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West Ohio
06:31
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She got in her car and pointed it west
All the way down Route
66
Out to Hollywood to be a star
Everything she owned in the back
Of that old car
She worked real hard did all she could
Even sold her car and moved out of
West Hollywood
Nothing went right it all went wrong
Some times we just need to
Move on
Moved up north across the grapevine
Living life one day
At a time
Traded glitz and glamour for dirt and work
Making her living
Off the land
The sun went down each day
She’d find her guitar and Play
Writing songs about life and love
And all the places west of
Ohio
One song –
One hit changed her whole life
A house in the hills, All her dreams
A big star in the
Sky
It took a long time to get there
Traveled over land, sea, and open
Air
To sing her simple songs of dirt and earth
All about the land West of
Ohio
It’s a long way back
To Ohio
Barry your things
On the way back
Life won’t wait
For you
Some times
You win and you loose
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Blue Gum
02:58
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Anymore
03:03
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Up Hill
06:04
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Fourteen years and nothing's changed I'm
Tired of trying to walk the line
With grace
Never mind that writing on the
Wall
Nothing good ever comes from that
At all
Just sucks all my happiness
Away
My minds made up I am walking away tonight
Wipe your brown and steady your feet
Raise your fist be ready
To meet
Life will go up and it will always come back
Down
Just gotta pick your self up off the
Ground
Its gonna be hard its gonna take time
Something in you has to die
If your going to make it out alive
Go on get up and rise
It's going to be up hill both sides
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New Look
03:13
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Mistaken ID
02:37
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The War
04:21
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He Drove out across the valley
South to San Antone
The war had taken everything
An he just needed to get home
He packed up his duffle
And left it on the curb
He wasn’t bringing home
Any of the war to her
She stared out across the driveway
Almost every night
His pick up truck had grown
Weeds up every side
She no long heard his voice
As she read his letters at night
The war had changed everything
And she needed him home tonight
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Reno (Bad Blow)
03:25
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Friday Night
07:11
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He was like lightning in a bottle
Every Friday Night
Holden down the throttle
Under those lights
Screaming out his name
Small town game
Graduation day
Life all Changed
The fans are all gone
And life goes on
The years they go by
Summer turns to fall
The lights they burn bright
In the back of his mind
The smell of the grass
Those times won’t last
Nights at the bar
Alcohol and pills
To relive the the thrills
Of those days
Life it goes fast
Underneath the lights
Hold on
As long as you can
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The Mariner
05:59
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Workin' all day in the burnin' sun
On the docks
Along the bay
He worked his hands, He worked his feet
Until
They wouldn’t work
Anymore
In the Oakland sun
On the bay
Everyday
The salt air burned and took his life
Away
Everyday
All Those dreams he ounce had
Got packed up
And shipped away
Like all those containers he stacks on those boats
Every day
One of these days he’s gonna leave
Stow away
And leave the bay
Find all the things that got shipped away
And start over
Again
Box it all up and leave and leave it all behind
And start over
Again
Push that sun set out
Through those
Golden Gates
Find all his dreams that he set aside
And start over
Again
Sail away and leave it all behind
And Don’t
Look back
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"One More Try" - Our New Album is OUT NOW!
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