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River
03:15
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Life’s alright on the river
We can do just what we please
River can take us, just where it wants us,
Down to the sea
The pace is slow and the river is cool
The pace is slow and the river is cool
But we need the trade, & we need the mirror,
We need the people on the banks of the river.
Life’s alright on the river
We don’t hear what people say
Dabble our fingers in the river
Dream our lives away
(But) Rocks are thrown by the people on the banks
Rocks are thrown by the people on the banks
We are here they say and our problems are yours,
Shooting down dreams, shooting down dreams
Life’s alright on the river
River alright on the soul
Life’s alright on the river
River alright on the soul
Life’s alright on the river
We can afford to take our ease
The currents of fashion, drown our perception
Fix us in our dream
And when the banks get close, well the river gets rough
And when the banks get close, well the river gets rough
But we got the guns, & we got the money
We got the guns, dummy
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2. |
Top of the Hill
04:38
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See that tree at the top of the hill...
I'm gonna climb to that tree and just stand still...
Close my eyes and feel the breeze....
Close my eyes and listen to the trees.....
Let the sound of the river take me who knows where...
Oh, am I home now?
I don’t know, I just got a feeling that's right
Oh, I got here somehow
And I just can’t give it up
Gonna hide in the hills and grow my beard....
Hide in the hills for a whole damn year...
Take the dogs have a fine old time...
And wait for my spirit to remember to shine...
Lose myself see what I find...
Oh, am I home now?
I don’t know, I just got a feeling that's right
Oh, I got here somehow
And I just won’t give it up
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3. |
Bastinado Run
04:46
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Help me now honey
I don’t know which way to run
Everything I need to do
Ain’t done
Whatever happened to
Having fun
You know we lost it in the baggage
On the Bastinado Run
Always go the wrong way round
Whichever way I come
Never grabbing hold the rail
However hard I run
Running round in shadows
Looking for the sun
You know we lost it in the baggage
On the Bastinado Run
And it feels so wrong
So wrong
When the promise of a future
Ain’t so strong
(And) I feel so dumb
So numb
Lord what can be done…..
Well the Devil come and get me
‘cause I think I’m nearly done
Lord knows I ain’t won much
When you figure up the sum
I’m just so sick and tired
Of staring down that gun
You know we lost it in the baggage
On the Bastinado Run
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4. |
Sailbad the Sinner
03:12
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Well we’re cruising on down to Salcome bay
Slipped our berth Torquay way
Going down south pick a tender up free
Drinking and spliffing and shooting the breeze
Well the sun was hot and the sea was calm
And we all know we won’t come to no harm
Well he opened up the throttle made the tender dance
One of these days gonna end up in France
Yeah but we don’t care
You know we just don’t care
Cause sailbad the sinner’s gonna chill us all out
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Well we’re doing all right then the engine screech
Now he’s up to his elbows in oil and grease
All adrift off bury head
Tripping out looking at the lights ahead
Well we ain’t capsized and we ain’t sunk
And we made it back all drunk as skunks
And we tripped out looking at the lights some more
We couldn’t believe all the things we saw…
Yeah but we don’t care
You know we just don’t care
Cause sailbad the sinner’s gonna chill us all out
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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5. |
The Road to Berlin
05:58
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Well the track
Is humming
Like sirens
Like guitars
The night
Is so real tonight
Just like you
It’s perfect
Well the room
Was yellow
And the curtains
They were blue
And hunger
For memory
Of you in that room
Hangs thumping
Just about gut level
Pass me the comb
Roll down your windows
Let your hair crackle in the slipstream’s breath
I can hear you on the radio
Well it looks
Like rain
Again, again
And the tarmac
Is beckoning
And the lights shine down
Like pearls
Round a dowager’s neck
Pass me the comb
Roll down your windows
Let your hair crackle in the slipstream’s breath
I can hear you on the radio
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6. |
Betrayed
05:14
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Where are you now I need you
Yeah I’m down and feeling blue
Nobody stays the same
You raise me up and you throw me down
It’ll be the same till you’re in the ground
Nobody stays the same
I never felt true love’s bruise
‘Till my children taught me just what I could lose
Nobody stays the same
I said three
And you said five
And that difference of two
Was just a matter of pride
BETRAYED
Nobody stays the same
When we said what we said
We killed it for sure
And then all we could do
Was kill it some more
BETRAYED
Nobody stays the same
Betray someone who is true in love
You spit in the face of God above
Nobody stays the same
Well you knew full well you were my only one
But you made damn sure that I never belonged
Nobody stays the same
I did all I could but it wasn’t enough
Perhaps I’d have won had I not been so tough
Nobody stays the same
I went to seven
But you stuck at five
Desperately trying
To stay alive
BETRAYED
Nobody stays the same
When we’d done what we’d done
It was just dirt on the floor
And the only thing left
Was to walk out the door
BETRAYED
Nobody stays the same
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7. |
Shake my Tree
03:02
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I know that smile you’re smiling
That smile is just for me
And that extra mile you’re climbing
That mile will help us breathe
Yeah that laugh you’re always laughing
That means that we are clean
And all those things you do babe
Yeah I know they’re just for me
You do it all for me
You do it all for me
You do it all for me
One little look and you shake my tree
You do it all for me
You do it all for me
You do it all for me
One little look and you shake my tree
One little look and you shake my tree
There’s nothing quite like going
Back to bed at half past three
Or driving miles in country
Just to see what we can see
It’s funny being this stuck together
Seems to make us feel more free
And every little breath you’re breathing
Yeah I know it’s all for me
But there are softer destinations
For a hungry heart to be
‘Cause all those little smiles you’re smiling
All those smiles are just for me
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8. |
Bite Monkey, Bite
03:38
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Oh, how I let that monkey bite
How I let that monkey bite
How I let that monkey bite
You know that that ain’t right
You know that that ain’t right
Oh how I let that monkey squeeze
How I let that monkey squeeze
How I let that monkey squeeze
Squeeze my heart and let me freeze
Squeeze my heart and let me freeze
Bite, monkey, bite
Bite, monkey, bite
Bite, monkey, bite
Oh that monkey gonna bite me dead
Oh that monkey gonna bite me dead
Oh that monkey gonna bite me dead
Leastways, that’s what he said
Leastways, that’s what he said
Bite, monkey, bite
Bite, monkey, bite
Bite, monkey, bite
Bite, monkey, bite
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9. |
Sail Away
05:32
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And it came one time I said to you
This whole thing with us is through
And there was nothing more that I could do
But sail away...
And while one time it burned like fire
And the flames in us grew ever higher
But it burned out all of our desire
Sail away...
Sail away, sail away
For the freedom of the ocean
And the uncertain day
Sail away, sail away
I wish you were coming with me….
And...Sail away
Yeah, we could try just one more time
Try to find some common line
But we both know it would never shine
Sail away...
However dark this day must seem
They ’re only clouds from our burning dreams
And sunshine, someday, will surely gleam
Sail away...
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