• The Bruisers
• Girl Next Door
• Noe Venable
• Metal Church
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Lutricia McNeal
• AC/DC
• Guys Next Door
• Bruce Springsteen
• Gatsby's American Dream
• Psalters

Do you ever find yourself living in the past
The life that you lived it was not meant to last
Playing cut throat with an ace up your sleeve
The walls are closing in and you can't leave
Badlands you're living badlands
An empty bottle or maybe it is much more
Your day began by getting up off the floor
You said that you would change but that was yesterday
Feeling so damn weak your mind just goes astray
Badlands you're living badlands
The chances that you're taking are ore than what's given
You've got no excuses for the way that you've been living
Just what exactly my friend have you become
I want some answers not your excuses only you have none
Badlands you're living badlands

(k. green)
Tears ripping through the badlands
Tearing a hole in my heart
I want to wrap myself in your shadow
But I trip and fall on my head
Now I'm standing upside down
Now I'm staring at the sky
Safe and sound in your embrace
Your day old shoulder suffocates me
With that familiar sweet smell of your body
Possesses me like a ghost
Now I'm standing upside down
Now I'm staring at the sky
Life makes you tumble and frown
God made the feeling; so down
Life makes you tumble and cry wondering why
Now I'm standing on my head
Now I wish I could forget you
Life makes you tumble and frown
God made the feeling; so down
Life makes you tumble and cry wondering why
Tumble and frown
Tumble and frown
Tumble and...
Like a ghost with tears ripping through the badlands
Billy lincoln - guitars, drum programming, trumpet
Kat green - vocals, acoustic guitar

I was drivin
Through the badlands
A woman screaming
Cause she stuck in the radio
(my heart will go on)
He was a biker
That's what he told me
"where's your bike then?"
"well, I burried the pieces
Oily steel and bone"
I aint hip on ditchin
A stranger stranded at the lip of alone
Liquid night
There's a moon in my soup
Liquid night
They hang you up against the sky
You are a feather
I made a wish once
You are a bluebird
I am blue
I just wanna get next to you
Liquid night
There's a moon in my soup
Liquid night
They hang you up against the sky
Liquid night
I'm afraid of what I read
Liquid night
And everyone's afraid of me
Thirsty gazer
Fraidy stare
Father empty
Are you there?
Now you see me
Now you shout
The de the de the de the de the de
The devil let me out
Liquid night
There's a moon in my soup
Liquid night
They hang you up against the sky
Liquid night
I'm afraid of what I read
Liquid night
And everyone's afraid of me
(to the microtonal weeping of a violin,
She goes loping, lonely, into the dark,
Bemoaning hercursed wretched state)
It aint a houseguest
More like hotel
And I have lived there
And I have lived well
The wind gets high and the fog gets low
There are days when the dogs know
Liquid night
There's a moon in my soup
Liquid night
They hang you up against the sky
Liquid night
I'm afraid of what I read
Liquid night
And everyone's afraid of me

I ride alone, the wasteland that I cross
Will take another life, we'll take another loss
I feel the dry wind, dust is in my eyes
The arctic cold at night, the earth, it tells me lies
God in heaven, my only friend
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard
My values have been changed
I make a promise to myself
Never again
A dusty godforsaken path
Endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands
Somehow I'll find my way
No more paradise, no more soothing rain
All the sacrifice, the pain is all the same
Still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies
Will these lonely nights ever end?
Will I live to see my journey's end?
As the world awakens me so hard
My values have been changed
I make a promise to myself
Never again
A dusty godforsaken path
Endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands
Somehow I'll find my way
The vultures that circle, cloud the empty sky
Patiently waiting, they wait for me to die
Tortured and beaten, blistered by the sun
Forceful and heartless, have the badlands won?
But still I'm pushing onward, alone I can't deny
My presence fills the desert, my spirit never dies
As the world awakens me so hard
My values have been changed
I make a promise to myself
Never again
A dusty godforsaken path
Endless to my dismay
I know these are the badlands

Fresh scrubbed baby, Momma's kiss on his cheek
Steps off the greyhound with money for a week.
A wild eyed innoncent, he knows no fear
It takes more than heroes to survive down there.
In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Well if you've got the bullets...
They'll remember your name down there.
Can't drink the water, can't breathe the air
They said it was exciting, never said it was fair
You're just another singer in a pilgrim's suit
Chased by the lines till you learn to shoot
In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
If you've got those black diamonds
They'll remember your name down there.
Badlands, well there's always a faster hand in the west
Room around town for only the best
One false step and you'll be cut down
For some it's paradise, others it's hell.
In the badlands, the badlands, the badlands
Yeah, if you've got the bullet
They'll remember your name down there.
They'll remember your name down there.
They'll remember your name down there.
You're gonna need some protection.
You had better make your connections.

I'm talking about the badlands
Ain't nothing but a sadland
I don't blame it on the city
But the badlands put its mark on you
I see Johnny at the corner
As the Popsicleman
All of a sudden he's got a gun in his hand
Now Johnny's in a wheelchair
'Cause of the Popsicleman
At the wrong place at the wrong time
Now he understands
I need to find some peace of mind
I need a rest, I need to unwind
This hangin' and bangin' goin' on
This ain't no hell, this is my home
Talking about the badlands
Ain't nothing but a sadland
I don't blame it on the city
But the badlands put its mark on you
Bad Land!
You gotta know the streets muthaf-a
It can't be no one
time beef muthaf-a
Can you feel me really
I hope you rocking mic's
than you ain't slinging dope
Check the masses who major in the
gunblast on yah filthy rich ass
cause you ain't never cut class
But they did
now they're f-n' underrated
Y'all showed no love
so now their hearts are full with hatred
And ain't trying to throw no joints, or no bullsh...
Just drink liquor, smoke hydro and just pull sh...
Stay jigg without the man, stack the grand
cause the plan done work
Now we're duckin' from Uncle Sam
Blam! Take that on yah way out
Stay out. Yah days out - lights out!
Back to my hideout
You inside out makes the inside edition
A scar is my tradition
Doin' you in intermission

I am a pistol packin' man with a gun in my hand
Looking for a woman that will understand
You like to roll and I like to ride
I'll stop at nothing, never take me alive
I'm a man with a fast hand
Loving on a last stand
Outlaw, quick draw
Evil talking bandit man
In the badlands
In the badlands
I got a .45 that'll make you fry
Burn your saucy ass up like the Fourth of July
I ride it hard, I ride it high
Make love to you till you reach for the sky
I'm a man with a fast hand
Loving on a last stand
Outlaw, quick draw
Evil talking bandit man
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
Well I'm gonna set up my six pack
Ain't gonna back track
I shoot loaded
Come on girl, gonna give you a thrill
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
Not for a woman
In the badlands
Look man, there's me
In the badlands
John (?) take it with me
In the badlands, yeah

Tears ripping through the badlands
Tearing a hole in my heart
I want to wrap myself in your shadow
But I trip and fall on my head
Now I'm standing upside down
Now I'm staring at the sky
Safe and sound in your embrace
Your day old shoulder suffocates me
With that familiar sweet smell of your body
Possesses me like a ghost
Now I'm standing upside down
Now I'm staring at the sky
Life makes you tumble and frown
God made the feeling; so down
Life makes you tumble and cry wondering why
Now I'm standing on my head
Now I wish I could forget you
Life makes you tumble and frown
God made the feeling; so down
Life makes you tumble and cry wondering why
Tumble and frown
Tumble and frown
Tumble and...
Like a ghost with tears ripping through the badlands
Billy lincoln - guitars, drum programming, trumpet
Kat green - vocals, acoustic guitar

Light's out tonight
Trouble in the heartland
Got a head-on collision
Smashin' in my guts, man
I'm caught in a crossfire
I don't understand
But there's one thing I know for sure
I don't give a damn
For the same old played out scenes
I don't give a damn for just the in-betweens
Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul
I want control right now
Talk about a dream, try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
You spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Don't waste your time waiting
Badlands, you gotta live it everyday
Let the broken hearts stand
As the price you've gotta pay
Keep pushin' till it's understood
These Badlands start treating us good
Workin' in the field
Till you get your back burned
Workin' 'neath the wheels
Till you get your facts learned
Baby, I got my facts
Learned real good right now
Get it straight
Poor man wanna be rich
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied
Till he rules everything
Wanna go out tonight
Wanna find out what I got
I believe in the love that you gave me
I believe in the faith that could save me
I believe in the hope
And I pray that some day
It may raise me above these
Badlands, gotta live it everyday
Let the broken hearts stand
As the price you've gotta pay
Keep pushin' till it's understood
These Badlands start treating us good
Whoa, whoa
For the ones who had a notion
A notion deep inside
That it ain't no sin
To be glad you're alive
Wanna find one face
That ain't looking through me
Wanna find one place
I wanna spit in the face of these
Badlands, you gotta live it everyday
Let the broken hearts stand
As the price you've gotta pay
Keep pushin' till it's understood
These Badlands start treating us good
Whoa, whoa, Badlands
Whoa, whoa, Badlands
Whoa, whoa, Badlands
Whoa, whoa, Badlands

They call this the badlands, baby
But it used to be bayou
The shore of an inland sea
And I can hear you coming
What foul beast stalks this way
The night is dim
But I catch the scent of your arrogance
As you rear your head
I can see your eyes gleaming
Catching light from the moon
Like a pair of knives to cut me down
Hole in the world
And the light is leaking out
Spilling like water
And I can hear you coming
What new devilry is this
I saw you rise and creep across the sky
And all night as I fled
You came behind
Eating all the stars dig to find
Why the life left rocks and stones
Skulls and bone, whispered stories
Tales of glory
And a tragic fall from grace
And a tragic fall from grace
And a tragic fall from grace
Still we?re still falling
Just like the dinosaurs

lighting struck, Your presence woke us up,
You said, "follow into the night"
rain quit, moon lit vast plains ahead
and in this vision we know ourselves small
sun rose on the stones, many shades of light,
the wind was now our guide it led us to the height
at the edge of the cliff all idle chatter quit,
now with our lives at risk we finally exist
You gave freely, met our needs, cut our hands from
things and from our veins flowed life giving streams
onward along the ridge together, breaking bread and glad
with all we saw, we were in awe
ghost town sheriff put us behind the wall, he don't like
the look of folks in awe
phantom preacher said, "you outlaws confess",
and we said "yes, we are in awe!"
said they'd feed us to the birds, we heard the crows caw
but you can't capture wind and you can't control awe
We were in awe
(Glad with all we saw, we were in awe)
Angel made a jail break said go
and walk this land & be in awe.
You must obey God
rather than man if you're in awe.
Angel made a jail break said go & walk this land & be in
awe.