The Sun Comes Around – Mineral Hill Band

Algodones

Well I’m almost home, I can see Algodones
Feels like a lifetime, that I’ve been on the road
I been so far gone, and I’m almost home

When I was young, I took to following the sun
up and down the West
Scanning the radio to find myself a home
Soothe the aching in my chest

I pulled to the shoulder, ‘tween Mexico and Boulder
In the desert I found rest
The world seemed older, the air, clean and colder
Slept untroubled and content

Someday, when it’s my turn to die, won’t you lay me down in the sand
in the sagebrush and the stones
I’ll lay and watch the desert sky as I come to my end
let the coyotes take my bones

Joker

It’s hard for me to take somebody seriously
who could be with a Joker like me
I’m just saying, she must have something wrong
with her head, or maybe she can’t see
‘cuz I sure ain’t a catch, and I’m kind of a wretch
and it’s probably just how I’ll be
It’s hard for me to take somebody seriously
who could be with a Joker like me

It’s hard for me to look into my wife’s blue eyes
and not question their acuity
‘cuz my face is unfortunate, my body’s disproportionate
but she likes to look at me
She tells me that she loves me, then she tells me again
Though I stink like a boot full of homemade sin
It’s hard for me to take somebody seriously
who could be with a Joker like me

She loves me like I shot, the holes in the night sky
That we call, the moon and the stars
Don’t tell her I’m a chucklehead, full-time fool
who plays weird songs in bars
I play weird songs in bars
We play weird songs in bars

I’m an addle-headed oaf, I’m broken and I’m bent
I don’t know where the young me went
I got weevils in my wheat, all hat no cattle
I’m a dufus and a goof, and my legs are on the spraddle
In my defense, I question her sense
‘cuz she loves me, though I’m ugly as a mud rail fence
It’s hard for me to take somebody seriously
Who could be with a Joker like me

New Mexico

I got some, pictures of people in places
Sometimes I remember the names for the faces
Tacked up in my memory, in hard-to-reach places
I forgot where I wanted to go

I don’t know, just when my fire went out
So many times, I was laid low
I got out of the life, made my own way to heaven
Out here in New Mexico

A grandmother said, you climb fool’s hill one time
Best that you do it, while you’re young and you’re dumb
Well I sure climbed that hill, then I set it on fire
Now mostly, I just sit here and smile

Our loved ones are strangers, we know very well
We sing songs and we laugh, and go nuts
My heart’s full of love, for all of these people
Nobody else, got to be us

Everything is Beautiful

You’re going now, but don’t be gone too long
Who else, am I gonna write my song, for
I’m sick ‘til I see you, no one else can be you
Then Everything is Beautiful

Everything is Beautiful
Never mind the world outside the door
When you get home, and we get to be alone
Then Everything is Beautiful

Katy bar the door
A big blow’s coming our way
We never know, if we’ll make it through
But it’s all just now, or never
So don’t mind the world or weather
I love our time together

Good to Know

Sometimes I get to thinking that I’m hard and dry as an old saddle
All my tears and fears behind me, a broken wagon wheel
Then from the side of my vision there’s a flash, like the snapping of a jackal
Then something cuts me like a cake, it’s Good to Know, I still can feel

Sometimes I get to thinking that I’m useless as an old, rusted bucket
The world needs water, all I do is hang from a nail
Then from the side of my vision there’s a flash, like the firing of a musket
Then something cuts me like a cake, it’s Good to Know, I still can feel

It’s Good to Know, it’s Good to Know
When something cuts me like a cake, it’s Good to Know, I, still can feel

Flying through the bars
and stars in the night
Hubris is thinking maybe this time
you did something right

Sometimes I get to thinking that I’m crooked and grey, as an old fencepost
Can’t stand up straight, too splintered for the nails to stay in
Then from the side of my vision there’s a flash, like the swinging of a crowbar
Then something cuts me like a cake, it’s Good to Know, I still can feel
It’s Good to Know, it’s Good to Know
When something cuts me like a cake, it’s Good to Know, I still can feel

I Mostly Quit That

Woke up this morning, my head wasn’t clear
Can’t blame the mota, I can’t blame the beer
‘cuz I Mostly Quit That, for my own good
I still can’t think straight, don’t think I ever could

I started drinking when I was a kid
I like most us, who did what I did
Them consequences, sometimes were too much
Family traditions, drink and get locked up

Nowadays I, don’t think that I’m so tough
Ding dang, I still do stupid stuff
But them consequences, don’t hurt like they did
They pass quicker, like when I was a kid

We’re all just children, who’ve grown longer legs
We’re all just hoping, the story don’t end
Don’t want to stop, just ‘cuz it’s getting late
So let’s go one more time, before they shut the gate

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I got caught up on the whiskey
If I never go nowhere
Then you won’t have to miss me
I’ll hide out on the front porch
Singing songs and feeling misty

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Got caught up on the whiskey

I wasn’t always, quite this still
Circumstance propelled me
Crawled around the jungle
Did what Uncle Sam did tell me

In my time there I grew up fast
Made and lost good friends
I’ve seen a lot of life since then
but I’ve never known better men

When I came back, I tried hard
To get by in this world
Tried to keep my nose clean
But I got so damn bored

My jokes would shock civilians
I’d drive too fast and brawl
I lost a lot of jobs
I barely got locked up at all

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I got caught up on the whiskey
If never leave again
Then you won’t have to miss me
I’ll hide out on the front porch
Of my hillside shack in Bisbee
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Got caught up on the whiskey

I think I used to feel things, though I can’t recall for sure
I go through all the motions, sometimes sleepwalk through it all
I try not to be too bad, don’t try to be too good
Nothing seems to matter, though I s’pose it probably should

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I got caught up on the whiskey
If I never go nowhere
Then you won’t have to miss me
I’ll hide out on the front porch
Singing songs and feeling misty
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Got caught up on the whiskey

Ladybird

Ladybird, Ladybird, clover in the hay
Chicken got one leg, never gonna lay

Ladybird sits, like a hump on a hog
Leg chewed up by a mean old dog

Katie got a basket, hole in the side
Ladybird looks, when they go for a ride

Pokes her head and looks around
The most loved one-legged chicken in the town

Sleeping in a suitcase, cluck so sweet
Pick that thistle and tumbleweed
Double on the back beat, Saving up time
Sweetest little chicken on the chicken vine

Here come daddy, in his Cadillac car
Dashiell playing the bass guitar
Ladybird, Ladybird, doing her thing
Tilts her head, when we start to sing

Pet my head and feed me scratch
Bury me, in a pumpkin patch
Sit and think of me a spell
Hope that I live half as well

Ancient Song

I let my plants grow high in the summer
high in the summer, high in the summer
I let my plants grow high in the summer
Then they shade the ground

Chop them down, to reap and gather
Chop them down, I reap and gather
Chop them down, and I reap and I gather
Then I let them Iay

Won’t let my ground go dead, and dry
Won’t let my ground go dead, and dry
Won’t let my ground go dead, and dry
I’ll slake it from the sky

I let my plants lay low over winter
low over winter, low over winter
I let my plants lay low over winter
holds the water dear

Their bodies, they break down over winter
down over winter, down over winter
Their bodies, they break down over winter
They feed and warm the soil

Garlic Popcorn Eater

She’s a daybreak greeter
Garlic Popcorn Eater
She’s not a bottom feeder
Stands strong like a cedar
I wanna be w/her, she wanna be w/me
Not just who we are, but who we’re gonna be

She’s on a whole ‘nother level
She’s clever like the devil
Smooth like a pebble, baby’s
hot like a kettle

She calls me stone cold Jonny
And she loves me ‘cuz I’m scrawny
She’s probably a commie,
‘cuz she smokes mari-wanny

Her and me,
We travel in time,
In just one direction
But that’s just fine

She’s super duper bossy,
and a trooper, and saucy
She’s haughty and stroppy
jolly naughty sloppy foxy

The Sun Comes Around

The Sun Comes Around, for me
I’m in the middle of everything I see
The brilliance, the splendor, you get me, bartender
The Sun Comes Around, for me

If you shake hands with a preacher, count your fingers walk on by
‘cuz monsters don’t just live beneath your bed
The man tells you how to live, how to think, how to feel, how much to give
and to break your back to make some bully rich, until you’re dead

The Sun Comes Around, for me
I’m in the middle of everything I see
The wind comes and goes, and it rattles our bones
The Sun Comes Around, for me

And sometimes a cloud blows in cold
I start to feel lonesome and old
Hope you can learn, from my mistakes, ‘cuz I sure never did
They say Jesus loves me, but that’s about it

The Sun Comes Around, for me
I’m in the middle of everything I see
I stand here and cry, and the world blows on by
The Sun Comes Around, for me

The Sun Comes Around, for me
I’m in the middle of everything I see
The wind comes and goes, and it rattles our bones
The Sun Comes Around, for me

BDSLF

On a daily basis, I’m delighted
By the acts of kindness that I see
Things people do for loved ones and for strangers
The graciousness and generosity

Even on the road and while I’m shopping
I feel the love from my community
People smile or let me in their lane
Makes me buzz, with love, for humanity

But then there are the wankers
The dirtbags and the dopes
The ninnies and the meanies
The cranks and misanthropes
To them I want say things
That could get me shot
So instead I’ll write it in a song
And tell you what I thought

They’re a Big Dumb Stupid Loser Face
They’re mean to strangers, kids and dogs and clerks
Big Dumb Stupid Loser Face
They’re a meanie and a weenie and a jerk

We all know that the world is going cuckoo
Burning fast and spinning down the drain
So what’s the point of acting like a doo doo
Cause each other extra needless pain

We should be baking one another cookies
We should be writing one another songs
that’s why I wrote this one for you
so maybe you’ll stop acting like a dong

When I see people being inconsiderate
being mean or putting others down
Makes me want to walk up there and say, hey
You’re a jerk! Now I’m gonna push you on the ground

And maybe say some things to make them feel bad
About who they are and what they do
Oh my, I just, realized
That I’m a meanie and a weenie too