 Genius Lyrics
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Steve Earle – Willin'
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I been warped by the rain, driven by the snow / Drunk and dirty and don't you know / That I'm still willin' / Out on the road late last night / Seen pretty Alice in every headlight
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Steve Earle – Guitar Town
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“Guitar Town” is a song about being a road musician, and it’s filled with with references to motel rooms, too many cigarettes, driving all night to the next gig, and the rush of
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Steve Earle – I Can Wait
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In the blink of an eye / Stars will fall from the sky / No one even notices / If you think it'll help / I can walk out myself / We won't have to go through this / If I pretend to
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Sugarland – Steve Earle
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[Intro] / One more! / [Verse 1] / Well, I heard Steve Earle had lots of wives / About as many as cats have lives / Met him on his records and we're good friends / He writes a song
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Steve Earle (Ft. The Milk Carton Kids) – Custer
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Now I will tell you, buster, that I ain't a fan of Custer's / And the General he don't ride well anymore / To some, he was a hero, but to me his score was zero / And the General he
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Steve Earle – Valentine's Day
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I come to you with empty hands / I guess I just forgot again / I only got my love to send on Valentine's Day / I ain't got a card to sign / Roses have been hard to find / I only
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Steve Earle – Even When I'm Blue
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[Verse 1] / I've always heard that love is blind / But I know that there's another kind / Shines like a beacon in the night / And holds up in the morning light / [Chorus] / Because
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Steve Earle – Billy Austin
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[Verse 1] / My name is Billy Austin / I'm twenty-nine years old / I was born in Oklahoma / A quarter Cherokee, I am told / Don't remember Oklahoma / It's been so long since I left
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Steve Earle – Invisible
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[Verse] / There's a hole in my shoe, but I don't mind / 'Cause it keeps me connected to the ground / When I'm feeling like maybe if I ain't careful, I'll just blow away / Then the
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Steve Earle – Ben McCulloch
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We signed up in San Antone, my brother Paul and me / To fight with Ben McCulloch and the Texas infantry / Well the poster said we'd get a uniform and seven bucks a week / The best
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Steve Earle – The Week of Living Dangerously
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[Verse] / Well I got out of work and I headed for the neighborhood beer joint / I sat around and had a beer with the boys like I always do / Well I didn't have nothing to say
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Steve Earle (Ft. The Del McCoury Band) – Dixieland
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I am the Kilrain, I'm a fightin' man / And I come from County Clare / And the Brits would hang me for a Fenian / So I took my leave of there / And I crossed the ocean in the
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Steve Earle (Ft. The Del McCoury Band) – Texas Eagle
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My grandaddy was a railroad man / When I was young he took me by the hand / Dragged me to the station at the break of dawn / Said "Boy, I got to show you somethin' 'fore it's gone
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Steve Earle (Ft. Siobhan Kennedy) – Conspiracy Theory
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[Verse 1] / What if I told you it was done with mirrors? / What if I showed you it was all a lie? / Better be careful, someone might hear you / The walls have ears and the sky has
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Steve Earle (Ft. The Del McCoury Band) – The Mountain
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I was born on this mountain a long time ago / Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal / When you rose in the mornin' before it was light / To go down in that
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Steve Earle – Someday
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[Verse] / There ain't a lot that you can do in this town / You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around / You go to school and you learn to read and write / So you can
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Steve Earle – The Devil’s Right Hand
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[Verse 1] / About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war / I saw my first pistol in the general store / In the general store when I was thirteen / Thought it was the finest
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Steve Earle – Last Words
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[Verse 1] / I was there when you were born / Took you from your momma's arms / Stood in awe, a witness to / The first breath that you ever drew / I wish I could have held you when
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Steve Earle – Hard-Core Troubadour
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[Verse] / Girl, don't bother in locking door / He's out there hollering / "Darling, don't you love me no more?" / You always let him in before now, didn't you? / He's just singing
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Steve Earle – Goodbye
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[Verse 1] / I remember holding on to you / All them long and lonely nights I put you through / Somewhere in there, I'm sure I made you cry / But I can't remember if we said goodbye
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Steve Earle – You Belong to Me
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[Verse 1] / Lately I've been feeling a little uneasy / So I run straight home to you / It's been cold as hell and you just can't tell / What a girl might do / I made a whole lot of
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Steve Earle – I Ain't Ever Satisfied
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[Verse 1] / I was born by the railroad track / Well the train whistle wailed and I wailed right back / Well Papa left Mama when I was quite young / Said, "Now one of these days you
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Lydia Loveless – Steve Earle
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He read an article that said I like to do cocaine / And now he comes to all my shows and says if I need some, he'll pay / He won't stop callin' and I'm not sure how to blow him off
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Steve Earle – Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
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Written in tribute to Jonathan Nobles, a convicted murderer who Earle befriended in the years before he was executed by lethal injection.
Earle was even present at Noble’s
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Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues
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[Verse 1] / In the darkest hour of the longest night / If it was in my power, I'd step into the light / Candles on the altar, penny in your shoe / Walk upon the water
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Steve Earle – Mercenary Song
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[Verse 1] / Me and old Bill there, we both come from Georgia / Met Hank out in New Mexico / We're bound for Duranqo to join Pancho Villa / We hear that he's paying in gold / I
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Steve Earle – Remember Me
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[Verse] / Here we are sitting in the warm sunshine / I'm holding your tiny hand in mine / God knows it ain't gonna be any time / Before you’re grown / But I wasn't young when you
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Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now
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[Intro] / Again / [Verse 1] / I was walking down the street / In the town where I was born / I was moving to a beat / That I'd never felt before / So I opened up my eyes / And I
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Steve Earle – Jerusalem
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[Verse 1] / I woke up this morning / And none of the news was good / And death machines were rumbling / 'Cross the ground where Jesus stood / And the man on my TV told me / It had
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Steve Earle – The Galway Girl
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Well, I took a stroll on the old long walk / Of a day-i-ay-i-ay / I met a little girl and we stopped to talk / Of a fine soft day-i-ay / And I ask you, friend, what's a fella to do
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Steve Earle (Ft. Miranda Lambert) – This Is How It Ends
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[Verse 1] / Turn around and look at how far we've come / From two hearts beating like a single drum / Said you'd never lie, I promised that I'd never run / Forever wasn't just
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Steve Earle – Nowhere Road
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[Verse] / There's a road in Oklahoma / Straighter than a preacher / Longer than a memory / And it goes forever onward / It's been a good teacher / For a lot of country boys like me
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Steve Earle – Ft. Worth Blues
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In Ft. Worth, all the neon's burnin' bright / Pretty lights all red and blue / But they'd shut down all the honkytonks tonight / And say a prayer or two, if they only knew / You
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Steve Earle – The Gringo's Tale
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Begging your pardon there, stranger / You look like you're new to this town / We're a long way away from the beach here / You won't see many gringos around / Well I come from West
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Steve Earle – Tennessee Blues
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[Verse 1] / Sunset in my mirror, pedal on the floor / Bound for New York City and I won't be back no more / Won't be back no more, boys, won't see me around / Goodbye, guitar town
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Steve Earle – Another Town
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One of these days when my mind's made up / And I'm sick and tired of hanging around / I'll be on my way in a cloud of dust / On the road to another town / Once upon a time I loved
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Steve Earle (Ft. Allison Moorer) – Days Aren't Long Enough
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[Verse] / Another year has come and gone / Another circle around the sun / Another thousand tears have fallen / I don't ever count 'em 'cause / I'm surrounded by your love / And
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Steve Earle (Ft. Emmylou Harris) – Nothin' Without You
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[Verse] / I'm the keeper of your heart / I keep the flame when we're apart / And I'm a lover in your arms / Or a baby soft and warm / [Verse] / I'm a hero in your eyes / I'm a
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Steve Earle – John Walker's Blues
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Steve Earle’s controversial interpretation of the finding and capture of John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban” fighter.
Just more than a year after the events of 9/11 and
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Steve Earle – Rich Man's War
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[Verse] / Jimmy joined the Army because he had no place to go / There ain't nobody hiring here since all the jobs went down to Mexico / Reckon that he'd learn himself a trade
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Steve Earle (Ft. The Del McCoury Band & Iris DeMent) – I’m Still in Love with You
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I didn't know you'd be in this place tonight / Then again, I thought you might / Now I don't know what to do / Does it show when my poor heart skips a beat? / Each and every time
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Steve Earle – The Kind
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[Verse 1] / Tell me a story about a fellow with a crazy dream / Everybody tells him that it won't amount to anything / He fires the shot heard around the world / Wins the prize and
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