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Strange Gold
03:28
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In the evening there's fire in your eyes
And the embers sing on the rise
You're a shangri-la to behold
And the springtime flowers burst out bold
Like strange gold, like strange gold
When the world is crumblin' insane
You're a shelter a calmin' my brain
Elijah could not have foretold
The fortune of love that you hold
Like strange gold, strange gold
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2. |
Tucson Skies
04:42
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I was rollin' down a stretch of Speedway
in a busted up cruiser I bought
Made it to the painted desert singing
Five years is all we got
Only took a couple of summers
for me to live out my nine lives
Now I'm stuck in a Peckinpah movie
pulling out everyone's knives
Tucson skies, Tucson Skies
lingered in my mind
Found a bit of datura
And I was feelin' about nine foot brave
A medicine man at a Circle K
said I was headed for a cactus grave
The stars twirled like a carnival
I shoulda took it as a sign
There was a girl nearby who said
Ya talk just like you were born in a blown out mine
Tucson skies, Tucson skies
burning in my mind
Tucson skies, Tucson skies
melted in my mind
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3. |
Plunder
04:25
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Another one to plunder
I've taken all the best
The black moon is my brother
Truth my drunken guest
We galloped in the nighttime
Left misery and scars
We kissed and bit their ruby lips
Beneath the burned out stars
Beneath the burned out
Swaying there so sweetly
Just like an old torch song
Crept inside with my little lies
Only half way knew it was wrong
Got a mouthful of sorrows
Swallowed them then faint
Heard the wings of angelic things
And dropped down like a saint
Beneath the burned out stars...
Scrambled hearts, crooked trees
Still beating in our chests
Desert creeps, in the sick
valley of the blessed
Oh this life, this disease
That heaven rained in jest
That heaven rained in jest
Gamed a chess fool
Gamed a chess fool
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4. |
Rose In A Tomb
04:32
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I'm not a man of constant sorrow
Nor a being of always bliss
All the scenes behind my eyes play out what I'd miss
Panoramic lives circling in a twist
While you're in your room, waiting there
Like a rose in a tomb beautiful and fair
Glowing in the gloom and the lonely air
In days past sullen words came from my throat
Oh brother I drifted like a drunken boat
My sails they stumbled east and my rudder west
Thrown around the seas I saw your wings outstretched
Under the moon, waiting there
Like a rose in a tomb beautiful and fair
Glowing in the gloom and the lonely air
I see the birds fly away in the evening
with their feathers sickly full of blues
I tried to believe it's not a ruse
You flicker as I sing, I could not stand to lose you
Under the moon, waiting there
Like a rose in a tomb, a ghost I swear
Glowing in the gloom and the lonely air
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5. |
Wild River of Disorder
06:01
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When you were a troubadour
When you were a civil war
The fight was fierce but lonely-teared
Now you don't care anymore
When you soaked up the spoiled wine
Wrenching out this heart of mine
Yesterday's hours devoured our kind
And you don't want a tangled mind
Maybe there's light around the corner
A brigade of brothers at the border
Oh my friend, I'm drinking in disorder
A wild river of disorder
If you were a satellite
Spinning round the sweetest life
Now her rays will hold and bind
But you feel like a parasite
What you sow you always reap
And boy the price is ever steep
Just keep the sin hid under your skin
We both know you never sleep
Maybe there's light around the corner
A brigade of brothers at the border
Oh my friend, I'm drinking in disorder
A wild river of disorder
Ooh,
My favored friend, keep me from the water
A wild river of disorder
A wild river of disorder
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6. |
Benson, Arizona
02:54
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A million suns shine down
But I see only one
When I think I'm over you
I find I've just begun
The years move faster than the days
There's no warmth in the light
How I miss those desert skies
Your cool touch in the night
Benson, Arizona blew warm wind through your hair
My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there
Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky
But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them you and I
Now the years pull us apart
I'm young and now you're old
But you're still in my heart
And the memory won't grow cold
I dream of times and spaces
I left far behind
Where we spent our last few days
Benson's on my mind
Benson, Arizona blew warm wind through your hair
My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there
Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky
But they seemed so much kind when we watched them you and I
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7. |
Every Hymn That I Know
03:40
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See Big Muddy flow?
Pour black coffee in my soul
Now hawks will fly and the horses cry
Gonna sing every hymn that I know
Gonna sing every hymn that I know
Send your letters to the pearly man
He'll take us home to the green grass land
Gonna sing every hymn that I know...
Tell him my name is nobody
Tell him my name is no one
Gonna sing every hymn that I know
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8. |
Skeleton Key
02:18
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Throw away your skeleton key
Throw away your skeleton key
There's bones in my pathway
But the day will not freeze
Without your skeleton key
Walk down to the cypress tree
Dark will trail where you will lead
Smoke rings of sorrow fill our galaxies
Down at the cypress tree
I'm a leaving, not sure where for
Melt that metal to the core
Like fire in the desert
Killers on a spree
I don't need your skeleton key
I don't need your skeleton key
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9. |
Gothic
04:19
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Tell the people of Gothictown
Poison storm will surely pound
Tears will rise, tears will rise
Close your eyes and wait
Snowflakes glide down winter's wing
Wildflowers bloom and whisper-sing
Tears will rise, tears will rise
Close your eyes and wait
What I want doesn't matter
What I love will wash away
Autumn chorus in the dawn
Harmonies swirl in summers song
Take your time, take your time
Drink this wine and fade
What I want doesn't matter
What I love will wash away
This old world's like a ladder
with broken rungs and heavy days
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10. |
There Is Evil
03:33
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There is evil that lurks within my soul
Like a reptile, I'll devour you whole
I've got a good mind, but the synapses are frayed
Just give me a little chance and thee I will slay
You're an intruder come to steal my bright ego
Stalking my haunted house
Breaking in the window
'cause there is evil in you and in me
crushing us harder, under his knee
But eyes of love,
sinners and kings
the gods above,
arming their wings
Driving us apart
In their abusement park
Corroded and free
Corroded and free
Ooh
Sorry-eyed breed
Corroded and free
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James Miles Denver, Colorado
Singer-Songwriter, Colorado, Producer, music-dude
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