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Houses On The Hill
Ryan Adams

Well I found a bunch of letters
That were written for the fella who broke your momma's heart
And the envelope folds, smelled of her ancient perfume
I'll bet she didn't know
How to respond before the blankets of snow
Caught him out wandering alone
With no place to go

There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
And there bottles of pills that were easy to buy
To keep her warm from the oncoming storm

Well I found them in the northwest corner of the attic in a box
Labeled tinsel and lights
Didn't know what I was I looking for
Maybe just a blanket or artifacts
Eisenhower sent him to war
He kept her picture in his pocket that was closest to his heart
And when he hit shore
Must have been a target for the gunman

There were stars in the sky
There were bunkers on the hill and there were caskets to fill
Where he will lie
Shrouded in the red white and blue with the stripes

There were stars in the sky
There were houses on the hill
And there were bottles of pills that were easy to buy
To keep her warm from the oncoming storm


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  "City Rain, City Streets"   "Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains)"   "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)"   16 Days   16 days tab   1974   29   29   A Kiss Before I Go   A Song For You   Afraid Not Scared   Ah Life   Ah, Life   All You Had To Do Was Stay   Always on My Mind (Brenda Lee cover)   Am I Safe   Amy   Answering Bell   Anybody Wanna Take Me Home   Anybody Want To Take Me Home   Argument with david rawlings about morrissey   Ariel   Ashes & Fire   Ashes & Fire   Avalanche   Avenues   Bad Blood   Bad Blood (Cover)   Ballad Of Carol Lynn   Bar Lights   Bartering Lines   Beautiful Sorta   Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart   Black Sheets Of Rain   Blank Space   Blank Space (Cover)   Blossom   Blue   Blue and Shy   Blue Hotel   Blue Sky Blues   Born Into A Light   Boys   Burn In the Night   Burning Photograhs   Burning Photographs   By Force   California   Call me on your way back home   Cannonball Days   Captain Smith   Carolina Rain   Caterwaul   Chains Of Love   Change Your Mind   Cherry Lane   Chin Up, Cheer Up   City Rain, City Streets   Clean   Closer When She Goes   Cobwebs   Cold Roses   Come Home   Come Pick Me Up   Come Pick Me Up (Alternate Take)   Crazy About You   Crossed Out Name   Crossing Foggy Mountains   Cry on Demand   Damn Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)   Damn, sam   Dance All Night   Dancing With The Women At The Bar   Darkness   Dead Flowers   Dear Chicago   Dear John   Dear John [Live Studio Recording]   Death And Rats   Defenders of the Galaxy   Desire   Desperate Ain't Lonely   Dirty Rain   Disappyramid   Do I Wait   Do Miss America   Do You Laugh When You Lie   Do You Still Love Me?   Don't ask for the water   Don't Even Know Her Name   Don't Fail Me Know   Don't Fail Me Now   Don't Ask For The Water   Don't Be Sad   Don't Even Know Her Name   Don't Fail Me Now   Don't Wanna Know Why   Drank Like A River   Dunno   dunno (Petal in the Rain?) (My Sweet Valentine?)   Easy Hearts   Easy Plateau   Electro Snake   Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part   Empty Baseball Park   Enemy Fire   English Girls Approximately   English Girls Can Be So Mean   Evergreen   Everybody Knows   Everything I Do   Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight   Factory Girl   Faithless Street   Father's Son   Feels Like Fire   Fire and Ice   Fire Away   Firecracker   Five Month Along Blues   Fix It   Follow The Lights   For Beth   Friends   From Me To You   Fuck The Universe   Funeral Marching   Games   Ghorgon, Master of War   Gimme A Sign   Gimme Something Good   Gimme Sunshine   Gimmie a Sign   Gimmie Something Good   Give Me Sunshine   Go Easy   Gonna Make You Love Me   Goodnight Rose   Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.   Hallelujah   Halloween   Halloween Head   Hard Luck Story   Hard Time Situation   Hard Way To Fall   Harder Now That It's Over   Harder Now That It's Over   Here's To The Rest Of The World   Hey Parker, It's Christmas   Hotel Chelsea Nights   How Do You Keep Love Alive   How Do You Keep Love Alive?   How Do You Keep Love Alive?   How Much Light   How You Get The Girl   Hypnotixed   I Do Not Feel Like Being Good   I Just Might   I Keep Running   I Know Places   I Lost My Fucking Mind   I Love You But I Don't Know What To Say   I Love You But I Don't Know What To Say   I Love You But I Dont Know What To Say   I See Monsters   I Taught Myself How To Grow Old   I Want To Go Home   I Wish You Would   I'm Coming Over   I’m In Love With You   Icebreaker   If He Can't Have You   If I Am A Stranger   If I Am A Stranger   If I Am a Stranger [Live Studio Recording]   If I Am a Stranger [Live Studio Recording][*]   If I'm A Stranger   Imminent Galactic War   In my time of need   In the Dark   Inn Town   Invisible Riverside   It's in My Head   It's In My Head   It's In My Head   Jacksonville   Jacksonville Skyline   Jeane   Jeane [*]   Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby)   Jesus (Don't Touch My Baby)   Just Like a Whore   Katherine   Kim   Kindness   La Cienega Just Smiled   Let Go   Let It Ride   Let Us Down Easy   Life Is Beautiful   Like Yesterday   Look In the Mirror   Losering   Love Is Hell   Lucky Now   Luminol   Luxury   Macon, Georgia County Line   Magick   Magnolia Mountain   Matrimony   Meadowlake Street   Midway Park   Mining Town   Mirror, Mirror   Mockingbird   Mockingbirdsing   Mockingbirdsong   Monday Night   My Blue Manhattan   My Favorite Song   My Heart Is Broken   My Hometown   My Love For You Is Real   My winding wheel   My Wrecking Ball   Natural Ghost   Nervous Breakdown   New York, New York   New York, New York (Live)   Night Birds   Nightbirds   No Shadow   Nobody Girl   Nobody Listens to Silence   Not Home Anymore   Not To Self: Don't Die   Note To Self Don't Die   Note to Self: Don't Die   Now That You're Gone   Now That You're Gone   Nuclear   Numbers   Off Broadway   Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.   Oh my sweet carolina   Oklahoma   One By One   Operator, Operator   Out Of The Woods   P.S.   Pa   Paper Moon   Pawn Shop Ain't No Place For A Wedding Ring   Peaceful Valley   Pearls On A String   Petals In A Rainstorm   Please Do Not Let Me Go   Please Don't Let Me Go   Political Scientist   Rats In the Wall   Reasons To Lie   Red Lights   Revenge   Rip Off   Rock 'n' Roll   Rock N Roll   Rocks   Rosalie Come & Go   Rosalie Come & Go   Rosalie Come And Go   Rosalie Come and Go [*]   Rosebud   Sadness   Save Me   Secret Powers   September   Sewers at the Bottom of the Wishing Well   Shadowlands   Shadows   Shake It Off   Shakedown On 9th St   Shakedown on 9th street   Shallow   She Wants to Play Heart   She Wants To Play Hearts   She's Lost Total Control   She's Lost Total Control   Signal Fade   Silver Bullets   Silver Wings   Sink Ships   Sit & Listen To The Rain   So Alive   So Hot, So Cold   Somebody Remembers The Rose   Somehow, Someday   Song For Keith   Starlite Diner   Starting To Heart   Starting To Hurt   Stay With Me   Stoned Alone   Stop   Strawberry Wine   Style   Suspicion   Sweet Black Magic   Sweet Illusions   Sweet lil gal   Sweet Lil Gal (23rd\/1st)   Sweet Lil' Gal (23rd and 1st)   Sylvia Plath   Take Your Guns To Town   Tears Of Gold   Tell Me How You Want Me   Tennesse Sucks   Tennessee Square   Tennessee Sucks   Thank You Louise   The Bar Is A Beautiful Place   The Drugs Not Working   The End   The Fools We Are As Men   The Harder They Come   The Hardest Part   The mirrors in the room go black and blue   The Rescue Blues   The Sadness   The Sun Also Sets   These Girls   This House Is Not For Sale   This Is It   This Is Where We Meet In My Mind   This Love   Til I Found You   Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blues   Tired Of Giving Up   To be the one   To Be Young   To Be Young (Is To Be Sad Is To Be High)   To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)   To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) (Live)   Tomorrow   Tonight   Touch, Feel & Lose   Touch, Feel & Lose   Touch, Feel and Lose   Trains   Trouble   Turn Around   Twice As Bad As Love   Two   Two Hearts   Typecast   Victims of the Ice Brigade   Voices   Walkedypants   Waves Crashing   Welcome To New York   What If You Were Wrong   What Sin   When That Wild Wind Blows   When The Rope Gets Tight   When The Stars Go Blue   When the Stars Go Blue [Album Version]   When the Summer Ends   When Will You Come Back Home?   When Will You Come Back Home?   Why Did They Leave You Alone   Why do they leave?   Wild Flowers   Wildest Dreams   Willow Lane   Wish You Were Here   Withering Heights   Wonderwall   Wonderwall [Album Version]   Words   World War 24   You Will Always Be the Same

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