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Good News From Home
03:57
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They seem to think that we should be nervous
They seem to think we should be afraid
They want to keep us thinking everyone’s crazy
Locked down in our little caves
They seem to think I want to buy this car
They seem to think I want to sleep with this girl
They’re trying to tell me that I can’t be happy
Unless I have their junk in my world
They got us tangled in a web of deception
Nobody’s sure any more what’s true
It’s getting harder to see the way ahead
Or know what we should do
But here it is like I tell my children
Treat people well it’s the way to be
Look to the future and what you’re building
A world where we are happy healthy and free
Yeah here it is like I tell my children
Treat people well it’s the thing to do
Look to the future and what you’re building
A world where our words and hearts are true
And we’re just sitting around
With some real good friends in the summer time
Got nothing to fear
Got no bad news on our minds
Just good news from home
Good news from home
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Crazy World
04:48
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Know the world is crazy, no I don’t mean maybe,
Me and my baby, living in a crazy world
Try to behave, keep my baby safe,
Hard to see my shape when I’m living in a crazy world
Hard to be a man, do the best I can
Hard to understand, when you’re living in a crazy world
Try to make a name, never take the blame,
Whatever’s lost and gained, when you’re living in a crazy world
I don’t know, whether to laugh or cry
I don’t know, could not tell you why
If we tore it all down, could we just start again
If we tore it all down, would that make amends
Shall we tear it all down, and just start again
If we tear it all down, will that make amends
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Way Back Home
04:07
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I wrapped myself up in the latest
Magic cloak
Completely serious about the
Latest joke
I walked the streets of gold my
Cap in hand
Seeking rain or shelter in this
Burning land
Someday I will find my way back home,
Realize that I was never alone
Finding everything I thought gone
Someday I will find my way back home.
At each crossroad I found no
Midnight sign
Waited in vain for all the
Planets to align
In howling winds I stood and
Called your name
Believing somewhere something
Had to change
Someday I will find my way back home,
Realize that I was never alone
Finding everything I thought gone
Someday I will find my way back home.
Maybe someday something – set me free
Something right before my eyes
Something obvious, as a summer breeze
Come and take me by surprise
And I will find my way back home
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Feel Like I Felt
03:46
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I wanna feel like I felt before
How do I do that?
I wanna feel what I felt before
How do I feel that?
Wind back the clock, don’t die of shock
Walk backwards down the road
Watching the future recede from me
And getting no closer to home
Got a phone call from my future self
Static on the line
I ought to check for messages
But I don’t have the time
To feel the first flush
Feel the first thrill
Say what you mean
And know that you will
Cut through the blindfold
That binds your eyes
Feel that first rush
Of surprise
How do I do that?
How do I feel that?
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Oh oh - come on - yeah yeah got to give you all my loving
When I give my love to you, I give you all my love I do,
My love to you, love to
Right from the start you know with all of my heart
I give my love to you
Morning noon and night nothing felt so right
I give my love to you
I used to have no love to give, it was no kind of way to live
No love to give, love to give
I used to think that I would burst, or maybe I would die of thirst
No love to give
You opened up my eyes, I lost my disguise
Now I have love to give
I have so much love to give it lives inside me where I live
This love I give
Because there is a time in every life fro real love'This is my tome and I just cannot give enough, cannot give enough
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6. |
The Ghost of Luke James
04:35
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\Don’t know how I came to be wherever it is that I’m at
The whole thing is a mystery and baby that’s a fact
Was I betrayed by my best friend, is that how I met my end?
Or did my best girl turn me in for reward money and a bottle of gin?
‘Cos I’m the ghost of Luke James
Whatever they say I did, it weren’t me to blame
I’m the ghost of Luke James
Life after death just ain’t the same
I like to drink, I like to dance, love to make a pretty woman sigh
But being dead I can’t touch nobody, believe me I have tried
I float through doors, drift through walls, sometimes come up through the floor
I’ll kill your lights, I’ll stop your clock, but damned if I can do much more
‘Cos I’m the ghost of Luke James
There was a time when everybody knew my name
I’m the ghost of Luke James
Life after death just ain’t the same
Somebody recognized me in a dream, I have no idea what that means
All I know is I saw what I seen, somebody recognized me in a dream
The preacher man said that he could see it was fire and brimstone for me
Said that if I did not change my ways I’d be sorry at the end of my days
Can’t someone tell me where I’m supposed to be, is it heaven or hell for me
Hey Saint Peter wherever you be, come put me out my misery
'Cos I’m the ghost of Luke James
Life after death just ain’t the same
Yes I’m the ghost of Luke James
Life after death just ain’t the same.
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Nobody
03:59
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I was out somewhere
On a lost and lonely road
Years and years away from you
And the only love I’ll ever know
I thought I knew
What it was I was doing
But I was shoeless and clueless
So far away from you
I guess the signs were wrong
Maybe I looked too long
In all the wrong places
Where there was nobody like you
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Losing You
03:49
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I lost you in London
I lost you again in Spain
And when I close my eyes tonight
I know I’m gonna lose you again
I lost you in New York
I lost you in LA
Out in Tokyo
Some ninjas stole you away
I’ve lost you in Summer
I’ve lost you in Fall
In Winter and Spring
I could not find you at all
I’ve lost you out in space
I’ve lost you far out at sea
The only place I wanna lose you girl
Is deep inside of me
So don’t go
Let’s hide out here forever
And never let the world,
No no
Let’s hide out forever
And never let the world, no no
Let’s hide away forever
And never let the world take us away
Never let the world take us away
Never let the dreams take you away
Away, away
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Fun House
04:56
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Who can say when they’re gonna shut the fun house down
You show up one misty morning
And the carnival has moved to another town
The carnival has moved to another town
Who can say where all the magic last night went
Now you stand in a muddy field
Pockets empty of all that you spent
Pockets empty of all you spent
Except wait until next year when the show maybe comes back to town
With hope in your heart
You’ll still be there next year when they come around
You’ll still be there when the carnival comes around
Fun house, fun house
It’s not so funny any more
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10. |
River Of This Night
03:55
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It seems that sleep must have forgot my name
Without you here it just don't feel the same
And the river of this night runs dark and deep and cold
I sail the desert scan the sky for stars
Survive the storm and wonder where you are
The river of this night runs dark and deep and cold
Another day out in the marketplace
Hand on my wallet and a smile on my face
The river of this night runs dark and deep and cold
Your love is strong, your love is true and fine
I know one day that you will be all mine
But the river of this night runs dark and deep and cold
And when at last you find your way back home
I pray that you will always stay, don't go away
The next time I get my hands on you
I'm gonna show you babe what I can do
The next time I get my hands on you
No, I won't ever let you, no I won't ever let you, no I won't ever let you
Go, no, no,
I won’t ever let you go.
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No Time To Make Enemies
03:21
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Verses
This is no time to make enemies, I heard the magician say,
As he took me by the hand, and made everything go away
Step up step right this way, here’s everything you need
Things to make you whimper with joy, and things to make you bleed
This is no time to make enemies, I read it in this book
That promised to save my life, and other gobble-de-gook
It said do unto others, before they do unto you
But I couldn’t believe a word it said, none of it sounded true
This is no time to be making enemies my friend
With one foot in the here and now, and no idea how it ends
When you stumble into the quicksand of what you said.
When they derail the train running through your head
When they talk about leaving you back on the trail to die
When nobody has the answer,
And goddammit neither do I
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Luke Skyscraper James San Francisco, California
Luke Skyscraper James was the singer/guitarist with the original line up of "Fáshiön music" (1978-80)
His current band is:
"This Twisted Wreckage" with Ricky Humphrey.
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