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Getting Over Our Love
03:10
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Getting Over Our Love
Music and lyrics by Ric Robertson
are you open eyed
are you living free
are your stars aligned how they ought to be
are you out with somebody else getting over our love
are things looking up
is life treating you good
are you shining brighter than you ever knew you could
are you out with somebody else getting over our love
people ask me how I'm doing and I tell 'em fine, just fine
but now and then a question echoes softly through my mind
on a lonely night
under the summer moon
do you think of me when I think of you
or are you out with somebody else getting over our love
I stay out late
I paint the town
I sing till I don't think about you
out with somebody else getting over our love
and the booze flows down
and my heart pounds on
like a midnight pearl in the morning sun
till I'm out with somebody else getting over our love
people ask me how I'm doing and I tell 'em fine, just fine
but now and then a question echoes softly through my mind
on a lonely night
under the summer moon
do you think of me when I think of you
or are you out with somebody else getting over our love
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2. |
Harmless Feeling
03:21
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when the day is new
I'll be waiting for you
to stop by, like you do
say hello
and it's warm with you there
and I'll try not to care
but a hush fills the air
when you go
it's just another harmless feeling
can't hurt no one
it's like a carnival ride
and plain to see that I'm still breathing
there ain't no damage done
it's just a harmless feeling
when the nights are long
and I see your light turned on
it gets stuck like a song
in my head
let the rain try to drown
that refrain going round
while another sleeps so sound
in my bed
it's just another harmless feeling
can't hurt no one
it's like a carnival ride
and plain to see that I'm still breathing
there ain't no damage done
it's just a harmless feeling
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3. |
Carolina Child
02:39
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carolina child keep me lush and low
made of the mountain
bound for the shore
when the winds of worry brush against my dreams
muddy creeks are yours for finding
fallen trees yours for the climbing
where you're gonna wind up, I don't know
running with no place to go
carolina child at that candy store
sweet tooth achin'
coming back for more
you've had your fill now but it won't be long
highs are sinking lower down
the crash will keep you on the ground
but you never needed wings to help you soar
running with no place to go
and I still hear you crying
and it's best you don't yet know
but in time you're gonna find that
everybody's in this thing alone
running with no place to go
singing loud when no one's home
carolina child keep me lush and low
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Sycamore Hill
03:29
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the coffee is cold and a spliff half smoked
on the edge of the ledge from a bedtime toke
I was reaching for rhymes and couldn't quite make the kill
but another day waking is another day free
till it's "hey, who said that, wait, that was me"
there's no limit to what your mind can be
when you're living on sycamore hill
oh the quiet of the night is a hollow old log
where the coyotes howl through a hazy fog
such a hush you can almost hear the color of the moonlight spill
and the breaking of day worth its weight in gold
its a front row ticket to the matinee show
and I've since been convinced there's no better way to go
than living on sycamore hill
I gotta gal with a window seat
on the seven forty seven up from new orleans
if she's late i'll still wait at the gate
it gives me such a thrill
and there's stew on the stove and sticks for a fire
and a record on deck and a bottle of wine
I'm gonna show my baby how fine a time it is
living on sycamore hill
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5. |
Thinkin' About You
03:14
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there's a rainbow in the gutter and another in the sky
one is made up of the muck, the other of the light
reflected on a spectrum through a recent rainy sky
while the mucky one is coming from the oil running dry
its exhausting from the pipes between the tires by the bumpers
on the backs of all the cars I've seen driving toward the stickers
stuck upon a stop sign sitting at the edge of the block, I'm sitting here
singing about anything to keep myself
to keep myself from thinkin' about you
thinkin' about you
babe, what can i do
there's a fibonacci sequence that i've heard about but don't know why I thought about
just now I looked it up and found its basically a pattern based on adding up the numbers
as they come they just get bigger
if you draw it out on paper it begins to make a spiral that keeps spinning down and spinning down forever
and that's just about as long as i thought we would be together
no I didn't mean to do those things I did to hurt ya now I'm sad
and singing about anything to keep myself
keep myself from thinkin' about you
thinkin' about you
babe, what can i do
there's a feeling you can draw upon its easy if you set a little time aside
eventually a seed will start to growing into something that you'd never have expected to believe in
till you're falling deeper into something that you've never seen
full of sugarplums and turtle doves and every other nickname anybody's ever used to call somebody that they've been without and realized that it's useless to resist the force of gravity cause nothing falls forever and there's nothing left to sing about and nothing I could ever do to keep myself
to keep myself from thinkin; about you
thinkin' about you
babe, what can I do
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6. |
Anna Rose
04:29
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anna rose
spends her evenings on the couch alone
sleeping by the big screen TV glow
and a silhouette of cardboard boxes
it's been twenty five days
since she last felt the sunshine on her face
the only people coming by her place
are delivering wine to her doorstep
she goes higher and higher
hangin' on a codeine kitestring
without even knowing
up and up she goes
every now and again she'll twirl in the wind and a whisper sounds
someone calling from the distant ground
anna come back home
anna rose
anna lived
used to get off of the graveyard shift
bring home breakfast or three hungry kids
and flowers for the kitchen table
grown in her own backyard
she thought about the colors long and hard
blues and yellows in a mason jar
made her smile just like an angel
now she's higher and higher
hangin' on a codeine kitestring
without even knowing
up and up she goes
every now and again she'll twirl in the wind and a whisper sounds
someone calling from the distant ground
anna come back home
and she's still rising
anna rose
anna rose
you stay with me everywhere I go
with all the darkness that I fear most
in my own flesh and bone
but on the days I'm blue
and feel like checking out of this world too
I send a whisper in the wind to you
anna come back home
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7. |
My Love Never Sleeps
03:46
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my love never sleeps
it goes on and on
from dusk till dusk
it goes from dawn till dawn
when you go away
darlin when you're gone
I'll love you each night and all day long
like the ivy clinging to the wall
like the crash of niagara falls
like the echo of the lost highway
i'll come home to you safe I pray
my love never sleeps
it goes on and on
from dusk till dusk
it goes from dawn till dawn
when you go away
darlin when you're gone
I'll love you each night and all day long
in my dreams, you're in my arms
six AM, you're my alarm
quarter past noon you're still by my side
when I close my eyes you're always on my mind
my love never sleeps
it goes on and on
from dusk till dusk
it goes from dawn till dawn
when you go away
darlin when you're gone
I'll love you each night and all day long
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8. |
I Don't Mind
04:25
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I don't mind dancing with you
baby you can have my number
and if you got somebody to go home to
you can call me if you ever want another
I don't mind
I don't mind, not at all
I've been smooth walkin' slow talkin' round this town
feeling like I'm ten feet tall
and it'll lay you low when true loves leaves ya
heaven knows I've done my time
but while I've got more lovin' than one man needs
if you want a little, I don't mind
I don't mind staying up late
but there's one too many people around
and I hear the next band's not that great
so I'm gonna find a place to go lie down
I don't mind
I don't mind, come along
if you're lookin' for a man to make you feel alright
honey I won't do you wrong
cause I have been laid low by the trouble I've seen
and there's always so much more coming down the line
so while I got all the lovin' that one mand needs
if you want a little, I don't mind
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9. |
Rollin' River
02:41
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that rollin' river is wide
that rollin' river is wide
yes I'm going to the other side
cause it ain't to wide for me, boys
it ain't to wide for me
who's gonna show me the way
who's gonna show me the way
the sun is coming up over the shade
and shining like a blade, boys
shining like a blad
that rollin' river is wide
that rollin' river is wide
yes I'm going to the other side
cause it ain't to wide for me, boys
it ain't to wide for me
I'm gonna ride them waves
I'm gonna ride them waves
waiting on a tide to change
and it just might be today, boys
it just might be today
that rollin' river is wide
that rollin' river is wide
yes I'm going to the other side
cause it ain't to wide for me, boys
it ain't to wide for me
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10. |
Julie
05:24
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hand me over the bottle
I'll set it down by the door
it's the last chance we'll have to step out on the floor
hold me for a while
as the daylight is breaking through a crack in the clouds
and the whiskey wears off and the band winds it down
hold my heart in your hands till it falls to the ground
and I'm waltzing with julie again
you won't find me tomorrow
and you won't wanna know
let's not break this illusion
let it fade away slow
hold me for a while
all I want is to make you smile
as the daylight is breaking through a crack in the clouds
and the whiskey wears off and the band winds it down
hold my heart in your hands till it falls to the ground
and I'm waltzing with julie again
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Ric Robertson New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ric Robertson synthesizes the full canon of American music—New Orleans jazz, classic American pop songsmiths, country, modern funk, swampy blues, and R&B to name a few—and births it into something out of this world. ... more
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