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End of an Era (January)
03:09
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I thought we all read those pages from long ago
Those who claimed to be good could crush other’s souls
Oh we’d sing truth to power, but now it’s power to truth
And it’s the end of an era with you
It’s the end of an era but I guess that’s okay
I never really belonged anyway
It’s the end of an era but what can you do
I’ll just be myself with you
Now the folks up above have changed the ones down below
But the ones down below there are things they don’t know
They never knew what they had if they don’t know it’s gone
And it’s the end of an era with you
It’s the end of an era but I guess that’s okay
I never really belonged anyway
It’s the end of an era but what can you do
I’ll just be myself with you
A song needs to be a sung, and a light needs to light
Truth gotta be real, and someones needs to fight
Maybe it needs to be shouted that everything’s wrong
And it’s the end of an era with you
It’s the end of an era but I guess that’s okay
I never really belonged anyway
It’s the end of an era but what can you do
I’ll just be myself with you
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Mom is back on the reefer now that summer’s gone
That clock keeps ticking like the nights grow long
Dad is in the basement where he’s laying low
He said he’ll come out but to take it slow
Aretha I’ve been trying since I’ve been told
Aretha I’ve been trying but it’s growing old
There’s a picture on the mousepad of the sun and sand
We always talk about it but we’ve never been
It’s somewhere on an island, on a beach
Some other place that we’ll never reach
Aretha I’ve been trying since I’ve been told
Aretha I’ve been trying but it’s growing old
Rise up to the occasion, be a different kind of man
Stand upon their shoulders, do everything you can
There are stories in the Bible that are hard to know
Tales of desecration blow by blow
You tell me all about them so I don’t feel bad
But I can’t help but notice they never make you sad
Aretha I’ve been trying since I’ve been told
Aretha I’ve been trying but it’s growing old
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Every Other Road (March)
02:43
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You’re off to find a some peace of mind
Or a little time, it isn’t clear
If I had a say it wouldn’t be this way
You’d always stay somewhere near
Every other road is closing down
Every other road is closing down
Every other road is closing down
It’s been so long but it goes on
What’s right seems wrong and then right again
It could take you low the place you go
But you won’t know until you’ve been
Every other road is closing down
Every other road is closing down
Every other road is closing down
Would you ease my heart it it fell apart
Would it be a start to something new
If you broke down I’d still come around
Find solid ground me and you
Every other road is closing down
Every other road is closing down
Every other road is closing down
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Those trains keep rolling through about three times a day
Now when I hear their whistle I bow down and pray
Lord have mercy is what I say
And me oh my oh can’t leave Ohio too soon
The folks out in the east and think they have control
Controlling a burn but watch those billows roll
Into Montreal and all the way to Seoul
Me oh my oh can’t leave Ohio too soon
That Norfolk Southern it gets around
Burning bridges in every other town
A fiery furnace to bring us down
Me oh my oh can’t leave Ohio too soon
So take me to a place where there is no railroad track
No asphalt no lights and no going back
And when I look out at night all I see is black
Me oh my oh can’t leave Ohio too soon
Next time I'm in a pickle now knowing what I know
Gonna take my kids and just go go go
Maybe live off the land somewhere down in Mexico
Me oh my oh can’t leave Ohio too soon
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Well I finally left Ohio
To see what was going on
The other side of the ocean
Looking for some fun (or maybe someone)
And I slept out on the sidewalks
I took the railroad tracks
I floated down the rivers
And I never did look back
(I heard someone say)
Hello nice to meet you
You come from far away, far away
Please don’t you leave now
Won’t you come back someday, someday
Well everything was different
But everything was the same
Everybody gets a little hungry
Everybody has a funny name
And people like a little music
When they’re feeling blue
Everybody wants somebody
To help them make it through (make it through)
Hello nice to meet you
You come from far away, far away
Please don’t you leave now
Won’t you come back someday, someday
Sunny rain cloudy sun
Morning supper midnight run
Sandy sandals busted toes
Traffic stops then it flows
Need a witness I’m right here
Tomorrow’s far today is near
Leave a flower lend a hand
Like they do in Amsterdam
Well I guess I’m never really home now
But I’m never really gone
I know I’m not alone now
Those voices carry on (carry on)
Hello nice to meet you
You come from far away, far away
Please don’t you leave now
Won’t you come back someday, someday
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Me and my religion tend to disagree
I like going on my own you like some company
Oh my religion I am trying to get along
Trying to settle on when it’s right and when its wrong
Me and my religion we don’t see eye to eye
You’re always pushing forward I’m barely getting by
Oh my religion I guess that I am glad
That you remind to remember when I forget that I am bad
Me and my religion sometimes go our separate ways
You’re a stone on a mountain while I’m drifting in the haze
Oh my religion I lost you once or twice
You said that I was out of line I thought that you weren’t nice
Me and my religion have had our ups and downs
But when I’m on the loose you always come around
Oh my religion I guess were here to stay
My father and his father they prayed it’d be this way
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The Time Has Come (July)
02:03
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The time has come the time has come
We’ve gotta roll run run run
The time has come the time has come
The end is finally here
Take my hand take my hand we’ll do the best the best we can
Take my hand take my hand
Show me that you’re near
The forest floor the forest floor
an open sky and door to door
The forest floor is where we’ll mostly stay
The fire light light the fire light
will keep us warm in the dead of night
The firelight the firelight
Will help us on our way
It’s nothing new nothing new
If you stay here long
They'll come for you
Nothing new nothing new
We’ll do what we can do
When the fighting starts when the fighting starts
We’ll rise up like a work of art
When the fighting starts the fighting starts
The love will shine right through
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Man Oh Man (August)
04:02
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Man oh man am I awake, everything is broken but it still won’t break
And it looks the same someway
Man oh man but it’s not, and knowing doesn’t help because what I thought
Wasn’t real, wasn’t there somehow
The river’s is flowing the sun is shining
A voice is calling and it goes on
The breeze is blowing, the clouds are rolling
The water’s reflecting, that nothing’s wrong
Man oh man while I slept the darkness came and crept and crept
Now I see it all around
Man oh man it’s in a smile in the eyes in every little sweet surprise
In the calm of a summer night
The river’s is flowing the sun is shining
A voice is calling and it goes on
The breeze is blowing, the clouds are rolling
The water’s reflecting, that nothing’s wrong
Man oh man to arrive to be breathing and to be alive
In the end is this we have
Man oh man to believe, to forgive and to receive
To never know maybe it’s okay
The river’s is flowing the sun is shining
A voice is calling and it goes on
The breeze is blowing, the clouds are rolling
The water’s reflecting, that nothing’s wrong
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Joe met Janice on a Saturday night
He was riding high she was hanging tight
And once again, he was up to no good
But the stars were out and she was tired of the neighborhood
No matter what they had a lot to say
If you’re right you are wrong if it’s not their way
They think they know what’s good and bad for you
So she finally had enough she gonna do what she want to
She gonna dance on Saturday, ask forgiveness on Sunday
Call in sick on Monday, go fishing on Tuesday, Put a cap on Wednesday, Thursday/Friday start it all again
Joe asked her the best two stepping song
She said with Chattahoochee you can’t go wrong
But Dumas Walker rises to the top
Then his head began to spin and his heart just about done stop
Now he’d broken one or two before
But he was worried because he wanted her more
For the first time he didn’t know what to do
We laughed at poor Joe saying what’s gotten into you
She gonna dance on Saturday, ask forgiveness on Sunday
Call in sick on Monday, go fishing on Tuesday, Put a cap on Wednesday, Thursday/Friday start it all again
While they danced the Do-Si-Do
Janice told Joe all about Van Gogh
And they both looked up into that starry night
He knew right then that things are gonna be alright
They're gonna dance on Saturday, ask forgiveness on Sunday
Call in sick on Monday, go fishing on Tuesday, Put a cap on Wednesday, Thursday/Friday start it all again
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Well Now Marie (October)
03:08
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No more worry, no more troubled mind
No more scattered thoughts being confused in time
No more pain, no more falling down
No more giving in to lies
Well now Marie we’ve been around so long
I can almost see the end
Well now Marie it’s like the speed of light
from the time that we began
No more wonder no more magic spark
No more late night talking in the dark
No more comfort that I’m not alone
No old stories no one else knows
Well now Marie we’ve been around so long
I can almost see the end
Well now Marie it’s like the speed of light
from the time that we began
No more anger about the things that make us mad
No more working through all the things we never had
No more memories that we haven’t shared
No more building something new
Well now Marie we’ve been around so long
I can almost see the end
Well now Marie it’s like the speed of light
from the time that we began
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Look away as you look around
Avert your eyes as it’s sinking down
Say goodbye to the last American
No more heroes standing tall
They’re drug off and drugged, we like our heroes small
Give my regard to the last American
Red and white and the deepest blue
There’s nothing they won’t try to take from you
Take it all from the last American
Conversations inside your head
Are better than the ones that leave you dead
You’ve gone and talked to the last American
Oh to run oh to ride
To go and find a place where you can hide
Oh to raise up a child in a way that’s real
Oh to write oh to read
To stop the things that you don’t need
Oh to raise up a thought that they cannot steal
Do not speak and don’t defend
Do not fight until the bitter end
Watch it fall, the last American
Celebrate as you redefine
Unlearn and learn what’ll break your mind
Unleash it all on the last American
Oh to run oh to ride
To go and find a place where you can hide
Oh to raise up a child in a way that’s real
Oh to write oh to read
To stop the things that you don’t need
Oh to raise up a thought that they cannot steal
Mama there’s a scene that I remember
You were crying and why I didn’t know
You couldn’t say, but something happened
I could only hold on and hope that it would go
Look away as you look around
Avert your eyes as it’s sinking down
Say goodbye to the last American
No more heroes standing tall
They’re drug off and drugged, we like our heroes small
Give my regard to the last American
Give my regard to the last American
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Darling your the reason I’m finally hanging on
I haven’t been so crazy since you came along
I even got me a shave and a new Sunday suit
And it’s all because of you
If I had a dollar, if I had a day
All my time and money would surely come your way
We could drive past Flippin all the way to Mountain Home
And watch the sun til it disappears
Darling your the reason I’m finally standing straight
I say please sir, and thank you, now I appreciate
All the little things and the things I never knew
Now you’re always, always on my mind
I’d love to see the world or at least all of Arkansas
But if you’re weren’t there and even if I saw it all
It wouldn’t be as easy and wouldn’t be as sweet
All my somethings would be nothing without you
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Daniel Dye and the MRB Mutual, Ohio
Daniel Dye writes "powerful short stories through simply beautiful lyrics" (WYSO Public Radio) and this "extraordinary singer-songwriter" and the classically-trained Miller Road Band have an "Americana/Folk/Roots" sound that "takes you back in time" (Buckeye Music Magazine) ... more
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