Southern Stars - I can still remember / Feeling fresh at seventeen / Pick-up truck and old T-shirt / Soft faded Levi jeans / New mown grass on a perfect day / September of '78 / Just Grace and me on an old, worn quilt / Sharing Mamma’s étouffée / She knew damned well that I would turn bright red / When she handed me the pepper sauce and said / If you like it hot, you gotta get a little closer / If you like it hot, you gotta get a little closer / As a college man, I formed a plan / Excel on every front / Astound all my professors / And then get right straight to the hunt / I'd be Artistry in Action / Paramour of Baton Rouge / Couldn’t kill the fires that Grace had set / And I never made a move / Dark and transcendental was her gaze / I'd beat it back to Lake Charles to hear her say / If you like it hot, you gotta get a little closer / If you like it hot, you gotta get a little closer / These many years (Dipi sitan zanné) / Our tapestry (Konm in joli pinti) / Like southern stars (Parèy zétway ki briy dan sid) / In sharp relief (Ké lála) / Soothing this old heart (Pou adousi mô kè) / One day I had me quite a shock / Grace called me from Saline / At the Watermelon Festival, / She was the Watermelon Queen / Said “I got the mayor’s Cadillac / Come drive, so I can sit in back / Never knew she’d up and gone / Grace got her kicks like that! / Always made me laugh when she’d act that way / And I thank my southern stars I heard her say / If you like it hot, you gotta get a little closer / If you like it hot, you gotta get a little closer
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Wasn't for the Money - I was only 21 / Sent for hard time down at Eastham / Said what I took / Wasn't mine to take / Some said that I / Come in just like a schoolboy / Come out just / Like a rattlesnake / Far north as Okabena / Far south as Temple, Texas / We burned two years / And pulled a hundred heists / As for the poor twelve souls / Who were there, and tried to stop us / Well, that's too damn bad / At least they met their Christ / Bonnie, / I see smoke / I see shadows / Burning red / Please / Get yourself to heaven / Before the devil knows /That we are are dead / Well, it wasn't for the money / And it wasn't for the fame / Tho' I left no doubt / I was the one to blame / When we did get back to / Eastham Prison Farm / I sent their Major straight to hell
In my name / Please believe me, / I'd write another ending / To this story / I alone have penned / No preacher's tithe is rich enough / To buy my way to glory / River Jordan / Can't wash away my sins / Well Bonnie, / I see smoke / I see shadows / Burning red / Please / Get yourself to heaven / Before the devil knows /That we are are dead / Bonnie, / I see smoke / I see shadows / Burning red / Please / Get yourself to heaven / Before the devil knows /That we are are dead
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A Thousand Brothers - There's a bird in my tangled wild rose / Before the sun sets she will go / As the shadows grow long / She softens her song / And I dream / Fallen angels are guarding a gate / My tongue dried like a parched piece of slate / Like the ghost flower bends / In the hot desert wind / I must wait / Draw me some water on this day of judgement / Bring it up cool from the well / I hear sweet songs of redemption / A thousand brothers will I tell / A thousand brothers will I tell / On this day God hath made / Dare I draw near to His throne of grace / In the midst of the hurt / Dazed confusion / And rage / Justice no lady out there / Tho' love's the one faith we are share / Borders, like brine / Have made our good eyes blind / To despair / Draw me some water on this day of judgement / Bring it up cool from the well / I hear sweet songs of redemption / A thousand brothers will I tell / A thousand brothers will I tell / I see broken lives and broken hearts / Broken lines on doctors' charts / Yes'n so many dreams that won't come true / Spirits just passing through / And soft corn silk / And roses' thorns / Babies breath and mornings warm / Gifts of love so sweet and true / Spirits just passing through / We're all just passing through / There's a bird in my tangled wild rose / Before the sun sets she will go / As the shadows grow long / She softens her song / And I dream / Draw me some water on this day of judgement / Bring it up cool from the well / I hear sweet songs of redemption / A thousand brothers will I tell / A thousand brothers will I tell / Draw me some water on this day of judgement / Bring it up cool from the well / I hear sweet songs of redemption / A thousand brothers will I tell / A thousand brothers will I tell
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Lady Moon (feat. Tammy Rogers) - Lady Moon has mystified the Brotherhood / She's gone, gone, gone / Given up her station for the common good / She's gone, gone, gone / I know it's not enough that we adore her / But she really must return, so please implore her / Darkest forces are at work, and would destroy her / Oh, how I love my Lady Moon / Lady Moon, they're merciless behind the lines / Mmm, we know that you can win / Knights and emissaries stand to lose their lives / Still, we know you're gonna win / Quickly cut a path, we can retrieve her / And pave it with your blood we mustn't leave her / We all swore we'd measure up, have we deceived her / And, oh, how I love my Lady Moon / Caught up in this corner like a holy fool / Mmm, I fear that I am done / Nobel will my ending be, though fate is cruel / There's nowhere I can run / Mercy for this man, your heart has room / You've unwisely turned your back on Lady Moon / Your time on our fair land is ending soon / And, oh, how I love my Lady Moon
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Ghosts in the Air - I was lost / But I'm back on familiar ground / My voice may break / Thanking God for the grace I've found / You brought me back this far / I still see ghosts up in the air / Cause I broke more hearts / Than I got time to repair / A tiny sweet center in this old rusty heart / Girl you found it ... / And shined it up just like a star / Ain't that just the way / There was some magic left in there / Tho' I broke more hearts / Than I got time to repair / Well, I hoped it'd be so easy / When I turned the final stretch / Nothing back behind me / I couldn't just forget / But there some things you do / That just. can't be undone / And like your shadow / They can't be outrun / Looking back / Cause you oughta / That's a scary thing to do / All them ghosts up in the air / Well, they're staring straight back at you / And you know they have the right / It ain't nothing short of fair / Cause you broke more hearts / Than you got time to repair / Yes, you broke more hearts / Than you got time to repair / Yes, you broke more hearts / Than you got time to repair
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Blue Sandia - A glow from the cigarette lighter / In the old Ford that she loves to drive / And I know, yes I know / She won't be coming home tonight / Man I hate this getting old / Old age ain't no damn state of mind / I never thought I'd be alone / This far down the line / How blue are the Sandia Mountains? / It's been so long since I've been home / Tell Miguel to set 'em on up / I hate drinking alone / There's a little blind boy who lives down in Juarez / He'll paint you a picture for a dime / Well he paints with all his heart / He don't care about the lines / Well, I guess it must be some kind of sin / But I wish I could be like him / Well he can't see, but least he feels / The world he's living in / How blue are the Sandia Mountains? / It's been so long since I've been home / Tell Miguel to set 'em on up / I hate drinking alone / Are these then the broken ties that bind? / For those who trust, how quickly they unwind / Am I free or am I lost? / Guess I'll find out in good time / The winds of the Sandia Mountains / Free the spirit of the heart so they say / But this bone-dry desert breeze / Is all I have today / How blue are the Sandia Mountains? / It's been so long since I've been home / Tell Miguel to set 'em on up / I hate drinking alone
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The Good Messenger - A faintest little whisper says I've always known your soul / I carry you within my heart wherever I may go / Good messenger, you bring me joy each and every day / Each star up in heaven carries my wish in your name / May each light a pathway for all you do / May you never have a doubt I love you / May your sails always catch the wind / And may your strong wings never bend / A faintest little whisper says I've always known your soul / I carry you within my heart wherever I may go / Good messenger, you bring me joy each and every day / Each star up in heaven carries my wish in your name
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