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DRIVING WITH NO HANDS (Egge/Levy)

Concrete white sheets
Blood in my teeth
Get to my feet
Nightmares I’ve seen
When I wake up
Will I wake up

Drivin’ with no hands
Spinnin’ like a top
Drivin’ with no hands
Don’t know when to stop

Sky won’t stay shut
Too much bad luck (blood)
Sidewalk streetlight
Electric all night
When I wake up
Will I wake up

He went flying, he went flyin’
Into the fire light, into the line of fire

HOLE IN YOUR HALO (Egge)

Your flowers are growin’ wild in the west
They may be pretty but they’re poisonous
Behind the bars you’re falling apart
It’s not the first time you went too far

There’s a hole in your halo
Where the sun don’t shine
In the darkness I know
It’s a thin line
There’s a hole in your halo
Where the sun don’t shine

It’s been a month now plus a week or two
I’m the only one who’s come to visit you
Who’s gonna answer for what you’ve done
Behind your eyes there’s no one

There’s a storm brewin’ in an empty room
I stopped trying to keep my eye on you
Speak of the devil and he will come
Up inside the minds of ones you love

BAD BLOOD (Egge)

Your picture’s fallin’ like a figurine
Breaking branches in our family tree
One more sinner on the interstate
Bad blood runnin’ wild in the west

Bad blood runnin’ away
The judge and jury they set you free
So young and pretty they could not see
You were lying through your teeth

Bad blood runnin’ wild in the west
Bad blood runnin’ away

Stolen empties at your feet
What makes you crazy, what makes you mean
The blood on your hands will never come clean

Bad blood runnin’ wild in the west
Bad blood runnin’ away

I loved you and I hated you
I prayed for you and stayed away from you
I called the cops and I blamed you

Bad blood runnin’ wild in the west
Bad blood runnin’ wild in the west
Bad blood runnin’ wild in the west
Bad blood runnin’ away

WALKING WITH THE WOLVES (Egge)

I’m free but I’m surrounded
Walking with the wolves and the wounded
Up and down the mountain
What a bloody mess
All we sacrifice for happiness
Look inside your chest

We are fools to work against the wind
Fools to think there’s any race to win
We are spinnin’ our wheels

Another day to wander
Stay beside me here
A little longer

Up and down the mountain
I’m free but I’m surrounded
Walking with the wolves and the wounded
Up and down the mountain

MOTORCYCLE (Egge/Addabbo)

The world is small
Small enough, small enough for us
Let’s take a ride
On my motorcycle tonight

Let’s take a ride baby, alright
Let’s take a ride tonight

At high speed everything
Changes your mind
Oh maybe you’re right
I should take some time to decide

Sounds like escape
The sound that it makes
A hush in my ears
As I fly outta here

I wanna share what it feels like
All alone out there
Under my feet, through my hair
Anytime, anywhere

EVIL (Egge)

Lee aims a gun at Johnny’s head
Says you might as well be dead, dead, dead
Your blood on the floor
Your footsteps still warm

With a racing heart he walks away
And he begins to pray, pray, pray
That no one will know
He won’t let it show

Evil simple as a rose
Evil by any other name
Evil simple as a rose

A woman passes and he smiles
And he follows her for miles and miles
Little does she know
What her future holds

HANDS AND KNEES (Egge)

The ashes are driftin’ slow
And all around us like snow
Burning after your kiss
You are my weakness

Come back hands and knees
I’ll make it easy
Don’t say you’ll wait
Come back and take me

When our ships wreck
Will you catch me
Or will I die drowning
Drinking after your kiss
You are my weakness, you are my weakness

I see it now but then
I burned my hands to hold you
I see it now and why you ran

Come back hands and knees
I’ll make it easy
Don’t say you’ll wait
Come back and take me

SHADOW FALL (Egge)

Quiet the voices down down in the mine
And follow me up so you and I
So you and I can lay down

It’s too much to carry now on your mind
Sure as the ocean rolls out at night
There’s something holdin’ you down

Make your shadow fall
Your doorway, my wall
Make your shadow fall
Come on home

Your memory won’t serve you this time
You’re in the teeth of it strong and tight
And trouble’s comin’ lookin for a fight

You gotta take hold of it
I can’t save you you know it
You’re lost in the echoes and
You don’t know how to show it

CHESTNUT TREE (Egge)

See where that tree fell in the water
The river musta washed the roots away
See where that lady’s sittin’ on the banks
I’m gonna take her take her breath away

I never stop moving never the same river twice
I ain’t sayin’ it’s right, I ain’t saying it’s right

Your flowers pressing between the sheets
Your long hair in the reeds
Once I knew somebody like you
She knew how to love me too

SILVER HEELS (Egge)

Workin’ on the high plains of Colorado
The women of the night and the men of the railroad
All the ranchers and miners and cowboys would come

Waitin’ outside in the powder of the moonlight
Across the ocean wide
The boys from the front line
And the Spanish flu broke out like a gunfight

Silver Heels and all her girls
Held all their men
Silver Heels and all her girls held
All their men as they lay dyin’

With whiskey on their breath they all beg forgiveness
Outside the empty street’s all lined up with coffins
They pray to close their eyes and not to be forgotten

YOUR VOICE CONVINCES ME (Egge/Levy)

What am I livin’ to believe in
Your voice convinces me
What I’m afraid of I’m not ashamed of
Your voice convinces me

Strong and true I shouldn’t worry
You always knew the end of the story

You have no doubt of what I’m not proud of
Your voice convinces me
I’ll tell you something, I miss your lovin’
Your voice convinces me