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Orpheus
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In the blue Texas hill-land he sings in the streets, with a twelve-string guitar and a voice for singin. He sings about the longest love of grave advances and retreats, and the times that the mighty winds are bringin. I heard Orpheus sing about his time in the war, and the black ships and the thunder and the furies. When you didn't have to ask what the fighting was for, you just lived or you died, and you killed off all your worries.
And he sang bout the hell that he went down to find his love, where even Sisyphus sat on his rock just to hear. And his songs gave him the favor to bring his woman back above. His songs took him to hell without no fear. But her step was too slow, and his glace was too fast, and she slipped back to the dark and dreary. "If only," cried the man, "that glance could've been my last, I wouldn't have to live out my days alone and weary."
"My boy," sang the man, "take heed, hear my song, though yours too may be heard by kings and pharaohs. You don't need to go down to the land where you don't belong, by the crags and the steeps and the narrows. Just love what you can, where you can and when you can, and sing when the spirit has you do it. And when you got a chance, hang on to your lady's hand. You don't want to be tellin the world bout how you blew it."
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Dirty Dishes
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Dust this Town
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Zurich Airport Blues
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For a Girl
03:12
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The Ties that Bind
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You and Me
02:23
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Elise
04:55
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Morning on a City Street
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Fine Line
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