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Rumorosa
04:03
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Spanish California
On the western sand
You sing to her highway daily
Desert plant stands like hair
Down her arms and up her neck
Familiar chorus maybe
Rumorosa
Baby, leave the light on for me
You start to fall
Like the sun upon her land
She makes you feel crazy
At night you feel her breathe
As you lay upon her bed
Go, your lover must be waiting
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Weekend
02:12
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High roller,
Ante up everything
Let it ride like a weekend
Night drive, up to no good
On the rise, take it as payment
Hard times, what else can you do
Someday, it’ll be easy
Moving, I’ll be moving
I haven’t yet and I need to
I see the look on their face
No hesitation, skin in the game
Raising cain ‘cause I’m able, misunderstood
Looking for answers like they said that I should
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Run
04:04
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Temptation train’s a-comin’
Over the limit, down the line
Was I numb to the pain
Maybe blinded by the light
If you do it once,
You do it a hundred times
If they kept records of my wrongs
They’d be so scratched they would not play
You want your cup to overflow
Well sometimes so does your plate
We should have a celebration
Knowing some things never change
I tried staying busy
I must have lost my mind
No one knows the reason why
Never came together
Took on too much weight
Picking up more cargo
Than I could actually take
Headed to or headed from
What does it matter anyway
I tried staying busy
I must have lost my mind
Undone, it wears me out to try
To get rid of temptation to run
So I run
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4. |
Lady's Man
04:46
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Is he a ladies man, just another motorbike rider
Can she call him her lover when he rides
Did she wish him well while she don't have him beside her
Under a gas station's cover when the rain gets bad
He's with the traveling band, the people call him a stunner
Makes ‘em shake like the thunder, keeps ‘em satisfied
He strikes up that band then leaves without even a stutter
I bet all he hears from his mother is you know better than that
I hear him say that it’s a smooth strange way she calls his name
That keeps him moving down the road
He lives on borrowed time, to that she replies
Let me know where to go when it’s over
Rock and roller
Stumble into a half hearted greeting of a stranger
Same pair of shoes, stranger says he's got good taste
Walk away with one more friend to forget tomorrow
The back of his hand starts to show his age
I hear him say that it’s a smooth strange way she calls his name
That keeps him moving down the road
She’s who he wants to be, a highway no one rides for free
He don’t know where he goes when it’s over
He’s a lady’s man, her name’s rock and roll
I was the stranger, but I’m not no more
Let me know where I go when it’s over
Rock and roller
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5. |
Gotta Get To You
02:50
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I love her in the evening
I love her all the time
I’m trying to give all the way
What a way to go
If I’m going your way
I’m (I’m)
Gonna do (gonna do)
What I’ve gotta (do)
To get to you
In the heat of the moment
There’s no reason to rush
Have mercy on me
Forever lover,
Loving on you endlessly
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Tightrope
03:57
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I wish that every type of woman and man knew how to climb
High up on the tightrope line
I’d grab all the people I could find
Put ‘em high up on the tightrope line
I spin my wheels in your direction, isn’t that what they say
They know how you’re talking, I want to know how you pray
If you don’t like the view, it’s gonna be okay
We’ll all go flying when the tightrope breaks
We all fall together
We’re all together
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7. |
Plum Summer
04:15
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There’s gotta be more than just life and death
The debt between patience and the time we spend
Tried to learn it all from a few books that I read
But the score never seemed to settle
I was prone to wander when I was younger
In the darkness of the streets
My eyes never adjusted
The world spun with too much speed
Humans should be stripped of all type of weapon
That’s what he said to me
What is it that makes things last
The things you learn along the way
Little brother, you ain’t the only one
Who has tried to make a name
If you’re able,
Don’t let it all fall down while you’re inside
When the greed to get has came and went
It’ll give you hope to know you-
Tried to make a difference
Tried to make something new
Settle down in the canyon
Find you a groove
Do what the good ones did
That came before you
I stood there silently
Maybe letting hope take hold
Is the only way you can keep it
If you find some laying around
Why don’t you send it to me
All the demons that you live with
You should know them by name
The tendencies you have
To always do things the same
It’s a heavy cross to carry
Let alone the blame
Desire to make a change
All that you can do is all that you can do
All that I can do is all that I can do
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8. |
Come On Song
03:52
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In and out, the words they weave a pattern in my memory
Motel blanket lie across your frame
Pacific rain fell for days on the coast of Newport City
Just enough to test a lover's flame
I know that you could feel it
A tear fell down as you mouthed that you were okay
The 'come on' song of purpose has me wanting
It plays from time to time out in the streets
If it's coming from your window,
Won’t you keep your window open
If it isn’t then why aren't you listening
Now I mosey to bed with your name in my head
I wonder why the place you sleep ain’t where I'm at, babe
Make our way to the pines, get lost for a while
Take a midnight train on a one-way to Newport City
You could bear my name, honey you could bear my child
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9. |
Hard Six Years
03:41
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Hard six years, ahead seventy more
Clean out the gutter, try to loosen my load
Bored to death, board up the family store
Momma says ‘come stay’ like I'm seventeen
Honey moved out of state and away from me
Things won't go my way, luckily
The sting of a loss is easy when the seats are cheap
All I know goes to show
You can’t hold the hands of time
Wheels touch down with the sun, Santa Fe
The future grows narrow with each passing day
Can't keep my cool, so I sell it for change
Shovel on all that I can handle,
I hear they have it in spades
All I know goes to show
You can’t hold the hands of time
But that don’t mean you can’t try
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Matthew McNeal Fort Worth, Texas
Texas-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
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