music and lyrics written by brod rob
Miss Fortune lyrics by brod rob and John Khalil
all instruments and programming by brod rob
mix engineer: Nick Buford, Buford Sound, LLC
mastered by Jimi Krystofiak
recorded at The Rippin' Container, Puna District, Big Island of Hawaii
Spruce Knob recorded at Shred Shed Studios, Emeryville, CA
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individual songs with lyrics
here comes the wind again
have you lost what you're looking for?
can't remember what to find?
have you yet to thread the needle in the haystack of your mind?
words don't mean a thing if you don't know what you're talking 'bout
the world keeps on turning whether you're tuned in or out
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there's a wildfire in your mind, about to lose control
there's a force that's awakening, about to take it's toll
it's gonna be a long day...
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are you missing part of the puzzle?
got to still fill in some cracks?
you can choose your own direction, any you like except for back
as the sky is turning orange the neon lights begin to buzz
it's the same as it's always been, but is not what it once was
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it's a storm on the horizon, headed for the shore
it's a good time to be asking what you're really living for
'cuz we got a long way...
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it's a storm on the horizon, headed for the shore
it's a good time to be asking what you're really living for
here comes the wind again...
vanished kiss
boldest blue is all I see
with cotton balls of clouds above me
a breeze blowin' across the sea
a kiss floatin' on that breeze
and in that kiss floatin' on that breeze
was all the love that I could squeeze
I sent it off five thousand miles
to hit your cheek and make you smile
I'm holdin' on...
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the ocean don't ever stop making waves
the cemetery don't stop diggin' graves
well time has played it's little trick again
made us think we were safe
but for all men from time you can't escape
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golden green melts on the morning
the birds relieve the cricket's symphony
a cardinal's song flowin' through the trees
got me wonderin' 'bout what could have been
and in that song flowin' through those trees
was the saddest line that put me on my knees
my kiss vanished in the atmosphere
only to find you're no longer here
I'm holdin' on...
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the ocean don't ever stop making waves
the cemetery don't stop diggin' graves
well time has played it's little trick again
made us think we were safe
but for all men from time you can't escape
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I light the evening candle in your name
it burns until the wax drowns out the flame
I'm holdin' on...
carry on
they dropped me off by the shoe tree out on old highway 50
soon enough I got picked up and made it to ely
crossing into mountain time on foot
with camp set, endless stars begin to shoot
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I wander through the pale white maze and eat the bitter shroom
the hoodoos speak of reverence while wolves howl at the moon
the answer always seems to be concealed
but deep inside the desert you're revealed
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'cuz we won't make it if we don't try
we got so far to go
the devil's plans, they don't make no sense
but neither does god's though...
carry on...
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a crevice swallowed me up whole I marveled at it's jaws
the sculpted walls and sandy halls had prints of lion's paws
delivered unto me in this canyon
but off to where my tire sojourn begun
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'cuz there's a place where the sun shines bright
and the people there all know
that beauty's found from every spot in town
way up high on the plateau
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well what if I lose my mind here and never make it back?
there's a million different ways to lose my tracks
well things just weren't the same when I came down from the mountains
I never did find a more welcoming place
in this world...
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'cuz it's the journey where you learn the most
no matter where you go
I'll always roam but my heart's home
is back in colorado
miss fortune
you gathered all your diamonds and you gathered all your pearls
your silver and your gold and then you set of for the world
but who would have known that the truth would unfurl
on all of us tonight
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you thought you had it all but then you gave it all away
you just waited to fail when you woke up everyday
waited for a letter but the letter never came
to you my friend this time
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'cuz baby your fortune is gone
nothing left to sell, nothing left to pawn
well baby the west has been one
time to pack your things and keep movin' on
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well I used to love a woman seven states from here
she called me sweetie pie, I called her my dear
but from this hemisphere she just up and disappeared
into the dark one night
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well lord I got my troubles, and lord I got my woes
you know I got my good friends, and probably some foes
but as I'm standing here I'd like to raise a toast
to all of them tonight
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'cuz baby your fortune is gone
nothing left to sell, nothing left to pawn
well baby you're my only son
just the bastard child of one miss fortune
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well baby I tried to make this come back to where I had been
as long as I got you here I'm okay
shelter
well I've been down and out, I need shelter
gettin' dragged through the mud, I need shelter
got no roof over my head and the ground is my bed
won't you please help me get a lil' shelter
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'cuz the rain is pouring down on me
and there won't be no sunshine out for weeks
got to build me a home where I won't be alone
and I'll build it stone by stone 'till it don't leak
I need shelter
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well the fire just won't start, I need shelter
and the breaking of my heart, I need shelter
well they turned 'round all the ships, and the wind begins to whip
after such a draining trip, I need shelter
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'cuz the forces of nature are so cruel
and the elements tryin' to play me for the fool
got to build me a place where I can live in peace
and I'll build it with a space to shelter you too
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'cuz the rain is pouring down on me
and there won't be no sunshine out for weeks
got to build me a home where I won't be alone
and I'll build it stone by stone 'till my back breaks
I need shelter
the cast
I saved my pennies for a ticket back home to you
the trip took 12 hours, I got there at 1:42
a man in the station asked me, "how do you do?"
I told him my story, he seemed to be so intrigued
he told me he's a vet, and played in the minor league
"have yourself a good one kid," he gently said
"and don't look too far around here, 'cuz there's nothin' left."
right then I knew what I had to do
I rode that train to duluth
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'cuz I now know this town's grown old
and I won't be trapped, I seek lands unmapped
so I'll roll with the punches
and I'll row every ocean
until I find my big fish callin'
'till my last line jumps the tracks
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still got my guitar and lord how when I feel those blues
they sing of big lies wrapped in a thin veil of truth
but to each his own I guess, we're only one piece
I saw that man once again, sleepin' on the street
well I don't know how it's supposed to go
but I know I won't miss my boat
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'cuz life is ours to live, always
so don't leave behind a trace of war lines
'cuz we owe to our forefathers
a simple goal of righting wrongs
and when the need of too much fades
then we'll see... see our way
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you say you know, you know the greatest good
halfway on through, we knew
time to get out and reveal it, come so far just to feel it
standing on two legs was genius
wonder if something seen it
you say you know, you know the greatest good
halfway on through, we knew
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well I don't know how it's supposed to go
but I know I won't miss my boat
pearls
well I saw you in the country store
dreaming through your daily chores
a bashful smile from behind your broom
was enough to illuminate the moon
and heads were turning 'round to see
but I knew that smile was just for me
and soon we lay beneath the mango tree...
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we're an island in the ocean
cut off from the world
it's you and me and endless sea
we rock as the waves curl
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and even in this sleepy town
there's still some magic going 'round
just simple beings with so much depth
reveling in each other's breath
well I can't recall the season when
a new part of my heart opened
and now it's beating for you...
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we're an island in the ocean
cut off from the world
it's you and me and endless sea
a trove of pearls unfurls
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well of all the days I've been alive
I won't forget the one you arrived
ventana
blinded by the glistening sea
dividing west and east
finding the solace I seek
climbing up cone peak
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I begin to emerge from santa lucia firs, nowhere else observed
a morning dust of snow frosts redwoods down below, as the soft fog rolls on by
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the rainbow circles 'round me on my island in the sky
best believe it baby, when you're up that high
the mountains fade below me, I'm floating in the clouds
I can see it baby, I can hear the sounds
guided on back down to earth
enlightened from this rebirth
inciting the thirst to learn
igniting fire, let it burn
and what this does expose is the holiest of notes are the most remote
ventana always shows that the window's never closed, often presupposed
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the waterfalls are hidden deep within the gorge
but I'll see them baby, with the path I've forged
the cars are all just small dots down on highway one
they don't see it baby, though they have begun
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cities shelter sorrow they don't know where it comes from
time targets tomorrow, only now's when peace can come
and on and on corporations just desecrate the land
a moment to stop and review could make you understand
could it be that we need to proceed without heed
to the dream of our streams being clean and redeemed
could we find humankind has been blind to devine natural healing
well they smeared and they speared our once clear atmosphere
engineered to revere all the dear financiers
while the press played their chess to digress and supress the consequence
spruce knob
seasons swirled around the spruce
a sweeping mountain's ring
I saw Bip flying over us
we drank from Judy's spring
sleeping in a barn with a stranger
a drunken man awakes in the manger
flowin' 'round potomac's bends
smoke sleeps below the ridge
the cops had shut the highway down
'cuz Jess jumped off the bridge
the men who built these roads
are all gone now
the leaves are breathing fire
in the sods now
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well it's hard to see these veins
so many stained and gone
your whispers have significance
when you're dying all along
well the ferry's leaving soon
and if I don't get on
I'm bound to reaffiliate
with the demons in my arms
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the sun glows off the chimney top
the moon stares through the trees
the mist hat lives inside my dreams
parades on through the leaves
Barb was there when life was so painful
a possibility she's an angel
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well it's hard to stick around
so many moving on
the danger in staying here is
you'll likely soon be gone
well these mountains are a bitch
that made me who I am
and the chance for our deliverance
is cupped inside her hands
steel town
ditchin' out on the trolley fare
gettin' off at station square
the hack of all time there at the river's edge
gettin' loose on the south side
hit up slacker and the beehive
what an age and time to be alive
marble park to go from low to high
and the buildings scrape the sky
make a kid feel wise and terrified
a zipper tongue to hide the stash
savin' up our camel cash
party at the slags later tonight
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monongahela, allegheny
to the good times, there are many
the place where I first heard the sounds
born and raised in this old steel town
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out the back door at one o'clock
across the field and past the rocks
recalling younger days at old markham
swiftly sliding through the dark
knew every trail in bird park
as if a map were written on my hand
I knew that it would be all good
once I got to inglewood
caitlin'd have a joint fired on the porch
and in those hours we were most alive
and talked 'till the dawn arrived
does anybody still carry that torch?
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the rusted rivers flowing down
past the point, ohio bound
a pride nowhere else to be found
born and raised in this old steel town
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though I've traveled all around
the feeling that takes home the crown
is through the tunnel bursting dahn
born and raised in this old steel town
the place where i belong
for many years, I've been fighting with my ego
many tears I shed so I could let go
now my eyes have finally seen the prize
for in my mind is the only paradise
and I say oh, I was so gone
I was not sure I could go on
and I say oh, the road was so long
but I endured, and stayed strong
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and I finally found the place where I belong
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if you had seen me not too long ago
you might think I was someone you don't know
but I'd forgive if you made that assumption
for at the time I was consumed by consumption
and I say oh, I had no regard
for those I love, made easy things hard
and I say oh now, the pain is gone
and I'm still here, singing this song
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and I finally found the place where I belong
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there will come a day when I must help my brother
for I know to stay in this place I must help another
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so them finally find the place where them belong
I hope you finally find the place where you belong
discovery
there's plants out there growing that we have never seen
there's animals a-roamin' that we have never seen
there's fish out there swimming that we have never seen
there's birds out there flyin' that we have never seen
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and I like it that way
leaves a little mystery
yes I love it that way
leaves room for discovery
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there's so many places to wander
that we'll never find in our time
but while we're still here we'll keep searching
for there's more than meets the eye
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there's rivers in the jungle where we have never been
there's mountaintops in these ranges where we have never been
there's floors in every ocean where we have never been
there's caves tunnelin' trough the earth where we have never been
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and I like it that way
keeps things from getting boring
yes I love it that way
makes for good exploring
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there's so many questions to answer
that we'll never know in our time
but while we're still here we'll keep searching
for the reason why we're alive
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there's so much on this planet that we don't understand
there's so much in this sun's orbit we don't understand
there's so much in this galaxy that we don't understand
there's so much in the universe we don't understand
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and I like it that way
'cuz we'll keep trying anyways
yes I love it that way
means one day you could make a discovery
