Magnolia Electric Co. - Nashville Moon
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)
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)
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)
Hammer Down
Hammer down, heaven bound (x2)
I saw the light on the old grey town
Sometimes I forget that I’ve always been sick
And I don’t have the will to keep fighting
Hammer down, heaven bound (x2)
Hammer down, heaven bound (x2)
When it’s been my ghost and the empty road
I’ll think the stars are just the neon lights
Shining through the dance floor (x2)
Of heaven on a Saturday night
And I saw the light
I saw the light
Hammer down, heaven bound (x2)
No Moon On The Water
No moon on the water
The way i’m acting it’s no wonder
The blues come and I can’t outrun ‘em
I ain’t foolin’ me
I ain’t foolin’ no one
I have to work hard to suffer alone
I have to work hard to be so alone
Don’t like half of who I’ve been
But I’ve kept my promises to all of them
Tie my wings behind my back
Cut out my eyes and baby fill ‘em with lead
Cut off my head and put the black mule’s there
And trade my heart for a fire
Fill my bones with the grey wolf’s ghost
Face us to the shore
Give me one single reason to live
To try anymore
And it don’t have to be good
It don’t have to be good (x2)
Nashville Moon
How many ghosts will I meet on the road
That depends
How hard you running
And that depends
Which ones you know and which ones know that you’ll be coming
How far away is that Nashville moon
That depends
Where did she leave you
And how many miles til my mistakes catch up
That depends
Which ones you’re counting
And that depends
What you’re forgetting again
Does it matter whose side I’m on
Or does that depend
Baby on the fight
Does it matter that every star fell from the sky
Or does that depend
Baby on the night
How far away is that Nashville Moon
That depends
Which road you taking
I’ve been on that road and it was darkness end to end
And I just headed for the dark again
How far am I from living my whole life
Only in the dark (x2)
I’d say friend
You know that depends on how close you are
What Comes After The Blues
Now who was I, now who am I
Lord what have I done
Whistle blow down the B&O
Sounds like maybe someone’s time has come
What comes after the blues (x3)
After the blues
You see I nailed my guilt to the back of my eyes
So I see it now before the sun
Now who was I, now who am I
Lord what have I done
What comes after the blues, after the blues (x2)
Now Noah must have had a lot of room on the ark
For all of them broken hearts
Stay with me now old crimson pal
Pain like this will even outlive the dark
They come after the blues, come after the blues (x2)
North Star
You used to say I had what it takes
I think I did if you meant too little too late
And by the looks that I’m getting
I made some big mistakes
But I thought you said I was great
I shoot straight and give it my best try
I made my heart as hard as nails
And that might be the way you live your life
But it’s almost got me killed
Darling I’m not giving in
That happened miles ago
I heard the North Star saying
Kid you’re so lost even I can’t bring you home
Now did you think that we was gonna last
Well honey you know you don’t have to answer that
Half of that was my kind of joke
But I don’t remember which half
I didn’t know how blue I’d get
I didn’t know how I’d get blamed for it
I didn’t chose to go down this road
No one chooses to be sick
I’m saying everything is fine
By the look in my eye
But you know darling
Half of what a man says in a lie
It’s your last chance to forgive me now
It’s done for good
You always said I’d make it out
Somehow darling I knew I never would
Don’t This Look Like The Dark
Six and a half hours into the West Virginia night
Half a mile from home and I was making pretty good time
I thought that I’d gone far enough
I couldn’t lose the trail
then I stepped through the door
And I still found a way to fail
I can’t start to count the things I said I’d never be
And I became them all the night you quit counting on me
And all the hard things that you said to my heart
Every one of them things rang true
But it was that one look at the end
That one look at the end (x2)
That ran it through
Now that the big gray owl above me
She starts again to wail
She says that moon has got so low tonight
That it’s polishing the rail
That mountain engine’s running about thirty years too late
Once you hear it coming boy
It will not let you wait
I used to think that tomorrow was just out there waiting for me
But now i wonder where tomorrow
I wonder where tomorrow
I wonder where tomorrow’s going to be
Tonight when i am rolling over the Earth’s most lonesome ground
I will think of all the ways next time
I will try not to let you down
I thought that I’d live long enough
That the light would come shining through
Don’t this look like the dark (x3)
Don’t it look like the dark (x3)
Bowery
While the wolf had her fangs
Deep in my heart
Who’s been writing the songs
Who’s been singing
And who’s been listening
Blue eyes while you’ve been gone
And that two dollar hat and them old black stockings
Down on the bowery
Hand in hand the full moon went walking
With blue eyes without me
And now tears used to write ‘em
And the cold wind would blow ‘em
Down on the bowery
Broken hearts were the only things listening
and blue eyes, I heard everything
And that two dollar hat, hey and them old black stockings
Down on the bowery
Hand in hand the full moon went walking
With blue eyes without me (x2)
Texas 71
Now I think twice about every bargain
Everything I’ve had and what I’ve walked out on
All the lone star horizon (x2)
The ones I leave and the ones ahead
The chance I had and the choice instead
All the lone star horizons (x2)
Now which one of these can I not outrun
And which one of these can I
All the lone star horizons (x2)
Baby down Texas ‘71
Down Texas ‘71 (x3)
All the lone star horizons (Texas ‘71) (x3)
Down The Wrong Road Both Ways
If I could follow my whole life’s track
I’d still be here at the crossroads, dear
My broken heart has never left
Half the time it took half my life
To have half a right to say
Nothing ever makes it home
That takes the blue star highway
Nothing ever makes it home
That takes the blue star highway
If today you’re left with nothing
Be thankful you’re not left with less
Some of us only lose the dark
To get lost in darkness
Red crescent moon you can lay the lantern down
I’m back where you join hands
With the blue highway now
If I could have my heart come back
And be forgiven for them old days
I’d be headed where I always been
Down the wrong road both ways
I’d be headed where I always been
Down the wrong road both ways