1. |
Won't You Miss Me?
03:40
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Well I been down every street and every avenue
Well I woke up every morning read the news
But if I had that million dollars I would keep you from my brain
For I can’t forget you when I’m feeling blue
Won’t ya miss me when I’m down in southern mourning
Won’t ya miss me when ya know we’ve been untrue
Won’t ya miss me in the evening when I’m right behind your door
For I can’t forget you when I’m feeling blue
And I been through Nashville Memphis Louisiana
Spent way too much time trying to tie both these shoes
Still I always seemed to slip up in the evening when you came
For I can’t forget you when I’m feeling blue
Won’t ya miss me when I’m down in southern mourning
Won’t ya miss me when ya know we’ve been untrue
Won’t ya miss me in the evening when I’m right behind your door
For I can’t forget you when I’m feeling blue
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2. |
Hillbilly's Lament
03:06
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Well Calicia’s got me scramblin
Well Old Dixie’s got my mandolin
But I won’t be afraid another day
I won’t be afraid
Old Dixie’s dug his grave in the storm
Well my clock has gotten rusty
Well let me make a stop at Old McClusky’s
But he’s crying that his time has gone to waste
But I won’t be afraid that
McClusky’s hands are worn to the bone
Well the old dirt road o’er yonder
Well it starts my mind to wander
But the grass in the next town’s field is always green
But it stays away
A paradise of hays where I was born
Well the tavern’s got two brews
Well one for me and one for you
And our bootheels they will tap with another round
On the dark solid floor
Of this hole in the ground Delilah’s Pub
Well Old Tammy’s cooking cow steak
Well the folks crash through the wrought iron gate
And as the pit lays down its last fire
We’ll retire to the dawn and to the stars
Tomorrow ain’t so far any more
Well the rooster crows a tune
Well the first day of the next June
And as Matilda clammers on about the heat
I’ll rise enough to greet
Another day lies ahead
Another day’s labor lies ahead
Another day’s labor lies ahead
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3. |
White Lightning
03:53
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Well Joe he hits the bong
And Chuck studied too long
Meg just can't even anymore
And Sarah’s in Taiwan
But I know
White lightning’s for the who the they the them
The brunches and the likes and the friends
White lightning’s for the ones out on the street
White lightning’s for the one you ought to greet and I know
White lighting’s for the who the they the them
The brunches and the likes and the friends
Well ma’am I know I’d never speak to you on harder grounds
But I'll sure hop in your Uber and swing right on downtown
My half priced education it don’t mean twice a thing
I’ll parcel out this world to you when I hit that oil rig come on and
Yoga starts at six and while I missed last week
I've just got to clear this head of mine that’s really not so deep
Well sure I studied abroad and yes I appreciate the outdoors
That small Guatemalan village well it really pumped my nards come on and
I have like class after this and like I’m feeling like I distrust Susie and like
Do you know what I mean and like I'm definitely not a floozy and like
I decided that like I like I really want to give back and like I'll cure that awful disease
And like me and Charlie will have three kids and you don’t even have to say please come on and
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Come on let’s sing out a tune
One verse for me and one for you
Can we speak in tongues of old
No words to say for those untold
Because you once said that you loved me
Then you went and drove me away
Because you said that you loved me
Then you weren't here to stay
Four score years and some years ago
You saw me out in the cold
Let me in lit up a candle
Now thoughts of you I can't fucking handle
Because you once said that you loved me
Then you went and drove me away
Because you said that you loved me
Then you weren't here to stay
Now I'm hitched to a horses back
My load securely beneath the rack
Heading for some other place
Entering a new fat cat rat race
Because you once said that you loved me
Then you went and drove me away
Because you said that you loved me
Then you weren't here to stay
So why'd you say that you loved me
Just to go and drive me away
Because you said that you loved me
Then you weren't here to stay
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5. |
If You Wanted To Stay
03:52
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She came this way in early spring
A photo amongst many seen before
A lover of all lights and sounds and things beneath sun and so much more
So if you want them to stay don’t treat them in that way
Just tell them the truth
As Summer drew its final breath
She was cast to see another shore
Upon her leaving wishes was a want to
Return to this land so pure
And since I wanted her to stay
Tried to treat her in a different way
Well I tried to tell her the truth
She returned on an Autumn eve
The trip around the sun had taken its toll
She’d bought the ticket many a time
But was not allowed access to the road
And if you want them to stay don’t treat them in that way
Well just tell them the truth
Should you choose to shackle home and put up blinds as your defense
Leaving bread crumbs somewhere further down the road
Then you may miss out on something something true and evident
With just a candle in the hall to light their way
So if you want them to stay
Try to treat them in a different way
If you want them to stay
Try to meet them halfway
If you want them to stay
Don’t treat them in that way
Just tell them the truth
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6. |
Misstep
05:35
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So dream dream dream dream away
Honey you don’t know what you done to me
You broke my spine and left me on my knees
But ain’t no other sees me like you see me
Can’t break free from your clarity
But I know
The time it ain’t right I don’t know why
So dream dream dream dream away
Still I can't stay away
I know that I’ll be okay
Down this road we may look back and say
What was a phase is now a new day
But I know
The time it ain't right I don't know why
Time why?
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7. |
When We Take A Walk
04:28
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When we take a walk
To the underworld
When we take a walk
My sweet little girl
Then the shadows of time
Won't stay on our minds
And we'll take a walk
Down the line
When the poor are rich
And the parties do resign
When the politicians slip
And are convicted of their crimes
Then the cycles of time
Won’t stay on our minds
And we’ll take a walk
Down the line
And where the sidewalk ends
And the water flows like wine
Where the immigrants are treated
Like yours and like mine
We’ll leak it to the press
That nirvana has its time
And we'll take a walk
Down the line
No waiting for the weather
We'll have no boat to tether
This must be now
There is no time
When we're walking down the line
So when martin luther’s dream
Plays out in real time
We’ve all seen that mountaintop
And fear no other kind
Then the valleys of time
Won’t weigh heavy on our minds
And we’ll take a walk
Right up the side
No waiting for the weather
We'll have no boat to tether
This must be now
There is no time
When we're walking down the line
So when we take a walk
To the underworld
When we take a walk
My sweet little girl
Then the shadows of time
Can't slay our minds
And we'll take a walk
Down the line
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8. |
Cold Right Hand
03:30
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With a cold right hand
And a heart of gold
He lumbers home
Rushed by the snow
Ten years have gone
He sees the cracks at dawn
With no one to show
Nowhere to go
And when he wakes
His gut does shake
He says no more
But he says it to the wall
And as the nighttime comes the forces inside they loom and boil and begin to take him away
Falling asleep at Old Joe’s Pub with a silver goblet resting beneath his face
And as the church bells ring
He sings a hymn
Says no ma’am no
Lead me instead to the light
Not the nighttime brights
With the thumping sounds
And the cold dark women
Who won’t miss out on living
Do tell me judge
The judges of old
Does a man with a bottle
Lose some of his soul
And as the grappling hooking laboring weeks come down he smiles and does not stand in the way
Another day for a drunkards life as the Sunday paper fades to gray
And as the nighttime comes the forces inside they loom and boil and begin to take him away
Falling asleep at Old Joe’s Pub with a silver goblet resting beneath his face
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9. |
The Carnival
05:51
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Step right up, don’t be shy
To the carnival In the sky
The freak show’s left
And games are right
Choose the left
Follow me and accordingly
The accordion man with concrete teeth
To a field, where feeling’s free
There’s fortune tellers and the freaks can’t be released
Just wait and see
Hey hey hey….
The tutorial is on the screen
The book of rules it sits beneath
No touching, pointing, and please no screams
We have it all, the bearded lady, the one who speaks in riddles and rhymes
And the Amalgaman, our centerpiece
He takes your worst and makes it right
His name as you see is up in lights
Can you believe he’s graced our screens?
Hey hey hey…
How small and nimble he is
Look at his peculiar grin
He’ll feed you wine to sell you gin
So in every town we take a vote
Let him stay or leave him float
Down the stream to drown and scream
So as I’ve said, raise those hands, at the ending of our show
Shall we keep him or let him go?
Avert your eyes now to the right, to the circus now in sight
The acrobats, the motorbikes
See them shooting through the sky
Where they’ll go to eat their pie
See the one eyed porcupine
Hear the laughing peg legged man
Obey his orders where he stands
Join the circus now at last
Hey hey hey…
Pull back that curtain
As we are now certainly certain
Your brainy eyes began a hurtin
On the ride
Now look around and please attempt
To orient
Do you even know where you are?
You’re at the freak show
Where we've beat ya, and we've taught ya
And bequeathed ya with the lies of Amalgaman
Hey hey hey…
See him do a somersault
He’ll place your mind right in a vault
Will you divert him or be at fault?
So raise those hands and don’t be shy,
Cast your vote for the name In lights
It’s you he’s chosen for the ride
And next time you go to the carnival
Will ya choose someone less harmful?
Or choose the golden lettered sloppy boy?
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After the morning stroll and the promenade
He dances on a bucket of aftershave
And he waits for morning and time to lead the parade
Darling rubs the sleep out of her eyes
He stares at her as if by some surprise
She's alive so he puts the underwhelming breakfast onto the fire
It's Albert and his children and his wife
It's Albert and his children and his wife
It's Albert and his children and his wife
And it's no surprise
After the dew dries up and the whole world goes quiet
Albert sets out for the house to tidy it
Then settles down to his study to sit and mark his feelings on a page
The sun shines in through the overhead window
Reminding Albert to hit the market for to consume
A hearty supper for to get into
As darling steps her shins through the front door
It's Albert and his children and his wife
It's Albert and his children and his wife
It's Albert and his children and his wife
And it's no surprise
As daughter hails the boats in from the Delaware
Son he rips a guitar solo somewhere
Albert sits down to write a bank note by the fire
And darling after fixing her clients’ heads
She mentions that it is now time for bed
So let's toast to them and bring in the night
Well let's do this thing all right
It's Albert and his children and his wife
It's Albert and his children and his wife and it’s no
It's Albert and his children and his wife
It's Albert and his children and his wife
And it's no surprise
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11. |
Lover's Lullaby
03:22
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Found you in my way
I didn’t know what you had
Or how lucky I was
With my head in the mud
But when I looked at the sky
Well it was painted in white with you
And all the clichés
Well you made them okay
You made them okay to say
Because you were in my way
So now the simple was right
And the days became nights with you
But it’s all the same to me
As we cut our teeth like we do
And we do
Sometimes I worry and wonder
If I’m in the right place
To meet time and meet space
As it’s allowed for us to
Can’t believe that some version
Of who I was before I had you
Almost led to our ruin
But you gave me one chance
Of which I intend to take
I hope for courage and grace
And I promise to make
The bed for you in the morning
So you have a nice place
To return to
But it’s all the same to you
As we cut our teeth like we do
and we do
And for the very first time
Well I’m not scared at all
Of looking ahead in the dark
And writing narcissistic songs
My only one fear
Is that you’ll leave here my dear
Without me
So while this song it is flawed
Well my feelings ain’t wrong
I’m sorry to digress
When I came with a message
Of something to write
Of something that I might
Say to you
That you ain’t the same to me
You don’t shoot the breeze teeth like they do
And they do
And well you like to draw eyes
You say you don’t know why
Some things they are better left
Unexplained by the rest
Like how I can’t explain you
Or the things that you do
To me
But I’ll go on with this song
This shit is getting too long
I just rhymed song with long
Who am I turning into?
Some hopeful mugshot with you
Don’t even know what that means
And you
That you ain’t the same to me
You don’t shoot the breeze like they do
And they do
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12. |
Charlie
05:06
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Charlie you’re not insane
Charlie you’re not insane
You just missed the boat to heaven
But you’ll find another way to make it plain
You're not insane
Genevieve you’ve done it again
Genevieve found peace within
And though you’ve done it all yourself
Coulda used somebody’s help out in the rain
You’re not insane
Marcus dry those eyes
Marcus choose to smile
For you’ve been through quite a time
You deserve to be on this side of the haze
You’re not insane
And those green eyes
They won’t tell you any lies
And that day you’ll reign
When you pick apart their games
You’re not insane
Rita Rita B why not breath
Rita Rita B stare at a tree
For some things they move and sway
But some others stay the same for you and me
You’re not insane
And those brown eyes
They won’t tell you any lies
And that day you’ll reign
When you pick apart their games
You’re not insane
Charlie you’re not insane
Charlie you’re not insane
You just missed the boat to heaven
But you’ll find another way to make it plain
You’re not insane
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13. |
Softly Into The Night
03:38
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The butler pays his dues now
Sister goes downtown
I will find
Peace of mind over me
So step down the stairs
Leave it right there
Comb back her hair
But I know that I’ll find peace of mind
For me and you
Step away from that shelf
Knock the joker on his ass
Fifty years still counting down
We ain’t gonna get big
So I’ll find
Another way to rhyme
Another way to think about it
Forever I’ll piece it together
Nothing like you’ll see
Now I travel all alone
Walking down the dusty road
Nothing you've found
Has ever made you stick around
But next year I’ll bleed from the eyes
I’m alone you’ll see
That nobody in my way will know
There’s nothing for me
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Ezra Muse Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American Folk Artist | Philly
All earnings to @amistadlaw, @nativeamericanrightsfund, @blklivesmatter
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