Emerald Street lyrics and music eliza gilkyson take a walk down emerald street sparks flyin from my head to my feet all because I’m in love sun shines and the air smells sweet little birdies go tweet tweet tweet all because I’m in love whole world’s goin up in smoke hard times comin, I ain’t jokin just tryin to keep my heart wide open yeah shake it shake it baby twist and shout feel like a kid from the inside out all because I’m in love whole world’s goin up in smoke… love still makes my world go round people still tryin to talk me down all because I’m in love eliza gilkyson: national steel guitar, vocal, whistling mike hardwick: electric guitar tony gilkyson: electric guitar glenn fukunaga: bass cisco ryder: drums, percussion john mills: saxophone patrick murray: saxophone michael mordecai: trumpet john mills: horn arrangement Wildewood Spring lyrics and music eliza gilkyson in the building block canyons the urban survivors are trapped in the gridlock of 9 to 5 thing burning their candles while gas engines idle they long for revival in wildewood spring come down where the wild birds sing come down where the water’s clean down in the wildewood spring post grads from west texas, hippies from manor float with the rednecks as kids do their thing first nations linger with the ghost of john traynor in the deep waters of wildewood spring come down… I remember the first time I knew I could love him and this would be more than a vow and a ring with the last rays of hope and the blue sky above him he flung himself into the wildewood spring come down… eliza gilkyson: acoustic guitar, vocal mike hardwick: electric guitar glenn fukunaga: upright bass rich brotherton: cittern elana james: fiddle julie wolf: background vocal mark hallman: background vocal The Party’s Over lyrics and music eliza gilkyson the party’s over, we had us a time everybody got loaded, everybody looked fine we emptied the coffers of water and wine the party’s over we had a good time we danced on the tables midnight til dawn til all the time was up and the good stuff gone the house is a shambles, broken glass in the streets guttering candles, blood on the sheets we burned all the kindling, passed the bottle around watched the last coals dwindling and the ice melting down we danced on the tables… the party’s over, we had a blast brought in the lawyers to cover our ass left a note for the children to clean up the mess the party’s over it was a big success! we danced on the tables… eliza gilkyson: acoustic guitar, vocal tony gilkyson: electric guitar mark hallman: electric guitar glenn fukunaga: bass cisco ryder: drums, background vocal julie wolf: hammond organ, background vocal Great Correction lyrics and music eliza gilkyson down on the corner of ruin and grace I’m growin weary of the human race hold my lamp up in everyone’s face lookin for an honest man everyone tied to the turnin wheel everyone hidin from the things they feel well the truth’s so hard it just don’t seem real the shadow across this land people round here don’t know what it means to suffer at the hands of our american dreams they turn their backs on the grisly scenes traced to the privileged sons they got their god they got their guns got their armies and the chosen ones but we’ll all be burnin in the same big sun when the great correction comes down through the ages lovers of the mystery been sayin people let your love light shine poets and sages all throughout history say the light burns brightest in the darkest times it’s the bitter end we’ve come down to the eye of the needle that we gotta get through but the end could be the start of something new when the great correction comes down through the ages…. down to the wire runnin out of time still got hope in this heart of mine but the future waits on the horizon line for our daughters and our sons I don’t know where this train’s bound whole lotta people tryin to turn it around gonna shout til the walls come tumblin down and the great correction comes don’t let me down when the great correction comes eliza gilkyson: acoustic guitar, vocal mike hardwick: dobro glenn fukunaga: bass cisco ryder: drums tony gilkyson: electric guitar julie wolf: hammond organ Clever Disguise lyrics and music eliza gilkyson I am just a troubadour a tried and true believer if there’s nothing that I can live for I don’t want to be here I wear my heart on my shirtsleeve and my dark glasses over my eyes clever disguise clever disguise I’m just a roadside flower draped in a fancy dress from my booth in the broadcasting tower I send out my s.o.s. and when I reach into the breach of a wandering pair of eyes I see a clever disguise clever disguise I’m just a lonely freight train comin hummin round a hairpin bend tryin to keep my engines runnin til I reach some kind of rainbow’s end I saw you there at the rally down at the city hall and before you even reached your finale I’d already started to fall you say you’re just a prairie boy neither wealthy, worthy, nor wise clever disguise clever disguise eliza gilkyson: acoustic guitar, vocal mike hardwick: 12-string guitar glenn fukunaga: bass cisco ryder: suitcase, percussion tony gilkyson: electric guitar mark hallman: background vocal julie wolf: hammond organ, accordion Dream Lover lyrics and music eliza gilkyson I lived on the streets down in new orleans just to get away from my family daddy’s little dream I was only 16 but I took all misfortune would hand me some john had a camera and an internet site and the streets were getting crowded I took the money, it was over by midnight but I don’t want to talk about it I do my time in the eye of the lens so some loser can launch his rocket what do I care if they think they’re my friends when their money is in my pocket you can call me a victim you can call it a sin you can stand on your stump and shout it but it’s man’s world that we’re livin in and I don’t want to talk about it cause I’m your dream lover your wish is my command I’m your dream lover better than a one night stand dream lover as close as the palm of your hand I’ll do the things that your girlfriend won’t and make you believe that I like it I say do it when the others say don’t and won’t even try to fight it I can make it seem it’s not cruel or extreme like I can’t live a minute without it daddy’s little girl is a porno queen but I don’t want to talk about it cause I’m your dream lover…. eliza gilkyson: acoustic guitar, vocal glenn fukunaga: bass cisco ryder: drums robbie gjersoe: slide guitar mark hallman: bouzouki, background vocal He waits for me lyrics and music eliza gilkyson baby walks a wire without a net baby gives his heart with no regret and from this height where he’ll risk the fall for a glimpse of what might be he waits for me I can trace my memory through the dust the ruins of my wanderlust but those are lost who try to cross through the sorrow fields too easily he waits for me I have seen love’s wings of grace cross his fallen-angel face baby walks a wire so perilous offers up his hope like a prayer for us to finally feel love’s worldly weight lean up against my garden gate he waits for me eliza gilkyson: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal mike hardwick: electric guitar cisco ryder: percussion julie wolf: plucked piano strings mark hallman: keyboards, acoustic guitar Runaway Train lyrics and music eliza gilkyson everyone knew she was gonna be fast everyone said they could build her to last 10,000 tons of hurtlin steel screamin round the curves nobody at the wheel everyone said don’t pay it any mind there’s a pot of gold waitin at the end of the line just move with the eye of the hurricane you’ll never get off this runaway train nobody cared when they piled on board and the doors snapped shut and the engines roared they pushed to the front some fell to the back buyin and sellin every inch of the track deep in the engines fire in the hole dark skinned workers shovelin coal all singin their sad refrain we’ll never get off this runaway train up in the diner everybody decked out in their finery can’t see the wreck comin up ahead with their bellies full of wine it’s the last thing going through their minds so proud of the engine proud of the speed call for the porter give them everything they need stare through the glass feel no pain don’t even know they’re on a runaway train long after midnight a pitiful few sound the alarm don’t know what else to do bangin on the doors of the cabin and crew hey we gotta slow down or we won’t make it through sleepy riders don’t want to wake or suffer the shock when they put on the brake don’t want to question , don’t want to complain rather keep ridin on this runaway train eliza gilkyson: acoustic guitar, vocal mike hardwick: electric guitar glenn fukunaga: bass cisco ryder: drums david grissom: electric guitar, baritone guitar Beautiful World lyrics and music eliza gilkyson beautiful world circling infinitely fragment of sun marbled in blue turning in time and tuned like a symphony beautiful stars beautiful view beautiful world intricate web of design shadow and light playing out on the land billions of years come down to a point in time setting the stage for the folly of man pitiful man beautiful world beautiful world beautiful world….. beautiful trees breathing the air alive beautiful leaves trembling and dry beautiful bees moving from flower to hive beautiful seas mirroring sky beautiful sky beautiful world beautiful world beautiful world….. eliza gilkyson: rhodes piano, grand piano robert mcentee: electric guitar julie wolf: keyboards cordelia castillo: background vocal Rare Bird lyrics and music eliza gilkyson rare bird, I know your loneliness born into a crowded nest and given away solitaire girl, your voice crying in the wilderness where suffering brings holiness at least that’s what they say rare bird, I wish you good company rare bird I know your sorrow it rings a little hollow with every passing day it’s not fair girl they want a piece of all of you to form a line and follow you and every word that you say rare bird, I wish you sanctuary with your razor wire and pitfalls my way of climbing walls and finding where the china dolls are hidden words can be misunderstood but my intentions all were good there’s nothing here not worth forgiving I’m not the kind to hover near or stand in line to catch your ear but I just want to get things clear between us I know how to disappear and leave by the backdoor dear make sure that no one here has seen us rare bird, I don’t want you to go down here on the poor side of town there’s nothing left to say just this prayer girl we’ll go on from here unbound meet again on higher ground some uncloudy day rare bird, just a little prayer from me rare bird eliza gilkyson: electric guitar cisco ryder: percussion, background vocal mark hallman: nylon string guitar robert mcentee: electric guitar julie wolf: hammond organ cordelia castillo: background vocal Unsustainable lyrics and music eliza gilkyson unsustainable, unmaintainable we’ve gone too far and now it’s uncontainable let’s tear it down and start all over again reprehensible, indefensible the way we are is truly incomprehensible back to the drawing board start all over again madly, we loved you madly we would have gladly maintained the status quo badly, we’ve behaved badly and now, sadly, we’ll have to let you go you’re so unforgivable, results unriddable to make a perfect garden so unlivable back to the drawing board start all over again madly, we loved you madly we would have gladly maintained the status quo badly, we’ve behaved badly and now, sadly, we’ll have to let you go you’re so unsustainable, unrestrainable our rationale is simply unexplainable let’s tear it down and start all over back to the drawing board start all over let’s tear it down and start all over again eliza gilkyson: vocal john inmon: electric guitar cindy cashdollar: pedal steel guitar chris maresh: upright bass