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Panama

by Bill White

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Santa Monica and Fairfax 07:48
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Doctor, Does It Ever Get Any Better Than This? 03:06
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my memories are fading with each pain killing pill if i dont remember her then i dont know who will they kill a generation one person at a time untill theres nothing left of anything maybe some provocative movements inside a see through dress doctor does it ever get any better than this? once i played the counting game as they stretched me on the rack i saw her lanky shapelessness red freckles on her back now im in a plaster cast on ward 17 wondering what it is about her that i had failed to see i wish still had the language i wrote her in a letter madame doctor tell me does it ever get any better? if even for an hour i was freed of this useess pain i would open wide the window and smell the swollen rain you should know me madame doctor once i was a wild rover will it ever get any better than this or should i just roll over
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bill white and acousricmaddie - She Ate My Soul 03:03
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1, A woman came and stole my breath She introduced herself as death I did not care I flied above I fell into the hell of love Ch: A female phantom White as snow Above her head a Screaming crow 2, Her eyes would make the thunder haul She stole my heart she ate my soul I lost my clothes She blew my mind Now I am walking down here blind Ch: A female phantom White as snow Above her head a Screaming crow 3, The sweetest lips I ever tasted Oh lord the precious hours we've wasted She left me there Crawling in dust I did what every beggar must Bridge I tried to talk, I tried to pray When she was done she walked away But once you tasted lips from hell You will keep your walk where furies dwell Ch: A female phantom White as snow Above her head a Screaming crow
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The Man Who Watches the Trains Go By 03:44
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chorus you can find me follow the railroad tracks to the crossroads lit by flashing lights you will see me standing with the cars that pass im the man who watches the trains go by the closer i got the less i saw everything went to blur my eyes were rubbed raw when i saw him with her i walked off my job shaking the slap from my face i danced on the arc of the trestle that led me to this happy place there are hills in california where the rocks are on fire justice in the halls of justice where everybody is a liar some will break a window just to steal a piece of pie whilet the man with the sweaty hands watches the trains go by repeat chorus last night in the yard there was a murder the victim screamed for help but nobody heard her manhunt in the canyon helicoptors flying low old men coughing their guts to the streets they got no place else to go stranger passing through in manacles tortured until he dies while serenity surrounds the man who watches the trains go by
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The Subject Never Was Roses 03:40
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the valentine you gave me two dinosaurs on the front what a pair we are, it said when i opened it up i gave you chocolate and roses you curled my toes valentines day is coming around again and im holding the rose chorus you say you dont want roses you dont like chocolate no more the battle of the sexes escalated to a war so dont even ask me what im thinking of the subject never was roses the subject is love you were at a party the night i crashed the car the party was still going on when the casts came off my arms i should have known our love was dying i should have taken my cue when you went shopping for my ibirthday and bought yourself a new pair of shoes repeat chorus the pages of life keep falling out like leaves rotting on the ground when you try press them back into the book that old book comes unbound a bitter wind rises blows the roses away from the unfinished story the curtain falls before the end of the play repeat chorus
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The Burning House 03:43
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he stood outside the burning house afraid to stray too near the flames he knew what was happening inside the burning house but he didnt believe it he couldnt bear to see it by then she was nothing but rags and bone he wished he wanted to hold her tell her he loved her but he was revolted by the stench of decay and her neverending, hopeless cry the unthinkable was happening and it frightened, sickened him unable to love her he knew he coudnt save her anyway but why did he forsake her where was the honor, the years of sustenance taken, no return she was inside, alone her last wish was to be held by one who loved her while he who loved her waked away, wondering why he was leaving her inside that burning house
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bill white and bill shaw - Show Them How to Love 05:33
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the dust will blow the wind into the rock there is a fissure in the cliff where children walk paintings in the sky have turned to chalk we are all in the popper now and the popcorn has started to pop chorus down below the big heads push and shove each another piece of missing link if you cannot teach them how to think show show show show them how to love its not enough to know each silly word you need to know what each silly word means then you got to match an action to the word and stop talking about every stupid thing you see repeat chorus its more than making goo goo eyes at babies or collecting pretty faces in th street love love love love love is a promise the kind you make before you go to sleep everything you know is wrong from the color of the sky to your family history you tell me your mamas maiden name was judy jetson but you seem more like a fintstone to me you spread her out on the table and took yout fill spread her against the wall and shot her she was just another xaptured infidel an infidel they had taken off the roster the dust will blow the wind into the rock there is a fissure in the cliff where children walk paintings in the sky have turned to chalk we are all in the popper now and the popcorn has started to pop
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Bill White and Kristi McKeever - Keeping Me Up at Night 02:58
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Do you believe What I believe When it comes to Laws of attraction Do you see What I see In all of our Interactions [lift] Oh, I feel the pull Whether I want to or should [ch] And it’s keeping me up at night Knockin’ my senses out of sight My world’s not the same Since I’ve known your name And it’s keeping me up at night Can you hear What I hear All the love songs are Singin’ to me Looking at you Looking at me There’s so many Lines of symmetry [lift] Oh, I am amazed Upside down and sideways [ch] And it’s keeping me up at night Knockin’ my senses out of sight My world’s not the same Since I’ve known your name And it’s keeping me up at night [br] I’m right or I’m wrong Feeling stronger than strong Jumpin' on a thrill ride And life's starting to slide [lift] Oh, I feel the pull Whether I want to or should Repeat ch ©2019 Kristi McKeever
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Ive Seen Everyone, Man 06:12
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If Bernie Sanders is Not a Democrat, Neither Am I 03:21
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if the stones were the beatles and the beatles were the stones and the ones who pick the harvest are just here to rob your homes then the time has come when nobody can tell the truth from lies if bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i chorus neither am i neither am i of bernie aint no democrat then neither am i romeo asked juliet what is in a name if you were called brunhilda would i love you just the same the sky is the ocean the ocean is the sky and bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i repeat chorus hes head to head with FDR that means hes standing tall and those who stand against him they dont count at all hes not out to split the ticket he is here to save your hides but if bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i repeat chorus you call the moon the sun and call the sun the moon just keep up your slander and youll be out of here pretty soon we will win with a third party and i will tell you why if bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i repeat chorus
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Another Man Done Gone 05:12
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curtis used to ask me to come over and feed his cat when he was going our of town so i would come over in the afternoon hang around for awhile and feed his cat and then go home one day curtis called me asked to borrow a movie it was a fassbinder mini series set in berlin i came over with the movie curtis hugged me a long goodbye and i never saw curtis again another man done gone they say the plague had ended but another man done gone curtis was a gay man but he wanted a family so he married a lesbian who wanted a baby but something always comes along to fuck up all your plans and it seems that his old lover had given him the bug another man done gone another man done gone when they brought his body back from that long vacation i saw how many friends curtis had 100 men filled his little house 100 men come to say goodbye
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Landsdowne Street Revisited 05:37
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theres always a party in allston a nightengale sang in kenmore square now aint that just the gospel truth i believe beccause i was there but that party ended in a blast of summer heat someone tells me that party is still gong on its been moved to a club on landsdowne street landsdowne street landsdowne street when her boyfriend went down in the hyrricane she went silent inside a shout now she dances naked on the factory floor because thats what shes all about is she running from ghosts or only people in sheets shes a witch its true but so beautiful beneath the lights on landsdowne street landsdowne street landsdowne street the tourist season has come and gone then stops and comes no more in days when main street was painted white me and karen black fell through the cutting room floor the stairs are gone that led up to the cafe where we ued to eat i wonder if anything is cooking tonight on landsdowne street landsdowne street landsdowne street the city ouncil is digging tunnels in seattle and closing the surface roads hollywood is burning thats it for the movie shows waters coming in to the basementt where the sailors and mermaids meet i wonderif there is still a happy hour with ten cent dogs and dollar drinks on landsdowne street landsdowne street landsdowne street what are these people doing in the room where mama ket her books the catter goes on al night long and the kitchen is full of cooks silence falls across the halls leaving oisture on th seats i wonder if the doors have all been slammed shut to the clubs on landsdowne street landsdowne street landsdowne street brett leaned hard against his cane for he had fallen off the stage i asked him if he would play in the states again he said not if i am booked into dumps like this when you are young they pay you when you are old you pay them then come the hoses and the nine broom sweep early sunday morning on landsdowne street on a curve outside o memphis the trucks are rolling by filled with singing soldiers who have never seen the sky half a mike down the road betty throws darts at sides of meat can the party really be over did they turn off all the lights on landsdowne street?

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