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Faith by Steve Nelson

Faith

Steve Nelson

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From the CD "Listen What The Katmandu"

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Lyrics from Steve’s Stoneway Close CD 

1. The Old Fairgrounds (for Harry)   (Steve Nelson / James Wold) 

Lately, Harry's been singing in my memory 
We were kind of lost we was both lonely 
Remember when he told me  
Life is but a dream 
And it's not only everything it seems 
It can be perfect 
Depending how you work it 

    The circus is still in town 
    Here's hoping they hang around 
    Up at the old fairgrounds 
    It's a drag when the tent comes down 

Baby, I was high up on the wire I was crazy 
You jumped through hoops of fire just to save me 
You talk about your moonbeam  
Here you are still shining right into me 
I'm thinking that you know  
The way you move me 
The way that you undo me 

(Repeat Chorus--solo) 

Sadie, sit over here where it's more shady 
We'll have us a beer then let's get lazy 
Maybe take in main street it certainly has changed  
It's not the same street 
Where you got my name 
When we were married 
And threw 'em back with Harry 

(Repeat Chorus) 

© 2010 Nelsounds SESAC / Your Parents Hate My Music SESAC 

 

2. Trains   (Helen Darling / Steve Nelson) 

Amanda took the morning train 
Right on time and in the rain 
She played this day out in her mind 
A thousand times 

Bobby whispered to the cold steel tracks 
I don't think she's coming back 
But men like him they never cry 
Or say goodbye 

    The whistle blows in Watertown 
    It screams right through the grey 
    And it reminds me when I hear that sound 
    They were never meant to stay oh 
    Trains just go that way 

One time I heard that whistle moan 
The day they brought his body home 
He'd just left here six months before 
For the war 

Then she came back two weeks ago 
And found his stone there in the snow 
She left a rose in the freezing rain 
Then she was gone on the five-nineteen 

    The whistle blows in Watertown 
    And it screams right through the grey 
    It reminds me when I hear that sound 
    They were never meant to stay no 
    Trains just go that way 
    And it happens every day 
    Trains just go that way 

©2010 Voices Carry Music BMI / Nelsounds SESAC 

 

3. Back On Trial   (Steve Nelson) 

I can peel bananas, and I'll eat them too 
Roller skate around in this three piece suit  
You make some funny faces and I'll smile at you 
Just don't put me back on trial 

I got a busy monkey business, it’s pretty much full time 
Besides I never met this Darwin guy 
I hear we're related, that's no fault of mine 
Don't put me back on trial 

    Who got all the brains it's plain to see 
    Back on that monkey chain you jumped right over me 
    There's times that I'm amazed we're family 
    But don't get me wrong, I love what you've done with this place 
    You're all a credit to the human race 
     
1925 in Dayton, Tennessee 
Eighty years down, you're still shaking up the tree 
From where I hang, you're a bunch of monkeyshines to me  
Don't put me back on trial 

Okay maybe you're the proof of an intelligent design 
Me I'm just a monkey, that never crossed my mind 
Let's just keep descending, it could change in time  
Just don't put me back on trial 

    You know who got all the brains it's plain to see 
    Back on that monkey chain you jumped right over me 
    There's times when I'm amazed we're family 
    But don't get me wrong, I love what you've done with this place 
    Why let’s all take a bow right now for the human race 
    You’re beautiful!! 

© 2010 Nelsounds / SESAC 

 

4. Take Me   (Steve Nelson / James Wold) 

Been in a fog 
No telling where to go 
Cracks in the cogs 
Every thing's turning slow 
Slipping into a change of gear 
Get us out of here 
Get to somewhere where we both can breathe 

    Take me wherever you're going 
    Take me wake me up when it's all glowing 

Well it could be tonight 
It's all in sight right now 
Into the light 
I can imagine how 
Stepping out of the same gray scene 
This is not a dream 
There's no waiting if we just proceed 
I'm thinking that you 

    Take me wherever you're going 
    Take me wake me up when it's all glowing 

(Bridge) 
       I’ll go ahead and pack some things 
       And bring along a song to sing 
        
    Take me wherever you're going 
    Take me wake me up when it's all glowing 


© 2010 Nelsounds SESAC / Your Parents Hate My Music SESAC 

 

5. Some Days It Plays Like A Waltz  (Annie Mosher / Steve Nelson) 

The dreamers, the haters, the anchored, the way wards 
All here at humanity's ball 
With each song they play us the band creates chaos 
Desperation is shaking the walls 
Behold this creation, un-civilization 
There's times I lose hope for it all 

    Some days it feels like we don't stand a chance 
    And every step ends with a fall 
    But then there are days that just ask you to dance 
    Some days it plays like a waltz 

Watching the mountain with stars all around 
And a three quarter moon keeping time 
Here in the stillness the peacefulness fills us 
And without a sound it all rhymes 
Those halcyon days have all gone on their way 
But there's new ones just waiting to shine 

    Some days it feels like we don't stand a chance 
    And every step ends with a fall 
    But then there are days that just ask you to dance 
    Some days it plays like a waltz 

© 2010 Cornflower Music ASCAP / Nelsounds SESAC 

 

6. Weekend In A Coal Mine Town   (Don Henry / Steve Nelson) 

Hey big sister take me please 
I have finished my chores 
A buffalo nickel's all I need 
Down at the general store 

Watch the old men sit and pick 
Stomping out a mountain song 
Chewing on our licorice sticks 
As we clog along  

Old Blue barks the whistle blows 
Daddy will be getting home soon 
Black coal dust from head to toe 
Smiling bright as the moon 

Supper's served and momma prays 
Lord watch over us all 
The Philco glows as Acuff plays 
 Wabash Cannonball  

Momma's in her sleeping gown 
Sewing in the morning light 
Patching' up a hand me down 
For the big dance tonight 

While we're playing' hide and seek 
They're dancing' on the barnyard deck 
Between Old Joe Clark and Cripple Creek 
Daddy gave mom a peck  

Morning comes the church bell rings 
Echoing through the trees 
As we sit down, the choir sings 
Nearer My God To Thee 

Preacher preaches 'til we're bored 
Daddy says better settle down 
Pass the plate and thank the Lord 
For a weekend in a coal town 
Weekend in a coal mine town 

© 2010 Poppermost Music SESAC / Nelsounds SESAC 

 

7. The Finish Line   (Lisa Aschmann – Steve Nelson) 

There's a crater off the Yucatan 
From a long long time ago  
Seems a six mile wide meteorite 
Crashed into Mexico 

We weren't even chimpanzees 
It was just the dinosaurs 
And when the dust had settled down 
They were gone forevermore 

    Say so yeah that's how it goes 
    We're just a moment in time 
    We're running in the human race 
    And there's the finish line 
    There’s the finish line 

An iceberg the size of Minnesota 
Just fell into the sea 
Which by the way is rising 
Not like the global economy  

Hey friends Romans and countrymen 
We're headed for a fall 
We'll probably see the writing 
Just as we hit the wall     

(Repeat Chorus)  

(Bridge) 
   Every cockroach is excited 
   Every bee's a-buzz 
   Peace at last, yeah they're so jazzed 
   It'll be the way it was 

(Repeat Chorus) 

    So say so that's how it goes 
    We're just a moment in time 
    Too many rats here in the race 
    And there's the finish line 
    There’s the finish line 

© 2010 Nashville Geographic ASCAP / Nelsounds SESAC

 

8. Falling Off The World   (Leslie Mills / Steve Nelson / Chris Pelcer) 

Coming up for air from a deep blue feeling 
Getting out of here on a slow ride she's gone 
She's got all  her bags at the bus stop waiting 
Making up her mind and it's goodbye, so long 
Don't trace her tracks, no plans to come back 
Don't write, don't phone cause she's not home…..she's 

    Falling off the world     
    The disappearing girl   
    Catching her breath doing her very best 
    Cut herself free gonna be  
    Falling off the world 
    The disappearing girl 
    Don't look her up, down she's not around you see 
    She's falling off the world 
         
Picture you and me in a romance movie 
Then it fades to black and it's over and done 
Heavy on my heart like a force of nature 
Gravity's a grip that'll hold on so strong 
Swing high, swing low, one two three go  
Oh yeah, you bet she's not done yet..she's just 

    Falling off the world     
    The disappearing girl   
    Catching her breath doing her very best 
    Cut herself free gonna be  
    Falling off the world 
    The disappearing girl 
    Don't look her up, down she's not around you see 
    She's falling off the world 

©2002 MPL Tunes/Loveriot Music BMI / Nelsounds SESAC / Million Suns Music BMI 

 

9. Nobody Sent For Ya‘   (Steve Nelson) 

Go back to where you came from 
You can't just come in here 
You just don't fit, in so many ways 
I could go on for years 

Now all you people you look the same 
You're a different color too 
And I don't get what you're trying' to say 
You don't talk the way we do 

    And nobody sent for ya’ 
    Why don't you turn around 
    Nobody sent for ya’ 
    Just go home and settle down 
    ‘Cause nobody sent for ya’ 
     
Guess some of you are peaceful 
But not the ones I see 
Got your guns and knives and alcohol 
This could the end of me 

And this place that I've been given 
To live out all my days 
The land of the free 
And the home of the brave 

    And nobody sent for ya’ 
    Why don't you turn around 
    Nobody sent for ya’ 
    So just go home and settle down 
    ‘Cause nobody sent for ya’ 

Damn that Chris Columbus 
Had to sail that ocean blue 
Never saw him coming 
And now we're stuck with you 

So we will celebrate our redness 
With all our tribal kin 
Pray you go home, leave us alone 
And tell all your pale faced friends 

    Nobody sent for ya’ 
    Why don't you turn around 
    You know nobody sent for ya’ 
    Just go home and settle on down 
    ‘Cause nobody sent for ya’ 

©2010 Nelsounds SESAC 

 

10. Baseballs Sad Lexicon (Tinker, To Evers, To Chance)    
(Poem by Franklin Pierce Adams July, 1910 / Music by Steve Nelson) 

These are the saddest of possible words 
Tinker to Evers to Chance 
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds 
Tinker and Evers and Chance 
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble 
Making a Giant hit into a double 
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble 
Tinker to Evers to Chance 

© 2010 Nelsounds / SESAC 

 

11. The Team From Cooperstown   (Phillip Coleman / Steve Nelson) 

It 's just an old piece of leather 
And a bat from Louisville 
I've had them both forever 
And I guess I always will 
Somehow they find my hands each spring 
When the days get longer and the grass turns green 

    I was Willie Mays in center field 
    Mickey Mantle in the house Ruth built 
    I was Jackie I was Hank 
    I was money in the bank 
    And the crowd was on their feet 
    You should have heard the sound 
    When I was just a kid with dreams 
    On the team from Cooperstown 

A button down cotton jersey 
Like the old big leaguers wore 
Every day I got it dirty 
Sure made my mom sore 
Old black spikes with red dirt stains 
That'll you'll never see in the Hall Of Fame 

(Repeat Chorus) 

(Bridge) 
   Now I watch them round the bases 
   It's just practice in the park 
   Little bubble blowing' faces 
   Pretending that they are 

    Pujols and  Ichiro 
    It's Trevor time, close the show 
    Jeter turning two 
    Chipper coming through 
    And the crowd's still on their feet  
    I know they hear the sound 
    For now they're all  just kids with dreams 
    On the team from Cooperstown 

Smack that ball yeah 
Touch 'em all now 
Can of corn  'round the horn  
.....It’s just an old piece of leather 
      And a bat from Louisville 

©2010 Gravitron Music SESAC / Nelsounds SESAC 

 

12. The Dealer   (Guy Clark / Steve Nelson) 

Heavy air, sky of gray                                                                             
Looks like rain is coming this way     
Settle in, you're here to stay 
‘Til you wash away 

Blame the cards, or destiny 
Call it God or what's meant to be  
Call you gone or still next to me 
It's no mystery 

        And the moon it is confounded 
        And the sun it is ashamed 
            But  the dealer shows no mercy 
        And the dealer calls the game 
        The dealer calls the game 

Curse the sun chase the rain 
Dance with joy, face the pain 
Face the night, it's all in vain 
Only time and tides remain 

It's so cold, hurts to breathe 
It's so dark deep inside of me 
Close my eyes and I can see 
Across eternity 

        And the moon it is confounded 
        And the sun it is ashamed         
        But the dealer shows no mercy 
        And the dealer calls the game 
     
            And the moon it is confounded 
        And the sun it is ashamed 
            The dealer knows no mercy 
        And it'll always be the same 
        The dealer calls the game 

© 2010 EMI April Music ASCAP / Nelsounds SESAC 

 

13. Evaporated Man   (Steve Nelson / James Wold) 

He's been globalized and downsized 
And the planet's hot 
Keep him bottlenecked in jam time 
Give him all you got 
He can take a lot 
     
Every day he wakes up to the light 
And he's born again 
And if the medications' all right    
Then he's warm again 
Out on a gust of wind 
     
    He can see the world on fire 
    Burning  away 
    And he's melted down 
    At the end of his every-days 
    When at last he runs out of steam 
    He'll be but a dream 
    The evaporated man  
    The evaporated man 

And it goes according to plan 
Now he's all but gone    
Just another kick of the can 
It's a sing along 
It's the same old song...everybody 

    He can see the world on fire 
    Burning  away 
    And he's melted down 
    At the end of his every-days 
    When at last he runs out of steam 
    He'll be but a dream 
    The evaporated man  
    The evaporated man 

(repeat chorus) 
    (tag) 
       In a way every thing's still fine  
    We'll be like him in time 
    The evaporated man 

© 2010 Nelsounds SESAC / Your Parents Hate My Music SESAC

 

14. Anchors Aweigh   (Steve Nelson) 

There's a wind that points to home 
A ship to sail you there 
There's times you swear  
That you're where you belong 
Then you hear it in the air 

    Anchors aweigh, 
    Rig the lines and sails 
    Anchors aweigh 
    And pray a steady wind prevails 
    Your ship is safe at harbor 
    But it wasn't built to stay 
    Anchors away 

And if you're going 'round the world 
Will you take me too 
I don't know where  
But I know why I'm going 
And I won't be overdue 

    Anchors aweigh, 
    Rig the lines and sails 
    Anchors aweigh 
    And pray a steady wind prevails 
    Your ship is safe at harbor 
    But it wasn't built to stay 
    Anchors away 

(bridge) 
   The waves are only borrowed from the wind 
   And each one is another chance  
   That may not come again  

(repeat chorus) 
    The waves break the reflection 
    In the quiet of the bay 
    Anchors aweigh 
    Anchors away 

©2002 Nelsounds SESAC

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