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Amanda Anne Platt (Live in West Asheville)

by Amanda Anne Platt

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1.
You’ve got no quarter for the carousel So you hang around and listen to the barkers yell And all the boys with whiskey going straight to hell Change jingling in their pockets like the ringing of a bell You blink your eyes just one at a time ‘Cause you’ve got no business on the wild side you can’t beat the joker with a pair of fives and anyone that tells you different is just feeding you lies chorus It’s this fire I’ve been breathing It’s gonna be the end of me And you can lead me to the water Tell Mama that her daughter’s been saved But if I fall just let me be I’ve got a little fire Lord I feel it burn Burning for the pretty little way things were I can’t help but fall in love with all the stories I heard When the truth was in the telling and all you need were the words So you wander on down the road a ways Trying to remember what the preacher said To the skinny little girl with the pig tailed braids Said it so sweet she swore she’d take it to the grave chorus
2.
For Eleanora 04:15
You were the darling of the back alley bars and the one night stands the sweetheart of Harlem and they’d all gather round just to hear you again Playing mid-town Manhattan, you still got’em all in the palm of your hand white gardenias and satin but you’re still hangin’ ‘round with the boys in the band chorus #1: What you drinking, Eleanora? Got your eye on the top shelf? Hell, I’ll do what I can for you but you should learn to help yourself Now they’re sick of your drama so you’re working for your ticket home and you just miss your mama yeah you just want someone you can call your own What you need is a good man someone to take care of you cause you don’t give a goddamn you earned what you’ve got now it’s yours to lose chorus #2: Where’d you get that shiner, Eleanora? Is he hitting you again? Don’t you know everyone adores you, can’t you find a better man? They took all your money your jewelry and your fancy clothes they called you a junkie, and they came just to hear you miss a note
3.
Back Row 04:23
I was sitting in the church, you were yelling in the street blood on your shirt and gravel in your knees I was alone, and you were afraid you thought they couldn't give you what you need I told you once that the truth is a song maybe I'm wrong maybe I just want to write it but I've been so close I could smell her breath like cinnamon and death made me wonder what I'm fighting I've seen you in the back row yeah I've seen you in the back row I've seen you with your eyes closed at the all night show cause you think that you can't go home I know you don't believe me it's not late to wash your hands clean I've seen you in your shirt sleeves with a beer on your knee when the can sweats a circle on your jeans There was a time I knew every face now the whole damn town is painted black and grey that don't have to mean it was a fall from grace but there are choices, choices must be made I've seen you in the back row yeah I've seen you in the back row I've seen you breathing real slow when you just hope only God knows where you've been and I've seen you on the highway thinking all the things you'd never say and praying to the debt you can't pay give me one more day, give me one more day
4.
Dora Lee 05:16
Dora Dora, Dora Lee she married that fool Justice, she would not wait for me and when the good lord received her she was 23 it's a hard road leads us home Dora Lee Dora Dora, I once called you mine but I did not see fit to marry on the back of one thin dime you gave me your promise but you would not give me time Dora you would not give me time Oh Dora Lee how could you ever be so mean? How could you ever lie to me? How could you dare to let me dream? Why can't you see, I would have kept you like a queen? I saved my silver up for weeks to buy you those glass beads to wear around your pretty throat May the good lord save your soul Dora Dora, Dora Lee they did not hear me coming, that Justice boy and she and the devil cast his shadow beneath that apple tree it's a hard road leads us home Dora Lee Chorus Now as I lay me down to sleep I know I am a sinner, I shall not be received but I swear I close my eyes and I hear her crying out to me well let the innocent be saved Dora Lee
5.
Love Me Then 03:52
If I were a waitress in an all night truck stop diner and you were a police man, stopped in for a slice of pie would it be easier, easier to love me then? And if I were a bluebird, singing on a branch and you were a leaf on a tree with Autumn coming fast would it be easier, would it be easier to love me then? Love me then while there's warmth left in our bodies love me and don't pretend you don't feel me when I'm reaching for your hand if you could love me then turn around love me now If I were sixteen again, a silly small town girl and you were just a school boy with mustard on his shirt would it be easier, easier to love me then? And if I were lonely and I cried out to you and you knew I want you only and you had nothing to lose would it be easier to love me then? Chorus If I were sixteen again and I'd never been hurt and you were just a schoolboy and you didn't know this world would it be easier to love me then?
6.
Radio 06:08
When you look at the old photographs you can see the fear in his eyes cause he knows he don't deserve her even though he'd never hurt her it won't last she's still thinking 'bout the joker that ran away and left her with this poker face and the picture's faded grey like so many lonely days with all the good times past now she's driving backwards back through fireflies and ashes she's so close to what she's after it gets caught in her eye lashes and there's an old song playing on the radio it's playing soft and low takes her memory where it wants to go it took 18 years of drinking, thinking Baby is this really how it ought to be? Somehow this feeling just gets lost on me can't you see I'm dying for this fever dream? She's tired of writing unsent letters saying, Sundays ain't so bad anymore and it's only every now and then I wonder what the hell I'm waiting for and every winter turns to Spring and he knows she'd still give anything to be sitting on her darling's knee knowing he was hers to keep now she's driving backwards… and there's an old song playing on the radio it's playing soft and low takes her memory where it wants to go it took 18 years of wanting him, a full moon and an old blue Cadillac to bring her back, to bring her back
7.
The lamplight is low, the tiles are cold on my feet a train whistle blows, a car passes by in the street and I'll let you lead take my hand to your shoulder hold onto me, it's almost October and the only thing I want to do is dance in my bare feet with you Maybe I'm lonely and maybe it's wrong but I feel so beautiful here in your arms it's late and I'm tired of playing the fool but you ask me one dance and I can't refuse it it's true I love waltzing in bare feet with you The clock ticks the rhythm, the fridge hums along hush Darling, now listen, they're playing our song the moon shines his lonely light over the city but here in the kitchen it's warm and it's pretty and blue and it's a quarter past two and I'm waltzing in bare feet with you
8.
Angeline 03:23
Angeline, Angeline your heart is like a diamond mine nobody's gonna see you shine until you leave that man behind I know you think you need his love but that's not what you're wanting of and crawling's only good enough until you learn how to stand up Oh Angeline, I know you're doubting and you're looking for a way to get around it but the arms that carried you are tired and you're gonna fall if you don't fly So paint the walls of this old house let the sun shine in, let the bad times out everything you dreamed about is gonna come so easy now take a look at all you have, the little scar on your right hand you got your daddy's eyes and your mama's laugh and you could do much worse than that chorus
9.
I have a key chain that you gave me on my birthday but it's broken so I keep it in a drawer with half a million other things I can't seem to throw away though I can't remember what I'll ever want them for I fall in love a dozen times from here to Texas the road is empty, the night is long I fall so hard, but mostly I'm just guessing is it the man or the song Cause I'm still trying to make you look at me I'm standing in the shadow of a falling tree and I try so hard, but it don't come naturally to believe you get more than you see I went to school to learn how other people see things so I can think before I open my mouth and I can say when I've made a mistake I can say it in three languages now But I'm still trying to make you look at me standing in the hallway in my bare feet I try so hard, but it don't come naturally to believe you get more than you see
10.
Close your eyes, there'll be another night to sit on Daddy's knee and swear that you're not tired Go to sleep now Baby, we'll be right here waiting to love you when the sun comes turning on the light and hear the water running through the pipes the whispers in the kitchen the dishes washed and dried the neighbor's radio is humming lullabies and the crickets in the window keeping time and you should know that dreams come true there's a star up there that's shining just for you this old world can be unfair and make you blue but in the morning we are new
11.
I left home to run just like my grandfather done seeking fortune or the lord, whichever found me first and my freedom I hold dear but as the years go by it's clear that which is your blessing may also be your curse cause I been away from you learning a gambler's blues wearing a rich man's shoes and a hangman's noose around my neck if I could give it back the paper money and the Cadillac and pick up the dreams we had would you be glad to see me again? I wrote this letter from the road but I swear it's never gonna be my home Oh Carolina, bless my soul I dreamed a highway made of glass it was crooked it was fast best that I could see it had no start when I woke the dream was gone and the night was deep and long and all that I had left was an aching in my heart chorus Oh Caroline, don't let me go
12.
That's alright Joe, don't you cry no let me pour you another glass of beer sure the bar's closed, but by now you oughta know if you've got nowhere to go you can stay here and we can talk about the better days when you always had a card to play and the piano and the poker games, they carried us away that outlaw Jesse James he was known to keep a spare ace and he shot this place full of holes but he sure could tell a joke Now all of the gunslingers got rings on their fingers and they got the barroom girls home ironing their shirts and I've got a feeling like I'm waiting on the last train home it's been a little slow but it's coming I know Do you remember that oil man? I probably should have married him he always had an honest dime to spend but he couldn't dance and I was never one to compromise I've always been the stubborn kind so when he rode out of town, I just laughed and how the whiskey burned and how the men did flirt like the ponies tied outside pawing at the dirt I broke the years down, I turned 'em into days and one by one I danced 'em all away chorus Now I serve' em what they ask for they got the money I'll give something more it still says welcome on the front door we keep that old piano tuned but when it's time to close it's just you and me Joe and the ghost of something great here in this room chorus
13.
Beside Me 03:15
We can't go back again to the clearing by the river's edge a love we knew before the summer's end it was yours and mine when the whole world it seemed was just a story that you read to me a cup of coffee and a memory of a different time now there's a melody it's kinda quiet but it sings to me I think a hear a little harmony but I don't dare and you when the road gets rough are you beside me? when it's not like I planned is that your hand that's reaching out to guide me? it's still so strange to me that we can't talk about the things we see the people walking down the street and the empty chairs now all we need's a little morning light play guitar while the bacon's frying to remind us of a better time when our feet were bare now won't you look at me one more time before you go to sleep and when you're far away and in a dream maybe I'll be there and when the night grows dark I'll be beside you when it's not like you planned reach for my hand and I'll be there to guide you we can't go back again to the clearing by the river bend a love we knew before the summer's end it was yours and mine

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This is a live album featuring me and my guitar only. It includes nine of my original songs which have not been recorded with the Honeycutters.

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released February 10, 2015

Recorded by Jon Ashley and Evan Bradford.
Mixed by Jon Ashley at Mixtown Studio.
Album art by Mary Ellen Davis.
All songs Buttons Down Publishing (ASCAP)/ Windsor Forest Publishing (ASCAP)

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Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters Asheville, North Carolina

The Honeycutters are an Asheville, NC based five piece featuring featuring the original compositions of singer and songwriter Amanda Anne Platt. Their first album, "Irene" met approving Americana audiences from coast to coast, and they are excited to release their sophomore effort, "When Bitter Met Sweet," in May of 2012. ... more

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