Good Again (2001)
I Could Drown
In You
Julie
Be Still
Being Gone
Frankie & Jolene
Good Again
I Never Know
Just Past December
Let's Get Out Of This Town
Set Me Free
Silver Lining
Sleepless
I Could Drown
In You 
I remember the way I met you
you tried to steal my car
but you can't drive a stick shift
so you didn't get too far
You came walking back laughing
carrying some part
you handed me my steering wheel
that's when you stole my heart
I could drown in you
and never even know
all that peaceful blue
I've finally found a home
I could drown in you
beautiful and slow
I could drown in you
what a way to go
You say things like groovy too much
and like fer sure
you're the heart of the party darling
so charming and demure
You eat the strangest breakfast
a bowl of mashed potatoes
you're a sweet curl on Sunday morning
white socks and the funny papers
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They say love is like an ocean
inside of you and me
I know this is crazy motion
oh baby feels so good to be lost at sea
You are strange and dangerous
you're like the Cat in the Hat
mischief and magic baby
and so much of that
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Julie
Julie was all she ever wanted to be
living locked out of her own home
catching her sleep in the backseat side of the road
The moon and Julie alone at the end of a day
talking out loud through the long nights
nothing to say but the names of the places she rides
(she says...)
Places come places go
I've got to keep on moving
I've got to be my own
I've been living in castles built by someone else
It's time I mix that mortar
and start building myself
Romeo was more than just the boy next door
but he don't know whose heart he's got
perfectly made for the masquerading lot
Julie said Romeo I think we've gone too far
and yes I know how strong love feels
but waiting don't mean that the whole thing never was real
Boys will come boys will go
I've got to keep on moving
I've got to be my own
I've been always listening to someone else
It's time I speak up louder
and start hearing my....
Last I heard of Romeo
he was living off old money up in Queens
two blushing pilgrims take him everywhere he goes
half of everything he says he ain't got no idea what it means
Words will come words will go
I've got to keep on moving
I've got to be my own
you've been always talking like there's no one else
we all know talk is cheap
just keep it to yourself
So Julie said no to Romeo and a ring
put her whole life into one sack
opened the door on that old Ford never looked back
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Be Still
Time well spent is time well wasted
why am I always trying to do all I do
I had it all figured out
had all my ducks in a row
now I'm afraid I tasted and never really knew
At night I dream my life is piled around me
so high I just can't see the walls
I think I could use a really good mess
to help me lose track of it all
I'm willing to be still
still wondering if I will
ever learn to be still
with all this space to fill
be still
I met a man stuck in the middle of a city street
I mean cars were flying past just inches from his feet
He told me hurry all you want
fall in love with concrete
he said that's what I did now look at me
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I got a new routine
be as late as I can be
I give myself a hand
for forgetting as much stuff as I can
and on a really good day
I can even forget my own last name
I'm willing to be still
still wondering if I will
ever really be still
I got all this space to fill
be still
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Being Gone
Tommy bought a brand new Harley bike
and put two wheels on the road through middle age
He brought it home to Joanie
she said she'd never done nothing like it
It didn't take him long to persuade
The rode up to the mountains
One of their sons lived there
Who it had been about a year since they'd last seen
They both thought he looked well
Always knew he'd cut his hair
They left there feeling wild and kind of free
The night sky shines down
on the brand new leather and chrome
For the first time in all their lives
Being gone feels like home
They crossed the Mississippi after midnight
That Harley carried them sure as the Truth
In Kansas they watched thunderstorms
fifty miles off to the right
just like Tommy remembered from his youth
The night sky shines down
on Joanie's arms wrapped tight 'round Tommy's chest
And as time flies eastbound
you can bet they're heading west
They'll see everything
greet everyone with smiles
And even long after they're home again
they'll still have these first few thousand miles
The night sky shines down
on the brand new leather and chrome
and for the first time in all their lives
Being gone feels like home
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Frankie &
Jolene
Frankie and Jolene
they were like perfume and gasoline
He was quiet and polite
She was weathered and mean
but they had more in common than they knew
Frankie was working in the bank on the day they met
Jolene walked in and went straight to Frankie's desk
She opened an account with seven nickels just like that
I've never seen a love start out so true
Frankie and Jolene
have got the best thing going this old town has ever seen
They say Frankie's been changing
I heard he got a tatoo that reads: My Jolene
Frankie and Jolene
decided to hitchhike across the country
but they ran into trouble outside Albuquerque
Frankie knocked over a bank while Jolene was asleep
No one thought Frankie would do such a thing
Jolene was more than happy to take the blame
but Frankie got upset when he realized someone stole his fame
so he hit another bank when they got to Salt Lake City
Frankie and Jolene
don't talk like they used to ever since they hit the outlaw scene
Frankie's acting like Jesse James
Jolene don't know what to think
One day Jolene up and left him
she said I'm making my own run
It's like you've got something to prove
and I wanna get me some
But they were back together
for the getaway scene
it was so obvious it worked
they just walked on down the street
Frankie & Jolene
kissing on the entrance ramp to I-15
She's got his jacket around her shoulders
everybody's slowin down to see
Frankie & Jolene
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Good Again
I was a shadow of myself
turning circles in the night
feeding my own darkness
with one hand on the switches
a flick of my wrist just to feel alright
I was a one man hung jury
I could not see my point of view
begging myself for insight
under the hot lights
when I could not take a side
I could not see the truth
Oh, you're back on top my friend
hey don't it feel good to feel good again
You can go to pieces for your peace of mind
but you're always gonna end up broke
and when you're left with just a piece of yourself
it's amazing how tightly you can hold
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Ain't it strange to go looking for yourself
I mean who will go to make the search
I left my body behind
let my mind wander
but I was leaving someone in the lurch
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I Never Know
I never know what I'm thinking
Let alone you
I never know what I'm doing
until the doing's through
I think I've been thinking
a little too much
I wonder could I think myself
right out of love
I listen for carwheels on the gravel drive
for words that never arrive
If trouble has a middle name
It's mine
Doctors say they have their way
to know if you're in love
A billion secret valentines
floating in your blood
But I feel like a neon sign
left on all night
flickering and faded
running out of light
I listen for carwheels on the gravel drive
for words that never arrive
If trouble has a middle name
It's mine
I never know what I'm thinking
Let alone you
I never know what I'm doing
until the doing's through
Maybe all this thinking
ain't doing me too great
'Cause I never get what I want
'til it's too late
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Just Past
December
This calendar I'm tearing pages
the littered leaves in black and red
every day is like another answer I don't know
and it's getting noisy in my head
If I could see just past December
I would know how hard to try
If I could see just past December
I could stop this asking why
You light candles on the table
the steaming pots are almost done
a two person party yes we're finally alone
but looks like I've crashed another one
CHORUS
I know I'm always asking questions
I can be stubborn yes I know
but I try so hard because I've never needed anyone
and I want to love you when I'm old
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Let's
Get Out Of This Town
I found you sucking on your fingers
sitting on the kitchen floor
cussing through your teardrops
at the guilty open drawer
you said this house is turning on me
like I've never seen before
and I don't know what I need anymore
how 'bout a full tank of gasoline and four on the floor
Let's get out of this town
Well you said you never knew what hit you
first time you saw my face
but the drama's drained you dry
and I can't help thinking it's this place
I don't think it's true
that nothing gold can ever stay
I just think you could use a little space
let's put some sky behind us and disappear without a trace
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I swore I'd never write you another song
but I lied about it all
consider this surrender
I always knew I was wrong
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Set Me Free
Summer drove backward through the tunnel
must've been about seven miles
Her arm on the back of my seat
all red lights and smiles
She lit up the earth in Bluefield
granite dressed in red
I've never done this before
was all I said
I'm learning to let go
I'm learning to keep the peace
I'd tied myself up inside
but she set me free
Summer dressed me up like a woman
she made me do it on a dare
But I wouldn't wear the fishnets
and I wouldn't curl my hair
I looked like Ginger Rogers
so she danced like Fred Astaire
I was beautiful
and I didn't care
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...set me free of the weight of the world
I was just a boy
she was just a girl
but where she put that weight
she never said a word
I spent so much time looking for meaning
We spent so much time chasing my deamons
I never got to ask about hers
I timed it just right
passed Bluefield at midnight
I took the tunnel Summer once drove through
It's seven miles
and I'm all smiles
when I catch the lights on the road in the rearview
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Silver Lining
I come home late to a dark house
feeling faded and torn down
no reflection in the mirror
funny how I can leave it out
This bed is a sleeping landmine
laying low 'til the right time
a tangle of sheets like treason
letting me think I'm fine
I'm fine
You're my silver lining
you're my pot of gold
you're my anwer to the unasked question
you're my one way home
I pull a chair to the old oak desk
the page is blank but I'm such a mess
the hardwood floor worn smooth and blonde
from all of the years of stress
This letter I always seem to start
deciding that you should know my heart
but some kind of roadblock stops me cold
before I can reach that part
I can reach that part
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The old pages are disappearing
I'm lost again in my Blue Sky
this Tunnel Vision of my reckless hoping
I'm lost again and I don't know why
My friends say move it man
they don't know where I have been
you're taking care of you
who's taking care of me
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Sleepless
Jane just pay attention
I can't afford to look at you so long like this
Jane don't make me mention how I feel
anything more would be a kiss
I lie awake at night
it's three o'clock
there's shadows walking
slowly across the ceiling
I daydream in the middle of the night
just balancing my best sleepless
this weight of feelings
Jane don't do me like that
the closer I get the farther you are away
Jane don't make me beg
I think you know what it is I need to say
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Jane don't let me leave here tired
just give me time to talk
Jane I'm all spark and wires
ground me just so I can walk
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