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-Ramsey
Verse 1
Somewhere south in the gloom and the boom
Lived a boy whose mother got dolled up dying.
Left alone on a limb with a dad full of gin
Gave up vaudeville and jet plane flying
Nothing new round these parts for a boy heading West
On tracks his words neck tie trying
Caught the train down in Sid traveled north to the coast
Met a man in a band his first name was Jim.
Pre-Chorus
I was born in the evergreens
Made my money on the sound machines
Sang songs of lust on liars
Reared and raised where the light careens
Off the widows and the porno queens
Sold songs to uptown choirs.
Verse 2
Old Jim let the boy tag along on some gigs
Carry bags up the west coast trailing
Held his sleeve to the stage walked
The steps to the mic his legs and his eyesight failing
But the boy heard old Jim fill the room with the songs
Rage and the loss and that Gibson crying.
As it dawned from the road when he’d wake, count the take
Split the haul with the band and he’d curse it again.
Pre-Chorus
I was born in the evergreens
Made my money on the sound machines
Sang songs of lust on liars
Reared and raised where the light careens
Off the widows and the porno queens
Sold songs to uptown choirs.
Chorus
Stood his wife with their newborn dying
Hair pulled back in the March rain crying
Jim’s heart and his breath had broken
Unformed words formed the road unspoken
Ran the coast with his songs on his shoulder
Midnight rage as the years grew older
Played the songs, while the hymns were paying
Ghosts sang soft in the neon swaying.
Verse 3
Well the boy stayed with Jim for a week on the road
To a graveyard near black rock mining
Kneeled down at the grave of Jim’s wife and his child
Died of hunger and all day crying
Said he lost her when the sun had no rules
And the darkness came calling on a Spring afternoon
Wiped his eyes, bowed his head
Said a prayer to St. Jude in the moonlight it read like a hymn.
Pre-Chorus
I was born in the evergreens
Made cash in the sound machines
Sang songs of lust on liars
Reared and raised where the light careens
Off the whistle of the porno queens
Sold songs to uptown choirs.
Chorus
Stood his wife with their newborn dying
Hair pulled back in the March rain crying
Jim’s heart and his breath had broken
Unformed words formed the road unspoken
Ran the coast with his songs on his shoulder
Midnight rage as the years grew older
Played the songs, while the hymns were paying
Ghosts sang soft in the neon swaying.
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-Ramsey
Verse 1
Here we stand, with nothing left to say.
Been traveling on words we sold on the way.
You're right from your side and so much been said
You said I’m not built for this holy shit or faithful in bed.
Chorus
So just say goodnight then.
And be on your way.
Tomorrow won’t sing to the songs of today.
Verse 2
Thought this would pass, our lives carry on
The blue of a summer’s day, our kids playing on the lawn.
But our long love grew weary and fled from the scene.
Towed the wreckage of our loneliness to the end of our dreams.
Chorus
So just say goodnight then.
And be on your way.
Tomorrow won’t sing to the songs of today.
Bridge
But I see in your eyes you still love me
Maybe that and some fucking will do.
And we’ll keep down this worn-down memory
Or at least find that sound that we knew.
We’ll keep watch for that last hope performance
Some ordering of words in the queue
To rescue the run from the ruin we lifted
To bring back the me and the you.
So what’s just one more argument
What’s one more fight?
If it means that I'm still standing next to you, honey
And it means that I’ll feel you tonight.
Chorus
I won’t let you down.
I’ll stay here all night
If it means I’m still close to you
What’s one more fight?
I won’t let you down.
I’ll stay here all night
If it means I’m still close to you
What’s one more fight?
(Just guitar and vocal)
I won’t let you down.
I’ll stay here all night.
If it means I’m still close to you
What’s one more fight?
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-Ramsey
Verse 1
Have you ever lost the day,
Picked up the moon, and packed its parts away?
Buried in the frozen sand, I held her hand
But her songs refused to play
Verse 2
Have you ever fallen back,
To life without the Earth beneath your feet?
Left alone to dance in minor keys
For long, too long, it seems.
Chorus
Have you ever heard the end
A lonely man, who softly sang the rhyme
As she left you in that empty room.
December late, the snow, the grace, goodbye.
Verse 3
Have you ever lost your way,
Sought comfort strange in girls that walk the fray?
In the night and then, a sharper turn
Your wreckage on display.
Have you ever circled back
Regrets all dressed reflecting back at you?
Cried the day she died, stood up and fled,
But them ghosts they travel too.
Chorus
Have you ever heard the end
A lonely man, who softly sang the rhyme?
As she left you in that empty room.
December late, the snow, the grace, goodbye.
Conclusion
So very far I feel you near
But far and lost in me I fear
These words that I need to make clear
This time’s for you, while I’m still here.
And so I’m you from blood to bone
From songs not sung, and words not known.
In grace from you please let me breathe
In me is you it will not leave.
In song and prayer please let me out.
Please forgive me these booze, these words, this doubt
And so I sing please let me out.
Please let me out.
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- Ramsey
Verse
You were my dream
My sharp heaven fantasy
Thighs running wild and free
As far as my hands could see
Verse
But you’re still my girl
Soft where sights seem to be
Wrapped in dark melodies
You're the last ticket back to me.
Chorus
Bent by your time ticking
Rolling this line wishing
All of our Grace had just run astray
But no, my Love, we gave it all away.
Verse
There was a rule
Gold like rules long to be
Written on hotel sheets
Shrouded in kisses sweet
Verse
Where I was your fool
Your dancing red candle flame
Busking for oxygen
Your songs in the pouring rain
Chorus
Bent by your time ticking
Rolling this line wishing
All of our Grace had just run astray
But no, my Love, we gave it all away.
Post
Oh my Love, through the stillness we stare
At the wreckage distilled and declared
Cause oh, my Love, we gave it all
Through the scorn of your bedsheets
Those hotels called love.
My soft words caressed you
As you came from above.
And your eyes they undressed me
When the music turned on.
And our hearts they grew restless
In those songs, you sang of.
But everything, everything, it came undone
But no, my Love, we gave it all away.
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-Ramsey
Verse
Goodnight my dear
This is the last time I’m leaving
Slow song stood still.
These hearts past the point of believing
But I love you more.
I love you more than anyone
Verse
That kiss in the cold
Your arms wrapped in mine first concealing
So much for so long
So much that this love started stealing.
But I love you more
I love you more than anyone.
Chorus
We let it go.
We chose this long before choosing to.
I loved you more.
But I lost you long before losing you.
Verse
Our lives built lines
Brought down by the weight of their shadows
In the arc and the grind
Our lives turned the wheel when it mattered.
But I love you more
I love you more than anything.
Chorus
We let it go.
We chose this long before choosing to.
I loved you more.
But I lost you long before losing you.
But I love you more
I love you more than anything.
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-Ramsey
Verse 1
Dreamt the dream of you,
The plight of two,
Through storms that blew two lovers out of sight.
It was something inside,
I leaned in, in stride,
It was all so alive that night.
Verse 2
Just a drink or two
The hours that flew
Two whispers blew your beauty into view
Well we talked of the sun,
You Me Beach, it'd be fun
You asked me bout the shape of you.
Chorus
What is the shape of my daydreams
What is the shape of your hand in mine
What is the shape of your lips against my lips
And what is the shape that we would find?
Verse 3
Back and forth again
These steps resume
Resembling this gravity that pulls inside.
Well my heart and hands collide
Where your smile and hips preside
Just drifting through the shape of you.
Chorus
What is the shape of my daydreams
What is the shape of your hand in mine
What is the shape of your lips against my lips
And what is the shape that we would find?
Bridge
Was it all just a fantasy you see?
Trapped down in memories.
Well I've sung these thoughts and more
In some silent songs before
But with you, these words...
Find harmony.
Chorus
What is the shape of my daydreams
What is the shape of your twirling hair
What is the shape of your sweet soft eyes
In the night, without a care?
What is the shape of my daydreams
What is the shape of your hand in mine
What is the shape of your lips against my lips
But what is the shape of goodbye?
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-Ramsey
It'll all be alright, if you just soothe me.
It'll all be alright, if you just soothe me.
I'm worn down and restless discarded by you.
And my last stand sat down a mile from the truth.
Can't stop this catastrophe, it won't go to sleep you see
So all that I'm asking is for you to come home to me.
Let go of your reasons, let go of your plans.
Let go of your long worn excuses that don't mean a damn.
Can't sit here alone no more staring down a silent phone.
Fortunes bent sideways on the side of the road.
Bought into you buying me but now you won't set me free.
So all that I'm asking is for you to come home to me.
(Guitar solo)
It'll all be alright, if you just soothe me.
(repeat)
(guitar/vocals)
It'll all be alright
It'll all be alright
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