Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails
Don’t Fade On Me
Darling you faded on me (x2)
Don’t fade on me
You come out of the blues all them times by yourself
Nothing lives for nothing
And that goes for pain and goes for everything else
But you faded on me
You faded on me
Don’t fade on me
You come out ok through the worst of it all
One star still standing
You make the final wish
For the world when it falls
It’s fading faster on you
Faster on you
Don’t fade on me
Even that tired old moon has finally come back to town
And she’s been asking for you
And I thought that no one lived for nothing now
Even christ stayed until he had run out of doubt
But you faded on me
You faded on me (x5)
Montgomery Bound
All my doubt my life has measured out
And it’s taken my hat at the door
All my reasons for wanting less
And all yours for not needing more
Stops my breath and my heart in time
No want, no waste and no fight
This boy is Montgomery bound
You see I make my mistakes on my own time
Now let the twilight show the girls the town
This boy is Montgomery bound
Brown-bottle eyes and the black cat’s hips
The road becomes what you leave
And my ghost ain’t waiting (x3)
Lonesome Valley
I watched you walk out from the world before
And nothing asked you to be much more
Than just a handful of dust
Oh lonesome valley, lonesome valley (x2)
Out here the ghost wears the feathered crown of blues
And the sickle moon to watch over all the lost horizon
All through the lonesome valley, the lonesome valley (x2)
Now I’m not worried about heading back
I will be punished by a civil death
If I’ve done enough but not my best
I turn my pain into a simple plan
Harmony onward friend
Dragging myself out again
Oh through the lonesome valley, the lonesome valley (x2)
Now let the wolf judge me as I stand
Harmony onward friend
Until I see that old star again
High over the lonesome valley (x2)
A little At A Time
I start looking back for the things I used to live by
If only I could remember them
Even one of them
You can’t lose it all at once, can you really
Cause brother I’ve been trying
These days even stars fall only a little at a Time
Maybe if I send back the blues her broken heart
She will send back mine
Maybe if I send back the blues her broken heart
She will send back mine
A little at a time (x3)
The Old Horizon
Moon above the raging sea
Lightning to firefly
I built my life out of what was left of me
And a map of an old horizon
Arrow find my chesnut heart
Shadow for conjuring
Big black eyes to hide my secrets in
And the map of the old horizon
With this flag I surrender the crescent moon
With this death’s head I hold the tear
And two black eyes to hide my secrets in
And the map of the old horizon
Memphis Moon
Tea for two stars falling from the memphis sky (x2)
I know the night bird called you now
Everything is fine
I know it’s soon to be fading out
But oh, didn’t we shine
Didn’t we shine
Some people say that the memphis blues ain’t bad (x2)
Put your little hand in mine darling
I know you’re fading fast
It weren’t the memphis blues you had
But baby you still shine
Goodbye my love, goodbye my love, goodbye
Turn your lamp down low my love, goodbye
I hear the whistle singing now to the lonesome pine
I know that we faded out
But oh, didn’t we shine
Didn’t we shine
Talk To Me Devil, Again
Roll the moon over my heart
Roll my heart out with the tide
I talked to the wolf in the mountain
And I talked to the mule in the mine
Devil unwind what’s empty
Devil unwind my heart
Devil make the two ends meet
Devil when I fall
Talk to me devil, again (x3)
Baby I still have time
Smell the lightning burning the starry sky
Rhododendron now under the moon
All hearts still in the tide
Devil if I fall hold out no water to me
Devil when I fall, hold out no hand
Devil unwind what’s empty
Devil unbind my heart
Devil make the two ends meet
Devil if I fall apart
Talk to me devil, again (x3)
Baby I still have time
Spanish Moon Fall & Rise
Even like your loss
Sadder than every sorrow
Even like the night
At the edge of the world
There’s still farther to fall
Even like the twilight
Hymns to sister
Even like the shadows
We all miss her
I leave the road with the ghost of the road
Spanish moon fall and rise (x2)
I leave you now with my ghost in this room
Two wanderers eyes, two eyes
Old Spanish moon fall and rise (x3)
Steady Now
Everything in it’s place
The world does have to end in pain
Oh steady now
North star finds the cross-road
Though I walk always away from it
Pale moon lights the rocky shore
Though I always head straight for it
Steady now (x2)
Whatever is set before us
Will it all ever be enough
Will it be enough
Great bird into serpent
Oh steady now
Serpent then to wing
Oh steady now
Circle ghost with me
Above the cyprus grove
Steady now
Still a long way from home
The world does have to go in pain
Oh steady now
Everything In it’s place
Steady now