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JC Love Field
04:57
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JC LOVE FIELD
Where was your silent night arranged?
Sleeping in towns that never change
Miracle fabric, fattening foods
Liquor and guns and desperate moods
Hunting and fishing jamboree
Didn’t you hear invest in me?
Bringin’ it to the lightning round
Sending it through the underground
If you think you’re on your own or not
Remember baby it’s just alright
You can make it with a love field outa sight
Get yourself together baby it’s just alright
Any other kind of love field’s gonna bite
Something that’s lazy makes you act crazy
Born out of wedlock, that’s when you deadlock
Magical crop yield that’s JC Love Field
When was the moment time ran out?
Left over lives, what’s that about?
Up over head the sky so blue
Somewhere someone is watching you
Huntin’ and fishin’ jamboree
Didn’t you hear invest in me?
Bringin’ it to the lightning round
Sending it through the underground
If may think your on your own or not, remember…
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Only You Can Forgive Me
03:29
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ONLY YOU CAN FORGIVE ME
When I find the words that fail
Is it any wonder thery’re for sale?
Please believe me completely
When I’ve gotten what I gave
Can I have it written on my grave:
Regrets deeply, completely
I didn’t bother to learn
How to sink or to swim
Time can’t forgive me, the sky can’t forgive me
Only you can forgive me
Friends can’t forgive me, the end can’t forgive me
Only you can forgive me
He can’t forgive me or She can’t forgive me
Only you can forgive me
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This Is The Best
03:06
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THIS IS THE BEST
This is the best that we can do
This is the best that we can do
Caught up in a world right in front of me
Maybe I go South, meet my destiny
Make believe I drive, kick it into gear
Make a mental note ‘til the coast is clear
No one is to blame, I just don’t agree
Please let me explain my philosophy
Give it to the poor, give it to the rich
Maybe I’m confused as to which is which
This is the best, this is the best
The best we can do
Every now and then everything I do
Mixes me a drink and I think of you
If it’s in the air and it gets around
Might as well believe that it’s homeward bound
No one is to blame, I just can’t agree
Please let me explain my philosophy
I give it to you, you give it to me
No one will complain as long as it is free
This is the best, this is the best
The best we can do
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Poor God
03:21
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POOR GOD
Look what you have done
I have to start all over
Poor God
Poor God
Now I have to start all over again
Poor God
Poor God
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Grace Lynn
03:42
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POOR GOD
Look what you have done
I have to start all over
Poor God
Poor God
Now I have to start all over again
Poor God
Poor God
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Pawn And Gun
02:51
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Daddy's Money
03:32
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DADDY’S MONEY
In my wealth, in my mind and my faith in my kind
I believe in a town with enough to go ‘round
In the left over light where you stay for the night
There’s a smile and a breeze and a quiet disease
Daddy’s money, daddy’s money
Daddy look down, look down daddy look down
It keeps pace with the times and it welcomes odd rhymes
Call it hope or relief in this state of belief
It makes sense in my head as I’m lying in bed
You don’t ask, you don’t get if you live in regret
Daddy’s money, daddy’s money
Daddy look down, look down daddy look down
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Sarah And Erin
02:54
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SARAH AND ERIN
Sarah and Erin out for a spin
Wearing life able and where have they been?
In focus forever and diving for pearls
Unsettling times for a couple of girls
And what did we leave you?
I’m sorry for that
And what did we leave you?
I’m sorry for that
Sarah and Erin out for a spin
Wearing life able and some kind of kin
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Sunsations
03:27
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SUNSATIONS
If you come around I will be in clover
Even up and over, what I wouldn’t do
If you come around even for a short while
I’ll turn off my mobile just to be with you
If you come around I’ll give up the drinkin’
Even give up thinkin’ what I wouldn’t do
If you come around I’ll stay home on Sunday
I’ll make it the one day just to be with you
If you come around with your summer sound
Memories abound I will be the love you have forever
When the world is done and there’s no more fun
Love is on the run I will be the one to leave you never
Sunsations
Sunsations
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Test Tones
03:52
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TEST TONES
Take my Ruston days
Take my gentle ways
Take my boring pains
Take my rotting veins
Take my Ruston days
Take my Ruston days
Take my gentle ways
Take my boring pains
Take my rotting veins
Take my Ruston days
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Falling Into Grace
02:50
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Before And After
03:02
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BEFORE AND AFTER
Before there was beauty and afterward too
Before there was me, before there was you
Before we were through
Before there was sadness and afterward too
A missing belief still missing for two
And what can you do?
Before and after I looked to the skies
I saw it just as I was closing my eyes
Before and after the tears that I cried
I saw for an instant the soul I denied
Before there was poverty, afterward too
Depends where you look, depends what you do
A room with a view
Before there was sadness and afterward too
A missing belief still missing for two
Well, what can you do?
Before and after I looked to the skies
I saw it just as I was closing my eyes
Before and after the tears that I cried
I saw for an instant the soul I denied
Before and after before
Before and after
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America's Belief
03:32
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AMERICA’S BELIEF
And the sleepy town, what goes up goes down
Everybody wipe your feet
And you’re all alone with your magic phone
Everybody’s got the beat
If it’s sink or swim with your new best friend
Who’s the prophet, who’s the thief?
And the falling stars and the whiskey bars
Of America’s belief
I know I’ll always love you ‘til the end of time
I know I’ll always love you ‘til the end of time
See the magic shoes watch them dance the blues
As they tumble out of sight
And if freedom rings and religion sings
Then I won’t know wrong from right
And the sleepy town, what goes up goes down
Who’s the prophet, who’s the thief?
And the falling stars and the whiskey bars
Of America’s belief
I know I’ll always love you ‘til the end of time
I know I’ll always love you ’til the end of time
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Mikel Rouse New York, New York
Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more
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