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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Whatever runs in stormy rivers, chases all that I could give her

Sleep alone and sleep alright, my love

river rages on tonight

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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

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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

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Smoke it rises from your head, take another you forget

Empty bags you're counting on, my love

Same old river rages on

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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

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Will you forget me when I'm gone, my love

same old river carries on.

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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

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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

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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

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But you've been on my mind 

Yes you've been on my mind

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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

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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

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But you've been on my mind 

Yes you've been on my mind

Yes you have my dear

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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

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You've been on my mind

You've been on my mind

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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

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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

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Lonely little lady bugs

Polka dotted candy drugs

Just lovers and runners to you

Just lovers and runners to you

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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. 

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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. 

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Singing love let me be, how sweet and strange

Are all the things we couldn't change.

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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

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Singing love let me be, how sweet and strange

Are all the things we couldn't change.

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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

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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

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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

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Yes the dark's afraid of me

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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

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Singing love let me be, and here I'll stay

A lonely thousand miles away

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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

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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

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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'

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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

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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'

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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

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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'

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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