Jimmy Boy Thompson

Songs from Jimmy Boy Thompson CD

We’ve been spoiled   we’ve been cheated
We’ve been loved and we’ve been hated
Turn the corner    on this old chapter
Will we find love is the only answer
I don’t know   I don’t know
I don’t know   I hope so

Too many daylights   burned and gone by
Too many dreams we have let fly
Hands of time    here for a reason
Pulling us up and finding freedom
I don’t know   I don’t know
I don’t know   I hope so

Turn the corner    on this old chapter
Will we find love is the only answer
I don’t know   I don’t know
I don’t know   I hope so
I don’t know   I hope so

I don’t know I don’t know
I hope so yes well I hope so
Hmmm I hope so I hope so I hope so

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Is it hard to believe I’m leaving so soon
Had a bird in hand I traded for a tune
Dust in my throat from an older road
The only road I know

Couldn’t walk on water always went under
Tried singing like summer all I heard was thunder
Run with blinders take a step then another
The only steps I know
The only way I’ve ever known

Set the river on fire    burned all the water
To a dry creek bed where I thought I’d be stronger
Tried to go back home but it’s    not what I remembered

Amongst the old worn rocks where I’ve laid my head
World at my back    rain turns red
If she comes here looking    say you know nothing
Don’t tell her what you know   I can barely let go
World at my back    I can barely let go
The only world I know
The only path I’ve ever known

World at my back
Another day forward
World at my back
With the world at my back
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

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Got to get home tonight got to move on that’s right
Got to get back to you and the family too
Make it home is all I want to do tonight
Catch the last train I might
Or find a way to hitch a ride
No I don’t have a clue how I’ll get to you
Make it home is all I want to do tonight

You were home feeling left alone
Calling me up I hear the overtones
I can’t stand it when I know you’re hurting too

Out on the road I don’t make a lot of money
But I do what I do try to hang with me honey
Living like a gypsy but tonight I’m running to you

I was running warm with a fever this morning
Muscles aching I ignore the warnings
Hook or crook I gotta find a way to you

OK I hate the road but I love my music
If I’m gone too long I’m feeling home sick
I wish there was a way to have you here too

Don’t wish me in an office
I’d go stir crazy
Then what kind of man
Would I be what would I be

Gotta get home tonight gotta get home tonight

Gotta get home hmmm yeah yeah tonight

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Old man Williams    lived just down the block
He kept to himself    didn’t say a lot
Always carried    a bag of who knows what
No one here knew him and the curtains stayed shut
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know

Sometimes kids   mocked the way that he walked
He’d shuffle on by   and when he talked
He’d mumble grumble   kids ran away
And no one ever asked him   about life in his day

So many strangers every day
Who has time to meet them all
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know

Last week folks    trampled his lawn
Gathered around    had heard he was gone
Well-known actors    and writers came
Speaking praise and love to proclaim

Just like old Williams I’ve kept to myself
Who has time to meet them all
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know
I wish that old man Williams was one I got to know

Old man Williams Williams is gone
Old man Williams Williams is gone

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Back in school   I could not handle my classes
I’d stare off into space    daydream of another world
I’d be running    through the open fields
Swim    down at the river    living free
Somewhere out of my world somewhere out of my world

When you came along    and smiled so beautiful at me
I saw the world inside those eyes    pulling me in
Daydreams    coming back again
Climbing under my skin    living free
Somewhere out of my world   somewhere out of my world

I don’t mind my imagination
Taking hold from time to time
As I look into this window
I can see what could become
Somewhere out of my world

So if you see that far-away look    in my eyes
Don’t touch don’t shake me    leave me as I am
I’ll be dreaming   somewhere
In a distant haze     living free

Somewhere out of my world
Somewhere out of my world
Somewhere out of my world

Living free running through the open fields
Out of my world hmmm

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There are those that like to talk
Like they know it all
And when they’re proven wrong
They’ve got the gall to lie to    your face
Divert the truth pull the wool over you

I feel a cold wind   creeping up my spine
Raise hairs upon my neck
Crossing unseen lines
And it chills me to the bone
There’s a cold wind taking hold

When beliefs mean more than fact
I think they’re crazy as a bat
And when they’re feeling strong
With silent walls that stops all new thoughts
Reason’s out the door they won’t look back

There’s a cold wind taking hold taking hold

I’ve worn those shoes before
But now I think I’ve come around
To find the truth for myself because

There’s a cold wind creeping up my spine
Raise hairs upon my neck
Crossing unseen lines and it chills me to the bone
There’s a cold wind taking hold
There’s a cold wind taking hold taking hold

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On a warm summer night with the band so hot
Stirring up my hopes for that young girl’s thoughts
Wishing to meet her at the dance by chance
Hmm must be the stars in my eyes

I don’t want to go home tonight
I don’t want to go home tonight

I’d seen her at school going from class to class
But I never talked to her I’d just watch her pass
Tonight when I see her I’ll ask her to dance
Hmm must be the moon in the sky

I don’t want to go home tonight
I don’t want to go home tonight

Ten seconds of courage is all that it took
It could have gone badly but she gave me that look

Arm in arm we were breaking that ice
She said she had to go home but that it was nice
Walking her home past the old redwood school
Hmm must be the stars in her eyes

I don’t want to go home tonight
I don’t want to go home tonight
I don’t want to go home tonight
Don’t want to go home tonight
Don’t want to go home tonight

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Apples in the orchard   leaves are turning brown
Marks the coming season   our time to settle down
We’re rushing with the masses   feels like missing out
Living without looking   and feeling bits of doubt

You and I go racing through our life
Shortcuts that we take to ease our time
Hurry too much now worry too much how
The time is slipping by we can make it right
If we walk slow if we walk slow

Happiness around us the colors of our life
Shaded by those moments from the roll of the dice
We could be running with the tigers
Laughing with the sun cause time may come to find us

Before we think we’re done

Still we go racing through our life
Shortcuts that we take to ease our time
Hurry too much now worry too much how
The time is slipping by we can make it right
If we walk slow, if we walk slow

Looking back in our early days
Going home the slow way and talks all night long
But now were running just as fast as we can

Hurry too much now worry too much how
The time is slipping by we can make it right,
We can make it right we can make it right
If we walk slow, if we walk slow

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Get in line or pay the fine
Evil talking cracking your mind
Rock like bolder spike
Getting back there is no even fight

There are no borders if you forget
The outside
Find your silver lining
Won’t you go back try another time

Take a walk forgot your socks
Get your brain reeling out of hock
See them gawk around the block
Never mind now find your own flock

Meet me at midnight forget
Outside
Find your silver lining
Won’t you go back try another time

Spilling hope a slippery slope
Corn dogs and learning to cope
Start to mope the tightrope
Skipping school and sneak off to elope

Drop the keys off don’t believe
What’s outside
Find your silver lining
Won’t you go back try another time

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Well it’s simple I know but I wouldn’t listen
I traveled all night and I’m cold
There’s evil in darkness things I wouldn’t mention
At the crossing I found the lost gold

Oh I miss my home   I’ve been traveling alone
If I could get back to my life   my wife.
My peace of mind    I’d be alright    I’d be alright

I was hiding in the day   traveling at night
Gambling with fate   running scared
Tripping on bones   from long lost fights
The remnants   of those who had dared

Oh I miss my home   I’ve been traveling alone
If I could get back to my life   my wife.
My peace of mind    I’d be alright    I’d be alright

All my friends warned me don’t travel those mountains
But I’m stubborn and my maps didn’t lie
If I could get home without being seen
My life would be on easy street oh my life on easy street

Well it’s simple I know but I wouldn’t listen
I traveled all night and I’m cold
These dusty old road holds dangerous intentions
Scrambling back home with this load

Oh I miss my home hang my hat and rest my bones
If I could get back to my life my wife
My peace of mind I’d be alright I’d be alright

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Let the light    fill your dark
Let the laughter   and the music start
Let the lovers discover their moment
These moments are not always clear
Angels suddenly   suddenly appear

There’s hope in the shadows
Fear in the corner
Let the light come out and find us

Find the secrets that quench your body
Hold the candle and walk in silence
Let the moments you face come to you
These moments are not always clear
Captured angels shed their tears

There’s hope in the shadows
Fear in the corner
Let the light come out and find us
Living for love
Passing on tomorrow
Let the light come out and find us

Let the light come out and find us
Carries the message that you thought
You can’t really see those shadows in the dark
Did you think you’d find the secrets of the heart
I think we should try yeah we gotta try

Let the light come out and find us

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Things don’t always work out like we plan
Life long dreams and days of holding hands
I always thought we’d be so happy
Our loving forever

Slowly I saw you fading away
Day by day you were drifting away
But I can’t change my life to make you stay

I love you still but I can’t live this way
And getting angry won’t make it go away
I never thought we’d be here today
No way to recover

Time in flight whisked in wry apologies
Lifting sighs from those memories we hide
But I can’t change my life to make you stay

If you want to go then go away
If you want to stay don’t make me feel this way
If you want to go then go away
If you want to stay we can’t go on this way

Steel eyes and thoughts that turn to grey
The heart of gold I knew is going away
I didn’t understand the ways of life and change
We grew different ways

Slowly I saw you fading away
Day by day you were drifting away
But I can’t change my life to make you stay

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We met a month or so ago at the checkout line
Kept on talking and walking till we ran out of time
I thought you could not keep us apart

We’d laugh our days away   and stayed up all night
Now that’s all changed       there’s no end in sight
To those things        keeping us together apart
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We’ll be hiding from the coming of the creeping dark
We can’t hold our breath from that random dart
We’ll try    keeping it together apart

Lack of distance contact terror beefing up your fright
Watching midnight scenes in the full daylight
It’s strange I know we’re all together apart
It’s strange I know we’re all together apart

It’s a new kind of normal that’s come to us
Until until we can finally gather again

I can picture you swaying in the crowd last month
Reckless abandon dancing till we had to confront
These ways keeping it together apart

We can talk by text    or talk by phone
I’m keeping up with you while I’m here alone
But it’s strange    I know we’re all together apart
Yes but it’s strange    I know we’re all together apart

Here’s our new kind of normal     and it will last
Until   until    until   we can gather again ,,,and it will last
Until   until    until   we can gather again

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Dark Turn of Mind - Gillian Welch

Take me and love me if you want me
Don't ever treat me unkind
'Cause I had that trouble already
And it left me with a dark turn of mind

Now I see the bones in the river
I feel the wind through the pine
And I hear the shadows a-calling
To this one with a dark turn of mind

But oh ain't the nighttime so lovely to see
Don't all the night birds sing sweetly
You'll never know how happy I'll be
When the sun's going down

And leave me if I'm feeling too lonely
Full as the fruit on the vine
You know that some are bright as the morning
And some have a dark turn of mind

You know that some are bright as the morning
And some are blessed with a dark turn of mind

Chuck Phalen Josh Harris