ENJOY LEAVING NYC
1 Ghosts In This Town (3:10)
2 What Can I Do (3:52)
3 You Can Never Go Back (5:16)
4 Like a Rose (3:46)
5 InBetween (4:52)
6 Leaving NYC (3:50)
7 Lately (4:39)
8 38th &
9 Friday Night (3:37)
10 That’s Me On The Page (6:25)
11 In The End (4:38)
12 The Last Call (2:53)
Ghosts in this town
There are ghosts in this town
There are ghosts all around
Some are buried in my head
Others in the ground
I see them in my dreams
I see them in the streets
Hear them howl at the moon
And I wonder if I will join them soon
There Are Ghosts in this town
There are ghosts all around
I got lost looking for you
Through different shades of blue
I was standing lost and wet
Out on St George’s day
Not knowing if it would be okay
And if we’d ever make it out of the rain
Dark Night Orange Sky
Sometimes I wonder why we Even Try
Well I roamed all over town
And I ordered another round
I did all it was I could do
To get away from you
I dug myself hole
And threw away my soul
Still ended up bleeding at your door
Lord I can’t take this anymore
He carried you for your last promenade
Read from the bible as they lay you in the shade
I stand every night, out on the bridge
Watch the cars rush on by see you standing there
For you I’ll sing this song
For you I’ll carry on
Down the road
Through this dark old night
Till I see you again
Dark Night Orange Sky
Sometimes I wonder why we Even Try
What Can I do
I’m still in love with you
What can I say
I don’t want to see you walk away
Since you’ve been gone
I’ve been all over the place
Hurting inside just saving face
What’s important at the end of the day
What we do or maybe what we say
It’s just another day slipping away another day without a change
I look into the mirror
It’s the same old clown staring back
Weeks roll by, and I struggle to find my way
Wasting Time and Chasing Ghosts
Seems to be what I do the most
Then meals and football on TV
And in between, just you and me
Trying to keep on smiling
To go on up around the bend
The days were gray, the days were sad
Those were the happiest times, you and me had ever had
Now I stare into a glass and wonder how I could have changed the past
But I’m just left stranded here
In my dreams, you still hold me at night
You still tell me, it’ll be alright
In My Dreams you still tell me I’m not alone
And me…I’m your chosen one
What’s important at the end of the day
What we do or maybe what we say
It’s just another day slipping away another day without a change
There’s a cold autumn wind
Blowing through the streets
Dead leaves floating around
Church bells ring
And the dogs they bark
Tonight the ghosts are all around
I grew up out on these streets
Now I’m back again, where it all began
I reach out, try and touch my past
But the visions fade away into the mist
You can never go back
I roamed around
From town to town
Running away from the pain
I travelled through seas, deserts and storms
Searching for a way back home
But you can never go back
(Bridge)
Now I covered so many miles,
Day after day I did my best to never stop
Looked for a way in cloud filled skies
I roamed each and every lonely highway
One day I’ll come a wanderin’ over that hill
The wind will welcome me in
I’ll step into your house, maybe feel alright
Try and stay, even just for one day
You can never go back .
I found her in darkness
Like a full moon in a dark, dark sky
Said I’d give her all my love
Never to hurt her I swore
And I did my best
But it’s just life and all the rest
Fear, doubts and restlessness
What’s a dream worth in Prayers
When it all comes down to your own fears
When your own steps take your faith
And your hope is not of this earth
I can see where the seeds were sown
We stripped the flesh from the bone
It’s the reason behind it all
Such a young pain seems so old
Bridge
So much has happened since then
It really doesn’t matter who lost and who won
Dreams were buried, promises broken
When things broke down we left them on the ground
I found you one evening, I was Broken and lost
You were just lying there like a rose in the dirt
You knocked at my heart but never crossed that line
And now this loneliness is only mine
Last night I thought of you and I
watching the stars
But I guess we’re lower than them yeah, we never got that high
And you, you were right and Me well I was wrong …all along
And you’re the one left standing at the end of the fight
I don’t try so hard anymore
Must have lost it somewhere, dropped it on the floor
Scars and bruises, slow you down for sure
But What I lost was so much more
I gave it all…then some more
Yeah, I gave her my heart and never got it back
Lying face down in a lonely bed
All those demons, they come a knockin’ round my head
You travel a Million miles but never move on
Relive the last instant…too many times
But I find no answers, I find no rest
All I know is that I gave her my heart and never got it back
(Bridge)
Dead leaves blow around this road
As I search for all those words that were never told…that were never told
Nothing changes round here; no it all stays the same
Me, the shades and all the lies in between
In between.. In between.. In between..
These days time moves slowly across my yard
I see the sun rise each and every day
Some days it’s cold others it rains
But nothing washes away the pain
Every now and then something happens…and it all comes back
I gave her my heart and now I feel so apart
(Bridge 2)
Nothing changes round here; no it all stays the same
Me, the shades and all the lies in between
In between.. In between.. In between.. .
Leavin’ NYC on the Fourth of July
Fireworks up in the sky and I was breaking inside
And all I did to get there was gone forever
And I slipped away like a thief in the New York night
Like a thief in the New York night
Was riding a Greyhound straight out of central station
Through the Lincoln Tunnel and out on the jersey side
And out on the turnpike I swear saw Sandy’s ghost
She was drifting she was lost on down thunder road
Thousands of faces I saw out on the road
Each and every voice with story to be told
Some had nearly reached the promised land
Most were lost forever
Trapped in between their Dreams and Reality
Just Like me
Then I was high in Toronto And low in Montreal
Pulled over by the cops and Lost in Buffalo
And then crossing the border by the Niagara falls
We saw the sun rise in the misty rain
It washed away all the pain
(Slow)
So here’s to all my friends scattered around the world
Here’s to all the drinks we shared along the road
I swear if I could turn back time
Then maybe I would
But all things standing I’d do it all again
Maybe it’s the colour of the sky at sundown
Or the notes of a Paul Kelly song
Maybe it’s the way the city streets smell
After it rains in a late summer night
Maybe it’s the sound of the telephone tone
That rings on and on when nobody’s home
Maybe it’s the way the years slip by and by
With a long trail of broken dreams you just have to leave behind
But lately, I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Lately I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Maybe it’s these words written in blood
With nothing but doubts knockin’ round my head
Maybe it’s the feeling of closeness we once had
Or two, three beers too many had in the pub
But lately, I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Lately I’ve been feelin’ a distance..can’t you see
Lately I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Up on the hill there are foxes on the run
Up on the hill watchin the harbour lights
Up on the hill praying for daddy to come back
Up on the hill oh my what a secret to keep
Maybe it’s an old bookshop on the other side of town
Or the hidden tear shed by the circus clown
Maybe it’s the questions best left unasked
As you catch the last bus home alone again
Maybe it’s that lonely feeling I get just before dawn
The emptiness of the stage after everyone’s gone
The sound of footsteps in the empty theatre hall
That echo with the ghosts in the darkness of your soul
But lately, I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Lately I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Maybe it’s the coolness of the autumn winds
Or the way the waves break out on the western shore
Maybe it’s the things that needed to be said
Or the way the southern skies turn from Gold to Red
But lately, I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Lately I’ve been feelin’ a distance..can’t you see
Lately I’ve been feelin’ a distance
Up on the hill there was just a little girl
Up on the hill whishing I’d come back home before
Up on the hill so many years have gone by
Up on the hill I just came to say goodbye
38th and Lawton, perched on the edge of the world
Telephone lines crossing the sky, visions of black on blue
Coming down the stairs both Lost and found
I never knew where time had gone
…and the words came out so nervously as the years just faded away
Leading us back to where we’d started yet nothing would be the same again
(Chorus)
Talking about changes, talking about staying the same
Of getting away or trying to stay
That day on 38th and Lawton, it all felt close at hand
38th and Lawton, It’s raining again out there
Some days the pain is too much to bare
Others it’s just washed away
Beyond the beach and the Pacific Ocean it all starts again
With it’s ups and it’s downs it’s a funny old town that got us to meet again
Go get us another two coffees…let’s let the day slip away
(Chorus)
Now you’re sitting in the kitchen, talking of revolutions
We’re staring at each other, our changes just evolutions
In a moment you can loose everything
But We’ll never be here again
I guess I’ll you again some day soon
On 38th and Lawton
I guess I’ll see you again, some lazy afternoon
On 38th and Lawton .
There’s something in the air
The wind brushes back your hair
Step into the night
You know it’s gonna be alright
Friday Night, Just after midnight
Friday Night
Headlights tear through darkness
City lights in the distance
Loose the tiredness, Loose the weight
Forget it all Tonight
Friday Night, Just after midnight
Friday Night
Smoke in your eyes
Music fills your ears
Laughter and beers fill the hole
Don’t let go, just hold on tight
Everybody’s fine tonight
Everybody’s out tonight
Man I don’t want to argue
No I don’t want to fight
Just let me be, at least for tonight
Friday Night, Just after midnight
Friday Night
Standing in fire
Searching for the hurricane
You explode in the air
And come down in rain
Friday Night, Just after midnight
Friday Night
Friday Night I hope you’re all right
Wondering if you’re going out tonight
I tried to call…so far away, then again What is there left to say
All I can do is write it all down
Hope not to forget it all by morning
For all it’s worth at the end of the day, What’d I do and What did I say
For all it’s worth, That’s me on the page
Friday Night
I’m not doing so good, What can I say, I guess you know me now
These six strings and an empty bottle…not too much to bring a change
I Read some books, watch some films, take a walk, try not to think too much
For all it’s worth at the end of the day, What I do and What did I say?
For all it’s worth that’s me on the page
Friday night…
I’m all alone again guess I just don’t want to be seen around
The streets are alive outside
But me, well I’m just hiding
It all feels so far away
I tend to keep to myself these days
Then again, it isn’t always that way
For all it’s worth, at the end of the day, What’d I do and What did I say
For all it’s worth, That’s me on the page
I’ll see you around
I wrote it all down tried to remember all I had to say
Some things you know, but mostly you learn
But why do I always crash and burn
When morning comes, and it all starts again
I can’t run, No I cannot hide
For all it’s worth, at the end of the day, What’d I do and What did I say
For all it’s worth, That’s me on the page
I wish we could all get drunk tonight
talk about music and the things of life
Me…I’d rather have another liver and you can keep my heart
I could drink twice as much and never fall apart
I'm nobody’s answer to sadness
In fact I seem to cause it half the time.
And maybe it’s sunny out there and maybe we can still make it
‘Cause I swear morning comes at the end of the darkest night
(Chorus)
It’s All right…it’s all right in the end x2
Thought you were coming home with me tonight x2
I once thought loving someone would make me strong
Now I know how quickly it all goes wrong
I swear there just ain't no light down here in this hole, my dear
I need a hug, I need a Kiss, I need some advice and man I need a beer
(Chorus)
Now Bartender rings in the last bell
Are you gonna give me heaven or give me hell
You can take my hand and take me home tonight
Or we can just loose each other forever on these city streets
(Chorus)
This is my last call
Before the sun goes down
I’ll be gone
This is my last round
Before dawn I’ll be hell bound
I swear II tried to stay
But I was cursed to blow around
Like a ghost just floating around
I shuffle through darkness not making a sound
I tried to be still
So there are those who like to stay
And those who need to stray
Those who know how to pray
Too many late nights
Too many heartaches
Too many times truth remained unsaid
But I was cursed to blow around
Like a ghost just floating around
I shuffle through darkness not making a sound
I tried to be still
So this is the last call
Place your bets Right there
Tonight there’ll be hell to pay
Blow out the light!
Can you hear the broken heart beat
As you head out of the door?
But I was cursed to blow around
Like a ghost just floating around
I shuffle through darkness not making a sound
I tried to be still
This is my last call
Before the sun goes down
I’ll be gone
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