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Beautiful From A Distance
I’ve had crushes, I’ve held grudges, sometimes they had the same subject
They’re so easy on the eyes and hard on the heart
This Cassandra, she was one who prophesied a fiery doom
I should have seen it, I should have seen it all along.
(chorus:)
She was born on Halloween, Orange, black and green
She’s a little off is what I mean, as if in a dream
And she’s so beautiful from a distance
Came out of the hills and hollows, Songs to sing and pills to swallow
They’re so easy to come by and hard to come off
Gilded Lilly they like to call her, West Virginia, mountain mama
But there’s no mountain to go home to anymore.
(2nd chorus)
Wont say what she means, never as it seems
Just a little off is what I mean, as if in a dream
And it’s so beautiful from a distance
Something in her eyes, welling up inside
Somewhere between laughing and crying, living and dying
And it’s so beautiful from a distance
(Instrumental break)
She knows love and she knows murder, she will bring you one or the other
Should have seen it, I should have seen it all along.
(repeat 2nd chorus)
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Carbondale
03:45
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Carbondale
I’m going to take you out of Carbondale
You don’t need to be there anymore
And as far as I can see there aint a thing for you to be
Hanging around in southern Illinois
(Chorus:)
Misty morning, the sun is rising and we’re eastward bound
Burning daylight along the highway let the miles role out,
Let the mile roll out.
We’ll make a quick stop off in Bowling Green
Top off the tank maybe get a bite
And as nice as it may be there’s nothing there for you and me
Just like it was in southern Illinois
So we’ll drive to that mountain top in east Tennessee
Feel the son set at our backs
And in the fading light and the pines we’ll look out over Carolina
Not sure where we are going or why.
(2nd chorus)
Early evening, the moon is shining and we’re eastward bound
Catching our third wind along the highway
As the miles roll out, let the mile roll out.
We’re going make it down to the sea. Stand on the beach in the predawn night
And in the spill of the milky way just before the break of day
Looks just the same in southern Illinois
(3rd chorus)
Misty morning, the sun is rising and the tide rolls out
We’re not homesick, we’re just heartbroken
But that’s fading now, yes that feelings fading now.
We’ll never go back to Carbondale. We don’t need to be there anymore.
And as far as I can see there’s nothing left for you and me
Hanging around in southern Illinois
Hanging around in southern Illinois
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Secret (no one’s keeping)
She’s like a secret no ones really keeping
She’s like a freight train.
Yeah, she’s like a freight train rolling through this city
She’s like a hurricane.
And when she gives up her heart she stops what she starts
And when she gets what she wants she pulls it apart
Scatters the pieces, taken by the breezes, goodbye…
He’s been mistreated, pushed around and cheated on.
He wants a sure thing.
Want’s to be needed, he’s begging and he’s pleading for it
But he’d take anything.
And when he gives her his time she aint buying that line
And when she needs to survive, he’s there everytime
With what she’s needing.
Doing her wrong by treating her right.
(Chorus)
This Saturday night fantasy died but give it another week
Another Saturday night will bring that dream back to life.
She’s like a thought that everyone is thinking
But they wont say anything
Her heart is bleeding, it’s right out on her sleeve
She’s got it wrapped up in cellophane
And when she rolls around town she shows it around
When someone tosses it down he picks it up off the ground
Checks if it’s beating and dusts it off the best that he can.
(2nd chorus)
This Saturday night, it can’t be revived once it’s run out of steam
And she cant move on now that her fantasy died.
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The Shopkeeper
05:03
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The Shopkeeper
Oh sweetness, Oh sweetness now dry all your tears
And don’t waste your water over dead pistoliers.
They come down from the canyons to sit in saloons
And there’ll be a dozen more here by tomorrow afternoon.
The man who shot your lover has gone on the train
And the card cheats and cowboys are back at their drink
They’ve done took his pistols, his belt and his boots
And what little’s left of him, I guess, belongs to you
(Chorus)
‘cause bullets break windows if you’re lucky
they make widows when you’re not
and I aint one of your hot headed flunkies
no, I just keep the shop.
(instrumental)
oh lady, of lady I’m not a fighting man
and I make my living with my back and my hands
and I don’t rush to anger, I aint quick to offend
and I will still be here when they all meet their end
yes, they’ll die in the saddle just like they die in the streets
they die from the cold and they die from the heat
but I live here in quiet and I work here in peace
and I wonder if you’d like to live here with me.
(2nd chorus)
‘cause bullets break windows if you’re lucky
they make widows if you’re not
so forget every one of those hot headed flunkies
and help me keep the shop.
So lady, oh lady, let go of your fighting man
For he is as dead as the rock and the sand
We’ll bury his body, put a maker on his grave
And you will forget him in a couple of days
(repeat 2nd chorus)
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Sun Dress
04:06
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Sun Dress
Late summer and the heat is pressing down
Like a blanket or a shroud over a hazy town.
Siesta and the sweat is on the brow
All you do is lay around and listen to the insects
Singing in the tall grass. Watch a girl walk by in her sun dress.
A heartbreaker, going out for the night
As the street lights come alive and shine their yellow light
A tearjerker, yeah it almost made you cry
Though you cant say exactly why
Just something about the insects singing in the tall grass
And a girl walking by in her sun dress
(chorus)
Not exactly lonely but you’re missing something you can feel it’s not there
Catch yourself crying, catch yourself trying not to try so hard now.
(instrumental)
(repeat chorus)
A heartbreaker can be heartbroken too
But it wont be over you
You’re more like an insect buzzing through her tall grass
To that girl walking by in her
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Seth Timbs Nashville, Tennessee
It is fortunate for musicians like Seth Timbs, that a life free of any real tragedy, drug addiction or disability does not preclude him from writing songs that are worth listening to. At the end of the day, no matter what the back story is, everybody wants to know “so, is he any good?” that’s what we’re here to find out. ... more
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