Bobby Long Songs: August 2014

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Isis, Take Me Home

I got home on Monday

Wedge tied to my boom

The only type of thrust I found

Is the one I barely use

Shuffling the sidewalk

Wedge tied to the view

Isis, I'm sorry I lost your ring

I Bought you one that's new

Oh, I bought you one that's new

*Oh, Isis take me home

Through the rain, the dark, and the dawn

A ship can't pull a blind eye to the fleet

Oh, Isis take me in

Although, I don't know where to begin

Suffer in silence for the terror

Plagued by bad weather

Plain Jane had me Tuesday

Ran me out a car

I drove the thing into the canal

The cold stream bared my scar

Just a ball and bearing

Shot away my bed

Torn the mattress right up

Put a stone under my head

When I went out this morning

I fell into a bar

A cold sweat bore a hole in me

As I sang one from a jar

But I paid to see you, Isis

I bought you drinks and tips

I still got the scars you gave to me

Oh, my ghosts still show the rips

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24902?p=1

I Once Knew Her

It landed late and it forced up the walls

Just to spite the maids, they were cleaning

The doctors said in time they will fall

Until, one by one, they stop breathing

Rats hit the street like hell on rain

This blood all fell down to the bottom

No one saw the clues in the vermin's drain

The landlord, he laid there, forgotten

"A plague, a plague", he heard them call

As he held a young girl, I wept with slur

So close the town and lock the doors

For the girl in your arms, I once knew her

For I once knew her

The town had left her under a tree

I could hear the screams come from afar

Où la paix est ici

sans Emily loin de moi

The letters were sent and the railroads closed

The tower shut off to the world

They could not compensate, for they could not compose

For their hearts, like their minds, were both withered and furled

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24903?p=2

Man of Me

Man of me

?Easily, when you're pride?

Pray the worry and the tide

That brought you me

Oh, which way is when

Your feeling will come again

Man of mine, you feel that hunger

That brought you to me

*Don't get yourself going crazy

Yesterday is all I can give you

Yesterday makes more sense, to me

Yesterday is all I can give you

Yesterday makes more sense, to me

Man of me

Let me see your mind

If only, please be kind

For these days can be wild

It's good to be alone

Some of the time

Man of mine, you count the days on your fingers

And the worry on your mind

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24903?p=1

Still Can't Tell

You caught me on the edge

Of some lowly mountain side

Questions from the ?mouths of money?

A few men chose to run

Less chose to speak

Oh, when will their courage fill me

I'm here all alone

As ?I do? choose to be

My innocence gets lost upon the shade

Fence for my eyes

Meant for the heart

Oh, when will I be fit to see

I'm a haunted man

Like my friends think they are

Only have to pick a side

When they're gonna try

You know they're gonna try

I'll scream from my lungs, "I'm still alive!"

*The time is just a swell

Love sometimes feels like hell

When you break through the dawn of the well

You still can't tell

I read it in the news

I read it on the face

Trespasser stood upon my land

?I took upon the night

And I'll roast in burning hell

But he just wanted my hand?

?It's hard to tell in the face

A wrong to another

Only on the garden in Versailles?

My friends seem to know

I have ??? to tell

They scream from their lungs, "I'm still alive!"

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24903?p=1

Only You

Last time I saw my sister

She was walking through a country street

With her golden hair and her tears

Running slowly down to her feet

And I've been not back again

And only you can understand

I've knocked through the door of many a man

And only you will take my hand (x2)

*And only you, picked me off the floor when I was better off dead

Only you, brought the sudden doubt to ease my worried head

And only you, save my soul from ending up in the slum

Last time I saw my brother

He had felt too many of life's pains

I could see the trouble inside him

It came rushing out of him like rain (x2)

And only you, picked me off the floor when I was better off dead

Only you, brought the sudden doubt to ease my worried head

And only you, you brought me back from what I'd become

Only you, you shared the glory from what you had won

And only you, save my soul from ending up in the slum

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24908?p=1

Let Me Be

The sun cast a spell on your eyes

That wants me to weep and tell lies

For the sorrow you felt in my heart

Was there all along at the start

And hid between the light and the dark

Something you're born with and hope

Will rise and fall like the smoke

But it's pure as the first time we laughed

Like a mother and her newborn in bath

*How I wish I was still young

But you were too young to see

What the years have done to everyone

And how they've set them free

**If I could ask one thing of you

Is say a good word for me

And I'll be better for everyone

And maybe they'd all just let me be

We held hands just like we were 10

The calluses have hardened since then

No one stared like they would back then

I counted the seconds, my friend

And I vowed to give them back in the end

The nail has been driven in hard

But the rust has settled close to the ?path?

I know you hadn't seen it before

But you're always looking up from the floor

And balancing yourself from the poor

The sun cast that spell on your eyes

That wants me to weep and tell lies

The trouble you felt in my heart

Was there all along at the start

It hid between the light and the dark

Something you're born with and hope

Will fall and dwindle like the smoke

But comes from the fire and ash

It's as pure as the first time we laughed

Like a mother and her newborn in bath

If I could ask one thing of you

Is say a good word for me

And I'd be better for someone

And maybe someone would be better for me

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24908?p=1

Darling, I Remember the Drink

I can't remember the time at the bar where you left me

But I remember the smell and the place

The whiskey ran through me like a crimson shade fountain

I held steady as you scratched at my face

You wished me well with some look in your eye

And I didn't have the time to think

I can't recall the reason why you threw me

But, darling, I remember the drink

The bomb, it threw you back to my home in the ally

As your breath clouded the windows, your teeth shown

The piss of the bottle like my father and mother

Lifted me up to the sound of the song

Beyond the clapping, the dribble, and the laughable

It pushed my soul to the brink

I don't remember the song or your screaming

But, darling, I remember the drink

I didn't know how to control myself

But not knowing if you were someone else

Doesn't mean I was hiding or out of my face

But you made sure this would be our last resting place

Your eye caught my eye as you cried out to me

"Baby, you can hold on to that ring"

My tear hit the bar and sent a ripple that shook me

I lost the only girl who'd ever made me sing

I tried to call out, I begged you to stay

But my body couldn't override the sting

I don't remember the bar or the drink that had me

But, darling, I remember everything

Darling, I remember everything

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24908?p=1

You Got Me Lost

They say the darkest hour

Comes right before the storm

It's easier to turn and cower

Than to pretend that you're lost

And I don't know that if I'd not met you

If I'd still be lost standing here

But my mind it doesn't frequent

Just the heart, the pain, and the fear

Sometimes I get so low

I can see from the top of my head

I don't know if I want my grave

Or the softness of my bed

Sometimes I want to lay down so lost in the frost

You got me lost, you got me lost

'Cause they say the darkest hour

It comes right before the storm

And it's easier to turn and cower

Than to pretend that you're lost

And I don't know that if I'd not met you

If I'd still be lost standing here

Cause all I'm really left with

Is the hardness, the pain, and the fear

And I said I don't know that if I'd met you

If I'd still be lost and standing here

My mind it doesn't frequent

Just the hardness, the pain and the fear

When it rains so low

I can speak from the top of my mouth

When the torch's down

From my north and south

I weigh down my soul to the end of the frost

You got me lost, you got me lost

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24908?p=1

Hold Me Now

Again, he gave his chastised body to the street

Black and blue with coffee burns and cigarette holes

Keeled over and hanging onto another wall

He knows too well that he's staying there tonight

With his arms hanging down as low as low

With his eyes as closed without being closed

With his future as dark as it is light

All he knows is that he's staying there tonight

*Hold me now

Hold me now

Please, hold me now

(repeat)

Again, she pulls her baby through the rusted iron

Cleaning her up with mother's good old spit and shine

Makes her way with cuts of blood on her elbow

She knows too well that they're not staying there tonight

With her hair hanging down as low as low

With her eyes teared without being closed

With her future as dark as it is light

All she knows is that they're not staying there tonight

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24908?p=1

I Giver Her Love

What would ever happen if I stopped loving you

Until then I'll be everything you need

I carved your name in oak

And planted my hearts first seed

I'd gather you all the money I could ever hope to make

I'll even hold you up if your world begins to break

I place my body on the line

And blessed the lips that breathe

I'd give you all my money if I should ever choose to leave

For the dead and dying

In purgatory

I prey to give her love

And hide her memory

With the shadows, leaves and earth

Under all the weeping trees

What would ever happen if I don't stop loving you

You're always every single thing I need

With every turnin summer

And every fallen leaf

I shouldn't want to give my heart away

With all the stories my mother said to me

I'll always be your man in every time of need

To give you more than moments should you ever choose to leave

For the dead and dying

In purgatory

I wait to give her love

And hide her memories

In the shadows, leaves and earth

Under all of the weeping trees

coped from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1788768/

Dancers Dance Into the Night

Dancers dance into the night

So fair across the street

There feet don't gather dust

There bringing the light

This place leaves the sirens on

It takes off all its clothes

Its foaming from the mouth

I wish you would come

You don't know where I'm going

Where the rivers are flowing

Your world is your lie

You don't know what I'm saying

Or the games that your playing

Your world is your lie

The same old fight in this place

The same old ground in my place

The same old sounds fill this place of my town

A stairway takes you past the morning

To places that we meet

Showing the winter rust

My heart is in mourning

A ruptured fence that holds me in

Which means were bound to fleet

A god for the unjust

My favourite sin

You dont know where im going

Where the rivers are flowing

Your world is youre your lie

You dont know what im saying

Or the games that your playing

Your world is your lie

The same old fight in this place

The same old ground in my place

The same old sounds fill this place of, my town

copied from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1788767/

Windy Rush Blues

She lays her head down on the wheel

Laughing at the nicknames she gives to all her friends

She calls me a sinner 'cause I love to sing and steal

Oh she stole my heart and didn't make amends

She sung out of the window of the man who broke her heart

I call myself a hero but I couldn't choose a name

I asked about his reason she began to fall apart

I guess the boy just didn't feel the same

I guess that's why she's dealing with the pain

So let me hold you now

Before I have to leave again

So let me hold you now

Before I have to be in/ I'll never let you leave again

So let me hold you now

Shake off this old coward's web

I won't make the same old sweet mistakes

She told me that I looked like a wreck in my new shoes

I told her stories about all the places she had never been

She had the look of wind rushed eyes

I knew that she could never loose

His perfume drifted from her quilt, it seems

And fluttered 'round my sunken poets' dreams.

Chorus

She cut the hand of her sister

And dried the blood up with her hair

She longed the smell of the slaughter

The dead, the living and the tale

She braced, hugged and pulled on my heart's desire

From the arctic moon to the hellish fire

Across boundaries, open fields, trees and the rough

She took me and she did it all for love

copied from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1795116/

Sad Woman Blues

And as the courage of a man gets riddled with every wave

That binds him to his choice and every kiss he ever gave

But with a broken heart caught up in the slipstreams of his art

Sometimes he should choose to fade sometimes he should choose to creep

Sometime he'll have to learn and make his no return

But if you ever fall from grace with your hands tied to your side

See the skies that fall in pain so heavy as you rise

So she'll brace you for awhile just a little smile to make you hers

But she has a path to walk she has other ways to go

She'll quietly watch you burn

Oh oh, as you make your no return

But as the days are left to leave and the rivers flow in time

You can scavenge on the breeze the familiar church bell chime

That leads you to her road

That orders you to do as you are told

That breaks your every rule

That turns you on your step

But you still have to learn

Oh oh as you make your no return

Hey

As you make your no return

Oh oh

As you make your no return

copied from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1795115/

Afternoon to Afternoon

Afternoon to afternoon

Dressed in their smart suits

Troubadors and spivs and a

Won't complain a down and out man

Who's reckoning the world is

Full to the brim of

Jokers and smokers and

Profit sniffing cokers

And an elegant child wishes one day he can ride with him

Afternoon to afternoon

Benchmark to benchmark

Phone called at dawn to dogs are barking in the alley again

One eye open keeps one on the sitting room floor

A man down on his luck goes shoots em up

And the kids in the alley are screaming for a little bit more

And I say hold on, hold on

My love is upturned and I'm still standing strong

The policeman has caught me

Right on the back of my head

It wasn't my fault he was playing me dead

So catch the rumour that some say is true

I once loved a woman but it sure wasnt you

And I say hold on, hold on

My sweat has been dribbling for I have done wrong

My arms are cut up while I live by your Hollywood hands

I would ask questions but I would not understand

I've got a mind to blame it on the rest

But an old man once told me to take it as a test

Fight I'm strong

Afternoon to afternoon

Won't you come along with me

The band's there to meet us

And their playing your favourite song

As the drums kick in you're merry and dancing so bright

So later on I decide to tag along

And the band gives his time to play into the day

And I said the band gives up his time to play into the day

Afternoon to afternoon, dim lights are fading

Records are playing those kids don't need saving

The schools are out and streets are packed to the brim

Of old school boys and country fair noise

Rain over the nest while hatching a dirty plan is slim

And I say hold on, hold on

My love is my turn and I'm still standing strong

The policeman has caught me

Right on the back of my head

It wasn't my fault he was playing me dead

So catch the rumour of what some say is true

I once loved a woman but it sure wasnt you

And I say hold on now, hold on

My sweat has been dribbling for I have done wrong

My arms are cut up but I live by your Hollywood hand

I would ask questions but I would not understand

I've got a mind to blame it on the rest

But an old man once told me to take it as a test

A special *something* boy when you're fighting the best

When two sharper wounds sting right across your chest

Fight I'm strong

copied from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1795117/

A Game We're Playing

If I lay down by your side

Would you shield my youth

From the tide

And climb the seven ages gone

Please let the devils rest

Like I so long

For the roads where your demons flee

Fall softly at my fletching feet

'Cause I miss you

And I want you to save your tears and ease my fears

Oh what a game we're playing

You drink yourself the foolish draught

The heaven's bind your will

To shame your doubts

And the smoke that cradles your hate and lies

It covers our thoughts

And twists our ties

And the roads where your demons flee

Fall softly at my fletching feet

And I miss you

And I need you

And I want you

I want you to save your tears and ease my fears

Oh what a game we're playing

copied from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1795114/

I'm Needed Now

I'm needed now, I'm needed now

The pathway is broke but I know how to find my way home

I'm needed now, I'm needed

Got stuck on a trail that brought sadness straight out of me

I think I'm gonna find me out

I think I'm gonna spend some time digging the old country ground

Lay in the grass where I've played

I'll scatter all the old picture frames

Play hide and seek with old faces, I'd never wish to change

Call on them all in the morning, in the morning

I button every coat I wear

I walk upon the rue lanes and hold the singing air

But I won't sing of his words when I'm leaving, when I'm leaving

I've been drenched in this rain before it tends to leave the thinkers astray

And I'm foolish now, I'm foolish now

I have other ways to walk but she's telling me she needs me to stay

And I'm needed now, I'm needed now

I turn a corner hoping the past would not lead me astray

(insert humming part again)

I think I better kick my feet and head down the road to its old familiar beat

But I can't go home this a way, this a way

Turning heads may wish me off but I can't leave this place this a way

Fallen leaves may cover my footsteps but I'll wipe them away

And I'm hoping now that I'll draw it out

The time has come to lay down my fears 'cause I know I can't stay

And I'm hoping now that it won't be long

Before the waves of the sea take the darkness straight out of me

copied from http://letras.mus.br/bobby-long/1795112/

I hear the lights of Dublin
They flicker like a stove
I hear the lights of Dublin
Are something to behold

With all the songs that are written
and lovers to be
I'm too young to know much
But Dublin's there for me

My green and white cotton bed clothes
They match my curtain rail
Though I don't have the money
I know where I would sail

In dime stores and bus stations
Is where I want to be
I'm too young to know much
But Dublin's there for me

With violins and piano
I'd sing to my heart's content
I'd sing of the wild rover
Who couldn't pay the rent

I'd play my songs for whiskey
and see what I could see
I'm too young to know much
But Dublin's there for me

If the pieces fit together
I'll start to rent a place
I'd bunk with a Dublin flower girl
I wouldn't need much space

And when my needs are done with
I'll fly to Sicily
But I'll come back to Dublin
'Cause Dublin's there for me

I hear the lights of Dublin
They flicker like a stove
I hear the lights of Dublin
Are something to behold

With all the songs that are written
and lovers to be
I'm too young to know much
But Dublin's there for me

I'm too young to know much
But Dublin's there for me
But I'll come back to Dublin
'Cause Dublin's there for me

Keep an Eye On You

Since You're Not Around

Throw Your Cigarettes

Crooked Sky

duet with Marcus Foster

Shadows on the trees break my bones

My heart on the breeze sinks like a stone
I've been here before
Not with you
I may be a liar but I'm one of the few

She tried to take cover on liquid high
Started to drink the water now the well is dry
Standing here holding up my hands to crooked skies

The steel is cold against my face
The wind is gone but not out of place
Read me a story, one from the past
I'm headed for glory but I know it wont last

She tried to take cover on liquid high
Started to drink the water now the well is dry
Standing here holding up my hands to crooked skies

Now shout to the night
Don't complain
You speak of your worries
Don't mention my name
I made a deal with a preacher's son
To hand in my hours when I'm on the run
When I'm on the run

She tried to take cover on liquid high
Started to drink the water now the well is dry
Standing here holding up my hands to crooked skies
Not the same
Standing here holding up my hands to crooked skies
Standing here holding up my hands to crooked skies
Standing here holding up my hands
Standing here holding up my hands
Standing here holding up my hands to crooked skies

It's Hard to Take

You shot the bird from my tree
And you nailed it to the gate
That kept in the souls of the soldiers you bedded
You fed and who you saved

So, I asked them all for an eye
To free the wings of that bird
That bore the brunt of the guilt you threw me
And my hand you left to the world

*And it's hard to take
It's hard sometimes
It's hard, too hard for me, for me
It's too hard for me to take

Well, the captain he bought me a gun
And he flooded my mind with his rage
He said, "I'm too young to die, so I'll run"
He said, "A man shouldn't hide in his grave"

She wouldn't look at me in the eye
Like she did when I was still true
I wouldn't fire a bullet for him
But I'd fire a hundred for you

*

I don't know the depths of the sea
Like I don't know the depths that I'll go
And since the burden has been passed on to me
Maybe, someday, you'll get up and go

That dog, it barks in the night
Scaring away any peace that's around
Your voice was a siren to them
But to me you sound just like that hound

*

Shoot up my arm with your blood
And bury my heart in the lake
It needs to rest for a while
Just like you said I'm hard to take

So, tie up the bows on your dress
I'll tie up the lace on my shoes
If you light up the candle you're holding
I'll light up the end of this fuse

You shouldn't pity a man with his face
I can work a week with his hammer
Some people always took you for granted
But maybe it was just your beauty that damned ya

copied from http://www.musicbobbylong.com/forum/boards/1301/topics/24908?p=1

This Strange Love

This strange love won't wait
Won’t you write it out for me
Like it wasn't written up above
So I'm calling on angels arms

Strangers from afar
They pick and they hurt me
Like it's a fault laid written on my breath
My lazy mind needs his bed
So I’m thinking of being done

So if you think you might need to come
Crying out
Outdated, frustrated
Time to start
Calling on angels arms
Ooh ooh oh yeah yeah yeah

So thinking men wake in their heads
Pay nothing for free
It's their thoughts which pay my debts
So methanol mind full of ugly heads
With nothing left to spare
Crying out to the panic soaked sky
Thinking of being done
Ooh ooh oh yeah

So if you think you might need to come
Crying out
Outdated, frustrated
Time to start
But see her far from the lonely
Children, asking her to see the sun
Ooh yeah oh oh yeah yeah

So if you think you might need to come
Crying out
Outdated, frustrated
Time to start
With drunken kisses
Busted wishes are for
Time to start
Calling on angel's arms
Calling on angel's arms
Calling on angel's arms
Ooh ooh

♫ soundcloud

When I Come Around

Something's coming up
Half the time I'm coming down
From this unbalanced spin
Puts me through the ground
People have their say
I wish they'd go away
So I can come around

I don't wanna lose it all
But I'm better off this way
With nothing to keep me down
I can blow myself away
You know I'll be alright
But I told you to be good
So I can come around

*It's okay to think that I waited here for you
But you know the truth
I just need some time to figure out what's mine
To help me when I come around

Just try and hold your love until
Just try to hold your love until

I'm back up on my feet
And I can see what's real
The sun still burns my eyes
I'm trying hard to feel
I know that you've been good
Don't think I've been unkind
I'll come around

So Tear Me Up

I’m running through the backdoor

My head across the sky

Hoping that my god will let me in

As the people start to notice

They scream “oh man, better wake him up”

Hey kid you’ll never want to follow him

But the rich kids on the corner

Betting off on solitaire

Just to lay the poor upon the boys

Walking out, they’re on your shoes

Like chalk upon the face of rex

Beating out to keep their head above the noise

So hold me down

So tear me up

So let me in for a while

Hey

When everyone’s a down and out

You don’t know where it ends

But the forecast tells the lads to push on through

Beyond the tepid shade a face is wrecked in (the?) afternoon

The lucky like to stick it to the truth

So sing a song in sixpence

I’ll stick it to the change

But men can never seem to make it last

The send all three I owe it to the hate, the love, the cut

The scar I will have to wear upon the mast (mask?)

So hold me down

So tear me up

Let me in for a while

So watch it go

Ooh

Hold me down

So tear me up

So let me in for a while

So hold me down

So tear me up

So let me in for a while

I bet you’d like to see a poor man start to smile

copied from http://musicbobbylong.com/lyrics-dirty-pond-songs

The Rattle and the Roll

I scream for peace from the clutches of the street

Now who do you think that you're saving

From the gust of glow my heart will flow

My love is like the raven

But no bitter past could try to unmask

The truthful words you've been saying

The british class will divide your task

But my love is like a raven

So gather your boys and hold on

This ain't a place to be hung

Oh no no no no

Gather your boys and hold on

This ain't a place to be hung

Oh no no no no

It's the rattle and roll coming over - hey!

If the hands of strife and the darkest night

Could write down the words they're exchanging

Then my ringed neck may bring the death

But my love is still the raven

No bitter fling could force you to begin

The truthful lie you've been craving

There stands a ghost on a withdrawn coast

That flies just like a raven

So gather your boys and hold on

This ain't a place to be hung

Oh no no no no

Gather your boys and hold on

This ain't a place to be hung

Oh no no no no

It's the rattle and roll coming over

So gather your boys and hold on

This ain't a place to be hung

Oh no no no no

Gather your boys and hold on

This ain't a place to be hung

Oh no no no no

It's the rattle and roll coming over

For it's the rattle and roll

copied from http://musicbobbylong.com/lyrics-dirty-pond-songs