I read your letter again I m sure you know the one Goodbye, you wrote like a coward It ll be better in the long run

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1 1 SLEEPIN IN THE DAYTIME Guest appearance: LYLE LOVETT I can t bear to see the smog-stained sky I can t stand to see the work-strained people strugglin by But nightlme s cool, dark and sweet Forget the sound of one foot dancing down Down on crippled street Hurts my soul to see The trees turn grey They lift their dying arms And they try to pray Oh they try to pray The moon floats up The sun goes down Still there ain t now way of seeing the sore The sick and sore side of town It seems to get me on through Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ever since they turned the river brown It chokes the gulls with oil And it drags them down Oh it drags them down And I have seen them half alive Forget the look in one eye closing down Down angry drive It seems to get me on through Yeah, yeah, yeah 2 EASY FOR YOU TO SAY Guest appearance: CARLY SIMON I heard some talk around this town Talk about you and me How a fool fell out of love with you And wanted to be free Well that s easy for you to say And left my life in ruin That s easy for you to say I read your letter again I m sure you know the one Goodbye, you wrote like a coward It ll be better in the long run That s easy for you to say Left my life in ruin That s easy for you to say, for you to say, baby. Go back to her again Back to the way you were I know she s a damn sight better for you You re a damn sight better for her Well that s easy for you to say And left my life in ruin That s easy for you to say, for you to say baby. That s easy for you to say. Ooh, that s easy for you to say. 3 ELVIS AND ME Guest appearance: The Jordanaires Met him one night in the lobby, a Las Vegas hotel He was standing as close as I m standing next to you now He called me by name and I felt like he changed me somehow Into someone important and special I know it sounds strange But I swear that it s true It was Elvis And me, me and El We were just like this, and we got on so well We were laughing and talking as nice as could be, He gave me a pass to the late show In the very first row And when it was over, he came out to the apron and bowed He looked right at me as if to single me out from the crowd And he slipped me a small piece of paper And it said come back stage, Jimmy this is no joke It was Elvis And me, me and El In the dressing room, with the boys and the colonel He gave me a wink any dummy could see Well he took me straight up to the penthouse suite There was stars and pretty girls everywhere Rock and roll royalty just sitting at his feet And the charge of electricity in the air I don t expect you to believe me But I don t really care, Cause I was there, I was there I was his number one fan And when he died, part of me passed on too If only he d called me I know I could have saved him for sure He just needed a friend He must have been so insecure That old rock of ages couldn t hide it anymore But do you see that empty stool, Well he s sitting there right now, and it s still Elvis And me, me and El Hell, I ll buy anything that the Colonel will sell And I know that it s wrong, But I just can t set him free

2 Well, can I tell you a story Bout Well can I tell you a story Well can I tell you a story Just one little story Bout 4 WHERE S THE PLAYGROUND, SUSIE? Guest appearance: Keith Urban The end has come and found us here With our toys scattered all around us here The puzzle that we never found the answer for Still asks us, darlin, just what all the games were for And here we stand in, in a box of sand? You re the one who s supposed to know her way around The carousel has stopped us here It twirled a time or two and then it dropped us here And still you re not content with something about me But what merry-go-round can you ride without me To take your hand? How would you stand? If I decide to let you go and play around?? You re the one who s supposed to know her way around If I don t stay around If I don t stay around If I don t stay 5 STILL WITHIN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE Guest appearance: Rumer Where have you gone my darling one Are you on your own Are you having fun Is there someone to hold when you need it bad Is it uncontrolled like the love we had Does the day go by like a memory? Do you ever try to remember me? In an automobile or a crowded bar Well I hope you re alright wherever you are And if you re still within the sound of my voice Over some radio I just want you to know You were always my only choice And wherever you go That I still love you so If you re still within the sound of my voice In the dead of night Do you hear me call? Something s not quite right No one s there at all Did you make a mistake? Was it in your head? Or was it really me talking To your heart instead? And if you re still within the sound of my voice Watching this video I just want you to know That it always made me rejoice Just to have you so near There s a place for you here If you re still within the sound of my voice I am calling like the echo of a passing train that cries One last time before it fades into the distant hills and dies I am sending out a message like a ship out on the sea In distress but only you can send a lifeline out to me 6 IF THESE WALLS COULD SPEAK Guest appearance: David Crosby and Graham Nash If these old walls Of things that they remember well Of parties and people raising hell A couple in love Livin week to week Rooms full of laughter If these old halls If hallowed halls could talk These would have a tale to tell Of sun goin down and dinner bell Of children playing at hide and seek From floor to rafter It these old halls could speak They would tell you that I m sorry For bein cold and blind and weak They would tell you that it s only That I have a little bit of a stubborn streak If these halls could speak If these old-fashioned Oh these windowpanes were eyes Well, I guess they would have seen it all Each little tear and sigh and footfall And every dream that we came to seek Or followed after They would tell you that I owe you More than I could ever pay Here s someone who really needs you baby Don t ever go away That s what these walls would say If they were not so meek

3 7 THE MOON S A HARSH MISTRESS Guest appearance: Joe Cocker See her how she flies Golden sail across the skies Close enough to touch But careful if you try Though she looks as warm as gold The moon s a harsh mistress And the moon can be so cold Once the sun did shine Yeah Lord, it felt so fine The moon a phantom rose Through the mountains and the pines And then the darkness fell And the moon s a harsh mistress It s hard to love her well I fell out of her eyes I fell out of her heart I fell down on my face Yes, I did, and I -- I tripped and I missed my star I fell and I fell alone, I fell alone The moon s a harsh mistress And the sky is made of stone The moon s a harsh mistress, yes she is She s hard to call your own. 8 ANOTHER LULLABY Guest appearance: Marc Cohn Close your eyes, my pretty child Though the night is dark and the wind is wild I will stand beside your bed Tonight there is nothing you need fear or dread The rain falls and the windows weep But I m standing by to sing a lullaby Close your eyes, my sister fair Though the snow is falling and the trees are bare I will hold you by the hand Tonight there is nothing to try to understand The daytime s dyin and the night time s gettin deep But I m standing by to sing a lullaby Close your eyes, my Mother wise When the waves are angry and the north train cries I ll stop those ghosts outside your door Mama, don t worry bout those ghosts no more Tomorrow comes but it will keep I m standing by to sing a lullaby Another lullaby, another lullaby, another lullaby 9 YOU CAN T TREAT THE WRONG MAN RIGHT Guest appearance: Justin Currie Can t you see he doesn t care He likes to play with you that s all He s waiting on someone else s call He s playing it cool Why s it so hard to reach you? And why are you still out there Beating your heart against the wall Waiting for Jericho to fall You hard-headed fool Didn t your mama teach you Anything at all You can t treat the wrong man right Or turn a devil to an angel overnight He ll wreck all your best laid plans for spite You can t treat the wrong man right When you re out on the town Feelin mean and head-strong He ll sit home and wait for you all night long I heard it on the telephone A woman was whispering in my ear And though I was trying not to hear The message came through She was someone who knew you I guess she told me everything I wasn t listening anyway I know she had a lot to say The message was clear It cut through the smoke and the beer And the ringing of the pinball Or change a devil to an angel overnight She ll steal all your love and fly by night You can run all the way from here to Hong Kong And he ll be waiting when you come back in sight 10 RIDER FROM NOWHERE Guest appearance: America This territory I have crossed don t even have a name So wild a stranger could get lost But pretty just the same I don t have much of anything No home, no child or wife I only own the open range And what s left of my life Can I buy a ticket with my solitude And win a different past And write a happy ending to a story that might last

4 But time is catching up with me And gaining on me fast And here I am with nothing hidin up my sleeve I m a rider from nowhere With no compass and no guide I am carried by the wind I m a trail that has no end With no partner by my side And no other man s concern Just a shadow in the trees Shapeless fading by degrees Past the point of no return I can t reclaim a single breath of life Or change a single spot I can t devise some cheap disguise Be something that I m not But still I just might save my life With one last chance lucky shot So here I am a drifter dreaming in my trance I have ridden off the map Or any border you can draw I am far beyond the law Or the jaws of any trap With a whole lot left to learn And I d like to be your friend And I d like to be your friend And I want to be your friend 11 HONEY COME BACK Guest appearance: Kris Krisofferson Honey I know I ve said it too times before And I said I d never say it again And I guess I shouldn t say anything at all Since you re supposed to belong to him now But you know I just can t let you go Without tellin you how much I love you So that s why I m gonna have to say it one more time Honey come back I just can t stand each lonely day s a little bit longer And the last time I held you seems like a hundred years ago Back to his arms and never know the joy of love that used to taste like Well I guess that s about all I gotta say I m just gonna take my bags and I m gonna walk I know those bright lights are still callin you honey Big fine cars and fancy talk But if you ever want someone to just love you Some day, who knows you just may Just give me a call You know where I am and here s what I ll say Honey come back I just can t stand each lonely day s a little bit longer And the last time I held you seems like a hundred years ago Back to his arms and never know the joy of love that used to taste like 12 ADIOS Guest appearance: Amy Grant I ran away from home when I was seventeen To be with you on the California coast Drinking margaritas all night in the old cantina Out on the California coast Don t think that I m ungrateful And don t look so morose We never really made it baby But we came pretty close Going up north where the hills are winter green I have to leave you on the California coast Going where the water s clear and the air is cleaner Than the California Coast Our dreams of endless summer Were just too grandiose I ll miss those blood red sunsets But I ll miss you the most

5 13 MACARTHUR PARK Guest appearance: Brian Wilson Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance Between the parted pages and were pressed In love s hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants I recall the yellow cotton dress It was foaming like a wave On the ground around your knees And the birds, like tender babies in your hands And the old men playing checkers by the trees MacArthur Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don t think that I can take it Cause it took so long to bake it And I ll never have that recipe again Oh, no. Oh no. There will be another song for me For I will sing it There will be another dream for me Someone will bring it I will drink the wine while it is warm And never let you catch me looking at the sun And after all the loves of my life After all the loves of my life You ll still be the one I will take my life into my hands and I will use it I will win the worship in their eyes, oh and I will lose it I will have the things that I desire And my passion flow like rivers through the sky And after all the loves of my life After all the loves of my life I ll be thinking of you And wondering why MacArthur Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don t think that I can take it Cause it took so long to bake it And I ll never have that recipe again Oh, no, no, No! 14 SHATTERED Guest appearance: Art Garfunkel Shattered Like a windowpane Broken by a stone Each tiny piece of me lies alone And scattered Far beyond repair All my shiny dreams Just lying there, just lying there. I m broken but I m laughing It s the sound of falling glass I hope that you don t mind if I should cry In public while I wait for this to pass Cause I m shattered Into fragments cold and gray Sweep the pieces all away Then no one will ever know how much it mattered You dropped me and my precious love is Shattered I m broken but I m laughing It s the sound of falling glass I hope that you don t mind if I should cry In public while I wait for this to pass Cause I m shattered Into fragments cold and gray