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Grant Lee Phillips
Official Non-Album Tracks


ME AND THIS CITY - 2001

Me and this city we just ain't getting along
I've already hung around here too long
Me and this city are 'bout to go round and round
There ain't enough room for the two of us in this town

Might have been a time when we made a pretty pair
When I was on a roll and had a few dollars to spare
But now I'm on the run and I can seem to get no where
Me and this city we're done with our love affair

China Town San Francisco
Haugesund or Seattle
Anywhere my heart is drawn
'Cause me and this city we just ain't getting along

True we had one hell of a honeymoon
When liquor pour like rain for the bride and groom
But I was a fool thinking I held the key to you
Now is a race wondering who would be the first and who wins

Border town San Diego
Further south Cape San Lazaro
Anywhere my heart is drawn
'Cause me and this city we just ain't getting along
'Cause me and this city we just ain't getting along
'Cause me and this city we just ain't getting along


THE GOODNIGHT HORSE - 2002

Come into the tent come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a sight
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed

After a long day down at the track
He can't wait to come galloping back
Kicks off his shoes his tail coat and slacks
Picks up the news has a beer to relax

Come into the tent come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a sight
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed

Wife and a family trotting 'round the house
Run and grab his slippers for his feet
Feels so hungry he could eat a man
But a man's too bitter to eat

Come into the tent come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a feat
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed

Then the clock strikes ten he's off to bed
Goes upstairs where the bed's pulled down
His wife gives a listen 'til he begin to snore
'Fore she start off rifling through the pockets of her lord

Come into the tent come one come all
Come and see the Goodnight Horse perform
Never has America seen such a sight
As a fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed

A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed
A fully clothed horse is a beast transformed

Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Ooh
Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Never seen the likes of a Goodnight Horse
Ah ah


BUCKAROO - 2002

Curled-up by the station you are
Nothing to your name but a bag on your shoulder well
Where could you be bound

No one there to say goodbye
Waitin' for a train to take you out to another life
All dreams let you down

There's a world outside
Your mama doesn't want you to know about
Where the night's alive and vellum coaches cruise
With their black windows down

It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo

Light a-coming down the track
You wonder what you're leaving but you can't help looking back
You're still as death as in a photograph

There's a world ahead
That you've only read of in magazines
Where the sidewalks shine with the names of stars
From the silver screen

It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo

Once back at home they'll be laughing and counting the days
'Til you return oh that they never learn
That you don't live for them anyway
No you don't live for them anyway

It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo

It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Ooh ooh

Still wild
Still wild

It's up to you Buckaroo
It's up to you
Hey you're still wild west and true
It's up to you Buckaroo
Ooh ooh

Ooh you're still wild
Still wild


RACING AWAY - 2002

[Kurt Vonnegut: TV is enough... is providing artificial friends and relatives to lonely people. What, what it is, is uh, recurrent families; the same friends and relatives come back, week after week, after week, after week. And they're wittier, and they're better looking, and they're much more interesting, and they're richer than your real friends and relatives.]

Where is the love from birth
Where it's gone
Where is the love for humanity
Where it's gone

The love for the children
Respect for the elders
Where it's gone
Where it's gone

I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know
When will they get it right
And live in the light

Ooh ooh ooh

Raised in the city
Praise for the nightfall
Rain wash my memory
Damp-clad my great wall
Peace don't desert me
Not in the forest
Grace where I trespass
Calling my goddess

Peace is not real
It is not now what you seize
Off Andy

Where is the love from birth
Where it's gone
Where is the love for humanity
Where it's gone

I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know tell me
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know tell me
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know

Dream my grandfather
Dream of great quiet
Barely a flash between
Words and blue silence
Gentle this hour
Wet is the highway
Brave are these cowards
Racing racing racing racing away
Racing racing racing racing away
Racing away

Peace is not real


MOTION - 2002

Ooh ooh ooh

Well you won't come down never
Yeah you won't come down
Yeah you won't come down never
Yeah you won't come down
Won't come down
You won't come down

When your heart it beats heavy
For a drum
No you won't come down easy
From the limb you're on
Well you long to reach heaven
Where the night is young
And all the stars above you are in

Motion now motion now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight
Motion now motion now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight

Ooh ooh ooh

In the neon-blue city
In the twilight view
See the bow and arrows flowing
On your warehouse hill
Anyone can feel that you're in

Motion now motion now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight
Motion now motion now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight

Ooh ooh ooh

Motion now motion now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight
Motion now motion now
You're a dancer alone
Motion now motion now tonight

Ooh ooh ooh


6. SMILE - 2002

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