1. |
How To Be Good
03:09
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Good things come to those who wait
I’ve been waiting a long time
Traveled through every state
On this land and in my mind
What do I do with all this sweetness?
How to be good in all my weakness
How to be good
People like to say
I’m easygoing
I’ll go wherever the wind is blowing
Not where you go
but how you’re going
And knowing
How to be good
How to be good
I give good love with my sweetheart
Even when I feel bitter
Loving ain’t always easy
With this whole world to consider
What do I do with all this sweetness?
How to be good in all my weakness
How to be good
People like to say
I’m easygoing
I’ll go wherever the wind is blowing
Not where you go
but how you’re going
And knowing
How to be good
How to be good
People like to say
I’m easygoing
I’ll go wherever the wind is blowing
Not where you go
but how you’re going
And knowing
How to be good, how to be good
How to be good, how to be good
How to be good, how to be good
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2. |
Go On
03:07
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Tumbleweed
Down the road I was sitting in
I was trying to take it all in
But some things get away in the wind
Life is bigger than us
Bigger than the fuss
Of what we're all trying to be
You could add a million miles to the road
Would it ever set you free?
Go on, I love my life
You’ve got yours
I’ve got mine
What I need is deep inside
The hardest part is making choices
When you know you’ll never know the way
You can always run around
But can you run away?
Go on, I love my life
You’ve got yours
I’ve got mine
What I need is deep inside
Do you really love?
Oh yeah, I think I do
Do you really live?
Oh yeah, I think I do
Do you really care?
Oh yeah
Go on, I love my life
You’ve got yours
I’ve got mine
What I need is deep inside
Go on, I love my life
You’ve got yours
I’ve got mine
What I need is deep inside
Go on, I love my life
You’ve got yours
I’ve got mine
What I need is deep inside
Go on, Go on
What I need is deep inside
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3. |
Love Is Love
03:33
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I would roll around in daisies with you
my whole life
When we’re gone we’ll be pushing em’ up
side by side
Whatever world we have left
it’s ours to find
Love is love and you are mine
Love is love and you are mine
I know we don’t always see eye to eye
But you always have a shoulder for me to cry
The clocks unwind
And the storyline
falls from the page
When love is love and you are mine
Love is love and you are mine
The world don’t make much sense
But I don’t mind
When love is love
And you are mine
I was taking chances
On the day I met you
You were wearing your wool sweater
I liked your music
So I asked you your name
Who knew, I was looking at forever
Love is love and you are mine
Love is love and you are mine
Whatever road we walk
We’ll be walking it side by side
Love is love and you are mine
Love is love and you are mine
Love is love and you are mine
The world don’t make much sense
But I don’t mind
If love is love and you are mine
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4. |
Stupid Love Song
04:03
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Good times
Bad times
All of the above
I did it all in the name of love
I let life go to let love in
Been a lifetime since I’ve seen you last
Where do we begin?
Knew it when I kissed you
How bad I would miss you
If you were ever not there
I can’t even touch you
Without falling in love with you
So why’d I touch you everywhere?
It’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to hang on
We can always free flow down
It’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to play dumb
We can always leave this town
We don’t have to stay here
We can always leave this town
We don’t have to stay here
We can always leave this town
Ride along
Let our problems try and chase us around
If it’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to hang around
They think they know
More than I do
About the love
I am feeling for you
Jaded by the same old
Stories and rhymes
they’ve seen end badly a million times
It’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to hang on
We can always free flow down
It’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to play dumb
We can always leave this town
We don’t have to stay here
We can always leave this town
We don’t have to stay here
We can always leave this town
Ride along let our problems try and chase us around
If it’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to hang around
Something in the air is making me see
You gotta get out if you want to be free
I am yours
You are mine
One day they’ll bury us side by side
But for now, let us ride
Time to move on and live our lives
It’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to hang around
It’s a stupid love song
We don’t have to hang around
Ride along
and let our problems try and chase us around
If it’s a stupid love song
we don’t have to hang around
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5. |
Stay Awhile
03:59
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I was born into a big family
Grew up in an old house
At the end of a road
When my parents heard me say a bad word
They would wash my mouth out with soap
Back then, we were always trying to get out
Nowadays I never have time to stay
Every place is someone else’s home
You can’t change your family
Or where you came from
When I get to feeling lost and alone
I remember every place is someone else’s home
If I could go back for just one day
See my family the way we used to be
I’d tell the little girl who I was then
You won’t believe who one day you’re going to be
Every place is someone else’s home
You can’t change your family
Or where you came from
When I get to feeling lost and alone
I remember every place is someone else’s home
The dusty sunlight is shining through the windowsill
On faded photographs in picture frames sitting still
Well, I would like to stay awhile
I would like to stay awhile
I would like to stay awhile
Stay awhile
Every place is someone else’s home
You can’t change your family
Or where you came from
When I get to feeling lost and alone
I remember every place is someone else’s home
I remember every place is someone else’s home
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6. |
Hard To Miss
03:58
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Driving through American towns
Just like the one before
The little church
The post office
And the liquor store
Memories of my past
project like movies in my mind
I watch them play out
and then I leave them behind
It’s hard to miss what don’t exist anymore
The feeling starts to fade
As soon as it walks out the door
No use trying to make it change
If it’s gone
Might as well learn what we can
from the past
and keep keeping on
My father mowing the tall grass
in the front lawn
While I climbed our cherry tree
To watch the setting sun
Well, part of my heart stays in Cincinnati
Where I am from
Flowing down the Ohio River
by my grandparents farm
It’s hard to miss what don’t exist anymore
The feeling starts to fade
As soon as it walks out the door
No use trying to make it change
If it’s gone
Might as well learn what we can
from the past
and keep keeping on
Trying to make a fire in the snow
Trying to bring the light
where the light don’t wanna go
All the King’s horses
and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put the past back together again
Can’t make it change
When it’s gone
It’s hard to miss what don’t exist anymore
The feeling starts to fade
As soon as it walks out the door
No use trying to make it change
If it’s gone
Might as well learn what we can
from the past and keep keeping on
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7. |
Michigan, 1997
04:19
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We’re far away now
From everything we thought we’d be
The lovers left in their jet planes
The fishermen went back to sea
Lying up on the rooftop
Looking up at the sky
Finding shapes in the clouds
For a moment
before they pass by
Where do you wanna go?
Where do you wanna go?
It’s okay if you don’t know
1997
Dandelion wish in the wind
Talking with my imaginary friends
In the backyard in Michigan
We create stories
of who we used be
Like looking for a ghost
in an empty house
When the future is too hard to see
Where do you wanna go?
Where do you wanna go?
Where do you wanna go?
It’s okay if you don’t know
Never thought I would be the one
To think that I would be the one
To blink and life would be this far along
Never thought I would be the one
To think that I would be the one
To blink and life would be this far along
It feels like life’s a joke
But it’s all mirrors and smoke
We cannot really tell just who the joke is on
Where do you wanna go?
Where do you wanna go?
Where do you wanna go?
Where do you wanna go?
And it’s okay if you don’t know
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8. |
Everywhere, Love
03:18
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Rocky Mountain sunshine in the golden air
Feeling like I’m just not getting anywhere
We’ve been everywhere, love
Up on the mountain
down by the sea
We’ve been everywhere, love
It’s time to move on
Time to move on
All the cities
All the pretty things we’ve seen
Waterfalls in deserts fill our wildest dreams
We’ve been everywhere, love
Up on the mountain
down by the sea
We’ve been everywhere, love
It’s time to move on
Time to move on
Sometimes when it’s late
We stay up all night
Sometimes in the day
We feel all the light
Sometimes when it’s golden
I know what I’m holding
I know what I’m holding
I know what I’m holding
We’ve been everywhere, love
Up on the mountain
down by the sea
We’ve been everywhere, love
It’s time to move on
Time to move on
We’ve been everywhere, love
Up on the mountain
down by the sea
We’ve been everywhere, love
It’s time to move on
Time to move on
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9. |
The Time Will Come
02:49
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Everyone’s singing their favorite song
You don’t know the tune
Can’t sing along
That’s fine
You just haven’t heard it yet
Everyone seems so in love
You can’t find the one
That fits like a glove
That’s fine
You just haven’t met them yet
The time will come
The time will come
In its own way
You can’t compare to anyone
The time will come
Everyone seems to have good luck
And you can’t get a break
Your life feels stuck
That’s fine
You’re just not there yet
You’re looking at what other people got
But you’ve got things that they do not
And that’s fine
You just can’t compare that
The time will come
The time will come
In its own way
You can’t compare to anyone
The time will come
You don’t trust life anymore
Living one foot out the door
Well I pray
You will stay
Everything comes back around
Trust me darling
I’ve been down
I pray
You will stay
The time will come
The time will come
In its own way
You can’t compare to anyone
The time will come
The time will come
The time will come
The time will come
The time will come
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10. |
Flowers On The Highway
02:34
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Good morning baby
It’s a whole new world since yesterday
Sunshine or rainstorm
Nothing can change who I’ve been lately
Happy Birthday baby
It’s a whole new world since yesterday
Flowers on the highway
Tell me you love me again that way
Driving through Rhode Island
Your hand is on my hand
Love like wind through my weather vane blows
Telling me which way to go
Happy Birthday baby
It’s a whole new world since yesterday
Flowers on the highway
Tell me you love me again that way
Happy Birthday baby
It’s a whole new world since yesterday
Happy Birthday baby
It’s a whole new world since yesterday
It’s a whole new world since yesterday
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11. |
My Astrology
03:22
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Want to live in a castle on a cliff
With a path that winds down to the sea
Want to grow a garden with my lover
And read books in our library
I’ve always been a bit obsessive
It’s my astrology
With all my friends
With all my loves
Everybody’s had a hold on me
Everybody’s had a hold on me
Want to read tarot cards by candlelight
With a full moon shining in the sky
Want to study the palm of your hand
and see if our planets align
I’ve always been a bit romantic
It’s my astrology
With all my friends
With all my loves
Everybody’s had a hold on me
Everybody’s had a hold on me
In some ways we are different
In some ways we’re the same
Trying to find peace
in a world that’s gone insane
Well hey,
there’s one thing I know for sure
You live a life no ones lived before
Hey, hey
I’ve always been a bit dramatic
It’s my astrology
With all my friends
With all my loves
Everybody’s had a hold on me
I’ve always been a bit obsessive
could be the Scorpio in me
With all my friends
With all my loves
Everybody’s had a hold on me
Everybody’s had a hold on me
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12. |
These Lips Are Mine
02:29
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These lips are mine
I say what I want with them
I say what I need to
When I know it’s good and true
We’ve come a long way
Been hiding from a beautiful day
Living in a hard place
Inside our mind and soul
The most important thing
Someone’s ever said to me
Don’t delay your joy, honey
I lost the person who told that to me
You know tomorrow’s no guarantee
Some things never change
Then again nothing stays the same
Why do we hate on the rain
When we know it makes the flowers grow
I don’t know how to be good
I just do what I feel I should
I know my heart is in the right place
And I’m fine to take the long way
These lips are mine
I fight to win with them
Sing what I need to with them
Tell you how I feel about it
Be proud to say
You made it here today
You came a long way
Time is just the price you pay
These lips are mine
These lips are mine
These lips are mine
These lips are mine
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Dolly Valentine
Dolly Valentine is an American singer-songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her debut album “How To Be Good”, produced by Ryan Hadlock (The Lumineers, Vance Joy) and Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties) was featured on NPR's "All Songs Considered." Her songwriting illuminates a landscape of bewitching mystery. Her words ride the tides of a changing world with grit, hope, and spiritual resonance. ... more
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