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1. |
Smith's Rock
04:16
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2. |
The Colour of Gone
03:43
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The Colour of Gone
Dave Gunning / Matt Andersen – SOCAN
I’ve been adrift through these nights on my own
On a never ending ocean that won’t let you go
It’s dark and it’s deep and it finds me asleep
On some lonely shore
Where the days go by like a train
With cold empty cars each one is the same
The weight of the wheels is pounding the steel
Leaving me behind
Blue was the colour
Of the eyes of my lover
As she cried while I sang her our song
And blue was the sky
That turned into night
Now blue is the colour of gone
And now blue is the colour of gone
My walls all fell to the ground
When I thought I saw her face in a crowd
I’d been taking my time to slowly unwind
This long fading feeling of mine
The window was silvery cold
The city lights of amber were only fool’s gold
Like a torch in the night that jet plane soon flying
Over a dark ocean wide
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3. |
Made On A Monday
03:45
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Made On A Monday
Dave Gunning / Jamie Robinson – SOCAN
It takes time to get me running then I overheat
Burnt out broke down with ashes all around
And I’m stuck here at the end of your street
But the road ahead is paved for me
With good intentions all the way
So the only thing that I’m gonna say is
Maybe I was made on a Monday
With spare pieces that don’t fit right
Square wheels and a check engine light
‘cause that’s what it feels like
Maybe they were tired from the weekend
Not feeling great not seeing straight
Oh I must have been made
Must have been made on a Monday
Sometimes I don’t remember and sometimes I forget
And the view from here in my rearview mirror
Is of a trunk full of regret
But I never meant to let you down
Or leave you stranded in the rain
Oh the only way I can explain is
So we head out to the country
Back to where the dirt road ends
And with the moonlight shining
You forgive me once
You forgive me twice
You forgive me once again
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4. |
Before The Morning Sun
04:15
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Before The Morning Sun
Dave Gunning / James Keelaghan – SOCAN
In the valley by the river we had a little land
It wasn’t much to speak of what we had was by our hands
But the banker took it from us at the end of two dry years
Left nothing but the dust watered by my mother’s tears
With all the rage that burned inside me I rode into that town
And with my father’s rifle I shot that banker down
And this isn’t like the story books there’ll be no reprieve
When they take me out before the morning sun
The judge was looking at me when he brought the gavel down
It echoed off the pillars, “by law son you are bound”
Then behind those iron bars alone to face myself
With the building of the scaffold outside my quiet prison cell
I can hear the hammers pounding I can feel my blood awaken
To a thousand freight trains running through my mind
This isn’t like the story books there’ll be no reprieve
When they take me out before the morning sun
My father said son we’ll love you ‘til the end
My mother turned and hid her face as the preacher man stepped in
He said, “know that God will judge you and know that you have sinned”
The long shadow of the gallows spanned my prison cell
It made a cross upon the preacher’s back a hardened man’s farewell
I can hear the footsteps coming now they’re right outside my door
With a single church bell ringing out of time
This isn’t like the story books and now the hour has come
When they take me out before the morning sun
With my calloused hands behind me like those fields in my memory
I’m staring straight into a clear horizon
This isn’t like the story books and the moment’s come and gone
They hang me out to face the morning sun
They hang me out before the morning sun
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5. |
There's A Song In There
04:00
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There‘s A Song In There
Dave Gunning / Jamie Robinson – SOCAN
Might be sailing in a summer breeze with a smile upon it’s face
Or caught up in a storm tossed sea off the coast of Harbour Grace
Might shine like a diamond it might be black as coal
Or slip away in a promise too hard to hold
But there’s a song in there
A song in there
Might be stuck at the end of a pen on a line of an empty page
Or strung out on an old guitar keeping time inside it’s case
Might be running through the country it might echo off the highway
Up and gone when there’s nothing left to say
But there’s a song in there
There’s a song in there
Somewhere
Will it run like a river to a long lost friend
Will it wind your way back through the years
When you play it again
Play it again
Might be waiting in the daybreak
When you open up your eyes
Or be hard-up and searching
For one last rhyme at closing time
But there’s a song in there
There’s a song in there ...
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6. |
Ashten Town
03:59
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Ashen Town
Dave Gunning / David Francey – SOCAN
Here lies the village church
No cross no hymn no verse
All the colours congregate in shades of grey
And the choir no longer sings
And the bell no longer rings
Here lies the village church
Here stands the general store
Dust beams point to the floor
And nails in rusty cans that never sold
There’s a faded sorry closed
On a peeling painted door
Here stands the general store
And I just walk around
Through this ashen town
Leaving not a trace
Of the last ghost in this place
Here waits the family home
Forsaken and alone
On the walls that kept them all so safe and warm
Peeling paper water stained
God’s blessing in it’s frame
Here waits the family home
Here rests my father’s bones
With cracked and fallen stones
Marked by weathered cross and worn words
No flowers left behind
To mark the passing time
Here rests my father’s bones
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7. |
Big Shoes
03:16
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Big Shoes
Dave Gunning / Jamie Robinson – SOCAN
I watched him take the stage
Like a giant there before me
A poet of the people standing tall
Flood lights beaming red
On steel strings and sweat
The finest tunes that ever echoed off those walls
And the power of his voice
All rage fire and thunder
I knew that I had changed and I’d never be the same
Now every time since then
When I hear his voice again
I get carried back to that day
‘cause it was rock ‘n roll to me
He might as well have been the King
Now I could walk a thousand miles
And it would be like I stood still
Spend my whole life trying
And I’d never fill
Those shoes
I got my first guitar
When I was twelve years old
It was a fifteen dollar flea market prize
Something in me burned
From my fingers through my veins
And the fullest moon lit the darkest skies
Now I’m just one of many
Setting out along this path
Over dirt roads that he paved
And new roads that he made
Searching for a song
With his legend shining on
Like the Queensport Light glowing in the bay
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8. |
Something I'm Missing
03:48
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Something I‘m Missing
Dave Gunning / Jamie Robinson – SOCAN
Why does it feel like every dollar I make
Is barely worth a dime?
Working to live like there’s nothing better to do
Caught in between all the give and the take
Feels like the perfect crime
I count the ways it keeps me up at night
That never get to you
Is there something I’m missing?
More to this than meets the eye?
‘cause I see storm clouds dressed up like a clear blue sky
And I watch these days disappear
Like waves rolling out from the shore
And it leaves me looking for
Something I’m missing
There’s too much talking and nobody saying much
And I don't understand
It seems like nothing is ever black or white
So tell me how did my Canadian flag
Wind up with a Chinese tag?
I don’t really know what’s wrong about it
I just know it’s not right
There was a time when pride wasn’t foolish
And a man was measured by the weight of his word
Now I can’t help looking back
As I watch these days all disappear
Like waves rolling out from the shore
And it leaves me looking for
Something I’m missing
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9. |
As Far As This Town Goes
03:19
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As Far As This Town Goes
Dave Gunning / Rose Cousins – SOCAN
You only traveled on the wind
As far as this town goes
Just how your story ever went
No one really knows
From the broken sidewalks of this town
We push up and away
I left in a hurry after school
I’m pretty sure you stayed
Did you raise a family?
Did you make a perfect wife?
Did you get tired of the same old things?
Were you ever satisfied?
The sky turned from blue to grey
On a paper black and white
And all the things they couldn’t say
Silent in the night
You only traveled on the wind
As far as this town goes
Just how your story ever went
No one really knows
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10. |
We're All Leaving
03:33
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We‘re All Leaving
Dave Gunning / Karine Polwart - SOCAN / Bay Songs Ltd.
There is thunder on the skyline
And it tears her breath away
In the twilight iron-grey
A father’s human hand could not command her
To return to them once more
Like a soldier from the war
We’re all leaving
Even the ones who stay behind
We’re all leaving in our own time
Each night surrenders to another morning
Still beneath the April skies
He can hear a quiet cry
On smiling fields there’s a battle raging
And for every bloom he knows
Another flower never grows
And he has no Ark to bear him from this flood
Just a broken vessel wrought in flesh and blood
Though the riptides pull him under
He cannot cease to wonder
At the beauty of it all, at the beauty of it all
He brings her mother to the church doors
And while she prays for what must come
He walks the woods alone
And there he builds his own cathedrals
And on every whirring wing
He can hear the forest sing
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11. |
Sorry For The City
03:31
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Sorry For The City
Dave Gunning / Jamie Robinson – SOCAN
It’s 3 am and you’re still wide awake
Try as you might there’s no peace to make
They keep you up for no reason at all
And now your head is pounding like a wrecking ball and there’s
Traffic noise on busy streets
And you can’t even hear the willows weep
Sidewalk strangers never look you in the eye
They just walk on by
Sometimes I feel sorry for the city
And what you go through everyday
But when a million folks come calling I guess there’s not much you can say
Oh you must have been too nice to turn them away
Buildings lined up one by one
With thirty storeys blocking out the sun
Free range on a postage stamp
Crammed tight together like a refuge camp and you
Start to worry when the cracks show through
This hard living’s catching up to you
And you wonder how it ever came to this
And how you’ll get out of this mess
Sometimes I feel sorry for the city
What you go through everyday
But when a million people come calling yeah what are you gonna can say
Oh you were just too nice to turn them away
Oh you must have been too nice to turn them away
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Dave Gunning Pictou, Nova Scotia
With a career spanning over two decades and 13 albums, Dave has gained a reputation for being a great storyteller and engaging performer who has the profound ability to take listeners on a musical journey through his songs. Much of his material is about the underdogs, heroes, family, the heart and reflects the messaging of social justice and carrying about the world around us. ... more
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