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Let it Go: Lyrics Bonus Tracks: My Famous Leaving Song Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP Everybody wants to know where I'll be tonight I won't tell them anything at all They'll hear a clap of thunder and see a flash of light I'm gone, they're staring at the wall Chorus: That's right, I'm going That's right, I'm gone And another verse is added To my famous leaving song Order me a taxi, won't you put me on a train Take me to the nearest outbound bus Any way I go, I'll be gone this very day Leaving's how I keep from gathering dust Chorus Love is such a fleeting thing, your eyes upon the door How's a person ever really know? When you're on that platform, you've never been so sure You're leaving when you hear that whistle blow If you see my shadow, won't you say hello for me We haven't seen each other in a while He used to follow close wherever I might be But company has always cramped my style Chorus When I die the lord will come to take my body home But he won't find me anywhere in sight My ashes scattered to the wind, I'll leave no tooth or bone And vanish like a whisper in the night Chorus back to the top Standing at Five Corners Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP Somebody waiting in a kitchen Somebody waiting by a phone Ever since you left there's something missing Ever since you left me on my own Clothes are out there waiting for the sunshine Wind is out there waiting for the fall I've been out there waiting all my lifetime The more I wait, the more you never call Chorus: When you gonna turn to face the morning? When you gonna know what you can't see? How long 'til you hear your senses calling Come back to yourself, come back to me You've been looking for a new beginning And I've been searching for a single friend Can't you hear that distant church bell ringing? Everybody settles in the end A tiny planet spinning in a system Tiny people stand on every shore I don't stake a claim to any wisdom But maybe waiting's not what life is for Chorus Baby, when you look behind the curtain Maybe I'll have already moved on Nothing in this life is ever certain You have your chance and then your chance is gone Chorus back to the top Everybody's Wondering Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP Everybody's wondering how it's gonna be Honey, when they're called back home Everybody's wondering what they're gonna see When they leave the life they've known Will I be in heaven? Will I be in hell? After living in this world could I really even tell? Everybody's wondering how it's gonna be Honey, when they're called back home Everybody's wondering how they're gonna go Honey, when they're called back home Everybody's wondering how the wind will blow On the day their dice are thrown Will I be in the shower? Will I be fast asleep? Are the clothes that I am wearing the ones I get to keep? Everybody's wondering how they're gonna go Honey, when they're called back home I don't how the system works It sometimes haunts my mind To think that I might leave this earth With most of me left behind Everybody's wondering if they did it right Honey, when they're called back home Everybody's wondering if how they lived their life Prepared them for the great unknown Should I have been a Muslim? Should I have been a Sikh? If I picked the wrong religion could I get another week? Everybody's wondering if they did it right Honey, when they're called back home I don't know why we spend our time Thinking 'bout what's coming next When all of us are bound to find The answer when we're laid to rest Everybody's wondering how it's gonna be Honey, when they're called back home back to the top Unwanted Guest Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP You came to me when I was on the floor You never even knocked upon my door You slipped by like a sin, I had to let you in You came to me when I was on the floor I'd never been so lonely or so cold The moon is just the sunshine that it holds You came and held my head, we slept in the same bed I'd never been so lonely or so cold Chorus: No more of you, unwanted guest It's time for me to finally take a rest I like to play the host but I'm done, unholy ghost No more of you, unwanted guest Happiness was always in the stars You said that I would never get that far But you're further from me now, a dark and distant cloud Happiness was always in the stars Chorus Ever since you left, the air's more clean The world's more bright than I thought it could be Although I never sought the darkness that you brought I think that in the end it helped me see Chorus back to the top Red Ribbon Waltz Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP I see you way over there A red ribbon tied in your hair I'm longing for you Are you longing too? Longing for me over there? The music is sweet and smooth And there's some sort of tilt in this room That's bringing me close To what I want the most Closer, my darling, to you Chorus: Maybe it's how we first meet Or only a moment to keep But if I take a chance And ask you to dance Would you dance with me? There's something about this floor That makes me want to dance more Than I thought I would I dance pretty good I never liked dancing before And there's something about these lights That makes me think my whole life Was just leading to Whether I would ask you To dance with me tonight Chorus My dear, if I walk over there Would you allow me to share One moment, one space One cheek to my face One dance to move as a pair? Chorus back to the top Death Don't Have No Mercy By Rev Gary Davis, Chandos Music, ASCAP, Adapted by A. Moock Death don't have no mercy in this land Death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and you're not home Look in the bed, you find your mother's gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Death don't take no prisoners in this land Death don't take no prisoners in this land He'll come to your house, he won't stay long Look in the bed, you find your father's gone Death don't take no prisoners in this land Death don't have no mercy in this land Death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and you're not home Look in the bed, you find your sister's gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Death gonna leave you standing and crying in this land Death gonna leave you standing and crying in this land He'll come to your house and you're not home Look in the bed, where they gone? Death gonna leave you standing and crying in this land Death don't have no mercy in this land Death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and you're not home Look in the bed, you find your family's gone Death don't have no mercy in this land back to the top Love Me True Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP I know you love me And you know I love you too But when the seas get rough Will our love be tough enough? Baby, will you love me true? I've made my mistakes And you've strayed from the good path too Our senses of direction Are in need of some correction But, baby, will you love me true? My bed is cold when you're not around So won't you stay and go another round And the only question I would ask of you Is, baby, will you love me true? I will do my best Not to second guess The promises you make me When you say you won't forsake me But, baby, will you love me true? And you can ask the same Of me, I won't complain I'll obey the Golden Rule Just don't make me the fool And, baby, will you love me true? The summer sun don't shine and the winter moon don't glow And I can't see my own face in the mirror when you go But even without vision, I can see I'm missing you Baby, will you love me true? My bed is cold when you're not around So won't you stay and go another round And the only question I would ask of you Is, baby, will you love me true? back to the top Lovely Day Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP The bed is warm, the house is cold We were young, now we're old See the sun, it's rising quick The wheel is spun, the sky is lit Chorus: And it's a fast-paced life Death's a breath away And I'm so glad you could stay On such a lovely day Down the hall, still breathing deep Two kids who look like you and me Their lives are made of smoke and ice The greatest gift and sacrifice Chorus The morning creeps across the floor And separates now from before The promise of a rising sun A lovely day has just begun Chorus back to the top Let it Go Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP I've been thinking 'bout last evening 'Bout the things I should've said I should've said I'm leaving But I said I'll stay instead I've been thinking 'bout last evening 'Bout the things I should've said Last night's out of my control Man, you've got to let it go I knew a kid whose brother Used to stuff him in a sack And to this day he blames His luck with women on that fact Yeah, I knew a kid whose brother Used to stuff him in a sack That was thirty years ago Man, you've got to let it go Moses split the ocean Let the migrant children through When Pharaoh's army followed The waters 'round them grew Pharaoh shook his fist Muttered to himself, Damn Jew Moses called across the flow, Man, you've got to let it go Darwin told the people That all living things evolve The people said, That's heresy, The bible is the law Charles said, Open up your eyes, Where you think you got that jaw? You're a monkey in a coat Good God, you've got to let it go Saddam Hussein took potshots At the presidential dad Now the presidential son Wants to drop bombs on Baghdad That'd be fine if you could drop a bomb On just a single head But there's kids down there, you know Man, you should've let it go Take me, Jesus, take me Yes, and take me to the sky This world has been my home But it won't be when I die Oh, take me Jesus, take me Won't you take me by and by When the body leaves the soul That's when you've got to let it go back to the top When the Moon Comes Out Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP Everything's gonna look better Than it did this afternoon Everything's gonna seem simpler When I see the evening moon It may not last forever It may not change my life But everything's gonna look better When that moon comes out tonight The thoughts that I've been thinking And the lines around my face The reasons I'm not sleeping Tonight will be erased It could be just illusion The lure of fractured light But everything's gonna look better When that moon comes out tonight Most folks think it's easier To see things in bright light To me, the world's much clearer When that moon comes out at night It may not solve my problems It may be just time borrowed The world may not have changed at all When the sun comes up tomorrow But I'll take just an evening To feel like things are right 'Cuz everything's gonna look better When that moon comes out tonight I know the stars will all be shining And I'll find that second sight 'Cuz everything's gonna look better When that moon comes out tonight back to the top I Got a Friend Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP I got a friend who thinks he's victimized The world's been out to get him from the first day of his life He's always on the road 'cuz he doesn't trust his wife I got a friend who thinks he's victimized I got a friend who thinks he runs the show No one's ever told him nothing that he didn't know He'll never ask directions anywhere we might go I got a friend who thinks he runs the show I got a friend who always thinks he's ill He plans his life around his little pills Anywhere he goes, he's always going down hill I got a friend who always thinks he's ill Chorus: And when I stop and list them end to end I start to think it's time to get new friends When I stop and really think it through The only friend I really have is you I got a friend who thinks he isn't bright He reads all day and sometimes through the night He's always on the left cuz he never thinks he's in the right I got a friend who thinks he isn't bright I got a friend who thinks he's going bald He hasn't lost a hair but he's sure that he's going bald We all try to tell him he isn't going bald But I got a friend who thinks he's going bald Chorus When I stop and really think it through The only friend I ever had is you back to the top Home is Where the Heart Is Lyrics & Music by A. Moock ©2002 Moockshake Music, ASCAP Listen, honey, do we have to go tonight It's been a real long week and my back feels kind of tight Tell 'em that I'm sorry and I'd be there if I could Those people drive me crazy even when I'm feeling good Hon I said we'd be there, we can go for just for an hour It's the least that we could do after you threw up in their shower We'll just go say hello and have a little bit of wine You'll have a chance to show 'em you can keep it down this time Chorus: Home is where the heart is, I read it in a book And if you see Loretta won't you tell her that I'm took Honey, do you have to leave your shoes right by the door When I came home tonight I almost fell down on the floor I'd put them in the closet if your clothes was on the rack All right, just leave them by the door, I'll come in through the back Baby when you use a check you've got to right it down We're bouncing them like rubber balls, they'll run us out of town You're the one withdrawing like we own the ATM All right we'll pay the mortgage with the credit card again Chorus When you gonna wake up and go home? This road is so much longer on your own How's about you put your hand in mine Both of us are walking down the line Who was it who said that you can never go back home? They haven't met my husband, he's a mess when he's alone Home is where you hang your hat, that's what they used to say I had a hat that said that but my wife threw it away Chorus back to the top 1913 Massacre By Woody Guthrie, Woody Guthrie Publications, Adapted by A. Moock Take a trip with me in Nineteen Thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper country I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball I'll take you in a door and up a high stairs Singing and dancing is heard everywhere I'll let you shake hands with the people you see And watch the kids dance 'round the big Christmas tree You ask about work and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day Working their copper claims and risking their lives But it's fun to spend Christmas with the children and wives A little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet To hear all this fun, you would not realize That the copper boss thug men are milling outside The copper boss thugs stick their heads in the door And one of them yells and he screams, There's a fire A lady she hollers, There's no such a thing Keep on with your party, there's no such a thing A few people rushed, it was only a few It's just the scabs and the thugs fooling you A man grabbed his daughter and he carried her down But the thugs held the door and he could not get out And then others followed, 'bout a hundred or more Most everybody remained on the floor The scabs outside, they laughed at their joke And the children were smothered on the stairs by the door Such a terrible sight I never did see We carried our children back up to their tree The thugs outside still laughed at their spree And the children that died there was seventy-three The piano played a slow funeral tune And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon The mothers, they cried, and the miners, they moaned See what your greed for money has done? back to the top back to the music page |
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