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Tonopah
03:08
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Tonopah Tonopah where my people once lived
I’ve got to get back to Tonopah try myself to forgive
My family and the law got along just like cats and dogs
Since I can remember
Even when Grandpa was a pup
Wild is how we grew up
Tonopah
When we were on the run from Daddy
We learned how to disappear
Gunning it into darkness
And we never stayed (anywhere) for long
Because he would always track us
Tonopah, Tonopah where my people once lived
I’ve got to get back to Tonopah try myself to forgive
When Daddy got a shiv in the gullet
No one was much surprised
Only that it took so long
I always thought it’d be a bullet
Because that‘s the way he lived
Tonopah
I’ve been in scrapes I never needed to be in
And not all of us survived
And I think about that sometimes
I never meant to hurt someone
Tonopah Tonopah where my people once lived
I’ve got to get back to Tonopah try myself to forgive
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Salt Tracks
03:12
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Why stand over there
Will you never cry
There’s no reason why my shoulder should be dry
Salt tracks down you face
Tastes like all not well
It’s your season in hell
I once saw a thing
That was brighter than any scene
I could ever sing
You could say that it was made of glass
But something that beautiful
Could never crash
Light glanced off a strand
Might take more than one
Broad leaf catch the sun
And stretch out in the sand
I was once witness to a scene
That made the heavens ring
You could say that it was in the past
But something that beautiful
Will forever last
I once saw a thing
That was brighter than any scene I could ever sing
You could say that it was made of glass
But something that beautiful
will never crash
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Old Hometown
03:17
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Do you still crave my attention when I’m gone
Wish you were with me on this train
Miss my cup of coffee
Hometown metal rooftop in the rain
Old hometown
And how it makes you feel
Old hometown
Another turn around the wheel
Old hometown
It’s such a lonely sound
Like no other town I’ve found
I can’t believe that you’re no longer mine
Miss you so bad when it’s storming like this outside
But no matter what the tempest brings
I’ll be there in winter and all springs
Old hometown
And how it makes you feel
Old hometown
Another turn around the wheel
Old hometown
It’s such a lonely sound
Like no other town I’ve found
In the sky where nothing’s unrelated
Like the sea by moon gets dilated
And my love for you it still grows unabated
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Sycamore
05:07
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I wonder about what you’re thinking
And what you’re next going to say
And I wonder if you wonder what I’m thinking of
If so I’m drifting away
A world of surprise it awaits you
Because you’re still wondering why
Your future is something that’s already been
And your past but a gleam in your eye
Sycamore, Sycamore, Sycamore I wonder
Heaven’s big arms are surrounding
It’s a well that never runs dry
What will you find when you’re drifting on by
When colors and sound do collide
Sycamore, Sycamore, Sycamore I wonder
Picked yourself up by your shoestrings
Let in some rays from a sun
The one in the sky
That when it drifted on by
Whispered that you were alright
What’s going to happen past midnight
When meaning has melted away
There’s you and there’s me
And we’re under this tree
And we’re here with stars in our eyes
Sycamore, Sycamore, Sycamore I wonder
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Tumbleweed
03:59
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It’s been a long hot summer and the hills are dry
The sun glows down no shade to hide
Pull up roots and blow away
Roll across you’re 88
I’m a tumbleweed baby all hot and dry
Thirsty for something that I know you’ll provide
I’m a tumbleweed baby rolling in your lane
Let’s pull over and take a break
Pull up stakes and roll away
Call into work with pains and aches
Windows down foot on the floor
Towns cycle by but we’re still out for more
Signpost say, “Baby, Danger Zone”
Better call a preacher get him on the phone
I’m a tumbleweed baby all hot and dry
Thirsty for something that I know you’ll provide
I’m a tumbleweed baby rolling in your lane
Let’s pull over and take a break
Get out to the desert we’ll up and drive
Remind each other that we’re still alive
Put it gear and make for the wilderness
All I want is your little tenderness
We’re out here and you’re so fine
Let’s get together let’s quit wasting time
I’m a tumbleweed baby all hot and dry
Thirsty for something that I know you’ll provide
I’m a tumbleweed baby rolling in your lane
Let’s pull over and take a break
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6. |
Iceman
04:13
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Venus is waiting in the wings now
For another opportunity with Mars
She incensed him by calling him a stagehand
Under the stars
If I was a forty thousand-year-old iceman
And I saw you come walking off a plane
I would definitely ask you out to dinner
How’s later tonight
Later tonight it’s a wild place
With its own color and taste
Later tonight has a mind of its own
And no direction home
If I was a forty thousand-year-old iceman
Stranded in a chunk of permafrost
And I saw you walking around the airport
I’d come back to life
And of all the million ways to miss you
And of all the times I’ve heard us say goodbye
To see you finally and to kiss you
Later tonight
Later tonight it’s a wild place
With its own color and taste
Later tonight has a mind of its own
And no direction home
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You’re gonna do whatever you’re going to do
And there’s nothing I could ever say to you
That would shake you into being someone new
You’re going to do whatever you’re going to do
But those demons are eating you alive
They’re running the show testing the waters
To see who’ll survive
What you need is a little shuteye
Get your Baby to sing a lullaby
You’re going to do whatever you’re going to do
You’re gonna do whatever you’re going to do
And there’s nothing I could ever say to you
That would shake you into being someone new
You’re going to do whatever you’re going to do
In your hand a beer can always a find a friend
And some of his friends too and now we’re up around the bend
Down the garden path we’ll go
And soon we’re in the ice and snow
You’re going to do whatever you’re going to do
You’re gonna do whatever you’re going to do
And there’s nothing I could ever say to you
That would shake you into being someone new
You’re going to do whatever you’re going to do
But those demons are eating you alive
They’re running the show testing the waters
To see who’ll survive
They’ve got you dancing on the end of a string
When you should be a bird on a wing
You’re gonna do whatever you’re gonna to do
You’re gonna do whatever you’re gonna to do
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8. |
We're Already in Heaven
03:53
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Would you cast me out
Wonderful, wonderful place this is
For all we know we’ll start again
Me and my lucky friends
We’re already in heaven
You can count me out on principle
And possible future plans
We’re already in heaven
This view is un-comparable
I can know myself
And hold things too
If there’s something after this
Let’s hope that we’ll stay right here
There’s no better place than this
Let’s hope that we’ll stay right here
We’re already in heaven
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Kickapoo Trail
05:03
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Kickapoo Trail Kickapoo Trail
There’s a boulder down on Kickapoo trail
Trapped me under a flood
Me and my dog Blue were walking on through
Through the shortcut to
The shortcut to Kickapoo trail
My dog blue he took the shortcut through
And I followed him into a cut
But the sky turned ugly purple and black
And the rains came down
The rains came down in a flood
See, I’d followed him into a wash creek-bed
Just as the heavens opened down
All its waters down on the ground
On the hills above
Yes the waters came down in a flood
Blue scrambled up the canyon wall
But I couldn’t fight the water
It was knocking me down in the wash
In the water down in the wash
Down on the Kickapoo Trail
Just then a king-sized boulder came tumbling through
And it trapped my leg strong and true
While thunder threw bolts of lightening
Down on the ground
Down on the Kickapoo Trail
And old Blue ran up he got to the road
And he flagged down a trucker with a heavy load
And they used that truck to drag me out of the water
But I left my leg there under the water
Down on the Kickapoo Trail
Now I know
I know about you
I know about you Kickapoo Kickapoo
And your rising waters
And your boulders too
And your rising waters
Kickapoo trail Kickapoo Trail
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10. |
Truth is a Lonely Bird
04:40
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Truth is a lonely bird
With a sense of direction
Sometimes she stays up all night
Up in the sunroom
She shares with her foundling
Sometimes they stay up all night
How did you happen by
Of all the once in a lifetimes
When I look at you
I see myself in a long time
Wandered in from yesterday
And looked all around here
Something’s changed
The streets are deserted now
Why are you hiding
You’ve pulled away
The sun beams down on the road
Horizons shimmering
When I look at you
I see myself in a long time
When are you going to say
I’ll stay here forever
Waiting here all night
The glass is almost empty now
Let’s push back the sunlight
One more day
Tell the morning birds, “Go away
and quit your singing”
When I look at you
I see myself in a long time
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The Brother Jonathan California
The Brother Jonathan are Tommy Carns, Hide Nakanishi, Michael Hamilton, Ryan Fawley and Zachariah Ostgaard.
www.thebrotherjonathan.com
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