Angel Eyes

Ride on Angel Eyes

Through the deserts and the canyons of my mind

Bolero on your head, revolver at your side

Ride on Angel Eyes, oh yeah

Ride on Angel Eyes

See you on the movie screen

Always playin’ someone sinister and mean

And in the end you always die

Ride on Angel Eyes, oh yeah

Ride on Angel Eyes

Ride on Angel Eyes

Through the deserts and the canyons of my mind

Ride on Angel Eyes, oh yeah

Ride on Angel Eyes

Florence John

She was born, in a steel town

Beneath an iron sky was, the cold hard ground

Where she would walk, to the factory

With worn out shoes and a wooden rosary

Florence John, was on her own

Feeding four kids in an old drafty home

She never gave up and hardly complained

And taught us all a few simple things

Like work real hard, see the job through

Not what you say, it’s what you do

Hold your head high, be unashamed

Of who your are and be proud of your name

Now we’ve got, a kid of our own

Try to bring him up knowing right from wrong

And all the trouble this life can bring

I want him to know just what it means

To work real hard, see the job through

Not what you say, it’s what you do

Hold your head high, be unashamed

Of who your are and be proud of your name

Church Of The Great Outdoors

Like a river, like a river flows out to the sea

I can find my peace among the trees

I can hide here from the storm

In my church of the great outdoors

Now I’ve never, now I’ve never had faith of any kind

But when something’s weighing heavy on my mind

Grab my rod and reel, I’m out the door

To my church of the great outdoors

I wanna ride that buckskin mule through the pines

I’m wanna leave all that trouble behind

I wanna sleep beneath the aspens and the stars

Realize my dreams, follow my heart

Like a river, like a river flows out to the sea

I can find my peace among the trees

I can hide here from the storm

In my church of the great outdoors

In my church of the great outdoors

In my church of the great outdoors

Borderland

A thousand miles, battered and bruised

Bloody clothes and worn out shoes

We saw freedom, it was in our hands

Now we’re all doin’ time down here at the borderland

Guards are walkin’, detention grounds

Babies cryin, sleepin’ on the ground

They took our mother, they took our dad

Now it’s just me and my sister down here at the borderland

Sun don’t shine, in this dark hole

Dusty headlights, of the border patrol

Texas sky, tears rainin’ down

Between heaven and hell down here at the borderland

Ain’t got a name, just a number now

Do what you’re told, keep your head down

We saw freedom, across the Rio Grande

Now we’re all doin’ time down here at the borderland

Sun don’t shine, in this dark hole

Dusty headlights, of the border patrol

Texas sky, tears rainin’ down

Between heaven and hell down here at the borderland

Between heaven and hell down here at the borderland

A Better Life

We left our home, lookin’ for a better life

Crossed the sea, headin’ for the liberty lights

They shelled our town and we lost our lives

So we left our home, looking for a better life

We found good jobs, over in Holden Brook

But there’s trouble down there, cause of the way we look

Some folks around here, they don’t like our kind

That’s the price you pay, looking for a better life

From the shores of Carolina

To the San Francisco Bay

We give our souls, live and die

For the hopes and dreams

And the promise of a better life

Now I don’t talk like you and you don’t pray like me

But we both work hard, for the American dream

I’ll buy you a beer and we can talk shotguns

And which part of the world, your family came from

From the shores of Ellis Island

To the San Diego Bay

We give our souls, live and die

For the hopes and dreams

And the promise of a better life

For the hopes and dreams

And the promise of a better life

Kenneth Avenue

Your mom’s yellin’ out the kitchen door

Little sister’s cryin’, no one knows what for

La Bamba’s blarin’ out the TV set

Cats are runnin’ everywhere, this place is a wreck

And it was cold outside, when you asked me for a ride

And it was raining on Kenneth Avenue

And it felt like spring, the oak trees turnin’ green

And we were laughing, cause it was all we could do

Your dad left bout ten years ago

Mine’s packing his bags, heading for the Oregon coast

But we don’t care bout none of that

Cause we’re in my Jeep smokin’ cigarettes, on a Tuesday, cuttin’ class

And it was cold outside, when you asked me for a ride

And it was raining on Kenneth Avenue

And it felt like spring the oak trees turnin’ green

And we were laughing, cause it was all we could do

Now we’re crusin’ down Greenback Lane

Past the grave yards at Mt. Vernon, on our way to Folsom Lake

And I’m not sure what you see in me

Maybe I’m something you need, cause we’re runnin’ from the same things

And it was cold outside, when you asked me for a ride

And it was raining on Kenneth Avenue

And it felt like spring, the oak trees turnin’ green

And we were laughing, cause it was all we could do

And it was raining on Kenneth Avenue

Marigolds and Ghosts

You were workin’ for the devil last summer

In a spotless world of make believe

Climbing the walls, fightin’ for freedom

Doing anything you could to kill the beast

So you disappeared into nothin’

Sleepin’ in the car at the rivers edge

You woke up with a fever and a heart of darkness

Marigolds and ghosts around your head

So you hung your life on nothin’ and got nothin’

Rail white and wearing long sleeves

Twenty years or more you got comin’

Sayin’ everyone’s just a stranger to me

So you disappeared into nothin’

Sleepin’ in the car at the rivers edge

You woke up with a fever and a heart of darkness

Marigolds and ghosts around your head

Staring out the window from the backseat

Flyin’ bird’ll make you cry

Sayin’, ain’t no lookin’ back, at time now that I’m here

Ain’t got no use for a reason why

So you disappeared into nothin’

Sleepin’ in the car at the rivers edge

You woke up with a fever and a heart of darkness

Marigolds and ghosts around your head

Marigolds and ghosts around your head

Monsoon Rain

Monsoon rain I feel you comin’ on strong

Burin’ slow like a lover done wrong

Headin’ north, Gulf of Mexico

Over the hill to Durango, Colorado

Blowin’ hard like a hurricane

Lord I swear I love a monsoon rain

Monsoon rain you’re runnin’ through my veins

Like the steel wheels on a narrow gauge train

Rainin’ hard down on Bakers Bridge

Growing dark over Missionary Ridge

Thunder and lighting like a hurricane

Lord I swear, I love a monsoon rain

Monsoon rain I feel you in my bones

Whistling sad like a sweet love song

Ease my mind, cool my head

Animas valley make the river run red

Blowin’ hard like a hurricane

Lord I swear I love a monsoon rain

Thunder and lighting like a hurricane

Lord I swear, I love a monsoon rain

Sorrow

Here I am Lord, I’m still walkin’

Head low, heavy snow a fallin’

And through the sadness and all this struggle

You were there Lord, on my streets of sorrow

I crossed a desert, through an endless valley

All the way down the shores of Galilee

I sailed the ocean, with no star to follow

You were there Lord, on my sea of sorrow

I’ve climbed the mountain, I’ve seen her glory

I’ve heard the angels, feel em’ watchin’ over me

I’ve crossed the rivers on through tomorrow

Down my mountain of sorrow

I’ve climbed the mountain, I’ve seen her glory

I’ve heard the angels, feel em’ watchin’ over me

I’ve crossed the rivers on through tomorrow

Down my mountain of sorrow

Here I am Lord, I’m still walkin’

Head low, heavy snow a fallin’

And through the sadness and all this struggle

You were there Lord on my streets of sorrow