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1.
Once In 01:58
once in texas i saw two suns setting in the same field see me through this bring me home again onward cross the bridge to memphis lost in someone’s city see me through this bring me home again kansas play those songs again girls take the roses with me see me through this bring me home again
2.
Open Season 03:54
open season on a broken heart this is the year they take the summer apart there is a magic to the carnival arts and i can hear the sound is it the wind through the wonder wheel is it the science of the way we feel is it the silence of that old appeal will you be mine again? my love, my love, are you on a winter beach tonight waiting on a last chance rocket ride over the boardwalk follow the noise no one but me and the neighborhood boys will remember where we were when this went down the ocean calls us like we’ve never been one hundred games that we will never win close your eyes and hear the teacups spin as it begins to snow and if you’re careful that’s not all you’ll hear the mermaids watch us steal a souvenir and whisper moral warnings in our ears as we are heading home my love, my love, are you on a winter beach tonight waiting on a last chance rocket ride over the boardwalk follow the noise no one but me and the neighborhood boys will remember where we were when this went down so take a deeper breath let’s hear you sing and reach your hand out for an iron ring you’ll get another chance oh that’s the thing we will be back again cause summer comes around on any clock a wash with bathing suits and polka dots we’ll ride the subways to their final stops to see the sea again
3.
do you even recall i’m sure it started real small and now the biggest of secrets is there isn’t a secret at all all the plans you made are leaving on the early train all the plans you’ve got events to attend thank you letters to send but you stop in your tracks when you see that the summer will end all the plans you made are leaving on the early train all the plans my love is stronger than the winter you are frightened of all the plans you made are leaving on the early train all the plans
4.
honestly you were less than a prince i could say that again what we had was little more than a glimpse of the things that we wanted back then no one likes to find the one who they thought was lovely was a flash in the pan survey the scene well the break was clean hell that may be true and yet the losses were grand and the worst part is oh the worst part is oh the very worst part is i will always love you anyway left myself sitting pretty and dumb sitting right on the rails the service train came and set us apart although now i’m still getting your mail you seem to have found a way to bring me down to make me see just how the problem is mine if you would like to be a person making me feel worse well you can get behind me in line and the worst part is oh the worst part is oh the very worst part is i will always love you anyway
5.
why not put all the doubts behind us now we’ve got brooklyn at it’s finest full moon it doesn’t hurt and perfect fireworks i hope we both remember this cause we’re happy as we’re ever gonna be open as we’re ever gonna be honest as we’re ever gonna be happy as we’re ever gonna be one hundred years ago they built it a bridge to see how the other side lives we come along years have passed walk over it to have a laugh oh we’ve got the nerve of the very new we’re happy as we’re ever gonna be open as we’re ever gonna be lovely as we’re ever gonna be happy as we’re ever gonna be right here right now the perfect night the folks in charge know how to do it right october comes once a year and we’ve got a winner here i hope we both remember this cause we’re happy as we’re ever gonna be open as we’re ever gonna be free as we’re ever gonna be happy as we’re ever gonna be
6.
Statesville 02:41
i stopped in statesville for you when i could’ve driven straight though but the call from the exit was loud and i gave in too proud to be scared by the boo i stopped in statesville for you where they tore down the high school last year and the line between fiction and fact isn’t clear someone told me old dooley was hung on the hill you can’t always believe what you hear they tore down the high school last year i’ve always had reason to roam if we’d ever met then you would’ve known but my plan for this trip was in three; stand up, smile and leave carolina alone leave carolina alone but i stopped in statesville for you when i should’ve driven straight through but the call from the exit was loud and i gave in too proud to be scared by the boo i stopped in statesville for you
7.
I-35 03:52
who are you anyway or haven’t you looked looked to the put away open the book over the radio over the phone fly over seven states travel alone given the final choice which way to drive follow the northern voice I-35 come on come on we live for this
8.
for s.j.c. quarter to ten at the a+e where nobody thought they would need to be saturday night in the old country and we come to you on our knees take us in will you will you with the unlucky the drunken too take us in will you will you a blow to the head and a break to the foot and a party of revelers turned mean a woman is red-eyed and reading a book with a child asleep at her feet have you been here waiting long? with the others whose evening’s gone wrong have you been here waiting long? quarter to three and the NHS has given our worries a bed to rest fluorescent lights and a handful of tests a quick smile from the nurse on her way smile again can you can you after all of the things you’ve been through smile again can you can you phone call breaks through still night i’m sorry to wake you we’re on floor two fulham palace avenue quarter to eight i walk out on the street and hammersmith station’s alive with sunday day shoppers who’ve risen from sleep just sure that today will arrive take good care my friend my friend if there’s ever a hand i can lend take good care my friend my friend quarter to ten at the a+e where nobody thought they would need to be saturday night in the old country and we come to you on our knees
9.
Mercury News 03:06
you can have another but take me as a lover i will be a secret that you keep someone to remind you and yes to leave behind you and someone to recall when you’re asleep and though i’m hoping that you’ll hear the many things i say just remember all of them are off the record anyway meet me by the water someone’s wife and someone’s daughter none of these will be my name today just under two million this city has it’s fill of people living deep within it’s walls fueled by valley power pumping watts for every hour oh and you would be the brightest of them all and if we say goodbye like we always will i will watch you in my memory on that distant hill meet me by the water someone’s wife and someone’s daughter none of these will be my name today take me to the ocean the ever changing motion the highway 17 express will do living on a fault line we don’t have a lot of time i read it in the mercury news i know there must have been a way to fight the better fight to shine like santa clara country on it’s clearest night meet me by the water someone’s wife and someone’s daughter none of these will be my name today
10.
hello and from there where else can we go hello a song i’m expected now to play along with a song you crook just a boy sitting there with his book and a smile that the camera took leaving you just the same as you always looked as for me i’m as changed as a girl can be can’t you see that i’ve flown to the edges of the earth and home i’ve flown from your chair i can tell you can tell it from there that i may have been everywhere but i’m back back to the starting square in my nights i have bargained with the eastern lights in my nights we’ve met and the trouble was no trouble at all to forget dreaming we spoke chalked it up to a terrible joke and then we each took a hold of the rope with one match and the problem went up in smoke it’s just there / it’s not right or wrong or fair it’s just there a big heart a rotten ending and a fumbling start a big heart and isn’t it so that when i see you at the end of this show that we’ll start with the places we know and walk long down the road that we always go
11.
America 03:40
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