1. Just About Gone
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
She's all barbed wire and long hair fifty miles of no one and no where
Coy is a word that she's heard when she wants to but won't dare
He's got words but they don't say ties that should hold where he won't stay
A limp that shows first on his face when he stands to go on a cold day
She's been a half a mile over the West Virginia line
Says don't it seem like I've known you a long time
Well I like it around here where I know my own way
He'll say I'm just about gone girl don't you beg me to stay
There's a rust car for long drives for dirt roads and brown-bagging moonshine
Makine plans every year to be moving south come wintertime.
She'll say I've been a half a mile over the West Virginia line
Don't it seem like I've known you a long time
Yeah I like it round here where I know my own way
She'll have gold hair and her mother's eyes
Some kind of sly smile passed down on her father's side
Well she come on a summer moon the sun at half past noon six years ago in June
Now she's all headstands and won't mind a days distance of can't hear and don't find
At war in a back field got armies of junked cars and thistle weed and years of endless time
She'll say I've been a half a mile over the West Virginia line
Don't it seem like I've known you a long time
Well I like it around here where I know my own way
They'll say we're just about gone girl we're just about gone
We're just about gone girl yeah just about gone
2. More Than I Have
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
This morning when I woke up you were gone
I knew that you would leave without a fight
Sometimes I'm wrong sometimes I'm right
But this time I won't play blind and hold on tight
So don't come back and fill me up with doubt
Don't walk right in and turn me inside out
People are unkind as you've been inclined
Won't punish me with lessons you should learn to live without
You say you had a trusting heart
Before it got all torn apart
What a reckless soul you bring me always needing more forgiving
This time it's more then I have
The truth is you always look things up and down
Then walk away and leave them in the light
You watch from a dark place with your cold eyes and stone face
Only time will tell what is wrong and what is right
You say you had a trusting heart
Before it got all torn apart
What a reckless soul you bring me always needing more forgiving
This time it's more then I have
3. Home
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke and Judd Fuller
She's found all the ghosts that will climb down a family tree
A churchman a farmhand and one whose blood flows warm through me
Left behind a drunkard with no conscience and a crazy cane
Who walks around these worn halls who calls her by her sister's name
She can hear the whistle calling 'come on catch the old steam train
Before they finally close the line and leave you here in Delaplane'
She waits then kneels to lift her copper pennies from the track
And rising up she hollers to the rail man 'don't come back'
This is home
A sister's a sister to me and it's blood just the same
Lord knows how the evil and the good will both flow through a name
She'll say we're like stones in a road all sized up and kicked off a bridge
Some tumble down under the river water and then some land up on the edge
This is home
4. Fall For You
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
Lynn says that there'll be rain on Tuesday
Buckets full before it's through
I say this time of year the west wind blows a daily gale
Makes me wonder if I'll ever make it out
I'll take my box of chances going to toss them to the sky
Two years now she's been sunk up on the bridge
We must not be so cavalier
She'll teach a lesson or two they say before she's through
They know we lose a few most every year
I'll take my box of chances going to toss them to the sky
I'll never learn to use them anyhow
I'll walk away and let them fall for you
Walk away and let them fall for you
I only want to let them fall for you
And when it's quiet out on the tide
There will be no doubt no change no yearning
We'll float there free from fears though we'll wear all those years
They won't believe a thing remained
Lynn says so what about the winter
The same will come as come before
I say I'm thinking somewhere warm this time around
Can't stand when corners fill with leaves you know
I'll take my box of chances going to toss them to the sky
I'll never learn to use them anyhow
I'll walk away and let them fall for you
Walk away and let them fall for you
I only want to let them fall for you
Lynn says that there'll be rain on Tuesday
Buckets full before it's through
5. This Town
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
Some kind of ghost keeps singing nights outside my door
I think he's come to drag me out into the void
It takes all my time just keeping him at bay
I never got along too well with others anyway
Now this town just seems to grate on me you know
With all this road there must be places I could go
Think I'll pack my things and move out to the sticks
Maybe it's not too late for me to be a hick
I can see that sweet country
I've spent a fortune on dilapidated cars
Just to get me down the streets and into the bars
Boy I looked good I'd roll up with such style
But my exits weren't so smooth after awhile
Now this town just seems to grate on me you know
With all this road there must be places I could go
Think I'll pack my things and move out to the sticks
Maybe it's not too late for me to be a hick
I can see that sweet country
Rolled out flat for miles
No one to bother me just the sun to clock the hours
And a dizzy smile to wear
Now this town just seems to grate on me you know
With all this road there must be places I could go
Think I'll pack my things and move out to the sticks
Maybe it's not too late for me to be a hick
I can see that sweet country
6. Mr. Pain
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
Vernon's in his mobile home like a Buddha on the floor
With his oriental rugs and rows of books across the wall
He's the king of conversation he'll crawl deep beneath your skin
Until the only thoughts you'll have will have you thinking just like him
The Cheshire cat the Mona's smile he wants to be your friend
But you're led into your box the moment you're invited in
Three cheers for all the causes though he hasn't got a plan
Tell me where does freedom find the freedom to begin
Meet the parasitic Mr. Pain times up lets kill the tumor
Can't you crawl inside a bottle maybe find your sense of humor
Take your playbook and your tirades go your stinking up the place
Would it kill you to dethrone yourself and join the human race
Now you've really gone and done it you brought in the whole brigade
Dragging with you screaming minions never wanted to be saved
You never listen never listen you never did it's nothing new
You rule the universe wait the universe is you
Meet the parasitic Mr. Pain times up lets kill the tumor
Can't you crawl inside a bottle maybe find your sense of humor
Take your playbook and your tirades go your stinking up the place
Would it kill you to dethrone yourself and join the human race
Now we're coming up to find you better get your story straight
Better get your things together don't forget to lock your gate
Don't forget your comforts either when you flee your new nirvana
It's a drag to live with what you've made and even you don't want to
Meet the parasitic Mr. Pain times up lets kill the tumor
Can't you crawl inside a bottle maybe find your sense of humor
Take your playbook and your tirades go your stinking up the place
Would it kill you to dethrone yourself and join the human race
7. Just As Well
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
It feels just like a hundred years have come and gone
Since you wrote me all those pretty words
I know the phone won't ring here not tonight
But if it does I'll let him take your place
Hell I'll let anybody try
Empires crumble in less time
Who's to say with you and I
Jack's bait shop was full of red faced men tonight
Winter's coming on and I've been trying hard
Sometimes I still taste your cologne on my face
Tasting bitter smelling so sweet
These days move at such a tiring pace
Yet I can never get to sleep
I'll just wish again that whatever steers my mind
Will drop the reins and rest a spell
I hope next summer isn't changed forever
Or if it is that I can say it's just as well
It's the same for you as it is for me I hear you say
I imagine countless phrases like this from you every day
They let me know how much I wish I'd never seen you go
Now there's too many days with no one to call nothing to show
A forever full of days with no one to call nothing to show
I'll just wish again that whatever steers my mind
Will drop the reins and rest a spell
I hope next summer isn't changed forever
Or if it is that I can say it's just as well
Jack's bait shop was full of red faced tonight
Winter's coming on
8. Pick A Story
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
When I look back there were telltale signs
I remember they always said you weren't my kind
You were all I knew no good for me
Help sure hit the highway when it came to helping me
I had big daemons I had big dreams too
There's always something better down that road a turn or two
You found trouble won't a dog find a bone
Gone and left me sorry in an old house all alone
Pick a story lend an ear
There's been so many how'd I end up living here
And I wonder where you went and what might have been
How could you why would you when I needed you
To be there for me care for me like you used to do
Why I can't let you go even though you left long ago
Some people call me crazy and they could be right
With all that I've been through you wonder why I'm drunk most nights
I could have been a ballerina I could have been a lawyers wife
I damn near set this world on fire before you ruined my life
Pick a story lend an ear
There's been so many how'd I end up living here
And I wonder where you went and what might have been
How could you why would you when I needed you
To be there for me care for me like you used to do
Why I can't let you go even though you left long ago
It's late December you know this town gets cold in snow
It gets quiet so quiet I don't know where they go
But I hear your voice I hear you whisper low
You say 'Grab your things don't we have someplace to go'
Pick a story lend an ear
There's been so many how'd I end up living here
And I wonder where you went and what might have been
How could you why would you when I needed you
To be there for me care for me like you used to do
Why I can't let you go even though you left long ago
9. Time Flies
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
Summer comes and summer goes away
People say time flies well don't they have a lot to say
I don't care I don't care honest
I've done my best I've done my best
Let it go let it go they'll say
People won't know wrong and don't it scare me so
I don't know I don't know harmless
At a glance at a glance
I hear you say just take a chance just take a breath well ok
Every smile every smile just disappears
If you're an angel by my side it's time to take me out of here
Take me home take me home promise
Nothing less nothing less
10. Don't You Know
Words: Jennifer Clarke
Music: Jennifer Clarke and Judd Fuller
Written on the wind a thousand miles two tandem smiles
At a certain Sunday morning picture show
Number seven barreling headlong down the line
And it seems there'll be no wishing back this time
Don't you know don't you know
The whole things packed up it's ready to go
You think it's a shame the way things change
You'd gotten used to them staying the same
Didn't I show you how to miss this smile of mine
All the way to heaven is heaven angels walk with white clothed arms
I think I feel them closing in my bones
Singing sighing always moving down the line
And it seems there'll be no turning back this time
Don't you know don't you know
The whole things packed up it's ready to go
You think it's a shame the way things change
You'd gotten used to them staying the same
Didn't I show you how to miss these arms of mine
Well it's never what you think it's going to be just what you find
Have you held on to my memory all the while
Could you send me some reminder
Something finer then the picture that I have
Before it fades out of my mind fades out of my mind
Written on the wind a thousand miles two tandem smiles
At a certain Sunday morning picture show
Don't you know don't you know don't you know don't you know
Didn't I show you how to miss this smile of mine
Hey didn't I show you how to miss this smile of mine
11. You Don't Seem To Care
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
Each night just like a carnival
In the street inside my head
The lights the noise the summer heat
Takes me down unlocks the doors
But you don't seem to care
Though you must know how I'm feeling
Too afraid to show up where
You might actually be needed
He's a mystery on the corner with a frown
I see him every day now he's new in town
He passes by I watch him go
He'd make me smile though I don't know
But you don't seem to care
Though you must know my objective
Too afraid of being fair
To remember it's subjective
And you sit home so sublime still wasting all my precious time
Ignore what's meant to be you live for what others see
And I go along and feel so alone
But you don't seem to care
Though you must know my objective
Too afraid of being fair
To remember it's subjective
12. Deep In Trouble
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
I feel you hanging on like a bad dream as I drive around this town
Bumper stickers on all the cars like notes you used to leave behind
There for me on doors and counters to see when I got up
Always shouting something angry always having had enough
Come on across the water's fine they whisper as they throw the line
You think you're going to make it as they toss it out and take it
All the while they prepare to leave you deep in trouble
I can't understand why you would come there's nothing for you here
It's been too long not long enough depending on the time of year
Weather's turning colder I want to close things up inside
But with you I know that there's no safe place to hide
Come on across the water's fine they whisper as they throw the line
You think you're going to make it as they toss it out and take it
All the while they prepare to leave you deep in trouble
Hard to explain it really hard not to try most every day
It makes me pretty crazy you got me used to things that way
Come on across the water's fine they whisper as they throw the line
You think you're going to make it as they toss it out and take it
All the while they prepare to leave you deep in trouble
13. West Texas
Words / Music: Jennifer Clarke
I'm slipping down like mercury
With this West Texas sun
And I'm out here alone just the sound of the engine
There's twilight on the horizon line
I'll take the blame
Now I see through this living and learning and loving the same
I drove the night through Mississippi
Just at dawn I reached Lake Charles
It was lit up like one thousand flickering funeral pyres
They burned down to the lakeside
I'll take the blame
Now I see through this living and learning and loving the same
Now its morning I don't know what I'm going to do
I'm so tired I swear I'm broke clean through
As these days they fall away darling you know I can't stop thinking of you
Miles of windmills turning in the sky
These white wall wheels keep rolling on and on
What a way to leave things baby now I'm gone
Twilight on the horizon line I'll take the blame
Now I see through this living and learning and loving the same