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Three Muses
03:05
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Three muses come to me in the spring
One by water
One by land
And one every time you sing
I don’t try to seek them out
I just sit down and wait for the spark they bring
Three muses come to me in the spring
Three notions come to me in the fall
One on life
One on love
And one on nothing at all
It’s not that they’re so mighty
But to reach that air you’ve got to be tall
Three notions come to me in the fall
Three cynics came to me in the sun
Sayin’ “Drive all night,
Forget your life,
And don’t trust anyone.”
Maybe they’re just cautious
Or maybe they’re something more like a loaded gun
Three cynics came to me in the sun
Three roses came to me in the snow
No-one called
No-one signed their name
They just expected me to know
That the mystery of unsung things
Is more exciting than your dreams of home
Three roses came to me in the snow
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Cottonwood
04:05
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They say simple beginnings don’t forebode
So treat this one like the beginning of the end
A phone call in the morning, an offer without warning
And off you go on down the road
Semi stages and county fairs
Twelve long miles away from a good idea
Still those bar band rules and Music City blues
Keep on echoin’ in my ears
(And) I didn't think too much at the time
‘Cause nobody told me that I should
But those years long ago were worth everything I know
Down in Cottonwood
Rivers jump their banks every day
To change the landscape of twentysomething lust
They could tell us all the dreams we had were foolish
But they couldn’t take our foolish dreams away
(And) I didn't think too much at the time
‘Cause nobody told me that I should
But those years long ago were worth everything I know
Down in Cottonwood
Maybe we picked the right time to die
Or maybe we just never knew the way the story ends
Faultless and too critical don’t go too well with dying love
You’ve gotta know just when and how to bend
(And) I didn't think too much at the time
‘Cause nobody told me that I should
But those years long ago were worth everything I know
Down in Cottonwood
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Wanted, 1975
03:57
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Wanted dead or alive
Since 1975
Sleepin’ under the desert sky
Way out west
Chokin’ down dirt and dust
Every time you have to run
And you’ll never see that promised land
Half-assed loneliness
Ain’t solved one-a yer problems yet
Just left you dying from regret
And tequila fumes
Made a million and a half
Lose it just like that
And lose the only ones who ever loved you
Now the daylight’s too bright for your tired eyes
But at night you’re all alone with your mind
If you make it back town with a story to tell
Will anyone still want to shake your hand?
Maybe you gave it all you had
And gave up when things turned bad
Maybe when you turned and ran
We turned on you
10 years of riding high
10 years of bitter lies
Maybe that’s the price you pay to sing the blues
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4. |
El Roble
02:27
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Last, Long Blues
03:29
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Call me up every night
Searching for a new look at life
I can’t give you hope, my dear
I won’t whisper promises in your ear
Don’t make trouble, don’t explain
Just let our picture yellow in its frame
And when the morning comes for you
Ain’t no time
For the last, long blues
She said, “It’s not hard to understand,
I’m just looking for your kind of man
A lifetime away from this
You’ll look back and regret everything you missed
Like nights together and mornings-of
Hiding from the storm, falling in love”
But when the morning comes for you
Ain’t no time
For the last, long blues
Sometimes words just won’t do
Especially when it comes to me and you
Like skeletons and world affairs
Time reveals most of what wasn’t there
Days go by, these things don’t last
Roll along and leave it in the past
And when the morning comes for you
Ain’t no time
For the last, long blues
When the morning comes for you
Ain’t no time
For the last, long blues
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East Virginia Blues
03:30
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Benjamin Miller Minneapolis, Minnesota
Benjamin Miller sings honky-tonk numbers and sad songs for Minneapolis country band The Federales and sings psychedelic folk and 1960s California rock ’n’ roll for himself.
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