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The Woodband 11 song live set

by DSG and The Woodband w Terry Anderson

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1.
Living Within ã 1998 David Shepherd Grossman It takes all of the patience and faith you can stand To look in the mirror each day There is beer in the bath-tub You’ve emptied your plans But maybe it’s better that way If it hadn’t been love it may have been money To keep you awake form your dreams Yellow haired cowboys in Rhinestone hats, displaying designer blue jeans You say you hate it all now You hate it all now all the glitter and gloss that paints commercials and news They lie and they lie and it captures the eye, ‘cause there is nothing else better to view But it all comes down It all comes down To looking at living with you Long lonesome road give me a call Tell me it is time to return I haven't the structure to withstand a fall. I’ll shatter as ashes burn Back on the highway Back on the road Its an ageless escape for the man Some leave their lovers their jobs their goals. They empty their pockets and plans To walk down a road Blow with the wind Rise like a tide Fall like a sin ‘cause it all comes down To looking at living within
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I'm A Poster 03:59
I’m A Poster In the cold When it’s warm See the sun Feel the storm It’s ok For me now I will stay Here somehow Hear the ocean Far away Misty nights Foggy days Children work Gamblers play Space feels still I spin round On my head Looking down See the stars beneath me now Tow the line Lift your weight Watch our time Dissipate Angles in Straight ends out All free will All free will I’m a poster
3.
Heaven On Earth Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman Destiny shows her face And no one can take her place Her hands are wheels Her eyes are blind She has no need no fear Her heart is a greaseless gear It wears away As friends who drift apart Chorus: You want to go than you go You're going to be what you'll be Gonna take all you give You're gonna give what you leave It's a long way up It's a long way down To have heaven on earth You'll have to stay on the ground Wait for love to ease the hate Heaven it has no gate There's no sign To let you know you're there Summer comes you’re gone again I'm sinking down within My hands are tied There is no way out Chorus Destiny says goodbye Before you can ask her why She's gone
4.
Smiles For The Morning David Shepherd Grossman ã1989/2001 Drainpipe dripping to the sewer line Clothes strung out across the alley X's mark the windows Sadness as the wind blows The waitress at my cafe says she's feeling fine Smiles for the morning When I met her I thought it'd be easy to forget her But then she held on I used to read the bible with 3-D glasses Thought maybe then I'd see some light The priest sent me to hell My father said, "Oh well, he seems to know his let from his right." Now there's an inside and an out side and there's beside you It was out of the city High up on the hill There I first noticed stars The people said they'd seen them But I never believed them You can carry that line too far And she said, "Take me away in the morning We'll make our way our way. Take me away in the morning you'll find happiness by mid day Take me away in the morning heaven ain't reached alone Take me away in the morning, take me home When I woke up this morning There was a smile drawn across my mirror Ashes will be ashes and dust is so fine But all can do is  forgive her Smiles For The Morning
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Roadman 03:53
Roadman words & music david shepherd grossman ã2002 Nothing there but desert ground Riding roads town to town Saw him and spun around Hollow eyes say, “Keep moving.” Standing still outside nowhere He must be hiding - must have done some deed Hundred miles in all directions Nothing but road and desert to see Sifting dirt though his fingers Watch it fall into a baseball cap Staring hard into the silence Once you go you can’t come back (Chorus) Roadman sitting down A hundred miles from any town Roadman wondering round The unpaved land The barren ground Star filled skies lift the spirit Road kill keeps the body fed Some folks say these roads are haunted By the living and the dead Clinging to the back top pavement Like a blanket in the cold Midnight trucks are bound to wake you On their way to where they go Pressure – gone forever Bushman of the western world Asphalt river, billboard tree Exit off your memories (Chorus) Plain as darkness Nothing matters To feel worse You first must feel Boulder blanket Pebble pillow Where can the Roadman heal? On the crossroad….On the crossroad…On The Cross Roadman. – Chorus.
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The Money Drought David Shepherd Grossman ã93/2002 Years keep rolling by me Sometimes you see what you want to see I had a job and lost it On a day like any other day it would seem All the tine I was running round Felt pretty good like the smell of wood Burning at a camp fire All right Each and every night I’d go out on the town Throw it all around Now I’m gonna leave I want out Of the money drought Out of the money drought I want out Some folks live how they want to live Some live to get by Some folks hold their head to the ground Some hold their head to the sky Some will take donations Some will rob you blind Some will trade away their souls Some just trade their time Now I want to leave I want out Of the money drought When I was young and fancy free all you needed was love Love and a stereo That's all you'd ever need and I believe I believe in the hippy - like I believe I believe in the government - I believe I believe in the wars The wars fought on TV - yes I believe I believe in the rain dance Like I believe in the weatherman I believe that make believe is going to be here after me So I want to leave I want out of the money drought If I stay here long enough Will things just come to me I don’t want to have to steal it no more I don’t want to have to borrow it no more I don’t want to have to pray for it Why can’t some things just be they way I want them to be Money can’t by happiness It pays for everything else You’re never gonna know just who’s it is until you pay for it yourself I don’t want to sound greedy I’m just tired of being broke I may not ever afford a home But I can afford this toke Lord I’m gonna get high Higher than the rich man ever can Higher than the poor man ever can Higher than most any man That’ the way its gonna be until I find my way Find my way out Of the Money Drought
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Live And Grow It was a tropical journey on a dark blue sea Heading for the island of the Moroni Met a girl with a distant smile Her love was strong and it lasted for a while Palm trees swayed and we danced Silhouettes, too scared to take a chance Chorus Hey ho you live and grow If you're going to let go you're Gonna loose some soul Hey ho you live and grow If you're going to let go you won't stay whole In the seconds sliding into sleep That's the time I feel the most complete I wonder why this has to be But the answer remains a mystery Throw your life on the lilly pad If it floats good luck if it don't to bad Chorus The biggest mistake I ever made Was thinking that love was an even trade They say you get whatever you give When you think about life don't forget to live Chorus
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This Time Around Your back in the city On your own but that's alright this time around Nobody knows where you come from So you tell them that you're from some other town So far away gray was the field where you left her Waving down a dusty road Her hand was waving like a flag on a pole When you said goodbye goodbye goodbye And hello to the highway sign And hello to the dotted line And hello to an empty seat She used to sit right there I'll take the blame you make the move Quick change of lanes under the over pass Lights on the ground getting closer The stars look farther away There's a bobtail pulling up the right side There's a Greyhound pullin up the left look out There's a pickup pulling up floodlights on And a railroad crossing up ahead And you remember what she said when you left You think about it over and over She never believed you'd leave Miles and miles and miles and miles and miles 'till you're back in the city Where the days don't end when the sun goes down You got one room on the first floor It's two doors down to the liquor store A cup of coffee in the morning The television on all night Smoking cigarettes round 'till the filter burns down See the smoke pulling into the light Did you catch the name of the girl in the leather gown Or were you too fucked up to write it down Another blues band played your one night stand All you took home was a good God dam There's a pay phone ringing in the alley A fight breaking out in the hall A couple going at it in the room next store The sound whips through the crack in the wall And you remember what she said as you left you think about it Over and over She never believed you'd leave Miles and miles and miles and miles and miles 'till you're back in the city on your own but that's alright This time around
10.
It Takes Love David Shepherd Grossman ã96/2005 I have grown in many ways Known a lot of years a lot of days Felt more than I can put in words But there's one thing that I know you might have heard Chorus It takes love you see To live It takes love you see To give This I know, this I know, but it's so hard to show From me to you I don't know what to do But it takes love I was small But weren't we all Time passed slow Kicking cans Across the snow In my dreams I was more Than I am now But it takes more that dreams To get you through The things that cloud your view Chorus
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about

What can I say about this other than I loved playing with these guys. Jason Montero, (the late) Joe Frost, and Terry Anderson. We performed around Phoenix for 10 years together on and off. I think of them all as family and I was fortunate to perform with them. The songs from this performance include some of my favs.

Living Within was written in 1986 in Berkeley in the Addison house.

I'm a Poster is one of the more eclectic songs I've written. Terry Anderson really nails the sax on this take.

Heaven On Earth (Destiny) inspired by Mickey Newbury. I remember playing it for Andy Taub and he looked at me and said," What are you some kind of savant?"

Smiles for the Morning...this song appears on three of my albums. Still
trying to communicate this...

Road Man is one of my favorite songs. It was written about a guy we
saw on the road in the middle of nowhere heading to Calif from AZ. Money Drought is a cry for help and contains a certain amount of silly philosophical anecdotes.

Live And Grow was written at the same time Smiles For The Morning was written ...like in the same week. 1984. This time I was trying to write a Police song.

Any Direction is just an attempt at getting The Talking Heads into my song.

This Time Around is something I wrote in 1988. Caucasian Rap or CRAP for short. I

It Takes Love is from In Sight. It was written in 1986 at the Addison house in Berkeley. Terry Anderson plays sax on this track and just sends it over the top.

Obituary Blues and Too Late Too Much Too Many end the set on an electric note. Actually it is my acoustic guitar plugged into a distortion pedal. This was all performed live and recorded by my friend Matt Murman at The Balboa Cafe in Temp Arizona 1998.

credits

released July 21, 2014

Terry Anderson: Saxophone. Jason Montero: Acoustic Guitar and vocals Joe Frost : Congas

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