping and the dogs run wild
The bells of the steeple clang
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up your children
The ocean’s spillin’
The floodwall’s bound to breach
No bulb shinin’
Have to see by lighting
The old man starts to preach
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up your children
While the good Lord’s willin’
To be merciful
Bearded Moses won’t ya stem this tide
And take us home
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up
Gather up
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No one’s short for conversation here
You needn’t pry
They’re bound to volunteer
Somedays I feel I’m on some party line
It doesn’t make a lot of sense sometimes
On about whoever they have eyes
Someone at the Legion Hall last night
Caught up in some endless guessing game
Wondering if that someone feels the same
Swear I’d like to burn this place straight to the ground
Everything here just reminds me that I’m missing out
I’d love to set a fire to all of it
It ain’t worth a matchstick to me now
Trains don’t even stop here anymore
If they did, I wouldn’t know what for
What I’d give to buy a ticket out
I’d be gone before you heard the door
Swear I’d like to burn this place straight to the ground
Everything, it just reminds me that I’m missing out
Missing out on more than I can say
Someday I’d like to set it all aflame
I had a dream that I was walking on the beach
In the white foam of the sea
I felt the sands down underneath me start to shift
And the waves crash over me
Out west they sleep under the moon
Have their breakfast brought out by the pool
You never ring them ‘til the afternoon
It’s how they do in Hollywood
Swear I’d like to burn this place straight to the ground
Everything, it just reminds me that I’m missing out
I’d love to set a fire to all of it
It ain’t worth a matchstick to me now
Swear I’d like to burn this place straight to the ground
Everything, it just reminds me that I’m missing out
I’d love to set a fire to all of it
Someday I’d like to burn it to the ground
Someday I’d like to burn it to the ground
Straight to the ground
Straight to the ground
Straight to the ground
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9. |
Coming To
04:36
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Feel the warmth of the morning sun
Move from corner to corner
Fill the room up with golden hues
Contentment comes
Noisy clock on the wall slows down
As you breathe for the first time
And your heart can't remember when
You slept so sound
Now the fog has finally lifted
And the daylight's breaking through
It’s been a longtime drifting
But I'm coming to
Through the wilderness, we must crawl
For what seems like forever
Till the clear light of mercy shines
Down on us all
Now the fog has finally lifted
And the daylight's breaking through
It’s been a longtime drifting
But I'm coming to
Half awake
But I’m coming to
No need to hide those tears
They will surely dry
Just as darkness yields to twilight
Now the fog has finally lifted
And the daylight's breaking through
It’s been a longtime drifting
Half awake, but I'm coming to
Half awake, but I'm coming to
Coming to
I’m coming to
I’m coming to
Coming to
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10. |
Walking in My Sleep
03:20
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Under a silver cloud
Watching the street lamp blink
Swear that I’ve fallen under a spell
Talking to myself
Walking in my sleep
The way that I’m feeling now
It’s only a fever dream
I know it’ll break
But I can’t say just when
How long it’ll be
Crush it up in a ball
Leave it in someone’s trash
Somethings are just so deep in the bones
You lower your head and hope it’ll pass
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Grant-Lee Phillips Nashville, Tennessee
American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
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