Continental Drifters

Vicki Peterson Continental Drifters Lyrics
1.Get Over It

Lyrics:Mark Walton
Music:Mark Walton

The sheets on you windows won't hide or disguise
The heat of the moment or the look in your eyes
You buy innuendos and lies.

Please don't shout anymore
I can't stand to sit around
And watch you walk out my door.

Show some sense and respect
Learn to cope and get over it.

My walls, well they're shakin' with the sound of your voice
My floors start to tremble with that talk of divorce
Well, you got the right to freedom of choice.

Please don't shout anymore
I can't stand to sit around
And watch you slammin' my doors.

Show some sense and respect
Learn to cope and get over it.

Please don't shout anymore
I can't stand to sit around
And hear you slammin' my doors.

Show some sense and respect
Learn to cope and get over it.

I can hear your drunken rage within my room
One too many beers, preachin' a prophecy of doom
Might just bury you in a lonesome tomb.

Oh, please don't shout anymore
I can't stand to sit around
And watch you tear down my door.

Show some sense and respect
Learn to cope and get over it.

Get over it
Get over it.


2.Invisible Boyfriend

Lyrics:Peter Holsapple
Music:Peter Holsapple

In the back of the dimly lit room
Stands a woman alone or so you'd assume
But there to her right, all through the night
Stands her invisible boyfriend.

I watch her turn and then smile at the air
Half way expectin' to see him right there
And when he's not her face just drops
Meet the invisible boyfriend.

The man of her dreams has returned to her dreams
But she's by herself or so it would seem
To a casual observer like I am.

Ask her a question, she'll answer in kind
But all would agree she's got more on her mind
Look in her eyes, watch how she tries
To hold herself back from cryin'.

Left with a memory and time on her hands
Left to a lifetime of unfinished plans
Left all alone by the one very man
Who would never have left her alone.

Sometimes I think I can see him myself
With his arms wrapped around her with picture of health
Grinnin' at her just as they were
Before the impossible happened.

The man of her dreams has returned to her dreams
But she's by herself or so it would seem
To a casual observer like I am.

But all that I know is the pains won't go by
By the days and the weeks and the months since he died
She starts to leave and there by her side
Goes the invisible boyfriend.

God, I wish I had known him
He's the invisible boyfriend.


3.Highway Of The Saints

Lyrics:Pat Mclaughlin
Music:Pat Mclaughlin

I'm driving down the highway of the saints
Keeping an eye on a friend of mine
Who wishes no complaints
When all the strength had left her
And hope it become ??
Now I'm driving down the highway of the saints.

The sun is up and no one's in the field
The temperature keeps risin'
The wind is on it's heels
Of all the things she taught me
A-none of them restrained
Driving down the highway of the saints.

Driving down the highway of the saints.

Well, I'm holdin' on to something I can't hold
The old folks now are leavin'
And the farm is almost sold
There ain't no sense of grievin'
I can't be what I ain't
I'm driving down the highway of the saints.

Driving down the highway of the saints.


4.Mezzanine

Lyrics:Carlo Nuccio
Music:Carlo Nuccio

Steel train hummin' after Scott starts to sail
Well, they shine up like ????
South consume my thought
I start to pick everything apart
Like I would rather sip my milk through a paper straw
I reflect on the world that I've seen
Between ground flow and the mezzanine.

And my shoe lace is busted
But it won't make the escalator stop
Should I get pulled in on top
Carefull not to step on my light
And might be coming letro fad
Still I draw conclusions on the things I've observed
Even before I was eighteen
Between ground flow and the mezzanine.

And bees make slum honey
From nowa dye sewed in a paper cup
I'd rather hide than to say, 'What's up?'
And if I whistle a tune
It passes off from room to room
Still I'd take time and note the sun shinin' through it red
All I caught was a daydream
Between ground flow and a mezzanine.


5.Mixed Messages

Lyrics:Vicki Peterson
Music:Vicki Peterson

You're sending me mixed messages
Mixed messages that I can barely work through
Where the heart lies, which messages
Comin' truly from you.

When I get too close to you
I feel the fear, I can almost hear it
Then you call me late at night
Sayin', 'Can I be with you?
I wanna be with you'.

You're sending me mixed messages
Mixed messages that I can barely work through
Where the heart lies, which messages
Comin' truly from you.

You keep your thoughts to yourself
To keep me guessin' as we're undressin'
Then you're gone for days on end
And here we go again
Here we go again.

You're sending me mixed messages
Mixed messages that I can barely work through
Where the heart lies, which messages
Comin' truly from you.

I can't keep bouncing around like this
Cut me loose and then pull me in for a kiss
If you know what you want I wish you would tell me
Clearly.

Wonder why it bothers me
I wonder why, I even wonder why
If I had another lover
Would it get to you
Would I get through?

This puzzle of mixed messages
Mixed messages that I can barely work through
Where the heart lies, which messages
Comin' truly from...

You're sending me mixed messages
Mixed messages that I can barely work through
Where the heart lies, which messages
Comin' truly from you.


6.I Can't Make It Alone

Lyrics:J.Goffin/C.King
Music:J.Goffin/C.King

Now you know me
And you know how proud I am
And what I'm gonna tell you now
It won't be easy to say.

Before I left your side
Ooh, I was so happy there
And I've been so lonely
Since I've been away.

Hoo, baby, well I tried and I know
I can't make it alone
It's such a hard way to go
I just can't make it alone
Cause there's somethin' in my soul (in my soul)
It'll always (always) lead me back to you.

What can I say now
Well, sorry's just not good enough
And I wouldn't blame you if you hurt me now
The way I hurt you then.

Well, then who am I to turn to
Oh baby, I am beggin' you
Won't you reach out for my dyin' soul
And let me live again.

Hoo, baby, well I tried and I know
I can't make it alone
It's such a hard way to go
I just can't make it alone
Cause there's somethin' in my soul (in my soul)
It will always (always) lead me back to you.

I just can't make it by myself
I just can't make it by myself
I just can't make it by myself.

Cause baby, and I tried and I know
I can't make it alone
And it's such a hard way to go
I just can't make it alone
Well, there's somethin' in my soul
It'll always lead me back to you.

Oh, please help me (please help me)
Well, you know how I need you (you know I need you)
And sayin' that I need you
Well, I just can't make it by myself.

(Just can't make it by myself)
I just can't make it on my own
(Just can't make it on my own)
Ooh, I just can't make it by myself.


7.Soul Deep

Lyrics:Thompson
Music:Thompson

Mmmmmm.

Honey, I don't know much
But I know I love you so much
My life depends on your touch.

And my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep
Well, it's too big to hide
And I can't be denied
My love is a river runnin' soul deep.

I work myself to death for ya
Just to show I adore ya
Nothin' I wouldn't do for ya.

And my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep
Well, it's too big to hide
And I can't be denied
My love is a river runnin' soul deep.

All I ever ever want to be
Depends on your love for me
Baby believe me, if you should leave me
I would be nothin' but an empty shell
I know darn well, I can tell now.

Honey, I don't know much
But I know I love you so much
My love depends on your touch.

And my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep
Well, it's too big to hide
And I can't be denied
My love is a river runnin' soul deep.

Yes, my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep
Yes, my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep
Yes, my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep
Yes, my love is a river runnin' soul deep
Way down inside me it's a soul deep.

Owe!
(Soul deep)
(Soul deep)
(Soul deep)
(Soul deep).


8.Some Of Shelly's Blues

Lyrics:Michael Nesmith
Music:Michael Nesmith

Tell me
One more time the reason why you must leave
Tell me again why you think you don't need me
Tell me again but don't think you'll convince me.

You said
About fallin' in love again you'd rather be dead
When somebody breaks your heart you cry your eyes red
There's nothin' so hard about the life that you led.

As far as I can see there's no reason for goodbye
Cause you're just runnin' scared and that's something I won't
buy.

So you lose
I won't let you go and nothin' to show but more blues
And all this talk about leavin' is strictly bad news
You settle down and stay with the girl who loves you.

As far as I can see there's no reason for goodbye
Cause you're just runnin' scared and that's something I won't
buy.

So you lose
I won't let you go and nothin' to show but more blues
And all this talk about leavin' is strictly bad news
You settle down and stay with the girl who loves you.

You settle down and stay with the girl who loves you
You settle down and stay with the girl who loves you
You settle down and stay with the girl who loves you.


9.New York


10.Desperate Love

Lyrics:Susan Cowsill
Music:Susan Cowsill

Nobody wants to do it alone
And everyone wants a happy home
But there's somethin' that no one needs
It strangles like a glove
Nobody wants a desperate love.

Someone to hold your hand
And tell your troubles to
Someone to hold you when you shake
When you're lovin' a heart in two
It cuts off all the blood
Nobody wants a desperate love.

No one showed me how to feel
A love that's good and true and real
And no one told me how to be
And just feel good enough to live.

No one showed me how to feel
And no one told me how to be
And just feel good enough to live.

Now all's I'm askin' for
Is just a little time
To teach my heart a better way
To show you just how much
And what do you mean to me
Maybe then you'll want me to stay.

But when you're lovin' a heart in two
It cuts of all the blood
And there's somethin' that nobody needs
Cause it strangles like a glove
And when you're standing there looking at me
You can bet your stars above
I don't wanna be...I ain't gonna be
I refuse to be your desperate love.


11.A Song For You

Lyrics:Gram Parsons
Music:Gram Parsons

Oh my land is like a wild goose
It wonders all around everywhere
Trembles and it shakes 'til every tree is loose
Rolls the meadows and it rolls the nairds.

So take me down to your dancing lore
I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we may still be there.

Now Jesus built a ship to sing a song to
It rolls the rivers and it rolls the tide
Some of our friends don't know who they belong to
Some can't get a single thing to work inside.

So take me down to your dancing lore
I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we may still be there.

I love you everyday, now I'm leavin'
I can see the sorrow in your eyes
I hope you know a lot more than you're believin'
Just so the sun don't hurt you when you cry.

Oh, so take me down to your dancing lore
I won't mind the people when they stare
Paint a different color on your front door
And tomorrow we may still be there (still be there).

We may still be there (still be there)
Oh, we may still be there (still be there)
And tomorrow we may still be there.