Coldwater

+ This Ain't My Home

(Greg Leisz / Shannon McNally)

Wrong side of the road

How did I get here this time

Looked up and it was coming

Tried to grab what little was mine

But my eyes are open

Open all the way

I had my reasons

But the seasons changed

Pocket full of pennies

I need a dollar for the train

If they don't miss you

You're not home

It's not your home anyway

Little sister can I tell you

Just how perfect you are?

Little sister can I tell you

I can't stand to see you starve

I'm never, never going back there

Sooner turn to stone

Won't turn around here

No I won't look back

I see what's coming

Coming round the track

If they don't miss you

When you're not home

It's not your home anyway

+ Jack B. Nimble

(Shannon McNally)

Coming through the eye of a storm

Lost like keys in a purse

I know I’ll find it but I gotta pull everything out first

What do you want

What is it that you want

You’re always looking like

You got something to ask

Jack be nimble

Jack be quick

Think I’m gonna, gonna be sick

Wind swept and drifting follow me down

Why don’t you come see me when I come around.

I saw you watch her

Your eyes were fixed

You were talking to me

But the show was for her

I read your vanity

Like a murder mystery

It was surprisingly thin on plot

Well if you want her

Go on and get her

Yeah, I won’t stop you

If you wish upon another

Don’t say I didn’t warn you

When your ship comes in

and you find yourself lost

In a whirlpool wind

I waited in line

I even said please

I knew you were a myth

Shoulda guessed you’d be a tease

Gotta run for cover

Take to the hills

Can’t get it out of my mind, this drill

This shifting pallet

this swirling turn

this pattern of greased spending

with little to no return

+ Lonesome, Ornery and Mean

(Shannon McNally)

On a greyhound bus,

Lord I'm traveling this morning

I'm going to Shreveport and on down to New Orleans

Been driving these highways,

Been doing things my way

It's been making me lonesome on'ry and mean

Now her hair was jet black,

And her name was Codene

Thought she was the cream of the Basin Street queens

She got tired of that smokey whine dream

Began to feel lonesome on'ry and mean

We got together, and we cashed in our sweeps.

Gave 'em to a beggar

Who was mumbling through the streets

There's no escaping

From his snowy white dreams

Born lookin' lonesome on'ry and mean

Now i'm down in this valley,

Where the wheels turn so low

At dawn i pray, to the Lord of my soul

I say do Lord, do right by me

You know I'm tired of being lonesomeon'ry and mean

Yodelayeeee...

+ Lovely

(Shannon McNally)

And so it goes when you travel from town to town

Passing time with a guitar it hurts to lay it down

I've been lost and saved and lost again

Those lonely white lines I've come to think of them as friends

Things rarely go the way I hope

I spend too much time ducking jabs up against the ropes

But all I really want in the end

Is to be counted among the good guys when I'm laid to rest

And you're the loveliest I've ever seen

A sweet blueberry gonna whip your cream

Yes you're the loveliest I've ever seen

My delta rogue you are lovely

What say you and me get lost for a while

Chase down that sunset at the end of that longest mile

Cause I was born to run you were born to my man

We'll take cover baby come on give me your hand

I just got off that mountain you know where I wanna go

Straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

And when we hit the beach we'll rent a little house

We'll lay in bed listen to the waves

We'll live on water wine and weed

I ain't gonna let you out of my sight for weeks

And you're the loveliest I've ever seen

A sweet blueberry gonna whip your cream

Yes you're the loveliest I've ever seen

My delta rogue you are lovely

Yes you're the lovliest that I ever did see

Really love your peaches gonna shake your tree

Yes you're the loveliest that I ever did know

Sweet like sugar and pure like snow

+ Bohemian Wedding Song

(Shannon McNally)

I'm not very fond of songs that weep and moan

I am like the others I've wandered in search of my home

And I wanna be close to you baby

Near to you my lover man

Please relieve me all my sorrow

See the joy you're bringing me

In you I've found a source I am careful not to drain dry

I dip my cup lick my lips your water is sweet

And I wanna be tossed with you baby

Side to side and back again

Please relieve me all my tomorrows

See the joy you're bringing me

Now I'm out on the mountainside left alone with it all

In this game they call fear the object is to listen not to hear

And if I could go back in time

I wouldn't erase a single line from your face

Cause the battles that you've lost are as beautiful to me

As your victories

+ Freedom To Stay

(Hoover Bill)

I tied my bandana, took my pack from the floor

You were still sleeping, as I stood at the door

Once more I was heading to, God only knows where

That's when it hit me, I was already there

I could ramble, a thousand miles or more

Never find the light I've seen in your eyes before

You gave me the freedom to go on my own way

But you gave me much more, you gave me the freedom to stay

Why keep on running, just to wish on a star

Searching for Heaven, when I know where you are

Life is just empty, when you're walking alone

So wherever we're going girl, Lord it's good to be at home

I could ramble, a thousand miles or more

Never find the light I've seen in your eyes before

You gave me the freedom to go on my own way

But you gave me much more, you gave me the freedom to stay

+ Bolder Than Paradise

(Shannon McNally / Walsh)

Some things are basically

Beyond vision of doubt

Some things I understand

That I'm better off without

Dingy walls painted clean

Broken words unseen

I said maybe the world's as it should be

You disagree

Bolder than paradise

And longer than goodbye

Carry your name around with me

Like a spell I sometimes recite

Wide open spaces and amber waves of grain

That's where I used to live

In the kingdom of my youthful reign

Before I was a prisoner to silo

Walled into the shadows, shy to the sky, yeah

Bolder than paradise

And longer than goodbye

Carry your name around with me

Like a spell I sometimes recite

Yeah, bolder than paradise

And longer than goodbye

And I'm gonna carry your name around with me

Like a spell I sometimes recite

+ Positively 4th Street

(Bob Dylan)

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend

When I was down you just stood there grinnin'

You've got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend

You just want to be on the side that's winnin'

You say I let you down, ya know its not like that

If you're so hurt, why then don't you show it?

You say you've lost your faith, but that's not where its at

You have no faith to lose, and ya know it

I know the reason, that you talked behind my back

I used to be among the crowd you're in with

Do you take me for such a fool, to think I'd make contact

With the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with?

You see me on the street, you always act surprised

You say "how are you?", "good luck", but ya don't mean it

When you know as well as me, you'd rather see me paralyzed

Why don't you just come out once and scream it

No, I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace

If I was a master thief perhaps I'd rob them

And tho I know you're dissatisfied with your position and your place

Don't you understand, its not my problem?

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes

And just for that one moment I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could s