Baby say he set me free, don’t mean by loving me Baby say he set me free if I run away Baby beat me every night, tell me that ain’t right Baby beat me every night, that’s when we don’t fight I pack up and I hit the road, see-as I just can’t stay I take the only road I know, uphill down both ways Baby come to track me down, baby he come drunk Baby come to track me down, lock me in a trunk Like a ghost he follows me, unlike ghosts he breathes Down my neck a poison wish to lay me six feet deep Baby say he set me free, free sounds free to me Does he mean to disagree if I run away Like a ghost he follows me, unlike ghosts he breathes Down my neck a poison wish to lay me six feet deep Baby say he set me free, don’t mean by loving me Baby say he set me free . . . if I run away It’s been about two years since we had rain here Wheat crop keeps dying, no end in sight Came back this mornin’, found you here mournin’ Some day it’ll be over, some day you will see Take this train it’s headin’ to New York City, baby don’t be blue Don’t worry bout me, please don’t go beggin’ on the corner, I’ll be coming soon Wrote down this letter, hope you are better Dust storms still flying from morn to eve Last night I held you as my mind tends to Kept thinkin darling you’ll die here with me Take this train it’s headin’ to New York City, baby don’t be blue Don’t worry bout me, please don’t go beggin’ on the corner, I’ll be coming soon Take this train it’s headin’ to New York City, baby don’t be blue Don’t worry bout me, please don’t go beggin’ on the corner, I’ll be coming soon Tell me even when you look in my eyes, do you see white lies Never ever would I say what I saw, that’s a half blind draw Tell me even now if you were me would you set me free Wasn’t really like I had a choice It was him or me Wind goes twisting, mind goes turning they don’t understand Like a freight-line racing faster this is where I am Tell me even when you look in my eyes, do you see white lies Never ever would I say what I saw, that’s a half blind draw Nobody asked me, “girl what have you done? nobody thinks I’m the one You be my alibi just as we planned, I’ve got no blood on my hands The rifle was drowned and the blankets were burned, an hour and no one returned Good as if you would have done it yourself, I leave no bloodhound’s trail Dog howls, nobody followed, nobody followed me, nobody nobody Dawn breaks, hours of silence, hoping to find me but nobody nobody Heartbeat, babe I kept running, nobody followed me here back to you Babe ain’t you proud of me look what I done, she won’t be at you no more Although I done good and I’m sure she was dead her heart kept on beat in my head Dog howls, nobody followed, nobody followed me, nobody nobody Dawn breaks, hours of silence, hoping to find me but nobody nobody Heartbeat, babe I kept running, nobody followed me here back to you With each passing day dreams may slip away When you’re counted out had to live without a chance, move too fast Jungles cruel and base, fear without a face Tempers rising hot, there it goes oh not again, don’t fall back my friend This ship wouldn’t sail again, no doubt I could tell in the end No one did believe, thought I moved too slow I could do the deed and show those who know Moving to the west, found my first sunset Found critics there and leave, noxious weeds If you woke too late, time is running thin Need to save your face, make haste oh make haste Lies have a way to make it all okay, that’s all I’ve had to say for days Nobody “fell, there’s no such thing as Hell, it’s just another very bad place And I’m gonna make it there one day if I keep going at this rate And say I haven’t felt this way in days How does it feel, fidelity ain’t real, it’s just another passing phase That’s what you say to make it all okay when you have been away for days And you’re gonna make it there one day, don’t fret I’m sure you will do great And say I haven’t felt this way in days These walls can talk, they haven’t said a lot, the only thing we got that don’t stray My you’re a find and maybe I’m just blind, that’s how we’ve been defined for days And we’re gonna make it there one day, all together that’s the only way Don’t fret I’m sure it will be great and say I haven’t felt this way in days Time goes by forsaken, these colors already ran. Lives lost they’ve all gone cold to build our great railroad From a distant land thousands came, those Chinamen we laid in their graves Countless are forsaken, start once and back again With ties and guns and fire to build our great empire From a distant land thousands came, those Chinamen we laid in their graves And we won’t work for slaves If we feel forsaken look back where we began Don’t fret the line on line though stones may break in time Edward Jackson gave it to me I know cause he’s the last one I’d seen I pass it now to you, I’m sorry but it’s true See the bluebirds drop from the sky It seems round here that all things must die In three days you will see this happening to me … and you Last since I checked nine-eighty-five Were lost and only half that survived Please say it isn’t true. It’s just another flu … or dream It’s cold at night in Mt. Pleasant, the place where I come from It was cold there last December when Jackson was on the run. Though April didn’t know it her cheating days were done. Jackson shot them both in his bed and told himself that he’d won He roamed at night from town to town, grew a mustache on his face He thought about Mt. Pleasant and the memory he couldn’t erase Mt. Pleasant’s on my heart and soul, her memory I can’t let go Mt. Pleasant, I’m sorry you’re not to blame, Mt. Pleasant I’m sorry but I can’t stay. From old run down casinos with tattered torn blue jeans He knew someday they’d catch him, he knew someday he’d come clean From somewhere in the distance a shot rang out through the air Jackson hit the dirt and cried out, “oh man what am I doing here With perfect recollection a beautiful city beneath The place was called Mt. Pleasant, the only place where there’s peace. Mt. Pleasant’s on my heart and soul, her memory I can’t let go Mt. Pleasant, I’m sorry you’re not to blame, Mt. Pleasant I’m sorry but I can’t stay. 1. Set Me Free 2. New York City 3. Blind Draw 4. Paul (Hey Hey) 5. Nobody Followed 6. Fitzcarraldo 7. Haven’t Felt This Way In Days 8. Forsaken 10. Mt Pleasant 9. The Flu
Times past I felt the burden was filling up my cup
Surrounded by deceivers, in prison I shut them out
I felt my duty noble, this rising threat stamp out
Today I was awakened I know without a doubt
Hey hey hey hey I was born today
Hey hey hey hey hey hey
I sought out my profession by killing righteous men
Praised by lofty councils quickly to ascend
Denied the heart inside me that waxed my conscious sore
Today I was awakened I feel my pains no more
Hey hey hey hey I was born today
Hey hey hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey I was born today
Hey hey hey hey hey hey
From Rocky Mountain passes, hear form sea to sea
The human soul to quicken inside both you and me
I stand here as a witness of glory without bounds
Today I was awakened, was lost but now am found
Hey hey hey hey I was born today Hey hey hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey I was born today Hey hey hey hey hey hey
Hey hey hey hey I was born today Hey hey hey hey hey hey