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Roadside Crosses
04:50
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she fell out of the blue like rain rolling through
over dusty fields in my mind
and the black seeds grew into colors I knew
would light up the end of the line
her love dawned on me like sunrise
soothing my dull aching bones
but I’ve seen love burn in to wildfire
and burn out like ashes in the stones
she set down my bags, dusted my jeans
and she pulled at my strings ‘til I burst at the seams
by the roadside gravel I fell unravelled
in the arms of the girl of my dreams
she drew me to daylight, brightened the corners
i forgot about all of my losses
but all I had to give her were wildflowers
i’d stolen from roadside crosses
and said if we go down baby lets go down burning slow
if you could love me maybe then love me baby slow
i wanna love you like crazy but I’ve seen enough now to know
too much too soon will lead us to ruin
and leave us with nowhere to go
going down the only road I know
take me with you baby where you go
we could leave this old road for the trees
i’ll put a mark in the gravel to know how far I travelled
and return here should you ever leave
but if we go down baby lets go down burning slow
if you could love me maybe then love me baby slow
i wanna love you like crazy but I’ve seen enough now to know
too much too soon will lead us to ruin
and leave us with nowhere to go
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Hollow Moon
04:52
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with the sun setting on the lemon trees
i’d climb the hills behind her home
beneath Strathbogie views at age 22
i’d wait there as we’d planned for well I knew
that soon she’d come
as would the stars from midst the blue
and in my arms she’d whisper true
while looking down that big old hollow moon
but then came the war and the burning of the trees
and the tearing of the scars that only grew
through the clouding of the sky
i watched her as she fell for someone new
the brilliance of her skin, a picture took it all
and I held it to my heart as darkness grew
through the gun fire and the napalm fumes
i held her screaming to that big old hollow moon
hollow moon
under that great big hollow moon
our love ran out too soon
hollow moon my love
we’re watching water through the cliffs
rush over
time moved away the hours into days
here I am a man of 54, in civilian life
with kids and loving wife
and a picture wrapped up in a bottom drawer
but sometimes I stand by the windows here at night
and all the things that once I thought I knew
again I feel them to be true
as I look up to that big old hollow moon
hollow moon my love say you’ll meet me up above
and stroll laughing in my arms forever
hollow moon my love say you’ll meet me up above
and fall laughing in my arms forever
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