Some Typed Lyrics courtesy of Becky Poe, the rest by Mike
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EARTH BREAKER, SPLITTER OF
THE WOOD
STREET FIGHTER, A WARRIOR
FROM THE START
HE WAS SEEKING OUT THE
QUESTIONS
TO THE ANSWERS IN HIS HEART
HE WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER,
SOLDIER ABSENTEE
LIGHT TAPPER, NEVER MORE
THAN WHAT HE NEEDS
EASY LEAVER, HE COULD TURN
AND WATCH IT RUN
THE BROKEN LINE, OF HIS
PAST, HE'D FIND
LAY WHITTLED OUT BEHIND HIM
LIKE THE NOTCHES ON A GUN
NOW HE'S A GUN FIGHTER,
FIRING FROM THE HIP
STRAIGHT SHOOTER, ALWAYS
THROUGH THE HEART OF IT
LONE RIDER, THROUGH THIS
PHANTOM WORLD
A HEART ON ICE, TAKE MY
ADVICE
HE'S JUST AN EMPTY DESERT
WHERE DUST DEVILS DANCE AND
WHIRL, DANCE AND WHIRL
IF I EVER SEE MY HEART
AGAIN, IF I EVER FEEL
THAT GENTLE WIND . . . SEE
MY HEART AGAIN
IF I EVER FIND MY FAITH
AGAIN, FIND THAT BEATING HEART
WELL MAYBE THEN . . . FIND
MY FAITH AGAIN
PEOPLE SEE ME EVERYDAY,
STRANGERS ALL, THEY SLIP AWAY
I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT
TO SAY
IF I EVER FIND MY HOME AGAIN
FIND THAT WINDING PATH, THAT
TWISTS AND BENDS
TO MY HOME AGAIN
LET ME TELL YOU BOUT THESE
ROADHOUSE BARS
LONELY NIGHTS AND WILD
DESIRES
SINGING SONGS BENEATH THE
SILENT STARS
IF I EVER SEE MY DREAMS
AGAIN
IF I CHANCE TO SLEEP WELL
MAYBE THEN
SEE MY DREAMS AGAIN
IF I EVER SEE MY HOPE AGAIN
IF I CHANCE TO SEE THIS
DARKNESS END
SEE MY HOPE AGAIN
WELL IT'S A FINE LINE I'M
WALKING DOWN THIS OLD DUSTY ROAD
BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL ON
MY OWN
WITH NO ONE BESIDE ME TO
LIGHTEN THE LOAD
AND NO PLACE THAT I CAN CALL
HOME
WELL I TRIED TO GET CLOSE
TRIED TO SHARE WHAT I KNEW
AND ALL THAT I WANTED WAS
YOU
BUT SWEETHEART YOU WANTED
JUST YOUR SILENCE INSTEAD
SO MY LEAVING IS MY LAST
GIFT TO YOU
SWEET BABY I LOVE YOU WHAT
MORE CAN I SAY
I NEED YOU AND I'M MISSING
YOU TOO
BUT YOU ARE THE REASON I'M
GOING AWAY
YOU GAVE ME A SEASON OF BLUE
IT'S ONLY A SHORT LIFE THE
YEARS COME AND GO
AND THE WINTER TURNS SURELY
TO SPRING
AND BLUE IT'S A SEASON I
KNOW TOO SHALL PASS
LIKE THE SILENCE WHENEVER
LOVE SINGS
BABY SOMEDAY WHEN THE
SILENCE FAIRLY SREAMS THROUGH YOUR HEART
AND ITS ECHOES BOUNCE ROUND
IN YOUR HEAD
YOU'LL REMEMBER MY SWEET
LOVE AND THE SONGS THAT I SING
AND YOU'LL REMEMBER THESE
WORDS THAT I SAID
RIVER WOMAN WHITHER ARE YOU
GOING
WHO YOU LOVIN NOW THAT WE'RE
APART
YOU HAVE TAKEN SOMETHING IN
YOUR GOING
YOU HAVE LOST YOUR WAY AND
LOST MY HEART
RIVER TOWNS AND RIVER PEOPLE
SMILING ROLLING BY
RIVER MAN RIVER WOMAN LEFT
ME HERE TO CRY
RIVER WOMAN FLOW AWAY SO
FREELY
LEAVE ME STANDING HERE UPON
THE SHORE
WATCH YOU WALK AWAY WITH
YOUR NEW LOVER
CAN'T LOVE MY RIVER WOMAN
ANYMORE
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE CRYING
LOVE MY RIVER WOMAN ANYMORE
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE DYING
I've been a gambler, many long years, Lord knows I've lost me many a game
No longer can I bluff them with my eyes, lay the cards "face-up"
It's all the same... it's all the same
You know I don't much care for shackles, and I ain't got no use for chains
We hold the fleeting flame of love, a winking candle here
Then gone again... gone again
I am an ember, burning in the night, a tiny flame that's yearning to be free
With so much love one woman couldn't hold, too many miles
That lie between... that lie between
Oh, the hours keep drifting like boats upon the stream, that carries me from day to day
And time, like sand through fingers, couldn't hold the years forever
Gone away... they're gone away
So I'll be a gambler, 'til the day I die, odds are I'm gambling on that day
With the last roll of them clicking dice, eights and aces in my hand
Still left to play... left to play
LOOK AT ME I'M STUMBLING
DOWN THIS SAME OLD ROAD
BROKEN LINES AND POTHOLES
WHISKEY A LA MODE
SOMETIMES I THINK I'M
GROWING
BUT MOST THE TIME I'M
KNOWING
WHAT WITH ALL I'M THINKING
I'M JUST SHRINKING
HERE I GO, I'M GAMBLING WITH
THE SAME OLD HAND
I KNOW THEY STACKED THE DECK
ON ME BUT I DON'T GIVE A DAMN
SOMETIMES I THINK I'M
WINNING
BUT THEN I START BEGINNING
TO TALLY UP THE COST I KNOW
I'VE LOST
BUT IT'S A FAR MUSE SINGING
IN MY EAR
FAR MUSE, SHE CHASED AND
LEAD ME HERE
I'VE TRIED TO FORGET HER
VOICE, BUT BROTHER WHAT'S THE USE
I JUST KEEP ON FOLLOWING MY
MUSE
LOOK AT ME I'M DRIFTING IN
MY DREAM
A BOAT WITHOUT AN ANCHOR
SAILING ON THE BREEZE
SOMETIMES I WALK AROUND IT
FEELS LIKE SOLID GROUND
BUT THE EARTH STARTS SHAKING
AND I AWAKEN
LISTEN TO ME I'M SINGING
THIS SAME OLD SONG
WORDS WITH TEETH OF STEEL
AND MELODIES OF BONE
SOMETIMES I'M GLAD I'M
LEARNING
BUT THEN I FIND I'M YEARNING
FOR THE TIMES WHEN I WAS
YOUNG WITH THESE SONGS UNSUNG
Wheels of fortune, wheels of fate, wheels of Destiny..
Rolling
along in wheels of song, driving wheels for me
Wheels of heartache, wheels of love, roads of
solitude..
Rolling along in wheels of song, running down the road
CHORUS: Look out Baby, I ain't no good, my wheel's rolling
free... Free-wheeling got no stops.
Ain't no brakes on me.. Free-wheeling look out babe,, my
wheel's rolling free
Wheels of hunger, wheels of fire, spinning in the
night.
Rolling along in wheels of song searching for the light
Wheels of anger, wheels of flight, highways in the
rain..
Rolling along in wheels of song, singing thru' the pain
Wheels of seasons, wheels of years, suns and stars and
moons..
Rolling along in wheels of song, come the harvest soon
Wheels are coming, wheels are gone, feet of gypsy
light..
Rolling along in wheels of song, burning thru' the night
Down the long years and the many roads I've traveled, West
Virginia's always been my long-time freind
She gave me songs to sing, she gave me everything, she's my
muse, inspiration 'til the end,,
So sing sweet hills of West Virginia,,Let me hear the hymns of
my childhood in your little hill-top church
Sweet hills of West Virginia..Sing me with your wind, where
the rocky river bends
Sweet rolling hills of West Virginia,,, Sing me home again..
I hear your voice sweet West Virginia, Tell me stories like my
white-haired Grampa used to do
Sweet poet, West Virginia,, Rhyme me with your summer, make my
mind go under,
Speak sweet hills of West Virginia, Tell me what I need to
know
So paint my canvas West Virginia,,Paint a rainbow in the
swirling mist above your waterfall
Sweet artist West Virginia,, Sketch me in your Autumn, Draw my
yearning feet come falling
Down a country road, somewhere in West Virginia,, Paint me
coming home again
Come with me now my brother traveling we will go
To the sunny south shore flatlands we will leave this rain and
snow
And my sweetheart here behind me oh babe I hate to go
But I'm off to seek my fortune on the Gulf of Mexico
Now the sea bird calls a rasping cry and wheels upon the wind
She fills my mind and steals my heart both time and time again
I wait for our reunion and I work the barge and tow
And I curse the day I ever saw the Gulf of Mexico
Well my hands are torn and beaten and stained with grease and
rust
Guitar she lays for days and days and gathers age and dust
The work is long the money short the days just come and go
The night's a lonely emptiness on the Gulf of Mexico
Now the dredges scrape the ocean floor and the barges overflow
The oyster shell they smell like hell and the tug boats come
and go
And the sea bird is a scavenger and the dreadges likewise so
As the tug boats push their riches across the Gulf of Mexico
All the stars that fill the night time skies the diamonds in
the sea
These riches lose their meaning and they matter not to me
I'd trade them all for her sweet kiss her love means so much
more
Than all the pearls that dot the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
Somebody pinch me I think I'm dreaming... ooh baby don't let
me sleep so long
You'll not convince me I'm just scheming, when the feeling's
coming on so strong
CHORUS: And I believe I'm falling...yes I believe I'm falling...falling in love again
Somebody tell me I'm not going crazy, when I know I'm crazy
over you
My memories have all gone hazy, now all I think about is you
CHORUS:
Well it's my own fault I realize, I never should have looked
so deep in your eyes
Your big brown eyes...that's where I'm falling
Deep, deep in your eyes...what a surprise
Somebody help me I think I'm slipping...ooh baby I'm just
about to slide
This world I thought that I was gripping, you know you turned
it on it's side
CHORUS:
WITHIN THE DEPTH OF WINTER
SKIES
STAND ROOTED TO THE EARTH AM
I
MY EYES BEHOLD THE VAULTED
STARS
BEYOND SATURNIAN RINGS AND
DEAD CANALS OF MARS
OH TO LOOSE THESE LEADEN
FEET
TO TASTE THE DUST OF STARS
SO SWEET
TO PEEL THESE BLINDERS FROM
MY EYES
TO GLIMPSE AND CHASE ORION
DOWN THE SKIES
TO RIDE THE WILD CELESTIAL
WIND
WHERE URSA MAJOR GROWLS AND
SPINS
THE HORSE HEAD NEBULOSITY
IT BUCKS AND NEIGHS ITS HOOF
BEATS CALLING ME
TO GALLUP DOWN THE MILKY WAY
BAREBACK TO ANOTHER DAY
WHERE NEITHER SUN NOR MOON
DOES SHINE
JUST STARS ETERNAL SWIMMING
IN THE BRINE