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In Due Time
04:24
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Green the leaves, slow the day
Green your eyes when you look that way
Time’s like a railroad winding round you
And you can’t beat the turns like the way you need to
Could be a lover, a fighter, and a legend untold
But the kid inside you won’t ever go home
So keep your head up kid, but below the clouds
Know that good life just ain’t that loud
...in due time
Red light Yellow light Green light, go
There’s a yellow rat bastard at your door
He’s gonna tell you it’s not a shame
He’s gonna get you to play his game
So, you scurry about you can’t find the walls
Need to find someplace to lay nice and tall
Run baby run baby run run run
Oh, run baby run
...in due time
You can be a sheep in the field without your pack
You can be the very best tune, but the very last track
You can smoke them away on your worst off day
You can be a lot of things nice
You can be a lot of things nice
You can be a lot of things nice, just mind your back
Is your heart ready for this show
They’re all on queue for you y’know
Miles and miles and yet alone
This is now what I call home.
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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Busking on the Thruway
03:33
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she can work a debutante’s dress and a bottle of Jack like you’ve never seen nobody do
smoke 2 Red packs tell another joke sing the sweetest song to you
and you just can’t tell that the dust on the shelf has been there longer than you
so you get up walk over the Juke just to play another tune
she go Busking on the Thruway
tuning up off 80
and this town’s got one more lady
she go Busking out on the Thruway
damn ain’t you some-kind-of-drink stopping off at the Bridge by the Bay
haven’t seen a skirt for miles, let alone black boots with their own name
and you sing of that Lipstick oh so raw, never left you just the same
she holds a Bullet for the one that left her lonely along the way
she go Busking on the Thruway
tuning up off 80
and this town’s got one more lady
she go Busking out on the Thruway
she’s 1 of 4, but her cousin’s a whore, just riding her brother Jim
and the trees are waving while the girls are talking about the boys that been
her ex walks in with a smile and a trout and a care for nothing else
but little does he know that this girl’s got a little city sense cause she go...
Busking on the Thruway
tuning up off 80
and this town’s got one more lady
she go Busking out on the Thruway
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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The Riddle
02:41
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i’m finding all these rooms through my cellars up my stairs
and it’s hitting me so lovely that I’ll never know they’re there
wake me if I end up in a state of staring there
cause anything quite new to me becomes a calm despair
well, Jonah told me something about a Riddle, about a Bear
that climbed up to an apple tree just looking for a pear
if you go out walking through the branches after wine
what would you make of broken twigs & apples of the bitten kind
if I’m a sheep in a field with a red dot on the side of me
well how am I suppose to live my life in vanity
i’ll take a nap, walk ahead, maybe warm-up up to you
excuse me if I do not know what gender you cling to
i’ve thought over a million times about time and temperament
or how to get inside someone and know of their intent
sometimes I just say nothing cause that speaks for me in tons
and listen to the ways to get to you until I’ve won
and listen to the ways to get to you until I’ve won
‘til I’ve won
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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Ball & Chain
04:01
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Jenny told the folks across from me...
that you were leaving town maybe Someday
i guess I'll pull some sense of me
you can go but please just stay away
so this is you?
well, I've been waiting quite a while
i've seen all that's true
and you're far from fine
pack your bag and head for the station
hope nobody don't see you
you think you've got some situation
did you think about me?
the kids they fall apart when you're not around
and I can't keep fixing up your heart when you come to town
so you can keep
you can keep your Ball & Chain
so you can keep
you can keep your Ball & Chain
it's been few years, harsh days, still I just haven't found the ways to get over you
work double time but friends of mine say that maybe I've become the man that they thought that they never knew
you walk right through these doors with hopes of wanting something more like I'm to forgive you
I guess we proved just went wrong
these hands have calmed a thousand storms but none quite like you
So you can keep. ...You can keep your Ball & Chain.
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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Be Mine "LIVE @ Kitty's"
03:08
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Stand outside of your front door
Hold my breath and a rose for sure
We drove downtown the following day
Played Dave and there you lay
I wait one day for you
No, i’ll wait some years for you
I’ll keep my soul in stride
Til the day you will say
You are mine
So, I smile with my mouth to the floor
Hold my nerves and your ring for sure
As you walk down this road today
You can turn to me and say it’s okay
I vow this day for you
No, I vow my life for you
I will weep ‘til my soul runs dry
Cause today you will say
You are mine
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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Talkin' "LIVE @ Kitty's"
04:22
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baby girl we need to sit down for a few
something wrapped my mind about one many times or two
see I’ve got this feeling inside that’s absolutely true
well, how do I say it...
it’s not me, but I think it’s you
you keep talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin
and it’s driving me mad
you keep talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin’
but you’re the best thing I ever had
so you turn your head and you walk away from me
but you’ll miss out on things that I could be
i take two steps to you and you can start with three
i’ll try my best, the hardest, the rest we’ll leave to be
so stop talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin
and it’s driving me mad
stop talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin’
but you’re the best thing I ever had
so please forgive me for all the things I’ve done
i’m a man
you know we say a lot of things that are dumb
do you remember the first time that I saw you standing there?
i locked my eyes on you and you were the only care
keep talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin
and it’s driving me mad
keep talkin’ and talkin’ and talkin’
but you’re the best thing I ever had
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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Jenny told the folks across from me...
that you were leaving town maybe Someday
i guess I'll pull some sense of me
you can go but please just stay away
so this is you?
well, I've been waiting quite a while
i've seen all that's true
and you're far from fine
pack your bag and head for the station
hope nobody don't see you
you think you've got some situation
did you think about me?
the kids they fall apart when you're not around
and I can't keep fixing up your heart when you come to town
so you can keep
you can keep your Ball & Chain
so you can keep
you can keep your Ball & Chain
it's been few years, harsh days, still I just haven't found the ways to get over you
work double time but friends of mine say that maybe I've become the man that they thought that they never knew
you walk right through these doors with hopes of wanting something more like I'm to forgive you
I guess we proved just went wrong
these hands have calmed a thousand storms but none quite like you
So you can keep. ...You can keep your Ball & Chain.
2011 (c) Xavier Cardriche Music
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Xavier Cardriche Brooklyn, New York
Xavier Cardriche is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in Brooklyn.
He has released 3
albums blending rock, folk, alt-country, and R&B.
Xavier frequently performs, both solo and with his band.
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