BONUS "In the Garage" from Record Store Day 2019
I'll pretend, but I don't see you there.
I want to know.
I want to go.
I'm all alone.
Replace a friend, I'm overwhelmed, I need to The fear is good, you understood it wrong A box is overflowing, then I see you The fear is in, I can't be friends for long I wanna know
I'm alone, I wanna know I know it, I know it for sure I blow it, I know, yeah it's there Did I show you a clump, it's a blur
I know it, I know it Calling out is all about to meet you Calling almost always gets me there Living with a doubt or two for me too Calling out the last place I would care
Bye.
Do you mind if I sit down next to you?
I remember you from school.
You seem to have a good heart.
Way back then.
You were gonna make it big But it's divorce now with a couple kids Brings you back to these parts Everybody stumbles Everybody hits the ground No use running scared When those changes come around And you don't know what might Be waiting for you tonight
You really shouldn't drive You've had too much to drink And you shouldn't be alone For all you're gonna do is think So take my number Or I can take you home, yeah We can find a cup of coffee We can sit all night and talk But there's a diner always open Just around the block
Take my number or I can take you home All those dreams that were gonna set us free What did we ever know in 23 about what we really want
Everybody's got a fire It's always gonna burn No way to put it out All we ever do is learn And you don't know what might Be waiting for you tonight Oh, you really shouldn't drive You had too much to drink And you shouldn't be alone Where all you're gonna do is think You should take my number
Or I can take you home, yeah We can find a cup of coffee We can sit all night and talk But there's a diner always open Just around the block So take my number Or I can take you home Take you home Take you home
take you home honey i can take you home do you mind if i sit down next to you i remember you from school you seem to have a real good heart
You really shouldn't drive You had too much to drink You should not be alone For all you're gonna do is think So take my number Or I can take you home We can find a cup of coffee We can sit all night and talk But there's a diner always open Just around the block Take my number
Take my number Honey, I can take you home
Today is the day that I chuck Everything I thought out the door
Today is the day I ask myself, what the hell was I living for?
That's right.
Today is the day it starts right here.
Don't you got a thing to worry about now?
Today is the day it starts right here.
I thought about it, and it's kind of strange.
There's a thing that I tried so hard.
I thought about it and I gotta say I had it wrong right from the start.
That's right.
Today is the day it starts right here.
Don't got a thing to worry about now.
Today is the day it starts right here.
Come on, man.
Don't you worry now.
Everything that I thought that I believed Oh baby, was all so clear to me But now I know that I was wrong It's gone, it's gone, gone, gone It's alright now Today is the day that you see There's a man who will always change
It's the only things to count on Life is quick, life is strange, that's right Today is the day that starts right I ain't got a thing to worry about now Today is the day that starts right Come on man, don't you worry now I don't know if you'll come along
I just wanted to sing my song about change Today is the day No, I don't wanna meet you
I don't care where you went to school You're not interested in sitting around Watching you trying to act cool Just be brave Or go away
Either way, it's a-okay
I want to go on a hike.
I think that's obvious.
And I don't want to hear about your funny friends.
I'm sure they're hilarious.
Just come across or take a walk.
Cause I do not.
meeting talk can you take a little heat can you take a little heat if you ever had somebody who just knocked you off your feet can you take a little heat can you stand a little pain if you ever
What bands are you into?
Me too, me too, me too, me too, me too, me too, me too, me too Do you like Ethiopian food, me too?
Is your dad a trunk?
Mine is nice
Why is your heart so fucked up that you have to roll around on a stupid fucking website?
Did you take a little heat?
Did you take a little heat?
Did you finally find somebody that just knocked you off your feet?
Did you take a little heat?
Did you stand a little pain?
Did you finally find somebody that
What would be the first thing you'd say to the Lord?
The last thing you'd dream if you couldn't dream no more Would you please help me understand Is there no mercy in this land?
No mercy in this land
Followed the river till the river ran dry.
Followed my lover till we said goodbye.
Followed you through soldiers who fight on command.
Is there no mercy in this land?
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These days I speak in whispers Travel only to and from Come close you'll see the ring Of a well-bitten tongue The righteous and the wretched The holy and the damned Is there no mercy in this land No mercy in this land
Thank you.
father left us down here all alone my poor mother
With an aching heart and trembling hands Is there a mercy in this land?
guitar solo
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The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars, restless by day and by night.
Ransom rages at the stars, God held the beast in me.
The beast in me Has had to learn to live with pain And how to shelter from the rain And in the twinkling of an eye Might have to be restrained
God help the beast in me.
Sometimes it tries to kid me that it's just a teddy bear.
Or even somehow managed to vanish in the air Then that is when I must beware Of the beast in me That everybody knows
they've seen him out dressed in my clothes patently unclear if it's new york or new year god held the beast in me
The beast in me.
And I'm pissed off at the number, the people that I meet, who go to shake my hand with a viper up their sleeve.
They freeze me out in the winter, burn me up all summer, try to take my money when I'm desperate and depressed, ain't it all a mess.
I played for free and paid for the miles on my truck.
Got no sleep in the motel cause the worry keeps me up.
It almost drives me crazy thinking about my baby and how he's gonna love me if I'm desperate and depressed.
Can't get no rest.
Mom never told me things
But if I can't find the money, then I can't buy the time.
Oh, I'm stuck here making someone else's dime.
Loud bus in Sarasota, made 27 bucks.
I wept for Richard, man, you were thinking I might have his luck.
But you've talked behind my back.
Well, don't you stab me?
Oh, please tell me how to make it stop.
This world feels like a roller coaster riding.
Tried rehab and probation, tried self-medication, but none of that can cure you when you're desperate and depressed.
What else is left?
So don't you try to sell me back what's mine.
Thank you.
She said, Andy, you're better than your past.
Winked at me and drained your glass.
Cross-legged on a bar stool like nobody sits anymore.
She said, Andy, you're taking me home.
But I knew she planned to sleep alone.
I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor.
If I'd fucked her before she got sick,
But she don't have the spirit for that now We drink our drinks and laugh out loud Bitch about the weekend crowd And try to ignore the elephants somehow Somehow
She said, Andy, you crack me up Seagram's in a coffee cup Sharecropped her eyes and her hair almost all gone When she was drunk, she made cancer jokes Made up her own doctor's notes Surrounded by her family, saw that she was dying alone
I'd sing her classic country song She'd get high and sing along But she don't have much voice to sing with
We burn these joints in effigy.
Cry about what we used to be.
Try to ignore the elephants somehow.
Somehow.
time giving up my place in life but I don't give a damn about that now there's one thing that's real clear to me no one dies with dignity we just try to ignore the elephant somehow and
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow We just try to ignore the elephant somehow Somehow
You went from moonlighting To came out fighting
I saw you larger than life Throwing your knife Gone into deep hiding But you were so charming That it was disarming
I wondered what was behind having to find an army that keeps arming.
Oh, slip and roll money, stick the jam kit.
Don't just trade punches like your father did.
Cause playing the odds isn't falling the gods So step and roll till you're willing to take the hit So we just keep hoping
Although the deck's sloping You think you'd throw me a bone or leave me alone To do what they call coping
Oh, slip and roll, honey.
Stick the jab, kid.
Don't just treat punches like your father did.
Explain the odds as it's full in the gods.
So slip and roll.
Till you're willing to take the hit And you can take it, take it, take it, take it We've all seen the guy take it on the chin Oh, take it, take it, I know you can take it But when will you take something else?
Bye.
Oh, slip and roll And stick the jet kit Don't just treat punctures Like your father did Cause playing the odds Is a fool in the gun So slip and roll
Till you're willing to take the hit And you can take it, take it, take it, take it We've all seen that guy take it on the chin Oh, take it, take it I know you can take it But when will you take something new?
When will you take something in?
you want to play a song will you sure if you'll sing it i don't know how to sing i heard you sang one of my songs in san francisco i did but i you know i'd have to look up the i'd have to look up the words oh we could sing it together yeah all right what key did you do it in i think i did it in like an open like an e or something oh now i'm nervous i don't know how to fucking sing what's the worst that can happen i fuck up your song you do you sing along did you learn it off the record
I, like, what I did was, like, I just loved the song.
Yeah.
And, you know, I just, you know, kind of, you know, made it my own.
I didn't try to, you know, because I, you know, I learned the chords and, you know, I just, I did what I could.
But I can't.
I'll release in the room.
I can't do it.
You do it that fast?
No, you do your song.
I don't know how to do it.
I did it once.
Kind of on the blasters, you kind of did it.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Where is this seat taken?
Would you mind some company?
You've been alone all evening Would you like to talk with me?
Now do I come here often?
Well, you might say that I do And is someone home waiting?
Honey, I was just gonna ask you Cause you're the prettiest woman
I think I've ever seen.
And tonight, if you'd let me, I'd like to help you dream.
Well, you've got the nicest brown eyes.
You've still got your little girl's smile.
You know, you should have been in movies, honey.
You say you haven't heard that in a while.
You sound just like Faith Hill, singing on the radio.
Do you know someplace quiet where both of us could go?
Cause you're the prettiest woman.
That I think I've ever seen And tonight If you let me I'd like to help you dream To the fire Cause I think I know what it looks like When you get back home Baby, dreaming is all that you've got left me
And I can tell you sweet lies like you've never heard before.
You see, I haven't stopped dreaming yet.
All right, Brother Bart.
I think I know what it looks like when you get back home.
Baby, dreamin' is all that you got left.
I can tell you sweet lies like you never heard before.
You see, I haven't stopped dreamin' yet.
Let's see.
What's that?
Oh, wait, what's the next line?
Do you remember the last one?
Do you come here often?
No, no, no.
Oh, my God.
Hold on.
Well, how about another drink?
Oh, yeah.
Certainly.
How about another drink?
What's that?
You gotta go home.
You say it's been nice talking.
Honey, why are you leaving me alone?
Cause you're the prettiest woman that I think I've ever seen.
And tonight, if you let me, I'd like to help you dream.
And then he walks across the smoky bar in 1984, sits down next to the next woman and says, Do I come here often?
You might say that I do.
Yeah!
You sounded great.
That was fucking awesome.