1. |
Hard Luck Bad News
03:32
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I've been having some hard times
All my life
I hope things change pretty soon
Hard luck and bad news
Has followed me from town to town
All my life my luck's been down
I'm getting so weary
I don't have one friend
Folks turn their backs when I'm around
And where I walk the grass turns brown
No one will come near me
Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die
My life's been lonely
I've never heard a kindly word
Ugly names is all I've heard
And mean is how they treat me
Nobody trusts me
They blame me for the fires in town
Claim that hell is where I'm bound
And pray that God will speed me
Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die
Woo
Life's not worth living
My sorrow's more than I can say
Tomorrow's just another day
I hate to see the sun rise
Yet maybe someday
I'll find a man to call a friend
I'll be his friend until the end
In loneliness my heart cry
Hard luck and bad news
Hard luck and bad news
If you were in my shoes you'd die [x2]
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2. |
Feeling So Bad
04:43
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Well I'm feeling so bad in the middle of love
And it's easy to see that it isn't quite me that you're thinking of
Must be somebody else, but I'm wondering who
I can't seem to recall anybody at all who's in love with you
Every night you'll hear me say what a day
Well I saw you last week, you went out on the sly
You walked into some church, I suspected the worst, bet you met some guy
Then I waited outside, but you came out alone
With a satisfied look and a little black book, then you went straight home
Every night you'll hear me say what a day
Well I got something I wanna say to you
And this is what it is
So listen [Guitar solo]
Well this morning at ten, you invited me in
As you poured me some coffee you told me straight off that you'd found a friend
Well I wasn't surprised, no I wasn't surprised
Cause you look so content baby, I see a different look in your eyes
Every night you'll hear me say what a day [x2]
Aw ah
What a day
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3. |
I Feel Like Dying
01:45
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I feel like dying, I've done all I can
But I lost my woman, she ran off with another man (Aah)
I think I'm dying, I'm feeling such pain (Aah)
My life is trouble and I cannot take the strain (Aah)
Well what am I gonna do about it
What am I gonna do (Aah)
What am I gonna do about it (Aah)
What am I gonna do (Aah)
I feel like dying, I've got nothing to lose (Aah)
I know I need something but I do not need these blues (Aah)
Oh I think I'm dying and this is the end (Aah)
I need an answer, oh I need a friend (Aah)
Well what am I gonna do about it (Aah)
What am I gonna do (Aah)
What am I gonna do about it (Aah)
What am I gonna do (Aah)
I feel like dying (Aah)
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4. |
Born To Be Unlucky
04:40
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I was born about eighteen years ago in a little wooden shack
I was born about eighteen years ago on the wrong side of the tracks
I never knew my father and I never had a home
Well I don't know where I came from and I don't know where I'm going
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues
When I was just a young boy I was raised on beans and trout
And on my seventh birthday, well my mama she kicked me out
They say I'm good for nothing, no one treats me kind
I don't care 'cause pretty soon I'm gonna leave this world behind
I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
And I guess I'm stuck with my unlucky blues
I jumped into the river to try to put myself away
A man jumped in and saved me, he spoiled a perfect day
He dragged me to the river's edge, he said he knew I had a need
Then he pulled out a soggy bible and that man began to read
Well he told me things I did not know, I'm glad I did not die
'Cause he told me God's my father and my real home is in the sky
And I said [Instrumental]
He said I'd done a very foolish thing to try to drown myself and die
And I told him I was glad he happened to be passing by
He said God would forgive me, so I repented of my sin
Then he said I must be baptised and he threw me in again
Aww I was born to be unlucky from my shoulders to my shoes
I thought I must be stuck with these unlucky blues
Aww yeaow
My life has changed in many ways, I'm such a different man
Well I know now who my father is and I know just where I stand
With one foot up in heaven and one foot on the ground
I travel through this world of ours, I try to spread God's word around
I was born to be unlucky, I knowed it, from my shoulders to my shoes
But I came unstuck from my unlucky blues
Yeaow maybe you can too
Alright woo
And this is just beginning
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5. |
Watch What You're Doing
05:57
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Mo' guitar [Spoken]
Mmm, mama killed a chicken, she thought it was a duck
She put it on the table with his legs sticking up
Papa broke his glasses when he fell down drunk
Tried to drown the kitty cat, turned out to be a skunk
You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
Yeah you gotta watch where you're going
Didn't you know
Little Joe Billy went fishing for trout
Played hooky from school 'til the cops found out
Didn't have a father, was an only child
His mama never beat him so he grew up wild
You gotta watch what you're doing
Yeah
I knew a girl, sweet as could be
But she fell for a man like a chain sawed tree
She listened to his lies, was fooled by his charms
Now she's sitting with a baby in her arms
You gotta watch what you're doing
Didn't you know
You gotta watch what you're doing
You oughta know that
You gotta watch out
Watch out
Well everything's fine till things get bad
Then you sit around thinking 'bout the good times you had
But it ain't no good to lead a life of sin
If you don't shape up you know you'll never get in
You better watch what you're doing
Ah don't you know
You oughta know where you're going
Do you know
Some folks smile, they seem alright
Then you later find out it was an angel of light
Try to love everybody but don't be blind
'Cause some kind of people try to mess your mind
You gotta watch who you know yeah
Some folks say that the good Lord's dead
That he doesn't exist 'cept inside your head
I wonder how many gonna be surprised
When they look straight up and see him coming through the skies
You gotta watch what you're doing
Don't you know
'Cause he does yeah
You know he watches what you're doing
Yes he does
You better know where you're going (Ooh ooh)
Yeah yeah yeaow (Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)
Well well well hutz sut sut
Well well well hutz hutz a mutza
C'mon pilgrim, you know he loves you
He loves you more than he loves this cloven earth
Don't make your life bad and start acting like an idiot
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6. |
Leaving The Past Behind
03:36
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I'm putting on my walking shoes, please help me find my hat
It's time that I was leaving, got no time for looking back
I'm going away, yeah feeling fine, wo-oh
When it's time to go you've got to leave the past behind
When I look out through my window, it's as dark as it could be
But I know the son is coming to wake the world from sleep
I'm going away, going away, feeling fine woah wo-oh
And when you follow where he leads
You've got to leave the past behind
Man is born in trouble, everybody got the blues
People looking for an answer, people wishing for good news
So if you got the answer then there's one thing you must do
You must tell them what you know and you must live a life that's true
Wo-hoo
Aoww man is born in trouble, everybody's got the blues
People praying for an answer, people hoping for good news
So if you know the answer there is one thing you must do
You must walk, you must talk, you must hurry up to beat the clock
You must tell them to get ready so they can leave the past behind
Well my circle is completed, I've got to travel on
So if you understand, don't talk about me when I'm gone
I'm going away (going away)
I'm going away (going away)
I'm feeling fine, 89 is really 99
I'm going away, going away, going away
Island in the sky is number nine
I'm going away, going away, going away
I'm feeling fine
Well it's a good good feeling when you leave the past behind
Yeah I've got to start another circle, got to leave the past behind
Wo-ooh
I'm going away, you won't see me for a while
I gotta do some things, I got to walk an extra mile
But I'll see you in the city of the lost angels
I'm going away
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Aow put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
He's the rock of ages
He's the sage of sages
He's the key to the promised land
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
I was blind but now I've learned to see
I was trapped but now I've been set free, ah-oh-ho
I was lost and alone, so far from home, I was losing sight of me
But now I'm warm and safe as I can be
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
You have heard the wondrous story (Oh oh-ah)
Now go and tell it 'cross the land (Oh ah ah ah)
Tell 'em, put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Oh yeh right, I don't really have a verse to go here
So I'll just let the band play it one time
Play it Jonny, play it boys
Yeah that's nice
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (In his hands) (Oh yeah)
He's the rock of ages
He's the sage of sages
He's the key to the promised land
So put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Just put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (Put your life in Jesus' hands) (In Jesus' hands)
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands (Put your life in Jesus' hands)
Well Jesus is the rock and he rolled my blues away
I'm gonna play in his heavenly band (La la la la la la la la)
Put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands
Put your life, you know where (in Jesus' nail scarred hands) in his hands, that's right
(Just put your life) you only got one, you might as well go put it in his hands) (in Jesus' nail scarred hands)
Woo-ooh
Rock of ages and sage of sages, that's right, he's the man
So put your life right into his hands (in Jesus' nail scarred hands), put it there
(Well put your life in Jesus' nail scarred hands) Put your life into his hands, put your life into his hands
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8. |
Nightmare #97
04:50
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I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark
Hahahahaha start again [laughter]
Oh wait a minute fellas [laughter]
Oh, oh okay, take two [Spoken]
I was standing on the corner when I heard my bulldog bark
I looked up into the sky and saw lights moving through the dark
They were coming down from heaven, each one was brighter than the stars
And I said to my bulldog, I wonder what they are
I couldn't run, I could not swallow, I could only shake with fear
They were coming t'ward me and they were getting near
I heard people screaming around me in the darkness of that night
Then I fell in silence, I was blinded by the light
I felt my body drop off me like an old black overcoat
I heard my bulldog howl and I began to float
Aow and as that light came down around me, well I could not see a thing
But I could feel a presence and I heard voices begin to sing
Oh yeah (Tell me more, hmm)
Tell you what (Tell me more, wo-oh)
How can I tell you what happened (Tell me more hmm)
I don't know what happened (Tell me more, wo-oh)
I was just standing there with my bulldog and eh (Tell me more hmm, tell me more hmm)
And I saw this light in the sky (Tell me more)
Ok I'll tell you, I'll try to tell you
The next thing I remember, well someone grabbed my hand
I felt my spirit flying far above the land
No no no
I was flying
Woo
Ah ah [x6]
I was standing at the gates of heaven when a hand reached out to touch my head
Then I fell through a hole in heaven, I landed back in my bed
I started weeping, I felt so lonely and my soul began to scream
Had it just been my imagination, well it seemed so much more real than a dream
I couldn't believe it (I couldn't believe it)
I was still standing there in bed (In my own bed)
With this crazy vision (Oh) going around and round and in my head
I said what was I to think, I mean what was I to do
(Oh somebody gotta help me, this can't be real)
(Watch out)
Now if you see me standing on the corner and you hear my bulldog bark
You better look up in the sky in case there's something in the dark
Sometimes I stay here until it's morning and I look up in the night
Because you've got to be ready if you want to see the light
Wo-oh wo-oh
Oh yeah
I'm just standing on the corner looking for something
That was prophesied by the wise and foretold by the old
Don't be standing in the darkness like a man who's lost his way
Because he let his lamp go out, because he wasn't prepared
For the undeniable arrival of the judgment day
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Hello [Spoken]
Well I woke up in the morning, I said a morning prayer
I washed my face with soap and ran my fingers through my hair
I went down to the studio on Hollywood and Vine
The clock said 'leven thirty, well I made it just in time
I greeted the musicians, I grabbed the nearest chair
I started playing my guitar and told the engineer
C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon let that tape keep rolling, c'mon c'mon c'mon
The first song that we cut was called "Lonely By Myself"
I'll do the vocal later you can leave it on the shelf
The second song we cut was called "Unlucky Blues"
The session's getting better now, we're turning on the juice
The last song took us seven takes, the first one took us ten
Let's give it all we got and do the chorus once again
C'mon let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon let that tape keep rolling (c'mon) let it roll (c'mon)
Do you hear me singing on your record machine
The piano's banging, the guitar's twanging
The water cooler's clanging, the light bulb's hanging
Yes the music's playing, the production's clean
Cross fade all the tracks, don't leave no spaces in between
C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling [x4]
C'mon (c'mon) let that tape keep rolling, c'mon (c'mon) c'mon c'mon (c'mon) c'mon, c'mon
Hehehe
(C'mon) [x2]
(C'mon) (Ba ba ba da ba) [x3]
(C'mon)
Well I started out ten years ago, my guitar in my hand
I took the music in my heart and played it with a band
I went down to the Tower to record Upon This Rock
I sang it like I felt it, I just let the music talk
I know where I am going and I know who I must be
Don't care how long it takes because there's lots of things to see
C'mon let that tape keep rolling, c'mon let that love keep flowing
C'mon let your faith keep growing, c'mon get that good news going
C'mon let your light keep shining, c'mon be careful what you're signing
C'mon (c'mon) let that love keep flowing
C'mon (c'mon) c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon (C'mon, c'mon)
Aoww (C'mon, c'mon) heheheh (C'mon, c'mon)
Oh yeah alright alright (C'mon, c'mon c'mon c'mon)
(C'mon) He come walking down my street
He come up to my room
He knock on my door
He come into my heart
He make me feel so good
So good, so good, so good, so tough
I'm going home
I'm going home bou bou bou bou bou
Bou bou bou bou bou
Back home bou bou bou bou
Back home
He'll come down, make you feel alright
Like a thief in the middle of the night
Woo
In the middle of the night
Cha heh heh heh heh hah cha cha
Ooh la la la ta ta la la sha la la la
Ooh la la la ta ta la sha la la
C'mon let that tape keep rolling
C'mon c'mon
When the Lord gets ready
You got to move
[Laughs] wanna do it again [Spoken]
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10. |
Twelve Good Men (Demo)
03:06
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Two three four [Spoken]
You need twelve good men
And I can only find eleven yeah-eh
There are six young lions
But I'm still waiting for number seven
I may be living on earth
But I am living for heaven
Well man with a woman
Is like a lizard on a rock
Yeah something something something
I can't remember what I had here right, I had totally better lyrics. Eh [Spoken]
Well I don't say I understand it
That's the way Solomon used to talk
Yeah
Allright lowve
Weh-ah yeah yo
Oh-an-wo-an-lo-aaah
Yeah
Allright, that sounds good
Woo-hoo
I got my black leather jacket
The one I wore through all my youth
Hmmm, I've got my black sunglasses
Man I feel just like William Booth
Yeah baby, don't ask me nothing 'bout nothing
I just might tell you the truth
Okay that sounds good. Eh but let me go get those other lyrics an' an' we'll do it again [Spoken]
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11. |
Deep Blue (Rough Mix)
04:56
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I stay at home
You know I drink to pass the time away
But it only brings me back to yesterday
I put the coffee on and I listen to the radio
But keep looking at the telephone
I've been thinking about you for a long long time
I've been sinking in deep blue and my future's black
Oh baby come back
Mmm mmm hmm
No matter what I do
I just can't forget the love we had
Well I can't erase my mind and just forget about you, no
It's gone beyond all that
And I've got to have your love again
'Cause I got to make my heart stop breaking
I've been thinking about you for a long long time, ye-ah
I've been sinking in deep blue and my future's black
Oh baby come back
You're all I think about
Baby come back
La la la la chu la la [x2]
La la la la chu la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la chu la la
La la la la chu la la la
The days and weeks fly by
And I watch my feelings slowly die
I can feel the hope inside me pass away
I lost my health, I lost my love
I lost my will to live
I'm a heartbroken fugitive
And I've been thinking about you for a long long time, hmm-mmm ye-eh
And I've been sinking in deep blue and my future's black
Oh oh, I’ve been thinking about you baby
Not easy living without you
I've been thinking about you
And I keep hoping you'll come back
I keep hoping you'll come back
You never treated me right
All we ever did was fight
I thought I couldn't live without you baby
But something happened to me last night
You wanna know what it was
Uh-huh, okay I'll tell you
I planned to end it all
And I went back to my hotel room
And I locked the door closed with a broom
I opened up the drawer and I reached inside to get my gun
But found a bible from the Gideons
And I'll be thinking about it for a long long time, ye-eh, ah ha
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
I’ll be thinking about it for a long long time
I wonder how it got there
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
I didn't put it there, I didn't even know it was there
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
Surprise surprise
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
Some things you can't never figure
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
Like this, yeah-eh
I'll be thinking about it for a long long time
So long, yeah, goodbye
Mmm m-m-m-mmm m-m-m-mmm
M-m-mmm, m-m-mmm, m-m-mmm [x4]
Long long time
Oh-ah oh oh-ah la oh-ah
Oh-ah la
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One two one [Spoken]
Well it ain’t no good to lay in bed at night
And think about the past
About how you coulda done things differently
But they just happened way too fast
Why don’t you close your eyes, go to sleep
And let the angels bring you dreams
Let those years unwind behind you
And float away on silent streams
You’ve got to live your life the best you can
Though you sometimes do your worst
You’ve got to laugh when you fail
It doesn’t matter anyway
Life is a play that’s unrehearsed
Don’t make too many plans for tomorrow
You can’t control what lies ahead
Why don’t you try to live each moment as it comes instead
(Ooh ooh) Sha la la la la la la la la la la
(Ooh ooh) etc
There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future (ooh ooh)
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
Well it never helps to worry
And it never hurts to pray
And tomorrow will come soon enough
You better take care of today
You’ve got to learn to trust your life to God
You know the future’s in his hands
And only faith will help you meet your life’s demands
Yeah
There’s no use dreaming of a perfect future
Or regretting a troubled past
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
So live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts (yeah)
Live it like it might be your last
It’s only today that counts (yeah)
Live it like it might be your last
Come on, open up your heart and live
Open up your heart and live
You’ve got to live (live), live (live), live (live)
He’s coming back pretty soon
So come on, come on, come on live
You’ve got to live (live), live (live)
Do it while you can
Don’t waste your time, don’t waste your time
Make up your mind, make up your mind
Come on
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13. |
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Larry Norman Los Angeles, California
American musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer. Norman had a major influence on artists as diverse as The Pixies, Guns n' Roses, and U2. After his death in 2008 his most well-known album, 1972's Only Visiting This Planet, was selected for inclusion in The United States Library of Congress for its cultural significance and impact on American culture. ... more
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