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Near Me
03:16
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Near me
When I, when I, When I, when I get up
I never want to see it again
If I, If I, if I, if I wake up
I don’t want to hear it
Til I, til I, til I, til I sit up
I never want to feel it again
So I, so I, so I, so I look up
And pray you’re still near me
I lost my patience
And will to understand
That’s not the makings of a man
I learned it the hard way
Down and out and all alone
When the tears dry out who will
Weep and moan
Weep and moan
The tears and the shadows
Not too far behind
Healing the wounds of a rougher time
Let guilty words suffer
Blow to smoke and fade away
Turn around darling and
Make me stay
Make me stay
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2. |
Falling From The Edge
02:44
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Falling from the Edge
Wind it comes
I’m falling from the edge
And I can’t blame nobody but myself
Blinded me
No direction home
Thankful you didn’t leave me alone
It must be told
The age old fear of getting old goes on
Who can tell
When even those who hide it well were wrong
Melody
I call you from within
To help me face the trouble I am in
Restless love
I’ve pushed you to the edge
And I can’t blame nobody but myself
Unkind cold rains
Remind me that I’ve been a strain for you
If we fall apart
I don’t think I would try and start anew
Without you
Wind it comes
I’m falling from the edge…
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3. |
Regards to You
04:01
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Regards to you
What’s to come out of these stories
How do we get caught in between
So the words were unforgiving
Takes a fool to be so mean
Never wanted to mislead ya
But couldn’t turn and walk away
Had to hear it second hand
Before I had the chance to say
That I don’t need nobody
To give you reason
To feel ashamed
Or such betrayal
No I don’t need nobody
To say what’s on my mind
Regards to you
Or anyone else
Now the bet is on I’m leaving
Got seclusion on my mind
Instead of being wrong and hurtful
I’m just gonna take some time
You know I hate misunderstandings
They’re like the calm before the storm
Things can turn out real bad
And our love would be no more
So I don’t need nobody
To give you reason
To feel ashamed
Or such betrayal
No I don’t need nobody
To say what’s on my mind
Regards to you
And everyone else
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4. |
This Time Around
04:36
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This Time Around
Chorus
Well I’ve made
The last mistake
Just one more time
And I swear
I have learned
This time around
Well I’ve made
The last mistake
Just one more time
And I swear
I have learned
This time around
Verse
Once again
I misjudged
The shape I was in
I didn’t love you
Acted above you
And that’s a sin
I ignored you
I didn’t call you
Or drop on by
You sat and waited
I arrived sedated
On fool’s wine
Bridge
Shoulda’ been dead
But I was very well fed
With your lovin’
CHORUS
Verse
My own friends
Said BOY
Don’t you pay her no mind
Just go on
Pretending
That she ain’t there
When she calls you
And cries
That she’s done all she can
Tell her
It ain’t enough
To please this man
Bridge
Well you know
In this world
Even your friends can make you do wrong
Like mine
CHORUS
Verse
Now I’m
A poor man
Without a smile
Two time loser
No good user
Didn’t use my mind
And I pray
I pray and pray
For something unreal
For you
To see
I finally know how you feel
Bridge
Well all I can say
Is I don’t blame you
In any ole way
My dear
Chorus repeat to fade
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5. |
Images
03:58
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Images
It’s another time
In another day
Thought that you and I would be
Something that
Was so different
For me
So let it come
When it comes
Of the human race
And your human face
Never had such frame of mind
To know that
You were something dear
To me
So let it come
When it comes
When it comes…..ooo la la la
From beyond the sky
As I make my way
From behind the painted walls
Around me
Were your images to see
I let them come
When they come….
When they come
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6. |
Too Many Charms
02:53
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Too many Charms
Your too many charms
To leave behind just one
From the moment I break down
To the setting sun
Of romantic language
Knowing what to say
It’s something I lack
Can you find a way?
Cause I don’t want to be of ordinary style
And interrupt your busy day
The ways of forgiving
By how we tend to live
Are sometimes forgotten
When you pretend to give
So hard pressed for reason
You never tell a lie
It’s this that I’m after
Before we say goodbye
Til then I can’t compare the stranger in your eyes
With any other passerby
BRIDGE
When are you coming
Before it’s too late now
Don’t want to be dreaming in the bright lights up ahead
I’ll need to be blinded
No longer reminded
Of the ways these stories somehow end
You’re too many charms
To ever feel the same
Of standing and waiting
Just to avoid the rain
Of wanting and bleeding
To love each day by day
It’s this that I’m after
Can you find a way?
Cause I don’t want to be of ordinary style
And interrupt your busy day
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7. |
Sunday
03:24
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Sunday
I was sittin on a Sunday, waiting for a Monday to come
Seems out every other window, I look between the moon and the sun
What’s wrong with this city, what’s wrong with me
There’s too many places I got to be
So I stand between the doorway of leaving or just staying behind
Seems like every decision’s a battle of what’s yours and what’s mine
To stand on the pavement of used to be’s
Is not in the future for you and me
It’s high time we move on
And suffer the things that went wrong
And face all the immovable spaces in our minds
On Monday we’ll try
There’s a light up in the stairway, you wait until I’m through taking time
Take a sip on one last whiskey to leave a piece of madness behind
The road ahead leads to uncertainty
Could it be the leaving that frightens me
So we sit and talk it over and often we just change our minds
On the battlefield of reason I often say I’d rather be blind
Decisions don’t mean that we’ve reached the end
So glad I’ll be seeing you again
It’s high time we move on
And suffer the things that went wrong
And face all the immovable spaces in our minds
On Monday we’ll try
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8. |
Love Like Dub
03:12
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9. |
Refugee
04:02
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Refugee
I want to leave home
(I want to leave home)
I want to leave country
(I want to leave home)
Got to find a way
Got to find a way
Got to find a way
To make it through today
You traded our basic needs
To talk of mobility
Made the beggars dream (3x)
They too would be redeemed
The worst of what you’ve taken from me
Freedom to question policy
Neighbor by Neighbor we’ve cried before
At every closed door
Living with dirty lies
False promises, alibis
To define a land (3x)
Made for the wealthy man
Keep thinking about the deeds you’ve done for lies
For each lonely thinker, five must die
Some people running scared, some shaking hands
I’m running from them
I want to leave home
(I want to leave home)
I want to leave country
(I want to leave home)
You’ve deserted me
You’ve deserted me
Your ideology
Made me a refugee
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10. |
Sing For Me
03:28
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Sing for me
And you’re looking good tonight
Sing for me
You’re looking oh just right
(why don’t you) sing for me
A song with a message
Little words of regret
That now I live and dream your love
Was never your intent
And you’re looking good….
SOLO
Now I need your sympathy
Thought I wish it were a lie
Someday I hope the man in me
Could find the time to cry-yyyy
And you’re looking good…..
And you’re looking good tonight
Sing for me
You’re looking oh just right
(why don’t you) sing for me
SOLO (over verse)
And you’re looking good tonight
Sing for me
You’re looking oh just right
(why don’t you) sing for me
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11. |
Mistake
03:45
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Mistake
It’s a mistake
You know he can’t feed you like me
It’s a mistake
Read your letter yesterday
Drying my eyes
With fourteen straight alibis
Heard it once two years before
That I’m not the man
The man you are looking for
Like a broken lonely thief
I’ve borrowed and begged
Made myself a lesser man
In every song you were my queen
The muse of my dreams
And I’m supposed to marry you
It’s a mistake
You know he won’t love you like me
It’s a mistake
Does he understand the tears
You’ve cried through the years
Of all the things that bother you
I offered solace from the pain
I washed it away
I’m getting used to being used
Bridge
But each time is harder
The efforts in vain
And I become strange and shameful like you
It’s a mistake
You know he won’t treat you like me
It’s a mistake
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12. |
Low Down Version
04:06
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The Low Down Version Of Eternity
Now that we live
Alone in our boundaries
The decrease in daylight
Is getting hard to share
I wouldn’t dare change my reason
For some old ancient answers
That promised me the key to victory
Something’s wrong with softened words that
Make everything so plain but
They always seem to find a way to lead
All that we stand for
Has been reduced to nothing
In flashes of madness
Right outside your soapbox dream
And all them dying from the long war
The trickle down despair
They never had the means or ways to be
All that say they died for something
Never knew about having nothing
But the low down version of eternity
You’re next to good for nothing
With a backdrop and a dream
You can cry so hard about the good life
But nothing in between
Don’t matter where it’s going
And we’ve got legs to stand on
Seems everything is working
Like it ought to be
It makes it hard to find the place where
The wider world is changing
and ever eye to eye will these men see
Something’s wrong with softened words that
Make everybody live with
The low down version of eternity.
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13. |
She Likes to Smile
03:55
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She likes to smile
Once in while, we pull the curtains back
You tell me something
I never knew
Even now, as the years go by
There’s still some things
You haven’t said
Chorus
She’s not as wild as she thinks
Still unpredictable in many ways
She likes to smile when she drinks
Still unpredictable in many ways
Now I find as I’m wondering
I like mystery
And the unknown
Take the sad with the beautiful
I’ll take nothing
That isn’t shown
Chorus
I’m not as wild as she thinks
Still unpredictable in many ways
I like to smile when she drinks
Still unpredictable in many ways
Some girls cry
When the rain comes down
Lay there hiding
Under the bed
She loves to laugh
When I’m waking up
Find her dancing
Over my head
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14. |
LowDub
04:14
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Jonny Meyers Queens, New York
Jonny Meyers is a prodigal son of Queens, NY. While a life in music brought Jonny around the world, the borough never left his soul, and now he’s back writing songs closer to the source. Jonny's large catalog includes eight albums of critically acclaimed songs drawing from blues, rock, soul, reggae, ska and country. Take a deep dive and you might find yourself humming new choruses for days. ... more
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