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Bless Your Heart

by Billy Simons Jr.

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Bless Your Heart 04:06
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Oh don’t be so quick to accept that you’re wrong And never assume you'll be missed when you’re gone The good ones will wait, the rest will move on No matter their reasons, be kind. Oh don’t blame bad fortune for choices you’ve made You’ll come to find peace in a moment of grace Still I believe that we all can be saved And patience will come in due time All of the people that raised you up Those who have told you "you are enough" Who gave you love when you asked for luck Hold those ones closely So bless your heart And pray in this moment of silence And stay with me one more day Bless your heart This pain all of this violence will One day soon fade away A heart filled with anger, a head full of hurt Will make you a victim a prisoner or worse I’ve hated and blamed but none of it works That man ain't a friend to no one Don’t try escaping the hands of regret Or pleasing the people that couldn’t care less If only my failures could help you and yet No that’s not how living is done All of the heartache - just wasted time Fighting for something that never has mine Missing the love right in front of my eyes Hold those ones closely So bless your heart And pray in this moment of silence And stay with me one more day Bless your heart This pain and all of this violence will Wash away in the rain All of the people that raised you up Those who have told you "you are enough" Who gave you love when you asked for luck? Hold those ones closely
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Up in Flames 04:06
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From somewhere near Odessa There are messages a'coming out And throwing strokes across the midnight sky It starts with sudden silver flashes Congregations brought to ashes Some pray to live some pray to die We could have done more with a course of action But now being right brings no satisfaction. It’s a white sky Then a hard rain Say your goodbyes From your airplane There’s a thunderclap And then it starts to happen When your whole world's up in flames Through thickened thieves and follied friends There’s always time to love again I’ll sit in your remembrance In honor of tonight Oh this is our trajectory This cruel and crooked odyssey This old man and his wicked sea Who lives and breathes to fight Where is your savior granting safe asylum? Oh There is no commander on a sinking island. In an old town in an old cathedral Those denying pills and decrying needles Who don’t care for greed or good and evil All the people they all pray Then the white tails pull the old bows And the old strings play a sad note And the choir sings as the bolides float And the music plays til the songbird chokes
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Battle Cry 04:27
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Time’s going by even slower more than I Had thought was capable, feasible, reasonable I was told that life flashes right before our eyes Ain’t no holding on, slowing down little did I know Meeting you would make me feel that way There’s something in your eyes I can’t explain In the bedside table there’s a pearl handled pistol By morning we could be two states away With my gun and your looks We’ll write our names in the history books I forget who I was ‘fore you arrived My heartbeat moves quickly Every time that you’re around me Since I met you now I’m always on the high And when we go they’ll know our battle cry All these promises of hope seem the easy way to go Am I better than what I’ve said and who I was Always heard that life’s for the taking so let’s try Grabbing cash, moving fast, and moving on No one’s ever left this town alive Oh thoughts and prayers will get us there in time I’ll go straight to the grave if you say you’ll come along I ain’t good at first impressions or so longs With my gun and your looks We’ll write our names in the history books I forget who I was ‘fore you arrived My heartbeat moves quickly Every time that you’re around me Since I met you now I’m always on the high And when we go they’ll know our battle cry Time’s going by even faster more than I Had thought was capable feasible reasonable I was told that life flashes right before our eyes Ain’t no holding on, slowing down, little did I know Talking like a man who had it best But always settled quick for so much less We don’t want the things we’ve got until the moment that they’re gone Then we burn the boats that bring us all along La da da da
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Ash or Snow 04:43
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You can stop a beating heart with good intentions You can take apart a life and still be kind I was strong enough to stand by my conviction These are things I tell myself from time to time I still drink when I’m alone and far too often I get sad and then I drive around this town And every year when summer slips away to autumn I get scared of winter coming back around Is it ash or snow There’s no way for sure of knowing If you’re going through hell Well you might as well keep going For all I know won’t be forgiven And as I go I pray that I can change But lord I know as long as I’m living There ain’t no hope I’ll always be this way Head out east among the pines and just keep going All the cinders make it worth the traveling I want to ride that train I’m hearing in the distance But it won’t take me far enough from who I’ve been She won’t get to hear this song or think about me Still I had to say these words and sing this tune And I leave you this my last and true confession So you won’t think of me the way you seem to do
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If I Was a Better Man 03:38
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If I was a better man I’ll tell you what I’d do I would walk away from every day that doesn’t lead to you And insofar as disregarding what I ought to do You don’t have to love me baby, I’ll keep on loving you If I was a better man I’ll tell you what I’d say I would sing a song of moving on and never speak your name I’d swear to god I’m better off cause that’s what people do You don’t have to love me baby, I’ll keep on loving you If I was a better man I’d always walk the line Instead of giving up because your love it gets me every time Well it’s easier to fall in love than it is to follow through You don’t have to love me baby I’ll keep on loving you And if I was a better man than I would realize That i built you up into a lover seven times your size Could it be you’re everything and still someone who Wouldn’t want to love me baby, I’ll keep on loving you If I was a better man than I will ever be I would Never pray for you to stay at home and think of me But if you see that what you need is a different point of view You can try to love me baby maybe I will love you too You can try to love me baby maybe I will love you too
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Slow & Steady 03:51
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Aiming slow and steady trying to kill these hours of mine Maybe I could fall in love, I’d do it right Cause even in a lonely town a man needs on his sleeve A way to put some distance from the hell he cannot leave Says she’s going home Oh yeah she’s going home Trying hard to find a way, a reason or a name Where to point my drink, who to blame There used to be a time and place beyond this broken fence Now I stay up late thinking ‘bout the life I could have led Says she’s going home Oh yeah she’s going home Getting good and ready guess I’ll have another round TVs on, the rain is coming down Packing up her car when I pull up to her street No one loved this girl as much as me Says she’s going home Oh yeah she’s going home Aiming slow and steady breathing in and breathing out You had your chance, you had your luck and now Lack of will and bitter pills they help to ease the pain I won’t have to see that face though I know I’ll hear her name Says she’s going home Oh yeah she’s going home Trying to take it easy but my hands are shaking now All these questions make it hard to settle down There’s not a written record or a trace of what I’ve done You can speak your speculation but you can’t prove that I’m the one Oh she’s gone home Oh yeah she’s gone home
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Standing at the Altar 04:21
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I’m standing at the altar in a sweat For they tell me that my bride ain’t shown up yet I see all the nervous grins on the faces of my friends For they tell me that my bride ain’t shown up yet I’m standing at the altar and I know That at least a couple friends have told me so Sure I’ve had a doubt or two But who can’t say the same ain’t true And at least a couple friends have told me so Oh, broken hearts and wishing bones Oh, holding pieces, holding hope If I had my way would I leave or be left first Well I’d rather be the kind that never learns I’m standing at the altar and I’m sure Any hope I had has sauntered out the door It’s easy now to see she was never meant for me Any hope I had has sauntered out the door Now I’m standing at the altar and I smile And I thank her for not walking down that aisle She knew just as well as I that we never would survive So I thank her for not walking down that aisle I was standing at the altar for so long And don’t you know that bride she came along? To love to have to hold, at least that’s what I’m told And don’t you know by then I was gone
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El Dorado 02:51
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I’ve heard every single note That they’re playing on the air Seems that every song’s got me hanging on To a different day this year You can call me sentimental But it keeps me up at night And a hand upon my shoulder tends To make me feel alright There’s Shangri La, Atlantis, El Dorado I see St. Paul As I watch the past I have to ask Was she ever here at all? I have doubted every word From every poet priest or friend After all this time don’t you think that I Would know that it's the end I’ve been told to carry onward Well I’ll hold my breath and see While I drown my heart at that little bar At the bottom of our street There’s Shangri La, Atlantis, El Dorado I see St. Paul As I watch the past I have to ask Was she ever here at all? I’ve seen every single ghost In every crooked picture frame And as time goes on I hope to god Your memory starts to fade There’s Shangri La, Atlantis, El Dorado I see St. Paul As I watch the past I have to ask Was she ever here at all?
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Locomotive 03:16
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Good lord I'm nervous Cause the word is finally out And you know this kind of town can't keep a secret You ought to know I never meant for this to happen Shackles, shame and chain reactions Inconvenience Oh the heart and mind work on their own time And thought we try as we may In my heart and bones there's a locomotive Calling out your name, "I Love You" Ah ooh ooh oooh Just like a bandit Hiding from the land and light Cutting through each starry night so noone knows You got my heart Tied across these railroad tracks Got me flat across my back So it goes Oh the heart and mind work on their own time And thought we try as we may In my heart and bones there's a locomotive Calling out your name, "I Love You" Ah ooh ooh oooh Oh sweet relief Counting all my lucky fortune To be sitting on this porch and holding you Oh sweet tarnation Then I wake up and I scream as I wake up from this dream Cause it ain't true Oh the heart and mind work on their own time And thought we try as we may In my heart and bones there's a locomotive Calling out your name, "I Love You" Ah ooh ooh oooh
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Overnight Success 03:57
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I have done my very best at doing everything I can and What I’ve learned from my mistakes Is that I’ll make ‘ em all again I’m too young to offer wisdom I’m too old to start again Guess I’ll wing it til they bury me amen I have made my share of promises And sure I’ve broken some They say if I apply myself to something I’d become A little more like them and a little less like me But oh what fun would that be? I’ve been trying all my life Still I can’t write a pretty song But I’m hoping by the time I’m 85 I’ll think of one So I’m sitting by the window Just a rocking in my chair And I’m trying to hit a note that I don’t hear I had always thought that lady luck Would come right to my door Turns out overnight success Can take a couple years or more It’s easier to quit and punch the clock five days a week But oh what fun would that be? I’ve been spending all my cash And all my time just like a fool Making sure that when I’m dead and gone My money’s all gone too I can’t live in moderation I got bigger things in mind So it’s all or nothing every single time There are nights that I don’t sleep at all And times i sleep for days And if I got to meet a younger me I wouldn’t say a thing Yeah I could stop the heartache he is surely bound to see But oh what fun would that be? I’ve been sitting and a wondering And staring at the sky Thinking bout the odds of happiness Success and sacrifice In the case it’s all for nothing And we’re just breathing til we don’t Why not try and help each other ‘fore we go I have walked so many miles And I have finally reached the age where My regrets have taught me so much more Than all my accolades - I’d tell you all about it And what it means to me But oh what fun would that be? Oh oh what fun would that be?

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released October 20, 2018

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