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Ryan Adams : Misc

  1. 16 Days
  2. Follow The Lights
  3. Fool's Gold
  4. Jacksonville Skyline
  5. Nobody Listens To Silence
  6. Shining Through The Dark

16 Days
1997

From Whiskeytown: Stranger's Almanac
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Got sixteen days, one for every time I've gone away
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One for every time I should have stayed
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Should have wore my wedding ring Got sixteen days, fifteen of those are nights Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights Its way back to your side
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Well, the ghost has got me running Well, the ghost has got me running
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Away from you, away from you, away Well, the ghost has got me running Well, the ghost has got me running Away from you, away from you, away Got sixteen days, got a bible and a rosary Got I wish that you were close to me I guess I owe you an apology Got sixteen days, fifteen of those are nights Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights Its way back to your side Well, the ghost has got me running Well, the ghost has got me running Away from you, away from you, away Well, the ghost has got me running Well, the ghost has got me running Away from you, away from you, away
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Old tin cups, little paper dolls
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All wrapped up in ribbons, bows and hearts Old tin cups and little paper dolls All wrapped up in the ribbons of your heart
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I got sixteen days Sixteen days I got sixteen days It's like before I hang

Follow The Lights

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These very moments as they pass It's like you're just dreaming of busting someone else Hands they hold a candle to the pages
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These days they go so fast These days are ours
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Follow the lights that line the streets
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Connecting telephones Follow the lights from house to house And they will lead you home They will lead you home 'Cause there was never anywhere to go There was never anywhere to go But home If every second year is true Our love is strong enough to guide the way we walk through Hands inside of hands Hearts inside of hearts Like eyes closed Side by side and through Follow the lights that line the streets Connecting telephones Follow the lights from house to house And they will lead you home They will lead you home 'Cause there was never anywhere to go There was never anywhere to go But home If everything we are is true Our memories are attics in those houses on the hill Our love is there above us holding everything so still And we are always here Yes we are always here So follow the lights that line the streets Connecting telephones Follow the lights from house to house And they will lead you home They will lead you home 'Cause there was never anywhere to go There was never anywhere to go There was never anywhere to go But home, home

Fool's Gold

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| ... She wore a dress that Mary Lisa had sewn And everybody just laughed The boys were suited up on Mexican rose They spilled their wine on their pants A distant cousin of her brother had come He tore the sheets from her bed She felt the poison of the barreling sun She felt the weight of his hands
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Fool's gold can buy you anything you want
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| ... Fool's gold, fool's gold Her sister Hattie had a ship But it had no sail Her husband hit her and he split her lip He said he'd kill her if he thought she would tell The streets were empty on the 4th of July The fires burned in the sticks The bells were ringing from the church of the saints
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Made of Mexican brick
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Fool's gold can buy you anything you want
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Fool's gold, fool's gold |
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... Fool's Gold! They watched her walk in from the roof of their house She had a gun in her purse Mary Lisa could have left on a train She wasn't sure which was worse Her brother Daniel knew a guy in the stretch He had some horses and a grudge The other option was a Mexican jail
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And a crooked judge
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Fool's gold can buy you anything you want
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Fool's gold can buy you anything you want
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Fool's gold, fool's gold |
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... Fool's Gold! They cast a shadow on the dusted remains The broken bottles cut the earth She saw a rifle sticking out of the brush She grabbed the gun from her purse Mary Lisa threw the sacks in the car The bullets cut into the breeze Fool's gold can buy you Mexican jewels
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But it can't buy the police Fool's gold can buy you anything you want Fool's gold, fool's gold Fool's gold can buy you anything you want Fool's gold, fool's gold Fool's Gold!

Jacksonville Skyline
2001

From Whiskeytown: Pnemonia
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Well the banks of the river run through my hometown
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Born on the dirt roads, and I scraped my knees
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Well they paved the roads eventually
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With neon signs and car dealerships and diners
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The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
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I saw the pretty women as I walked through town Well I moved away soon as I turned sixteen Figured I was old enough to go and work a job Well I floated down main street pools of car lights Overcame me wishin' I was still back home The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends I saw the pretty women as I walked through town Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight Seems like you're lucky if it ever changes red to green I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness With 50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime I ended up a soldier on the weekend Looking for a vacancy I wasn't able to find Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it seem like stars

Nobody Listens To Silence

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Nobody listens to silence like your girl Widening the margins, mouthing the words Letters flying fast, turning into words Sweeping the floor, making room Pulling up the carpet, staples and all Newspapers underneath and over Shards of broken glass punched into the corner with your foot Just in case your girl got up Decided to dance, gave you a moment To collect yourself Took your hand and a wink, with the second guess you lose The spot in your long line of losses Oh, no second chance You dream your sweaty brow into the pocket And the pit becomes something with no bottom under it While she fucks him like a fucking machine Greased to the bolts till the bolts come off and her dress goes limp Torn from her leg to the seam From the seam to her leg, listening to her say his name and beg Nobody listens to silence like your girl Nobody listens to silence like your girl With your ear to the door and eye to the keyhole And into the floor smashed like a train On the side of a bridge, suitcases burning Orange lines Over the underpass People on telephones, people answering Hair dye smudged on the sides of the tub A bit on the ears and the crest of the forehead Your mother used to kiss and you got to school, you're broken up Your signal went static, your killer confessed And your soda went flat, your arm went numb You smoked until your voice went old, stinking of rum And bugs in the kitchen, so fucked between the lines Looking for the highlights, she loves him like her man Smoking cigarettes with him on the edge of the bed Nobody listens to silence like your girl Nobody listens to silence like your girl Nobody listens to silence like your girl Nobody listens to silence like your girl Nobody listens to silence

Shining Through The Dark

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Whatever happened to the old me?
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Whatever happened to us?
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Whatever it was it doesn't matter now
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Those days went speeding by and left us in the dust
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The car's on empty, it rattles and rusts Whatever misses is permanent A red wine stain or a scar Like one of those if you flip the negative Knew who I was, even before I even knew, now just look who we are
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And these wheels turn fast
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These wheels turn bright
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Reflecting every blurry moon that long goes shining
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Through the dark of the night
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Shining through the dark of the night
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You know that house I don't want to buy
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I want to buy it for you
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The walls are made out of the wishes I make
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When I close my eyes, and I'm lying here with you Whatever this is is everything My feet are sore and blue Everything I ever said I did before Was just to get me here, get me here next to you And these wheels turn fast These wheels turn bright Reflecting every moon that long goes shining Shining through the dark of the night These wheels turn fast These wheels turn bright Reflecting every moon that long goes shining Shining through the dark of the night Shining through the dark of the night Shining through the dark of the night Shining through the dark of the night Shining through the dark of the night