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    I have been to one many times.

    I had my cards read at a flee market once and the reader couldn't believe all the daggers and sword being thrown at me in the cards. The next week I was fired from a job I held for eight years after a few key people plotted against me...it was really weird. The night I was fired, I turned on my radio and there was Tom Petty singing "Free Fallin'" - if I wouldn't have been fired, I probably wouldn't have felt such an attachment to TPATH.

    Then another time I was in New Orleans and went the "The Bottom of the Cup" and Otis said I would meet the man of my dreams next to a fountain or a body of water --- I met him on a plane 38,000 feet above sea level.....

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    I found the lyrics. So amazing...

    http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/You_Know_The_Night.htm

    You Know The Night

    Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Rob Wasserman & Jackson Browne

    Excerpt from You Know The Night, 4/1943

    You know the night I met you

    My eyes had been

    Looking for you all over everywhere.

    Over low roads. Down highways. Bald deserts.

    But looking

    Without finding you.

    That was it.

    And the season why this was so

    was because

    I had seen so much troubled

    waters and storms on the streets.

    And this caused me

    To want to do

    Something about it.

    Something to help not only just us

    But people of all kinds come closer and

    closer

    and closer together.

    You know the night.

    Your eyes had this same shine

    about them I noticed

    and when I first looked through

    the wild wayward mist

    I felt such a warm friendly cool

    sunny smile

    That I wanted to look in your

    Eyes for all time

    I just felt like you feel when

    you feel like the angels are curling your

    hair and you feel like the devil is

    scratching your heel.

    But if my jellied brain turns to

    ashes and sand

    There will still be such night smiles

    across all the land

    There will still be

    Such faces

    Meeting here in this dark

    and there ‘round the corner or

    maybe the park.

    It is when we meet this way

    and look

    at each other

    we get hold of our scattered aims

    and

    Bring them

    and beat them

    and wrestle

    and fight them

    and heat them

    and beat them and weld them

    together

    Like iron from the valley

    and fire from the skies

    This blast furnace heat burns

    in our peoples eyes.

    And from a raw aimless hunk

    of dead matter

    our love gives it vision

    and love gives it shape

    and it's born and it works

    Like a new little baby

    It sputters

    It mutters

    It goes and it stutters

    and walks on the sidewalks

    and falls in the gutters.

    But it always and always seems

    to move and be able

    To get up. To raise up.

    up on its feet again.

    Did you feel this way too when I met you?

    Did you look at me

    and think

    Here's me a guy

    That hopes like I hope

    and sees the same kind of new

    dreams I see?

    Because you wondered, I know

    If your hopes could find shape in

    the words that we used there to work back the fog -

    Your hopes and your plans for the

    good of the people

    Could all of your hundred and one

    Dreams just as bright as the sun

    and all of your wants and your hottest

    desires

    Find shape in the flow of my talk?

    and there by ourselves while the bronze

    statues watched us

    We talked some. Kept still for

    a time. Talked a little more.

    Your hair had the smell of cleaness

    about it and the wind helped my fingers to

    play with your curls –

    and the wind and the mist caused the

    night to blow colder and we brought our hopes

    there a little bit closer –

    Hopes that we hoped

    Work that we wanted

    Jobs we were doing, aimed to do.

    Quiet idle words, of the church and

    the steeple. The union. The war.

    And the world full of people.

    And you gave my mind such a

    deep kind of light

    It blasted the fog.

    It blew up the night.

    It pulled back the curtains of

    clouds from above us

    and all of the stars came out and

    winked at us

    and I yelled up at the stars

    and said

    You stars! Go ahead! Shine as

    bright as you want to!

    Light up this round world and shine

    if you want to!

    And it was brighter than usual

    and for some reason or other

    The night

    Turned off clear. And so cold.

    It caused me to snuggle up closer

    and hold

    Hold on

    Hold on to the ground we had gained.

    Hold on to the new inch of life we discovered.

    Hold on to the night.

    We exchanged our dreams as we sat

    there a while

    word by word.

    Plan by plan.

    Mile by mile.

    You looked a bit hungry and skinny to

    me but

    I had me the notion you'd soon fatten up.

    You know how love is and you know

    how dreams are. If you don't stay in love you

    soon wilt away and you get sort of hungry

    looking they say. So I thought you'd fill out

    and look a lot better with a little work and

    the right kind of weather.

    You knew I was raily and some out of

    shape. And you knew that my eyes and my

    feet didn't mate. I was hunched and walked

    crooked – but you overlooked this because

    with the right kind of home life and care

    my old carcass and brain could be good

    for more wear.

    Your grace of walk and action drove

    me into fits. I tried to, but couldn't

    think about anything else. This world

    is an awful big machine and it moves

    all together. No force on earth can

    hold it back – and I am in all of this

    and moving with it - and I feel the

    motion and the rhythm of the universe

    moving with these planets.

    And moving the earth along with them.

    And the earth moving the people

    Along

    With it

    And the attraction of your face and

    your form

    Pulled me. Pushed me. Drew me.

    It was ten thousand times stronger than

    all of the rest of these

    Powers multiplied by ten.

    And I felt harmony and sweetness

    and felt strife

    And wanted to walk with you as my wife

    Down to the foamy docks to ride a

    good boat

    Across the troubled waters of this

    life.

    You know the night I met you.

    You know the night I met you

    My eyes had been

    Looking for you all over everywhere.

    Over low roads. Down highways. Bald deserts.

    I just felt like you feel when

    you feel like the angels are curling your

    hair and you feel like the devil is

    scratching your heel.

  13. Posted · Edited by somewheredowntheroad
    spelling - I stink at spelling     · Report reply

    Thanks for posting - love the lyrics, the steady washboard-sounding percussion, and the subtle, yet strong guitar line... and Jackson's voice has such lovely inflections in this song. He sounds so young. I would love to see the lyrics - the song is so poetic. The references to angels and devils, love, and boarding a boat over trouble waters.---the section about the angels curling your hair and the devil is scratching your heel is soooo perfect.

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    Other tips - fill car with gas, have some just in case cash, remember batteries, and fill ground floor tub with water just in case you need it for flushing the toilet.

    Make sure you know the best radio stations to turn to. Also your local police stations and fire stations usually know where FEMA might be giving out water and ice.

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    Stay safe everybody on the East Coast make sure to stock up on ice and water if you can just in case the power goes out. Ice was the hardest thing to find after our hurricane a few years ago. If you have a day or two, you might want to fill empty plastic two litter bottles with water and load up empty spaces in the freezer - it will keep things cold if the power goes out for more than 48 hours. Hoping all of you stay safe.

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