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Long ago, the wind had just been born He was so young and sweet Ethereal and free of guilt As a boy, with a magnifying glass And a line of marching ants He blew fires all across this land Wind, I can hear you now you old man You moan and groan and howl Wind, you’re no kind of friend I scream, my name to you again When will you grow old enough To listen The wind, grew up to be strong Learned his right from wrong A soft breeze from a stormy day And as a man, spreading seeds throughout the land He traveled far and wide Let the birds rely on him I spend, my nights alone outside Listen to the song The wind brings across the sea But when, I need someone to hear To listen, love, and stay The wind just blows away again

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I've been driving round town just thinking about how I'm gonna get you a get you alone In a dark little place got something for you babe if you're sure that you ain't too scared to show I can be mean too Baby, pretty baby I can be mean to you Baby, pretty baby Cause you're a mean mean sonofa Mean mean sonofa Oh merciless me, my vengeance is free and you got me feeling real generous Ain't no one can hear what's going on here so you might as well relax while we reminisce I can be mean too Baby, pretty baby I can be mean to you Baby, pretty baby Cause you're a mean mean sonofa Mean mean sonofa I've been driving round town just thinking about how I'm gonna get you a get you alone I can be mean too Baby, pretty baby I can be mean to you Baby, pretty baby Cause you're a mean mean sonofa Real mean sonofa

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I run out of lives I run out of new moons Roadrunner Pray pray I said a prayer twice For both my faces It's a flip of the coin Silver dollar Lord knows I tried Lord knows I tried Found every rut and hole But we sure did fly 78 Firebird The watchman watchman knows He stands there and waits Up on concrete hill And I will Lord knows I tried I tried Lord knows I tried I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Lord I did try I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry But the Lord knows I tried I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry Lord I did try I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry But the Lord knows I tried Oooh Lord knows I tried Lord knows I tried

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Cactus flower Someday I'm gonna bleed by your hand Tell the vultures to start circling Cause finally I give a damn In the valley In the tall grass with you To keep you evergreen I'd go black and blue I'm high on you as high noon For your love if you want it I'll walk through the ring For your love if you say that you want it I'll do anything Ooh ooh ooh I got fire for you Ooh ooh ooh I got fire for you Desperado Send the gavel after me Maybe I need correction, baby But I'm just how you made me Sunshine Put some lines on my face Love me long enough to hate Then write something nice on my grave For your love if you want it I'll walk through the ring For your love if you say that you want it I'll do anything Ooh ooh ooh I got fire for you Ooh ooh ooh I got fire for you Oh For your love if you want it I'll walk through the ring For your love if you say that you want it I'll do anything Ooh ooh ooh I got fire for you Ooh ooh ooh I got fire for you

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Wild wild strawberry is the sweetest one Wild wild horses that just wanted to run I'm the drifter that keep drifting back to you The drifter that keep drifting back to you Baby blue dandelion riding with the wind Baby blue lonesome wolf won't you let me back in Cause I'm the drifter that keeps drifting back to you The drifter that keeps drifting back to you I'm the drifter that keep drifting back to you The drifter that keep drifting back to you

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did your mother warn you about california the closer you get to the sea the more the earth shakes under your feet there’s a fault line inside my brain runs parallel to the walk of fame all the stars line up one by one waiting to burn out beneath the sun put on your fancy shoes bite your lower lip and hum the blues may the western wind carry me and you when the whole world goes to hell send a message to all our friends if we never make it back again let them know we wish them well forward all our calls to this desert hotel we may feel ourselves sinking in the sand as history traces the palms of our hands time will tell truths that we can’t understand so put your faith on high alert do you believe in heaven or do you believe in hollywood? all the billboards promised us something so good if jesus forgives and drugs can help us forget maybe the past meant nothing at all put on your fancy shoes bite your lower lip and hum the blues may the western wind carry me and you when the whole world goes to hell send a message to all our friends if we never make it back again let them know we wish them well forward all our calls to this desert hotel tell me where do you go when you’re looking to forget the world and let it forget you you always seem to know how to read mind, where to find the time and what to leave behind put on your fancy shoes bite your lower lip and hum the blues may the western wind carry me and you when the whole world goes to hell send a message to all our friends if we never make it back again let them know we wish them well forward all our calls to this desert hotel

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The Highway called me on the telephone Said “Friend, I hadn’t seen you in a while” The Highway called me on the telephone “Must not be walking lonely miles” So I wrote a letter to the westward wind “Just might be seeing you soon, Your brother from the east has been at my front door And he’s got me thinking ‘bout you” We’ve all been lonesome and low We all needed a friend I found mine on the road Running with my back to the wind I’ve been a traveler long as I can recall Out on the road since I was born I’ve been a brother to the rain that would fall I’ve been a friend to the storm But now my suitcase is packed to the brim And the rain is falling on my head A little worn out, and a little worn in, But I’m proud to call the road my friend Six long years now, since I left my home And I’m still out here running ‘round Six long years, since I left my home I don’t know if I am lost or if I’m found So when you see me, won’t you please say hello Don’t just smile or tip your hat Won’t you tell me a story ‘bout a traveling man Who carried his home on his back

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Well he built it real light and a whole lot quicker For running moonshine and bootleg liquor In the hills of Virginia, nineteen-twenty-three And he never not once thought he might get caught He never had trouble out-running the law A motorhead’s delight and a moonshiner’s dream Zero to Sixty Faster than any lawman could blink his eyes Zero to Sixty Gone in a cloud of dust ‘fore you could say goodbye Now he’s running liquor all around Thomasville And he’s running out of gas so he stopped to fill The Sheriff comes up says “Boy I’m watching you” And the moonshiner said “Sheriff, you could have me, That is now son, if you could catch me I’m the baddest, the fastest, the meanest racing fool” Zero to Sixty Faster than any lawman could blink his eye Zero to Sixty Gone in a cloud of dust ‘fore you could say goodbye Well the Sheriff stood up said “Boys I’ve had it, I’m gonna get up, get out, go stop this racket. I’m going to the shop, get me a new set of wheels” “I’ll have more horsepower than a stable in Kentucky The world ain’t never known a man so lucky He could outrun my new souped up automobile” Zero to Sixty Faster than any outlaw running moonshine Zero to Sixty Gone in cloud of dust ‘fore you could say goodbye So here they come down Highway Nine You’ve got the moonshiner running with the Sheriff behind Swerving and curving and speeding as fast as they go They dodge and bob through the oncoming traffic But the Sheriffs getting tired and he starts to panic He pulled his pistol, boy he let her go Zero to Sixty Faster than any outlaw running moonshine Zero to Sixty Gone in a cloud of dust ‘fore you could say goodbye When the Sheriff started shooting, moonshiner hit the gas He was coming ‘round the curve but he took it too fast His wheels started spinning and smoking as he lost control Around that curve the Sheriff came flying He hit the moonshiner, well they both started sliding Through the guardrail and down the mountain they rolled Zero to Sixty Faster than two old fools down a mountain side Zero to Sixty Gone in a cloud of dust ‘fore you could say goodbye They was gone in a cloud of dust ‘for you could say goodbye

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The sun has set Wild wild west In a prison With a window I've been howlin' at the moon Baby, all night I've been howlin' for you Baby, all night I am nothing I am eclipsed There's just darkness Till your headlights show I've been howlin' at the moon Baby, all night I've been howlin' for you Baby, all night I've been howling at the moon Ooooooooh Baby, baby, I gotta be your baby Baby, baby, I gotta be your baby I've been howlin' at the moon Baby, all night I've been howlin' for you Baby, all night I've been howling at the moon Ooooooooh I've been howlin' for you Ooooooooh

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Can I come sit come sit on your porch steps Darlin, we're the killers of many an afternoon And can I come play within your barbed wire fence Are you keeping them out or are they keeping you in Oooh Bad apple spoil me through Oooh What you are I wanna be too Take me to the top of the clover hill And show me what could be could be all mine And lover it's such a long way down But I already crossed a couple of state lines Oooh Bad apple spoil me through Oooh What you are I wanna be too We're rotten we're rotten we're rotten I wanna get what you've gotten We're rotten we're rotten we're rotten I wanna get what you've gotten Oooh Bad apple spoil me through Oooh What you are I wanna be too

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Blend into the shadows, fire smoking from my tongue I make flames that burn it down til it's all said and done Walkin' slow, my devil mind will block the morning sun Rip the sky, explode the stars and black out every one I'm a force to be reckoned with, I am the natural Law When the wind blows down the street then you will know my name I help the desert bleach bones white and keep the holy flame I make the ocean swallow ships and rivers flood their banks I'm the one that's stealing every teardrop from your face Maybe I will spare you baby but that just ain't my style Maybe I will love you baby but that just ain't worthwhile Maybe I'm born a killer, and maybe I'm born a saint. You might try to stop me but the ground won't let you fight  My footsteps move in closer, make your stomach feelin' tight Lock your dorrs cause you'll be hidin' everything in sight  I take it all and fade away, into the darkened night 

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Oklahoma, you’ve got nothing for me You’re just a spot on I-40 on the way to Tennessee Broken heart and a busted radio Got the windows rolled down, 300 miles to go But if I’m late I’ll be just fine I smoked a pack of Spirits to pass the time A fool I am but how free I’ll be Oklahoma, you got nothing for me Oklahoma, you got nothing for me Oklahoma, I’m back again Three hundred and fifty miles north of I-10 I’ve gotta get out of this tornado weather Got a woman back in Georgia thinks we belong together But if I’m late I’m right on time Stopped a few times at the five and dime A fool I am and a fool I’ll be But Oklahoma, you got nothing on me It’s Friday night and my head is spinning There’s a bar full of whiskey, and a room full of women I gotta get out but got no place to go Maybe we’ll go south to Mexico So if I’m late I’ll be just fine I’m driving like an outlaw for the county line I’m not the young man that I used to be But Oklahoma you got nothing for me Oklahoma, you got nothing for me

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I’m just a rambling man Old guitar in my hand Making my way slowly West Lost a card game in Reno At the El Dorado Casino And my heart down in Los Angeles I’m just a rambling man I don’t make too many plans Got a wanderer’s heart in my chest So I drive to the desert Through the Indio sunset Where I sing for the sky overhead I used to have dreams about being a star Playing for the bright lights with my electric guitar But passion alone won’t get you too far Just you watch for me I’m just a rambling man Without a place to stand Moving my wheels here and there Too old for the surfers Too young for the snowbirds I settled in the south Florida air But I used to have dreams about loving someone Growing some roots and raising a son But dreams start to fade like the flickering sun Will you wait for me? I used to have dreams about doing great things Like making people smile with my guitar while I sing And now that I realize I have what I dreamed I’ll die a lucky man I’m just a rambling man Moving across this land Looking for a place to call home From the New Orleans fountains To the North Georgia mountains I can feel the South deep in my bones But I’m just a restless man Toes burred in the sand Watching the waves ride on by And I hope to one day leave But if I get no reprieve The Gulf is where this rambler will die

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I’ve drifted down in the water To see reflections of my face Sung a thousand hymns in the desert To join the tempest’ mournful stage But in every place I’ve run and every place I’ve bode Taught me I know nothing about love And I’ve swam a thousand oceans To wash my sins all clean Been dancing down in the river To let the water cover me But no matter how hard I try I’ll wander till I die I’ve tasted the lips of a woman Who said my soul was in her grasp Saw the devil deep in her green eyes And all the angels at her back But every place I’ve run she haunts my soul To show me I know nothing about love And I’ve swam a thousand oceans To wash my spirit clean Been dancing down in the river To let the water cover me But no matter how hard I try I’ll wander till I die I gazed in the burning branches To behold the Lion’s face A blinded eye and fiery ashes Pulled me to his warm embrace But every place I’ve run, Every seed I sow Proves that I know nothing about love

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I was tired of being busted with my back against the wall The ends weren't meeting up the way they should Living hand to mouth, you know it ain't no life at all I had to change the station if I could So I may have placed a call to a certain someone that I know I may have pulled a job for his old man I may have been behind a shady business deal or two But I don't expect that you would understand I don't need to be forgiven I don't need to be justified When I meet my creator I'm gonna look him in the eyes And say, heaven knows I tried So the jobs kept stacking up, man the years kept rolling by You know there ain't no arguing with time It wasn't always honest and it wasn't always right But I did what I had to to survive So I made a little money and an enemy or two Along the way I lost a couple friends Burned a lot of bridges doing what I had to do It'll all come back to haunt me in the end I don't need to be forgiven I don't need to be justified When I meet my creator I'm gonna look him in the eyes And say, heaven knows I tried No one knows the wicked things I've seen through all my days People make their judgements and they turn the other way They can go to hell anyway I've been trying hard to walk the straight and narrow for a while The devil seems to follow me around Everywhere I go, you know I walk a lonely mile And I cast a lonely shadow on the ground I don't need to be forgiven I don't need to be justified When I meet my creator I'm gonna look him in the eyes And say, heaven knows I tried

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We're the wilderness being chased by a fence And we will run We're the loser wolves in a den of fools Belonging to no one Valley of fire This thing don't burn away California liar Have a good day We're the change of wind, dust is blowing Don't gotta get in your eyes We're the dandelions in your rose garden I wouldn't try Valley of fire This thing don't burn away California liar Have a good day There could be Love, love, love There could be Love, love, love Valley of fire This thing don't burn away California liar Have a good day Valley of fire This thing don't burn away California liar Have a good day

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I watched face pressed to glass And wondered what it'd be like if it cracked Smoky mountain smoky brain I said goodbye with a bang All the birds singing and the house is on fire White knuckle rider Neon bar fist fighter Cowboy pictures in your head I'm surprised you ain't already dead All the birds singing and the house is on fire whistle We danced on the shoulder Watching the headlights come closer A pack of dogs run together I wish you were the same but better All the birds singing and the house is on fire Parking lot of the convenience store If anyone gave a damn we were waiting for em A day late and a dollar short All the birds singing and the house is on fire whistle Suddenly everything's interesting Flash those pale pretty stupid greens Suddenly everything's interesting Flash those pale pretty stupid greens whistle

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Splendour in the green and the young Dust was floating in a ray of sun We stood under a meteorite And you left me there stoned by the light Don't look if you don't wanna see If it makes you sick to watch one bleed Forgiveness don't grow on trees Don't look if you don't wanna see Don't look if you don't wanna see If it makes you sick to watch someone bleed Forgiveness don't grow on trees Don't look if you don't wanna see Can you find me something I haven't lost Pick me a fruit a fruit that won't rot You walk barefoot in the dirt But a dead bumblebee still has a stinger Don't look if you don't wanna see If it makes you sick to watch one bleed Forgiveness don't grow on trees Don't look if you don't wanna see Don't look if you don't wanna see If it makes you sick to watch someone bleed Forgiveness don't grow on trees Don't look if you don't wanna see Bad, baby, bad thoughts running away with me Don't look if you don't wanna see If it makes you sick to watch one bleed Forgiveness don't grow on trees Don't look if you don't wanna see Don't look if you don't wanna see If it makes you sick to watch someone bleed Forgiveness don't grow on trees Don't look if you don't wanna see

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Dark, baby, I got darkened days, sugar Cry, baby, it's a crying shame, sugar I I got the baddest mood I I I got the baddest mood Cause I I just do I I got the baddest mood I I I got the baddest mood Cause I I just do Tooth for tooth and eye for eye It's stranger you can love a stranger but not a friend Low, baby, you hit me low with nothing, sugar I I got the baddest mood I I I got the baddest mood Cause I I just do I I got the baddest mood I I I got the baddest mood Cause I I just do Time will take care of me And time will take care of you Tooth for tooth and eye for eye I I got the baddest mood I I I got the baddest mood Cause I I just do I I got the baddest mood I I I got the baddest mood Cause I I just do

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This feral heart begins to race Then all at once the voice of reason fades away Shadow of doubt comes creeping in That's when the war between the head and heart begins This tidal wave comes crashing over And everything I thought I knew gets washed away My shallow grave comes ever closer Til the medication makes it all better again This bullet train rolls down the track And once it's up to speed, there's no turning back There is nothing to fear but fear itself But fear itself can be a fate far worse than death This tidal wave comes crashing over And everything I thought I knew gets washed away My shallow grave comes ever closer Til the medication makes it all better again

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White line oceans Black top seas I’ve been sailing Mother nature fought with me Her ice and snow Rain and sleet were falling Now my ship it has been docked The crew is gone The anchors dropped out front You slide a glass in front of me Through eyes of green Ask me what I want I want freedom, for one And drinks for two I want justice for all And a shot, for me and you Don’t tell me there’s nothing here You only serve wine and beer Oh no Where’s a man to get a hundred-proof Shot of truth When he’s feeling down and low There must be something in the back I’ll slip it down the hatch No one will know My spirit needs a spirit And elixir A fixer for my soul A bourbon splash in a glass I’m learning fast And living slow And you can pour it over tears Over laughs Over ice, cracked and cold Freedom is a sacred word A seldom heard songbird It holds no fear So what say you, what say I What say we grab this wine Get out of here? And we’ll find freedom And we can find drinks too And we’ll hope for justice A shot for me and shot for you

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These walls are so paper-thin Not strong enough to keep me in Soon I’ll be out of here at last I’ll be hopping trains and hitching rides Spend my nights in smokey dives I’ll be living life, so damn fast They can’t build a wall Strong enough to keep me in And there ain’t no Hellhound in Georgia Gonna drag me back again When that jailer slammed my cell door shut Something in my mind went off I knew I had to get me out of here The thought of a cold whiskey shot Or a woman’s touch is oh so soft It almost brought me to tears So I sold up all my cigarettes I got some tools and few good men Started diggin a hole into the ground And it wasn’t but a week or more When they opened up my jail cell door And I wasn’t nowhere to be found I remember it like yesterday You could hear those sirens miles away They even put a bounty on my head From Georgia up to Tennessee Now the state police they were looking for me Didn’t matter if I was alive or dead So now I’m living life out on the road Some of these nights so windy and cold But I’d never trade it for where I was And if someday they catch up with me And drag me back in custody I won’t even worry because

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I was in the joint in East Detroit Served a sentence in Dallas, Texas I got locked up all over trying to get through Oklahoma And I ain’t been back there since In the slammer in Alabama And Montana, Savannah, and Atlanta In the penitentiary down Memphis, Tennessee I got a tattoo says “I heart mama” Incarcerated in every state Institutionalized along the way Did I happen to mention that my life of correction Started back in Juvenile detention My rap sheet’s a mile long But it’s not why I sing my song No I came here to say there’s been a terrible mistake ‘Cause I ain’t done nothing wrong I’ve been arrested for possession of just about everything From weapons to wild animals, I’ve got breaking and entering Burglary, disorderly, battery, trespassing These are all just cases of mistaken identity Charges dropped in St Louis, picked back up in Kansas City Paroled in Alabama, Probation in Mississippi I’ve been detained, retained, and contained, and jailed But I never missed a court date, I ain’t never skipped bail I’m just a victim of the system, a victim of circumstance They framed me, set me up, tampered with evidence I ain’t never done nothing wrong, I would swear on my mother Except for maybe that one time… and maybe a couple others I was in the joint in East Detroit Arrested down in Houston, Texas Solitary confinement way up in Rhode Island And I ain’t been back there since In the slammer in Alabama Montana, Savannah, Atlanta, Nevada, Nebraska In the penitentiary down in Jackson, Mississippi I got a tattoo that says “I heart Steve” Incarcerated in every state Institutionalized in every way Did I happen to mention that my life of correction Started back in after school detention Yeah my rap sheet’s a mile long But it’s not why I sing my song No I came here to say there’s been a terrible mistake ‘Cause I ain’t done nothing wrong No I ain’t done nothing wrong

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Train won’t you let me ride Your fifteen cars of coal and hay Train won’t you let me ride And take me far away Hear that whistle cross the plains The countryside, right on time Hear that whistle blow for days You can hear it blow for miles Bad luck and hard times Have got me running, from my home Bad luck and hard times Is all I ever know The train I ride is running south Where the Mississippi meets the sea Take me to that river’s mouth In the town of New Orleans Hear her rumble down the track She hits the brakes, shakes the ground People wave and whistle back We’re pulling into town