Life Full of Holes
Storm Crazy
This ain't the time to be reasonable
Can't put much stock in that now
Yhe storm front it hangs, a silence gone strange
Can't put much stock in that now
Storm gone crazy
Storm gone night
This is the time to follow me blind
Or follow me over the side
Call me storm crazy
Or your lover
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Lightning explodes at the top of the trees
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Fences are down, an open corral
Watertower stands on its head
Keepin' us warm, electrical storm
You follow wherever you lead
Storm gone crazy
Storm gone night
This is the time to follow me blind
Or follow me over the side
Call me storm crazy
Or your lover
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Lightning explodes at the top of the trees
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Death at Low Water
I could hear you callin'
Through the whisperin' woods
I could hear you call my name
from the back porch door
Said Prosper come here quick
It's worse than we expected it
Found him this mornin'
And the news ain't good
Finally caught up with him last night
Near the Nevada line
Trail of blood along the clean white salt
Found him faced down on the alkali flat
Rolled him over, barely breathin'
Still he got a few words out
Said he was drivin' the Denio track
A 4 x 4 appearded behind his back
Headlights burning up the sky
To the top of Steens mountain
Death at low
Death at low
Death at low water
Death at low
Death at low
Death at low water
Crashed his side door,
And they forced him to stop
Three men got out dressed in camouflage
Told him: "Start digging us a well
And when you're done you'll dig another."
Then shots they ricocheted around his head
Kicked him hard and they left him for dead
He started crawlin' back to town
And that is when we found him
Death at low
Death at low
Death at low water
Death at low
Death at low
Death at low water
And the last thing your father said
When he closed his eyes:
Now it's said the sun's a big door
That protects us from the dark
And if you look behind it
All you'll see is yourself
Since he died I lost my will to ride
It's 'neath the surface
With my shame and my pride
Someday it will explode
Explode in the sky
All the way to the top of Steens mountain
Death at low
Death at low
Death at low water
Death at low
Death at low
Death at low water
The Tower
I got a message from the king
A column of smoke center on the screen
Out came face that I recognized
And no disguise would have changed a thing
And the sun never shines
No the sun will never shine
No, the sun will never shine
Where I am going
I had to fight just to say a word
Had to bite my tongue so that I'd be heard
The blood went down
From my chin to my neck
Just as the king finished his dessert
And the sun never shines
No the sun will never shine
No, the sun will never shine
Where I am going
Crop of salted heads, sprouted on the gate
I pictured mine on his dinner plate
To stuff my mouth would be at last, revenge
He devours my silence like so many grapes
And the sun never shines
No the sun will never shine
No, the sun will never shine
Where I am going
Nights Between Stations
Caught when our center was broken
Caught when our troubles were true
On a three state run, from the merciless sun
We ripped up the letters from home
Caught on the barbed wire fences
Caught in the bones and the thorns
Caught in these arms, we will never go wrong
When the nights between stations grow long
Checked ourself in to the station hotel
Sittin' up in a bed made for lyin'
The train leaves at dawn,
But we drink on and on
Catchin' up with the dead and the dyin'
Caught on the barbed wire fences
Caught in the bones and the thorns
Caught in these arms, we will never go wrong
When the nights between stations grow long
Hey there conductor, spare us your suspicions
We're not as lit as we seem
Don't offer us somethin', when we're
Looking for nothin'
Nothin' is the one thing we believed
I'm leavin' our suitcase on the platform #5
I'll be damned if I carry it again
It's filled with a curse, disappointment and worse
And there's enough of that, caught in my head
Caught on the barbed wire fences
Caught in the bones and the thorns
Caught in these arms, we will never go wrong
When the nights between stations grow long
Take Me
Take me,
And take me to your darkest room
Close all the windows
And bolt all the doors
From the first moment, I heard your voice
I'll be in darkness no more
Take me,
To your most barren desert
A thousand miles from the nearest sea
The very moment, I saw you smile
It was like heaven to me
There's [ ? ] [ ? ] mountain to rugged (?) to climb
No desert to barren to cross
Darling, if you would just show me a sign
Of love, where I could build your [ ? ]
(inst.)
Take me,
To Siberia
The coldest weather of any wintertime
And it would be just like spring in California
As long as I knew you were mine
Take me
Take me
Take me
Take me
Sleep Will Pass Us By
I keep thinkin' that she's goin' down
My second sight a fixed on her demise
A slow and silent stretch, broods like the riverbed
Swirlin' round the big and muddy rise
Sulfur colored lights, and frozen rays
Lighin' up the streets behind the bar
The lights are weak and dim, like
the memory of our kin
Disgraced by curses best not learned at all
Sleep will pass us by
It's much too slow for that
This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died, they forgot the funeral
Ill afford and ill equiped
Fever-eyed surrender to the rains
The cottonwoods wash locusts from their hair
It's hard to know just what the daylight brings
Sleep will pass us by
It's much too slow for that
This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died, they forgot the funeral
Scapegoat heart and scarecrow legs
Nothin' in your pockets worth a dime
A trifling animal, the packhorse of our pride
Leaves the room and carries on so stubbornly
Sleep will pass us by
It's much too slow for that
This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died, they forgot the funeral
The Silent Crossing
The sunset reaches to you
With its long talons
The new stars showin' pity
For the fallen
It drags you back up to your feet
Leaves you ready to deceive
Leaves you standing at the silent crossing
Telephone poles race against the cold sky
Your rusty hair covers up your one good eye
The ground expects uncertain rain
Fools have waited, though it never came
Waited in the silence of the crossin'
Hidden in them big armed ponderosas
The crossing obscured
By its own remoteness
Your mouth harp fashioned from tobacco tins
Played "Soldier's Of Joy"
Till your breath went thin
Played for no one, at the silent crossin'
(inst.)
Trouble's ear was cupped,
So he could hear you
Said those that break the silence
Break their own rules
Said fools are those that trust their fears
Sagebrush growin' up around their heels
Fools are those that plant seeds at the crossin'
It was a mile past the dark
When I came upon you
Reservations grave
Expectations humble
You drew upon your corn-skinned smoke
Your jaw was tired, said it's time to go
You said it's time to move beyond the crossing
It's time to move beyond the silent crossing
(inst.)
If there's a darker part of night
We best go find it
If there's a darker part of night
We best go find it
We better find it, we better find it
We'd best go find it
Comfort of a Stranger
A stranger came
To this forsaken place
To shake me from my whiskey guilt
To cure my tremblin' ways
Now there is not a door
That I will not kick down
No lock I will not break
No guilty verdict found
Ever since you been around
You won't believe the lenghts I've travelled
To medicate the danger
But all the medicines, seem wasted
In the comfort of a stranger
You ain't some fool that came here for the fakin'
A racetrack prize that can be overtaken
You give the comfort of
Give me the comfort of a stranger
You recognize the genious of this place
The shadows hide the cynic on my face
You give the comfort of
Give me the comfort of a stranger
Life Full Of Holes
A life full of holes, a life full of wind
The devil's dust it blows through me again
Don't look for me, I ain't easy to find
The Barbary trail is where I've gone to hide
That's where I go to hide
Me and Reeves walk down to the square
Rings of fire burnin' everywhere
The pariah dogs and the acrobat kings
I tell Reeves I have to laugh at everything
Always laughed at everything
(inst.)
A life full of holes and a life full of wind
Got a nomads temper and a shepherds skin
Got my head in the sun,
And my feet in the water cool
This life full of holes, it leads me back to you
I'm coming back to you
Follow the cross of the south
And I will find my home
Neath the marble sky, and the amber moon
By the graves of stone and the volcano tall
There's a traveller's truth, it says
There is no truth at all
In a life that's full of holes
Velvet Fog
Don't ask for favors
And don't risk the truth
My fingers are scissors
They're cutting you through
Cutting you through
Cutting you through
Velvet fog
The bird in my open hand
Is a captive for life
Please don't misread now
We're drinkin' happy tonight
Cutting you through
Cutting you through
Velvet fog
(inst.)
And I hear you singin'
When the pale moon gets down
Nirvana's on the jukebox
But Gene Pitney,
owns this town
And it's a town without pity
It's a town without tears
Velvet fog
Velvet fog
Velvet fog
Velvet fog
Never Gonna Fall
Don't matter if I told you this before
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again
Don't plan to give up, everything to change
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again
Whipped my branches thick, thick enough to convict
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again
And if your gone
I know it's for your health
And if you stay
I expect it's for the same
Keep it honest
Something to protect
Built for ages
Very deep and strange
I know I've told you this before
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again
Won't ever ask your shoulder burden's weight
Never gonna fall again
Never gonna fall again
Never gonna fall again
Never gonna fall again
Never gonna fall
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