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1. |
Faithful & True
04:24
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Faithful and true
All that I want
To be to you
Lord knows I’m trying
But it’s so hard to do
Faithful and true
Lonesome and sad
All that I know
All that I had
Good love gone bad
Lonesome and sad
You know where I go
You know the things that I do
You see inside me
Better than I’d like you to
Mercy and grace
I’m holding out hope
You’ll find it someday
I forgive you
Is so hard to say
Mercy and grace
You know where I go
You know the things that I do
You see inside me
Better than I’d like you to
Faithful and true
All that I want
To be to you
Lord knows I’m trying
So that’s what I’ll do
Faithful and true
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2. |
The Being Gone
04:37
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Well, I’m headed back from Dallas
Two days gone and gone to hell
And I can’t keep my eyes open
Far as I know just as well
I can make it to the truck stop
On the highway across the line
If I can make it back to you,
Back to you
Then I’ll be fine
All this sense that I’ve been making
Makes no sense to me at all
And the chances I keep taking
Up the chances that I’ll fall
Into the hole that I’ve been digging
For myself into the dirt
If I can make it back to you
Maybe no one will get hurt
But the headwinds on the highway
85 past one more town
I ain’t seen your face since Friday
Long to set my suitcase down
We’ve been holding it together
We’ve been waking up alone
I can’t tell if all this leaving
Is worth the being gone
Is worth the being gone
The sunlight in the window
Through the blinds onto the floor
Makes me realize I’ve been in those
Shadow lines some time before
One small step out of the dark into the light
One more, babe, and I can make it back alright
But the headwinds on the highway
85 past one more town
I ain’t seen your face since Friday
Long to set my suitcase down
We’ve been holding it together
We’ve been waking up alone
I can’t tell if all this leaving
Is worth the being gone
Is worth the being gone
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3. |
Oklahoma Stars
03:40
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The night goes on forever
When you try and make it last
We were passing time together
Just by laying in the grass
We stared into the heavens
And we saw the worlds collide
We were lying still and watching
They were flying through the skies
The stars in Oklahoma
Never seen a night so cool and clear
Shooting stars in Oklahoma
Burn so bright then disappear
The moonlight has a way of
Throwing shadows on the night
It would be a shame to waste
The only space we had to hide
Then the morning glow grew brighter
Shining light upon our faces
We faded with the dawning
And went our separate ways like the
stars in Oklahoma
Never seen a night so cool and clear
Shooting stars in Oklahoma
Burn so bright then disappear
The stars in Oklahoma
On the banks in late September
They lead you through the darkness
On a night you won’t remember
Is everyone that easy
Do they all just play the fool
Are we all just out there looking for
a way to break the rules
It would take a fool to say it
Like a photograph of grace
But fools need supervision
Or a gift for saving face
We got it on a hand shake
We bought it for a song
Just to chase a simple feeling
Of doing something wrong beneath the
Stars in Oklahoma
Never seen a night so cool and clear
Shooting stars in Oklahoma
Burn so bright then disappear
We burned so bright
Then disappeared
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4. |
Eyes for You
04:29
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Don’t look at me now
I’ve seen this before
Set your eyes on one
Drop her dead on the floor
You’re handsome and charming
It’s almost alarming
And surely a waste of time
Hey look at me now
Do you see what you did
You went and you found all the
Things that I hid
And you brought them to light
With a laugh and a fight
Like a wild and mischievous kid
I know your kind, it’s just like mine
Look at the trees
how they move in the breeze
How they shine in the light like they do
I’m not afraid of the things that you say
And I’ll tell you what you want me to
I guess I’ve got eyes for you
The melody moves on the
Words that you choose
And you play them alone in the dark
You find me and say
“Hell, it’s been quite a day
Would you mind if I sing the low part”
You know I know the way that this goes
Look at the trees
How they move in the breeze
How they dance like the old folks do
I’m not afraid of you running away, darling
I’m half expecting you to
But still I’ve got eyes for you
A lovable rake
Knows just how he can make a fool
Fall for his hook and a line
And he surely can tell
When he wears out his welcome
And moves along making good time
I know your kind and it seems you know mine
Look at the leaves
How they dance in the breeze
How they fall and then come back new
We ain’t hit the ground
But we’re on our way down
And there ain’t a damn thing we can do
But still I’ve got eyes for you
Still I’ve got eyes for you
Still I’ve got eyes for you
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5. |
Everybody's Moving Slow
03:27
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Everybody’s moving slow
Nobody’s thinking fast
Nobody’s got to know
Nothing’s ever gonna last
We can sit and watch the time
or we can let it roll on past
You don’t really have to go
Everybody’s moving slow
Meddling moon up in the sky
Friendly shadows on the ground
It’s nice to feel like you can fly
Even when you’re coming down
We can feel it on the breeze
But it’ll never make a sound
We can keep it way down low
we can keep it moving slow
Everybody’s moving slow
Nobody’s thinking fast
We can act like we don’t know
That this ain’t ever gonna last
We can sit and watch the time
Or we can let it roll on past
If we can keep it way down low
We can keep it moving slow
You don’t really have to go
‘Cause everybody’s moving slow
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6. |
Instant Coffee Blues
03:25
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He washed all the road dirt
from his face and from his neck
Sat down at her table
She picked up his check
And she took him home for reasons
That she did not understand
Him, he had the answers but
He did not show his hand
Because him, he knew the taste
Of this wine very well
It all goes down so easy
But the next day is hell
Morning
“Man, was I drunk”
She whispered in the shower
While he laid there and smoked his way there
Through the final hour
She felt wholly empty
Like she felt it every time
And he was feeling just the same
Except he was trying to make it rhyme
Time was of the essence
So they both did their best
To meet up in the kitchen
Feeling fully dressed
She just had to go to work
He just had to go
He knew where and she knew how
To blow it off and so
They shot the breeze quite cavalier
To the boiling of the pot
And sang the instant coffee blues
And never fired a shot
Him, he hit the driveway
with his feelings in a case
Her, she hit the stoplight
And touched up her face
So you tell them the difference
Between caring and not
And that it’s all done with mirrors
Lest they forgot
Said it’s all done with mirrors
Of which they have done
To blend the instant coffee blues
Into the morning sun
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7. |
Death & Life
03:59
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Got her legs crossed at her ankles
And her purse down by her feet
She takes a look around and wonders
How this came to be
The boy that’s there beside her
Spitting image of the man
Who carried all the weight
And built this house with his two hands
In 40 some odd years she never had to sleep alone
Now it’s been 3 years in November and
she still ain’t bought a stone
Said “I used to be a lover, but I still feel like a wife”
That’s the way that it goes in the game of death and life
A father always tries
to treat a boy just like a man
And he saw his had a way
To work through life
With his two hands
He knew that he was dying
But before his days were done
After he said all his goodbyes
He asked one more thing of his son
His old man died in April and
he went to build a box
Every nail in every board was
a tear that never dropped
Then he had a baby boy
born on the same day as his dad
So he took his name to give him
it’s the best (only?) thing that he had
Souls, they move in circles
as the generations pass
And the old ones hold the young
as though the time will never last
And the dusk leads to the dawning
as the darkness brings us light
That’s the way that it goes in the
game of death and life
All the children at the graveyard
They’re just jumping over rocks
And they’re reading all the names
On all the cemetery plots
They’re soaking up the sun and
Wondering how it feels to die
That’s the way that it goes
In the game of death and life
Souls, they move in circles
as the generations pass
And the young ones hold the old
Like it’s the only thing they have
And the dusk leads to the dawning
as the darkness brings us light
That’s the way that it goes in the
game of death and life
That’s the way that it goes in the
game of death and life
That’s the way that it goes
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8. |
Run
03:51
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How do you talk to a man
Who don’t love you
To a man who don’t listen to a word you have to say
Do you wait do you worry
do you wonder what he’s doing
Do you wonder if he’ll leave or if he’ll stay
How do you deal with the living and the dying
With the honesty and the lying
With the choices that he makes
Do you love him through the losing
Do you buy into the boozing
Do you try and reconcile his mistakes
Or do you run, run, run, run
Oh do you run, run, run, run
When it really hits the fan
Do you still try to understand
Or do you paint him in a corner
Till he’s crawling up the wall
Do you yell until your voice is gone
Cry & try to carry on
And blowing up all the pieces as they fall
What do you think that he’s gonna do
Treat you like you want him to
Turn around and call it all a dream
Well you ain’t dreaming and it ain’t no fun
It’s fight or flight until you’re done
And flying ain’t as scary as it seems
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
How do you talk to a man
Who don’t love you
to a man who don’t listen
To a man who don’t love you
he don’t love you
He don’t love you
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9. |
In a Wink
04:42
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Did you enjoy the clouds
As much as Maggie did this morning
I don’t know that anybody could
Pointing and laughing at the faces they were forming
Waiting on the rain and feeling good
And did you feel the cool air
As those clouds were passing over
Coming down with autumn in the wind
Showed up right on time here
In the middle of October
Feeling like your long lost closest friend
chorus:
If I’m dreaming let me sleep
It all feels so real to me
And I cry each time I think
How there’s a lifetime in a wink
Hands of time upon us
As we watch the fire burning
Flames turn into embers into ash
And I know nothing I can do
Can keep the clock from slowly turning
But I wish that I could only ask
Chorus
Photographs and memories
Are one inside the other
Memorizing moments in your mind
And I’ve got one of Maggie
As those clouds were passing over
Reaching out her arms up to the sky
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10. |
If I Told You
03:08
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If I told you how I really feel about you
Would you care too much at all
Would the tension that you’re feeling
Send you reeling or just
Drive you up a wall
Would you say it’s not the time or place
Maybe we could meet another day
If I told you how I really feel about you
i wonder what you’d say
In the dark I feel a loneliness inside
That comes creeping into view
And I’d be lying if I didn’t say
That oftentimes it makes me think of you
And I feel like you’re awake somewhere
Dealing with a sorry all your own
If I told you how I really feel about you
You’d never feel alone
If I told you how I really feel about you
Would you care too much at all
would you say you have an idea it was coming
And you felt it all along
Would you tell me that you love me too
And wish we’d met a lifetime ago
If I told you how I really feeling about you
Would you wish you didn’t know
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Jamie Lin Wilson D'Hanis, Texas
Jamie Lin Wilson is nationally touring songwriter and storyteller from South Texas. Follow here at Bandcamp for all the music and some exclusive recordings!
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