North American Ghost Music

+ Bolder Than Paradise - Live

(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

+ Weathervane - Live

(Shannon McNally)

As I walked through the valley

Of the shadow of death, come across a man

His feet were planted in the ground

His hat in his hand

He said, "Hey, lovely lady

Won't you linger long and tell me a tale

Of love songs so sweet

And evil that's failed?"

For I've stood here so long

Weathervane of song

Holding down the spike

Waiting for lightening to strike

My eyes fell so low, they hit the ground

I mumbled my name

He said, "Girl, raise your eyes

Look at me, don't be afraid

It's all in your mind

It's only my skin that they took

I lived this life of loss for you

You've got to at least read the book"

Oh, I've stood here so long

Weathervane of song

Holding down the spike

Waiting for lightening to strike

He said, "Hey, lovely lady, what was it

Brought you through my valley floor?

All mornings come and gone

You never been here before

Said, "I ain't nobody made a road map

Lead you here

There are sign posts everywhere

But they ain't very clear"

Well, I followed myself

Through the wind, through the rain

Beyond all that stuff

Other side of the grave

I walked and I walked

Till I felt no pain

Till I felt no shame

Till I figured the game

Now I'm gonna stand here so long

Weathervane of song

Holding down the spike

Waiting for lightening to strike

+ The Last Lonely Eagle - Live

(John C Dawson)

If you go down round the bend in the river

You're gonna find a few changes

Been going down there

'Cause the people who live

Round the bend in the river

Have forgotten their dreams

And they've cut off their hair

And take a last, flying look

At the last lonely eagle

He's soaring the length of the land

Shed a tear for the fate

Of the last lonely eagle

For you know that he never will land

If you go down where the lights

Push the nighttime

Back far enough so you can't feel the fear

Remember the boy who you left on the mountain

Who's sitting alone with the stars and his tears

If you go down to the gas-powered flatland

Where most of the people just think

That they're free

Remember the peace that you had

On the mountain

Come back to the love that you had here with me

For you know that he never will land

+ Sweet Forgiveness - Live

(Shannon McNally)

The news blows cold in my veins

Everyday I wake to more of the same

The garden don't grow

'Cause greed never gets old

And my weapon of choice

Has got a lonely voice

It's lost in the brambles and buried in the noise

But I hear it still, faint, but steady calling

So forgive my love, forgive my broken heart

Forgive my love, was anything ever so hard

I'm angry to the bone

Feeling all alone, sweet forgiveness, yeah

Forgiving my love doesn't make them right

For taking what was ours and wounding the light

But it all comes back around in many unseen ways

They get theirs, they get theirs, they get theirs

May we never seek revenge

Bill never be paid

If this ache in our hearts is ever to go away

We only feed their greed by carrying that rage

So forgive my love, forgive my broken heart

Forgive my love, was anything ever so hard

I'm angry to the bone

Feeling all alone, sweet forgiveness, yeah

Sweet forgiveness, sweet forgiveness

May this melody reveal

And help me to heal with forgiveness, yeah, alright

'Cause I don't want a life that's soft and high

If it means that others must suffer and die for my comfort

'Cause I just don't know how to shut my eyes

Shut my eyes, shut my eyes

So forgive my love, forgive my broken heart

Forgive my love, was anything ever so hard

I'm angry to the bone

Feeling all alone, sweet forgiveness, yeah

Sweet forgiveness, sweet forgiveness

May this melody reveal

And help me to heal with forgiveness

Yeah, alright, alright, baby

+ My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - Live

(Sharon Vaughn)

I grew up a-dreaming of being a cowboy

Loving the cowboy ways

Pursuing the life of my high-riding heroes

I burned up my childhood days

I learned all the rules of the modern-day drifter

Don't you hold on to nothing too long

Just take what you need from the ladies, then leave them

With the words of a sad country song

My heroes have always been cowboys

And they still are, it seems

Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of

Themselves and their slow-moving dreams

Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery

From being alone too long

You could die from the cold in the arms of a nightmare

Knowing well your best days are gone

Picking up hookers instead of my pen

I let the worsd of my years fade away

Old worn-out saddles, and old worn-out memories

With no one and no place to stay

My heroes have always been cowboys

And they still are, it seems

Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of

Themselves and their slow-moving dreams

+ Pale Moon - Live

(Shannon McNally)

Oh i'd like to find myself

Trapped in some desert town with you

Just me and you

My long black hair waving in the drive-in

Me waving at you, my lover

From some ancient balcony

But like a

First division i see you

And your gone

Way out could id run to

Come back

Come back

Come back

But you're

Gone california

And it's just my fate

Making me blue

Why else would i see you

Today

But im not in some desert town

And you're not there with me

Im underground in NYC

The city of perpetual motion

The city that never sleeps

Thats alright, i wasn't tired anyways

I was so close getting clear

Thought i had nothing to fear

You'd be on a plane

And you'd be gone

And it would be done

But there are

18 million people in this town

Who spend the day

Bummin' around

Just to bump into you

On third avenue…

+ Down And Dirty - Live

(Shannon McNally)

Come on in through my screen door

Tell me all your cares

I'm here to lend my ears

Where you been lately

Haven't seen much around here, Oh no

Been hiding out in the shade

Your skins all gone to gray

Did you eat today?

When you coming home to stay?

Don't you know I love you

When you're down and dirty

Don't you know I love you

When you're clean (Repeat)

If you could see what I see

You'd see a boy who can't face things

Silent is all he is

You been looking around without your vision

Hearing things without listening

Suffering but feeling no real kind of pain

You know I'd like to help but

When I let you ride for free

You drag me into the cheap cheap scene

(Cheap cheap scene yeah)

Don't you know I love you

When you're down and dirty

Don't you know I love you

When you're clean(Repeat)

You got this thing against

Living with the best

But you sure like to visit me don't you

When the streets get too cold

When you're feeling weary and old

When your chances for survival

Looking oh so slim

When all of a sudden you won't live to be eighty

Maybe ninety

Maybe a hundred and ten

Don't you know

Don't you know

Don't you know

Don't you know I love you

When you're down and dirty

Don't you know I love you

When you're clean (Repeat)

Oh I know everything ain't

Always what it seems be to

Don't you know I love you baby

Any way I find you

Anyway you come

Any way I find you

Anyway you come

Come on (Repeat until end)

+ Leave Your Bags By The Door - Live

(Shannon McNally)

Well I can see by your eyes that you come from far away

You've been traveling all night and you'd like a place to stay

Well that's alright, baby leave your bags by the door

That's alright, honey you can even ask for more

I won't ask you where you're from

Where you're going or why you've come

For a lot of answers to all the questions on my tongue

No that's alright, baby leave your bags by the door

That's alright, honey you can even ask for more

Well who are we two as we stand here tonight?

Are you a prince in paupe's rags come down from the heights

See the way your subjects live when you've turned your back

Taste the fruits of the common man and the purpose that you lack?

Or are you just a Tom wonderin' the night

Looking for a diamond mine and banking on it's might

Standing in the footprints of the wanders before you

Looking for fulfillment and hoping that there's more

Yes, my name is Jill Ryder and I'm a seamstress for the fleet

I stand five foot seven in my cold bare feet

And I've raised two daughters one from each of the loves of my life

I'm a widow two times, my girls are still alive

So why don't you come in out of the cold warm your feet by my fire

The cat's name is Lady, why don't you just sit down beside her

Listen to her purr, oh you know she's content

To left the world drift by and let those crooked lines stay bent

Don't be afraid to let it all hang out, 'cause I've seen it all before

And what harm could come from just a little bit more, just a little bit more?

+ Geronimo - Live

And I do it again and again

I listen for visions and missions in the wind

I won the vote but shunned the soft parade

And now I'm picking garbage, a true sage's trade

I won every battle and lost the war

You dared me to reach for it, you dared me to know

So I drove that car just as slow as it would go

Listening for the sound of my last hope hit the ground, baby

Won every battle but lost the war

You managed to take more than I had

With your greedy treaties and your rubber badge

You may have won every battle but you lost the war

Well, I only did what I knew

Simple math, nothing more nothing less

If you hadn't of told me I never would have guessed

How hungry was your hate, how sealed was my fate

And I won every battle but lost the war

I managed to take more than I had

With your greedy treaties and your rubber badge

You may have won every battle but you lost the war

You may have won every battle but lost the war