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Good Old Days
04:15
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Good Old Days
– by David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
Put a foot down on a hard luck story
Put a foot down on a fallen pine
The world’s as blue as a morning glory
Lost in a field of tumbling vines
And you know I saw your cold and careless ways
And you know I always love them good old days
Put a hand on a shoulder there’s a frost in the air
The winter’s here before tomorrow’s gone
The gatherin’s over better take what’s fair
The reaper will leave you bare as a bone
And you know I saw your cold and careless ways
And you know I always love them good old days
So give your heart to a whisper in the wind
And give your mind to the time of man
Give your blood to the river bend
And give your soul to Abraham
And you know I saw your cold and careless ways
And you know I always love them good old days
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Audience Of One
02:55
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Audience of One
Words and Music by David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
A
You were transient, you were careful
C#m
You were safely well unknown
F#m
The shadow of a building
B7
Making calls from a payphone
A
Lose a little bit of history
C#m F#m
And everything is reduced back to none
B7
The single source well on its course
E
The perfect audience of one
You were patient you were pardoned
You were practically left out
You could disappear and still be there
Well within and then without
Lose a little ideology
And everything is reduced back to none
The single source well on its course
The perfect audience of one
You had friends in higher places
In the limbs and in the boughs
With the winter constellations
Catching magic in the now
Lose a little shelter and you're riding
In the aisles of the sun
And everything is reduced back to none
B7
The single source well on its course
E
The perfect audience of one
B7
The perfect audience of one
E
The perfect audience of one
You had friends in higher places
In the limbs and in the boughs
With the winter constellations
Catching magic in the now
Lose a little shelter and you're riding
In the aisles of the sun
And everything is reduced back to none
B7
The single source well on its course
E
The perfect audience of one
B7
The perfect audience of one
E
The perfect audience of one
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3. |
I'll Never Know Tomorrow
05:33
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I'll Never Know Tomorrow
Words & Music by David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
[ See the video of The CasualTees playing this track
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLAlQowKSGE ]
I set fire to the page
I burned those words right down
Saw their ashes in the air
Sink right to the ground
Now I don't know if I was there
If I'm lost or if I'm found
Let's begin again I'll never know tomorrow
I saw the rings of Saturn spin
In a dream I had last night
That gold dust ice was thin
I held on with all my might
Now I can't remember where I been
In the early morning light
Let's begin again I'll never know tomorrow
I see the ocean from the trees
And the hilltop from the barn
I sail the seven seas
And never leave the farm
Don't tell me what I need
Don't take me by the arm
Let's begin again I'll never know tomorrow
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Silver Pen
04:23
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Silver Pen - David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
she caught a long train gone
there wasn't nothing too 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 the dead of night
she found a change of heart
she found a new hometown
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
in her new home town
in her new home town
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5. |
Not Another Minute
04:41
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Not Another Minute (I See You)
- David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
Come a little closer to me
While it’s early in the day
And the morning light shines through me
I hear everything you say
CHORUS
There’s not another minute left between us
There’s not a minute we could lose
It’s the middle of the morning
I see you
I see you
Turn around a let me hold you
Let me whisper in your ear
Was it something I never told you
Or something you just couldn’t hear
CHORUS
There’s not another minute left between us
There’s not a minute we could lose
It’s the middle of the morning
I see you
I see you
------ Solo (repeat verse + CHORUS)
So come a little closer to me
Cause there’s nowhere else to be
Can’t you feel the sun shine through you too
Like your favorite memory
CHORUS
There’s not another minute left between us
There’s not a minute we could lose
It’s the middle of the morning
I see you
I see you
I see you
I see you
I see you
I see you
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6. |
Hair Of The Dog
09:01
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Hair of the Dog
Words and Music by David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
The hair of the dog
Is wrapped around your chest
The shirt of your religion
Meaningless lessons to the rest
Disciples of the vine
Wrestle water from the wine
Alchemy is back in style
Ripened by these times
Social independents
Ride the wagon out of town
Wheels roll through the iron age
Through these fields of County Down
The leaf and magic bean
The barley and the corn
Spirits of awareness riding shotgun through the storm
You can ramble through the door
hat you came in
Without a word without hope
Without a prayer
Rituals of reaction
Emotion at its best
Seeking satisfaction
While the landscape changes fast
The rules of every road
Won't forgive what's crossed the line
I'm finding out that driving's not the only way to fly
You can ramble through the door that you came in
Without a word
Without hope
Without a prayer
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7. |
Save The Church
03:55
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Save The Church - David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
save the church
it's sinking fast
holy ruins
holy past
sacred grounds
they cannot last
save the church
it's sinking fast
save the ground
i pray to thee
the holy stone
the holy tree
as birds pass o'er
the fervent seas
save the ground
i pray to thee
save our hearts
one by one
unlock them from
the time we've done
release them lord
and set them free
as me to you
and you to me
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8. |
Poor Polly
08:03
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Poor Polly
- by David Elias
Settle down the question now poor Polly
Was it you who rode away or was it you who drowned
Was it Halfway Jim who did you in poor Polly
Or did he sweep you off your feet
And ride to higher ground
Settle down the question now poor Polly
Was there silver in that wedding dress
And diamonds on the ground
Were there three horsemen who knew you well poor Polly
Did they tie you in that chair
And bid you never make a sound
Settle down the question now poor Polly
Did you ride out with your lover straight across the border
Where's the papers that he left behind poor Polly
To vindicate your brother
Identify your daughter
Settle down the question now poor Polly
How many days before we hear your cross chain on the floor
Why waste your time with such small time poor Polly
You could have had most anyone
And struggled never more
Settle down the question now poor Polly
You hunger for the truth as you drink from every stream
Will we ever see your pretty eyes poor Polly
Or do you leave us running endlessly
Right back into your dream
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9. |
Lost In The Green
06:30
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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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10. |
Hummingbird
03:30
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Hummingbird - David Elias, all rights reserved worldwide
Hummingbird keep your back to the highway
Hummingbird keep your eye on the sun
Hummingbird will you come and fly my way
Hummingbird a new day has begun
I wish I was a tall tree in a meadow
Higher than the blue sky by a mile
I'd shake my arms at the ground down below
And pray the stars let me sleep for awhile
Hummingbird keep your back to the highway
Hummingbird keep your eye on the sun
Hummingbird will you come and fly my way
Hummingbird a new day has begun
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