Stranger's Almanac

Whiskeytown Stranger's Almanac Lyrics
1.Inn Town

Parking lot, movie screen
I can't feel anything
Cigarette, beat up tv
Can't feel anything

Now that i
I am in town
I feel fine
Fine for now

Hang around with the people
That i used to be
Hang around on a corner
Waiting to go
Have a seat

Now that i
I am in town
I feel fine
Fine for now

50 cents or a dollar 3
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 feel
I can see anything without dreaming

Now that i
I am in town
I am in town

Hang around with the people
That we used 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 feel
I can say anything that seems real
It's just like a dream
I can feel
I can laugh
I can want it to still be real
It's a dream
I've had
It's the last
Now it seems

Now that i
I am in town
I feel fine
Fine for now
Now that i
I am in town
Now that i
I am in town


2.Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight

Well excuse me if i break my own heart
It's mine from the finish i guess
It's mine from the start
The situation just don't seem so goddamn smart
The situation is tearing me apart

So you'll have to excuse me
While 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 goddamn 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

After all it was mine
After all it was mine
After all it was mine
Can i have it back sometime?

So if the rain falls down on a mississippi town
Let your eyes drift easy into mine
The rain falls down on a mississippi town
Let your eyes drift easy into mine
You're on 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
After all it was mine
After all it was mine
Can i have it back sometime?


3.Yesterday's News

Well traveling to the point
That 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 falling down
Standing up, and i'm falling down
Your my cup (?) till i understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time

Well yesterday's news is what i have been reading
See you at the comet
And i end up needing
Know if you were thinking it could have been
It was nothing it's cause nothing'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 falling down
Standing up, and i'm falling down
Your my cup till 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 falling down
I'm standing up, falling down
Your my cup till i understand
Wait a minute and see the pieces don't fit this time


4.Sixteen Days

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
Its way back to your side

Well the ghost has got me running
Well the ghost has got me running
Away from you away from you away
Repeat

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
Its way back to your side

Well the ghost has got me running
Well the ghost has got me running
Away from you away from you away
Repeat

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???


5.Everything I Do

she's got diamonds in her eyes
That she likes to hide
Seek and you will find
The hidin 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 miss you

She's got diamonds in her eyes
That she likes to hide
Seek and you will find
The hidin' 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 miss you

Repeat one more time - end on 3rd 'when everything i do'


6.Houses On The Hill

Well i found a bunch of letters
That 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 before the 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
And there bottles of pills that were easy to buy
To keep her warm from the oncoming storm

Well i found them in the northwest corner of the attic in a box
Labeled tinsel and lights
Didn't know what i was i 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
Must have been a target for the gunman

There were stars in the sky
There were bunkers on the hill and there were caskets to fill
Where he will lie
Shrouded in the red white and blue with the stripes

There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
And there were bottles of pills that were easy to buy
To keep her warm from the oncoming storm


7.Turn Around

Want to cross
But i don't think i can
It's 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.Dancing With The Women At The Bar

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
I always know my woman's close somewhere

My daddy saw the moon, eard 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
Yeah 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
I 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
I always know my woman's close somewhere
Close somewhere


9.Waiting To Derail

They say that all the time
And 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
Waiting to derail

Are you 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 your waiting to derail
Waiting yeah waiting to derail
Your waiting to derail
Yes your waiting to derail


10.Avenues

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


11.Losering

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
Losering
Patiently
Losering
Losering
Losering
(see what you have been losing)


12.Somebody Remembers The Rose

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 everyday 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


13.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 we are
Still waiting up somewhere 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?)