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Ravine Road
03:50
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At 17--I saw you and you saw me
I felt it all at once and it knocked me to my knees
At 22--I took to calling you
I thought I'd take you far from the life you knew
What's mine is yours and yours is mine
leave those other boys behind
Come with me careening down Ravine Road
At 28--I had only landscapes
I drove out every night right until daybreak
At 29--I found you walking 'long the treeline
And now the right place finally meets the right time
What's mine is yours and yours is mine
leave those other boys behind
Come with me careening down Ravine Road
Hold on tight and don't look back
They'll stare at us and we'll stare right back
Come with me careening down Ravine Road
Now, at 40--we've got a perfect cover story
We'll take off in the middle of the night without saying a word
Then 71--after all is said and done
we'll take Ravine Road and drive into the sun
What's mine is yours and yours is mine
leave those other boys behind
Come with me careening down Ravine Road
Hold on tight and don't look back
They'll stare at us and we'll stare right back
Come with me careening down Ravine Road
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Slow
03:20
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Have you seen this film before?
they don't make 'em anymore, not in years
Hope we're in the opening credits
hoping that they just might let us walk through a scene
and we'll walk slow, slow
right through the frame
First scene and he looks in trouble
they don't even have a body double standing off screen
Scene two and she looks like you
the kind of face you wanna zoom into and hold for a while
and take it slow, slow
and let it play out
We could suffer through a rewrite
we could say we're cast against type
The plot is rushing to the end
But maybe we can suspend this moment for a while
and take it slow, slow
right away
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3. |
Poison Arrow
04:08
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Watch me fall
out of grace
I won't make a sound
Bring the car
round the front
keep the motor on
I won't be here for long
The time has come to get far away from here
I tied the sheets together like a rope
out the window all I see is smoke
and the driveway looks like a moat
so I slip outside with the rest of the ghosts
Plot a course, a steady force
and it's carrying me away
but you read my mind and between the lines
and you're right behind me
I feel it coming
the wind is humming through the
straight and narrow,
a poison arrow for my heart
I lose the car and it's after dark
and the stars won't protect me
And the cops won't help, there's no one to tell
it's too late for retreat
I know you're on me
the clouds are forming round this
straight and narrow,
a poison arrow for my heart
Then I'm climbing through the vines
ignoring every warning sign
You zero in, I'm wearing thin
and the trees start to spin all around me
Now I'm underground
but word gets round
and there's nowhere left to hide
There's no sign of life
there's no shining light
nothing can survive
Now this is it
it's like a whip though the
straight and narrow,
a poison arrow for my heart
Watch me fall
fall from grace
when you hit your mark
So it's you
you went straight through,
a poison arrow through my heart
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4. |
Happier Days
03:55
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There's a statue of the Fonz
where all Milwaukee's Johns
are waiting for a girl who'll hear their "Heyys."
The line wraps round the block
and the girls rock round the clock
They know there's just some things they'll never pay
But don't get down
We're all waiting
Waiting on Happier Days
Somewhere across town
there's moonshine underground
and now it's coming down with the rain
And we'll watch it hit the lake
and the ripples that it makes
but the wind is more than you can face
But don't get down
We're all waiting
Waiting on Happier Days
You've tried to find your thrill
Looked up on Blueberry Hill
but the clouds were hanging low that day
You won't find it on TV
but you'll find it right with me
cause Misery loves some company
But don't get down
We're all waiting
Waiting on Happier Days
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5. |
I'm Prepared to Go
02:28
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I want for nothing
when you're here with me
Like a push of a button
as simple as can be
Any time, any place
When I see your face
I'm immune to disaster
even when we're ship to shore
My heart never beat faster
Gotta pick it up off the floor
Even danger is fun
Like you shot me out a gun
I've stopped posing questions
cause every answer comes back you
I've quit every faction
that doesn't share our point of view
I don't easily fright
now that you're in sight
I don't think about tomorrow
Today is all I care to know
Could be heaven or it could be nothing
Could be consigned to flames of woe
Just as long as you're with me
I'm prepared to go.
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Ben Smith West Chester, Pennsylvania
West Chester, PA songwriter Ben Smith's songs sound good in both your front parlor and your back barroom---all Tin Pan Alley piano and a fading choirboy voice.
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