Neal Casal - The Sun Rises Here Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:41:03 +0200 "Gunnar Hedlund" "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar! @ARTIST: Neal Casal @ALBUM: The Sun Rises Here 1. Today I'm Gonna Bleed 2. On The Mend 3. Reason 4. Angelina 5. Halfway Through Town 6. Dandelion Wine 7. The New Jenny Jenkins 8. Real Country Dark 9. Best To Bonnie 10. The Last Of My Connections @SONG: Today I'm Gonna Bleed today I'm gonna bleed I can just tell, it's something I can see today I'm gonna bleed and it won't be long, you better believe 'cause I've tried to fly but my body betrayed me and I've tried to cry but nobody could save me nobody could save me today I'm gonna bleed right through my clothes and on to the street today I'm gonna bleed for every lost minute and every lost dream 'cause I've tried to find what nobody could show me, yeah and I've tried to stay high with nothing below me oh no, with nothing below me all of the thank you flowers well, they're all gonna blow away and all of your tallest towers have all got to fall someday, fall someday today I'm gonna bleed I can just tell, it's something I can see today I'm gonna bleed for every lost minute and every lost dream 'cause I've tried to fly but my body betrayed me oh, yes it did and I've tried to cry but nobody could save me oh no, nobody could save me, nobody could save me well so, today I'm gonna bleed @SONG: On The Mend you can say what you want to about the life that I have lived and you can tell me that we're through and that we just can't meet again you've always been my getaway girl but now you say that you're gone away into a cold and fragile world and what you'll find there, you can't say what you'll find there, you can't say lately the roofs been caving in on everything that I have believed but I just can't go through that pain again it's best left for somebody other than me I've always seen that warm dark eye down in the bottom-lands of my dreams I've only walked white roads at night beats anything I've ever seen beats anything I've ever seen wanna be back home again to spend my time there on the mend if I would sit right down to tell you how I think and feel you would hear the lonely sound do ever fall across your ears you spend your money with both of your hands the kind of thing I remember well you turn around and call this happenstance it's the kind of thing I remember well it's the kind of thing I remember well wanna be back home again to spend my time there on the mend you can say what you want to about the life that I have lived @SONG: Reason this didn't happen for a reason no matter what you say if there was something here to believe in then maybe I would stay but since there ain't, I think I'll keep moving to anywhere but here my eyes are open and they're bleeding as far as I can feel, as far as I can feel and don't say I never gave you nothing after you hear this song and don't tell me that you don't remember the day it all went wrong just put the pieces all back together and tell me what it's like to let somebody do the breathing for you and does it feel all right yeah, and does it feel all right does it feel all right @SONG: Angelina Angelina, come to me and share a whisper, low and sweet I realize that you've known me too well and there is much work to be done but I say them fields are gonna have to wait so step into the light 'cause your new life has just begun Angelina, steal away and share the laughter with me today there is no telling that what you have got to give could be as bright as any sun now that we've found ourselves a place where love can live step out into the light 'cause our new life has just begun, Angelina so Angelina, come to me and share a whisper, low and sweet the worst of times are far behind us now and those demon dreams have come and gone and I need to feel the things that you've got to give so step out into the light 'cause our new life has just begun Angelina ... @SONG: Halfway Through Town wearing out a hole in the floor where you stand the morning comes in ways that you never could have planned standing in one place until it's time to go thinking of the people you never could have known standing in one place until it's time to go never looking back and you don't need to know need to know you were at the bar and I was in the street doing what I could to find you a place to sleep and when I came back in you said, that just sit down remember that we're only halfway through town standing in one place until it's time to go never looking back and you don't need to know need to know I tried to feel my way but it was just too dark I should have known that we were too far apart I hit the mainline west, I spoke forgotten words I gave away my best and I made another start standing in one place until it's time to go never looking back and you don't need to know need to know you don't need to know @SONG: Dandelion Wine way out in the pines where the tough trees grow there lives a woman in a house that she calls home she's waving in the door in a dress that's so fine we're gonna spend the afternoon drinking dandelion wine summertime, he will know why did it take so long wintertime just didn't end, man, everything went wrong but now I'm going back again to the country where I'll find my baby with a gallon jug of that dandelion wine Kenny's on his tractor and he's pulling in the hay and his son Davy's got a shotgun, says he'd rather end that way me, I'm just waiting for that wagon to go by and I pass him up my gallon jug of that dandelion wine, all right well, sometimes I sing for money, sometimes I sing for food but most times I sing for nothing 'cause it's all that I can do but if you can spare a nickel, if you can spare a dime I bet you're gonna spend it on some of that dandelion wine so you can tell my city woman I ain't coming back no more 'cause I'm gonna have a high time without ever waiting for all of my best days you just come and go I'm gonna live before I die so just pass me up that gallon jug of your dandelion wine so just pass me up that gallon jug of your dandelion wine oh, so just pass me up your gallon jug of that dandelion wine @SONG: The New Jenny Jenkins I need to tell you how I feel though what I'm gonna say just might not seem real I don't know why I'm here but Jenny Jenkins, my dear I get so affected by everything from unlucky stars to lost ruby rings I don't know what's going wrong but Jenny Jenkins, I've never waited this long for anyone, for anyone since you've been gone, I've kept to myself I've seen a few friends but not too much else Sara Stone said she drop by but Jenny Jenkins, I'm still so far behind with you on my mind, with you on my mind I need to tell you how I feel though what I'm gonna say just might not sound real I don't know where I'll go but Jenny Jenkins my love, you'll never know you'll never know, you'll never know @SONG: Real Country Dark as I started down the street one day a man came up to me and he did say you can't spend your time all alone I said, what do you think you know in the winter of my discontent silence came and silence quickly went so I tried to settle down in some long forgotten town but I just could not escape myself I probably could have used a little help but as usual I refused 'cause help to me always just felt like abuse, felt like abuse so I put myself upon a cross I made some noise but could not get across no one could hear all my cries so I cut the rope and apologized for all the damage I had done but I was just a friend to everyone who just did not know right from wrong which makes it easier to get along when you're feeling real low down and kind of tired of just hanging around in the town of Caroline I walked up and down those those power-lines, those power-lines someone's hiding underneath the stairs I try to tell myself that no one's there but in the real country dark someone is dying underneath the stars so I could just say fair thee well my friend but just in case we never meet again I'm hiding something in the ground and only you know where it it can be found, it can be found @SONG: Best To Bonnie take the quiet out of my night and let it run where it will and may it leave me with nothing but hard time to kill I sure could use some but I know I never will so give my best to Bonnie and send her my love when I'm gone and I have been a stranger when it comes right down to love I always run for the hills hoping maybe the next time I just might find the will to stay here beside her but I know I never will so give my best to Bonnie and send her my love when I'm gone give my best to Bonnie 'cause by the time she wakes up, I'll be gone the cricket streams and fireflies and ladies so fair and though it seems that I've tried and tried I still ain't getting nowhere so take this silence that I've forced upon you and let it say just what it will and may it leave me with nothing but lonely hours to fill I'd sure love to see her but I know I never will, oh no so give my best to Bonnie and send her my love when I'm gone give my best to Bonnie 'cause by the time she wakes up, I'll be gone so far gone give my best to Bonnie, best to Bonnie give my best to Bonnie and send her my love @SONG: The Last Of My Connections the last of my connections came to see me yesterday to leave with me one last confession before he went off on his way to say the world won't stop here for a funeral not even for a sunny day I've got some memories and they're beautiful they've always been my saving grace now the things that I have forgotten are so much clearer to me now now that a year has passed by I can finally show my face in town sometimes I wanna spend my whole life lost give everything I have away to live with every single vein closed off to let that be my saving grace I see the stationmaster waving everyone goodbye he says his days are numbered he says it's all just been a lie and you know why 'cause the world won't stop even for a funeral not even for a sunny day you're just a memory but you're beautiful you've always been my saving grace the last of my connections ...