Two Friends Take A Bow For The Record-Simon Joyner

[ti:Two Friends Take A Bow For The Record] [ar:Simon Joyner] [al:Songs For The New Year] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Two Friends Take A Bow For The Record - Simon Joyner [00:20.64]Perhaps we were cut out of the same cloth or [00:24.93]Cardboard [00:26.49] [00:29.95]Or maybe you were carved out of soap and I [00:34.09]Out of driftwood [00:35.82] [00:39.49]Maybe we've got nothing in common but a sorrow withstood [00:45.71] [00:49.02]By distance and devotion [00:55.07] [00:58.69]My eyes belong to shapes travel at light speed [01:03.35]Going nowhere [01:04.67] [01:08.22]Across the screen of my dreams straight out into the [01:12.27]Frozen thin air [01:14.11] [01:17.63]But if you've seen one blow by surely lost [01:21.79]A dozen somewhere [01:24.33] [01:27.03]It's a crutch [01:29.07] [01:31.35]Ain't much for leaning [01:33.79] [01:37.08]My window through the trees there is a train [01:40.60]About to leave me yearning [01:43.10] [01:46.55]With a whistle to stop my heart and coal for [01:51.86]Burning [01:52.73] [01:56.58]The four loose chambers while the wheels continue turning [02:02.42] [02:06.02]And slipping [02:08.25] [02:10.11]Through my fingers [02:12.54] [02:19.84]So let's drink a little wine while we can [02:26.73] [02:30.01]Fill our glasses until they spill and say amen [02:35.96] [02:40.95]Come on brother go on and cup your hands [02:46.62]We'll say goodbye and let it end [02:50.17] [02:51.62]We'll say goodbye and let it end [02:54.81] [02:56.03]We'll say goodbye and let it end [02:59.85] [03:08.35]I've was trying to recall [03:10.74] [03:11.34]The details of the fall [03:13.95]From the apple [03:14.71] [03:18.16]To the sons of those exiled traced through to the [03:23.56]Burial [03:24.13] [03:28.34]One single brother who was slain by the other [03:32.71]And the evil [03:34.27] [03:36.40]That spilled into the mud [03:38.58] [03:41.15]There once was a [03:42.27]Garden [03:43.23] [03:46.64]I thought perhaps you caught your death you wandered and [03:51.68]Vanished [03:53.33] [03:56.41]I thought maybe into the vast abyss without so much [04:00.91]As a compass [04:02.53] [04:05.41]But you returned just in time to do a little [04:10.25]More damage [04:13.14] [04:14.86]Like a drum roll [04:18.67] [04:19.39]At the gallows [04:21.97] [04:24.32]Now the sky is full of flames burn and [04:28.36]Then rain only ashes [04:31.15] [04:34.07]And the thunder sounds tame compared to the heart when it [04:39.24]Crashes [04:40.69] [04:43.69]Against solemn sleep as a silhouette creeps down your lashes [04:50.98] [04:52.65]And the hallways fill up with laughter [04:59.27] [05:06.61]So let's drink a little [05:09.57] [05:10.22]Wine while we can [05:13.14] [05:16.00]Fill our glasses until they spill and say amen [05:22.66] [05:27.45]Come on brother go on and cup your hands [05:32.03] [05:32.88]We'll say goodbye and let it end [05:36.61] [05:37.63]Say goodbye and let it end [05:41.53] [05:42.46]Let's drink a little wine while we can [05:46.03] [05:47.55]Fill our glasses and say amen [05:51.13] [05:52.35]Come on brother cup your hands [05:57.17] [05:58.16]Say goodbye let it end [06:00.53] [06:02.11]Say goodbye let it end