LOVE I SWORE ( Feb. 23, 2024 Release)

SOMETHING NEW COMES Ben Glover / Natalie Schlabs / Amelia White

What happened to this home
The one I’ve counted on
Walk the empty rooms
Like opening a closed up wound
Opening a closed up wound
Flowers are in bloom
How do they not know
The chill of the dawn
Is colder than the love long gone
Love long gone

ARE YOU HURTING
LIKE IM HURTING
I’VE BEEN HOPING
SOMETHING NEW
COMES FROM SOMETHING LOST

What happened to our love
The one we’ve counted on
Losing all we knew
Burning embers turning blue
Embers turning blue

ARE YOU HURTING
LIKE I’M HURTING
AM I HURTING
LIKE YOU ARE
ARE YOU HURTING
LIKE I’M HURTING
KEEP ON HOPING SOMETHING NEW COMES FROM SOMETHING LOST

I FOLLOW THE RIVER Sally Barris / Amelia White

I follow the river all the way down
To the end where you and I began
The wind gives me a shiver on the coldest night
When I come to find you again
I see your eyes I hear your alibis
I try and try to change them in my mind

I WALK THE TOWN THE MOONLIGHT
BRINGS ME BACK AROUND
TO WHERE OUR LOVE WENT DOWN

Time stops at the river the stars are still
And the black water disappears
Is that your ghost coming to meet me on the bridge
To find what you left right here

Oooh
nobody knows
but the moon and the water below

BEAUTIFUL DREAM Amelia White/Ben Glover

BABY WEREN’T WE A BEAUTIFUL DREAM
IT’S HARD TO WAKE UP TO A SETTING SUN
PINKS and REDS CHANGING INTO BLUE
CLOSE MY EYES I’LL GO BACK TO THAT BEAUTIFUL DREAM WITH YOU
DREAM WITH YOU

I thought I saw a secret
Written in your eyes
Are ya gonna keep it
isn’t that a lie
Leave way too early
Came home too late
How’m I gonna find ya
When all ya do is hide away

BABY WEREN’T WE A BEAUTIFUL DREAM
ITS HARD TO WAKE UP TO A SETTING SUN
PINKS and REDS CHANGING INTO BLUES
CLOSE MY EYES I’LL GO BACK TO THAT BEAUTIFUL DREAM WITH YOU
DREAM WITH YOU

We were a Cadillac
Rolling down Easy Street
The champagne of lovers
Everybody wants to be
Where did we go missing
When did we go wrong
All those times I held ya
Were you already gone

BABY WEREN’T ME A BEAUTIFUL DREAM
IT’S HARD TO WAKE UP TO A SETTING SUN
PINKS AND REDS CHANGING INTO BLUES CLOSE MY EYES
I’LL GO BACK TO THAT BEAUTIFUL DREAM WITH YOU DREAM WITH YOU

BABY WEREN’T WE A BEAUTIFUL DREAM
IT’S HARD TO WAKE UP TO A SETTING SUN
PINKS AND REDS CHANGING INTO BLUES
CLOSE MY EYES, I’LL GO BACK TO THAT BEAUTIFUL DREAM WITH YOU
DREAM WITH YOU,
DREAM WITH YOU,
DREAM WITH YOU.

NOTHING I CAN DO Amelia White

I lost that big fish job
Was gonna pay off my debtors
Got a hole in my pocket so big I’m loosing everything that matters
My girl’s gone cold
No sweet goodbyes in the mornings
Now the sound of her engine starting up is like an early warning

I WATCH THE SUN MELT SLOW
THEN SHE SINKS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
SHE GOES DOWN LOW
THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT
NOTHING I CAN DO

Men out on beach
Cast lines for the big one
They’re as patient as that mamma bird sitting on her eggs outside the kitchen

I WATCH THE SUN MELT SLOW
THEN SHE SINKS To THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN
SHE GOES DOWN LOW

And there’s nothing I can do about it
Nothing I can do

TURN MY EYES TO THE SKIES ABOVE
ASK FOR ANYTHING CLOSE TO LOVE
THROW A STONE AT THE CHANGING TIDES
THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT
NOTHING I CAN DO
THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT
TURN MY EYES TO THE SKIES ABOVE
ASK FOR ANYTHING CLOSE TO LOVE
THROW A STONE AT THE CHANGING TIDES
THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT
NOTHING I CAN DO
THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT
NOTHING I CAN DO

Nothing I can do about it
Nothing I can do
Nothing I can do about it

GET TO THE SHOW Gwil Owen / Amelia White

Sucking down drinks in Columbus Ohio
A cancelled flight ain’t no Cinco de Mayo
All I wanna do is get up there and sing
Don’t wanna hear about ice on the wings
Just TRYING TO GET TO THE SHOW

People all around me coming and going
I’m stuck here cause it won’t stop snowing
Kids on sugar leaving a trail
Suits on cel phones closing a sale
I’m Just TRYING TO GET TO THE SHOW

DON”T ASK ME WHY HELL I DON’T EVEN KNOW
WHEREVER I AM THERE”S ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO

It’s been so hard getting along
I open my mouth I say something wrong
I wasn’t meaning to rush out the door
Wish I’d taken time to kiss you once more
I WAS TRYING TO GET TO THE SHOW

DON’T ASK ME WHY HELL I DON’T EVEN KNOW
WHEREVER I AM THERE’S ALWAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE TO GO
STUCK ON THE GROUND WHEN I OUGHT TO BE FLYING
SITTING HERE WATCHING MY BATTERY DYING TRYING TO GET THE SHOW

I really wasn’t meaning to rush out the door
Wish I’d taken the time to kiss you once more
Babe I need you to know
i’m trying at the bar

Drinking and racking up the credit card
I’m just trying to get to the show
I wasn’t meaning to rush out the door
Wish I’d taken the time to kiss you once more
Babe I need you to know…
I was trying so hard
Drinking and racking up the credit card

trying…
To get to the show

YOU EVER FORGET Monica Rizzio / Amelia White

Anywhere you go I so wanna go with you
Anything you do I so wanna do
I wish we could walk by the ocean this afternoon
And blow all these worries away

Laugh and talk out on the dock and watch the boats come in
Sip a little wine to slow time with you
Watch all the people watching the people too
It’s just a different day
I’m still here with you
Just a different way
i still love loving you
So don’t you ever forgot

Pictures of the day in may when we said I do
Picture all the kisses and love letters too
Everybody sang “I got sunshine on a cloudy day “
And I do I do I do….

IT’s JUST A DIFFERENT DAY
I’M STILL HERE WITH YOU
JUST A DIFFERENT WAY
I STILL LOVE LOVING YOU
DON’T YOU EVER FORGET

Don’t you ever forget
Don’t you ever forget

CAN YOU SEE ME NOW Tom Kimmel / Amelia White

When I get home everything’s wrong
you don’t know me

I walk in the door
who was I before

Maybe this takes a little time
To bring that ghost to life like you knew me
Watch me reappear in a little while

Out on the street
people I meet
seem so lonely

Lost in the crowd
looking around
like they’ve never seen the place

Is that just my face in the mirror
Am I still in here maybe half alive
Can you see me now?

Between the lost and found
Here’s the way I sound (You remember me)
How I come around
(when you’re holding me)

I’m the one you should know better can you see me now?
You told me we’d always come back around
Can you see me now?

Is that just my face in the mirror am I still in here maybe half alive
Can you see me now?
Between the lost and found
Here’s the way I sound (You remember me)
How I come around
(When you’re holding me)
I’m the one who saved your letters
Can you see me now?

LOVE I SWORE Amelia White
On the street in Glasgow I heard someone call your name
I thought about the kiss I miss and how the storm hit hard
I wake up halfway hoping that our love’s cleaned by the rain
Summer rain that whispered me to sleep

I’m holding onto words you said I wish I’d never heard
You caught me by surprise with all those daggers in your eyes
And I see you shiver like a lost domestic bird
Looking for the hand that set her free

FLY BUT DON’T GO FAR
I’ll keep the candle burning and I won’t lock the door
FLY BUT DON’T GO FAR I swore the love I meant and I still mean the love I swore

As the train pulls from the station I call to hear your voice
it’s muffled cracklin’ in and out from far across the sea
And if your freedom scares will you go back to the song
You sang before you found the open door
FLY BUT DON’T GO FAR
I’ll keep the candle burning and I won’t lock the door
FLY BUT DON’T GO FAR I swore the love I meant and I still mean the love I swore

TIME Mando Saenz / Amelia White

It’ll come around
Some other day
Some other sun lit shadow
Trying so hard
For truth to wake up
Does it really matter
Does it really matter
Time moves slow and then it flies, bird on wing
With X-ray eyes — sees through me it looks thru you

TIME WILL SHOW YOU TIME WILL SHOW YOU TIME WILL SHOW YOU
Clear as the moon
Cloudy as milk
No making sense of senseless
Tears of fool
Moment is cruel
Render you defenseless
Render you defenseless

Time moves slow and then it flies like a bird on wing
With X-ray eyes — sees through me it looks thru you

TIME WILL SHOW YOU TIME WILL SHOW YOU TIME WILL SHOW YOU
Time moves slow and then it flies like a bird on wing
With X-ray eyes — sees through me it looks thru you
TIME WILL SHOW YOU TIME WILL SHOW YOU TIME WILL SHOW YOU

LOST MYSELF Amelia White

Let the bird fly
Into the open sky
Far from the car wheels turning
High above world’s fires burning
Bullet in the blue
No turning back for you
And the sensurround sound of your crying
Left behind with all you’ve been denying

WILL YOU COME BACK TO ME
REMEMBER HOW YOU KNEW ME
BACK WHEN I COULD FLY TOO
BEFORE I LOST MYSELF IN YOU

Everything so in place
But you forget your changing face
Get up out of bed you’re barely breathing
Drag a comb thru your head before leaving

WILL YOU COME BACK TO ME
REMEMBER HOW YOU KNEW ME
BACK WHEN I COULD FLY TOO
BEFORE I LOST MYSELF IN YOU

I lost myself I lost myself
I lost myself I lost myself

Wake up your love has died
Throw it to the open sky
We built these dreams with a fever
Still wanna believe in forever

WILL YOU COME BACK TO ME
REMEMBER HOW YOU KNEW ME? BACK WHEN I COULD FLY
TOO- BEFORE I LOST MYSELF IN YOU
LOST MYSELF
I LOST MYSELF

DON’T KNOW HER ANYMORE Amelia White

I don’t know her face when she walks through the door
The way she strings her words together
Her footsteps on the floor
I don’t know her anymore

I don’t know her eyes
The thoughts inside her head
I don’t know her dreams
Or her body in the bed
I don’t know my baby anymore, anymore

GO TO SHUT THE DOOR
AND I CATCH A LITTLE GLIMPSE
OF THE GIRL I KNEW BEFORE
HOW DO I GET FREE FROM THIS ?

The ghosts of what we were
Sink with me and the sun
Walking in my head
Talking in their tongue
Till I can’t take it anymore
She’s not gonna know
The one who picks her up
When she’s down and empty
The one who fills her cup
She won’t know her baby anymore, anymore

GO TO SHUT THE DOOR
AND I CATCH A LITTLE GLIMPSE
OF THE GIRL I KNEW BEFORE
HOW DO I GET FREE FROM
THIS WHEN I SEE THE ONE WHO SO LOVED ME

I don’t know her face
When she walks through the door

ROCKET REARVIEW

ROCKET REARVIEW ( Minton Sparks / Amelia White)

Gotta cup of coffee black and coal
White knuckles shake on the rocket ships controls
I packed a bag I fed the kids
He said you’ll always regret this

And were drifting off
Blasting major Tom

Shooting through Time and space
Goodbye human race

From the rocket rearview I can see
To my surprise land makes love to sea
Small towns getting smaller
And the dreams I didn’t follow
Are riding shotgun next to me

Your money ain’t no good
Up in this neighborhood

Shooting through Time and space
Goodbye human race
Do me a favor and ask my neighbor to go pick up my Sunday paper

Didn’t know how homesick I would be
W/ 10,000 miles between you and me

DEVIL’S GONNA EAT YOU ALIVE

Well, You don’t//// see him coming
But the devils gonna eat you alive
He slips into your shadow while you’re walking in the sun
He’s talking ////right through you
Yeah the devils gonna eat you alive
Get on your knees and beg for your rights

You think you’re living your best life
But the devils gonna eat you alive
pull out your card and buy another round
Playing the big shot,
The devils gonna eat you alive
Get on your knees there ain’t nowhere to hide

Nobody wants to have to choose
Ragged in the storm like a kite
You’ve got everything to loose
Everything to loose

INSTRA

You keep it ////hidden In your closet
the devils gonna eat you alive
Ya hoping they don’t notice when your hands begin to shake
Pretty soon your family
Don’t believe your alibis
Get on your knees and beg for your life …

Nobody wants to have to choose
Ragged in the storm like a kite
You’ve got everything to loose
Everything to loose
Everything to loose

Devils gonna eat you alive!

MY WAY HOME

I grew up here where the paint is peeling
Daddy’s cigarette smoke stained the ceiling
And I I”m finally finding my way home

confederate flags and boarded up bars
Moonshine shacks muscle cars
Im finally finding my way home

Finding my way home
Like the river runs through sun

The way his palm would meet my cheek
The leather knocked me off my feet
But I I”m finding my way home

Mom’s soft eyes on the way Grandad’s
Smiling at animals in the clouds
The radio playing Delta dawn …..

Making peace with all my pieces
Getting to know for nephews and nieces
I’m finally finding my way home

Knowing where I end and you begin

Letting a new Light In…. CHORUS

FIGHTING

Everytime I throw a stone it ripples to the ocean wide
good thoughts or bad riding with the tides
I never knew that you were on my side
I never did believe

gonna walk right out of here, leave this place behind
I won’t talk until it’s clear I’m fighting with my mind

Every time I strike a match I could burn the whole house down
flames grow in wind, like the speed of sound
thought I had the right to light up this town
I was in the dark

streets on fire tonight I’m gonna leave the smoke behind
I can’t tell what’s wrong or right I’m fighting with my mind
fighting what I find
Fighting with my mind
fighting with my mind

Gonna walk wight out of here leave this place behind
Won’t talk until it’s clear- stop fighting with my mind
fighting what I find
fighting with my mind
fighting with my mind
fighting, I’m fighting, stop fighting, stop fighting

WALTZING WITH YOUR GHOST

I took down the photographs and rearranged
finished with a lonely smoke
your clothes are bagged up for the goodwill store
the one you liked to shop at most

Still can’t believe sometimes that you’re not here
laughing at my stupid jokes
I went out dancing with a couple gals
but I’m still waltzing with your ghost

one two three round and round I go
two two three waltzing with your ghost

dreams I had broken wings and I was flying
low over frozen ground
the bells stopped ringing in the old church tower
I woke up looking up from down

Maybe tonight I’ll go and have a drink
dress up in my three piece suit
they strung some lights along the park path
I’m still looking back for you

Chorus

change gonna come
gotta take it on the chin
change gonna come no matter what shape it’s in and
no matter what shape you’re in

took down the photographs and rearranged
finished with a lonely smoke
springtime is creeping in the sun is higher
but I’m still waltzing with your ghost

IN THE TIME

In the time it takes to take your aim a baby’s born a vow is made
A tree falls down and a debt is paid and the clock runs down
Cops come and they lock the doors
Sirens howl and blue lights whirl
People stand out on the streets and a mother cries

In the time it took to make your plan you could have learned the words of Jesus
Buddha Allah , words that heal and reach out a loving hand
Instead your finger pulled the trigger the hate inside you so much bigger
Than any doubt or any reason for turning back

CH- Everything’s at stake a breath can stop a heart can break
In the time that it takes
To shoot a gun

In the time it took the metal to fly
A church bell rings a black crow cries
The bullets that did miss their mark roll on down the hill
Rain beats as angels hover, politicians take their cover
And search for words to spin the story
While a mother cries
And a father waits

CH.

BEAUTIFUL SUN

You have a beautiful sun you have a beautiful sun
And it glows from your blue eyes
Strong as than the clouds in your sky strong as the clouds in your sky
And it knows your every shadow

CH shine through time
What’s yours is mine
The way you say hello, like you really don’t know
But you know
On your knees you were done and you’ve just begun
To feel the beautiful sun

In the back of the very last bus
Back of the very last bus
You cried all the way home
No dollars left in your name
No cards left in your game
Goodbye as the crow flies

OOh darling you have a beautiful sun

NO SOUND

Last night we cracked the white wine
I watched your lips as you drank it
None of the kids were around - you lay my body down

I love your midnight skin my fingers trace your ribs
You were the best thing I’ve found
Picked me up when I was down

Oh love my tears have no sound

You wear that lavender shirt I love
My ring is there on your finger
A rose on your lapel
I know you have a story to tell

I close my eyes to the sun
Preacher’s words have been said
They’re heavy on the ground
The lay your body down

CH OH love my tears have no sound
The lay your body
Oh love my tears have no sound
The lay your body down

Did you surrender and fly
After you called for me
Did angels come around
And watch them shoot you down

They lay your body down no sound

EDGE OF THE BLUES

Hello are you listening is anyone home
It’s starting to feel like the fall of Rome
Prophets and Saints have abandoned their posts
They’re down at the bar with the ghosts

Remember that black cat we saved from the flood
Our home was happy our luck was good
3000 miles is now not enough
Distance from me and my stuff
Distance from me

CH. I’m at the edge of the BLUES
I’m at the edge of the BLUES
I can’t find anything TRUE
Still love you baby

Walking the dog through the hollow streets
Blacked out windows and the glow of TV
The president says that he’s the new christ
Sign up if you’re rich and you’re white
If you’re rich male and white

Through empty valleys I call..

When the fighting has burned the whole place down
Somebody somewhere will look around
For torn up flags for what went wrong
I’ll still be writing you love songs

JANUARY AND JUNE

Leaks in the roof dripping on the floor
From a week of acid rain
And a devil on motorcycle rips
Through my sleepless brain
I don’t know what’s happening here
The rhythm is off in our tune
A red bird looked me in the eye and said
January and June

CH January and June sometimes we don’t see eye to eye
January and June I’m gonna let it go tonight

I think I have you figured out
But remember Im the queen of making up stories,
I build castles in the air for free
Im gonna knock down the fence that I put up
And love you like the moon
With the softest light, light years away
Im gonna let you have some room

Yesterday the road turned hard
And we almost lost our way
But you came along a long time ago
And I think you came to stay
So gas up the car we’ve come so far and I hope we never arrive
You like salt, and I like it sweet
And that makes this trip worthwhile

CH …. I don’t wanna fight, Im gonna let it go tonight,

Gonna let it go

RHYTHM OF THE RAIN

LITTLE CLOUD over LITTLE ROCK (Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

there’s a little cloud over little rock town
and the tall bleached blondes have the top down
short shorts ripped and tight
they’re looking to chase a thrill tonight

Merle sings “silver wings” sweet n low
I’m at the bar waiting on some to go
gotta long drive W/ the setting sun
I’m Texas bound before this day is done….

CH: And I won’t forget to remember
These Instagram moments won't last forever
play that jukebox come on let’s dance

there’s a little smile on the tall bartender
dyed black hair and ear ring feathers
she’s gotta put three kids thru school-
she’s sipping on the sly to keep her cool

and it’s another round for the old man humming
to George jones —his friends are coming
to drink their unemployment down
on friday night, American small town

CH: And I won’t forget to remember
These Instagram moments won't last forever
play that jukebox come on let’s dance

Bridge:
working, Joking drinking hoping
for a better day

for a better day

CH: And I won’t forget to remember
These Instagram moments won't last forever
play that jukebox come on let’s dance
little cloud over little rock gonna blow by fast

little cloud over little rock

little cloud

little cloud over little rock

RHYTHM OF THE RAIN (Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

word out on the street was not so good today
I been working on a building with my hammer and my nails
at night I lay me down but I hear a strange bird singing
and far away back home I can I feel a war stirring
far away back home I can I feel a war stirring

CH: but the rhythm of the rain
in the middle of the night
breaks up my bad dreams
calms my fight
I look out my window
it’s a dark moon again
I’m gonna shut my eyes and curl up
to the rhythm of the rain

a toothless man came round a two pence in his hand
begging for a bottle to ease his troubled mind
I try and try to sleep but he’s knocking at my door
I know that I can’t give him half of what he’s looking for
I know that I can’t give him half of what he’s looking for

everything is wrong tonight there is no peace
I’m get down on my knees let the tears roll down my face
get down on my knees let the tears roll down my face

knocking on my soul
a war is stirring back home
the poor get poor and the rich get richer
war is stirring back home
the rain taps on my window
rain, get down on my knees

SINKING SUN ( Anne McCue/ Rich McCulley/ Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

Empty Street Rain falls hard no coat no hat no guide no map
gone too far no turning back - Empty Street

When you think you’re going down, and you’ve got no friends around

CH: And you feel like a sinking sun, but you're not the only one
wait until tomorrow, wait until tomorrow comes

Morning sky train rolls slow feel the warm wind on your skin
take a breath now breath it in, Morning Sky…

When you think you’re going down, and you’ve got no friends around

CH: when you feel like a sinking sun, you're not the only one
you feel like you've slipped away, hang around for another day
wait until tomorrow, wait until tomorrow comes
wait until tomorrow, wait until tomorrow comes

CH: when you feel like a sinking sun, you're not the only one
you feel like you've slipped away, hang around for another day
You feel like a sinking sun hang on
wait until tomorrow, wait until tomorrow comes
wait until tomorrow, wait until tomorrow comes

SUGAR BABY (Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

Sugar baby I got blue
went to the corner looking for you
danced in the street we
danced cross town and and cross the state line when the hammer came down

CH: blue lights blue lights
tempted by the poison berries hanging off your tree
woke up in chains and the warden said to me
how much do you love your pretty sugar baby now?

Sugar baby this is no joke
stuck in here w the jailhouse ghost
he’s under my skin, in my bed
he’s pins and needles in my head

CH: tempted by the poison berries hanging off your tree
woke up in chains and the warden said to me
how much do you love your pretty sugar baby now?
now, now, now

Now get down on your knees down on your knees again
Now get down on your knees
how much do you love your pretty sugar baby now, now, now

free at last back on my feet
collect my clothes and hit the street
goodbye Sugar I swear I’m done
one more taste with the setting sun—one more taste with the sinking sun….

goodbye sugar I swear I'm done
one more taste with the sinking sun

sugar baby
oh, sugar baby
one more taste

SUPER NOVA ( Tony Kerr/ Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

In the morning when I wake up and I see your face
I get the feeling that you might have to leave this place
sun shine coming thru my window
I found something that I wanted

the soft touch of your fingers barely leaves a trace
taste the glory that you get when you fall from grace
sun shine coming thru my window
I found something that I wanted… You…

CH: hold tight to tonight, we're gonna burn up into nothing
over and over we collide by the light of the dying star
alright, it's alright...supernova

Hold tight the blinding of the afterglow
sweet dreams baby take me there wherever you go…
Sun shine coming thru my window
I’ve found something that I wanted…. You

CH: hold tight to tonight, we're gonna burn up into nothing
over and over we collide by the light of the dying star
alright, it's alright...

CH: hold tight to tonight, we're gonna burn up into nothing
over and over we collide by the light of the dying star
alright, it's alright...supernova
supernova

YUMA — (Amelia White/ Ben Glover) for Yuma, who left too soon. RIP ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

Yuma you’ve got a lot to think about
why’d you go cold on a train going south
you’re talking in my head most everyday
Why’d ya have to go and leave that way?
you left that way

CH: And the band plays on all night long
what was that song what was that song
all the pretty women dance and sing along
Oh Yuma

one last tune on the record player
something 'bout truth from a sooth sayer
something 'bout life being just a cruel joke
So have another drink light another smoke
have another drink

CH: And the band plays on all night long
what was that song what was that song
all the pretty women dance and sing along
Oh Yuma
are you still listening?
are you still listening?

Yuma you’ve got a lot to think about
why’d you go cold on the train
did you knock on wood one time too many
make a final wish on your prettiest penny

CH: And the band plays on all night long
what was that song what was that song
all the pretty women dance and sing along
Oh Yuma

CH: And the band plays on all night long
what was that song what was that song
all the pretty women dance and sing along
Oh Yuma
Oh Yuma
Hey Yuma
are you still listening?
still listening

SAID LIKE A KING (Lori McKenna /Lorne Entress / Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

Boy sat on a bus in the only open seat mittens in one hand and a backpack at his feet
bully came proud mean and thin he said give me all your money and he said it like a king

Sunday morning comes the church is packed in tight cold for September and dark as the night
preacher’s face is red, his fists both swing he says you will fear temptation and he said it like a king

CH: I shiver as the church bells ring
Oh he said it like a king, he said it like a king

The General stands tall as the questions grow loud, he puts on a face that’s as hard as it’s proud we’re fighting this war, fighting for you, fighting for God and we’re fighting for the truth

CH: I shiver as the war bells ring
Oh he said it like a king, he said it like a king

heard my little boy talking about the war the other day - he said if I had a gun I’d blow em all away - just child’s words you say it don't mean a thing… But he said it like a king

CH: I shiver as the brass bells ring
Oh he said it like a king, he said it like a king
said it like a king, said it like a king

TRUE OR NOT? (John Hadley/ Amelia White) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

There's tall in the streets that the deal is changing
Everybody's on edge, look around

It's more of the same thing
I watch the picture without sound

It's all in the eyes, there's something that they're hiding
They get colder in bright spotlight

It's almost sunrise
Lock the house and call it a night

CH: Dream sweet dream sometimes that's all we've got
Dream sweet dream whether it comes true or not

In the roar of the storm silence is a blessing
and is power you can't deny
Tank it to the streets turn it into music
A peaceful battle cry...
A peaceful battle cry...

CH: Dream sweet dream sometimes that's all we've got
Dream sweet dream whether it comes true

CH: Dream sweet dream sometimes that's all we've got
Dream sweet dream whether it comes true or not

LET THE WIND BLOW (Amelia White/ The Worry Dolls) ( Rhythm of the Rain 2017)

Wind in the trees and the sycamore leaves blowing like they do,
like they’re through
can I go on when the will is gone? where we going to ?
where we blowing to?
where we blowing to?

Miles and miles and I thought i’d found a place to call home and a hand to hold
I put good money on this one, I don’t like to be wrong, I don't like to be wrong

CH: You can't stop the leaves from falling down
When you wake to change it'll turn you right around
You won't stop the spring from breaking out- let it all go- let the wind blow
let the wind blow

Fire went out and the bed went cold, and your eyes won’t meet mine anymore
I put good money on this one… I dont’ like to be wrong I don't like to be wrong…. I don't like to be wrong….

CH: You can't stop the leaves from falling down
When you wake to change it'll turn you right around
You won't stop the spring from breaking out- so let it all go- let the wind blow

CH: You can't stop the leaves from falling down
When you wake to change it'll turn you right around
You won't stop the spring from breaking out- baby let it all go- let the wind blow
let the wind blow
let the wind blow
low, and blow, and blow

DANGEROUS ANGEL - (John Hadley/Fred Knobloch/Amelia White)

Dangerous angel you are perched out on the willow with your white poison feathers, temptation as your halo - I'm lying naked and I'm crying in my pillow, blanket as a shelter, trying to deny you

CH - I'd run a thousand miles to shake you, find a crack that I can snake through, God I wish that I could hate you, Dangerous Angel

I thought I'd lost you when I knelt down at the alter, saint Christopher was watching I lit the sacred candle - but I can feel you breathing there's a shadow on my shoulder I see your face and shiver, it's cold and getting colder

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Shadow on my shoulder, cold and getting colder, I feel my knees ben to shake, I feel my will begin to break... Dangerous Angel

HOME SWEET HOTEL

I clay up to say I miss you, it's been a long and lonely highway. I'm hungry for the way you kiss me and keep me in the right way. Spicy Chicken up the road, a spell fills me up but I'm still empty. My shotgun partner knows me too well, he plays that guitar 'til it rings sweet

CH - Home sweet hotel, pop the top off and chill, turn up the TV forget about the bill. Home sweet Home sweet Hotel

I can't remember how the dog smiles, but I can sing a hundred sad songs, the shadow in the brightest stage light keeps me tall and keeps me long, keeps me hanging on

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Gas station lights exit 227 feels like we been driving for years - another couple songs on the radio 'til I get to my bottle of cheer

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LOVE CURES

Wake up, kiss my lover come from under-cover it's another day I'm broke, down, and trying to remember that I'm lucky in November just to feel the rain

CH - Love cures the big pain love's sure to bring change - Change stops the bullets from flying around - Love cures, ain't that a beautiful sound

Bad news all over the airways we're coming down the stairways, turn off the TV

Let's go outside and greet the sunflowers who are smiling at the showers for setting them free.

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Goodnight, I kiss my lover go back under cover try to get found - Laugh at it all until we fall to dreaming - Dreaming is believing that love's all around

Dreaming is believing love's all around - Sunflowers come from the ground - Love cures...

LEAVING IN MY BLOOD - (Molly Thomas/Amelia White)

I've got leaving in my blood and restless in my bones though this California sun slowed me down like you said it would, You'll be followed by my song as I drive away tomorrow, Moving through the shadows of the lilac trees that line your street

CH - You said I'm like a riddle riding in the wind - singing my song for strangers in every town I'm in...

The song that I sing is a heart that's been broken - it weeps like a sad willow tree, I know that you're looking for love that is lasting, please don't count on me

I've got leaving in my blood

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I've got leaving in my blood even though you're on my mind, I'll swallow your memory, just give me some time

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - (Reckless Johnny Wales/Sergio Webb/Amelia White)

The road not taken, he'll never know where he was headed, and would she go? The word not spoken he'll never hear - he never listened she was not clear

CH - More than lonely was he forsaken, She was the only one he would have taken

The kiss not given he'll never taste, was he too early, was she too late, A ripped up letter, forgotten prose, he waits no longer - by that road

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They went their separate ways and now they'll never know, They'll never know what was waiting down the road

The road she'll never know where he was heading and could she go? She heard him knocking at the door, but it's just a memory and nothing more

RAINBOW OVER THE EASTSIDE

There's a rainbow over the Eastside, but it's a solitary life, there's a burning down in the marrow, shots of liquor sleeplessness and miles pile on my soul, they can bring you down or they can bring you 'round

CH - So hold me tighter it's getting harder, I'll never grow up or get smarter, I only see the rainbow on the Eastside

Count the money, it's old and dirty, never seems to stretch long as the highway. Shine the melody and dig your fingers in, let the sweat and anger hold you there and swirl the high note 'round they can bring you down, or they can lift you up, up, up.

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Coming up my street I hear some gospel playing. Pulling in the drive I know that you've been waiting for me

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DOGS BARK- (Jon McCelroy/Amelia White)

Jamie told Billy something, something about Willy - Willy didn't want anybody to know the word got spread like butter on bread and what should have been a molehill turned into a whole mountain of bullshit, Billy tried to fix it - Willy told Billy to take a walk - now mamma's in the kitchen, baby's on the cell phone bitching at daddy to come home and change the locks

CH - Dogs bark and people talk, Dogs bark and people talk (whisper whisper) (blah blah blah) (he said she said, she said he said)

Even if you ain't got nothing to say, you're gonna open your big mouth anyway, dogs bark, and people talk

Wolf told the bobcat rabbit and the packrat, Sky's getting dark something's going down, said the alligator see y'all later, Noah's gonna get us to the higher ground, snake and the tiger spread it like a wildfire, Dinosaurs didn't understand the talk, They got left behind while the others got in line in time to fit into some big old box

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No moral to the story just a fact of life, if you don't want it heard don't say it at night, when you're drunk mad or just plain kidding, it's gonna get around an evolutionary given

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MELISSA - (Reckless Johnny Wales/Amelia White)

She took off like a rocket and brightened up the sky - got the devil in her pocket my little angel eyes. Her mind is by the window, her heart rests on the prize - she knows which way the wind blows my little angel eyes.

Hanging at the Family Wash one lost and lonely night, I saw her and I felt the shock of love at first sight. Sweet music filled my body, the drink it, took me higher. I knew I had to have that girl with those angel eyes.

CH - Melissa, I love to kiss you in the morning when the rays of sun are forming that smile on your face. Melissa, I know there'll never be another friend or lover who can take your place.

You couldn't be my first love, it's much too late for that - but I know you'll be my last love little angel, that's a fact...little angel, angel eyes

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RIGHT BACK TO MY ARMS - (Charlie Faye/Amelia White)

All I have to do is turn that porch lighten, like a flutter to a flame, she'll be right back to my charms, I don't have to ask, and I never wait too long, I just say her name out loud and she's right back like that to my arms

She may be a flirt, she may even touch your hand - that's all fine by me, enjoy it while you can...when the sun kisses the moon goodnight and rests her weary head, she'll be right here on my pillow dreaming in my bed

CH - Oooh right back to me, right back to my arms

Oooh right back to me where she belongs

I don't worry 'bout how long this love will keep, it's a fundamental thing... like a flower to a bee...

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SIX FEET DOWN

Plastic people on the TV screen tonight talking 'bout the race, talking 'bout the fight - outside this window leaves fall like snow. Shut the circus off and let's get into bed, I'm tired of all these voices coming at my head, under the covers is the truth we know

CH - Time will tell, time has eyes, six feet down is where it comes around and all we really have is what we leave behind.

Show me how your mother laughed with you, let me sing a brand new song in blue, outside this window the right's gone wrote, if you could say a hundred words today, what matters isn't even what you'd say under the white noise the heart beats on

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CH - time will tell, time marks our eyes...six feet down...