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Grant Lee Phillips
Official Non-Album Tracks
Me and this city we just ain't getting along
I've already hung around here too long
Me and this city are 'bout to go round and round
There ain't enough room for the two of us in this town
Might have been a time when we made a pretty pair
When I was on a roll and had a few dollars to spare
But now I'm on the run and I can seem to get no where
Me and this city we're done with our love affair
Chinatown
San Francisco
Haugesund
or Seattle
Anywhere my heart is drawn
'Cause me and this city we just ain't getting along
True we had one hell of a honeymoon
When liquor pour like rain for the bride and groom
But I was a fool thinking I held the key to you
Now is a race wondering who would be the first and who wins
Border town San Diego
Further south Cape San Lazaro
Anywhere my heart is drawn
'Cause me and this city we just ain't getting along
Come into the tent
come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a sight
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
After a long day
down at the track
He can't wait to come galloping back
Kicks off his shoes his tail coat and slacks
Picks up the news has a beer to relax
Come into the tent
come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a sight
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
Wife and a family
trotting 'round the house
Run and grab his slippers for his feet
Feels so hungry he could eat a man
But a man's too bitter to eat
Come into the tent
come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a feat
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
Then the clock
strikes ten he's off to bed
Goes upstairs where the bed's pulled down
His wife gives a listen till he begin to snore
'Fore she start off rifling through the pockets of her lord
Come into the tent
come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a sight
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed
horse is a beast transformed
Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Curled-up by the
station you are
Nothing to your name but a bag on your shoulder well
Where could you be bound
No one there to say goodbye
Waitin' for a train to take you out to another life
All dreams let you down
There's a world
outside
Your mama doesn't want you to know about
Where the night's alive and vellum coaches cruise
With their black windows down
It's up to you
Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Light a coming down the track
You wonder what you're leaving but you can't help looking back
You're still as death as in a photograph
There's a world
ahead
That you've only read of in magazines
Where the sidewalks shine with the names of stars
From the silver screen
It's up to you
Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Once back at home
they'll be laughing and counting the days
Till you return oh that they never learn
That you don't live for them anyway
No you don't live for them anyway
It's up to you
Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
You're still wild
Still wild
[Kurt Vonnegut: TV is enough... is providing artificial friends and relatives to lonely people. What, what it is, is uh, recurrent families; the same friends and relatives come back, week after week, after week, after week. And they're wittier, and they're better looking, and they're much more interesting, and they're richer than your real friends and relatives.]
Where is the love
from birth
Where it's gone
Where is the love for humanity
Where it's gone
The love for the
children
Respect for the elders
Where it's gone
I wanna know
When will they get it right
And live in the light
Raised in the city
Praise for the nightfall
Rain wash my memory
Damp-clad my great wall
Peace don't desert me
Not in the forest
Grace where I trespass
Calling my goddess
Peace is not real
It is not now what you seize
Off Andy
Where is the love
from birth
Where it's gone
Where is the love for humanity
Where it's gone
I wanna know
Tell me
Dream my grandfather
Dream of great quiet
Barely a flash between
Words and blue silence
Gentle this hour
Wet is the highway
Brave are these cowards
Racing racing
Peace is not real
Well you won't
come down never
Yeah you won't come down
Yeah you won't come down never
Yeah you won't come down
Won't come down
You won't come down
When your heart
it beats heavy
For a drum
No you won't come down easy
From the limb you're on
Well you long to reach heaven
Where the night is young
And all the stars above you are in
Motion now motion
now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight
In the neon-blue
city
In the twilight view
See the bow and arrows flowing
On your warehouse hill
Anyone can feel that you're in
Motion now motion
now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight
You take the air
in
You take the whole room in
Ya hold it for a time
Hold it in your heart like amber
You take the night
in
You take the consequences
Measuring your life
Not by what is safe to wager
Smile there's no
regrets
Layers wash through our hands
And then you never see tomorrow come
You only feel the wake of it
Smile there's no release
This blood of life won't cease
To leave you lying in a wild amazement
Reeling in the wake of it
You take the grandeur
And I'll take to wondering
The error of my ways
I could ponder this forever
Smile there's no
regrets
Layers wash through our hands
And then you never see tomorrow come
You only feel the wake of it
Smile there's no release
This blood of life won't cease
To leave you lying in a wild amazement
Reeling in the wake of it
Smile there's no
regrets
Layers wash through our hands
And then you never see tomorrow come
You only feel the wake of it
Smile there's no release
This blood of life won't cease
To leave you lying in a wild amazement
Reeling in the wake of it
Smile
Our tragedy is
old as the night
Our fable done told a thousand-odd times
For fate is an unmerciful queen
Made a quest out of you and a soldier of me
I curse the stars
that take you away
Take you away from my side
Condemned to burn my chariot wheels
Chasing the love of my life
Oh Sarah it's the
pageant we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can't let you slip away
And our destiny
is bound like a knot
Can't be untied won't be forgot
I feel the arrows 'fore they arrive
Trained on this place in my heart
And I'm apt to stumble over the edge
Chasing my love in the dark
Oh Sarah it's the
pageant we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can't let you slip away
Well I can't let
you step away
No I can't let you slip away
I can't let you
8. SARAH (UNPLUGGED) - 2004
Our tragedy is old as the
night
Our fable done told a thousand-odd times
For fate is an unmerciful queen
Made a quest out of you and a soldier of me
I curse the stars that take
you away
Take you away from my side
Condemned to burn my chariot wheels
Chasing the love of my life
Oh Sarah it's the pageant
we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can't let you slip away
And our destiny is bound
like a knot
Can't be untied won't be forgot
I feel the arrows 'fore they arrive
Trained on this place in my heart
And I'm apt to stumble over the edge
Chasing my love in the dark
Oh Sarah it's the pageant
we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can't let you slip away
I can't let you
step away
Well I can't let you slip away
Do
you remember a guy who's been
In such an early song
I've got a rumor from Ground Control
Oh no don't say it's true
I got a message from the Action Man
I'm happy hope you're happy too
I've loved all I've needed love
Sordid details following
The streaking of nothing is killing me
Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis I
I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick off this planet
It's glowing glowing glowing
Ashes
to ashes funk to funky
We know Major
Tom's a junkie
Strung out on heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
Time
and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
I'm happy hope you're happy too
One flash of light
But no smoking pistol
I never done good things
I never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue
Want an axe to break the ice
Well I wanna come down right now
Ashes
to ashes funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
My
mama said to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom
Nothing looks pretty
as
The winter stars a glittering
Shining on the freshly fallen snow
When the blue light of the moon
Is giving off a loving winterglow
Such a tender feeling when
The candlelight a flickering
In the window calls you home
And the fireplace is crackling
Giving off a warming winterglow
Summer with its
nights that
Last forever has its charm
Fall the golden leaves that gather too
Spring is all the brighter after
April storms have flown
But winter has a magic of its own