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Photographs to burn
01:47
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Well I've learned to forget all those transgressions I've made
They've left me lost and lonely for most of my days
You don't see the scars I bear for they're all beneath the skin
Please don't let me do myself in
I guess 'Welcome' doesn't mean anything, anyway.
Or at least it doesn't mean what I thought.
And I'd hide myself away from those battles that you play
Last thing I'd like to do is watch you rot.
Some say youth is wasted on the young
But in the end the dead stay dead what's done is done.
And you know the fish that swim upstream get
Caught and Torn apart
Oh but looking back, wish I could mend your heart
Oh if only clocks ran backwards, and lord I wish they could
Then today things would be different, I promise you they would
But that look of hurt behind your eyes was not there from the start
Oh and looking back wish I could mend your heart
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2. |
Keep on
01:16
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I dunno what this is but it's goin to the pigs
and I'm losing my voice as you're dancing your jigs
Well the sun be so hot and the sea be so cool
Pissin into the wind does it make me a fool?
But I'll keep on moving and keep on turnin
and I'll keep on laughin and lovin and yearnin
and I'll keep on dreaming for the rest of my days
and you'll lead me home when I've lost my way
My nose is wet fingers can't feel too cold
my eyes fill with tears and my bread's full with mold
pick you up when you're down if for me you'd the same
and we'd smack that fool pat but I won't take the blame
And I'll keep on wishin and keep on thinkin
and I'll keep on singin and smokin and drinkin
And I'll keep on panning this river for gold
There's enough here for all men or so I've been told
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3. |
Livin life
02:03
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That Girl and me go a long way back
you know the days fly by like a heart attack
all the times we had you know you kinda lose track
Take the short way there and take the long way back
Living life in portugal
where the women are as cheep as the alchohol
Head on down to old ferragudo
where instead of weed they smoke oregano
They shout hey you and I studder who me
then I spit in their eye and I jump like a flea
What they want not gonna wait and see
oh why ha hie is everybody after me
Living life in Italia
where the better half is run by the mafia
head on down to castrovillari
where you can hang with Scott and you can burn the deed
Knot your boots, cross the sea
Grab your bag and baby run with me
Got my baby and my boots that's all I need
Who ever said a good life is gonna be easy
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4. |
Aberdine
01:11
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Oh Aberdine
Oh Abadine
I want to hold you in my arms when i sleep
you know that I won't flaunt that love I got
Oh Aberdine
Oh Aberdine
You're my queen
All my affection all belongs to you
And it is only your lip that I'd chew
And if you promise you'll always be true
Oh Aberdine, Aberdine, Aberdine, Aberdine, Aberdine, Aberdine
I love you
And if the timing is right for walking in the moonlight
Well I have finally found someone with whom to settle down
I got a bullet for you, you gotta bullet for me
So come on baby lets start a family
Oh come on pretty baby oh you're gonna be a friend of mine
Oh yes I know that baby oh you're gonna be a friend of mine
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5. |
Doe
02:28
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I can't hold open these wounds for they'll scar
no I can't wait around for this love anymore
and I can't justify this space in my heart
it will always be yours and was yours from the start
While you're locking your windows and slamming your doors
the life left to live shakes me right to the core
So I'll lay it down graceful on a steel string guitar
and though this hate hungers I'll starve it some more
La ti da la ti da la ti doe La ti da la ti da la ti doe
La ti da la ti da la ti doe
And the tides of the ages appear on the shore
and they're waiting to take you away
and never will I really know the one who got away
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6. |
My whole world
02:18
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It's been a long time since I felt this way
Its been a good long while since I let myself
Sweetheart you just don't know how much you mean to me
Darling it's not your job to know
But I will take the time
whenever you might need it
and I hope that you will hear more than my voice
And when I say that you're my girl
you know it just so happens to mean you're my whole world
and If you know just what I mean
well take my hand there's much more to be seen
If one day you ever find me tedious
I hope that you will simply let me know
I won't let my smile fade
Just wink and nod and slip right out the door
Though there's pain my heart's kept warmed just that you exist
And when I say that you're my girl
you know it just so happens to mean you're my whole world
and If you know just what I mean
well take my hand there's much more to be seen
I usually don't have what it takes to write a sappy song like this
But you my dear are all that I require
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7. |
No going home
02:35
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Well I could see this insurrection
long before you let me know
The day is warm the day is good
But tonight there's no going home
And as you lay softly sleeping
may I never see you frown
Don't worry your head with such things
Have I ever let you down
Have I ever let you down
Have I ever let you down
Enoughs enough and thats the truth
There's a wilderness grown between me and you
One day not long past just grew too damn thick to cross
And tonight there's no going home
Tonight there's no going home
And as you lay softly sleeping
may I never see you frown
Don't worry your head with such things
Have I ever let you down
Have I ever let you down
Have I ever let you down
Burn the bridge, uproot the roots
The hole in me is wearing into you
We pick up broken pieces to make castles built to fall
And tonight there's no going home
No, tonight there's no going home
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8. |
Man without a muse
01:45
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Oh and there's the times there's no one there for when you're cryin
And you're so damn tired of crying by yourself
oh and there's the time's you wish you were back where you started
look to the past there's you and now here's someone else
And this heart of mine
been messed round a fair few times
And this heart of mine
is simply aching my dear
And this heart of mine
endured a fair few lonely nights
And what's life for a man without a muse?
Oh and there's the times when you can feel your soul departin
To live before you die is such a curse
And when the why's and what if's all get to their shoutin
I find myself a man without a muse
But I'll try and try
God I hope you know I always tried
I stand before you a product of my efforts
But there's a line
And where I've drawn that line
has left me here a man without a muse
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For you
01:53
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Fly fly fly, a blackbird fly
Tommy rise in the mornin
Tommy sits in the evening
And Tommy plays a tune upon that 'lin
And the nights all turn to day, and Tommy's fiddle goes away
And it's time for good old Tom to rise again
Wrap yer arms around my middle
I'll regal you with my fiddle
and we'll make this big bad world the golden light
and we'll keep our fears at bay
by going half a world away
no troubles gonna find us there.
For you I'd catch the scarlet sun
For you my day is never done
Until my head is laid upon your breast
For you I'd chase them clouds away
and spend another summer's day
Laying in the grass in sweet caress
The blue sky's a comin, the rail road's hummin
no dark circles, no more hairs of gray
the robins sing a tune, and all the flowers are in bloom
no more worries on my mind today
nothing here can worry me today
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10. |
Spare change
01:48
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I need a dime, won't you throw me a dime
If you got the time I'd appreciate your dime
You know I would be feeling so very fine
If you could only share with me your dime
I need a quarter, can you chuck us a quarter
with the kind of tallent offered a donation is in order
If you can't abide I'll be running for the border
so honey won't you please give me a quarter
Please won't you spare some change
I've knocked every door for an honest living, this is all i could arrange
Please won't you spare some change
You know the coins in your pocket are the fuel to my rocket
I hope you'd see an honest exchange
I need a nickel don't you got a nickel
I'm in the kinda pickel you can solve with a nickel
If you're not the kind of person who's overly fickle
I could probably better use that nickel
I need a penny, just drop me that penny
If you find you've got too many, I will gladly take that penny
Or I'll be right here singing again and againy
Bout my tragic need for that penny
Please, won't you spare some change
I've knocked every door for an honest living, this is all i could arrange
Please won't you spare some change
You know the coins in your pocket are the fuel to my rocket
I hope you'd see an honest exchange
Ain't nothing strange
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Come little sprite dance before my eyes
Flicker and shine
From the lost bush where wild rivers flow
I took that girl my sweetheart
Was her bookshop where i first saw her
Began buying me three books a day
Each time i went in
With a wink and a grin
I'd say just couldn't keep me away
Her mystifying mind, ageless sharp and pure,
The pink of her cheeks when we touch
That unruly, listless, and beguiling gaze,
I've loved women but never this much
Come little sprite dance before my eyes
Flicker and shine
From the lost bush where wild rivers flow
I took that girl my sweetheart
Was September when I first met her
So sure were the first signs of spring
By when autumn came round
Well I knew that I'd found
A summer love to be more than a fling
And we'd pick out the names of our children
And imagine the lives they might lead
And the fat of the land would be so close at hand when soon wed and we'd both sign the deed
But the open road called
The love that first claimed me
A wanderlust too strong to quell
Though for now we may part
she would still have my heart
I'd forever be under her spell
Come little sprite dance before my eyes
Flicker and shine
From the lost bush where wild rivers flow
I took that girl my sweetheart
Now I sit at the fire and wonder
Of the life that we to could have had
And recall every mark of her splendor
How I should have asked for her hand
Come little sprite dance before my eyes
Flicker and shine
From the lost bush where wild rivers flow
I took that girl my sweetheart
Beloved beauty of jagged bay
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12. |
Left unsaid
01:53
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There will come a day, where the conversation don't come easy
There will come a time, where we'll divide whats yours and mine
And I'll look back and say, how'd we get'n this place today.
But until then we'll keep on laughing at tomorrow.
Love
Don't come so easily
I've come to realize you wont always stay
Life
Just keeps on moving
So I'll treat you best I can before that day
Don't you know how lonesome I was before I met you
And now I'm lonesome oh yet again
Didn't I say how much I loved you
Didn't you see how much I care
If we didn't find love what would we find
Childhood things left behind
Show me yours, I'll show you mine
It's high time we looked alive
Love
Won't last eternity
Though how I wish that you would always stay
Life
Just keeps on moving
So I'll treat you best I can before that day
When we both made up our minds, and that day came to a close
I saw you at a distance one last time
Funny how we part as strangers when we said we'd part as friends
Guess there's nothing wrong with longing if this is really how it ends
I was never one to kid, so say it now or left unsaid
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You wear that kinda lipstick that I like
And the clothes on the line move with the breeze
And the sprinklers water the sidewalk
And there's me, and you, and you just happen to be
The sweetest thing in the world
I wanna find me a bar house muse
She'll leave footprints on my heart with her converse shoes
Honest girl next door with a roughed up heart
Sometimes words escape me but she's mighty smart
Finding time to talk about our misspent youth
Our origin stories, our secret truths
They call it baby talking cause of girls like you
And I'd be lucky, if I could call you my honey
Living the dreams young lovers see out of the corners of their eyes
And look and see, those seasons changing
Fading tattoos, silver locks where gold used to shine
Let's take off, hey where you goin?
A chance like this don't come around every day
Darling lover, I won't waste your time
Come on and make and honest man outta me
You wear that kinda lipstick that I like
And the clothes on the line move with the breeze
And the sprinklers water the sidewalk
And there's me, and you, and you just happen to be
The sweetest thing in the world
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Ian Warner-O'Connor Asheville, North Carolina
Introducing folk's newest sweetheart. With a humble, original take on undying tropes, Thunder on the Sound debuts after many years in the works. With stories of the road, lost love, and self-reflection the album comes off heartfelt and at times hokey and tongue-in-cheek. His trusty 8-string ukulele Bethie, a constant travel companion, lends a unique complimentary sound to this soulful songwriter. ... more
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