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Still Be My Love

by Roy Ira

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Love is a story that’s already written With an ending that everyone knows Just like a bad movie I still enjoy the beginning Despite how the rest of it goes It opens with a bang a lot of action at the top In the middle it begins to slow down If you stick around through the final reel You’re wishing you’d had the courage to walk out I’ve heard you can’t know the measure of a man Without seeing the work of his hands Well I’ve got ideas and aspirations for days But nothing to show for my plans Until I met you girl You have given me all my self worth If I had not ever met you dear I’d be lacking any sign of my time here on the earth But love is a story that’s already written With an ending that everyone knows Just like a bad movie I still enjoy the beginning Despite how the rest of it goes
2.
I miss you when I’m lonely but that’s the only time It’d be nice if you could be here but I don’t really mind Maybe I am stronger, maybe I am blind But if spring still brings the girls outside I think I’ll be fine The flowers would have got me back in the car You thought that I would be mad, I don’t let down my guard Minor indiscretions is all that they are If you stay true then I’ll let you move back in my heart Drowning our sorrows is the usual place we start Second place is not me I’m just playing my cards You know that I don’t need much so don’t make this hard My sweetest dreams are the one where you don’t play a part
3.
Praise Him! We come to praise His name I come to praise His holy name! Cause he’s my rock my sword my shield He’s my wheel in the middle of the wheel know that he’ll never ever let me down He’s my jewel that I have found Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I come to praise His name Oh oh I come to praise His holy name!
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I’m in love with the wedding ring that sits upon my hand Changeless and beautiful, stronger than any man I knew this’d be hard on you but I thought you’d understand That I gave you up and I’d do it again just to get this precious band Giving up is easier and easy is what I need Loving you could be so hard, I had to find relief The years that passed between us both made it plain for me to see If I’m gonna break from this routine I gotta change my scenery This could be a big mistake This will be the choice I make These are the risks you take for love Didn’t you ever want to get married? Didn’t you ever want to be in love? These are the risks you take to get married These are the risks you take for love
6.
One Day 03:59
One day you might be let down When they lower you into the ground There you’ll wait for the trumpet to sound One day you might be let down Is everybody here getting in? Will all that you’ve done be forgiv’n? If there’s no more sin can you be mine again? Is everybody here getting in? On that day that it all comes will you still be my love? Will things there all be the same? Will you still remember my name? Will the cripples walk, will they still be lame? Will things there all be the same? Will what is wrong be made right When I’m robed in my gown of light? If Death has lost its bite can we reunite? Will what is wrong be made right? On that day that it all comes will you still be my love? Say what are the odds that we meet When I’m walking on them golden streets? Will I see you at the mercy seat When it’s goats and the sheep and it’s chaff from the wheat? When you stand with the faithful will you still cheat? What are the odds that we meet? On that day that it all comes will you still be my love? One day you might be let down When they lower you into the ground There you’ll wait for the trumpet to sound There you’ll wait
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I Sing Glory 01:59
Forty days I walked in darkness Where I refused to eat or drink Till the spirit settled on me Showed me everything had been made clean I sing “Glory! Cause he knows my name!” So I gave up on my preaching I threw away my NIV And stained glass which had been blinding Reflected peace and love and charity I sing “Glory! Cause he knows my name!” And there will be a shout in heaven As in the hour of first belief Lifted by the angels ‘round us Who assured that you and I would meet I sing “Glory! Cause he knows my name!”
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How lonely, how dreary when whiskey can’t cheer me Or slow down the thoughts in my head They race around my brain, they sing a sad refrain About the life that I once led I had a good mother, I had a good father They handed a warning to me The blood in your veins is wont for drinking If it grabs you you’ll never break free Now I wake on my own in this familiar story The angels quit searching for me I’m running from my home and a mansion in glory For a love that’s just out of reach Little Abby my sweetheart she’s brokenhearted And longing for me to return My happiness ended the night we parted And now it’s for her I yearn Now I wake on my own in this familiar story The angels quit searching for me I’m running from my home and a mansion in glory For a love that’s just out of reach To taste the sweet stinging of this shot I’m swinging Is the one thing that matters to me And it’s the burning in my belly that is still the most telling Of the reasons why I had to leave Cause this thirsty demon is all I’d be bringing It’s talons have taken their toll And the pain of remembering would be less than the suffering Of attempting to love my lost soul
10.
I’m going on without you babe Won’t stay around I’m gonna turn the page Gotta pull free of my ball and chain I’m going on without you babe I’m going now I won’t look back Hide my trail so I can’t be tracked Never have to hear the old whip crack I’m going on without you babe I’m leaving I won’t be cleaving To the sacred keeping of your charade No hoping or life-devoting I’ve spoken my peace and now I’m on my way (that’s right) I’m going dear and won’t return In the rearview no more my concern Crossed that bridge, now I’ll let it burn I’m going on without you babe I swore to honor and adore you Always be yours through whatever came I promised your ma and pa this / But my covenant vow now I’m gonna break (that’s right) I’m going now I can’t be swayed Won’t stay around I’m gonna turn the page Gotta pull free of my ball and chain I’m going on without you babe ’m going without you babe
11.
The Dustbowl 03:02
The dustbowl stretched across this land, robbed you of your life Stole your house, your crops, your fields, turned your comfort into strife Hope eroded day by day as you stared at the cloudless sky Drop the farming for the bottle, trade your plow in for a knife You played it right for all this time now you’ve lost everything Labor’s for the helpless fools, you’ll take the things you need So you hit the road after dusk to prey upon the weak And wake one morn to find yourself a killer and a thief You choose your first at random as he stumbles through the night Bent and old and all alone you thought there’d be no fight But he turns on you before you move and he cuts you with his blade So you knock him down pounce on him and kill him in a rage You feel his bones crack and break like the dirt beneath your feet Slam your boot right on his mouth smashing all his teeth Blood explodes from his face goes shooting all around Wet and dark it gushes forth and soaks the once parched ground Now it doesn’t take long for word to spread of you and your outlaw ways It doesn’t take long for it to reach the ears of the sons of the man you’d slain They track you down outside of town and then they lay in wait They’ll come at you once you go out when the sun begins to fade A knife is flashed in the dying light there’s terror in your eyes A hand comes quick around your lips you couldn’t make a cry Fast and mean they tear right in and slash a crooked smile And leave your body for the coyotes, your bones left out to dry
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Days I Slept 03:26
My regrets- they are too many to name There’s no one that I can blame For days I slept and barely moved The nights spent without you All the times that I stayed home Too terrified to call your phone Dreams would come near then disappear Where do they all go? With some luck I’ll turn this around Get my lost soul found Break it up and save some days Before they evaporate Every gig I should’ve done Every chord I could have strummed Each song I made up and then forgot Where do they all go? Jesus, if you hear us We need your forgiveness Jesus if you’re not busy Could you make me less lazy There’s success I’ll never know Despite the hope that I once showed Each goal that I set and never met Where does it all go?

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released January 21, 2013

produced by Keith Parish and Jeremy Ferguson
recorded at Battle Tapes and Club Roar by Jeremy Ferguson
mastered by John Baldwin, John Baldwin Mastering

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