Ray LaMontagne Album

Don't let your mind get weary and confused
Your will be still, don't try
Don't let your heart get heavy child
Inside you there's a strength that lies

Don't let your soul get lonely child
It's only time, it will go by
Don't look for love in faces, places
It's in you, that's where you'll find kindness

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

Don't lose your faith in me
And I will try not to lose faith in you
Don't put your trust in walls
'Cause walls will only crush you when they fall

Be here now, here now
Be here now, here now

She lifts her skirt up to her knees
Walks through garden of roses with her bare feet laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disaster
I walk on the down the hill
Through grass grown tall and brown
And still it’s hard somehow to let go of my pain
On past the busted bags and this old and rusted Cadillac
There sinks into the field collecting rain
Will I always feel this way?
So empty so strange

And of these cut through busted sunsets
These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary
And through my cracked and dusty country lips
I spoke these words out loud with no one to hear me
Lay your blouse across the chair
Let fall the flowers from your hair
And kiss me with that country mouth so plain
Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
To me its sounds like they’re
Applauding us the sweet love we made
Will I always fell this way?
So empty so strange

Barfly
Just a barfly baby, uh-huh
Barfly
Just a barfly baby, uh-huh

Kiss me before you go
I'm going nowhere lately

Barfly
Just a barfly baby, uh-huh
Barfly
Just a barfly baby, uh-huh

Slow down
Slow down, you move too fast
Slow down
Slow down, you move too fast

Kiss me before you go
I'm going nowhere lately
Kiss me before you go
I'm going nowhere lately

I'm going nowhere
I'm going nowhere
I'm going nowhere
I'm going nowhere
I'm going nowhere

Three more days
Girl you know I will be coming home to ya darling
Three more days
Girl you know I will be coming home to ya darling

I know it's wrong to be so far from home
I know it's wrong to leave you so alone
I've just got to getcha this good job done
So I can bring it on home to you
So I can bring it on home to you

Three more days
Girl you know I will be right there by your side, baby
Three more days
Girl you know I will be right there by your side, baby

I know it's wrong to leave you so alone
I know it's wrong to be so far from home
I've just got to getcha this good job done
So I can bring it on home to you
So I can bring it on home to you

I'm gonna bring it on home to ya
Home to ya
Home to ya
I said listen up, listen up
I'm gonna bring it on home to ya
Home to ya
Home to ya
I said listen up, listen up, listen up

Gonna give it so ya can't say no
Gonna give it so ya can't say no
Gonna give it so ya can't say no
Give it to ya
Give it to ya
Give it to ya
Gonna give it so ya can't say no
Gonna give it so ya can't say no
Gonna give it so ya can't say no

Can I stay here with you till the morning
I am so far from home and i feel a little stoned
so can i stay here with you till the morning?
There's nothing i want more than to wake up on your floor
So lay with me in your thinnest dress
fill my heart with each caress
between your blissful kisses, whisper
darling, is this love?

So can I stay here with you, till the day breaks?
There's something you should know
I ain't got no place to go
So can I stay here with you, till the day breaks
How happy it would make me to see your face when I wake
So lay with me in your thinnest dress
Fill my heart with each caress
Between your blissful kisses, whisper
Darling, is this love?

So can I stay here with you till the nighttime
I've fallen sad inside and I need a place to hide
So can I stay, here with you, through the nighttime
I've fallen so sad it's true, now won't you take me to your room
Lay with me in your thinnest dress
fill my heart with each caress
between your blissful kisses, whisper
Darling is this love?

Whisper to me, is this love?

My eyes are dry my hands are tied
There’s nothing I can say
If you feel the need to go
I won’t stand in your way

Sit and think drown and drink
Sing this sad sad song
You can bring me flowers baby
When I’m dead and gone

Fate is plain his hand is cruel
There ain’t nothing I can do
You say you lost your love for me
Be my love for you

Sit and cry say goodbye
Sing this sad sad song
You can bring me flowers baby
When I’m dead and gone

When you’re lying in his arms
Think of me and go
The choice you made ain’t free and clear
It cost me a hell lot more

Sit and think drown and drink
Sing this sad sad song
You can bring me flowers baby
When I’m dead and gone

For a while I sat there staring at her photograph
For a while I cried and tried not to make a scene
There was a time when we were young
I used to make her laugh
But life is long, my love has gone away from me

Gone away from me
Gone away from me
Life is long, my love has gone away from me
Gone away from me
Gone away from me
Life is long, my love has gone away from me

Lately I can't seem to find myself no sleep at all
Lately I just lie awake and hear and dream
Of the time when she was mine
Felt like I had it all
But life is long, my love has gone away from me

Gone away from me
Gone away from me
Life is long, my love has gone away from me
Gone away from me
Gone away from me
Life is long, my love has gone away from me

Yesterday is gone
Yesterday is dead
Get it through your head and walk away
Yesterday is gone
Ain't no use hanging on to her memory
It only causes you pain

For a while I sat there staring at her photograph
For a while I cried and tried not to make a scene
There was a time when we were young
I used to make her laugh
But life is long, my love has gone away from me

Gone away from me
Gone away from me
Life is long, my love has gone away from me
Gone away from me
Gone away from me
Life is long, my love has gone away from me

Well the truth it fell so heavy
Like a hammer through the room
That I could choose another over her
You always said I was an actor, baby
Guess in truth you thought me just amateur

That you never saw the signs
That you never lost your grip
Oh, come on now
That's such a childish claim
Now I wear the brand of traitor
Don't it seem a bit absurd
When it's clear I was so obviously framed
When it's clear I was so obviously framed

Now you act so surprised
To hear what you already know
And all you really had to do was ask
I'd have told you straight away
All those lies were truth
And all that was false was fact

Now you hold me close and hard
But I was like a statue at most
Refusing to acknowledge you'd been hurt
Now you're clawing at my throat
And you're crying all is lost
But your tears they felt so hot upon my shirt
But your tears they felt so hot upon my shirt

Well the truth it fell so heavy
Like a hammer through the room
That I could choose another over her
You always said I was an actor, baby
Guess in truth you thought me just amateur

Was it you who told me once
Now looking back it seems so real
That all our mistakes are merely grist for the mill
So why is it now after I had my fill
That you steal from me the sorrow that I've earned
Shall we call this a lesson learned?
Shall we call this a lesson learned?

[No lyrics]

can you see the young and pretty confident as cops
looming laughing in the shops
till the sun turns black
can you see the old and lonely
walking through the park
pushing grocery carts
till the sun turns black
can you see the corporate man
he's winning on the telephone
his possesions are his throne
till the sun turns black
can you see him in his lounge
watching tv in the dark
waiting for a spark
till the sun turns black
oh oh oh oh
who are we? who are we?
can you see the politician
milling on a hill
will he kill another bill
till the sun turns black
can you see the working classes
trudging through their days
time goes slowly when you're only
waiting till the sun turns black
oh oh oh oh
who are we? who are we?
oh oh oh oh
who are we? who are we?
can you see the violent simply
living loving violently
every breath it takes eternity
till the sun turns black.

War is not the answer
The answer is within you

War is not the answer
The answer is within you

Love
Love
Love
Love

War is not the answer
The answer is within you

Love
Love
Love
Love