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Satisfied
04:51
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Satisfied
It’s one of those nights when a man could die, so satisfied
sirens wail, we shared a plate, saw behind the veil, now we wait
The night air, it has a chill
the candles, they burn down to nothing
Sleep comes on easy
our love has been satisfied
The reed-man calls us to STOP as the cars run the streets
We find our space in the dark and our quiet eyes try to meet
The troubles that follow us
have no good hold on us anymore
Looking through keyholes
jealous as we twist behind this closed door
We’re Satisfied, Satisfied
Keep it tight in your dreams, with the yellow sun trapped inbetween
‘cuz I’ll crash your machine with my wild heart stitched out to the seams
‘Cuz I’ve got a plan
& I’ll spend it all in one place
I’ve got a thousand ways -
I can find a thousand ways to kiss your face
‘til you’re Satisfied, Satisfied
INSTRUMENTAL verse & chorus
It’s one of those nights when a man could die, so satisfied
Sure as the dawn kills my sleep, the wolf eats my sheep
and I’m still satisfied
I’m Satisfied, Satisfied
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Crazy Fool
04:20
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Crazy Fool
I work to pay the bills
a little bit dies every day
it gets reborn as a song that ends up choking the killer
LPs and whole notes gonna line my grave
As I fall asleep next to you
the blanket breathes up and down
The snow fills up the streets, can I tell you the truth
I hope we never, ever get to town
crazy fool
I never knew you dance just like Madonna - crazy fool
This shiny world wears thin
find a new reason to smile
that isn’t some TV show or some god-forsaken device
and I’ll stay with you for a long, long while
crazy fool
One brush with death and you’ve ascended to the mountain
I still love you like a crazy fool
and you’ll wake up soon if I don’t kill this light
But for now you’re asleep, we see eye-to-eye and you’re still mine
and that makes almost everything alright
crazy fool
I never knew you dance just like Madonna - crazy fool
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Epic Love
03:17
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Epic love
Honey and love, this one’s gonna last
when others have gone wandering
Wicks are gone, painting black streaks on the summer walls
Cold again, the weather has snapped
Spring can be so heartless
Later on I’ll touch your back
Our love defines the darkness
(Chorus)
We got the epic love
(We learned to dance the year we got married)
We got the epic love
(I’ve been thinking we should dance again)
We got an epic love
The shoe may drop and the dream may come undone -
So darlin’ hold on to that epic love
(Bridge) We take each other to a new place
Lined with old newspapers
The wild wind blows through the cracks in the walls
Just another reason to get closer -
Music plays, we drift away
Kind of Blue and Eternal
All the Money’s Gone, we’ve been stone cold in the summer field
(Chorus)
Honey and love, this one’s gonna last
when others have gone wandering...
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I Still Miss Someone
02:55
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I Still Miss Someone - J. Cash
D G A
At my door the leaves are falling
G A D
a cold, wild wind has come
D G A
Sweethearts walk by together
G A D
And I still miss someone
I go out on a party
and look for a little fun
but I find a darkened corner
‘cuz I still miss someone
G A D
Well, I never got over those blue eyes
G A D
I see them everywhere
G A D
I miss those arms that held me
G A D
when all the love was there
I wonder if she’s sorry
for leaving what we’d begun
There’s someone for me somewhere
and I still miss someone
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Travel By Love
04:47
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Travel by Love (The Rose version)
I travel by wind, I travel by train
I travel by sunshine, I travel by rain
I travel with the blessing of the wind at my back
and a phone call home keeping my heart on track
I travel by woman, I travel by man
I travel by Sea, I travel by Land
to a distant country where I laid on the floor
I waited for my echo come bouncing on back to shore
(Chorus) I travel by love where forgiveness grows
Where the colors run and the teardrops roll
And the engineer and the porter know
Gonna lose a little blood when you travel by love
I travel by needle, I travel by pill
I travel by the upside of a downside hill
I woke up sober all night on the stone
Had the early morning, alleyway blues walking all the way home
(Bridge) These boots were made for walking
and I was made to stroll
Bruce was born to run
and Elvis to Rock & Roll
We were born for each other
I do believe it’s true
Well, one of these days I’m gonna travel by love
and find my way to you
I travel by starlight, I travel by moon
I travel by forest and I travel by dune
I travel by Greg Brown and his hot, flat field
And Lord, when he’s singin it, don’t he make it feel so real
(Chorus)
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed, that with the sun’s love,
In the springtime becomes The Rose
I travel by love and you light my path
I chase the sunset as the seagulls laugh
My body needs slumber, or so it seems
Gonna close my eyes, get ready to travel by dreams
(Chorus to out)
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Bird In Your Tree
05:01
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Bird in your tree
I love you like the maple tree
red and orange from summer green
Soon after icy winter snows
springtime sap begins to flow
I’m happy, like a bird in your tree
I love you like the scrabbly pine
towering rest for freeloaders and vines
In your shade the owl spits her bones
and fearful birds create their homes
I’m happy, like a bird in your tree
I love you like the Aspen Quakes
in the wind, the leaves, they celebrate
They raise their faces to the sky
Silver hands flutter like your eyes - when you see me
All things have their time to live and grow
Deadwood warms the fireglow
loved ones gather ‘round leaping flames
Children, tears, and rings, we count the days
I’m happy, like a bird in your tree
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Study Of Love
02:49
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Study of Love
Key of Bb
Bb Bb/Ab Gm Bb
Love makes people do crazy things
Bb Bb/Ab Gm Bb
make you buy a gun, it’ll make you buy a ring
Bb Bb/Ab Gm Bb Ab Eb Bb
make you pick a headstone or a parakeet that sings
V.2 Love let the baby cry in the dead of night
sometimes throws a punch and sometimes throws the fight
Love make the Jailor pay a visit to the Judge
Love, give that envelope a nudge
(Instrumental Verse)
(Chorus )
Gm Bb Gm Bb
Now, men in this world wrap their hearts in steel
Gm Bb Gm Bb
liquor, lights, and pages trying not to feel
Ab Cm Ab Cm
But somewhere in a blanket, a shivering memory
F F7 F/D F/C
the seed of love was planted in you and in me
V.3 Love mends fences and presses grapes to wine
torches the earth after harvest time
cuts to the bone just to save another breath
Love ain’t afraid of a mess
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White Clay
03:38
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White Clay
Border town I saw it, men without a home
wet leaves pressed underneath a hundred years of heavy snow
A people robbed of purpose, drinking from the barrel of a gun
Who’s gonna shine a light on them, stand alone with me in the hot, hot sun
I pray, I pray for White Clay (3x)
I’ve seen a million ways to keep a good man down
40 hours and brand new showers
and fancy parades that take the edge off the days
and clog up the streets downtown
But in this border country the struggle is for real
The liquor’s cheap and DIGNITY is buried deep inside the spinning wheel
And as I lay my head inside my stolen bed
I hear the children wailing for their daddies’ love all spent on border’s bread
I pray, I pray for White Clay (4x)
As I send this song up into the starry night
all my relatives surround me - red and yellow, black and white
I aim to change one heart, that would be enough
‘cuz somewhere in Nebraska life is just too tough
I pray, I pray for White Clay (4x)
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Old Man (Laughter in the Lines)
My old man acts like a young man
puts this young man’s heart in the race
His eyes are bad, his spirit is glad
he’s got laughter in the lines of his face
He’s an old man with working hands
likes to put ‘em in the land, build up his place
Now, this young man loves this old man
With laughter in the lines of his face
(Chorus) Young man, don’t you make plans - you’re too busy doin’
Old man, keep making plans -
teeth too old for chewin’,
heart too full for bluin’
world too full of ruin to get caught up in the chase -
Laughter in the lines of your face
I’m a sleepy man with calloused hands
and a brain shaped like a guitar.
I’ll find my own path in the aftermath
of a good woman’s love and a falling star
I’m a simple man suckin’ on rhubarb jam
that I growed from plants in my backyard
Got ‘em from an old man, family in his hands
he’s left this world, he worked so hard
(Chorus)
I’m a spoiled man with a purple crayon
tryin’ to draw my way outta this room
With my good wife, gonna live a favored life
layin’ out underneath the howling moon
I’m not a young man, more like an old man
and when I’m an old man, I’m gonna laugh
Gonna laugh long and loud, like the belly of a thundercloud
like a papa sunburned and proud in a photograph
(Chorus to out)
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Cheap Oil
04:45
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Ooh, Trains at night, trains in the day and they don’t stop
Ooh, Bringing me sweet relief by the penny at the gas pump
We’re making a big mistake
To take all that we can take
Our spinning Mother’s back is gonna break - for Cheap Oil
Ooh, We’re pouring it out by the barrel in the green fields
Ooh, Mile by mile we’re snuffing out life around the steel wheels
There’s a fire in the vast wetland
Where the trestles cross the land
& we’ve all gone to sleep in our beds with blood on our hands - Cheap oil
(Chorus)
Cheap oil, cheap oil
We’re barking up the wrong tree, brother (2x)
We pay and we pay just to roll along today
We give it all away, How’re our babies gonna pay
For this cheap oil?
Ooh, in the middle of the night I hear the rumble of the long train
Ooh, a job’s a job and a man’s gotta eat but it’s not the same
We’re stealing from future mouths
while the pipeline gouges South
our children’s children turn as we curse the soil - Cheap oil
Our future children cry
as the birds fall from the sky
and the tanker trucks roll by full of tar sands spoil -
God damn this Cheap Oil
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4 Walls
04:25
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4 Walls
another perfect ending to another perfect day
tomorrow’s found me waiting, expecting it that way
you may want 4 walls, well, I need a place to stay
but when the birds are singing, it’s hard to keep away
I sit among the music of nature’s finest band
symphony of earth life is trembling in our hands
take me, oh half moon, sheer glass and diving duck
bring me through the mist and drop me like a rock
(Bridge)
I’ll soar downward through water grey and calm
land on the bottom wash the blood off of my palms
you still want 4 walls, I guess I need them too
If I leave these 4 walls I’d be leaving you -
I’ll swim with you, oh beaver, the geese will ask me south
to winter in the sunshine, snowflakes in my mouth
I surface to the cold world, I gasp and look around
In the blooming of the dogwood ertinity is found
(Bridge)
soaking up last moments, another perfect day
all the mess and heartache, I’ve got tears to give away
I’m waiting for a voice, I’ve heard it here before
this sparkling winter water holds me to its shore
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Mark Schirmacher Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mark Schirmacher is an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. For information on bookings or collaborations, visit www.markschirmacher.com.
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