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Don’t You Let Them Get You Down
CGCGGD
I’m heading for the action
I’m looking for a fight
I need my satisfaction
Want to shoot out all their lights
No matter what you do
Don’t you let them get you down
I’m pushing all the power
I’m going all the way
We’ve come upon the hour
It’ll be my finest day
No matter what you do
Don’t you let them get you down
I’ll try to hold them back
Try to put them down
I got them in my sights
I’ll send them to the ground
No matter what you do
Don’t you let them get you down
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Killin' Man
04:08
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Killin’ Man
EADGBE
I blow up bridges - everyday
Man it’s easy - in every way
It don’t take a long time - to figure it out
What we are doing - what it’s all about
I’m a killer baby
I’m a killin’ man
There were cold crows in a - metal flake sky
It’s true villainy - or suicide
Headlong to nowhere - oblivion
Living and dying - is the only plan
I’m a killer, babe
I’m a killin’ man
I’m a killer, baby
I’m a killin’ man
I’m 10 inches - of frozen snow
Over 10 feet - of a lava flow
Men are still sleeping - behind the line
I’m flying circles - biding my time
I’m a killer, babe
I’m a killin’ man
I’m a killer, babe
I’m a killin’ man
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One Last and Lonely Night
CGDFCE
I watched you walking slow across the room
The people parted in your path to watch you go
And me the refugee
You the magic high-heeled bon vivant
Oh will you rescue me
Will you save my life for just one night?
One last and lonely night
Ok I hunted you like a coyote
I stood among the pines and waited patiently
Empty roads and falling stars
Could you find a way to ease me down
Well I could rescue you
I could save your life for just one night
One last and lonely night
No sad and long goodbyes tonight
No tears that walk on down your face
I will return
I will return to you
I was cracked and draggled then
A stack of ragged lines
You long legged, hair cascading beauty out of time
And then we saved ourselves
Then we made a world of all our own
And soon we’ll live again
Soon we’ll make it back to our sweet time
One last and lonely night
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The Black Flight
10:50
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The Black Flight
Tuning: DADFAD
Have you heard the news
Have you heard the jazz
We’re heading out for war
They shot him in the streets
Oh and we - just - want to do our part
Someone’s gotta pay and someone’s gotta make them pay
Mother don’t you worry
Father don’t you fret
Your loving son is gonna go and
Get his wings
Be it death or glory
It’ll be a grand old tale
It’ll be a grand old story
Early June ‘17
The sky was clear and blue
The engines cough, smoke and churn
Settle into queue
I wonder what they’re doing now
All the way back home
I’ll see you soon I promise you
I want to be returned
Oh we climbed into the sky
With our backs against the sun
They’re coming straight for us
We’re heading straight for them
Oh we’re all here waiting
And nothings really changing
A man in black comes down the lane
Walking slow but not stopping
He’s coming home in a letter
He’s coming home light as a feather
They say it all has a meaning
They say - there’s a cosmic reason
They wrote his name’s upon a wall
Across the ocean with them all
And sure as winter time will come
That list of names is never done
Now I sing a song
Of memories passed from son to son
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
And as I carry you
You will carry me
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A Way Back Home
03:31
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A Way Back Home
Tuning: EADGBE
Well there’s a way back home
If you’re looking for one
Yeah there’s a way back from all this it’s easy as
Just get to thinking
That you’re already dead
Now you’re living
Beyond the confines of your head
It’s really hard to spend your day
Facing fear, treachery and slaughter
Say goodbye to all the plans that you have made
Say goodbye to all your promises
Say goodbye to the face you’re looking at
When you’re standing at your mirror
Thinking of a way
Well you can free yourself
From all of your desires
And you can be at peace
Never bothered or hassled
They say the living
All one day must die
But those philosophers
Won’t look you in the eye
As they watch you leave and think
“Those poor bastards”
Say goodbye to all the plans that you have made
Say goodbye to all your promises
Say goodbye to the face you’re looking at
When you’re standing at your mirror
Thinking of a way… back home
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Northern Girl
03:18
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Northern Girl
Tuning: CGCFAC
Oh what a laugh she had
And her eyes were raven wild
She cast a spell on me
Would not let me be
Staying up all night
So if you see her by the riverside
Remind her of who I used to be
Not so long ago we used to dream we used to live to breathe
Now I travel in the distance of her memory
She was my northern girl
And I her northern boy
Remember those days
Oh what a way she had
Soft and sweet and long and slow
She took her time you see
And she moved easily
Everything at once
So now I see her by the riverside
She watches the time roll by
Not so long ago we used to dream we used to live to breathe
Now I travel in the distance of her memory
She was my northern girl
And I her northern boy
Remember those days
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Go Easy
05:44
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Go Easy
Tuning: CGDFCE
No way to stop where you are going?
No way to shut the world right out?
“Sometimes you have to beat the devil
Sometimes you have to hit right back”
Go easy
Go easy
Can’t bare to think where you’ll be going
Can’t bare to say the word farewell
So go where you’re going to
High up in the azure blue
And when you’re done - way over yonder
Come on back to where we started
Brave, young, and beautiful
Smart, strong, and dutiful
Someone’s got to do the fighting
And how many boys end up dying?
Go easy, go easy, go easy, my heart
Go easy, go easy, go easy, my heart
Woke up in an awful state
You were flying away
I was falling down
Down on the grass
Down by our tree
It’s just a bad bad dream
But it won’t go away
It’s just a bad bad dream
But it won’t go away
Woke up in an awful state
I knew right then
It didn’t feel right
In the dream you smiled
And then turned away
It’s just a bad bad dream
But it won’t go away
It’s just a bad bad dream
But it won’t go away, away ——- go away, away, go away
No way to stop where you are going
No way to shut the world right out
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Walking the Riverside
02:39
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Walking the Riverside
DADGAD
Oh there’s a dripping sun
And my time’s not done
I got stride
Walking the riverside
Old man out the way
No time to sit and stay
I got fight
Shoot me up to the sky
No more hanging round
Hard times are coming down
I’m on fire
Walking the riverside
Got plans, things to do
Life’s made for me and you
And I’m free
Free as a bird you see
Free as a bird that’s me
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Farewell Voyager
03:30
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Farewell Voyager
Tuning: CGCGGD
Farewell my voyager
Farewell to you
Farewell my voyager
Fare thee well to you
Gone away
Gone away
All the dreams that we once had
Are now but dreams
All the dreams that we once had
Now all those dreams seem like dreams
Gone away
Gone away
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A Permanent Wave
06:32
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A Permanent Wave
Tuning: DGDGBD
I’m thinking of you and what you meant to me
We’re all secrets I know books left to read
I’m flying
I’m flying
I’m flying
I can’t let it be
Inspiration
Fascination
Real relations
What you gave to me
It’s a permanent wave that’s always moving
A permanent wave that’s always rolling in
I’m no saint and I’m no sinner
Just between us I’m a free wheel man
And my head is overflowing
With the weight of dreams and visions
I can’t move the mountain looming
But I can climb
Climb a thousand miles
It’s a permanent wave
It’s a permanent wave
It’s a permanent wave
It’s a permanent wave
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