Track Listing:
1- Coming Home 2- Cold Winds 3- In the Name of Rock and Roll 4- Baby it's Me 5- Twister 6- Daylight Come Again 7- Last Tear 8- Mesa Moon 9- Carry Some Lovin' 10- Freedom 11- Holdin' On
1- Coming Home
There’s a red sun rising on a summer field
Wildflowers line the hill
The river’s running lazy
to the tune of the whippoorwill
The old dirt road goes winding through the forest out to the highway
Traveling alone, traveling alone but I’m on my way
Chorus:
Babe your smile brings me home
Makes everything alright
When we say goodbye I die inside as I step into the night
Cold and alone is how the highway feels, headlights burning bright
I’m coming home
Sometimes it’s hard to say some things
I get shy, I don’t know why
I feel it most out on the road
when I’m alone in overdrive
If I’m workin’down in the city or cruisin’ ‘long the countryside
for every time I thank God for home there’s a star up in the sky
(chorus)
There’s a half moon glowing on a snowy field
The stars are on the hill
The river’s still running lazy
but everything else is frozen still
The old dirt road comes winding through the forest from the highway
Traveling home, traveling home... I’m on my way
(chorus)
2- Cold Winds
Got the word, it wasn’t good
It knocked me down from where I stood
It’s never easy, It’s never fair
Sometimes it helps to act like you don’t care
My baby cries, I scratch my head
Was it something I said ?
I don’t know, lost my mind
Can’t find no rhythm, ain’t got no time
Chorus:
La, la, la, la, la,
That’s just the way things go
La, la, la, la ,la
And then the cold winds blow
Honey love if I had more time
I’d fix you up and make you mine
Put you on a pedestal
I’d bring red roses and daffodils
But honey love don’t let me bleed
Not when you got more than I need
I need you bad, I need you now
I can’t keep swimming I don’t know how
(chorus)
The curtain’s drawn the lights are dim
I’m all alone... no, not again
I don’t know how this can go on
My will is broken, my spirit’s gone
Come light the fire, come light the way
Illuminate the words I say
I need the warmth I need the sun
I can’t believe the time that’s gone
(chorus)
3- In The Name of Rock & Roll
He grew up blew this old town
Put his thumb on the road he was west coast bound
For the land of milk and honey where fallen stars
cruise the boulevard in those fancy cars
Chorus:
Oh, the deeper you go
You need another hit just to soothe your soul
Oh, it takes it’s toll
You do it in the name of rock and roll
Down today gotta get it up tonight
Got to keep ‘em dancing ‘til the morning light
Shots of gold and funny cigarettes
take you even higher than it gets (chorus)
Why’d you go ? I knew you well
At least I did last night in that cheap motel
Mystery woman dressed in black
You’re gonna need a hundred horses to hold me back (chorus)
Goodnight moon the sunrise is now
I didn’t really need the sleep anyhow
Strong black coffee and those funny cigarettes
and a road guitar is as good as it gets (chorus)
4- Baby It’s Me
Woke up in the morning all tangled in the sheets
Dreamt someone had stolen my soul
Crawled out of bed took a drag to ease my head
fell down a bottomless hole
Finally hit the floor, couldn’t take it anymore
buzzing like a big old honey bee
....baby it’s me
So then I picked up all the pieces to put ‘em back again
but still had some left in my hands
Tried to force ‘em in and it all came tumbling down again
didn’t know what to do so I ran
Now I’m running one step late caught up in the fate
of all those things you never foresee
....baby it’s me
Chorus:
Down, down in a valley so low
Can’t stop thinking of where I wanna go
Somewhere the breeze blows warm and the days move.... slow....
She’s such a pretty thing man, wonder what she’s like
There’s only some things you need to know
Does her soul sing by the early morning light ?
or melt by the warm fire glow
Don’t wanna worry, don’t wanna hurt
I only wanna be where I wanna be....baby it’s me (chorus)
Kill the light, sleep tight, guess you’re calling it a night
It feels so early to me
You don’t get much time ‘fore your past your prime
so down and out ain’t where I wanna be
The moon’s hanging high in the early morning sky
and I could use a little company....baby it’s me
5- Twister
Been down this road so many times I don’t read the signs
Just gotta keep my wheels inside the lines
Kinda feels like flying, sometimes even blind
Got too many thoughts trapped in my old mind
Chorus:
There’s a twister blowing through the field
Some poor fool’s fate is good as sealed
Get me back on the road, back behind the wheel
keep wasting time thinking ‘bout the way I feel
Just stepped in some quicksand, think I’m goin’ down
Screaming for mercy but no one hears a sound
Kinda feels like sinking, getting swallowed by ground
Don’t look for me honey... I don’t wanna be found
(chorus)
The radio’s playing... some old tired tune
Black smoke and ashes hide away the moon
The wind’s dying, daybreak will be soon
Gotta go and get some water, believe I better buy a broom
(chorus)
6- Daylight Come Again
I left the door wide open
Who knew you’d really run away
It’s a world of predators babe
so you’re the perfect prey
This summer really burned the city
Everything is slowing down
Gotta get my head together
I hope by dawn you come back around
Chorus:
Dark, lonely night
You need some moonshine
Shine on through daylight
Daylight come again
Coyote howlin’ in the woods
Babes cry in the barrios & neighborhoods
Mamma bee’s been buzzing all day
Dirty daddy’s ducking down an alleyway
Sundown on the black highway
it’s gonna steal away the day
I’m road-weary with worn out wheels
Wanna click my heels....fly away
(chorus)
Sunrise pave new morning skies
Come early dawn open my eyes
Wake me laughing, make me cry
anything to feel I’m alive
There are days I think ‘bout heaven
and wonder can it be there ?
Then the morning sky reminds me
God’s gotta be living somewhere
(chorus)
7- Last Tear
She's staring out that old cracked kitchen window
To that river longingly
Come morning she'll be gone
Come time to carry on
Save the last tear for me
For every season there came another reason
For every reason a little more insanity
Too many bills, too many pills
Too many need-to-get-your thrills
Save the last tear for me
Chorus:
Blow me down you wicked wind
That's one less time you'll take me by surprise
Lift me up, standing straight again
Facing toward the northern sky
Growing's not just wasted on the young ones
We all grow older helplessly
Now that river's running through what was once me and you
Save the last tear for me
And in the morning when you travel down that highway
Chasing whatever sets you free
Think of all we had and how it all turned bad
And save the last tear for me (chorus)
She's staring out that old cracked kitchen window
To that river longingly
Come morning she'll be gone, come time to carry on
Save the last tear for me
8- Mesa Moon
Took that old highway to anywhere but here
Where my wheels were headed, I didn’t know
Drove ‘round in wasted dreams, slept behind the wheel
Woke up in a moon-lit summer field
Chorus:
Sweet Mesa Moon high above the night
Burning like a beacon blinding my eyes
Another constellation goes slowly rolling by
Can’t get that Mesa Moon out of my mind
Been running with the devil but he’s no friend of mine
He just seems to follow everywhere I go
We’re gonna chase the Mesa Moon ‘cross every county line
from New England to the Gulf of Mexico
(chorus)
Broke down on the highway, hey honey can ya spare a ride ?
Been burning from the rays of old high noon
Thirsty, hot and stranded on the lonesome roadside
Take me to the light of Mesa Moon
Sweet Mesa Moon
Moon shadow on the highway this old day is gone
No time to rest, gotta keep movin’ on
Somewhere down that highway is somewhere I wanna be
but it keeps moving further away from me
(chorus)
9- Carry Some Lovin’
Broken down, broken up
that’s all I’ll ever be
There’s gotta be some way my love
to bring you back home to me
Chorus:
Over the mountain
High above the sea
Please come home my woman
Carry some lovin’ to me
There’s a distant hum beyond the hills
must be the rumbling of a train
I won’t rest until I hear
your sweet voice whispering my name
(chorus)
Crusty eyes, dusty shoes
Rusted tears, broken blues
Ragged clothes, hungry heart
A little piece of me goes missing
every day we’re apart
(chorus)
10- Freedom
August fifth of ninety three was when they locked me in
Yesterday they set me free, I paid for all my sins
For all those years I lived inside a filthy cage
Brother, that can really make you age
Down and out when I was young I stole a .22
Did some things against the law, did what I had to do
They took me down to see the judge, he threw the book at me
Locked me away and swallowed up the key
Chorus:
Sun’s hot, sky’s blue
I need someone to get me through
May she be so pretty....make me forget
I got a job but it pays like shit, today I’ll see my kid
But every letter that he wrote kept asking what I did
I got no time for worry, too much time is dead
And worry just messes with your head
Chorus:
Sun’s hot, Sky’s blue I need someone to get me through
May she be so pretty, make me forget
Wasted years inside a cell of stone-cold walls, a living hell
Those days are done but I ain’t finished yet
Chestnut hair, dark brown eyes is all I wanna know
The old motel just down the road is where I wanna go
‘Cause right now I could use the touch of your warm, tender skin
to ease my mind and fix the shape I’m in
(chorus)
11- Holdin’ On
She’s been holdin’ on
She’s been holdin’ loose
One hand got the golden egg
One hand got the goose
She knows a dying love
can never be exhumed
She spends the morning waiting
in a darkened room
Chorus:
For the rain to die
For the sun to burn
To warm the better days
when they return
He’s been working hard
Said he’s working late
He’s got one foot in the fire
one foot out the gate
The truth is all he needs
the truth he can’t tell
He knows it’s in the garden
waiting in the well
(chorus)
She’s been holdin’ on
Now she’s holdin’ tight
With both hands on the carousel
she holds with all her might
She wants everything
back where it belongs
It seems she’s been waiting
a little bit too long
(chorus)