William Topley "The Ring" Chautauqua, Boulder 7-11-09

[somewhereone]

You’ve seen my love

You’ve seen my child

You’ve seen my fifty dollar make believe

You’ve seen my car

You’ve seen my place

You can see that I’ve been truly blessed

[somewhereone]

Well, you’ve seen me tame And you’ve seen me wild And you’ve seen me here As I wait for trial And you’ve seen my car And you’ve seen my place And you’ve seen the face for whom I sing the blues tonight One day they’ll comfort you now baby There ain’t an awful lot that you can do now darling The next day they’ll come for me and you baby I told you so. I told you so

[somewhereone]

Still the ring will shine through the dead of night I said I rub my eyes ‘cause I can’t sleep tonight And the cold outside is going to warm my vein And the way I feel I can’t take more pain Well, you’ve seen my love And you’ve seen my child And you’ve seen my hundred dollar make believe And you’ve seen my car And you’ve seen my place You’ve seen the face for whom I made my blue disgrace

[somewhereone]

They said the rubies shone From her bleeding nose I said the crowd was cold and couldn’t care much more How can a love so bad turn to so much gain And I won’t feel free until I taste morphine There will be a way I’ll sign There will be a way I’ll crawl Across Bluebeard’s fire ‘cause I can’t take much more baby And the cold outside should be my best friend Makes me think of you and say let’s make pretend

[somewhereone]

You know the ring will shine through the dead of night

We all want true love and not deceit and lies

And they can call my name over hill and vale

They can take me down and stick me in the jail baby

But still the ring will whirl through the pouring rain

And they can’t kill love with a cold blade

And the way to go is the way I run

And it’s two feet first I hear the starting gun

[somewhereone]

You want to cal my name in the black night

But it won’t be long before we fuss and fight

And I’ve been there once and I’ve been there twice

And I ain’t been no place three times in my sweet short life

[TOPPSSELLER]

criminally underrated

[2Mlve962]

Topley is amazing - find his CD's on his website or try Amazon. This tune is from Black River - not one bad song and they all get under your skin, just like all of his music. Mark of a brilliant songwriter - which he is. Anyone got news of up-coming performances in Colorado 2010?

[axslinger1980]

cant find this album anywhere,Awsome song!!!

[adriancook01]

hey can u make this same video without it being live?

[tj71107]

Awsome...I hope to one day see William in person!  I always have one of his songs whirling around in my head!!

[cmengwer]

Awesome acoustic version of "The Ring". Been to alot of his shows and never heard this version until this show-it was great!