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Vigilantes of Love​/​'Cross the Big Pond (UK release)

by Vigilantes of Love

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1.
now my fist is clenched my guard up and set against all those things that haven't happened yet can i play on your playground on your side of the ditch can i go home again if that suit doesn't fit cloth of life is torn cloth of life is fading so much more goes without saying yeah the leaves were in riot our time of the year pulling from coffee cups pushing back the tears you're all writing your chapters a new one each day i wish i could write my name on the bottom of the page cloth of life is something where you begin cloth of life is something you can wrap yourself in keep a candle in the window keep a fire on your hearth keep a prayer on your lips and keep some hope in your heart
2.
In The Box 03:42
yeah what you got in the box ah just as i thought a few old bones and some skeletons that you don't wanna own anymore what you got in the box come here let's have a look see a few spare parts and a whiplashed heart a certain casualty what you got in the box is it a little or a lot what you got in the box for me hey what you got in the box yeah you mind if i take a peek some scars and stars that have long burned out of your old lying teeth what you got in the box yeah you mind if i check under the hood a pair of rose-colored spectacles for when things don't look so good my own is pretty dusty my own is such a bore yeah but in the light of truth and love it's too hard to ignore yeah what you got in the box you know the one you keep under your bed under solid lock and key right there inside your head what you got in the box yeah just as i thought a few old bones and some skeletons that you don't wanna own anymore
3.
got a skeleton closet we've got a dreaded disease i been looking high and low for my skeleton key and they say that pride well it's is the chief of sins well i know all of his deputies i'm well acquainted with them yes she walks on water yes yes she walks on sky yes yes she walks on roses yes yes she walks on by she got a brand new ache she got a brand new crutch got a brand new scar spend a lifetime to cover it up and the make-up don't work and the spinning don't help and if she were to talk about it she'd implicate herself you can bury it all deep under the ground you can take it out once in a while when there's no one around you can grab for it all with your list of demands or you can come as a small child yeah with your empty hands
4.
trusted you until it hurt don't wanna go there for a while barely recognized the word i've been forgetting how to smile it's funny how supposed friends trip in here so fancy free ah but when the story ends we just rewrite our histories and it's no good telling stories when my ears are sealed up tight does no good to see the sunrise when you're blinded by the light gave you all the best we had of our labors and our trust played a benefit of doubt yeah but we couldn't raise enough bought a one-way ticket to nowhere on a ship called lost at sea well it was there i found my courage she was sleeping next to me Lord show to me Your face Lord show to me Your skin Lord show to me the places where they put the nails in gonna crawl in there with all my fears introduce them to my pretense yeah introduce them to my sorrows they'll become the best of friends
5.
a hard line taken every path you crossed baby what was never found is never lost long ago you stopped thinking about what it costs to live in this skin yes and all those men who ran out on you who climbed your mountain to steal their view well they took all the treasure but they left you with a mind full of nothing go and ask her you're innocent when you dream floated on down to new orleans with the drifters and the gamblers and the river boat queens we're all taking our chances on what we've never seen with our own two own eyes oh the first time i think i hear you say the word trust was one half prayer the other half curse i was hoping you'd think of me none for the worse for loving you you can build a big wall around your heart you can win all the battles before they start you could claw your way straight to top of the wreckage and bleed i wanna hold you in my arms at night what's it take to make life turn our right if love is the clue let's follow it right to eternity was watching you sleep it was late last night with a smile on your lips were you dancing in the light of a place where i i could not quite reach
6.
the leaves are changing for quite some time as we headed south thirty five some unfinished business left to do stepping stone up we're further away from you there's been talk on the telephone about these bleeding parts of mine they say your radio is pretty good this year but your retail's not worth a dime where my seed might find purchase where my seed might find purchase tonight these hollow bodies been thrown into the path stun gun electricity the bleeding fingers strumming hacks my tubes they are a rattling the wind among dead leaves and my amps well they're howling for nobody else but me yeah slipping under beneath the haze john barleycorn too often generally i am the one most inclined to drive the nails into their respective coffins distortion factor's kicking in a thousand miles from home and tonight my speakers are breaking up too much with a beauty all of their own could your bloodstream ever withstand the poison born of bitterness and vices you must learn to live thankful to the Lord or be left to your own devices yeah we're out here on these paths again speaking our peace throwing caution to the wind there's a warm dry room you can sleep in caught out in the open
7.
let us draw in here for a moment yeah put away all of your sadness let us leave it here for a while 'cause in here it is madness and you know it's never really very far away and that's all the more reason to dance while it's still day and you find these dreams awakening and they shine to run their course so much for this thing called life tracing it back to it's source yeah you loved me to the finest hour and then through thick and thin on such wreckage and ruin your spirit did descend yeah one eye for the saviour the other for a thief it was the bread of cheers it was a meal of grief between something once remembered what was just too easy to forget once you said that you had for me a gift but i was not holding my breath it was flowing from the five wounds from the well of truth bracing like the wind it was two hundred proof
8.
so i'm at this wheel it's three am waiting for the caffeine to come around and life rears it's ugly head again they say your radio's cool and retail's way down and i'd like to say i'm faithful to the task at hand speaking gospel to a handful and others with their list of demands it's cold this year and i'm late on my dues it's cold in here ah but that's nothing new my heart's electric with your love again so it's on to bethlehem you might surmise that i ran there but i really only crept lead me to the place where love runs wild and then it dogs your every step you know how fickle my heart is prone to wonder my Lord yeah we talk but it's at arms length always got one eye on the door God wraps Himself up in human skin for those who want to touch and God let them drive the nails in for those of us who know way too much You come bearing all our burdens and take Your lovers for a ride but we stay holed up in our cages fashioned by our own design so tell me what is your secret what's on your blister soul what is that one little secret you know the one that has taken its toll 'cause daddy's banging on your gate again yeah he won't leave you alone got a whole lot of dry warm rooms and the finest of homes

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Recorded in a lovely farm house studio in Cheltenham, England in Fall of 1999. Here's MORE of the songs we couldn't put on Audible Sigh (or it'd have been be 3 cds long!) This is a tres cool, acoustic driven set of songs we recorded on a tour break in the UK.

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released July 4, 1999

Bill Mallonee: guitars, vocals, harp, drums
Ken Hutson: guitars, mandolin, bgvs
Jake Bradley: bass

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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