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Track One - Along The Way
I’m headed ‘cross the Nickajack Dam, It’s a little past dawn and somehow we are
drivin’ all the way to Atlanta, GA
Through the night into the day, well I rub my eyes and think about the rubber laid
On the road before me, before I came
I’m on my way to whatever lies ahead
And everything I want will be comin’ true as long as I keep moving on
My way to all the hopes and dreams - hard work has helped me realize just as long as I never, never, never stop
We chicka-check off another state line, maybe one more stop to stretch my legs and
Find out how far I can see from Signal Mountain
There’s something in the air, a sort of electricity a sorta kinda motion of something stirrin’, yeah, somethin’s there
I’m on my way to whatever lies ahead
And everything I want will be comin’ true as long as I keep moving on
My way to all the hopes and dreams - hard work has helped me realize just as long as I never, never, never stop
Just as long as I never, never ever stop
The only stops to make are along the way
There’s just one journey - Oh, that’s what some folks will say
Oh, but don’t you believe them, oh no
There’s this life and you gotta live it all the way
There’s a whole lot more to go, maybe not in miles, but oh, so far you gotta make the journey, go all the way
And all of this keeps runnin’ through my mind as we make the turn off from some Interstate to state to another highway
I’m on my way to whatever lies ahead
And everything I want will be comin’ true as long as I keep moving on
My way to all the hopes and dreams - hard work has helped me realize just as long as I never, never, never stop
Just as long as I never, never ever stop
Just as long as I never, never ever stop
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Track Two - Get Out
You weren’t supposed to be the kind of guy I’d like to see again
But there you were, just being you, somehow I knew we could not be just friends
And I tried to tell myself that everything would turn out a-okay
But instead it’s all fucked up and I can’t blame you for walking away
Get out of my head, get out of my heart
Stop draggin’ me down, stop tearin’ me apart
This is not my life and it’s not my choice
Just leave me alone, don’t give me a voice
Get out of my head, get out of my heart
Stop draggin’ me down, stop tearin’ me apart
If you stop on your way then you’ll figure it out
You’ll see that I’m to blame, you’ll tell me to get out
Well I’ve made mistakes along the way
But I’m trying to learn, I have to say
Maybe things would be easier if I wasn’t so hard
But life is unfair and therein, we cannot control any beating heart
So I’m takin’ responsibility, standing up for inequality
I messed up lives but I’m cleaning it up
And I’m here to say
Get out of my head, get out of my heart
Stop draggin’ me down, stop tearin’ me apart
This is not my life and it’s not my choice
Just leave me alone, please, don’t give me a voice
Get out of my head, get out of my heart
Stop draggin’ me down, stop tearin’ me apart
If you stop on your way then you’ll figure it out
You’ll see that I’m to blame, you’ll tell me to get out
Why Am I Not Satisfied?
Why Can I Not Stay In Line?
Why Do I always have to say
Something wrong to make me throw it all away?
Get me out of your head, get me out of your heart
I’ll stop draggin’ you down, you stop tearin’ me apart
This is my life, this is my choice
So don’t leave me alone, please, just give me a voice
Get out of my head – get out of my heart
Stop draggin’ me down, stop tearin’ me apart
If you stop on your way then you’ll figure it out
You’ll see that I’m to blame, you’ll tell me to get out
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Track Three - Aaron's Song
Home of the free – because of the brave
Think of the millions of memories saved
Protecting the right to live a free life
And maintaining freedom so that I don’t have to fight
Surviving terror, and human error
There in the shadow of darkness so that we can live in the light
No God on our side – only reason resides
Fear of change, of difference, above it all we shall rise
Thank you, Aaron, for trying
Thank you, Aaron, for fighting
Thank you, Aaron, for not dying
But being willing to – It means everything
Some people live a life of quiet desperation
Others can’t call it living at all
Have the courage to stand by your convictions
Only the best learn to fall
Thank you, Aaron, for trying
Thank you, Aaron, for fighting
Thank you, Aaron, for not dying
O, say can you see – what we’re meant to be
Not a world full of fighting, but of people yearning for free
Let us stand and realize – let us open our eyes
Alone we consider, but together we can fly
Thank you, Aaron, for trying
Thank you, Aaron, for fighting
Thank you, Aaron, for not dying
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Track Four - Hard Easy
The road can be easy if you let it
But there won’t be very much to remember
Just mark a place and a space and get to it
Just walk away, one foot in front of the other
On your way you might miss the view
Of me walking away from you
It’s hard for me to believe I could feel so completely alone
But there’s no lonely, there is only solitude
When sheer demands can melt into boundless energy
So now I know, that I don’t need you
But I miss you – And I miss the power of two
Just a little bit farther – you’ll make it somehow
Push a little bit harder – you’ll make it somehow
Grow a little bit stronger – then you’ll make it somehow
Just a little more pain, don’t make it easy on yourself
With a little effort – Life tastes so much better
It takes some work, some finesse
Especially for me, clumsy me
But it’s all worth it in the end
A stone wall to place my heart in
And now I know
So find a time to unwind and sit quietly
To let it flow, let it go and just let it be
This precious life, all this life, needs a moment in infinity
To listen deep and loving keep these memories
Just a little bit farther – you’ll make it somehow
Push a little bit harder – you’ll make it somehow
Grow a little bit stronger – then you’ll make it somehow
Just a little more pain, don’t make it easy on yourself
Farther, farther, farther, yeah
Push it harder, harder, harder, yeah
Growing stronger, stronger, stronger, yeah, yeah
Just a little more pain, I don’t make it easy on myself
I don’t make it easy on myself
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Track Five - Gracie
Gracie was a girl who had to run
She couldn’t keep from wigglin’ in that little small town
Gracie was tied to want to have a little fun
She sees another life around the corner
So Gracie ran off for a change of scene
And she stumbled upon a different path
Sometimes the roads are easily twisted
But Gracie she never needs a map
Well, he falls into grace
With a sinful embrace
And it only takes a full-time moment
For another half-inspired embrace
For Gracie it always had to be
Lookin’ for all eternity
It’s the package that comes in a small brown box
and fills your life with everything
Then, Gracie, she finds a diamond shining
Giving flickering light in a dusty gloom
She’s off to find her ultimate meaning
To find her only shining truth
Then he falls back into Grace
But cannot bear to take the taste
Of not enough to go around, no other, no other
No other half-inspired embrace
For Gracie it always had to be (always had to be)
Lookin’ for all eternity (all eternity)
It’s the package that comes in a small brown box
and fills your life with everything
Gracie she came back home again
She stared at the pictures up on the wall
She remembers a time when things were thin
A warm protection from deep emotions
Sometimes the loneliness creeps in
Sometimes you don’t know where to begin
But for Gracie it always had to be (always had to be)
Lookin’ for all eternity (all eternity)
It’s the package that comes in a small brown box
and fills your life with everything
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Track Six - Heaven to Me
My heart is almost breaking - With the shear ideal of gazing out
Into the velvet darkness - Of a rocky mountain night
And I see both green and white - When kissed by the lips of the pale moonlight
Like a lover she lays on the land - And holds the night
Now she’s in my bed - I must be dead - Cuz this feels like heaven to me
Heaven to Me in life I live in death I die (Heaven to Me)
So why not live as hard and as high as a person can while we live on the land (Heaven to Me)
It’s right down here, you just gotta watch me fly
Cuz this might be my only shot – I will give it all I got cuz
This feels like Heaven to Me
The softest kiss as you say goodbye – Until you return I will keep you nigh
Deep inside my heart and safe within me
I keep holding on to the belief – That all your promises now you’ll keep
And now I believe that it could be – So hard to leave
Now you’re in my bed – Tell me – I must be dead
Cuz this feels like Heaven to Me
Heaven to Me in life I live in death I die (Heaven to Me)
So why not live as hard and as high as a person can while we live on the land (Heaven to Me)
It’s right down here, you just gotta watch me fly
Cuz this might be my only shot – I will give it all I got cuz
This feels like Heaven to Me
Listen to a beautiful melody
A song that sings, “Come live a life that’s free”
Where all is naked, plain for all to see
I know that’s…
My heart is almost breaking - With the shear ideal of gazing out
Into the velvet darkness - Of a rocky mountain night
And I see both green and white - When kissed by the lips of the pale moonlight
Like a lover she lays on the land - And holds the night
Now she’s in my bed - Oh, I must be dead - Cuz this feels like Heaven
Heaven to Me in life I live in death I die (Heaven to Me)
So why not live as hard and as high as a person can while we live on the land (Heaven to Me)
It’s right down here, you just gotta watch me fly
Cuz this might be my only shot – I will give it all I got cuz
This feels like Heaven to Me
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Track Seven - Brotherly Love
Sometimes there’s connections on a wire
Seemingly short and disjointed but ultimately right and true
There are friends among us – more than friends - more like family
Some of them are just the ones you’re drawn to all your life
We don’t really choose but we are chosen time and time again
The touch of life – We find a kindred
Life, it goes around and around, telling all the stories
That are spun into gold - New bonds, old, rekindled
Under the house, intermingled
Good men surrounding themselves and each other with brotherly love
Arriving after time out of mind, seeing something, someone
Maybe you thought you’d met before, maybe in a dream
Little reminders of another lifeline, another time, another choice
In the circle it is life eternal
He’s that brother from another – a soul connected to your ground
The touch of life – We find a kindred
Life, it goes around and around, telling all the stories
That are spun into gold - New bonds, old, rekindled
Under the house, intermingled
Good men surrounding themselves and each other with brotherly love
Tying in those last ten years, with new life, new memories, new friends
Some that maybe didn’t show in youth, that they would grow to be
Good, good men
With high aspirations, observations, down that chosen road
And so it goes, we pull away, we drive our own forces
But shed a tear that this time is ending, bending
Though we know, that these paths we go
They will cross again anew
Always moving, grooving, soothing, proving once again
That what we’re here to do is love and grow and move and flow
The touch of life – We find a kindred
Life, it goes around and around, telling all the stories
That are spun into gold - New bonds, old, rekindled
Under the house, intermingled
Good men surrounding themselves and each other with brotherly love
The touch of life – We find a kindred
Life, it goes around and around and around and around
Well, it’s pure spun gold - New bonds, old, rekindled
Under the house, intermingled
Good men surrounding themselves – they are such good men
Surrounding themselves and each other with brotherly love
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Track Eight - Thank You
From one to another – Friends we’ll always be
Even though we may be apart physically
And when some other lover – shares your bed
I know there’ll be a place for me in your heart and in your head
And on my lips forever rests your name
Cuz it’s from knowing you that I will never be the same
I gotta Thank You, Thank You - I gotta thank you for you, yes I do
I gotta Thank You, Thank You - I might even, thank god for you
It’s one of four paintings ever done of me
When my eyes fell on it I fell in to ecstasy
You opened up my spirit, opened the door to my right mind
You’re helping me to realize the dream I’m off to find
And in the mountains and the valleys we shall find
A little piece of sanity, you know, a little peace of mind
I gotta Thank You, Thank You - I gotta thank you for you, yes I do
I gotta Thank You, Thank You - I might even, thank god for you
On my lips forever rests your name
Cuz it’s from knowing you that I will never be the same
And in the mountains and the valleys we shall find
A little piece of sanity, you know, a little peace of mind
Thank You, Thank You - I gotta thank you for you, yes I do
I gotta Thank You, Thank You - I might even, thank god for you
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Track Nine - Pictures of You (The Cure)
I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you
that i almost believe that they're real
I’ve been living so long with my pictures of you
that I almost believe that the pictures - are all I can feel
remembering you standing quiet in the rain
as i ran to your heart to be near
and we kissed as the sky fell in holding you close
how i always held close in your fear
remembering you running soft through the night
you were bigger and brighter and whiter than the snow
and screamed at the make-believe screamed at the sky
and you finally found all your courage to let it all go
remembering you fallin into my arms
crying for the death of your heart
you were stone white so delicate lost in the cold
you were always so lost in the dark
remembering you how you used to be
slow-drowned you were angels so much more than everything
hold for the last time - then slip away quietly
open my eyes but i never see anything
if only i had thought of the right words - i could have held on to your heart
if only i'd thought of the right words - i wouldn't be breaking apart
all my pictures of you
Looking so long at these pictures of you - but I never hold on to your heart
looking so long for the words to be true - but always just breaking apart
my pictures of you
there was nothing in the world that i ever wanted more
than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever wanted more
than to never feel the breaking apart all my pictures of you
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Track Ten - The Way
Catching up with the setting sun
The end of day, no it has just begun
Flows the river winding down from a long, hard day
Time elusive, mind a whirl
Time to close your eyes, little girl
Catch a wink, catch a nod – I’m catching up
See the Way, the way, the way
See the way, see the way
I have, in fact, beat the sun to bed
Those smokey mountains, painted red
A glow, a spark, we’re headed north by northwest
No affront to the frontier here
It’s just my hometown gettin’ near
Though I stray, my heart stays firmly bound
See the Way, the way, the way
See the way, I see the way
I wasn’t supposed to be here today – but now I’m on my way back home
All respect, all elation
To see the light on all creation
See the light, cause and effect, effects and how
A tiny twist a little swirl
You raise an eye, a lip will curl
Passion makes you think that you think and make a choice
But now you see the way, the way, the way
Now you see the way, the way
Now you see the way back home
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