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Broken Heart Harbor 2020
02:25
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Broken Heart Harbor
I used to be a sailor
The storms washed me a shore
In this pub here on the corner
With the gypsies and the whores
Sweet Misty was my love
But love was struck by time
For when I did return
One less love was mine
Chorus
I've anchored here in broken heart harbor
An uncharted island where broken hearts stay
I drifted in here when my Misty was taken
Drifted in here when my Misty was taken
Drifted in here when my Misty was taken away
The streets can seem so empty
Deserts seem so dry
I hope one day to glimpse beyond
The curtains of the sky
Everyday I walk an edge
In case a boat floats by
With a message in a bottle
To tell me you're alive
Chorus
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One Room
02:49
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One room
I used to live there
It was small and leaked in the rain
What can you do when you got no money
And no one but you to blame
I'd take a job than leave the job
Never had much more than my time to spend
What do you do when you know you know nobody
And you know nobody knows you
You got to stand up
To stand out
Locked in
Too cold to go outside at night
Gang members trading blood in on bullets
What can you do when you're left with no way
But still have to find a way?
Before those friends
I had nothing but a hole
I dug it in deep
But all I felt was control
What do you do when you know you know nobody
What do you do when nobody knows you
What do you do when you know you know nobody
And you know nobody knows you
You got to
Stand up
To stand out
From one room
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3. |
Phone It In
02:28
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Cell Phone Blues
Growing up
No one wore a phone
Growing up
No one wore a phone
Whenever you’d go out
You were on your own
Everyone’s connected
Connected all the time
Everyone’s connected
Everyone’s on line
So much to know
Try not to lose your mind
I’m ok
Even thought I’m in the dirt
I’m ok
Even though I’m in the dirt
How long, how long
Will I live with this hurt
When I catch the train
I hope you’ll come along
When I catch the train
I hope you’ll come along
Next time I go it alone
I’ll be dead and gone
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4. |
Indoor Moon
04:48
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Indoor Moon
One day
I’ll come round and see it your way
Right or wrong
It’s the long way
I’ve been here before
My friends
Do not change when I change
They stand tall
And tell me if I’ve changed
They can’t see it much at all
Blue Screen
Lights up my room
Like and indoor moon
New scenes
Shown too soon to see
Faces
Talking to each other
While I sing another song
From inside my head
Grey Skies
Empty rooms
And water eyes
Nights alone
'till sunrise
Can not stop my song
Blue Screen
Lights up my room
Like and indoor moon
New scenes
Shown too soon to see
One day
I’ll come round and see it your way
Right or wrong
It’s the long way
I’ve been here before
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5. |
Looking Down
03:35
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Looking Down
I'm looking down over the city lights
Seems I'm always out on the peaks in these lonely nights
The air is cool and crisp
Like the break of day
I can see a mist
Creeping in on the bay
And I've been looking around with my head held high
Trying to see all the ghosts trying to touch the sky
Looking down
As seasons turn through time lives do change
Some slip into rhyme and some out of range
And I was well out of sight 'till the turn of the tide
Cut through the ice so I could see outside
And I've never quite known what is real from a dream
But when I'm out on the peaks I feel right in between
Looking Down
Fishing boats slowly turning their sails to the wind
In the streets the people scurry
Running circles in a hurry
Don't take time too fast
The less you use the more it will last
I can see a light rising over the bay
Through every dark night there comes a new day
The air is crisp it's the break of dawn
I'm driving down through the mist to the city beyond
And I've been doing some thinking
On this high level ground
And when that sun starts to set I'll be back looking down
Looking down
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6. |
Junkyard
02:27
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Junk Yard
Chorus
I'm going to a place
Where the grass ain't green
Going to a place where the grass ain't seen
Going to a place where the sounds are hard
Gotta get back to the old junk yard
There's a drunk old man
Against a busted T.V.
Humming a tune about a shining sea
Dump truck convoy rides the mile
Against the sunset to the compost pile
Chorus
It's a poor man's treasure
It's a rich man's waste
It's an artist's dream
It's a snob's bad taste
It's a children's playground
It's a garbage man's cell
It's a stop down stream from the wishing well
Chorus
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Too Late Too Much Too Many
Words and Music © 2000/1990 by David Grossman
Picking all of their pockets No Shit pulls out
Without some clever girl from the bar stool
Drooling over every word No Shit he slurs and slobbers
All over the exit sign
Chorus
It's too late too much for too many
Two fools wound up too tight
It's too late too much for too many
And too many much too late
Shower singers soaping up a song at dawn
Hear the subway rising up over the shadows
Of where the moon had gone
That's my blade and arrow
Take a naked girl or a tarot
Cards are for those who like to shuffle
Without moving around
See that clown he lost thousands of dollars
Back when the money was green
And meant more than a bunch of question marks
Rolling 'cross a computer screen
Chorus
There's a show tonight
See the show tonight
Come along with me
See the ghost of Freddy Prince
In the body of Lou Reed
Here in the condom nation
You need no invitation
To come on down
Chorus
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8. |
Why Ask Why
03:10
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I went out to sit in the garden
Went out to sit in the sun
Sat in the breeze
Between blossoming trees
Birds sang as the bees hummed
I've never known
Just why I'm here
Other's keep saying I'll see
A flower it grows
In it's beauty it shows
It's here
So I'll let it be
(Chorus)
The answers go over and over the truth
I keep asking myself and the sky
Now I can see
It's all just to be
So why oh why ask why
Grandad you give me wisdom in life
Father you share some sense
And child don't turn out that little old light
Play in your old innocence
Chorus
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Nothing Funny Blues
On a good day
You can laugh about the rain
On a good day
You can laugh about the rain
You smile at your heartbreak
And laugh all through your pain
Everyone was laughing
When the sun came shining down through the trees
Everyone was laughing
Everyone but me
'cause there's nothing funny
When you got the blues
(repeat 1st verse)
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10. |
When Everything Was New
02:58
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When Everything Was New
I recall my younger days when everything was new
We'd take the horse and buggy home
The air was clear the sky was blue
Time it passed much slower
Than it seems to pass today
Now it seems that time just slips away
When I was young I'd rise at dawn
And wake up brother Bill
We'd eat our eggs, toast, and jam
And head out for the field
I would get the horses
Bill prepared the plow
What a shame our field's a freeway now
Cars and steel machines
Do people still have time to dream
Oh I recall those skies of blue
When I was young and everything was new
Love was oh so simple then
We knew our lines quite well
You'd take a damsel dancing with distant hopes
Of wedding bells
You'd take her hand, you'd take her home,
You'd take a kiss or try
Today you take it all and say goodbye
I guess I've become out of date
This model's just too old
My comrades are all passing on
It's hard to fit this modern mold
Maybe I just can't fit
The size I just outgrew
But I recall my yesterdays
The sky was blue no yellow haze
Yes I recall when everything was new
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11. |
Justice
03:04
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12. |
Bridge Of Wood & Stone
03:54
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Bridge Of Wood & Stone
With both hands in my pockets
I walked the mountain trail
A soft spring breeze scattered leaves
From tree tops down they sailed
There were no city sounds no people around
And I walked down to a stream
Built a little bridge and slipped into a dream
I thought of home
But all I've known
Chorus
Seems so far away
Taxi cabs and busses rushing in and out all day
Nights out on the town
Kicking cans along the ground
I built this bridge of wood and stone
Do we cross our lives alone?
Behind the tree topped mountains
There's a clear and cloudless sky
Circling so patiently a hawk swiftly glides
Everyone I know had asked me not to go
But I don't know what they mean
The answer is there isn't one what truth lies in between
I took a step across and suddenly felt lost
Chorus
Where is home?
I looked into the stream to see
And saw my reflection staring back at me
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13. |
Smokey Lounge
02:04
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instrumental
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14. |
Smiles For The Morning
05:00
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15. |
Next Time 2020
02:53
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David Shepherd Grossman Los Angeles, California
All music written by DSG
('cept where noted)
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