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Ramble Set 2020

by Lance Taylor

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1.
I'm Gonna Leave 03:19
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2.
Man On Wire 06:30
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There I with one desire There I bid you take me higher There I a poor boy from the country side Become the Man on Wire Oh the movie seemed to go on like a dream The acrobat walked a mile above the street Fearlessly, one step towards eternity To risk it all just for a chance to dance with thee And in your eyes, limitless like a diamond night I see reflections of a better life And I spy, a world chained to fear and foolish pride All these inventions only born to die To live is to fly, space and time All limitations are but man made lies And there I, walk so high As a man on wire... Oh the towers are gone Drift empty sky now where in dreams I walk This world seems lost In mindless chatter and empty talk My heart's in love With the memory of the higher place And though it's gone When I go there I can see your face But never again I, to walk so high...as a man on wire...
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Back From The Dead 03:06
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I come back from the dead still you won't talk to me This time 'round I'm gonna let it be You call me up after years in the cold Turn your back, lo and behold Back from the dead still you won't talk to me I come back from the dead still you won't see me When I was in my grave I got used to being free I can't no more be begging you please I already done worn out my knees Back from the dead still you won't see me I come back from the dead still you have no love for me I'm gonna pack my bags and head on out to see I was a fool to think after 7 years down You might be glad to have me around Back from the dead still you have no love for me I come back from the dead still you ain't got much to say I guess today is like any other day Better get it straight boy in your mind The past is gone, far behind Back from the dead still you ain't got much to say I've been coming to you with my hat in hand I wear my Sunday best, I'm a brand new man I've been friendly, I've been kind But you've got something else in mind Back from the dead with my hat in hand Well you can stay gone 'til the end of time I've been reborn out along a different line I'm gonna tell my tale to one who'll hear One who rejoices to have me near Back from the dead 'til the end of time
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The First Punk Rocker 02:30
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This machine kills fascists that's what I said I'll stand on your grave 'til I'm sure you're dead In the squares of the city and the shadow of the steeple Woody Guthrie saw his people Telling it straight to ol' Mr. Knickerbocker Woody Guthrie was the first punk rocker Born in Okemah, Oklahoma Woody Guthrie was consumed by fire His momma took ill and fanned the flames A man set out to do his own thing The ornery profane poet straight-talker Woody Guthrie was the first punk rocker From the dust-bowl emerged the protest singer Woody worked for the working class people Irving Berlin man he had it all wrong 'This land is your land' was a protest song No prime time pipe smoking radio hawker Woody Guthrie was the first punk rocker Cisco and Sonny, Leadbelly and Seeger Anti-fascist almanac singer Merchant marine man, migrant worker Bound for Glory radical thinker He didn't sing for the almighty dollar Woody Guthrie was the first punk rocker Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Springsteen and Hunter Ochs and Chapin, Mellencamp and Strummer Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy, Jerry Garcia Steve Earle, Jay Farrar and Bob Weir Ramblin' Jack, Tom Paxton, Sonny Walker But Woody Guthrie was the first punk rocker
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Thinkin' 'Bout You 04:44
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Thinkin' 'bout the people that we used to be Late night thinkin' 'bout you and me Thinkin' 'bout the yellow haze twilight past Thinkin' 'bout you first and last To the end of the line where my hopes were dashed Thinkin' 'bout the river and the way it unwinds Led me to you through forgotten times Think of our affair and how it all fell flat Just to leave me thinkin' wonderin' where you're at Thinkin' that I gave ya what I should of held back Thinkin' of your smile in the raging storm Your eyes had the sparkle of a newborn I think of your caress and your skin so soft The moon in the sky like a quarter through cloth Memories like these are hard to shake off Thinkin' 'bout things that used to be Thinkin' and wonderin' if you're thinkin' 'bout me Thinkin' 'bout things that might have been Thinkin' what it means to never hold you again Thinkin' 'bout the bottle and I think about the blade Thinkin' 'bout the beauty of the mess I made Thinkin' 'bout the feel of the tourniquet I thought I could control it but I lost that bet You left my heart in danger and my soul in debt I think about your curves and your endless hips Think about kissin' your ambivalent lips Love fades away down a sliding slope Like lookin' through the wrong end of a telescope Headed to the gallows you were handing out the rope Thinkin' 'bout the roads and the fields turned brown Thinkin' 'bout the night before the stars fell down Thinkin' 'bout so many things I have to do Thinkin' that I oughta stop thinkin' about you Thinkin' 'bout the words to a long lost tune Thinkin' you were mine but I spoke too soon Thinkin' that I thought I could sing it somehow Thinkin' that thinkin' doesn't matter now I just get behind the mule every mornin' and plow

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released January 12, 2020

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