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Lyrics: Ragged Glory

 --> See the album cover on "mood code's record rack" (on another web site).
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Song List

Other non-Album songs from this period:

      
      
     COUNTRY HOME 
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     I don't like to go down to flats 
     'Cause I can't park on a hill 
     Instead getting a rolling start 
     I have to pay the bill. 
       
     I guess I need that city life 
     It sure has lots of style 
     But pretty soon it wears me out 
     And I have to think to smile. 
       
     I'm thankful for my country home 
     It gives me peace of mind 
     Somewhere I can walk alone 
     And leave myself behind. 
       
     It's only someone else's potatoes 
     You pickin' someone else's patch 
     And if you go down there anyway 
     It very seldom lasts. 
       
     I found that out once long ago 
     And it sure got me confused 
     I still don't know which way to go 
     To lose those old spud blues. 
      
     I'm thankful for my country home 
     It gives me peace of mind 
     Somewhere I can walk alone 
     And leave myself behind. 
      
      
     WHITE LINE 
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     I came to you, when I needed a rest 
     You took my love, and put it to the test 
     I saw some things, that I never would have guessed 
     Feel like a railroad, I pulled a whole load behind. 
       
     That old white line is friend of mine 
     And it's good time we've been making 
     Right now I'm rollin' down the open road 
     And the daylight will soon be breaking. 
       
     I was adrift on a river of pride 
     It seemed like such a long easy ride 
     You were my raft but I let you slide 
     I've been down but I'm coming back up again. 
       
     And I'm rollin' down the open road 
     Where the daylight will soon be breaking 
     Right now I'm thinking 'bout these things that I know 
     But it's good time that we've been making. 
       
      
     F!*#IN' UP 
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     Mindless drifter on the road 
     Carry such an easy load 
     It's how you look, and how you feel 
     You must have a heart of steel. 
       
     Why do I keep fuckin' up? 
       
     I can see you on a hill 
     Comatose but walking still 
     Curves beneath your flowing gown  
     Only I could bring you down. 
       
     Why do I keep fuckin' up? 
       
     Dogs that lick and dogs that bite 
     Hounds that howl through the night 
     Broken leashes are all over the floor 
     Keys left hanging in a swinging door. 
       
     Why do I keep fuckin' up? 
       
     Keep fuckin' up! 
      
      
     OVER AND OVER 
     ------------- 
     At night when the sky is clear and the moon is shining down 
     My heart goes running back to you 
     I love the way you open up and let me in 
     So I go running back to you,  
     Over and over again. 
       
     Over and over again my love 
     Over and over again with you 
     Over and over again my love 
     Over and over again with you. 
       
     Remember the nights of love and that moment on the beach 
     That wasn't really too long ago 
     But we paid the price of time, and now it's out of reach 
     And so the broken circle go,  
     Over and over again 
       
     Over and over again my love 
     Over and over again with you 
     Over and over again my love 
     Over and over again with you. 
       
     Somewhere in a fire of love, our dreams went up in smoke 
     We danced beneath silver rain 
     Upon the fields of green, where time was just a joke 
     And now the feeling's just the same,  
     Over and over again. 
       
     Over and over again my love 
     Over and over again with you 
     Over and over again my love 
     Over and over again with you. 
      
      
     LOVE TO BURN 
     ------------ 
     Late one night I was walking in the valley of hearts. 
     A spirit came to me and said: You gotta move to start 
     You gotta take the first step 
     You gotta grow to be tall 
     And then she me told something, something that I'll never forget. 
       
     You got love to burn. 
     You better take your chance on love. 
     You got to let your guard down 
     You better take a chance,  
     A chance on love. 
     Take chance on love 
     On love. 
       
     In the valley of hearts there's a house full of broken windows 
     And the lovers inside just quarrel all the time 
     Why'd you ruin my life? 
     Where you takin' my kid? 
     And they hold each other saying: How did it come to this?  
      
     You got love to burn. 
     You better take your chance on love. 
     You got to let your guard down 
     You better take a chance,  
     A chance on love. 
     Take chance on love 
     On love. 
      
     Late one night I was walking in the valley of hearts. 
     A spirit came to me and said: You gotta move to start 
     You gotta take the first step 
     You gotta grow to be tall 
     And then she me told something, something that I'll never forget. 
       
       
     MANSION ON THE HILL 
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     Well, I saw an old man walking in my place 
     And he looked at me, it could have been my face 
     He's words were kind but he's eyes were wild 
     He said: I got load to love, but I want one more child. 
      
     There's a mansion on the hill 
     Psychedelic music fills the air 
     Peace and love live there still 
     In that mansion on the hill. 
       
     Around the next bend, take the highway to the sun 
     Or the rocky road, it really don't matter which one 
     I was in hurry but that don't matter now 
     'Cause I have to get off that road of tears somehow. 
       
     There's a mansion on the hill 
     Psychedelic music fills the air 
     Peace and love live there still 
     In that mansion on the hill. 
      
      
     DAYS THAT USED TO BE 
     -------------------- 
     People say don't rock the boat, let things go their own way 
     Ideas that once seem so right, now have gotten hard to say 
     I wish I could talk to you, you could talk to me 
     'Cause there very few of us left my friend  
     From the days that used to be. 
       
     Seem like such a simple thing to follow one's own dream 
     But possessions and concession are not often what they seem 
     They drag you down and load you down in disguise of security. 
     But we never had to make those deals 
     In the days that used to be. 
       
     Talk to me, my long lost friend, tell me how you are 
     Are you happy with your circumstance, are you driving a new car 
     Does it get you where you wanna go, with a seven year warranty 
     Or just another hundred thousand miles away 
     From days that used to be. 
       
      
     LOVE AND ONLY LOVE 
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     Long ago in the book of old,  
     Before the chapter where dreams unfold 
     A battle raged on the open page, 
     Love was a winner there overcoming hate 
     Like a little girl who couldn't wait. 
       
     Love and only love will endure 
     Hate is everything you think it is 
     Love and only love will break it down 
     Love and only love, will break it down 
     Break it down, break it down. 
       
     Tomorrow is a long long time if you're a memory  
     Trying to find peace of mind 
     Spirit come back to me,  
     Give me strength and set me free 
     Let me hear the magic in my heart. 
       
     Love and only love will endure 
     Hate is everything you think it is 
     Love and only love will break it down 
     Love and only love, will break it down 
     Break it down, break it down. 
       
     Long ago in the book of old,  
     Before the chapter where dreams unfold 
     A battle raged on the open page, 
     Love was a winner there overcoming hate 
     Like a little girl who couldn't wait. 
       
     Love and only love will endure 
     Hate is everything you think it is 
     Love and only love will break it down 
     Love and only love. 
      
      
     MOTHER EARTH 
     ------------ 
     Oh, Mother Earth, 
     With your fields of green 
     Once more laid down by the hungry hand 
     How long can you give and not receive 
     And feed this world ruled by greed 
     And feed this world ruled by greed. 
       
     Oh, ball of fire  
     In the summer sky 
     Your healing light, your parade of days 
     Are they betrayed by the men of power 
     Who hold this world in their changing hands 
     They hold the world in their changing hands. 
       
     Oh, freedom land 
     Can you let this go 
     Down to the streets where the numbers grow 
     Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways 
     Or trade away our children's days 
     Or trade away our children's days. 
       
     Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways 
     Or trade away our children's days. 
      
      
     DON'T SPOOK THE HORSE 
     --------------------- 
     If you want to go riding in the tall green grass, 
     Try to not spook the horse. 
      
     If you want to pet that old hound dog, 
     Make sure he ain't rolled in shit. 
      
     There's a pretty little girl, and she's living down there, 
     Down on her daddy's farm. 
      
     If you're going to mess around with that chick, 
     Be sure to close the barn door. 
      
     Try to not spook the horse. 
     Make sure she ain't rolled in shit. 
      
     There's a field of green and an old red barn 
     Deep in the valley of hearts. 
      
     If you want to go riding in the tall green grass 
     Try to not spook the horse. 
      
     Try to not spook the horse. 
     Try to not spook the horse. 
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