Right Now
RIGHT NOW Miles between us here we are Sat by side a stranded car Right now, baby right now And it's too dark to see Anyhow so where are we Right now,baby, right now You could say we've both come down To a place called lonesome town When did you loose a hold on me Anyhow and where are we Right now,oh , baby right now We stood up and said 'I do' Vowed to see each other through Right now, baby right now I'm looking down this road tonight And i don't see a light Right now, baby right now If we're so clever tell me how Were waiting for the wrecker now Let's forget what used to be Anyhow and where are we Right now,oh baby right now
RED STAGGERWING If i was staggerwing plane A staggerwingpainted red I'd fly over to your house, baby Buzz you in your bed If i was a taperwing A taperwing painted blue I'd be barrell-rolling over you You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If i was a maserati A red 300s I'd ride around to your house, baby Give you a driving test If i was a mustang racer White with a stripe of blue You could ride me,baby Whenever you wanted to You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If i was a fender guitar A fender painted red You could play me, darlin' Until your fingers bled If i was one of them gibsons Like a '58 or '9 You could plug me in And play me anytime You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If i was a motorcycle A vincent red rapide I'd ride around to your house, baby Get you up to speed If i was short track racer I'd be an indian You could ride me around And ride me round again You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now
RED DIRT GIRL Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon, Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade Singin every song the radio played Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town Me and Lillian Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. She loved her brother I remember back when He was fixin up a '49 Indian He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and back again" He never got farther than Vietnam, I was standin there with her when the telegram come For Lillian. Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is a great big world Thats where I'm bound And the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days I'm gonna swing My hammer down Away from this red dirt town I'm gonna make a joyful sound She grew up tall and she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard, Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard Got in trouble with a boy from town Figured that she might as well settle down So she dug right in Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian She tried hard to love him but it never did take It was just another way for the heart to break So she dug right in. But one thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got em You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't know end. At least not for Lillian Nobody knows when she started her skid, She was only 27 and she had five kids. Coulda' been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills, Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. But there won't be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl Names Lillian Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. Now the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid That hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground
I DUG UP A DIAMOND I dug up a diamond Rare and fine I dug up a diamond In a deep dark mine If only I could cling to My beautiful find I dug up a diamond In a deep dark mine My gem is special Beyond all worth As strong as any metal Or stone in the earth Sharp as any razor Or blade you can buy Bright as any laser Or any star in the sky Maybe once in a lifetime You'll hold one in your hand Once in a lifetime In this land Where the journey ends In a worthless claim Time and again In the mining game I dug up a diamond Rare and fine I dug up a diamond In a deep dark mine Down in the darkness In the dirt and the grime I dug up a diamond In a deep dark mine
BORN TO RUN Well I never did crawl and I never did toe that line No man is a master to me I ain't that kind I just put on my traveling shoes If you wanna win you just can't lose the time Or stay behind Well I was born to run To get ahead of the rest And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast I was born to run Well I take the chances sometimes I've made mistakes But you don't get nothing unless you take the breaks Living as dangerous as dynamite Sure makes you feel nervous but it makes you feel alright Makes you feel alright Well I was born to run To get ahead of the rest And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast I was born to run Nobody's gonna make me do things their way By the time you figure it out it's yesterday Well it comes to he who waits I'm told But I don't need it when I'm old and gray Yea I want it today Well I was born to run To get ahead of the rest And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast I was born to run
DONE WITH BONAPARTE We've paid in hell since Moscow burned As Cossacks tear us piece by piece Our dead are strewn a hundred leagues Though death would be a sweet release And our grande armée is dressed in rags A frozen starving beggar band Like rats we steal each other's scraps Fall to fighting hand to hand Save my soul from evil, Lord And heal this soldier's heart I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord I'm done with Bonaparte What dreams he made for us to dream Spanish skies, Egyptian sands The world was ours, we marched upon Our little Corporal's command And I lost an eye at Austerlitz The sabre slash yet gives me pain My one true love awaits me still The flower of the aquitaine Save my soul from evil, Lord And heal this soldier's heart I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord I'm done with Bonaparte I pray for her who prays for me A safe return to my belle France We prayed these wars would end all wars In war we know is no romance And I pray our child will never see A little Corporal again Point toward a foreign shore Captivate the hearts of men Save my soul from evil, Lord And heal this soldier's heart I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord I'm done with Bonaparte
ROMEO AND JULIET A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it? Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that Anyway what you gonna do about it? Juliet the dice were loaded from the start And I bet and you exploded in my heart And I forget I forget the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him Juliet when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die There's a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? I can't do the talk like they talk on TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you I can't do anything except be in love with you And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat and bad company All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme Julie I'd do the stars with you any time Juliet when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die There's a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it?
SONG FOR SONNY LISTON so many mouths to feed on the farm sonny was the second to the last one born his mamma ran away and his daddy beat him bad and he grew up wild good love he never had he had a left like henry’s hammer a right like betty bamalam rode with the muggers in the dark and dread and all them sluggers went down like lead well he hung with the hoods he wouldn’t stroke the fans but he had dynamite in both his hands boom bam like the slammer door the bell and the can and the bodies on the floor beware the bear’s in town somebody’s money says the bear’s going down yeah, the bear never smiles sonny’s going down for miles and miles sonny’s going down for miles and miles the writers didn’t like him the fight game jocks with his lowlife backers and his hands like rocks they didn’t want to have a bogey man they didn’t like him and he didn’t like them black cadillac alligator boots money in the pockets of his sharkskin suits some say the bear took a flop they couldn’t believe it when they saw him drop he had a left like henry’s hammer a right like betty bamalam rode with the muggers in the dark and dread and all them sluggers went down like lead joe louis was his hero he tried to be the same but a criminal child wears a ball and chain so the civil rights people didn’t want him on the throne and the hacks and the cops wouldn’t leave him alone beware the bear’s in town somebody’s money says the bear’s going down yeah, the bear never smiles sonny’s going down for miles and miles sonny’s going down for miles and miles at the foot of his bed with his feet on the floor there was dope in his veins and a pistol on the drawer there was no investigation as such he hated needles but he knew too much criss-crossed on his back scars from his daddy like slavery tracks the second-last child was the second-last king never again was it the same in the ring he had a left like henry’s hammer a right like betty bamalam rode with the muggers in the dark and dread and all them sluggers went down like lead they never could be sure about the day he was born a motherless child set to working on the farm and they never could be sure about the day he died the bear was the king they cast aside beware the bear’s in town somebody’s money says the bear’s going down yeah, the bear never smiles sonny’s going down for miles and miles sonny’s going down for miles and miles --------------------------------- ‘some day they’re gonna write a blues for fighters. It’ll just be for slow guitar, soft trumpet and a bell.’ sonny liston 1962 ---------------------------------
BELLE STARR My mamma and my daddy Told me that love is a two-way street But lately baby, you've been finding New ways of dragging yout feet So come on, make your best shot You don't have to take the blame I'll be your belle star You can be my Jesse James There's lonely people everywhere From Abilene to Arkansas The way they run for cover You'd think love was against the law Well i don't need a pistol , baby You won't have to rob a train You can be my belle star And i can be your Jesse James I know you've done some hard time Baby, and you've got your doubts When you feel surrounded And it's looking there's no way out I'll come riding to rescue All you gotta do is call my name I'll be your belle star You can be my Jesse James It don't take a genius, baby There aint no big mystery You can't play it safe And still go down in history So saddle up the horses 'Cos we're headed for the hall of fame I'll be your belle star You can be my Jesse James I'll be your belle star You can be my Jesse James
THIS IS US This is us down at the Mardi Gras This is us In your Daddy's Car You and the missing link Yeah, I'd had a little too much to drink,now Too long in the sun Having too much fun You and me and our memories This is us Rocking at the barbecue Yeah, when we said I do Hand jiving on the Ballroom floor You in that wedding coat you wore And you in that amazing dress I was stoned on love I guess You and me we were meant to be This is us This is us on our Honeymoon In our hotel room Sitting by the wishing well Checking out of the love motel Making plans for the sunshine state Waiting at the terminal gate You and me making history This is us And our baby boy With our pride and joy You at the Sunday Game Standing next to What's hisname? On our Anniversary With the family You and me and our memories This is us
ALL THE ROADRUNNING (featuring: Emmylou Harris) A million miles our vagabond heels Clocked up beneath the clouds They're counting down to show time When we do it for real with the crowds Air miles are owing But they don't come for free And they don't give you any for pain But if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain The rimshots come down like cannon fire And thunder off the wall There's a man in every corner And each one is giving his all This is my fife This is my drum So you never will hear me complain And if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain All the roadrunning All the roadrunning Well if you're inclined To go up on the wall It can only be fast and high And those who don't like the danger Soon find something different to try When there's only a ringin' in your ears And an echo down memory lane But if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning The show's packing up I sit and watch the convoy Leaving town There's no pretending I'm not a fool, For riding around and around Like the pictures you keep of your old wall of death You showed me one time on the plane But if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain A million miles of vagabond sky Clocked up above the clouds I'm still your man for the roaming For as long as there's roamin' allowed There'll be a rider And there'll be a wall As long as the dreamer remains And if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning
BOULDER TO BIRMINGHAM I don't want to hear a love song I got on this airplane just to fly I know there's life below me But all that you can show me Is the prairie and the sky - I don't want to hear a sad story Full of heartbreak and desire The last time I felt like this I was in the wilderness - And the canyon was on fire - And I stood on the mountain In the night and watched it burn - I watched it burn - I watched it burn. I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham I would hold my life in his saving grace I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham If I thought I could see - I could see your face. Well you really got me this time And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive - I've come to listen for the sound Of the trucks as they move down out on ninety five - And pretend that it's the ocean Coming down to wash me clean Baby oh you know what I mean You know what I mean. I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham ...
SPEEDWAY AT NAZARETH After two thousands came thousands and one To be the new champions, we were there for to run From springtime in Arizona, 'til the fall in Monterey And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way It was in Phoenix in the morning, I had a wakeup call She went around the without a warning and put me in the wall I drove at Long Beach California with three cracked vertebrae And we went on the Indianapolis, Indiana in May Well, the Brickyard's there to crusify anyone whol will not learn I climbed the mountains to qualify I went flat throught the turn But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died And I sat down in gasoline alley and I cried Well we were in at the killercamp on the Milwaukee mile And in June up in Michigan we were robbet at Belle Isle Then It was on to Portland Oregon for the G.I. Joe And I blew off almost everyone when I my motor let go New England, Ontario we died in the dirt Those walls from Mid Ohio to Toronto they hurt So we came to Rode America where we burned up at the lake But at the Speedway At Nazareth I made no mistake
SO FAR AWAY Here I am again in this mean old town And you're so far away from me And where are you when the sun goes down You're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I'm tired of being in love and being all alone When you're so far away from me I'm tired of making out on the telephone And you're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I get so tired when I have to explain When you're so far away from me See you've been in the sun and I've been in the rain And you're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me
OUR SHANGRI-LA Its the end of a perfect day for all the surfer boys and girls the suns dropping down in the bay and falling off the world there's a diamond in the sky, our evening stone in our shangri-la get that fire burning strong right here and right now Its here and then its gone, theres no secret anyhow. We may never love again to the music of guitars in our shangrila Tonight your beauty burns into my memory the wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly this is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our shangrila. Tonight your beauty burns into my memory the wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly this is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our shangrila in our shangrila in our shangrila
IF THIS IS GOODBYE My famous last words Are laying around in tatters Sounding absurd Whatever I try But I love you And that's all that really matters If this is goodbye If this is goodbye Yout bright shining sun Would light up the way before me You were the one Made me feel I could fly And I love you Whatever is waiting for me If this is goodbye If this is goodbye Who knows how long we've got Or what were made out of Who knows if there's a plan or not There is our love I know there is our love My famous last words Could never tell the story Spinning unheard In the dark of the sky But I love you And this is our glory If this is goodbye If this is goodbye
WHY WORRY Baby I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the things they say But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears I'll chase away those restless fears That turn your blue skies into grey Why worry, there should be laughter after pain There should be sunshine after rain These things have always been the same So why worry now Baby when I get down I turn to you And you make sense of what I do I know it isn't hard to say But baby just when this world seems mean and cold Our love comes shining red and gold And all the rest is by the way Why worry, there should be laughter after pain There should be sunshine after rain These things have always been the same So why worry now
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Right Now
RIGHT NOW Miles between us here we are Sat by side a stranded car Right now, baby right now And it's too dark to see Anyhow so where are we Right now,baby, right now You could say we've both come down To a place called lonesome town When did you loose a hold on me Anyhow and where are we Right now,oh , baby right now We stood up and said 'I do' Vowed to see each other through Right now, baby right now I'm looking down this road tonight And i don't see a light Right now, baby right now If we're so clever tell me how Were waiting for the wrecker now Let's forget what used to be Anyhow and where are we Right now,oh baby right now
RED STAGGERWING If i was staggerwing plane A staggerwingpainted red I'd fly over to your house, baby Buzz you in your bed If i was a taperwing A taperwing painted blue I'd be barrell-rolling over you You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If i was a maserati A red 300s I'd ride around to your house, baby Give you a driving test If i was a mustang racer White with a stripe of blue You could ride me,baby Whenever you wanted to You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If i was a fender guitar A fender painted red You could play me, darlin' Until your fingers bled If i was one of them gibsons Like a '58 or '9 You could plug me in And play me anytime You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If i was a motorcycle A vincent red rapide I'd ride around to your house, baby Get you up to speed If i was short track racer I'd be an indian You could ride me around And ride me round again You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now
RED DIRT GIRL Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon, Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade Singin every song the radio played Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town Me and Lillian Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. She loved her brother I remember back when He was fixin up a '49 Indian He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and back again" He never got farther than Vietnam, I was standin there with her when the telegram come For Lillian. Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is a great big world Thats where I'm bound And the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days I'm gonna swing My hammer down Away from this red dirt town I'm gonna make a joyful sound She grew up tall and she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard, Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard Got in trouble with a boy from town Figured that she might as well settle down So she dug right in Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian She tried hard to love him but it never did take It was just another way for the heart to break So she dug right in. But one thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got em You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't know end. At least not for Lillian Nobody knows when she started her skid, She was only 27 and she had five kids. Coulda' been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills, Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. But there won't be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl Names Lillian Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. Now the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid That hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground
DONE WITH BONAPARTE We've paid in hell since Moscow burned As Cossacks tear us piece by piece Our dead are strewn a hundred leagues Though death would be a sweet release And our grande armée is dressed in rags A frozen starving beggar band Like rats we steal each other's scraps Fall to fighting hand to hand Save my soul from evil, Lord And heal this soldier's heart I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord I'm done with Bonaparte What dreams he made for us to dream Spanish skies, Egyptian sands The world was ours, we marched upon Our little Corporal's command And I lost an eye at Austerlitz The sabre slash yet gives me pain My one true love awaits me still The flower of the aquitaine Save my soul from evil, Lord And heal this soldier's heart I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord I'm done with Bonaparte I pray for her who prays for me A safe return to my belle France We prayed these wars would end all wars In war we know is no romance And I pray our child will never see A little Corporal again Point toward a foreign shore Captivate the hearts of men Save my soul from evil, Lord And heal this soldier's heart I'll trust in thee to keep me, Lord I'm done with Bonaparte
ROMEO AND JULIET A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it? Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that Anyway what you gonna do about it? Juliet the dice were loaded from the start And I bet and you exploded in my heart And I forget I forget the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him Juliet when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die There's a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? I can't do the talk like they talk on TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you I can't do anything except be in love with you And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat and bad company All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme Julie I'd do the stars with you any time Juliet when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die There's a place for us you know the movie song When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet? A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it?
ALL THAT MATTERS my darling girl my darling girl you’re all that matters in this wicked world all that matters all that matters my darling boy my darling boy all of my sunshine and all of my joy you’re all that matters all that matters well, i can’t stop the pain when it calls i’m a man and i can’t stop the rain when it falls, my darling who can? my darling girl my darling girl you’re all that matters in this wicked world all that matters all that matters my darling friend my darling friend all we’ve got going is love in the end it’s all that matters all that matters
THIS IS US This is us down at the Mardi Gras This is us In your Daddy's Car You and the missing link Yeah, I'd had a little too much to drink,now Too long in the sun Having too much fun You and me and our memories This is us Rocking at the barbecue Yeah, when we said I do Hand jiving on the Ballroom floor You in that wedding coat you wore And you in that amazing dress I was stoned on love I guess You and me we were meant to be This is us This is us on our Honeymoon In our hotel room Sitting by the wishing well Checking out of the love motel Making plans for the sunshine state Waiting at the terminal gate You and me making history This is us And our baby boy With our pride and joy You at the Sunday Game Standing next to What's hisname? On our Anniversary With the family You and me and our memories This is us
ALL THE ROADRUNNING (featuring: Emmylou Harris) A million miles our vagabond heels Clocked up beneath the clouds They're counting down to show time When we do it for real with the crowds Air miles are owing But they don't come for free And they don't give you any for pain But if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain The rimshots come down like cannon fire And thunder off the wall There's a man in every corner And each one is giving his all This is my fife This is my drum So you never will hear me complain And if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain All the roadrunning All the roadrunning Well if you're inclined To go up on the wall It can only be fast and high And those who don't like the danger Soon find something different to try When there's only a ringin' in your ears And an echo down memory lane But if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning The show's packing up I sit and watch the convoy Leaving town There's no pretending I'm not a fool, For riding around and around Like the pictures you keep of your old wall of death You showed me one time on the plane But if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain A million miles of vagabond sky Clocked up above the clouds I'm still your man for the roaming For as long as there's roamin' allowed There'll be a rider And there'll be a wall As long as the dreamer remains And if it's all for nothing All the roadrunning's Been in vain All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning All the roadrunning, all the roadrunning
BOULDER TO BIRMINGHAM I don't want to hear a love song I got on this airplane just to fly I know there's life below me But all that you can show me Is the prairie and the sky - I don't want to hear a sad story Full of heartbreak and desire The last time I felt like this I was in the wilderness - And the canyon was on fire - And I stood on the mountain In the night and watched it burn - I watched it burn - I watched it burn. I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham I would hold my life in his saving grace I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham If I thought I could see - I could see your face. Well you really got me this time And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive - I've come to listen for the sound Of the trucks as they move down out on ninety five - And pretend that it's the ocean Coming down to wash me clean Baby oh you know what I mean You know what I mean. I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham ...
SPEEDWAY AT NAZARETH After two thousands came thousands and one To be the new champions, we were there for to run From springtime in Arizona, 'til the fall in Monterey And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way It was in Phoenix in the morning, I had a wakeup call She went around the without a warning and put me in the wall I drove at Long Beach California with three cracked vertebrae And we went on the Indianapolis, Indiana in May Well, the Brickyard's there to crusify anyone whol will not learn I climbed the mountains to qualify I went flat throught the turn But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died And I sat down in gasoline alley and I cried Well we were in at the killercamp on the Milwaukee mile And in June up in Michigan we were robbet at Belle Isle Then It was on to Portland Oregon for the G.I. Joe And I blew off almost everyone when I my motor let go New England, Ontario we died in the dirt Those walls from Mid Ohio to Toronto they hurt So we came to Rode America where we burned up at the lake But at the Speedway At Nazareth I made no mistake
SO FAR AWAY Here I am again in this mean old town And you're so far away from me And where are you when the sun goes down You're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I'm tired of being in love and being all alone When you're so far away from me I'm tired of making out on the telephone And you're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I get so tired when I have to explain When you're so far away from me See you've been in the sun and I've been in the rain And you're so far away from me So far away from me So far I just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me
OUR SHANGRI-LA Its the end of a perfect day for all the surfer boys and girls the suns dropping down in the bay and falling off the world there's a diamond in the sky, our evening stone in our shangri-la get that fire burning strong right here and right now Its here and then its gone, theres no secret anyhow. We may never love again to the music of guitars in our shangrila Tonight your beauty burns into my memory the wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly this is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our shangrila. Tonight your beauty burns into my memory the wheel of heaven turns above us endlessly this is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our shangrila in our shangrila in our shangrila
IF THIS IS GOODBYE My famous last words Are laying around in tatters Sounding absurd Whatever I try But I love you And that's all that really matters If this is goodbye If this is goodbye Yout bright shining sun Would light up the way before me You were the one Made me feel I could fly And I love you Whatever is waiting for me If this is goodbye If this is goodbye Who knows how long we've got Or what were made out of Who knows if there's a plan or not There is our love I know there is our love My famous last words Could never tell the story Spinning unheard In the dark of the sky But I love you And this is our glory If this is goodbye If this is goodbye
WHY WORRY Baby I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the things they say But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears I'll chase away those restless fears That turn your blue skies into grey Why worry, there should be laughter after pain There should be sunshine after rain These things have always been the same So why worry now Baby when I get down I turn to you And you make sense of what I do I know it isn't hard to say But baby just when this world seems mean and cold Our love comes shining red and gold And all the rest is by the way Why worry, there should be laughter after pain There should be sunshine after rain These things have always been the same So why worry now
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Vocals & guitars Guy Fletcher - Keyboards Richard Bennett - Additional guitars Danny Cummings - Drums Stuart Duncan - Fiddle & mandolin Matt Rollings - Keyboards Glenn Worf - Bass Recorded by Dave Dixon on AMD64 technology Produced, engineered and mixed by Guy Fletcher Assisted by Richard Cooper and Graham Meek Mixed at British Grove Studios, London Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering & DVD, Maine
