1.Hard Luck Story
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Well, I was thinking that I shoulda
But I didn't ever leave you but baby, I'm leavin' tonight
And theres a trucker drinking coffee in the station
Who can give me a ride
Well, I was thinking about a heading down to
Mobile, Alabama and that was just last Saturday night
Well, I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight
'Cause I got a bucket full of tears and a hard luck story
Theres a bad moon rising behind
And I swore it to your daddy that I loved you
But I changed my mind
Well, I'm a fast talking, hell raising, son of a bitch
And I'm a sinner and I know how to fight
And I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight
'Cause I got a bucket full of tears and a hard luck story
And there's a bad moon rising behind
And I swore it to your daddy that I loved you
But I changed my mind
Well, I'm a fast talking, hell raising, son of a bitch
And I'm a sinner and I know how to fight
'Cause I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight
Well, I was sitting, I was drinking on a barstool
Thinking how true love becomes a lie
And I never should have left you but I had to
And I betcha there's a man there with you tonight
And I swore it to your daddy
That I missed you, but I didn't
If I came back it wouldn't be right
'Cause I can leave you if I wanna, little baby
And I'm gonna tonight
2.Wither, I'm A Flower
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
So city is my sister
And country is your brother
Learn to lose your battles
Cryin' on a shoulder
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
It's so small against the years
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
Whether, I'm a lover
Wither, I'm a flower
3.To Be Evil
To be evil is to be scared
Withholding all the things to sacred to be shared
Too many vultures and things to keep alive
Holding ransom on my piece of mind
That God is gonna give to me, in time
To be evil is to be blessed
With the sweet sin, self-duress
That only love can quarantine
Too many vultures and songs I got to sing
To keep me locked into a prayer
That God is gonna take us there
While I'm waiting here online
Feeling evil
All the while
1-2-3-4 everything is beautiful
5-6-7-8 gotta love to learn to hate
A-B-C-D I'm a little old machine
L-O-V-Es gonna be the death of me
I'm not evil
I'm just scared
4.Paper Moon
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
I go walking under a paper moon
All the birds are singing
Singing you a pretty tune
All the constellations and all the stars above
They all start to whistling
They start singing along
The world is not a monster
And I'm not scared at all
Floating through your heavens
The world is in my arms
Oh, rainy day
Don't follow me
â~Cause I'm her baby doll
And she's my cup of tea
I go walking under a paper moon
And my eyes are made of crystals
Plastic flowers bloom
All the leaves are changing
And the skies are blue
All the seasons of distraction
Can't take the smile god's given you
The world is but a monster
And I'm not scared at all
I'm floating through the heavens
The world is in my arms
Oh, rainy day
Don't follow me
â~Cause I'm her baby doll
She's my cup of tea
Love takes care of love
Hate just burns you out
5.16 Days
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Got sixteen days
One for every time I've gone away
One for every time I should have stayed
Should have wore my wedding ring
Got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
It's way back to your side
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away
Got sixteen days
Got a bottle and a rosary
God, I wish that you were close to me
I guess I owe you an apology
Got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
It's way back to your side
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Well, the ghost has got me runnin'
Away from you, away from you, away
Old tin cups, little paper dolls
All wrapped up in ribbons bows and hearts
Old tin cups and little paper dolls
All wrapped up in the ribbons of your heart
I got sixteen days
Sixteen days
I got sixteen days
It's like a fool I am
6.Houses on the Hill
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Well, I found a bunch of letters
They were written for the fellow
Who broke your momma's heart
And the envelope folds
Smelled of her ancient perfume
I'll bet she didn't know
How to respond to forty blankets of snow
Caught him out wandering alone
With no place to go
There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
There were bottles and pills
That were easy to buy
To keep her warm
From the oncoming storm
Well, I found them in the
North-west corner of the attic
In a box labeled 'Tinsel and Lights'
Didn't know what I was looking for
Maybe just a blanket or artifacts
Eisenhower sent him to war
He kept her picture in his pocket
That was closest to his heart
And when he hit shore
It must have been a target
For the gunner-men
There were stars in the sky
There were bunkers on the hill
And there were caskets to fill
Where he would lie
Shrouded in the red, white
And blue with the stripes
There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
There were bottles and pills
That were easy to buy
To keep her warm
From the oncoming storm
7.Turn Around
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Want to cross
But I don't think I can
Its too weak here
Even where I stand
Come here darling
Let me see you hold my hand
So we can mend
Your broken halo
All I want from you
Well all I want from you
Is for you to turn around
Turn around
Wanted to damage
So I damaged it some
We used to have it all
Now I just got some
The silence, perfections, mysteries
All easy to fall from your lips
All the while lies were told to me
In shapeless secrets
When all I want from you
All I want from you
Is for you to turn around
Turn around, turn around, turn around
Can't you turn around?
Can't you turn around?
Can't you turn around?
Why can't you turn around?
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around
8.Avenues
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Know the cops here
They can't run down to your house
Sometimes I'll sit and wish
I were somewhere else
So let's dim the daylights for us
Sweethearts that we are
Sometimes I find myself
Still lying in your arms
All the sweethearts of the world
Are out dancing in the places
Where me and all my friends
Go to hide our faces
Avenues run one way
Streets they run the same
Something in the air here
Still keeps me away
Though the cops here
They can't take me to your house
I get directions and pretend
I was somewhere else
All the sweethearts of the world
Are out littering the bars
And I am still avenues from
Any place you are
You know avenues run one way
The streets they run the same
It's going to take a lot of shit for me
To stay away
9.Inn Town
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Parking lot, movie screen
I can't feel anything
Cigarettes, beat up TV
I can't feel anything
Now that I, I'm inn town
I feel fine, fine for now
Hang around with the people
That I use to be
Hang around on a corner
Waiting to go, have a seat
Now that I, I'm inn town
I feel fine, fine for now
50 cents or a dollar three
I don't owe you anything
Spent a life on a heart that would
Rather not feel anything
I can try
I can see
I can want it to be
I can laugh
(I can laugh)
I can feel
(I can feel)
I can say anything without dreaming
Now that I, I'm inn town
I, I'm inn town
Hang around with the people
We use to be
We hang around on a corner
Waiting to go, have a seat
And I can try
I can see
I can want it to be
I can laugh
(I can laugh)
I can feel
(I can feel)
I can say anything that seems real
It's just like a dream
(Like a dream)
I can feel
(I can feel)
I can laugh
I can want it to still to be real
It's a dream I have had
It's the last
Now it seems
Now that I, I'm inn town
I feel fine, fine for now
Now that I, I'm inn town
Now that I, I'm inn town
10.Yesterday's News
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Well travellin' to the point that I, I can't stop it
Get so familiar, never get enough
Talk about it all the time, just drop it
Damage on your pretty little eyes says it all
I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim, it's a lot like fallin' down
Standin' up and I'm fallin' down, your my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time
Well, yesterday's news is what I have been readin'
See you at the Comet and I end up needin'
Know if you were thinkin' it, it could have been
If it was nothin' it's 'cause nothin's what you did
I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim, it's a lot like fallin' down
Standin' up and I'm fallin' down, your my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time
Well, I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim, it's a lot like fallin' down
I'm standin' up and I'm fallin' down, your my cup 'til I
understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time
11.Don't Be Sad
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly, James Iha
Seen a lot of things we didn't wanna see
But I'm glad we did
I know a lot of times we fell out of line
But we fell back in
I think we lost the keys to the kingdom
Before we'd seen them
Don't be sad, don't be sad
It took a lot time for us
To find the words we'd mean
We spent a lot time before our dimes run out
Nickel please
I think we lost the keys to the kingdom
Before we'd seen them
Don't be sad, don't be sad
Don't be sad, don't be sad
'Cause we won't have to live this way forever
It's hard to compromise the things we have
Don't be sad, don't be sad
Talk to one to have faith
Money can not erase
I think we lost the keys to the kingdom
Before we'd seen them
Don't be sad, don't be sad
Don't be sad
Talk to one to have faith
Money can not erase
12.Sit & Listen to the Rain
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
Sit around, dream away the place I'm from
Used to feel so much now I just feel numb
Could go out tonight but I ain't sure what for
Call a friend or two I don't know anymore
Sit and listen to the rain
Sit and listen to the rain
Gonna ride down to the river where it runs
Gonna watch TV and pray for decent reruns
Sit around and dream away what I've become
Used to feel so much now I just feel dumb
Sit and listen to the rain
Sit and listen to the rain
I'll never understand this emptiness
I'll never really try to understand, I guess
I'll never understand this emptiness
I'll never really try and understand
Try and understand, I guess
Sit around, dream away the place I'm from
Used to feel so much now I just feel dumb
Could go out tonight but I ain't sure what for
Call a friend or two I don't know anymore
Sit and listen to the rain
Sit and listen to the rain
13.Under Your Breath
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly
Hangin' in the underground
Before a train back out of town, away from you
All the lights disappear
In the tunnels way down here, it's quite a view
Sometimes I wish, I were deaf
Then I wouldn't hear the words you say
Under your breath
Under your breath
Locked away in your room
On the phone with someone who, she thinks out loud
Thought she found the right to leave
Think of the things you used to need and I'd run out
Sometimes I wish, I were deaf
But I hear the words you say
Under your breath
Under your breath
Anything that you put on me
All the things your head needs, you believe
Read my mind 'cause I can't say anything
The sick heart potion, two parts pain one part true again
Sometimes I wish, I were deaf
But I hear the words you say
Under your breath
Under your breath
14.Ballad of Carol Lynn
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly
Lovin' you has gotten weird
You'll see the sun hanging low down by your window
And all the rain left in the world
Won't bring you home again
Oh, Carol Lynn
Trusting you has gotten strange
You'll close the door when the cold has gotten in
And all the love left in the world
Won't keep you warm again
Oh, Carol Lynn
When you need a friend to be there for you
I won't be one who will help you out
And when you need someone who can let you in
You can count me out
Oh, Carol Lynn
When your life has worn you out
You'll have the past left for you to think about
And all the money in the world
Can't take you back again
Oh, Carol Lynn
Oh, Carol Lynn
15.Jacksonville Skyline
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
The banks of the river run through my hometown
As a boy I ran the dirt roads and I scraped my knees
Well, they paved the roads eventually
With neon signs and car dealerships and diners
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, I moved away soon as I turned sixteen
Figured I was old enough to go and work a job
Well, I floated down main street, pools of car lights
Overcame me wishing, I was still back home
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky, if it ever change from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime
I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I was unable to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it, seem like stars
16.16 Days (Baseball Park Sessions)
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
I got sixteen days
One for every time I've gone away
One for every time I should have stayed
You should have wore my wedding ring
I got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
It's way back to your side
The ghost has got me running
The ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
The ghost has got me running
The ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
I got sixteen days
Got a Bible and a Rosary
God I wish that you were close to me
I guess I owe you an apology
I got sixteen days
Fifteen of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
Its way back to your side
The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away
Old tin cups, little paper dolls
All wrapped up in ribbons bows and hearts
Old tin cups and little paper dolls
All wrapped up in the ribbons of your heart
The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you, yeah
The ghost has got me running
Yeah ghost has got me running
Yeah away from you, away from you, away
I got sixteen days
I got sixteen days
Oh I got
17.Crazy About You
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
Trust is a weird thing
Make you crazy
Make you jealous
Make you wish you hadn't said a thing
And I guess I have been mean
But I'm only second guessing you
'Cause you won't even let me through
And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy about you
Crazy about you
And love is a wonderful thing
Make you wanna
Make you need to
Make you wish you hadn't said a thing
Baby, I have been mean
But I'm only second guessing you
'Cause you won't even let me through
And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy about you
Crazy about you
Baby, I want you
Honey, I need you
I know you want to
I can feel you
And I want to be happy
And I only want you
If you think that I'm crazy
I'm just crazy about you
Crazy about you
18.Easy Hearts
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary
Put the houses in a row
On the streets we used to know
And all the things out in the yard
Beckoning there to and fro
And if the money isn't right
Can I be yours tonight?
I've an easy heart
And from the windows of your house
Reflects back on yourself
And it gets you wonderin'
If it means anything
And if the money isn't right
Can I be yours tonight?
I've had a pretty hard life
I've had a pretty hard life for such an easy heart
You move away when you're young
They take away where you're from
And all the things out in the trees
Fall away into the breeze
And if the money isn't right
Can I be yours tonight?
I've had a pretty hard life
I've had a pretty hard life for such an easy heart
Easy heart
Easy heart
Easy heart
...
19.If He Can't Have You
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Hang a picture up on your wall
Tighten all the nails so it don't fall
In this picture, could have been a picture of my face
Something painful, went and took its place
If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown
If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown
Drink your coffee in the morning
And at night, go and drink your beer
All along you don't feel so welcome here
And I walk by and you steer clear
You always said it'd come passionate here
Don't like what you see, you don't like what you hear
If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown
If he can't have you, guess that no one else will
Watch him think a while, smoke a cigarette and smile as I frown
20.Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary
Lo-fi tennessee mountain angel come back to me
Met you in a bar when I was drinking
You stood next to me
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock band
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock bank
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
Lo-fi tennessee mountain angel come back to me
Met you in a bar when I was drinking
You stood next to me
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock band
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock bank
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
Lo-fi tennessee mountain angel come back to me
Met you in a bar when I was drinking
You stood next to me
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock band
You say you wanna play country
But you're in a punk rock bank
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
I didn't know you then
21.Silver Wings
Lyricist:Merle Haggard
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Don't leave me I cry
Don't take that airplane ride
But you lock me outta your mind
Left me standing here behind
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away
Leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Slowly fading out of sight
Slowly fading out of sight
22.Tennessee Square
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Red ribbons hang in a Tennessee square
Old people laughing and singing and dancing down there
I'd like to join 'em, I got no money to spare
So I sit here and watch from the porch
Drinkin whiskey in granddaddy's chair
Ferris wheel lights look like pictures I'd seen in a book
somewhere
Vacant parking lots across the street remind me I'm going
nowhere
I'd like to join 'em, I got no money to spare
So I sit here and I watch from the porch
Drinkin whiskey in granddaddy's chair
It's difficult to go on knowing you're out there somewhere
Vacant parking lots across the street remind me I'm going
nowhere
23.Revenge
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Whatever happened to you, you've changed
And I'm still wrong
I know you wanted to stay so long
And I'm still alone
There were no secrets, there were no stories
There was no one around
There were no reasons, there was no questions
There is no point now
Whatever happened to you, you've changed
And I'm still wrong
I know you wanted to stay so long
And I'm goin' on
So tell me your secret
Did you wanna see me pull my guns?
So tell me your secret
There were no stories, nobody won
I'll give you a reason and I'll wage a war with a punch from
your face
I'll stand my guard, I'll give you a reason
You might see it, you might hate it
You might never know your name
So tell me a secret
Did you wanna see me pull my guns?
Tell me a secret
You gotta look me in the eye
Tell me a secret
And tell me a secret
How does it feel to be so lone?
How does it feel to be so lone?
Just say or cry
24.Waiting to Derail
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
They say that all the time
And they mean it only sometimes
Are you out in all that sunshine
Waiting to derail?
Wanting, needing, fighting, feeling
Waiting to derail
Needing, wanting, feeling, fighting
Waiting to derail
Yeah, you say that only sometimes
But you mean it all the same
Are you out in all that sunshine
Just waiting to derail?
Wanting, needing, feeling, wanting
Waiting to derail
Wanting, changing
Do you feel it, do you feel it?
Are you waiting to derail, to derail?
Waiting to derail, waiting to derail
Waiting to derail
Are you waiting waiting?
Yeah you say that all the time
But you mean it only sometimes
Are you out in all that sunshine?
Are you feeling better now
That you're waiting to derail?
Wanting, feeling, trying, embracing
But you're waiting to derail
Waiting, yeah, waiting to derail
You're waiting to derail
Yes you're waiting to derail
25.What May Seem Like Love
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
To, one, two, three, four
What may seem like love may soon fall apart
You don't practice what you preach
You don't finish what you start
Your lies have got me tryin' to mend a broken heart
Please don't speak to me again
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I just don't give a damn
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin'
What may seem like love may soon fall apart
The student shouldn't speak and interrupt his teacher's thought
There's a lesson to be learned about bein' true to heart
Please don't speak to me again
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I just don't give a damn
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin'
What may seem like love may soon fall apart
You don't practice what you preach
You don't finish what you start
Your lies have got me tryin', mend a broken heart
Please don't speak to me again
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I just don't give a damn
You keep tellin' me you're sorry
Well, I'm never gonna listen to a single word you're sayin'
I'm never gonna listen to a single word that you've been sayin'
26.Somebody Remembers the Rose
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger
Somebody remembers the dress
How it was hand-sewn, beautifully pressed
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger
Honey, I'm out of service for a while
Damaged heart's been manufactured
And every day this one never works anyway
Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger
Honey, I know you
Baby, I know you
Yeah, I know you
27.16Days
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
I got 16 days
One for every time I've gone away
One for every time I should have stayed
You should have worn my wedding ring
I got 16 days
15 of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
Its way back to your side
Ghost has got me running
Ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
Ghost has got me running
Ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
I got 16 days
Got a bible and a rosary
God, I wish that You were close to me
Guess I owe You an apology
I got 16 days
15 of those are nights
Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights
Its way back to your side
Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away
Old tin cups, little paper dolls
All wrapped up, in ribbons, bowed with hearts
Old tin cups, and little paper dolls
All wrapped up, in the ribbons of your heart
Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you
Ghost has got me running
Yeah, ghost has got me running
Away from you, away from you, away from you, yeah
16 days
I gotta 16 days
Before I hang
28.Losering
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Losering, losering
Patiently
Losering, losering
I can tell
She could tell everything
Losering patiently
Losering, losering
Losering, losering patiently
Losering
Well I can tell
She can tell everything
See what you have been losing
Losering patiently
See what you have been losing
Losering, losering
See what you have been losing
Losering, losering
See what you have been losing
Losering, losering
See what you have been losing, see what you have been
Losering
29.Don't Wanna Know Why
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Mike Daly
Don't wanna know why you like me, I don't care
Don't wanna know why I walk by, and you stare
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why
When I breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to drive through your life
Breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to never say goodbye
Don't wanna know how you're feeling, I don't care
Don't wanna know when you'll meet me, I'm not there
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why
Don't wanna know why, just to wanna know why
When I breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to drive through your life
Breathe in, breathe out
Carry on, carry out
Try to never say goodbye
I wish I knew
How to tell you
How to tell me why
30.Factory Girl (Baseball Park Sessions)
Lyricist:David Ryan Adams, Phil Wandscher
So, the factory girl she listens
For the sound of her daddy's engine
'Til the work bell sounds and she leaves town
Oh, the summer's here are hot
All she seems to do is work and sleep
I wish that she was still with you
Now you don't know where she is
Lyin' in her mother's bed
Or who she's sleepin' with
Oh, the kids will laugh at her
'Cause she seems so sweet and pure
Oh, I took this shift because of her
Oh, I've never said a word
I once smiled and looked at her
'Til the shift-boss said, 'Get back to work'
Now you don't know where she is
Or who's bed she's sleepin' in
What man she's sleepin' with
31.What the Devil Wanted
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly
I sleep a sleep
Of wounded sheep
That jump the fence
But are too weak
It's what the devil wanted
It's what the devil wanted from me
Put your lover to your chest
Put all your fears to rest
Forever baby, ah, ah
Forever baby
All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
Ah, ah, ah, baby
My idle hands
They are but tools
Apply them well
And you will loose
It's what the devil wanted
What the devil wanted from me
Put your lover to your chest
Put all your fears to rest
Forever baby, ah, ah
Forever baby
All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
All my time is wasteful now
Ah, ah, ah, baby
Ah, ah, baby
Ah, baby, baby
32.My Hometown
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
On back down in my hometown
Everybody's feelin' it bad
No new breaks, whatever it takes
Not to have to sway it on a classified ad
Hey there Ma and Pa, here I am
Money's running out, all the same
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again
Up real late in New York state
Talkin' to my baby at night
She keeps me warm and protects me from harm
Love just keeps on rollin' when the money gets tight
Hey there Ma and Pa, where I am
Money's running out, all the same
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again
Oh, Mrs. Memory just take me on down
Back to the shanties and the cars by the lake
Oh, Mrs. Memory just take me on back
Back to my baby and make it okay
Yeah, just make it okay
On back down in my hometown
Everybody's feelin' the same
Good money spent, on keepin' the rent
Sent in to the man under a week late
Hey there Ma and Pa, where I am
Money's running out, all the same
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again
I just close my eyes and bring it on home again
33.Choked Up
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
I don't know why we can't talk
Every time we try we get choked up
Running with the feelings that get caught in our head
'Til I can't remember what it was we said
All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
I don't know why we can't win
Every time we lose we just pretend
Running out of money at the end of the month
Not able to buy the things I want
All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
Count my friends on my left hand
I don't even know they wouldn't understand
Taint myself with thoughts of leaving
Running out of things left to believe in
Running out of money and time
Running out of money and time
You won't be mine
I don't know why we can't win
Every time we lose we just pretend
Running out of money at the ned of the month
Not able to buy the things I want
All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
Count my friends on my left hand
I don't even know they wouldn't understand
All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
All my friends say I'm in love
Is this what I think they're thinking of?
34.Reasons to Lie
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly
I get so tired of missing you
I get so tired of wanting to
Compare the things that are easy to do
Like the reasons you lie to me
The reasons I lie to you
And I wish it was some kinda explosive device
That only you could diffuse
Reasons you lie to me
Reasons I lie to you
Wanna live in a beautiful house
Somewhere up in the hills
With some people making fun of us
You refer to us as your two kids
Then it wouldn't be somebody else
That you'd grow accustomed to
Reasons to lie to me
Is a reason to lie to you
I get so tired of missing you
I get so tired of wanting to
Compare the things that are easy to do
Like the reasons you lie to me
Reasons I lie to you
35.Mining Town
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Said you came from a mining town
They closed the mining down
Said your daddy was a drinker
He had a picture of Jesus on his sinker
Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight
This town's only five miles wide
Look everywhere there's a road sign
On tops and places to hide
And cops sit around hungry
Waitin' to dine
Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight
Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight
Said you came from a mining town
They closed the mining down
Said your momma was a drinker
She had a picture of Jesus on her sink and
Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight
Maybe I
Maybe I'm coming for you tonight
Maybe I
Baby, I'm coming for you tonight
36.Midway Park
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Ride with you tonight, I'll ride forever
There's no way to predict this kind of weather
Ashes fall to earth, words are severed
Feathers turn to weighted iron pillars
Midway Park
Streetlights shine on a hood that is dark
Down on the graves
Where we'll lie, we'll lie, we'll lie
I think of you tonight, I'll think forever
There's no way to predict this kind of weather
Ashes fall to earth, words are severed
Feathers turn to broken beads and pillars
Midway Park
Streetlights shine on a hood that is dark
Down on the graves
We'll lie, where we'll lie, we'll lie
Don't tell the truth, we'll lie, just lie
Don't tell the truth, just lie
Close your eyes, don't tell the truth
Just lie, lie, just lie
37.Desperate Ain't Lonely
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary
I try not to drink 'cause if I sit and think, I'll go crazy
Desperate ain't lonely
Know I've been high, pockets are empty
In daytime I'm lonesome, in the nightime I'm sad
The letter I wrote took words from my throat I was saving
Lay on the roadside
I guess the mailman was drunk, the message was urgent
How lazy a state where you don't live no one
So I try not to drink 'cause if I sit and think, I'll go crazy
Desperate ain't lonely
Know I've been high, pockets are empty
In daytime I'm lonesome, in the nightime I'm sad
38.Too Drunk to Dream
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Can you hear that lonesome moanin'
Is that you or is that me?
My broken heart ain't aching for nothing
That I can't touch or I can't see
And do you hear that lonesome cryin'
Thought I made it stop it's singin'
But my hands lay there on the bottle
And I just drank until my heart would be too drunk to dream
So baby, you can leave if you wanna
There ain't no drinkin' when the bottle is dry
Sugar, you can leave if you wanna
I got no more tears to cry
Do you hear that lonesome shuffle
Of my feet walking out of the bar
And I stumble down the same damn streets
My daddy done stumbled before
So baby, you can leave if you wanna
All the flowers in your garden have died
Baby, I'm gonna have to warn you
I ain't got no more tears to cry
Well sugar, you can leave if you want to
There ain't no drinkin' when the bottle is dry
Baby, I'm gonna have to warn you
I ain't got no more tears to cry
39.Somebody Remembers the Rose (Out of Service)
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger
Somebody remembers the dress
How it was hand-sewn, beautifully pressed
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger
Honey, I'm out of service for a while
Damaged heart's been manufactured
And every day this one never works anyway
Somebody remembers the rose
While the other forgets how it grows
Would all the dangers, would all the dangers of love
Lost to a stranger
Honey, I know you
Baby, I know you
Yeah, I know you
40.Faithless Street
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Angels are messengers from God
Please send one down to me
Angels are messengers from God
Wrote a letter He should read
Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed His peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed His peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing
41.Empty Baseball Park (Baseball Park Sessions)
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
Why should I hate you?
After all, it's been so long
Since I've lived in town
Let it go for now
Have a drink at your favorite bar till dark
Stumble into empty baseball park
Strike one and strike two
I guess we're both out
Stumble past the record store
End up at the movies
Try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me
Stumble past the record store
And end up at the movies
Just try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me
You do this to me
You do this
And I oblige
And I fight it
Why should I miss you?
After all, it's been so long
Since I felt your kiss
Did it come to this?
Stumble past the record store
End up at the movies
Try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me
Stumble past the record store
And end up at the movies
Just try and think of something else
Nothing's comin' to me
I let you do this to me
I must be crazy, I must be crazy
I must be crazy, I must be
I must be, I must be
42.Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Throwing rocks at a window
Stumble into a telephone pole
While the light shines down on your person
Filtering through all your aversions
Love will not find you tonight
When you're preaching love, thinking love, holding back
What were you thinking
When black arrows
Shot at your bleeding heart?
Looking into the mirror
Don't like what I see ain't looking like me
I want to be near her
There's no way in hell and there's no time to tell
Love will not find you tonight
When you're preaching love, thinking love, holding back
What were you thinking
When black arrows
Shot at your bleeding heart?
43.Drank Like a River
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Well, he was nearly died when he returned to the town he'd come
from
He's brown bagging it tonight behind some tavern
Somebody wrecked his life and I'll bet you it was his darlin'
Somebody wrecked his life and I'll bet you it was his darlin'
So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang
Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang
Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands
The same hands that had once touched her face
Well, he was nearly died when he returned to the town he'd come
from
He's hanging out drinking beer with his brother-in-law
He was a drinker at night and in the morning he was unnerving
He was a drinker full time, the day that he lost his darlin'
So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang
Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang
Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands
The same hands that had once touched her face
So he drank like a river when the wedding bells rang
Watched from the steeple as the choir girls sang
Died in a gutter on his feet and his hands
The same hands that had once touched her face
44.Here's to the Rest of the World (Baseball Park Sessions)
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
I know the world is a mess
I like the patterns on your dress
Would you have a drink with me please
Have a couple or three
I see you walk by, I don't speak but try
Have a drink with me please don't say anything
I look like a mess
The patterns of your dress, they blind me
Here's to the rest of the world
I guess that you deserve something you work so hard
At trying to be just like everyone else
Except people like me
Well, the lights shining down onto the street
The city lingers as it overheats
I'm on idle right now, don't feel so proud
Wait for the others to join the crowd
And they come, ones, threes
Here's to the rest of the world, oh, I don't know
Here's something that you deserve, a drink or two
Come on and sit down with me and we'll pretend everything
We'll pretend everything, it's easy
45.Top Dollar
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Well, I tried to find something, something to hold on to
I thought it was you 'cause I'm sick and tired
Of trying to make something, something out of nothing
I guess since you were bluffing, now I think I'm losing my mind
The pain in my heart, was it worth the price?
The pain in my heart, was it worth the time I wasted on you?
You're giving me the top dollar blues
And I gave you it all, all, all that I could give you
You've taken what I've given and thrown it all away
Like it's nothing, never meant nothing
Now I'm left with nothing what an awful price I've paid
The pain in my heart, was it worth the price?
The pain in my heart, was it worth the time I wasted on you?
You're giving me the top dollar blues
I've bet all my money and that's how it goes
You ran a good race
But you lost just by a nose
It's true
Baby, you're giving me the top dollar blues
The top dollar blues
I gave you it all, all, all that I could give you
And the top dollar blues
Top dollar blues
46.Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
Well, excuse me if I break my own heart
It was mine from the finish I guess, it's mine from the start
The situation just don't seem so goddamned smart
The situation is tearing me apart
So you'll have to excuse me if I break my own heart
Well, excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Some things are born too strong, have to learn how to fight
The situation keeps me drinking every goddamned day and night
The situation don't seem so right
So excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Well, excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Well after all it was mine
If the rain falls down on a trailer park town
Let your eyes slip easy into mine
If the rain falls down on a trailer park town
Let your eyes slip easy into mine
You run the road but your diary entry reads blank
Is this some sort of joke to you?
Is this some sort of joke to you?
Well excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
Well excuse me if I break my own heart tonight
After all it was mine, it was mine
After all it was mine
47.Everything I Do (Miss You)
Lyricist:Adams, Wandscher
She's got diamonds in her eyes that she likes to hide
Seek and you will find the hiding, seeking kind
She's got rings wrapped around her precious things
And what the day brings, oh it's no surprise
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do, when everything I do
When everything I do says, 'I, I miss you'
She's got diamonds in her eyes that she likes to hide
Seek and you will find the hiding, seeking kind
And she's got rings wrapped around her precious things
What the day brings, oh it's no surprise
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do, when everything I do
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
She's got diamonds in her eyes that she likes to hide
Seek and you will find the hiding, seeking kind
She's got rings wrapped around her precious things
And what the day brings, oh it's no surprise
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do says, 'I miss you'
Don't you ask me how I'm doing
When everything I do, when everything I do
When everything I do
48.Angels are messengers from God
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Ernest Gilmore, Steven William
Grothmann, Philip John Wandscher
If angels are messengers from God
Please send one down to me
If angels are messengers from God
I wrote a letter he should read
Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed his peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed his peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing
Been living on faithless street all by myself
Work your whole life for someone else
Trying to find sanction, Christ above man
He never shed his peace on this land
So I started this damn country band
'Cause punk rock was too hard to sing
49.Matrimony
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Steven Grothmann,
Phil Wandscher
Well, I'm savin' this dress for my wedding day
Momma wouldn't have it any other way
She says, when she married, her waist was twenty three
I guess, I'll never wear it anyway
I don't believe I care to marry
Though I cannot explain exactly why
It somehow seems to me, matrimony is misery
Simply a faster way to die
I'm savin' all my money for my wedding day
You know, my momma wouldn't have it any other way
She says, when she married, she didn't' have a dime
I guess, I'll spend that money some other way
Because I don't believe I care to marry
Although I cannot say exactly why
It somehow seems to me that matrimony is misery
Simply a faster way to die
Well, I'm savin' my best thing for my wedding day
Because my poppa wouldn't have it any other way
He says, if I lose it early, I'll have thrown my life away
But I swear, I'll use my cherry my own way
I don't believe I care to marry
Though I cannot explain exactly why
It somehow seems to me, matrimony is misery
Simply a faster way to die
50.Mirror Mirror
Lyricist:Ryan Adams, Mike Daly
Mirror, mirror, up on the wall in the back of the room
As I walk down the hall in the house where I stayed
Tell me something about what I saw in the face of a man
Who once felt it all but feels nothing today
Knock, knock, â½Who's thereâ
I don't know, I can't say
Ask me tomorrow
I'll tell you the same
But ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Trouble, trouble, down in my hood where it's well understood
They love when you're bad and they hate when you're good
Tell me something about who we are at the end of our days
When our souls become one but our lives separate
Knock, knock, â½Who's thereâ
I don't know, I can't say
Ask me tomorrow
I'll tell you the same
But ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh
Well, ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
Ooh, I'm telling you now
I'm telling you now
(It's bound to make you smile)
It's bound to make you smile
51.Pawn Shop Ain't No Place For A Wedding Ring
Lyricist:Caitlin Cary, Eric Gilmore, Phil Wandscher, Ryan Adams,
Steven Grothmann
Pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring
Six months from now, what will that money mean?
You shop around looking for memories
Somehow satisfaction don't come that easy
It's a shame you weren't satisfied with me
You're the saddest thing I've ever seen
Pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring
Six months from now, what will that money mean?
You shop around looking for memories
Somehow satisfaction don't come that easy
It's a shame you weren't satisfied with me
You're the saddest thing I've ever seen
Pawn shop ain't no place for a wedding ring
Six months from now, what will that money mean?
You shop around looking for memories
Somehow satisfaction don't come that easy
It's a shame you weren't satisfied with me
You're the saddest thing I've ever seen
52.Theme for a Trucker
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
So you're a trucker, hard driver
Mr. King of the road
Feelin' lonely, drinkin' coffee
She had only ever known
Drove a lot today, was it yesterday?
Just a memory you know
You can't dilute it or see to it
Roll through it, you head home
There is a motel with a vacancy
There is no possibility
You could drive yourself to ever be
The man you once were
So you're a trucker, hard driver
Mr. King of the road
Feelin' lonely, drinkin' coffee
She was all he'd ever known
Drove a lot today, was it yesterday?
It's just a memory you know
You can't see through an old tune
Roll through it and head home
There is a motel with a vacancy
There is no possibility
But you could drive yourself to ever be
The man you once were
So you're a trucker, hard driver
Mr, King of the road
Feelin' lonely, drinkin' coffee
She was all he'd ever known
Drove a lot today, was it yesterday?
It's just a memory you know
You can't dilute it or see to it
Roll through it, head home
There is a motel with a vacancy
There is no possibility
You could drive yourself to ever be
The man you once were
53.Bottom of the Glass
Lyricist:Dick Flood, Eddie Hill
You think that you have found a way to ease your troubled mind
You fill a glass then drink it down a
But for a while you're in another world and you wake up in the
past
You'll never find the answer in the bottom of the glass You'll
never find the answer in the bottom o
That bottle there is not your friend when it's gone it leaves
you cold The strength it gives you sli
But you'll never find the answer in the bottom of the glass
You'll never find the answer in the bott
54.Dancing with the Women at the Bar
Lyricist:Ryan Adams
When I see the moon I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name, just calling my name
When I see the moon I hear the sound of the strip
Just calling my name yeah it's calling my name
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Always know my woman's close somewhere
My daddy saw the moon, heard the sound of the strip
It called out his name, it called out his name
My daddy saw the moon and heard the sound of the strip
It called out his name and it called his son's name too
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Always know my woman's close somewhere, close somewhere
When you see the moon, hear the sound of the strip
Yeah call out my name, yeah call out my name
And if you see the moon, hear the sound of the strip
Yeah call out my name, yeah call my friend's names too
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Dancing with the women at the bar
Man, I love the feeling when I go out
Always know my woman's close somewhere, close somewhere
55.A Song For You
Lyricist:Gram Parsons
Oh, my land is like a wild goose
Wanders all around everywhere
Trembles and it shakes 'til every tree is loose
It rolls the meadows and it rolls the nails
So, take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to
It sails the rivers and it sails the tide
Some of my friends don't know who they belong to
Some can't get a single thing to work inside
So, take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we will still be there
I loved you darlin' and now I'm leaving
And I can see the sorrow in your eyes
I hope you know a lot more than you believe in
I hope the sun don't hurt you when you cry
So, take me down to your dance floor
And I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow, we will still be there
And tomorrow, we will still be there
56.Not Home Anymore
I slept in our room, nice wall
I slept with our ghosts painting the walls
Now our happiness hung there like a stake or a light
Truly you are gone wandering helplessly now
We are, we are
You, you are gone
You, you are gone
You, you're gone
You, you're gone, you're gone
I left all the lights on in our old room
To pretend that you and I were home
(Waiting up somewhere for me, I'm not home anymore)
(You are still waiting up for me in our old room)
You, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you're gone
You're gone
No love in the ghosts that we are
No love ever lost where we are
Still waiting up somewhere
You are, you are
You, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Yeah you, you are gone
Now it doesn't mean a thing
It used to mean a lot, mean a lot to me
Now it doesn't mean, it doesn't mean a thing
But it never meant a thing to you
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