The Walkabouts - Your Hope Shines

THE WALKABOUTS

YOUR HOPE SHINES (1993)

  1. Your Hope Shines
  2. Wondertown
  3. Shine A Light
  4. Inauguration Day

THE WALKABOUTS

YOUR HOPE SHINES

1. YOUR HOPE SHINES

Lay my body down
By the shallows of the creek
You can lay my body down
Lay me in your reach

And when my body's down
We'll steal the thunder from the rain
And when my body's down
We'll shake the dirt right from the pain

I was going nowhere
Nowhere very fast
Threw my poison out the window
But it came blowin' back
Out along the highway
Right through the night of crime
Somewhere in the darkness
Your hope shined

Whisper wisdom's words
You can whisper wisdom's lies
But all of wisdom's words
Never helped me to survive

Days of all my arrogance
When you were not afraid
Threw my paycheck out the window
You threw it all away
Walked the devil's highway
Across the county line
Somewhere in the darkness
Your hope shined

Your hope shined
Your hope shined
Your hope shined
Your hope shined
Walked the devil's highway, across the county line
Your hope shined, your hope shined
First light in the mornin', right through the night of crime
Your hope shined, your hope shined

Lay my body down
By the shallows of the creek.

2. WONDERTOWN (Part Two)
No lyrics available

3. SHINE A LIGHT

Saw you stretched out in Room Ten O Nine
With a smile on your face and a tear right in your eye
Couldn't see to get a line on you
My sweet honey love

Berber jew'lry jangling down the street
Make your eyes shut at ev'ry woman that you meet
Could’t seem to get a high on you
My sweet honey love

May the good Lord shine a light on you
Make every song you sing your favorite tune
May the good Lord shine a light on you
Warm like the evening sun

Well, you're joined in the alley
Baby, with your clothes all torn
And your late night friends leave you in the cold gray dawn
Just seemed like too many flies on you
I can't brush them off

May the good Lord shine a light on you
Make every song you sing your favorite tune
May the good Lord shine a light on you
Warm like the evening sun

Angels beating all their wings in time
With smiles on their faces and a gleam right in their eyes
Thought I heard one sigh for you
Come on up, now, come on up, now, come on up now

May the good Lord shine a light on you
Make every song you sing your favorite tune
May the good Lord shine a light on you
Warm like the evening sun.

4. INAUGURATION DAY

One and two and three and four and

I'm up to my neck
In the mud of Inauguration day

They say it's one in fifty years
That storm that blew my dog away

And they say the road has been washed out
From Rockport to Concrete
And all the trees are falling down
And now, heaven's at my feet

My wishes do my beggin' for me
And like a beggar they do laugh

Frozen fingers touch my face
They tie a blindfold 'round my eyes

And I'm stuck at this roadblock
Chasing fog and smoke
I guess the price of doing that was just
Another killing joke

Wash me down
Wash me down

Sing for me now
Sing for me now

Wash me from the hillside
And wash me from the dirt
Wash me from your worldly claims
And wash me, wash me from your hurt

'Cause I'm up to my neck
In the mud of Inauguration day.

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