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Intro & Welcome
00:58
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No Daughter Of Mine
00:48
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(no lyrics yet, listen to audio for idea description)
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Does she have green eyes or are they baby blue
Was she raised in Santa Fe or up in Syracuse
And when it’s raining does she cry or does she dance
Does she like holding hands
I’ll know her when I meet her
And I’ll know that she’s a keeper
But I just can’t tell you much about her yet
She’s just another dreamer
In pink and orange sneakers
With prayers and swears and music in her head
All I know is that I need her
And I’ll know her when I meet her
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Saving Up Quarters
00:39
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(no lyrics yet, listen to audio for idea description)
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In This House We Believe
00:40
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(Concept: a play on the yard signs, google "in this house we believe" for image or Amazon purchase link)
Some possibilities: meaningful things, also funny (e.g. Gretzky is God, etc.)
Verse may be about growing up, learning from parents' views, forming ours
Chorus *something* like:
In this house we believe prayer is on your knees
In this house we believe the truth will set you free
God is watching from above and all you ever need is love
In this house we believe we believe
Verse 2: adds meaning by saying some people don’t believe in God, but in this house, we BELIEVE
Bridge: adds more meaning by saying the house was going to be torn down but we pulled together and, through faith, saved it: so, in this HOUSE, we believe
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Which One Are You
00:19
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(no lyrics yet, listen to audio for idea description)
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Give It A Minute
01:11
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That moment when you just need a friend
To make you feel like you ain’t crazy
That feeling like just for tonight
It’s a long shot yeah but maybe
There’s a reason for everything
Breathe in deep let it out
It might just turn around
Give it a minute fill up that glass it’s always getting’ better
Give it a minute this too shall pass yeah nothing lasts forever
I promise you it’ll be alright in the end
So if it’s not alright tonight then it ain’t the end my friend
Give it a minute
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Everybody want to be an outlaw
Skippin’ town and ridin’ on the rails
Livin’ on the run with a guitar and a gun
Some kinda’ whiskey drinkin’ fairytale
Blood and dirt beneath their fingernails
Dreamin’ of a girl in a long black veil
By the sound a lonely nightingale
Chasin’ a free world that’s been long gone
Everybody want to be an outlaw
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When God Made You
00:31
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You said oh that’s cold I must have ice in my veins
Coal at the core or my soul like a long black train
I hate to break it to you and don’t kill messenger
But honey the truth doesn’t have a temperature
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Snowman Years
00:40
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(no lyrics yet, listen to audio for idea description)
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Needle Mover
00:25
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(Concept: I'm a buck stopper, a level setter, needle mover, loop closer, value adder, offline talker, circler back, swinger by, base toucher, in-penciler / penciler-in)
I’m a needle mover I’m an offline talker
A level setter and uh a buck stopper
Yeah a value adder and a circler back
A base touchin’ swinger by with a value add
Let me close the loop ‘cause I’m a needle mover
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When I Bought This Car
01:03
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When I bought this car a phone call cost a quarter
TV news all interviews about fightin' at the borders
Mom went back to college I quit smokin' cigarettes
A part of me thought this must be the best it ever gets
Damn near twenty years and over half a million miles
Drove it since that Sunday when we both walked down the aisle
Filled it with the good stuff and try not to push too hard
Today we’re runnin’ every bit as good as when I bought this car
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- Nixon was President (or Ford, or Carter, or pick a name)
- I had mutton chops the size of a large gerbil
- we were paying $200 a month for a 2 bedroom house on Jefferson Street
- you wouldn’t eat jello, you said it tasted like plastic
- we had just lost my brother in the ( Vietnam? Korean? Iraq? ) war
- Marianne was carrying Terry’s second child, gosh he’s all grown up now
- I was working two jobs to keep up with the payments
- they had just invented astronaut ice cream, remember that stuff?
- our salesman had a pea green shirt that looked terrible, we couldn’t stop laughing about it
- your aunt Linda had just passed away and left us the money
- we had lent the neighbor our station wagon, he crashed it and that’s why we needed this one
- that was the coldest July we ever had in Cleveland, we both had on long underwear
- we bought a Diesel because it was cheaper then, sure wish it had stayed that way
- see that (stain / mark) on the dash? You grabbed (my coffee / the cigarette lighter) and gave it hell
- (Merle Haggard / Bob Seger / Jim Croce) had just released his second album, we wore that record out
- I used to wear those skin tight jeans, no one ever told me how silly they looked
- you said this car better last because we can’t afford another one, we didn’t believe it but here it still is
- there was no internet, the paper was the only news you could get
- we were driving to Tallahassee every summer to stay with Uncle George in that ranch house
- musta’ put 30,000 miles on this old thing every year
- the horn still worked and the trunk was empty, it had brand new seats and all its mirrors
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In our final moments when the day of judgment comes
Gladly I will knock on Heaven’s door
Saint Peter will not ask you the things that I have done
He’s gonna’ ask about yours
When our lives are over and we’re standin’ at the gate
Blessed be I need not feel remorse
Saint Peter will not ask you the ways that I have strayed
He’s gonna’ ask about yours
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Too Good To Say Goodbye
01:11
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Never caught a buzz so good
Bright lights and an ice cold look
From a stranger's sapphire eyes
One dance and I can't believe
So quick how did she pick me
Out of all the other guys
I can feel my heart get faster
When I breathe in deep and ask her
Can I maybe kiss you after this
Everyone who knows us knows
This ain't our first rodeo
Shouldn't let you take me home tonight
Baby when the bars all close
We shouldn't try it but I'm not lettin' go
It's too good to say goodbye
Everything about it's wrong
All except the vibe we're on
Like a rose
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Want To Learn About Pain
00:44
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(Concept: want to learn about pain? It's like love, but easier/lonelier/etc.)
So you wanna’ learn about pain
Ever been in love? Well it’s almost the same
It’s just a little but quicker and a lot more liquor
Like takin’ the easy way out
Now I’m gonna’ ask you again you wanna’ learn about pain
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Middle With You
00:37
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(Concept: you'll do / this is good enough, and good enough is great / a lot of songs are about how Susan is the greatest or Jack is the worst, this one’s about you when you’re somewhere right in the middle)
Some people think that we get just one chance at love
Forever after soul mates tried and true
But in between the silver screen and Disney pixie dust
I got no need to prove the best the worst the bulletproof
Just wanna’ do what normal people do
I wanna’ live somewhere in the middle with you
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Before
00:18
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Before I knew you before you knew me
We lived a thousand lives from Timbuktu to Tennessee
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Wittle Cutie Pie
00:45
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(Concept: horribly embarrassing lyrics sung with a serious country voice)
Wook at those wittle whiskers on hew cheek
She almost opened hew wittle eyes
Those tiny eaws, that wittle nose, aw she stwechin’ in hew sweep
What a wittle cutie pie
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Not every story has a happy ending
Not every couple are Johnny and June
Not every new beginning starts out like a fairy tale
Not every flower ever blooms
Not every midnight is lit up with stars
Not every table will deal you twenty one
Not every painting fits into a frame
Not every song can be Up Where We Belong
Sometimes the clock won't tick when a heart is slowly breakin'
Sometimes the boy don't get the girl
Sometimes the music stops and we just stand there waitin'
Sometimes the ones we love are taken from this world
Not every picture shows the way we really were
Not every picture's clear some are just a blur
Not every prayer uses words
Sometimes the sun goes down
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Mayday Groove
01:16
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No lyrics yet.
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Riff 210517
00:25
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25. |
Simple Riff (G shape)
00:29
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26. |
Can’t Let You Go
00:43
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I can't let you go let you go
I can't let you go
And hard as I try as I try
And hard as I try
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Anything But Up
00:29
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I'll give you time I'll give you space
I'll give you patience love and grace
I'll give you lightning everything we ever touch
I'll give you my heart on my sleeve
I'll give you everything beneath the stars above
I'll give you anything but up
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Blessed be the faint of heart the ones who gave up hope
We built a shrine to honor their displacement
Her walls are bare no hymns or prayers she's silent dark and cold
Our Lady Of Perpetual Resignation
Blessed be the meek and their nonstop losing streak
And blessed be the corporate perpetrators
She'll eulogize the the ones who have all but come undone
Our Lady Of Perpetual Resignation
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Ink
00:45
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If the ink that’s in your skin
Tells the tale of where you been
Then the needle knows
Your pattern and your purpose
And the artist has no plan
Nor expects to understand
She’s just raising what’s below
Up to the surface
You can feel the roaring veins
Like the thunder of the plains
When the Buffalo stampede
And brake for cover
But you got nowhere left to run
You’re a bullet with no gun
Best be careful you don’t
Bleed out in the gutter
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There is no song from dusk to dawn
Half as sweet as that she sings
Beneath the branches all night she dances
Dew drops beading on her wings
Eyes like a diamond voice like a siren
Fading fast but still she calls
Slim are the chances that someone answers
Before the cherry blossom falls
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Chord Sequins
01:15
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32. |
Front Porch
00:50
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Ripe old age of thirteen
First job bagging groceries
Five bucks an hour six nights a week
Every time I had the chance
That pink porcelain piggy bank
Got as many pennies as it could eat
So when the times got tough for us
The plant shut down and jobs dried up
Bills kept comin' we were comin' up short
Told me dad I'd help 'em pay
Watched a tear roll down his face
Sittin' right there on the front porch
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It's a little more than just a front porch
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Town looks the same wish I did too
Makin' my way to where I last saw you
Hope you take me back somewhere back in time
Stopped me in my tracks when I saw the sign
Back in fifteen I had it all together
In a t-shirt and jeans summer lasts / lasted / lastin' forever
Strange as it seems I thought I could do better
Now I'm caught in between and these days my dreams
Are all back in fifteen
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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee
British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official
artist.
Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).
Cuts by Sarah Harralson, Eli Alger, Emma Gale, David Easterling
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