"Main Street is Empty" Lyrics

Main Street

Main Street is empty now
The vacant car lots stare
The cold rain of midnight falls
On the street lights frozen glare
Shuttered storefronts broken boards
Catch weeds blowin' in the cracks
And the creakin' sign sings a song
Of the farmer's broken backs

All the highways go somewhere to
Brighter lights and bigger towns
And no one stops to see the show
Of Main Street breakin' down

The airport light goes round and round
On the broken school yard swing
Cause the children of the prairie
Like geese have taken wing
Ghosts in the churchyard cry out
Their laments of loneliness
Silent bells cry tears that sound
Like stones breakin' colored glass

All the highways go somewhere to
Brighter lights and bigger towns
And no one stops to see the show
Of Main Street breakin' down

Now I'm standing on the pavement
Starin' straight into the night
There's a spirit comin' toward me
Ridin' the tracks of second sight
I can feel the premonition
Where light and darkness meet
I know with certain clarity
There's death down on Main Street

All the highways go somewhere to
Brighter lights and bigger towns
And no one stops to see the show
Of Main Street breakin' down
All the highways go somewhere to
Brighter lights and bigger towns
And no one stops to see the show
Of Main Street breakin' down
And no one stops to see the show
Of Main Street breakin' down

My Heart Still Aches

A paper blows off down the street
The words I wrote there sound so sweet Full of passion from when we meet
Or see you sleeping in midnight sheets

I've never loved for higher stakes
Such sweet emotion that it takes
It's so hard when our love breaks
And oh, my heart still aches,
My heart still aches,
my heart still aches for you

The red sun sinks in the western skies
In the window I see the moon rise
Shines so cold on your subtle lies
As I stare back in shocked surprise

I've never loved for higher stakes
Such sweet emotion that it takes
It's so hard when our love breaks
And oh, my heart still aches,
My heart still aches,
my heart still aches for you

In my mind I see us dance across the floor
I fall in your arms and we turn toward the door
Then I realize it's a dream and
nothin' more, nothin' more

I've never loved for higher stakes
Such sweet emotion that it takes
It's so hard when our love breaks
And oh, my heart still aches,
My heart still aches,
my heart still aches for you

Behind Her Eyes

I fell her fallin' down from my eyes
A waterfall of tears that I cried
Blind from this cloud I fear, a melted reel
Kaleidoscope that messes with what's real

What scene's unveiled, dismay untold
Why's she standin' there all naked and alone
Wiltin' like a flower so dry and weak
Why's she so hard to keep

What is that prick I feel from the rose
See everything goes with her blood that flows
Straight down the mountain to the river's deep
Tears her foundation but fallin' to her feet

What scene's unveiled, dismay untold
Why's she standin' there all naked and alone
Wiltin' like a flower so dry and weak
Why's she so hard to keep

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What's that I see behind her eyes
Vacant stares, resounding cries
Her presence there' the sage denied
But with no place to hide

And though I scream and scream,
she makes me mute
What has her pain, turned me into
But there's no less pain' within this cave
The words I say are echoing in vain

What scene's unveiled, dismay untold
Why's she standin' there all naked and alone
Wiltin' like a flower so dry and weak
Why's she so hard on me
Why's she so hard to keep

My heart still aches for you

Sinking

Fallin', fallin'
On a point as sharp as a knife
Twistin', turnin'
In this thing I call my life
Burnin', piercin'
Like a blade right through my heart
Spinnin', fallin'
Your love tore me apart
It hurts when we're apart

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Spinnin', fallin'
Feelings drop like blood
Burnin', piercin'
Body heat causes a flood
Twistin', turnin'
Your magic moves in my brain
Fallin', fallin'
Pleasure mixed up with pain
Pleasure mixed up with pain

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Like a snake I shed my skin
Open my heart and Icll let you in
Watch the skies for omens and signs
I need someone to be mine
I need someone to be mine
Someone to be mine

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Nothing But

The clock chimes, the bell tolls
Another day draws to a close
Another day of who and what
Another day of nothin' but
The gettin' and the spendin'
That mark men's time
And more of the same that
Also marks mine, also marks mine

A train cries, a dog barks
Another day, tumbles toward dark
Another day of how and why
Another day of no reply
To the unspoken questions
That mark men's time
And more of the same that
Also marks mine, also marks mine

The door slams, the wind blows
Another day draws to a close
Another day of where and when
Another day of now and then
Forgettin' the resignation
That marks men's time
And more of the same that
Also marks mine, also marks mine

My Beautiful

You walked through that door
There was a lure that came from you
That pulled me across the floor
The way you caught my eye
The way my heart stood still
The way you froze time
How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful

Every morning I wake before
Watch the sun kiss your face
It's you I adore
Drink you in with my eyes
Drown gladly in your presence here
A feeling to last my life
How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful

A man, who wants me for what I am
A man, who needs my gentle hand
And a man, who takes me to the unknown
And a man, who brings me safely home
He's so beautiful, so beautiful,
So beautiful, so beautiful

With your gentle touch
You've made me all your own
Who knew we could feel this much
How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful
You are my beautiful

Also marks mine, also marks mine

Unconventionally Strange

I live in a city that's dangerously ill
Surrounded by people who have eaten their fill
Lost in a place where light has no name
Catchin' legions of stars that fall the same
Tell me, tell me, what kind of world
Tell me, tell me, what kind of world is this

Runnin' as fast as I can where road turns to sea
And I don't understand what's happenin' to me
I watch the sky break, burst into flames
I see in my heart, it's a dead end game
Tell me, tell me, what kind of world
Tell me, tell me, what kind of world is this

I live with a woman that's unconventionally strange
In a triangle of love that's slightly deranged
Split down the middle I reach with two arms
With watery smiles she pours out her charms
Tell me, tell me, what kind of love
Tell me, tell me, what kind of love is this

Somehow our essence goes floating away
As I search and I search where night turns to day
We're dancing with fire and speaking in signs
Loosing each other here in lonelier times
Tell me, tell me, what kind of love
Tell me, tell me, what kind of love
Tell me, tell me, what kind of love
Tell me, tell me, what kind of love is this

Knock on Wood

I knew it was a beautiful morning
Turned into a beautiful day
When you said you'd be mine, I was blown away
You make me feel so happy
No matter what I do it shows
You got a mortgage on my heart, and you're gonna foreclose

Now I feel like a truckload of hillbillies on a Saturday night
All hopped up on moonshine and itchin' for a fight
Dollar for a dime it'll work out right
Put us together its dynamite
Knock on wood, you're my good luck tonight

I've had hard times come my way
Sat through many a rainy day
Tried to thumb a ride down that lonesome highway
But you came rollin' up beside me
I jumped in and never looked back
Now our love's as big as a brand new Cadillac

Now I feel like a tent full of sinners on a hot summers night
All hopped up on Jesus and searchin' for the light
Dollar for a dime it'll work out right
Put us together its dynamite
Knock on wood, you're my good luck tonight

I feel like a train full of outlaws runnin' through the night
Takin' their loot 'cross the border, got away without a fight
Dollar for a dime it'll work out right
Put us together its dynamite
Knock on wood, you're my good luck tonight
Dollar for a dime it'll work out right
Put us together its dynamite
Knock on wood, you're my good luck tonight

Outlaw Bones

Grandad bootlegged whiskey
He'd run in late at night
Slippin' down from the border
Escaped the law in a runnin' gunfight
Bottle it up and trade it around
Daddy learned at granddads knee
When a farmer's daughter was took in trade
That's how they made me

Seven generations they say it runs
I can't escape I'm an outlaws son
My fate is sealed I got the jones
Born and bred, I got outlaw bones
Born and bred, I got outlaw bones

Me an' my brothers bootlegged smoke
And white powder by the key
Always slippin' past the law
They never got their hands on me
Bag it up and trade it around
Livin' wild and free
These laws they made were for other folks
Like I learned at daddy's knee

Seven generations they say it runs
I can't escape I'm an outlaws son
My fate is sealed I got the jones
Born and bred, I got outlaw bones
Born and bred, I got outlaw bones

When Jesse James went to ground
He hid out in the middle class
That's where I hide while I teach my son
That new worlds have come to pass
He rides the waves of the internet
Robbing rich men with the stroke of a key
He keeps his outlaw bones well hid
Like he learned at daddy's knee

Seven generations they say it runs
I can't escape I'm an outlaws son
My fate is sealed I got the jones
Born and bred, I got outlaw bones
Born and bred, I got outlaw bones

Sex Change Lover

I met her at a disco, dancin' in the lights
I knew I'd found the answer to all my lonely nights
Lookin' in her eyes put me in an emotional haze
I found myself responding in not so subtle ways
When we moved together it was quite a show
She was really twisted, more than you would know
More than you could tell by looking in her eyes
When I got her home that night I found a big surprise

Sex change lover, isn't what she seems
She used to be a he now she's the woman of my dreams
Sex change lover, she's the only one for me
However she got it, I love her anatomy, anatomy, anatomy

Tall and slender with long blond hair
Looks like a woman, more than her share
But when she was a little boy she felt so odd
Like a little girl livin' in a boys bod'
As she got older the feeling's got worse
That thing between her legs, became a curse
When she turned 21, she went to see the doc
Now she's got a cave, instead of a rock
Sex change lover, isn't what she seems
She used to be a he now she's the woman of my dreams
Sex change lover, she's the only one for me
However she got it, I love her anatomy, anatomy, anatomy

Bridge:
She used to be a he but now she's a she
Whatever sex she is means nothin' to me
There is no black or white, it's all just shades of gray
It really doesn't matter, we're both just swept away

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Everything I Have to Offer

I give you my hands to hold you tight
I give you my arms to warm you at night
I give my ears to hear your voice
I give you my heart cause I have no choice
O Darlin', I give you everything I have to offer

I give you my future, I give you my past
I give you my first, I give you my last
I give you my laughter, I give you my tears
I give you my hopes I give you my fears
O Darlin', I give you everything I have to offer

Bridge:
There's only one way our love will end
You were there with me when time began
When I look in your eyes there's no surprise
You're there with me 'till all time dies
And if dark clouds should come our way
And your face from mine be turned away
If you feel like you want to roam
Remember my heart is your one true home

I give you my whispers, I give you my screams
I give you my hopes, I give you my dreams
I give you my half, I give you my whole
I give you my heart, I give you my soul
O Darlin', I give you everything I have to offer

Fury

Standin' there one dark lit day Wonderin'
when things would go my way
My mind just stopped and realized
You crept inside and you were hypnotyzin'
So hey now, what's your hurry
Can't you stand a little fury
My scorn can lay you out
Just feel your pain, just rain back down
Hmm, rain back down

Everyday you'd thought you'd judge
A misconception you thought was love
Now I lift my head from shame
We're eye to eye now you've had your day
So hey now, what's your hurry
Can't you stand a little fury
My scorn can lay you out
Just feel your pain, just rain back down
Hmm, rain back down

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Never walkin' five steps behind
Never hidin' what's on my mind
Never let you hold me down
Just hold on, baby, it's comin' back around

So hey now, what's your hurry
Can't you stand a little fury
My scorn can lay you out
Just feel your pain, just rain back down
Hmm, rain back down
So hey now, what's your hurry
Can't you stand a little fury
My scorn can lay you out
Just feel your pain, just rain back down
Hmm, rain back down

"Unforgiven" Lyrics

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Slippin' Through

Coffee and cigarettes, whiskey and beer
I’m still lookin’ for a way out of here
Seekin’ salvation in some man’s eyes
Askin’ for mercy, tradin’ for lies
It’s the luck of the draw, it’s the roll of the dice
Lonely heart been broken twice
It’s the crack in the mirror, name in the sand
Love of my life, slippin’ through my hand
Postcards and letters, ribbons and bows
Name of a woman everyone knows
Whispers in darkness, kisses on phones
Echoing footsteps, sleepin’ alone
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Everyday we’d wake up
In the house on Pleasure Street
Everyday was something new
Life there seemed so sweet
In the house on Pleasure Street
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Cadillac Blues

I’m standing on the edge of an event horizon
whose consequences I’m surely recognizin’
My baby took my Caddy and left for LA
said he couldn’t stand us livin’ this way
Didn’t seem that bad I thought we could last
but all those happy times are a thing of the past
It’s three in the morning I feel so afraid
Playin’ the Cadillac Blues as the taillights fade
I’ve been tryin’ to call out on that cosmic phone
car broke down baby I’m here all alone
Streets are deserted and the winds gettin’ colder
there’s a world of pain lookin’ over my shoulder
If I didn’t know better I’d give into despair
‘cause there’s no help comin’ from anywhere
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Now the Cadillac’s cruzin’ way out of control
the Ice Man’s comin’ got a lein on my soul
I tried to run but there’s no way out
without your love, baby, I’m filled with doubt
There’s a big black hole where my heart used to be
love’s a strange space time singularity
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Don't Come Cryin'

You’ve played your little games
Don’t call them some other name
‘‘Cause how I feel just stays the same
You’re not the only one who went and had some fun
And lied when all was said and done
And you’re two-timin’ arrest is gonna to put me to the test
Tears don’t cover all the crimes you’ve confessed
Don’t come cryin’ to me - Yeah, don’t come cryin’ to me
Don’t come cryin’ to me - Yeah, don’t come cryin’ to me
Take all that misery and let it be
Don’t come cryin’ to me
Your voice sounds soft and nice
But your eyes are full of ice
Cold as those lies you’re tellin’ twice
You can tell me that its true but I’ve seen both sides of you
And there’s nothin’ more for you to do
You can’t cover up your tracks - I’ve lived through your attacks
And babe, there just ain’t no goin’ back…so
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When it comes down to the squeeze
And you say you’re gonna leave
I ain’t gonna fall on my knees
I ain’t gonna beg you, I ain’t gonna beg you, “please”
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Déjà Vu

I set the table with places for two
just in case I hear from you
But the evening goes by so silently
just this book, the cat, and me
And I still feel your hands on my skin
want your kisses again and again
Maybe I should leave a letter under your door
message from my heart, I need you more
I will love you, again and again
My déjà vu…my déjà vu
Walk down the street, all alone
cars go by, you don’t answer your phone
I’d like to get a cab go by your place
knock on the door just to see your face
Shufflin’ through leaves in the night
wishin’ your arms were around me tight
Wonderin’ how I can make you see
once more you need to fall in love with me
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And the memories come back from before
They only make me want you more
I wish I could make you see
Being apart from you cuts me twice
I want to hold you tight in the dance of life
Just the way it used to be
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Just Another Day

Worked hard all day, feel like a drink of whiskey
Don’t wanna think about nothin’ just keep my mind free
Walk on the porch in my socks in the purple twilight
Screen door slams and its just another night
Nothin’ to say, its ok, its just another day
A chance for paradise to come out and play
Take all my troubles and send them away
I do what I do and its just another day
My first man left, said that I was too cold
The second one left, said that I was getting’ old
Now I talk to myself, talk to the cat
Wearin’ a worn out shirt, and my legs are getting’ fat
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Well I like to sleep late, don’t like to work that much
Been a carpenter, a salesman, truck driver and such
Well I never got rich, but I had a good time
Nobody knows the difference fifty years down the line
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Lightnin’

Your love struck me baby through the heart
Cut me open tore me apart
The way I fell was a cryin’ shame
Struck down by a passionate flame
Like lightnin’, runnin’ through my veins
Like lightnin’, drivin’ me insane
Like lightnin’, I can’t break free
Like lightnin’, what you do to me
Now we’re joined together for all time
Love like ours is a passionate crime
In the ashes of my burnin’ heart
I can feel our love start
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Now sparks are shootin’ across the sky
Can’t break free even if I try
You got me with your positive attraction
Time to discharge some satisfaction
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Whatrugonnado

I live in a sad place, sometimes a mad place,
never been a glad place for you
I put the radio in my bed so I’m not talkin’ in my head,
never hear a single word from you
I always use big words, but they fly away like birds,
flocks of conversation just for you
Whatrugonnado about it now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Whatrugonnado about it now, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
We’ve takin’ our last bow. We’ve broken our last vow.
Can’t go home no how
So whatrugonnado about it now
You sound so philosophical, everything so logical,
makes no sense to me
You’ve turned out all the lights,
now there’s only lonely nights, looks all dark to me
You sing and laugh and talk goin’ backwards down the walk,
oh so far away from me
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Our picture is so out of focus as our anger starts to choke us,
it was stubborn pride that broke us
I hold your arm but turn away, two stick people out to play
in a picture where they can’t stay
REFRAIN, REFRAIN, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Whiskey Kisses

You pulled me close under the porch light
Your body felt so good in the breezy night
You pressed your hot lips onto mine
Your arms around me felt so fine
Your sweet drinks in the summer sun
Went to our heads as the day was done
And now its risky business with your whiskey kisses
It’s risky business, all those near misses and you
You won me over with your whiskey kisses, your whiskey kisses
Screen door slams we’re both inside
Such breathless kisses nothing to hide
Music plays on the stereo
Before there is trouble I know I should go
I wanted you and now here we are
I touch your bare skin we’ve come so far
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Take a chance on what you get,
life is one big game of roulette
If you don’t act now you never will
No time to regret your whiskey thrills
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Wild Like You

The first time we met it didn’t sink in
You had that look in your eye,
moved like the wind
But fallin’ in love and givin’ your heart
Is a double edged blade, it can cut you apart
I fell so hard our love was so good
We’re too crazy to last, can’t do what we should
And I’m wild, yeah, wild like you
Those restless currents they run so true
I can’t change, nothin’ I can do
Cuz I was born wild, wild like you
You know its true, we had a good run
A hell of story when its said and done
A moment of time, a handful of fate
We loved so hard right out of the gate
But you and me baby, we got lives of our own
Can’t be tied down so we go it alone
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I know our love washed away like the sand
Now that I’m older I understand
Sometimes its hard, I miss those wild nights
We loved so hard we shot out the lights
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Wild, wild like you…

Pretty Face

Your pretty face opened all the doors,
helped you up in the culture wars
Struttin’ out in runway clothes,
you made your mark at all the shows
Magazine covers and evenin’ news,
selling cars and foreign booze
It don’t take long till you’re everywhere,
soon no one seems to care…and you’re
Just another pretty face
Lots of others wanna take your place
Face the facts, cut to the chase
You’re just another pretty face
Fame and fortune were the score,
but you’re not so special anymore
No one gives you a second look,
time to retire and write a book
Or find some lonely, rich rock star
who doesn’t care how old you are
You were never really all that smart,
but your pretty face let you play that part
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The world now can seem so cold,
when your pretty face starts to get old
The jobs don’t come in like before,
your beauty no longer opens doors
Producers won’t return your calls,
People Magazine says your career has stalled
And no matter how much paint and lace,
your good looks are laid to waste
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Unforgiven

Crash through the door head full of morphine,
feet dancin’ misery to rhythms unseen
Senses on overload from shootin’ cocaine,
the sound of your voice rolls round in my brain
Flash down the street breakin’ slivers of light,
gauges on empty,
howlin’ all night
The cage of my bones opens at last,
time beams of sadness change future to past
Unforgiven, I pray for reprieve,
unforgiven, I try to believe
Unforgiven, I’m searchin’ for peace,
unforgiven, I can’t find release
Unforgiven, unforgiven, unforgiven
Lash at attackers no one can see,
whipped to a frenzy down on my knees
Searchin’ for safety under white broken light,
mournin’ lost love all through the night
Bashin’ down walls inside of my head,
screamin’ for mercy, wish I were dead
Grasping at shadows on highways of sin,
as visions of your face flash again and again
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Seeing, believing, doubting, deceiving,
crying, aching, running, breaking
Seeing, believing, doubting, deceiving,
crying, aching, running, breaking
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Tight as Sand

Feel the wind blowin’ through the empty panes
Hear the creakin’ of the wood that remains
See the light shine through the wall
Only moments before I see it fall…I see it fall
Tall buildings in which we live
Air tight to keep us in
Built strong to withstand
But only just as tight as sand
Everyone rushing through the streets
Shoulder to shoulder, eyes never meet
Each one ready to throw a stone
But none attemptin’ to atone…to atone
The crowded cities in which we live
A million walk an’ talk in sin
No one takes the other’s hand
We’re only just as tight as sand
Stars shine through the black of night
Burnin’ hard in hopes we’ll see the light
On my back I gaze up in awe
But then all crashes as I see one fall…I see it fall
The universe in which we live
Even the sky has had its fill
Tryin’ to make us understand
But we’re only just as tight as sand…tight as sand
Feel the wind blowin’ through the empty panes
Hear the creakin’ of the wood that remains

Wild Hearts

I found a man you’ve gotta see, not afraid of love, he’s open and free
I’m on fire when he’s with me, he stole my heart accidentally
Wild hearts do crazy things
Wild hearts they spread their wings
Wild hearts, they fall in love
Again, and again, and again
Wild hearts, wild hearts
He takes me in his hand, I don’t know where we stand
His loving is so unplanned, like the northern lights on the radio band
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On the wings of love his spirit flies, I touch him only with my eyes
He moves in such sweet surprise, to a rhythm I don’t recognize
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