Lyrics - Just Short of Redemption

Just Short of Redemption - Fell down on my knees / Just short of redemption / Mother help me please / I fell short of redemption / Tho' many shall rise / Some did not heed / That's what happened to me / That's what happened to me / They say the bigger you are / The harder you fall / But the harder you fall / The more you feel small / Tho' many are blind / Some good eyes won't see / That's what happened to me / That's what happened to me / I don't know if I can rewind / I don't know if I still have the time / It's all back behind me / I can't feel the floor / I'm not sure anymore / I'm not sure anymore / Here at the gate / And here I will wait / The blessed pass by / I can't meet their eyes / Tho' many have wings / I can't be free / That's what happened to me / That's what happened to me

Anna Lee - Well, you like to make your entrance in the most unconventional way / Like Mardi Gras was early, Fat Tuesday moved to Saturday / The angels and the saints and the devil are behind your smile/ I'd like to get to know 'em, but you only let 'em out for a while / To break a piece off my broken heart / To break a piece off my broken heart / That heirloom of love wrapped around you since the day you were born / That patchwork of wishes, hurts and worry got you through the storm / Me, I'm with the Jack of Spades standing out here in the rain / Till the day after never, when you'll be back again / To break a piece off my broken heart / To break a piece off my broken heart / And for all I do, it's never been enough / I sand myself so smooth, and you treat me oh so rough / Beneath white flags of surrender, send my hostage heart out free / Won't you do that much for me, won't you do that much for me /Anna Lee / Well, you like to make your entrance in the most unconventional way / Like Mardi Gras was early, Fat Tuesday moved to Saturday / The angels and the saints and the devil are behind your smile / I'd like to get to know 'em, but you only let 'em out for a while / To break a piece off my broken heart /To break a piece off my broken heart

Starved for Tears - Well ain't we a pair / I'm glad you saw my light on / You say that you're scared / Cause you lost the will to try / I may not have the answers / But I would never hurt you / Sometimes it's just enough / To have a place to cry / Turn this one night over to me / Let's steal some tender time / You could never hope to find / The path of least resistance / A heart that's trained to love's / Not too much of a guide / I'd never try to make you change direction / But Maybe I can help you / Just make it through the night / Turn this one night over to me / Let's steal some tender time / You can save it baby / I can see you're weary / I can see your eyes are / Starved for tears / Tonight, I'm the rock / That you can tie your line to / As the waves wash over you / Well ain't we a pair / I'm glad you saw my light on / You say that you're scared / And your strength is sure to slide / Maybe I can be the one / To make it worth the gamble / Maybe I can be the one / to make it worth the price / Turn this one night over to me / Let's steal some tender time

78 to Memphis - Streetlights in the rain glow like gold / This end of Tupelo ain't no mother lode / My old blue Freightliner, just a bit beyond her prime / Just like me, we're both biding time / Riding 78 to Memphis / This dog day night seals in my fears / And I know she'll be smiling when I get there / But this road's paved with all our best years / Every hinge, every doorknob, every stair that made a noise / All the places the kids left their toys / I thread the needle of silence, through the fabric of my kin / Where mile markers were my only friends / Riding 78 to Memphis / This dog day night seals in my fears / And I know she'll be smiling when I get there / But this road's paved with all our best years / Life on this road feels like stealing / Money and guilt double-dealing / But you pull yourself up, and you ride / Still you ride / Oh, two steps between us, or a thousand miles apart / We've always been joined at the heart / Now simple seems sweeter, / I guess that comes with time / I can still feel her hand in mine / Riding 78 to Memphis / This dog day night seals in my fears / And I know she'll be smiling when I get there / But this road's paved with all our best years

Lady Elgin - Lady Elgin all dressed up in white / Lady Elgin alone in the cold, dark night / You play the host with quiet grace / And hide the sadness in your face / And so it goes.. And so it goes / Lady Elgin your secrets are your own / Lady Elgin lost so far from home / Within the storm of their desires / You gave yourself and lost your fire / And so it goes.. And so it goes / Starlight fades to gray / Hear the brass band play / What a gay old day / One more serenade / Lady Elgin slipped quietly away / Lady Elgin there's nothing we can say / Behold our consolation prize / Is seeing you with knowing eyes / And so it goes. / And so it goes

Put the Dodge in the Garage - Put the Dodge in the garage / We're living large tonight / Drop the top on the Chevy Bel Air / Sweet little '57 with the red tuck-n-roll / We'll take this town like we haven't a care / For fifteen years I made it work / Milling parts in Riverside / We never had a lot / But we got by / In a B-grade hard luck drama / With a pink slip curtain call / Last check waiting for me / Down the hall / But my ride home / Is American made / Looks hot in the sun / And cool in the shade / I may be down, / but I won't fade away / Put the Dodge in the garage / We're living large tonight / Drop the top on the Chevy Bel Air / Sweet little '57 with the red tuck-n-roll / We'll take this town like we haven't a care / We'll make a daring getaway / And be lovers on the lamb / A poor man with car / Still has a plan / Cicadas serenade you / And the breeze soon lulls my mind / I can't see the end, but / I sure love the ride / But my ride home
Is American made / Looks hot in the sun / And cool in the shade / I may be down / But I won't fade away / Moonlight desperados / On the wind to San Jose / Counting dreams in a Sister-sweet Chevrolet / Put the Dodge in the garage / We're living large tonight / Drop the top on the Chevy Bel Air / Sweet little '57 with the red tuck-n-roll / We'll take this town like we haven't a care / Put the Dodge in the garage / We're living large tonight / Drop the top on the Chevy Bel Air / Sweet little '57 with the red tuck-n-roll / We'll take this town like we haven't a care

Whatsits You Once Knew - It begins with your anonymous felt-tipped redaction / Deleting each moment of disliked content / Crawled deep beneath your skin / Like a sore forgotten muscle / Lingering like the layered taste of this morning's cigarette / It's stiff and it's stale - caked onto your shoe / It changes your gait and the curve of your spine / When you take notice, it's debris you throw / Into the fire to see what happens when it burns / A toxic smell of melting plastic / Molecules buried in ash / So long, you chuckle / Cross me off the list of Whatsits you once knew / Like / Map coordinates / Calculus limits / Card game rules / And old promises / Bits of Life you squint at / And look up when you choose / Thoughts imprinted, impressed and embraced / Across neurons that pooled as my mind / It was hidden coughing in your cracking knuckles / I missed each of the syllables and signs / Shaking off the dust and swaying / As the street hum shakes in my bones / So long, you chuckle / Cross me off the list of Whatsits you once knew / Like / Map coordinates / Calculus limits / Card game rules / And old promises / Bits of Life you squint at / And look up when you choose

May You Be - May you be - the one who's always dared to dance / Who believes there's just a chance / That stars were made for wishes / May you see - there's always good in someone else
And the grace within yourself / So you can make a difference / And when you find you've lost your way / Deep within your darkest day / May you find peace / May you find peace / May you / May you know - a love enduring to the end / A lover who's a friend / Small joys that feel like magic / May you show - someone who's lost a better way / That it matters what you say / And they can't take you for granted / And when your warring days are done / And all your noble battles won / May you know peace / May you know peace / May you / May you be - the one who's always dared to dance / Who believes there's just a chance / That stars were made for wishes / May you be

Desert Flower - They tell me it's gonna rain in the desert tonight / But I can see some stars in the borrowed twilight / Maybe one's for you / That old combination of "what ifs" stuck in your mind / You let it rip your heart out / Every time / Don't waste your dreams on things the way they could be / You and I are everything we should be / And like a desert flower waitin' on the rain / You just won't open up to see / Call on your heart / Call on your heart / It's easy if you'll just let go / But holdin' out is all you know / They tell me it's gonna rain in the desert tonight / Damn, for all I know / They may be right / Dunes changing shape, moon on the rise / It all runs through your fingers / And out of your life / Don't waste your dreams on things the way they could be / You and I are everything we should be / And like a desert flower waitin' on the rain / You just won't open up to see / Call on your heart / Call on your heart \ Call on your heart / Call on your heart

Lady Moon - 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 / Oh, but we know that you can win / Knights and emissaries stand to lose their lives / Oh, we know you're going to win / Quickly cut a path, we can retrieve her / 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 / Oh, 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

Maze of Contentment - Yesterday, I got myself back down to Santa Fe / Took the mountain road, to watch the shadows dance a matinee / On walls of fire, and under skies of piercing blue / And I drank it in deep, like I knew you'd want me to / And the grace that helped me see, is on account of you / On account of you / I wore down my knees, and through it all you fought for me / About a thousand miles to go to be half the man I oughta be / Can't seem to settle down… never learned to act my age / If I'm written in the book… it's sure hell to find the page / If the angels come for me, it's on account of you / On account of you / You threw my heart at the moon / I'm not sure where it's been / But it's lighter than it was / And I can love again / Yesterday, I got myself back down to Santa Fe / Took the mountain road, to watch the shadows play a matinee / Flying high above the maze, in which I once was lost / I don't need to understand, just keep me aloft / That I have wings to fly, is on account of you / On account of you

To the River - Take me down to the river / Where the man named Jesus goes to pray / I know that the water / Is going to carry my sins far away / Tho' the road there is long / And tho' the sun's heat is strong / Point the way and I won't tarry / The darkest shadow are paled / By the dawn / Take me down to the river / Where the man named Jesus goes to pray / I know that the water / Is going to carry my sins far away / And if He asks, I'll step aside / For the many more tired than I / The last put first - a child who's hungry / I know He'll call me on down / By and by / Take me down to the river / Where the man named Jesus goes to pray / I know that the water / Is going to carry my sins far away / When the road ends don't cry for me / Beside the water I'll finally be / And when I'm down - down by the river / I'll feel the clay cool / My poor weary feet / Take me down to the river / Where the man named Jesus goes to pray / I know that the water / Is going to carry my sins far away

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