I'm getting ready to go on the radio here in Austin - KOOP 91.7FM - with my friend, Rush K. Evans III, and I'm really looking forward to it ✨
There was a time in my life when I would have been wrecked with anxiety, sure I would fail this test, so what's different now? I think I'm finally realizing how each moment is just…a moment.
A drop of expression.
Not a defining execution.
What a concept.
I wanted to share my setlist and lyrics for the songs I'm singing today, and that's it. See ya out there 😘
SETLIST
Evening Rose
Shoot ‘Em Up
Help Me
Shotgun Heart
Renegade
Painkillers and Hurricanes
Coldstream Valley
Great Divide
Out There
Lyrics:
EVENING ROSE
Evening Rose
Evening Rose
Opening
Just as the sun goes
Down
Evening Rose
Evening Rose
The sun is down yet you glow
Pale
CHORUS:
It is such a sight to see you blooming
Oh
In all your glory, hallelujah
Oh, it’s a sight to see you bloom
Evening Rose
Evening Rose
Planted where
Your beauty softly grows
In the shadow
CHORUS
SHOOT 'EM UP
Well I shook off the dust
And laid down my weapon
A shadow come across
That buried the setting sun
‘Cause heaven seen what I’d done
I’d heard all about them
Boys they call
With them sharp shooting rifles
They’re carrying the law
Cause there ain’t enough for us all
Chorus:
So shoot em up, baby
Oh, shoot em all down
Shoot em up, babe
Oh, you can’t save em now
Well the sign on the church door
Says, any shall pass
With the lord as his shepherd
A man can rest at last
God will forgive his past
Chorus
Something it shakes near the ground and it’s loaded
Something to die for,
Yeah something to give
Well it haunts me today
From a long time ago
Can’t close my eyes
With them wretched ghosts
Begging me to let them go
But I shoot em up, baby
I shoot em all down
I shoot em up, babe
Oh
I shoot em up, baby
I shoot em all down
I shoot em up, babe
Oh
You can’t save em now
HELP ME
Help me
I’m sinkin low
I’ve been up crying
From a hurt you don’t know
Darlin you want me to leave you alone
You’d do anything to let me know
Chorus:
Help me!
My baby’s gone
All I got left is a mem’ry
Help me
There’s somethin I know
You will be sorry
Without me to hold
Darlin you tell me to love someone new
Like I’d do anything you tell me to
Chorus
Everything you know
Is gonna die anyway
Everything you love
Is gonna die
Help me
I don’t know what to do
I lost everything
I saw her holding you
If it were love I saw there in your eyes
I watched it die
Oooooooooohhhh
SHOTGUN HEART
The first time
I let it slide
Like you were guiltless
Let it go right by
Kneeling
By your side
Shocked to stillness
Scared for my life
I don’t think I believed you had it in you
To haul off
And aim like that
Chorus:
Shotgun heart
A bullet in your chest
Fire it, save yourself
Shotgun heart
Shotgun heart
The next time
Now who's to blame
Should know the outcome
Of my actions
Looking into your face
I seen a shadow
Saw someone else
I don't think that I wanted to believe it
But somehow I knew
What was to come
Chorus
You couldn't hide it
Not forever
It's cold metal
It's your gun…
Shotgun heart
Shotgun heart
Shotgun heart
Chorus
RENEGADE
Dolly trollin on the line at midnight
She’s out running the risk
She got a baby back there with her mama
And a long list of payback
Yeah payback
Tricks are walking up and down the street
She got one eye on
Everyone she meets
Yeah everyone
Chorus:
Oh, she’ll have to get down, get down
She’ll have to lay it down
Oh, she’ll have to get down
Renegade
Ooh renegade
He used to beat her real bad
He was mean, alcohol and rock cocaine
And pain
She got out, she got clean
Sick of hiding from him
But the baby’s got his name
Chorus
Now, she’s standing under the same street light
Cuz she knows
If she’s gonna win
There’s no backin down
He come round the corner,
Spinnin rims, they lock eyes
She puts the pistol in her hand
Bam.
Chorus
PAINKILLERS AND HURRICANES
Chorus:
Painkillers and hurricanes
Prescription
Addicted to hard things
Destruction is coming
Painkillers and hurricanes
Will leave you stranded
I’m lost where’s my angel?
Can’t you see I need help?
Give me some kind of shelter
Protection fr myself
Need something to cling to
Or do I just let go?
Leave my body empty
In the eye of the storm
Chorus
The wind’s been cryin
Callin my name
Nobody answers
Now here comes the rain
The lights start to flicker
Black cloud rollin in
Let’s see when it’s over
If there’s anything left
Chorus
The Carolinas are stronger than I am
Land can’t hold me down
The Carolina’s are stronger than I am
Chorus
COLDSTREAM VALLEY
Summer sets on the valley
Manzanita grouped tight on the hillside, facing East
Dust settles down like a blanket of gold
Waters are still now, and low
Golden light, a halo
Shining
Glittering grass sways slow
Calling home…
Chorus:
Bury me in Coldstream valley
Bury me where headwaters flow from Judas shadow
Bury me beneath the tall pines
Let the wind whisper my name
Bury me in Coldstream
Shadows growing longer
Season has to change red needles falling to the ground
Brook trout swimming trapped in pools underneath
Waiting for the rain to set them free
Amber light, a halo
Shining
Reflections of the sky above
Calling home…
Chorus
Snow drifts in heavy
Piling in pillows of soft white down
Air so silent nothing makes a sound
Still life all around
Soft white light, a halo
Shining
Glittering diamonds snow
Calling home…
Rushing river, snow melt
Am
Raging with destruction
And life springs again…
Chorus
GREAT DIVIDE
I see you
I see me
And it don’t look like it used to
Somehow the distance
Is longer than I remember
I don’t know how we got so far
Or what’s come in between us
But honey, I’m falling out of love
Chorus:
Great divide
There’s a canyon between us
Great divide
Looking over the edge
Great divide
Don’t you feel so helpless?
Helpless, helpless and fallin again
I call out
And you call out
But we are just hearing an echo
Somehow our voices
Are darker than I remember
I don’t know who hurt worse
Or if there can be forgiveness
But honey, I’m fallin out of love
Chorus
We’re facing off
It’s getting dark
Yeah, the light is fading
But if someone
Is watching?
From the highest please
Love us …
Chorus
OUT THERE
There she goes
Ridin off into the sun
Will she turn around?
And wave through the dust
Sun goes down
Moon spilling up
A coyote cryin in the wind,
Lonesome
Chorus:
Are you out there?
Ridin your pony on the range
Are you out there…?
Midnight sky
Sparkling with stars
Will she build a fire?
Or lie in the dark
Get along, little dawg
Get along
Get along
Chorus
Is there any trace?