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Runaway Ghost
06:09
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That train used to run
About five times a day
Right across our land
But I guess they paid
Didn't have much choice
Much choice that won't
Go off in the night
On that Runaway Ghost
Runaway Ghost coast to coast
Let a poor boy ride and his Little Girl Lost
Tracks running straight from yesterday
You can ride even if you paid
The old man I remember
He could shoot
Now he's gone forever
In the line of duty
That greatness must have
Skipped a generation
All I knew he left us
There at the station
Chorus
Counting old arrowheads
By a hurricane lamp
Shared with the Cree
Whatever we had
Mama could always
Make the most
Everything else left
On that Runaway Ghost
Chorus
Riding shotgun
Drinking like a travelling salesman
Suicide door
To suicide door and
Run out of gas
We'd borrow another
One more shot
And it's good night brother
Chorus
I played the traps
And I played my hand
Until the jive went out
And they axed the band
Sold the juke box
Sure to go down slow
Now who remembers that thing
Called Rock and Roll
~
Chorus
I left the farm
For that steady pay
It's longer now
To yesterday
Where am I bound
When all I know
Is I'm riding tonight
On that Runaway Ghost
Chorus
You can ride even if you paid
You can ride even if you paid
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2. |
Highway
06:49
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Was it the road
From the Golden Gate and on
That kept us walking together
When the honeymoon was gone
Was it the wind
That lifted us as wings
Pretty as a cuckoo
Who flies as she sings
Was it a daydream
Simple and childish
That emptied us like bottles
Left us wasted as a wish
Was it the season
That turned us around again
Our last legs on that home stretch
On the road that never ends
Take to the Highway
Hell bent on Heaven
Seven come eleven
You and I will stay
On the Highway
Highway
Was it the river
That washed us free and clean
Where the ripples only mingle
For a moment endlessly
Was it the sea
That called us to our souls
Headlong through the storm
To the mystery unknown
Was it the Moonlight
In the sky so dark and cool
That pulled us by our heartstrings
Each the willing fool
Was it the sky above us
Who's ever changing hues
Carries song and sorrow
And suffers both the two
Take to the Highway
Took the low way
Got there just the same
Just one more day
On the Highway
Highway
Was it the rain
There always was the rain
No shelter but each other
There always was the rain
Was it the sunshine
That set up on the hill
While you and I were dancing
And even lingers still
Was it the song
Put angels in your eyes
Or did we just imagine
That glimpse of paradise
Was it love or money
That left you here
I'm helpless all I've got now
Is an upper hand on fear
Take to the Highway
Ain't no free way
You can stay
If you can stay
On the Highway
Highway
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Take to the Highway
Hell bent on Heaven
Seven come eleven
You and I will stay
On the Highway
Highway
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3. |
Joyville
06:45
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This old town's a real fixer upper
A real work in progress
It's bound to get worse
Before it gets better
And that's anyone's guess
It's got good bones and a heart of stone
And my happy home
We're just hoping for the best
Since we're in on a loan
Chorus
Where's the joy in Joyville
Everyone
Where's the joy in Joyville
We're getting by on fun
Where's the joy in Joyville
I ain't seen it since I don't know when
Where's the joy in Joyville
We're gonna have to make it up again
You in your old beater
And I called shotgun
Heading for the drive in
In your hundred dollar hit and run
It's the West and story
The Yohawks and the Squirrels
It's all the same in the end
It's all over a girl
Went down to the Carleton
Just to see if they knew Delmer
Didn't get one straight answer
'till the British hotel Aylmer
They burned the church
All that we could do
Was stand in disbelief
You can't burn some things like a book
And make off like a thief
Chorus
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You're going to pay the street tax
Either way around here
It's almost worse to fit than not
And our future's in arrears
Way downtown they're working to rule
At the give-a-shit switch
It's the only rule they will obey
I guess I'm drinking a finer vintage
Chorus
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4. |
In the Day
06:42
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You could play Bojangles pretty good
Who could hit the moon shine like you could
And I followed further down the road
Than I thought it would ever go
In the day
Old as a rock and rolling like a stone
Seems like just a day or two ago
When there was time and time there was
There was them and then there was us
In the day
I know these are the days
I'm just looking back a ways
In the day in the day
Paradise comes like a kingdom on the run
Who would have believed oh there were some
In the day
All these days just been on the run
Seems about like since kingdom come
There ain’t no end and you just begun
And you just kinda left me on the run
In the day
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5. |
Sideman Serenade
05:47
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Looking at the shoreline
As the lights just fade away
It could be me dreaming
For that live long day
Cause this ain't much alone
Just the name and the game
It's just the man overboard
Gets any kind of fame
It was all I could do
Just to get in tune
And lay my dreams face up
At the Suicide Saloon
There's dreams and there are dreams
It's the gambler talkin' now
Keep em all up your sleeve
You might just lose em to lay 'em down
....to lay 'em down
You can play for honey
You can play for gold
Just give them what they want
And leave them there cold
Oh I tried American Pie
The good old boys and I
Couldn't make the levee
No matter how hard I tried
Don't know how many years it took
Just to play to those ashtrays
But I'll never play that hand again
No matter what it pays
There are times and there are times
I could play the game
I said never again but then
Never's a long day
...it's a long day
So I'm going up that river
The river to the source
Maybe I'm the only one
Calling out for more
More of that old sorrow
More of the same
What more that river's running
Running through my veins
So come on Champagne Charlie
Come on Sweet Jane
Come on Old Man River
We're in the same boat anyway
Singing that long song
On a short ship hey hey
It goes life is but a dream
So why am I still awake
Singing that long song on a short ship hey hey
It goes life is but a dream so why am I still awake
Singing that long song it's a sideman serenade
It goes life is but a dream so why am I still awake
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6. |
Seen the Wind
05:34
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There's a cold wind blowing out of town
With a high lonesome sound
On a midnight too dark to see
But there's some things you can only feel
There's some things you can only feel
Who has seen the wind
Where it goes or where it begins
You and me from what we can see
Just wondering
Wondering
Who has seen the wind
Summer comes along like an old friend
I ain't seen you since I don't know when
Some things change and some will always be
And there's some things you can only feel
There's some things you can only feel
(chorus)
Give me shelter from the cold and rain
Give me something to understand
Our love you can't see that it's real
But there's some things you can only feel
There's some things you can only feel
(chorus)
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Wondering through catastrophe
Wondering through destiny
Wondering what to believe
Wondering
Wondering
Who has seen the wind
In the dark tell me what it's about
In the light there's a shadow of doubt
There's no one who can make you believe
There's some things you can only feel
There's some things you can only feel
(chorus)
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7. |
Christian
04:57
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Christian walked in through the door
Said what have you all been waiting for
You may take me for my brother
We all must be some one another ....
The crowd was wild the night was wet
The truth is he said
Though I came here not alone
That'll be the way I go
When I go
I will leave you more than you will keep
The plan not mine occult and deep
Some doubter shouted hey pilgrim
We've seen it all before and grinned
Christian said oh I don't care
And this enough to clear the air
Through the smoke the keeper says
As long as someone pays
Still out she stays
The crowd still with unrest
Another round the loudest says
What could I do to quench your thirst
that you could not do yourself first
Some hand grumbles loaves and fishes ...
I wouldn't want to do the dishes
It may be free but I must confess
It seems one hell of a mess
Hell of a mess
Christian sang his lost verse
while his hosts did their worst
He bared his soul and very heart
The keeper he just tended bar
I will do for you Christian said
But I won't do it instead
Choose you who listen before too long
To hear the tune or sing the song
Sing the song
Well I've done without before
I didn't live to tell the story
We all have our cross to bear
The story goes by who weren't there
I can relieve your poverty
But it would be replaced with greed
My father he could pay your debt
Though paying it means certain death
Certain death
The old man he can be a mother
I'll take you to his house brother
There's no getting in without me
No matter what your need
A party soon becomes a mob
Some are born to do the job
They searched the pilgrim after the deed
All they found was one blank key
One blank key
A lady never enters
That she may never know
How thankless are her labours
Whose fruits distill so low
While you were without lady
Your right hand man offended me
Forgive me what's done is done
You will never know my son
My son
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8. |
Arcadia
05:39
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Taking it on faith
Making it the same
Currency is our bond
The great beyond the trade
On this mortal soil
Unraveling the coil
Until every mystery
Is offered up as spoil
From out the many one
Underneath the sun
Blazing our decline and fall
Everyone
All roads lead to the ruins of Rome
The spectacle of the stadium
Let the games begin
We're good to go
In Arcadia
Is there any chance
In these lands
As it were a crucible
The work at hand
Words of wisdom spread
From out the talking head
It's all in the delivery
Now that it's all been said
Here's one free thought
Everything else is gonna cost
This supply of demand
Was so dearly bought
Chorus
Try to try again
This means the end
Virtually everything
Is yours now to pretend
You can't save this game
And try over again
When your turn is over
You leave only your name
The ghost of the machine
Is haunting everything
Surely just a shadow
Of the grand scheme
Chorus
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Come to take our chances
Come by way of Atlantis
Come by roads less traveled
Blazing by the sun
Gone beyond the firmament
Gone beyond commandment
Gone beyond all saving us
In Arcadia
Are we good to go
What you want to know
Are we good to go
Why you want to know
Are we good to go
I want to know
Are we good to go
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May well ask the wind
Say where you coming from
Ain't so all fire different
Sun to rising sun
How many moons
Are gonna come and go before
You're a-breezing
Through my door
You saw right past
The golden chariot dawn
The stars are outside falling
Your curtains all are drawn
You turned your eyes
To feast on this alone
The time is ripe
And you my dear it's waiting on
So full the moon
To wax poetically
So like a stone in spin
Theoretically
A song that comes to mind
By way of heart and soul
A measure, two
At least I know
(Chorus)
Oh the Laughing Wind
The Divine Comedy
Singing over my head
Did you hear what I see
Oh the Laughing Wind
Oh the Laughing Wind
Oh the Laughing Wind
I catch your drift
Fleeting Zephyr
Reel in the mists
The same as ever
Following the Lovelight's
Fleet will-o-the-wisp
To a Faerie Tale ending
With a little twist
÷÷÷÷÷
Author Author
A bow will not suffice
Author of scene one
And our own demise
The Last Act written
I was wondering
Who laughs last
In this Comedy
Chorus
Did you hear
The one about the wind
Did you get it
It's over my head
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10. |
The Lay of the Land
06:53
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Sing the Lay of the Land
Sing the unsung land
History of wyrd and word
Hers the dance the song unheard
Let Regina rain
Wash the shores of Thunder Bay
See the lay of the land
Number the stars and the sands
Kings and queens and jokers high
Chariots bold on wheels of sky
Hear the lay of the land
There in couplets stand
Between the margins tongue and tale
Over plain through hallowed vale
Where Regina reigns
Oh child of the Regina rain
Born to rise and fall again
In the rain the Regina rain
What becomes and what became
Oh child the start the end
From the low the high began
In the rain the Regina rain
That falls to rise to fall again
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Sing The Lay of the Land
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Dave Muir New Brunswick
Dave Muir is a musical artist from Ottawa, currently based in Atlantic Canada. Dave has been crafting his unique style and sound since the early 80s performing in various blues, rock, roots, and acoustic groups. Inspired by the diverse stylings of a century of music making, he brings his humble and unassuming nature to song with the soul of a timeless storyteller, and the heart of a poet. ... more
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