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The Small Time
04:29
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Look who’s on the front page
Guess who’s on the rise
Looks like you really made it big this time!
Count up all the money
Spend the spring in Rome
But if I had to go it all alone
You know I’m happy just to stay at home
It’s just another day in a small world
Never having to be seen or heard
Life is just fine — hurry up and hit the small time
Half the world is hungry
Looking for an easy ride
They can’t imagine what it’s like inside
It’s just like finding out you’re deaf and blind
You face another day in a cruel world
Trying hard to just be seen or heard
Life would be fine — if only you could hit the small time
Fifteen minutes in the sun
A little sun ain’t never hurt no one
But when the clock strikes twelve you’re done!
Silver bars on the windows
Goldilocks passed out on the floor
And once you’ve tasted it there is no cure
So don’t go asking for it unless you’re sure
Just take a look at those who came before
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When You Go Down
03:49
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I can’t get to sleep sometimes
I can’t think when I’ve got you on my mind
We stray far afield from nursery rhymes
And it’s always some damn thing held in disguise
But when you go down
I can’t see your world of sorrow
But I’ll hang around — stay until you wake tomorrow
I’ll be your friend — wait right here until the end
Standing by till you get up again
They’ll trap you in your bed
Summon the demons from inside your head
And it’s just like a wise man said
The chapters that you skip you’ll have to read again
I know it’s a spiral that looks like the end
But the worst of times are brighter
If at least you have a friend
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Jacaranda Street
04:03
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Whenever I play the fool
If ever I’m way too cool
If I should say there’s no reason to stay
As if mine was the only way
If I should seem lost in a dream
Under lavender trees all day
I want to go where the air is sweet
Where the blooms gather ‘round your feet
Let’s walk Jacaranda Street
If ever I fall from grace
Whenever I lose my face
I can be found just walking around
With my feet on familiar ground
My mother lode’s at the end of the road
Take me down by the lemon grove
Right down to the end of the lane
In time with a happy refrain
While the rest of the world goes insane
Let’s lay down in the waving wheat
Let’s walk Jacaranda Street
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Absolute Zero
04:26
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Boy tragedy, can’t you feel the gravity?
As you fall through the floor
Go crashing through the door
Who can pretend happiness is your long-lost friend?
When all you portray is a sad old man on a winter’s day
Go on, cover your eyes, look out the window
Wait for summer to show — don’t go it alone
You’ll feel as cold as absolute zero
What could it be that keeps me from the stormy sea?
When all I adore lies stranded on a distant shore
Weighed down with pride, I ride the drifting tide
Afraid to set sail until I feel those winds prevailing
I keep trying to wake the Shakespearean hero
I wait for the plot to unfold — when the story is told
I feel as cold as absolute zero
Expect the world served up for free
Wait for what comes easily
Fall for the very first thing you see, if you’d rather
But that’s not right by me
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Fall on Me
03:52
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I don’t wanna say what you need to know
But I can’t seem to get over letting go
So, take a peek it comes for free
Ask yourself what do you see?
Don’t you want a piece of me?
Once upon a time there was time to play
Face to face we chased the night away
Hey, now we seldom find the time
To feel the reason or the rhyme
We feed ourselves the same old line
So fall on me, ‘cause I want to believe
I can’t sleep until you fall on top of me
We could take a somber Sunday drive
Argue back and forth and side to side — but why?
We know words won’t make it so
'Cause people change and people grow
Still I feel the need to know
You know I need it — I want to feel it again
I can’t deceive it — and I can’t pretend
So fall on me ‘cause I want to believe
I can’t sleep until you fall on me
Call on me, be the air I breathe
I can’t sleep until you fall on top of me
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Hole in the Garden Wall
05:03
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(in memory of A.E.J. Bryant)
Crossing the line, then watching you cry all alone
Passing the days and wishing away
All the times I dare to remember
Seeing the world through vision that’s blurred by time
Waking to the cold hard light of the morning in my eyes
Peeking right through my brave disguise
Looking to find I’m old and wise
Don’t feel alone, ‘cause life is a steppingstone
This mortal divide is opening wide
When the secret’s finally broken
It’s thousands of tears and many a year gone by
Waiting for the deep dark truth of it all to be revealed
All of the answers now unsealed
Here in the prime time
I’ll be waiting here for you to call
And I’ll be looking at you
Through a hole in the garden wall
Don’t be afraid or pass in trade any time
Which you could spend alone with a friend
Just like the times I care to remember
Because hours and days like points in space form a line
Leading to the Grand Hotel and the places that you see
Whenever the forces set you free
Whenever you see me
I’ll be waiting here for you to call
And I’ll be looking at you
Through a hole in the garden wall
And I’ll be waiting here for you to call
I’ll be here to catch you when you fall
Just think of all the good times one and all
‘Cause I’ll be looking at you
Through a hole in the garden wall
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Walking Away
04:13
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It’s time for walking away
It does no good to pretend
It’s the saddest thing to say
Goodbye to a good old friend
It was a lifetime ago, sweet lady
Feels like a summer’s day gone by
Since a 12-year-old boy and a bundle of joy
Ran off into the countryside.
And I know you’re much too smart to fall for an old cliché
But there’s a time when it’s right to stand and fight
And a time for walking away
And then in late ‘89
I thought I had it made
It was well before my time
But I bought into the charade
It wouldn’t take very long, they told us
To burn the castle to the ground
And as both of our names were consumed by the flames
I told myself out loud
That I thought I was much too smart to fall for an old cliché
But there’s a time when it’s right to stand and fight
And a time for walking away
And it all takes time to see how it goes
As we grow, we get to know when to throw the towel in
Now it’s been thirty years
And I still can’t get it right
Seems the more I face my fears
The more they change overnight
And if I can’t seem to choose my battles
Or say enough’s enough
Then at least, in a way, I can finally say
I’ve learned how to give it up
Just when I think I’m much too smart to fall for the same cliché
Then there’s a time when it’s right to stand and fight
And a time for walking away
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Someone Else to Blame
03:36
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Well there’s always someone else to blame
Some stranger in the game
We find so many ways to cry
So few to wonder why
And each day holds a new way for to place the blame
I’m always looking for the mines planted in my garage
Some kind of sabotage
It’s international espionage
She must be a spy at large
But I know as the pain grows into my own home alone
This song as the day is long can’t right my wrong
Well there’s always someone else to blame
I call them all by name
It’s always been the time to fly
If we can’t see eye to eye
If we’re not proud we can break ground
On the homeland that comes around
Fear makes sad mistakes
And the world breaks down
Oh, I know as the pain grows
Into my own home alone
This song as the day is long can’t right my wrong
And if we’re not proud we can break ground
On the homeland that comes around
Fear makes sad mistakes
And the world breaks down
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Josephine
04:21
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Hey, Josephine — where have you been?
Joe’s by the phone — he’s always alone
You won’t believe in what you can’t see
Open your mind to what you might find
Give up yesterday, throw it all away
Show a little faith in mankind
Move on man to man until you understand
You would not believe — believe what you’d find
Hey, Josephine — you’re somebody’s queen
But you know there’s more behind the right door
‘Cause love never finds those who design
A cloud lined with gold — it’s beyond your control
Do you ever wonder, when it’s all gone wrong?
Are you falling under the spell of the wrong love song?
It’s no coincidence at all, oh no —
It’s no coincidence at all
So give up yesterday, throw it all away
Show a little faith in mankind
Put away your pride, there’s no place left to hide
You would not believe —
Believe in what you’d find
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Underground
05:57
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If I could see me through your eyes
To give me something to despise
I’m scuba diving in this hole
The blackness that I call my soul
But you don’t want to know
And if I won’t compromise — don’t cut me down
And if I fear sacrifice — don’t breathe a sound
Or I’m underground
It’s like a tabloid gone astray
I’d chew off my leg to run away
Oh, I’d do anything to save
The face of all I could not brave
But who cares anyway?
And if I won’t compromise — don’t cut me down
And if I fear sacrifice — don’t breathe a sound
‘Cause if I start making sense — I’ll come around
It’s just my own self-defense — one more go-round
And I’m underground
It’s so easy just to roll with the tide
Go with the flow
Let your big dreams go...
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Pawlie Santa Barbara, California
Pawlie’s original brand of acoustic/electric music draws upon rock, jazz, folk, and progressive
influences.
Album releases include Pawlie (1994), The Small Time (1998), Little Green Man (2011), and An Ape’s Progress (2021).
Pawlie lives in Santa Barbara with his wife Libby, and their pampered feline, Penny.
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