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The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong
And you'll be sorry someday
The thrill is gone
It's gone away from me
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away from me
Although I'll still live on
But so lonely I'll be
The thrill is gone
It's gone away for good
The thrill is gone
It's gone away for good
Someday I know I'll be over it all baby
Just like I know a good man should
You know I'm free, free now baby
I'm free from your spell
I'm free, free now
I'm free from your spell
Now that it's over
All I can do is wish you well
Now that it's over
All I can do is wish you well
Now that it's over
All I can do is wish you well
Rick Darnell and Roy Hawkins
Universal Music-Careers
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Yesterday she was standing there with her hair of gold blowing through the air
As the sun shone upon her face she was tumbling down falling far from grace
And I…
Couldn’t help but see something on her mind and it wasn’t me
And she…
Looked at me and said “If you can’t find love you’d be better off dead”
Breaking down…
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Tomorrow night she’ll be going out looking for the things that she’s done without
And she…
Looking for to fill all the emptiness that’s inside her still
And I…
will be waiting here hoping she’ll understand that I hold her dear
In my heart…
Where she just won’t go and when she walks away I just feel so low
Breaking down…
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
She’s the one…
Lord I love her so, but a foolish heart with no let her know
I’m the one…
That she really needs, does she really not know it’s my heart that bleed
When she…
Goes out to find true love while I’m praying here to the Lord above
Does He hear…
A single word I pray, why do I always have to feel this way
Breaking down…
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Words and Music by Mike Lawson
© 2020 Psychotronic Music - BMI
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The Crippled Lion
03:28
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Slowly I walk through the gently falling rain
I know that I will never pass this way again
Never wondering why
Teardrops chafing my eyes
Longing to be where the noted kisses fall
Lingering and still, while quietly they tell their all
Blue is the color of the sun
And nothing stops when everything is done
Now my whole world opens up in different rhymes and tunes
With highways making up the verse
And then suddenly I see the light of something called the moon
And though my path is planned, it's not rehearsed
So I move along to the next thing on the list
Knowing full-well that some of them just don't exist
But I am finally alone
And where my foot steps down is where it's home
So I move along to the next thing on the list
Knowing full-well that some of them just don't exist
But I am finally alone
And where my foot steps down is where it's home
And where my foot steps down is where it's home
Robert M Nesmith
Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.
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I been drinking and it got me started thinking 'bout the way I been really glad
Yeah I been knowing 'bout the way things is going and baby that ain't too bad
You I been showing that the knowing is growing that the way that it ought to be
Cuz I aint' stress 'bout the way you been messing but baby how you blessing me
Right now we got the when and how
Even if a bit off key
Hey, wow! We got the here and now and it's a beautiful harmony
We been kicking it and even chicken picking in and throwing up a real big fuss
Working hard 'til Friday, raising hell Saturday, Sunday morning just for us
Now we done spent it all, what the hell we had a ball, that's the way that it ought to be
Cuz we ain't confessing to the way we been messing but baby how you blessing me
Right now we got the when and how
Even if a bit off key
Hey, wow! We got the here and now and it's a beautiful harmony
I been working it, and you be just a little bit
It's getting kind of out of hand
But you been remaking me and even overtaking me
Heading to the promised land
And we start to glowing when the loving is a flowing
That's the way that it ought to be
Then you start undressing and I start confessing oh baby how you blessing me
Right now we got the when and how
Even if a bit off key
Hey, wow! We got the here and now and it's a beautiful harmony
Words/Music Mike Lawson
Psychotronic Music – BMI
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I'm sittin alone, Saturday night,
Watching the Late Late Show.
A bottle of wine, some cigarettes,
I got no place to go.
Well, I saw your other man today;
He was wearing my brand new shoes,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Well, I met my old friend Bob today
From up in Bowling Green;
He had the prettiest little gal
That I'd ever seen.
But I couldn't hide my tears at all,
Cause she looked just like you,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Now everybody tells me
There's other ways to get high.
They don't seem to understand
I'm too far gone to try.
Now these lonely memories,
They're all I can't lose,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Well my dog died just yesterday
And left me all alone.
The finance company dropped by today
And repossessed my home.
But that's just a drop in the bucket
Compared to losing you,
And I'm down to seeds and stems again, too.
Got the Down to Seeds an Stems again Blues.
Songwriters: Billy Farlow / George Frayne
Seeds and Stems (Again) lyrics © Ozone Music, Ozone Music Pub Co
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Till the end of time I'll be there for you
Don't care where you wander
Don't care what you do
I'll be there beside you
Though your hardest day
I will never leave you
Tomorrow or today
Anytime you need me
When you lose your way
When you think of me
When you call my name
You will know I love you
Always feel the same
Let my love shine always over you
Let my love shine always over you
When you're sad or lonely
When you're feeling low
When you're out of time
When you're running slow
You don't need to worry
You don't need to fear
When you call my name
I am always near
I'm forever with you
Always by your side
Even when you're frightened
Even when you hide
Let my love shine always over you
Let my love shine always over you
Let my love shine always over you
Let my love shine always over you
Let my love shine always over you
Let my love shine always over you
Words/Music Mike Lawson
Psychotronic Music – BMI
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Wild Horses
06:17
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Childhood living
Is easy to do
The things you wanted
I bought them for you
Graceless lady
You know who I am
You know I can't let you
Slide through my hands
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
I watched you suffer
A dull aching pain
Now you've decided
To show me the same
No sweeping exit
Or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter
Or treat you unkind
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
I know I've dreamed you
A sin and a lie
I have my freedom
But I don't have much time
Faith has been broken
Tears must be cried
Let's do some living
After we die
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Keith Richards / Mick Jagger
© Abkco Music Inc.
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Two Ships
04:08
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She said, “You’re so nice. You just can’t be real. I never thought I’d meet anyone who makes me feel…..”
“Easy and free, allowed to be me, I’ve been hurt before now I’m trying so hard just to learn how to be.”
“Alone here with me, waiting to see. I’m still afraid that what we could have never can be.”
I said, “My worst fear, in letting you near, is putting you close to my heart from the start and then you disappear.”
“Into the night, me here alone, wondering waiting, and sitting down here on my own with the phone.”
“But it doesn’t ring, you never call, and once again I will lose in the end and prepare for a fall”
We’re two sailing ships that survived wicked weather, sailing the ocean alone to safe harbor now we’re docked together.
Two different journeys that led us to here, now the storms have all calmed is there nothing to fear?
She said, “I’m afraid. I’m waiting to see. If you turn out to be somebody else than who you want to be.”
“What if I find, you’re really not kind?
Am I really ready to risk going out of mind?”
“If you’re not true, if you’re not real. I never thought that I’d meet anyone who’d make me feel…..”
I said, “I know. It hurt to let go. Walking away from a past that’s been all that you know.”
“We can move slow, see where we go. We’re in no hurry so we shouldn’t worry on things we can’t know.”
We’re two sailing ships that survived wicked weather, sailing the ocean alone to safe harbor now we’re docked together.
Two different journeys that led us to here, now the storms have all calmed is there nothing to fear?
“So let’s try and see, come on with me. Both holding hands as we’re walking along all alone you and me.”
Into the night…..
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Win Like This Again
03:58
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Well some men bet on ponies some be playing football pools
Blackjack poker slot machines a bunch of gambling fools
The puit all on even odd or put it red or black
Chasing down them tumbling dice they never get it back
This here man is smart enough to quit when he's ahead
Ain't no woman like my woman don't you be mislead
It's just a waste of time and there ain't no use to buy
No scratch off tickets from the liquor store that's right near buy
No point in wishbone breaking, even wishing on a star
Ain't going on the TV try to win no brand new car
Cuz she's the best thing in my life I ever hope to win
And I ain't gonna push my luck won't win like this again
Hey baby don't you take this wrong but I know that my luck has just run out
Cash my chips in now cuz I know what the game of love is all about
And I ain't bluffing holding her I got a royal flush right in my hand
I just hit the jackpot I'm the world's very richest lucky man
My woman she's so wonderful she's everything my all
Save my money now ain't wasting none on powerball
Oh the way she love me it's too much for me to say
Don't read my fortune man I love it ever single day
Cuz she's the best thing in my life I ever hope to win
And I ain't gonna push my luck won't win like this again
Win like this again
Win like this again
Win like this again
Win like this again
Win like this again
Words/Music Mike Lawson
Psychotronic Music – BMI
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Morning Dew
06:42
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Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my honey.
Take me for a walk me in the morning dew, my love.
You can't go walking in the morning dew today.
You can't go walking in the morning dew today.
But listen! I hear a man moaning, "Lord."
I know I hear a man moaning, "Lord."
You didn't hear a man moan at all.
You didn't hear a man moan at all.
Yes I know I hear my baby crying, "Mama!"
Yes, I know I hear my baby crying, Mama!"
You'll never hear your baby cry again.
You'll never hear your baby cry again.
Oh, where have all the people gone?
Won't you tell me where have all the people gone?
Don't you worry about those people anymore.
Don't you worry about those people anymore.
Take me for a walk in the morning dew, my honey.
Take me for a walk me in the morning dew, my love.
You can't go walking in the morning dew today.
You can't go walking in the morning dew today.
You can't go walking in the morning dew today.
Bonnie Dobson and Tim Rose
Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp.
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Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland
Beasts of every land and clime
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time
Soon or late the day is coming
Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone
Rings shall vanish from our noses
And the harness from our back
Bit and spur shall rust forever
Cruel whips no more shall crack
Riches more than mind can picture
Wheat and barley, oats and hay
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day
On that day
On that day
Purer shall its waters be
Sweeter yet the blowing breeze
On the day that sets us free
For that day we all must labour
Though we die before it break
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys
All must toil for freedom's sake
Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland
Beasts of every land and clime
Hearken well and spread my tidings
Of the golden future time
Golden future time
Golden future time
On that day
On that day
Purer shall its waters be
Sweeter yet the blowing breeze
On the day that sets us free
Purer shall its waters be
Sweeter yet the blowing breeze
On the day that sets us free
Purer shall its waters be
Sweeter yet the blowing breeze
On the day that sets us free
Purer shall its waters be
Sweeter yet the blowing breeze
On the day that sets us free
Words/Music Mike Lawson
Psychotronic Music – BMI
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When the road gets too long
And you run all out of song
The pain gets too much
For you to bear
Turn around, turn around
Turn around and I'll be there
Like a road, like a road leading home
When the gray clouds start to blow
You need some place to go
When you want some company
That really cares
Turn around, turn around
Turn around and I'll be there
Like a road, like a road leading home
When the rain is past and gone
And the road you're traveling on
Doesn't seem to be going anywhere
Turn around, turn around
Turn around and I'll be there
Like a road, like a road leading home
Like a road, like a road leading home
When the road gets too long
And you run all out of song
And the pain it's too much
For you to bear
Turn around, turn around
Turn around, I'll be there
Like a road, like a road leading home
Like a road, like a road leading home
Dan Penn and Don Nix
Dan Penn Music – BMI
Don Nix – Irving Music – BMI
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Mike Lawson has, over 30 years, recorded and/or performed together with Merl Saunders, Vince Welnick, Vassar Clements, Pete Sears, Gary Talley, John McEuen, Bob Welch, Dennis Robbins, Joe Louis Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Keaggy, Jack Casady, Scott Guberman, Dianne Davidson, Noah Wall, Tyra Juliette, Bill Vitt, Rob Wasserman, Michael Cleveland, Phil Madeira, and a host of other amazing friends. ... more
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