 Genius Lyrics
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Michael Nesmith – Cruisin'
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Lucy and Ramona, cruisin' through the jungles of L.A / Hopin' to promote a dream somewhere along the way / Rollin' through the streets, lookin' for a disco / Passin' up the treats
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Hollywood
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The sun that's falling from the Southwestern sky / Tells me that I must depart / By sundown today, I'll be on my way / But I'll be leaving my heart / It's not the countryside that
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Michael Nesmith – Rio
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[Verse 1] / I'm hearing the light from the window / I'm seeing the sound of the sea / My feet have come loose from their moorings / I'm feeling quite wonderfully free / [Chorus
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Michael Nesmith – Tonite
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You get the moon / I'll get the stars / You get the wind / I'll get the cars / You make the stops / And I'll make the starts / Tonight / You get the gum / I'll get the Pez
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Michael Nesmith – Different Drum
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Well you and I / Travel to the beat of a different drum / Can't you tell by the way I run / Every time you make eyes at me? / Yes, you cry and moan / And say it'll work out / But
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Michael Nesmith – Magic
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This night is magic / I can tell by the stars / This night is magic / With you in my arms / It would be tragic / If we ever part / Tonight is magic for love / You know I love you
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Michael Nesmith – Light
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There's a light from the doorway / There's a light from the hall / But the light from the window / Is the brightest of all / There are lights in the city / There are lights in the
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Nevada Fighter
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Facing left, facing right / Saves the rest, Nevada fights / Left on the desert out in the cold / He thought Sam would remember / But he was too old / And the bygone, half-grown
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Michael Nesmith – Capsule
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Set the groove, set the mood / Check out what's on the tube / Close the day, time to play / Put the sounds on the stereo / Drift away / Drift away / Drift away / Drift away / Drift
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Michael Nesmith – Winonah
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[Chorus] / Winonah, the whiskey owns her / So she takes to the taverns to take some company / Winonah, nobody's shown her / That barrooms are a prison and whiskey is no key / [
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Joanne
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[Verse 1] / Her name was Joanne / And she lived in a meadow by a pond / And she touched me for a moment / With a look that spoke to me of her sweet love / Then the woman that she
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Silver Moon
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[Verse 1] / See the lazy windmill slowly turning / Cutting up the marble canyons of the sky / See the dust around my feet go churning / Moving with the winds down the highways of
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – The Crippled Lion
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Slowly I walk through the gently falling rain / I know that I will never pass this way again / Never wondering why / Teardrops chafing my eyes / Longing to be where the noted
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Michael Nesmith – Prairie Lullaby
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Shadows slowly creeping / Down the prairie trail / Everything is sleeping / Ah, but the nightingale / Moon will soon be climbin' / In the purple sky / Night winds all a-humming
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Michael Nesmith – Boomcar
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Boom goes the car, goes the car, down the road it goes / Boom goes the car, down the road, down the road it goes / Boom goes the car, down the road, down the road it goes / Boom
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Michael Nesmith – Tomorrow and Me
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[Verse 1] / I've forgotten how long I've been sitting here / Watching my reflection in a disappearing beer / The loneliness is so thick you can slice it / The emptiness is too much
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Michael Nesmith – Two Different Roads
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[Verse 1] / You can't try to walk down two different roads / And look to both of them to bring you home / You must take your own way, though it is the long way / And sometimes you
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun to Care)
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I've known for a long time / The kind of girl you are / Of a smile that covers tear drops / The way your head yields to your heart / Of things you've kept inside / That most girls
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Michael Nesmith – Release
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[Verse 1] / Please don't let fear hold back the tears / If you feel that's the way that it need be / Walking down halls with echoing walls / The past looming small with new
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Bye, Bye, Bye
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I had twenty-one miles of road to go / And fifty-four miles of dirt / There was a cold steel gleam / In the night / I was trucking along / Down interstate five / Looking for the
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – The Keys to the Car
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[Verse 1] / Tonight when he hands you the keys to the car / And he says, "You can drive, some, but don't drive too far" / Tonight when she tells you you're her only one / Remember
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Thanx for the Ride
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Thunder rumbling / Twice the size / Echoes distant to my goodbyes / I’ll just mosey on / Thanks for the ride / Desert clearing / Forgotten miles / Hands me my remembered smiles / I
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Little Red Rider
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[Verse 1] / Little red rider, ride on the railroad / In she rides / Little red rider, ride on the railroad / Waved goodbye / So long sunshine, ride away / I know you'll come back
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Calico Girlfriend
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Me and my calico girlfriend / Starting a set of new rules / Watching the stars as they drop in / Making the nighttime approve / Wandering over a roadway / Changing the signs of the
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Grand Ennui
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I was overland touring in my new Ferrari / At just about a hundred and ten / I was on my way home from a sophisticated party / Where I got a little drunk on gin / And as the
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Michael Nesmith – The Candidate
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[Verse 1] / Half the world concerned / With a slightly tarnished masterpiece / Hoping to return / As the once forgotten culture thief / Lying on its side / The stately vessel now
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Michael Nesmith – Flying
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Silks and satins and velvet soft evenings and penthouse nights / Way down below me, the maze of the city streets shine / I hear the soul and the heart of the city, it pounds
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The Second National Band) – Wax Minute
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As you complicate things greatly / Since you came into my life / Old veneers and stately postures / Wax minute within your sigh / And the taxing way of adjusting / To all the
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The Second National Band) – Lazy Lady
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There were so many things that I should have said / When I finally said good-bye / But the gist of things to come / Showed me nothing could be done / To save a love that already
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The Second National Band) – Talking to the Wall
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I have told you many times / That love is not a game / And in your shame you promised / You would change your ways / That was many years ago / And I was just a boy / A toy that you
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Michael Nesmith – Some of Shelly’s Blues
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Tell me, just one more time, the reasons why you must leave / Tell me once more why you're sure you don't need me / Tell me again, but don't think that you'll convince me / Now you
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Michael Nesmith – Closing Theme (Lampost)
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Does the lamppost slowly turning / In the window that's concerning / Re-evaluation for the sake of man / Carry news of broken weather / Which reveals the shallow gesture / Of
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Michael Nesmith – Total Control
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I want total control of the airports / Total control of the sea / And total control of the freeway / Total control of police / I want total control of the subway / Total control of
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Michael Nesmith – Juliana
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In the morning / When the sun is a lonely light just over the hill / When the world is awake and yet all things are still / My thoughts keep returning to you as they always will
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Lady of the Valley
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Night, endless night / Bright, seeing bright / Now is the time / Lady of the valley / You are mine / Days, sleeping days / Waves, gentle waves / Join in the rhyme / Lady of the
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Michael Nesmith – Carioca
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The stars in the night played a Blue Carioca / The moon shone outside as the planet revolved / The wind was caressed with the fragrance of summer / The night gentle nature impelled
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Michael Nesmith – The Upside of Goodbye
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There was an element of majesty / In the way the lady said that she / Was leaving in the morning for the coast / And that goodbye should have brought me pain / But I watched her
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Michael Nesmith – Horserace
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There were thirty thousand fans watched the race from the stands / At the fairgrounds in Baltimore / And the reason that they came were two horses by the name / Of Beauty and The
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – I Fall to Pieces
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I fall to pieces / Each time I see you again / I fall to pieces / How can I be just a friend / You want me to act / Like we've never kissed / You want me to forget / Pretend we
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – Conversations
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In a long and involved conversation with myself / I saw precious things come into view / And I pored through the files taken off my mental shelf / And dusted off some memories of
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Michael Nesmith (Ft. The First National Band) – American Airman
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Telephone / Call from home / Just to say hello / Got to catch a plane / I can't explain / The car is waiting down below / Somebody get my suitcase / It's nearly all I own / I'm a
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Michael Nesmith – I Am Not That
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I am not a poet / I cannot make a rhyme / I do not know the big words / Like "shpritz" and "paradigm" / I am not an artist / I cannot paint my house / I cannot chisel marble / I
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Michael Nesmith – Laugh Kills Lonesome
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All around the campfire stood seven dusty men / The cook was drinking applejack, the cattle were all penned / Someone must have cracked a wise one because the men began to grin
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Michael Nesmith – I'll Remember You
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Fred and Ginger / I'll remember you / Still your magic / Comes through the late night tube / Hey how'd ya think up / All those dances / That made those dumb plots / Seem so
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