Hell on Wheels
music and lyrics Greg Joseph
I’ve got the moon over my shoulder, I’m not a looking back
I’ve got the world in my headlights, and it just feels right
This stream of consciousness, no surprise
I can see when I close my eyes, tonight
I’ve got a Civic to my right, and he’s starts talking smack
One thing I can’t, ignore, is a punk like that
He’s the devil I know or the devil I don’t
Welcome to my dust and stones, goodbye
Hell on Wheels, free at last
When the road is your world, there’s nothing like going fast
Hell on Wheels, free at last
What’s left behind leaves one less thing to pass
There’s a yearning and desire still burning in the back of my mind
I won’t kiss away the best days of my life
Hell on wheels, free at last
When the radio fades, you’ll know life’s moving fast
Hell on wheels, free at last
I’ve got the moon over my shoulder, I’m not a looking back
I’ve got the world in my headlights, and it just feels right
There’s a breeze that blows in through my hair
The colors in the desert air
Nothing in this world compares, tonight
Hell on wheels, free at last
When the road is your world, there’s nothing like going fast
Hell on wheels, free at last
When you’re making the rules, there’s no way to finish last
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Anymore
music and lyrics Scott Blasey
I gave my love everything
I tied an old glass heart to a ring
But she put it on a shelf
And I found it didn’t help anything
I gave my love all the time
I tied a worn out dress to a rhyme
But she left it at the door
And I found it on the floor every time
And I won’t be making love or taking love
or faking it no more
And I won’t be breaking love forsaking love
or taking it no more
I gave my love every day
I took a dead end road and made a way
But she said it wouldn’t work
And I found it in reverse anyway
And I won’t be making love or taking love
or faking it no more
And I won’t be breaking love forsaking love
or taking it no more
And I won’t be knocking on love’s door anymore
Someday I’m gonna turn it around I know I know
I gave my love everything
I took a tired song and made it sing
But she put it on a shelf
And I found it didn’t help anything
And I won’t be making love or taking love
or faking it no more
And I won’t be breaking love forsaking love
or wasting it no more
And I won’t be making love or taking love
or shaking it no more
And I won’t be aching love for taking love from me
Anymore
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Shimmy Low
music and lyrics Greg Joseph
I’ve been down this road ten times
I would run, I would hide
From the fears that ruled my mind
And so I asked this guy
We’ll call him Oz, call him wise
He laughed and offered his advice
Get out of your black hole
Join life’s circus sideshow
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Gonna walk on water, Gonna lose control
I’d practice to believe
Fear is real, a disease
And hold myself against my knees
And if you lose your mind
Call the sun, then unwind
There’s too much to leave behind
He said you ought to know
Life’s on remote control…Got to…
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control
Much to my surprise, I’ve been so high
I’ll kiss the sky from this broken dream I’ll rise
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control
Got to Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
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Wait a Minute
music and lyrics Scott Blasey
Wait a minute can we stop the car right here
Can I take a picture here can I
Have a second just to take in all the sights
All the southern stars and northern lights
Wait a minute can we put aside the past
Can we make it something last for life
Say wrong say right tonight
Say wrong say right tonight
Wait a minute can you play that song again
It makes me think about a friend can I
Have a second can you take me back in time
Close my eyes and hear her voice her rhyme
Wait a minute can I say I’m sorry now
I admit I don’t know how or why
Say wrong say right tonight
I need everything that you need
I breathe the same air that you breathe
Say wrong say right tonight
I need everything that you need
I breathe the same air that you breathe
And I’ve been wrong now for so long
I’m just trying to get it right
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Happy
music Greg Joseph/Rob James lyrics by Scott Blasey
I’m never gonna smile
I’m never gonna stay for awhile
I’m never gonna laugh
You might as well just cut me in half
Just want to run
Just want to live til I’m done
Just want to be
As happy as I’m gonna be
And there’s nothing on the inside
I’m not high on life I’m not drunk on love
I’m broken down not feeling right
I’m happy as I’m gonna be
When there’s nothing on the inside
I’m not high on life I’m not drunk on love
Not feeling right
I’m never gonna find
The thing I need to make up my mind
I’m never gonna stand
Next to you I do what I can
Just want to run
Just want to lie in the sun
Just want to be
As happy as I’m gonna be
And there’s nothing on the inside
I’m not high on life I’m not drunk on love
I’m broken down not feeling right
I’m happy as I’m gonna be
When there’s nothing on the inside
I’m not high on life I’m not drunk on love
Not feeling right
I’m never gonna write
Lay with you or whisper goodnight
I’m never gonna call
That way I’ll have nothing at all
Just want to run
Just want to live til I’m done
Just want to be
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Blue
music and lyrics Greg Joseph
Hey now, the storm is overhead
I can't believe the words you said
Somehow I missed the point that we were only friends
To me it seems that I've been blind
To you it's all so well defined
Now here I sit my hands, holding up my head
It should have been me
That made it with you
Sadly all my dreams turned blue
It should have been me
That made it with you
I ignored all of your clues
Hey now, there must have been a time
When I was more than border line
But who's to blame, emotions somehow get misread
I hate to bring it up again
I won’t let go, I can’t defend
But what's the use if we, constantly pretend
It should have been me
That made it with you
Sadly all my dreams turned blue
It should have been me
That made it with you
But that's not your point of view
Hey now you must have left behind
I painted a picture and a rhyme
You painted me into the corner of your mind
So sad you won't be coming back
So close the curtain, fade to black
So long, this time has passed, I’m here for you to find
It should have been me
That made it with you
Sadly all my dreams turned blue
It should have been me
That made it with you
But my dream turned shades of blue
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Fast Moving Cars
music and lyrics Scott Blasey
Lonely faces all along the way
Broken city all dressed up in gray
In the rain outside the restaurant
I make money but I still feel broke
I start drinking and I want a smoke
Doing doughnuts in the parking lot
Driving fast moving cars and drinking
Old in these bars and thinking I could
Paint all those stars
Empty bottles on an empty stage
End of story on the final page
Of a book that no one knows about
This is it this is my last goodbye
This is where my dreams go to die
In the trash behind the record shop
I’m driving fast moving cars and drinking
Old in these bars and thinking I could
Paint all those stars
Singing old timey songs and thinking I could
Right all these wrongs and drinking ‘til the
Pain is all gone
After all this time I still believe
With a few tricks hidden up my sleeve
In the sun way down in Mexico
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She Says Don’t Miss Me
music and lyrics Dave Minarik
She is sitting all alone but he sent flowers
All alone she sits there thinking this is not right
She questions all her thoughts at home for hours
He offers nothing in return for her to sit tight
Her dreams are tired and bound
Her stars are all falling down
I won’t make a sound
She just sleeps right through the day when the suns up
Never knowing how to finish her dreams
All her friends will go away when she wakes up
She won’t need them when there’s something to believe in
The nighttime isn’t so kind
Too many truths there to find
I won’t change her mind
She says don’t miss me
I will be alright
Because I’m not alone
I will be alright
She says don’t leave tonight
She wonders why it’s not right
She sees her visions in flight
I will hold on tight
I won’t give her a fight
She says don’t miss me
I will be alright
Because I’m not alone
I will be alright
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Gypsy Lounge
music and lyrics Scott Blasey
My sometimes lady
Call her sexy Sadie when she comes around
She dances for me
I spend my twenty when I roll through town
I think I’ll be leaving
There’s no one here I have not been
There’s no more believing
I’m only saved ‘cause I’m tired of sin
And every day when the sun goes down
Every way when her walls come down
My baby dances at the Gypsy Lounge
This drunked-up trucker
He tried to luck here into going down town
Smashed his kneecap
House’s ball bat a fifth of Crown
I think I’ll be leaving
There’s nothing here I have not seen
There’s no more believing
That nothing comes like in between
And every day when the sun goes down
Every way when her walls come down
My baby dances at the Gypsy Lounge
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You Know Everything
music and lyrics Rob James
You lift me up to knock me down
But I don’t want to play your game
I’m giving back this thorny crown
And there’ll be no one else to blame
I used to think you had a heart
Then you picked up that poison pen
I should have known right from the start
That all good things come to an end
I’m not gonna waste my precious time
I know I’m never gonna change your mind
Cause you know everything
You know everything
You know everything
You hung my pictures on the wall
But nothing in this world is free
Now you won’t even catch my fall
It’s murder in the first degree
I’ve been torn up I’ve been knocked down
That’s all you ever meant to do
You’ve taken back your thorny crown
Now you be me and I’ll be you
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Take Your Time
music and lyrics Rob James/Bill Deasy
Know what you’re feeling
It’s all so real to you
Through your glass ceiling
You can’t see the sky
Your angels have fallen
Your faith reads like fiction now
Your demons keep calling
And you let them inside
Time is on your side
And you won’t run and hide forever no
You’re gonna let it go
Oh yeah
You’re down upon your knees
But time is all you need to make it through
And you’re gonna make it through
Oh yeah…take your time
The mirror is broken
Your pieces are everywhere
You gather them hoping
Just leave it behind
Your down upon your knees
But time is all you need to carry you
Don’t let it bury you
Oh yeah…Take your time
You can’t see it
But the pain that keeps dragging you down
Is the buried treasure you’ve found
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Train
music and lyrics Scott Blasey
They grew up in the shadow of the armory
Land of freedom right out their back door
Brothers near the middle of the century
One of them had to go and fight the war
Somebody had to go and fight the war
And the train goes…
So he left upon the rails toward Ohiopyle
Youghiogheny flows around the bend
He told his mother someday he’d be coming home
The medals shine and the stars never end
But nobody counts on scars that never mend
And the train goes…
Cast iron wheels go hungry in the fields
Searching for that silver line a long, long way to go
Cast iron hearts go hungry for spare parts
Searching for a hand to hold on late night radio
He flew missions out of London into Germany
In letters she read once then locked away
With a picture of him smiling at the armory
The colors in that flag all washed away
It’s just black and white and a hundred shades of gray
And the train goes…
That’s the way it goes
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