Downtown, Saturday Released May 1999 on Undertow (US), Glitterhouse Records (Europe). Closer I sure would like to get away from the city And feel the winding roads go under me Rolling hills as far as the eye can see And you by my side... We could stand to get a little Closer to each other We could stand to get a little Closer to the world Have you seen the moon on the waters? A brilliant path of strokes upon the waves A little north of Minnesota lie peaceful summer days. Out on A Limb A brighter future is getting sold Out from under us, I'm told so put your best shoes on and get in line The papers are ready and waiting to be signed Promised everything, we were bound to lose precious time, but still so much to chose Between an old world of discontent and new ways of looking at how our lives are spent And I see you hanging out on a limb high above A valley of cold, hard cash you could learn to love And I see you hanging on... If you should fall, that's a hard fall to break Where cheaters prosper, the losers win They'll cut you loose if you aren't pulled in / by helping hands they oft withhold a brighter future is getting sold. Shelter I was nothing more than a pipe-dream fitter, A rail splitter, out on my own You came along, made the load much lighter Your dancing fire has kept me warm So if you need a shoulder to cry on And if you need shelter... Don't you know you are safe in these arms? How was I to know I was over my head Twisting free out in the storm Now I can't begin to imagine The day without you to fall back on. Deaf, Blind and Dumb Abstract Gone beyond recognition Scared to lose the will to listen And with each passing moment it grows denser This old, black hole wants to be a sun again Transformation of less attractive features Improvised devices, fewer teachers And with each passing moment it grows denser This old, black hole wants to be a sun again And you walk right past the smoke and the mirrors and shadows you cast With one, out-stretched finger you beckon me to come But I'm frozen in my tracks... Deaf, blind and dumb. So that I Don't Miss You Drifting along Disconnection My mind is a wheel, spinning Staring right through my own reflection My mind is a wheel, spinning I'm going to sleep with the radio on I'm going to sleep with the radio on I'm going to sleep with the radio on tonight So that I don't miss you Now I remember being a stranger My mind is a wheel, spinning Falling behind all the changes My mind is a wheel, spinning I read a book, I was just turning pages My mind is a wheel, spinning No more nights of love or blind rages My mind is a wheel, spinning. Leona She took the bus to Mayfair Across the Sixties boomtown and took a seat next to an old man, saying a prayer for the long lost loved ones How beautiful the light whispered Leona keep the Good Book near She thinks about an old illustration of her saviour And then I took one last look in her eyes Tells it all One last look in her eyes Peaceful as a sunrise Frail from the lonesome journey her skeleton cage was holding on to her soul, light as a feather There was little left to weigh it down. Ready to Go Believe me I don't mean to run Away from it all, but the time has come Your brand new lines are already old The story never ends... it just kind of unfolds But I'm ready to go I'm ready to go You can skip the long goodbyes I'm ready to go It's hard to tell the coast is clear I should've been on board the last train out of here Not watching the clock ticking by slow Nobody else seems to notice or cares to know. Twilight Laying low, so the modern world won't get her She's a trial and error kind of girl She's waiting with a smile so big you can almost see through it In the colder months, the ghost-like exhaust of the cars makes you wonder The sun don't want to work so hard and these days just keep disappearing into the fateful twilight We've gone and thrown ourselves as the whistle blows, the train pulls through the Veteran's parade and drugstore towns of Southern Illinois He's been racing to the end of all her sentences because he has no good place to put them / When they get back, he's got to try to find a new job and make some changes After all of his hard work, all that he's left with are the bad vibes of the want-ad pages She remembers every word, hour, and minute of that first headstrong evening that they spent She pours over the lines Now and then she'll ask him casually, what it was he meant They were alone and torn up by the memories borne on that summer air The canopy of trees betrayed a clairvoyant breeze it was too much to bear. All of the Lines are Down Volunteers The War is over Families raised to become Christian soldiers She told herself that once she left She wouldn't ever be coming back All of the lines are down And this house just echos Pioneers With good intentions all forgot the sun could melt Their best inventions He mentions that he's lonesome now As if that could repair the past somehow. Whenever You Are Around I would bend to lift your spirits are all that you are left with Whatever's been weighing you down And who am I to dismiss? Sometimes my heart just feels like this Whenever you are around Out into the night with a kiss I had taken for granted Now you've taken it with Wherever you are bound Whatever's weighing you down Whenever you are around I just feel better. All songs © 1999 nadine / published by jalopy music / admin by bug music