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The Durango Song
04:26
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A pay phone call from Durango
Baby bring me back home
Don’t know who I was pleasin
When I left you alone
Swear to god if I go deeper in the desert
I’ll get sand in my eyes, in my eyes
I’m driving west
to where I love best
all the places I will go
Another state line
mile marker signs
faces I don’t know
Next time I call Don’t pick up the phone,
let me use all my change
Please don’t console these thoughts
Let me rearrange
Swear to god if I go
deeper in the desert
I’ll never make it out alive
I’m driving east
where the two halves meet
as fast as I can go
Another state line
mile marker signs
who am I? I don’t know
I called you crying but I don’t want you to send me money again
If I come back we’ll be stuck in the same roundabout and when
I hit rock bottom I want you to leave me there
Cause this ain’t nothin I can’t bare
This ain’t nothin’
This ain’t nothin’
This ain’t nothin’ that I can’t bare
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Wonder Why
02:46
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Sometimes I pretend that I’m your moon
But still the daylight beats me to you
I wonder
I wonder why
I even try
I can’t give up now
I will not back down
So I wonder why
When I watch you go I always say
I’ll never linger longer than a day
I wonder
I wonder why
I even try
I can’t give up now
I will not back down
So I wonder why
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Riverside
03:33
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She looks just like the girl on your poster
I stared at her while you got dressed, after we finished
She never had much to say anyway
She looks like she waltzed in your life with reason
Strictly temporary infatuation
Put me on a shelf up high
Sit pretty on riverside
Pool out back, sun is high
I hope October learns that she needs to treat me better
But if she really cared the seasons wouldn’t change
I’m still bitter over summer’s end and losing friends
You were my favorite season until our time was up
Strictly temporary infatuation
Put me on a shelf up high
Sit pretty on riverside
Pool out back, sun is high
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Mountain Letters
04:02
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Climbed the side of a mountain
Part of my daily grace
And the hills never wronged me
And the trees saved me a place
Wrote my letters to no one
As I fell deeper into the canyon
I see it in my dreams at night
Can’t find a single star
I’m not looking for guidance
No directions to who you are
Signed my letters with love
Before I knew what I was made of
Put me on the mountain again
Put me on the mountain again
Put me on the mountain again
I’ll come back to you one day my friend
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Watch The Angel Go
03:51
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She stays sweet down to the core
She stays good when the devils at her door
He’ll stay knocking all night long
But he’ll only pass her by, you can’t make this angel cry
Steps out on the checkered floor and spins herself around
Every dance hall is her holy ground
She’s always gonna be her own lead
You might get to dip her low, but you’ll still watch the angel go
You can ask, but she ain’t gotta tell
What she knows about heaven, if she’s been to hell
She stands in front of a heavenly host
Stronger than the you’ll ever see,
The angel who came down to me
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Try Me On
03:38
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Try me on again, how do I feel?
Try me on again, do what you will
I’ve been thinking, thinking of
Other places, and
other loves
The kind you touch, the kind you talk to
The kind you follow,
To places brand new
Where you never
Thought you’d be/
From sea to
Shimmering sea
Try me on again, how do I feel?
Try me on again, do what you will
If I stop wanting more
Will there ever
Be another door
Will it open slowly, or swing out wide
Crossed my heart
Each and every time
It shut
On me
Or when I
Lose the key
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7. |
After The Cigarette
02:22
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We’ll keep on hiding
Until there’s nothing here for anyone to see
And you’ll keep on searching for something
But your new something looks just like me
I dare you to not look my way
As I walk into the room
We’ll keep on riding
Down familiar roads that we’ll never leave
If there’s a hand gripping my thigh
It better be you in the passenger seat
I dare you to not look away
As I walk out of your room
I know it’s no game but I think I’m winning
A magnetic force from the beginning
While I wait for this to end
I’m gonna say it again
I dare you to give it a day
But I know you crawl back so soon
I dare you to mean what you say
Because I can handle the truth
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I Dare You
03:51
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My man is handsome
My man is a fool
Who keeps his love for ransom
And treats himself so cruel
After the cigarette
You’ll hold me close to your chest
After the cigarette
You’ll say babe I love your love the best
My man is lonely
My man thinks he should
Keep himself lonely
He knows he’s no good
After the cigarette
You’ll hold me close to your chest
After the cigarette
You’ll say babe I love your love the best
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Naked Man
05:10
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Find me in private, don’t make a scene
I told you my red flags were the prettiest shade of pink
It was clear, it was true
All the sweetest words coming right out of you
You can’t take a naked man’s clothes
I can’t learn what I already know
A suit of armor in the corner
A good friend with her head on my shoulder
I shrug her off to go out and meet ya
You buy me a drink that makes my grass look greener
You can’t take a naked man’s clothes
I can’t learn what I already know
You can’t take a naked man’s clothes
All the signs can’t tell me where to go
Find me in private and in my dreams
Or the sweet spot right in between
Kiss your old friends, hug the new
Silver and gold can’t hold a match to you
You can’t take a naked man’s clothes
I can’t learn what I already know
You can’t take a naked man’s clothes
All the signs can’t tell me where to go
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10. |
Annie's House
03:39
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I don’t remember
The color of her bathroom tile
But I close my eyes and
Sit on her front porch for a while
Annie’s house is frozen in my memory now
Annie’s house is at the end of a road I don’t go down
Left the oven open
To keep the kitchen warm
The sound ringing in my mind tonight
Is that same old slamming screen door
Annie’s house is calling from a rotary telephone
Annie’s house is next door but a million miles gone
I’ll go to bed a little early tonight
I’ll pull her quilt up to my chest
Safe and warm, just like her kitchen
All in our Sunday best
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Abby Johnson Nashville, Tennessee
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