The Great Shadow 

The Great Shadow is a compilation of track relaesed by TC during the period 2007-2017.

LYRICS

Better Days
Well, I won't let you down,
And I won't mess around,
There will be better days,
Better Days will come.

Trust in me, shed no tear,
Dread no scene, show no fear,
There will be better days,
Better days will come.

'Cause I won't let you lay,
Through the dark of the day,
And I won't go away, oh no.
I will hold you long,
Till the leaves are all gone,
And the strong winter winds blow.

See the sun sinking fast,
Feel the great shadow cast,
There will be better days,
Better days will come.

Let yourself no be blamed,
Know no grief, feel no shame,
There will be better days,
Better days will come.

'Cause I won't let you lay,
Through the dark of the day,
And I won't go away, oh no.
I will hold you long,
Till the leaves are all gone,
And the strong winter winds blow.
I will hold you long,
Till the leaves are all gone,
And the strong winter winds blow cold.


Corner of My Room
The finger's on the trigger and the mind is on the plan,
And I've got my prescription and every citizen's got his,
Now join me in the Rubicon and paddle me to France,
The nectarines are sweeter there and we aint got a chance 'round here,
I am counting Lincolns and living in the corner of my room,
I'm looking at the godess of the hunt and staring at the moon.

My friends aint got no loving and the babies aint got teets,
The women are all busy getting smart out on the streets (and there aint none),
And the gentleman from Kansas is fixing to retire,
He's drinking with his right-hand-man and speaking 'bout the fire and the doom,
A car horn sounds blows loud and hits my naked ear like a harpoon,
And I am counting Lincolns and living in the corner of my room.

I got enough to get to Memphis but not enought to get me home,
Where some men see a ladder some men see a throne to repaint,
And I said to senator, is this deed genuine?
He said, I aint seen that kind of thing since 1999, and it aint,
I saw John Brown going down a mighty road to Heaven on mule,
I stood aside and waved goodbye blind, out of sight, and out of fuel.

Ounce of Gold
I aint coming home with an ounce of gold,
And I aint coming home with a handsome coat,
No, I aint got a handsome coat,
And I aint got a five pound note,
And I aint coming home with an ounce of gold.

And I aint coming home with a single friend,
And I aint coming home with a thing to lend,
No I aint got a thing to lend,
And I aint got a single friend,
And I aint coming home with an ounce of gold.

Oh, I could have died tonight,
And it would have felt alright,
And it would have been just like me too,
To do something to frighten you.

And I aint coming home with an ounce of gold,
And I aint coming home with a fat billfold,
No, I aint got a fat billfold,
And I aint got a hat to hold,
And I aint coming home with an ounce of gold.

I got three pieces of silver in my pocket here,
One is for the ceremony and two for eye sockets, dear.

And I aint coming home with an ounce of gold,
And I aint coming home with card to show,
No I aint got a card to show,
And I aint got a garland bow,
And I aint coming home with an ounce of gold.

No, I aint coming home with an ounce of gold.






Rules Of The Road
I was in the corner drinking,
And you were behind me thinking,
That thoughts and words are fleeting,
But that deeds are set in stone.
And if everyone got what they wanted,
Then no soul would ever be haunted,
By pathways left unplodded,
And by projects left unknown.
You held me when I was cringing,
When my one good ear was ringing,
And the crowd behind me was singing,
Some old funeral ode.
We were beat up on the railways,
And weeded out on trolleys,
Bound by human folleys,
And the rules of the road.

Our fates are wound together,
Forever and forever,
Our shoes are made of leather,
And our bodies made of flesh.
We're wounded and we're healed,
Armored and steeled,
Our movements are concealed,
And our fees are payed in cash.
Our fortunes are expanded,
Our wistful wishes granted,
And our failures are walls of granite,
That nothing can explode.
And around the darkened corner,
Are a murderer and a mourner,
And both of them know the order,
And the rules of the road.

Your eyes remain unchanging,
In the words you are saying,
But still it is a strange thing,
How my ears don't hear the same.
And the pirates on the circuit,
They know just how to work it,
And their calibres are perfect,
For taking down big game.
Your face was red from the wine,
As you tapped your foot in time,
And you held your hand in mine,
And your radiance glowed.
And the angles up in heaven,
Are staying where He set them,
To keep and to protect them,
From the rules of the road.

Au Revoir
I don't want to be there no more,
I packed my bags and cleaned my drawer,
And I got my feet right out the door,
Au Revoir.
I don't want to be hanging around,
You let me watch you turn me down,
I am gone now, sorrow bound,
My darling, Au Revoir.

Au Revoir, Au Revoir,
I loved you just the way you are,
But if that's not enough I'm sorry darling,
And I'm sorry for,
The wailing winds,
The bitter seas,
The failing crops and the dying trees.
And all I did not stem or ease,
Or change or please.

And I'm sorry for the cruel way,
You made me watch you walk away,
And all I did not do or say,
To make you change you're mind and stay,
Au Revoir, Au Revoir,
My final tear is on the floor,
'Cause I'm not going to weep no more,
My darling, au revoir.

And so call the Son,
And tell the czar,
That all is as it was before,
I'm strumming on the same guitar,
And wishing on the same bright star,
That the winds will ease,
And the wounds will heal,
And that some great future will reveal,
That all I do no know I feel,
And that all I did not do I will,
Au Revoir, au revoir,
I will still love you from afar,
But now its done, so long, we part,
My darling, au revoir.



Nobody Like You
I chased the dragon,
I got what I could get,
From ukelelies and clarinet,
Mono e mono, tete a tete,
But still I never, ever ever met,
Nobody like you.

Never, every met nobody like you
No never, ever met nobody like you
No never, ever met nobody like you.
Do do do...

In Mississippi,
My uncle Tom,
Fed me on linseed and Doctor John,
And now I bring him whiskey and anisette,
But still he never, ever ever met,
Nobody like you.

(Chorus)

She came from Paris,
With an ambulet,
And when she wears this,
i'll wager that,
She'll be the fairest on the social set,
But still she never, ever ever met,
Nobody like you.

(Chorus)





Back in The Land of the Living
It is lonely here like Cleveland,
The Iron bars are tight,
We load up in the evening,
And we drop it off at night.

I am blacking out like Pittsburgh,
I just want to be with you,
I just want something special,
I don't want something new.

I am back in the Land of the living
Back in the land of the living,
Back in the land of the living,
I am back in the land of the living.

Now, I was made from Adam,
And you were made from Eve,
And for my misdirection,
We have hungry mouths to feed.

And for your sly deception,
We labor and we bleed,
But we've got the connection, baby,
And that is all we need.

(chorus)

And now Salome and Sophie,
Are right outside my door,
If you put them together,
They equal thirty-four.

But they don't know what I'm saying,
They haven't got a clue,
They don't want something special, no,
They just want something new.

(Chorus)

Underground
Some men have all the luck,
Some have none at all,
I'm standing by the side of the road,
Feeling about two feet tall,
I've been 'round a dozen times,
Out the gates and through the pines,
I way, way past the starting line,
And I hear the bugle call.

Mama, take me down,
To where the trumpets do not blow so loud,
Mama, get me bound,
From this underground.

I see you're leaning on a crutch,
The one that says you love too much,
But if its true, and that exists,
Then why'd you make me go like this?
I did what I had to do,
Love has got to be for two,
I guess you loved me just for you,
If you did at all.

Mama, take me down,
To where the neon lights don't glow so proud,
Mama, get me bound,
From this underground.

And marble Tom stays so serene,
He washed his clothes and he keeps them clean,
He licked his chops in Aberdeen,
And he hangs his hat in Gaul,
He said lets go to Moscow,
I've had it all in Ghent,
And we're half a day and lost now,
And all my money's spent,
He'll be gone tommorrow,
Tommorrow I'll be bent,
Some men have all the luck,
Some aint got a cent.

Mama, take me down,
Round me up don't fail me now,
Mama get me bound,
From this underground.






I Know How I Feel About You.

I don't know how I feel about music,
It's like I am lost in the cue,
'Cause everyone wants to do it,
And everyone wants to be new,
So maybe I ought to refuse it,
And go find something else that is true,
I don't know how I feel about music,
But I know how I feel about you.

I don't know how I feel about whiskey,
Though it's such a companion to who,
Does embark on a life that is risky,
And is shrouded in lonliness too,
But at daybreak I'm tortured and sickly,
When at the night the sweet fires I imbue,
I don't know how I feel about whiskey,
But I know how I feel about you.

And we pay for these trifles in tandem,
And we moan as the idlers do,
And we suffer our setbacks at random,
Though we're still of the luckiest few,
And we live amongst discarded cargo,
And sorrow where hope once grew,
I don't know how I feel about tomorrow,
But I know how I feel about you.

So scrape out your horn of plenty,
And seek out your last resort,
I'll never again be twenty,
And my life it may even be short,
But when angels or demons come get me,
I think back on all that I knew,
I don't know how I'll feel about my memory,
But I know how I'll feel about you.

Yes, I know how I'll feel about you.


Think About You Anymore
Winter's in the sails again,
I'll take another sip and then,
The bells will ring and I will dream alone,
I am getting all I can of that imported, hoarded dram,
So I do not think about you anymore.

I am getting all I can,
In borrowed eyes and hollowed grin,
So I can see the galleys on the shore,
So that I can sleep and still attend,
The waking dream around me and,
So I do not think about you anymore.

Mona hems and haws,
She has got icing in her claws,
And the paws of some old timer at her door,
She falls asleep on me,
And so I search her shawl to see,
If she conceals the thing that she did do before.

Does her stock and trade,
Recall a mistress or a maid?
Or all above, (for all have layed up on my floor),
But the tried and true conclusion is,
That I will not be moving as,
This swoon is truly soothing to the core,
And I do not think about you anymore.

I do not think about you anymore,
Because you stole,
The very soul of where my love did once endure,
Now gone beyond the wakes,
When gentle winds you did forsake,
And now the iron waves do break up on the oar,
And the end game is a pending silen roar....

But I do not think about you anymore.


Going to California
I left my home in Georgia,
I got a million miles to go,
I came upon the water,
On the gulf of Mexico,
And now I'm going to California,
That is what I'm a gonna do.

I love you like a lady,
And I will love you till the end,
I held you like a daisy,
Until you flew like a wren,
When I see you I get crazy,
I won't be seeing you again.

Because I'm going to California,
I have been to New Orleans,
I've been with Apollonia,
And the cortesian queens,
And in case you say I never told ya,
That is what lonileness means.

He came out of Canaan,
With a pocket full of seeds,
And only a million miles to go,
And came into the strange lands,
In the rain and in the breeze,
On the seas in the heat and in the snow.

And it only goes to show ya,
Just what some loving light can do,
it will get into your soul, yeah,
And it will see you through,
And now I'm going to California,
That is what I'm a gonna do.


Au Revoir
I don't want to be there no more,
I packed my bags and cleaned my drawer,
And I got my feet right out the door,
Au Revoir.
I don't want to be hanging around,
You let me watch you turn me down,
I am gone now, sorrow bound,
My darling, Au Revoir.

Au Revoir, Au Revoir,
I loved you just the way you are,
But if that's not enough I'm sorry darling,
And I'm sorry for,
The wailing winds,
The bitter seas,
The failing crops and the dying trees.
And all I did not stem or ease,
Or change or please.

And I'm sorry for the cruel way,
You made me watch you walk away,
And all I did not do or say,
To make you change you're mind and stay,
Au Revoir, Au Revoir,
My final tear is on the floor,
'Cause I'm not going to weep no more,
My darling, au revoir.

And so call the Son,
And tell the czar,
That all is as it was before,
I'm strumming on the same guitar,
And wishing on the same bright star,
That the winds will ease,
And the wounds will heal,
And that some great future will reveal,
That all I do no know I feel,
And that all I did not do I will,
Au Revoir, au revoir,
I will still love you from afar,
But now its done, so long, we part,
My darling, au revoir.

The Wee Wee Hours 

In the wee wee hours of morning you bear your soul
In the jet black places of midnight your heart is a coal
We are leaning towers
We are cruel and evil cowards
In the wee wee hours. 


I was so low I was longing for just one fix
And the holy ghost was dangling all around your necks
We are wilting flowers
We are the gruel that fate devours
In the wee wee hours. 


I am making peanuts
There's a wall between us
When we know nobody sees us it can free us. 


I told you I was dying and you knew that I was
If I grow old I'll be defying all the natural laws
We are whiskey sours
We are rubes with see through powers
In the wee wee hours. 

VIDEOS

Better Days So alone The Score The Bright Side Back in the Land of the Living Nobody Like You I Know How I Feel About You The Loneliness is Awful Going To California Deep In The Heart of Brooklyn The Wee Wee Hours