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Root For The Bull
02:00
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Darkness Come Creeping
03:29
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Just trying to find some quiet, trying to find some peace
but the hounds of hell our howling and they're right up on my feet
Is there nowhere I can go, is there nowhere I'll be free
I just need a moment... maybe two... maybe three
Darkness come creeping on now, rise up from the west
That old black train is coming for to take me to my rest
The seventh son under the setting sun is waiting on the seventh day
Time's lost and moving on away
You fight infinite battles in a never ending war
Fire a billion bullets for Uncle Sam but he just wants one more
Selling tickets to your funeral to help pay down the cost
Get a flashlight and a compass boy, because all hope is lost
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Taking My Time
03:17
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Yeah I'm gonna take my time
Yeah I'm gonna take it easy
Slow waves still roll in after all
Well I'm in no rush, I'm in no hurry
I just might land on my feet before I fall
And I have only one chance, only one story
I'll believe in time eventually
A little love, a little laugh, a little weight off your back
Take it now before it's gone
Everything you know will change
Everything you know is easy
Wisdom comes with age but age is a young man's game
Dry your eyes and think of home
Or think of what it could be
You got to love to be loved in return, but everybody can
And I have only once chance, only one story
I believe in time after all
A little love, a little laugh, a little weight off your back
Take it now before it's gone
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Little Things
03:44
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Oh yeah I see your face, you're not as young as you used to be
But baby, we all grow old
Jewelry and little things, old pictures bring back memories
of stories you'd once been told
So take a breath take a moment for yourself
Think a little bit on love,
What it is and what it takes even when you think you have enough
If you write every story like you already know the end
Disappointment will be your only friend
Can't get lost when you know where you have been
and all the signs along the way have all been true
All you need is a friend,
All you need is a friend to come and take you home
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Roll With The Punches
02:39
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If everything we know is everything we've learned
and a couple of things besides,
I'm gonna roll up everything I know, and blow it up on the day I die
If a willful contradiction is all that it is, then it ain't as bad as it seems
You gotta sleep the sleep of the dead
If you want to wake up from your dream
I can feel that rain come pouring down
Once more drop spilling up on you,
You'll be sinking down
You gotta roll with the punches in this mortal coil
before you can fly away
Climbing up the sky on the wings of an angel
looking for your judgement day
So you've seen a lot of things, you meant to do more
shoring up the odds with whoever's keeping score
You can never be to careful and you can't be left behind
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Sometimes
03:11
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Sometimes you need the sun, sometimes the rain
Sometimes it's nothing at all
Sometimes it's love, sometimes it's pain
Sometimes it's nothing at all
Sometimes you're high, sometimes you're low
Sometimes you're nowhere at all
Sometimes you hid, sometimes you show
Sometimes you're nowhere at all
All that you're feeling
All that you know
All that you wanted...
well now you ain't got nothing at all
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Miles of Blue
03:08
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For The Kids
03:59
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Long long way baby now,
Stone weight days
What does it feel like when you're free
All them simple little moment
All them little stranger ways
Throw your rope down on me
Well I'm holding your way darling
Time will come around you'll see
All we are is all we are and that's all we'll ever be
Long long days waiting, waiting on...
It's what you do that sets you free
Tell me that you're with me baby, couldn't make it on my own
Take my hand and we can go
It's a long way down
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Little Bird
02:59
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Little bird, you're on your way
Show your face, hide your name
Am I yours, or are you mine
Well it doesn't make a difference when all we've got together is time
Bind your ties with all your wrongs
Is it time you're waiting on
You can't believe that we're all the same
Well if you're living in the gutter then all you'll ever see is rain
And all you've ever known is wrong
Give those fading suns away
Love's been fettered up in darkness
Low head, low heart you know so well
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1 or 99
02:56
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First shot, you're the lucky one
Yeah you're charmed but you're not the only one
Who are you if you can't trade in on your fame
If you're not on top then you're not playing the game
You got the brass, you got the stones
You got that thousand yard stare that's getting awfully cold
What's your price when the money has all run out
Hanging on to heartache is a poor substitute for love
Doesn't matter in the end if you're 1 or 99
When the seven trumpets sound, we'll all be going down
Down, down low into the ground
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Lay It Down On Me
02:29
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You play these games as you're walking away
Got a whole lot of nothing to say... well,
You got down, till you got away
Lord I don't think I could ever see thing your way
You got stuck and you don't want to stay
Said you're moving on anyway
Well it's a long way down, back the way you came
Tell me how many times have you run and come back again
Lay it down on me, tell me one more time
Getting stuck out on your own you get lost... lost
When are you ever coming home
You got caught living in chains
What are you giving up on anyway
I don't lay down, not for anyone... no
Just give me one more sunny day before you go
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The Traveler
03:29
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They toasted whiskey in the winter under the moon
he sold his soul in March and stole it back by June
He was a stranger;
In the moment but not of it, like you or me
He was always coming and always on his way
Walked from Portland to Hartford and back in a day
He had all the time in the world
But he just couldn't stay long today
Devil on his tail, pillar to post
Home's the open road, mountains to coast he roams...
There he goes
Every day's another story but the story never ends
Can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been
I know... I've been told
A wooden nutmeg or an oak leaf cigar
For the right price he could sell heat to a fire
He could tell you a story or sing you a song he wrote
Guitars of silver and trumpets of gold
He could sell you the stars when the daylight got old
You could tell him what you want
but he'd already know what you need
Well the last time anyone saw him he was walking through the rain
Headed north to the Berkshires towards Lake Champlain
But it could have been anyone
And you never heard it from me...
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James Keyes
Six string dream slinging musical maestro, teller of tall tales and short stories, social media soliloquist, blues shouter, country crooner Rocknroll raconteur and avant folk rambler, pint quaffer, shot shooter, foot stomper, soul singer, rain bringer, and left fingered proletariat provocateur. ... more
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