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You Too
02:30
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You Too - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
Millions of people have died for this and they lied for this and they cried for this
like you too
knowing that this might make them whole get it in their soul it’ll bowl them over
like you too
You Too
You Too
You Too
no brighter day will be than the one where you found love set you free
whatever you see i’ve done before i’ve won the door prize bought the store
like you too
i know if an easy one needs to succeed you guys’ll need to what could lead to love
like you too
You Too
You Too
You Too
no brighter day will be than the one where you found love set you free
no matter what the TV said or what tweets they’re fed or what books they’ve read
like you too
they haven’t lived unless they’ve lost until they’re tossed no matter what the cost
like you too
You Too
You Too
You Too
no brighter day will be than the one where you found love set you free
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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Bad Dreams
03:27
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Bad Dreams - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
Oh, I’ll be alright
oh, demons in the night
I was thinking of you
ah...next thing I knew
I had lies and I had cries and I had screams
I was having bad dreams about you
and I was sleeping ‘til noon
I was having bad dreams about you
and I can’t get in tune with you
hey, you were running away
hey, with nothing to say
you had all of your things
you were cutting the strings
well I had lies and I had cries and I had screams
I was having bad dreams about you
and I was sleeping ‘til noon
I was having bad dreams about you
and I can’t get in tune with you
it must have been the ice cream I ate
a rocky road that straightens late
to lead me where the desert’s done
and the city bakes in the bastard sun
i get to sleep dreaming I’m the devil’s friend
yet I wake up screaming is this the end
I’m having bad dreams about you
and I was sleeping ‘til noon
I was having bad dreams about you
and I can’t get in tune with you
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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Bend Over Backwards
02:36
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Bend Over Backwards - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
It will take more than three words to teach you what love can be
i’d bend over backwards to get you to stay here with me
crying time in the city of angel’s dreams
wide awake, I don’t know how you sleep without me
but the morning soon will be here
another day another chance you’ll be here
It will take more than three words to teach you what love can be
i’d bend over backwards to get you to stay here with me
lost at lunch on a plate is a poker face watching itself
overworked, i can’t play that i’m anything beyond all help
tonight’s sunset will be quick
loneliness never misses a trick
It will take more than three words to teach you what love can be
i’d bend over backwards to get you to stay here with me
i’d run your dishwasher and clean all your clothes for free
i’d stand naked in newport singing nearer my god to thee
i’d get shakespeare and bacon to pose next to your christmas tree
It will take more than three words to teach you what love can be
i’d bend over backwards to get you to stay here with me
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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Burning Bridges
04:06
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Burning Bridges
dm sometimes the best in f tentions are dm never truly c meant
and dm all your expec f tations are dm never what you c get
you will dm never say am why or come dm up with a am reason
you’ve been dm weakened by a f string of dm bad c decisions
Burning dm Bridges, burn em am down...
now you’ve won and you’ve lost and you won’t put up a fight
and I can add you to my list of things that keep me up at night
you’re the saddest story that has ever been told
and I stand back and watch as the tragedy unfolds
Burning Bridges, burn em down…
if there ever was a time that’s now and might not come again
you have to choose which eyes to look through in the end
and the loveliest flowers will die in a drought
and your loneliest hours will be worse than you ever thought
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5. |
Nights Like These
04:50
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Nights Like These - Words and Music by Doug Osborne
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
if i were able to turn up the music
open up the windows, serenade the trees
take a walk to where the town meets the woods
country going on forever like it should
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
time will let me turn up the pictures
burning up the walls and leaving light so dark
it would tear down all the years and miles leading nowhere
leaving something walking through the final streetlight
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
oh carry us away
til night returns from daylight come and gone
oh carry us away
til night returns from daylight come and gone
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
if it were possible to wake two lovers sleeping
telling them the truth before they come to their senses
i would hope they see a movie showing years passing
lives going on forever like they should
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
Oh on nights like these
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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Lifetime of Tears
03:07
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Lifetime of Tears - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
A lifetime of love between you and me
A lifetime of joy I’ll never see
Puzzled and hurt without a clue
A Lifetime of Tears cried for you
Alone ain’t always this bad
but you were the only real one I ever had
The bad thing about today
is that you left and now the hurt won’t go away
A lifetime of love between you and me
A lifetime of joy I’ll never see
Puzzled and hurt without a clue
A Lifetime of Tears cried for you
Together was never that good
but it seems that things improved a little if I knocked on wood
The bad thing about today
is that you left, and now the hurt won’t go away
A lifetime of love between you and me
A lifetime of joy I’ll never see
Puzzled and hurt without a clue
A Lifetime of Tears cried for you
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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7. |
Hell of a Time
05:08
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Hell of a Time - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
Why is the air so thick why is the fog so low
answer debris from questions to me
Do i ask for too much expecting your touch with nothing in return
or do you want me to figure out your needs well watch me learn
I don’t know myself very well at all but I’m having a hell of a time finding out
questions and answers but we had a hell of a time finding out
where do you get those clothes where did you steal that pose
stylish debris from fashions for me
where did you steal that rose crime doesn’t pay do you suppose
legal debris from trials for me
Do i ask for too much expecting your touch with nothing in return
or do you want me to figure out your needs well watch me learn
why is the air so thick why is my brain so slow
answer debris from questions to me
why does it take so long for common sense to show
logic debris from problems for me
no problems for me
I don’t know myself very well at all but I’m having a hell of a time finding out
questions and answers but we had a hell of a time finding out
I don’t know this world very well at all but I’m having a hell of a time finding out
questions and answers giving me a hell of a time finding out
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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I Had This Dream on my Own - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
I can remember before we met how i spent my morning hours
half asleep and half awake
no early calls or callous cries and half way to alone
fully here yours to take
you thought you made this love all by yourself
well I had this dream on my own
yes I had this dream on my own
nothing grows from seeds you haven’t sown
but i had this dream on my own
yes i had this dream on my own
Can you forget after we met the sunlit afternoon
no regret heaven sent
demons don’t come calling without cause
listening in through the din
you thought you made this love all by yourself
well I had this dream on my own
yes I had this dream on my own
nothing grows from seeds you haven’t sown
but i had this dream on my own
yes i had this dream on my own
bridge
you thought you made this love all by yourself
well I had this dream on my own
yes I had this dream on my own
nothing grows from seeds you haven’t sown
but i had this dream on my own
yes i had this dream on my own
but I had this dream on my own
yes i had this dream on my own
well i had it
yes i had it on my own
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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Zar-Ptak
03:17
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Firebird
04:58
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Firebird - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
California wine and a frozen snickers bar
the pair of shades you found was on my eyes
i came to cool you out and ask you where you are
but you said you reached the chapter of goodbyes
the firebird flew in to fly you away
while i slept a thousand dreams to make you stay
the firebird flew in to fly you away
a feral cat poised to strike a squirrell far from his lair
could have had the same ideas in his eyes
i walked along the shore that day expecting you to care
when you said you reached the chapter of goodbyes
the firebird flew in to fly you away
while i slept a thousand dreams to make you stay
the firebird flew in to fly you away
minnesota snow and a melted block of ice
a special book kept hidden from my eyes
could never match that empty feeling you sent out once or twice
but you said you reached the chapter of goodbyes
the firebird flew in to fly you away
while i slept a thousand dreams to make you stay
the firebird flew in to fly you away
an island in the southern seas or tahoe’s windy shore
could have set the stage for one more of our tries
i thought our chances on that day were anything but poor
but you said you reached the chapter of goodbyes
the firebird flew in to fly you away
while i slept a thousand dreams to make you stay
the firebird flew in to fly you away
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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11. |
Gabriela
06:40
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Gabriela - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
Matted hair and dirty feet
a dress you sewed from a sheet
worked the fields in the hot summer light
danced a dream when the fire burned bright
you somehow grabbed me, I thought your eyes were the thing
but I stopped cold dead when I heard you sing
Gabriela, cinnamon skin and scent of clove
I’m caught hard in the web you wove
to know you and want you I must always forgive
a butterfly tied to the ground cannot live
Gabriella
Gabriella
Gabriella
I almost died when you woke me from sleep
and we worked up a sweat in the Amazon deep
when I found my place I hoped you would stay
then I set my stake and you just walked away
I would give an arm, I would give anything
if you’d dance by the fire, and your sweet lips would sing
Gabriela, cinnamon skin and scent of clove
I’m caught hard in the web you wove
to know you and want you I must always forgive
a butterfly tied to the ground cannot live
Gabriella
Gabriella
Gabriella
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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12. |
Without Sin Without Love
04:52
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Without Sin Without Love - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne
I lay me down to rest my bones from life
i dream pictures of a world in strife
i’ve been accused of a crime from hell
but there is mercy cutting deep as a knife
E. A
without sin without love
E. A
feel the heat from above
Bm. A
in a pulpit a man screams
E. B7. E
we’ll forget him in our dreams
I wake up to find the world on fire
every friend is a lawyer or a liar
i look to my side find i’m not alone
where we’re free from want, we get what we desire
Without sin without love
feel the heat from above
in a pulpit a man screams
we’ll forget him in our dreams
I hold you close, as tight as i can hold
i talk softly against the shattering din
do the same and you’ll never be cold
mold your love on the fire within
Without sin without love
feel the heat from above
in a pulpit a man screams
we’ll forget him in our dreams
© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved
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Doug Osborne Culver City, California
Nights Like These
New 12-Song Album Available Now!
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