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Lyrics to "Lay You Down" (2009)

Death Of Me
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

About a year ago I started to fall apart again
The clues were obvious and clear
So I followed each one back into the place that it began
They disappeared as I drew near

That's where I'll find you, sitting on that front porch
You'll have that look in your eyes
You're ship is sinking and I'm caught in the undertow
The water's black as the skies

Yeah, you'll be the death of me yet

I can't remember just how long it's been but I found out
And I guess I knew all along

That you were poison I could taste it dripping from your mouth
But sometimes I just can't be strong

And that's where I'll look for you - in all the places that we've been
And I'll hear that quiver in your voice
Sometimes I can't believe someone like you could suck me in
But I guess I ain't got no choice

Yeah, you'll be the death of me yet

It's getting harder every day to be the man I am
But I keep on moving right along
And I run into things I sometimes just don't understand
But all my decisions can't be wrong

Yet still I'm running to you, though we've been down this road before
And I know it just ain't no good
But all those things you do excite me baby, that's for sure
I wouldn't quit you if I could

Yeah, you'll be the death of me yet

Picture Show
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

I can't stand to call you, I can't bear to hear your voice
Last night when I saw you, I didn't have a choice
But to lose my mind a thousand times before I dialed the phone
Then I cross my heart and hope to die if you ain't there alone

'Cause I know - it's not too far to go
When I see you in the picture show
And I hope - I hope you'll always know
That it's not too late to come back home

All these days without you, and I've learned to pass the time
While I have my doubts it always seems you're doing fine
So I hide my head and I lie in bed 'til the morning light is here
Then I go outside and try to find a way to disappear

'Cause I know - it's not too far to go
When I see you in the picture show
And I hope - I hope you'll always know
That it's not too late to come back home

Another year alone and I've been thinking to myself
It's time to move along - time to look for someone else
But I can't move past the times that last and linger in my mind
I can't let go of what I know and leave it all behind

'Cause I know - it's not too far to go
When I see you in the picture show
And I hope - I hope you'll always know
That it's not too late to come back home

Brownstone Road
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

Well there's a pretty girl that I know
Walking through the walnut grove
Hair blowing in the autumn breeze
Gonna bring her home with me

I'm running, I'm running along that brownstone road that always comes after you're gone

Your papa don't like me now that's for sure
Drove me away from your front door
Caught us kissing on my tailgate
When the hour was getting late

I'm running, I'm running along that brownstone road that always comes after you're gone
I'm running, I'm running, I can't find you for the life of me

I tried to hide my lonely ways
Spent my money on cheap cocaine
Where it got me I don't know
There's nowhere left for me to go

I'm running, I'm running along that brownstone road that always comes after you're gone
I'm running, I'm running, I can't find you for the life of me

Soaked to the bone now I see how it ends
My girl has left me ain't got no friends
Better sort it out before I get too old
The November storm blows hard and cold

I'm running, I'm running along that brownstone road that always comes after you're gone
I'm running, I'm running, I can't find you for the life of me

Under The Rocks And Stones
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

Everything that meant anything is gone and you're left holding on to the future
All of the tricks you played are no good now
Along the road the signs will show the way you're going to get there
But everything else you see will show you how

Under the rocks and stones you'll find me
Under the rocks and stones you'll see
Deep in the dark's where I've been hiding
I am who you try not to be

Walking around in a junked out town the streets are all going nowhere
If the birds on the wires could tell you what they see
Weather the storm as the trail gets warm - you know you're onto something
Follow the foot prints down to the old oak tree

Under the rocks and stones you'll find me
Under the rocks and stones you'll see
Deep in the dark's where I've been hiding
I am who you try not to be

You keep inside all the things you hide - the things that can't see daylight
Nobody knows but they might start to guess
Lock it away from the things you say - but you can't pretend much longer
It's breaking your heart with this thing on your chest

Under the rocks and stones you'll find me
Under the rocks and stones you'll see
Deep in the dark's where I've been hiding
I am who you try not to be

Freight Train
(Fred Eaglesmith)

I just came down from Chippewa
Had as station wagon and a hundred dollars
Thinking about the girl I'd lost a year before
I hadn't seen her for some time
Thought I might go on by when your memory came flooding in and you closed that door

Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a diesel locomotive
I'd come whistling down your track crashing through your door.
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I didn't have a heart
And you'd need a shovel full of coal just to get me started
Wish I was a freight train baby
Wish I was a freight train

Well every time I talk to you I hear your jealous lies
I feel like I've been left abandoned on some old railway side
And every time I hear your voice my water just gets cold
My stoker will not stoke and my boiler will not boil

Well every time I fell behind I could not get ahead
I wish someone would pull the lever and give me a little sand
And every time I slip behind even further back
I wish some switch man would come out of the fog and change my track

Only A Matter Of Time
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

Well it's only a matter of time, it's only a matter of time
Try as you might we'll all look the same at the end of the line
You keep on pushing away, you keep on pushing away
You're holding so tight to the hope that you might be free someday

When you pull into the station there is no one there to greet you
The same old situation, though you struggle for life in the end it defeats you

When you're reaching for something to trust, reaching for something to trust
It's hard to conceive but you're told to believe and you feel that you must
So you start turning everything off, start turning everything off
You forget who you are as your heart gets hard and your guts go soft

It's a strange investigation to the roots of all you've been through
The same old situation, though you struggle for life in the end it defeats you

Will it all have to happen to me? Will it all have to happen to me?
The end isn't clear - will I always be here in the things I've seen?
The lights won't ever come on, the lights won't ever come on
Everyone knows its the way that it goes in the place that you've gone

You feel that seperation will put a stop to all you've seen to
The same old situation, though you struggle for life in the end it defeats you

The Drifter
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

I've been down that road before, over hills and mountains
Tired streets move over slow - transitions seem to come and go

Over hills and mountains, too
Where you're from and where you're going to

You're the only one left - they all fall down
Torn away - from town to town

Breakman coming on the edge of the line, leans his tired head inside
The steel train blazing on - steam drifting overhead

Over hills and mountains, too
Where you're from and where you're going to

You're the only one left - they all fall down
Torn away - from town to town

The story's old and the story's lived - back to the other side
Along the prairie open fire - chasing down the death of cold

Over hills and mountains, too
Where you're from and where you're going to

You're the only one left - they all fall down
Torn away - from town to town

Pleasure And The Rhyme
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

I'll be waiting at the end of the world while you take your time
Nothing compares to our reaction, it held us both
Again I feel the weather and the snow turning around here

One day even lonely folks have the time
With the pleasure and the rhyme
Old boots still have their shine
With the pleasure and the rhyme

There are times I love to be alone but I'm scared of being lonely
I feel the need for space because I'm empty and the heat is gone
I feel guilty for nothing at all, gonna turn myself in

One day even lonely folks have the time
With the pleasure and the rhyme
Old boots still have their shine
With the pleasure and the rhyme

When the light comes in the afternoon I can give you love
But when you need it more than ever, its gone away
I search and search for a place inside to make you happy

One day even lonely folks have the time
With the pleasure and the rhyme
Old boots still have their shine
With the pleasure and the rhyme

Will You Come And See Me?
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

When the earth is split to hold me, will you keep the word you gave
When you were my one and only, will you come to see my grave?

Will you come and see me when I've gone where we all go to?
Will you sit and tell me every little thing the way you used to do?

Long years had got between us, we lost touch as people do
But the thing you promised I just always hoped that they'd come true

Will you come and see me when I've gone where we all go to?
Will you sit and tell me every little thing the way you used to do?

When the lid is closed above me and the dirt is thrown on top
Please remember why you loved me, please forget I made you stop

Will you come and see me when I've gone where we all go to?
Will you sit and tell me every little thing the way you used to do?

Never Going Back
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

I'm never going back to the world I know?
A blanket of clouds everywhere I go?
And it don't mean nothing when you've got too much
But a fool can tell when you've got enough

At the last cry when you close your eyes?
Always come to take you through?
And lay you down in perfect rows when the spirit leaves your bones

I've always thought I'd live in stone?
A child in time never going home?
But as the years pass on and the more I learn?
One day I too will take my turn

At the last cry when you close your eyes?
Always come to take you through?
And lay you down in perfect rows when the spirit leaves your bones

I can see what's taking hold?
The blinding lines everywhere I go?
Don't belong here anymore?
Taken to a distant shore

Darkness falls on the open plains?
And the cardboard house goes up in flames?
As the smoke makes shapes of the dead and gone
The bones in the grass are still holding on

At the last cry when you close your eyes?
Always come to take you through?
And lay you down in perfect rows when the spirit leaves your bones

I can see what's taking hold?
The blinding lines everywhere I go?
Don't belong here anymore?
Taken to a distant shore

Follow You Around
(Bryant/Shandel/Metzger/Naylor/Tweedale)

All alone up there hoping that it comes?
In a room upstairs waiting for the sun
Left the porch light on hoping you'd arrive?
Found an empty chair and watched the evening die

Follow you around every bend so I can see?
Travelling on but there's still no place for me

Your beauty sings without a voice?
Your touch decides every choice?
I've been looking around for so long?
When I reach my mark you know I'll be gone

Follow you around every bend so I can see?
Travelling on but there's still no place for me

Lyrics to "My Old Friend" (2006)

Lonely Trail
(Bryant/Shandel)

There's a lonely field I'm strolling on walking towards the hills?
And it makes me cry to think of her, alone and sleeping still
But I'm wandering on this lonely trail, wandering on and on?
I'm wandering down this lonely trail

And no I won't let you out of my mind

Half past six and I locked the door, left my baby behind?
Heading for some distant shore to see what I could find
Now I'm heading down this lonely trail wandering on and on?
Now I'm wandering down this lonely trail

And no I won't let you out of my mind

Nowhere Town
(Bryant/Shandel)

Well I was tied up tight in my tangled roots
Shedding dusty tears in my aligator boots
And it's a shake down baby, so don't think twice?
When you hear the motor turn in the dead of the night, sing

Oooooo

So pack your bags up, pack 'em up good and quick
Got a bottle of medicine that might do the trick?
And we're going to the place that we both know well?
Three miles out of Memphis, half way to hell

Straight down to nowhere town?
Bottle on the dashboard, pedal to the ground?
Straight down to nowhere town?
Looking for something that can't be found

I've got a bad reputation I'm a dog on a chain?
There's a state-wide storm cloud chasing my name
The needle's on empty and I'm down in the dirt?
It's been raining so long that the sun's gonna hurt, now

Oooooo

So pack your bags up, pack 'em up good and quick
Got a bottle of medicine that might do the trick?
And we're going to the place that we both know well?
Three miles out of Memphis, half way to hell

Straight down to nowhere town?
Bottle on the dashboard, pedal to the ground?
Straight down to nowhere town?
Looking for something that can't be found

Walk With Me
(Bryant/Shandel)

There's no reason to be scared, I can take you anywhere
Anywhere that you might want to go
If you wanna step inside, if you've got something to hide
I can make sure no one ever knows

When the world is not awake, walking on the path you take
I can keep you safe and so secure?
When your breath begins to fail, when there's blood along the trail
I can tell the tales that never were

Holding your hand through the night, clutching and keeping you tight
You've lost control so I'm taking your soul, walk with me now its alright

If you're waiting for the call, if you need to think at all
I can tell you nothing's what it seems
When you're sure what's in your heart, when you need a place to start
I can satisfy what's in your dreams

Sleep now for a little while, there's nothing to reconcile
I'll be waiting here with open arms?
Keep on running from the light, hide away don't try to fight
I can make sure no one does you harm

Holding your hand through the night, clutching and keeping you tight
You've lost control so I'm taking your soul, walk with me now its alright

Old Man Lori
(Bryant/Shandel)

I've got a place that you might know well
Kicking the sweepers and the scotch room dwellers
We were hunckered down with the dawn and the brush
Smoke 'em all to the filter to the touch
To the filter to the touch, always smoke 'em down to the filter to the touch

You find your way, heaven's always happy when you find your way
You see so clear, look at the world now that you see so clear

It was raining hard where the metals rusts down on the edge of a border town
Old man Lori used to run the shop, hit his head on an engine block
We came in the morning to see what went down, never saw him again, never saw him around
Never saw him around, always looking out but never saw him around

You find your way, heaven's always happy when you find your way
You see so clear, look at the world now that you see so clear

Out To The Country
(Bryant/Shandel)

Well I ain't gonna lie and tell you that you walked a mile in your shoes
'Cause I'm a city slicker with some good, old-fashioned views
I get home from working and I write songs to pay my dues
Times are getting harder and I got nothing more to lose

Take me out to the country

The grass is always greener when you're on the other side
If you don't try to keep her you're gonna lose your pretty bride
Well I've been down here so long waiting just to see you through
But you don't need me no more, there ain't nothing I can do

Take me out to the country

Leaves Fall
(Bryant/Shandel)

This time the rules I'm bending when I'm on top I don't think twice
Each look at the role I'm playing makes me look at my device
Waiting out for my old time pension, seeing things how they used to be
Empty flat in the road house hotel - the wandering life will be the death of me

And I see how the leaves fall all together now

I'm going to town with the best intentions people don't look when you're one of them
Having a ball in the uptown state hall - met a nice girl, she went with him
Growing up here has left me unwanted - nobody knows, who am I to them?
Weathered face - the time pulls harder now, digging a hole til god knows when

And I see how the leaves fall all together now

My Old Friend
(Bryant/Shandel)

The cat got down with rolling the dice
Luck ran dry and he got sliced
He looked to the river, his only friend
To take him down to where he'd been

I'm living on borrowed time

The river rolled away with me, and we just tumble down
The river rolled away with me, and we just tumble down
We race towards the ocean, we rush into the sea
We're going through the motions, my old friend and me

There's a two room shack at the top of the pass
The wind dies down and the day fades fast
Down by the river, its always the same
Small time crooks, big money games

I'm living on borrowed time

Find My Way
(Bryant/Shandel)

The wind was rustling your hair
Standing on your mama's stairs
You always told me you'd be ready for me, anytime

It's so easy to find my way back home

They told me you were seventeen
You showed me things I'd never seen
You always had a way of getting to me, every time

It's so easy to find my way back home