Lyrics By Dave Hardin
Between Us
Nu Varres
Queen Sized Wall
Ramses and Nefertiti
There’s You
You Don’t Care
The Tree
Nine Years Alone
Written By: Dave Hardin Copyright 2000
I’m haunted by
Seven angels
and my old ford she just took ill
south of Macon
These Georgia pines
the red clay bakin’
all I own
sittin’ here ‘side
some long grey pavement
It ain’t you
and it ain’t me
it’s just too many in between us’es
between us
It weren’t love
but it weren’t hate
jus’ to little too late
to save us
to save us
the new cars fly
north on vacation
an’ I bum rides from passersby
the fillin’ stations
I take my time
no destination
and the more I sleep
the more I dream
and you’re there sayin’
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE.
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Written by: David Hardin Copyright 2000
Becky locks the door
at the I.G.A. downtown
mops the dust from aisle to aisle to aisle
and round and round and round
and round and round and round
Where has she been
what has she won
what has she seen
what has she gone here in
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Too many years of one on one
of hand to mouth
and now she’s done here
but that leaves Bobby
Bobby clocks out at the Mobil station
out off 301
weaves his way back
through the cars
and the beach and the palms and the sun,
to his only one
Where has he been
what has he done
what has he seen
what has he won here
in Nu Varres
Too many years of one on one
of hand to mouth
and now he’s done here
in Nu Varres
same as always
Where have they been
what have they done
what have they seen
what have they won here in
Nu Varres
Too many years of one on one
of hand to mouth
and now they’re done here
now they’re done
Written: By Dave Hardin Copyright2000
The things I admire most
Are the things I can’t provide
And the things I’d best forget
Are the things you’ve learned to hide
And scrapes are slow to heal
Sleepin’ on your side
And there's a queen size wall between us
That a stronger man might climb
I sold my old guitar
On the chance it’d make you smile
And you cried your self to sleep
And I sat up for awhile
And the T.V. made a noise
That scared me half to death
And it sounded like forever
The one place we can’t get
And scrapes are slow to heal
Sleepin’ on your side
And there's a queen size wall between us
That a stronger man might climb
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Written by Dave Hardin 2000
Ramses and Nefertiti
Layed down along the river Nile
Talkin’ ‘bout a movie that they’d seen
Looked out across the water
At the cat mans cheesy smile
And wondered what their futures might have been
If they’d had one less God to depend on
And one less pyramid to build on
They smiled when they remembered nights in Babylon
Then they danced against the moon with their shoes off.
Them heroes outta that book of Dead
Sing an ancient lullaby
The lovers kiss and part best of friends
The old boys up and Giza
Shiver and fork that evil eye
When they think of what their futures might have been
If they’d had one more God to depend on
And one more pyramid to work on
They smiled when they dream of nights in Babylon
They laugh against the moon with their shoes off
Then they dance against the moon with their shoes off
Then they sleep beneath the moon with their shoes off.
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Written by: David Hardin Copyright 2000
All the time I’ve wasted
all the years I’ve tasted
all the love I’ve taken
and all the promises I’m breakin’
Don’t stand up against the past
an’ all the loves I knew would last
like you
There was you
Now there’s you
against my ceiling at night
and there’s you on the news
and there’s you when I’m too weak to fight
there’s you
Honey there’s you
there’s all the lies I told ya
and all the dreams I sold ya
fall and crumble long the way
the less you see
the more you pay
There’s still you against my ceiling at night
and there’s you on the news
and there’s you when I’m too tired to fight
There’s you
there’s you
Honey there’s you
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Written by: Dave Hardin Copyright 2000
All of them girls in your school
They look like so much fun
And you wear them jeans like you do
But I can’t get me none
And I’ve been love you more
Than I’ve been breathin’ air
And I’ve been watchin’ your walk
And you don’t seem to care
She don’t care
She don’t care
Do you think your momma knows what
You do when she ain’t home
We sure ain’t watchin’ t.v.
And my how you have grown
I’m head over heals for your touch
At the risk of bein’ seen
Cause fifteen ’ll buy you twenty
And you know what I mean
Honey I been lovin’ you more
Than I been breathin’ air
And I been watchin’ your walk
And you don’t seem care
And I’ve been crazy for you
Like an old boy shouldn’t dare
Hell I’d walk through to hold you
And you don’t even care
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Written by: Dave Hardin Copyright 2000
They’re comin’ out this afternoon
To take down Daddy’s tree
The one that him and momma planted
Back in nineteen twenty three
‘hind the home that I grew up in
Front of fields that I’d get lost in
Through three wars and the girlfriends I’ve long since forgotten
There was you
There was me
And the tree
They’ll cut her down
And bust her up
And haul her to the dump
Charge me fifty dollars
And leave me with the stump
Where every dog I’ve ever known
Is buried in her shade
And the first kiss that we ever stoled
And one boy that we made
Between you
Between me
And the tree
There’s a ring
That’s forty five
And you were young
And so was I
And we took pictures every easter
Stuck’em in a book
And hide them in the closet
‘cause we’re both afraid to look
At us three
Beneath the tree
And there’s a ring
That was senior prom
And a ring
That was Vietnam
It’s twenty five years later
I still can’t believe he’s gone
Save for the tree house on the flatbed
That’s parked out on the lawn
Now it’s just you
And me
Now it’s just you
And me
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written by: Dave Hardin Copyright 2000
The coffee's cold
the bread's all hard
the car's on blocks
out in the yard
Got me a job
got my own cards
my old lady's lost
on the phone
The kid wakes up
puts on his clothes
eats his breakfast
everyday
Sometimes I catch him
lookin' old
too tired to smile much
hair missed the comb
Nine years alone
inside his head
an' all the stories he's ever read
had happy endings
like you grow up poor
and you end up clean
at God's front door
Sometimes I catch him
lookin' old
he's walked in my shoes
nine years alone
The first year's smiles
Then comes no
Five more for learnin'
What you can't show
Two more for hidden'
The things he's grown
Inside his heart
Nine years alone
Nine years alone
Inside his head
And all the stories he's ever read
With happy endings
Like you grow up poor
But you end up clean
At Gods front door
Sometimes I catch him
chewin' slow
lookin' my way
nine years alone
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