JOE BONAMASSA: Different Shades Of Blue (2014)

1. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)

2. Oh Beautiful!

3.Love Ain't A Love Song

4. Living On The Moon

5. Heartache Follows Wherever I Go

6. Never Give All Your Heart

7. I Gave Up Everything For You, 'Cept The Blues

8. Different Shades Of Blue

9. Get Back My Tomorrow

10. Trouble Town

11. So, What Would I do

HEY BABY (NEW RISING SUN)

(Instrumental)

OH BEAUTIFUL!

Oh beautiful, if you were mine

I would write you letters and pour you sweet wine

Oh beautiful, why you so blue?

Can only see the way I see you

Oh gravity weighing on my soul

Keeps bringing you round back to me

Like dirt to a stone

Oh gravity, don’t you ever go to sleep

Might wake up in the morning

And she’ll be gone from your reach

Oh beautiful, if you were mine

I would write you letters and pour you sweet wine

Oh beautiful, why you so blue?

If you can only see the way I see you

LOVE AIN'T A LOVE SONG

Happiness is a battle, happiness is pain

Happiness is a woman who you love till she goes on and shames you

Happiness is value, happiness is a poem

Happiness is a lie for you know the calm before the storm

Ain’t nobody love you better, ain’t nobody but me

And all I want is a fair shake at love, get a little something for free

Love ain’t a love song, love ain’t a love song

Love ain’t a love song, tell me baby yeah

Love ain’t a love song

Hip them all to the city

Hip them all to the scene?

Hip them all to the woman you want bringing them all to their knees

Hip them all to the badlands

Hip them all to the stars

All I know is the woman I knew didn’t get me too far

Ain’t nobody love you better, ain’t nobody but me

All I want is a fair shake at love, get a little something for free

Ain’t nobody work harder, ain’t nobody love you more

All I know it’s the fall of a man wearing the crown of thorns

Love ain’t a love song, love ain’t a love song

Love ain’t a love song, tell me baby yeah

Love ain’t a love song, love ain’t a love song

Love ain’t a love song

Ain’t nobody love you better, ain’t nobody but me

All I want is a fair shake at love, get a little something for free

Ain’t nobody work harder, ain’t nobody love you more

All I know is the fall of a man wearing the crown of thorns

Love ain’t a love song, love ain’t a love song

Love ain’t a love song, tell me baby yeah

Love ain’t a love song, love ain’t a love song

Love ain’t a love song, can tell me baby

Love ain’t a love song, love ain’t a love song

Love ain’t a love song

LIVING ON THE MOON

Hard to breath, the airs been stolen

Without muy suit, blues been swollen

It’s hot  as Hades

And it ain’t even noon

‘Cause hanging round with you is like living on the moon

Threw me out, guess we’re even

Took me back when I was leaving

Something tells me it was all too soon

‘Cause hanging round with you is like living on the moon

There are times where you’re the best thing on earth

When the sun comes up we stop throwing the dirt

Hard to keep my feet on the ground

Love the ups, hate the downs

If I steer right I might make it to the dunes

‘Cause hanging out with you is like living on the moon

Oh  hit me now

There are times where you’re the best thing on earth

When the sun comes up we stop throwing the dirt

Maybe we just need some space

I’ll leave my bag here just in case

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been marooned

‘Cause hanging round with you is like living on the moon

‘Cause hanging round with you is like living on the moon

HEARTACHE FOLLOWS WHEREVER I GO

Maybe I’m done crying all them tears

Maybe this love ain’t a souvenir

I hope I ain’t being a fool

‘Cause love going wrong can be so cruel

Maybe I’m walking right into a trap

Maybe some karma just gettin’ me back

Maybe this dust on my hands is gold

‘Cause heartbreak follows me wherever I go

Winds in my favor, suns at my back

I don’t pay those dues and I’m due some money back

You look like your

Life’s been a mess

Was it just like me

I’ve been down to the bottom and I know it hurts

I’ve been kicked in the chin baby

I’ve grown in the dirt

Winds in my favor, suns at my back

I don’t pay those dues and I’m due some money back

You look like your

Life’s been a mess

Was it just like me

I’ve been down to the bottom and I know it hurts

I’ve been kicked in the chin baby

I’ve grown in the dirt

Maybe I left it all behind

Different town at another time

Cover my tracks, wear a disguise

Looking for a little piece of mind

Maybe the truth is just a lie

Maybe there’s no good reason why

Maybe this dust on my hands is gold

‘Cause heartbreak follows me wherever I go

Heartbreak follows me wherever I go

Heartbreak follows me wherever I go

NEVER GIVE ALL YOUR HEART

She left a letter on the table

Said she’d be home by five

The smell of all coffee lingers on my mind

I want to wait to hear those footsteps

Climb those old creaky stairs

Every lonely night I miss her presence everywhere

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

Familiar places that we went to become like dying vines

Each a painful reminder of love and better times

Such a hard time to get over

Such a deep love that’s lost

From the sun, the morning dew, the moon, the evening frost

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

The heat of passion will deceive you

Make you a different man

Turns peasants to kings dry dirt to fertile land

So I’ve joined the walking wounded

Had my gun at my side

Some surrender, others march until they die

With the promise of you just enough

Never give all your heart to love

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

I cry to the sky above

Never give all your heart to love

I GAVE UP EVERYTHING FOR YOU, 'CEPT THE BLUES

Put down that two pack habit yesterday

Threw that shot glass just to watch it break

My whiskey bottle turned upside down in the drain

Those wild women that’s a whole nother thing

I gave up everything baby

I gave up everything for you

I got nothing left to lose

I gave up everything for you, ‘cept the blues

Went on a diet yeah I’m eating good

Gave up the things you said I should

Fit as a fiddle girl I lost 10 pounds

So why am I so damn down?

I gave up everything now

I gave up everything for you

I got nothing left to lose

I gave up everything for you, ‘cept the blues

Put out the reefer, no more getting stoned

Trade in my fast car for a motor home

Took all my demons put ‘em in a sack

How come I still feel there’s a monkey on my back

I gave up everything baby

I gave up everything for you

I got nothing left to lose

I gave up everything for you, ‘cept the blues

I had the good life in the days I was king

Ain’t nothing left now but the same old blues I sing

Gave up everything baby

I gave up everything for you

I got nothing left to lose

I gave up everything for you, ‘cept the blues

DIFFERENT SHADES OF BLUE

The sun's been shinin' down on the day and night

Gettin' away with murder, livin' a lucky life

All good things finally come to an end

Hit you like a train if you try to pretend

Everybody knows that she broke your heart

Everybody knows that it's been tearing you apart

The boat you've been sailin' on sprung a leak

You won't admit it but it's starting to make you weak

When you got nothing left to lose

Might sound good, but I'm not sure that's true

You carry the pain around and that's what sees you through

The different shades of blue

Can tell by the way you hang your head

The way you cast your eyes and things you haven't said

You've got the past ten years written on your face

Your whole damn life's been one big race

Everybody goes there whether they want to or not

Everybody starts to hold on to what they got

Start to settle in for the long haul

You realize baby, oh, you can't have it all

When you got nothing left to lose

Might sound good, but I'm not sure that's true

You carry the pain around and that's what sees you through

The different shades of blue

When you got nothing left to lose

Might sound good, but I'm not sure that's true

You carry the pain around and that's what sees you through

The different shades of blue

GET BACK MY TOMORROW

What goes around comes back around

Your hollow words they echo now

For you to keep when you’re alone

So you can lie to yourself when I’m gone

It’s a bitter pill to swallow

Can you taste the pain and sorrow?

Go on and beg and steal and borrow

But that won’t get back my tomorrow

Hey yeah

What hurts to learn will make you wise

Was is worth the burn to get to this goodbye?

I’d rather stall again on this dirt floor

Crawl my way back to the man I was before

It’s a bitter pill to swallow

Can you taste the pain and sorrow?

Go on and beg and steal and borrow

But that won’t get back my tomorrow

Yeah

Yeah, take all the time you need

Ain’t taking no more from me

It’s a bitter pill to swallow

Can you taste the pain and sorrow?

Go on and beg and steal and borrow

That won’t get back my tomorrow

It’s a bitter pill to swallow

Can you taste the pain and sorrow?

Go on and beg and steal and borrow

That won’t get back my tomorrow

TROUBLE TOWN

I believe

Believe the devil came my way

I believe

The evil things she had to say

I’ve been lost by the road side

Waiting on the break of day

I’ve been round and round

Shed my fair share of tears

I’ve been round and round

Wasted all my tender years

Now I’m doing all I can

To find my way out of here

You got me running, got me running

To where I just don’t know

Got me running, got me running

To where I just don’t know

Far from trouble town is where I gotta go

And I,

Don’t always tell the truth

And I,

Don’t always tell the truth

‘Cause one look of that woman

Tell me what I have to do

Got me running, got me running

To where I just don’t know

Got me running, got me running

To where I just don’t know

Far from trouble town is where I gotta go

Got me running, got me running

To where I just don’t know

Got me running, got me running

To where I just don’t know

Far from the trouble town is where I gotta go

Far from the trouble town

Far from the trouble town is where I gotta go

Got me running babe

SO, WHAT WOULD I DO

Home for a day

Six more nights baby

When I go on the road

Feel my presence diminishing baby

All I need is the truth and a faith

That true love brings

Bless your soul for loving me

And my faults included

Oh I know

You’re the rock that keeps me grounded

I know it can be a long, winding road

You know I love you so

All I have is you on my mind

You’re all that’s left for me in my life

‘Cause I want to know

You’ve seen enough with me

‘Cause I will survive

This long time away

So, what would I do?

Just sit and suffer baby

So, what would I do?

I could go on without you darling

Oh, I don’t know

Now I want to know

You see a life with me

I’ll survive this long time away

So, what would I do?

Just sit and suffer baby

So, what would I do?

I could go on without you darling

Oh, I don’t know

NEIL YOUNG: A Letter Home (2014)

1. A Letter Home Intro

2. Changes

3. Girl From The North Country

4. Needle Of Death

5. Early Morning Rain

6. Crazy

7. Reason To Believe

8. On The Road Again

9. If You Could Read My Mind

10. Since I Met You Baby

11. My Hometown

12. I Wonder If I Care As Much

A LETTER HOME INTRO

(Spoken intro)

CHANGES

Sit by my side, come as close as the air

Share in a memory of gray

And wander in my words

Dream about the pictures that I play of changes

Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall

To brown and to yellow, they fade

And then they have to die

Trapped within the circle time parade of changes

Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind

Visions of shadows that shine

One day I returned and found that they were

Victims of the vines of changes

The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark

It swings through a hollow of haze

A race around the stars

A journey through the universe ablaze with changes

Moments of magic will glow in the night

Fears of the forest are all gone

But when the morning breaks

They're swept away by golden drops of dawn of changes

Passions will part to a strange melody

As fires will sometimes burn cold

Like petals in the wind

We're puppets to the silver strings of souls of changes

Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else

One last cup of wine we will pour

And I'll kiss you one more time

And leave you on the rolling river shores of changes

GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY

If you're traveling in the north country fair

Where the winds hits heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

Cause she once was a true love of mine

If you're goin' when the snowflakes storm

When the rivers freeze and the summer ends

Please see for me she has a coat so warm

To keep her from the howling wind

Please see for me if her hair hangs long

If it rolls and flows all down her breasts

Please see for me if her hair's hanging long

That's the way I remember her best

I'm a-wondering if she remembers me at all

Many times I've often prayed

In the darkness of my night

In the brightness of my day

If you're traveling in the north country fair

Where the winds hits heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

Cause she once was a true love of mine

NEEDLE OF DEATH

When sadness fills your heart

And sorrow hides the longing to be free

When things go wrong with each day

You fix your mind to escape your misery

Your troubled young life

Had made you turn

To the needle of death

How strange your happy words

Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone

How tears have filled the eyes

Of friends that you once walked among

Your troubled young life

Had made you turn

To the needle of death

One grain of pure white snow

Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain

In peace your mind withdraws

Your death so near your soul can't feel no pain

And your troubled young life

Had made you turn

To the needle of death

Your mother stands a-cryin'

While to the earth your body's slowly cast

Your father stands in silence

Caressing every young dream of the past

And your troubled young life

Had made you turn

To the needle of death

Through ages, man's desires

To free his mind, to release his very soul

Has proved to all who live that death itself

Is freedom for evermore

And your troubled young life

Might make you turn

To the needle of death

And your troubled young life

Might make you turn

To the needle of death

EARLY MORNING RAIN

In the early morning rain

with a dollar in my hand

And an aching in my heart

and my pockets full of sand

I'm a longway from home

and I miss my loved one so

In the early morning rain

with no place to go

Out on runway number nine

707's set to go

And I'm stuck here on the ground

In my pain that ever grows

And the liquor tasted good

and the women all were fast

And there she goes, my friend,

she'll be rolling down at last

Hear the mighty engines roar

see the silver wing on high

She's away and westward bound

far above the clouds she'll fly

Where the morning rain don't fall

Where the sun always shines

She'll be flying over my home

in about three hours time

This old airport's got me down

it's no earthly good to me

'cause I'm stuck here on the ground

cold and drunk as I can be

You can't jump a jet plane

like you can a freight train

So, I'd best be on my way

in the early morning rain

CRAZY

Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely

I'm crazy, crazy for feeling so blue

I knew you'd love me as long as you wanted

And then some day you'd leave me for somebody new

Worry, why do I let myself worry

Wondering what in the world did I do

crazy for thinking that my love could hold you

I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying

I'm crazy for loving you

I'm crazy for crying

I'm crazy for trying

I'm crazy for loving you

REASON TO BELIEVE

If I listened long enough to you

I'd find a way to believe that it's all true

Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cried

Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live

Without somebody else

Someone like you makes it easy to give

Never thinking of myself

If I gave you time to change my mind

I'd find a way to leave the past behind

Knowing how you lied straight faced while I cried

Still I look to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live

Without somebody else

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

On the road again

Just can't wait to get on the road again

The life I love is making music with my friends

I just can't wait to get on the road again

On the road again

Goin' places that I've never been

Seein' things that I may never see again

And I just can't wait to get on the road again

On the road again

Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway

We're the best of friends

Insisting that the world keep turning our way and our way

Is on the road again

I just can't wait to get on the road again

The life I love is making music with my friends

I just can't wait to get on the road again

On the road again

Goin' places that I've never been

Seein' things that I ever see again

Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway

I just can't wait to get on the road again

IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie

About a ghost from a wishin' well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong

With chains upon my feet

You know that ghost is me

And I will never be set free

As long as I'm a ghost that you can see

If I could read your mind love

What a tale your thoughts could tell

Just like a paperback novel

The kind the drugstore sells

When you reach the part where the heartaches

Come the hero would be me

but heroes often fail

And you won't read that book again

Because the ending's just to hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star

Who gets burned in a three way script

Enter number two, a movie queen

To play the scene of bringing

All the good things out in me

oh for now love let's be real

I never thought I could feel this way

And I've got to say that I just don't get it

I don't know where we went wrong

But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie

About a ghost from a wishing well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong

With chains upon my feet the stories always ends

If you read between the lines

You'll find that I'm just trying to understand

The feelings that you lack

I never thought I could feel this way

And I've got to say that I just don't get it

I don't know where we went wrong

But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back

SINCE I MET YOU BABY

Since I met you baby

My whole life has changed

Since I met you baby

My whole life has changed

And my friends all tell me

That I am not the same

I don't need nobody

To tell my troubles to

For I don't need nobody

To tell my troubles to

'Cause since I met you baby

All I need is you

Since I met you baby

I'm a happy man

Yeah, since I met you baby

I'm a happy man

I'm gonna try to please you

In every way I can

MY HOMETOWN

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand

Into the busstop to pick up a paper for my old man

I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town

He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around

this is your hometown

Your hometown

This is your hometown

This is your hometown

In '65 tension was running high, at my high-school

There was a lot of fights between the black and white

There was nothing you could do

Two cars at a light on a Saturday night, in the back seat there was a gun

Words were passed, in a shotgun blast

Troubled times had come

to my hometown

My hometown

My hometown

My hometown

Now Main Street's white washed windows

And vacant stores

Seems like there ain't nobody

Wants to come down here no more

They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks

Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back

to your hometown

Your hometown

Your hometown

Your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out

Packing up our bags maybe heading south

I'm 35, we got a boy of our own now

Last night I sat him up, behind the wheel and said son take a good look around,

this is your hometown

I WONDER IF I CARE AS MUCH

I wonder if I care as much

As I did before

Last night I cried myself to sleep

For the one that makes me weep

I dried my eyes to greet the day,

And wondered why I had to pay

The tears that I have shed by day

Give relief and wash away

The memory of the night before

I wonder if I'll suffer more

I wonder if I care as much

As I did before

My pride is made to say forgive

And take the blame for what you did

It's your mistakes I'm thinkin' of

I wonder if I'm still in love

My heart can't thrive on misery

My life it has no destiny

When things get more than I can bear

I ask myself, do I still care?

I wonder if I care as much

As I did before