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These Days

by Bill Palmer

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1.
Wild Eye 02:34
with a wild eye, she blows in on the wind looks at me again like a memory draped in green, she climbs out of the rock i call to her but she's not doing things my way out on a limb, we dance across the branches just one of our ancient dances and i dip her just so wild eye wings of ghosts, built for another time turning on a dime into the sun she flies with them, drawing deep black stars i can see so far out in space wild eye
2.
sweet home reservation living off the line you can change the station but country music sure sounds fine dust tail through the sheep fields miles from any crossroads i know where i gotta go carrying a heavy load my baby left me we're not really meant to be close my eyes and all i see my hand across her cheek up before the sunrise horses run behind my eyes leaving all i know behind off into an endless sky my baby left me we're not really meant to be there is nothing more to say she's in some city far away
3.
Fields 03:37
pretty face and hair in a radiant frame she laid down on me in a dream she said when you wanna meet me, won't you let me know well i wish i could honey, but i gotta go... i gotta go out in the summer fields, collecting my grain i think a lot about her, but i don't know her name i could take her downtown we could stroll the streets laughing so loud come and sweep me off my feet sweep me off my feet and i don't wanna wake up from this dream i wanna go right back to sleep and i feel like i've got a young boy's heart again if i see you again, will you recognize me? is love just fleeting, a momentary glance? where are you tonight, out among the stars? in someone else's dream in someone else's heart in someone else's heart and i don't wanna wake up from this dream i wanna go right back to sleep and i feel like i've got a young boy's heart again
4.
Delilah 02:47
baby, you are too good to be hangin' around this old pile of wood baby, you are too fine to leave lipstick traces up and down the line when you wear your hat down low is there something you don't want me to know, delilah? a man ought to treat you good honey, i sure wish i could delilah baby, i can see you trying to be right with the world you're living in baby, i could be you, but i've got my collar turned against the wind when you wear your hat down low is there something you don't want me to know, delilah? a man ought to treat you good honey, i sure wish i could delilah maybe someday we might meet down by the creek of tears and live happily delilah
5.
Dark Cloud 03:33
there was a dark cloud with a silver lining in a small town far away there was a fever in the water and we drank from that well every day she was a dark cloud with a silver lining in high heels and wandering eyes say i did the right thing when i lit the fire set the black smoke into the sky we never saw this coming we never built a ceiling now the gutters are all running with the sins of our deceiving there was a dark cloud with a silver lining and our hearts drowned in the flood
6.
On Your Side 03:06
just passing through a dusty town not much to do, not much around afternoon glow across the sky i hope you know, i'm on your side the miles roll on without a word you point to horses, buffalo herds we watch the day turn into night i don't have to say, i'm on your side sometimes i shiver under covers i have a dream, you love another even if you go, i will abide i hope you know, i'm on your side we slip into the healing waters with our son, with our daughter we watched 'em grow, we lived and we died i hope you know, i'm on your side the horses run behind your eyes you dream of home and northern skies you want to go, you want to ride i think you know, i'm on your side
7.
Big Shot 03:31
kicking around the past, saw my face in a storefront glass who is the man i showed you, locked up tight in a three piece suit leaning on the deal to go down, the tiger of the town the sweeper of the streets with plenty of bread to eat everyone has a price, some are cold as ice fever pitched and chilled, diamond mine and eyes of steel you picked the wrong man to love, with a heart as tight as a glove and lies as deep as a grave, and a soul that you'll never save
8.
These Days 04:29
i slept with you in the borderlands making love by the big fire i swam with you in the ocean blue way down under i lit the fire because of you torched the house and watched it burn i slit the tire because of you so we'd have more time alone these days... we shot a hole into the moon so we could crawl inside we built a bed on the back porch maybe we won't need another these days...
9.
Desire 03:16
lonely man in the driver's seat, the lights go past his eyes he's sure of what he'll never be, out here in the night lonely lady at the table in the restaurant she just listens to the people talking, and all she really wants is desire... they're not listening, they're not talking she's looking out the door maybe it's too late to satiate what they're starving for is desire...
10.
The Orchard 03:20
everybody knows that you and i stole this fruit from the orchard right where it grows, we fed each other the sweetest bites everything was perfect in our garden just the two of us but the world was not ready for what we wouldn't give up on i'm sorry for what you had to go through i'm sorry if you ever doubted my love on a sunny hillside, we laid deep inside each other's arms down by the arroyo, your skin was like magic to my eyes but i had to fly over oceans into the dark of the old world and you waited for me here in our orchard where the fruit was ripe i'm sorry for what you had to go through i'm sorry if you ever doubted my love

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released January 17, 2017

All songs by Bill Palmer (John William Palmer Jr/ Free Box Music, BMI)
Recorded by Bill Palmer at Frogville -Santa Fe, NM
All instruments by Bill Palmer except:
Stephanie Hatfield -harmony vocals on Wild Eye and Desire
Jim Palmer -drums on Wild Eye, Sweet Home Reservation, On Your Side, Big Shot and These Days
Photo by Bella Palmer
Cover design by Stephanie Hatfield

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