Coeur D' Alene
Addie Jill the Pyromaniac
Across the frozen meadow, biting chills
Safe inside a cabin, with Addie Jill
Dear she said I love you, you said
I'd write you a song
But that was just last summer
Both so young
Echo of a home life, both hid from your fires
Rolled beneath the dark hay
Heavy breath those nights
Oh she said let's stay here
You said, once winter ends
But spring it never blossomed
The meadow dead
How far would you go to say I love you
How far would you go to say I need you
Can't live without you
Late inside December, the cabin grew cold
The once bright colored lilies
Lay down as they wilt
Dear she said, don't leave me
You said, our love's already died
You left her in the evening
And Addie Cried
How far would you go to say I love you
How far would you go to say I need you
I'd die without you
So Addie set the fire, on a cold afternoon
She lit but two wet matches, but this fire grew
Dear she said I love you
But only the ghosts heard her call
So Addie in this fire
watched her world burn
How far would you go to say I love you
How far would you go to say I hate you
She's dead without you
So late inside April
The cabin stood still
And deep beneath the ashes
Lay Addie Jill
You're just a sailor, hopeful yet,
With a drawstring bag of cigarettes
So give and take that one for me, I pray
As we sail from the sea
River's gold, we keep one better
A cigarette in stormy weather
I swear I'll love you just the same, I pray
As we sail to Coeur D'Alene
So tell me, will you forget?
I can't hold on darlin'
Will you forget?
I swear I'll keep on calling
Will you forget?
I pray I'll hear you say that
river rages on
And in the rain, we'll sail to Coeur D'alene
And we'll drink the waters
till you forget my name
That river rages just the same, I've been calling out your name
Take this ship down, and leave a little loose
With that drawstring bag of cigarettes
You keep holding on to
Whatever runs in stormy rivers, chases all that I could give her
Sleep alone and sleep alright, my love
river rages on tonight
So if we grow in darker water, will you stay a little longer
Lips run dry, your eyes are gone, my love
Same old river rages on
So tell me, will you forget?
I can't hold on darlin'
Will you forget?
I swear I'll keep on calling
Will you forget?
I pray I'll hear you say that
river rages on
And in the rain, we'll sail to Coeur D'alene
And we'll drink the waters
till you forget my name
That river rages just the same, I've been calling out your name
Take this ship down, and leave a little loose
With that drawstring bag of cigarettes
You keep holding on to
Smoke it rises from your head, take another you forget
Empty bags you're counting on, my love
Same old river rages on
I'm just a sailor out at sea
That river's come to carry me
Will you forget me when I'm gone, my love
same old river rages on
Will you forget me when I'm gone, my love
same old river carries on.

Acacia
Flood
Wait till the morning to rise and it breaks
All over the tiles in the kitchen sink
The water it's flowing like it did before
But this time it's sinking all over the floor
Oh but that night before it reached the moon
All tangled in cotton, and tangled in you
But that's how it goes, oh most of these days
A poor wish to welcome is a wish for you to stay
So I'll keep on shuffling through all the mud
Pretend like the last night we were in love
But can you imagine how strange it must feel
To share all our worlds to have you disappear
But you've been on my mind
Yes you've been on my mind
Through the window watch you leave
I stay behind and I start to clean
Up all of the mess that comes in time
We've done before each and every time
You think I'd learn by day by now
To move on softly, move on loud
But craving closeness in the silence of night
Numbs all the nightmares of being alone tonight
But you've been on my mind
Yes you've been on my mind
Yes you have my dear
So watch the water build and spill all day
Can't keep swimming lonely through these waves
So watch the morning rise until it breaks
Where you my dear, you leave and sail away
You've been on my mind
You've been on my mind
Oh I've been told myself a time
To let it go, let it die
And I've been told a time or two
I don't need sailors, and I don't want you
A hundred lovers, a thousand years
A shoulder blade to hold all those tears
It's all, nothing to you
It's all nothing to you
Lonely little lady bugs
Polka dotted candy drugs
Just lovers and runners to you
Just lovers and runners to you
And so it goes off to a place where nobody knows
Acacia she’s waiting and calling you home
So open up the door
She’ll leave on the light
With the vows of a lover holding you tight
And they’ll keep you warm so sleep tonight
Hush and close your eyes
Easy comes as easy goes
To never let another know
Baby you hold it inside
Baby you hold it inside
Come and go you had it planned
I hope someday you understand
Come with me and rest for a while
Cause I’ll do anything to make you smile again
And so it goes off to a place where nobody knows
Acacia she’s waiting and calling you home
So open up the door
She’ll leave on the light
So untie your shoes and open your eyes
Cause though you’ve been crying for days and for nights
She’s been waiting for you
So meet me on the porch
And i’ll open up the door
Cause we’re here
And calling you home
And so it goes off to a place where nobody knows
Acacia she’s waiting and calling you home
So open up the door
She’ll leave on the light
With the vows of a friend holding you tight
And they’ll keep you warm so sleep tonight
I’ll see you in the morn
They’ll keep you warm so sleep tonight
And I’ll see you in the morn
Crisp
Desert Soul
O Darling please,
why do you torture me
Put chains up on my spirits
and the road will set me free
Cold blooded, calloused death
I'm blind now can't you see?
So free my soul, before I'm old
and the road will set me free
The road will set me free my lord,
the road will set me free
I'll pay the toll to free my soul
and the road will set me free
Till death, you do us part
But 'I've got a lonely heart
Leave me be o darling' please
and the road will set me free
The road will set me free my lord,
The road will set me free
I'll pay the toll to free my soul
and the road will set me free
Riverman
Riverman are you still up tonight?
Remember when we used to warm the night
We found love the edge of Summertime
Waltzed around the world when you were mine.
Stars they travel fast and far my dear
Tell me, love, are you still listening here
I'd write you a book if I could write
Burn these pages, keep you warm at night.
So when I told you I don't love you more
Fell onto my knees upon the floor
Just you know I still do love you more
Just you know I still do love you more
Two hundred and forty three long days
Watched the daisies flower till they fade
You were always steady as the night
Trust me I felt loved when you were mine
So when I told you goodbye, love, for good
Watched you leave under the cottonwoods
If I could take you back you know I would
If I could take you back you know I would
Riverman are you still up tonight
Glowing bright under the sweet moonlight
Catch a fish and throw it back for me
Down the river maybe we could be
Maybe down the river we could be
Honey it's a lonely road
Tire's friend to the open road
So you just smile and sigh
As you look behind tonight
Sun it rises, golden rings
Pockets full with, these little things
And you keep them there
Cause it was just a dream last night
So when you're driving, and that moon is rising
Don't go take her, darlin please
Cause then the night she,
She couldn't bring you
To dream of those little things
So you run dear, to your great big island
Waves at night say, yeah you're doing alright then
Waves are phony friends
And it's just that same old moon again
But if you hide love, among those trees
Then with every ocean breeze
I hope you rest at ease
But will you think of me sometime
So when it's raining, this ship o' sailing,
cross Pacific Ocean dreams,
I hope you find one,
A new horizon,
to dream of those little things
Friends are mining for a heart of one thing
So take the gold till The kingdoms coming
Now you rest at ease
Cause it's yours my dear to keep
Well miners dream of
These golden things love
So say you'll keep up With the rush now
Someday soon my friend
You'll see just how rich you've been
Well that rivers rushing
So don't go running
Pockets full of These golden things
So promise me you'll drive
And promise me you'll sail
My dear Abigail
Honey it's a lonely road
Tires friends to the open road
So you just smile and sigh
As you drive on through the night


Cocaine Train
Letter to Dark
I wrote a letter to dark
Put it under my bed for the monsters to read.
Yes I was afraid of the dark
But the dark's afraid of me
Singing love let me be, how sweet and strange
Are all the things we couldn't change.
I wrote a letter to Ground
your boulder held the letters down
But the wind, she's lonely,
and right then I knew
As you turned to dust and blew
A thousand miles away
Singing love let me be, how sweet and strange
Are all the things we couldn't change.
Singing oh my lord,
Don't let me down
Leave the letters in the ground
There you go, and here I'll stay
A lonely thousand miles away
Lovers take a rest
From the things we never bore upon our chests
And in the light of day
I'll go a thousand miles away
Cause I wrote a letter to dark
Put it under my bed for the monsters to read
Yes I was afraid of the dark
But the dark's afraid of me
Yes the dark's afraid of me
Singing oh my lord
Don't let me down
Leave the letters in the ground
And I'll go sailing into blue
A thousand miles away from you
Singing love let me be, and here I'll stay
A lonely thousand miles away

Its spring again, and your bluebells grow
And you put them on the back window
And then summer came
And you threw them out
And they’ve wilted now
So you pack your bags
You’re headed south
A $3 beer to wash the doubt
And you wash it out
How you wash it out
The things that you forgot
These tickets to the cocaine train
Have gathered dust, when will you be back home again
I must confess, I don’t know who the hell is drivin’
So I gotta run, and I’ll call you in the mornin'
And then you’re lost, out in the night
Your map’s a mirror, with lonely eyes
And the train it cries, as you close your eyes,
Baby you’ll be alright
Morning breaks, and here it comes
Another train, not comin’ home
And until then I pray
That you’ll look my way
Out that window pane
These tickets to the Cocaine train, you’re holdin on
When will you be back home again
I must confess, I don’t know who the hell is drivin’
So i gotta run, and I’ll call you in the mornin'
Up all night, with your dusty gin
Pray for a stranger, come walkin' in
Say why don’t you call someone,
They’ve stopped asking son,
They’ve stopped asking son
Up all day and through the night
To see the cocaine train come down the line
But if you can’t promise me you’ll be the one to drive it
Then I gotta run, and i’ll leave you with your mornin'
So you pull into your old hometown
But these rails look different now
Said that girl you wrote
She stopped comin' oh,
Bout 5 months ago
Take these tickets to the cocaine train
I don’t want them, for they’ve brought me here again
And I’m gonna stay this time around
For the bluebells I’ll be growin'
Take these tickets to the cocaine train
I don’t want them, for they’ve brought me here again
And I’m gonna stay this time around
For the bluebells I’ll be growin'

White Clovers
Packed my bags for the place, where we used to go
The road's a bit different when you ride it alone
Carried on through the night, with the songs we heard first
Riding all night just to relearn the words
Packed your bags for a place love, that I've never seen
Wrote a letter to dark that you read in your sleep
Both dreaming of all the white clovers to keep
While the songs we heard first, they play on repeat
Well the clovers they grow, at the end of the road love
Riding all night, to take one for each other
If I'm driving this road, without you by my side
Please don't ever change for the next one to ride
I kept on driving in those fields of white
Hoping you'd hold what you put in my eyes
Playing those songs in the dead of the night
So the months on the road still keep it alive
You took that train through the crumbling night
Playing those songs till the last of the light
So darlin' o darlin' please don't ever change
Wait for the clovers to bloom and fade
Well the clovers they grow, at the end of the road love
Riding all night, to take one for each other
If I'm driving this road, without you by my side
Please don't ever change for the next one to ride
So send me a postcard from London, from Rome
The world's all too quiet when those white clovers grow
So darlin' o darlin' please don't ever change
Wait for the clovers to bloom and fade
Waiting for you to come home from the start
Love let me be, for you already are
So darlin' o darlin' remember my name
and wait for the clovers to bloom and fade
Well the clovers they grow, at the end of the road love
And I'll see you this last time, to take one for each other
If I'm driving this road, without you by my side
Please don't ever change for the next one to ride