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Please Yourself
03:52
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It's so easy to cheat on yourself / It's so easy 'cause no one can tell / It's a natural thing to want to please your lover / A sacrifice that you're hoping to cover / What you got, it always goes for the other, but I'm telling you / You've got to please yourself. // It's so easy to leave it for last / It's to easy letting time slip past / You tell yourself that you don't really need it / It's your heart and you've learned how to bleed it / It's that feeling of guilt, you really know how to feed it, but I'm telling you / You've got to please yourself. // It's so hard to risk the romance / It's so hard to take that chance / But you will lose yourself if you don't really mean it / It's your truth and there's no need to clean it. // It's so hard to let your guard down / It's so easy to play the clown / Once you've learned the skill of denying emotion / Just watch those wheels that you've started in motion / It's your lie and it's as big as the ocean, but I'm telling you / You've got to please yourself. // Solo // I know it's easy to cheat on yourself / I know it's easy 'cause I do it myself / It's the pain of the truth that I'm still concealing / That holds me down in this weaselly feeling / This puddle of guilt has been slowly congealing / You've been holding it back, but your heart is still reeling / It's a matter of fact, but it feels too revealing, but I'm telling you / You've got to please yourself.
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Poisoned Apples
06:25
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Enrico and the boys are building deadly toys / And harvesting the apples of the sun / They split them open wide to find out what's inside / And in their dreams they're planting as they run // It's heavy water cold and secrets are untold / And dirty work that takes a steady hand / The field is never seen hidden like a dream / While need to know is carving up the land. // Edward, Arthur, John, turn and they have gone / Desperation calls them into place / For work without a name, they'll rearrange the game / And all become the man without a face. // Radiation burns and calls to take a turn / In service to the holy atom grail / Our best minds disappear behind a wall of fear / And learn to grab the dragon by the tail. // Solo // Your neutron firelight is burning up the night / A spark that once lit never deigns to die / The raven calls your name and then it spreads the fame / Growing like a mushroom in the sky // All those who yearn to know just how far it can go / Without the burden of a civil choice / Are gathering the tools to violate the rules / To steal the fire, then to give it voice. // Fat Man, Little Boy, Armageddon's toys, scientific sealing wax and string / The truth has broken down to seed the zero ground / With mushrooms in a poisoned fairy ring. // Radiation burns, will we ever learn / In service to the holy atom grail / Our future disappears behind a wall of fear / we've got much more than just a dragon's tail. // Enrico and the boys are building deadly toys and stealing poisoned apples from the sun.
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Moon in the Branches
03:51
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I've lived in Chicago I've Lived in LA / I've lived in a small town or two /
I've traveled forever since I was a child / And never quite ever touched down. // You saw me in Memphis, we laughed in the rain / You said we should meet at the mall / I stopped at the park at the center of town / As night pulled the autumn leaves down. // Moon in the branches / Stars in the air / I've squandered my chances / Of meeting you there. // My Father had demons that bit at his heels / And kept us from settling down / He never said why, just a look in the eye / And we'd pack up and get out of town. // I got so caught up in this life on the road / And collected these demons of mine / And garnered the truth of the wounds that are healed / By the bittersweet pill of goodbye. // Moon in the branches / Stars in the air / I've squandered by chances / Of meeting you there. // As God is my witness it's freedom's bold hand / That cast out the seeds of my life / And harvested memories shining and gold / That burn as the reaper grows old // Solo // I've lived in Las Vegas, I've lived in Des Moines / I've lived in a small town or two / I've traveled forever since I was a child / And never, quite ever touched down.
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Melting Away
03:58
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We both suffer / From broken hearts / Pain that seems here to stay / Gentle night breeze / The jeweled sky / Help to forget / Lonely evenings / And empty rooms / Feel the past fade away / With you near me / Heart-pain and fear / They just start // Melting away / Melting away / And my heart overflows / 'Till the pain finally goes away // Solo // Dream time flowing / Can this be love? / Let the past fade away / Come be near me / Eternity's here / Loneliness will be // Melting away / Melting away / And my heart overflows / 'Till the pain finally goes / It's just melting away / Melting away / And my heart overflows / 'Till the pain finally goes / And my heart overflows / 'Till the pain finally goes away.
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Heavy Load
04:37
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Rusty sun descending / Paints the whole world red / Hundred miles from nowhere / With voices in my head // Drank the last good water / Forty miles ago / Can't hold out much longer / So I wanted you to know. // I still think about you / Of all the times to miss you / Down this desert road / I never found it easy / To bear this heavy load. // All the things you asked me / All the talking that you do // Stirring up those feelings / It leaves me so confused // Don't you know the danger / Can't you feel the pain? / Or are you an angel / Come to kiss me with your rain // But it never comes true / the rain will never reach me / Down this desert road / I never found it easy / To bear this heavy load. // Solo // You couldn't leave it alone / And now there's smoke and ashes / Down this desert road / I never found it easy / To bear my heavy load.
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Don Neill Los Angeles, California
Don Neill is a Kalamazoo, Michigan native and has been playing the guitar since 1973. He loves all musical genres and has been in bands that play jazz, latin, progressive rock, and even punk. He started a small song garden in his twenties and has faithfully watered it over the decades until it has become a full-fledged weed patch full of songs from all walks of life. ... more
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