Before The Frost....Until The

Black Crowes Before The Frost....Until The Lyrics
1.Good Morning Captain

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Well, there's a ruckus on the levee
Unruly crowd on the courthouse steps
And if I make it to Sunday
I'm sho 'nuff gonna ask the Good Lord for help

With a mouthful of salt I tried to explain
If money was sand I couldn't hold one grain
Feel like a thief that knows he's been framed
For leaving the watch but stealing the chain

Good morning captain
I wish there was another way
But my baby is wanting
Me to roll around in her bed all day

Oh well, the late nights got me reeling
Spilling out the bottle right into the next day
Got a funny little feeling
Gonna be like this until my dying day

There's mud in my eye but I can still see
Everybody in town is trying to murder me
If they don't get me s'pose the hangman will
I better think twice about making this deal

Good morning captain
I wish there was another way
But my baby is wanting
Me to roll around in her bed all day

Magnolia, magnolia
Let me rest
Under the shade of your leaves

Good morning captain
I wish there was another way
But my baby is wanting
Me to roll around in her bed all day

Good morning captain
I wish there was another way
But my baby is wanting
Me to roll around in her bed all day


2.Been A Long Time (Waiting On Love)

Lyricist:Christopher Robinson, Richard Robinson

Earthbound wingless dream
Child born to necessity
Tied to crimson velvet wings
She flies

New moon midnight star
Medicine is in the jar
Head full of going far
She flies

Lost out on the dream road
Looking for a key hole
Never try to fight it
Feeling right inside it, girl

Low country blushing bride
Blind to the ways of time
Clear crystal burning mind
She flies

Falling through liquid air
With music everywhere
Stone faces silent stare
She flies

The old guard on the hill
Can feel the chill
Deep into the freeze
Of those who don't believe

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Damp with this morning dew
The world is bright and new
Her word is always true
She flies

Step into the new day
Right over the old way
We are the horizon
See our future smiling

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Lost out on the dream road
Looking through the key hole
Never try to fight it
Feeling right inside it, yeah

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love, yeah


3.Appaloosa

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Be struck by the arrow of weakness
On the gilded path to forgiveness
Find my way home when the morning comes
To stay your friend when it's all said and done

Simple as lightning starting wild fire
Just down from a trip off my high wire
Just coming home to walk my own floors
Just coming home to the one I adore

Appaloosa, Appaloosa
Appaloosa, take me home
Where I can dream my days away

We took your tears back to the river
Knowing all the while there'd be more later
So it goes in a rainy day town
C'mon and won't you let me lay you down

Sometimes the sun makes beggars believers
And sometimes the shrine is built to deceivers
In between let oblivion ring
Oh, let me hear all you sad angels sing

Appaloosa, Appaloosa
Appaloosa, take me home
Where I can dream my days away

Appaloosa, Appaloosa
Appaloosa take me home
Where I can dream my days away


4.A Train Still Makes A Lonely Sound

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

As I listen to the wheels, hear them going round and round
It reminds me of the train that still makes a lonely sound
It reminds me of the girl that came from Knoxville town
And how on that April day when she took this old boy down

Oh, Tennessee, you got me running
But I'm not coming back this time
Way out west is where I'm going
To forget the one I left behind

Well, I might have seen Moses standing on the Penn State line
Just another wanderer with an angel on his mind
I know love it has its reasons, the way it comes and it goes
There's no mystery in seasons or of this hard cold road

Oh, Tennessee, you got me running
And I'm not coming back this time
Way out west is where I'm going
To forget the one I left behind

Oh, Tennessee, you got me running
And I'm not coming back this time
Way out west is where I'm going
To forget the one I left behind

Tennessee, you got me running
And I'm not coming back this time
Way out west is where I'm going
To forget the one I left behind


5.Kept My Soul

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Sad and sorry
Troubled and tired
Wild with worry
Mad with desire

Junky jitters, bed bug critters
Now who would die for love?
Midnight favor, sweet sick flavor
Now who would die for love?

You can see by the look in my eyes
That the devil takes his own
See by these holes in my heart
That I still kept my soul
Well you can take it, go on and take it

Sick and waitin'
Down and blue
C-c-c-c-cold and kickin'
What to do?

Creepy crawlin', non-stop jawin'
Now who would die for love?
Look who's holdin', sister rollin'
Now who would die for love?

You can see by the look in my eyes
That the devil takes his own
Tell by these holes in my heart
That I still kept my soul
Go on and take it, go on and take it

I ain't bitchin' but I been itchin'
Now who would die for love?
No use prayin' if it ain't worth savin'
Now who would die for love?

You can see by the look in my eyes
That the devil takes his own
You can see through these holes in my heart
That I still kept my soul

Well, you can see by the look in my eyes
That the devil takes his own
You see right through these holes in my heart
That I still kept my soul
You can take it, go on and take it


6.What Is Home

Lyricist:Richard S Robinson

As I stare into the frozen starlight
My hands burn with the scars of past lives
I see past all the falling chimneys

Home for me
What is home for me?

As I charge into the foothills of your life
Stand under fading sunlight
Hope it will return next morning

Home for me
What is home for me?
I can't wait to find
A home for me

Silence gauge me into my soul
I approach you this morning
Which one will you be?
You're far too important to me

As I stare into the frozen starlight
My hands burn with the scars of past lives
I see past all the falling chimneys

Home for me
What is home for me?
I cannot wait to find
A home for me
Home for me


7.Make Glad

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Ballad and dagger, amazing grace
Sons of rock bottom, take your rightful place
Gold tooth and top hat with an ace up your sleeve
Show me that pistol so I can believe

Make glad
Find the beauty in the broken
Make glad
May your heart always be open

Make glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make glad
I will see you in the other, oh yeah

Turpentine babies with one foot in the south
Turned out the turnkey for running his mouth
'Jump', said the sheriff, 'Get up out of that hole
Get in line and do what you're told'

Make glad
Find the beauty in the broken
Make glad
May your heart always be open

Make glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make glad
I will see you in the other

Make glad
Find the beauty in the broken
Make glad
May your heart always be open

Make glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make glad
I will see you in the other

Make glad
Find the beauty in the broken
Make glad
May your heart always be open

Make glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make glad
I will see you in the other

Make glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make glad
I will see you in the other

Make glad
Keep an eye out for your brother
Make glad


8.And The Band Played On

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Did you hear Gabriel blow his horn?
Then what sent those blackbirds on the wing?
Into this house we were born to live

Like an arrow shot over the mountain
Like a bottle tossed in the sea
I have journeyed, I have traveled, now home calls me

Let's all gather 'round the grand piano
Let's all raise our glasses in the air
Give a cheer to the jolly good fellows and everyone who's cared

Who will mend this wagon wheel
To put this show on the road?
The music sounds just like it feels

Like an arrow shot over the mountain
Like a bottle tossed in the sea
I have journeyed, I have traveled, now home calls me

Let's all gather 'round the grand piano
Let's all raise our glasses in the air
Give a cheer to the jolly good fellows and everyone who's cared

And the band played on through the storm
Through the wicked, wicked rain
And the band played on in golden harmony

What straw will break this camel's back?
Will we grow to love the load?
Can't wait to be what time reveals

Let's all gather 'round the grand piano
Let's all raise our glasses in the air
Give a cheer to the jolly good fellows, everyone who's cared
Well, everyone who's cared
Oh, everyone who's cared, oh


9.The Last Place That Love Lives

Up high in a mansion
On a mountain of jagged rock
Behind two iron doors
So heavy they need no lock

Is the last place that love lives
Where the sad woman cries
Is the last place that love lives
Behind your eyes

You hold up your finger
And you place it to my lips
And you tell me that anger
Can never get rid of this

Is the last place that love lives
Where the sad woman cries
Is the last place that love lives
Behind your eyes

Never blind to misfortune
Never deaf to the sorrowful moan
Set adrift on an ocean
Until I find that peaceful shore

Is the last place that love lives
Where the sad woman cries
Is the last place that love lives
Behind your eyes


10.Aimless Peacock

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Hey boys, gather round
We'll put it up and they'll tear it down
Hey boys, rockabye
Kiss the pretty girls goodbye

Hey boys, up on high
Don't you stop till you reach the sky
Hey boys, let it ring
A song for everyone to sing

Song for everyone to sing
Song for everyone to sing
Song for everyone to sing
Song for everyone to sing

Song for everyone to sing
Song for everyone to sing
Song for everyone to sing
Song for everyone to sing


11.Greenhorn

Lyricist:Christopher Robinson, Richard Robinson

Greenhorn dreams of salty seas
Of maidens fair and lovely
Who beckon and call from emerald walls
Of cities far and strange

Greenhorn hears melodies
From mountaintops and low valleys
Of chimney smoke and Easter's hope
And love not lost in vain

I wanna wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes
Wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes

Before I see the world
Under darkening skies
Gonna wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes

Greenhorn feels the cold wind blow
Now he knows it's time to go
Now he longs for open roads
He longs to leave the pines

And leave he will with a tearful eye
But he won't stop to wave goodbye
He won't stop to look behind
On just what used to be

I wanna wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes
Wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes

Before I see the world
Under darkening skies
I wanna wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes

Days to years
Child to man
Lonely fears
She understands

I wanna wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes
Wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes

Before I see the world
Under darkening skies
I wanna wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes

I wanna wake up in the morning
Wake up in the morning
Wake up in the morning
Wake and look into your eyes


12.Shine Along

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Well, my rider done and left me
Mama wouldn't even close the door
Now I'm drunk and I'm ornery
Sitting here on my dirty floor

Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home
Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home

Now I'm broke and I'm hungry
I've been out on the rails too long
Got a mind that is worried
That the end is coming up on me strong

Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home
Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home

Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home
Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home

Well, if you see my old rider
If you see her out on some Friday night
Tell her I don't miss her
Well, won't you tell her time has treating me right?

Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home
Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home

Shine along, shine along
Someday love is gonna take me home
Shine along, shine along
Well, someday love is gonna take me home


13.Roll Old Jeremiah

Lyricist:Christopher Robinson

Roll old Jeremiah
Roll it all night long
Roll old Jeremiah
The fox jumps over the hollow log

Wave goodbye to Albuquerque
Say hello Sioux City Falls
You got three good wheels still rolling
Don't let the dust set on you long

It's just another day from here to there
It's just another night alone
Yeah, the wind it is a simple friend
What brought you here can take you home

Lean as these hard times
Dry down to the bone
Roll old Jeremiah
Roll that whiskey barrel home

When you hear that whistle blowing
When your smoke is in the air
Roll on Jeremiah
Roll on home without a care

It's just another day from here to there
It's just another night alone
Yeah, the wind it is a simple friend
What brought you here can take you home

Double mounted, double gal
Lifted a pistol in Jesuit Bend
Up to Viper she did run

Careful Jeremiah now
You know how this is gonna go down
A bullet don't care where it comes from
Run, Jeremiah, run, run, run

It's just another day from here to there
It's just another night alone
Yeah, the wind it is a simple friend
What brought you here can take you home


14.Lady Of Avenue A

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

You said goodnight, wrapped your scarf up tight
And left into a winter scene
The Lower East Side is just a place to hide
A place to privately dream

Good times and lost nights on Avenue A
Don't let the bright lights take you away
You just can't believe what the city folks say
My lady of Avenue A

These old downtown streets where lovers meet
To sometimes laugh, to sometimes cry
A strange parade, all new things fade
But somehow this place stays the same

Good times and lost nights on Avenue A
Don't let the bright lights take you away
You just can't believe what the city folks say
My lady of Avenue A

You fall asleep, I hear you breathe
The snow outside, I make some tea
The cat's awake and plays with string
As I slip into a dream

Good times and lost nights on Avenue A
Don't let the bright lights take you away
You just can't believe what the city folks say
My lady of Avenue A, my lady of Avenue A


15.So Many Times

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

So many times I've been fooling myself
It's a hard hand to play falls on nobody else
Those in the city reaching out to grab hold of something
They've only heard about and never been shown

Who do you turn to and what do you say
When she's got the power and she's got the way?
Does it matter at all who survives and who falls
When we live under darkness and hide behind walls?

Why would anyone even try to hold sway
Over somebody else in such a small way?
Where are the answers to the problems we face
Who would teach us about sharing and living in grace?

Who do you turn to and what do you say
When she's got the power and she's got the way?
Does it matter at all who survives and who falls
When we live under darkness and hide behind walls?


16.Fork In The River

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson

The wine may have gone sour but you can't blame the band
Like you can't blame the locusts for drought on the land
You can't blame the sea 'cause it's full of your tears
And you can't blame me for wanting you here

There's a fork in the river, no time to think twice
A change in the weather so keep close at night
A hissing in the wood pile, a voice on the wind
A fork in the river is where we begin

Once found a rainbow lying flat on the ground
I just kept walking thinking more were around
The buzzard, the joker, the beggar, the throne
The roses, the sugar, no safe passage home

There's a fork in the river, no time to think twice
A change in the weather so keep close at night
A hissing in the wood pile, a voice on the wind
A fork in the river is where we begin

A fork in the river, no time to think twice
A change in the weather so keep close at night
A hissing in the wood pile, a voice on the wind
A fork in the river is where we begin
A fork in the river is where we begin
A fork in the river is where we begin


17.I Ain't Hiding

Rust on my pickups and blood on the stage
Seeds in the ashtray and coke on a blade
NYC delivers, that's a guarantee
The only thing that keep the day from me

Line at the bathroom, line at the bar
Take it outside, do the rest in the car
Hot candy baby's in a bright light fright
Rock 'n' roll rat race, everybody's uptight, that's right

Ain't your saint, ain't your enemy
I'm a long shadow on the highway
I know this ain't how it's supposed to be
Baby, I ain't hiding

Stayed on the dance floor 'cause you can't find the door
Can't run out 'cause there's always more
Keep on rocking 'cause it's not even four
Turn up the bass until your ears get sore

Ain't your saint, ain't your enemy
I'm a long shadow on the highway
I know this ain't how it's supposed to be
Baby, I ain't hiding

I ain't your saint, ain't your enemy
I'm a long shadow on the highway
I know this ain't how it's supposed to be
Baby, I ain't hiding

Baby, I ain't hiding
Baby, I ain't hiding
Baby, I
Baby, I, I ain't hiding


18.Houston Don't Dream About Me

Another week in the driver's seat
With your feet up on the dashboard
Rain, it kept a steady beat
As I watched you dream of Houston

I ain't never going back
Yes sir, that's a fact
As you waved your cowboy hat
And sang 'The Yellow Rose Of Texas'

Just trying to make high ground
Has kept us on the run
There's no crime in toeing the line
Because fortune is smiling on us, baby
And we're gonna walk in the sun

I might dream about Houston
But Houston don't dream about me
If I can keep it between the lines
Who knows what will be

Loose change days and motel nights
Day old coffee, dollar postcards
State trooper's flashing lights
As we listen to the thunder

As we talked about our past
So we see our coming future
You tell me you know love can last
While staring out the window

Just looking for a place to hide
A place to ease our minds
A place away from yesterday
Close to tomorrow, away from the sorrows
Of living other people's time

I might dream about Houston
But Houston don't dream about me
If I can keep it between the lines
Who knows what will be

How long, how long till we feel the change?
How long, how long will the skies be gray?
How long, how long will it be this way?
How long, how long will she stay?

I might dream about Houston
But Houston don't dream about me
If I can keep it between the lines
Who knows what will be

I might dream about Houston
But Houston don't dream about me
If I can keep it between the lines
Who knows what, who knows what
Who knows what will be


19.The Garden Gate

Brown eyed girl, precious flower
From your slumber awake
We have come to this fateful hour
And our love cannot wait

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Don't tell your mother, don't tell your father
We both know it's far too late
When we fly they won't come after
They will know our love is great

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

You are sweet as you are tender
You are wise beyond your years
You are a jewel amongst the cinders
So don't shed a sorry tear

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate

Meet me at the gate, at the garden gate
Meet me at the garden gate
You made a promise now don't be late
Meet me at the garden gate


20.The Shady Grove

Meet me by the banks of the sweet primrose
Follow it down to the shady grove
Bonnie blow the breeze by the cabin door
No two lovers could ask for more

So grab your fiddle and your old banjo
Play a country blues so sweet and slow
We'll sing along to the drunkard's doom
And rock all night by the silvery moon

These old trees grow straight to heaven
So it goes in the shady grove

When the old hen crackles and the ground gets cold
Our fine buck skin dances through the snow
We'll take to town on a Saturday night
You and me baby make such a sight

Whiskey, wine, name your pleasure
So it goes in the shady grove

Hey boys, gather round
We'll put it up and they'll tear it down
Hey boys, rockabye
Kiss the pretty girls goodbye

Hey boys, up on high
Don't you stop 'til you reach the sky
Hey boys, let it ring
A song for everyone to sing

When the fish start biting at the new mayflies
The muddy roads have all done dried
The honeysuckle says it's summertime
That old yellow sun is mighty kind

Hear the seasons come with reasons
So it goes in the shady grove

Hey boys, up on high
Don't you stop 'til you reach the sky
Hey boys, let it ring
A song for everyone to sing

Won't you be my lullaby, babe?
In the sweet bye and bye, babe
It's okay to cry and let the sadness pass you by
And know I'll always love you, babe

Hey boys, gather round
I'll put it up and they'll tear it down
Hey boys, rockabye
Kiss the pretty girls goodbye

Hey boys, up on high
Don't you stop 'til you reach the sky
Hey boys, let it ring
A song for everyone to sing

A song for everyone to sing
A song for everyone to sing
A song for everyone to sing
A song for everyone to sing