LOVE YOU LIKE THE EARTH© Audrey Auld 2003 (APRA)

I love you like the earthI love you like the rainI love you like the sun coming up againAnd the moon pulling on the tideAnd the day turning into nightI love you like the treesLove you like the windLove you like the sun coming up againAnd the air when the day is goneI love you like the earth

I love you like the sky on a sunny dayLove you like the stars in the Milky WayAnd the lake when a mist rolls inAnd the clouds floating on the windI love you like a stormLove you like the seaLove you like the birds that are flying freeAnd the breeze on a summer’s eveI love you like the earth

Like the moon and like the sunThe universe and I are oneThe world green and blueThe beauty of it all is you

I love you like the earthLove you like the hillsLove you like time when it all stands still And the road that’ll take me homeTo the sweetest love I have known

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I love you like the yearsLove you like the spaceLove you like the lines written on your faceAnd the moon pulling on the tideAnd the day turning into nightAnd the sun coming up againI love you like the earth

I love you like the earth

MY FATHER© Audrey Auld 2004 (APRA)

I know you were the angelWho played my lullabiesAs I drifted off to sleepIn dreams of a childThen I’d gently wakenTo your softest wordsAnd start the day filled withThe music I’d heard

Oh my FatherYour blood in my veinsOh my FatherYou showed me the wayTo love and learn and be concernedAnd never give up faith

Now there comes a timeWhen one decidesThe path he must takeAnd it isn’t always easyWhen the ways separateI couldn’t bear your leavingAnd it hurt to see you sadBut I know you’ll always love meCause you’ll always be my dad

Oh my FatherYour blood in my veins

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Oh my FatherYou showed me the wayTo love and learn and be concernedAnd never give up faith

Now we sit and read togetherJust breathing the same airNow and then you’ll read aloudA part you want to shareOr maybe we’ll be walkingYou always lead the wayNot worried if I’m keeping upYou know I’ll find my way

Oh my FatherYour blood in my veinsOh my FatherYou showed me the wayTo love and learn and be concernedAnd never give up faith

Oh my Father

SONG FOR HARLAN© Audrey Auld 2004 (APRA)

I heard your last breath todayYour soul up and awayTried to bring you backBut you were gone just like thatI heard your last breath today

Your ghost is all over this townLiving it up, live it downYou left a paper trailOf love’s lonely tailYour ghost is all over this town

The chair is empty now you’re goneGuitar, no more songsBut you can still be heardIn every song-bird

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The chair is empty now you’re gone

I heard your last breath today

BALL AND CHAIN© Audrey Auld 2000 (APRA)

Ball & chain around my neckI work so hard I’m sinking deeper in debtBall & chain dragging me downYou’re spending my money all over town

I try to give you the best that I canWhy do I love a run-around manYou don’t give me nothingNot even your nameLove ain’t nothin’ but a ball & chain

Ball & chain black and blueYou’re hurting me and I’m loving youBall & chain dragging on meBall & chain I’ll never be free

You treat me so bad, you got no respect Everyone tells me it’s as bad as love getsI’m tired and I’m broke and down and ashamedLove ain’t nothin’ but a ball & chain

Ball & chain around my heartYou don’t care that I’m falling apartBall & chain weighing on meBall & chain of misery

I’m slaving all day to make you feel goodOh baby I’d love you more if I couldBut you only wanna see me in painLove ain’t nothin’ but a ball & chain

I got the ball & chain blues

HOLE IN MY LIFE© Audrey Auld 2004 (APRA)

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There’s a hole in my life where my lover used to beAnd it’s filled with hopes and dreams that will never beAnd I wonder will I find, someone to love me?There’s a hole in my life where my lover used to be

There’s a hole in my life where my mother used to beNow I am alone, she’s watching over meBut no more will I feel her arms around meThere’s a hole in my life where my mother used to be

And I pray to god if you take them all awayThen please dear god won’t you take away the pain?

There’s a hole in my life where my brother used to beI feel I have lost the child inside meAll the life we shared is just a memoryThere’s a hole in my life where my brother used to be

With all these holes I’m barely hanging onAnd I need their love to make me whole again

There’s a hole in my life where my lover used to beMy mother and my brother, my blessed familyAnd I hope to find a stronger part of meTo fill the hole in my life where my loved ones used to be

And I pray to find a stronger part of meTo fill the hole in my life where my loved ones used to be

WOODY© Audrey Auld 2004 (APRA)

Woody, I never knew youBut you’re in my guitar when I playOut there on the roadOut where you made your homeYour spirit travels everyday

This machine heals woundsThis machine ends wars

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This machine is the voiceThat demands to be heardSongs of rage, songs of workSongs that help sing out the hurtWoody, you’re singing in the wires

Woody, I never knew youThough yo sang to me as a childWake up, wake up, wake upThings are looking upGrab your guitar and ride

This machine heals woundsThis machine ends warsThis machine is the voiceThat demands to be heardSongs of rage, songs of workSongs that help sing out the hurtWoody, you’re singing in the wires

You built the roads I travelAnd paved them with your songsEvery face a storyEvery train a home

This machine heals woundsThis machine ends warsThis machine is the voiceThat demands to be heardSongs of rage, songs of workSongs that help sing out the hurtWoody, you’re singing in the wires

MISSIN MEZ© Audrey Auld 2003 (APRA)

I miss you like the sun during a long winterMiss you like water after too much wineMiss you like the sea too long in TexasI miss you like I’ve lost everything that’s mine

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And I miss you like the feel of rain to a prisonerI miss you like my mother’s arms when I fall downAnd I miss you like a friend in a room full of strangersI miss you like I’ve lost everything that’s mine

I miss you like laughter when there’s too much hatredMiss you like kisses when I’m living aloneI miss you like music when there’s too much talkingI miss you like a traveller, too far from home

And I miss you like the feel of rain to a prisonerI miss you like my mother’s arms when I fall downAnd I miss you like a friend in a room full of strangersI miss you like I’ve lost everything that’s mineI miss you like I’ve lost everything that’s mine

BILLY JOE© Audrey Auld 2002 (APRA)

Billy Joe had a dreamA song to fall back onWhen the 9 to 5 wanted its poundHe packed his bag and broke his wordTo Brenda and his babyCame home too brokeTo feed their hungry mouths

So he asked the lordTo show him the answerWith his boy He found the waySaid “slow down eddy”But it all kept getting fasterTill his angel fellNow only dreamsCome out to play

If you’re a chunk of coalI’m a grain of sandIt’s like the baby JesusJoined the devil’s band

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If you’re a trampThen I’m a dog at heelI’ll walk your streetsBut I’ll never know how you feel

Now he drowns in bloodThicker than waterDreams scattered to the windWhen he finds his wingsHe’ll fly to join themHis next of kinThe fallen angel band

If you’re a chunk of coalI’m a grain of sandIt’s like the baby JesusJoined the devil’s bandIf you’re a trampThen I’m a dog at heelI’ll walk your streetsBut I’ll never know how you feel

When he finds his wingsHe’ll fly to join themHis next of kinThe fallen angel band

SHINE© Audrey Auld 2002 (APRA)

Way out in the darknessI get a sense of youA feeling so familiarIn everything I doLike you were here before meBut now your tracks are coldBut there’s a ghost that lingersIn stories I am told

Way on far horizon

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Is the brightest lightA beacon for the dreamersTo always keep in sightI feel your footstepsAs clear as dayAnd I see where you stumbledThere along the way

And in your eyes I see the shineOf something I can’t nameIs it a star in the spotlight?Or a fire out on the plain?

I feel your shadowEverywhere I goReaching back through historyTo days I’ll never knowAnd there are timesWhen your eyes shineAnd I must turn awayIs it all that you dream of?Or dreams of yesterday?

And in your eyes I see the shineOf something I can’t nameIs it a star in the spotlight?Or a fire out on the plain?

Is it all that you dream of?Or dreams of yesterday?

ONE EYE© Audrey Auld 2002 (APRA)

I been getting ‘round with one eye open most daysI been getting ‘round with one eye open most daysI can find the phone, I can find the doorMy cigarettes, don’t need much moreI been getting ‘round with one eye open most days

I been walking a straight line most daysI been walking a straight line most days

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I don’t want to be concernedAbout the new stuff people learnI been walking a straight line most days

I been standing in my own shoes most daysI been standing in my own shoes most daysI can always read aboutThe poor and hungry and down and outI been standing in my own shoes most days

I been eating the fat of the land most daysI been eating the fat of the land most daysI can buy just what I pleaseAnd throw away what I don’t needI been eating the fat of the land most days

I been stomping on hallowed ground most daysI been stomping on hallowed ground most daysThey got the land with gifts and gunsSo don’t blame me for what they’ve doneI been stomping on hallowed ground most days

I been digging my own grave most daysI been digging my own grave most daysThere ain’t no crowd and there ain’t no preacherJust a head stone saying “that’ll teach ya”I been digging my own grave most daysCause I been getting ‘round with one eye open most days

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