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Lookin'
04:26
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Lookin'
Lookin’ down on these streets of Nashville
Here I am after all of this time
where days fall faster the more you climb hills
I’m not craving the wild nights and wine
Lookin’ down the road toward Memphis
Just trying to make sense of today
Where time stands still and you just exist
I’m not praying for some other way
Lookin’ up in the sky dreaming of Paris
Somewhere I’d take you tonight
but all flight have been cancelled so lets just kiss
I’ll take you in my arms and hold you so tight
Lookinʻ in your eyes I see rivers
winding through forests of blue
Together in a house mirrors
Yes...together weʼll make it through
(c)2011, Jerry Oliver, Peculiar Music, ASCAP
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2. |
Geography Of The Soul
03:24
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Geography Of The Soul
You say I’ve got a fine place
Somewhere to lay my head at night
and try to hide my face
I say I don’t have nowhere to go
and you just don’t know
the geography of the soul
You say you can’t find your way
through the valley of your fear
You’ll find a map to read one day
when the night turns black as coal
and you’re lost in the forest of
the geography of the soul
Trapped inside of four walls
Inside this box I dream of you
All my love and ache falls
I choke and watch my words roll
down the mountain and through
the geography of the soul
We tried to swim the ocean
tried to tame the sea
We tried to scale the mountainside
tried to climb the peak
We tried to survive the desert night
tried to take the heat
It seems like we’ve lost our way
he road has changed you know
This is a foreign land now
Hazards of time take their toll
I can’t recall when we both knew
the geography of the soul
(c)2012, Jerry Oliver, ASCAP
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It's The End Of The World
Well the sky is falling and my thoughts are grey
The Mayans can’t get that calendar right can they?
My mind is dark and the clouds are low
I’ve picked up a lot along the way
yet there’s so much left to know
It’s the end of the world baby
You know it’s the end of the line
It’s the end of the world baby
when we run out of time
It’s the end of the world baby
when you’re no longer mine
But the worlds gonna be ok
Nothing wrong today
As long as we’re doing fine
The world ain’t going nowhere, no matter what they say
We’re using up the earth, humans have lost their way
But you and I together, we’re still closing the show
We’ve got all the world until there’s nothing
That’s how we roll...
t’s the end of the world baby
You know it’s the end of the line
t’s the end of the world baby
when we run out of time
It’s the end of the world baby
when you’re no longer mine
But the worlds gonna be ok
Nothing wrong today
As long as we’re doing fine
(c)2013, Jerry Oliver, ASCAP
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4. |
Sundown On A Ghost Town
05:35
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Sundown On a Ghost Town
A landscape so bleak words can’t speak
A soundtrack paints the hole that time can’t take
Pain comes in waves over open plains
and seeps into the cracks of dawn
In the corner of apartments on every side
Hearts sneak out exits and explode on the streets
Crossing mighty waters down in the flood
collapsing in postcards to real to be sent
Yea down in the flood where the bodies went
The cry of the orphans is the echo you hear
No turning the head no shutting of eyes
just a lone guitar and that hawk in the sky
Sundown on a ghost town is lonely indeed
Sundown on a ghost town might be the cover you need
Sundown on a ghost town is lonely indeed
Sundown on a ghost town might be the cover you need
Another dead Cardinal, is it a sign?
Blood on the window, blood on the ground
Sundown on a ghost town is all we found
Very superstitious in the cold deep north
The woods, the frost, the killing air
You should’ve let her be, never taken her there
The memories won’t leave you where ever you hide
Your soul is a ghost town where ever you go
Sundown on a ghost town is lonely indeed
Sundown on a ghost town might be the cover you need
Sundown on a ghost town is lonely indeed
Sundown on a ghost town might be the cover you need
(c)2013, Jerry Oliver, ASCAP
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5. |
Vultures
07:30
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Vultures
Do you believe in the weather?
Do you believe in gold?
Do you believe in a life together?
Do you believe we’ll grow old?
Do you believe in signs of the times?
Do you believe in trust?
Do you believe in psychic crimes?
Do you believe in lust?
You can believe in your own legend
Believe in your own fame
You can believe in hell or heaven
You’ll pay the piper just the same
Believe what you will
Believe what you will
The vultures show up at your door
Lay them out a feast
They only ask for more
They’ll eat the meat off your bones
and never be satisfied
Leave you lying in the road
Looking for the next thing that died
There are vultures at the windows of your soul
Trying to get inside
Pecking at the fragile glass
trying to find a hole
So shine a light and watch them take flight
What will you? What will you?
What will you believe?
Do you believe You’re in charge?
Do you believe you’re poor?
Do you believe just a little bit?
Do you believe in more, more, more!?
You can believe in the police man
You can believe the gun
Do we believe he did it?
Or an innocent on the run?
Do you believe they’ll shoot?
Or stop when you raise your hands?
Do you believe in the future youth
and the destiny of man?
Believe what you will
Believe what you will
The vultures show up at your door
Lay them out a feast
They only ask for more
They’ll eat the meat off your bones
and never be satisfied
Leave you lying in the road
Looking for the next thing that died
There are vultures at the windows of your soul
Trying to get inside
Pecking at the fragile glass
trying to find a hole
So shine a light and watch them them take flight
What will you?
What will you?
What will you believe?
Do you believe in the government?
What the preacher’s saying on TV?
Do you believe in the firmament?
Stars as far as we can see?
Do you believe in the terror?
Do you believe they’ll cut?
Do you believe in a higher power?
Do you believe your gut?
You can believe in anything
made up or found
You can believe in what you sing
in rhythm and sound
Believe what you will
Believe what you will
The vultures show up at your door
Lay them out a feast
They only ask for more
They’ll eat the meat off your bones
and never be satisfied
Leave you lying in the road
Looking for the next thing that died
There are vultures at the windows of your soul
Trying to get inside
Pecking at the fragile glass
trying to find a hole
So shine a light and watch them take flight
What will you?
What will you?
What will you believe?
(c)2014, Jerry Oliver,Peculiar Music, ASCAP
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6. |
I'm Not The Devil
04:22
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I'm Not The Devil
I might be the devil baby
I probably made you bad
If You’d a just said maybe...
not,
you wouldn’t be so sad
With an angel of light it felt right
How could anything go wrong?
First came the night then came the fright
Now you sing a different song
Just go home
Don’t you come back
Go alone
Don’t you ever come back
‘Cuz if you do
There ain’t no turning around
‘Cuz if you do
Then you’ll be buried ten feet in the ground
If I was the devil baby
I would make you hot
If I was the devil baby
You’d give me all you got
But I’m not the devil baby
So I’ll try to be a nicer guy
I’m not the devil baby
So I’ll try to be a nicer guy
(c)2012, Jerry Oliver, ASCAP
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7. |
Magic Band
02:50
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Magic Band
I can’t seem to get a break around town
I just get that run around
Maybe it’s because I smoke dope all day
Maybe it’s because I’m old and grey
They’re picking up broken dreamers
Behind the club in Tootsies’ ally downtown
Everyone’s coming from another land
Thinking they’re the next magic band
The cable cut off when the heat kicked in
So I turned the stove on and the furnace off
Got my internet connection when the lights went dim
but my server went down now my mind’s gone soft
They’re picking up broken dreamers
Behind the club in Tootsies’ ally downtown
Everyone’s coming from another land
Thinking they’re the next magic band
Save another nickel, save another dime
Take a shot of whisky and try to find a rhyme
Try to make a dollar, grab yourself a girl
Take a hit of grass and try to write a line
They’re picking up broken dreamers
Behind the club in Tootsies’ ally downtown
Everyone’s coming from another land
Thinking they’re the next magic band
(c)2010, Jerry Oliver,ASCAP
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8. |
Looking For The War
09:12
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Looking For The War
In the middle of the night
I felt the pull,
In my hat and my scarf
I walked out my door,
With my head and heart
and my breath beneath the moon,
I went looking for the war
I went looking for the war
On the evening news
and in the air,
The papers, coffee shop talk
and more,
No matter what they say
it seems to be over there,
So I went looking for the war
I went looking for the war
I feel distant rumblings in my bones,
Can’t see it anywhere...
but you know
evil glows in the night somewhere
It’s silent on my street
and everyone you meet
greets you with a smile
War...
It seems to only exist in little boxes for awhile,
But I know it can show up at the door,
Why does it come?
Why does it go?
I went out looking for the war
I went out looking for the war
The night air smells so fresh and clean,
the skyline is serene
In a bunker underground
men of power pace the floor
I can’t see them, I don’t know them
I just read the magazines
I’m out looking for the war
I’m out looking for the war
Veteran selling papers on the street,
hookers sell their soul
Casualties lie, I pass them by
a scene I’ve seen before
I can’t hear them, I can’t help them
just want to let them know
I’ve been looking for the war
I’ve been looking for the war
Explosions flash on the horizon,
You can hear it in the wind
and you know
it’s ripping up your world
I
t’s loud out in the square
and everyone is there
yelling out the score
War...
It seems to live so close to home,
I find it everywhere I roam
Why does it come?
Why does it go?
I went out looking for the war
I went out looking for the war
I see it everywhere I go
It starts with greed and ends in need
I feel it in my dark heart
and I don’t want it anymore
You don’t have to look very far
when you’re looking for the war
Looking for the war
Looking for the war
Looking for the war
(c)2012, Jerry Oliver, ASCAP
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Jerry Oliver Nashville, Tennessee
Jerry Oliver aka Jerpoet tells stories and shares his experience through songs, poems and paintings.
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