A long lost track from The Maple Avenue Collection, 1987, brought to life with the help of James Donahue. Check out the lyric video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vq_8qXYz3YU

You want me to understand you
You want me to say it's true
I say I don't like it baby
And you say that I don't know
I say I'm all for it yeah
You say you'll never go

Let it rain
Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain
Let it rain

I'm walking a road I've never been on before
I'm walking that road all alone
I come up to your doorstep baby
And you won't let me in
I'm yelling and screaming and pounding and pleading
And you only say where ya been

Let it rain
Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain
Let it rain

I'm always thinkin' 'bout tomorrow
I can't get away from today
But just one time on the road down the line
The people won't stop to stare
Forever in the eyes of the beautiful dove
And the chill of the crisp counted air

Let it rain
Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain
Let it rain

Well Molly, Maggie, and Mother Magee
The sisters of the sea they ain't
They talk about brother and Bill
Lying in the oxygen tent
Instead of where they're going or where they are
It's only where they never went

Let it rain
Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain
Let it rain

The Maple Avenue Collection

Let It Rain

A long lost track (#7) from Joe Wilson's Maple Avenue Collection, 1987, brought to life with the help of James Donahue.

Oh my island eyes
Have brought the rains in on me
To wash away the sands
That hold back the sea

In serenity
In heated despair
My island eyes
Refresh the air

Through my island eyes
I caught a glimpse of the sun
As it struck on the face
A disillusioned one

The disillusioned ones
With their money trees
Their timeless intrusions
An unsuspected disease

Oh my island eyes
Have brought the rains in on me
To wash away the sands
That hold back the sea

Island Eyes

A long lost track (#1) from The Maple Avenue Collection, 1987, brought to life with the magic of James Donahue. Check out the official video: https://youtu.be/rfMl9ukiwoE

Oh to be a wanderer
An honest living man
Carrying the tune of dreams around
And living them through the land

Oh to be without a home
Without the peace of dawn
I ain't got nothing now you know
That can be depended on

Oh to be out on the road
Moving around so free
Picking up many a load
And carrying them effortlessly

Oh to have a friend in hand
And in thy soul as well
There's nothing to be regretted now
And nothing left to tell

The Wanderer

A long lost track (#8) from The Maple Avenue Collection, 1987, brought to life with the magic of James Donahue.

To fight for your life, your life, your life
When it's not even yours

To run for your life, your life, your life
While holding on to your sores

Now there's a little man in El Salvador
With a monkey on his back
A huge shadow overlooking his land
He's under attack
There's a rain from above
With a message in its drops
A heavy parade of footprints
He's losing his crops

To fight for your life, your life, your life
When it's not even yours

To run for your life, your life, your life
While holding on to your sores

Now that Joe down on Smithfield Street
He ran away from his home
His debts just kept growing
He wanted to be alone

But Joe can't do that
He's in the rat race choir
He's holding on to his stones
He's feeding their fire

To fight for your life, your life, your life
When it's not even yours

To run for your life, your life, your life
While holding on to your sores

To Fight for Your Life

A long lost track (#5) from The Maple Avenue Collection, brought to life with the magic of James Donahue and Tone Hive. Check out the Official Video: https://youtu.be/EG8v3S6dry0

Well sometimes you know I feel like it may all fall apart
But then I take ahold of all the thoughts of you in my heart

And I don't feel alone anymore
And I don't think just about myself anymore

And the days go on 
And I still have you
The days go on and on 
And you still have me
And that may always be

Where you stand baby
I want to stand with you now
But that unwritten rule of our time
Seems to be our keeper

And if we don't get over that wall
Then I am gonna take you around it

And the people that we know
Who each added their own little stone to that wall
May not understand when you and I ignore it

But that is not our fate
Ours is to share in each other
And that I think that we have done well

Simple Days on Uncommon Ground

A long lost track (#6) from The Maple Avenue Collection, brought to life with the magic of James Donahue and Tone Hive.

Now I believe in some things
That maybe you don't
And I've known some people
That you probably won't

And you've done some things
That I've never seen
And been to places
That are in my dreams

And I believe I believe in you

And over the roads
That separate our lives
Run feelings that keep
My heart in drive

And by the way you know
You've done some things
That put warmth inside of me
And the will to sing

That I believe I believe in you
Hey I believe I believe in you

For 23 years
I've been ok
I've thought a lot about
What I should say

And it's all come down
To a feeling or two
That I'll keep mostly inside
But I'll say to you

That I believe I believe in you

But I still wonder
Every now and then
If we feel the same
About our home

It's always here
Inside for me
Pushing me
Pulling me
And strengthening me

And I believe I believe in you

But I wanted to say
Something more today
Thank you for being there
For everybody every day
You know it's not an easy road we plow
But it sure is nice that you're around

I believe I believe in you
And I believe I believe in you

And I believe that you believe in me too

I Believe In You

A long lost track (#4) from The Maple Avenue Collection, 1987, by Joe Wilson brought to life with the magic of James Donahue and Tone Hive.

Do you know the name of Mr. Jones
Do you have the guts
To go away from home
Or are your shoes nailed to the floor
And all your dues all due no more

Well I don't know 
Which way to go
And I don't care anymore

Now is that tree
A part of me 
And is a house not my home
And is that door not my guard 
And is not job my prison yard

Yeah but I don't know
Which way to go
And I don't care anymore

Now there comes a time when you must run
And there comes a time … for the setting sun
I wish I knew … just who I am
And I wish my soul fit into this land

Well I don't know … which way to go
And I don't care  anymore

Yeah well I don't know, which way to go, and I don't care anymore

Anymore

I Don't Care Anymore

Written & performed by Joe Wilson, brought to life with the arrangement & accompaniment of James Donahue and Tone Hive for The Maple Avenue Collection, songs by Wilson figuring out his place in a crazy world back in the '80s.

America
America
I'm home
in America
In America
I'm lost

My friend
My friend
I'm yours
to the end
Where are you
my friend

Oh America
America
I'm home
in America
In America
I'm lost
In America
I'm lost

America

A collection of songs written & recorded by Joe Wilson long ago, brought to life now in collab with James Donahue & Tone Hive. More tracks from this trove in-the-works. Film background here: https://www.qwaves.com/

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