I’m sitting at the station
and if I have to I will wait all night
cause I may have missed my train
but there’s another one
and it's coming down the line

did I set sail for the world 
or did I just start drifting out to sea?
did I become someone I don’t know
am I who I thought I’d be?

if I could just get out of my own way
there’s no telling what I’d do
if I could just get out of my own way
would it bring me back to you?         

now I'm searching for a feeling
that used to come to me so naturally       
like that third star from the right
we can fly as long 
As we can fall asleep
      
didn’t we know magic hey what happened                             
to those flashes of truth
I saw glimpses of the real thing
every time my eyes fell on you

if I could just get out of my own way
there’s no telling what I’d do
if I could just get out of my own way
would it bring me back to you? 

It’s like god hit fast forward and forgot
and fell asleep there on the couch
left me like an hourglass
of sand and now I’m pouring out
maybe he’s a lot like us
full of shit and full of doubt
so we can fold our hands
say amen and and try to figure out
where do we go now

if I could just get out of my own way
there’s no telling what I’d do
if I could just get out of my own way
would it bring me back to you? 
would it bring me back to you?

Bring Me Back To You

Endless Blue



Walking alone again
on the wrong side of the tracks
Dead end after dead end
Trying to bring you back  

Colors change in the sky ahead
Like a smoke ring in my mind
There’s no map back to where we began
Must have left it behind

Eyes fill with tears
Lovely and weird

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To bring you back to life
Count the stars in the endless blue
Like diamonds in the sky
Heaven bends the light to make me cold
Without you all my dreams 
don’t make sense anymore

Clutter brained with a mouthful of sand
I run but I’m standing still
Things change but stay the same
like rolling rocks up a hill

You went and grew wings
What strange and hidden things

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To bring you back to life
Count the stars in the deepest blue
Like diamonds in the sky
Heaven bends the light to make me cold
Without you all my dreams 
don’t make any sense anymore

Eyes fill with tears
How did we get here?
Lost in outer space
Waiting for someone 
to come and save us

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do
To bring you back to life
Count the stars in the endless blue
Like diamonds in disguise
Heaven bends the light to bring me home
Without you all my dreams 
don’t make sense anymore

Endless Blue

we've been around
always circling strangers in the dark
never near but never far
hidden in the sounds
we could take it slow
for all we are is what we've known
and it's so hard to be alone
so don't let go...

cause I'm the one who loves you and I couldn't wait
I've been trying hard to listen to the words you say
but I don't know what you're talking about
cause the way your lips are moving got my hypnotized
and I'm fading like a shadow in the morning light
but I wanna know what you're all about tonight

we've got all night to feel it out
enough to bury all our doubt
we don't have to scream or shout
do we, love?
cause if it's hidden in the heart
if it's buried in the dark
maybe that's the hardest part
the digging it out...

tell me is it too late
to start over again?
I want to start over again...

I'm The One Who Loves You

I feel like a star
catching fire tonight
and far away
can you see me in the sky?
burning out like a sun
am I the only one
who feels this way
am I the only one?

cause if you want me to stay
take my hand
darling, lead the way
if you want me to stay
with you tonight
I'm not sure what's right
but I feel the cold creep
into the light
it feels like the last
of the golden days
don't let them slip away

I want to lay my head
down and get some rest
from all the war
beneath California stars
maybe catch my breath
so I can pass the test
and leave the tour
of every American bar

if you want me to stay
take my hand, darling lead the way
if you want me to stay with you tonight
cause I'm not sure what's right
but I feel the cold creep into the light
these are the last of the golden days
don't let them slip away

Last Of The Golden Days

I'm here to start a little fire
in your darkened mind
I came to pull up the blinds
let in some light and watch the shadow die
there ain't no truth like the one
that you swallow, baby
just take your medicine and go to sleep
if you can't play nice
but you kinda like to get a rise 

you're fake
you're fake

I'll be the rolling stone
to send your ass back home
and if your god is love
I tell you, son
you ain't got much

how does it feel to tell a lie
from both of your faces?
spreading hate with every
poison breath that you can take
I bet you got a smile on your face

you're fake
you're fake

I'll be the rolling stone
to send your ass back home
and when your mirror speaks
I hope to god it sounds like me

you're fake
you're fake
you're fake
you're fake

you wear your skin and bones
to pretend you're one of us
maybe it's time to go home
I don't need a god to know
love is love so let it go

you're fake
you're fake
you're fucking fake

You're Fake

I don’t know what the wind does
When it’s lonely for the trees
You said, “make love not war,” but
The world is filled with enemies

It’s not nothing
It’s not
It’s not nothing
It’s not

I dreamed you rolling around my bed
It seems you’ve been rolling inside my head
You kissed me and you said forever
But I could not hear you speak
You disappeared into my dream

It’s not nothing
It’s not
It’s not nothing
It’s not

I dreamed you rolling around my bed
It seems you’ve been living inside my head
You killed me, you left me bleeding
I woke up, said goddamn
What the world can do to a man

It’s not nothing
It’s not
It’s not nothing
It’s not

It’s not nothing
It’s not
It’s not nothing
It’s not

Not Nothing

here I love you
and I always will
my love buries me
deeper still
there’s nothing 
to come between us
there’s nothing left to fear

no more questions
no more pain
it’s obvious my darling
no one’s to blame
as you lay here beside me
my fingers trace your skin

in some dream
in some dream
don’t wake me please

eyes burn as embers
or a thousand suns
rising on the dark night
for no one
there’s an endless ocean
beneath these stars
like there’s endless love
in my heart

some dream
in some dream
don’t wake me please
I’m in some dream
some dream

Some Dream

You tell me what it is that you want to do
And I’ll do anything I can to make it right
You don’t believe me when I tell the truth
Cause it’s just easier to hear a lie every time

But I’ll wait for you to come
For you to come around anyhow
I’ll wait for you to come
For you to come around like a sundown

It’s hard to know if it’s wrong or right
Is that an angel or a devil on my shoulder?
It’s hard to see you in the dead of night
You hold your cards but you always go and fold ‘em

But I wait for you to come
For you to come around anyhow
I’ll wait for you to come and come and come

How I tried to hold you In my arms
But you were always running wild
Guess you can’t tame a wild fire
You just flew
Why, April?

Why April

Ladder to the Sun



10,000 years running scared from the dark
painting cave walls over one little spark
sometimes I wonder
how did we get this far, dear?

I guess we got lucky, our primitive charm
chasing the buffalo down on the farm
god knows we never meant to cause harm, no

but now we’re building a monument 
to our fears
a ladder to the sun
climbing to heaven
tell me what have we done, dear?

dead head football collision
money on the game
we’ve got a mental condition
but no one’s to blame
It was a suicide mission

and now we’re building a monument
to our fears
a ladder to the sun
climbing to heaven
what have we become? oh…

shells of ourselves
was there anything else?
but the crushing hands of time
we are flowers on the shelf
turned to dust

but now we’re building a monument 
to our fears
a ladder to the sun
climbing to heaven
tell me what have we done, dear?

Ladder To The Sun

I saw your picture in a magazine, whoa, yeah
prettiest girl that I’d ever seen, oh, it’s true
got in my car and I drove to LA
ended up in Texas again
crashed my car on the 10 in the rain
oh yeah, hey!

eliminate
eliminate
eliminator 

I was born in the USA, whoa, so what?
I didn't even get to pick my name, no, 
typical
there were no questions for me
nobody gave a fuck they just brought me to be
but birth is an invasion of my privacy
oh yeah, hey!

eliminate
eliminate
eliminator

Eliminator

it's turning morning
the songbirds awake
to sing us all into a new day again
you're the one and I 
want you to stay come cloud
heavy with rain

so come lift up my heart
and fill me with light
come be the stars setting fire
to the sky
and if I seem far away
close your eyes cause
you are always on my mind

the days are long gone
they disappear so fast
we can't get any of them back
but you and I will roll on
we were built to last

so come lift up my heart
and fill me with light
come be the stars setting fire
to the sky
and if I seem far away
close your eyes cause
you are always on my mind
you are always on my mind

you're all that I 
ever wanted to find
so lift up your eyes
to the stars in the sky
see how they burn away
into the night
and if I seem far away
close your eyes cause
you are always on my mind
you are always on my mind

You Are Always On My Mind

baby, when the light appears
and I hear you call my name
all my doubts disappear
like a moth into flame

yeah they start so strong
touching the sky
with the radio on
funny how I always hear
the same sad song

somebody got up and walked away
had too much and just couldn’t stay
somebody fucked up and got in the way
of somethin’ good
If I ever come on strong
It’s cause I’m built like a ticking bomb
and I can go off
but baby, I won’t even though I could
not for somethin’ good

I always run away from the past
I’ll drive this car 'till it runs out of gas
but really what I’m running from
I cannot say...

cause the circle is getting small
I ran around before I learned to crawl
there’s a voice out there in the fog
and it’s singing your name...

somebody got up and walked away
had too much and just couldn’t stay
somebody fucked up and got in the way
of somethin’ good
If I ever come on strong
It’s cause I’m built like a ticking bomb
and I can go off
but baby, I won’t even though I should
not for somethin’ good

where you sleeping tonight?
are you thinking of me
as you turn out the light?

somebody got up and walked away
fell out of love and just couldn’t stay
somebody fucked up and got in the way
of somethin’ good
If I ever come on strong
It’s cause I’m built like a ticking bomb
and I can go off
but baby, I won’t even though I could
not for somethin’ good

not for somethin’ good

Something Good

stay, stay here with me in the dark
we can trade our secret hearts
we’ll laugh through the pain
until the ghosts are all gone
chased away with the rising sun

sing me a song far away from the news
sing me a song and I’ll dream you anew
but the world is lonely and tough
and nothing is ever enough

second star to the right and straight on till dawn
Peter Pan, where have you gone?
far away to a place where no one grows old
into the sun and the great unknown

sing me a song far away from the noose
sing me a song and I will dream you loose
but the world is lonely and tough
and nothing is ever enough

in another life we are shiny and new
alone at first sight, all sad thing untrue
but the world we know now is tough
where nothing is ever enough

nothing is ever enough
nothing is ever enough
nothing is ever enough

Nothing Is Ever Enough

the world was on fire and no one could save me but you
it's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

no, I don't want to fall in love
no, I don't want to fall in love
with you

what a wicked game you play to make me feel this way
what a wicked thing to do to make me dream of you
what a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way
what a wicked thing to do to make me dream of you

no, I wanna fall in love
no, I wanna fall in love
with you

this world is only gonna break your heart
this world is only gonna break your heart

nobody loves no one

Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover)

written for my grandfather.

I was a boy in Montgomery, Alabama
when my grandaddy gave me my first six string guitar
it was beat up good, but to me it was a treasure
I'd walk around singing songs in the neighborhood
He said son, a guitar's just like magic
It can take you anywhere, anywhere you want to go
Most times Is just wanted to be there with him
In that old garage listening to the radio

To Hank and Elvis, Garth and Willie
after the fire is gone Conway Twitty
Cash and Merle, Cline and Pearl
Loretta singing in my dreams
I close my eyes and, honey, I'm flying
and there's no one there at the Opry but you and me

Well, I got out of school and hit the open road
and every record I loved taught me all I needed to know
Like be good, be kind, work hard
and get a taste for whiskey
and remember where you're from to get where you want to go
some nights I play to a hundred people
some nights it's only just a few
I drive the van while the band sleeps in the rearview
I turn on the radio and always think of you

and Hank and Elvis, Garth and Willie
after the fire is gone Conway Twitty
Cash and Merle, Cline and Pearl
Loretta singing in my dreams
I close my eyes and, honey, I'm flying
and there's no one there at the Opry but you and me

It's been years now since I've heard your voice
Or felt the green grass in the yard behind your house
I wish you were here, I wish you could see me now
But some things take a lifetime to figure out
some nights they say the venues are all sold out
some nights I'm playing on a TV show
but most nights I swear I just want to be there with him
picking guitars in that old garage to the radio

with Hank and Elvis, Garth and Willie
after the fire is gone Conway Twitty
Cash and Merle, Cline and Pearl
Loretta singing in my dreams
I close my eyes and, honey, I'm flying
and there's no one here at the Opry but you and me

Nashville Demos (Mastered)

No One At The Opry (But You And Me)

I don’t give a damn about my song this week
I’m exhausted from the holidays
Ate and drank too much and now it’s plain to see
I’m turning a page on all those long lost days
Moving on from what I know I can’t change

I don’t give a damn about Emily Dickinson 
or all the golden greats
Cause I hate everything that is not within me
I didn’t create the world in seven days
No, I’m just a guy who's collecting old cassette tapes

Fuck it! 
(Guitar solo)

Salvage is the word they’ll use to do the job
Of getting all these records off my shelf
Some sleeves they’ll recognize after they dust them off
Maybe keep one or two for themselves
that they won’t even listen to, they’ll just put ‘em up for sale
what does it matter and who the fuck really cares?
one day the sun will turn the whole world to hell
One great burning hell

Seven Days

Hand In Glove



I bet it all and my luck ran out
I put it all on red and black
I should have known when I let you go
that you were never gonna come back

I could feel it coming
the calm before the storm
and she tasted like a miracle drug
I know I should have run
when I knew that she was trouble
cause that girl she had a gun for a tongue

she spun me around and she let me down
but how was I to know she was
who she said she was
when we fit just like a hand in a glove
hand in glove
we were a hand in a glove

never knew what it was he wanted
always looking for the next bid
never had the kindof heart that could spot it
oh, but his head did
                
I’m the one who loves you
and I couldn’t get enough
because you taste just like a miracle drug
I knew I should've run
when I knew that you’d be trouble
cause I heard you had a gun for a tongue

you spun me around and you let me drown
but how was I to know
you were who you said you were
when we fit just like a hand in a glove
hand in glove

Hand In Glove

Hi. My name is Clint Wells. You probably know me from playing guitar for other artists like Bob Schneider, Mindy Smith, Matthew Mayfield, Jessie Baylin and lots of other beautiful people. I also write lots of songs. You can download them here for free. 

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