She passed and she whispered with lips made of silver
The caves of her eyes and her breath made a river
The strings of her sorrow on her head made a pillar
The rain in the desert was all that could fill her
I weep

Now the stars shine softly on the tips of the mountains
And the sun is now setting on the cars that I'm counting
The crying blue graveyard of people abounding
Keep tolling the bells of the song that I'm sounding
I weep

She forced my eyes to see
Highways of destiny
Burning in my soul
All the promises
All the memories
Made out of coal

I sleep near the window, I curse at my glass
The rain doesn't bother me, I wait 'til it's passed
The loser pays up, I expect to collapse
And fall on the pillow, smiling at last
I weep

Coal Song

In the morning there's a bright light
Come and meeting my life
No more pain in my life
Everything is just right
Come and see me some time
We'll leave our troubles behind
Forget about these past nights
Today we'll have a new life

Forget about these daydreams
We'll make them into real things
Forget what everyone thinks
Listen to what I sing
From a grave ascending
On the ground we're standing
Make it right beneath a blue sky
Today we'll have a new life

I thought I had a broken heart
And I almost fell apart
Wished that I were someone else
But now I'm gonna help myself
Look up from the depths at last
Out of the sun my shadow's cast

I'm waiting now to see you
Living a new life too
Everybody wants you
To live just like they do
Listen now it's not true
You can leave when you want to
Don't listen to their lies
You can have a new life

A New Life

It's raining tonight and I can't sleep a wink
I'd like to dream but I can't even think
But I don't mind, I'm killing time

It's raining tonight and all my friends are gone
And I don't have no T.V. to leave on
But that's alright, I'll sit outside

That autumn breeze is all I need
I don't need no rowdy company
To settle my mind

It's raining tonight but I'm safe here on the porch
I watch as the trees blow back and forth
Beneath the sky before they die

It's raining tonight and it's raining in my life
I got a job and a car and a lovely wife
I got it all but I got no soul

Scared I'm running out of time 

But that autumn breeze is all I need
I don't need no rowdy company
To settle my mind

It's Raining

Natalie

Got a new place but you know I feel the same
Wear a new face, one that goes with my new name
Trying to get the new role down
Trying to get the old one out
But it all still hangs around
Steady like the rain

I wrote on a napkin and I tapped my fingertips
The band was playing Clapton and the Cavaliers just missed
Am I living wrong?
Is this where I belong?
Or do we all just move along
Throwing games like this?

I'm just talking to myself
Just like everybody else
Another long and wasted day
Filling in the blanks

Bought a bottle that I took back to my room
I ought to be a model in this darkness and this gloom
I'm gonna make it right
Yes, but not tonight
I got a date with the lonely light
Of the summer moon

Am I talking to myself?
Things keep falling off the shelf
Another long and wasted day
Filling in the blanks

Well, things seem easier now
One day, two days, three years down

Nothing's made to last
Is it sad that makes me laugh?
Or have I become unattached from the outcome now?

I'm just talking to myself
Things keep falling off the shelf
Another long and wasted day
Filling in the blanks

Filling in the Blanks

When the wild wind blows
I won't be around
I'll be burning down this empty town with you
You wanna know what I've found
You gotta stick around

Maybe I spoke too soon
Talking to an empty room
I'd dig a piece out of the moon for you

I needed you to set me free
From all the things I couldn't see
I saw you dancing in my dream
So follow me

When the morning light shines
Through the open door
I won't see you dancing anymore
You wanna know what I found
You gotta stick around

Watch the world roll back in time
And all the stars fill up the sky
From a life I left behind for you

I needed you to set me free
From all the things I couldn't see
Just a fading memory
So follow me

I needed you to set me free
From all the things I couldn't be
Just a fading memory
So follow me

Follow Me

I don't know why it is I do it like I do
Must be the money for the fare
Nothing happens in the places that I knew
There's nothing happening anywhere

I miss the life I lived, I think of way back when
I knew that leaving would be certain
Like the wind I guess I'll just come back again
But I don't know when I'll be returning

I don't wanna be here
I don't wanna leave
The time is going no where
That's the way it's gotta be

I gotta haul myself along 
A long and empty road ahead
The night is growing deeper
I sit awake for hours 
Wishing just that I was in a bed
So I could be a sleeper

I don't wanna be here
I don't wanna leave
The time is going no where
That's the way it's gotta be

I don't wanna be here
But I gotta leave
The night is going no where
That's the way it's gotta be
That's the way it's gotta be

Sleeper

Got a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw
I don't know why I'm moving, or what I'm moving for
Sky's full of lightning, clear as day
Seen it by the window from where I pray
I wait for the night to hit the street
Black and white, and where they meet

Moving over yonder, moving up a ways
Look Jack I wandered long and wasted days
Don't know how I got here or when I'll ever leave
Looking up at clouds from under palm trees
I feel the world move, I feel the world turn
I see the world news, I see the world burn

Well I've never been lucky, but it's never been bad
When I wake up angry I never go to bed sad
I don't think I'd change it even if I could
I never tell them what I'm thinking even when I should
I wear sunglasses, you can't see my eyes
It trespasses all the endless lies

Like this movie, like this tune
Things keep ending much too soon
Are you with me or are you gone?
Keep this slow song playing on
I like the sunshine, I like the rain
I'll keep what's mine, I'll keep my name

Well I never holler and I never cry
I just can't be bothered and I don't know why
I live on the square and I can turn on a dime
Down the road somewhere I will find my prize
There's something burning, I smell it in the air
Behind that curtain I will find it there

Long And Wasted Days

Long ago I dreamt of chasing rainbows
Now I waste my time just counting sheep
Does anybody else know where the rain goes
After everybody's gone to sleep?

I've come to see the hardness of this world
I've come to know the wisdom of the past
Now I feel the stillness of the twirl
As all the stars in the sky go past

Six feet under, six feet down
Cover me over with the cold, cold ground

I've never been a man to just surrender
And many men I know they are so brave
And many men you see are just pretenders
And many men I know are in their grave

Come and see the hard and driving rainfall
And the copper leaves lying on the ground
I'm punching but it's from a different angle
I'm looking up as I'm falling down

Six feet under, six feet down
Cover me over with the cold, cold ground

I can't remember why I even came here
It's got something to do with my old man
He's not exactly some Biblical savior
And I'm not exactly sure just who I am

But on my grave I want dandelions
And daisies to fertilize the dirt
They're awful cheap and they don't cost a dime
And bury me in my favorite shirt

Six feet under, six feet down
Cover me over with the cold, cold ground

Six Feet Under

I saw a sycamore tree in a dream about a dog
But I've never seen a girl in the veil and the fog
She tried to call me a name but I never hear twice
With her long yellow hair I said "you better play nice"

I don't fall apart
With the lights on
I do it when I'm lying in my bed
On the sidewalk
Where the people talk
I never tell them what's rolling 'round my head

Well she choked a man alive with her long yellow hair
She tried to tell me she's gonna be a millionaire
There's something about the mystery in her eyes
She said "I'm coming for your history and I know what I'll find"

Got the windows down
On the road downtown
I gotta feel this golden afternoon
Until the weekend
Get my wheels to spin
I'm dreaming underneath the desert moon
That she's beside me

It's Raining

Paul Sissick

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