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Live at Red Rocks 1995

Release Date: January 14th, 2003

Recorded in 1995 and released in 2003 it's a fairly raw recording exclusive to our webstore as a Double CD and DVD containing 22 songs.

Neckbreaker

If the flower should lose her green
And the cold never turn to spring
Show me, show me where I'm imagining
All the things I haven't learned to see
Breaker please ...
Oh, I lost my loving mind, and found it again
If my mind should take me down below
Black and white blood should lifeless flow
Remind my heart that you're listening
Break my neck and I'll hear you sing
Breaker please ...
Oh, I lost my loving mind, and found it again
In the universe without you and me
Love carries on at twice the speed
Blows behind us and wrecks everything
Break my neck and I'm lost in the breeze
Breaker please ...

Kensington Line

I work on a wreckin' wall
Just off the liquor tracks
Onto the shaky ground
Oh, I'm fallin' down
hey, I'm ridin'
A fool to confide. Hey, Eddie watch your name
Let that lady be your guide
hey, she's comin' round
Hey, I'm flyin'
When the sleep gets in your eyes
I'll be on Kensington Line
And I'll run my hundred miles
Hey, don't you follow me tonight
Didn't like the look I see
Runnin' in the autumn leaves
Hasn't got a brain or peeve
Oh, the walls are closin' in
Hey, I'm headed out of here
Oh, I never meant to leave you cryin'

Blue Water

When I was walking by the blue water
I was thinking about you
By the water you can think forever
By the water so deep and blue
By the blue water.

When I was dreaming by the blue water
I was dreaming about you
Yes I dreamed we would love for ever
By the water so deep and blue
By the blue water

We gonna run. We gonna run away
She's been lookin' at me
She's been thinkin' 'bout nobody but me

When I was swimming in the blue water
I remembered the truth
You didn't want me to be your lover
That's why the water is so deep and blue
By the blue water.

Broken Hearted Savior

Fields are white in snowy spring and I can't
remember the last time I've seen her.
The highway is still cold and wet and I can't
forget the way I had to leave her.
And every passing day, she flickers and she fades.
Is someone to help her when she falls from the heavens?
Chorus:
And I'll love her yet, though she has done me wrong.
And I'll bring her back, though she has been long gone.
And I'll be her
broken hearted savior.
And every heavy night takes out the little life that's left within her.
Every man she gives her love, he takes it, and leaves her with a dinner.
Our love was once a flame, now I'm just a forgotten name,
Am I the only one to blame for having, loving her?
Chorus

Sister Sweetly

Ain't no getting up again, she gonna bring you down.
Love gone up and jump again, turn it all around.
I'm goin' to the liquor store, to get some peace of mind.
Something I ain't done before, I can't seem to find.
Chorus:
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
Give to me, a place in paradise.
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
And never never leave me.
Sister I am suffering, a single desire.
Hell is the shadow cast from a soul on fire.
Chorus

Strategem

Angry hands upon the wheel turn slow
Without a star the water turns to stone
Here I stand by lovely strategem
When love is gone I'll invent again
Lady in Ashes, Forget her name
Her beauty was matchless, her nature untame
And by now her face is far below
Still beneath the desert rivers flow
Take the sand in empty hand and then
Blow away and bring her back again
And if you ask it, dear one plays again
Her beauty was matchless, her nature untame
Deathless hand in land where devils roam
who with a switchblade cut the head of hope
It's time to exchange the evil, blow by blow
Without a star the water turns to stone
If time is our master, then I'm lost again
her beauty was matchless, her nature untame

Magdelina

Awaiting my treasure drifting ashore
When from the galleys we're set free
And I'll never give you more
Than the time that we save
Magdelina I forgave
And I will feel everything
There are bridges burning here and we have
to keep below
Lest the guns should overtake us and let out
the final blow
A deserter I'll be hung, though ever battle I had won
And I won't feel anything
Hey Magdelina, there is only now to lay aside
All the bad dreams of your past have been
lost in the fire
Remember, soon I'll be back to bathe in your smile
And touch a long time indeed

Bittersweet

A little light looks through her bedroom window. She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems, Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets, Her hair blowing in the breeze. And she can't see me watching. And I'm thinking love... Chorus: It's bittersweet more sweet than bitter, Bitter than sweet. It's a bittersweet surrender I'm older now. I work inn the city. We live together. But it's different than my dream. Morning light fills the room. I rise. She pretends she's sleeping. Are we everything we wanted? And I'm thinking love... Chorus I know we don't talk about it. We don't tell each other All the little things that we need. We work our way around each other As we tremble and we bleed. Chorus

Dinner With Ivan

I took dinner at seven. With a tablecloth and wine.
And my poor brother Ivan. Who could laugh but
couldn't smile.
Stories filled the evening. Of his job and of his wife.
How they somehow cheated him. How they
took his life.
Chorus:
Welcome to the wild world brother.
Sometimes it's gonna rain on you.
It rains all over the world, brother.
Sometime's it's gonna rain on you.
The evening went on and on.
But was it time to say goodbye. To all the
big decisions
And dirty dishes in his life. Take some money
Out of your savings brother, have yourself a good time.
But ain't he just too lazy, to wipe the tears
from his eyes.
Chorus
The evening went on and on.
but was it time to say goodbye. To all the big decisions
And dirty dishes in his life. Get in my car, brother.
Turn the key and take a drive.
But ain't I just too lazy, to wipe the tears
from my eyes.
Chorus

The Moose Song

I have seen, babe I haven't heard.
Did someone put you down.
Was your lover just another scheme
That never did work out?
Chorus:
When it hurts, when it hurts inside.
Why can't you see it's only you he's thinking of.
Who ever told you it was your right to be alive?
If your heart is breaking, you're just lucky to be in love.
You keep claiming that you paid too high a price.
You want something for your own.
So worried about the change he puts in to your pocket.
You can't see that he's dead and gone.
Chorus
Babe get into your car. And turn and turn
and turn around.
Yeah the road it ain't inside you.
You need some help to get you there.
Chorus

Poor Miss

Lone and alone she lies, poor miss
Five flights from earth and one from heaven
Dark hair and eyes, she tries hard not to cry
But still alone she lies
And I never knew the reasons
There ain't no lover in your bed
but lady you were always some kind
Of woman to me
There ain't no gardens for my poor miss
There ain't no sunshine in April's spring
Just four dark walls, and light comes shadowly
Ah, poor miss, ah me!
And I still remember the sunlight on your face
Lady you were always some kind
Of woman to me

Vincent of Jersey

He's wearing a red and white t-shirt.
He's loving the ladies upon his floor.
A bottle of brandy, a hard box of Camels.
Waiting for love to come knocking on his door.
And he says something like ...
Someday somebody's gonna love me
Someday it's me they're looking for
Someday somebody's gonna want me 'cause I'm ...
Vincent of Jersey.

The Leaving Song

Think ahead before you open your mouth
I might be thinking it through.
Gonna pack my things and catch a train headed South.
Or step right out of my car, into the
Rain drippin' down my fingers,
Into my eyes, you won't see me cryin' but,
What will you do when I am gone.
I creep slowly out of my bed,
Take one final look at you.
To empty out all those sweet memories from my head.
How did I ever end up playing your fool but,
what will you do when I am gone.
I creep slowly out of my bed,
Take one final look at you.
To empty out all those sweet memories from my head.
How did I ever end up playing your fool but
I'm on a train bound for glory,
Goin' klickity klack klickity klack
Away from you but
What will you do, when I am gone?
How the hell you ever get to be so damn cool?
Suck down my money and throw my love away.
How the hell did you ever get to be so damn slick?
You'll come slidin' slidin' down some day but,
I'm on a train bound for glory.
Goin' klickity klack klickity klack
Away from you but,
What will you do when I am gone?

Circle

It seems to me, you and me,
Are chasing something.
What it is does anybody here want to know?
It seems to you, you and me,
Are forgetting something,
When love is so easily forgotten.
And if I pick you up will you drag me down?
If I run to you will you turn around?
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just a circle.
It seems to me, you and me
Are being chased by something.
What it is has anybody here apprehended?
It seems to me, you and me
Are terrified of nothing,
When nothing is the reason we are here.
Oh, nothing at all.
And if I cry to you, will you laugh me down?
But I'm asking you to turn around.
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just circle.

Tomorrow Never Comes

He sits beside her in the evening.
She turns and asks him for a light.
He worked so hard so he'd be something.
Just what it was she never knew.
He lays beside her as she's sleeping.
She asks if everything's alright.
Is there a secret he's been keeping?
She doesn't know anything he says.
He doesn't feel anything she says.
I've been waiting for too long for love like this
To let it slip away.
I've been waiting for your tender kiss.
She says "I just might leave tomorrow."
He says "Tomorrow never comes."
So we'll just learn to love our sorrow.
I'll love you tender as you're sleeping.
I'll love you bitter through the day.

In the Morning

Won't you tell me in the morning
Of the kisses that you left me in my sleep
Of all the thunder and the stormin'
Of all the racket in the street
Chorus:
And if the sun should open wide
Your eyes to find another day
And I'll never take you back
If you can't find your own way
I want to tell you in the morning
Of the demons that I killed in my dreams
And should the devil take me now, here's a warnin'
Ah, hell can't come between you and me
Chorus

Shadowlands

Ah, soon she will wake
When love is the air she breathes
Hurry into her please
Alight again
And take what we reap
A harvest abounding
The trumpets are sounding
A beautiful name
From shadowlands we run
A flicker and they're done
Away
And the wine that she keeps saving the best for me
We're only blessed you see
If we believed
In something unseen
Felt by remembering
A wait, and a hoping in
The time to receive
From shadowlands we run
A flicker and they're done
Away
The mountains will rock
And crumble into the seas
And all of the saints will be
Marching home
The cities will stop
Oh, and they'll sell their kings
Oh, and they'll kill their queens
On no
From shadowlands we run
A flicker and they're done
Away

Wearing Only Flowers

She's running on clean power
She's wound up at the hip
"Wearing only Flowers" came in 27 to 1
I'd love a drink of water
Take a little kiss
Find a lovely lady-step inside, take a sip
Atlanta turn around and love
Will come back to you
His elements are shaking
She's wounded at the wrist
Person of the hour, the only way she knows how to make it
i know I'll get over
Two months maybe less
I left undiscovered-saw her undress
Atlanta don't look so surprised
We belong to life
After ten years taken
Accidentally meetin'
Realize we were mistaken
Oh yes, we arrive late again
Fix a little breakfast
Time for gettin' married
"Wearing Only Flowers" came in 27 to 1
Atlanta don't look so surprised
Sometimes love will make you wise up
Atlanta close your eyes and I will belong to you

It's Alright

You can turn back the tide of the cold tears from your eyes,
The pangs of wounded pride if you hold me.
Did someone do you wrong yeah,
Good lovin's good as gone.
Maybe you ain't as strong as you wanna be.
Chorus:
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
It's alright if you don't wanna be alone.
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
I understand.
Nothin' stays if it's gotta go now.
You can't get water from a stone now.
Sometimes you've got to think about
The things you're gonna love.
You can point the finger at him.
You can say you've suffered for your sins.
Somehow it never was, never was good enough.
Chorus.

Bridge:
When the morning comes and you put yourself together
To face another day.
And when the day is done and you ain't feelin' better
You come walkin' my way.
Now that you're doing alright,
You're pretty much outta sight.
I don't see you knockin' 'round my door anymore.
I'm glad to hear you're doing well,
But I know that time will tell.
Only when you're broken down, is that what friends are for?
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
It's alright if you just wanna be alone.
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
I understand.