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	Carol Noonan Produced by Paul Bryan Recorded by Paul Bryan at 269 Allston St. Cambridge, MA Recording exceptions: Open the Door and Leather Glove recorded by Chris Rival at My Generation, Somerville, MA Mastered by Jonathan Wyner at M-Works, Cambridge, MA Songs by Carol Noonan ©1999 Noonan Building Wrecking/ASCAP
	1 Open the Door :41 Traditional Mixed by Chris Rival 2 Lost Soul 4:24 Noonan Don't bring me company I don't want any Don't bother dropping by I'd rather cry Don't give me your best speech I'm out of reach I'm seeming ungrateful - it isn't that way I wasn't so hateful - some yesterdays Somewhere I lost my heart Somewhere I lost my soul Somewhere I lost everything Everything that made me whole Who was I in those days It's all a haze Who was it cared for me Who did I see Who can remember this What did I miss Mixed by Chris Rival Jay Bellerose - drums Paul Bryan - bass Duke Levine - electric, nylon guitars Carol Noonan - acoustic guitar Stephanie Winters - cello 3 Just Because 4:16 Noonan She brushes her long hair in front of the mirror She's keeping a count of the ones that turn grey She looks at her hands and she sees her mother's She looks at her face and she turns away Oh she cries when she sees that she's not what she was And she cries for her children And she cries just because She cries for the love that she once had and lost And she cries for the memories And she cries just because He tries on the pants that he wore to his wedding He tightens the belt up a notch so they1ll stay He just don't fill them out like he used to He's starting to feel like he1s shriveling away Oh he cries when he sees that he's not what he was And he cries for his children He cries just because He cries for the love that he once had and lost And he cries for the memories He cries just because Mixed by Chris Rival Kevin Barry - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric sitar, nylon string Jay Bellerose - drums Paul Bryan - bass, electric piano, synthesizer Frank Gallagher - viola 4 Unquiet Grave 4:28 Traditional Mixed by Paul Bryan Kevin Barry - acoustic guitar Jay Bellerose - drums Paul Bryan - bass Frank Gallagher - violin, viola Duke Levine - electric guitar, mandolin Stephanie Winters - cello Paul Bryan - string arrangement 5 Wasted Years 4:28 Noonan She's wasted years She's wasted only three but who's counting He was never hers In fact he was already someone else's And she always said that this time would be the last time While she prayed to God, oh, just let me see him again Don't cry out loud Don't cry out loud Don't cry out loud Until you can look him in the eyes once again She's broken down She's not quite sure of where to go on from here Her friends all talk They're trying so hard to say nothing at all She still checks the mail and cries when there's not a word from him Even though word from him will hurt her again And I should have pulled her in when I knew she was sinking But deep down in my heart I wasn't sure she'd survive Mixed by Chris Rival Kevin Barry - acoustic guitar Paul Bryan - electric piano, bass, chamberlin Jay Bellerose - drums Duke Levine - electric guitars, mandola, mandolin 6 Stronger Than Me 4:14 Noonan In my heart I carried all the hatred I can While you just carry on You lost more than me but you could always see our eyes filled with tears While you were hiding yours And a child just feels the pain While the mother takes the blame And a wife calls out his name When she's alone When I cry I always cry for the one who's gone When I should cry for you You're stronger than me And you will always be You'd say it's not the end and I believed you then He's not there, but you're not scared to be alone You're scared you might forget, and pictures aren't enough They can't replace his touch And a child can't understand That a father's still a man Mixed by Chris Rival Merrie Amsterberg - backing vocals, glockenspiel Kevin Barry - acoustic guitar, electric guitar Jay Bellerose - drums Paul Bryan - hammond, clarinet, bass, percussion Duke Levine - electric guitar, mandola		7 John Riley 5:04 Traditional Mixed by Chris Rival Jay Bellerose - drums, percussion, udu Paul Bryan - bass, chamberlin Duke Levine - guitars, baritone guitar 8 Devonside 4:21 Richard Thompson, Beeswing Music, BMI By Devonside, she was marching It was a band of no great size And surrender was the banner that she carried. And hunger was the shiver in her eyes. She met a boy. His health was failing. She dropped the banner and took the prize. And the only food she had was bread and morphine. And he fed on the shiver of her eyes. By Devonside, his love was drifting. He looked for comfort otherwise. And there never was a rope or chain about him. She held him with the shiver in her eyes. She said my John, I'll be your pillow. I'll be your lover, mother, whore and wife. And he knew that he had loved and never seen her. When the light fell from the shiver in her eyes. Mixed by Paul Bryan Jay Bellerose - drums Paul Bryan - bass pedals Duke Levine - electric guitar Carol Noonan - acoustic guitar 9 Sonny 4:21 R. Hynes, Wonderful Grand Music Sonny lives on a farm in a wide open space Take off your shoes stay out of the rain Lay down your head on a soft feather bed Sonny always remembers the words mama said Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone Your daddy's a sailor who never comes home The nights are so long silence goes on And I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong Sonny works on the land Though he's barely a man There's not much to do but he does what he can Sits by his window, in his room And he's watching the waves drifting soft on the pier Many years have rolled on Sonny's old and alone His daddy's a sailor who never came home Sometimes he wonders what he might have been And still from the grave mama's voice haunts his dream Mixed by Paul Bryan Jay Bellerose - drums, percussion Paul Bryan - bass Frank Gallagher - viola, low whistles Duke Levine - acoustic guitar, electric guitars 10 Leather Glove 5:16 Noonan His skin was fair and his eyes were ice His hands could crush my own And a scar that he hid with a leather glove If only I had known The day he took me for his wife I felt my beating heart As he whispered to me quietly, 'till death will do us part And I knew that I couldn't run away And I knew that no one else would see Now I know that he's in an unquiet grave And I know cause he's next to me - He's forever next to me Well he laid on me almost every night With "I love you" on his breath With the leather glove tight around my throat - He nearly caused my death And every time I begged of him, Oh please just take my life And every time he softly said, You'll forever be my wife That final night just like any night Except his knife I spied. And with all my heart And with all my might I plunged it in his side. And just before he slipped away He raised his leather hand. And closed it tight around my throat Said, I'll always be your man Mixed by Chris Rival Kevin Barry - acoustic guitar Carol Noonan - acoustic guitar, roxy organ 11 Lagan Love 4:59 Traditional Mixed by Chris Rival Jay Bellerose - percussion Paul Bryan - hammond Gerry Leonard - guitars, acoustic, Loops - Spooky Ghost!