End Of Time
Words Zach Tate / Music Zach Tate, Charlie Glen, Brandon Robbins

I hear your birds sing in the summertime, they wanna get on outta here
I see the sun set in your eyes when you’re lookin‘ in your rearview mirror
I see the forest through the trees, I see you lookin’ right through me
I see the future in the trunk of your car while you’re packing up to be free

So don’t go callin’ me honey
If it’s no trouble would you be so kind
Just have another drag on your cigarette
While I love you ‘til the end of time

End of time (burn a cigarette, burn a cigarette)
End of time, end of time
End of time (burn a cigarette, burn a cigarette)
End of time, end of time

I see the stars come out at night, I see the moon cast a light
I see your heart fill with desire when you listen to the words I write
I hear your voice dark with mood & rut like a demon come in the night
I hear the big-bang-boom of an argument while we have another epic fight

 

Weeds Of Love
Words and Music Zach Tate

Man way up high upon the wire
Woman in the hotel callin’ him a liar
The doctor comin’ but he gonna need his pliers
The priest outside said the situation‘s dire

Like an old field car that just can’t find no buyers
The weeds of love have grown up around the tires

Chicken is done but it’s still sittin' in the fryer
One shot of whiskey and you think you might like to try her
You’re standing at the judge but you ain't got no priors
Ain't nothin' like a another woman to get you higher

Where is the love, where is desire
Only smoke where there once was fire
She got a long, long list and you must do what’s required
It might be time, might be time to retire

 

Slow Movin’ Train
Words & Music Zach Tate

Grain silo, empty and holllow
Girl in my picture don’t look the same
Lord knows I’m haunted by these dreams unwanted
Lord knows that I’m missing you

And I’m waitin’ on Santa Fe
Waitin’ up too late
Waitin’ on our getaway
Waitin’ on the hand of fate
Yes I‘m waitin’ on this slow movin’ train
Yes I‘m waitin’ on this slow movin’ train

Rain on my window wash down my sorrow
Paint me a picture I can clearly see
Lord knows I’m callin’, for you I have fallen
Lord knows that I’m missin’ you

These railroad daydreams always find me it seems
That look in your eye never told me goodbye

 

I Belong To You
Words and Music Zach Tate

Baby come back, over here
I want to kiss you, want you near
I’ve seen you naked, metaphorically
I’ve held you in my arms and watched you disappear

Now what, what, what am I to do
While I every last thing reminds me of you
And what, what, what am I to do
While every last beat of my heart longs for you
A little crazy but true... I belong to you

I see the sun shine a light on you
Every picture of us a honeymoon
I ain't ashamed to say I’m countin’ the days
Tick-tock, tick-tock, ‘til we can get away

Baby come back whisper in my ear
Say anything at all I just like you right here
I got your picture, got it on my wall
Every night I dream we could have it all

 

Galveston
Words Zach Tate / Music Zach Tate and Stuart Kinzel

I was born in a crowded city
Crowded people with their crowded heads
I saw you in that pretty summer dress
I saw you in that big ‘ol red sunset

Now how many times to myself I must remind
I can never be nobody else

So I bid you all adieu
I may be gone a year or two
I’m waitin’ for my girl in the sun
Baby you’re the one, I really hope you come
Meet me on the beach in Galveston

Comes a time we must leave behind
Ambitions and traditions we must draw the line
I float away like a bottle on the sea
I have a dream for you and me

 

Perfect Girl
Words and Music Zach Tate

She came down from West Texaco
Or it may have been sunny Orlando
It didn’t matter much to me while I counted the tattoos on her back
I could see, while she lay sleeping comfortably

And I knew all that I needed to
At the time - she was - mine
She was my perfect girl
My perfect girl

She got a letter, that was strange, since she didn’t live with me
And I’d only known her for a minute, I read it
It said she was back in town, she’d be comin’ around
Now won’t you go heat us up some coffee grounds

I was into her, she was into me
And I could see we was gonna make good company
‘til I returned with two cups only to plainly see
She was gone, just another imaginary girl

 

Shooting Star
Words and Music Zach Tate

Lord knows that the stars haven’t changed
Not since we counted from the rocks over Georgian Bay
Lord knows that my dreams all remain the same
Same old girlfriends that I always want to see again

If I catch me a shooting star
We gonna meet in the field, escape in the abandoned car
If I see you down by the railroad track
We gonna hop that rusty train, we ain't never
Oh no, no, no - comin’ back

Cherry wine never tasted this good before
Not since the summer of 1984
How we blazed and we stumbled on through the door
We passed for 19 at the L.L.C.B.O.

We smoked the channel cats - let the little ones go free
We watched the storm roll in and we waited on the rain... We waited on the rain...
Yeah the sun broke through the clouds
It broke through the clouds

 

Whatever Gets You Through The Night
Words and Music Zach Tate

My sweet baby she call me a bum
She don’t like the way that I chew my gum
She used to be cute but now she ain’t no fun
Think I’ll go home and smoke me some

My sweet baby she say love stink
She don’t like the hair in the bathroom sink
She used to be cute but now she on the brink
Think I’ll go home and get me a drink

She said whoa baby
Whatever you like
I said whoa whoa whoa honey
Whatever gets you through the night

My sweet baby she tired of being poor
She always fallin’ out on the kitchen floor
Gonna take her shoppin’ make her holler for more
Everything cheap at the dollar store

She said whoa baby
Whatever you like
And I said whoa whoa whoa baby
Whatever gets you through the night

 

18 Wheels
Words and Music Zach Tate

She said the mornings are the coldest
As the coffee pot begins to roar
And it’s early November, there’s already been a snow
And the sun comin’ up brings that sad, familiar glow

18 wheels goin' round
And that rumblin' diesel engine bring a chill through the ground
It’s the lonely, lonely sound
Of 18 wheels leavin' town

Church come Sunday, Preacher bow his head
He said pray for forgiveness, she said pray for me instead
And the wind sweeps the highway into a warm and distant hum
But the road offers no comfort when those sleepless nights have come

And time just slips away
And there’s no one there to hold you in your place
But time will not break you, no the wheels they won’t take you
You just hold your arms open to the sky

Springtime bring the rain
Summertime come he just turns right around again
And she’s countin’ up the days cause they’re countin’ on the pay
Watchin' dreams drift away, watchin’ tears turn into rage

 

Winter Blues
Words and Music Zach Tate

I got a woman down by the railroad tracks
She so sweet to me I keep going back
But she kinda occupied, then again, so am I
Come the end of summertime I’m gonna say goodbye

She need cigarettes, I need tenderness
Just a little happiness, just a little love
Now I’m gonna miss her sweet summer kiss
I’m gonna reminisce all winter long
I’m gonna reminisce all winter long

Now you hear that train off in the distance
That 'ol train roll close to you
But that 'ol train don't help my resistance
That 'ol train sing the blues