Subject: Mavericks - From Hell To Paradise Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:27:54 +0100 From: "Gunnar Hedlund" To: "Hans Settler" Thanks Gunnar! @ARTIST: The Mavericks @ALBUM: From Hell To Paradise @SONG: A Better Way we spent the night in a hobo town like a pair of runaways we lit a fire and sang the songs we learned from yesterday settled down and built a house with our own sweatin' hands what happened next I'll never know or never understand finished with my working day and headed straight for home I looked inside the bedroom door and you were not alone well I hope you find a better way to get through my front door the roads you take don't let you see I don't love you anymore and if you find a broken heart somewhere along the way don't you dare pick it up it'll mend itself someday you thought my life was over now well honey, you thought wrong I found myself someone to love who'll love me all night long all the things you left behind I threw them all away you never cared enough about the things I had to say well I hope you find a better way to get through my front door the roads you take don't let you see I don't love you anymore and if you find a broken heart somewhere along the way don't you dare pick it up it'll mend itself someday @SONG: Children a child who is raised by an unworthy hand has less of a chance of being a man who will try to remember and then understand why a mother would cry while her husband lay dead shot down by the gun of a runaway train called life in the fast lane it all ends the same well the same children's lives they will always regret are the children who never forget a man ends up tired and walking alone on a street corner singing for a penny a song what he cannot remember was never his own that's the answer he gives when he speaks of his home well the street are my life, I don't know anymore where the children are junkies and the ladies are whores well the same children's lives they will always regret are the children who never forget good night, good night, sweet child why don't you dream with the angels to forget for awhile to forget of the life that's been handed to you where everything's real, yet nothing is true well perhaps you can change what the cards always read for the children who never forget for a time they were counting you out of this race you stood up like a champion that had fallen with grace never showing the anguish that had covered your face you were raped and forgotten left to die in disgrace shot down by the gun of a runaway train called life in the fast lane it all ends the same well the same children's lives they will always regret are the children who never forget good night, good night, sweet child why don't you dream with the angels to forget for awhile to forget of the life that's been handed to you where everything's real, yet nothing is true well perhaps you can change what the cards always read for the children who never forget @SONG: Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache) they just don't know how lost I feel without you my teardrops never see the light of day I laugh and joke each time they talk about you but if they heard my heart they'd hear it say excuse me, I think I've got a heartache there's an aching deep inside and it just won't be denied excuse me, I think I've got a heartache and I better say goodbye before I cry I guess it's pride that makes me hide my sorrow I live a lie in all I do and say my lips may lie and paint a bright tomorrow but if I told the truth I'd have to say excuse me, I think I've got a heartache there's an aching deep inside and it just won't be denied excuse me, I think I've got a heartache and I better say goodbye before I cry and I better say goodbye before I cry @SONG: Forever Blue why was I so wrong when everything was right I thought that you would long for my arms to hold you tight you never even called or stopped to say hallo so now I'm sad and blue while you're just glad to go remember all the times when you were missing me because I gone so long but not eternally I always turned around to find my way back home but the only thing I found was I found myself alone I may never find another one to hold me I may never find another one so true maybe I'll just find myself all sad and lonely maybe I'll just never find another you forever lonely, forever blue forever knowing that you were true forever thinking you'd love me too so you've gone and now I don't know what to do so I guess I'll always be forever blue will you be so kind to leave my heart alone that's where it needs to be so it won't hurt no more as long as you're around and not here with me my smile will be a frown and forever blue I'll be I may never find another one to hold me I may never find another one so true maybe I'll just find myself all sad and lonely maybe I'll just never find another you forever lonely, forever blue forever knowing that you were true forever thinking you'd love me too so you've gone and now I don't know what to do so I guess I'll always be forever blue so you've gone and now I don't know what to do so I guess I'll always be forever blue @SONG: From Hell To Paradise for thirty years they sang the song of promised victory but who they've fought and who has won didn't matter much to me I see them driving down the streets in their fancy, shiny cars crowds of people to their feet and their faces full of scars no pleasantries, no luxuries no little children's milk while minister's wifes spent all their lifes in china's finest silk my back's been broken many times but my spirit lingers on the day it comes my way on freedom's ship I will be gone from hell to paradise I'll always pay the price from hell to paradise I'll always pay the price this ninety mile trip has taken thirty years to make they tried to keep forever what was never theirs to take I cursed and scratched the devil's hand as he stood in front of me one last drag from his cigar and he finally set me free from hell to paradise I'll always pay the price from hell to paradise I'll always pay the price con ojos tiernos algun dia te mirare con brasos abiertos algun dia abrasare hay mi Havana cuando pueda regresare @SONG: Hey Good Lookin' hey good lookin' what cha got cookin' how's about cookin' something up with me well I'm free and ready so we can go steady how's about keepin' steady company I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill and I know a spot right over the hill there's soda pop and the dancin' free but if you wanna have fun come along with me I said, hey good lookin' what cha got cookin' how's about cookin' something up with me I'm gonna throw my datebook over the fence and find me one for five or ten cents I'll keep it 'til it's covered with age because I'm writing your name down on every page I said, hey good lookin' what cha got cookin' how's about cookin' something up with me I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill and I know a spot right over the hill there's soda pop and the dancin' free but if you wanna have fun come along with me I said, hey good lookin' what cha got cookin' how's about cookin' something up with me how's about cookin' something up with me how's about cookin' something up with I said good lookin' well, how's about cookin' something up with me @SONG: I Got You it's one of those days when trying to make a dollar's got me wearing thin and what I thought was right just turned out to be wrong again you know it don't pay to have a broken back from carrying all those worries 'round honey, I have found I got you to make me love you I got you to make me care I got you right here beside me when nothing else is there it don't matter about the money 'cause I got your lovin' honey and I could lose it all today but I got you you know me well well enough to know if it's me or only my foolish pride that make me say the things to you that only make you cry and you can tell when the time is right to hold me tight or let me go darling, I need you so I got you to make me love you I got you to make me care I got you right here beside me when nothing else is there it don't matter about the sorrow 'cause I don't have you tomorrow and I could lose it all today but I got you well, it don't matter about the sorrow 'cause I don't have you tomorrow and I could lose it all today but I got you I wish there was a way but words could never say the love I feel today 'cause I got you @SONG: Mr. Jones I wanna go across the river to the house on oldway road where my life began and ended all the same I remember Chris and Johnny childhood friends of mine who grew wise enough to learn to play the game as I walked up to the front yard there were children playing there and I thought someday this may be my home again but how soon I learned my lesson through the windows they threw stones and said there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones I went next door to ask the neighbor if they knew what happened here to the place where all my memories remain as they recalled and tried to answer tears rolled down their eyes but the best replay they had was made in vain seems the folks that used to live here worked hard for all their means but their means could never take them to an end there was hope down in the city then a bank declined their loan now there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones can't you see that it's empty now and no one really cares for even I must try to save my own you should turn around and get back on that lonely oldway road 'cause there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones can't you see that it's empty now and no one really cares for even I must try to save my own you should turn around and get back on that lonely oldway road 'cause there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones I'm going back across the river to see if I can find the place where life can start and end all the same but no matter where I'm going it will dwell inside my bones that there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones I know there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones I know there's nothing left inside, Mr. Jones @SONG: The End Of The Line you walk on higher ground like the holy ghost I haven't found the mighty words you speak they bounce off the strong but are heard by the weak their pennies just keep on coming in their spirits are still soaking in their sins some say they're even born again see what you can find at the end of the line there's no end in time at the end of the line there's no peace of mind at the end of the line the time has finally come to relinquish the throne that doesn't belong for only you can tell if the pardon will come or will you burn in hell you tried to recover dirty stones from love filthy games played on the road now it is you who stand alone see what you can find at the end of the line there's no end in time at the end of the line there's no peace of mind at the end of the line you can't run you can't hide at the end of the line their pennies just keep on coming in their spirits are still soaking in their sins some say they're even born again see what you can find at the end of the line there's no end in time at the end of the line there's no peace of mind at the end of the line you can't run you can't hide at the end of the line and there's no peace of mind at the end of the line at the end of the line ... @SONG: This Broken Heart this broken heart will never love again because I don't want it to you came along and showed me I was wrong to think that I could never love you every time I run away I know you'll always stay this broken heart will wear the pain she bore with you my heart won't break anymore every time I run away I know you'll always stay this broken heart will wear the pain she bore with you my heart won't break anymore no with you my heart won't break anymore