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The War Came Home To Me
05:27
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I was a child in '72 and my sitter Mrs. Plews
Made me watch the evening news
Force-fed me her Christian views
Her son returning from the war spoke to me in metaphors
Pulled down my pants and tried to score
I left the room and I closed that door
Shells rang out like thunder but only in my head
Hiding in my foxhole safe among the dead
Looking back I clearly see the consequence of victory
I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me
I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me
My father was in world war two
The training left him black and blue
But he found something he could do
While choking on his world-view
He had a mastoid in his ear
It made it hard for him to hear
The sickness filled him up with fear
I watched him slowly dissapear
Shells rang out like thunder but only in my head
Hiding in my foxhole safe among the dead
Looking back I clearly see the consequence of victory
I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me
I was too young to go overseas, so the war came home to me
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2. |
On the Way Home
04:58
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You don’t need to hurry when you’re living alone,
There’s no one to worry, if you’re on your way home,
On your way home,
Your sister wants to know why you can’t pick up the phone,
You tell her that you’re sorry, You’re on your way home, You’re on your
way home,
On your way home, Where your demons can hold thier own ,
On your way home, Where you’re wishing for love, and you wait by the
phone,but you’re best left alone,
Your friends come up and ask why you’re out drinking alone,
You tell them not to worry, You’re on your way home, You’re on your
way home,
You wake and smell the whisky, cigarettes and cologne,
You say this is the last time, that your seed is sown,
While you’re still alone,
Then you’re on your way home, Where your demons can hold thier own,
On your way home, Where you’re wishing for love, and you wait by
the phone, but you’re best left alone,
You’re finally getting tired of all the things you’ve outgrown,
But only you can stop you, You’re all on your own,
Then you’re on you way....home,
On your way home,
Where your demons are overthrown,
On your way home,
Where you finally realize, there’s a flaw in all stones, and they’re
sometimes out grown, If you’re happy on your own,
Then you’re on your way home
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3. |
The Falling of Our Love
05:07
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The Falling of Our Love
Maybe it’s the season, maybe there’s a reason for the way I feel
Nothing seems to matter, Gestures and patter have become surreal
I can feel the distance, I no longer see you through a cloud
I can sense the tension, crouching in a silence that is much too loud
The Falling of our love
Down and down and down
Can you feel the gravity, pull us to the ground
I can feel the wind around me, feel the wind of change
The falling of our love, so typical, so strange
Nothing is the matter, and nothing’s what I feel when I look at you
No dance is so strange, as the one that will not change after the song is through
I can feel the distance, I no longer see you through a cloud
I can sense the tension, crouching in a silence that is much too loud
The Falling of our love
Down and down and down
Can you feel the gravity, pull us to the ground
I can feel the wind around me, feel the wind of change
The falling of our love, so typical, so strange
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4. |
Without A Net
04:14
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I remember falling
Calling out to you
And all the times you told me
My love would see me through
Closing every circle
With a little help from you
And I found my balance
As I reached up to you
I promised me
I promised to
Someday be a net
That you could fall into
I promised me
I promised to
Someday be a net
That you could fall into
On the night they called me
Woke me from my dreaming
Told me you had fallen
I couldn't stop the screaming
I couldn't stop the screaming
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5. |
Wishbone
03:45
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I can see them circling
behind the doe of their eyes
You’d think they had fasted, not feasted,
How much of me is enough for their size?
They were “Trying to help me”
Pretending that they were my friends,
Then they put me back in the water,
And turned on the burner again
I feel like a wishbone,
Drying in a kitchen,
Waiting to be broken,
By greasy greedy hands
Wishbone,
I am just a token,
Of someone's superstition,
Their wish is my demand
I can feel them pulling,
clutching and grabbing their prize,
And I feel that I’m already broken,
sorting the truth from their lies.
Somewhere on paper,
I know I’ve approved this charade,
Sooner or later,
We sleep in the beds that we’ve made
Wishbone,
I am just a token,
Of someone's superstition,
Their wish is my demand
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6. |
The Way I Do
04:42
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Is there nothing I can do,
Is there nothing I can say,
Is there no gesture I can make,
To make you feel the way,
I do?
Oh, I love you.
I thought this time would be so bad,
But I don’t really feel that sad,
And I’ll say this with a sigh,
Don’t have the energy to cry,
Over,
Over you,
But I do.
Oooh...
Is there nothing I can do,
Is there nothing I can say,
Is there no gesture I can make,
To make you feel the way,
I do?
Oh, I love you.
Oooh....
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7. |
Walking the Solitude
04:41
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Tammy’s hitchin a ride again
Run out of money
Run out of friends
She’s walking the solitude
The highway is like a river of dreams
Rolling on to meet the sky
It’s so hard to face them all and watch them pass you by
She’s walkin the solitude
Drowning in a sea of strangers
Walkin the solitude
Pauls day ends at the bottle club
He just likes to sit and brood
Drowning in a sea of strangers lost in his solitude
Dressed in see-through born to lose
He’s waiting for love to come around
Sorting through the broken pieces gettin tired of the sound
He’s walkin the solitude
Drowning in a sea of strangers
Walkin the solitude
Walkin the solitude
We all want the world to come our way
Hand in hand we go our separate ways
We’re walkin the solitude
Drowning in a sea of strangers
Walkin the solitude
Walkin the solitude
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8. |
I'll Fall In Love Again
05:15
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Hiding in my kitchen with a wine glass in my hand
Washing off the traces of another one night stand
Today I feel so empty I guess I should begin
To get on with my life now but I keep wondering
Did I ever love before
Have I ever had a friend
Will I fall in love again?
Driving to the laundry to wash and fold my clothes
I still wear the shirts you bought me well Iguess nobody knows
Everything they want from life or where they should begin
Every false start brings me down and keeps me wondering
Did I ever love before
Have I ever had a friend
Will I fall in love again?
Dinner from the drive-thru and I’m eating in my car
Another day, and I have to play another local bar
I’ll never know the reason for the way you did me in
But I think about the good times and I’m no longer wondering
I know I’ve loved before
I still have all my friends
I’ll fall in love - fall in love again...
Every false start brings me down and keeps me wondering
Gonna fall in love - fall in love - fall in love again
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9. |
Deep Sky
05:42
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DIFFERENT CIRCLES
ENDLESS CYCLES YOU,
LIKE THE MOVEMENT OF THE HEAVENS
HAVE DRIFTED, SHIFTED INTO SOMETHING NEW
LIKE A DISTANT DYING SUN,
THAT DIED LONG AGO FOR ME IN YOU,
TIME IS DISTANCE AND CLOUDS MY VIEW
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO GRAVITY
PULLING ME
PULLING YOU
NOT ACTING ON EACH OTHER LIKE WE USED TO
FROM THE SAME SYSTEM
THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES
YOU STARE INTO THE SUN, AND I’M
DRAWN TO THE DEEP SKY, I’M LOOKING TO THE DEEP SKY
I REMEMBER LIVING FOR THE DAY
WHEN ALL THE THINGS WE DREAMED OF WOULD BE
WATCHING, AND WAITING,
FOR US TO COME THEIR WAY
RACING FOR THE BLUE
THAT DIED LONG AGO FOR YOU IN ME
TIME IS DISTANCE BUT I CAN SEE
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO GRAVITY
PULLING ME, PULLING YOU
NOT ACTING ON EACH OTHER LIKE WE USED TO
FROM THE SAME SYSTEM
THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES
YOU’RE CIRCLING THE SUN, AND I’M
DRAWN TO THE DEEP SKY, I’M LOOKING TO THE DEEP SKY
YEAR AFTER WEARY YEAR,
I’VE TRIED TO HIDE MY FEAR
I NEED TI GO AWAY
EVEN IF YOU STAY
I WANTED YOU TO DO
WHAT I EXPECT OF YOU
I HOPE YOU’LL LEARN TO SEE
THE DEEP SKY INSIDE OF ME
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO GRAVITY
PULLING ME, PULLING YOU
NOT ACTING ON EACH OTHER LIKE WE USED TO
FROM THE SAME SYSTEM
THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES
YOU’RE CIRCLING THE SUN, AND I’M
DRAWN TO THE DEEP SKY, I’M LOOKING TO THE DEEP SKY
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10. |
The Strength To Leave
03:27
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Nothing in her life was positive, but a test for H.I.V. She said
give me the strength to leave
In the terminal ward beside her, a boy still tries to breath, he says
give me the strength to leave
give me the strength to leave today, give me something to believe and I’ll be on my way
give me the strength to leave
Children swept the minefields for thier fathers enemies, they say
give me the strength to leave
With a picture of Komeini, and a rifle on thier knee they said,
give me the strength to leave
give me the strength to leave today, give me something to believe and I’ll be on my way
give me the strength to leave
Beneath a darkened sky in Calvary, he was waiting for the thieves
he said
give me the strength to leave
And when I’m cold and dying, and there’s nothing left for me I’ll say,give me the strength, pray, give me the strength, to leave
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When time is running backwards and the Earth spins in reverse
Will history repeat itself, will everything seem worse?
Will we still be wondering bout the chicken and the egg?
Will I get a milk-bone when my dogs sits up and begs?
Will we take the paper and make it into trees?
Make big ones out of little ones, grow sweaty in the breeze?
Will I spit out gumballs and put them in my bank?
And what of all the water and the coffee that I drank?
Stephen Hawking tells us that it’s more than just a hunch,
Effect will precede cause as we’re sucked into the big crunch
Will we see dead friends and family grow healthier each day?
Still work all those hours when we've already been paid?
Will Revolution Number Nine make any more sense?
Will we put back all the ozone will we take down every fence?
Will Jack Ruby bring back Oswald to bring back JFK?
Will there finally be a last time “Margaritaville” will play?
Ashes to ashes , dust to dust, that will stay the same
But now predestination will always take the blame...
Stephen Hawking tells us that it’s more than just a hunch,
Effect will precede cause as we’re sucked into the big crunch
It’s the big crunch
The big crunch
The big crunch (it sucks)
The big crunch
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Dean Madonia Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville producer/performer/songwriter - has performed and recorded with over 40 bands, opened for such diverse acts as:
New Grass Revival, Steve Vai, Dee Dee Ramone, Company B, Dottie West, The Romantics, and Ygnwie Malmsteen .
Dean's song, "(I Called Her) Tennessee," co-written with Curb recording artist, Tim Dugger has been recorded and released as a single and is charting now!
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