One step away, yearning for mine to be. 
distant hope on the horizon, vows to set me free
leave this word behind, time is now for me

In the morning I will fly away, through the dark and distant haze, somewhere far away from here
Curse my name and damn my bones, by night I will be long gone, somewhere far away from here.

and tho my heart may long for you, sallow would lust for the flame
burning only to consume, smolders black in shame
I can not abide, I cannot sustain

In the morning I will fly away, through the dark and distant haze, somewhere far away from here
Curse my name and damn my bones, by night I will be long gone, somewhere far away from here.

wasting all my time, stolen all my pride, I have been a fool to think the answer was waiting on your mind

In the morning I will fly away, through the dark and distant haze, somewhere far away from here
Curse my name and damn my bones, by night I will be long gone, somewhere far away from here.

Far Away From Here

It’s been a long time now and don’t you wonder about the way it might have been
Do you ever pass the time dreaming days gone by?

We were far too young to understand then, too afraid to hold on tight
So I let you go, watched you walk away

It’s been a long road and I’m still trying to find a way to get to you
Got your number on my phone but I never make the call

Cause I cannot be sure that you remember everything the way I do
Did it mean to you what it meant to me?

Well I wish I could go back and do it all again, I’d like to tell you now what I should have told you then
You’re everything I want, and I’ve been loving you for such a long long time

Memories and hopes dance in my mind, wistfully linked and intertwined
Haunting in light and in shadow, longing for things I’ll never know

Well I wish I could go back and do it all again, I’d like to tell you now what I should have told you then
You’re everything I want, and I’ve been loving you for such a long long time

Well I wish I could go back and do it all again, take you in my arms never let you go again
You’re everything I want, and I’ve been loving you for such a long long time

You’re everything I want, and I’ve been loving you for such a long long time

You’re everything I want, and I’ve been loving you for such a long long time

Long Long Time

she steals a glance up at the clock ‘tween idle lines of conversation, am I talking to myself, feels like I’m talking to myself

another failure to engage, another train stuck at the station, but it’s probably just as well, probably just as well

cause even if the stars say not this time, something in my heart, tells me I’ll be fine
that someday soon somebody special will come walking through my door

and that is what I’m waiting for, what I’m waiting for, that is what I’m waiting for

seems like everywhere I turn I see another happy couple, smiling laughing and care free, exactly how I want to be

But I know that my sun is on the rise, clouds are making way, for cerulean skies
and someday soon somebody special will come walking through my door

and that is what I’m waiting for, what I’m waiting for, that is what I’m waiting for

my friends say I set my sights too high, but I don’t know what that is
settling for less is not my style, I’m looking for bliss and I won’t stop until I find it

even if the stars say not this time, something in my heart, tells me I’ll be fine
that someday soon somebody special will come walking through my door

and that is what I’m waiting for, what I’m waiting for, that is what I’m waiting for

What I'm Waiting For

It’s cold in the wintertime up in New York, though it seems kinda foolish to say
Because everybody knows that, everybody knows that, but it shocks you anyway
When the wind blows in off the water, sharp like knives of cold blue steel
And you’re waiting on the end of the darkness, searching a reminder of what it’s like to feel
I am alive inside this shell, I’m just too numb to feel the pain. And these wounds will not heal, til New Year’s Day
There’s something about the city lights down on Broadway, when the clouds are hanging low
And the ghosts assemble, like a cast of all my faults and indiscretions, practicing their lines to harrow for one last show 
I cannot face them anymore, what am I supposed to say. And they will not hear my cries when I pray for New Year’s Day
Well I walk familiar places but they do not feel the same without you by my side
And I see familiar faces but I can’t recall their names no matter how I try
When you haunt my mind with traces of every single memory I can only see reflected in your eyes.
It’s cold in the wintertime up in New York, when the lights have all come down.
And resolutions hollow, cross your lips without a sound
Get me through just one more night, can it be so far away. And everything will change on New Years Day.

New Year's Day

You say you're gonna leave, well now go ahead and go
I won't stop you anymore
I been down this road a couple times, and if there's one thing that I know
It's how to pick myself up off of the floor
but next time I'd like to end up in a better place, I'm setting my sights and I'm aiming high
next time, ain't gonna settle for the same old thing, next time I'm gonna get it right

I'm gonna find myself a nice girl. yeah it's gonna be just like a movie scene
Sunset walks in the summer grass
Kids of the future gonna read about us in a magazine, how to find true love and make it last.
Next time, things are gonna go my way, I spreading my wings and I'm gonna fly
Next time, I won't be throwing it all away, next time I'm gonna get it right

I been watching the world turn around, feels like I'm standing in line, oh like I'm standing in line
Everyone needs a turn on the ride, so when's it gonna be mine, oh yeah when's it gonna be mine

I made up my mind, I'm done with looking over the fence, I'm gonna check out the grass on the other side
There's gotta be more, oh yeah I'm finally getting a sense
and I know I'm gonna get it right, next time I'm gonna get it right

Get It Right

Mystery

You Don’t Know Me

It was just a momentary fire that shoulda been smoke on the wind
But you pinned it on the wall like a photograph of someplace you have never been 
Now here we are back in the same old place, and I just want to let it go
Why everything with you is so god damn hard I’ll never know, I’ll never know

You paint a picture with jaded eyes 
I never know whether to laugh or cry 
Or why it took so long to realize that you don’t know me, you don’t know me at all 

Sometimes I wonder were you like this on the day that you were born 
And was I just a fool to feel the presence of a rose among the thorns? 
Decade ago, we might have worked things out, tried to find a common page 
Well, here we are, and I guess I know now you’ll never change, you’ll never change 

You paint a picture with jaded eyes 
I never know whether to laugh or cry 
Or why it took so long to realize that you don’t know me, you don’t know me at all 

Feels like 1000 years digging through the lost and found
I want to let it go, turn and walk away, pour spirits on the ground
Agree to disagree, I just wanna live
And you don’t know me I guess you never did 

You paint a picture with jaded eyes 
I never know whether to laugh or cry 
Or why it took so long to realize that you don’t know me, you don’t know me at all

You don’t know me

In a lonely field of emptiness
In the darkness of my mind
In between the pools of wasted breath and seas of dandelions, dandelions 

Lies a feeling that I’ve know before 
long forgotten friend of mine 
like Iron claws the chains have pulled me down a thousand times, a thousand times

But when the morning comes under a broken sun I fear your innocence will fade away in the light of day

Hollow voices in the autumn mist
Acidulous and voluble
Neighbors intimate I do detest if at all, if at all

But when the morning comes under a honest sun I fear your innocence will fade away in the light of day

And oh my love I can’t find the will can’t find the way
Oh my love I can’t turn my back on yesterday
Until I feel the morning sun, until I feel the morning sun, until I feel the morning sun upon my face 

So I lie here a chrysalis lost in technicolor dreams 
Soaring high above the dark abyss on brightly painted wings, painted wings 

But when the morning comes under a broken sun I fear your innocence will fade away in the light of day

light of day

I heard you said that you don't love me, as if I didn't know
and now you're telling everyone that I'm back out on my own
I heard you said that I was lucky, you kept me for so long
and that I'd probably fall to pieces the moment that you're gone

Well the world's still turning round, I don't know if you noticed
but the Sun's still going down then coming up again
I could not believe my eyes, imagine my surprise when I woke up and found both my feet on solid ground, and the world still turning round

I heard you said that you don't love me, baby that's all right with me
I had forgotten just how good, it felt to be free
and the world's still turning round, the music is still playing
and suddenly I found, it's so much sweeter on my own
in the state of my demise, I guess I failed to recognize all the choices that abound, all the lovely sights and sounds, of a world still turning round

you think I had no warning, had my head stuck in the sand, I guess it all depends on your point of view
to me it's a beneficial morning, not quite the tragedy you planned, in fact I'd say it's closer to a dream come true

and the world's still turning round, I don't know if you noticed
but the Sun's still going down then coming up again
I could not believe my eyes, imagine my surprise when I looked up and found all the lovely sights and sounds
when I looked up and found both my feet on solid ground, and the world still turning round

World Still Turning Round

Waiting by the phone, staring out the window, the days go by, nothing at all
Now you’re in the mood, and I’m running off to meet you, as if I’m at your beck and call

You’re toying with my heart, you think you got it on me, think that you can play the same old games and I’ll play along
And how am I gonna say, that you should should treat me better, when I can’t provide a shred of proof that says you’re wrong

Well baby that ain’t right, and I’m about to tell you how I feel I got it all planned out, everything that I’m gonna a say
Well maybe not tonight, suddenly the words that seemed so clear are fading away.

Blame it on the moon, blame it on the music, blame it on the way your eyes dance in the candle light
This feeling that I got, oh you know I never wanna lose it, I could stay forever darling in your arms tonight

Pull your body close, I can feel your heartbeat, its the rhythm of love, and its closing in
Blast from the past, you know it feels like the first time all over again

Blame it on the moon, blame it on the music, blame it on the way your eyes dance in the candle light
This feeling that I got, oh you know I never wanna lose it, I could stay forever darling in your arms tonight

Blame It On The Moon

I bought a ticket for the train, I bought a one way on the last train out today
I bought a ticket for the train, stroke of 12 the coal will burn and I'll be on my way
And I don't know where she is going, I don't care I packed my bags I'm moving on
Yesterday is dead and gone, I'm on a steel track headed for the rising Sun
There ain't nothing left for me back there but grief and pain, and I don't want to play with my desire
So I ain't looking back
My heart is blind or so it seems, I went and lost it to a witch from New Orleans 
And like a Mississippi flood, she dragged in down into the darkest delta mud
There ain't nothing left for me back there but grief and pain, and I don't want to play with my desire
Best I never lay my eyes upon that place again, cause if I did I'd set it all on fire
I ain't looking back

I Ain't Looking Back

Backroads

Don't you want to feel the heat, you know there's something in the air, makes me wanna catch a flight.
Imagine sandals on your feet, tropical flowers in your hair, we could sip on island rum tonight.
I know I might not be the one, but I don't wanna go all by myself, and you might not be the one, oh but you never know.
We could still have some fun, don't you want to feel that island beat down in your soul, oh c'mon baby let's roll, down to Mexico.
Relax and clear your mind, dig your toes down in the sand, settle into that ocean breeze. I bet that you'd feel mighty fine, with a margarita in your hands. Underneath the shade of the coconut trees.
I know I might not be the one, but I don't wanna go all by myself and you might not be the one, oh but you never know.
We could still have some fun, don't you want to feel that island beat down in your soul, oh c'mon baby let's roll.
If I had one wish girl, you know I'd ask this crazy world, to give me my money back.
I'd take every last cent, and pay the first and last months rent on a run down little shack, somewhere way off the beaten track, with the ocean at my back, underneath that Mexican sun.
I know I might not be the one, but I don't wanna go all by myself and you might not be the one, oh but you never know.
We could still have some fun, don't you want to feel that island beat down in your soul, oh c'mon baby let's roll, down to Mexico.

Mexico

Angelina

Angelina quit her job, gave everything away, and drove herself down to Dallas Texas.
And she cried a thousand tears along the way, cause she's not sure if she can make it without him.
Oh but he don't deserve her, he doesn't treat her like he should.
He doesn't understand how lucky he has been just to hold her, not the way I would.

Oh Angelina, don't take your love down the road.
If something better is what you're looking for, you an't got that far to go.

Now Angelina take your time, don't go rushing in, I know you're longing for something new.
Oh but don't you know sometimes the thing you've been searching for is hiding right in front of you.

Chorus

So many years I've been here by your side, through the tumbles and the falls.
Waiting for a chance to show you that my love is unconditional.

Chorus

Angelina

Southern New Mexico

As the sun climbs over the Organs, and crawls across the high desert plain,
outlines your face in the light of the morning, you turn to me, and whisper "it smells like rain"
and it feels so real I can taste the idle dust. 
Summer's in the air, and I miss you.

This time of year always spurs the memories, faded pictures, and the ghosts that I can't let go.
Your sun browned skin and your long hair fluttering against a backdrop of sand as white as snow.

You always had a radiance divine under the brightly painted skies of Southern New Mexico.

and I want to remember every single detail of every moment we ever spent.
yeah I want to remember, even if it would hurt less to forget.
I wanna drive back down through Tularosa, head east on 82, back where no one knows my name.
Hike up high in the Sacramentos, stand with you and watch the sky go up in flame.

Oh I wanna take a ride back to Southern New Mexico.

Southern New Mexico

Another year gone by out in Modesto, and this old stool has hardly had a break.
It shares the weight of desolation, we've had about all we can take
As another double shot of bourbon begins to saturate my bones
Supposed to drive away the memories, but it tastes too much like home
Aching in my heart, dreams gone bitter cold, loneliness like nothin I have ever known
Darkness and despair, I found the motherlode, gave up everything I ever loved
Chasin California gold, chasin California gold.
How many nights, staring to the east, wishing it was nothing, nothing but a dream.
How many times have I played it through? I should not have left you, I never should have left you.
I guess I got no love for California, sure seems she got no love for me.
She took the best that I could offer, and she drove me to my knees.
With an aching in my heart, dreams gone bitter cold, loneliness like nothin I have ever known
Darkness and despair, I found the motherlode, gave up everything I ever loved
Chasin California gold, chasin California gold, chasin California gold, chasin California gold

Chris Donahue

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