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Love Run Out
03:19
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Love Run Out
Sweet sister Mary was no ordinary one she knew the way of the world
Dark eyed and curly she found out early to never fly feelings unfurled
A perfectly modern girl
But I know the truth babe, you lie through every tooth babe
I ain't no Babe Ruth babe but I can hit home
Don't let your love run out
You have to scream and shout
Don't let your love run out
Run out on you
Walks in her summer dress queen in her game of chess
makes every move with her head
she don't let her heart get mixed Up in nobody's tricks,
she don't take chances, instead...
believes everything that she's read
I see the light babe and it just ain't right babe
That every night babe, it shines alone
Don't let your love run out
You have to scream and shout
Don't let your love run out
Run out on you
Sweet sister Mary, she's no missionary, she don't carry nobody's word
She's got herself to feed, nobody else can lead her to believe what she's heard
Chained to the sky like a bird
Don't let your love run out
You have to scream and shout
Don't let your love run out
Run out on you
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2. |
Joni Joni
03:42
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Joni Joni
You were comin from some strange affairs
When I found you on the hotel stairs
Waitin out the rain and scared of everything
I saw you needed my affection
Took you in gave you my protection
Even witnessed to your ressurection happening
Oh Joni Joni how can it be
You loved all a them bad bad boys But you never loved me
I think I see
All those years I spent in tryin
Holdin you while you were cryin
Even when I knew that you were lyin
Yes I knew
And when you found your love had faded
Just like a movie scene you played it
An actor on the screen you made it
Seem so true
Oh Joni Joni how can it be
You loved all a them bad bad boys But you never loved me
I think I see
Now I see you movin’ down the line bettin on the race
Where the buses run on time and disappear without a trace
And the only thing you left behind are the lines upon your face
Never mind never mind you’re runnin in place
I hear you’re on the street again
All dressed up in the fallin rain
Sayin nothin’s lost and nothins gained
And nothin’s real
So I’ll be leavin town with mixed emotions
Girl you’ve earned my undyin devotion
With your velvet voice and your cool commotion
Hard to feel
Oh Joni Joni how can it be
You loved all a them bad bad boys But you never loved me
I think I see
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3. |
Bones Of The Boulevard
03:37
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Bones Of The Boulevard
On the pavement where the sidewalk starts
In the doorway of a thousand hearts
The stories and the mem’ries still linger on
Somethin’ that you just can’t put your finger on
The pulse in the veins of the bones of the boulevard
There are footsteps like ghosts in the wind
And the whisperin’ like voices of your kin
watchin from the rooftops watchin from the street
While the underground rises to the bottoms of your feet
Don’t have to look too hard to find the bones of the boulevard
And its human hearts dreams and hope
Mortar and brick and steel and rope
And its stone
on stone
on stone
on the bones
Bones of the boulevard
**was once a place of prosperity full of large tribes
now you see abandoned buildings once the boulevard dies
roses comin’ out the concrete wakin up from my sleep
take the bones and make museums come alive like its Jumanji
it won’t live if we don’t breathe it and hope the kids can see it
let the youth get with experience to make us all acheive it
we survived the worst of treatment so let defeat walk the street beneath it
the city’s got heart and this is where we need to keep it**
If the threadbare shopworn walls could tell
All the stories and the lives that they know so well
People in the trolleys and the curbside crawl
The singers and the drummers in the music hall
Gonna roll it all
On the bones of the boulevard
**rap lyric by LDG
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4. |
Daddy's Little Girl
06:18
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Daddy's Little Girl
Janie got a seat on the crosstown took it to the second stop
Papers blowin' round in the dirty town she steps down to the walk
Looks up at the clock by the drive in teller knows she's a little bit late
Still time to turn back, it ain't that white and black
but she's outta money and she's outta state
She's daddy's little girl in a grown up world
outta sight and goin' outta her mind
and runnin
runnin outta time
Never ate a bite at the restaurant shredded napkin and a tip left behind
No appetite, never slept all night down to the wire still ain't made up her mind
Its hard sometimes walkin a lonely line where no side is sellin' alibis
Its a lonely choice when the only voice you can hear, you don't recognize
She's daddy's little girl in a grown up world
outta sight and goin' outta her mind
and runnin
runnin outta time
Two hearts beat in the noon day heat two hands can't help but shake
Two minute ride ain't no time to decide if it's give or if it's take
Spins on her heel and walks up straight feelin' like just one grain of sand
Against the wind will she think she's sinned once this cup passes from her hand
Like a soldier in the fire of a battlefield like a sailor starin' down a typhoon
Nothin' can replace comin' face to face
with your demons in the hour of high noon
So don't you swear no oaths don't you shed no tears
don't you be the one out flingin' stones
'Cause there but for the close of a door its you who'd be under the gun
She's daddy's little girl in a grown up world
outta sight and goin' outta her mind
and runnin… runnin outta time
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Last Chance For Your Love
Now I try and I try but I get no reply
You know you make me wonder
What I need to do to make you hear
The things you say keep me mystified
I'm really near surrender
Won’t you yell it to my tell it to my ear
Time after time you stepped over the line
Now you must believe me take or leave me behind
Last chance for your love
Whaddya gonna do my baby
Last chance for your love
Last chance for you....
I never meant for the time we spent to
Die down to smolder
But you walk in and out of love so easily
Like rooms to rent you came and went just a..
Shrug of your shoulders
Now I'm the one who's heart reads 'vacancy'
Now the damage has been done
I don't need a ton of bricks to fall on me
Girl your race is run
Last chance for your love
Whaddya gonna do my baby
Last chance for your love
Last chance for you....
Last chance for your love
Whaddya gonna do my baby
Last chance for your love
Last chance for you….
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6. |
Midnight On Main Street
04:39
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Midnight On Main Street
On the rainsoaked ransacked hardpacked street
where the steamin stone sidewalk pounds hard against your feet
and the words of love lie forever in concrete
and a thousand different sounds all make one drivin beat
In the oilcan blackness in the neon glare
where the buses crawl by leavin diesel in the air
and the ladies on the corner make you stop and stare
its alright its alright its alright there
Its midnight on main street
gotta sing it right it sweet
its midnight on main street
midnight
midnight
Now the king’s cruisin losin everything on four wheels
the joker is a smoker and the queen isn’t real
the jack and his smack says he’s ready to deal
while the sidewalk saviour’s bout to help you to heal
And Whiskey Dick the Fatman is glad to take your bet
you can get rich quick but you ain’t rich yet
and a handful o wishes boy is all that you get
when you’re clean outta jack he won’t let you forget
Its midnight on main street
gotta sing it right it sweet
its midnight on main street
midnight
midnight
Now the vacant lot ladies in the backroom bars
cling to the tails of the sidewalk stars
the saxophone sounds on the car radio
and the dragsters wait for the greenlight go
they explode in the night like a magnum ’45
you gotta move fast if you wanna survive
Sally’s in the alley and she’s dressed for killin
lookin for young Johnny who’s ready and willin
he’s leavin in the mornin goin back to oil drillin
but tonight he’s breakin all the hearts like a B movie villain
And the Chubby Kid walks with a pistol on his hip
he knows where its at but he don’t let it slip
gettin lost in the crowded sea on the concrete strip
till the dawn breaks water like the prow of a ship
Its midnight on main street
gotta play it fast gotta say it sweet
its midnight on main street
midnight
midnight
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7. |
Oughta Be Rainin'
03:40
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Oughta Be Rainin'
I'm still not sure I said it to you I gotta give credit to you
You took it better than I thought you would
I guess you got me thinkin and I know you got me drinkin'
But this empty bottle’s doin me no good
Now the suns going down and I'm stuck in this damn town
The way I feel today it oughta be rainin'
Mmmm yea it oughta be rainin
Now I ain't one for fightin I ain't one for bein right 'n
I ain't one to always wanna have my way
But you don't make it easy on me I don't wanna be the only
One you ever treated this a way
Now the suns going down and I'm stuck in this damn town
The way I feel today it oughta be rainin'
Mmmm yea it oughta be rainin
I thought that I was doin' everything that would keep you in love with me
Not outta sight nor out of mind
Aint it funny how you fooled me turned me round and then you cooled me
Like an icy morning hits you from behind
Now the suns going down and I'm stuck in this damn town
The way I feel today it oughta be rainin'
Mmmm yea it oughta be rainin
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8. |
I Can See Light
03:38
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I Can See Light
You sit by the window child at your breast
Stayin' warm in the sunshine the place you love best
Lord knows I'm a dreamer a tree climbin' child
But one could do worse you know, tho' its been a long while
I can see light
I can see light
'Til the dark won't defeat me tonight
Caught by the wind like an old newspaper blowin' down a tired two lane
You know how it feels spinning your wheels
in the rain
In the rain
So I'll buy you curtains and an old brass bed
'cause I know you've been hurtin' I know you’ve been sad
But you never gave up on me you never gave in
Stood right beside me through the nights without end
I can see light
I can see light
Til the dark won't defeat me
The dark won't defeat me
The dark won't defeat me
Tonight...
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9. |
Mistake Again
03:19
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Mistake Again
Even tho you keep me so uneasy, even tho you had a laugh on me
Tables turned and now's your chance to please me
you won't get away this time so easily
I won't let you hurt me, make me out a fool
Run off and desert me, you gotta live by my rules
I won't make that same mistake again
honey better believe me
I won't let you make my heart break again
I'm holdin' all o the aces this time
I see all o your faces this time baby
I ain't lookin for your true confession
I don't need your warehouse words your put-on airs
You can find yourself a new obsession
you can pawn your bullshit down where someone cares
If I wanted shot up I woulda joined the army
Honey now I'm not up to lettin lovers harm me
I won't make that same mistake again
honey better believe me
I won't let you make my heart break again
I'm holdin' all o the aces this time
I see all o your faces this time baby
Its something of a joke now, just between friends
Isn't any punch line
Isn't any ending
I won't make that same mistake again
honey better believe me
I won't let you make my heart break again
I'm holdin' all o the aces this time
I see all o your faces this time baby
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10. |
Coconut Honey
04:02
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Coconut Honey
Out on the island where the palm trees sway drink dark rum and they dance all day
They don’t need to have no band they make music just clappin their hands
Got no newspaper and no TV Everybody friends with the honey bee
People on the island all live in huts and the honey bee live in the coconut
Mama sing Coconut Honey Papa sing Coconut honey
Children sing Coconut honey Feel good all the time
When you're feelin ill from the tropical heat lyin on your back gettin sunburned feet
Mouth all dry and your hands all wet from smokin them funny lookin cigarettes
Doctor come over and he feel around
Give you coconut honey make you swallow it down
Coconut honey and island girls nothin' taste better in the whole wide world
Mama sing Coconut Honey Papa sing Coconut honey
Children sing Coconut honey Feel good all the time
Coconut honey (this is good advice) Make a love potion. Taste real nice
Wonder where the yellow went when you the best lover in the continent
Grandpa swear by the honey bee got ninenty nine children
He's a hundred and three
Gramma runnin for the kitchen door
'cause grandpa like to have a couple a' more
Mama sing Coconut Honey Papa sing Coconut honey
Children sing Coconut honey Feel good all the time
Now when my body no longer alive bury me down by the honey bee hive
Cover me up where the honey bee sing. Cause the devil, he dont wanna get sting
When I arrive at the pearly gates, that's when I negotiate
And I'll get in before you do. St. Peter like coconut honey too
Mama sing Coconut Honey Papa sing Coconut honey
Children sing Coconut honey
Feel good all the time
Feel good all the time
Feel good all the time
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11. |
River Of Night
03:57
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River Of Night
I can see you in the window pane by the moonlight on the wall
Starin' out at the winter rain not aware of me at all
Been such a long time since the night has been so kind
Thought it was a dream you know, thought i'd wake and find
That its later than you think
Come and take another drink
We might sail and we might sink
on the river of night
Caught between time and lines we don't even know
Where the struggle for love takes the stage in every show
Just when I think I'm wastin' time searchin' for my dreams
I see you smilin' face I hear your music and it seems.....
.... Like we've been here before
Standin' at heaven's door
Gettin older, gettin younger, gettin wise
Robbin' time you know I can see it in your eyes
And its later than you think
Come and take another drink
We might sail and we might sink
on the river of night
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12. |
True
03:45
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True
You say it's too late for words
too many lies you have heard
Ah, but I have come to tell you
I'm not here to sell you alibis
You've wanted so to believe
While others laughed up their sleeves
Ah but listen to me now babe
I can make a vow babe to you
Do what you want to think what you will
every word I say to you is true
yeh it's true
I know the hurt has been real
I think I know how you feel
Ah but I didn't come this far just
To shovel all this stardust at you
what will you do
Do what you want to think what you will
every word I say to you is true
yeh it's true
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13. |
Dreamin's Alright
03:41
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Dreamin's Alright
Golden rings and guitar strings and half smoked cigarettes
The best surprise is no surprise at all
Makin' up lines that end in rhymes but never pay my debts
And I'm still robbin' Peter to pay Paul
Playin games an matchin names and wonderin where it gets me
Seldom further than the next hotel
Lonliness Night Train Express neither one forgets me
Tried to change my style but I'm known too well
Burnin all my bridges, I've got promises to keep
and if time won't let me sleep that won't surprise me
Dreamin's alright to keep the demons from your night
But I just let the road hypnotize me
Empty halls n empty walls n dog eared magazines
Time… and I ain't gettin' any younger
Time to go and change the show, drop the sadder scenes
Time to stop the hurt and stop the hunger
Burnin all my bridges, I've got promises to keep
and if time won't let me sleep that won't surprise me
Dreamin's alright to keep the demons from your night
But I just let the road hypnotize me
Golden rings and guitar strings and half smoked cigarettes......
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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio
Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing
community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan.
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