GONNA GET GOOD

I'm watching the sunset

I'm headin' down by the riverside

Lookin' for love in all the wrong faces

On this long and twisted ride

 

(CHORUS)

Things they are bound to get better

Things they are gonna get good

 

Life is a never ending battle

Cause neither side will ever give in

Ma can't you hear the latest gospel

Comin' down from Mount McKinn

REPEAT CHORUS

Ride that river to wherever it takes you

Away from me or back again

I'll still be here a-waitin'

Through the storms of change and the howlin' winds

REPEAT CHORUS

 

MACE THE PLACE

I was feelin' tired and was light on cash

But I went to Flippers to sing some songs for Ash

The music died the scene the scene suddenly broke

Somebody walked in and it ain't no joke

 

(CHORUS)

They maced the place

Oh they maced the place

You better get out quick

Don't let that shit get up in your face

 

The bartender came up said what's goin' on

I didn't even notice that she had gone

I said I don't but get outta here quick

This haze ain't reefer smoke it'll make you sick

REPEAT CHORUS

Those are the facts about what happened last night

And I gotta tell you it was a hell of a sight

People coughin', pukin' n' cryin' on their knees down low

I hope the place is aired out for Sunday's show

REPEAT CHORUS

 

IN THE MIND

(CHORUS)

Feelings come, feelings go

Hear the thin ice begin to crack

It's in the mind don't you know

But I just can't get it back

 

It's a full moon tonight but the sun ain't gone down

I have things I didn't ask for

But I'm glad they're still around

The score ain't in my favor but I'm not playing at home

Salvation Ridge is never too far from Grey Mountain Road

Sometimes in madness the greatest things are revealed

Never let your mind cease to drop it's shield

REPEAT CHORUS

Hope is a memory of some lost cause

Of some excuse for an awkward pause

Stormin' round the town with somebody's clothes

A secret agenda that remains undisclosed

Anger may be but not with me

I got bigger fish to fry

REPEAT CHORUS

 

'TILL THE DEVIL GOES HOME

He's a pale rider on a horse of chrome

So I ain't coming round till the devil goes home

He sticks like grease in yer comb

So I ain't coming round till the devil goes home X2

 

He'll deceive your spirit and condemn you to roam

So I ain't coming round till the devil goes home

For a world of trouble they wanna build a dome

So I ain't coming round till the devil goes home X2

 

I won't trade my freedom for a nice tombstone

So I ain't coming round till the devil goes home

He'll promise redemption then leave you all alone

So I ain't coming round till the devil goes home X3

 

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

As I'm walkin' I keep my head held high

I watch the spirits floatin' in the sky

And as I'm walkin' I'm thinkin' to myself

Don't place a good love up on the shelf

Cause it ain't but come one time around

When the sun goes down

 

There are times that pass before your eyes

Sometimes they come around in disguise

To see if you're paying attention to see if you know

Just exactly which way to go

There ain't much that can get me down

When the sun goes down

 

It could end just like the end of a match

If you don't find a way to reach out and catch

That spirit floatin' round inside of yer head

You better catch it for ya and it catches you dead

And you'll be six feet underground

When the sun goes down

 

WHERE I'LL BE BY MORNING

(CHORUS)

Don't ever ask me where I'm going

When you know damn well I'm right under your thumb

Don't ask me where I'll be by morning

For if I'm not there you know I'll never come

 

But I will wait inside your garden

I'll be waiting for the spring to come

And if you'd just grant me this pardon

Then you know I'd return to where I'm from

REPEAT CHORUS

As I went walkin' through the prairie

Lord the wind it swept me off my feet

Gotta find a way to keep my soul free

Before my heart it stops to beat

REPEAT CHORUS

 

ON THE ROLL

How did we come to this point of the road

I ain't got no money but I sure got soul

Same kinda thing that I said before

I'm a rockin' and I'm on the roll

 

Sure got no time it's passing me by

I might as well dig myself a hole

Ain't it funny how time passes by

I'm a rockin' and I'm on the roll

 

Hello my babe

Ain't got no time let's lay it on the line

Good-bye now child

Don't ask me how I'm feelin' fine

 

Because I got lost inside my head

Late nights they were takin' their toll

But I got no time to sit there weepin'

I'm a rockin' and I'm on the roll

 

So long now babe

It's been awhile but you still got your shine

Call me my maiden

I'll get you on my videophone line

 

For I have spent too long with regret

Don't wanna spend my time kissin' a troll

Sleepin' under the bridge it just ain't no home

But I'm a rockin' and I'm on the roll

 

DON'T COME BACK NO MORE

Go away don't come back no more X2

Holding my head as you walk out the door

 

Forget about me till the dawn X2

Forget about me altogether baby when I'm gone

 

Go away don't come back no more X2

 

Find a home in a mountain range X2

I will remain although I'm bound to change

 

Go away don't come back no more X2

Holding my head as you walk out the door

 

Forget about me till the dawn X2

Forget about me altogether baby when I'm gone

 

COLD DARK NIGHT

I stumbled into the local saloon 'twas about 1/4 past

It was there neath the midnight moon I saw my lover for the last

She ran out in the cold dark nightu p around the bend

Until she drifted outta sight I've never seen her again

 

(CHORUS)

There she goes don't ya know

Down the street through a wicked world of woe

 

I hear she up and went to Prague bound to find true love again

And it was there in the misty bog they say she found her man

The details I asked him to spare but is she doing alright

For I haven't seen hide or hair since she left that cold dark night

REPEAT CHORUS

He said all went well for a little while until that fateful day

'Twas then she really showed her style 'twas on her wedding day

She buttoned up her wedding dress put on her leather glove

And said to him I must confess another I do love

It's for the first man who stole my heart

The way I left it wasn't right

I wanna go back to the start before that cold dark night

REPEAT CHORUS

Well pass along my message sir is what she asked of me

Take it to my true love now he's back in Tennessee

So now I've traveled all this way just to tell my tale

Will you give her the time of day or do you wish she rot in jail

I don't care about her future now I pray she stays outta my sights

Or I might have to shoot her down on a cold dark night

REPEAT CHORUS

 

WHITEHORSE CITY

(CHORUS)

Isn't it a pity, isn't it a pity

It ain't easy makin' bread in a Whitehorse City x2

 

Well I told a little lover whatchya doin' to me

I ain't got yer mind and you ain't got me

Well you ain't got me baby but I ain't got you

I'm the one that really left and you know it's true

REPEAT CHORUS

People got their own agenda that's the way it outta go

If you don't know by now then you never will know

And if you never do know then you never can see

Just what your troubles they been doin' to me

REPEAT CHORUS

In a Whitehorse City in a Whitehorse town

They'll kick it when you're good and love it when you're down

Love it when you're down, love it when you kick it good

They don't love you like you know they really outta should

 

Isn't it a pity, isn't it a pity

It ain't easy makin' bread in a Whitehorse City

In a Whitehorse City in a Whitehorse town

They kick when you're good and love it when you're down

 

THE CURSE OF THE NEW YUKON

There's a land that has no more gold

In the hills or on the streets

A place where the devil's got hold

Of their hearts and their feets

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

I sing for my roof and my food

And if I'm lucky a bottle of wine

But none of this matters it ain't no good

To the government corporate swine

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

Their get their meals for free from our taxes

That we pay for off every cheque

One works while the other relaxes

They've turned the kingdom into a wreck

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

To them life is a jolly joke

They gamble, get drunk and get hi

They don't understand my kinda folk

How can they when they don't even try

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

To work like a slave for all of the day

For the pennies the happen to throw

My heart decays and I can't stay

But I have nowhere else to go

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

This is the land I've dreamed of

But dreams don't often come true

Now I've traded a lifetime of love

But the question is for who

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

Hardships have all taken their toll

This world ain't no place for me

Oh how easy the rich seem to roll

When they get it all for free

It ain't no lie, it ain't no joke

It ain't no kind of con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

I need nobody as a guide

For a road that already exists

It's a lonely trail that I must ride

But I'll pound the troubles with my fists

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

The end of my stay I fear is approachin'

Experience is a twisted thing

Yet I feel to leave is some kind of sinnin'

For if I do will the bells of inspiration still ring

It ain't no lie, it ain't no con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon

 

It'll break yer heart if you allow it

It'll warp you from friend to foe

What's needed now is some kind of fresh start

So it's down the road again I go

It ain't no lie, it ain't no joke

It ain't no kind of con

It's just the curse of The New Yukon