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Chevy Nova 1979
03:29
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I think I saw you driving down the wrong way down the highway last night
I think I saw your eyes as you burned out of sight
As pale as the moon, as wild, as bright
Blackberry body, Chevy Nova 1979
Run it out
Drop it down
Rev it up
The speed of sound
I blaze on, my mind now in overdrive
Where is she coming from, is there anybody left alive
I can’t shake that frame, how the sweat in the dash light shines
Do I turn and I follow or better just to leave her behind
Run it out
Drop it down
Rev it up
The speed of sound
Goddamn gasoline love
It burns me out
Drag like a strike-anywhere
Along the ground
Shit, I think I hear sirens, there’s got to be more than one
So I cut down the back roads that snake along route 31
My smile it widens, my heart pumps a machine gun
I know where to find you and I know just where we’ll run
Run it out
Drop it down
Rev it up
The speed of sound
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I have never lived without you
Though been gone six years ago
I hear echoes in the hallway
I see shadows I think are ghosts
I smell perfume in my bed sheets
Smeared makeup on my clothes
I find diamond earrings in the floorboards
LEAVE ME ALONE
Found your picture in the drawer
Why I keep it, man, I’m not sure
I see Parliaments crushed on the curb
That’s your lipstick, yeah, I’m sure
Am I crazy? You’ve been around
I see you everywhere, I’m about to drown
I’m so horny, I’m about to crack
WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK
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I could have been a lawyer
I bet that would have made my Dad proud
I could be driving some luxury car
Instead of this old van that I got now
I could have been a surgeon
So many ladies tell me I have great hands
I could take long vacations
And lose my Rolex in the sand
I got a good thing going
These choices have been my own
I got a good thing going because I know
Life goes on until it don’t
I should have been an actor
I’ve been acting most my life
I’d make millions a picture
And have to give it all to my ex-wife
I got a good thing going
These choices have been my own
I got a good thing going because I know
Life goes on until it don’t
So what are you waiting for?
You got something better to do?
We’re all just getting older
And uglier
Now, my Dad gave me this guitar
And it requires my tender hands
And I quit lying to my girlfriend
And that van, that’s for the band, man
I got a good thing going
These choices have been my own
I got a good thing going because I know
Life goes on until it don’t
I got a good thing going
These choices have been my own
I got a good thing going because I know
Life goes on until it
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Rían
03:38
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Riding, fearless and charging
The beat of the hoof rings down through the wood
Shining, silver in sunlight
And on cross the field burn helmet and shield
Morning, heaven and glory
Lay before you, the path of the true
Calling, weightless and falling
Laid before you, the path of your doom
All salute your fallen son
Who fed on flame and danced among
The mighty and the meek
His countrymen with oaths to keep
All salute your fallen son
Who fought for all, loved only one
To be now preserved in song
To ring through dale and dusty hall
Rían, soon to be legend
Leads his company of men ‘cross heather and glen
Crying, for love of the lady
Drawing his sword, he honors his word
All salute your fallen son
Who fed on flame and danced among
The mighty and the meek
His countrymen with oaths to keep
All salute your fallen son
Who fought for all, loved only one
To be now preserved in song
To ring through dale and dusty hall
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Before the War
05:03
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The fall that I turned 21 I saw the world through setting suns
I felt as though I’d been to war, I drank and fought and woke up sore
I never in a hundred dreams thought I’d find you in that bar light gleam
I’d never felt like this before, the way before the war
To the only one, I lay down my gun
But I would fight you, if you ask me to
Army boots of canvas shoes, denim jacket of faded blue
I lived to serve and I served to live and I tried to earn what I couldn't give
But darkness came before my door and he seemed so weak and weathered worn
And I never would now feel before the way before the war
To the only one, I lay down my gun
But I would fight you, if you ask me to
To live a hundred years is an aging dream
But I would die for you to remain in youth
I feel the weight of 34 and the broken hearts all left on shore
I swear I cried as I walked away, my tears in mists of surf and spray
But I hear you call in winter blue and my oath to you burns true
I will always serve forever more for our love before the war
To the only one, I lay down my gun
But I would fight you, if you ask me to
To live a hundred years is an aging dream
But I would die for you
To be forever remembered in youth
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A.L.A.N.
06:34
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We rode beside the stars
Engines whined and screamed
Lost contact with the natives
Hurtled towards the seas
Of blackened midnight oil
And blinding fire fields
The silence of the distance
To horrid to reveal
I lost you in a moment
When everything felt right
Light years fell like ashes
Feathers of ghostly white
I turned to see your vessel
Swallowed into space
Abandoned in my anger
A grave amongst the waste
Now thirty years have gone
And I haven’t aged a day
I push the orbit harder
Throw elbows at the fray
I bleed for no man’s country
I know no place called home
I am doomed to walk the cages
And rattle locks with bones
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7. |
Song of the Forty Stones
03:38
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Holding arms out to the sky
He offers up his choice to die
Birds of prey descend in faith
Lift him up in saving grace
To lose your only love
To speak without a tongue
To move in ghostly pace
On hunt you follow chase
To seek what you believe
Lies out beyond the seas
Oh heavenly soul who lives beyond our waking eyes
Does she hear the thousand voices as we cry?
Followed valiantly from birth
Dug our heels into the dirt
Carried love in broken hands
Bending backs for bricks in sand
The promise of the dawn
For peace to carry on
Is shattered in the night
With the fire of divine right
To seek what we believe
Lies beyond what we perceive
Oh heavenly soul who lives beyond our waking eyes
Does she hear the thousand voices as we cry?
Oh Mother, may we have the choice to live again?
To right the wrongs we’ve done as mortal men
Oh Mother, Oh Mother
Give us love before we die
Because you know how hard we’ve tried
Given all our souls can give
Show us light while we live
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The Family Township Boston, Massachusetts
Township, AKA The Family Township, has been making their Boston-bred brand of classic rock inspired music for nearly 2 decades. As the years and albums have progressed, Township's music has evolved, infusing itself with greater urgency, immediacy, and existential rumination; mirroring these days rather than “those days.” ... more
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