Lyrics from the album Lay Down Lay Low (2012)

1. Breaking Like The Sun (T. Wagler/J. Lapp)

Hold me like the river where the boat does sway,
Going downtown for my sugarcane,
Don’t sing a note if you don’t sing true,
Going to that place where the song sings you,

Chorus
Oh, There they go again, Tell another story like I don’t speak French
Oh, There they go again, Breaking like the sun when the day comes in.

Hear the fiddle double with the squeezebox now,
Get into the melody but don’t sit down,
Bring on the night, go get your shoes,
Get your dress on honey, and make it blue

Go To Opelousas where the spirit moves,
Ancestry is dancing you’ve got nothing to prove,
This is where you started and this is where you’ll end
Because your heart starts beating to that rhythm again

2. Lay Down Lay Low (T. Wagler/J. Lapp)

As I stand on the river bridge, Silent on this thirsty ridge
No more birds will sing for me on this desperate day
I’ve walked far to make it here, I know my path is plain and clear
I will take to rest a final time on that clay.

Take me back to where I wanna be, when you’re young there’s a melody,
Winds that blow from over in the west,
All the trees shake like they bow and pray, like they all know us by name
Will they call for me once more before I go?

Chorus
Lay down, lay low, They say it’s quiet there
Lay down, lay low, I want to finally fall down, fall down

Don’t believe everything that you hear about angels drawing near
But I hold onto a ghost who knows my name
Mornings take me by surprise these are dreaming open eyes
We make miracles every moment of everyday

As I stand upon the river bridge, I recall this barren ridge
West winds blow for me a melody today
I’ve walked far to make it here, I know in time I’ll see it clear
Some things are gone for good, but instant in your mind

3. Rain In the Valley (T. Wagler)

There’s a rain comin’ down in the valley
We’re gonna wash in the river so deep
There’s a rain comin’ down in the valley
Ain’t no devil goin where I go, ain’t no devil goin’ where I go
Ain’t no devil gonna bring me down ain’t no devil now

Gather up the rain comin’
There’s a rain comin’ down
Meet me out at the edge of town
There’s a rain comin’ down
Tell everybody that the water’s risin’
There’s a rain comin’ down
You think it’s tame, but it’ll put you in the ground
There’s a rain comin’ down

I love all of my children here
There’s a rain comin’ down
Like the roots that grow the river for the trees
There’s a rain comin’ down
If you get there before I do
There’s a rain comin’ down
Tell what the water couldn’t take from me
There’s a rain comin’ down

4. Nola’ First Dance (J. Lapp)
 Instrumental

5. Andrea (T. Wagler)

In the cool of the morning, In the morning I think of you
When I wake up in the morning that’s the first thing that I do
We were young when you left me I was alone in a foreign land
I was young when you left me I hardly was a man

Now you never want a man like your father, he’s got a bad disease,
I remember your father he had a pain you could never ease,
So you spent some time in Thailand, you lived life like another age,
You met some good friends down in Thailand then your mind began to change

Andrea I think of you, when you smile you plant a garden,
Andrea I think of you, you’ve got your roots deep, down in the dark earth

Your nothing like your father, don’t let the doctors tell you so,
All the pills and the bottle, there’s no rock that you can’t roll,
You write the next chapter, that’s a book I want to read,
You can sing it from the rafters, you can sell it on the streets

Andrea I think of you, when you smile you plant a garden,
Andrea I think of you, you’ve got your roots deep, down in the dark earth

In the cool of the morning, In the morning I think of you
When I wake up in the morning that’s the first thing that I do

Halfway To Heaven (T. Wagler)

The rain keeps pushing me back off my way
Wind keeps rushing me and my mind starts to stray
But my hand keeps steady, there’s a path through the storm
And I’m a long way from forgetting what I have back at home

Chorus
I’m almost halfway to heaven
I’m almost halfway to heaven
I’m almost halfway to heaven
I’m coming home to you

Thousands of miles, hello goodbyes,
Hundreds of telephone calls, no surprise
We take on the morning with a flame and a blade,
I’ll be there for coffee, you can cut the bread you made,

Bridge:
But I’m all the way I’m all the way
I’m all the way in love with you

When the time is right for silence, you never tell me to keep still
And I always try to dance like you but I never will
My legs keep time, and my hands are fine, but there’s something that you do,
When you move, you move in me, and now I’m coming home for you

7. Indian Trail (T. Wagler)

Indian trail Indian trail I wanna ride down the Indian trail
Down below where the old winds wail, I wanna ride down Indian trail

Indian Trail where the train does roll
There’s some word still left untold
I saw nothing that I can tell
On the banks of the Indian Trail

Indian trail Indian trail three shots fired on Indian trail
My heart is heavy, feet don’t fail
I wanna run from Indian trail

Indian trail Indian trail I wanna run from the Indian trail
Give me lungs let me wail
I wanna run from the Indian trail

Sun comes up Sun does go
There’s one thing that I know
Every story that I tell
Leads me back to the Indian trail
Indian trail Indian trail I wanna ride down the Indian trail
Down below where the old winds wail
I wanna ride down the Indian trail

8. Endure (T. Wagler)

Don’t want him for a friend don’t want him for a neighbor
He appeals to the other side
He’s got a blacked out tooth and a dog named danger
He appeals to the other side

Will you endure a little longer?
Will you endure until we get stronger?

No, I don’t believe in a word that he says
He appeals to the other side
I don’t think that I would trust him with the kids
He appeals to the other side

Are you in it for the war or are you in it for the battle?
He appeals to the other side
He’s gonna lead them like a big herd of cattle
He appeals to the other side

Forget what they say about speaking your mind
You’ve got to be here holding the line
Take the long view baby,
Maybe some day we’ll be free to endure

He stole my money right out of my pockets
He appeals to the other side
He’s as dumb as a broomstick but fast as a rocket
He appeals to the other side

9. Know Her Name (T. Wagler)

There’s a girl I know, don’t know her name
She’s got eyes like fire and she knows no pain
But there are scars that show when she walks at night
Man I hope to God that she does all right

Let’s take an easy ride through the country hills
Keep your eyes on the road till your mind grows still
The stories you tell don’t give a man no peace
Can I comfort you with the songs I sing
Can I comfort you with the songs I sing

When the lights go out and the stage gets dark
We’ll find our way in the place we start,
If you have a child, just take a gentle hand
There’s not one word you say that I don’t understand

She says don’t sing a song for me
Just keep it still, Don’t sing a song for me

When you go to town, just look back east
There’s a mountain there that will move your feet
Some will call you mean they call you old
There’s a better place where your story’s told

Let’s take an easy ride through the country hills
Keep your mind on that road till the time grows still
Those stories you tell don’t give a man no peace
Can I comfort you with the songs I sing
Can I comfort you with the songs I sing

10. Fridley’s Gap (J. Lapp)
 Instrumental

11. Spider Wings (T. Wagler)

Spider screaming cause he don’t have wings,
You got too much don’t know a thing

Turn the mountains into parking lots
We’re gonna tell the stories you done forgot

I’m gonna spend my money on the wind and rain
I can’t depend on the old freight train

Coal mine’s trouble when the bird don’t sing
Breathe the air you’re gonna feel the sting

You wave your flag, but it’s glass and smoke
Look at yourself, now the mirror is broke

Hold me hold me honey hold me and don’t let me go

Spider screaming cause he don’t have wings,
You got too much don’t have anything

12. One Night (T. Wagler)

One night you were a princess in a town that knows its age
We sat and watched the music and the colors on the stage
We leaned and swayed together humming one another’s tune
You fell asleep upon me like you could cure all my wounds,
Like you cure all my wounds

One night you were a princess and if felt like I should note
Each moment that we had there like they were poems that we wrote
So that we could recite them in some other time and place
These memories will warm you like a burning star in space,
When you’re feeling lost in space

That night when you were a princess I think I do recall
The dress you wore was storybook, a Cinderella at the ball
We went outside for quiet, you took off your shoes
You ran like you were freedom, and I kept up like I do I did the best that I could do

Oh will I lose you in the end
I don’t think I could bear that baby
And Oh, I will lose you in the end
Someday you’re gonna leave

That night you were a princess if nothing else is true
That fairytale was one we had it was me and it was you
Some evenings feel like windows where we tip our hats beyond
All the failures that afflict us to the dusk that feeds the dawn,
we praise the dusk that feeds the dawn

One night you were a princess in a town that knows its age
We sat and watched the music and the color on the stage
We leaned and swayed together humming one another’s tune
You fell asleep upon me like you could cure all my wounds,
Like you cure all my wounds