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Keeping It Out
03:09
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Keeping it out now
Keeping it in
Let it all begin
Thinking about
Thinking it through
Well it's just me and you
And I don't know if I'd call this love
It's something I'm not so very sure of
So I don't know if I'll call it at all
Try to be good now
Try to be cruel
Just don't act the fool
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
Could they really be
And I don't know if I'd call this love
It's something I'm not so very sure of
So I don't know if I'll call it at all
Well we live our lives
Live in the world
It's a beautiful thing
Boy meets a girl
Think about possibility
And try to live hide balance find
reality
Sure that it's right now
Sure that it's wrong
Put it all in a song
Feel the trust and feel the pain
Let it happen again
And I don't know if I'd call this love
Just something I'm not so very sure of
So I don't know if I'll call it
I don't know if I'll call it
I don't know if I'll call it at all
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How Could I Know
03:31
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This can't be the morning
'cause I was holding you in the night
Did I miss a warning?
Is there something wrong with my sight?
How could I know
to beg you please don't go?
How could I know?
Telephone ringing
but it's only 3 a.m.
The news that it's bringing
Better get down here as fast as you can
How could I know
to beg you please don't go?
How could I know?
Say it once so I know that you hear me
Say it once so I know that you're here
Faith, freedom, distance, and time
A far-off horizon, yes
Distance and time
How could I know
to beg you please don't go?
How could I know?
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Jo Jo Take Me Down
03:35
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Well it's sidewalks, freeways
Anything to take me back to
where I know she'll take me back again
Small talk, entryways
Buttons, blouses, everything
Turn around
Let it all begin
And I say Jo Jo take me down
I watch us sin, I understand
And it's one, two, three, four
Tells me everything I need to know
Jo Jo take me down
I watch us slide into an ordinary day
False gods find out
just how easy we believe them
Smart boy, you don't understand
Seeing red undercover
Several days of summer weather
Let 'em know
Let 'em know you're the man
And I say Jo Jo take me down
I watch us sin, I understand
And it's one, two, three, four
Tells me everything I need to know
Jo Jo take me down
I watch us slide into an ordinary day
Three words that are whispered
Now you know it's finally coming
Once more and then you let it go
Turn around, look around
just how easy you believed her
Smart boy, you don't understand
And I say Jo Jo take me down
I watch us sin, I understand
And it's one, two, three, four
Tells me everything I need to know
Jo Jo take me down
I watch us slide into an ordinary day
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Tonight
02:37
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Hold me close
We've been too long apart
Hold me close
and feel the beat of my heart
Hold me close
like it's all gonna start
tonight
Tell me things that have never been told
Tell me the things that I already know
And tell me that you love me
Cause I'd like to be told, tonight
I don't want to believe in fairy tales
I never, ever see them come true
There's other things babe that we can make
It starts right here with me with you
Lay me down, baby, take me there
All the different things that we can make bare
Tickle of your finger, tickle of your hair, tonight
Let's play those games that only two can play
Say all those things that only two can say
Then say them again but in a different way, tonight
I don't want to believe in fairy tales
I never, ever see them come true
There's other things babe that we can make
It starts right here with me with you
So tell me those things that have never been told
Tell me the things that I already know
And tell me that you love me 'cause I'd like to be told, tonight
yeah, tonight
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Bobby
00:38
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Got so hungry last night
that I finally cooked up Bobby
Yes I sliced him up fine
and I doused him in wine
Then I baked him up right
yes I put him in the oven
Goodnight, Bobby, Goodnight
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Moments, Days, and Ages
05:02
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You fall down
and everything is quiet for a while
I follow you down to the ground again
We get up
Check for damage decide to move on
Recognize that place again
'Cause what we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages
Trying to read the book
Not just turn pages
Trying to find the stillness in this turning world
This turning world
All in a row
Easy come means easy go
Recognize that place again
You know what they say
Don't you know the words that they say
Recognize that phrase again
'Cause what we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages
Trying to read the book
Not just turn pages
Trying to find the stillness in this turning world
This turning world
Guess that I know
I could stay or I could go
Recognize that place again
I know what you say
Don't you know I love what you say?
Recognize your face again
'Cause what we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages
Trying to read the book
Not just turn pages
Trying to find the stillness in this turning world
This turning world
What we're trying to build takes Moments, Days, and Ages
Trying to read the book
and not just turn the pages
Trying to find the stillness in this turning world
This turning world
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Hush Hush Darling
02:59
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Hush hush darling
Some things change some stay the same
Can I even try to explain?
Wheels turn round and round
If you jump up, you come back down
Hush hush darling
Some things start and some things end
Can I even try to defend?
Wheels turn round and round
If you jump up, you come back down
I can't believe you'd even try
to get me to believe just one more lie
when all I do is cry and cry
You're hurting me
And I don't care how deep you sound
You talking about wheels spinning round round round
People jumping up and down
You're hurting me
Your words mean nothing
Not to me
And your words are empty
You don't see
You don't see
You don't see
Well hush hush darlin'
Nothing's good if something's bad
Did we ever know just what we had?
Oh, what we had
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Christmas 1963
02:18
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-instrumental-
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Aphrodite Breathes
03:59
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Aphrodite breathes
Everyone responds
But I'm a million miles away
Turn it around
What were you just thinking of?
Tomorrow takes these things away
Aphrodite breathes
a million miles away
Too many times
she walks out the door
so certain that she is alone
I let her go
She can find her way
So many things to say
and I don't really mind
Aphrodite breathes
a million miles away
Aphrodite breathes
a million miles away
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Love In a Bottle II
02:35
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You might find what you need in a minute
Might search for it your whole life through
If you're good enough to know when you're in it
Make it go on and on, and on and on and on
You might keep that love in a bottle
Might say it has wings, set it free
If you're good enough to know what you ought to
Make it go on and on, and on and on and on
The river is wide, yeah, but it ain't the sea
Simple enough it's just you and me
Don't need no money, don't put on a show
Just try to be ready and let it go, let it go, let it go
The river is wide yeah, but it ain't the sea
Simple enough it's just you and me
Don't need no money, don't put on a show
Just try to be ready and let it go, let it go, let it go
If the sun comes up in the morning
Finds that you're still running away
Remember that the lessons you're learning
go on and on, and on and on
Goin' on and on and on and on
Goin' on and on, on and on
Goin' on
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ellida Saint Paul, Minnesota
Evan Johnson is a singer-songwriter living outside (but not too far outside) St. Paul, MN
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