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Working For Your Love
02:41
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I’m workin for your love night and day
Workin for your love in every possible way
I’m workin for your love, workin for your love,
Workin for your love with no pay
I break my back in sunshine all day
As nightfall comes I’m on guitar strummin’ away
I’m workin for your love, workin for your love,
Workin for your love with no pay
My friends they call me foolish and insane
They think I should have gone, gone another way
But I’m workin for your love, workin for your love,
Workin for your love with no pay
Nickels and dimes are all you send
I don’t see a 5 or 10 and never benjamins
I’m workin for your love, workin for your love,
Workin for your love with no pay
I’m workin for your love night and day
Workin for your love in every possible way
I’m workin for your love, workin for your love,
Workin for your love with no pay
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2. |
Mr. You'll Do
03:10
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I’m outta line
Most every time
Its what I do
I’m outta time
And clever lines
Its what I say
I never did believe in fairy tales
The Prince doesn’t always lift the veil
I know I may never be your “Mr. Right”…
But I can be your “Mr. You’ll Do”.
You make it right
Without a fight
Its how you stay
You have the sight
To keep it light
We work this way
I never did believe in fairy tales
The Prince doesn’t always lift the veil
I know I may never be your “Mr. Right”…
But I can be your “Mr. You’ll Do”.
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3. |
Silver Clouds
04:41
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Chorus:
Silver Clouds with darkened linings
Bright blue skies and the moon’s a risin’
When the sun shines down upon my tear streaked face
The warmth is merely settin’ the dirt in place
Verse 1:
Two kind souls lost all too soon
One lied still in the operating room
While her one true love his heart in hand
Drove home all alone and found peace in the end
Bridge:
My blood runs cold while my eyes leak
Head bowed down my mind can’t speak
Feet move slow and deliberately
My mouth sown shut and my heart weeps
Verse 2:
Shorty lived to dance, and sing and strum
And throw some back with the best of ‘um
But that one late night he stayed on too long
Now all his friends gather while he’s gone
Verse 3:
Young buck named Clyde in the Haggard tee
Played the strings so low effortlessly
On the week of the show rather than onstage
He took his last breath inside his locked garage
Chorus:
Silver Clouds with darkened linings
Bright blue skies and the moon’s a risin’
When the sun shines down upon my tear streaked face
The warmth is merely settin’ the dirt in place
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4. |
Double Yellow Line
02:28
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Well I’ve chased that double yellow line through sun and snow
I took it out as long as it would go
Travelled it far and wide
But every single time
Double yellow line leads back to that girl of mine
Double yellow line stretched to spring break paradise
The gulch in Arivaca and a dive in Quartzite
No difference which open road
Or corner of the desert I roam
The double yellow line leads right back to home
Double yellow line flew me to distant lands
Foreign sounds and sites and bigger plans
No matter what the lure
There’s one thing that’s for sure
That double yellow line leads right back to her
Well I’ve chased that double yellow line through sun and snow
I took it out as long as it would go
Travelled it far and wide
But every single time
Double yellow line leads back to that girl of mine
The double yellow line leads back to that girl of mine
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5. |
I Ain't Buyin'
04:29
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Blasting the TV most every night
On the internet on every damn site
At the corner store down the block
Outside my bank in the parking lot
Walk up to car just to hustle what I got
In the park ramada while you was smoking pot
You can go on sellin crazy…
But I ain’t buyin
In the practice space where nothin’s getting done
Yellin at The Red Room and cussin up a storm
Staging fits with a crowded room in tow
Whisperin the right things so no one ever knows
Build it up and break it down and quit it when you’re thru
Pittin one against the other so they are both with you
And you can go on sellin crazy…
But I ain’t buyin
Oh nevermind
I don’t have a dime
Or to be kind
I don’t have the time
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6. |
A Thing Or Two Or Ten
03:21
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I got a thing or two or ten
To say in the morning
I got a thing or two or ten
That’s on my mind
As I lie here awake
When I should be sleeping
These thoughts of you persist
In my tired worried mind
I got a thing or two or ten
To say in the morning
I got a thing or two or ten
That’s on my mind
As I toss and turn in bed
While you’re by me slumbering
All my thoughts and words resist
My somnolent mind
As I lie here awake
While you’re by me dreaming
All my thoughts and words resist
In my tired worried mind
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Why’d you have'ta pick today to give a damn?
Woke up in the morn with the deal at hand
Then you walked in and you kissed me hard, I lost my nerve and fell apart
Why’d ya have'ta pick today to give a damn
Why’d you have'ta pick today to call my bluff?
Had it packed up and ready in my pick-up truck
You said go you won’t get to far I went out and my truck wouldn’t start
Why’d you have'ta pick today to call my bluff
Why’d you have'ta pick today To say “I love you”?
My made up it was sure and it was true
But three words from you and it broke my will,
I'm still here and a under your spell
Why’d you have'ta pick today to say “I love you”
Why’d you have'ta pick today to give a damn?
Woke up in the morn with the deal at hand
Then you walked in and you kissed me hard, I lost my nerve and fell apart
Why’d ya have'ta pick today to give a damn
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8. |
Low Lying Fruit
03:48
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She’s the one he called low lying fruit
Now I know I know the truth
I was the one who was down
When she picked me from the ground
But what I have come to know
Is while I was laying low
He was just a lying fool
And she is just the sweetest fruit
He think he know a thing or two
But just between me and you
I’ve found that I found
The best pick all around
She’s the one he called low lying fruit
Now I know I know the truth
I was the one who was down
When she picked me from the ground
He think he know a thing or two
But how 'bout me and me and how 'bout you
I know that I found
The best pick from all around
He was high up out on a limb
Nothin’ but crows were pickin’ him
I was bruised and not quite whole
But she’s my peach my heart is full
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9. |
Still Broke
02:13
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Tried to pull myself together at thirty
My twenties went up in smoke
You didn’t try to fix me baby
Here I am still broke
I went from lonely late nights
Into early morns
When I saw the other side of four
It came without warning
Went from sets of grave escapes
To no safer bets
Making all those narrow mistakes
Who needs regret?
Stuck in an endless groundhog day
Never making right
When I even try to try to change
All we do is fight
I went from lonely late nights
Into early morns
When I saw the other side of four
It came without warning
I wanna thank you for letting me be
Honest Abe no joke
I’m happy just being me
Sittin' here still broke
You didn’t try to fix me baby
Here I am still broke
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10. |
Three Chords & The Truth
02:25
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Three chords and the truth
Im not tryin to be rude
Get behind whatcha feel
Sing me something that's real
Don't wanna hear about a pick-up truck
Floatin’ a river and you're so dang drunk
We can dig the girls in cut-off jeans
can't cha find some new lyrical means
Three chords and the truth
Im not tryin to be rude
Get behind whatcha feel
Sing me something that's real
Not impressed by your shoe-gaze strum
Half-hearted sloppy band and ham-fist drums
Its sharp to wear a pearl-snap shirt
How 'bout a tight shuffle first
Three chords and the truth
Im not tryin to be rude
Get behind whatcha feel
Sing me something that's real
And if you’re singing a bridge
Try a six or a three
But don’t take it from me
Just two-five an’a chorus repeat
Three chords and the truth
Im not tryin to be rude
Get behind whatcha feel
Play me something that's real
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11. |
I Hate Everything
03:08
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Ya outta your mind
won’tcha leave me behind
I‘ve offered no room to stay
But you won’t go away
Now I’ve done it this time
my invite crossed all the lines
I got nothin’ to say
But you won’t go away
Why can’t you just understand
Not here to game or be your friend
I didn’t hear a word that you say
But you follow me anyway
Time to let it all end
‘Cause I hate of ev’rything (Facebook Friends)
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12. |
Chasing Down A Ghost
04:48
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Traveling on this barren road
Chasing down the same old ghost
Twenty years can’t wash away
A fetid layer of sweet decay
And when I feel that I am free
To live each day thoughtfully
Inspired by what I do and see
I’m right back in malady
Reflections upon a pool of once was
Watery dreams anemic fuzz
Flickering light and shadowy hate
Frozen vignettes of memory
And when I feel that I am free
To live each day thankfully
Inspired by what I do and see
I’m right back in calamity
And when I feel that I am free
To live each day faithfully
Inspired by what I do and see
I’m right back in misery
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Jim Howell Tucson, Arizona
Raised from the caliche bound floor of the sonoran desert, Jim Howell draws from the duality of human life, hope/depression, light/evil, achievement/ lowered expectations. Burn It Down Bleedin' Heart is a call to the self and others to join together, brandish the heart that bleeds for others rather than allowing it to be bullied and burn down the establishment of hate, mistrust and self service. ... more
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