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My Turn • Burn Me Up Slowly • Beyond Emily • Queen Of England • No Place To Go

• The Bargain Basement • What You Don't Say • Nothing Else • Could Have Been Me

• The More I Find • When It Comes To You • Some Hope • If I Could Fly • It's Only Life

1. MY TURN
My turn to impress my will upon you My turn to get a word in edgewise My turn to point the truth out as I see it And shout it out and express my self without restraint My turn to draw attention My turn to take a chance My turn to be the leading man My turn to dance My turn to decide if we should linger My turn to get the punch line for a change My turn to show you how I really feel Or conceal myself before your very eyes up on the stage My turn to call the doctor My turn to draw the line My turn to set this place alight My turn to shine My turn to be a politician's nightmare My turn at stealing flowers from a grave My turn to disappear when things get too rough And then appear to be the guilty one who's not to blame My turn to turn the corner My turn to take the wheel My turn to gamble everything My turn to deal

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2. BURN ME UP SLOWLY
Some days I got my shit together All my troubles floating on the breeze Flowing easy like a lazy river Down the valley to the waiting sea And I know everything must end All I'm asking until then Burn me up slowly Take me the distance Surround me with music I'm not ready for silence Some days are like a walking nightmare Too many chains hanging 'round my neck Every road I take is heading nowhere Every turn is what I least expect Everything will fall apart All I'm asking, have a heart Burn me up slowly Take me the distance Surround me with music I'm not ready for silence Some days I wish could go on forever Hanging 'round with someone special like you Be stranger be a friend be a lover These are the days just too good to be true All things will turn to dust All I'm asking, if it's not too much Burn me up slowly Take me the distance Surround me with music I'm not ready for silence
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3. BEYOND EMILY
Rainy night and the mist hanging around Time is listening like a shroud Into the house comes an eerie light Settles down easy around the room Sending signals out of the gloom Now's the time to be thinking thinking Beyond Emily Faded photograph kept in a broken frame Hangs there waiting just the same Waitin for a love that's never coming back A distant drum beating in your heart But has this story gone a little too far Now's the time to be thinking thinking Beyond Emily Cut the thread, take another road Don't look at the trail behind you Is that you there in the photograph Just fading fading away Snap your fingers bang on a different drum Get those shadows out on the run Yesterday's papers don't have a lot to say Just stack them over there by the door Who's going to need them anymore Now you're finally thinking thinking Beyond Emily
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4. QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Through the cane field come a lullaby Say a prayer for the lost and the broken down It don't matter where you come from You will end up being from the wrong town I came up from Jackson Corner Just to have me a drink and look around I went back with Deacon's daughter She was looking for a way to get out of town Everything gonna be alright And the sun's gonna shine tonight Everybody gonna come my way And we'll understand it all one day Caught a ride with pulpwood driver He was drinking red liquor from the floorboard Said he used to have a daughter Now he don't want to think about it any more We went flying down a two lane God knows why we didn't see the bridge out She went down in yellow water Now it's all in the world I can think about I had a dream It didn't make no sense I saw myself tangled up in a barbed wire fence Queen of England got a number And they tell me she don't go nowhere without it Get in trouble, call the number And you never hear another word about it
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5. NO PLACE TO GO
There's a light up in your window You can see for miles I wouldn't have packed my suitcase If I'd been half as wise I've been looking for some answers Got nothing much to show Let me lie down there beside you I got no place to go Been in one too many stories I guess you've heard them all Been in one too many shelters Riding out the storm Been in one too many houses Looking for a home Let me lie down there beside you I got no place to go Let's hope it makes sense this time Maybe we'll make love this time Let's pray we'll be good this time I hope we make love
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6. THE BARGAIN BASEMENT
Thought you complain about it you like the open road You love the pain about it all those goodbyes again All those forgotten faces from the bargain basement Diamonds everyone I follow them away oh yeah If ever love is made to measure I'd take you by the lake A tune to sing your pleasure played by a minstrel boy But something satisfies me from the bargain basement Sit with me a while before I fly away oh yeah The most that I can offer is less than you can take Go and find another from down the highway I'll sit and count my jewels from the bargain basement This band of fools carries me away oh yeah
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7. WHAT YOU DON'T SAY
You can keep it up You can keep in touch You can say enough You can say too much Communication loud and clear It's what you don't say that I hear Alarm bells ringing Sirens wail Giving information Telling a tale Smoke screen hiding what is real It's what you don't say that I feel It's a secret place Where we see ourselves so clear Face to face I reach for you but you're not here You can tell the truth You can spin a line Is it a rumour Or an alibi Are you lying all the time It's what you don't say between the lines
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8. NOTHING ELSE
I went down to the edge of the river Wondering what I'd find I couldn't know what fate would deliver Looking into your eyes Thinking 'bout nothing else, nothing else all day All tied up like a boat in the harbour Sheltering from the storm Come here baby you said in a whisper I'm gonna love you and keep you warm Nothing else, nothing else all day I've been thinking 'bout nothing else all day Where did you come from, where are we going How did I find you here Nothing matters in the heat of the moment Love is the power makes everything clear Nothing else, nothing else all day Watching the light shining down from the window Snaking across to you There in the corner waiting in the shadow Smiling at me through the gloom Nothing else, nothing else all day I've been thinking 'bout nothing else all day Where did you come from and what's the attraction Where do we go from here I can't imagine but what does it matter As long as I breathe as long as you're near Nothing else, nothing else all day I've been thinking 'bout nothing else all day
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9. COULD HAVE BEEN ME
I could have been a gardener digging up the weeds I could have been a farmer sowing seeds I could have been a painter with a whole new point of view I could have been standing next to someone like you It could have been me I could have been a sailor testing the breeze I could have been a failure hiding in the trees I could have been a vagabond with nothing left to lose I could have been making love to someone like you It could have been me I could have been reaching out with an olive leaf in my hand I could have been screaming out like the leader of the band I could have been anything if I could only choose I'd want to be waking up with someone like you It could have been me
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10. THE MORE I FIND
The more that I'm thinking The less that I'm sure of The more that I'm hiding The more I show The less that I give to The more I depend on The more that I take from The less that I own The less I remember The more that I want to The more I hold on to The less that I keep The more that I yearn for The more I'm a slave to The less that I look for The more I find
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11. WHEN IT COMES TO YOU
Well I bark like a tree Hiss like a tape Change like a baby And screech like a brake Draw like a breath Clean like a slate Fire like a starter And crash like a gate But I don't know what to do I don't what to do when it comes to you I can think like a tank Skip like a stone Run like a colour And jaw like a bone Snap like a finger Slide like a rule Stretch like a canvas And box like a tool But I don't know what to do I don't what to do when it comes to you Trap like a bear Fight like a dog Sink like a kitchen And jam like a log Drag like a net Spin like a tail Spread like a rumour Bite like a nail But I don't know what to do I don't what to do when it comes to you
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12. SOME HOPE
Some hope for an end to what they're going through Some hope for a better world Some hope for a second chance at something new Another tale another place another girl Some hope to get out from behind the bars Some hope for something left to lose Some hope for a live that isn't quite so hard A little food a little heat a pair of shoes Some hope for eternity Some hope the end is soon Some hope for nothing Some hope for the moon Some hope for the sun to chase the clouds away Some hope for the rain to come Some hope for another shot on another day A longer game a smaller share a bigger gun
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13. IF I COULD FLY
The night has fallen The trees are bare And a voice is calling me off somewhere I can hear you now You're loud and clear In a perfect world you would always be near If I could fly If I could fly tonight I'd fly tonight to you The days are long The days and nights And I ache for you when I turn out the lights I need your touch No words can say And I'd be there if I could just find a way If I could fly If I could fly tonight I'd fly tonight to you
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14. IT'S ONLY LIFE
Been to sea, I've been on land I've seen the mountains turn to sand It's only natural to be amazed At how much crazy stuff is taking place Been a fool, been all right I pace the floor thinking of you all night I guess I could change it if I would But I can't do what I always thought I could It's only life.. I was standing on a hill If she hadn't come along I guess I'd be there still You broke my heart when you said goodbye And left me standing wondering why I've been running and I got caught All my troubles were my own fault Where do you go when the road is blocked How can you act like you're never going to stop It's only life.. Been a fool, been all right I pace the floor thinking of you all night I guess I could call you if I would But I can't do what I think I should It's only life..
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