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We Never Sleep
03:09
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"We never sleep but we’re always dreaming"
She whispers and smiles
Some nights First Avenue is teeming
Some nights we just get high and get lost for a while
We never sleep we just keep waiting
We never sleep we just keep waiting for
The hustle, the hurry, the sound and the fury
And the sweet smell of summer as the sun sinks down low
I know we’re both tired, but this city’s on fire
Our thirst runs too deep, so baby we never sleep
We never die but we’re always dying
To feel that warm feeling again
There are angels in the lights on Seventh
And devils in the darkness of Ten-Ten
We never sleep and we’ve stopped trying
We never sleep we’re still just dying for
The hustle, the hurry, the sound and the fury
And the sweet smell of summer as the sun sinks down low
I know we’re both tired, but this city’s on fire
Our thirst runs too deep, so baby we never sleep
And we could always get some three-two
And we could always go to Ten-Ten
Ain’t you heard about the night club called the Nice Nice
Southeast Fourth to Fifteenth & Franklin
Yeah we keep running down those Southeast streets
And we’re just blazing through the August heat
But we never wake up at Fifteenth & Franklin
‘Cause we never sleep, we just keep waiting for
The hustle, the hurry, the sound and the fury
And the sweet smell of summer as the sun sinks down low
I know we’re both tired, but this city’s on fire
Our thirst runs too deep, so baby we never sleep
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There's a girl from the Narragansett Bay
I can see her now, her ribbons and her curls
She gives me her love, and I throw it all away
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
There's a girl from the Narragansett Bay
I can see her now, the sunshine on her skin
Bright with life, and kissed by every ray
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
There's a girl from the Narragansett Bay
I can see her now, those smiling eyes of green
She gives me her love, and I don't know what to say
To my girl from the Narragansett Bay
There's a girl from the Narragansett Bay
I can hear her now, the songs that we would sing
Too soft and sweet to repeat aloud today
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
There's a girl from the Narragansett Bay
I can see her now, with flowers in her hair
I give her my love, she repays a thousand ways
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
There's a girl from the Narragansett Bay
I can see her now, a'lookin' back at me
And I pray that some day I'll be headin' back her way
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
And I pray that some day I'll be headin' back to stay
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
My girl from the Narragansett Bay
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Sally
02:46
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Sally, I don't know where else to go
I've been down every highway and every road
But they all lead me back to your front door
And I just can't wait there for you no more
Sally, I see your face around each turn
In the taillights I see your eyes and how they'd burn
And when the radio plays those sad slow songs we loved
I just listen for your singing from above
Sally, when we were young, you were so bright
Now I just see your stoned eyes strarin' into the night
And it's so hard to keep it straight inside my head
How you're alive but the girl I loved is dead
And it's so hard to keep it straight inside my head
How you're alive but the you I loved is dead
Sally, I don't know where else to go
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4. |
Nostalgic
03:59
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Well I've been hurtin' hard lately for a'headin' on home
Maybe I miss the summer nights just a'runnin' down those country roads
Seekin' out the secrets of the pale moonlight
Laughin' and drinkin' with the girls who make it all feel all right
I guess I might always miss those country girls
They always smile when they see ya and that rips apart my world
To see 'em chasin' after somethin' that they just can't find
Feels like I'm chasin' after somethin' that used to be all mine
But ooh, I never really knew any women like that
Just wasted all my summer days a'wond'rin where they're at
Now I'm trying to take from truth what it won't give
Nostalgic for a life I never lived
Some folks find their place and settle down to stay
But fate just won't stop tearin' me away
Oh the ones we love rest heavy on our minds
But there ain't none so weighty as the ones we leave behind
Dwelling in old photographs of lovers and friends
Some that I can't even say if they're alive or dead
The things I'd give for just one single look
'Round the bends of all those paths I never took
Well, well, ma belle, you harrowed me each day
With every song I tried and failed to keep you at bay
I thought I used to love you for so long
And to this day I'm still not sure that I was wrong
'Cause somethin' happens to young love when it hits freeway speeds
But I just can't keep followin' wherever your muse leads
I'm too damn young for drivin' myself mad
Nostalgic for a love I never had
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Hallowed Ground
03:05
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Someday I’ll take you to my hometown
But be careful, you’ll be treadin’ on hallowed ground
In those woods behind the railroad track
My first love first kissed me back
And far away from the freeway lights
I’ll show you where I first fell in love with the night
And from the lonely top of old Buck Hill
You can see why Springsteen haunts me still
Someday I’ll go to your hometown
And you, my love, can drive me around
To the places where your heart is whole
The ground you hallow in your soul
And on that earth we’ll start anew
And I will sing this song for you
And on that earth we both shall rest
A single soul between our chests
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The Temptress
06:35
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Never believed in the devil 'til I met you
Never believed in no devil 'til I met you
Oh, but you're tempting me something awful, baby
Got a feeling like there ain't nothing I can do
Let's have a toast for my temptress—better make it two double shots of Bacardi rum
Let's have a toast for my temptress—bartender, bring me two double shots of Bacardi rum
Gotta get my mind off my sweetheart
Get me some new romancing done
Now all I want with my life is to live with all the passion that I can
All I want with my life is to live with all the passion that I can
Th' temptress says she's gonna free me
Gonna make me a happy man
I wanna run away with you, baby, get me far away from everything but you
I wanna meet you in New York City, baby, far away from everything but you
I wanna leave my sweetheart behind me
Go a'waltzin' down Seventh Avenue
Let's have a toast for my temptress—better make it two double shots of Bacardi rum
Let's have a toast for my temptress—bartender, bring me two double shots of Bacardi rum
Gotta get my mind off my sweetheart
Get me some new romancing done
Come on now, baby, come on let's a'go downtown
Come on now, baby, come on let's a'go downtown
I wanna see you twist and shout, baby
Just see them hips a'swing right round
I wanna make love to you, my darling, uncork a bottle of sweet Champagne
I wanna make love to you in Manhattan, uncork a bottle of sweet, sweet Champagne
I wanna feel alive like I never have
Feel your sweet, sweet loving take away my pain
Let's have a toast for the temptress—better make it two double shots of Bacardi rum
Let's have a toast for the temptress—bartender, bring me two double shots of Bacardi rum
Gotta get my mind off my sweetheart
Get me some new romancing done
Never believed in the devil 'til I met you
Never believed in no devil 'til I met you
Oh, but you're tempting me something awful, baby
Got a feeling like there ain't nothing I can do
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The River
04:41
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Faded
06:57
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The night’s getting late now, baby go on asleep
The night’s getting late now, baby go on asleep
I’ll just be a few minutes, in the dark and the deep
Just go on to bed, dear, ain’t nothing to see tonight
Just go on to bed, dear, you know I’ll be all right
I just want a few minutes, alone with the night
Don’t scare me, baby, this house is haunted when the nights grow cold
Don’t scare me, baby, when I’m up this late alone
And don’t ask me no questions, baby you don’t wanna know
That summer for us, baby, was blue jeans and white t-shirts
That summer for us, baby, was blue jeans and white t-shirts
Where are your blue jeans now, dear, where’d you leave ‘em out to hang
Are they faded now, like the light of day?
When the light would get low and the band would play their songs
And the girls of summer would dance with their sandals on
We’d be waiting for the boys with the guitars to play our favorite verse
I miss it so much it hurts
Don’t let me scare you, I just had too much to drink
Don’t let me scare you, I just need some room to think
I just feel a bit too old now, or a bit too close to the brink
Do we love each other, baby, or do I love you and you love me?
Do we love each other, baby, or do I love you and you love me?
Will we ever know, darling, or will we just keep waiting to see?
Don’t worry, baby, I’m sure the feeling will pass
Don’t worry, baby, I’m sure these thoughts won’t last
And tomorrow when you wake, the past will be the past
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9. |
Nobody's Pet
02:53
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Saint Jenny sits on the sofa
A glass of wine in her hand
She says, "Poor boy, you could’a had me once,
But you never did understand"
Her new toy’s out on the porch, finishing his cigarette
But I ain’t never been nobody’s master
And I ain’t never gonna be nobody’s pet
Now Johnny the bus stop boxer
Sells nickels a quarter apiece
To the motorists and morticians
And the Hampshire County Police
He says, "won't you do me a favor boy? I’d be forever in your debt"
But I ain’t never been nobody’s master
And I ain’t never gonna be nobody’s pet
Well Helen will always have Paris
Though she makes her home in Troy
I never seen so many ships set sail
Since I was just a little boy
The prince called for his daughter, she said, "I ain’t quite ready yet"
But I ain’t never been nobody’s master
And I ain’t never gonna be nobody’s pet
Well if Mary’s the Queen of Arkansas
Then I’m the Ace of Spades
She says, "I don’t know if you’re high or low
But I can tell you’ve just been played"
Well I know some folks out there would take that as a threat
But I ain’t never been nobody’s master
And I ain’t never gonna be nobody’s pet
I ain’t never been nobody’s master
And I ain’t never gonna be nobody’s pet
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10. |
Lessey Street Blues
03:46
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In days of old, in time gone by,
I made my home up on that hill so high
And now I wonder when, oh, when
I will find myself on Lessey Street again
Well Plimpton's fine and Tyler's fair
But that old Marsh House is beyond compare
Now I wonder when, oh, when
I will find myself on Lessey Street again
Out on the rooftops, we'd sing and shout
While the storm was raging and all the lights went out
Now I wonder when, oh, when
I will find myself on Lessey Street again
It wasn't all roses, don't get me wrong
I met the bastard who wrote this song
And now I wonder when, oh, when
I will find myself on Lessey Street again
So don't forget me when I am gone
Hold onto this tune, Lord, 'cause it won't be long
'Til you're a'wonderin' where your time flew
And singing these Lessey Street blues
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