1. |
It Aint Nuthin'
04:04
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It a'int nothing I said
As I lowered my head
You know the highway is to blame
And I can count on my hands
All the poorly laid plans
I ever had just to get me away
I see them wheels spinning round
Just eating up ground
Headed for places that I’ve never been
It wasn't something you did
That put this thought in my head
Its just one more thing that I cant out run
Cause I’m not your usual joe
I’m
I see them wheels spinning round
Just eating up ground
Headed for places that I’ve never been
Bridge:
I think that you know that my heart a'int been in it
Playing the role of the old nine to five
Life is more than just making a living
The road has always made me feel more alive
(solo on verse)
I need some time on my own
To relearn what I used to know
And buy back my soul with a gallon of gas
So dry those tears in your eyes
Hold on to your wants and your whys
I’m only going so I can come back
See them wheels spinning round
Just eating up ground
Headed for places that I’ve never been made up of mirrors and smoke
Vanishing all that I left undone
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2. |
The Daredevil Kid
03:19
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The Daredevil Kid
Craig Moreau
I've been working this day job for ten years or so
The paycheck is steady but these boots hurt my toes
I hung up my guitar when the baby was born
As well as a piece of my soul
All I thought that I wanted was more than I need
A comfortable chair and some night time TV
Catching a nap replaced chasing the dream
But what am I teaching my son
(chorus)
You can be anything you want to be
Fly just as far and high as you please
You can reach for the stars from the top of the trees
As long as everyone agrees
And you can land without skinning your knees
If fear is crime I'm guilty as sin
Afraid of the state that I used to live in
And lost are the days when I'd never give in
I wonder what happened to the daredevil kid
(repeat chorus and tag)
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3. |
Uptown Pony
03:21
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She's an uptown pony, takes money to ride
She runs you up and down, never side to side
You'll run outta money before she runs outta time
Man I really need to make that pony mine
My mamma always told me they ain't worth the fare
If ya do it once you'll do it till your pockets are bare
Then you take to thinkin' that that pony cares
When you run outta money she won't even know you're there
(Chorus)
That cold little horse will drive straight outta your mind
The harder you ride her the more that pony shines
She has a pretty little tail and her cheeks are Rosie red
And takes a lot of quarters to keep that pony fed
Once she starts a rockin' you can't get her outta your head
She's an uptown pony remember what your mamma said
(Chorus)
That cold little horse will drive straight outta your mind
The harder you ride her the more that pony shines
Like an uptown pony hanging out in front of the store
Looking real pretty but cold and hard straight to the core
She got the last of your money and she don't wanna play no more
It's an uptown pony that will leave ya feeling saddle sore
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4. |
Every Step I Take
03:54
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I wake up to the sound of a morning train
Ten thousand yesterdays running through my ragged brain
Put on my warmest coat step out and light a smoke
Start to sing along with the pouring rain
With every step I take I pass through another day
When first i stumble and then I fall
Its the same damn date and time
Trips up my troubled mind
Gets me every time I stop
Well I’ve been meaning to sweep out this empty room
And all the ghosts here made of dust
But something down in my soul
Says I may need those ghosts to hold
In case your memory starts to rust
So here I go again right back down that road I’ve been
Horizons just beyond my grasp
I fear theres nothing more
Than just what I’m searching for
Picking up the pieces of my past
(cont’d)
Now the day is all but gone and someones turned the streetlights on
I start to feel like I’m wasting time
Down the road theres a lighted door
Inside theres nothing more
Than more of nothing I surmise
Every step I take I pass right through another day
When first I stumble and then I fall
Its the same damn date and time
Trips up my troubled mind
Gets me every time I stop
I wake up to the sound of a morning train
ten thousand yesterdays running my ragged brain
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5. |
Sweet Luanne
06:19
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I sit in this restaurant
Watching life go by on the interstate
Just drinking my coffee and making plans
People come and go
And they all got stories and some a’int been told
As it goes with sweet Luanne
She came in ‘bout a month ago
Wet from the rain and wild from the road
She was just trying to get back home
She sat in that very chair
Smoked my cigarettes and played with her hair
Back where she started cold and alone
CHORUS
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
Oh, Oh, my sweet Luanne
Your Momma was crazy
And your daddy had a heavy hand
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
She’d been on a party too long
Fun for a while ‘til it all went wrong
And everyone told her he was no good
She went with him anyway
Down through ‘Frisco to Monterey Bay
And he wasn't bad just misunderstood
Everything was all brand new
And California smelled so good
Through all the tears she smiled to recall
It didn't take very long
Until they ran outta money and the new was gone
That’s when the rain started to fall
CHORUS
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
Oh, Oh, my sweet Luanne
Your Momma was crazy
And your daddy had a heavy hand
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
BRIDGE
One pack of cigarettes
And a half pint of Beam was all they had left
But he new a guy that lived up the street
He told her it would be okay
It was just this once and nothing would change
She got scared and he just got mean
It’s an easy hundred he said
All you need to do is lay in his bed
Close your eyes and think about us
She said she tried hard to leave
But he held her neck ’til she couldn't breathe
Went over the line that no man should cross
CHORUS
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
Oh, Oh, my sweet Luanne
Your Momma was crazy
And your daddy had a heavy hand
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
Soon she was sleeping all day
And making his money in a desperate way
Twenty dollar tricks in the back of a van
She hid enough to buy her a gun
On the very day she turned twenty one
She was holding her freedom right there in her hand
CHORUS
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
Oh, Oh, my sweet Luanne
Your Momma was crazy
And your daddy had a heavy hand
Oh, oh, my sweet Luanne
TAG OUT
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6. |
Blame It On The Fields
04:11
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Coffee drunk and all alone, the rain drowns out my radio
Forgotten words and angry birds go ‘round
I’ll try and find my heart and soul with these six strings and a ten foot pole
And a smoke that burns my throat as it goes down
Still tying knots in a skinny thread, hoping it will keep my head
Connected to my lonely heart somehow
The reasons why don’t matter now, I’m looking for the where and how
I’ll just blame it on the fields and not the plow
Chorus
I’ve become a stranger in this life I’m living
Taking notes and watching from the side
I’m not lost girl, just unforgiven,
imprisoned in a quickly closing mind
I wait for signs from an empty page, the words the only price I pay
I’d love to say I’m on my way, but can’t
Moving fast won’t get you far, when you find you’re back where you start
Sowing seeds that you forgot to plant
Chorus
I’ve become a stranger in this life I’m living
Taking notes and watching from the side
I’m not lost girl just unforgiven
imprisoned in a quickly closing mind
I'll write it down and sing it again, no one says it has to end
But I'm the one that makes this stand alone.........
I know the price seems kind of high but what the hell girl so am I
Getting by the only way I know
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7. |
Stranded
03:16
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Stranded on the roadside
Leaning ‘gainst a shot out sign
Knuckles full of black dirt
My eyes up towards the sky
Twenty years of trying
And again I’m right back here
Looking to the heavens
For a little luck to share
Chorus
Every time I close my eyes
I’m right back here again
Twenty-one and searching for
Life is where I’ve been
I still believe in beauty
It's just a little hard to see
And life's right where you leave it
She used to say to me
You can be so childlike
Innocent pure and clean
But your other side is darker
Tattooed scared and mean
Chorus
Every time I close my eyes
I’m right back here again
Twenty-one and searching for
Life is where I’ve been
Philosophy is nothing
But the twisted facts of life
Like adding understanding
Could make it all all right
You cant grow a garden
Where there isn't any light
When you finally find your road
The dream is out of sight
Chorus
Every time I close my eyes
I’m right back here again
Twenty-one and searching for
Life is where I’ve been
Failure’s just a state of mind
Between action, thought and rest
Given just a little time
You're sure to second guess
I guess I should just settle down
And do whatever’s next
If I don’t pick up my pen
I’ll never pass the test
Chorus
Every time I close my eyes
I’m right back here again
Twenty-one and searching for
Life is where I’ve been
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8. |
Casey, Illinois
03:09
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Feels like this motel might explode
I just don’t sleep well on the road
The snow it piles outside my door
I just cant call you late at night anymore
I set off young to make my name
Now I’m not young in a young mans game
Could’ve had some wins if I kept score
I just can’t call you late at night anymore
Chorus
Through the years each mile just added to the distance
Between us two
And somewhere on some road I crossed that line
I moved too far
The river forks and the highway bends
The stories fade but they never end
I speak your name and walk the floor
I just can’t call you late at night anymore
We all do things we don’t believe
Yes, it was me who chose to leave
Still don't know why or know what for
I just can’t call you late at night anymore
Chorus
Through the years each mile just added to the distance
Between us two
And somewhere on some road I crossed that line
I moved too far
After midnight I have found
The hours slow and the clocks break down
Nothing moves like it did before
I just can’t call you late at night anymore
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9. |
Flames
05:49
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Flames
You sit alone, the room is spinning
You're waiting for it all to make some sense
It wasn't her, it wasn't you this time
It was all you both had done come to recompense
You watch the smoke, as it hurls forward
Expending all the evil from your lungs
And now you Know, it's just that easy
To turn a stream into a river and a river to a flood
(Chorus)
You can't hold out any longer
Waiting for the truth to take the blame
Were you the lighter or the fuel this time
Or does the reason for the fire lie strictly in the flames
Just one thought, you let it grow there
Infecting the only love you ever knew
You packed a bag, and left the letter
Convinced yourself a memory is enough to get you through
It worked before, it was that easy
Going felt as good as coming back
But this time something just feels broken
You've counted all the pieces but the colors fade to black
(Chorus)
You can't hold out any longer
Waiting for the truth to take the blame
Were you the lighter or the fuel this time
Or does the reason for the fire lie strictly in the flames
So now you walk, along that same road
Amazed at how it all seems out of place
Nothing's changed, but you feel different
Like the evening sun's the reason for the shadows on your face
There is the slightest hesitation in your footfalls
You can hear it in the corner of your mind
You wrote the ending long before you read the story
You're only satisfied when you search and you can't find
(Chorus)
You can't hold out any longer
Waiting for the truth to take the blame
Were you the lighter or the fuel this time
Or does the reason for the fire lie strictly in the flames
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10. |
Call It Ignorance
03:14
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Call It Ignorance
Craig Moreau
I have to say that once a day, I remember us back then
Acting like we knew how it should be just how it went
Circumstances we ignored and thought would disappear
Came to be the ones we should have wholly feared
(Chorus)
Ignorance was the hammer that dealt the final blow
We didn't see the warnings posted on that narrow road
Passion fueled the fire that burned us in the end
Both of us would break long before we'd ever bend
Amplified by alcohol and the pills that I would take
Everybody knew that I was just some bad mistake
You are the hazy dream that I just can't forget
Your misery is a memory I'm destined to regret
(Chorus)
Ignorance was the hammer that dealt the final blow
We didn't see the warnings posted on that narrow road
Passion fueled the fire that burned us in the end
Both of us would break long before we'd ever bend
So God I hope your happy and that you've always been
You took everything I ever was and all that I would be
I'd hate to think my destruction was in vain
I've spent two lifetimes angry never loved like that again
(repeat chorus and tag)
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11. |
Somebody Tell Her
04:40
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Somebody Tell Her
Craig Moreau
Somebody Tell her that I'm no good
Tell her I'm a fool
Tell her I'm the first To break the golden rule
Won't you tell her she'll be lonely
If she falls for me
Tell her that she don't know
The way it's sure to be
I've been known to drink too much
Party and run around
I kinda like the life I lead
And the good times that I've found
Some folks call me crazy
And I can't disagree
And the mornings when my head don't hurt
I like being me
Somebody Tell her that I'm no good
Tell her I'm a fool
Tell her I'm the first To break the golden rule
Won't you tell her she'll be lonely
If she falls for me
Tell her that she don't know
The way it's sure to be
I'd picked her up a time or two
Took her out on the town
Then one night she looked at me
And turned my world around
She took to talking marriage
And I just fell apart
I started with good intentions
But have had a change of heart
Somebody Tell her that I'm no good
Tell her I'm a fool
Tell her I'm the first To break the golden rule
Won't you tell her she'll be lonely
If she falls for me
Tell her that she don't know
The way it's sure to be
That was many years ago
And I've since settled down
We still talk from time to time
When visits are allowed
I sometimes think I should have
Made that girl my wife
But I made the right decision
Doing fifteen to life
Somebody Tell her that I'm no good
Tell her I'm a fool
Tell her I'm the first To break the golden rule
Won't you tell her she'll be lonely
If she falls for me
Tell her that she don't know
The way it's sure to be
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12. |
Against The Skyline
05:18
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Against The Skyline
Craig Moreau
A late night walk hadn't taken me to a storefront on a street in our hometown
It was well below the freezing and the snow was really coming down
And the frost upon the window reminded me of our second last goodbye
Who am I to think that I would ever understand the reasons why
The clouds against the skyline were telling me I'd settled here too long
And a freight train in the distance was singing an old familiar song
Once you found my weakness you wouldn't leave that part alone
I realized that words and empty bottles are all I've really owned
(Chorus)
And no one I have ever been, comes closer to the me I am with you
You feel the words inside the rhyme, always keep in perfect time and tune
And nothing else within in my life, has even scratched the surface of that truth
The sounds of traffic on the street were muffled by the newly fallen snow
As I rubbed my hands together clenched my fists and turn around to go
As if inside my frozen palm I held the only reason to go on
As I watched it tumble to the ground I knew in an instant I was wrong
(Chorus)
And no one I have ever been, comes closer to the me I am with you
You feel the words inside the rhyme, always keep in perfect time and tune
And nothing else within in my life, has even scratched the surface of that truth
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Craig Moreau Calgary, Alberta
Craig Moreau has been on the fringes of the Americana Music scene for years. Craig has decided that his songs are best presented in his own voice. He sought out award winning, Austin based, producer Mark Hallman for 'The Daredevil Kid' , which went to #1 on the RMR Album Charts as well as #1 on the RMR Americana Charts, garnered Craig a 2015 WCMA nomination for Songwriter of The Year. ... more
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