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Kidnap County
03:11
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Maybe one, for the road
Make it two, before I go
After three, I'm on the freeway
Just four miles to go
About five after midnight
Highway six way behind
Pushin seventy five or over
Blowin eight for state patrol
Now I'm in, the pen
of kidnap county
With a meth, head
breathing down my neck
And the cold ground
Is all I'm feeling
Now one here but me to blame.
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2. |
Gray Was Red
03:49
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There was no union in the land
Though wiseman labored on
With links of clay and ropes of sand
To bind the right from wrong
Enough for them to ask and know
The moment's duty clear
Bayonets flashed it below
No time, no fear
To do and dare and die at need
While life is left to fight
Right or wrong a simple creed
But simplest for the right
They faltered not who stood that day
And held their post of dread
No cowards they who wore the gray
Until the gray was red
The gray, was red
The gray, was red
The gray
For every wreath a victor wears
The vanquished half may claim
Every monument declares
A common pride and fame
O soldier of our common land
Tis thin to bear the blade
Loose in sheath or firm in hand
Forever blue and gray
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Paralyzed
04:09
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You wake up in the morning
With a feeling you can't describe
Don't know what it could be
But you think it could be why
You bowed down to Jesus
Bent the knee to men
Feel a rise deep inside
But you aint seen nothing yet
Too far gone, you can't hide
In between, paralyzed
In the back there's a woman
Thought she belonged
Finding out the hard way
That the money is all gone
We might look for heaven
In the house of the dead
Sometimes it's right beside you
Laying in your bed
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Goodbye Lullaby
04:24
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Another day goes by without you on my mind
Places we take up change in time
Still your light it shines through everything
You always had a way of getting in to me
When it's over your high is gone
Fade me out at the end of your song
Goodbye lullaby
Now I'm left inside the mess we made
I guess it's better that you went away
Getting harder now to close my eyes
The only place you know I just can't hide
When it's over your high is gone
Fade me out at the end of your song
Nothing left just feels so wrong
Goodbye lullaby
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5. |
Summer Knights
02:08
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Signs fly by as the engine whistles and whines
Smiling more and more now with every mile
Then we slow it down, pass it around
Down by the river on the edge of town
Jump right in and pass it one more time
With the rag top down and the rock n roll radio up
Spittin those seeds in a dirty old dixie cup
Nothin like summer nights with summer love
Sun goes down and we feel the summer set
Back to the black top, we aint done yet
Diner for dinner and a shake to share
Feel the wind blowin through our hair
Pedal to the metal let's see where we can get
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Skinny Blue Seattle, Washington
Skinny Blue (aka Thys Wallwork) is first and foremost a student of the Blues. Blending influences from the Delta's dirty Blues to Seattle's gritty Grunge, he's developed his own unique sound and style.
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