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Hit the Truth
03:01
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Music and Lyrics by Bob Brown
1. A woman did implore me
Lay down the weary fight
Leave your doubt and sorrow
They're too heavy for tonight
And as she spoke she said
I'd like to see you smile
Then she took my hand said do your best
And I'll take care of all the rest
Chorus:
Won't you lie to me momma
Get me through this night
Won't you lie to me momma
We'll hit the truth some other night
We'll hit the truth some other night
Hit the truth some other night
Won't you lie to me tonight?
2. Are you the fine and lovely one who would be so kind to me?
To cool this restless fever and set my body free
And though I've long been running
I think I could learn to dance
I've been down so long but now I'm singing this song
And I'm ready to take a chance
Chorus
3. And will you sing my soul to rest
In the silence of your skin
Will you softly surrender to the place where we begin?
No need to question why there's nothing to understand
Because I'm here with you and you're here with me
And tonight I'll be your friend
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2. |
The Time We Spend
04:22
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Lyrics and Music by Bob Brown
1. Didn't want to tell you that I loved you
Didn't want to have to let it show
Didn't want you to know how much I want you
If I'd have to let you go
2. Didn't want to play this dangerous game
Be the fever in the fire
Be just one more secret love affair
That would always have to die
Chorus:
You say you're waiting for the end to come
Never wanted to begin
But it looks like we've already begun
3. So let's be happy for the things we have
So let's be thankful for the time
For the time we spend together
Is the time we call
Our home
4. Didn't want to lie here so close to you
Always wishing you would stay
And although I'm trying hard to leave you now
Somehow I'm crying out for more
Chorus
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No Refunds for the Rain
03:27
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Lyrics by David Franks
Music by Bob Brown
1. I'm starting to wonder if I ever thought
Just what I got myself into
If I have what I had, cancel the cost
'Cause no one's winning or losing
2. When your dreams fly by like that pie in the sky
The one we never get to taste
So go on take your slice or get cut by the knife
Because friend lover or wife, it's only your life
Chorus:
When time tells time doesn't tell
We've got to lighten our load
So let's take the show off the road
Because there's no refunds no refunds
No refunds for the rain
3. When you’ve got to make the right choice, make it right on the spot
Get to the right place or live with what you've got
And you fall for someone and find that somebody else
And that love never saves you because we all save ourselves
Chorus
And there’re no refunds for the rain
When you can't deny what money can buy
There's no way to say play's only play
When there's no refunds, no refunds
No refunds for the rain
4. We got caught in a storm, both sought shelter stayed warm
Let the lightning strike where it may
And I think we both thought we'd see a brighter day
But honey when I look in your eyes I think we both realize
Chorus
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4. |
Lover's Lullaby
04:17
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Lyrics and Music by Bob Brown
1. Waiting in our empty room
For the sunrise through the park
Didn't want to wake you and say goodbye
I never thought that we would be apart
So take these arms just one more time
And let me sing this lover's lullaby
To you
2. I guess I'll catch that morning train
Heading south for Washington
Listen to the wheels down on the tracks
I'll think of all the things we've done
And now before you run and hide
Please let me sing this lover's lullaby
To you
3. And then you caught me on the stair
And stared so deep down in my face
And I thought how much I loved you there
But still we couldn't make it anyway
I reached for the words I'd never find
And so I'd sing this lover's lullaby
To you
4. The stars will fade the sun begins to shine
I told you, you were beautiful
And on the train just to myself
I tried to see you in the distance left behind
And sing this lover's lullaby to you
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5. |
Smilin' Through
03:39
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Lyrics and Music by Bob Brown
1. Flying down the highway with my baby
Open sky and me and you
The song is simple and it's pretty
You know you are my dream come true
Chorus:
Feels like love can last forever
Because we know our love is true
We are high and filled with laughter
As you keep smiling through
2. We've got no fame we've got no money
But we can help each other through
I've got my fortune and my glory
Just as long as I've got you
Chorus
3. Down the road there's rain and sunshine
I think you know which one I choose
I know there'll be blues and sorrow sometime
But I'm not afraid to be with you
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Lyrics and Music by Bob Brown
1. The wind was blowing through the curtain
And I was stirring in the light
And I couldn't help myself from thinking
Just how you feel tonight
I know that you have been with many
I know that I cannot be new
Still it's been so long since I've had this feeling
I was wondering if you felt the same way too
Chorus:
And I'm still wondering if I wasn't dreaming
When our kissing felt so right
While your smell still lingers in my body
Can I dream of you tonight?
2. I remember your eyes were smiling
As I pulled you to my chest
Then you noticed that I had caught you trying
To hold the tears from coming through
Chorus
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7. |
Wasting My Time
03:59
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Lyrics and Music by Bobby Brown
1. Are you giving up or feeling down
It takes love to make love survive
We've had magic and light and sweet desire
But it takes more to make love survive
Refrain:
And I'm thinking about the past again
And the lovely love we once knew
With the moon rising high
And the stars in our eyes
And falling with someone like you
Chorus:
But was I wasting my time
Singing my song
Raising my hopes too high
Does love always change?
Or is it love just the same
Playing its tricks on us all
Lifting us high only to fall
2. Is it easier to walk away?
With so many choices at hand
Will there always be another time or another face
To replace you and me in the end
Refrain
Chorus
3. But will we see us on through
To the love we once had
And the love that we could have once again
Chorus
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8. |
Lover and A Friend
04:09
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Lyrics by David Franks
Music by Bob Brown
1. People are the only places
A place to stay or just pass through
So when I think about my life you know
I always think of you
Chorus:
And I sing this song for you
Just to touch you once again
And it's so hard
You know it's hard
To be a lover and then a friend
2. See the lovely strangers
Take each others hands
We all want to be wanted
To find a song that will not end
And I sing this one for you
Just to touch you once again
And it's so hard you know it's hard
To be a lover and then a friend
3. We live within our dreams
Trapped inside our skin
I've looked into your eyes
Just hoping to be born again
And I sing this one for you
Just to touch you once again
And it's so hard
You know it's hard
To be a lover and then a friend
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9. |
Easy to Begin
04:06
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Lyrics by David Franks
Music by Bob Brown
1. Easy to begin making love from loneliness
The need to express feelings and speak freely
The pressures off, no need to say "I'll always love you
I'll be there all the way"
Yes, it's easy, it's easy to begin
2. And it's easier still when you're very young
To believe that love has just begun
And when you fall that a dawning light
Will wash away the shadows of the past
That confusion pain and sacrifice will fade before one roll of dice
And having taken just one chance you'll win
Chorus:
And now my cards are on the table
I've got nothing up my sleeve
And when I see your smiling face
I believe
That love can change and yet remain
Easy, easy to begin
3. And though people from the past
Can leave you blinded to the brightest light
Blinded to the blackest night
With love reaching out to hand you back your sight
And you won't see it's easy
Yes it's easy to begin
Chorus
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10. |
It Takes The World
04:54
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Lyrics by David Franks and Bob Brown
Music by Bob Brown
1. Never run without the one you love
Never would never be a word
Together would never seem absurd
I've cried
People pick up the pieces
People cry for faces
They find that fall after all
Chorus:
And I see now and I know how
The last time I saw you
Was the first time I ever saw you
2. Distance is the closest thing we've known
Shifting houses was the closest thing to home
If you can't love, try living
If you can't see, try looking
Outside yourself, inside yourself
3. It takes the world to make a feather fall
It takes some hurt to make a love grow full
Free from freedom the nets of fear
Have grown so far so near to me
So dear to me
4. The joy we knew was just relief from pain
The sharing grew we knew without exchange
Free from freedom the nets of fear
Have grown so far so near to me
So dear to me
So dear to me
Chorus:
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11. |
Dawning Light
04:06
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Music and Lyrics by Bob Brown
1. As I traveled far and wide
To seek my lifelong plan
As though to seek the beauty that
Would fill an empty man
It's there I saw a soul or two
Who could make a heart believe
That a dawning light would be rising high
And shining over this land
2. Following the southwest wind turned down toward Mexico
We saw a youthful traveler who was searching for his home
His heart was clear and his eyes were warm
As we bid him our farewell
And we hoped he'd find the dawning light that was rising high
And shining over this land
Refrainº
And though we saw the darker face of the ones who lived in fear
Who would turn their back on friendship for the burden it might
bear
Still I stopped I understood what a frightened man could do
Who would turn his back on the dawning light that might help
him understand
3. I was always told that America was so beautiful and free
And now that I've seen the plains and fields
And the mountains and the seas
I think I know what our fathers saw
And wanted to believe
That a dawning light would be rising high
And shining over this land
4. And as I lay with my faithful friend out on the desert plain
And as the moon poured down on us it's there I had my dream
That the longtime fear and struggling all came together there
And I awoke to the dawning light that was rising high
And shining over this land
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12. |
Metal Rose
02:39
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Lyrics by David Franks
Music by Bob Brown
1. Bride in white dress
Walks in moonlight
In the length of the lake
Oh watch her now
Refrainº
Getting so small
Watch her walk
To a ruined Danish castle
To her father's tomb
Her father's tomb
2. And when you have found her
And you, you will see
And you will know
And you will find
That the dreams that you've had
In your life were all here
And when she dies
Where will you be?
Where will you be?
3. She has blood on her lips
And she tells you to kiss
Them and hands you a rose
Ah its red smells so sweet
But tonight in your bed metal rose
Cool metal rose
Cool metal rose
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Bob Brown Ashburn, Virginia
Bob's first albums "The Wall I Built Myself" and "Willoughby’s Lament," produced by Richie Havens, and now reissued by Tompkins Square (see links below) have long been placed in high esteem alongside the works of other exploratory greats like Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley and Eric Anderson. His compellingly arranged, folk-focused songs have been described as lilting, melodic and poetic. ... more
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