1. |
Maybe You Know
04:45
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Have you ever wanted something
Wanted it so burning bad
That you'd lie and you'd cheat, fight in the street
And chance to lose what little you had?
CHORUS
Maybe you know how I'm feeling
Maybe you know how I feel
Maybe you know how I'm feeling
But maybe to you, it just don't seem so real
Time is only wasting
On talking that is taking life
When it all comes down to really covering ground
I know I'll get more done tonight
REPEAT CHORUS
I been hearing for a long time
I still hear about some long-term plan
I ain't getting younger, tired of wandering
I was promised a rock, but I only see sand
REPEAT CHORUS
Now, you don't owe me nothing
So don't take it so personally
There's only one way to make it today
And I'm doing all I can for me
REPEAT CHORUS
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2. |
Nobody
06:48
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Like a dog chained up
And taking such abuse
I finally broke my bonds
And now I'm on the loose
I'm nobody's
I'm no longer bound
Nobody's
No one to hold me down
I'm seeing more now than I've ever seen before
I'm seeing through you
I'm nobody's
I'm no longer bound
Nobody's
No one to hold me down
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3. |
Tons of Steel
07:29
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I know these rails we're on like I know my lady's smile
Recede a dozen dreams in every passing mile
Can't begin to count the trips that she and I have made
But I wish I had a dollar for each time we've both been down this grade
CHORUS
900,000 tons of steel
Made to roll
The brakes don't work, and this grade's too steep
Her engine's sure to blow
900,000 tons of steel
Out of control
She's more a roller-coaster
Than the train I used to know
It's one hell of an understatement to say she can get mean
She's temperamental, more a bitch than a machine
She wasn't built to travel at the speed a rumor flies
This train is bound to jump the tracks before they burn the ties
REPEAT CHORUS
Murphy sure outdone himself to pick this stretch of track
I can only hope my luck is riding in the back
Well, I have prayed to God this ain't the day we meet
I've done about all I know except try dragging my feet
REPEAT CHORUS
Ooh, I wanna go down slow
Ooh, Ooh
900,000 tons of steel
Out of control
She's more a roller-coaster
Than the train I used to know
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4. |
Musician
05:40
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The rent's due tomorrow
Haven't got a penny to my name
Been trying to build me a lifetime
Think I better start a new frame
CHORUS
And I think I'm learning first-hand
About what it's like to be
To be a musician
And I can see
It's not an easy life
It's not an easy life to live
Guess that I chose the hard road
No use wondering why
I had hopes I would make it
Guess I must have had my hopes up too high
REPEAT CHORUS
Outside, I'm smiling
Ooh, smiling
Smiling
To hide the pain
Inside, I'm crying
Ooh, crying
And it's hard
It's hard to explain
REPEAT CHORUS
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5. |
Inlay It In Your Heart
04:27
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I was about to choose
A phrase so over-used
Not as often understood
Almost fell off my lips
I caught it with my fingertips
If I could let it go, I would
Oh, to turn your way
Say just what I mean to say
I want to
Do you?
Well, I must hesitate
I think it better to be late
Worth the wait to get it right
Sometimes my words are long
And I wouldn't want you to take me wrong
As long as there's a chance you might
When I find the time
Or the perfect line, I'll say it
Inlay it in your heart
It's not that I'm insecure
Inside I'm very sure
And by myself, I can hold on
I was lonesome for a while
Hurt from your revealing smile
Oh, what a notion I can hold on
When I find the time
Or the perfect line, I'll say it
Inlay it in your heart
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Well, it's three a.m. in the Combat Zone
Gentlemen, start your engines
You can close this bar, but baby, I ain't going
Gentlemen, start your engines
If you lock up the whisky, give me gasoline
Got a seven-grand redline on the black machine
The dead can do my sleepin', if you know what I mean
Got a little girl here in a pinafore
She's gonna do us all and then beg for more
It's dark outside, but it's darker within
Check the back of my jacket just to see my grin
They don't write poems about the state I'm in
One of these days I'm gonna pull myself together
After I finish tearing myself apart
Let me tell you, honey, there's some mighty stormy weather
Rolling 'round the caverns of my heart
When the police come, you better let 'em in
Don't forget to tell 'em what a sport I've been
Got a head full of vintage TNT
Gonna blow me up instead of burying me
If you don't like trouble, better leave my ass be
Gentlemen, start your engines
Like the devil's mustangs, I been riding hell for leather
Put away wet and angry in the dark
Let me tell you, honey, there's some mighty stormy weather
Rolling 'round the caverns of my heart
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It seems we got an instinct, baby
No matter who plunges first
You can look across a crowded room
And pick out the ones who will hurt you the worst
So fasten your seatbelt, baby
This ride could get rough
You know that love is gonna make me make you cry
Until we both scream,
"Uncle, we've had enough"
CHORUS
Love doesn't have to be pretty
Love doesn't have to be fun
Love doesn't have to be flowers and lace
It can get in your face
Like a loaded gun
It likes to tangle with your dreams
It likes to do you till you're done
Love doesn't have to be pretty
Love doesn't have to be fun
I got this theory, baby
That when the Lord made the world
He cut us all up in pieces
And mixed us into a crazy swirl
We're trying to find the other half of ourselves
We try everyone on for fit
When you're sifting haystacks for needles
It's for sure you're gonna get pricked
REPEAT CHORUS
You can let it play your life
It'll franchise your blues
It'll set you up with one loving wife
And then five or six more before it really gets through
Through with you
It's like we're all on a ladder, baby
Everyone I know
Is in love with the one who's above
And couldn't care less about the one who's below
It's a long climb to heaven this way
We try not to look down
We know if we did, what we'd see down below
Is a big pile of hearts all over the ground
REPEAT CHORUS
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8. |
Just A Little Light
05:13
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Well, there ain't nobody safer than someone who doesn't care
And it isn't even lonely when no one's ever there
I had a lot of dreams once, some of them came true
The honey's sometimes bitter when fortune falls on you
And you know I've been a soldier in the armies of the night
And I'll find the fatal error in what's otherwise alright
Here you're trembling like a sparrow, I will try with all my might
To give you just a little sweetness, just a little light
I have often heard that virtue ought to be its own reward
But it never comes so easy when you're living by the sword
It's even harder to be heartless when you look at me that way
You're as might as the flower that will grow the stones away
Even though I've been a stranger full of irony and spite
Holding little but contempt for all things beautiful and bright
Something shines around you and it seems to my delight
To give me just a little sweetness, just a little light
This could be just another highway coiled up in the night
You could be just another white-tail, baby, stranded on my brights
There's a tingling recognition, like the sound of distant thunder
And I begin to wonder if the love I've driven under won't ignite
Even though I've been a stranger full of irony and spite
Holding little but contempt for all things beautiful and bright
Something shines around you and it seems to my delight
To give me just a little sweetness, just a little light
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