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Soul Mine
05:52
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It's been a long time digging in the soul mine / looking in the dark for something that shines / All I found was coal / All I felt was shame / when I heard that devil calling my name /
Then I found a vein of gold and a vein of blood / I made a vein cry for a vein of love / Something died inside, now I feel better / I bled 'til I shed that scarlet letter /
Hold on tight, son / 'til that coal turns to diamonds / Life springs from deep wells / Faith is born in the forge of Hell / Forge on /
Though light be lost and lines be crossed / stay strong / I lost my name at the center of the earth / I swallowed my pain until I proved my worth / Then it was gone /
Find the truth / it shines right through carbon / I started out digging for diamonds and gold / now I'm digging through the long dark night of the soul / to see dawn /
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Mustangs
03:39
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I got roughed up by them mustangs down in Memphis, Tennessee / where the river runs dry and the women all livin' offa OxyContin dreams / I said maybe baby it's just me / but there's a prowler down by the stream / I'm going down to the river just to wash myself clean / I'm going down on the banks of Galilee /
I struck outta luck in Washington, with a gun against my throat / I said maybe she's a poet, but it's all murder that she wrote / She left me with a five dollar bill and a rabbit skin overcoat / I'm going down in the pines / in the pines / gonna let it shine on down, gonna let it shine /
I bought some $10 boots in Houston from a speed freak named Suzanne / She was jumpin' up into the chimney, coming back down in the frying pan / I said, baby, maybe you should lay off that tin foil and the match / and clean up all that garbage you got laying out 'round back / I'm going down East Colfax for a bag and some gin / I'm going down just to see what kinda shape I'm in /
I got robbed by a federal policeman, down in southern Mexico / He thought I was drunk but I was just on a mescaline roll / Now if you can't find the truth that I buried deep in this song / you can go down to the river just to prove me wrong /
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Woman and a Gun
05:03
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Old Jesse was an outlaw / it was just his bad disposition/ Some say he was born that way / I think he probably made a decision/ Old Jesse like the girls / he loved every one he saw / but everybody knows the sheriff's daughter Rose / made him forget them all / Oh, the sheriff was a bad man / but he had a good excuse / The ends will justify the means, my friends / I'm gonna put Jesse's head in a noose / Jesse said /
A woman and a gun will keep me warm / will keep me warm all through the night / A woman and a gun will keep me warm / will keep me warm / in the afterlife
One day by the banks of Green River / the sheriff caught Jesse with his daughter / He spoke not a word, just squeezed that trigger / and blew 'em both into the water / Jesse felt his feet in the mud / Rose watched a cloud pass made of blood / The river was in their lungs / and these words were on the tip of his tongue/
All my faith is a bullet / all my God is a gun / And all this world is just smoke and mirrors/ I'm gonna break them one by one /
All that's real is a woman / all that's true is her flesh / and all you got is her memory / for company after death
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Casanova
03:49
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He was a Casanova / like a god he came to show her / But all he had was frightening / all he taught was lightning / so like a storm he passed right over /
And over like a dice / Maybe someday he'll get lucky / and stop rolling snake eyes / And don't he deserve it / don't he deserve just a piece of the pie / But if a man ain't living on broken hearts / tell me how is he to survive /
She said your heart is dead and cruel / through your fingers have slipped many fools / But this one is gonna stick/ like a thorn / like a knife / like a new trick honey / Then her skin blew away like leaves / a flock of aces flew from his sleeve / Her curves were snakes / her breath was drugged / in an instant he fell in love / He said take me / and began to crack / her eyes were heart attacks / One kiss from him to her / then she blew him over /He was a Casanova / like a god he came to show her / But all he had was frightening / all he taught was lightning / so like a storm he passed right over /
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Child of God
02:16
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Ever since I got up today / I've been wanting to go to bed / seems like ever since I was born / I've been wishing I was dead / I need brotherly love just like a bullet in my head / I wish everyone would get away from me / 'cause I'm starting to see red / I said /
Being a child of God don't please me like it should / given my gift of free will don't free me like they said it would / You know a deal with the Devil / is starting to sound good /
I was born unto a race who survived by being mean / the empire they built was a mindless money grubbing moron's wet dream / And if I stay it's gonna kill me, but I don't have the strength to leave / so I gasp for air that can't be spared / 'cause the apocalypse needs to breathe /
I went down to the crossroads / just like Robert Johnson of old / 'cause that's where you go to deal with the Devil /or at least that's what I'd been told / But all I saw was storm clouds and all I felt was cold / and all I heard was a belly laugh from Heaven as the thunder rolled /
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Montreal
04:01
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I'll give you another hour then I gotta run / gotta fly away and leave you to fall / leave you to stuff your flowers in a shotgun / and below their petals all over the wall / I know you think you're on a crusade / you've got a world to save and it's hanging by a thread / I know you think you've got to be brave / but there's nothing but a slave inside your head / I know you're living in a dream world / even though I know this must seem real /
Now everything will fall / I want to go back to Montreal
So you want to rise above duality / you want to transcend both day and night / I guess I'm old fashioned / I just don't share your passion / for a never changing eternal twilight / But go on and give oblivion a shot / go on and fade to grey if you've got to / And maybe you'll do better without God / and maybe I'll do better without you /
Well, I wish that were true / and I wish that were you / sitting across from me / instead of this impersonation of who you used to be / Everything that we were comes down to this / and all we built were sinking ships / And by tomorrow we'll both just be shadows on the wall / take me back before we lost it all / I wanna go back to Montreal /
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Burns
04:24
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Remember back when you were just a little kid / scared of the dark, laying in your crib / waiting for mama to turn on the light / but she never did / Remember back when you would watch those stars / they seemed so bright and they seemed so far / but you knew one day they'd be falling around you / so today they are /
Because the world turns / just like the sea churns / just like the sun burns / just like we all fall in turn / just like the world turns / and it burns /
I fell into the Bardot / they pulled me back again so / I don't believe in no happy endings no / I don't believe I want to do this again / Remember back when you were just a little kid / you said you'd never fall in love / then you did / Now you're holding your broken heart in your hand / remembering what mama said /
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Ghost of a Man
03:38
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I got home late last night / it was all locked up / I guess that's your way of saying you've had enough / I wish I could say the same because I've had my fill / but I don't think this stuff is gonna stop 'til it kills /
All the things that I've lost don't even seem to faze me / my devotion to destruction never ceases to amaze me / Either I must be stupid or just flat out crazy / like you said you're the first and the last to ever love me, baby /
I put on a mask every night and go downtown / there life is simple / you make friends by buying rounds / But the mornings are harder because I wake up all alone / with my shame like a fuse burning down to the bone /
I would apologize if I had the sincerity/ but these days it don't seem like there's much here left of me / you don't have to speak / I know you agree / Like you said / I'm a ghost of the man / that I used to be /
I'm haunting his skin / here we go again / look at this mess that I'm in / I pray every day / for this madness to end /
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Leaving Alone
04:57
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Jesus only told us to hang up our sins / so what did what we do / we hung up him / So we've got hangups aplenty and sin in surplus / and a rusty old nail lodged deep inside of each of us /
This golden shining sun / it keeps getting brighter / and this old crown of thorns / it keeps getting tighter / And all of God's children are playing with guns / yeah there's a rusty old nail / lodged deep inside of everyone /
These nails will corrode on their own / we must not forget / we're built of oceans and stones / we cannot be broken and we will not be owned / So the Devil may come on strong / but he'll be leaving alone /
These days pass like dreams and there's none in between / I sleep like a stone / wake up in a stream / its flow drags me over all manners of pain / until I stumble home to my nail / and I drive it in again /
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Put Me to Task
02:53
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I had a dark dream of you / damned if it didn't come true and send us both straight to Hell / Oh, it's just us and fate / and all these spinning glass plates / we just watched as they fell / But when the smoke had all cleared / we were still standing there / but who are we now / I know the time has come / to make good what we done / but I just don't know how /
How long does it take / to mend what we break in one night of disease / Forget that I asked / just put me to task / I'm eager to please /
Lay down your head and cry / let out what's inside / I won't judge or run / for I hold the same dark shadow / but it's time to let it go / and step into the sun /
The past is a chain / it holds us down / But there's no weight to the now / so go on, baby, and spread your wings / release all those things / that had you down /
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