1. Just Around the Corner
Vic Riden & Owen Plant
Life’s real good just around the corner
Gotta hold on (a) little bit longer
She’s waiting there for only me to hold her
Feel her head tucked on my shoulder
Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer
My cider and cash, harder and colder
Hand in hand together growing older
Life’s damn good just around the corner
When I was a young man I was never wrong
If I said it was true or sang it in a song
Couldn’t bear a counter whether short or long
I been pulled from that smelter red hot in the tongs
So I’ll chop the wood and carry the water
Fix the fence, fire up the solder
Be kind yet firm with our sons and our daughters
Life’s real good just around the corner
Life’s real good just around the corner
Gotta hold on a little bit longer
She’s waiting there for only me to hold her
Feel her head tucked on my shoulder
Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer
My cider and cash, harder and colder
I’m winning both, the over and the under
Life’s damn good just around the corner
Wise is as wise does but I’m sometimes confused
Between hard determination (and) what amounts to a short fuse
I just found out I been paying the wrong kind of dues
For how long, I can’t be sure, but I know I stand to loose
Tír na nÓg is what they say in the bogs
When they’re chopping peat and every day is a slog
But a better day is always just around the corner
Gotta hold on a little bit longer!
Life’s real good just around the corner
Gotta hold on a little bit longer
She’s waiting there for only me to hold her
Feel her head tucked on my shoulder
Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer
My cider and cash, harder and colder
I’m winning both, the over and the under
Life’s damn good just around the corner
I know my clock is already reading half past
And noone on this earth can forever last
But I can wait a little bit longer if you ask
My nose to the grindstone and a fire under my ass!
If you don’t believe in that great reward
Well that’s more for me and less for yourn
Just two more feet pushing this boulder
Life’s real good just around the corner
Life’s real good just around the corner
Gotta hold on a little bit longer
She’s waiting there for only me to hold her
Feel her head tucked on my shoulder
Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer
My cider and cash, harder and colder
Hand in hand together growing older
Life’s damn good just around the corner
2. Together Always Be
Owen Plant
She dreams about him every night
He ages as he would if he were with her in life
She sees no need to visit his grave
They already talk at the end of each day
Because death is not the absence of life
It’s more like the crossing of a sea
They call her ‘widow’ but still a wife in her heart she always will be
Her daughter Grace remembers his face but his voice in song she cannot quite place
Her mother smiles when she hears the tune that he could have written coming from the other room
Because death is not the absence of life
It’s more like the crossing of a sea
They call her ‘widow’ but still a wife in her heart she always will be
So when at last their time has come to leave this shore for the other one
You generations left behind need not grieve, you need not cry
Because death is not the end of us
It’s more like the crossing of a sea
These souls of ours that travel must together always be
3. Keep the Change
Vic Riden & Owen Plant
Some of them girls took my worldly gold
Others made it their mission to break my very soul
They all walked away better than before
Left me with nothing, took a little more
Just when I thought there ain’t no ‘her’ to find
Gave love up as a ghost, put it out of my mind
She walked out my dreams from when my dreams were kind
Can this vision be real or is it just that love is blind?
She loves to give and gives to love
She’s like an angel sent from above
And when I ask how can I repay
She smiles and says, “baby keep the change”
Take take take
That’s what I seen
Me me me has been the general theme
So you can see for me how it’s a little bit strange
When someone says ‘you don’t owe me no way’
Just when I thought I’d always be alone
She came to me like some magic seeds were sown
Kind as a saint and oh so fine
Can this vision be real or is it just that love is blind?
She loves to give and gives to love
She’s like an angel sent from above
And when I ask how can I repay
She smiles and says baby keep the change
Got my back
Got my six
Got me covered when I’m in a fix
By my side when it can’t get worse
Don’t even have to ask
And for me that’s a first
Just when I thought there ain’t no ‘her’ to find
Gave love up as a ghost put it out of my mind
She walked out my dreams from when my dreams were kind
Can this vision be real or is it just that love is blind?
She loves to give and gives to love
She’s like an angel sent from above
And when I ask how can I repay
She smiles and says baby keep the change
She loves to give and gives to love
She’s like an angel sent from above
And when I ask how can I repay
She smiles and says baby keep the change
baby keep the change
baby keep the change
4. All the While
Owen Plant
Pushed just a little bit
Might as well have been a mighty kick
As I flew through the air I saw you and your blank stare
If only you would scream at me or do anything more than wait and see
Then at least break or bend, there’d be no more pretend
All the while calling me
As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free
Oh son, father, spirit, three
Whatever works for you is good for me
Seven years tend to itch a bit
Times three, you think you’re through the thick of it
Then you wake up from a dream to find this wall in between
High and low, just the way it goes
Any lower we’ll be past the nose
If we push off for air we’ll maybe make it one more year
All the while calling me
As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free
Oh son, father, spirit, three
Whatever works for you is good for me
Beauty like I’ve never seen has come to us in evergreen
But I’m a hopeless case, everything’s still out of place
All the while calling me
As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free
Oh son, father, spirit, three
Whatever works for you is good for me
All the while calling me
As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free
How I wish, how I wish you could see you and me at the end of the journey
5. Bury Me
Vic Riden & Owen Plant
Plant that seed of sorrow
Take away all our tomorrows
And at first, yes, I will weep
Bury me baby oh so deep
When that sun shines on through
And I grow right on past you
Watch me become stronger
And crave you no longer
Go on drive me deep into the ground
Let darkness and unknown surround
Throw on that hurt and that pain
They will serve as my dirt and my rain
And when you want to come back home
And you find I’m not alone
It’s cuz I grew tall and complete
Yeah, bury me baby oh so deep
Go on drive me deep into the ground
Let darkness and unknown surround
Throw on that hurt and that pain
They will serve as my dirt and my rain
Did you know when we took this way only you would get to leave and I’d be left to make my way from underneath?
Go on drive me deep into the ground
Let darkness and unknown surround
Throw on that hurt and that pain
They will serve as my dirt and my rain
Throw on that hurt and that pain
They will serve as my dirt and my rain
6. Side Two
Owen Plant
I think we finished side two
Hear that scratching on the table?
Well you know what to do
Turn it over when you’re able
I can see you’re having a hard time
Even lifting the needle seems to blow your mind
But we can’t just sit in a dead room
It’s as silent as a tomb
I’m sorry it’s now up to you
You are the new keeper of the tune
I know that when I was around
I was the DJ you were the crowd
I can see that you’re missing me
But hear my voice I’m telling you something
Keep playing that record till the end
I’ll be in your arms again
This one was playing when I met you
And again when you said goodbye
Like a knot was tied in time
Undo it and then we can fly
I’m sorry it’s now up to you
You are the new keeper of the tune
I know that when I was around
I was the DJ you were the crowd
I can see that you’re missing me
But hear my voice I’m telling you something
Keep playing that record till the end
I’ll be in your arms again
No two people ever hear this melody and think the thoughts that make us dream of each other except for us
No two people on planet earth can make it worth the time it takes to switch the record or the tape deck over other than us oh!
Remember this one? Loved to sing it for you and watch you smile
Our friends said I did it better than the original but they were lying
Sometimes when I’m alone in bed I hear a snippet in my head
Wonder if you’re haunting me
If I’ll dream that sweetest dream
You and I are hand in hand
Walking, talking making stands
Laughing, pushing working out
What this life is all about X 3
Will we ever work it out?
Are you saying that you’re missing me?
I hear your voice It’s telling me something
Keep playing this record till the end
I’ll be in your arms again
Here it is again, end of side two
I know you got things you have to do
Just leave the needle where it is
And the room with the crackle and the hiss
7. Sorry Anymore
Owen Plant
We are all out of ‘Apologies’
No more ‘Scraping on our knees’
And don’t you bother checking back for day-old ‘Pleases’
All our stock is overdrawn
No deliveries coming with the dawn
Let this notice serve to inform
You have been warned
We don’t carry sorry anymore
We want to thank you for your patronage
And for any inconvenience
You may now experience
We do feel some regret
For the moment we have to shut it down
Change a few things around
Store the rest in a room uptown
Maybe open up again
But we won’t carry sorry anymore
Everything must one day end
No matter how we try and defend
It’s always better to stretch and bend
Than to snap in the wind
If you plan on stopping by our place
For some ‘Contrition on a face’
Well as is said “you’re short one ace”
There’s none of that in store
You might want to try the guy next door
Cuz we don’t carry sorry anymore
Extra verse for live version (spoken after solo):
Don’t stress about what you should confess
Say what’s on your mind then you don’t have to guess
The good the bad the ugly - put ‘em all to the test!
For me I know which ones are best
In fact I think I’ll stock some of these here shelves
with ‘scowls’ and ‘howls’ and ‘watch yourselves’
Maybe even try and sell one of those old ‘hells bells’
There’s a whole world to explore
I’m definitely not gonna carry sorry anymore!
8. Ride With Me
Vic Riden & Owen Plant
You popped up my hood, took a look inside
Now you got shotgun but you can even take the wheel
As long as you’re with me on this fine fine ride
I trust you baby and that is for real
Slide over here right by my side
Let’s cruise the open road, nothing to hide no no
Ride with me to the end of the line
Drive me baby ‘til the end of time
Doesn’t really matter where we begin
We ride together ‘til the road’s very end
When darkness comes and hard rain falls
When the journey long and the worry is so tough
Or maybe baby we just gone and stalled
Well we got each other and that is enough
Slide over here right by my side
Let’s cruise the open road, nothing to hide no no
Ride with me to the end of the line
Drive me baby ‘til the end of time
Doesn’t really matter where we begin
We ride together ‘til the road’s very end
I see others race on by, I think ‘hey what’s the rush?’
I like the speed we got child, not too little and not too much
How lucky a man am I that you just agree
I could be that poor guy, thumb out, with no one but me
But that ain’t the way it’s supposed to be
Ride with me to the end of the line
Drive me baby ‘til the end of time
Doesn’t really matter where we begin
We ride together ‘til the road’s very end
Doesn’t really matter where we begin
We ride together ‘til the road’s very end
9. Listen to How I Play
Owen Plant
Love is one of those funny things
If you want it gotta give it away
Try and win it just for you
You will lose
See it everywhere if you look
But you can't catch it with a hook
You'll be swinging at thin air
Saying "Hey it just ain't fair!"
Make a little time today
Listen to how I play
Ain't no rules to follow just fun
When you check the clock and say
"Wish so much that I could stay"
You're wishing alone when you could be loving someone
Love is one of those funny things
If you want it gotta give it away
You can share it at a rapid pace
With just a smile upon your face
Want to figure it with your head
I'm telling you try your heart instead
Can be so close, then so far away
It's a funny thing I say
Take a little time today
Listen to how I play
Ain't no rules to follow just fun
When you check the clock and say
"Wish so much that I could stay"
You're wishing alone when you could be loving someone
Take a little time today
Listen to how I play
Ain't no rules to follow just fun
When you check the clock and say
"I wish so much that I could stay"
You're wishing alone when you could be loving someone
Oh you're wishing alone when you could be loving someone
Wishing alone when you could be loving someone
10. Wheel In The Sky
Journey
Winter is here again oh Lord
Haven't been home in a year or more
I hope she holds on a little bit longer
Sent a letter on a long summer day
Made of silver, not made of clay
I've been runnin' down this dusty road
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning
I've been trying to make it home oh Lord
Got to make it back before too long
I can't take this very much longer, no
I'm stranded in the sleet and rain
Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again
The morning sun is rising, it's kissing the day
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning