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Moving On With You (Remastered)

by Dan Whitaker

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Moving On With You 04:48
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Baby, I can't count the times or all the ways you've helped me you gave me what I needed most, you weren't afraid to love me I used to see my years to come as if they were a pipe dream now I hold the captain's wheel and my engine's running full steam looking back I would have laughed if someone would have told me that I would be a groom again, they never would have sold me the winter was so long and cold I thought my heart was frozen but you were like an April day, I guess I was just dozin' now our turn is coming up to cross that bridge there ain't no looking back then once we do time is ticking heavy and it never stops and I can't think of a better thing to do baby, now I'm moving on with you New Years made me turn my back, I don't know what I was thinking we had to go our separate ways, that's when I started sinking I just thank my lucky stars that we got back together time apart is what we needed to think about forever stuck out in a traffic jam, my afternoon is wasting thinkin' 'bout your ruby lips I wish I could be tasting summertime is coming on, my winter coat is shedding relatives from miles around are coming for our wedding now our turn is coming up to cross that bridge there ain't no looking back then once we do time is ticking heavy and it never stops I can't think of a better thing to do baby, now I'm moving on with you now our turn is coming up to cross that bridge there ain't no looking back then once we do time is ticking heavy and it never stops I can't think of a better thing to do baby, now I'm moving on with you moving on with you, moving on with you baby, I'm moving on with you
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August Gray 04:46
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My name is August Gray and I've robbed both great and small but my fortune has been spent on running from the law when I was just a baby I lost my mother and dad ever since then I've been searching for what I never had I never had a friend much longer than a day for sure as the sun would set, I'd steal from them some way I'd go from town to town and never leave a trail for if I'd settle down I'd end up back in jail now my body's giving way and my old legs are sore they've locked me in this cell where I can run no more by this time tomorrow I'll be on that gallows pole Lord, please have mercy on my worthless soul I wish I had my life to live again some way I wish I could go back to that fateful day I had a decent job, I was tryin' to change my ways the boss said he was leaving for a couple a days he handed me his keys and trusted me to stay I gave to him my word and then he rode away I wrestled with my conscience to keep my honor's deed temptation was too heavy, I gave in to my greed now my body's giving way and my old legs are sore they've locked me in this cell where I can run no more by this time tomorrow I'll be on that gallows pole Lord, please have mercy on my worthless soul
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A Man and His Age 05:14
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one afternoon as I drove in my car, I was thinking of you and the way that we are I saw my whole life to be playing a part, and I didn't know if I had love in my heart could I believe that my freedom was sold, like a dog on a leash was I being controlled I thought back to times I had been in the past, when I swore I would never again let that last some people store all their problems away and they think they'll get back to them some rainy day but that isn't me, I'm not that kind of guy, if something is wrong, I can't let it go by three o'clock comes and the school day is through, the children walk home with their pencils and glue I pause at the stop sign to let them all cross, and I try to consider my gain and my loss what are the chances that I could be wrong, am I fooling myself, am I thinking too long I could be projecting a demon inside, or maybe just looking for somewhere to hide it's all just a sign of a man and his age, his love is his freedom, his fears are his cage but he can't conceive it, it's so hard to receive it, and he can barely believe that it's only a stage being with you I have changed my old ways, I've dropped a few vices and stepped from a haze but sometimes there's other things covered up deep and I watch them come out in my dreams when I sleep chances have come and chance have passed, what once was wide open is now closing fast our love has led us to a fork in the road and I'm wondering if I can handle the load I thought I knew what I wanted from you and I thought I hated uncertainty too but now all the tables have turned upside down and I can't tell the smile on my face from a frown love is so sweet and love is so kind, but don't stare too long, it might make you go blind sometimes I just have to take a step back to see something missing or something I lack slip me the key and I'll open the lock, it needs a good wind, like a grandfather clock my guardian angel looks straight in my face and tells me the truth when I step out of pace it's all just a sign of a man and his age, his love is his freedom, his fears are his cage but he can't conceive it, it's so hard to receive it, and he can barely believe that it's only a stage
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Pencils and Dimes 03:39
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I woke up this morning with nothing in mind by the time it was noon I was that much behind so I gathered the bottles and emptied the trash I looked in my wallet, I'm all out of cash I think real hard 'bout what I should do but my crusty old brain it just don't have a clue so I look in my heart for right and for wrong a little voice tells me to write a new song and I'm humming a melody, rhyming some rhymes searching the sofa for pencils and dimes making up stories 'bout me and 'bout you without you babe, I don't know what I'd do well the clothes are all dirty, there's nothing to eat I put on my shoes and head out to the street I'm weaving through traffic, I drive like a shark when I get to the store there's nowhere to park I'm waiting in line for this and for that the magazine covers say "how to loose fat" but I ain't on a diet and my mind slips away there's so much to do and there's so much to say and I'm humming a melody, rhyming some rhymes searching the sofa for pencils and dimes making up stories 'bout me and 'bout you without you babe I don't know what I'd do well the day's getting old, I'm hungry and tired I'd take me a nap but my brain is too wired so I flip on the tube and turn to the news but fifteen more murders just gives me the blues now my baby walks in, she's been gone a while she's had a hard day but still gives me a smile and I'm happy to see her, it gives me relief I let go my pain and I forget my grief and I'm humming a melody, rhyming some rhymes searching the sofa for pencils and dimes making up stories 'bout me and 'bout you without you babe I don't know what I'd do
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Goin' Nowhere Fast 05:15
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Sittin' on the steps in the afternoon with all of your buddies, there'll be trouble soon waiting around for something to see looking for a reason to take it out on me you're stuck in a home that don't have hope spending all your money on malt liquor and dope you think that you're tough because you got a short fuse and when you look in the mirror you got nothing to loose you're going nowhere fast, you're as good as dead you got nothing to shoot for except a bullet in the head you don't believe in nothing because they let you down and if you don't end up shot you'll be big house bound when you're out there alone you can't make a spark but when you're hanging with the boys you're the first one to bark you get all your kicks at someone else's expense but when cops are coming that's when you're jumping the fence just the other day I saw them patting you down they're putting on the cuffs, and they go down town now you're back on the street and you're feeling bad your future is fading, it's like something you had you're going nowhere fast, you're as good as dead you got nothing to shoot for except a bullet in the head you don't believe in nothing because they let you down and if you don't end up shot you'll be big house bound we got nothing in common except the street we share I can't imagine us talking because you just don't care you live in your world and I live in mine but don't hold it against me, it ain't my design the summer night has fallen and all the kids are asleep you're gonna do something crazy and get in trouble too deep a young life can be short when you're nose ain't clean and when you think you're a man but you're just sixteen you're going nowhere fast, you're as good as dead you got nothing to shoot for except a bullet in the head you don't believe in nothing because they let you down and if you don't end up shot you'll be big house bound you're going nowhere fast, you're as good as dead you got nothing to shoot for except a bullet in the head you don't believe in nothing because they let you down and if you don't end up shot you'll be big house bound
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Walkin' Buck 04:07
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See him walkin' down the side of the road tryin' to loose some kind a mental load, Walkin' Buck his shoes are clean and his shirts are pressed you'd never say that he was badly dressed, Walkin' Buck he's got a far away look in his eyes so much so its like he wears a disguise, Walkin' Buck maybe he was a soldier at war I keep wonderin' what he's lookin' for, Walkin' Buck I don't know where the time has gone and I don't know if I want to know but could you tell me if there's hope left in my eye but Walkin' Buck is still strollin' the streets like the Earth circles 'round the Sun I think I'll give it one more try I seen him walkin' all over this town he doesn't seem to wanna hang around, Walkin' Buck big moustache and his hair's kinda long looks like he stepped out of a Seventies song, Walkin' Buck could it be that he's lost someone dear and now he don't wanna get too near, Walkin' Buck the truth is I just gave him that name I never talked to him - am I to Blame? Walkin' Buck I don't know where the time has gone and I don't know if I want to know but could you tell me if there's hope left in my eye but Walkin' Buck is still strollin' the streets like the Earth circles 'round the Sun I think I'll give it one more try
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Star Crossed 04:35
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Somewhere in the night, calling to be heard she strums a guitar waiting to see deep down in her heart, she surely believes true love can be found, where could he be some years ago in her childhood she would imagine to be grown seeing herself hold out her hand and then to receive her sweetheart's gold band somewhere in his head, drowning in the past he reaches a shore he's never seen half dead from the fight, still somewhere within he chooses to go where he's never been and now with the air of indifference crossing the line of his fears letting the coins fall where they lay and voicing the thoughts that were so hard to say could this be a departure, has the tide turned at last off in the dark they can see the gypsy dancers and then from nowhere a love that could last now gazing outside, off into the west he's open to see what could be best bad weather will pass, hearts mend unlike glass love opens more doors than he could have guessed now they recall when they first met they were alone and unsure they both had resolved to take one last chance a shot in the dark at a star crossed romance
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Best Laid Plans 04:19
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When there's nothing left of me except a longing in my soul the tools are bought, the bills are paid I'm distracted by a world of make believe that's in my head the work is undone, the path is not laid I could sit forever here and bide my time until I die I'll work my job and live in dreams but you know as well as me that that's a dagger in my heart I may still be here but I won't be me this has been the kind of day where I'm looking for myself I call my number but no one's home then I look to see if there could be a letter in my box it's emptier than my unwritten poem I thought there might be some kind of reminder with all the time I've had free but nobody notices something is missing here when all my friends have gone, there's no one left but me I've been busy trying to tell myself that I could still believe my best laid plans could still come true if you could, could you try, Lord, to remind me of my dream you gave me this gift, now what can I do I began to wonder if there really is a greater plan and if my own is fantasy does in somehow come together in a way I can't conceive I've opened the door but still I can't see when I go to bed tonight I'll try to lull myself to sleep forget the past for something new when I wake up in the morning it will be another day then maybe this feeling won't be so blue I thought there might be some kind of reminder with all the time I've had free but nobody notices something is missing here when all my friends have gone, there's no one left but me
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Honey Baby 03:19
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Oh honey Baby, gonna sing for you a few lines 'bout how I feel oh honey Baby, gonna tell you how my love for you is real you picked me up when I fell on my face, you loved me when I was a disgrace when all my bad luck began, you let me know I'd always be your man oh baby, them honey bees just won't leave you alone oh honey baby, you come steppin' down the stairs wearing that nightgown oh honey baby, I'd give you any little thing if you just let me follow you down well I wish I had a needle and thread, I'd sew myself to your bed spread and every time you'd jump on in, we could do that sit n' spin oh baby, there ain't nothing in the world that could keep me away from you oh honey baby, you love me like it's going out of style oh honey baby, I think I'll stay with you a good long while well, I'm gonna bake you some shortnin' bread, without you I'm sick in the head so get over here and do your thing, you know how to make me sing oh baby, for you I think I'd run a country mile oh honey baby, even though I can't buy you all them fancy jewels honey baby, we can dance around here just like a couple of fools so get on up and get on down, you and I are gonna paint this town and when the night is dead and gone, we'll do cartwheels on the lawn oh baby, you're the sweetest thing that I have most ever seen oh Honey Baby, oh Honey Baby
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Nowhere to Roll 04:21
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One more day in the year, and I'm still sitting here with a big empty feeling inside I'd get up for a spell, but there's nothing to tell so I'll just sit back down and abide if I played out a part, or I had some sweetheart I would tell you how I done right or wrong if I got in a fight, or I saw some great sight I'd have something here to put in a song but I ain't had no luck there lately, but I won't tell you no lie now the weeks roll on by and I can't even get high I'm a rolling stone with nowhere to roll once in a while I still have to smile, when I step back and see the joke of it all it's all just a play when I see it this way, and sorrow is just as well as having a ball I look back on my life, when I still had a wife and I seemed to be doing alright but I'm restless at heart, and I soon had to part like the sunset I'm gone every night I looked deep in my soul, but I fell in a hole I'm still looking for some way to get free if I knew how to fly, I would take to the sky and I'd fly me straight out to the sea but I ain't had no luck there lately, and I won't tell you no lie now the weeks roll on by and I can't even get high I'm a rolling stone with nowhere to roll I'm a rolling stone with nowhere to roll
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Without Your Love 05:53
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I could live a hundred years, or burn my money until it all disappears I could wish upon a star so high above I could write another song, or sing you verses until my voice it gone but I'm alone in this world without your love bring me fortune, bring me hips let my name be on every starlet's lips dress me daily in a pair of new white gloves print my picture in magazines sing my praises at all the hipster scenes but I'm alone in this world without your love somewhere lost in another time I would scoff and say "I could live without a crutch, and love is nothing more" without notice pushing back again the sweetest plum of all nothing's gained if nothing's lost, but what's it all done for? come here, babe, very near whisper softly what I long to hear let your words fly lightly like a dove and to you these words I say with all the memories of those ugly days but I'm alone in this world without your love from now on, have no doubt even when it seems our time's running out there's a tree that's growing to the land above if it dies then it will be a tombstone of our heartfelt history and alone in this world without your love somewhere lost in another time I would scoff and say "I could live without a crutch, and love is nothing more" without notice pushing back again the sweetest plum of all nothing's gained if nothing's lost, but what's it all done for?
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Can't Take it With You 04:33
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All these singers are hanging around don't know the way up from the way down everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame and I won't be the one to say who's to blame it's always the same I'll tell you the reason, if you want to know there's always an answer but you can't take it with you when it's time to go there's this young guy who plays a guitar spends half of his life wishing he was a star but he works all the day with a copy machine and it's sucking his soul and it's making him mean it's always a scene you can think that you'll keep it or pretend you don't know but there's always a wake up and you can't take it with you when it's time to go now there's a wedding but they can't find the bride someone said that they saw her leave with her pride it don't always go down the way that you thought you don't always get what you thought you just bought it happens a lot there's vultures above us, snakes down below you can walk down the middle but you can't take it with you when it's time to go no, no, no it's always around you at any old time it's free for the picking, it don't cost a dime but don't get so smart to think it'll stay as easy as it comes it'll go away now there's a river running through the air it's only a muse, it's there if you care some take your money and they show you the stairs some make a claim and they say that it's theirs and I wonder who cares the last piece of the puzzle has sunk down below you can look if you want to but you can't take it with you when it's time to go no, no, no you can't take it with you when it's time to go

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released January 8, 2021

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Dan Whitaker Austin, Texas

Songwriter Dan Whitaker is a lifelong musician with over 30 years performing and 14 albums of original songs to his name. Noted for his “smooth world-wise voice” and well-crafted tunes, he recently relocated from his longtime home Chicago to start a new chapter in Texas, where his outsider ways seem to fit right in. ... more

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