Oh, let's find a place that we can hide away
Don't need to look, there's nothing to say
Like a thief I'll pull you down to your knees
Break you down, break you up, I'll do as I please
Keep on looking to find a friend.

Oh, there's nothing much to say and even less to do
If you wanna corrupt me I'll corrupt you to
We've opened the bottle, spilled out the corn
Oh, we'll dance till dawn on the lawn
Keep on looking for a friend.

Oh, I'm looking for a friend, looking for a friend
Looking for a friend, ain't it ever gonna end?
Keep on looking, looking for a friend
Oh, hold me darling
Let's go through this again
Keep on looking, baby, oh.

Oh, I pulled you up, I pulled you down
I pushed you round and round
Keep on breaking open your gown
And I know, oh, I know
What I wanna believe
Oh, I know you, honey, do you know me?

Oh, I'm looking for a friend, looking for a friend
Don't you know this ain't Bethlehem
I've been there before, gonna get back again
Oh, I'm looking, baby
Looking round the bend

C'mon, baby, here we go again…

Oh, I'm looking… looking for my friend
Gonna keep on looking
Gonna keep on looking, baby
I've been there before
I'm gonna get back in the end.

Oh, twenty-two paint brushes, giant bottle of wine
You do the paper-round, look after the child
Keep on looking, looking left and right
Oh, I might just find you, I just might
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Keep on looking, baby
Looking left and right.

I hope I find one soon…

One of these days I might just get lucky
Girl or boy.

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Break Up

I started drinking on the day before you left me
I'd already, already slept with all your friends
Seen stars flashing down, lighting up the sky
Broken up, seems like the story of a friend of mine.

Nothing left for me down on this road
Nothing left to do except to fall
Nothing left to do, oh there's nothing left for me
Nothing left for me on this road.

I've travelled every county in this country
From the splashing sea to the mountains in the south
I never got over the way that you once loved me
Broken up, it happens to us all.

Nothing left to do but count away the hours
Nothing much remains save what's been lost
Nothing ever left, there's nothing ever left
Nothing left for me down on this road.

I didn't mean to hurt you
The way I did
Forgive me, baby
I never meant to sin.

I set fire to all the books I've ever written
Never found the time, I never had any time to read them at all
Caught glimpses, smashing, falling, crashing
Broken down, it happens to us all.

Nothing left to do but sell your pictures
Nothing left-only a few loose friends
Nothing left for me save this adventure
Nothing really matters in the end.

Nothing left to do but count away the hours
Nothing much remains save what's been lost
There's nothing left for me down on this road.
Nothing left for me down on this road.

Yea, just take it away
Walk on down…

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Stay Bruised

So many places that I've been
So many things that I've seen
So many people that I've known in my life
Some they lived and some they died
But you stay constant through it all
Always faithful an' always true
And there's things that we should choose
If we're not to stay confused
But despite this I say to you
Stay beautiful, stay forever true.

Oh! Stay bruised, stay beautiful
All through your life
Stay bruised, stay forever beautiful
Things'll work out fine.

So many places that you've been
So many things you think you've seen
So many people have passed through your life
Some you've loved and some they cried
But despite this and all these things
I still wish you the best in everything
And there's habits that I could lose
And there's things that you should choose
But despite this I say to you
Stay gorgeous, stay forever true.

Stay bruised, stay beautiful
All through your life
Oh! Stay bruised, stay forever beautiful
You'll do alright.
Yea…

Stay bruised, stay beautiful
All through your life
Stay bruised, stay forever beautiful
Y'know things, they'll work out fine.

Stay bruised, stay forever beautiful
Each and every night
Oh! Stay bruised, stay beautiful
You're doin' fine.

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Kitchen Blues

That hellhound started chasin' me
Across the neighbourhood
He found me in your kitchen
Searching high and low for food.

"My kitchen," she said to me
"Is the best place you've ever been
Don't come back an' tell me
There's a better scullery you've seen."

"If you've any money, lover
You better give it all to me
I'll carry it in my nation sack
Up above my knees."

"Well, I keep my kitchen well cared for
It's always, always so clean
Be sure I'll be there to feed you
Not only in your dreams."

Ah!
Ah Yeah!

I went down to the crossroads
Round about midnight
I was waiting for you
Robert Dusty by my side.

Down in LeFlore County
I got a mojo hand
Been drinkin' poison whiskey
Magnolia blues-you might understand?

"I tell you this my lover
I tell it, oh, so true
Don't you come on in my kitchen
If you're not wantin' food."

I've got pirate blood
I may have bloody hands
When I come on in your kitchen
You better treat me like a man.

Just talk to me, baby
Forget all the stains
Y'know regrets are always something
Best left in vain.

Oh!

If you're looking for redemption
Just cling to the gallows pole
Write it on your paper
If you can save my soul.

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Wooden Floor

They painted crosses on the doorways
To protect the life within
As death pulled back the shutters
To save the World from sin
I'll write your name in lipstick
Along the valley of the dead
And you, you just sit there
And unstitch your sister's threads.

I wanna dress you and undress you
Upon this wooden floor
I wanna dress you, wanna undress you
And what is more…

Oh the rain fell down upon us
It fell around our sacred souls
The pyramids, they never stopped building them
They carved their faces in the gold
I've lived, lived a life that's blameless
I've been cursed and then condemned
All the way, all the way from Jerusalem
All the way to Bethlehem.

I wanna dress you and undress you
All on this wooden floor
I wanna dress you and undress you
And what is more…

You sewed your mother's dresses
Out of fragments of the sky
And me, when I'm left alone, my dear
I just love to get high.

I wanna dress you, I wanna undress you
Across this wooden floor
I wanna dress you
Wanna dress you up
Dress you up
Oh and more…

I wanna dress you, I wanna dress you
Wanna dress you down
I wanna dress you
And then believe me
We can take on the whole damn town.
Just think about it, darling…

Just remember, just remember
That I'm not too blame.
There's no one left alive
There's no one left alive
I'm sure you all
All remember my name.

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Russian River

Just like a Russian river
You're so hard to forget
Didn't think anyone, anyone remembered
And to tell the truth I have no regrets.

I went out looking for adventure
Oh! Whatever, whatever could be found
Bound by my inheritance
To be buried in sacred ground.

On the outskirts of Moscow
The army turned back
Caught up in their destiny
By a thousand, a thousand tank-traps.

Oh, I put on my uniform
I put on my tank-top
There's nothing much that's been remembered
And there's even less that's been forgot.

You could say that I lost my soul
To the Baron's daughter over twenty years ago
An' I asked about her recently
I was told she paints pictures in her French home.

Who pays for your paintbrushes, honey?
Who pays for all, all the paints you use?
Yea, who, who buys your canvases
And the things that keep you amused?

Yea, just like that Russian river
You're so hard, so hard to forget
And on the edge of Moscow
Yea, to tell the truth, darling, I have no regrets.

Who pays for your paintbrushes, honey?
Who keeps you warm on nights like these?
Who pays for all the paints you paint with?
Who keeps you safe from disease?

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House Of Cards

I was looking for you
You were buried under the sand
I was so busy painting pictures
Of the kings and queens who ruled this land
And they tried to hang me
From the gallows pole down in the yard
Oh, I spent my time
Building a house of cards.

I watched you building
Your bridges again
Just like a thief you never know when to stop
Or to start taking revenge
Oh, I tried so hard, I tried so hard
I tried so hard
But I just built myself a house
Out of your regards.

I was looking for you
You were waiting for me
Your shoes are sacred
There's nothing left that you haven't seen
And I watched you swinging
Watched you swinging down so far
I was looking for you
In my house of cards.

I saw you standing there
In the luggage van
And I held you for a lifetime
Hoping you might understand
I tried to give you reasons
Tried to tie you down to false regards
But you left me on an island
Left me in my house of cards.

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High And Lonesome

I'm high and lonesome and I'll be gone before too long
I'm high and lonesome, I'll be gone come break of dawn
Will you still remember my name every time you hear this song?

I'm high and lonesome and I'll be on my merry way
I'm high and lonesome, I'll be gone come break of day
Will you still remember me, darling, and all the games we ain't yet played?

High and lonesome, baby…

I'm high and lonesome, Yea I'm on my merry way
Oh, high and lonesome, but I'll be back some sunny day
Will you still think about me and all the things we didn't say.

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Fall Any Further

Doo doo-doo-wah Aaah!
Doo doo-doo-wah Aaah!
Doo doo-doo-wah Aaah!
Doo doo-doo-wah Aaah!

I couldn't fall any further
Than I've fallen before
I couldn't wake up and watch you leaving
Crashing through that door.

But I know you
And you know me well
And my tale
It ain't so hard to tell.

I couldn't fall any further
You know I've fallen a time or two
Couldn't leave any morning
Button up and unlace your shoe.

But you know me
And you know me so well
And my tale, oh, my tale
It ain't so hard to sell.

Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!
Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!
Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!
Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!

Couldn't fall any further
I've done that a time or two
Couldn't fall any further
Oh, button up and unlace your shoe.

Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further

Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!
Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!
Doo doo-doo-wah! Aaahh!
Doo doo-doo-wah!

Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further.

Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall for that again
Couldn't fall any further
Couldn't fall any further
I've missed the train…

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Sanctified

I guess that I've been sanctified
Been pushed that way and this and almost crucified
I've lived through times much worse than this
But what always thrills me is the way you kiss.

I know that I've been blessed and I thank you for the life
I know I wasn't, wasn't born to be denied
Been reading books 'bout far better times than this
But what always thrills me is the way, oh, you kiss.

The roads I walk are never stained
Through memories that will always remain
Darkness never, never penetrates the trees
As slowly you pull out a bunch of keys.

I know that I've been sanctified
I was never, never born to be denied
Never lived a lie and I've lived through this
But what always thrills me is the way you kiss.

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When The Lord

Oh, when the Lord holds out his hands
Then will you believe?
When the Lord holds all earth above you
Then will you believe?

Oh, when the Lord takes you and loves you
Then will you believe?
When the Lord takes you and protects you
Then you will be free.

It's taken such a long, long time
To find a girl I can call mine.

Oh, when the Lord holds out his hands
Then will you believe?
Oh, when the Lord takes you and loves you
Then will you believe?

It's taken me all my life
To find a girl to be my wife.

Oh, when the Lord holds out his hands
Then I will believe
Oh, yea.

It's taken all my time
To finally drink you off my mind.

Oh, when the Lord holds me and loves me
Then I will believe.

Oh, yea.

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Never Let Me Go

Never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go
Never let me go

Did the slip-slide in your dungarees
Finally brought me to my knees
Send your telegrams to the Pope
But never, ever gave up hope
Don't you ever, ever
Don't you ever
Oh! Never let me go
Oh! Never let me go.

Your spaceball boots they did the dance
Ev'rything you took your chance
Your children's books, your bohemian looks
You never, ever learned how to cook yourself
Never gave up on me
Don't you ever let me go
Oh! Never let me go
Never let me go.

I told you a time or two
Sometimes I told you a time or more
'Bout the things that lie, they hid them there
Broken down behind your door.

An' all the Pharisees and all their tribes
They always rule, always divide
But never, never, never, never, never
Never let me go.

Don't you ever, ever let me go
Don't ever let me go now
Don't you ever let me go.

Just like the Bible tells you so

Brought up on the Bible
Brought down by the Lord.
Turn your hands with a turn of the sword
Don't ever let me go.

You know I love you so.

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Treasure Island

I set sail for Treasure Island
Jolly Roger at the top of the mast
Looking for love, looking for adventure
And whatever might come to pass.

We weighed anchor at Treasure Island
Galleon breeze blowing through the trees
And my pirate girl, she stands there beside me
From the Spanish Main unto the seven seas.

We set sail 'cross the Caribbean
Oh me, me and my pirate girl
Looking for gold, gold and doubloons
All the treasures of this world.

Oh! Yea! Ah!

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Highway Girl

All the highways that you've walked
And all the poets with whom you've talked
They could never, ever corrupt you.

All the highwaymen you've loved
They tried to hold you with kid gloves
You're far, so far above any of those.

You always took the highways
While I walked the low
Ev'rytime I'd wear the clothes you'd sew.

You went out dancing round the park
I tried to keep you from the dark
All the ladies in waiting will wait there for the rest of their lives.

All the countesses and all the queens
The redheads and rinsed-out blondes
They're just gonna, gonna have to wait their turn.

'Cause all the dreams I had last year
They seem to have disappeared
They've vanished with every turn of the page.

All the highways that I've known
All the girls that must atone
All the risks I ever took when I was young.

Oh, we'll walk round London Town
By the post-office, the pillars and crowns
Oh, I tell you, 'cause you were born to be with me.

Oh, come on baby blue
You know this song's for you
Oh, tell me, oh, tell me it ain't so.

Oh, come on baby blue
You know this one's for you
And I tell you…
Wouldn't tell your mother or any other
You know it's true now.

All the postcards that you sent
Oh, God knows where they went
I found them, found them down by Manor House.

And I send you fond regards
From a friend at Scotland Yard
Who I caught investigating me.

All the highways that you've walked
And all the riff-raff with whom you've talked
They could never, never corrupt you.

All the highwaymen you loved
They tried to hold you with velvet gloves
Oh, they'll never, never give up on you
Oh, baby blue.

Oh, come on baby blue
Let's go and switch a few
Or anything, anything that comes our way.

So tell me one more time
'fore we finish off the wine
I wrote it so you would know.

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