Album: Crazy
Disc: Redemption [disc 1 of a 2 disc album: Crazy]
Artist: Laramie Crocker
Artist Website: www.LaramieCrocker.com
Listen / MP3: Songs
See also: lyrics for disc 2: Stereoville, USA
Songs
Wanderstomp
When The Devil Came To California
ThePerfectCrime
Brownsville General Store
Mary
Lay Me Down
Stay
Electricity
American Gypsy
Good Days Coming
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Wanderstomp
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Heading to the East Coast and I don't know where I'm going
I'd like to see Virginia, and sleep where it is snowing
Stare at the Blueridge from my woodstove heated room
Wake up in the Springtime, when the Dogwoods are in bloom
Refrain:
I don't know where I'm going
and I don't know where I've been
If I find myself along the way
I'll be sure
to write a letter
To you
From him
San Francisco Summer fog rolls in like frozen mush
I'm Heading to the East Coast, where the Summer's warm and lush
I'll Walk New England's green woods, run barefoot on the grass
And wander around naked without freezing off my ass
I don't know where I'm going
and I don't know where I've been
If I find myself along the way
I'll be sure
to drop a card
to you
from him
Heading back to the West Coast, to see my girl and brand new baby
Don't know how I got 'em, but I'll step up to the plate
Packing up my truck; got my dog and my belongings
Baby's due any day now; I hope I'm not too late
I don't know where I'm going
and I don't know where I've been
If I find myself along the way
I'll be sure
to place a call
to you
from him
Heading back to the East Coast, try to make a brand new start
My little daughter left this world and took along my heart
I'll go back to New York, but there's been a lot of change
There's a hole in the ground and the skyline is strange
I don't know where I'm going
and I don't know where I've been
If I find myself along the way
I'll be sure
to write a letter
to you
from him
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When the Devil Came to California
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When the Devil came to California
On a clear and perfect fall
a clear and perfect fall
When the Devil came to California
He rode in on his fiery mare
shook out his fiery hair
When the Devil came to California
On a clear and perfect fall
a clear and perfect fall
When the Devil came to California
He rode in on his fiery mare
shook out his fiery hair
He spied her lying there
he stole her last
breath of air
When the Devil came
On a clear and perfect fall
a clear and perfect fall
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The Perfect Crime
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The Perfect Crime
When the planes hit
when the buildings drop
when the towers come
falling down
I'm the one
mastermind
the perfect crime
I don't need you coming 'round
my undisclosed location
I'm underground
The problem with the perfect crime
is not that you get away with it
the problem with the perfect crime
you can't tell
your mother, your brother
your lawyer, your lover
your best friend
ever
ever
ever
I don't need you coming 'round
asking me why
when the planes hit
when the buildings drop
when the towers come
crashing down
I won't be around
I'm underground
I'm safe and sound
in the undisclosed location
and I don't need you comin' round
I don't need you comin' round
asking me why, asking me why
in my undisclosed location
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Brownsville General Store
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Brownsville wakes you up
with warm yellow sunshine
Fresh cut fields of grass
lilacs and daylilies
and I know I've been to Heaven
Chorus:
There's a moon over Brownsville tonight
Fall's golden red
Winter turns to white
I'll be hiding from my demons
down Route 44
I got a P.O. box, a town hall
a graveyard and a church
you can find me here
at the Brownsville General store
Now I've been to Heaven
I've been to Hell
Hell is a hospital
I know it well
I've walked its endless corridors
shuffled down linoleum floors
sought exit from its
windowless walls
and green steel firedoors
Hell is a hospital
Hell is a hospital
[chorus]
Brownsville wakes you up
with white falling snow
silent snowfall
you're warm by the woodstove
and I know I've been to Heaven
But I've been to Hell
Hell is a corporate office
I know it well
useless meetings and brainless phone calls
I've stared at it's plastic walls
Hell is a cubicle
plastic people and plastic walls
drive plastic cars to plastic malls
Hell is a strip mall
Hell is Wal-Mart
Hell is Wal-Mart
[chorus]
Now I've been to Heaven
I've been to Hell
Hell has a leader
He says "God is on our side"
Hell is a bombed out city
Wave your flag with pride
Hell is a hospital
Hell is a hospital
Hell is a hospital
where my baby died
[chorus]
Gotta get back to Heaven
Gotta get back to Brownsville
Get off at Exit 8
Just a couple of miles more
Come round the mountain
On Route 44
Roll down the window
Roll down the window
Roll down the window
and breathe
breathe
breathe the air
roll into Brownsville
roll into Heaven, Lord
and the Brownsville General Store
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Mary
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Love sits at the table, plays hearts with a trick
but I've played that hand, now the anger comes quick
I wandered around in this all-night town
And I found a bar to call home
And there's music and laughter and lots of good cheer
and a barmaid named Mary who brings you your beer
Chorus:
And everyone here loves Mary, And Mary loves everyone here
Everyone here loves Mary, Mary loves everyone
Some day I'll ask her to be my bride,
But now I'll just ask for another beer, Mary
Mary smiles as she works the tables
and chats with the regular folks
Puts a hand on your shoulder as she comes around
and sits and laughs at your jokes
she wears oversized boots, undersized jeans
beauty and grace floating by in a tank top
---- Chorus ----
Sure, other girls come into the bar
and sure, they look cute for a while
but they yammer on cell phones when there's live music
or they smoke, or they're easy, bitchy, or dumb
and there's only one Mary, at least around here
I wait in my corner, 'till she brings my beer
---- Chorus ----
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Lay Me Down
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Lay me down in fields of green
Share your love share your dreams
Lay me down below sky blue
Swear me now your love is true
Lay me garlands round my head
Sweet green grass make me a bed
Lay around me boughs of green
Lay me down beside a stream
Lay me flowers round my head
Lay my boots upon my bed
Lay a flag upon my chest
Lay me down to take my rest
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Stay
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Now the dread has turned to sorrow
drifts and lands like down
lingers here
alights
leaves me alone
alone
why can't we be friends forever?
here in hereafter
stay by my side
when you leave
visit me in dreams
visit me in dreams and downpours
between drops of rain
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Electricity
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Electricity
when you lie with me
when you're lying in my garden
dogs play
in the underbrush
and dew drops fall
on your lips
Electricity
when you lie with me
when you're lying in my garden
currents flow
winds blow
grass grows
Soon you'll rise
and feel the Sun
have faith
breathe in
red leaves fall on your face
Electricity
when you rise with me
when you're lying in my garden
day breaks
sunrise
day wakes
nights slips
dew drops fall
on your lips
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American Gypsy
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Each time I come back home
I ask myself the same old questions
why do I wander why do I roam
why do I ever leave this green green home
why would I ever
Leave this place again, again, again
Each time I Leave this place again
I ask myself the same old question
why do I shelter down what do I fear
when there's a whole big wide world out here
why would I ever
stay in one place again, again, again
Each time my heart breaks again
I ask myself the same damn question
why would I ever play the fool again
why would I ever feel the pain again
why would I ever
Fall in love again, again, again
Each time I fall in love again
I ask myself the same old questions
How, could I stay away from love so long
How, from this feeling that just can't be wrong
now, gonna write myself a brand new song:
it's gonna say:
How, could I ever stay away from love again, again, again
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Good Days Coming
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Some days I don't feel so down
I get up and I ride around downtown
and I look at all the happy shoppers
they're gettin their lattes they're buyin flowers
gettin their toenails painted and fixin up their hair
they seem so happy and well adjusted
sometimes I wonder if I could be like them
'cause I know a good day's comin
a good day's comin
a good day's comin
around the bend
Some days I wonder when it's all gonna end
but I know a good day's comin
a good day's comin
a good day's comin
around the bend
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All songs Copyright © 2000-2009 Laramie Crocker