Easy Come, Easy Go –  lyrics for all 18 tracks

Down From Dover
(D.Parton)

I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I have tried concealing
When he left he promised me that he'd be back by the time it was revealing
The sun behind a cloud just casts the crawling shadow o'er the fields of clover
And time is running out for me I wish that he would hurry down from Dover

He's been gone so long when he left the snow was deep upon the ground
And I have seen a spring and summer pass and now the leaves are turning brown
And any time a tiny face will show itself 'cause waiting's almost over
But I won't have a name to give it if he doesn't hurry down from Dover

My folks weren't understanding when they found out they sent me from the home place
My daddy said if folks found out he'd be ashamed to ever show his face
My mamma said I was a fool and she did not believe it when I told her
That everything would be all right 'cause soon he would be coming down from Dover

I loved him more than anything and I could not refuse him when he needed me
He was the only one I'd loved and I just can't believe that he was using me
He couldn't leave me here like this I know it can't be so it can't be over
He wouldn't make me go through this so long, oh he'll be coming down from Dover

My body aches the time is here it's lonely in this place where I'm lyin'
Our baby has been born but something's wrong it's much too still I hear no cryin'
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a father's arms to hold her
And dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming down from Dover

Hold On, Hold On
(Belitsky, Case, Dean, Good & Good)

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers
I know it's unkind but my own blood is much too dangerous
Hangin' round the ceiling half the time
Hangin' round the ceiling half the time

Compared to some I've been around
But I really tried so hard
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"

In the end I was the mean girl
Or somebody's in-between girl
Now it's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love

I leave the party at three a.m.
Alone, thank God
With a valium from the bride
It's the devil I love
And that's as funny as real love
And that's as real as true love

That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"

Solitude
(D.Ellington, De Lange & Mills)

In my solitude you haunt me
With memories of days gone by
In my solitude you taunt me
With memories that never die

I sit in my chair
And filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere, I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude, I'm afraid
Dear Lord above
Send back my love

I sit in my chair
And filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere, I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude, I'm afraid
Dear Lord above
Send me back my love

The Crane Wife 3
(C. Meloy)

And under the boughs unbowed
All holding a snowy shroud
She had no heart, so hardened
All under the boughs unbowed

Each feather, it fell from skin
'Til threadbare and she grew thin
How were my eyes so blinded?
Each feather, it fell from skin

And I will hang my head
Hang my head low
And I will hang my head
Hang my head low

A gray sky with bitter skin
A rain cloud would rain on me
All out behind horizon, ohh
A gray sky of bitter skin

And I will hang my head
Hang my head low
And I will hang my head
Hang my head low

And I will hang my head
Hang my head low
And I will hang my head
Hang my head low

And I will hang my head
Hang my head low
And I will hang my head
Hang my head lo

And I will hang my head
Hang my head low
And I will hang my head
Hang my head low

And under the boughs unbowed
All holding a snowy shroud
She had no heart, so hardened
All under the boughs unbowed

Easy Come Easy Go
(W. Jackson & E. Brown)

Some folks the’re always crying
Crying their mean old blues
Not Me, you never even see me frown.
Some folks just walk around tryin’
Tryin’ hard love to loose,
But I felt let it come the better let it burn
I’m the happiest gal in the town

Easy come easy go
Nothing ever worries me,
Care for none, eyes of stone
Don’t know misery.

If my man be trouble, Or if he don’t
I’ll get someone to love me anytime you want
Easy come easy go
Right from my head to my shoes
Don’t wanna be no skinny vamp or nothing like that
Daddy always knows just where his sweet Mama’s at
I’m overflowin’ with those easy come, easy go blues.

He’ll swallows me up, when he’s lovin; hear what I’ve said
Believe me I go out to lick him ‘most everyday
I’m overflowin’ with those easy come, easy go blues.

Children Of Stone
(the Espers)

Our chemical devotions of the night
Bring endless labyrinths of vines to light

Your silent spell won’t bring you home tonight
You couldn’t open up your face to light

All that blossoms all that blooms lies fallow in the night
Waits for the golden sunlight
All that blossoms all that blooms lies fallow in the night
Waits for the golden sunlight

Our chemical devotions of the night
De-sanguinate limbs veined with valleys of light

Children of stone your crystal gauges of light
Crowned on you

Ooh, Baby Baby
(S. Robinson, & P. Moore)

Ooh, Baby Baby
Ooh, la la la la
Ooh, la la la la

I did you wrong, my heart went out to play
But in the game I lost you, what a price to pay
I'm cryin'

Ooh baby, baby

Mistakes, I know I've made a few
But I'm only human, you've made mistakes too
I'm cryin'

Oh oh oh, baby, baby
Oh oh oh, baby, baby

I'm just about at the end of my rope
But I'll keep on tryin', I can't give up hope

That I'll, someday I'll hold you near
Whisper, I still love you until the day is here
I'm cryin'

Oh oh oh, baby, baby
Oh oh oh, baby, bab
Oh oh oh, ohh
Oh oh oh
 
In Germany Before The War
(R.Newman)

In Germany Before The War
There was a man who owned a store
In nineteen hundred thirty four
In Dusseldorf
And every day at fine o nine
He'd cross the park down to the Rhine
And he'd sit there by the shore

I'm looking at the river
But I'm thinking of the sea
I'm looking at the river
But I'm thinking of the sea

A little girl has lost her way
With hair of gold and eyes of gray
Reflected in his glasses
As he watches her
A little girl has lost her way

I'm looking at the river
But I'm thinking of the sea
Thinking of the sea
Thinking of the sea

We lie beneath the autumn sky
My little golden girl and I
And she lies very still

How Many Worlds
(B. Eno)

Thinking of a world and the light of the sun
And all the many lives that were ever begun,
Ever begun.
Our little world turning in the blue
As each day goes there's another one new,
Another one new.
How many people will we feed today,
How many lips will we kiss today,
If we wake up?
How many worlds will we ever see,
And how people can we ever be,
If we wake up?
Thinking of a world in the light of the sun
And all the many lives that were ever begun,
Ever begun.
 
Sing Me Back Home
(M. Haggard)

The warden who led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom
I stood up to say, goodbye like all the rest
And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell
Let my guitar playing friend do my request

Let him sing me back home with a song I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Oh please, take me away and turn back the years
Sing me back home before I die

I remember Sunday morning, a choir from off the streets
They came in to sing a few old gospel songs
And I heard him tell the singers, there's a song my mama sang
Won't you sing it once before I move along?

Oh, won't you sing me back home? There's a songs I used to hear
Make my old memories come alive
Please, take me away and turn back the years
Sing me back home before I die

Oh, won't you sing me back home before I die?
 
DISC 2

Salvation
(Hayes, Turner & Jago)

So Jesus left you lonely
Feels like nothing's really holy
No one no one hears your calling
Falling everything is falling

Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?

So Jesus left you lonely
Feels like nothings really holy
No one no one hears your calling
Falling everything is falling

Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?

Try so hard just to speak to you
Nothing ever seems to come through
Circumstances on the breaking back
Try to sit down is a therapy
Oh salvation
Oh salvation

Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?
Do you feel alive?
Can you feel alive?

Black Coffee
(P. Webster & J. Burke)

I'm feeling mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand me down brew
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room

I'm talking to the shadows
from 1 o'clock til 4
And lord, how slow the moments go
When all I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday
My Sunday dreams to dry

Now a man is born to go a lovin'
A woman's born to weep and fret
To stay at home and tend her oven
And drown her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes

I'm moaning all the morning
and mourning all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much heart to fight
Black coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby
To maybe come around... around
I'm waiting for my baby
To maybe come around

My nerves have gone to pieces
My hair is turning gray
All I do is drink black coffee
Since my man's gone away
 
The Phoenix
(J.Sill)

The sun was red and the fires were roarin'
Stars aligned and our webs were spun
I could've sworn I heard my spirit soarin'
Guess, I'm always chasin' the sun
Hopin' we will soon be one
'Til it turns around to me and I try to run

On phosphorous wings the phoenix floated
The fires froze and the sea was hushed
And when I tried to speak, the sun imploded
And the war will rage in my guts
Till the devil bites the dust
I never saw him losin' a race, but I think he must

The great storm raged and the power kept growin'
Dragons rose from our land below
And even now I wonder where I'm goin'
Ever since a long time ago
I've tried to let my feelings show
I'd like to think I'm insincere, but I'll never know

Dear God Please Help Me
(Morissey/Whyte)

I am walking through Rome
With my heart on a string
Dear God, please help me

And I am so very tired
Of doing the right thing
Dear God, please help me

There are explosive kegs
Between my legs
Dear God, please help me

Will you follow and know
Know me more than you do
Track me down and try to win me?

Then he motions to me
With his hand on my knee
Dear God, did this kind
Of thing happen to you?

Now I'm spreading your legs
With mine in between
Dear God, if I could, I would help you

And now I am walking through Rome
And there is no room to move
But the heart feels free
The heart feels free
The heart feels free

But the heart feels free
The heart feels free
The heart feels free

But the heart feels free
The heart feels free
The heart feels free

But the heart ... feels free
The heart feels free

Kimbie
(J.C.Frank)

Kimbie wants a nine dollar show
Kimbie wants a nine dollar show
She wants a nine dollar show
And I need
Well Kimbie let your hair hang down
Kimbie let your hair hang down

Let your hair hang down
T'il it touches the ground
Well Kimbie let your hair hang down

Kimbie let your hair hang down
Let your hair hang down
Cause come the morning I'll be gone
Well Kimbie where you been so long

Well Kimbie where you been so long
I've been down in your state pen
With those rough and rowdy
Rough and rowdy men
Well Kimbie where you been so long

Well Kimbie where you been so long
I've been down in your state pen
And I gotta go back again
Well Kimbie where you been so long
Well I wished I was a mole in the ground

I wished I were a mole in the ground
I was a mole in the ground
And that I'd tear this mountain
I'd tear this mountain down
Wished I was a mole in the ground

Many A Mile To Freedom
(Winwood/Capaldi)

Many a mile to freedom, many a smile to tell
Ask my bluebird to sing you, from the heart of a wishing well
Call all my reindeer to graze here, call all my grain to grow
Then together we flow like the river
Then together we melt like the snow

Many a thought unanswered, many a tale to tell
Ask my bluebird to sing you, from the heart of a wishing well
If you should ask me to give you the reason for life that we know
Then together we flow like the river
And together we melt like the snow

Many a mile to freedom, many a smile to tell
Ask my bluebird to sing you, from the heart of a wishing well
If you should ask me to give you the reason for life that we know
Then together we flow like the river
Then together we melt like the snow

A few more miles to go
Miles to freedom.

Somewhere
(L.Bernstein/S.Sondheim)

There's a place for us,
Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us
Somewhere.
There's a time for us,
Some day a time for us,
Time together with time to spare,
Time to look, time to care,
Someday!
Somewhere.
We'll find a new way of living,
We'll find a way of forgiving
Somewhere.
There's a place for us,
A time and place for us.
Hold my hand and we're half way there.
Hold my hand and I'll take you there
Somehow,
Someday,
Somewhere!

Flandyke shore
(Trad/N.Jones)

I went unto my own love's chamber window,
Where I had often been before,
To tell my love unto Flandyke shore,
Unto Flandyke shore,
Never to return to England no more,
Never to return to England no more.
 
I went unto my own love's chamber door,
Where I had never been before.
I saw a light springing from her clothes,
Springing from her clothes,
Just like the morning sun when first arose,
Just like the morning sun when first arose.
 
As I was walking on the Flandyke shore
Her own dear father I did see.
"My daughter she is dead," he cried.
"She is dead," he cried.
"And she's broken her heart all for the love of thee."
So I hove a bullet onto fair England's shore,
Onto fair England's shore,
Just where I thought my own true love did lay.