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Static on Every Station
05:08
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I lost the signal
I lost connection with you
In these troubled times
It's too easy to forget
How I still miss you
And the way you'd light that cigarette
And tell me
To cut us out another line
In a week of Mondays
In a week of Monday mornings
When we were getting high
Instead of looking for work
You told your mother
We'd be right back with her car
And then you took her wallet
Right out of her purse
And I don't know
How I'm feeling
I don't know
But I'm reeling from you
Had my mind made up
Thought I'd had enough
But there's static on every station
Static on every station
Static on every station on the radio
You're in another state
You're in another state of mind
And it's a place whose borders
I hope I never cross
Where that country music plays
And those highway miles fade away
Like an anthem
To what you didn't know you'd lost
And I worry for you
And I still adore you
I don't know what's in store for you
I guess we'll have to wait
But he's no good for you
And just because he wouldn't sell you out
That don't mean
He'll never sell you short
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2. |
If You See Me Walking
03:27
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If you see me walking
Out one lonely night
And you hear me talking
That don't mean I ain't right
Well, since my baby left me
I don't have no place to go
I just wander near and far
Searching high and low
Oh, I don't need
Nobody else
I'm my own best company
And I'm walking by myself
Sometimes I get high
Sometimes I get low
But most of the time I'm stuck in the middle
No particular place to go
Once I had a wife
And a family, too
But they up and left me flat broke
With this old buckboard canoe
Now I've got a dollar
And a can of kerosene
Got two tins of Hormel chili
And another of franks and beans
Oh, I don't need
Nobody else
I'm my own best company
And I'm walking by myself
There's an old gray cat
That hangs around my door
He looks a little long in the tooth
But he keeps coming back for more
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3. |
Rescue Me
03:32
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Always want to be better than myself
May the good lord rescue me
Always want to be better then myself
May the good lord rescue me
Always want to be better than myself
I give away pieces like I'm somebody else
Rescue me
Rescue me
I never thought I'd get out of New Orleans
May the good lord rescue me
I never thought I'd get out of New Orleans
May the good lord rescue me
I never thought I'd get out of New Orleans
With my cap on my head and my legs in my jeans
Rescue me
Rescue me
Took so much for granted
Took my sweet time
I was always in a rush to get there
Now I find
I've changed my mind
And I'm always already there
Standing here singing in my shorts and socks
May the good lord rescue me
Standing here singing in my shorts and socks
May the good lord rescue me
Standing here singing in my shorts and socks
I'm wearing what I've got and what I've got's not a lot
Rescue me
Rescue me
Took so much for granted
Took my sweet time
I was always in a rush to get there
Now I find
I've changed my mind
And I'm always already there
Never thought I'd stand up and testify
May the good lord rescue me
Never thought I'd stand up and testify
May the good lord rescue me
Never thought I'd stand up and testify
Pluck that mean old mote right out of my eye
Rescue me
Rescue me
Rescue me
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Uptown Blues
04:38
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Went Uptown was just to pass the time
Walked all the way with loving on my mind
My woman stays on Magazine and State
She works in the morning and I sleep till late
Hey hey Jackie, won't you open up your door
I can't believe you don't want me anymore
I made a hundred twenty bucks in tips
And I can't want to kiss my baby's lips
The neighbors drink and party all night long
I want to do right but my mind's all wrong
Hey hey Jackie won't you open up tonight
I don't want your friends to hear us fight
My baby won't let anybody ride
And the Mississippi's half a mile wide
And if you've got the money I've got the time
I work and work can't seem to make a dime
Hey hey Jackie won't you open up your gate
It's wet out here and my mind's just not straight
Went Uptown was just to pass the time
Walked all the way with loving on my mind
Hey hey Jackie won't you open up tonight
I don't want your friends to hear us fight
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Oklahoma Nights
04:07
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Those Oklahoma nights
They sure last mighty long
When your sweet thing
Is lying in your arms
You can hear the highway breathing
It's right outside your door
And the moonlight's throwing shadows
And shining 'cross the floor
Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long
When you can't sleep and you don't know what's wrong
Like a sweet, sad song
When you're lying awake at dawn
Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long
Those Oklahoma nights
They sure do go by slow
When you're creeping out of bed
And moonlight's falling 'cross the floor
But however far you go
And wherever you may roam
It's just because you know
She's waiting there at home
Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long
When you can't sleep and you don't know what's wrong
Like a sweet, sad song
When you're lying awake at dawn
Those Oklahoma nights are mighty long
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Tom Andes Albuquerque, New Mexico
Originally from New Hampshire, Tom has lived all over the country, on both coasts and (twice) in New Orleans. Currently, he lives in Albuquerque, NM.
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