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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Way It Is
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Bruce Hornsby’s second single and biggest hit, “The Way It Is,” a song about the civil rights era, reached #1 in the US in late 1986. It was also a top 30 hit in several other
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Mandolin Rain
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Mandolin Rain was a song from Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s debut album The Way It Is.
The song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The way it is - remastered
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Standing in line, marking time / Waiting for the welfare dime / 'Cause they can't buy a job / The man in the silk suit hurries by / As he catches the poor old lady's eyes / Just
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Across the River
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Well, she moved back around here / Thirty-five weeks ago today / Oh, down the lane / Well, at night she walks on the banks / And remembers how she dreamed of rowing away / And how
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – I Will Walk With You
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A strong man feels weak in the still heat of the day / Nothing is black and white, just a hazy gray / There's a long lonesome sound in the distance calling back to me / You look
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Jacob's Ladder
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I met a fan dancer down in southside Birmingham / She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand / She said he's tryin' to save me / But I'm doin' alright, the best
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The River Runs Low
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The rain held back again / Haven't felt a drop since you went away / Outside of town, the hills are brown / I guess way out there you'd call 'em golden / Lines outside the welfare
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Every Little Kiss
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[Verse 1] / Way out here, working on the docks / Everyone sees the long day through / But what would I do without the nights / And the phone, and the chance just to talk to you
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Look Out Any Window
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While other songs from 1988’s Scenes from the Southside are described as short stories set in the South, “Look Out Any Window” is more like a critical essay about the devastating
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Defenders of the Flag
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It's coming any day now said the captain / It's coming any day now cried the priest / The people in high places may defend you / But son you better hope they keep the peace / Can't
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – On the Western Skyline
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[Verse 1] / About this time of evening, out by the bay / They turn the road lights on the bridge / Well, a diesel rolls in silhouette, eastbound / Lovers glad the sun has set / [
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Road Not Taken
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Down in the southwest Virginia town of Richlands / I fell in love with an Appalachian girl / She lived in a long line of little row houses / On the side of an old strip mining hill
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Valley Road
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“The Valley Road” is the second track and first single from 1988’s Scenes From the Southside.
Like many songs by the band, it’s socio-political in nature and details a scenario
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Down the Road Tonight
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[Verse 1] / There's a place / A local roadside shack / A poor man's Paris with parking in the back / There's a girl there / She knows how to unwind / She don't talk much but she
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Old Playground
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Walking on the sidewalk, roundball under my arm / Everybody knows how you play is who you are / Walking down the road, looking for a game or two / The real moves come through, no
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Till the Dreaming's Done
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Well I saw her one day / At the corner cafe / Everybody there knew she's a wonder / I sat there all night / Too shy to say / Honey you could keep me from going under / Oh my my
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Red Plains
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Four walls I built one winter / She came to share my name / For years we lived as lovers on the open plains / Far off the heat wave shimmers / Pipelines and the gasoline / One day
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Stranded on Easy Street
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Well she was so fine / On the first impression / I was taken, taken in by the view / With eyes so soft / And a face so smooth / I found her selling in a fashion booth / All that I
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Stander on the Mountain
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And he stands at the banquet room bar / Looking over the crowd / The reunion band playing too loud / And he sees his fellow old star / Looks him up and down / Sees a little of
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Barren Ground
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There were people living in a green valley / Found a way to make a lot of money / Made the green turn gradually gray / They figured they could do whatever they wanted / Everything
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Special Night
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Riding in the early evening I'd say / I know of a certain tree / I always asked if you wanted to go / You'd just sit there silently / Now you say come on let's go / You know where
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Wild Frontier
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Here I am / I'm in a gaseous haze / Ten lanes and tall boys / Going both ways / El Dorado riding on the fringe / Aztec princes take revenge (take revenge) / This ain't my style
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Carry the Water
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Some live life with eyes that don't see / They look away at the time of your greatest need / Some talk, some'll just do, some turn their back / Turn around and just walk away, I
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The End Of The Innocence
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Remember when the days were long / And rolled beneath a deep blue sky / Didn't have a care in the world / With mommy and daddy standin' by / But "happily ever after" fails / And we
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Long Race
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[Verse 1] / It's a hazy winter's day / And I'm staring out on the southland / In the twilight distance on the bay / My mind sees you running through the marshland / [Pre-Chorus
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Jack Straw
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[Verse 1] / We can share the women, we can share the wine / We can share what we got of yours 'cause we done shared all of mine / Keep on rollin', just a mile to go / Keep on
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Look out any window - remastered 2003
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There's a man working in a field / Sees the rain and it's burning / He's saying this can't be real / As he sees the color / Of the fields turning / Far away, the men too busy
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Bruce Hornsby – The Show Goes On
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[Instrumental] / [Verse 1] / What's the long face, what's all the crying for / Didn't you expect it when you opened your door / To the man with the long coat, and the long list of
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – These Arms of Mine
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Well, I'm walking on the floor / Hanging right round the door / Hoping you will come through / Wanting you to, sweat on my brow / I'm no saint / Nothing left but a bad excuse / The
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – A Night on the Town
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Van and willie went out one night / Once they get out on the road / Well then everything is alright / Had to get away from the kids and the wives / Well they ran into some city
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Lost Soul (Single Edit)
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[Verse 1] / There was a man of confused and sad nature / Thought no one loved him, that was not true / He said he was a lost soul, didn't fit in anywhere / Didn't know where to
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Bruce Hornsby – The Changes
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The scene is set, everybody's in place - / Two chairs filled for every five gone to waste / The pantsuit girl gave me a nasty gaze / Said, "Play that on your own time." / I walk to
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The valley road - remastered 2003
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Sometimes I lead, sometimes I follow / This time I'll go where she wants me to go / She said maybe today, maybe tomorrow / Deep in the woods down the low valley road / While no one
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Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers – Continents Drift
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We were new to love when we were young / Lying in our arms, gravity unwinding / Not knowing we were too young to love / And the years passed by in our entwining / And the eastern
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Another Day
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Woke up this morning looking at the screen / There's a couple of men talking / I'm not so sure what they mean / There's a conversation, many men running wild / We learn about the
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Jacob's ladder - remastered 2003
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I met a fan dancer down in southside Birmingham / She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand / She said he's tryin' to save me / But I'm doin' alright, the best
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Adron – The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby & The Range)
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Standing in line, marking time / Waiting for the welfare dime / 'Cause they can't buy a job / The man in the silk suit hurries by / As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes / Just
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – The Way It Is Samples
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See all of “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Fire on the Cross
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They're looking for some hired guns on the Texas border / To shoot 'em all down if they try to cross over the water / And they've got their old white hoods and the same old orders
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