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Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson


Background information
Birth name Willie Hugh Nelson
Born April 30, 1933
Origin Abbott, Texas, U.S.
Genre(s) Country
Country Rock
Outlaw country
Alternative Country
Years active 1956—present
Label(s) RCA Records
Island Records
Columbia Records
Atlantic Records
Lost Highway Records
Associated acts Waylon Jennings
The Highwaymen
Johnny Cash
Kris Kristofferson
Roger Miller
Ray Price
Snoop Dogg
Merle Haggard
Kurt Nilsen
Faron Young
Emmylou Harris
Dolly Parton
Juice Newton
Toby Keith
Sheryl Crow
Norah Jones
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Willie Nelson Album


with Ryan Adams
Songbird (10/31/2006)
10/31/2006
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We Don't Run
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Well it's cloudy in the morning gonna be raining in the afternoon
Cloudy in the morning and it's gonna be raining in the afternoon
If you don't like this rainy weather you better pack your bags and move
But if you're running from it brother the only road that I can see
If you're running from it brother the only road that I can see
Is the road that leads to nowhere and nowhere is a fool like me
Rain keep a falling falling round my window pane
Rain keep a falling falling round my window pane
Ain't never seen so much rainy weather guess I'll never see the sun again

[ guitar + harmonica ]

Save those dimes and nickels save 'em for a rainy day
Save your dimes and nickels save 'em for a rainy day
It ain't gonna keep the rain from coming but at least you know you've paid your way
Rain rain rain keep a falling...

. . .



For you
There'll be no more cryin'
For you
The sun will be shinin'
And I feel that when I'm with you it's alright.
I know its right.

To you
I'll give the world.
To you
I'll never be cold.
'Cause I feel when I'm with yu its alright
I know its right

And the songbirds are singing
Like they know the score
And I love you , I love you , I Love you
Like never before

And I wish you all the love in the world.
But most of all I wish it for myself.
Lyrics
And the songbirds keep singing
Like they know the score
And I love , I love you, I love you
Like never before.

And I love you, I love you I love you
Like never before




. . .



I'd like to say that I tried.
Fits in with all deceptions and lies.
And empty tables with food, untouched.
I couldn't see the future,
and I liked it too much.
I've been goin' from door to door
with nothing to sell.
Wanderin' like a fool through the halls of a blue hotel.

Chorus:
Go on and rain down on us,
Go on and rain,
Go on and rain down on us,
I give up, I give up.

Somethin' about her is cold,
blowin through the trees,
leavin me wrong.
As the words come out,
I get confused, I get shattered like a lightbulb in October.
She's inside me like a secret,
Lyricsand I got no one to tell.
And wanderin' like a fool through the halls of blue hotel.

Chorus

I give up, I give up

Choir:
Go on and rain down on us.
Go on and rain down




. . .



I guess my heart has settled back to Earth.
I rode a dream so wild and free for all that dream was worth.
But true love is both a blessing and a curse.
Today my heart just settled back to Earth.

Now I know just how you felt that night so long ago.
But the dream for you had ended and you let me know.
So I bounced from sky to sky,
tryin' to keep the dream alive.
But everything I did just made it worse.
Guess my heart just settled back to Earth.

Love created songs that I still sing.
Love we knew still makes the rafters ?red?.
Tonight I'll sing for everything I'm worth.
For all the hearts that settle back to Earth.

Songs our love created I still sing.
Love we knew still makes the rafters ?red?.
Tonight I'll sing for everything I'm worth.
For all the hearts that settle back to Earth.

Our song will never have a final verse,
our hearts just finally settled back to Earth




. . .



All the years combine, they melt into a dream,
A broken angel sings from a guitar.
In the end there's just a song comes cryin' up the night
Thru all the broken dreams and vanished years.
Stella blue. Stella blue.

When all the cards are down, there's nothing left to see,
There's just the pavement left and broken dreams.

In the end there's still that song comes cryin' like the wind.
Down every lonely street that's ever been
Stella blue. Stella blue.

I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel, can't win for trying.
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time,
Gonna make them shine, shine

It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free,
There's nothing you can hold, for very long.
And when you hear that song come crying like the wind,
It seems like all this life was just a dream.
Stella blue. Stella blue


. . .


I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your crown and she cut your hair
And from you lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?

There's a blaze of light in every word
And it doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
...

. . .



It was a $1000 wedding supposed to be held the other day and
With all the invitations sent
The young bride went away
When the groom saw people passing notes
Not unusual, he might say
But where are the flowers for my baby
I'd even like to see her mean old mama
And why ain't there a funeral, if you're gonna act that way
I hate to tell you how he acted when the news arrived
He took some friends out drinking and
it's lucky they survived
Well, he told them everything there was to
tell there along the way
And he felt so bad when he saw the traces
of old lies still on their faces
So why don't someone here just spike his drink
Why don't you do him in some old way
Supposed to be a funeral
It's been a bad, bad day
The Reverend Dr. William Grace
Was talking to the crowd
LyricsAll about the sweet child's holy face and
The saints who sung out loud
And he swore the fiercest beasts
could all be put to sleep the same silly way
And where are the flowers for the girl
She only knew she loved the world
And why ain't there one lonely horn and one sad note to play
Supposed to be a funeral
It's been a bad, bad day
Supposed to be a funeral
It's been a bad, bad day




. . .

We Don't Run

[No lyrics]

. . .


May the Lord's shining grace be yours, love
May the happiest face be yours, love
May the last fingertips
That touch these two lips
As life from me slips be yours, love

May the fruit of my toil be yours, love
May the food from my soil be yours love
And from this moment on
May a love that is strong
And lives on and on be yours, love

May the sons that I raise be yours, love
May the comforts that I praise be yours, love
And if I ever get weak
May the love words I speak
And the arms that I seek be yours, love
May the Lord's shining grace...
May the Lord's shining grace...

. . .


I'm writing a song all about you
A true song as real as my tears
But you've no need to fear it
Cause no one will hear it
Cause sad songs and waltzes
Aren't selling this year
I'll tell all about how you cheated
I'd like to the whole world to hear
I'd like to get even with you
Cause you're leavin'
And songs and waltzes
Aren't selling this year
It's a good thing that I'm not a star
You don't know how lucky you are
Though my record may say it
No one will play it
Cause sad songs and waltzes
Aren't selling this year

[ steel ]

Well it's a good thing that I'm not a star
You don't know how lucky you are
Though my record may say it
No one will play it
Cause sad songs and waltzes
Aren't selling this year

. . .


Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
I was blind but now I see

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relived
How precious did that grace appear
The hours I first believed
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
I was blind but now I see

[ guitar ]

Now when we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
That when we first begun
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
I was blind but now I see

[ piano ]

Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I'm found
I was blind but now I see

. . .


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