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The Family Tree

my sister raised her kids in Carolina

my brother's writing songs in Tennessee

if they wonder where I am

I'm back home in Alabam'

and that's where I want to be

my daddy sets his store by medication

and he's pickin' at the banjo on his knee

my momma tells me `son

you must get out and meet someone'

but you see I'm fine

and just where I want to be

standin' by the family tree

CHORUS

I'm gonna stand beside

the family tree

there's green shoots where the deadwood used to be

as the seasons come and go

I'll be there to watch them grow

I'll be there

standing by the family tree

three years have come and gone this last september

since we said goodbye to Emily

that's her picture on the wall

I guess that says it all

and why I'm here

standing by the family tree

LAST CHORUS

standing by the family tree

there's green shoots where the deadwood used to be

that's her picture on the wall

I guess that says it all

and why I'm here

standing by the family tree

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Lost and Found

you're doing what you can

trying to build another plan

on a broken dream

you're hoping

that you don't just up and throw it away

so revealing

when you look into her eyes

you can see that she's in love with you

you're working on a plan

to make another dream come true

CHORUS

she picks me up

she turns me round

she puts my feet back on the ground

she sees me through

safe and sound

I have been

lost and found

too much time

doing too much thinking

that's the thing that's going to break it apart

find a space

open your mind

and follow your heart

if you're believing in the sharing

and believing in the caring

then something's got to come your way

and you're hoping

that you don't just up and throw it away

CHORUS REPEATED

there's been a turnaround

I feel safe and sound

my feet back on the ground

I've been lost and found

I've seen a turnaround

I feel safe and sound

I once was lost but now I'm found

lost and found yeah

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Run Ruby Run

questions arising from a stolen kiss

the beat of a heart so seldom missed

who’d’ve thought it would be like this

we’re afraid of who we are

your gentle hands upon my face

your tenderness invades my space

is this to be my fall from grace

after traveling so far

CHORUS

run ruby run run

you don’t know what you’ve begun

it was just a moment in the sun

so run ruby run run

run ruby run run

the boy a man his mother gone

this solitude has made me strong

but the loneliness goes on and on

there’s so much more to learn

a life too long out on the road

no right to love no fixed abode

no one to help to stem the flow

of these diminishing returns

there ain’t much time to burn

LAST CHORUS

run ruby run run

you don’t know what you have done

it was just a moment in the sun

so run ruby run run

run ruby run run

you don’t know what you’ve begun

it was just a moment in the sun

there ain’t no prize to be won

there ain’t no deal to be done

so run ruby run run

run ruby run run

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Before the Sun

it's not what you imagine that's put furrows on my brow

it's not who I am but what I am that counts

I've got to do some thinking we've both said enough for now

I don't know what's wrong but I sure don't know what's right

CHORUS

but to you I believe it's right to say

that I'll be up up and on my way

before the sun

has overlooked your window sill

you may say I'm a crusader with a cause that's undefined

yet I must face another battle in this war

I smile 'cause I'm no fighter then I turn and look behind

but the past won't ever hold an open door

CHORUS 2

and to you there's one more thing to say

that you must wait while I must fly away

before the sun

has overlooked your window sill

BRIDGE

they're telling tales in the highest quarters

about faith and blood and glory

just a little more oil on troubled waters

it's the same old story

the same old story

footsteps in the darkness just before the light of dawn

some lines I read still running round my mind

'for I have promises to keep miles to go before I sleep'

but who's to know the answers I will find

CHORUS 3

yes and there's so much more to say

but we will wait 'cause I must fly away

before the sun

has overlooked your window sill

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No Change No Chance

do you ever get the feeling

that you might have been here before

she's gone again she left a note

'...couldn't take anymore'

when the dog quits barking

and the car starts starting

see my kids to the mother in law

yes I can't help thinkin

that I've walked this way before

CHORUS

no change no chance

my future's blocked out in advance

no pain no gain

well it ain't gonna roll if it stays the same

BREAK

am I some kind of jerk

'cos I can't find work (they say I'm looking misunderstood)

I know she's down at the motel

maybe this time she's gone for good

is there anybody there

can help answer my prayer

to leave her (if I only could)

I'd be a fool to stay another day

in this neighborhood

CHORUS

no change no chance

my days are mapped out in advance

no pain no gain

well it ain't gonna roll if it stays the same

no change no chance

my future's blocked out in advance

no pain no gain

well it ain't gonna roll if it stays the same

if it ain't gonna hurt it remains the same

it sure don't change if it stays the same

no way it'll stay the same

there's gonna be a sea-change

(sea-change)

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Yugoslavia

bored with Bosnia and I'm sick of Serbia

think I'll cross the border into Catatonia

say to me you'll pray for me my love

I've lost my clothes I think I broke my nose

I'm everybody's friend but nobody knows

the tragedy the hypocrisy my love

CHORUS

gonna deal with the dilemma of a world in decline

gonna arrest the ascendance of the Philistine

gonna address the issues of our time

but most of all I wanna make you mine

I wanna make you mine

I've got two or three wives want me to fund their lives

and I must not forget the problem of my will to survive

talk to me invest in me my love

gonna stand and deliver gonna set you a-quiver

give me a window and I'll love you forever

stay with me sway with me my love

CHORUS

I'm sad about Bosnia it Herzagovina

cos I used to take vacations down in old Yugoslavia

don't cry for me come fly with me my love

CHORUS

I wanna make you mine (repeat)

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Deadbeat Dad

more nose to nose than it was eye to eye

in the last few months for your mother and I

though you were too young to wonder

why I had to leave

I want you to know that I still believed in you

CHORUS

cos it makes me blue it makes me sad

when I hear them calling me a deadbeat dad

deadbeat dad it makes me mad

don't ever let them tell you

I'm a deadbeat dad

money's been scarce and love has too

tried to move me some mountains just to get them to you

and though I keep traveling from town to town

I want you to know that I will never let you down

CHORUS

BRIDGE

it was too hard to stay so hard to run

so hard to admit what I had not done

so I went away but before I'd gone

I knelt down to pray for a father and son

CHORUS

LAST CHORUS

cos it makes me mad and it makes me so sad

when I hear them calling me a deadbeat dad

deadbeat dad it makes me mad

don't let nobody tell you

I'm a deadbeat daddy

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