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Stuck in a Jam
03:13
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Stuck in a jam, the light’s on green
Going nowhere in another daydream
I can’t go anywhere without you
Waiting around for a railroad car
My heart is on strike looks like we ain’t going far
I can’t go anywhere without you
Gotta give up move on
From this unfinished love song
When you tore my heart in two
Ripped it like a little piece of paper
You’d written something on
I’m floating in space, I’m like a rock my dear
Shattered into stardust in your atmosphere
I can’t go anywhere without you
Gotta give up move on
From this unfinished love song
When you tore my heart in two
Ripped it like a little piece of paper
You’d written something on
I’m floating in space, I’m like a rock my dear
Shattered into stardust in your atmosphere
I can’t go anywhere without you
I can’t go anywhere without you
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I know you want me badly
I know you like me very much
Perspiration at the base of my neck
I’m frosty, cool to your touch
I’m a-calling from your kitchen
I’ll tell you what you want to hear
You think it’s just the wine talking
I’ll make your troubles disappear
I kept you cool in the summer
You turned to red in the fall
Kicked the habit in November
Now you want to have it all
But here comes a disaster
And there’s a way that you can deal
It’s just the wine talking
Come on and tell me how you feel
Chorus
It’s just the wine talking, the wine talking
Honey my advice is free
It’s just the wine talking, the wine talking
Honey you should listen to me
I’m good for you darlin’
Here’s what we’re gonna do
Think you’re crazy
It’s just the wine talking to you
You look great in that jacket
So Liberace, debonair
You can charm any girl in this bar
You can handle an affair
She said you’re just what she needs
She said you’re such a connoisseur
But it’s just the wine talking
Did I mention I’ve been talking to her
You’re gonna get a promotion
Who could resist your rakish spirit
It’ll come with a company car
The door is open, get in it
The boss gives you a smile
Well ain’t this party going swell
But it’s just the wine talking
Only driving you’ll be doing’s
On the highway to hell
Chorus
You think you’re crazy
It’s just the wine talking to you
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3. |
I Could Be Anything
03:26
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Don’t want to be a used-to-be
Don’t want to be a washed-up once-was
Really good at something
I could be anything if you were mine
Oh I could be anything if you were mine
I used to hang with the pretty girls
Yeah I was all Hepburn smoulder
Just a little older
I could be anything if you were mine
Oh I could be anything if you were mine
Chorus
I could be anything
Good Lord above I hear the angels sing
Telling me now
I oughta run right into the Spring
I could be anything
Could it be I hear the wedding bells ring
What you doing Monday
I can feel the sunrise calling us in
Fiddle solo
Ain’t you tired of pretending
Ain’t you tired of the cheap-chat clap-trap
Shit they’re all defending
You could be anything if you were mine
Oh you could be anything if you were mine
Chorus
Can you stay can you take another day
Where the phoney people talk about their cars
Come what may you know there is another way
And you don’t have to hit the road when you’re seeing stars
Ain’t you tired of pretending
Ain’t you tired of the cheap-chat clap-trap
Shit they’re all defending
You could be anything if you were mine
Oh you could be anything if you were mine
Chorus
Cos you could be anything if you were mine
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4. |
Capture the Moon
03:39
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I found the photograph: the one you were saving
Taken December, late afternoon
On the back you had written, as if in a hurry
‘I just stepped out to capture the moon’.
No sense of a struggle to win her over
No serenade to make her swoon
You stepped out to charm her in the cloud and the darkness
You just stepped out to capture the moon
Chorus
You get everything with ease my love
An I’ll do anything to please my love
But she’s not dancing to your tune
Think you got her hooked into your branches
Think you’re good at distant light romances
Are you coming home soon
It wasn’t so hard for you to beguile her
Tangle her light get her caught in the trees
The whole world is frozen and feeling so lonesome
Do you think that your heart is all that she sees?
Chorus
I’ll always be here, right where you left me
Here in the moonlight that fades so soon
But I’m always in shadow and boy you’re a dreamer
You’ll always step out to capture the moon
Yeah, you just stepped out to capture the moon
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5. |
Dirt on my Guitar
02:59
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I wanna get a little dirt on my guitar
I wanna get a little drunk and flirt at festival bar
I wanna put up my tent and curse
Break all my nails and lose my purse
I wanna get a little dirt on my guitar
Blades of grass cut me, sun burn my skin
I’m gonna drink you in
Song: break my heart, turn me inside out
That’s what this life’s about
I wanna drive miles away from here
In a blue Berlingo with my best friend at the steer
Oh we’ll arrive in the dead of night
And set up camp under pale moonlight
I wanna get a little dirt on my guitar
Blades of grass cut me, sun burn my skin
I’m gonna drink you in
Song: break my heart, turn me inside out
That’s what this life’s about
I wanna play music in a field
Wanna strum until my fingers hurt, until my mind is healed
I wanna be surrounded by my friends
And to cry when it all ends
I wanna get a little dirt on my guitar
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6. |
Waverley Station
04:31
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I know these stairs
Reeking and old
Waverley station
Throws down its welcome
Ghosts and memories
Wander these streets
Stars would explode here
The passing of each year
Chorus:
Sure as the sun goes down
There’s only here and now
Green as the stem finds home again,
Tries to keep hold....
I stayed away too long
But now I'm back where I came from
Up on the hill this old city's at stand-still
Glittering gold
But you drew a tram line
Through scenes I was painting
The city grows stranger
Memories older
Outside of the courthouse
You spit on my heart
It’s not just the whisky
That’s made a fool of me
Chorus:
Sure as the sun goes down
There’s only here and now
Green as the stem finds home again,
Tries to keep hold....
They said I’d stayed too long
Told me 'Go back where you came from...'
Up on the hill where the city's at standstill
Hearts are so cold
Bridge
I remember nights at the Gilded Balloon
You were trying to pin me down
You were still dancing to the last orders tune
Where are you now?
Where are you now?
Chorus:
Sure as the sun goes down
There’s only here and now
Green as the stem finds home again,
Tries to keep hold....
Keep putting these old shoes on
But we can't go back where we came from
The past isn't here, I'll be walking to nowhere
I just gotta roll
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8. |
The One I Love is Gone
02:49
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9. |
It's My Lazy Day
02:38
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10. |
Colder Sky
04:25
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There’s no divide
There’s no distance I won’t drive
Just to see you
I want to see you
This routine can go to hell
I’ve never felt as well
As when I’m with you
I’m always with you
Chorus:
And I should get real
Learn to think more than feel
And Cavalier rosebuds sometimes just die
And that Great North Road
Is calling me home
Into a colder sky
It’s late again, where is the time
Pass the water, pass the wine
Another hour
Couldn’t matter
I kid myself I’ll leave at dawn
I can easy make it home
Before the sunrise
Bleary-eyed
Chorus
Instrumental over verse
Chorus (sung)
Just one more song
And I swear I’ll be gone
No complaining
Fast lane-ing
A hundred miles into the night
And I swear I’ve seen the light
It’s blurring red and gold
A frost taking hold
Chorus
Great North Road
You’re calling me home
Into a colder sky
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11. |
Stand Still
02:31
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You came to stand still in a field
I know the thought that made you yield
Hard eyes holding the horizon
Desperation in you rising
But I would gladly be your shield
You wonder why we travel on
When you feel that hope has gone
While your heart sings out the green and blue
All the people talking over you
But I will join you in that song
They’ll be no harvest from this field
No boat of bounty, even-keeled
Just a storm to overwhelm us all
Just a death without a judgement-call
There’s no Truth to be revealed
The beauty in that distant blue
It sings to me, it sings for you
Walk with me and learn to love again
We can heal this ground and grow again
Our love is old our love is new
O my love I hear your call
I will catch you when you fall
And I will lay myself beside you
I will not live my life without you
In the mountains and the soil
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The Rye Sisters England, UK
Reviewed in April 2023 by Americana UK, The Rye Sisters were praised for their 'simply exquisite harmonies'. The Rye Sisters are a duo from Lincolnshire who perform Americana and folk-country songs in close harmony to guitar and fiddle. They pull from broadly U.S. influences, such as The Secret Sisters, Gillian Welch, Buddy and Julie Miller, The Small Glories, The Civil Wars, and The Chicks. ... more
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