lyrics

john morgan chambers

still kissing you

(chambers/murphy)

racing out yellow plains our brown bodies in the yellow waves of grain spinning under open blue skies dizzy bodies open to the coming blue light what what will we do everything seems crazy the ingenue has made her debut you say upsy-daisy and I find myself find myself kissing you I’m still kissing you racing out tough prairie cats cool bodies warm mother gives us everything everything we need lying down in soft purple grass eager bodes filled purple shadows pass what will we do everything seems crazy but you know what to do I say upsy-daisy and I find myself find myself kissing you I’m still kissing you I”m still kissing you

winter moon

(chambers)

there's a heartbreak on the horizon he says we'll be there soon it's just over that hillside under the winter moon everything was falling that day they just a drive to try and get away he tries to look forward she just looks away then she looks over and says I don't like feeling this way sorry she cries pushing tears from her eyes it was all a lie and I just want to tell you goodbye

sometimes love is lonely

(chambers)

we were walking though the rain feeling high feeling no pain when she said do you think we should marry and then she turned with a smile said no babe it's not our style well maybe maybe we should just run away and I'll never know if I let her go or was she always there just to slip away she said hold me in the evening and then let go of me with the day you know love my love sometimes is lonely and love my love love slips away now that it's all fallen down maybe I should just leave town and hope I still have some angels out in front of me I see that old tree is still growing I just can't help but hoping that one day it might give a little shade to me she said hold me in the evening and then let go of me with the day and I just can't I just can't keep from hoping that love my love that love will stay

virginia

(chambers)

she was standing there caught in her underwear when I walked in she said would you like some wine I said that would be just fine and we drank it well summer came and went she said you don't mention it but you love me so I'm leaving here today I've got to get away from you she said if she don't love herself how can she love someone else it's just not a reality it's a fallacy to think that love is any good so fall fall then come on back virginia don't you know that I still miss you and if I could find a way I'd be with you today I would she said do you remember when you kissed my tummy and spread my legs I wanted to fall in love but you were older you'd given up on school well I remember her that day I remember the day she walked away I remember her face and I knew then that I would never replace it come on back virginia don't you know that I still miss you and if I could find a way I'd be with you today I would if I could find a way I'd be inside you today I would and I don't think I remember I don't think I recall all the pretty things that we said before the fall

lacey

(chambers)

lacey she's crazy that about her I know but I'm crazy about lacey and I'll never let her go so me and lacey we'll be crazy what else can we do lacey stay crazy that's what I love about you and I know I shouldn't ask why just believe it's true but you know I'm not the kind of guy that wishes look in the eye still I look and I see you and you hold me close and your breathing matches mine and I feel you I feel you I feel you and I think of way on that beach that day how the storm came up blustering and the wild wild wind was blowing through your hair and I remember the haze and all of the gray and the sun fighting hard to show its rays with the rays that were coming through glowing on your skin and I watched as you turned and you danced away to play with the waves that had come our way and you moved so cool spinning back to me and we laughed as we stayed all the rest of that day then the day it was gone it had faded away but I loved someone I loved someone don't you fade away and I remember the way we kissed that day with the water falling on us as it washed away soft white sand that was clinging to our skin and the night slipped away all part of the play and I wake in your arms to see the new day and I think to myself I have found an angel so the big blue sea forever will stay apart of my heart never taken away but now the big blue sky is showing me what to do so I'll never look away from your pretty face never never never never never never a day because I love you I love you lacey yes I do yes I do

it's december

(chambers)

it's december do you remember the way the snow felt when our love was real and it would always heal the deepest hurt but it's ice I see the painful memories the ghosts of the way things were they are haunting me with your memories and hurt and I don't know what I was thinking I don't know why I let myself go guess I was thinking you were my world ah but that was such a long time ago it's december I'll remember the way the snow felt cause our love was real and it would always heal the deepest hurt so with the ghosts I will raise a toast I won't be blue cause it's december time to remember you and I know what I was thinking I know why I let myself go in my life you were my world ah but that was such a long time ago that was such a long time ago

I'm here

(chambers/mcrae)

too many choices follow me these days too many things she says I will never hear her say too many sad regrets hang over me but it's okay I'm here I'm here please forgive me if I'm rotten I'm going to live today going to put myself to sleep now try to find a way trying to make sure I'm not forgotten but I've no way left to say I'm here I'm here life is calling persons back to be all the things they lack love is an illusion to us all the first time around you see you feel you fall down please forgive me if I'm rotten I'm going to live today try to put myself to sleep now hope to find a way trying to make sure I'm not forgotten but I've no way left to say I'm here I'm here

simone

(chambers/mcrae)

lonely highways bless the sky lonely highways bless the sky

donuts

(chambers)

I like to talk a lot about things that don't mean a lot and I like to feel high so if you're feeling sad and I've got a bag we'll smoke all I got and then we'll go and get donuts on the drag life's still a mystery to me I like football games and I don't mind a little pain if there's release at the end and I remember the rain on that winter day we kissed like there was no end and we went home after donuts at one a.m. and life's still a mystery to me life's still a mystery to me

charlie chaplin highways

(chambers)

charlie chaplin highways broadcast skies I'm on this highway alone rollercoaster nightmares and uncertain smiles they tear your heart when you're far from home sentimental reasons and things that you can't see they reach up and they take hold postcards from nowhere and pictures stay unexposed makes things easy to see so I stay to the center I don't get off the road I stay to the center it keeps me whole worrying about the future makes you forget the past it's not easy to be bold some things were meant to be well babe they don't always last that just the way things go so I stay to the center I don't get off the road yeah I stay to the center it keeps me whole

the road knows your name

(chambers)

do you find peace of mind when you look out to the highway do you see all the things that you've gathered along the way they might hang on you like nightmares they might lift you up like a dream well the road goes more than one way and the road knows your name did she love you like no other did she bring out things no one else could see did you pray hard for your lover and still the road took her away so now you've gone out on the highway and you're lost inside yourself asking why well the road will answer one day when the road comes to take you home when the road comes to take you home

virginia (acoustic)

(chambers)

little star

(unknown)

twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are up above the clouds so high like a diamond in the sky

she gives to me

(chambers/murphy)

seems to me seems to me some things in this world are not as they should be I see her she says it doesn't hurt she gives to me she gives to me she sees brilliance echo from the leaves she sees brilliance echo from the leaves she gives to me you are calm beyond you are calm beyond

beg, steal and borrow

(chambers)

falling from the sky he thinks of her and wonders why she gone he hopes everyone below they'll look up and they'll go she was wrong so will he pull the cord or fall on her bloody sword they didn't know but as he nears the ground he just smiles and turns around and off he goes he says I know that I'm awful I beg steal and borrow it's what I do and though I hope that one day everybody gets repaid I just don't know if it's true I just don't know if it's true well once when he was young he thought life was just for fun and that he would be the king of everything he wouldn't have no enemies but then he learned some things now he says that they're awful they beg steal and borrow it's what they do and though I hope that one day they will all repay I just don't know if it's true I just don't know if it's true he says I know that I'm awful I beg steal and borrow it's what I do and though I hope that one day everybody gets repaid I just don't know if it's true I just don't know if it's true I just don't know if it's true

belfast

(chambers)

it was twenty below on the night of the show down in belfast up in newtownabbey we could not see though the storm blast she took my hand she said it'll never last so go on with the show you'll make it through the blast sometimes we hurt sometimes we skirt the big tragedy in this twisted game she cursed my name now it haunts me and I know that I want to go high right here but I've been torn to pieces smothered by my fears and the drinks they still flow but nobody knows that I'm dying I'm dying I'm dying my death will be slow I miss her hand I miss her clarity I miss her smile I miss her missing me and it was twenty below on the night of the show down in belfast it was twenty below on the night of the show down in belfast

blesses the sky

(chambers)

she loved him and he love her he loved the universe she seemed to have fallen from above he looked at her and it was love but the stars can be so cruel betray your love make you the fool he lost his love that day the day the stars took her away and he tears at his flesh as he cries the stars can tell such lies but he sees in his demise just where his limits lie and he blesses the sky blesses the sky

green from gray

(chambers)

the sun comes up on my paper cup I say a little prayer it brings me luck pull out on the highway and I'm smiling the earth turns green from gray the sky's so big I'm flying and the sun rises over me now it's time we say goodbye please my friends I don't want to cry and you know I'll be around I'm easily found and I'm fond of you but other things abound out there we've found it's true so may the sun always rise over you may the sun always rise over you

prairie fire

(chambers)

a prairie fire a drunken holiday squealing tires outside the speedway she sings out loud to try to stop her tears one too many blowouts over the years how many times must I lose control how many lovers must I let go must I let go will I fall to pieces if I fall to my knees if I ask for forgiveness will forgiveness find me so pride release me love help me see that all the struggles they breathe life into me and I know that I might have to fight I might have to fight for everything but I won't go down I won't go down I won't go down as long as I can sing and there's music all around me now there's music in everything so I fall to pieces and I fall to my knees and I ask for forgives and forgiveness and forgiveness finds me

owen fixley

(chambers, based on the short story, "hearts of stone" by frank elliott)

owen fixley's body lies still by the side of the tracks flies collect on his dried blood shouldn't have been here last night but he was it has always been a game for keeps nobody here ever messes around and now his blood it seeps into the ground owen fixley's body lies still by the side of the tracks flies collect on his dried blood shouldn't have been here last night but he was but he was

mary knew

(chambers)

mary knew she'd know what to do if she ever had the chance again she would go out to new mexico look up to the sky and feel the wind she'd go see that old dear friend you know the one we knew back when who held all the secrets of life she'd go there to be made whole then she'd head back out on the road and she'd swear this time she'd give it a real try but she got ties that bind and it's hard to find the time and that old friend that she knows might've left new mexico so mary will just keep knowing that the wind will just keep blowing and she won'd have anyplace to go she won't have anyplace to go

the big mistake

(chambers)

well all this talk of sadness all this talk of badness I can't handle it what I want is for a beautiful woman to pull me in to a beautiful kiss but my life is such a sandstorm that I feel like I'm covered in grit and I don't know which is worse the smell of the purse or the shape of it let's talk about mountains let's talk about lakes let's talk about oceans but let's not talk about snakes and let's talk about making love and it not being the big mistake now back when I was in high school I smiled like a damn fool who'd just been hitched but all these years of beating around equals thirty years of being beaten down in a ditch so take me back take me back take me back take me back to where I don't care I just want to see you smile at me when I pull down your underwear let's talk about mountains let's talk about lakes let's talk about oceans but let's not talk about snakes and let's talk about making love and it now being the big mistake let's talk about mountains let's talk about lakes let's talk about oceans but let's not talk about snakes and let's talk about making love and it now being the big mistake

driving in the rain

(chambers, mcrae, crossland, colaw)

clouds were forming on the horizon her top was down the sky was sad I said should we stop and she just laughed if it starts raining she said we could use the bath she said that we could use the bath driving in the rain headlights blaring and I'm staring at her I think she knows I think she knows water fills the car washes both our hearts thunder makes me feel so alive she said why is it so hard we've driven too damn far to let this floor of gray turn us back driving in the rain headlights blaring and I'm staring at her I think she knows I think she knows aim this car straight for the desert it needs rain aim this car straight for the desert it needs rain

another time

(chambers)

killing myself in montana hoping to feel some rain I see her standing on the doorstep smiling through the pain another time it might've happened another time that come before another time it might've happened but I'm not a kid no I'm not a kid anymore when you see the one you can't possess when you see her stand before you looking back in distress knowing that she's lost you and you were lost to her before she even knew you and she was lost to you yeah she was lost to you before she even knew you and you don't know what to do because another time it might've happened another time that come before another time it might've happened oh but we're not kids no we're not kids anymore

so still so green

(murphy)

so still so green there's barely a breeze another leaf lost it falls slowly from the trees so still so green one sin right one sin wrong when I'm dead the weak will be strong and the tears fall for our sins for our greed so still so green feed me light give me love it's not winter yet sweet mother above and tears fall for our comfort our lives and our peace so still so green and the tears fall for our comfort our lives and our peace so still so green so still so green so still so green