Southside Sessions

+ Nothing Mysterious

(Charlie Sexton / Steven Krikorian)

Well, I came home for Christmas, but I was too late

The presents were opened, all the bones on the plate

Well, you heard about Christmas in the month of December

It might get you down, but you got to remember

When the rain comes down just like a hammer

When the cold wind rips through your life just like a dagger

When the car won't start, and the bus won't stop

And you're stranded on Blue Avenue

Well, it's nothing mysterious, it's nothing new... yeah

Well she came from Missouri to the land of fast cars

Searching for something, auditioning for parts

She paid with her beauty, her innocence slayed

She took it so hard, until someone explained

When the rain comes down just like a hammer

When the cold wind rips through your life just like a dagger

When they break your heart, yeah and tear you apart

Leave you stranded on Blue Avenue

Well, it's not like these things only happen to you

It's just traditional misery that we all go through

You're not alone, how could you have known

It's nothing mysterious, it's nothing new

So we stumble our way into the new year

The usual confusion, but one thing is clear

It's all laughter and sadness and the advice

It just is what it is, yeah, but it ain't no surprise

When the rain comes down just like a hammer

When the cold wind rips through your life just like a dagger

When they break your heart, yeah and tear you apart

Leave you stranded on Blue Avenue

Well, it's nothing mysterious, it's nothing new

+ Old Cypress Tree

Feelin’ for my knees well they’re over my feet

Candid sight of you is a sweet sweet treat

Drinking water in the desert from a cactus high

Hope to leave just footprints on this great round dove

Tascun ribbon around an old sappers tree

Water is getting higher, gonna have to flee

Rollin waters, well they mean to kill

Looks like for 40 nights on the lonesome hill

There goes a bad bible with his magic meddle

There’s consequence and tragedy

He’s come to collect for a job well done

Might as well pay up it’s cheap and long run

Your like a memory moving languid and slow

Backwoods and left of everything I know

Have you seen the joker, did he come through here

He was wearing nothing but a smile and a tear

Hear the coyote singing mournful song

Little we know that it won’t be long

Something’s coming up and around next bend

Singing ah-ii-ay all of this too shall end

And when it does, when it does

I will thank the moon and stars

For showing me well on this road

For lovin you out on this road

I got all your loving if you got the time

Got this sneakin feeling that you might be mine

Gonna get you laid down in green green grass

You won’t be my first but you might be my last

Sasseur ribbon around the old Cypress tree

Sing my song create a Galilee

Fishing from a dug out gonna catch my meal

Ain’t afraid of the devil cuz he’s never been real

+ When We Were Younger

(Charlie Sexton / Steven Krikorian)

Somewhere between glory and disaster

Caught in a machine that only goes faster

Are these far away as it seems, sweet days of laughter

When we truly believed we get what we were after

How did it change?

Does anything remain?

We still have that hunger

Is nothing the same as when we were younger

Let the hurt begin to mend

Let this not be the end

Can we slip beneath again the spell we were under

When we were younger

Can we let this troubled wind blow on by

And the light of the past is shining

Let the future shine

Today's memories will blow sweeter with the passage of time

Cause nothing stays the same

Everything remains mystery and wonder

I'll be the same as when we were younger

Can the hurt begin to mend

Let this not be the end

Can we slip beneath again the spell we were under

When we were younger

Let the hurt begin to mend

Let this not be the end

Can we slip beneath again the spell we were under

When we were younger

When we were younger

When we were younger

When we were younger

+ No Place To Fall

(Townes Van Zandt)

If I had no place to fall

and I needed to

could I count on you

to lay me down?

I'd never tell you no lies

I don't believe it's wise

you got pretty eyes

won't you spin me 'round

I ain't much of a lover it's true

I'm here then I'm gone

and I'm forever blue

but I'm sure wanting you

Skies full of silver and gold

try to hide the sun ...

+ Biloxi

(Jesse Winchester)

Down around Biloxi

Pretty girls are swimming in the sea

Oh they look like sisters in the ocean

The boy will fill his pail with salted water

And the storms will blow from off towards New Orleans

The sun shines on Biloxi

The air is filled with vapors from the sea

And the boy will dig a pool beside the ocean

He sees creatures from a dream under the water

And the sun will set from off towards New Orleans

The stars can see Biloxi

The stars can find their faces in the sea

We are walking in the evening by the ocean

We are splashing naked in the water

And the sky is red from off towards New Orleans

+ Burn

(Charlie Sexton / Shannon McNally)

Well fun streets and broken beats

40 days and nights without sleep

Drift ahead On the lean streets and loving pace

Brush strokes lost and headlights blaze

List of

From the loveliness of a skyline view

To the open windows of the rooftops blue

Night clubs rave in this dead-steered town

I use my best moves to be the shadows doubts

Summers lost the leaves have turned

The sun’s moved on but I still burn for you

The freezes I’ve felt, lessons i’ve learned

The coldest nights, I still burn for you

I still burn

You’re the brightest colors, dull and grey

The real warewolves, two blocks away is with flare

Well turned my bank to where the river flows

My breath is shallow and my heart beats slow

Listen now

I feel such in a moment of confusion divine

I can’t move, can’t close my eyes

Crawl like a dog, I fall like a star

To intervene the dogs like a wrecking ball

Summers lost the leaves have turned

The sun’s moved on but I still burn for you

The freezes I’ve felt, lessons i’ve learned

The coldest nights, I still burn for you

I still burn

The white birds fly in blackening haze

List of a long heartbreak page

Wishin I feel trapped inside, locked in a circus cage

With The circus blues, before the nights ending

Summers lost the leaves have turned

The sun’s moved on but I still burn for you

The freezes I’ve felt, lessons i’ve learned

Through coldest nights, I still burn for you

I still burn I still burn

Yeahh yeahh Yeahh yeahh

+ I'd Do The Same For You

(Charlie Sexton)

Open up your window honey

Let the light shine through

Open up your heart now sugar

Is there just a little room

Brokenhearted melody

Can you hear that singer

Come on give me another chance

And i’d do the same for you

The sun is shining bright here honey

Still I feel a little chill

These days it seems like nights are dying

The paths comes

Everything has changed. I know that all things do

Come on give me another chance

And i’d do the same for you

I don’t wanna have to be movin on

Sad eyes on the train

The beasts the rise inside our heads

Cruel and can’t be tamed

Open up your eyes

Can you see a different view

Come on give me one tender kiss

And i’ll do the same for you

The silence in the twilight

And the sun is hangin low

There’s a fire in our hearts and souls

Baby did ya know

Baby we only come together

After you broke in two

Come on give me another chance

And i’d do the same for you

Come on give me another chance, and I’ll do the same for you

Come on give me another chance, and I'll do the same for you