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Come Sundown
03:11
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Taking for granted what the good lord gave
Everything spent would have been better saved
Is your house but a din of depression?
Slain dreams and aggression?
Chorus
Water rising and I’m rolling away
Spirits drifting further off everyday
Hallelujah honey release what you’ve bound
Come sundown
Work ain’t nothing but what you’re making and paying
Put a hurting on your body while your mind be straying
When the road ain’t paved with a fortunate fate
You’re bound to get up early and get back late...Chorus
Tough the way that living makes a man grow mean
Turn his spine into a fuel line for a wrecking machine
But, I got love from a woman with a tender way
Frame built for speed and a steady sway...Chorus
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Ghost Road
05:58
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It’s long and alluring and you’ve got a license to leave
It’ll promise you things and you’ll choose to believe
You can ride it like a hobo, or with a heavy load
But it ain’t nothin’ but a ghost road
Rules on the road signs, if you can find them at all
Girls with expenses and beds, when you get too weak to crawl
If you can make yourself a legend in a poor man’s mode
You’ve done alright on the ghost road
You’ll find hearts trampled under skeletal remains
As a fierce wind blows in a mystery refrain
And your prince will turn states witness, before back into a toad
He learned it all on the ghost road
Truth lies on pavement waiting to get picked up
Fortune lingers in dark alleys waiting to mess you up
A hard chime for curfew, but ain’t nobody showed
They’re all out on the ghost road
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Rich Mama
04:03
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Holed up all night with the last rite
The words don’t come and my rich mama moans
Well, I held up like a staff and I performed to the light
Excuses get pondered while my rich mama moans
Roaming through sad facts, and an identity crisis
If only I could make my reflection dance
Style and substance hang out awhile
And I’m stroking my rich mama
Weird thoughts cling to my brain wired
I fold my arms and my rich mama sings
I hear through the din intentions transpire
I listen real close as my rich mama sings
Haunted by goodness as evil remarks
What is there to this place when the matter gets lost
Well I wait in the corner entrenched in the guilt
Loving my rich mama
Chorus
My rich mama’s hot like a rail and cool like a river
She could damn me to hell, or stand and deliver
Well, I’m sometimes her foe, but she’s always my friend
And I’m loving my rich mama
Brought down again by arrows of fire
quoted by enemies as my rich mama speaks
Handed a bill for what my allies require
I empty my pockets while my rich mama sleeps
If blues was gold I be a wealthy man
If silver was salvation I could do as I please
But she’ll never endow me, not one piece of coin
But I’m loving my rich mama...Chorus
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Hard Crimes
04:51
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I set out for leaving scattered love in ruins
But with hurting on my heart, It was hard to tell what I was doing
We got a long black shadowy past but there’s mercy a brewing
Desire has gone for warmer weather while the yearning settles in
Thoroughfares are filled with sweat, blood and dreams
Where broken promises were never meant to mean anything
And as we tear down everything that once shook in the wind
We pay for the spoils of our hard crimes
A foul tongue and foul taste on the tip of fate
A long day, a longer night for us to lay here in wait
Well I’m stripping the wire, pretending to love what I hate
You may have come for what you needed, but you stayed too late
You ain’t the same woman that I fell in with
I’ve grown mean with the years, a little colder and stiff
And as we tear down everything that once shook in the wind
We pay for the spoils of our hard crimes
Don’t you toil with me honey, making a home a cage
I’ve laid down for that lion before and paid a handsome wage
Well I’ve hustled with my harlequin heart another sin on another page
I’ve conquered many, from weak to wild, I was all the rage
But we’ve got a big house in the distant blue yonder
Where we can hide from it all and let our love grow stronger
As we tear down everything that once shook in the wind
We pay for the spoils of our hard crimes
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5. |
A Way To Go
04:23
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Weather worn leather, rust on steel
The road roars with calloused hands on the wheel
Like father like son my own fate has been traded
For a velvet smooth horizon and a light that faded
Hounded and heckled, cotton-mouthed and slighted
Pawned my conceit for easy money...unrequited
If I belong anywhere by now I’d know
Chorus
Through the mud and high water
You don’t see but you oughta
Take it easy on me honey I’m walking slow
I still got a way to go
Holes in hard hills and moss on the stone
The sun swelters through the distance
With sickles and plows we tend to once fertile ground
Where both death and glory were at one time found
solemn with peace sought out like an idol
Sold pride for relief and life unbridled
If my boots took on holes my feet would know...Chorus
Staggering souls in wounded frames
A heavyweight champ playing kid games
With blood in the ring faith has been reconsidered
It all came to pass when nothing was delivered
held up by thieves, held down by self-righteous
Who stole what penance could offer at good prices
Afford what you can but by now you must know...Chorus
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Hellhounds
04:13
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On the wrong side of town at the right time
Looking for big honey but she's out buying
Authority struggles with what reaction to take
Against what fusses and clowns and what bends and breaks
Dark faces glow under moonlight fire
My breaker will trip when you cross my wires
The Hellhounds are coming and they ain't afraid of nothin'
To strike and be struck that's just the way it is
I gave you shelter from the storm but you claim nothing to give
There's some that would take a bullet instead of taking it anymore
But once you're up against it, it’s hard to tell what you’re looking for
Forgotten by protection but sought by law
But its alright, you can bring 'em all
The Hellhounds are coming and they ain't afraid of nothin'
Sure, we all need a main line to bleed dry
We all need a reason, a when, or why
The Hellhounds are coming and they ain't afraid of nothin'
Hearts they bleed and spirits rise
May we all get gripped by the sweet surprise
Shackles get so tight they crush the bone
Blind your eyes and bury your stones
And the longer I ride the further I get
From the semblance of love, the center of it
The Hellhounds are coming and they ain't afraid of nothin'
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Through and Through
04:21
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Miles above and years beyond
Where the journey meets home
Where light drapes like silk on skin
And the spirit moves the bones
I've hidden from you like lies and habits
Within dirty voids, on crooked streets
We took the brunt of what the sky threw
And loved each other through and through
Climbing concrete walls, climbing barbed wire
Toward what rings out like an anthem
Toward the hounds that run me down
For faith on high and my own freedom
I stood before you in deceit
With sorrow that pleads for no mercy
Spoke denial all the while you knew
We loved each other through and through
Laid my burden in the wrong places
Left my cross beside my bed
Looked around where I could never find you
But we loved each other through and through
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8. |
Here I Stand
05:21
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Birds fly south for the winter
Here I stand on this cold shattered ground
You are shaken and bitter
Shuttering, screaming but I can’t hear a sound
It’s been months since I went to pieces
And it’s been days since you first started crying
You may find no fault with my thesis
But there are truths denying
Chorus
Here I stand, with my broken tongue
here I stand, waiting for it all to come
I got no more secrets
I got no more pain too
You may know the depths of my weakness
But sure as Hell I know a whole lot better than you...Chorus
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The Saboteur
03:38
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The Saboteur is a marked man
He’s got his hands all over you
He's got your back
He'll lead you anywhere he wants to
He's all eyes and a crooked brow
Long white lines on a broken mirror
The brunt of a quick blow
A heavy hunger rising from below
The Saboteur loves your cold heart
Your facile face and your weathered glow
He's on your side
But you're only aware of what you want to know
Each day breaks with a fleeting glimpse
Like short stabs at a big dream
He'll throw your weight around
And wait for the dusk to bring you down
The Saboteur is a stow-a-way
He walks these streets with a placid pain
He works in shadows
And in the defects of a sovereign domain
A cacophony, twisted, toiled, frayed
You're an accomplice not a martyr babe
He'll hand you over
Then walk on
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10. |
Everything Is Alright
04:30
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Sun bleached sky hanging over regret
If nothing was taken then why is there nothing left?
Black clouds over gold rows
Let a hard rain follow
And if you ain't homesick then neither am I
Come on honey let's ride
Into a craving mad midnight far from city lights
Where everything is alright
Blanket the beast with a righteous lament
Like the blood of the faithful on the dirty cement
Prayers in silence through a hot microphone
Like delta rays scattering for home
And if you ain't frightened then I ain't scared
Come on baby let's push on
Until the love we've made spreads out like paradise
Where everything is alright
My fists turn blue from the pain I keep
Sewn are fields I'll never reap
There's a hunger not burdened by any longing or lust,
lying still in this forest of steel and rust
But if you ain't disgusted honey neither am I
Come on sugar let's fly
Straight through some shattered dreams into the wild blue
Where everything is alright
The sky was put up high to leave a lot of headroom
The ground laid-out for bodies to rest tight
And for a little lovin' The Lord made two
And everything is alright
Voices rushing down a deserted street
Spirits stir to a stampede
I'm picking up memories, some lost and some broken
While we hold-out with words unspoken
And if you ain't crying then mama maybe you should
Come on, let's get somewhere good
Out of the muck of our souls and the high water that keeps rising
Where everything is alright
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Adrian Niles Ohio
Adrian Niles is a roots-rock artist from eastern Ohio. He grew up in the bluegrass music tradition of his father, uncle, and grandfather’s band The Porter Brothers. After discovering artists like Dylan and Hendrix, in his teen years, Niles dedicated his life to the folk, blues, and rock expressions as a songwriter and performer. ... more
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