No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Country Boy In Me
She turns on the radio and she doesn’t even care
It’s just Monday morning AM/FM with colors in her hair and she says now
Mister DJ plays it like it is he drives to despair
And it’s rock and roll and not country songs comin at you through the mornin air
All the Rocky Mountains high, all the Eagles in the sky
In every song in every line in perfect harmony
Let the music light the stars as far as I can see and it’s gonna
Bring out the country boy in me
We played our music in the sun it always seemed that way
And the extraordinary ones they just brightened up our darker days and they
Came a walkin one by one just to hear us play
And they stand in line every time for some California DNA
A song about the country boy down Mexico
A song about the city girls and where they go
Everywhere that I can see it’s just rock and roll raining down on me and we’re
Calling out for country company
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Guilty As Charged
Something I never knew, the part of me that can get to you
On the road 1982 when the Eagles had flown
Something I couldn’t see the finer points of the world and me
Wrapped up in my reality
Just a kid on his throne lights are on no one’s home
So what really happened? What was my crime?
What’s the decision jury in overtime?
I never lied to anyone hand on my heart
Raised my objections right at the very start, hands up I’m guilty as charged
Something I’d never learned the poverty in these lines I’ve heard
Too blind to see all my bridges burned and these holes in the road
And I walked the pages and found the sacred sand on that holy ground
The pagan fathers who built that town
With the houses of gold and the tales we were sold so
So what really happened? What was my crime?
Will I be convicted spend my life doing time?
I never lied to anyone hand on my heart
Raised my objections right at the very start, hands up I’m guilty as charged
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Best Days Of My Life
I sit alone with the embers of some 47 years
It’s not quite how it appears on the outside
Pages in my pockets each and every cherished one
Is their father’s favourite son looking for daylight
Praise and condemnation they congregate as one
Dance like lovers having fun on a first night
Share my thoughts with strangers tell the whole truth swear to god
Tell the whole world soon enough I’m all out of alibis
Too old too tired and I don’t need the money
Dim lights, misfortune or fame
Too many late nights on a long way home berate the dawn and
I just wanna try to live the best days of my life before I die
We played the early hours with a screen on every wall
But there was nothing there at all just kids and highlights
A hundred phones on silent a million friends are not enough
Another picture put it up they’ve got your whole life
I play these cards that I was dealt with the crowds I used to know
But that ship sailed long ago on and it won’t be back again
Must have stopped somewhere along the way for some pretty girls no doubt
Lock the door on your way out, it’s me and I’m staying in
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Any Way The Wind May Blow
Little time for conversation in the mansion on the hill
With the cold grey marble tiles brought in from Mexico
So he leaves his home behind him takes his bottom dollar bill
Heading any way the wind may blow
Twenty years of blind tradition messed up from the start
Family photograph in a golden frame they would always show
With a soldier in a marching band dressed up for the part
Heading any way the wind may blow
Now the greyhounds heading home leave every hour
But the past is one place he will never go
Still he swears he’ll think about it but he knows that he never will
Heading any way the wind may blow
On a railroad in the winter cold the rumble and the shake
Barely ten miles to the old mine father used to own
Blackened faces broken hands and hearts all counting down the days
Heading any way the wind may blow
Then the storm clouds stalk the nation like the hunter stalks the kill
And a hundred souls were lost that night when the river rose
With her arms around the soldier Fortune dragged him up the hill
Heading any way the wind may blow
And the sad songs in the barrooms play for hours
Always first one in and the last to up and go
And he swears one day he will give it up but he knows that he never will
Heading any way the wind may blow
Then seasons come and seasons go but winter leaves its mark
In the grey of 47 years and a dozen more
As the lines of failure on his face trace benches in the park
Heading any way the wind may blow
In a cornfield where thorn runs wild and honeysuckle binds
From the rains blown cross oceans where the young men roam
Lies a soldier journeyed home heart surrendered spirit flies
Heading any way the wind may blow
And his tombstone lies alone among wildflowers
Yellowed photograph a face that no one knows
And they swear one day the will find a name but they know that they never will
Heading any way the wind may blow
Stumbling through his world never good enough in shoes he could never fill
Heading any way the wind may blow
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Let Me Go Down
He walks out to his wonderland and calls out to his lovers
There’s just one or two that understand it’s one side or the other
Now money makes his world go round but music makes him smile
And he pours his heart out on the ground and plays a little while
Now Eve stands on the borderline, she confesses of her sins
She’s got one eye on the for sale sign and one eye on the kill
She’s the mother of the Royal line she’s the sister of a fool
She’s a lover of the heartbreak kind she is mistress of the moon let me go down
Let me go down. Let me go down. Let me go down
A dress cut out of cotton lace a heart carved up from wood
The years lie heavy on her face and it reminds him that he should
Go easy on the chosen one have pity for the poor
But fly higher than your dreams allow take aim at life for sure let me go down
He talks into his telephone but never asked the question why
With all the bombs and guns and heartbreak songs he still dances out of time
And he crosses town the long way round keeps slightly out of view
Slips silently through history finds favour for the few let me go down
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Fine, Fine Line
It’s a fine fine line between your world and mine
And a constant curiosity is with me all the time
It’s a fine fine line so clearly undefined
In no ordinary kind of life
Make your way in the world by the stars
Feel the scars of love’s heroes behind you
And your world keeps turning in circles
Til your conscience eventually finds you
Here’s a promise a light will lead you out of here
There’s a thousand stars there’s a million years
Lay your head rest your heart now it’s gone
Feel your wandering shepherd beside you
And the gifts you have already known
Will be there to protect and to guide you
And so easily you will see him disappear
There’s a thousand stars there’s a million years
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – If You Close Your Eyes
All the lights outside the station they are watching over me
Red and green and in between slow waltzing tirelessly
Papers on the sidewalk yesterday’s bad news
They catch the rain as once again I turn a page or two
Written on the faces of our friends
Running for a mile or two and then
Get down on their knees and pray that the day will end
Waiting on the world to make things right
Penny for your thoughts cos they just might
Keep you from the cold and dark if you close your eyes
Old man drives to market breakfast on his shoes
Head held high just gets by well what else can he do
Someone’s baby daughter 13 year old child
Paints her hair she smokes she swears
Mamma’s angel long gone wild
They don’t mind what the papers say
Never cared ‘bout much anyway
They don’t cry out for yesterday
Won’t you turn around take a look
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Lost In The Rain
Lost in the rain in my own parade
Yesterday’s clown in the corner
Eyes in the audience light up the stage
But faces have already gone
I’ve come to complain of what my life became
Find myself three minutes older
Last of the orders and first of my name
Just want to get out and get home
So over the border under the hood
Light of a Galway moon
Best of behavior and misunderstood
Toeing the line like everyone should
Brown eyed old ladies a horse with no name
Every night over and over
Kids in a chorus a fire with no flame
Just want to get out and get home
Sold out in places that all look the same
Wedding halls, stables and farmers
Torn from the cradle pushed into the grave
Better to fly than the long goodbye
Just want to get out and get home
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – For The Final Time
Come on down I’ll show you around where the faithful hide
Let’s make a stand for our good friend cross the great divide
We shout his name we call in vain in our nursery rhymes
So one last song let’s play along for the final time
And the master calls as the incense crawls cross my skin tonight
And one by one the old the young bow their heads with pride
The king is dead but the words he said keep his name alive
We sit around on common ground for the final time
The trumpets sound the guilty frown the righteous thou art glory bound
And in this palace of dim night we fight for what we believe is right
A fall from grace a farewell taste of the blood red wine
As reconciled each adopted child wears a damaged smile
The majesty and the make believe under candlelight
But truth be told the dealer folds for the final time
So come on down I’ll show you around where a young man died
A mother’s son like anyone anyplace anytime
The last one gone the crowds move on to the next in line, looked up
He left the world behind he closed his eyes for the final time
No Ordinary Kind Of Life – Out On The Road In The Rain
She waltzed into his life barely grown up 16
He’d come from far away someplace she’d never seen
They ran with the rising stars young hearts free to fly
With no one to guide them and no one to ever ask why
And she said I love you for ever and ever for always
And he said I need you more than I could ever explain
And she said I want you more than the sun wants to shine down
And he said I’ll meet you out on the road in the rain
They smiled as the stars waved goodbye watched the clouds kiss the moon
And they ambled for hours down dark lanes that only they knew
Promises made for life just like real lovers do
Rain dancing around them making plans that would never come true
Like Vincent -How the west was won
They set out upon the ocean, cold
Sons and daughters take their leave
They chased their wildest dreams, a land of hope
A place that some of them would never see
Ten times a hundred days of hunger
Shattered hands on broken stone
Wasted faces in haunted rooms
Where a faith in God was everything they owned
Close your eyes and think of home
Pray to God to keep you safe keep you warm
Count your blessings count them one by one
And praise the traveller who stands alone
Go to sleeps my little one
Dream of far away your races are run
And one day you will be your father’s son
Cos that’s how the west was won
They stepped out into a new world
Some in silence some in pain
And those believers raised their voices to God
Lord have mercy on the brave
Some were travellers some came in chains
Some kept promises some changed their names
Some would lay their lives down ended much too soon
And some watched the sun and walked upon the moon
Like Vincent -The Island Shore
The first one out, no one about, I’ll wait a minute more
Then find a space, my trading place and sit down just like before
They treat me fine, this cup of mine keeps filling up how I don’t know
In the only life I’ve known here on the island shore
I like to play when the crowds go away and there’s no one left in the room
The ladies smile, the men go wild as the band strikes up a tune
I’ve played that line a thousand times but I need it just once more
My old friend I’m craving for, here on the island shore
And I make myself a home here, I’ll sleep beside this door
And the rain washes my wounds again, but who knows what tomorrow brings?
I’ll face the wind, stand up again and head out through the storm
Keep counting down the friends this town has taken one by broken one
I don’t pretend to understand what I did so damn wrong
In the only life I’ve known here on the island shore
And the waves rush in around me as the water chills my bones
And the winter cold invades my soul as you hurry by and head on home
I’ll take my bow and slowly now I’ll gather all I own
And drag my feet across this street and lay down on that polished stone
I close my eyes this paradise is my God-given home
In the only life I’ve known here on the island shore
Like Vincent -Terms and Conditions
Under the lights at the café, walking home making no sense
Dreaming of life lived in double time, talking of love in the present tense
This heaven is only an hour I know as you wiped a tear from your eye
And you said you love me but terms and conditions apply
You said I want to spend my life with you I want to be your friend
I need you and I care for you I’ll be here till the end
But now he’s all on his own and he’s back at home, waiting on you living a lie
Where you said you love me but terms and conditions apply
Sign on the door’s number 24 and breakfast is from 8 until 10
Walk in the room and then pretty soon the sun’s going down and we’re gone again
Stuck here in the middle of right and wrong, living in a world that we hide
Where you said you love me but terms and conditions apply
Like Vincent -Are You Guys in the Band?
She said Hey, are you guys in the band?
How’s your day? A moment if you can
It’s getting late I know and I’ve got somewhere to go but hey
Won’t you play that song again?
That bad old moon is rising, lights up a fire inside me
Hey, are you guys in the band?
She said I like to be here if I can
Spend a while in the company of friends
Three kids one little room, their father gone too soon but hey
Really, I don’t give a damn
The phone rings every now and then, I close my eyes and count to 10
Hey, are you guys in the band?
She said Hey, I’m just trying to find a way to forget my cares and make time for myself
But that’s okay, I just smile and paint my face, that’s all it ever takes and I’m someone else
She said Hey, do you guys understand?
I’m gonna sing my heart out, dance right to the end
Some nights I think about what made my daddy proud of me
Now if only he could see
His little girl gone wild again, it’s not quite what he had planned
Hey, are you guys in the band?
She said Hey, I’m just trying to find a way to forget my cares and make time for myself
But that’s okay, I just smile and paint my face, that’s all it ever takes and I’m someone else
She said Hey, are you guys in the band?
I’m heading home, can I leave me number on your hand
And I’ll take the rest of me back to my world where I will be the imperfect melody
Gotta go maybe see you soon, same place, same dress, same shoes
Hey, are you guys in the band?
She said Hey, are you guys in the band?
Like Vincent -Going Under
I don’t see her face, I don’t understand what I’ll be missing in Lonely Land
I don’t find these days painful at all, a little too much light from this setting sun
Wait up for a sign, a solitary call, rest my eyes an hour or not at all
And all I wanna be just keeps pouring out of me in these ivory towers where I can never be
And we fight and we cry and we wonder
About the choir in the lightning and thunder
And we count the stars, sit up far too late
And lie out loud nothing’s out of place
You see it’s already done and there’s no right or wrong
It’s just my whole world torn asunder
As we lie to ourselves that it’s somebody else going under
Words come out at night, I can feel them in my bones
I’ve been waiting up for hours, true love set in stone
And the more I think about it the more I close my eyes
No complications, guess no one dies
Like Vincent -Edelweiss
Patrick came out of the east and he never thought to call
Dirty hands, white as a sheet, no colouring at all and he stood tall
He’d climb a mountain just to fall
Walked in slow motion past the music hall
Patrick kept the light on just in case it all got spent
He swore he’d pick the rifle up shoot the goddamn government but then he went (where did he go?)
With some actor he’d just only met
Come play a while’s what his new best friend said, we’ll take a walk on this
Edelweiss, lost on a mountain with your
Edelweiss, stuck on a high one with your
Greatest lie, up there forgotten Edelweiss
Patrick wasted half an hour on the telephone in bed
He tried to keep his spirit up blaming someone else instead but then he read (what did he read?)
Some lines he’d locked up in his head
Some words his father wished he’d never said, come take a walk on this
Patrick made his mind up, no more seconds no dessert
He wrote a song one minute long about everything he’d learned but then he turned
To think outside the chocolate box he’d spurned
Better and illusion that to not be heard
Like Vincent -One Woman’s Smile
Celebrations in place, a smile on his face
Old friends and whiskey warm his soul
Got a phone call today from a new world far away
And another only son will soon be gone
And as time goes by, better nature runs dry
He waves one last goodbye to his mother
And steps out on his own, leaving everything he’s known
Trading one woman’s smile for another
And the perfumes get him high as winter runs by
And the Spring takes time to make her move
Long-day afternoons in bed with an echo in his head
Of a voice that once loved him too soon
But the clouds in June hide the corners of this room
With the lost door to one more last lover
But the mirror makes him frown and his whole world is this town
Trading one woman’s smile for another
Now he whispers her name and her eyes light up again
He is lost in the smile of his daughter
She’s the girl of his dreams, she is everything he needs
Trading one woman’s smile for another
Like Vincent -The Circus
Out of bed at eight, oh my God I’ll be so late
And the sun’s nearly gone and I can hardly wait
The ghost of Babylon, she took my soul and headed on
And she’s high most the time with anyone
The dark, the road, the light, the circus
The clowns, the ladies and their games
Warm southern lights across their faces
They all come to ride upon this train
And the clowns come out and play
I know the moon will flower tonight, encounters of the younger kind
We believe that these rock and rolling nights will set us free
And we raised the roof at nine and the crowd stepped out in 4/4 time
Suddenly we are reelin’ in the years, the guys and me
The dark, the road, the light, the circus
The clowns, the ladies and their games
Warm southern lights across their faces
They all come to ride upon this train
And the clowns come out and play
And the clowns come out today
Out of bed at eight, oh my God I’ll be so late
And the sun’s nearly gone and I can hardly wait
Like Vincent -Put Your Arms Around Me
Broken elevator and nobody’s near
Turn right at the safety sign but the message is clear
A little town we could settle down but my heart keeps shifting gear
So let’s call the waiter and get out of here
Nobody fell in love cos nobody tried
We moved out and we’re headed south in the slow lane all night
In my head a wise man said you’re following a fool
But next time it’ll be fine, we’ll be home soon
And there’s no rhyme or reason there’s no sense at all
Just your heart that’s beating in all I know
There’s no line world waiting in, no step too small
Just put your arms around me and lead me home
Getting dark and it’s raining, a little cold outside
Slow down for another town but it just don’t look right
Something I’ve been thinking out loud I could live another life
But I’m still contemplating this broken white line
Blown out radiator, the red light’s come on
But old shoes and the Moody Blues well that’s everything I own
Gone 10 in the Traveller’s Friend well I guess I should have know
A young guy with a glint in his eye now we’re fired up and we’re gone
And there’s no rhyme or reason there’s no sense at all
Just your heart that’s beating in all I know
There’s no line world waiting in, no step too small
Just put your arms around me and lead me home
There’s no time worth wasting there’s no right or wrong
Just put your arms around me and lead me home
You just put your arms around me and lead me home
Like Vincent -Wild Horses
Guess I was wrong, you were right all along and part of this song survives
Never quite your hero, never quite your fool
Didn’t I try a little each time, didn’t those lies come true
Blame it on wild horses, I’ll blame it on me and you
I will face the sun again, I’ll stand up straight and tall
I will find my perfect friend, do anything to love again
Lost in the light we go higher than high and you fly when the skies are blue
Blame it on wild horses, I’ll blame it on me and you
Crosses my mind, a curious time, a moment of some regret
Her name I don’t remember, her face I can’t forget
The light on the wall meant nothing at all but someone to hold onto
Blame it on wild horses, I’ll blame it on me and you
Like Vincent -Like Vincent
Midnight, starlight, man in the moon
Yellow and blue, like Vincent would do
He’s hear now and tired out and slightly confused
Then slips out of view, like Vincent