TIME MACHINE Don’t Go Down Easy Eyes So Bad, So Bad Go Now Time Machine 9 Below 0 Touch me Baby Sentimental Side Lonely Beauty Child Of Empire One Eyed Joe David Childers: lead vocals, guitar The Rank Outsiders: Gigi Dover: guitar, vocals Bill Noonan: guitars Ray Mitchell: drums Tom Kuhn: bass, mandolin Featuring: Robbie Turner: steel guitar, dobro Bill Livsey: piano, organ Tim Coats: vocals All songs by David Childers/SingleWing Music Don’t Go Down Easy Forgive me for intruding on your dreams but here am I, to watch you while you’re sleeping and kiss you one more time. You sleep alone tonight, don’t think you will for long. Don’t go down easy baby, try to keep my memory strong. chorus- Don’t go down easy baby, don’t fade like all the rest. I never did give much back in life, but you always got my best. We came to life with Adam’s shame, we learn to bear the mark of Cain. and who has never felt the rain wash right through their soul. And who has never known the night, to wrap them in its arms and hold them to the deepest depths until the break of dawn. chorus bridge- Well I did time when I was young but I never even owned a gun but everybody said it was me. Well I don’t care what the D.A. said he just needed to see me dead and now he’s got what he needs he’s got what he needs.. I’ve been up on the scaffold, I’ve heard the wild crowd yell. I’ve been up high in Heven, and I’ve been down in that jail. The hangman hit me hardest, Saint Peter was the best. Don’t go down easy baby, don’t fade like all the rest. (top) Eyes The creek smells bad in the big, long night. In the muggy dark, it’s never smelled right; but t catches the stars and it carries the moon on it’s big brown back through the weary gloom and it runs through your eyes. O, wondrous eyes. Far over the sea in another life I was sent for a soldier but I found a wife. And I never saw battle, but I saw that girl and I saw her eyes, she had eyes like yours, wondrous eyes. Eyes, wondrous eyes. I’m older now. I know a little bit more than when I left for foreign shores. But I still don’t know what it is that makes me feel so fine when I look inside O, wondrous eyes. Your eyes, wondrous eyes. Love of man for woman, love of woman for man; man for man, woman for woman, I’m sure God understands. It’s all the same. It’s a holy thing. And I see it in your eyes… O, wondrous eyes. I wake today to the morning song of the rain soaked bird on the rain soaked lawn; and I watch you sleep and I feel your sighs and I wait for the light to shin in your eyes. Wondrous eyes. O, wondrous eyes. (top) So Bad So Bad I was born somewhere between white and black on a dead end street where you don’t look back at the hellhounds baying at your tail and you go to the factory or you die in jail. I hit the road at seventeen with a three piece band and a hungering and my pretty little green-eyed Janie cried but I knew she would heal in a real short time. chorus I miss that woman so bad so bad. I had to leave her so sad so sad. I miss that woman so bad so bad. We made it up to Washington. We ran into a man with a sawed-off shotgun. Soon he had our van and gear and that’s what brought me back here. I needed money to make my rent so into the factory I went to buy a car and a used guitar and a brand new amp and a VCR. chorus Janie married a section boss, number two plant, name of Tony Ross; and he hated me for everything I had been to his pretty little bride way back when. One day I ran into Tony Ross at a place in the plant where the sections cross. He picked a fight and I finished it right. with a big, iron pipe I took his life. chorus My lawyers argued self-defense. The jury found for a lesser offence. But that meant ten long years for me in Hell’s own penitentiary. Now I’m out and I’ve done my time, bruises and scars, I’ve got blisters on my mind. I play my guitar in the key of blue, sleep with the sun and walk with the moon. I miss that woman so bad so bad. (top) Go Now The midnight train runs blazing in between us. A new lover waits wherever you are bound. Don’t say goodbye. That’s looking backwards. We’ve gone beyond goodbye. Just get on board. I think we had better go now. I came into this life just like you did, came out naked, screaming help me find my way. And I came here, you went there and that’s the way things happen. I release you from my heart, I’ll pickup the pieces. Because the fires have been burned The words have all been spoken. What’s done is done. Think you better go now. Better go now, go now, go now If I had know you would have been here I would have waited; dropped everything, sat down and watched for your star to arise. But I’m no different from the rest, I can’t see the future, especially when it is something basic like who you are going to love. Because the fires have been burned The words have all been spoken. What’s done is done. Think you better go now. Better go now, go now, go now (top) Time Machine Walking down Third Street, near a place I like to eat, who you think that I’d meet? Who else, but you: It was you. You acted like you feared me, you wouldn’t get near me. I guess you never knew me if you thought I’d ever touch you unless you asked me to. chorus- Ah, but if I had a time machine, I wouldn’t have to travel so far. Just another lifetime or so. Then maybe I’d know if I could love you more. Moved around the country, factory to factory, just to kill your memory. And now, I’m finally cured. I could be in Oakland, I could be in Boston, I could be in Yucatan but here I am in Cleveland. Man I love Cleveland. chorus. (top) 9 Below 0 Nine below zero in the district of fear. Sun is shining and the air is clear. Hope is blooming in sorrows daw. Nine below zero. Carry on, carry on. Carry on. Nine below zero. Across the frozen land. Give back to love whatever you can. Pick the roses that grow in your dreams. Nine below zero. Roses grow in your dreams. Pick the roses. Big train is burning from the west escaping fro the city of regret and it’s bearing a train load of reasons to stay alive. Nine below zero. There are stars in your eyes. Moon shines over the snowflakes that fly. Being near you makes me feel alive. Nine below zero. I’m alive, I’m alive. I’m alive, I’m alive. (top) Touch Me Baby There’s a little red window shining high above on the ninety-ninth floor of the tower of love. Cold winds rattle the bones of desire. All over this city hearts are catching are catching fire. Touch me baby, come across the line. Touch me baby, while we still have time. War in the east. Plague in the north. Cities shake and shudder like their falling apart. Who’s that knocking on the skull of the night? Let them keep knocking and hold on tight. Touch me baby, come across the line. Touch me baby, while we still have time. Maybe tomorrow the walls will tumble down. Maybe we’ll lie in the cold, cold ground. Fire inside me burns inside out. Burn, burn, burn till you’re all burned out. Dawn rushes bloody from the raging sea. Walking dead and cruel machinery fill up the road that leave us to the valley of death. Open up your arms baby. I’ll give you what I’ve got left. Touch me baby, come across the line. Touch me baby, while we still have time. Touch me baby yeah. Touch me baby. (top) Sentimental Side The sentimental side of me calls out your name. The realistic side of me knows, I turned our life into a game. Now we can’t go back to where we were, can’t be the people that we were before. Maybe that’s what it should be. Just don’t tell it to the sentimental side of me. My restless heart wanted too much, now I know. And so I lost you love that was mine and always mine alone. Now I drive these streets that never end, everyday I’m a lonely man. Maybe that’s what should be just don’t tell the sentimental side of me. chorus- Precious moments that we have known precious moments have all flown. And the good times that I recall we’ve lost them one and all. Maybe that’s what it should be just don’t tell it to the sentimental side of me. I saw you with your lover, he’s a lucky man. I know how good it feels to walk along the streets of life with you hand in hand. Where are the one’s I left you for? They’ve changed their minds and closed the doors. Maybe that’s what should be just don’t tell it to the sentimental side of me. chorus (top) Lonely Beauty I remember you from late winter down along the Princes Way. The green pain growing over the land. There was something in the air that made it flicker like a candle by the river. And your eyes like some dark night in the summer. Hey, hey lonely beauty. Whoa, whoa lonely beauty. Your daddy was an exile, your mama was no fool. Your brothers and sisters ran off and left on the harpsichord craziness of changing weather. Bad luck, bad dreams you found your dream lover. And the all night movies. And your fragile hope. Hey, hey lonely beauty. Whoa, whoa lonely beauty. O the sound of thunder off in the distance and the rain that never fell. Time rolls on like a chariot wheel. Life slows down and the dead men sing falsetto in the old moon light. Shoot out the streetlights. People are generally hopeless. O the thousand tears in the blizzard on the verge of a heat wave. Hey, hey lonely beauty. Whoa, whoa yeah lonely beauty. Hey, hey lonely beauty... (top) Child Of Empire child of empire your daddy was a soldier you’re a little bit bolder child of empire your eyes have seen the dawn from the beaches we stood on child of empire child of empire you grew up with a gun beneath an angry sun child of empire you show your healthy face in every foreign base child of empire chorus- see the bombers high above mom and dad on automatic pilot sending out their love hear the whispers from the east peace has landed on the beach child of empire child of empire you’re a pretty little woman child you drive the airmen wild child of empire from the place we come to save you take home foreign ways child of empire child of empire the markets in the squares whisper when you pas through there child of empire see the shadows that descend on the empires we live in child of empire chorus (top) One Eyed Joe There’s a place where One Eyed Joe lay down on the street to die, beneath the city towers and the billboard signs. And there’s a place where Jesus held him to his heart and said “My friend, my old friend Joe, now your spirit can depart from the sorrow of your body and all it’s earthly pain.” Old One Eye shone like glory inside the drizzling rain. “I’m scared my legs will quit me,” he said “from drinking wine, Don’t run away and leave me when it comes to dying time. My children have forgotten and my wife left long ago but the scientist down at old state tech might like a chance to know why some of us must prosper and some of us must stay, why some of us must wonder and others waste away.” chorus- I was young and on my own and he was my soul companion. He showed me through the ropes and the frozen concrete canyon… Losers without question, we knew that like our names, (except for kindness, just plain kindness, given without shame) All summer I stayed with him then the first cold mornings came. We drank up everything we could, by winter he was lame. He hacked and swayed and began to pray down along some railroad tracks; then he got as far as Dock Street where he laid down on his back. He said “I lost my eye back in ’45 behind the German lines and I saved the rest just to come to this and I can’t imagine why.” chorus The medics knelt beside him and I know they did their best, but Old Joe was gone and I said so long underneath my liquored breath. And Jesus turned and smiled at me then he shook my hand. He said, “Thanks for helping Joe along on the road to Gloryland.” I spent the night in a drainage ditch with the stars above my bed; and I dreamed of Joe in a grand hotel with a top hat on his head. chorus (top)