Shawn Mullins Album

New like smoky mornin'
Cool like heaven glow
Meet me on the mountain
I've got no place to go

I like my daylight to be silver
I like my night skies to be blue
Blue as you

Underwater daydream
Bone dry desert sand
Half them words you're singin' boy
I don't understand

I like my daylight to be silver
I like my night skies to be blue
Blue as you


Days I while away
Guess that you could say
I'm just unwindin'
What you're lookin' for
Babe I know it isn't what you're findin'
Blue is you

Instellar rainbow
On its cosmic wheel
Rollin' where the wind blows
Never standin' still

I like my daylight to be silver
I like my night skies to be blue
Blue as you
Blue as you

I've lost count of the times I given up on you
But you make such a beautiful wreck, you do
There's a tavern on the corner called the Milky Way
And you look so at home there it makes me afraid

*Chorus*:
And at the dark end of this bar
What a beautiful wreck you are
When you go too far, beautiful wreck you are

Like all the plans that you had from seven years ago
Like all the promises you made I watched them come and go
You put your keys in the car but it wouldnt drive
With your hands on the wheel, lookin' barely alive

I'm still sitting here waiting on the passenger side
For you to make up your mind


For you to make up your mind

*Chorus*

What a beautiful, such a beautiful, beautiful wreck you are
What a beautiful, such a beautiful, beautiful wreck

I've lost count of the times I given up on you
But you make such a beautiful wreck, you do
Yeah, you make such a beautiful wreck, you do
You make such a beautiful wreck, you do

*Chorus*

What a beautiful, such a beautiful, beautiful wreck you are
What a beautiful, such a beautiful, beautiful wreck you are

I once had a true love, her name was Maggie Brown
Her eyes they were the color of the sun burning down
And she had hair that smelled like jasmine, I loved her from the start
How was I to know she'd have a cold black heart

Well Maggie was my true love, the only kiss I knew
I'd meet her at the oak tree in the cool evening dew
Where we would walk beside the levee our fingers intertwined
While the crimson moon gazed through the needles of the pines
We'd lay beside each other, staring at the sky
Listenin' to the whistlin' of the train blowin' by
As it was on it's way to Macon The town where I was born
We'd make love in the darkness, 'til the hours of the morn

Waterfalls and rainbows, sweet salvation sin
As I lay there sleeping against her golden skin,


My friends now gather around and listen close
The story takes a turn I wasn't fair young Maggie's only lover I did learn
I went down by the oak tree lookin' for my lass
And walked east towards the levee with the sunset in my past
And then I ran through briars and brambles, until I finally found
my Maggie and her true love there lyin' on the ground
My eyes they filled with fire, they didn't see me there
I watched as she made love to him, caressed him with her hair
I don't remember how it happened I guess I just saw red
I drew my pistol from my belt and shot them graveyard dead

I once loved a maiden her name was Maggie Brown
But now I'm riding on a boxcar back to Macon town
The setting sun will never let me forget what deed I have done
Until the day they hunt me down,
I'm livin' on the run

Pain, come no more Don't you come knockin' on my door
Love, dry your tears You have lived a life way beyond your years

And faith, when you're gone
All my demons and my devils they do me wrong
And faith, you let your light shine through
Let a ray of hope surround me
Just don't think I can make it without you

Hey faith, don't let me down
Let me know when I come back she'll be around
'Cause I've been burned, a time or two
If she left me Lord, I don't know what I'd do

And faith, when you're gone
All my demons and my devils they
do me oh so wrong
And faith, you let your light shine through
You let a ray of hope surround me
Just don't think I can make it without you


In the morning you know I wake up with the dawn
Everyday, there's a way
You know I got to carry on
To know the way and take the road of right and wrong
And keep faith in my heart
Just keep faith in your heart

Pain, come no more
Don't you come knockin' on my door
Love, please be strong
'Cause I need the peace of mind to carry on

And faith, when you're gone
All my devils, all my demons,
you know, they do me wrong
And faith, you let your light shine true
You let a ray of hope surround me
You came back home and found me
Searching for the love I never knew

Sixty miles from El Paso
Feelin' lonesome as can be
Driving further from the heartache
that was slowly killing me

I left at 4 am last monday
Filled my tank at luther's store
I might be checking' in come sunday
'cause i know by then she'll walk the floor

She has it still inside her skull
that i am hers and she is mine
She's dead on empty and i am full of
broken dreams and homemade wine

There's a kid who plays the squeesebox
on the border bridge on the juarez side
He dances to the beat
with no shoes on his feet
to the music that he makes as i drive by


And i felt just like the devil the whole night's pull
But right this second I feel fine
My tank is dead on empty, but i am full
of broken dreams and homemade wine

Now the gulf wind she sings to me a love song
I can hear her from the boxcar that I ride
Her voice is in my brain
making music with this train
that will soon take me to the other side

And she might think that I'm coming back
to hold her close and stop her cryin'
But this freight train's
traveling down a southbound track
full broken dreams and hommade wine
Just broken dreams and hommade wine
Broken dreams and hommade wine

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You have never once let me down
Still waiting for me to come around
And I fall in love again
More and more each day
And I know you been so blue
Let my love come light your way

You have always been there for me
Like a clear night when I’m lost at sea
I drift away still you stay
Right here next to me
A constant glow with eyes that know
Where I always long to be

Now I’m in my head once again
What I need right now is my friend
To hold me near, ‘til I see clear
One more day begins
Let me one more day begin

Stop regretting all the years inside your head
Not forgetting there's some truth to what you said
And you know now that I gotta keep rollin' on
Here we go now
We're driving through another dawn

Someday you'll find love
Someday you'll find love
Someday you'll find love

When it's over do you try to build another fire?
Or do you pour water on the coals?
Are we both just too damn tired?
And you know now that I gotta keep movin' on
Here we go now
Everything we had is gone

Someday you'll find love
give you everything you need


Someday you'll find love
give you everything you need
Someday you'll find love, find love

For the record, I never said that you should stay.
What you were after, I never had to give anyway
And you know now, I gotta keep rollin' on
Here we go know
I'm drivin' through another dawn

Someday we'll find love
give you everything you need
Someday we'll find love
give you everything you need
Someday we'll find love
give you everything you need
Someday we'll find love
give you everything you need

The fat lady in red began to sing
The citizens all stood there staring at their king
Who cried, “The show is finally over!
Hallelujah, praise the Lamb!”
And he staggered up the stairs and went to bed
And the queen said, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”

Make ‘em all fall down
And the queen she leaned over the rook
and lost her heavy crown
And the gift horse made of wood won’t do you no good
When they all fall down

As the court jester waited in the hall
Next to the chamber guard
who stood there ten feet tall
In a brand new suit of armor
and an eagle on his chest
His orders were clearly understood

Make ‘em all fall down
Then the queen she leaned over the rook
and lost her heavy crown
And the gift horse made of wood won't do you no good
When they all fall down
When they all fall down
When they all fall down

Kingdom come and kingdom go
It don’t really matter what you know
All that really matters is this moment of today
There ain’t nothing left to say

So make ‘em all fall down
The queen she leaned over the rook
and lost her heavy crown
And the gift horse made of wood
Won’t do you no good
When they all fall down
When they all fall down
The queen she leaned over the rook
and lost her golden crown
The gift horse made of wood
won’t do you no good
When they all fall down
When they all fall down

"Lay Down Your Swords, Boys"

Well lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns
A new day's a comin' first sight of the sun It'll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love While sweet baby Jesus rides the wing of a dove
Now our color filled country is a giant strip mall It's a joke in the men's room misspelled on the stall
But when it's all over, ain't no colors anyway Like an old silent movie, only black, white and gray
Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns A new day's a comin' first sight of the sun
It'll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove
Well the bad guys are gone, boys,
we run most of them down
when we flattened the hillsides
and we pummeled the ground
And speaking on bombs, boys,
you'd better believe
That it's better to give boys,
than it is to receive


Lay down your swords, boys,
lay down your guns
A new day's a comin' first sight of the sun
It'll shine like a beacon on whoever shall love
While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove
Now Old Glory's still flyin', just like before
And your kids ain't believin' in nothin' no more
And you can't really blame 'em,
same shit we were fed
From the pages of schoolbooks
to the Bibles we read
Lay down your swords, boys, lay down your guns
A new day's a comin' first sight of the sun
And it'll shine like a beacon
On whoever shall love
While sweet baby Jesus rides the wings of a dove

Baby, don't you know I hate it when you cry
When your tears fall down I feel like I could die or disappear
And that's the fear that you have But you've gotta follow you own path

I've always been told the tighter that you hold,
You might just squeeze the life
Right out of your own soul
Love can take its toll on your heart
Why can't you finish what you start?

Love is cruel, Baby, love ain't fair
And there ain't no map or book of rules to get you there
It's just a friendly game of solitaire
Baby, can't you see to love a man like me,
You gotta be crazier than any girl could ever be

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl
Me, oh God, I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed these new bluejeans
My sweetheart was a gambler
Way down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

He'd fill his glasses up to the brim
And he'd pass the cards around
And the only pleasure he gets out of life
Is rambling from town to town

Go and tell my baby sister


Not to do what I have done
Go and shun that house
Down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

(guitar solo)

I'm going back to New Orleans
My race is almost run
I'm going back to spend my life
Beneath the Rising Sun

There is a house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl
Me, oh God, I'm one