1. |
Chasing Ghosts
04:34
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There were words I should have said but I just could not say
Like a coward on some battlefield I just drove away
Years of shame it haunts me like a thousand ghosts set loose in my night
Somewhere in your memories please know I tried
The winter was the coldest one that I can recall
Snowstorms by the dozen, which laid in piles tall
By the time the sun was warm enough to free me from my prison of white
Somewhere in that winter please know I cried
Chorus:
Somewhere in my future when I’m graying and the years go quickly past
Somewhere in my darkness when I’m staring at the bottom of my shot glass
Somewhere in this lifetime I just need to know
That you know
On some dark and rainy highway, where I don’t know
You’ll hear this voice from your past on some all-night folky show
And those clapping of the wipers and the numbing green of the dashboard lights
'Cause somewhere down that highway you’ll know I tried
Chorus
Interlude
Chorus
There were words I should have said but I just drove awa
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2. |
In a Minute
03:08
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I can’t recall what the hell’s the story
Why more pain then glory in this thing I call life
I write alone searching for some meaning
Through some thoughtful screening of my words
and how they sound
Chorus:
But I’d trade it in a minute just to be right by your side
And I'd trade it in a minute just to give it one more try
I can’t disguise all those crazy feelings
With my senses reeling from the way it all went down
But I find some chords that give it that emotion
And the silly notion that I’m cool and I’m all right
Chorus
Try I will try – as the new light breaks the day
I'll try I will try – as the same light fades away
I'll try I will try
Ooh…
If I had known to get my act together
Shed that stormy weather let the sun's rays shine
Still this I know no matter how prophetic
I just wax pathetic and just move on
Just move on just move on
Just move on just move on
Just move on whoa whoa whoa
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3. |
Somewhere, Colorado
03:39
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There’s a girl with long blonde hair in Somewhere, Colorado
Eyes as blue as the mountain lakes filled with melting snow
Hint of summer fills the air wildflower in her hair
And spend those days without a care and watch the sun go down
Chorus:
When do I go to Somewhere, Colorado
When do I know a warm and glowing smile
When do I feel instead of just dreaming
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe in a while
There’s a house upon a hill stone walls and daffodils
Casting stove cuts the morning chill as that winter dies
Couple kids run in the yard life is full but life ain’t hard
On that porch I play my guitar family by my side
Chorus
When will I go? When do I know?
I’m just a boy with a vivid mind stuck on some assembly line
Getting old and killing my time dreamin’ my life away
Perfect girl a perfect scene I'll wrap it all in my perfect dreams
But at day’s end I clean my machine in the south side of Buffalo
Chorus
When will I see? When do I feel?
There’s a girl with long blonde hair in Somewhere, Colorado
I spend those days without a care I watch the sun go down
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4. |
Garden in My Mind
03:43
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I’ll go back in the garden in my mind
Where my thoughts are running through some better times
And I’ll know… all will be fine
When I’m back in the garden in my mind
So come with me blue skies on cool fall days
When those leaves they dance down ride the streams away
And I see….all I left behind
When I’m back in the garden in my mind
Bridge:
I can’t run I can’t hide from those duties that are thrust upon me come right to me lord
It’s not my style
I’ll be trying God knows I’d be a lying if I didn’t say
I just want to go home right now
I can see the tree line behind our home
Where those quiet mornings we walked alone
And it’s there I’ll pass my time
Way back in the garden
Way back in the garden
I'll say way back in the garden
In my mind
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5. |
These Rooms
04:57
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Fieldstone stacked and hauled it must've took a mountain
Trees for beams and floorboards back then no one was counting
Piled, notched and planed until your hands were bleeding
A New World was cut and hewn for these rooms
The kids grew tall the corn grew high out wavy windows
Babies cried and people died their love forsaken
Boys they marched to war despite the plans they were making
Some to die decades too soon from these rooms
Chorus:
Now we play there and the notes well they just dance on the floor boards
And I’m singing a story I know this room has heard before
And nothing new gonna happen between these stone walls
The walls have seen it all… the glory and the fall
So within these rooms they find their strength and memories
Born of wood and stone and tears and fears and sweat
They forged a path to carry on to seek their destinies
Of life’s sweet mysteries no regrets in these rooms
Chorus
Now we live our lives filled with want and mystery
And what we say and do today is tomorrow’s history
And within these walls we'll find some peace and meaning
'Cause time creates a better view
From these rooms…
From these rooms…
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Everest Rising Schenectady, New York
Located in New York's Capital Region, Everest Rising is a tightly-knit quartet influenced by folk, jazz, rock and more. Together they create a progressive acoustic sound that is unique yet comfortably familiar. Their innovative instrumental arrangements and thoughtful lyrics take the listener up less-traveled routes. ... more
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