 Genius Lyrics
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Don Henley – The Boys of Summer
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“The Boys of Summer” is track #1 on Don Henley’s 1984 LP Building the Perfect Beast.
It was a huge hit earning numerous awards including the MTV Video of the Year in 1985 and the
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Don Henley – All She Wants to Do Is Dance
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[Verse 1] / They're pickin' up the prisoners / And putting 'em in a pen / And all she wants to do is dance, dance / Rebels been rebels / Since I don't know when / And all she wants
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Don Henley – Everything Is Different Now
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I hate to tell you this, but I'm very, very happy / And I know that's not what you'd expect from me at all / I'm not the kind to smile and bow out gracefully / I always wanted to
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Don Henley – Desperado
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Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? / You been out ridin' fences for so long now / Oh, you're a hard one / But I know that you've got your reasons / These things that are
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Don Henley (Ft. Martina McBride) – That Old Flame
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“That Old Flame” by Don Henley appears on his 2015 album, Cass Country.
This is a song of his bitter-sweet memory of them – before it all went wrong. It speaks to his strong
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Don Henley – Lilah
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Like every young man, I had some things that I / Wanted to say / Ere I could begin, you know the world got / In my way / Oh Lilah, to sleep like a baby / To open the window and
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Don Henley – Them and Us
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One finger on the button / One finger up his nose / Johnny's in some cornfield / The Early Warning Blows / Bigger is better / More is more / Look up, America! / Gonna even up the
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Don Henley – Johnny Can't Read
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Football, baseball, basketball games / Drinkin' beer, kickin' ass and takin' down names / With the top down, get-a-round, shootin' the line / Summer is here and Johnny's feelin
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Mojo Nixon – Don Henley Must Die
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This is the sound of my brain / Then I said, this is the sound of my brain on Don Henley! / Then I said, 1 2 3 4... / He's a tortured artist / Used to be in the Eagles / Now he
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Don Henley – Everybody Knows
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Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed / Everybody knows the war is over / And everybody knows the good guys lost / Everybody knows the fight was fixed / The poor stay poor and
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Don Henley (Ft. Alison Krauss, Ashley Monroe, Trisha Yearwood & Vince Gill) – Praying for Rain
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“Praying for Rain” by Don Henley appears on his 2015 album, Cass County.
This is a simple prayer, and a peek inside a farmer’s everyday life.
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Don Henley – Take a Picture of This
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“Take a Picture of This” by Don Henley and Stan Lynch appears on Henley’s 2015 album, Cass County.
This is a lament to a lifetime love gone to waste. They got so tied-up in
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Don Henley (Ft. Jamey Johnson & Lee Ann Womack) – Waiting Tables
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“Waiting Tables” by Don Henley appears on his 2015 album, “Cass County”.
This is a story song about the danger in rushing through life and making careless mistakes. Waiting
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Don Henley – I Can't Stand Still
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I know you love me / You know I love you too / You know I always will / No matter what you do / You say you haven't got another lover / You say you only want to make the scene
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Don Henley (Ft. Vince Gill) – No, Thank You
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“No, Thank You” by Don Henley appears on his 2015 album, Cass County.
This is a moral story you can take several ways. Given the tenor of the rest of the album, he’s likely
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Don Henley – Nobody's Business
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I went out in the darkness / Just searching for someplace to be / Wasn't looking for trouble / I guess it was looking for me / And I knew I was wasting my time / But it was nobody'
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Don Henley (Ft. Vince Gill) – Sacrifice
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[Verse 1: Don Henley] / It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / Into the boundary / Of each married man / Sweet deceit
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Don Henley – Long Way Home
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Oh it's cold and lonely here / In this telephone booth / There's three sides to every story, baby / There's yours and there's mine and the cold, hard truth / I think there's
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Don Henley – Inside Job
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While you were sleeping / They came and took it all away / The lanes and the meadows / The places where you used to play / It was an inside job / By the well-connected / Your
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Don Henley – Dirty Laundry
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“Dirty Laundry” is the second single from Don Henley’s debut album Can’t Stand Still. To air someone’s ‘dirty laundry’ means “discussing or arguing about unpleasant or private
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Don Henley – Gimme What You Got
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Baby picks off your plate-yours looks better / And she throws hers on the floor / Here, in the home of the brave / And the land of the free / The first word that baby learns is "
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Don Henley (Ft. Lucinda Williams) – Train in the Distance
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“Train in the Distance” appears on Don Henley’s 2015 album, Cass County.
This is a song of remembrance, to a time when the sound of a train in the distance pulled thoughts of
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Don Henley – Workin' It
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Ah, it's open season here my friend / It always is; it always has been / Welcome, welcome to the U.S.A / We're partying fools in the autumn of our heyday / And though we're running
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Don Henley – You Can't Make Love
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You can make money, you can make good / Friends / You can make mistakes and you can make / Amends / You can make it easy when push comes to / Shove, but- / You can't make love
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Don Henley – My Thanksgiving
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A lot of things have happened / Since the last time we spoke / Some of them are funny / Some of 'em ain't no joke / And I trust you will forgive me / If I lay it on the line / I
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Don Henley (Ft. Axl Rose) – I Will Not Go Quietly
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Woke up with a heavy head / And I thought about leavin' town / I could have died if I wanted to / Slipped over the edge and drowned / But, oh no baby / I won't give up that easy
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Don Henley – A Younger Man
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“A Younger Man” appears on Don Henley’s 2015 album, Cass County.
This is a breakup song, and a sad farewell. She is so much younger than he, and for a while he was caught up in
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Don Henley – Little Tin God
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"A new age is dawning / On fewer than expected / Business is usual" / That's how the headline read / Some shaky modern saviors / Have now been resurrected / In all this excitement
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Don Henley – Not Enough Love in the World
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes I wonder where it is love goes / I don't know if even Heaven knows / I know you had some dreams that didn't quite come true / And now I'm not the one, little
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Don Henley – Miss Ghost
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On a misbegotten, moonless night / I stumbled in my door / Disgusted with my circumstance / Soaked to every pore / When floating from my bedroom / Came a moaning and a sigh / "Oh
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Don Henley – Goodbye to a River
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The rains have come early, they say / We're all gonna wash away / Well, that's all right with me / If heaven's torrent can wash clean / The arrogance that lies unseen / In the
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Don Henley – Talking to the Moon
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When the hot September sun down in Texas / Sucked the streams bone dry / Turned to roads to dust / In the sleepy little towns down in Texas / The shades are all pulled down; / The
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Don Henley – Building the Perfect Beast
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The power of reason, the top of the heap / We're the ones who can kill the things we / Don't eat / Sharper than a serpent's tongue / Tighter than a bongo drum / Quicker than a one-
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Don Henley – How Bad Do You Want It?
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Hey! You're leavin' tongue marks on the carpet / I know what you're lookin' at / You would walk on your lips through busted glass / If you could get next to that / You think this
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Don Henley (Ft. Alison Krauss & Jamey Johnson) – Too Far Gone
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“Too Far Gone” by Billy Sherrill appears on the 2015 Don Henley album, Cass County.
This is a sorrowful goodbye. The protagonist has failed her too often and is now mired in
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Don Henley – They're Not Here, They're Not Coming
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From the Arizona desert / To the Salisbury Plain / Lights on the horizon / Patterns on the grain / Anxious eyes turned upward / Clutching souvenirs / Carrying our highest hopes
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Don Henley (Ft. Trisha Yearwood) – Words Can Break Your Heart
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“Words Can Break Your Heart” by Don Henley appears on his 2015 album, Cass County.
This is a song of regret and a lesson for all of us. Using the old idiom, “Sticks and stones
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Don Henley – If Dirt Were Dollars
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Walkin' like a millionaire / Smilin' like a king / He leaned his shopping cart against the wall / He said, "I been a lot of places / And I seen a lot of things / But, sonny, I seen
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Don Henley – Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat
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I dreamed last night / I was on the boat to heaven / By some chance / I had brought my dice along / And there I stood / And I hollered someone fade me / But the passengers they
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Don Henley – You're Not Drinking Enough
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I can see that you haven't recovered from the girl who let you down / And you'd sell what is left of your soul for another go-round / You keep telling yourself she means nothing
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Don Henley – The Garden of Allah
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It was a pretty big year for fashion / A lousy year for rock and roll / The people gave their blessing to crimes of passion / It was a dark, dark night for the collective soul / I
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Don Henley – The Genie
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Is this what you wanted? / Did you even think twice? / Didn't they tell you that anything that feels this good / Comes with a price / It gave you such a rush / Now you think you've
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Don Henley – Drivin' with Your Eyes Closed
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I met a Frenchman in a field last night / He was out there with an easel painting carnival light / He said, " I used to paint the Princess, I used to paint the frogs / Now I paint
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Don Henley – Who Owns This Place?
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You know there ain't no end to man's desire / To steal your water, steal your fire / Snakes in the garden, apples on the tree / All of this looks easy, none of this is free / You
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Don Henley – Shangri-La
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Every day's a new day / That's what I've been told / Try to hold your head high / The world runs hot and cold / It's hard to follow footprints / In the shifting sand / Another
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