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Headlights

by Moss Street

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1.
Clay 05:32
CLAY That cowboy song kills me You played it on the blues harp 'All wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay' That song always moved me How they laid him down so softly And they all loved the young man Loved him even though he done wrong I would tip myself right over Looking up to you And then you'd make me so mad That I could kill you That song has stayed with me Like the rusty bond between us And I will sing it for you From the deepest vaults of my heart.
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THIS BIRD WILL FLY One more half a tank could be the difference One more turn like that could be the end It's been my only answer every time To leave all my disasters far behind The bridges are burned and the river is high No turning back this time The sky will subside And this bird will fly tonight Can you get me there in time for winter? There's still some feeling there way down inside The wind picks up behind me It leads me on To where no one will find me Good and gone Tired eyes start to wander Into the glare of headlights
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THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY The cold light of day is in your eyes Reflecting pale grey winter skies You keep to your self imposed exile You keep them guessing with your smile But there's no need 'cos it's impossible to read Let me get up to speed And I'll jump the wall around your heart I'll be all that you need If I can't be all that you want The cold light of day is hard to miss When it burns through the skin like this It fills up your lungs with something sweet Like every miserable defeat Rolled into one and left to dry out in the sun Let me get up to speed And I'll jump the wall around your heart I'll be all that you need If I can't be all that you want Does it get lonely in your own universe? 'Cos you could do better for sure And you could do worse The cold light of day is a con artist Who paints it bleaker than it is With nothing to lose there's nothing to fear And nothing if not time to spare All I can do is just leave it up to you Let me get up to speed And I'll jump the wall around your heart I'll be all that you need If I can't be all that you want
4.
DON'T BEAT YOURSELF UP You never stood a chance You paid up in advance Anyone else would let themselves Turn out as hard as nails Or fly right off the rails But you keep on And show how it's done Don't beat yourself up For your own miserable luck A quiet constant hurt In every fumbled word but never unkind And always with a smile Don't beat yourself up For your own miserable luck Don't think for a second that you're the one to blame Just pick yourself up and start again Beaten within an inch And called out for the flinch Look at yourself Running around trying to help You know that they'll do fine without Don't beat yourself up For your own miserable luck
5.
BACK TO EARTH The perfect silence grows to deafening Nothing buts stars out here tonight There's a light shining up at me Way down below as I fall Back to earth I suddenly realise What it's worth To look into those eyes again I stumbled headlong into darkness The ground fell out from underneath And all those stars keep a safe distance They turn away as I fall Back to earth I suddenly realise What it's worth To look into those eyes Black as the slippery sky Quietly rushing by tonight But with a fire inside that burns so bright There's a light shining up at me Way down below as I fall I suddenly realise What it's worth To look into those eyes On last time Before I hit the ground I see them shine From such a long way down Tonight.
6.
Drift 04:31
DRIFT She could swim And she was good at maths She adored her brother She could draw Better than I can She was quite an artist All my love Drifting off above Everything died with her that day I was changed forever Left behind to try to carry on Carry on without her All my love Drifting off above 50 balloons Took to the sky And sailed away And the sun looked out from a curtain of dark cloud You can cope better than I can You were always stronger Only now after all this time Can I start to face it All my love Drifting off above
7.
A Dream Away 05:57
A DREAM AWAY Under a sky of black and blue Lit by a distant moon A slow moving shadow stretches out Over the avenue You On your way home All alone No better off than before Looking out at the amber glow Just as it starts to rain Sweeping across this little town Trying to find its way To you On your way home All alone With no one waiting for you On your way home All alone To face this night on your own It's just a dream away...
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Starlight 03:49
STARLIGHT Up here the night falls like an anvil Everything turns black in an instant This is the time I feel you're near And this is the place Where I sit and wait For you That kind of wound heals pretty slowly Well I guess I'd hoped it wasn't so easy to see This is the time I feel you're near And this is the place Where I sit and wait I can't see beyond this night I'm drowning in a pool of white Starlight Chasing the day Caught without a way home Everything turns black in an instant This is the time I feel you're near And this is the place Where I sit and wait For you
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THE STREETS OF LAREDO As I walked out on the streets of Laredo As I walked out in Laredo one day I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen Wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy These words he did say as I softly stepped by Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story I'm shot in the chest and I know I will die Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly Play the death march as you carry me along Take me to the valley and lay the soil on me For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong 'Twas once in the saddle I used to go dashing With no one as quick on the trigger as I First lead to the drinking then lead to card playing I got myself shot and today I must die Get six of my buddies to carry my coffin And six pretty maidens to sing me a song Put bunches of roses all over my coffin The roses will deaden the clods as they fall We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly We played the death march as we carried him down For we all loved our comrade so brave young and handsome We loved the poor cowboy although he done wrong We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly And some of us wept as we bore him along For we all loved our comrade so brave young and handsome We loved the young cowboy who said he'd done wrong

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Something I whipped up in the kitchen...

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released November 4, 2013

All songs except "Laredo" written by Joe Lonie
Album performed and arranged by Joe Lonie
Album produced and mixed by Karl Steven

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Moss Street Auckland, New Zealand

Joe Lonie makes tea, toast and miserable music in his kitchen.

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