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Lay It All Down

by Mike Lawson & Friends

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1.
People Get Ready 04:10
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People get ready there's a train a comin' You don't need no baggage you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesel's hummin' You don't need no ticket you just thank the lord So people get ready for the train to Jordan Picking up passengers from coast to coast Faith is the key open the doors and board them There's hope for all among those loved the most There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner For there's no hiding place against the kingdom's throne For there's no hiding place against the kingdom's throne So people get ready there's a train a comin' You don't need no baggage you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesel's hummin' You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord You don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord (Modulate Up) People get ready People get ready People get ready People get ready Copyright Warner-Tamerlane Pub Corp. and Sony/ATV Songs LLC o/b/o Mijac Music - Used by Permission
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You Can Just Walk 04:32
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You don’t care nothing for the life you are losing And I don’t feel sorry for the things you are choosing Up down back and forth round round again. And it ain’t no use now it’s coming to an end I tried, you lied, I cried, you sighed. You laugh, and I burn, now it’s your turn You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you just walk. Some woman told you, you could get a lot of money, and the same one sold you on a land of milk and honey What a tangle web you weave when you first deceive Now turn around, don’t come back It’s time for you to leave I’ll be ok, when you go your way. Good move you've made, leave now, think I’ll stay You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you just walk. Leave it all behind… don’t look back to find… You have changed your mind You should have been more kind You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you just walk. Leave it all behind… don’t look back to find You have changed your mind You should have been more kind You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you just walk. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you can just walk away. You can just walk, you just walk. Words/Music by Mike Lawson Copyright 2022 artistpro LLC - Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Next Time You See Me 04:26 video
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Next time you see me, things won't be the same Next time you see me, things won't be the same Well if it hurts you my darlin', you only got yourself to blame Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold But like the good book say, you've gonna reap just what you sow Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold Well it's a true, true saying, all that shines is not gold But like the good book say, you've gonna reap just what you sow Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne Next time you see me, things won't be the same Next time you see me, things won't be the same And if it hurts you my darlin', you only got yourself to blame Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long Well, you lied, cheated, wo-oh for so long You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne You're were wrong to do it woman, and another queen is on your throne Earl Forest and William G. Harvey Copyright Songs of Universal, Inc. o/b/o Lion Pub Co., Inc. Used by Permission
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To Stay Today 05:03 video
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Maybe you want some time away I may need a holiday where this cloud ain’t hanging over mew I’m not sure where I can go Do you even want to know Could we ever live in harmony I’m still feeling out of touch Maybe you don’t know that much Is there nothing left to talk about In another place and time Maybe you would ease my mind Seems right now that you just wanna shout No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today You might need to let me know if you want for me to go It's so hard for me to sort it all Be my lover, be my friend I don’t want for this to end Please don’t push me Please don’t let me fall Are you feeling this way too Is there nothing left to do Can we think it over anymore? There’s no point in spinning wheels I don’t like the way it feels Think about me when you walk the floor No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today Take a picture of my heart It’s the first place you should start If you want to go another route No one comes to our defense You and me we should make sense Do I really have to spell it out No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today I feel like I want to die Didn’t mean to make you cry Seems there’s nothing right that I can do Now you’re standing by the door You don’t want me anymore I have covered up the light in you Is there nothing that we share? Do I really even care? Maybe I’m afraid of being free? Do I give or do I take? Is this how my heart will break? Will you keep a little part of me? No, I don’t wanna feel this way so hard for me to stay today Words and Music by Mike Lawson Copyright 2022 - Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window? 04:22
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He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks Preoccupied with his vengeance Cursing the dead that can’t answer him back I’m sure that he has no intentions Of looking your way, unless it’s to say That he needs you to test his inventions Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you How can you say he will haunt you? You can go back to him any time you want to He looks so truthful, is this how he feels Trying to peel the moon and expose it With his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel If he needs a third eye he just grows it He just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk Or pick it up after he throws it Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you How can you say he will haunt you? You can go back to him any time you want to Why does he look so righteous while your face is so changed Are you frightened of the box you keep him in While his genocide fools and his friends rearrange Their religion of the little tin women That backs up their views but your face is so bruised Come on out the dark is beginning Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you How can you say he will haunt you? You can go back to him any time you want to Copyright © 1965, 1966 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993, 1994 by Special Rider Music Used by Permission
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I Can't Wait for Saturday Night 04:21
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Well, it’s a fine spring day to be going for a walk in the park And I’m gonna try to find a way to keep ya out til way after dark And when the sun go down and we out on the town we can go Maybe we drink a little, dance a little boogie at the rock and roll show Thinking about nothing but the fun we’ll have, spending my money but it ain’t so bad Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night It’s all right Every time you near me, how my heart start to tremble in fear That somebody gonna woo you so, I wanna make it perfectly clear How I need you, I can please you, and I wanna be your forever man You know there ain’t nobody ever gonna love ya like the way that I can When we laying down the boogie in our dancing shoes Gonna tell you that I love ya, I got nothing to lose Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night It’s all right You know I never ever thought that I would stand a chance to find a woman like you start a new romance Started thinking ‘bout the future and forgot my past, I know that we got something that was built to last – uh huh Well when the rock and roll music keeps a playing at a quarter to two Gonna slip the band a fifty cuz I wanna keep dancing with you When we close the joint down and the man say that we gotta go We’ll hit the all-night diner, or an after-hours club that I know I need to find the words to tell the things I’ll say Cuz I wanna love ya baby each and every day Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night It’s all right Well alright, I can’t wait for Saturday night Well alright, you know I can’t wait for Saturday night out of sight dynamite it’s alright Words and Music by Mike Lawson © 2022 Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Lay It All Down 04:37 video
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Let me retell A story of old About a man named Moses Who lived long ago He prophicied good He prophicied bad And now that prophecy's coming to pass Let all your sons, and your daughters Of the golden calf Lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt Lay it all down, for paradise here on earth A whole lot of people, including myself Thought the story of Moses was just a tall tale But all of the things that we see going on Are just what Moses set down Let all your sons, and your daughters Of the golden-yeah Lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt Lay it all down, for paradise here on earth Let me retell A story I know About a man named Moses Who lived long ago He prophicied good He prophicied bad And now that prophecy's coming to pass Let all your sons, and your daughters Of the golden-yeah Lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt Lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt Lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt I just can't imagine a reason for sorrow Just can't imagine the hurt You've got to lay it down You've got to lay it down You've got to lay it down You've got to lay it down I said lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt Lay down your burden of sorrow There's just no reason to hurt You've got to lay down your burden of sorrow Lay down your burden of hurt I said Lay it all down, for paradise here on earth Words and Music by Bob Welch - Cigar Music ASCAP Used by Permission
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Ain't Misbehavin 02:48
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No one to talk with All by myself No one to walk with But I'm happy on the shelf Ain't misbehavin' I'm savin' my love for you I know for certain The one I love I'm through with flirtin' It's just you I'm thinkin' of Ain't misbehavin' I'm savin' my love for you Like Jack Horner In the corner Don't go nowhere What do I care? Your kisses are worth waitin' for Believe me I don't stay out late Don't care to go I'm home about eight Just me and my radio Ain't misbehavin' I'm savin' my love for you Like Jack Horner In the corner Don't go nowhere What do I care? Your kisses are worth waitin' for Believe me I don't stay out late Don't care to go I'm home about eight Just me and my radio Ain't misbehavin' I'm savin' my love for you Andy Razaf / Fats Waller / Harry Brooks © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc Used by Permission
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I Got What I Wanted 05:35
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My early years were navigating steep, bumpy, dark, and twisted roads Hauling love and misery, pulling on some heavy loads I pushed the stone right up that mountain top ‘cuz I love to watch it roll back down Picked up some hitchhikers on my way I dropped them off downtown I went up to the corner bar, played some songs on my guitar I packed it up at 2AM, and when I get up tomorrow you know I’ll do it again Well lookie here man yeah, I’m living my dreams, But lemme tell you brother that it ain’t what it seems Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need, but I, I got what I wanted Like a rubber soldier on the front lines, shoving off the living dead Running from the demons chasing me all up inside my head You know I talked to gods, I talked to men I’d talk to anyone who would hear Now I just leave it to the universe, I know I got nothing to fear I setup for another show, and when I get started it, well it’s time to go I never gotten over the fright, but when the songs start playing it’s always a delight, yeah… Lookie here woman well I’m living my dreams But lemme tell you sister that it ain’t what it seems Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need, but I, I got what I wanted Be careful what you wish for, you know you might just find Yourself standing in another town On a beautiful stage for the deaf, dumb, and blind Well, all the way around I go, far away, far away from the Gulf of Mexico All the way to the promised land, the golden gate of San Francisco I found love and joy out on the Haight And when my demons came back lord I just couldn’t wait To get back to my home in Tennessee, you know I hate the road I went back to that corner bar, played some songs on my guitar I packed it up at 2AM, and when I get up tomorrow you know I’ll do it again, well Well lookie here man yeah, I’m living my dreams, But lemme tell you brother that it ain’t what it seems Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need,but I, I got what I wanted Well lookie here woman well I’m living my dreams But lemme tell you sister that it ain’t what it seems Maybe I’ll never ever get when I need, but I, I got what I wanted Words and Music by Mike Lawson © 2022 Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Every Grain of Sand 06:21
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In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed There's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair Don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake Like Cain, I behold this chain of events that I must break In the fury of the moment, I can see the master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer And the sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name Then onward in my journey, I come to understand That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night In the violence of a summer's dream, in the chill of a wintery light In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, at times it's only me I'm hanging in the balance of the reality of man Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand Words and Music by Bob Dylan Special Rider Music, Universal Tunes Used by Permission
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Beware of Darkness 04:00 video
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\Watch out now, take care Beware of falling swingers Dropping all around you The pain that often mingles In your fingertips Beware of darkness Watch out now, take care Beware of the thoughts that linger Winding up inside your head The hopelessness around you In the dead of night Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for Watch out now, take care Beware of soft shoe shufflers Dancing down the sidewalks As each unconscious sufferer Wanders aimlessly Beware of Maya Watch out now, take care Beware of greedy leaders They take you where you should not go While Weeping Atlas Cedars They just want to grow, grow and grow Beware of darkness (beware of darkness) Words and Music by George Harrison Copyright Harrisongs Ltd Used by Permission
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Mighty High 04:14 video
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Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Take a load off your feet Hear what I'm saying Hear what I'm saying it will set your mind at ease I was just a man A lonely man indeed God took all my troubles Yes, He did, He set me free Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high He led me to discover the man that I could be Let Him be your leader He's so good He'll set you free Listen to my story Listen to my plea Let Him be your leader He will end your misery Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Take a load off your mind Ride the mighty glory Listen to my story Ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high Come on and ride the mighty high David Crawford / Richard James Downing © Universal Music Publishing Group Used by Permission

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Initially my tribute to Bob Welch, and eventually a collection of songs from my life, and some new original ones, that brought together some of my favorite players to make the album I've wanted to always make.

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released October 7, 2022

Mike Lawson - Guitars, Bass, Bass VI, Harmonica, Electric 12, Electric Sitar, Keyboards, Vocals

And Friends:

Pete Sears - Piano
Philip Madeira - Piano/Organ
John McEuen- Banjo
Joe Montague - Drums and Percussion
Phil Keaggy - Guitar
Albert Margolis - Hammond organ
Scott Guberman - Electric Piano, Hammond
Jeff Marley - Bass
Herman Ringer - Bass, Trumpet
Jack Casady - Bass
Fred Bogert - Piano
Gary Talley - Guitar
Noah Wall - Backing Vocals
Jill Michaelson - Back Vocals
Tyra Juliette - Backing Vocals
Denise Stewart Bates - Backing Vocals
Gillian Desmarais - Backing Vocals
David Gans - Backing Vocals
Dianne Davidson - Backing Vocals
Lindsey Elam - Backing Vocals

Recorded in Tennessee, Texas, Leeds and London, UK, Massachusetts, Kentucky, California, Florida, and North Carolina.

Mixed in Fairview, TN - AP Studios
Produced and Engineered by Mike Lawson
Mastered by Gene Paul - G and J Audio, New Jersey

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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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