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Well the South Pacific Ocean
It’s not so gentle on the shoreline
As the waves crash in like meteors
I met an old man by a caravan
Asked if he had the time
Well the doctor said six months
But for now it’s twenty five past four
He said I once lived in the city
Working morning till the night fell
I paid the bank and I kept my front yard clean
But I packed that in and hit the road
To watch Australia shimmer through the windscreen
The Murrumbidgee river
Makes it’s way down from the highlands
Like a black snake in the spring time
The wattles bloom like lanterns
Drifting in the hot winds
That keep cutting across these southern skies
I come through every year or so
And drive on through these small towns
Where the old boys play out there weekend scenes
And between the dust and the pickup trucks
I watch Australia shimmer through the windscreen
The further I go
The less that I know
But the more of this world starts to feel like home
The more that I see
The less that I need
Oh but the harder it gets to leave
The west Macdonald Ranges
They are dancing in the headlights
After a couple desert days spent
I’ll make Alice Springs by midnight
The rearview dipped in red dirt
These clothes smell like a campfire
But I’ve stumbled onto that feeling
I’ve been searching for for my whole life
See I’ve been around the world now
Seen the moon from different places
I lost my mind and I lived some childhood dreams
But there’s nothing like a star filled night
To watch Australia shimmer through the windscreen
Yeah there’s nothing like a star filled night
To watch Australia shimmer through the windscreen
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Do You Wonder?
03:10
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Always on the road
Always letting go
Always at a loss to keep this heart from falling
Never want to talk when there’s nothing left to say
Always in the fight
Always treading light
Always taking shots at the shadows and I keep from calling
We both know it never would've worked out anyway
But if we cut to the truth of it
Do you wonder if we ever think about each other at the same time
If we cut to the truth of it
Does it feel like we’re spinning around or going back in time
We both know the world keeps turning
Hearts keep burning
But you’re always at the back of my mind
If we cut to the truth of it
Do you wonder if we ever think about each other at the same time
All along this road
I re wrote every sign
I filled in all our footprints
And I pardoned every crime
The further down we go
The harder it gets to pay it no mind
Or to reconcile what lays ahead
With the things we left behind
But if we cut to the truth of it
Do you wonder if we ever think about each other at the same time
If we cut to the truth of it
Does it feel like we’re spinning around or going back in time
We both know the world keeps turning
Hearts keep burning
But you’re always at the back of my mind
If we cut to the truth of it
Do you wonder if we ever think about each other at the same time
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Highway #1
04:07
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Last night I dreamt that we were driving Highway 1
Yeah last night I dreamt that we were driving Highway 1
See the prairies fading with the last rays of the sun
Last night I dreamt that we were driving Highway 1
We watched the moonlight rising through the pines
Yeah we watched the moonlight rising through the pines
Wonder in our hearts babe and rambling on our minds
We watched the moonlight rising through the pines
People say that dreams grow old
Memories fade and that hearts get cold
Whatever we may or may not become
I will always think of you driving down Highway 1
I thought I saw you standing in the snow
Yeah I thought I saw you standing in the snow
Some drunken angel holler hurry up we gotta go
Yeah I thought I saw you standing in the snow
And we went searching for the Northern lights
We were searching for the Northern lights
You hell bent on some photograph and me just shook by the sight
Of you under the Northern lights
People say that dreams grow old
Memories fade and that hearts get cold
Whatever we may or may not become
I will always think of you driving down Highway 1
Oh, it’s funny what the years do
One moment you're here riding by my side
And the next you’re in the rearview
And people say that dreams grow old
Memories fade and that hearts get cold
Whatever we may or may not have done
I will always think of you driving
Your dark hair flying
Those green eyes dancing
The headlights winding
As the trucks keep rolling by
We’re running on stolen time
Still singing softly
I got your hands in mind
Talking about the future
With the moonlight shooting straight through you
A hundred kms from Vancouver
Then our work here’s done
But I will always think of you driving down Highway 1
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Don’t turn your back on the ocean
Don’t curse the waves when they rise
Don’t let your heart stay broken
If some love shifts with the tides
Don’t run away from the whirlwind
Don’t head for the hills trying to hide
Just understand that the world spins
Out of control sometimes
But you will find a way
Through the thunder and the lightning and the rain
You will find a way
On this rising see of things you cannot change
You will find a way through all this sadness
And you will learn to love the madness
I fell in love with the highway
For all of it’s twists and it’s turns
The headlights dancing
The breaking of the day
And the lessons that can’t be unlearned
Like never break your heart right open
Just to find the love you need
Don’t turn your back on the ocean
Don’t let the whirlwind break your speed
But you will find a way
Even on the darkest night when you cannot see a thing
You will find a way
Past that familiar ghost that came to clip your wings
You a find a way through ocean storm and whirlwind
To steady up that heart and let this world spin
Through all the light and all the sadness
You will learn to love the madness
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5. |
Favorite Alibi
03:38
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You say that you’re done but I don’t believe you
We’ve known each other since eighteen
And maybe I’m drunk or I’ve got amnesia
But it feels like you’re trying to quit this scene
I heard your parting words after the show
You it’s time to just give up and let this go
I want to find you
I want to show you the light that you can be
I want to give you the stars that you can’t see
I want to watch you catch that dream and not just try
I want you to fight back
I want you to figure out the case that you can’t crack
I want you to set that heart on the right track
I want you to show the whole world why
You're my favourite alibi
After all of these years it can start to feel like
You’re chasing a runaway train
Or dancing with a moment in the spotlight
That you’re never going to see again
That time I said it’s late we should turn back
And you said punch me in the face if I ever talk like that
I want to find you
I want to show you the light that you can be
I want to give you the stars that you can’t see
I want to watch you catch that dream and not just try
I want you to fight back
I want you to figure out the case that you can’t crack
I want you to set that heart on the right track
I want you to show the whole world why
You're my favourite alibi
The only light I know
My favourite reason why
The only hand I’ll show
My favourite alibi
And one last thing that I meant to say to you
Is I know exactly how it feels
Cause I’ve been there myself too
And now that I’ve found you
I’m going to show you the light that you can be
I’m going to give you the stars that you can’t see
And I’m going watch you catch that dream and not just try
Oh and you’re going to fight back
You're going to figure out the case that you can’t crack
And you’re going to set that heart on the right track
You're going to show the whole world why
You’re my favourite alibi
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Driving Out Of Austin
03:21
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We were driving out of Austin
You were only twenty three
With a dream left to get lost in
And something you wanted to be
We were talking about the future
You were high on Mary Jane
With the Texas moonlight shooting through you
And some liquor in your veins
What a world
What a waste
I always thought that you would stay
What a world
What a waste
I always thought that you would stay
I was landing in Toronto
You were closing out some bar
We drove back to your condo
And you showed me your new guitar
We sat on the rooftop
Looking out at the highway
You made a list of things that you might change
And I saw the city lights dance around your face
Looking like some silver screened star
What a world
What a waste
I always thought that you would stay
What a world
What a waste
I always thought that you would stay
I was waking up in Sydney
Your sister called out of the blue
And before her words had really hit me
Somehow I already knew
I guess we hadn't spoken in a while
I guess a lot of things had changed
I knew you'd often found it hard to smile
But I always thought you’d stay
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Saskatoon
05:37
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Prairie skies and hearts made of fire
Burning down the endless road
She was born with the stars in her eyes
And she takes them wherever she goes
Spent her whole life with arms open wide
Trying to catch the gypsy moon
Now she’s waving goodbye to Saskatoon
Highway sixteen and childhood dreams
Of the wild flours whipping by
She was gunning for a taste of that big city scene
You could see the lights shining in her eyes
Her friends back home all said she shouldn’t go
But that they'd come visit her soon
They’d make the trip West out of Saskatoon
No matter how far we run
Or whatever our hearts have done
Home will be home
Whatever we become
No matter how far we run
California nights
Sunset strip lights
And the pre disposition to roam
She’d dreamed of this place for years of her life
But in those dreams she wasn’t stuck here alone
A world away from the faces that stay
Framed and hung all over her room
They all think of her back in Saskatoon
No matter how far we run
Or whatever our hearts have done
Home will be home
Whatever we become
No matter how far we run
From the moment I saw her
In some West side bar
In the city where you have to look down to see the stars
I could tell right there she was caving in
Cause I’d been there before and I’d felt the same thing
Like you’re searching for love that don’t want to be found
Like your driving a dream right back into the ground
Like the whole city’s crowded but you feel so alone
Like you just want to head back home
Where everyone knows here
The highways freeze over
Where the land of the living skies got tattooed on here shoulder
I seen it the one time that I got to hold here
And I think about that now and then
We kissed in the car
I tuned her guitar
And played some old Joni Mitchell tune
Then I said goodbye to Saskatoon
Goodbye Saskatoon
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Josephine
02:51
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Josephine, Josephine
Darling how long has it been
I keep studying the pieces of these fugitive dreams
And I been searching for an alibi but they all just fled the scene
Darling how long has it been Josephine
Josephine, Josephine
Can you tell me what it means
There’s a bleeding heart each side of me and I cannot chose between
And this highways not the streets of gold that I saw in my dreams
Can you tell me what it means Josephine
I know I’m calling out of nowhere
And I know a lot of things have changed
But deep down I always kinda thought that you and I would stay the same
Josephine, Josephine
My lonesome midnight queen
It’s like the whole world just stopped swinging ever since you left the scene
And this cities not the same as back when we were seventeen
My lonesome midnight queen Josephine
I know I’m calling out of nowhere
And I know a lot of things have changed
But deep down I always kinda thought that you and I would stay the same
Josephine, Josephine
Was this whole thing just a dream
I don’t know where it came from and I don’t know where it’s been
But nothing felt the same ever since you left the scene
Was this whole thing just a dream Josephine
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Moonlight On Your Skin
02:59
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The taxi driver asked where we were going
The city lights were dancing in your eyes
I’m not sure if anyone knew we’d be showing
But your friends all smiled when you arrived
And everyone we met kind of just looked past me
Though I understood their reasoning
Yeah I bet every other person at this party
Must be jealous of the moonlight on your skin
The snow was coming down outside our window
And the hotel curtains swayed all through the night
We sat up late to hear the winter winds blow
And being so far from home had never felt so right
You said sometimes it’s like your mind runs off without me
But whatever it is won’t you let me in
I said I’m thinking every star in Chester county
Must be jealous of the moonlight on your skin
Now it’s been a while since I last saw your homeland
You call from time to time and let me know
About this past life that I let slip through my hand
And that heart that I’m still trying to let go
Now every night fly’s by a little faster
And all my stories end the same way they begin
I’m happy that you found your ever after
But I’m still jealous of the moonlight on your skin
Yeah I’m happy that you found your ever after
But I’m still jealous of the moonlight on your skin
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I guess I don’t know what I’m looking for
Was not the answer he had hoped to hear
She took a t shirt from the hotel floor
And put a couple silver rings back in her ear
I guess them changing winds have come again
And now the leaves are turning in Montreal
She tried some round about way to explain
Which kinda makes things worse like every time before
When she goes
With the highway in her soul
Yeah she’s always got to leave
By the time the great lakes freeze
And now she’s back out on the open road
Just to kick these dreams from town to town
Like there’s no future and there’s no past
Just these moments flying through an hour glass
And a hurricane of things she couldn’t say but won’t live down
When she goes
With the highway in her soul
Yeah she’s always got to leave
By the time the great lakes freeze
She made no promises to settle down
And she made peace with letting go
You can run so far it gets hard to turn around
And that’s something’ both her and I know
I got to go
With the highway in this soul
We’d be crazy not to leave
By the time the great lakes freeze
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Daniel Champagne (US/CA/EU Sales) Nashville, Tennessee
“Daniel Champagne exudes a natural ease on stage, as he sings poignant lyrics and beautifully crafted melodies that
invariably whisk the heart up with grand romanticism. Coupled with an exhilarating guitar talent that transcends mere acoustic playing to replicate a whole band, Champagne is just magical”
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