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1. |
Any Simple Truth
02:53
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Any Simple Truth 2018 Recording Missing Link Us - CD "Dave That's Not My Toe!"
[Verse 1]
Why do we ask
if already accused?
When you're playing certain games, there's a meaning that you lose.
[Chorus]
Scream any simple truth you can.
[Verse 2]
Tell me what you see
looks the same to me, we both read the sign. I'll drive, you're free!
[Chorus]
Scream any simple truth you can.
Scream any simple truth again.
Scream any simple truth you can.
Scream any simple truth again.
[Bridge]
The clock upon the wall says the world began to fall, so I ran.
Into her arms once again to find out where I am, and she can.
Any simple truth
Any simple truth
Any simple truth
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2. |
Run Down the Stairs
02:37
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Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
You've got shelves up above,
and dust anywhere,
you're spinning like a top.
A mule cries in the air.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Taps hang from the sill,
the water pot fetch.
The winds send a chill,
the walls rattle again.
You've got time up above
and sky anywhere,
she'll be swaying in time
and waiting for the birth to be there.
...Shelves up above, ...dust everywhere.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
Run down the stairs keep searching find your love there.
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3. |
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When the journey opens before you. Glowing clouds part in the sky & the crowd that's scattered about you becomes as still as the quiet of night. The shock wave owns you, you know it. Flies above pulls from behind. Now your're a bird spreading it's wing span, shouting in the world as you fly.
I've never felt this way before.
So Wryta brings you a bushel.
You wriggle on the apples to term,
The list of your lovers through that quill, the smile's in the courtyard confirm. Your laughter is a sign of your knowledge of what you know and how it occurs. These are the pangs of a flower, no choice as the darkness draws nearer. And like the duty of a harbor at midnight protect the authored life from the flood you come fully dressed for the party the ax falls as you're laughing again. You scream again.
I've never felt this way before.
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4. |
More Than We Could Dream
02:09
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Where I Look At A Perfect Picture
Ahh how this happened?
Oh, how, it happened?
None of us would see.
Our photos together,
so completely.
Where I look at a perfect picture if we cant believe we'd both find more than we could dream.
Break the lid
on this universe we keep.
She keeps shaking
shown beneath me,
in holograms & green.
We both go backward
so, & still, our, eyes,
may meet.
Where I look at a perfect picture if we cant believe we'd both find more than we could dream.
I keep it there for her.
For her, I will not move this
matrix, of perfection,
making dungeons she must rule.
Where I look at a perfect picture if we cant believe we'd both find more than we could dream.
She shouldn't break the lid
on this universe we keep.
She's shaking
shown beneath me,
in holograms & green.
We both go backward
so, & still, our, eyes,
may meet.
Where I look at a perfect picture.
Where I look at a perfect picture.
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5. |
Things That You Did
02:10
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Things That You Did [Final Mix 1] Missing Link Us 2018 Recording "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
I hate numbers but I seem to remember yours.
I caught myself thinking to when, I felt so sure.
It's the things that you did.
You made me fall in love with you.
So far away, don't know if I'll ever let go,
of the things that you did.
I wanted you so bad,
Somebody else got close to you and just convinced you first.
It's the things that you did.
You made me fall in love with you.
So far away, I don't know if I'll ever let go,
of the things that you did.
I hate numbers but I seem to remember yours.
I remember watching how you walked
& how I'd listen when I hear you talk.
It's the things that you did.
You made me fall in love with you.
So far away, I don't know if I'll ever let go,
of the things that you did.
I remember when we couldn't stop laughing, got kicked out of class
Such a drag 'cause school days are gone for good
these long hot summer days spent thinking of you.
and the things that you did...
It's the things that you did.
You made me fall in love with you.
So far away, I don't know if I'll ever let go,
of the things that you did
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6. |
Turn to Your Door
03:20
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Turn To Your Door [Mix 1] Missing Link Us - 2018 - Recording CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
[Verse 1]
Still I'm growing without you,
it's a vow I keep to myself,
to remember the love you gave,
so sweet.
I close my eyes to the picture
strikes my memory,
the glowing lovely lantern,
of a frame that's so complete,
[Chorus]
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd kiss the sky, thank the eyes of the Lord.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd keep the key and stand happily on your shore.
[Verse 2]
It's hard finding a new coat,
my old one's soaked with rain,
I'm cold and I need a change of heart.
Youth is always tainted
like a dream that isn't real,
I can't remember who I was then,
only how you make me feel.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd kiss the sky, thank the eyes of the Lord.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd keep the key and stand happily on your shore.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd kiss the sky, thank the eyes of the Lord.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd keep the key and stand happily on your shore.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd kiss the sky, thank the eyes of the Lord.
If I could I'd find the turn to your door.
I'd keep the key and stand happily on your shore.
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7. |
Only a Game
01:45
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8. |
Sing
02:15
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Sing [2018 Recording] Missing Link Us CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
You've got the loving I want,
with kind hearts, sing as you walk.
They whisper over your name
follow Cupid on your shoulder again.
They say she 'd be the one for him,
she could trust the friend in him that she gets.
Then she smiles and frowns for a thought,
we read the same, then the sound carries up.
Sing my love, sing me so far
Sing my love, over the stars
Sing my love, sing happy again
Sing my love, make the magic begin
Pretty pink bows on her knees.
snaps her stockings so nobody sees.
Stands again to a start a new week
double shifts and malted's complete.
Claps her hands in the car to a beat
well tonight she's coming here to eat.
She's loving driving the long road away
love's breaking, then she's speeding again.
Sing my love, sing me so far
Sing my love, over the stars
Sing my love, sing happy again
Sing my love, make the magic begin
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9. |
Star Spangled Banner
00:35
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10. |
My Lover Says
02:20
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She goes walking where she wants to in the long hot summer's day.
And I do not argue with her and I watch her walk away.
Sometimes I possess her but the wild can't be tamed.
It's like a tail that I keep chasing as I'm searching for her name.
And My Lover Says, She Understands.
The many hour's wages draw the blood straight from my veins
as I'm dreaming of her brown hair in this Monday morning's race.
I miss for the ages and the tears that can't be placed.
But she's tougher than this worry that binds us to this waiting game.
And My Lover Says, She Understands.
She answers yes,
she answers me yes
she answers yes
she answers yes
she answers yes
she answers yes.
Because she's the best.
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11. |
Greet the Wonderful Day
02:52
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Greet The Day - Missing Link Us [World Premiere Video]
CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
Published Mule-Go-Round Entertainment
They gathered at the frown village
just to hold all the joker's down
but any jokers love keeps spilling
from the fountain he has found,
and mercy's so revealing
as the rain falls on the ground
come on now you can shout
the sun's coming through the clouds.
Greet the wonderful day,
wave the fear away
'cause love's the only hope that grows,
and hope's the love I've known.
At first love is a feeling
and a feeling can go away
and may leave a lover doubting
a decision he has made?
And desire's so deceiving
it can tempt your heart away,
but lover keep your faith
a choice is given grace.
Greet the wonderful day,
wave the fear away
'cause love's the only hope that grows,
and hope's the love I've known.
Greet the wonderful day,
wave the fear away
'cause love's the only hope that grows,
and hope's the love I've known.
"Someone should place Missing Link under arrest for making such criminally catchy music. Speeding guitars crank out three chord processions as fast as you can take 'em, and vocals are bratty and whiny. Mostly, they sing about (surprise!) girls." - Kali Holloway
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12. |
Need Love to Stay
03:08
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Need Love To Stay [Mix 2] Missing Link Us - 2018 - Recording CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
Excited, I recite it, I can't hide it,
I feel love.
Like Everest, a big crush, high tree tops,
I feel love.
Don't turn away, I feel so afraid.
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
to stay
A new chance, slow romance, fate in trance
I feel trust
Life's so long, so grab on, yeah be strong,
I feel trust
Don't turn away, I feel so afraid.
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
to stay
Don't turn away, I feel so afraid.
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
to stay
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
Stay with me, comfort me, I need love
to stay.
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13. |
If I Give You Love
02:41
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If I Give You Love - 2018 CD "Dave That's Not My Toe!"
If I give you love
why do you give me back
such heartache?
I give you love
why do you give me back
such heartache?
She plot a course,
she set it straight,
measured the wind,
said no to fate.
She sails alone with,
this life she's made,
Pushes and pulls,
The shore away.
If I give you love
why do you give me back
such heartache?
Npw pans and cobbles,
cook at the stove,
which one that's burning,
he couldn't know?
Unfinished women,
in speckled time,
lift tragic moral,
life hasn't rhyme.
If I give you love
why do you give me back
such heartache?
Tonight she's burning,
today he drown,
and for this yearning,
they never found.
Until we give in,
to see what's real,
we'll keep denying,
how we need to, feel.
If I give you love
why do you give me back
such heartache?
If I give you love
why do you give me back
such heartache
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14. |
Don't Be Sad
02:36
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Don't Be Sad - Missing Link Us - 2018 - CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
Don't frown, down shout the day
Twenty's a life of learning from thirty
when you'll see the way.
Keep faith, keep your mind straight.
Don't be sad it's gonna work out. Don't be sad, smile.
Don't be sad, your life is so strong, give all the kindness you can.
Squeeze hard, shoulder hold,
tears and pain, cries and screams, to healing,
like a baby's hand that you hold,
you can speak bold..
Don't be sad it's gonna work out. Don't be sad, smile.
Don't be sad, your life is so strong, give all the kindness you can.
Find out you gotta know your way.
Walk on past despair of someone else,
who made mistakes yesterday,
now it's not that day..
Don't be sad it's gonna work out. Don't be sad, smile.
Don't be sad, your life is so strong give all the kindness you can.
Don't be sad it's gonna work out. Don't be sad, smile.
Don't be sad, your life is so strong give all the kindness you can.
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15. |
Painted Phony Pony
02:10
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Painted Phony Pony - Missing Link Us 2018 CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
Be your painted phony pony, in a magazine.
We can play the slots together, I'll watch you scream.
I'll be your painted phony pony, in a magazine.
We play the slots together, then I'm watching you scream.
See the bottom of a
numbered page.
Ten photos for a grin
to show that way.
I'll be your painted phony pony in a magical dream.
I'll see you float above me when we visit today.
I'll be your painted phony pony in a magical dream.
I see you float above me then we visit again.
And when we wake so below.
where we've no one to have or so to hold
I'll be your painted phony pony, in a magazine.
We can play the slots together, and I'll watch you scream.
I'll be your painted phony pony, in a magazine.
We'll play the slots together, and I'll watch you scream.
If you see the screenshot complete.
Why any clown needs his facepaint.
Be your painted phony pony, in a magazine.
We can play the slots together, I'll watch you scream.
I'll be your painted phony pony, in a magazine.
We play the slots together, then I'm watching you scream.
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16. |
I've Got the Blues
02:12
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I've Got The Blues - Missing Link Us - 2018 - CD "Dave That's Not My Toe!"
If I should live this way, put myself to bed,
the world never changes, to take the game I play!
I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got no, Play-bill, I've got no hay bale, I've got no, "pay bill" too.
I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got no, pay bail, no paper, filled with chlorophyll.
I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got no, Play-bill, I've got no hay bale, I've got no, "pay bill" too.
've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got no, pay bail, no paper, filled with chlorophyll.
I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
If I should live this way, put myself to bed,
the world never changes, to take the game I play!
I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got no, Playbill, I've got no, hay bale, I've got no, "pay bill" too.
I've got the blues, I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
I've got no, pay bail, no paper, filled with chlorophyll.
I've got the blues, I've got the blues.
If I should live this way, put myself to bed,
the world never changes, to take the game I play!
"Someone should place Missing Link under arrest for making such criminally catchy music. Speeding guitars crank out three chord processions as fast as you can take 'em, and vocals are bratty and whiny. Mostly, they sing about (surprise!) girls." - Kali Holloway
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17. |
Darling Won't You
03:02
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Darling Won't You? [2018 Recording] Missing Link Us CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
Darling won't you give me a hand take my foot from my mouth, I burned my bridges behind and I'm was in this pool of doubt. I was lying next to you when my past crept back to me. I needed to confess, your face read I just can't believe.
Darling won't you give me a hand take my foot from my mouth, I burned my bridges behind and I'm was in this pool of doubt.
Is there a perfect life that we live? You make me feel so complete. I called you Norma Jean, now all I know is Brenda Lee.
Lead guitar
Darling won't you give me a hand take my foot from my mouth, I burned my bridges behind and I'm was in this pool of doubt.
I was lying next to you when my past crept back to me. I needed to confess, what I said you just couldn't believe.
I'll get what I deserve but I never dreamed how this could be and with the secrets that we shared won't you someday see this as funny?
Darling won't you give me a hand take my foot from my mouth, I burned my bridges behind and I'm swimming in this pool of doubt.
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18. |
Returnable Gift
03:16
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Returnable Gift [Mix 3] $32 Fade [2018 Recording] Missing Link Us CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
I'm a child in the first grade,
Stacey's causing such tears.
I want her for a Valentine
then the teacher says, "don't stare."
I'm giving here. unconditional.
they say to me you're weird
I'm learning now in mid July,
that trust is causing me fear.
So don't even touch me
unless you mean it?
it confuses me
if love's a
returnable gift,
that brings consequence
and uncomfortable circumstance
that my heart can't mend?
I don't know if it's funny I can't tell if it's sad I don't like to cry but its so hard to laugh.
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19. |
So in Love with You
01:50
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Love can change the man
the only thing that can.
Quiet's will, makes one still,
quell's the outer rule.
I'm falling for you
I'm so in love with you
there's nothing i can do.
Watching you dance here
is like a cure.
Just one look at you
strength comes flowing through.
A sister there, a time not here
to watch you rock this room.
I feel for you
I'm so in love with you
there's nothing I can do,
watching you smile here
is like a cure.
Like a cure
Like a cure
Like a cure...
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20. |
Run Away
04:28
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Run Away [Fade] [2018 Recording] Missing Link Us - CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!
I've got to run away, from these fears I still obey, they tell me I'm a slave to guns of civil shame where survival's like a plague because we're forced to kill in vain.
I've got to run away, from these walls, bloody paint. They push an addicts fate, envy is a deadly trait, drugs won't reshape their pain, when they find they're still the same.
I've got to run away, from these men of frozen veins, they'll squeeze your strength away in a vice that doesn't break, they'll invent a liars game, speak the truth and they'll put you away.
I've got to run away, from these tears duty's weight life's become estranged as Oh Gees make their play, for a world that won't be the same, remove their masks, then your'e fleeing again.
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21. |
Glory
03:30
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Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for
they are white already to harvest.
[36] And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.[37] And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.[38] I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
Fields of white,
then choose not to see...
It has been said
Your world is spread
on the earth.
Yet the blind don't agree
and choose not to see
for it's worth.
We need help as the violence spreads
Like a sword that puts hate to an end.
And we're crying out for love
as we're searching the skies above.
Wait for the glory
and this frightening story
just repeats itself.
We are like wandering victims,
we have felt this affliction,
we're in poor health.
I've seen on a screen
blood sin and greed
and I'm shamed.
Belligerence dwells
in this symptom they sell
called black fate.
So as the hour starts to a close
can't you give us some mercy to hold?
And we'll wait by your well
where the thorns cruelly fell.
Wait for glory
as this frightening story
just repeats itself
we are like wandering victims
we have felt the affliction,
we're in poor health.
And I can't understand
how hate could mislead every man? We're bound to a race
where freedom's a trait
we can't stand.
Liars still speak,
fools still compete
and it's so hard to believe.
So hard to believe.
So hard to believe.
Wait for the glory
as this frightening story
just repeats itself.
We are like wandering victims
we have felt the affliction,
we're in poor health.
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22. |
My Kind 1978
02:03
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My Kind 1978 [2018 Recording] Missing Link Us CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
I'm running around with my kind.
I'm not wasting no time. She's got that look in her eye.
She's gonna love me tonight.
She was born on the street.
She was born with the beat.
She moves her hands & her feet.
She makes me feel so complete,
She's my kind. Who's your kind? Are you his kind? She's my kind. Who's your kind? Are you my kind? 'Cause she's my kind.
Tomorrow morning is school.
I got the Sunday night blues.
They say I got all the tools
Why don't you follow the rules?
Don't want to be understood.
All they know is bad news.
We don't share the same views.
"Why don't they leave me alone."
There's a man over there.
He's nearing sixty-nine years.
He's got his toes in the sand.
He's feeling all that he can.
He's my kind. Is he your kind? Are you his kind? He's all right, you know that kind. Who's your kind? Well, he's my kind.
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23. |
Remember
02:36
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24. |
Sin City
03:50
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Sin City [2018 Recording] Missing Link Us CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!" Fade
I came here to forget my girl
black cat scratching on a window sill.
She was quite a girl.
Stole a picture from my diary board.
Turned me into a company bore.
I was not a toy.
And it's all going down
in Sin City.
Won't miss a trick
in Sin City.
I put a coin on a two bit fur
stole a receipt for what they bargained for.
They can't listen no more.
I threw a curve straight around the world
the rest of the dollar made a neon chair
with the stars sitting there.
It's all happening now
in Sin City.
Sin City
Sin City
Sin City
Sin City
It's a hell of a roll you'll find
in Sin City.
I came to forget my girl
Nirvana's screaming for a bran new world.
I threw a curve straight around the world
the rest of the dollar made a neon chair
with the stars sitting there.
It's all going down
in Sin City.
Ask anybody who's anybody who's anybody that knows
it's everywhere.
Won't miss a trick
in Sin City.
Sin City Sin City Sin City Sin City.
You can recuse yourself
but you can't get out of, Sin City.
Sin City Sin City
Sin City Sin City
Sin City Sin City
Sin City Sin City
You can recuse yourself
but you can't get out of
Sin City
Ask anybody who's anybody who's anybody who knows,
it's everywhere.
It's all happening now
in Sin City.
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25. |
Answer
02:01
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Have you heard my lovely one, do you see why I need you?
And can you see the ships upon the sea I wanna know what will you do?
How long is time my love, your shudder proved you knew.
We shared a ghost that won't let go time stopped when I held you.
try to answer forget the past. try to answer forgive at last.
I remember on the shelf the page of honest fear.
I cant accept the lies they've taught a new world trumpets near.
You can not lessen truth my love, any child says it's so?
And love's a truth that sets us free, it's a bond that saves our soul.
Try to answer forget the past. Try to answer forgive at last.
Try to answer forget the past. Try to answer forgive at last.
Try to answer forget the past. Try to answer forgive at last.
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26. |
Burt Lancaster in Ohio
01:37
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27. |
Dream in My Mind
04:07
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28. |
Summertime
03:40
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Summertime [2018 Recording] [Mix #100] Missing Link Us CD "Dave, That's Not My Toe!"
In summertime
we feel so fine
let's take a ride
to summertime.
We'll drive our car
go so far
lead our hearts
away from here.
Straight to the sun
on number one,
getting there
is half the fun,
park on the beach
wait for the moon.
In summertime
we feel so fine
let's take a ride
to summertime.
We'll walk the jetty
late at night,
dodge the stars
hold on tight.
The august air
is magic here,
into your eyes
the sea's a mirror
I dream someday
we'll move away
To summertime
we feel so fine
let's take a ride
in summertime.
I wait for the day
that our love will stay
there's a world so confused
that we face.
In summertime
we feel so fine
let's take a ride
to summertime.
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Missing Link Us Los Angeles, California
I handed a cassette to then Columbia Artist Walter Egan at The Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach, CA in 1985. Walter Egan proceeded to record & produce four song ep, receiving airplay on KROQ & college radio. A stronger vocalist was needed. Funding could not be obtained to entice the band members from pursuing other ambition in the; then; very strong business sector, where they remain to this day. ... more
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