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Silver Clouds

by Jim Howell

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1.
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
2.
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”.
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
Still Broke 02:13
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
10.
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
11.
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)
12.
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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released December 1, 2015

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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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