Charlemagne's Home Town-James McMurty/Joe Ely

[ti:Charlemagne's Home Town] [ar:James McMurty/Joe Ely] [al:Childish Things] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Charlemagne's Home Town - James McMurty/Joe Ely [00:14.61]I've got it all to myself now [00:17.16] [00:21.14]Crack the window just a hair [00:23.92] [00:27.43]Dark and close the way I like it [00:30.42] [00:33.84]Black tobacco chokes the air [00:36.49] [00:39.77]I keep to myself I lack the language [00:43.04] [00:46.18]I measure out my life with coffee grounds [00:49.31] [00:51.90]The trees are the color of ashes [00:55.74] [00:58.88]In Charlemagne's home town [01:02.12] [01:05.20]I said I didn't fear the distance [01:08.48] [01:11.69]As if I'd ever been that tough [01:14.49] [01:17.87]I can hear your voice across the water [01:21.06] [01:24.32]But that's nowhere near enough [01:27.39] [01:29.36]Won't you fly across that ocean [01:34.07] [01:37.16]Take a train on down [01:40.14] [01:42.00]Because the night's growing lonesome [01:46.48] [01:49.32]In Charlemagne's home town [01:52.53] [02:05.67]The fortune teller told me nothing [02:08.35] [02:11.62]That I wouldn't have found out on my own [02:14.82] [02:18.00]She read my palm and she took my money [02:21.00] [02:24.34]She looked at me with eyes of stone [02:27.25] [02:30.29]She said the odds are long and stacked against us [02:33.66] [02:36.94]Still we try because we must [02:39.76] [02:42.97]To keep from leaving our senses [02:46.02] [02:49.29]Long forgotten in the dust [02:52.15] [02:54.35]Like the bones of some saint [02:57.16]Beneath a church floor [02:58.78] [03:01.49]Who must have died for lack of light [03:04.46] [03:08.00]The color snapshots I sent you [03:10.96] [03:14.29]All came out in black and white [03:16.77] [03:22.13]Won't you fly across that ocean [03:26.77] [03:30.02]Take a train on down [03:32.74] [03:34.79]Because the night's growing lonesome [03:38.98] [03:42.17]In Charlemagne's home town [03:45.35] [04:26.26]There's a lonely child on a snow white pony [04:29.21] [04:32.38]On a carousel in the market place [04:35.52] [04:38.92]He sits on that horse and he looks right through me [04:42.35] [04:45.12]A shadow falls across his face [04:48.01] [04:51.39]What will I do when my glass is empty [04:54.40] [04:57.64]What will I do when it all comes down [05:00.96] [05:03.94]What will I do when it comes to nothing [05:07.02] [05:10.16]In Charlemagne's home town [05:12.72] [05:16.41]What will I do when it comes to nothing [05:19.33] [05:22.67]In Charlemagne's home town