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1. |
Running Down The Avenue
03:44
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Whoa you found a woman now don't let her slip away while you run around
There's no meter running, you'll wait another day (Another day)
You're cool, your friends think it's funny
Thick shades cuz the forecast is sunny (Another day)
You think twice that it's all about money
Don't you think someone could love you (She could love you)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Ah running down the avenue)
Street lights and signs rushing by your head (Ah you can't remember what she said)
Hide in the crowd til you know you're the last man standing by (Standing by)
And everyone you care for has left you far behind
Running down the avenue
Whoa what was the reason you gave her on the street last night
You left, you left in a hurry, never let her see you cry (See you cry)
Whoa your fortress is burning
The door's locked but the key starts a turning (See you cry)
You're scared stiff of the things she'll be learning
Don't you think that she could love you (She could love you)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Ooh running down the avenue)
Street lights and signs rushing by your head (Ah you can't remember what she said)
Hide in the crowd til you know you're the last man standing by (Standing by)
And everyone you care for has left you far behind
Running down the avenue
You got a reason why (Why)
You got a reason why (Why)
You got a reason why (Why)
There's no prescription here that can open up your heart
You've got to break yourself in two and give someone a part
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Ooh running down the avenue)
Street lights and signs rushing by your head (Ah you can't remember what she said)
Hide in the crowd til you know you're the last man standing by (Standing by)
And everyone you care for has left you far behind
Running down the avenue
You got a reason why (Why)
You got a reason why (Why)
You got a reason why (Why)
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Crying Shame
03:34
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You crashed the party with your pigtails in the air, I watched you
You worked the crowded room with a cold and steady stare
My heart's palpitating and I sweat from every pore
And then my feet start crusading for a shuffle toward the door
You touched my elbow and you asked me how I'd been
I must be passing on, notify my next of kin
I'm feeling better and I asked her if she's fine
She said "I wish things were different" and I often crossed her mind
Are you coming back again
Every time I see you it's a crying shame
How could things between us ever be the same
When I think about it don't know who's to blame
Now you're coming back again
You dropped some hints and flashed a nervous little smile
I've been down that road before, I can't go another mile
Been thinking lately about our summers on the shore
And how you, you took me riding but you always wanted more
I pledge allegiance to this many splendored thing we had
But I can't take a fallen bird and teach it how to sing
And we can't go back to high school and just start it all again
You said that, you said that looking back was such a mortal sin
Are you coming back again
Every time I see you it's a crying shame
How could things between us ever be the same
When I think about it don't know who's to blame
Now you're coming back again and again and again
Every time I see you it's a crying shame
How could things between us ever be the same
When I think about it don't know who's to blame
Now you're coming back again and again and again
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Rise & Fall
03:33
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There's a falling plane
There's a crash on the highway
There's a rising flood
And the sun comes out again and again
On a heart that's stopped
There's a four-leaf clover
On the thirteenth try
A women finds her child again
A women finds her child again
We'll rise and fall
Rainy days will come that's all
We'll make amends
The world's indifferent in the end
We'll rise and fall
There's a man in a mine shaft
Sees the light after nine days
There's a drunken driver
Slams into a loaded bus
It's another black Monday
It's a golden opportunity
There's a forest burning
A flower growing from the ash
A flower growing from the ash
We'll rise and fall
Rainy days will come that's all
We'll make amends
The world's indifferent in the end
We'll rise and fall
Oh we don't have to be broken
Oh we don't have to be broken
Oh we don't have to be broken (We don’t have to be)
Oh we don't have to be broken
We don’t have to be
Oh we don't have to be broken (We don’t have to be)
Oh we don't have to be broken (We don’t have to be)
Oh we don't have to be broken (We don’t have to be)
Oh
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4. |
Wooden Man
03:39
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You wanna lie
You can't deny
You are a wooden man
Strings on your dirty hands
Wind makes you sway
Polls tell you what to say
You don't think twice
Playing with men and mice
Sold to the man
Sold to the man
You're bought and paid for
Greed has a heavy hand
Sold to the man
Sold to the man
You do the best that money can
Smiles in the frontroom,
Deals in the backroom
Access is understood
To hell with the common good
Green is your life blood
Sources are clear as mud
Don't you look nice
Acting on good advice
Sold to the man
Sold to the man
You're bought and paid for
Greed has a heavy hand
Sold to the man
Sold to the man
You’ll do the best that money can
Sold out to be their wooden man
Sold out to be their wooden man (Wooden man)
You'll never see the little man
With your hollow eyes
Your hollow eyes
Fools to left
Clowns to the right
Lost all distinction
Lost all my will to fight
Rich are getting richer
Poor doing what they can
You look away
Fat cats will run and play
Sold to the man
Sold to the man
You're bought and paid for
Greed has a heavy hand
Sold to the man
Sold to the man
You do the best that money can
Sold out to be their wooden man (Wooden man)
Sold out to be their wooden man (Wooden man)
You'll never see the little man
With your hollow eyes (With your hollow eyes)
Sold out to be their wooden man (Sold out to be their wooden man)
Sold out to be their wooden man (Sold out to be their wooden man)
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5. |
Invisible People
03:30
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He drinks his meal from paper bag
And wipes up his nose with a dirty old rag
And sleeps outside again
There's a hopelessness in the sound of his voice
Is he really a victim or was it his choice
To live in a cardboard box
And the people on the street look away and just rush by him
He's a ghost without a place to call his own
Tell me
Can you see invisible people
Can you see invisible people
It's the same sad scene on every street that you walk
You see it so often you really shouldn't be shocked
But it always grinds you up inside
Now some have so little, a few have so much
Do you teach him to walk or do you give him a crutch
He falling down on you
And the people on the street look away and just rush by him
He's a ghost without a place to call his own
Tell me
Can you see invisible people
Can you see invisible people (Can’t see, can’t see, can’t see)
Can you see invisible people (Can’t see what you don’t wanna realize)
Can you see invisible people (Can’t see what you don’t wanna realize)
Can you see them in the parking lot
Going through garbage with a shopping cart
Huddled round the fire on a cold, dark night
Can you see them on the avenue
Begging for change with an empty shoe
There but for the grace of God go me and you
Can you see invisible people (Can’t see what you don’t wanna realize)
Can you see invisible people (Can’t see what you don’t wanna realize)
Can you see invisible people (Can’t see, can’t see, can’t see)
Can you see invisible people
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6. |
Rajasthan
04:34
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Took a train out into this desert of endless sand
But the further I traveled
Oh the more I unraveled
In this burning sun
Oh the further I traveled
Oh the more I unraveled
In this burning sun
And in my crystal palace
My thoughts seem callous
And cold in the heat
And all this time you've waited
While I've debated
What I'm all about in this border town
In this border town
I said I won't take you back again, but I'm getting weak
Oh the more I forsake you now
The more I can't shake you
From my memory
Oh the more I forsake you
The more I can't shake you
From my memory
And in my crystal palace
My thoughts seem callous
And cold in the heat
And all this time you've waited
While I've debated
What I'm all about in this border town
In this border town
And in my crystal palace
My thoughts seem callous
And cold in the heat
And all this time you've waited
While I've debated
What I'm all about in this border town
In this border town (What I’m all about)
In this border town (What I’m all about)
In this border town (What I’m all about)
What I’m all about (What I’m all about)
In this border town (What I’m all about)
Yeah, yeah in this border town (What I’m all about)
(What I’m all about)
(What I’m all about)
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7. |
Goodbye
04:23
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Goodbye I'll have your picture framed
Goodbye and things will be the same as they were yesterday
Goodbye I'll call you every day
Goodbye we'll have so much to say when we are far apart
And I won't break down
No I won't break down
When I play that song that I wrote for you
And I won't let go
No I won't let go
But I want to know was it real for you
Goodbye I'll try to board a plane
Goodbye and things will be the same as they were yesterday
Goodbye your voice is sounding strange
Goodbye but all the same your face is so indelible
And I won't break down
No I won't break down
When I play that song that I wrote for you (That I wrote for you)
And I won't let go (Let go)
No I won't let go (Let go)
But I want to know was it real for you
Was it all in vain
Was it worth the pain
Was I so naive
To think that we could beat the odds
Goodbye I know you had to go
Goodbye we both agreed there's so much more ahead of us
Goodbye I guess you're out again
Goodbye it's good you found a friend who understands your pain
And I won't break down
No I won't break down
When I play that song that I wrote for you (That I wrote for you)
And I won't look back (Look back)
No I won't look back (Look back)
When I finally take your picture down
Picture down (Picture down)
Picture down (Picture down)
Picture down (Picture down)
Picture down (Picture down)
Picture down (Picture down)
Picture down (Picture down)
Picture down (Picture down)
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8. |
Smoke & Mirrors
04:41
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We are alone again for the last time
What is there more to say
We could talk til we're blind
And does your confession make you a friend
What good is honesty when we're reaching the end
Whoa
You have these words
Faith, truth and love
What do they really mean
Do they fit like a glove
And all of these questions block out the sun
Until we can't see that the end has begun
No consolation
And no second chance
I've fallen through the cracks
Of this smoke and mirrors magic romance
And I thought that I knew you
Right down to the bone
And all of this time I was really alone
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Black & Grey
03:53
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You still see her on every wall
But she's been gone now since early fall
And her eyes still follow you through the room
She's on canvas and carved into stone
But with her image now you're never alone
And her eyes still follow you through the room
And her eyes still follow you through the room
Take down these faded lovers (Take down)
Take down what's left undone (Take down)
Paint a picture in all black and grey and let her go
You could paint her in every way
But did you hear what she's trying to say
Watercolors won't bring her back when you're down
Curve of her shoulders, the small of her back
You thought you knew her, she never looked back
Watercolors won't bring her back when you're down
Watercolors always run when you're down
Take down these faded lovers (Take down)
Take down what's left undone (Take down)
Paint a picture in all black and grey and let her go
Take down these faded lovers (Take down)
Take down what's left undone (Take down)
Paint a picture in all black and grey
Take down (Take down)
Take down (Take down)
Take down what’s left undone (Take down)
Paint me a picture in all black and grey
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10. |
Virtual Lisa
05:13
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I'm logging on again
Your words are all I need before I go to bed
You have the perfect face
I want to hear you say that you're the one for me
You’re the one for me
I lie awake at night
I see your photos and you're smiling just for me
I've got your book of poems
And in the verses there's a message just for me
Whoa and
How long, how long, how long
How long does it take to make you real
How long, how long, how long
How long does it take to make you real
To make you real
I know you're thinking of me
I know you really care but we just can't be together
I know you're thinking of me
I know you really care but we just can't be together
Whoa and
How long, how long, how long
How long does it take to make you real
How long, how long, how long
How long does it take to make you real
To make you real
To make you real
Will I always be the lonely one
Living out my days through someone else
Whoa, you always seem so real to me
At the bottom of a cold and sleepless night
Whoa
Whoa and
How long, how long, how long
How long does it take to make you real
How long, how long, how long
How long does it take to make you real
To make you real
To make you real
To make you real
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11. |
Freedom
04:53
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Sitting round the bar til midnight talking about freedom
Thinking about the times we raged on and how it's all gone
Dig out the names and postcards but now it don't mean too much
Dig out the old electric and sing us a swan song
You were the bright light
You were the one who held your own
You fought the good fight
And now you're rolling on alone
All these years you're talking ‘bout freedom
Tearing out the roots that keep you sane
All these years you're talking ‘bout freedom
Building up the walls that hide your pain, pain
Gina's a faded memory, a chapter on good advice gone wrong
You took her down to Memphis and wrote her that song
You filled her full of good news and drank her last quarter down
She tried to help you make it but you were long gone, long gone
She was the one light
She was the one who really cared
She fought the losing fight
And now you're rolling on alone
All these years you're talking ‘bout freedom
Tearing out the roots that keep you sane
All these years you're talking ‘bout freedom
Building up the walls that hide your pain, pain
All these years you're talking ‘bout freedom
Tearing out the roots that keep you sane
Tearing out the roots that keep you sane
Tearing out the roots that keep you sane
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12. |
Outrunning Headlights
04:25
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Hey, hey sensei
What was the Truth today
Cuz I think I've lost my way
And I can't go back
A has been, should of been
I wanna start my whole life again
And this time I'll be a friend
When you need me to
And there's no reason now to live your life in a permanent shadow
And I remember when we had it all worked out
But I'm still in the dark, silent and stark
Outrunning headlights again
A long day, I can't play
I gotta put all my dreams away
Cuz I got these bills to pay
And not enough time for you
Smacked down, broke my crown
Oh but there's not a soul around
To hear if I made a sound
In the wilderness
And there's no reason now to live your life in a permanent shadow
And I remember when we had it all worked out
But I'm still in the dark, silent and stark
Outrunning headlights again
Why can't I slow down and think it through
Why can't I play by the rules, every now and then
Can't see what's out ahead
Can't see what's in my head
So I close my eyes and roll down the road again
Hey, hey sensei
What's your excuse today
Did you grow feet of clay
While the years went by
Anytime I go blind
You won't be far behind
Lead me to where I'll find
A light ahead
And there's no reason now to live your life in a permanent shadow
And I remember when I had it all worked out
But I'm still in the dark, silent and stark
Outrunning headlights again
I'm still in the dark, silent and stark
Outrunning headlights again
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13. |
Four Blocks To Hennepin
04:03
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They got the bad cop
Down at the bus stop
He's gonna trash talk
Make you walk in his vicinity
You got to make right
Here in the moonlight
Who wants to burn bright
Lose the fight, leave in a body bag
In my mind there's no regret
On these streets they won't forget
In my mind there's no regret
On these streets, these streets, they won't forget
Four blocks to Hennepin
Drop the suitcase with the piece and the photographs
Three blocks to Hennepin
Got to feel safe with the boys in the back seat
Two blocks to Hennepin
Leave the lights on when you park by the Cadillac
One block to Hennepin
He shot the first round
Blood on the cold ground
He's got you face down
Gagged and bound, no where to run away
Out on the stone bridge
You walk the thin ledge
You can't escape your thoughts of her
They run right through you
In my mind there's no regret
On these streets they won't forget
In my mind there's no regret
On these streets, these streets, they won't forget
Four blocks to Hennepin
Drop the suitcase with the piece and the photographs
Three blocks to Hennepin
Got to feel safe with the boys in the back seat
Two blocks to Hennepin
Leave the lights on when you park by the Cadillac
One block to Hennepin
Out on the stone bridge
You walk the thin ledge
You can't escape your thoughts of her…
Four blocks to Hennepin
Drop the suitcase with the piece and the photographs
Three blocks to Hennepin
Got to feel safe with the boys in the back seat
Two blocks to Hennepin
Leave the lights on when you park by the Cadillac
One block to Hennepin
Four blocks to Hennepin
Four blocks to Hennepin
Four blocks to Hennepin
Four blocks to Hennepin…
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Instrumental
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Rob Meany & Terramara Bloomington, Minnesota
Rob Meany & Terramara create jazz-infused rock, with a sound akin to Steely Dan meets Ben Folds.
Formed in 1999 by singer-songwriter-keyboardist Rob Meany, the band released three full-length records over the span of 10 years, garnering a loyal following among jazz-rock lovers worldwide.
Rob emerged as a solo artist in 2016 with the release of his first album, Ferris Wheels Unbound.
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