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Last Dollar Spent
 
 I waited backstage to kiss  her powder caked face
Another laughing bleeding man there in her glass to taste
A dozen dirty roses and a tear stained eye
To try to steal some heaven is to try to die
 
Chorus :Where’s the next dollar when the last ones spent
Spent my last dollar owin' last months rent
Where’s the next dollar when the last ones gone
How do you make it right when all your loves gone wrong
Where’s the time to laugh and just remember the time
We're gonna make it baby hold on
. 
 
I tore the filter off a cigarette I found in the street
Shared a match with a man back from the catchers wheat
He quote dme some words from teh book of John he said
"Love on another!"
 
Where’s the next dollar when the last ones spent
Spent my last dollar owin' last months rent
Where’s the next dollar when the last ones gone
How do you make it right when all your loves gone wrong
Where’s the time to laugh and just remember the time
We're gonna make it baby hold on
. 
 
That old bankers house sat empty  til up under the planks
I found the money of a man who didn’t trust the banks
Johnny played the fiddle boy teh devil did too
Oh but Sometimes that old devil plays it better
Where’s the next dollar when the last ones spent
Spent my last dollar owin' last months rent
Where’s the next dollar when the last ones gone
How do you make it right when all your loves gone wrong
Where’s the time to laugh and just remember the time
We're gonna make it baby hold on
. 
 

                                                           


Saturday We Lock The Door
 
Worn Garden Gloves Hang on the Fence Rail
Planting Iris Bulbs before the frost
All My Life
 All My Life
 
Dry your wet boots by the fireside
The Coffee’s on the Day’s begun
 
All My love ‘til my life is through
All my love to you
 
Sometimes it seems like we haven’t got to talk
Since Monday and then Monday is here again
And Friday someone stops by just in time for the dinner we planned for two
And Saturday we lock the door
Stay in bed until noon
 
Today you laughed and pulled at my first graying hair
On the front porch watching spring grow with the rain
All my love ‘til my life is through
All my love to you
 
All my life
All my life

Meredith
 
 
A fiery crash, the windshield glass, the seconds turn like our first dance and
Everybody knows all about it
The colors ran down from my skin I never looked the same again and
We’ve all got the same scars to show it.
 
Liars and promises broken
Only let you know what the truth is
I’ll take my chances again because
The truth is where love is
And the truth is this
 
 
Chorus
:   Its alright we’re all Scary and Damaged
Just a little here and there that we couldn’t have seen coming at us
Its alright there’s no time to hide your love away
What’s so scary anyway
 
Liars and promises broken
Only let you know what the truth is
I’ll take my chances again because
The truth is where love is
And the truth is this
 
Chorus
:   Its alright we’re all Scary and Damaged
Just a little here and there that we couldn’t have seen coming at us
Its alright there’s no time to hide your love away
What’s so scary anyway
 
 Your just a boy she's just a girl and all you do is think of her and
Everyone says stop thinking about it.
The decorations at the dance they're shaped like stars and second chances.
Its alright if we don't know the dances
Liars and promises broken
Only let you know what the truth is
I’ll take my chances again because
The truth is where love is
And the truth is this
 
Chorus
:   Its alright we’re all Scary and Damaged
Just a little here and there that we couldn’t have seen coming at us
Its alright there’s no time to hide your love away
What’s so scary anyway

Think Of You

 

Today has got to be the greatest day

The sun is shining yellow and yoru back to stay

when you say what'd you do

I say think of you I say think of you

 

I drank to much again but my head don't ache

I woke up much too early cause I couldn't wait

when you say what'd you do

I say think of you I say think of you

 

Hey I got so much to tell you

Noone else would get but we do

I say "Where you be?"

You say "With you" I say "With me?" yeah yeah


Asbury’s Church Bells
 
 
Asbury’s church bells ring for the tear stained bride
He had nothing left on the day that he died
 So we raised a cup to Heaven’s crown and toasted to his pride
Rest now your troubled soul
 
 
And drink my eyes up dry doctor send out for the cure
This side of town is hard, as hard as the floor
It’s a life so fine, left to drowning on the vine
Pass another bottle down
 
Asbury’s church bells they then confessed to me
She knelt down in the garden and sang prayers to sleep
So we raised a glass to Paris, France and skirts above the knee
Rest now your troubled soul
 
And drink my eyes up dry doctor send out for the cure
This side of town is hard, as hard as the floor
It’s a life so fine, left to drowning on the vine
Pass another bottle down
Asbury's Church Bells watch over broken stones
And call out to the faithful sweeping out their company homes.
In a Fayette County Coal town cracked backs and crooked bones
Rest now your troubled soul



I Don't Feel Like Singing Anymore

As I listen closely to the rain, I hold my head and watch in vane, the mirror

For ways to pass the hourless day and I can't bring myself to shave or

throw away the past I'v esaved in the box behind the door

And I don't feel like singing anymore.

Lying in my unmade bed

Wondering if teh words I said got through to you

Why shoudl a poet waste his breath

Words can't save your life from death or

change a mind that's made what's best don't matter much to her

And I don't feel like singing anymore.

 

 

I play my records day and night to

shake, rattle, rock an droll me right

Whatever gets you throug the night you know that it's alright

I'm thinking I should hit the town but i know for sure that I'd break down if I should see you with your arms around him.

 

Today I woke and feeling blessed

Buttoned up my Sunday best and rain coat

I'll leave the ghosts to haunt my room

the last bus west it leaves at noon you know I

only ever learned to sing one tune that favorite one of yours

And I don't feel like singing anymore


Pennsylvania Windows
By: Jason Lloyd Kendall
 
And I watch the days from A Pennsylvania window
Where I’m tracing dusty drawings now and wishing I was gone
Every night with folded hands beneath a Pennsylvania window
Without an eye toward springtime here
The winters last so long
So long
 
Entry August 23, I was feeling quite disturbed, that night I dreamt the ones I love had chained me to my bed without a word.
Lying quietly and still
Not minding minutes left to kill
The ghost of hope she turned away and flew off from the sill I woke up petrified
 
And I watch the days from A Pennsylvania window
Where I’m tracing dusty drawings now and wishing I was gone
Every night with folded hands beneath a Pennsylvania window
Without an eye toward springtime here
The winters last so long
So long
 
 
Reading On the Road page 8 Yellow roman candles wait exploding cross the sky I’m their blue centerlight I am the mad ones
Open Salinger by the bed those confessions turn my head Things will stay the same until the pain of constant breaks the pain of change
 
And I watch the days from A Pennsylvania window
Where I’m tracing dusty drawings now and wishing I was gone
Every night with folded hands beneath a Pennsylvania window
Without an eye toward springtime here
The winters last so long
So long
 

St. Augustine
 
 
 
’58 Cadillac
You lit a cigarette
I said I’m drying out
You said I’ll take that bet and
 
I wanna be one with the starlight
Want you you to say I can stay the night
Wanna be one with you
And I wanna taste the rain in St. Augustine
Saty young forever far way from all I've seen
Running straight to you
 
I know when it’s a lie
I know a tear from something in your eye
 
 
Rusted out photograph
You stood by the covered bridge
I said I’m burning out
You said its just the town we’re in and
 
I wanna be one with the starlight
Want you you to say I can stay the night
Wanna be one with you
And I wanna taste the rain in St. Augustine
Saty young forever far way from all I've seen
Running straight to you
 
I know when it’s a lie
I know a tear from something in your eye