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You're On Fire
03:00
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I never was one for goin' out stealin' around
All the pretty ponies want to saddle up and ride
And turn me into just another piece of hide
There's no need to gamble when you know you've got the real deal
When the fire starts burning down below your belt
It's easier to lose with the hand that you've dealt
When you're on fire with the flames of desire
Nothin' comes easy when you make yourself so easy
Do ya open up for business when your man leaves home
He doesn't even know that he's out there all alone
I met a pretty pony, and she wanted me to be her honey
But she was in the rearview as I drove down the lane
I can't help but wonder if you'd do me the same
When you're on fire with the flames of desire
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Everything Is Black
05:36
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Spun out of time, my love
Happy to be alive, my love
Hands on the wheel, my love
Tightly gripping still, my love
I won't go back, I won't go back
Everything is black, I won't go back
Death on your tongue, my love
Head gently hung, my love
I won't go back, I won't go back
Everything is black, I won't go back
What is it like, you say
Breath is all gone away
I won't go back, I won't go back
Everything is black, I won't go back
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The Dark Sea
03:24
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Is there anything to do tonight?
Let's get dressed up to kill
'Cus I been workin' in the salt mines
And I guess I always will
I don't mind what we do tonight
In the middle of the story
The hero never dies
They always save it for the ending
'Cus that's where you and I
Make it home, where the dark sea
Leaves us alone, like we wanna be
While we drink this whiskey on ice
Let's make a toast to sin
'Cus even the author dies
When he makes it to the end
I don't mind what we do tonight
Let's rewind, and we'll do it all again
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Pretty Dress
05:06
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How much longer dear, can we stay in this town?
Never should've come out here -Should've turned around
All I do is break my back down in the mines
But there ain't no turning back this time
Too many mouths to feed -Not enough hands to bleed
All they sell at the company store are hollow dreams
The boys are getting restless down in the hole
With your face all covered in dirt, make you feel like a mole
Put on your prettiest dress
You're the only light in all of this darkness
The word came down the pike that we're hanging up our shovels
They say that the National Guard is rolling up the gravel
We just wanna feed our children on better wages
They wanna crack our skulls, throw us back in our cages
Back in some far off city, the man counts his dollar bills
There ain't no train to take us from these Colorado hills
If there was a god in heaven, he'd cut down the company killers
All I hear is a deadly wind, blowing through the willows
Put on your prettiest dress
You're the only light in all of this darkness
When you fix your hair up nice
I'm the luckiest man alive
In the softest morning light, they put their guns along the hill
They might try to make us break, but they never will
Put on your prettiest dress
You're the only light in all of this darkness
When you fix you're hair up nice
I'm the luckiest man alive
Put on your prettiest dress
You're the only light left in this darkness
When you fix your hair up nice
I'm the luckiest man alive
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Dinosaurs
04:57
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All this time, dreaming of the same damn thing
Every night, listening to the last chord ring
Feeling like a part of a dying age, when Dinosaurs roamed the earth
Sweat and blood drying on an old guitar
Feeling good, fainter than the farthest star
Feeling like the last of an old way, when Dinosaurs roamed the earth
I wonder what the end is worth
Wish I could remember what I was dying for
Maybe it's December for the modern dinosaurs
Nothing to discover
Bones under the ice age
Feeling like the last of an old way, when Dinosaurs roamed the earth
Maybe I'm a part of a dying age, I wonder what the end is worth...
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The Woods
03:45
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Everybody's got a price to pay
And a heart that can hurt so mean
I was just a lovesick boy
I was only seventeen
I knew what I wanted
I knew what I could not be
She knew she owned me outright
That only she could set me free
I would leave the woods if I could
I would take her with me
I would make her feel so good
But that's not how it came to be
That's not how it came to be
She got around, kept the fires all lit
Yeah boys, she was cleanin' clocks
While I was trying to make the rent
She was making down the block
She knew what she wanted
She knew what she could not be
I was talkin' babies
She was callin' someone else baby
I would leave the woods if I could
I would take her with me
I would make her feel so good
But that's not how it came to be
That's not how it came to be
Now I'm living in the house of straw
She's back in the country dirt
I've been thinkin' 'bout the natural law
How to love someone and not get hurt
I know what I wanted
Now I know what I would not be
The tamer of a wild mare
The keeper of a honey bee
I would leave the woods if I could
I would take her with me
I would make her feel so good
But that's not what was meant to be
That's not what was meant to be
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Winter's Daughter
04:47
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How do you make one out of two?
When makin' ends meet is hard enough to do
All your dreams are just floating in the air
And all your kin just want you to be there
You never had a nose for roses
You came upon me, thinkin' I was Moses
Just like children on the streets of golden
I wanna run with 'em, I wanna know them
Winter's daughter, you've got eyes of razor blue
Stoke the fire in my room
Warm sleeper, let me lay down next to you
And curl up inside your womb
In the bleached white houses of the city
All the boys and girls look so pretty
But I wonder if they have the gut for livin'
You and I don't wanna be forgiven
Take me down your favorite country gravel
A thousand kisses will wash the road we travel
And our children on the streets of golden
I wanna know them, I wanna hold them
Winter's daughter, you've got eyes of razor blue
Stoke the fire in my room
Warm sleeper, let me lay down next to you
And curl up inside your womb
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Bordertown
04:19
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In the bordertown, the sweat beads up and the sun beats down
Either side you're on now, everyone's got their reasons to get out
And the difference has no meaning
And the meaning makes no difference
'Cus the line that's drawn divides the wrongs
Never separates us from our homes
The river draws a crooked line that cuts across a land beyond time
White is brown and brown is white, but everything is just grey in my mind
And the difference has no meaning
And the meaning makes no difference
' Cus the line that's drawn divides the wrongs
Never separates us from our homes
The heat is on, the stakes are high
Everyone finds a way to get by
Patrol is out in numbers now, watching every move in the bordertown
And the difference has no meaning
And the meaning makes no difference
'Cus the line that's drawn divides the wrongs
Never separates us from our homes
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