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Hard Time Train
05:43
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1. Hard Time Train
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
This Hays County morning is glowing like a Carolina rose
And it’s warming all the station trains and cars, but I’m as cold as any stone
‘Cause I’m so afraid of life that I am dying this early in my career
I guess all that I’ve been fearing is that mirror man a-steering
With the smile of a drunken engineer
So hallelujah for the moments I am rolling on these rails of pain
It's all that I can do and it keeps me running back to you
On a hard time train
Well I can hear the lonesome five-note whistle whine as I climb inside the car
And the rhythm of the pounding on the tracks, it’s the beating of my heart
And I’m crying out for help, oh won't someone slow this down
But all this time that I’ve been praying what I should have been a-saying is
Don’t stop now
So hallelujah for the moments I am rolling on these rails of pain
It’s all that I can do and it keeps me running back to you
On a hard time train
Well the brakeman works the chain, but now we’re climbing through the hills toward the sun
And I turn away in shame, seeing all the evil that I’ve done
But those Carolina roses, oh they’re growing up the tracks of my despair
Saying all that I’ve been needing is a simple man a-bleeding and the hope
Of a mother’s prayer
So hallelujah for the moments I am rolling on these rails of pain
It’s all that I can do and it keeps me running back to you
On a hard time train
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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2. |
City Love, City Lose
04:22
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2. City Love, City Lose
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
Out in the old town summer night
The girl with the red letter jacket is dancing in the street light
Caught in the pouring city rain
I'm crying in the road like a ghost town record machine, you know what I mean?
When there’s no one there to hold you when you say
We were awful young anyway
City love, city lose
Wanna feel my city blues
And all the troubles I am driving through
City love, city lose
Now we’re rolling sideways
We're safe in the arms of a cold, unfeeling thing
In a struggle with its paper soul, well I’m not a ghost of a man
I’m not an illusion you can just call up
And that’s the trouble with your cotton candy love
You give in too much and not enough
City love, city lose
Wanna feel my city blues
And all the troubles I am driving through
City love
Well I want you to love, yeah I want you to hurt like I do
That burns under your steel
Something you feel
City love, city lose
Wanna feel my city blues
All the troubles I am driving through
City love, city lose
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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3. |
Oh Seraphim!
03:57
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3. Oh Seraphim!
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
Let me go I’m only a rambler
Slow me down I’m a running man
I got dark on the edge of my soul
You would not understand
You’re the ghost in the moonlight dancing
For the lover and the bloodhound
To catch an old indifferent sinner
And beat him when he’s down
And angel don’t you want me so bad
Don't I need you after all
Get it through my head, oh I can’t
Get it through my head
Oh seraphim, if I didn’t love you now
If I was scared to
If I didn’t want to go quiet out of the dark
Oh seraphim, you know you gotta rough me up
Knock my soul around, until I’m tired and I wanna lay my head down
I’m tired and I wanna lay my head down
I got a road this side of the mountain
Neon red into Babylon
Slow and winding wheels are turning
Fortunate and wrong
And in that time I saw you standing
Flying high o’er the holy train
And though you hide, your eyes are burning
Calling out my name
And angel don’t you want me so bad
And don’t I need you
Oh seraphim, if I didn’t love you now
If I was scared to
If I didn’t want to go quiet out of the dark
Oh seraphim, you know you gotta rough me up
Knock my soul around, until I’m tired and I wanna lay my head down
Tired and I wanna lay my head down
I’m so tired and I wanna lay my head down
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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Greytown
04:51
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4. Greytown
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux and Greg Essington
Honey, I got my name upon the wall
In the ground floor level of desperation hall
And the heat is out, and the stairs don’t climb at all
Oh, but you can take the elevator down
Down to Greytown, where it don’t ever rain
Not in Greytown, no the light it shines all day
And it burns like fire all the colors out
Say when you gonna come and get me out, my Lord
‘Cause I’ve been praying
Well I belong to a storm inside my heart
And I drown in the worry from which I will not part
Oh, but the word is out that the boarding’s about to start
Calling all, the golden train is rolling out
Out of Greytown, where it don’t ever rain
Not in Greytown, oh the light it shines all day
And it burns like fire all the colors out
Say, when you gonna come and get me out, my Lord
‘Cause I’ve been praying
Oh that train I’m taking it
And though the ground I cannot walk on
And the water’s hard as stone
I believe you, I believe you
I was sad, but I was wrong
I wanted someone, Lord, to call
But you were shouting all along
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC)/ Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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5. |
Medicine Man
03:48
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5. Medicine Man
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
Well honey, here I come, I got a wagonload
A million different words I’m putting on for show
I’m peddling my heart
It sees your careful walk hiding a gypsy stare
And I know just the thing, woman if you dare
Step right on through
And I’ll do it all for you
I’ll do it all for you
I am the Medicine Man
I traveled all the land in a depression line
I bought and sold my love one too many times
But now those days are done
‘Cause under the things I own, I am the one you need
And in your snake oil smile, the cure for my disease
I’d break my heart in two
And I would do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
‘Cause I can see your fever rising
And I got all you need inside
You’re out on a ledge with your head in your hands
You got a bleeding heart honey, I am the Medicine Man
You (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, ohh)
I can see your fever rising
And I got all you need inside
You’re out on a ledge with your head in your hands
You got a bleeding heart honey, I am the Medicine Man
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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6. |
How I Broke Your Heart
05:00
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6. How I Broke Your Heart
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
What are the words you say to lie (when you’re lying)
When you’re lying next to someone else at night?
What are the ways I shut you out and ignore you?
It’s a wonder we both can say “I love you” now
And won’t you hold me so I know?
And please don’t let me go
If we broke down forgive me
Add it up, the being miles apart
With the amount of time the lonesome took to start, and now
I will show you just how I broke your heart
I was the rain in all your plans
You were the siren inside my cold and distant hands
Wake me up and read my mind, tell me all the lies you want
And I’ll believe you every time
But won’t you hold me so I know?
And please don’t let me go
If we broke down forgive me
Add it up, the being miles apart
With the amount of time the lonesome took to start, and now
I will show you just how I broke your heart
Empty bottles, empty beds, and broken things
I never thought would need mending
It never crossed my mind
Do I ever cross your mind?
I'm sorry if I crossed you out ...
I'm sorry if I crossed you
If we broke down forgive me
Add it up, the being miles apart
With the amount of time the lonesome took to start, and now
I will show you just how I broke your heart
How I broke your heart
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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7. |
My Blue San Antone
05:34
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7. My Blue San Antone
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
Oh my love, when you gonna buy that dress that you got on?
When you gonna earn them eyes you’re putting on?
They make me fall to pieces
And send my worried mind, always leaving on the edge of something new
Honey and the avalanche was you
And it fell all around me
At times I wish I was just covered up in you
Wrapped in all your red and lying quiet in your blues
In a moment I’ll be alright, but I need time alone
My blue San Antone, I still miss, I still miss someone
I remember the cold, and the rhythm of the streetlights up above
It was like a falling out of love, and I saw every moment
Yeah the moonlight waltzing with the blood upon the Stations of the Cross
Honey that’s a memory I haven’t lost
I’m glad you never noticed
At times I wish I was just covered up in you
Wrapped in all your red and lying quiet in your blues
In a moment I’ll be alright, but I need time alone
My blue San Antone, I still miss, I still miss someone
With the stars out, I miss you on the edge of something new
Honey you don’t have to say it too
I just want you to know
That when it all goes, when it all goes down so easy
I can feel your heat and breathe your smoke in my lungs
And I wish I was covered up in you
Wrapped in all your red and lying quiet in your blues
In a moment I’ll be alright, but I need time alone
My blue San Antone, I still miss, I still miss someone
I still miss, I still miss someone
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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John Henry
04:00
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8. John Henry
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
Oh Johnny, six foot four
The baby grew so tall he couldn’t grow no more
Say don’t do this, and don’t do that
Everybody tellin’ him where it’s at he said
Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Yeah he said, Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
He was born, a hammer in hand
The baddest mother’s son in the Promised Land
Now drive that steel, drive it hard
Won’t you drive it on home to the graveyard
Oh Johnny, swing that hammer
Oh Johnny, swing it right
Oh Johnny, swing that hammer
Swing it all day, swing it all night
Until the Judgment Day
See that man against the Machine
Working like a one who won’t be beat
Gonna break my back, have a heart attack
But I will not give up I will not but
Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Lord, it hurts so bad
Oh John is swingin’ it now,
Workin’ in Heaven on the gospel plow
Well now don’t do this, I do what I want
‘Cause the good Lord treats me right he says
Oh Johnny, yeah swing that hammer
Oh he says Johnny, won’t you swing it right
Oh the good, good Lord say Johnny, swing that hammer
Swing it all day, oh swing it all night
Into the Judgment Day
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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9. |
The Running
04:36
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9. The Running
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux, Greg Essington, and Daniel Dowling
I remember the lights
They take my old mind back to a younger game
And the drive for a chance at a name
It came low and inside, I stepped out of the way
And then there was wildness
Heaving right for the middle as the bat came down
Like the sound of the roar of a crowd
I was calling for the wall, but the sound died out
When you’re close to glory, you give it all to chase it
All I know is that I almost made it
Oh I was running, I was in the running
Oh I was running, I was in the running for the best
I remember the sea
The arctic breeze of a heart set in stone
And burning for the edge of the world
For a wild cut of heaven to call my own
And then there was silence
But for the wailing of the wind as the sun went down
And the cold closing all around
I was holding on to hope as the hope ran out
When you’re close to glory, you give it all to chase it
All I know is that I almost made it
Oh I was running, I was in the running
Oh I was running, I was in the running for the best
I’ve been running all my life from the fear in my bones
Of being nothing but a cold, timid soul
I wanna know now, brother, before I go to rest
I remember the pain
My whole life training in the docks on the east coastline
And the glow of the fear in her eyes
Begging the Lord that I’d make it one last fight
And then there was violence
Oh the cheering and the blood as the gloves came down
At the nod of the man in the crowd
I was reaching for the ropes as the bell rang out
So close to glory, I’d give it all to taste it
All I know is that I almost made it
Oh I was running, I was in the running
Oh I was running, I was in the running
I may amount to nothing, but once I was something, oh
I was in the running for the best
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC)/ Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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10. |
Voice in Ramah
04:43
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10. Voice in Ramah
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
When I was a boy in the Great War
I walked all around in the dark
But you were the light in a father’s eyes
On the day you were born
We grew up in fields on the outside
Pulling black London gold from the ground
I saw the smoke in a daydream
And when the rain came falling down
I thought I heard a voice in Ramah
The sound of weeping and loud lamentation
Rachel weeping for her children
Because they are no more, because they are no more
There in the lights ‘til the morning broke
I stood on the edge of the mound
With a man from from the press giving words of hope
Saying that all's quiet now
But I thought I heard a voice in Ramah
The sound of weeping and loud lamentation
Rachel weeping for her children
Because they are no more, because they are no more
I dream you in your communion dress
I dream you in warm streets of light
But I’d give the world for a night of rest
To get you out of my mind
To never have heard a voice in Ramah,
The sound of weeping and loud lamentation
Rachel weeping for her children
Because they are no more, because they are no more
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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Q to Cortelyou
03:06
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11. Q to Cortelyou
Written by: Greg Essington
Take the Q to Cortelyou
Maybe find what you have lost
Bring the mountains into view
But don’t count the cost
If the time has faded
And the hour is passed
Just know I need you at last
Pedal up the Hudson way
For an afternoon
I don’t know what to say
But I hope to soon
Ah well you looked gorgeous
In that summer dress
But I was clueless I guess
Take the Q to Cortelyou
Maybe find what you have lost
Bring the mountains into view
But don’t count the cost
© 2015 Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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12. |
Things We Carry
04:49
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12. Things We Carry
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux and Greg Essington
Anne Marie, I saw you on the screen
An old motion picture girl in black and white
You danced in my heart once upon a long, long time
I was younger then, still too old to see
Always one to give an answer, never questioned anything
And so imagine my surprise when you cast those doubtful eyes
And broke the silver walled dimension
My heart, and in the tension said
Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I'm falling in the aisle, and we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? 'Cause when nothing stays the same
It's the things we carry
She lay down, spread her arms out on the ground
And told me how she’d hid the screenplay of her life
In a dressing room no one could ever find
And then I held her, and I whispered something sweet
I said I think it was a line from Shakespeare
Oh and Annie, you believed it, I said
Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I'm falling in the aisle, and we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? ‘Cause when nothing stays the same
It’s the things we carry
Oh now Annie, I believe the desolation you receive
Might be the ending of the world, if you were any other girl
She flipped the light and went off dancing in the alley
As I stumbled through the lobby in the dark
I lit a candle and I thought, the best laid plans can run amok
But I chalk my love up to luck
I was the only boy around who laughed when you rolled into town and said
Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I’m falling in the aisle, you know I’m falling, we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? ‘Cause when nothing stays the same
It’s the things we carry
© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC)/ Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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13. |
Highway to Glory
04:01
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13. Highway To Glory
Written by: Greg Essington
Beat-up back roads for a welcome
Hugs and kisses say goodbye
Tears that flow from years of memories
Soak the pictures in my mind
Began the journey of my soul there
Found the love I have today
But nothing comes without sorrow
Oh sorrow, don’t you come my way
Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never end
Headed out toward the cities
Left the simple life behind
Wanted nothing but the pleasures
Found nothing worth my time
Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never end
Watching the pastures through my window
Doing the best that I can
‘Cause I know where I’m going
I know where this road ends
Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never end
Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never ...
© 2015 Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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