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Morning Light / Western Town - by David Elias
Morning light, western town
Morning light, western town
Roadside crosses lay me down
You can read it on the red brick
When you are up against the wall
Some said they saw you flying
Some said they saw you fall
No matter where you’re walking
You’re underneath it all
Is that a piece of paper that you’re holding
Is that a prayerbook in your hand
Written in some foreign language
From some obscure promised land
No matter what they’re saying
You still don’t understand
You can’t beat the big prediction
You can’t estimate the odds
You can’t treat a false addiction
With some even falser Gods
You wander cross the planet
With your head up in the clouds
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Silver Pen
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Silver Pen – David Elias
She caught a long train gone
There wasn't nothing to it
In the red red dawn
She just had to do it
Heard that lonesome song
And she could sing right through it
She caught a long train gone
She found a change of heart
In the changing light
Whatever made her start
Could not have been more right
She took her namesake's part
In the dead of night
She found a change of heart
She found a new home town
And she moved right in
And the freeway sound
It didn't come again
And in a drawer she found
Another silver pen
In her new home town
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The Old King
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The Old King – David Elias
Hear them cheering for your dying day
See them wipe your feet with dust and clay
Never mind the near ones where they lay
Memories of clear ones there they stay
There they stay
Hear them clear away your open grave
Watch them lower you down into place
Night will pass eternal into space
While the sun burns coins laid on your face
On your face
Consciousness returns to summer’s eyes
Windmills spin their patterns through the skies
Heavy air returns to times gone by
No one meets your gaze or even tries
Even tries
Crows in pairs are sentries to your doom
Watchers of the seeds you plant to soon
Blackening the sky they leave no room
For the sun to shine down on your tomb
On your tomb
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Half An Hour Away
03:35
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Half An Hour Away
Words and Music by David Elias
I wish I had a field of corn
Or half a rag to keep me warm
A bag of bones to blow my horn
Time to fade away
I wish I had a bowl of wheat
Or half an ear to keep the beat
See me on a one way street
Half an hour away
Old time
Old time old time
Half an hour away
I wish I had a room of gin
And all the keys to lock me in
Never see my face again
Time to fade away
I wish there was a world of green
And half the time to be unseen
Never what you really mean
Half an hour away
Old time
Old time old time
Half an hour away
I’ll look for you in dreams come true
When all you see is what you do
Never mind the world you knew
Half an hour away
Old time
Old time old time
Half an hour away
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Time To Sleep Corrina
03:57
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Time To Sleep Corrina – © 1995 David Elias
(words and music by David Elias)
Coriander through the weeds
Dust sunflowers through the breeze
Raging water seeks to please
It’s all for nothin now
Catacombs and columbine
Push the pedal realign
Fathers of our tidy time
Show all for nothin now
Time to sleep Corrina
Those Swiss Alps are his cradle now
Years ago those boys were walkin
With high hopes and dreams
So profound
Keep the pace tomorrow
While quartz and crystals radiate
Through the mountain meadows follow
All those scenes we can
No longer recreate
Wings of strings and paper trails
Dominate the early view
All you know and all you need
And all you’re supposed to do
Come and walk with me awhile
While away those daily cares
Let the stream flow mile by mile
Through the broken past
And everywhere
Time to sleep Corrina
Those Swiss Alps are his cradle now
Years ago those boys were walkin
With high hopes and dreams
So profound
Keep the pace tomorrow
While quartz and crystals radiate
Through the mountain meadows follow
All those scenes we can
No longer recreate
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Mend My Mind
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Mend My Mind
Words/Music by David Elias
Mend my mind on a summer day
Arguello said what he had to say
No one wants it any other way
So mend my mind on a summer day
Mend my heart on the open shore
Where winds will blow then they blow some more
Colors fade away from rich to poor
Mend my heart on the open shore
Mend my heart on the open shore
Clear my head on an autumn day
The sun is strong and the winds are grey
The party’s over ain’t no one would stay
So clear my head on an autumn day
Clear my head by on that autumn day
There’s nothing wrong with a rainy day
The sky may cry for yesterday
Winds will sing to find another way
There’s nothing wrong with a rainy day
There’s nothing wrong with that rainy day
Mend my mind on a summer day
Arguello said what he had to say
No one wants it any other way
So mend my mind on a summer day
Mend my mind on that summer day
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Lost In The Green
07:38
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Lost In The Green
Words & Music, David Elias
Lost in the green
Follow the magic stones
Winter comes tomorrow
Solstice all alone
Strangers never knew you
Friends become the same
Lost in the green
Follow signatures in the sky
Winter comes tomorrow
Quietly
Families in the fields
Hollow in the wind
And all those one way conversations
Repeat yourself one time or two
Freedom of speech has limitations
Forget the words and you'll be through
Lost in the green
Follow the river stones
Winter comes tomorrow
Solstice all alone
Strangers never knew you
Friends become the same
And all those one way conversations
Repeat yourself one time or two
Freedom of speech has limitations
Forget the words and you'll be through
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Miracles Take Time – David Elias
For Paul Pena
on and on now
don't be late
silver wings
on silver plates
autumn lingers
can't escape
miracles take time
sing me now
your hands must rest
your body lingers
'gainst the fences
of its own strength
time has tested
miracles take time
tell me now
remind me soon
how silk roads wind
under the moon
carry a windless
silver tune
miracles take time
lightly now
and none to bear
yet songs to sing
and words to hear
silent tears
your heart has shared
miracles take time
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Crossing (Lonely Bells)
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Crossing (Lonely Bells)
- David Elias, April 14, 2003
i used to hear them lonely bells
ringing on patrick street in the middle of a sunday morning
like from the bottom of a wishin well
and no one to reach down there and turn them down
then i'd go walkin up blake and turn down evans st.
around the corner with those vacant lots
i learned that lonliness must be where friendship and the road meet
i was younger then but i learned a lot
you're pickin up that well-worn load
you take it down a lonely road
you need another place to go now
you're pickin up that well-worn load
you take it down a lonely road
you need another place to go now
i still think i hear some of them lonely bells
ringing in the middle of my day dream
then i push on off and think oh what the hell
i might as well be back on patrick street
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Help Yourself (ukulele)
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Help Yourself - David Elias
Morning comes before the sun, I hear that song, I better help myself. I better help myself. Reflections smile behind the miles, I hear that song, I better help myself. I better help myself.
Lord you know it comes and goes, I feel that song, I better help myself. I better help myself. Ain’t no one knows the lonely lows. When you hear that song you better help yourself. You better help yourself. Help yourself. You better help yourself.
Lord you know it comes and goes, when I feel that song, I better help myself. I better help myself. Ain’t no one shows the lonely lows. When you hear that song you better help yourself.
Help yourself.
Help yourself.
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