Chris & Carla - Life Full Of Holes

CHRIS & CARLA

LIFE FULL OF HOLES (1995)

  1. Precursor
  2. Storm Crazy
  3. Death At Low Water
  4. The Tower
  5. Nights Between Stations
  6. Take Me
  7. Sleep Will Pass Us By
  8. Sandy River Moon
  9. The Silent Crossing
10. Comfort Of A Stranger
11. Life Full Of Holes
12. Velvet Fog
13. Never Gonna Fall
14. The Cool And The Dark

CHRIS & CARLA

LIFE FULL OF HOLES

1. PRECURSOR
Instrumental

2. STORM CRAZY

This ain't the time to be reasonable
Can't put much stock in that now
The storm front it hangs, a silence gone strange
Can't put much stock in that now
Storm gone crazy
Storm gone night
This is the time to follow me blind
To follow me over the side

Call me storm crazy
For your lover
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Lightning explodes at the top of the trees
And you laugh as I grab for the flame

Fences are down, an open corral
Watertower stands on its head
Keepin' us warm, electrical storm
You follow wherever you're led
Storm gone crazy
Storm gone night
Keepin' us warm, electrical storm
You follow wherever you're led

Call me storm crazy
For your lover
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Lightning explodes at the top of the trees
And you laugh as I grab for the flame

Lover or chattel, it hardly will matter
Pull the storm down to the ground
Lover or chattel, your heart it'll rattle
When I pull the storm down to the ground
Storm gone crazy
Storm gone night
This is the time to follow me blind
To follow me over the side

Call me storm crazy
For your lover
You laugh as I grab for the flame
Lightning explodes at the top of the trees
And you laugh as I grab for the flame
You laugh as I grab for the flame
I laugh as I grab for the flame.

3. DEATH AT LOW WATER

I could hear you callin'
Through the whisperin' woods
I could hear you call my name
From the back porch door

Said Prosper, come here quick it's worse than we expected it
Found him this mornin' and the news ain't good
Finally caught up with him last night
Near the Nevada line

Trail of blood along the clean white salt
Found him face down on the alkali flat
Rolled him over, barely breathin'
Still he got a few words out

Said he was drivin' the Denio track
A 4 x 4 appeared behind his back
Headlights burning up the sky
To the top of Steens Mountain

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

Crashed his side door and they forced him to stop
Three men got out dressed in camouflage
Told him: "start digging us a well
When you're done you'll dig another"

Then shots they ricocheted around his head
Kicked him hard and they left him for dead
He started crawlin' back to town
And that is when we found him

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

And the last thing your father said
When he closed his eyes

Now it's said the sun's a big door
That protects us from the dark
And if you look behind it
All you'll see is yourself

Since he died I lost my will to ride
It's 'neath the surface with my shame and my pride
Someday it will explode, explode into the sky
All the way to the top of Steens Mountain

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water

Death at low, death at low
Death at low
Death at low water.

4. THE TOWER

I got a message from the king
A column of smoke center of the screen
Out came a face that I recognized
And no disguise would have changed a thing

And the sun never shines
No, the sun will never shine
No, the sun will never shine
Where I am going

Had to fight just to say a word
Had to bite my tongue so that I'd be heard
The blood went down from my chin to my neck
Just as the king finished his dessert

And the sun never shines
No, the sun will never shine
No, the sun will never shine
Where I am going

Crop of salted heads, sprouted on the gate
Pictured mine on his dinner plate
To stuff my mouth would be at last, revenge
Devours my silence like so many grapes

And the sun never shines
No, the sun will never shine
No, the sun will never shine
Where I am going.

5. NIGHTS BETWEEN STATIONS

Caught when our center was broken
Caught when our troubles were true
On a three state run, from the merciless sun
We ripped up the letters from home

Caught on the barbed wire fences
Caught in the bones and the thorns
Caught in these arms, we will never go wrong
When the nights between stations grow long

Checked ourselves in to the station hotel
Sittin' up in a bed made for lyin'
The train leaves at dawn
But we drink on and on
Catchin' up with the dead and the dyin'

Caught on the barbed wire fences
Caught in the bones and the thorns
Caught in these arms, we will never go wrong
When the nights between stations grow long

Hey there conductor, spare us your suspicions
We're not as lit as we seem
Don't offer us somethin', when were lookin' for nothin'
Nothin' is the one thing we believed

I'm leavin' our suitcase on the platform number 5
I'll be damned if I carry it again
It's filled with a curse, disappointment and worse
And there's enough of that, caught in my head

Caught on the barbed wire fences
Caught in the bones and the thorns
Caught in these arms, we will never go wrong
When the nights between stations grow long
When the nights between stations grow long
When the nights between stations grow long.

6. TAKE ME

Take me, take me to your darkest room
Close all the windows and bolt all the doors
From the first moment I heard your voice
I'd be in darkness no more

Take me, to your most barren desert
A thousand miles from the nearest sea
The very moment I saw your smile
It was like heaven to me

There's not a mountain too rugged to climb
No desert too barren to cross
Darlin', if you would just show me a sign
Of love, I could bear with all loss

Take me to Siberia
The coldest weather of any winter time
And it would be just like spring in California
As long as I knew you were mine

Take me, take me
Take me, take me.

7. SLEEP WILL PASS US BY

I keep thinkin' that she's goin' down
My second sight a fixed on her demise
A slow and silent stretch, broods like the riverbed
Swirlin' round the big and muddy rise

Sulfur colored lights, and frozen rays
Lightin' up the streets behind the bar
The lights are weak and dim, like the memory of our kin
Disgraced by curses best not learned at all

Sleep will pass us by
It's much too slow for that
This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died they forgot the funeral

Ill afford and ill equipped
Fever-eyed surrender to the rains
The cottonwoods wash locusts from their hair
It's hard to know just what the daylight brings

Sleep will pass us by
It's much too slow for that
This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died they forgot the funeral

Scapegoat heart and scarecrow legs
Nothin' in your pockets worth a dime
A trifling animal, the packhorse of our pride
Leaves the room and carries on so stubbornly

Sleep will pass us by
It's much too slow for that
This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died they forgot the funeral

This town died but they forgot the funeral
When this town died they forgot the funeral.

8. SANDY RIVER MOON
Instrumental

9. THE SILENT CROSSING

The sunset reaches to you with its long talons
The new stars showin' pity for the fallen
It drags you back up to your feet
Leaves you ready to deceive
Leaves you standing at the silent crossing

Telephone poles race against the cold sky
Your rusty hair covers up your one good eye
The ground expects uncertain rain
Fools have waited, though it never came
Waited in the silence of the crossin'

Hidden in them big armed ponderosas
The crossing obscured by its own remoteness
Your mouth harp fashioned from tobacco tins
Played "Soldier's Of Joy" till your breath went thin
Played for no one, at the silent crossin'

Trouble's ear was cupped so he could hear you
Said those that break the silence break their own rules
Said fools are those that that trust their fears
Sagebrush growin' up around their heels
Fools are those that plant seeds at the crossin'

It was a mile past the dark when I came upon you
Reservations grave, expectations humble
You drew upon your corn-skin smoke
Your jaw was tired, said it's time to go
You said it's time to move beyond the crossing
It's time to move beyond the silent crossing

If there's a darker part of night
We best go find it
If there's a darker part of night
We best go find it
We better find it, we better find it
We'd best go find it.

10. COMFORT OF A STRANGER

A stranger came
To this forsaken place
To shake me from my whiskey guilt
To cure my tremblin' ways

Now there is not a door
That I will not kick down
No lock I will not break
No guilty verdict found
Ever since you've been around

You won't believe the lenghts I've traveled
To medicate the danger
But all the medicines, seem wasted
In the comfort of a stranger

Now there is not a door
That I will not kick down
No lock I will not break
No guilty verdict found
Ever since you've been around
Ever since you've been around

You ain't some fool that came here for the fakin'
A racetrack prize that can be overtaken
You give the comfort of
Give me the comfort of a stranger
Comfort of a stranger

You recognize the genius of this place
The shadows hide the cynic on my face
You give the comfort of
Give me the comfort of a stranger
Comfort of a stranger
Comfort of a stranger
Comfort of a stranger.

11. LIFE FULL OF HOLES

A life full of holes, and a life full of wind
The devil's dust it blows through me again
Don't look for me, I ain't easy to find
The Barbary Trail is where I've gone to hide
That's where I go to hide

Me and Reeves walk down to the square
Rings of fire burnin' everywhere
The pariah dogs and the acrobat kings
I tell Reeves I have to laugh at everything
Always laughed at everything

A life full of holes and a life full of wind
Got a nomads temper and a shepherd's skin
Got my head in the sun and my feet in the water cool
This life full of holes, it leads me back to you
I'm coming back to you
Follow the cross of the south and I will find my home
Neath the marbled sky and the amber moon
By the graves of stone and the volcano tall
There's a traveler's truth, it says there is no truth at all
In a life that's full of holes.

12. VELVET FOG

Don't ask for favors
And don't risk the truth
My fingers are scissors
They're cutting you through

Cutting you through
Cutting you through
Velvet fog
Velvet fog

The bird in my open hand
Is a captive for life
Please don't misread now
We're drinkin' happy tonight

Cutting you through
Cutting you through
Velvet fog
Velvet fog

And I hear you singin'
When the pale moon goes down
Nirvana's on the jukebox
But Gene Pitney
Owns this town
And it's a town without pity
It's a town without tears

Velvet fog
Velvet fog
Velvet fog
Velvet fog.

13. NEVER GONNA FALL

Dont't matter if I've told you this before
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again

Don't plan to give up, everything to change
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again

Whipped by branches thick, thick enough to convict
I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again

And if you're gone I know it's for your health
And if you stay I expect it's for the same
Keep it honest, something to protect
Built for ages very deep and strange

I know I've told you this before
But I'll never fall again
Never gonna fall again

Won't ever ask you to shoulder burden's weight
Never gonna fall again
Never gonna fall again
Never never fall again
Never gonna fall again
Never gonna fall.

14. THE COOL AND THE DARK
Instrumental

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