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I Believe In You
03:16
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I BELIEVE IN YOU
I believe in you but I don’t know where you are
I believe in you please don’t stray too far
My hopes and dreams are in your hands
I know you don’t understand
But I believe in you
I believe in you I feel you near
I believe in you but your words aren’t clear
I got nothing left here now
Don’t know if you hear me anyhow
But I believe in you
Visions of your face play ceaselessly
Haunting my dreams and my memory
I believe in you in streets full of pain
I believe in you and a world I can’t regain
I’m at war with my desires
And the world you made is on fire
But I believe in you
I believe in you though you turn away
I believe in you wish I could make you stay
I got no design or plan
I’m watching night fall over the land
And I believe in you
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2. |
Hey Mr Starlight
02:47
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HEY MR STARLIGHT
Hey Mr Starlight, you got me in your thrall
The sky starts trembling, the ancient voices call
But you see I can’t follow - the past is a living wall
Through all endeavor oblivion writes its name
Forever - tomorrow – forever, written in flame
And the way that I'm living, baby it’s a dirty shame
My heart starts beating, the hours begin to bleed
Your light burns a circle ‘round every word I read
But I been to the city, I got nothing left to need
Hey Mr Starlight, you got me in your thrall
My brain starts beating, the ancient voices call
But you see I can’t follow - the past is a living wall
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3. |
Night Train To Chelsea
03:58
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THE NIGHT TRAIN TO CHELSEA
My confusion is a daydream with your name
“It could have been anyone,” you said,“but please don’t ever change.”
If you want me to stay, you must let me know
But I’m a stranger here, I think I’d better go
I take the night train to Chelsea…
It carries me through the dark
All of your kindness never masked your doubt
Your phony consolation was just your ticket out
If you want something baby you must learn to ask
But the hour’s grown so late, I just can’t last
On the night train to Chelsea…
It carries me through the dark
They say discretion was never what you lacked
But first impressions, like you said, have a way of creeping back
Were your friends really mocking you when they saw you on the street?
They said you’d be a welcome guest and guaranteed a seat
On the night train to Chelsea
To carry you through the dark
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4. |
Capricorn
01:37
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CAPRICORN
Capricorn Oh Capricorn
Beautiful girl since you been born
Beneath the beast crowned with horns
Yes I love you my Capricorn
Capricorn Oh Capricorn
With your junkyard soul and your faultless form
I love you baby like a blizzard storm
Yes I love you my Capricorn
What is the color of the sun when it sleeps
Forgetting the world with its troubles so deep?
What is the color of night when it wakes
And rises to cover the frozen lakes?
Capricorn Oh Capricorn
Knew what you wanted just as sure as you’re born
Sure-footed daughter with your crown of thorns
You know I love you my Capricorn
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5. |
Jack Flood
02:18
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JACK FLOOD
And you fell into madness
As some men drift to sleep
But your vision reclaimed you
On the waters of the deep
And burdened with confusion
You chained yourself to the night
You forged your songs in darkness
They were mirrors filled with light
And they echoed with ecstasy and emptiness
And their like had not been seen
They were elegant, they were brutal
Like junk and amphetamine
And yours were the anguished angels
Whose suffering couldn’t make them saints
Who transformed themselves anyway
Despite life’s sad restraints
And you sang like an avenger,
And you sang with a savage heart
And your songs will sing forever,
Such was your tender art
And you stood for what was primitive
You stood for the sublime
You stood for what was difficult
And your work stood the test of time
Oh Jack Flood…
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THE TOWER OF WORKS AND DAYS
Your glance is like a whisper, your face is like a prayer
Your words are like paper airplanes floating along the air
Everbody’s going, I am going too
But what kind fate is this that I’m should go there with you?
And all the flowers stand in line
Just to sing your praise
And you’re looking so divine
Outside the tower of works and days
Whose heart is an endless fathom? Whose soul a mystic span?
Singing with every atom, the creator’s master plan?
Oh the boulevards are portals to green eternities
Where fools fall in love forever, a bit like you and me
And all the church bells chime in time
Just to sing your praise
And you’re looking so divine
Outside the tower of works and days
Of course I fell in love with you, and your manner so nonchalant
What you desire you must have, tell me what do you want?
All the suns of Araby? The perfumes of old Zion?
The painted wheels of the galaxy, Big Dipper and Orion?
And all of nature chants its rhyme
Just to sing your praise
And you’re looking so divine
Outside the tower of works and days
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7. |
Prayer
03:08
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8. |
When The Fire's Out
03:20
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WHEN THE FIRE’S OUT
When the fire’s out and day is ending
And you’re going without
And you’ve stopped pretending
See the trees bow down in silhouette
The rain on the window will help you forget
When the fire’s out
When the truth is out and the game is over
And you just found out
That your world’s grown colder
See the trees bow down in fine array
The four winds carry the day away
When the truth is out
When you’ve stayed too long
In a house divided
And you’re feeling strong
But you’re undecided
When silver leaves shiver in the sun
You’ll know the change has finally come
When you’ve stayed too long
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9. |
Mister Henry Lee
02:19
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MISTER HENRY LEE
He burns like a prophet he gleams like a goat
Got meat in his bonnet, a knot in his rope
He’s covered in coal dust in a house made of tin
He’s shoveling time back into a bin
Mister Henry Lee, Mister Henry Lee!
He leaps from his ladder onto his bed
And ties his prayerbook up with a silver thread
He’s frozen in a gesture of gratitude
In a light beam fixture at the back of the room
Mister Henry Lee, Mister Henry Lee!
Ask for ten he says take eleven
A beautiful soul gets you into heaven
He fades in the dust, happily
Cause the smaller you are,
The freer you’ll be
He had a thousand wives and he’d gloat like a goose
Till an angel of the lord said to cut them loose
He scrawled his poems on the leaves of a tree
And he signed every one
Mr Henry Lee!
He said God is great, God is good
Don’t let him kill you
I think he would if he could
God is great, God is grand
But don’t you shake his fiery hand
Like Mr Henry Lee!
The smaller you are, the freer you’ll be
The smaller you are, the freer you’ll be
Like Henry Lee!
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10. |
Heathen Heart
02:21
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HEATHEN HEART
You wore your sins like a necklace
Over your heathen heart
So renegade and wreckless
I wanted you from the start
I wanted you from the start
Yes you invented brave new forms
And brought strange truths to life
I heard you cursing like a thunderstorm
I said you must be the devil’s wife
Or else I’m gonna make you my wife
You flirted with the angels of history
You clothed yourself in crime
You painted yourself in mystery
Honey gonna make you mine
Baby gonna make you mine
You wore your lies like a diadem
Your faithless heart so true
You laughed out loud
At your power over men
Did you think that I’m in love with you?
Baby I’m in love with you
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Michael Tarbox Boston
“Homemade rock and roll with a dose of rattlesnake venom and gospel-drenched howling.” -- All Things
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"Tarbox is the most evocative and distinctive blues-roots artist to come down the pike in ages.” -- The Calgary Sun
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