Harper, Ben Filmography

• Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)
• Change Begins Within (2012)
• Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story (2011)
• White Wash (2011)
• Skin Thin (2010)
• Ray Charles America (2010)
• In the Attic with Pete Townshend & Friends (2009)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2009)
• The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2009)
• Change Begins Within (2009)
• Jesse's Story (2009)
• Kokua 2008: 5 Years of Change (2009)
• Larger Than Life in 3D (2009)
• Austin City Limits Music Festival (2009)
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2008)
• TV Guide Live at the Emmy Awards (2008)
• Kokua Festival 2006 (2007)
• Inland Empire (2006)
• All We Are Saying (2005)
• Influences (2005)
• The Three of Us (2003)
• Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2003)
• Pearl Jam: Live at the Garden (2003)
• One Shot (2003)
• Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (2003)
• 270 Miles from Graceland: Live from Bonnaroo 2003 (2003)
• Ben Harper: Pleasure and Pain (2002)
• Becoming Sam (2002)
• Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
• Last Party 2000 (2001)
• One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute (1999)

• Waiting On A Sign - Ben Harper
• Waiting For You - Ben Harper
• Touch From Your Lust - Ben Harper
• The Woman In You - Ben Harper
• The Will To Live - Ben Harper
• The Way You Found Me - Ben Harper
• Show Me A Little Shame - Ben Harper
• Shimmer & Shine - Ben Harper
• Say You Will - Ben Harper
• Satisfied Mind - Ben Harper
• Roses From My Friends - Ben Harper
• Remember (Jimi Hendrix) - Ben Harper
• Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn - Ben Harper
• Please Bleed - Ben Harper
• Like A King - Ben Harper
• Faded / Whole Lotta Love - Ben Harper
• Burn One Down - Ben Harper
• Needed You Tonight - Ben Harper
• Heart Of Matters - Ben Harper
• Morning Yearning - Ben Harper
• Happy Everafter In Your Eyes - Ben Harper
• Get It Like You Like It - Ben Harper
• Black Rain - Ben Harper
• Better Way - Ben Harper
• She's Only Happy In The Sun - Ben Harper
• Woman In You - Ben Harper
• Beloved One - Ben Harper
• I Shall Not Walk Alone - Ben Harper
• Homeless Child - Ben Harper
• Faded - Ben Harper
• People Lead - Ben Harper
• Serve Your Soul - Ben Harper
• Please Me Like You Want To - Ben Harper
• Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating - Ben Harper
• Less - Ben Harper
• Fight Outta You - Ben Harper
• Feel Love - Ben Harper
• God Fearing Man - Ben Harper
• Glory & Consequence - Ben Harper
• Forgiven - Ben Harper
• Forever - Ben Harper
• Blessed To Be A Witness - Ben Harper
• Ashes - Ben Harper
• You Can't Blame The Youth (Peter Tosh) - Ben Harper
• You Can't Blame The Youth - Ben Harper
• Waiting On An Angel - Ben Harper
• Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix) - Ben Harper
• Voodoo Chile - Ben Harper
• Two Hands - Ben Harper
• To Be A Witness - Ben Harper
• The Three Of Us - Ben Harper
• Superstition (Stevie Wonder) - Ben Harper
• Superstition - Ben Harper
• Remember - Ben Harper
• Quarter Of A Man - Ben Harper
• Pay The Man - Ben Harper
• Number Three - Ben Harper
• Mother Pray - Ben Harper
• Mama's Trippin' - Ben Harper
• Like A King / I'll Rise - Ben Harper
• Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart) - Ben Harper
• JESUS ON THE MAINLINE - Ben Harper
• I'll Rise - Ben Harper
• How Many Miles Must We March - Ben Harper
• Ground On Down - Ben Harper
• Going To See The King - Ben Harper
• Glory And Consequence - Ben Harper
• Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley) - Ben Harper
• Get Up, Stand Up - Ben Harper
• Gather 'Round The Stone - Ben Harper
• Fight For Your Mind - Ben Harper
• Faithfully Remain - Ben Harper
• Cryin' Won't Help You Now - Ben Harper
• Angel From Montgomery - Ben Harper
• Amen Omen - Ben Harper
• (The Beatles) Strawberry Fields Forever - Ben Harper
• Out Of My League (I Love Her) - Ben Harper
• Pleasure And Pain - Ben Harper
• Widow Of A Living Man - Ben Harper
• Where Could I Go - Ben Harper
• When She Believes - Ben Harper
• When It's Good - Ben Harper
• Waymore's Blues - Ben Harper
• Walk Away - Ben Harper
• Up To You Now - Ben Harper
• Two Hands Of A Prayer - Ben Harper
• There Will Be A Light - Ben Harper
• The Word Suicide - Ben Harper
• The Wil To Live - Ben Harper
• Steal My Kisses - Ben Harper
• Spilling Faith - Ben Harper
• Skin Thin - Ben Harper
• Sexual Healing - Ben Harper
• Rock N' Roll Is Free - Ben Harper
• Reason To Mourn - Ben Harper
• Put It On Me - Ben Harper
• Power Of The Gospel - Ben Harper
• Picture In A Frame - Ben Harper
• Oppression - Ben Harper
• One Road To Freedom - Ben Harper
• More Than Sorry - Ben Harper
• LIFELINE - Ben Harper
• Jah Work - Ben Harper
• In The Lord's Arms - Ben Harper
• I Will Not Be Broken - Ben Harper
• I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Ben Harper
• Having Wings - Ben Harper
• Everything - Ben Harper
• Don't Give Up On Me Now - Ben Harper
• Do It For You Do It For Us - Ben Harper
• Dirty Little Lover - Ben Harper
• Clearly Severely - Ben Harper
• By My Side - Ben Harper
• Burn To Shine - Ben Harper
• Brown Eyed Blues - Ben Harper
• Both Sides Of The Gun - Ben Harper
• Another Lonely Day - Ben Harper
• Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Ben Harper
• (i Believe I'll) Dust My Broom - Ben Harper
• So High, So Low - Ben Harper
• Church House Steps - Ben Harper
• Younger Than Today - Ben Harper
• With My Own Two Hands - Ben Harper
• Wicked Man - Ben Harper
• Why Must You Always Dress In Black - Ben Harper
• Whipping Boy - Ben Harper
• Well, Well, Well - Ben Harper
• Welcome To The Cruel World - Ben Harper
• The Drugs Don't Work - Ben Harper
• Temporary Remedy - Ben Harper
• Take My Hand - Ben Harper
• Suzie Blue - Ben Harper
• Strawberry Fields Forever - Ben Harper
• Spanish Red Wine - Ben Harper
• Picture Of Jesus - Ben Harper
• Number With No Name - Ben Harper
• Not Fire Not Ice - Ben Harper
• Never Leave Lonely Alone - Ben Harper
• Mama's Got A Girlfriend Now - Ben Harper
• Mama's Got A Girlfriend - Ben Harper
• Lay There & Hate Me - Ben Harper
• In The Colors - Ben Harper
• I Want To Be Ready - Ben Harper
• Gold To Me - Ben Harper
• Give A Man A Home - Ben Harper
• Fool For A Lonesome Train - Ben Harper
• Fly One Time - Ben Harper
• Excuse Me Mr. - Ben Harper
• Engraved Invitation - Ben Harper
• Don't Take That Attitude To Your Grave - Ben Harper
• Diamonds On The Inside - Ben Harper
• Church On Time - Ben Harper
• Bring The Funk - Ben Harper
• Breakin Down' - Ben Harper
• Boots Like These - Ben Harper
• Alone - Ben Harper

I didn't come here
Trying to find forgiveness
I didn't come here
Looking for a fix
I didn't come here
In hopes of seeing
How the unforsaken get their kicks
It's like a cry for help nobody hears
Close as you can get
But I'm still nowhere near
Now I'm just down here
Waiting on a sign
I'm running out of time
I'm here waiting on a sign
A mother is only happy as her saddest child
To learn to live without can take awhile
And it's a long way back to anywhere
And it's not too late but it's getting there
Like a cry for help that nobody hears
Close as you can get
But I'm still nowhere near
I'm just here waiting on your sign
I'm running out of time
So you blow a veil of smoke
To protect yourself from the joke
Look around this room and say,
"Man, I don't belong here."
There's so many sides to to the truth
But only one side to a fact
What will we do with what we can't take back?
Like a cry, like a cry for help
That nobody hears
Close as you can get but I'm still

I' ve been waiting for you
I' ve been waiting for you
Never found enything else to do
But waiting for you
I' ve been calling your name
I' ve been calling your name
Never found anything else to say
Nothing to say
You can kill a lot of time if you really want put your mind do it
Leave it all behind if you never wanna go through it
I keep hearing your name
I keep hearing your name
Nothing else sounds the same
As hearing your name
You can kill a lot of time if you really put your mind to it
Or leave it all behind and never ever go through it
I' ve been hoping for you
Keep hoping for you
What else can I do
But keep hoping for you?
You can kill a lot of time if you really put your mind to it
Or leave it all behind and never ever go through it
We can kill a lot and never really have to go through it
What else can I do

I need to sleep but I'm too tired
I need to come down but I'm too wired
When the sun comes up I miss the moon
Cause I know tomorrow is gonna come too soon
Is gonna come too soon
She only wants to be wanted
But time crumbles blue roses to dust
Now I long to feel the touch from your lust
Scars on your back tell where you've been
But I'll roll like the ocean if you'll blow like the wind
Sweet Texas angel what have your blue eyes seen
I'll be your country gentleman
If you will be my Mason-Dixon Queen
Queen
She only wants to be wanted
But time crumbles blue roses to dust
Now I long to feel the touch from your lust
So much sweeter than all the rest
You're what lies between pain and death
Sinners and saints call you by name
If you're gonna take the praise
You're gonna have to learn to take the blame
She only wants to be wanted
But time crumbles blue roses to dust
Now I long to feel the touch from your
She only wants to be wanted
Time crumbles blue roses to dust

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning
Showing some kind of sign that you believe
Did it fall from your tongue without warning
Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve
Did I hear you say that you believe in angels?
I guess I bring the devil out in you
But we can both remove our halos
'Cause even an angel needs love too
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
Some things never change
Some things never stay the same
But you're so innocent
I'll take all the blame
How I hate to remember
For that means the day is past
Sometimes I wonder if I know her
Or if I really need to ask
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
Woman
Half-man walks with no shadow
Of life he utters his distaste
No apology is expected
Love carved sorry in his face
Love carved sorry in his face
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me

I met a girl whose heart
was on the right hand side
and upon the left
an angel did reside
they told her mother
that she never would survive
but she kept the rhythm
and is still alive
We must all have
the will to live
you got to have
the will to live
Then I met a man
who had to walk with his hands
born into a world
he couldn't stand
blessed with life
but cursed as a man
still he walks taller
than most of us can
We must all have
the will to live
you got to have
the will to live
Some are born with more
and some born with less
so don't take for granted
the life we've been blessed
it's hard to understand
that we're only a guest
and each one of us
shall be put to life's test
We must all have
the will to live
you got to have

The more i smoke, the more i drink
The more i talk, the less i think
The less i think, the more i feel
Folks don't change
They just reveal
My mind is broke, my last nerve is shot
What you want from me, i ain't got
Two plus two will never be twenty-two
So please don't tell me twice what i need to do
There's no rules to lust
Only passion, and it can be so unjust
If we don't speak, we'll get along just fine
Don't ask me how i'm doing
'cause i don't feel like lying
Take me as i am

You, you've been looking at me just a little too long, now I can never look the same
Blindness and kindness, there's no difference in the two when I can no longer see the good in you
So won't you show me a little shame
Won't you show me a little shame
Now 'cause I'm, I'm a gentleman, lookin' for a gentlewomen, so-called ladies keep breakin my heart
Show me a house, show me a home, show me how it could all fall apart
So won't you show me a little shame
Won't you show me a little shame
Won't you show me a little shame
'Cause now I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through crying and I'm sadder then before I wept
I get through thinking and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speaking and I can't remember not a word that I said
You change your mind so many times, I wonder if you have a mind at all
And I'd rather be by myself than to have your lonesome company come to call
So won't you show me a little shame
Won't you show me a little shame

It takes a hundred miles of love
To heal a mile of pain
I never say goodbye to the sea
I never blow out a flame
And I've got white lies for dark times
And I don't need your crutch
I'm kicking out the stained glass windows
And I'm tender to the touch
Shimmer and shine
We leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell me that you're mine
Shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine
Bring me the music for the revolution
It puts my mind at ease to know
We're the problem, we're the solution
The cure and the disease
But life is trying to force me, force me to trust
I've done all I can... I'll do what I must
Shimmer and shine
We leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell me that you're mine
We shimmer and shine

Baby, say it's all right if it takes all night
We won't have to be alone if you say you will
If you say you will, if you say you will
Like Marie Antoinette said to Louis XVI, "Man, I think we're going down. Our chances are slim
and none, and I'm afraid slim just left town."
Say you will, darling, won't you say you will?
Won't you say you will? Darling, won't you say that you will?
Now you've had me hanging all on your line
But I know all too well, love ain't nothing but a worried mind
Say you will, darling, won't you say you will?
Won't you say you will? Darling, won't you say that you will?
I love you like a candle loves a flame
Like a crying man that has no shame
When you hit me, I feel no pain
Like the last days that remain, say you will
Darling, won't you say that you will?

How many times have you heard someone say
"If I had his money, I could do things my way"
But little they know that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind
Money can't buy back your youth when you're old
Or a friend when you're lonesome or a love that's grown cold
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind
When my life has ended, my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones, I'll leave there's no doubt
But one thing's for certain when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
How many times have you heard someone say
"If I had his money, I could do things my way"
But little they know that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

I could have treated you better
But you couldn't have treated me worse
But it's he who laughs last
Is he who cries first
Sometimes I feel I know strangers
Better than I know my friends
Why must a beginning
Be the means to an end
The stones from my ennemies
These wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
The roses from my friends
When the last word has been spoken
(And) we've beared witness to the final setting sun
All that shall remains is a token
Of what we've said and done
When all we've had has been forsaken
Distant church bells no longer ring
That's the sound of a heart taken
And the story of tears from a king
The stones from my ennemies
These wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
The roses from my friends
This may be the last time I see you
Forgive me for holding you close
This may be the last time I see you
So of this moment I will make the most
This may be the last time I see you
But if you keep me in your heart
Together we shall be eternal
If you believe we shall never part
The stones from my ennemies
These wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
The stones from my ennemies
These wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
I cannot survive
Oh- I cannot survive

wont you remember the mocking bird my favorite bard
he used to sing for dinner
he used to sing bout supper alone
he used to sing so sweetly
but since my baby left me
he aint sung in two whole days
oh remember the bluebirds and the honey bees
they used to sing for you and me
they used to sing about you and me
they used to sing so sweetly
but since my baby left me
they aint sung in two whole days
wont you please come home
come on home to me
make your daddy as happy as can be
and if you would please come on home to me
i woul dkiss you for your dinner baby
Id kiss you for supper alone
if you dont come on back
you know I'll have to starve to death
cuz I aint have your lovin all day
oh remember
would you remember
the blue birds and the honey bees
singin sweetly for you and me
oh the mockin bird my favorite bard
oh wont you come home with me

Silence is the hammer of betrayal;
Upon love's coffin for the final nail.
Disguised as one another for so long now.
I try to be myself but I forget how.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
My last line of defense is gone.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Homeless family stands outside the church house
Trying so hard to believe.
Desperately waiting for an answer to the candle they lit
To end their grief.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
The conspiracy of whispers are not wrong.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Traded a ghost for my pain.
Traded an echo for the sound of my name.
And if our love was just a burning flame,
Then we could melt away all of our blame.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
We've knocked our bones together for so long.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Pray that our love sees the dawn.
Our last line of defense is gone.

Make me feel like a beggar
Make me feel like a thief
Make me feel like a battle
That cannot end in peace
Make me feel like runnin'
As if I've lost my nerve
Make me feel like cryin'
Tears I don't deserve
Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Woa, who'd have I become?
To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb
Is this really living?
Sometimes it's hard to tell
Or is this just a kind of gentler hell?
Turn out the lights
And let me stare into your soul
I was born and bled for you to hold
Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Woa, who'd have I become?
To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb
Never said thank you
Never said please
Never gave reason to believe
So as it stands
I remain on my knees
Good lovers make great enemies
Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Woa, who have I become?
To myself I am numb, I am numb, I am numb
Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Woa, Who have I become?

Well Martin's dream
Has become Rodney's worst
Nightmare
Can't walk the streets
To them we are fair game
Our lives don't mean a thing
Like a king, like a king, like a king
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
Like a king, like a king, like a king
How I wish you could help us Dr. King
Make sure it's filmed
Shown on national T.V.
They'll have no mercy
A legal lynch mob
Like the days strung up from the tree
The L.A.P.D.
Like a king, like a king, like a king
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
Like a king, like a king, like a king
How I wish you could help us Dr. King
So if you catch yourself
Thinking it has changed for the best
You better second guess
Cause Martin's dream
Has become Rodney's worst
Nightmare
Like a king, like a king, like a king
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
Like a king, like a king, like a king

You so easily amuse
Like a pantomime
Such a silent crime
You so easily abuse
Lack of confindence
It's your best offense
You so easily confuse
You can't deny it
Still you try to hide it
Faded
So faded
Like a memory gone
There's no recollection
Faded
So faded
Like a forgotten dream
Further than it seems
You so hastily defy
When you think you need it
You find a way to bleed it
You so hastily deny
Pleading innocence
It's your best defense
You so hastily reply
The moment (that) you said it
Already regret it
Faded
So faded
Like a memory gone
There's no recollection
Faded
So faded
Like a forgotten dream
Further than it seems
You so easily amuse
You so easily abuse
Faded
So faded
Like a memory gone
There's no recollection
Faded
So faded
Like a forgotten dream
Further than it seems
Faded
So faded
Like a memory gone

Let us burn one from end to end
And pass it over to me my friend
Burn it long we'll burn it slow
To light me up before I go
If you don't like my fire
Then don't come around
'Cause I'm gonna burn one down
Yes I'm gonna burn one down
My choice is what I choose to do
And if I'm causing no harm
It shouldn't bother you
Your choice is who you choose to be
And if you're causing no harm
Then you're alright with me
If you don't like my fire
Then don't come around
'Cause I'm gonna burn one down
Yes I'm gonna burn one down
Herb the gift from the earth
And what's from the earth
Is of the greatest worth
So before you knock it try it first
Oh, you'll see it's a blessing
And its not a curse
If you don't like my fire
Then don't come around
'Cause I'm gonna burn one down
Yes I'm gonna burn one, oh

My every breath is a prayer for you
You know I'm waiting there for you
I'd rather learn to live with you and suffer
Than to see you in the arms of another
But now my heart aches a little
Now my heart breaks a little
I lie awake in the middle of a cold, empty room with one light
I needed you tonight
I am not your tool or your born-again fool
I'm not in the mood to serenade sorrow
There was a time that I could get by but this was once upon a lie
My heart aches a little
My heart breaks a little
I lie awake in the middle of a pain with no end in sight
I needed you tonight
Violin is my instrument of choice
It recognizes the pain in my voice
You're the 'Are' in 'Are we gonna make it?'
You put the 't' in 'I just can't take it.'
My heart aches a little
My heart breaks a little

I've heard all of your parting lines
Can only say goodbye so many times
Before you know you have nothing to show for your pain
Sorry is a word you just can't seem to find
Does it ever enter your mind?
I am in doubt that you are about to change
Now if your heart, your heart isn't in it
If your heart, your heart isn't it it
If you have nothing left to give, won't you go on and let me live again?
You can't just say 'I love you'
You have to live 'I love you'
I will forgive every time but the last
If your heart, your heart isn't in it
If your heart, your heart isn't it it
If you have nothing left to give, won't you just go on and let me live?
I wish I could find a way to sing the life back into you and I

A finger's touch upon my lips
It's a morning yearning, it's a morning yearning
Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark
But the sun is burning, the sun is burning
The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning, soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning, morning yearning
Morning yearning
Another day, another chance to get it right
Must I still be learning? Must I still be learning?
Baby crying kept us up all night
With her morning yearning, with her morning yearning
Morning yearning
Like a summer rose, I'm a victim of the fall
But I'm soon returning, soon returning
Your love's the warmest place the sun ever shines
My morning yearning, my morning yearning

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes
Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy everafter in your eyes
Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon
All that i can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happyever after in your eyes

Throw your hands up to the sky
And scream out loud i'm free
'cause wrong is the new right
So we can cut loose tonight
It costs a lot to look this cheap
Fire makes it burn and water makes it turn
We must still be here living on earth
They keep telling me jesus walked on water
He shoulda surfed
In 1918 the great bambino
Kicked a piano into willis pond
But johnny damon swung a bat
Grand slam that was that
An 86 year curse is gone
Throw your hands up to the sky
And scream i'm not alone
Is it irony or fate
Don't become what you hate

You left them swimming for their lives
Down in new orleans
Can't afford a gallon of gasoline
With your useless degrees and contrary statistics
This government business is straight up sadistic
Now you don't fight for us
But expect us to die for you
You have no sympathy for us
But still i cry for you
Now you may kill the revolutionary
But the revolution you can never bury
Don't speak to us like we work for you
Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to
I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand
This generation is beyond your command
And it won't be long
'til the people flood the streets
To take you down
One and all

I'm a living sunset
Lightning in my bones
Push me to the edge
But my will is stone
Fools will be fools
And wise will be wise
But i will look this world
Straight in the eyes
What good is a man
Who won't take a stand
What good is a cynic
With no better plan
Reality is sharp
It cuts at me like a knife
Everyone i know
Is in the fight of their life
Take your face out of your hands
And clear your eyes
You have a right to your dreams
And don't be denied

I know you may not want to see me
On your way down from the clouds
Would you hear me if I told you
That my heart is with you now
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
Did you find what you were after?
The pain and the laughter brought you to your knees
But if the sun sets you free, sets you free
You'll be free indeed, Indeed
She's only happy in the sun
She's only happy in the sun
Every time I hear you laughing, I hear you laughing
It makes me cry
Like the story of life, of your life
Is hello, goodbye
Shes only happy in the sun

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning
Showing some kind of sign that you believe
Did it fall from your tongue without warning
Or just another,
Just another trick to fall from your sleeve
Did I hear you say that you believe in angels
I guess I bring the devil out in you
But we can both remove our halos
'cause even an angel needs love too
Even angels needs love too
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
Some things never.., change
Some things never stay the same
But you're so
You're so innocent
I'll take all the blame
How I hate to remember
For that means the day..., is past
Sometimes I wonder if I know her
Or if I really need to ask
Or if I really need to ask
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman...
Oh half-man
Oh half-man
Half-man walks with no shadow
Of life the other his distaste
No apology is expected
Love carved sorry in his face
Love carved sorry in his face
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you is the worry, the worry in me
The woman in you, in you, is the worry in me
In me
In me
In me
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman...

We have both been here before
Knockin' upon love's door
Begging for someone to let us in
Knowing this we can agree to keep each other company
Never to go down that road again
My beloved one
My beloved one
Your eyes shine through me
You are so divine to me
Your heart has a home in mine
We won't have to say a word
With a touch all shall be heard
When I search my hearth it's you I find
My beloved one
My beloved one
My beloved one
You were meant for me
I believe you were sent to me
From a dream straight into my arms
Hold your body and close to me
You mean most to me
We will keep each other safe from harm
My beloved one
My beloved one
My beloved one

Battered and torn
still I can see the light
tattered and worn
but I must kneel to fight
Friend of mine
what can't you spare
I know some times
it gets cold in there
When my legs no longer carry
and the warm wind chills my bones
I reach for Mother Mary
and I shall not walk alone
Hope is alive
while we're apart
only tears
speak from my heart
break the chains
that hold us down
and we shall be
forever bound
When I'm tired and weary
and a long way from home
I reach for Mother Mary
and I shall not walk alone
Beauty that
we left behind
how shall we
tomorrow find
Set aside
our weight in sin
so that we
can live again
When my legs no longer carry
and the warm wind chills my bones
I reach for Mother Mary

Nowhere here
to call my home
no one near
to call my own
all that's left
is for me to roam
somebody please
help me hang on
Homeless child
homeless child
what is left
for the homeless child
There is no night
and there is no day
it is all
one shade of gray
some will pass
and some will stay
is this the end
or just one more day
Homeless child
homeless child
what is left
for the homeless child
Sure not much
but it's my best
I just need
some place to rest
if you could just
let me be your guest
I won't burden you
for very long
Homeless child
homeless child
what is left

You so easily amuse
like a pantomime
such a silent crime
You so easily abuse
lack of confidence
it's your best offense
You so easily confuse
you can't deny it
still you try to hide it
Faded
so faded
like a memory gone
there's no recollection
Faded
so faded
like a forgotten dream
further than it seems
You so hastily defy
when you think you need it
you find a way to bleed it
You so hastily deny
pleading innocence
it's your best defense
You so hastily reply
the moment that you said it
already regret it
Faded
so faded
like a memory gone
there's no recollection
Faded
so faded
like a forgotten dream

When the people lead
the leaders they will have to follow
and all their lies and their alibies
they will have to swallow
and it's you that has the authority
for the one who is right
is the majority
when the people lead
people take the lead
children you've got to take your lead
or you shall be led astray
so as long as someone else
controls your history
the truth shall remain just a mystery
for you can lead a horse to the water
but you cannot make him drink
you can put a man through school
but you cannot make him think
when the people lead
people take the lead
children you've got to take your lead
or you shall be led astray
watch them try to hide
this world's imposition
but like disease that has come round from remission
when it seems
as if it has left your person
all the while it has only worsened
when the people lead
people take the lead
children you've got to take your lead

Battles over which direction to kneel
People reaching out to touch
But forgetting to feel
Daily breath shouldn't be a daily penance
Is that what you believe
Or just a life sentence
I look into the mirror
And i see someone there i used to know
They all want you to serve them
But the only one you got to serve
Is your soul
So much time
And at such a cost
We spend looking for what we've lost
Now that you know
You can't find it from him
You're gonna have to find it within
I look into the mirror
And i see that life has taken its toll
They'll all want you to serve them
But the only one you got to serve
Is your soul
Listen to the wind it won't lie to you
If you love it let it go
And watch it fly to you
Every setting sun gently weeps
You can always hear it

Don't do me any favors
matter of fact why don't you
do yourself a few
your presence ain't nobody's blessing
I've got plenty of other things
I could do
oh no, not another excuse
your tired silly games
for me are just no use
and now it's plain for me to see
you're with somebody
that you don't want to be
so won't you
please please me like you want to
not like you have to
or won't you just go on and leave me
leaving me is the least that you could do
you could have spared me
so much misery
and told me you just wanted
a friend
believe me there is a difference
when you mean it
and when you pretend
or was I just your habit
cause I know a habit
is a hard thing to break
but won't you spare me
a little mercy
there's only so much
so much that I can take
so won't you
please please me like you want to
not like you have to
or won't you just go on and leave me

You're the first one to get there
And always the last one to leave
You're the first one to chuckle
But the last one to grieve
I know all too well the world takes a daily beating
Please don't talk about murder while i'm eating
You walk into the temple
And call it a church
I try to keep things simple
But you always need the works
Your life is marked by numbers and symbols
Excessive drinking from out of golden thimbles
Just a moment of silence i'm needing
So let's not talk about murder while i'm eating
You get all hot and bothered
At the strangest times and places
But don't notice the looks on all the other faces
You're dressed for summer in the middle of december
What you've all but forgotten
I painfully remember
I don't care in the least what you're reading

I could give you more, but you still wouldn't be happy
I could give all you need, but you still wouldn't be satisfied
I could give to our poor
Now what good would that be?
You'd shake hands with Jesus
And you still would not believe
If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
The less you expect the more you'll be pleased
The more you'll be pleased
I could change your mind, but what would you really be thinking
I'd show you a sign, but you'd just pass it on by
I could hold your hand but then we'd both be sinking
The problem with the world is everone's not just like you
If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
The less you expect the more you'll be pleased
The more you'll be pleased
If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me
If you're happy with nothing you'll be so very happy with me...

They'll look you in the eyes and stone you
Then turn and disown you, don't you let them take the fight outta you
They'll walk all over your name 'til they find someone else to blame, don't let them take the
fight outta you
Secrets hide their lies inside hidden alibis, don't let them take the fight outta you
They put the world on a hook, it's worse every time I look
Don't let them take the fight outta you
I would rather take a punch than not give you a shot
I'd rather find out who you are than who you're not
Should have known better than to mistake business for love
Should have known better than to mistake a fist for a glove
It will be in your honor 'til you're not needed any longer, don't let them take the fight
outta you
Don't believe the headlines, check it for yourself sometimes, don't let them take the fight
outta you
The lies you live become you, the love you lose it numbs you, don't let them take the fight
outta you
They say that you've arrived but that's just a high-class bribe, don't let them take the fight
outta you
There's always someone younger, someone with more hunger, don't let them take the fight outta
They'll say you're the one and only
Then straight up leave you lonely, don't let them take the fight outta you
Like a transplant-patient waiting for a donor, don't let them take the fight outta you

We stood in the dark
With our hands over each others hearts
And we didn't waste a word
The grace is love undeserved
When you feel love
You remind me I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love
When we feel love
I've given up
I've given in
Given out and back again
Now that we're in from the cold
Our days are made of gold
Love you remind me
I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love
When we feel love
What has been lived
Can't be changed
But what we have lost
We can still, can still be reclaimed
And I won't, I won't let you down
When you feel love
You remind me, I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love
When we feel love
When you feel love
When we feel love
Yes we feel love, feel love

Listen mister brother sister
family and friend
I fear with each day pass
our time grows closer to the end
listen stranger passer by
and those I never knew
there's not one day that you are living
has been promised to you
I am a God fearing man
I'm a God fearing man
I reach out for my God's hand
I'm a God fearing man
listen mother sister brother
relatives and kin
you want to know just where you're going
you got to know where you've been
tell me what gives one the right
to say their God is better than anybody else
don't we all have a right
to find God for our self
I am a God fearing man
I'm a God fearing man
I reach up for my God's hand
I'm a God fearing man
when I rise with the morning sun
I give thanks to my God
for the gift of another one
and when my day is over
and complete
I reach to my God
to put me back on my feet
I am a God fearing man
I'm a God fearing man
I reach up for my God's hand

I'm more afraid of living than I am scared to die.
I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high.
But every moral has a story and every story has an end.
Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
I'm more afraid of loving - Oh - than I am of being scorned.
Oh - But I will keep on trying though I have been forwarned.
But every moral has a story and every story has an end.
Every battle,
Every battle has its glory and its consequence,
And its consequence.
I would rather,
I would rather me be lonely and you have someone to hold.
I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old,
Growing old,
Of growing,

I will wait like nothing
I have ever waited for
I will catch your tears from falling
Until from my hands they fall
You can leave me abandoned
I'll be here if you want back in
Like the rest I have been branded
Far beneath the skin
So far beneath the skin
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
Here I have been standing
While the time has come and gone
I tried singing to you
But you turned my words to stone
Here I have been waiting
It seems for quite a while
Changed all my reflections
But inside I'm still just a child
But inside still just a child
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
These eyes weren't made for crying
This love wasn't made to waste
These arms weren't made for battle
But to share your warm embrace
But to share your warm embrace
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
You shall be
You shall be
You shall be forgiven
You shall be
You shall be

Not talkin' 'bout a year
No not three or four
I don't want that kind of forever
In my life anymore
Forever always seems
to be around when it begins
but forever never seems
to be around when it ends
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do From you
People spend so much time
Every single day
Runnin' 'round all over town
Givin' their forever away
But no not me
I won't let my forever roam
and now I hope I can find
my forever a home
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do
From you
Like a handless clock with numbers
An infinite of time
No not the forever found
Only in the mind
Forever always seems
to be around when things begin
but forever never seems
to be around when things end
So give me your forever
Please your forever
Not a day less will do

Corcovado parted the sky
And through the darkness
On us he shined
Crucified in stone
Still his blood is my own
Glory behold all my eyes have seen
Have seen
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed to be a witness
Some have flown away
And can't be with us here today
Like the hills of my home
Some have crumbled and now are gone
Gather around for today won't come again
Won't come again
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed to be a witness
So much sorrow and pain
Still I will not live in vain
Like good questions never asked
Is wisdom wasted on the past
Only by the grace of God go I
Go I
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed to be a witness
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed
I am blessed

Ashes to ashes
and dust to dust
that's what has become
of our love and trust
Love has no direction
cause love has no aim
love can leave you
as fast as she came
Meeting is such sweet sorrow
cause someday we may have to part
hush don't you make a sound
you're gonna let me down
Good things come
to those who wait
but good things are gone
from those who are late
All that I am
is all I can give
but with or without you
my life I must live
Meeting is such sweet sorrow
cause someday we may have to part
hush don't you make a sound
you're gonna let me down
Living ain't easy
since you've been gone
no one else can please me
or make me feel home
Forgetting ain't easy
you stay on my mind
thoughts of us haunt me

Your teacher used to learn in school
How a cow flies over the moon
You teacher used to learn in school
How a dish run away with a spoon, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youth of today
You teacher used teach about Christopher Colombus
And you said he was a very great man
You used to teach about Marco Polo
And you said he was a very great man, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youh, not at all
When every Christmas comes around
You buy the youth a fancy toy
When every Christmas comes around
You buy the youth a fancy toy, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youh, not at all
you teacher used teach about Pirate Hawkins
you teacher used teach about Pirate Morgan
And you said he was a very great man
you teacher used teach about Christopher Colombus
And you said he was a very great man
you teacher used teach about Marco Polo, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youh of today

Your teacher used to learn in school
How a cow flies over the moon
You teacher used to learn in school
How a dish run away with a spoon, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youth of today
You teacher used teach about Christopher Colombus
And you said he was a very great man
You used to teach about Marco Polo
And you said he was a very great man, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youh, not at all
When every Christmas comes around
You buy the youth a fancy toy
When every Christmas comes around
You buy the youth a fancy toy, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youh, not at all
you teacher used teach about Pirate Hawkins
you teacher used teach about Pirate Morgan
And you said he was a very great man
you teacher used teach about Christopher Colombus
And you said he was a very great man
you teacher used teach about Marco Polo, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youh of today

Waiting on an angel.
One to carry me home.
Hope you come to see me soon, cause I don't want to go alone,
I don't want to go alone.
Now angel won't you come by me.
Angel hear my plea.
Take my hand, lift me up so that I can fly with thee,
so that I can fly with thee.
And I'm waiting on an angel.
And I know it won't be long to find myself a resting place in my angel's arms,
in my angel's arms.
So speak kind to a stranger, cause you'll never know, it just might be an angel come,
Oh- knockin' at your door, Oh- knockin' at your door.
And I'm waiting on an angel.
And I know it won't be long to find myself a resting place in my angel's arms,
Oh- in my angel's arms.
Waiting on an angel.
One to carry me home.
Hope you come to see me soon, cause I don't want to go alone,
I don't want to go alone,
don't want to go,

Well I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well I stand next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the tiny pieces and make an island
might even raise just a little sand., yeah
'Cos I'm a Voodoo Child
God knows I'm a Voodoo Child
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time,
I'll give it back one of these days
I said I hate to take up all your sweet time
I'll give it back one of these days
And if I don't see you no more in this world
I'll meet you on the next one
But don't be late,
Don't be late
'Cos I'm a Voodoo Child
God knows I'm a Voodoo Child

Well I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well I stand next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the tiny pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand., yeah
’cos I’m a voodoo child
God knows I’m a voodoo child
I didn’t mean to take up all your sweet time,
I’ll give it back one of these days
I said I hate to take up all your sweet time
I’ll give it back one of these days
And if I don’t see you no more in this world
I’ll meet you on the next one
But don’t be late,
Don’t be late
’cos I’m a voodoo child
God knows I’m a voodoo child

If I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make it a better place
With my own two hands
Make it a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
If I could make peace on earth
With my own two hands
And I could bring you up the earth
With my own two hands
And I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a brighter place
With my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a safer place
With my own two hands
I'm gonna help Jah human race
With my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
With my own, with my own two hands
Now if I could hold you
With my own two hands
And I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you got to, got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own, use your own two hands
Use your own, use your own two hands
Oh, you got to use your own two hands
With our own, with our own two hands
With our own, with our own two hands
With our own, with our own two hands

Corcovado
parted the sky
and through the darkness
on earth he shined
crucified in stone
still his blood is my own
glory behold on my eyes
have seen, have seen
i am blessed
i am blessed
i am blessed to be a witness
some have flown away
and can't be here with us today
like the hills of my home
some have crumbled and now are gone
gather 'round for today won't come again
wont come again
i am blessed
blessed to be a witness
some much sorrow and pain
but still i will not live in vain
like a question never asked
i wisdom wasted on the past
or live by the grace of god, go i
go i
i am blessed
i am blessed
i am blessed
i am blessed to be a witness

(instrumental)

Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall
Thirteen month old baby, breaks the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong
You don't wanna save me, sad is your song
When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way, yeah, yeah, yeah
Very superstitious, I got nothing more to say
Very superstitious, the devil's on his way
Thirteen month old baby, breaks the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way, no, no, no..

Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall
Thirteen month old baby, breaks the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.
When you believe in things that you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands
Rid me of the problem, do all that you can
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong
You don't wanna save me, sad is your song
When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way, yeah, yeah, yeah
Very superstitious, I got nothing more to say
Very superstitious, the devil's on his way
Thirteen month old baby, breaks the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past
When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way, no, no, no...

Won't you remember the mocking bird, my baby bun
He used to sing for dinner, baby
Oh he used to sing for his supper
He used to sing so sweetly
Since my baby left me, he ain't sang for two long days
Oh, remember the blue-birds and the honey bees,
They used to sing for you and me
Oh, They used to sing about you and me
They used to sing so sweetly
But since my baby left me they ain't sang in two long days
Oh won't you please come home
Come on home to me
Make everyday happy as can be
And if you'll leave come on home to me
I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby
I'll kiss you for my supper, yeah!
But if you don't come back you know I'll have to
Starve to death
'Cus I ain't had noon of your loving all day now
Oh Remember
Would yo you remember
Oh, remember the blue-birds and the honey bees,
Singing sweetly for you and me
Oh the mocking bird, my baby bun
Oh don't you come home to me
Will you remember

There's a quarter of a man in the market
With a quarter of a car so its easy to park it
He gets to the counter he saves what he can
But he only saves a quarter he's a quarter of a man
Now this quarter of a man he got fired
The next damn day he got hired hired
The only thing wrong with this plan
He only gets a quarter he's a quarter of man
Every day he's on the street
Too few quarters to live or to eat
He's so little the people all stare
But he only pays a quarter fare
Oh......
Now the quarter of a man's on vacation
But he still gets his ration
When he gets to the market he pays what he can
But he only pays a quarter he's a quarter of a man
Every day he's on the street
Too few quarters to live or to eat
He's so little the people all stare
But he only pays a quarter fare

Pay the man, everybody's got to pay the man
and the poor you leave is worth
you gotta pay the man
Pay the man, everybody's got to pay the man
and the poor you leave is worth
you gotta pay the man
the ...
got a wife and ?? and a ???
but the poor you leave is worth
you gotta pay the man
Pay the man, everybody's got to pay the man
and the poor you leave is worth
you gotta pay the man

(Instrumental)

How sweet and happy seem those days of which I dream
Memories I recall now and then
And with a rapture sweet my weary heart would beat
If I could hear my mother pray again
If I could only hear my mother pray again
If I could hear her tender voice as then
How happy I would be
It would mean so much to me
If I could hear my mother pray again
Around the old homeplace her cherishing smiling face
Was always bringing comfort joy and cheer
And when she used to sing to her eternal King
It was the sound I loved to hear
If I could only hear my mother pray again
If I could hear her tender voice as then
How happy I would be
It would mean so much to me
If I could hear my mother pray again
If I could hear my mother pray again

Can you tell me why
you're so uptight
out of your head
and ain't talkin' right
Can you tell me why
your mind ain't straight
out of touch
and can't relate
Mama's trippin'
daddy's slippin'
Everybody's talkin' 'bout
keepin' it together
but I see people splittin'
when there's inclement weather
What you want is what I want
so why can't we agree
if I could be inside of you
maybe I could see why
Mama's trippin'
daddy's slippin'
You and I ain't spoken
ain't spoken for a week
soon there won't be nothin'
nothin' left to speak
Things ain't the same
since you've gone insane
let's take some time
and ease the strain
Mama's trippin'

Well Martin's dream has become Rodney's worst nightmare.
Can't walk the streets, to them we are fair game,
our lives don't mean a thing.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King.
Like a king, like a King, like a King.
How I wish you could help us Dr. King.
Make sure it's filmed, shown on national T.V.
They'll have no mercy.
A legal lynch mob like the days strung up from the tree.
The L.A.P.D.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
How I wish you could help us Dr. King.
So if you catch yourself thinking it has changed
for the best you better second guess cause Martin's dream
has become Rodney's worst nightmare.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King.
Like a King, like a King, like a King
How I wish you could help us Dr. King.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
How I wish... Like a King, like a King.
Like a King, like a King, like a, like a King.
Like a King, like a King, like a King.
When we will look to the past, look to the past to learn?
I wish...
Like a king, like a king, like a king.
Like a king, like a king, like a king.
Bye, bye we must go to see the King.
Bye, bye we must go to face the King.
You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies,
you may trod me down in the very dirt.
And still like the dust, I'll rise.
Does my happiness upset you?
Why are you best with gloom cause I laugh,
like I've got an oil well pumpin' in my living room?
So you may shoot me with your words,
you may cut me with your eyes,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
Out of the shacks of history's shame,
up from a past rooted in pain,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
Now did you want to see me broken,
bowed head and lowered eyes,
shoulders fallen down like teardrops,
weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my confidence upset you?
Don't you take it awful hard cause I walk,
like I've got a diamond mine breakin' up in my front yard.
So you may shoot me with your words,
you may cut me with your eyes,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
Out of the shacks of history's shame,
up from a past rooted in pain,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
So you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies.
You may trod me down in the very dirt.
And still like the dust, I'll rise.
Does my happiness upset you?
Why are you best with gloom cause I laugh,
like I've got a goldmine diggin' up in my living room.
You may shoot me with your words,
you may cut me with your eyes,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
Out of the shacks of history's shame,
up from a past rooted in pain,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
You may shoot me with your words,
you may cut me with your eyes,
and I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
Out of the shacks of history's shame,
up from a past rooted in pain,
I'll rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.
I gonna rise - I'll rise - I'll rise - rise - rise.

I'm not sure what worries me more
The fact that I'm talking to a wall
Or that the wall keeps answering me
Saying that I've heard it all before
Never underestimate how complicated
A simple life can be
You've gotta keep it together
You've gotta keep it together
You've gotta keep it together so I can fall apart
I know you've grown tired of trying to feed me
And I know by now my reputation precedes me
I know you've grown tired of trying to fix me
And I know by now my best years, they are no longer with me
Keep it together
You've gotta keep it together
You've gotta keep it together
You've gotta keep it together so I can fall apart
You've gotta keep it together, you've gotta keep it together so I can fall apart
You've gotta keep it together, please keep it together

Jesus is on that mainline
Tell him what you want (x3)
You gotta call him up
And tell him what you want
If you're sick and you want to get well
Tell him what you want( x3)
You gotta call him up
And tell him what you want
If you're sick and you want to get well
Tell him what you want (x3)
You gotta call him up
And tell him what you want
If you want and you can't ???
Tell him what you want (x3)
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell him what you want (x3)
Jesus is on that mainline
Tell him what you want (x3)
You gotta call him up
And tell him what you want

You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise
Does my happiness upset you
Why are you best with gloom
Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well
Pumpin' in my living room
So you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Now did you want to see me broken
Bowed head and lowered eyes
Shoulders fallen down like tear drops
Weakened by my soulful cries
Does my confidence upset you
Don't you take it awful hard
Cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine
Breakin up in my front yard
So you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
So you may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me down in the very dirt
And still like the dust I'll rise
Does my happiness upset you
Why are you best with gloom
Cause I laugh like I've got a goldmine
Diggin' up in my living room
Now you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
And I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
Out of the shacks of history's shame
Up from a past rooted in pain
I'll rise
I'll rise

Exactly how much will have to burn
Before we will look to the past to learn
We walk along this endless path
Which has led us in a circle
So here we are right back
We can't let the future become our past
If we are to change the world
Won't you tell me
Tell me please
How many miles must we march
How many miles must we march
When I was a baby I was not prejudiced
Hey how about you
This was something
That I learned in school
Something they taught us to do
We can't let our future become our past
If we are to change the world
Won't you tell me
Tell me please
How many miles must we march
How many miles must we march
There must come a day
When a box is not somebody's home
The unfinished work of our heroes
Must truly be our own
We can't let the future become our past
If we are to change the world
Won't you tell me
Tell me please
How many miles must we march
How many miles must we march
How many miles must we march
How many miles must we march
How many miles must we march

I believe in a few things :
God, the Devil and Love,
Cause I've looked up from the bottom and I've stared down from above.
And I have faith in a few things :
Divinity,
Divinity and Grace,
But even when I'm on my knees, I know the devil prays.
And you're working your way,
From the ground on down.
I hate to say I love you,
Because it means that I will be with you forever or will sadly..., say goodbye.
And I love to say I hate you,
Because it means that I will live my life happily without you or will sadly..., live a lie.
And you're working your way,
From the ground on down,
On down.
Your way,
From the ground on down.
Life is short and if you're looking for extension,
With your time, you had best do well,
Cause there's good deeds and there is good intention,
They're as far apart as heaven and hell.
And you're steady working your way,
From the ground on down,
On down.
Your way,

I said bye and bye I'm going to see the King
Bye and bye I am going to see the King
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God
I said bye and bye I'm going to see the King
Bye and bye I am going to see the King
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God
You know after death
You have got to go by yourself
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God
I said bye and bye I'm going to see the King
Bye and bye I am going to see the King
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God
Bye and bye I will hear the angel sing
Bye and bye I will hear the angel sing
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God
You know after death
You have got to stand your test
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God
I said bye and bye I'm going to see the King
Bye and bye I am going to see the King
And I don't mind dying
I'm a child of God

I'm more afraid of living
than I am scared to die
I'm more afraid of falling
than I am of flying high
Every moral has a story
every story has an end
every battle has its glory
and its consequence
I'm more afraid of loving
than I am of being scorned
but I will keep on trying
though I have been forewarned
Every moral has a story
every story has an end
every battle has its glory
and its consequence
I would rather me be lonely
and you have someone to hold
I'm not as scared of dying
as I am of growing old.
Every moral has a story
every story has an end
every battle has its glory

I say we're sick and tired of your poison technology
Slowly, surely, killing all humanity
We know when we understand:
Mighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can not fool all the people all the time.
So now you see the light
We gonna stand up for our rights!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Preacher man don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What Jah life is really worth
It's not all the glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight

I say we’re sick and tired of your poison technology
Slowly, surely, killing all humanity
We know when we understand:
Mighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can not fool all the people all the time.
So now you see the light
We gonna stand up for our rights!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight
Preacher man don’t tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don’t know
What jah life is really worth
It’s not all the glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight

You're too young to know
That you're too young to go
There's no freedom to be found
Lying face up in the ground
Ashes from an unfinished life
Are all that's left
In a tear-drop-shaped locket
Hanging from his mother's chest
You whip the back of freedom
'till it bleeds an oil stream
Then you sail down upon it
In your killing machine
Old men who send children
Off to die in vain
They will hear death's constant whisper
Call remember my name

If you're gonna live
then live it up
and if you're gonna give
then give it up
if you're gonna walk the earth
then walk it proud
and if you're gonna say the word
you got to say it loud
you got to fight for your mind
you got to fight for your mind
while you got the time
you got to fight for your mind
if you're gonna build a house
make it a home
if you're gonna pull some weight
pull your own
if you're gonna help
reach out your hand
if you're getting up
then take a stand
you got to fight for your mind
you got to fight for your mind
while you got the time
you got to fight for your mind
if you're gonna step
step on in
if you're gonna finish
you got to begin
don't you fear
what you don't know
just let that be
your room to grow
you got to fight for your mind
you got to fight for your mind
while you got the time

I learned to say goodbye too young
I learned to duck from words
Like bullets from a gun
How long can you pray
And still not see a change
I faithfully remain
Some things
You have to let be lost
Some battles, some battles
You have to leave unfought
Then the truth just wastes away
In all we dare not say
And in all we can't explain
But I faithfully remain
Now I'm afraid
Once again
It has come to this
When it all goes dark
Nothing stays the same
Now I'm only what I miss
And my memories
They turn to tears
They turn to fire, blood and pain
And I faithfully remain
I faithfully remain
And I faithfully remain

You sit there and call me a liar and a cheat
I just wish you'd pin a rose on me
Now you won't even come out and take a bow
Crying won't help you now
Crying won't help you now
So now your poets
Have all put down their pens
The only songs to sing
Are those sung again
Lonely just doesn't look good on you somehow
Crying won't help you now
Crying won't help you now
Now I jsut keep on starring
Into the black eyes of the truth
We'll have to learn to live up on our own somehow
Crying won't help you now
Crying won't help you now
Crying won't help you now

I am more afraid of living
Than I am scared to die
I'm more afraid of falling
Than I am of flying high
Every moral has its story
And every story has an end
Every battle has its glory
And it's consequence
I'm more afraid of loving
Than I am of being scorned
Being scorned
But I will keep on trying
Though I have been forewarned
Every moral has its story
And every story has an end
Every battle has its glory
And it's consequence
And it's consequence
I would rather me be lonely
Then you have someone to hold
I'm not as scared of dying
As I am of growing old

What started as a whisper, slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer, where the question is unseen
I don't know where you came from, and I don't know where you've gone
Old friends become old strangers between darkness and the door
Amen omen, will I see your face again?
Amen omen, can I find the place within to live my life without you?
I still hear you saying, "All of life is chance"
And is sweetest, is sweetest when at a glance
But I live, I live a hundred, hundred life times in a day
But I die a little in every breath that I take
Amen omen, will I see your face again?
Amen omen, can I find the place within to live my life without you?
I listen to a whisper slowly drift away
Silence is a loudest parting word you never say
I put, I put your world into my reins
And now a voiceless sympathy is all that remains
Amen omen, will I see your face again?
Amen omen, can I find the place within to live my life without you?
Amen omen, will I see your face again?
Amen omen, can I find the place within?
Amen omen, will I see your face again?
Amen omen, can I find the strength to within?

Strawberry Fields Forever
Artist: Ben Harper
Let me to take you down
‘Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And there’s nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Living is easy with your eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It’s getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn’t matter much to me
Let me to take you down
‘Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And there’s nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high and low
That is you can’t, you know, tune in
But it’s alright
That is I think it’s not too bad
Let me to take you down
‘Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And there’s nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Always, no sometimes, think it’s me
But you know I know when it’s a dream (It’s a dream)
I think I know I mean I guess, but it’s all wrong
That is I think I disagree
Let me take you down
‘Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Oh nothing, nothing is real
And there is nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry fields forever

it's her hair and her eyes today
that just simply take me away
and the feeling that i'm falling further in love
makes me shiver but in a good way
all the times i have sat and stared
as she thoughtfully thumbs through her hair
and she purses her lips, bats her eyes as she plays,
with me sitting there slack-jawed and nothing to say
coz i love her with all that i am
and my voice shakes along with my hands
coz she's all that I see and she's all that I need
and i'm out of my league once again
it's a masterful melody when she calls out my name to me
as the world spins around her she laughs, rolls her eyes
and i feel like i'm falling but it's no surprise
coz i love her with all that i am
and my voice shakes along with my hands
cause it's frightening to be swimming in this strange sea
but i'd rather be here than on land
yes she's all that i see and she's all that i need
and i'm out of my league once again
it's her hair and her eyes today
that just simply take me away
and the feeling that i'm falling further in love
makes me shiver but in a good way
all the times i have sat and stared
as she thoughtfully thumbs through her hair
and she purses her lips, bats her eyes as she plays,
with me sitting there slack-jawed and nothing to say
coz i love her with all that i am
and my voice shakes along with my hands
cause it's frightening to be swimming in this strange sea
but i'd rather be here than on land
yes she's all that i see and she's all that i need
and i'm out of my league once again

I'm leaving here on the morning train and I'll never see this world again.
Oh- I've felt pleasure and I've felt pain.
And I know now that I can never be the same.
How I wonder why the world can be so cold.
And if only good die young, then left with me cruel here to grow old.
And I've felt pleasure and I've felt pain.
And I know now that I can never be the same.
And if someday, I find my peace of mind, I will share my wealth with all of human kind.
Well I've felt pleasure and I've felt pain.
And I know now that I can never be the same.
So if the sun does shine or rain does fall, I give thanks I've had my sight to see through it all.
Oh- I've felt pleasure and I've felt pain.

Mama why does he treat me so cold
why do I feel so old
how long has he treated me unkind
or have I always been so blind
I'm the widow of a living man
Why can't the times stay the same
now I am begging him to change
what about all the plans we made
now I am so afraid
I'm the widow of a living man
Why does he hurt me so
I'm gonna need someplace to go
he's no longer some kind woman's son
mama I think that I had better run

There's no deals to be made with the dawn
Now I fear that our time has come and gone
They say freedom is just a place to hide
Now I'm coming to you with my arms open wide
(Oh - won't you tell me)
Where could I go to the Lord
Take a prayer with you to heaven for me
Oh - And give it to the Lord
Give it to the Lord
Cause nothing else could save a sinner
Sinner like me
Oh - But an angel's word
Just an angel's word
Now - Oh now - what is - what is too true
What is hard is much too true
Oh - and what's true Oh - is much too too hard
And now where - where could I go but to the Lord
Mama was hard on us but we could take it
And papa didn't give a damn and he couldn't fake it
They say freedom
Oh - Freedom is just an other place to hide
Now I'm coming to you with my arms open wide
(And tell me)

Well - The good Lord is such a good Lord
With such a good mother too
They have blessed me
They have blessed me
In the good graces of you
Now I
I have heard a hundred violins crying
And I
I have seen a hundred white doves flying
But nothing is as beautiful
As when she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
In me
Oh- in me
Mmhh
How good it must feel
To be so young, young and free
And a song that pleases a queen
Will always please me
Now I
I have heard the wisest of wisdom
And I
I have dined in palaces and kingdoms
But nothing is as beautiful
As when she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
In me
Oh- in me
Mmhh - Oh - no no no no
Now, all of life
Is just passing the time
Until once again
Your eyes look into mine
Now I
I have been adored by a stranger
And I
I have heard the whispering angel
But nothing is as beautiful
As when she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
When she believes
In me

You're a prison I can't escape
You're a decision I never make
Heard me laughing
You heard me weep and moan
Oh- when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone
They say time will kill the pain
I say pain is gonna kill my time
Lord won't you save me
Or leave me alone
Cause when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone
Oh- gone
I hang your picture right above my mind
Don't do anything you can't deny
I could never be your pawn
Oh- cause when it's good, it's so, so good
When it's gone, it's gone
Some drink to remember
Some to forget
Some for satisfaction
Some to regret
I hope a brighter day to you I've shown
Oh- cause when it's good, it's so, so good
And when it's gone, it's gone
When it's gone, it's gone
When it's gone, it's gone

Well, I woke up this morning it was drizzling rain
Around the curve come a passenger train
I heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan
Jimmy he's dead, it's been a long time gone
Been a long time gone
A long time gone
If you want to get to heaven got to D I E
You got to put on your coat and T I E
Want to get the rabbit out of the L O G
Gotta make a commotion like a D O G
Like a D O G
Like a D O G
I gotta good woman, what's the matter with me?
What makes me want to love every woman I see?
I was traveling when I met her, now I'm traveling again
And every women she sees looks like a place I came in
Looks like a place I came in, place I came in
I got my name painted on my shirt
I ain't no ordinary dude, I don't have to work

Oh no- here comes that sun again.
And (that) means another day without you my friend.
And it hurts me to look into the mirror at myself.
And it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else.
And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes - sometimes,
you just have to walk away - walk away.
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
But you put the happy in my ness, you put the good times into my fun.
And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes - sometimes,
you just have to walk away - walk away and head for the door.
We've tried the goodbye so many days.
We walk in the same direction so that we could never stray.
They say if you love somebody than you have got to set them free,
but I would rather be locked to you than live in this pain and misery.
They say time will make all this go away,
but it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
And once again that rising sun is droppin' on down
And once again, you my friend, are nowhere to be found.
And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away, walk away and head for the door.
You just walk away - walk away - walk away.

You can run away from home
But you can't run away from your pain
I sit here alone
There's always someone else to blame
It's up to you now
It's up to you now
Don't wanna be your broken dream
We've run out of fate somehow
And it's up to you now
I have to hide from my own face
Now that we have fallen from grace
Arms that hold you close
Are the arms that hold you back
While your world is under attack
It's up to you now
It's up to you now
I stumble to your altar
With my knees bent, my head bowed
And it's up to you now
There's no sound louder than war
And we don't have tomorrow anymore
You wrote a list with all your demands
And you nailed it to both of my hands
It's up to you now
It's up to you now
My fist is full of ashes
And my blood is in the ground

First time that I saw her she had white doves in her eyes
She spoke to me but I could not reply, not reply
She was a stranger I had known for years
She brought to me so many smiles and tears, smiles and tears
The two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
("Time")
Time it slowly drips into the past, into the past
And finds a home where all echoes rest, where echoes rest ("With a cold rest")
She softly kissed my mind, my mind, and whispered what will we do with time, do
with time
The two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
Am I the man I choose to be, choose to be,
Or just the man I used to be, used to be
Am I the man I want to be, I want to be
this question, it keeps haunting me, haunting me
The two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer
Together like the two hands of a prayer

I wish we could live forever
Then melt into the sun
Melt into the sun
Time is gonna change you
Once it gets you on the run
Gets you on the run
There will be
There will be
There will be a light
There will be a light
There will be
There will be
There will be a light
There will be a light
I've been running
Ever since
Ever since I was a child
Some call it free
And some call it wild
There will be
There will be
There will be a light
There will be a light
There will be
There will be
There will be a light
There will be a light
Let the warmth of my love
Dry away all your tears
Fear not for I am with you
I will fear not - fear not - with you here
There will be
There will be
There will be a light
There will be a light
There will be
There will be
There will be a light
There will be a light
There will be
There will be
There will be a light

The word suicide is irresponsible
Still you offered to buy me a gun
What's so hard about sympathy
Love is a lonely room
Love is a lonely room
When out on the edge
There's just two directions
And somebody has to lose
I should know better than to use words
Like never and hate
Love is a lonely room
Love is a lonely room
This is no way to live
And this is no way to die
Who in the hell's life is this I'm living anyway
Love is a lonely room
Love is a lonely room

I met a girl whose heart
was on the right hand side
and upon the left
an angel did reside
they told her mother
that she never would survive
but she kept the rhythm
and is still alive
We must all have
the will to live
you got to have
the will to live
Then I met a man
who had to walk with his hands
born into a world
he couldn't stand
blessed with life
but cursed as a man
still he walks taller
than most of us can
We must all have
the will to live
you got to have
the will to live
Some are born with more
and some born with less
so don't take for granted
the life we've been blessed
it's hard to understand
that we're only a guest
and each one of us
shall be put to life's test
We must all have
the will to live
you got to have

I put into Nashville, Tennessee
But you wouldn't even come around to see me
Since your headin' up to Carolina
You know I'm gonna be right there behind you
'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
Now I love to feel that warm southern rain
Just to hear it fall is the sweetest soundin' thing
And to see it fall on your simple country dress
It's like heaven to me, I must confess
'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
I always have to steal my kisses from you
Now I've been hangin' 'round you for days
But when I'm leanin', you just turn your head away
Woh, no you didn't mean that
She said, "I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act"
'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
I always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you
I always have to steal my kisses from you
Always have to steal my kisses from you

Things are looking up today
How long have I been looking down
Traded a blue sky today
For the cold hard ground
Don't let one day go to waste
I'm filling space
I'm spilling faith
Things are looking up today
I didn't have to look away
There's so much to be said for letting go
So much tomorrow only knows
Don't let one day go to waste
I'm filling space
I'm spilling faith
I'm filling space
I'm spilling faith
I'm filling space
I'm spilling faith
Today it all became so clear
Looked out my window not in my mirror
Make the book that is your life
Worth reading
Don't let one day go to waste
I'm filling space
I'm spilling faith
If we love long enough

Now that you've grown up
You can finally learn to be a child
We made it to the end of the world
But we'll neverv make it out a lie
Skin thin
I breathe out, you breathe in
But the day seems so long
Skin thin
Blood again
It's all I can do to hold on
We're just skin thin
Always knew if we didn't have each other
We'd have nothing at all
But you were always brave enough
To live like you can never fall
Skin thin
I breathe out, you breathe in
But the day seems so long
Skin thin
Blood again
It's all I can do to hold on
(solo)
Now that we've grown up
You can finally learn to be a child
Good friends behind me
But ghosts up ahead for miles and miles
Skin thin
I breathe out, you breathe in
But the days they seem so long
Skin thin
Blood again
It's all I can do to hold on

Oh- baby now let's get down tonight.
Baby, I'm hot just like your oven.
Oh- I need your lovin'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer
Now it's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling
I need a sexual healing, sexual healing
And makes me feel so fine
And helps to release the mind
Sexual healing, is good for me
Sexual healing is something that's very good for me
Whenever these blue teardrops are falling
Oh no - and my emotional stability is leaving me
There is something I can do
Oh- I can get on the telephone and call you up baby
Darling, I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
And if you don't know the things you're dealing
Oh- I can tell you darling, oh it's sexual healing
Get up, Get up, Get up, Get up
Let's make love tonight
Wake up, Wake up, Wake up, Wake up
'Cause you do it right
Heal me, my darling
Heal me, my darling
Heal me, my darling
Heal me, my darling
Baby, you know I got sick this morning
A sea was storming up inside of me
Baby, I think I'm capsizing
Oh- the waves are rising
And when I get that feeling
I want a sexual healing
Sexual healing
And makes me feel so fine, it's such a rush
And helps to release the mind, Lord- it's good for us
Sexual healing, is good for me
Sexual healing is something that's so so good for me
And it's so good for us and it's so good to me my baby, woohhh
Just grab a hold and take control
Of my body and mind soon we'll be making love
Honey, oh- -- fine
You're my medicine open up and let me in
Darling,
Darling, you're so great
I can't wait for you to operate
Heal me, my darling
I can't wait for you to operate
Heal me, my darling
I can't wait for you to operate
Heal me, my darling
I can't wait for you to...
Heal me, my darling
Heal me, my darling
Heal me, my darling
I can't wait for you to...
Oh baby, whenever these blue teardrops are falling

say goodbye to tomorrow
and hello to today
take a look at your world
in a brand new way
the masters of convention
count on you to never change
but the law of reinvention
knows nothing stays the same
they're crying in the alleys
screaming in the streets
with a dignity amongst thieves
you don't have to answer
if the question isn't clear
may not know where i am
but i'm glad it's here
say goodbye to tomorrow
and hello to today
take a look at your world
in a brand new way
pick the price you want to pay
if you think you should
but I have heard the news
and the news is good
rock n' roll is free if you want it
rock n' roll is free so come and get it
rock n' roll is free if you want it
free if you want it
free
want

I can' t know the hell you love
But i know you' ve had enough
Some baptize in water some in flames
In flames
In flames
Don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Look into my eyes with all your hate and scorn
But don' t you give me a reason to mourn
What has life done to you
All you ever wanted was someone to run to you
There' s more to life then what makes you cry
What makes you cry
I want save you by
Don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Look into my eyes with all your hate and scorn
But don' t you give me a reason to mourn
I' ll remove the crown of sorrow wich you have been adorned
But don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Don' t you give me a reason to mourn
Look into my eyes with all your hate and scorn

She eats nectarines with honey and spends her daddy's money so easy
She cuts cherry pie while she looks you in the eye so easy
The innocent naivety of hairless cheek
The politics of generosity make me weak
You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me, you put it on me
There's an assassin out to get me and they claim that she's never missed
The one with an ex-lover whom she claims to have never kissed
We turned at twenty paces for love as a duel and we stood as still as stone
I can't imagine that this is in the best interest of flesh and bone
You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me, you put it on me
I've been living in the city for much too long
There's a neon sign in my mind flashing right and wrong
I can't afford your company, I spent my money buying time
I was lost out in hte desert while you were busy swimming in wine
You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me then left me lonely

It will make a weak man mighty.
It will make a mighty man fall.
It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all.
It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame.
It is the love for hate and pride for shame.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the mighty, mighty power.
That's the power of the gospel, well.
That's the power of...
Gospel on the water,
Gospel on the land.
The gospel in every woman,
And the gospel in every man.
Gospel in the garden,
Gospel in the trees.
The gospel that's inside of you,
Gospel inside of me.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the mighty power.
That's the power of...
That's the power of the gospel.
In the hour of richness,
In the hour of need.
For all of creation comes from the gospel seed.
And you may leave tomorrow and you may leave today,
But you've got to have, got to have the gospel when you start out on your way.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the mighty power.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the gospel.

Now you can sell your soul
But you can't buy it back
I've spent my whole life
Working to give you everything you like
Now I wish you were here
So we could walk and talk
In the soft rain, in the soft rain
Now all that left of us
Is a picture sitting in a frame
I would gladly trade
All of my sympathy for sorrow
If I could have you, If I could have you here with me to my own
I wish you were here
So we could walk and talk
In the soft rain, in the soft rain
Now all that's left of us
Is a picture sitting in a frame
Everything i wish for
Is everything i see
I remember when your kisses were for me
So many wasted days
The past is so hard to get out from under
So many words that i wish i could say
The future rattles my bones weak like thunder
I wish you were here
So we could walk and talk
In the soft rain, soft rain, soft rain
Now all that's left of us
Is a picture sitting in a frame
Everything i wish for
Is everything i see
I remember when your kisses were for me
Everything i wish for
Is everything i see

Oppression
you pray on us when we sleep
oppression
you chase after the tired the poor the weak
oppression
you know you mean only harm
oppression
you reach out with your long arm
but oppression
I won't let you near me
oppression
you shall learn to fear me
oppression
you seek population control
oppression
to divide and to conquer is your goal
oppression
I swear that hatred is your home
oppression
you just won't leave bad enough alone
but oppression
I won't let you near me
oppression
you shall learn to fear me
oppression
I don't see how you sleep
oppression
for your bleeding conscience I weep
oppression
you may have the dollar on your side
but oppression
from the gospel truth you cannot hide
oppression
I won't let you near me
oppression
you shall learn to fear me
oppression
I won't let you near me
oppression

Tell me which road are you travelling
which road are you travelling on
tell me who will you turn to
when the light has gone
I hear somebody calling
I hear somebody calling to me
with so many roads to travel
there's just one can set you free
there's just one road
one road to freedom
there's just one road
one road to freedom
just one
in my life I have been blessed
in my life I have been cursed
I have lived the best of times
I have suffered the worst
do you know which road you're travelling
do you know where you want to be
with so many roads to travel
there's just one can set you free
there's just one road
one road to freedom
there's just one road
one road to freedom
there's just one road

Goodbye
Hasn't been so good to me
Stepped out into the night
Back against the moon
I saw ten thousand hands with candlelight
We all think that we're right
It's hard to tell
If the night is full of hope or doom
My eyes
Burn with unshed tears
My body is weak
From so many silent years
Too many people say goodbye
Before they say hello
Step into the morning
And disappear
What more than sorry can i say
What more than sorry can i be
Before our love fades away
What more than sorry

Life is much too short to sit and wonder
Who's gonna make the next move and will slowly pull you under when you've always got something
to prove?
I don't want to wait a lifetime
Yours or mine, yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?
You say that I misheard you but I think you misspoke
I hear you laugh so loudly while I patiently await the joke
I don't want to wait a lifetime
Yours or mine, yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline?
The lifeline, the lifeline
It's a crime with only victims
We're all laid out in a row
It's hardest to listen to what we already should know
I could hold out for a lifetime
Yours or mine, yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for your lifeline?

Tell me do you really know
Your brother, man?
Cause a heart speaks louder
Than a color can
And why would you even
Shake a man's hand?
If you're not going
To help him stand
Jah work
Jah work
Jah work
Is never done
Every man's actions
Belong to he
If prepared for thereafter
To reach his destiny
Some people believe
And some people know
Some people deceive
And some people show
Jah work
Jah work
Jah work
Is never done, never done
Jah work
Jah work
Jah work
Is never, is never done
Is never done
You must do the heaviest
So many shall do none
You have got to stand firm
So many shall run
Some they rest their head at night
Some get no sleep at all
If you listen close to what you see
You will hear the call
Jah work
Jah work
Jah work
Is never done, is never done
Jah work
Jah work
Jah work

Like the wings stolen from an angel
Like petals gone from a rose
Like a dove caught in a storm
Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms
The wind it blew straight through us
And whispered to me in tongues
I was told I was wrong
Tonight he would be in the Lord's Arms
Tonight he is in the Lord's Arms
So I drinked this wine to him
With each glass of memory
He left with his crown of thornes
Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms
Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms

Give and you give and you give till it's gone
then the people you fight hardest for say you're wrong
before me flash all of my memories and days
so don't stand insincere at the side of my grave
I will not be broken
I won't be turned away
When it's too cold to breathe
and too dark to pray
I will not be broken
I go too far then I go further still
Time starts to collapse leaves a void none can fill
Nothing you can say to hurt me with your forked tongue
Through blood shot eyes I watch the world come undone
I will not be broken
I won't be turned away
When it's too cold to breathe
and too dark to pray
I've come too far to give up
or to be turned around
I will not be broken
I will not go down
I will not be broken
I won't be turned away
When it's too cold to breathe
and too dark to pray
I've come too far to give up
or to be turned around
I will not be broken

Ooh, I bet you're wondering how I knew
'Bout you're plans to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before
Between the two of US guys
You know I love you more
It took me by surprise I must say
When I found out yesterday
Don't you know that
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
Oh and I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
I know that a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't hold inside
Losin' you would end my life you see
'Cause you mean that much to me
You could have told me yourself
That you love someone else, instead
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine
Oh and I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey, honey yeah
People say believe half of what you see
Son, and none of what you hear
I can't help bein' confused
If it's true please tell me dear?
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy you loved before?
Don't you know
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Oh I heard it through the grapevine

I heard a street singer play a song I knew
It brought me closer to you
I heard a street singer play a song I call my own
It brought me to my childhood home
Did you go back from where you came?
If I get there, will they have my name?
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame
For all these things, true happiness is having wings
Life is a blurry-eyed, heavy-hearted whirlwind of a storm
Some things just hurt too much to cry
Memories are like shadows the light won't make disappear
I still see you smiling with your eyes
Did you go back from where you came?
If I get there, will they have my name?
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame

Behind all of your tears
There's a smile
There's a smile
Behind all of the rain
There's a sunshine
For miles and miles
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
The colors of your garden
They're yellow, blue and green
And the sound of your sweet voice
It's better than all my dreams
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
Your my first thought in the morning
When I rise
Oh- when I rise
You're my last thought in the evening
When I rest my head at night
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
Oh- Everything
Everything
You mean everything
You mean everything
Everything to me
Everything to me
Everything to me

Time, it opens all wounds
And trust is gonna put me in the tomb
The world isn't mine, the world isn't mine to save
I can't afford to lose what you resell and throw away
And I don't even know myself,
What it would take to know myself
I need to change, I don't know how
Don't give up on me now
It's not what we do, it's what we do with what we feel
Takes all you have to stare it down, and whisper "Devil, no deal."
And I don't wanna fight, don't wanna fight my father's war
You can wait your whole life
Not knowing what you're waiting for
And I don't even know myself,
What it would take to know myself
I need to change, I don't know how
Don't give up on me now, don't give up on me now
Don't give up on me now, don't give up on me now
I don't even know myself,
What it would take to know myself
I need to change, I don't know how

Tattoo your name across my heart
Every letter bold and dark
So that every time I breathe
You can know you're bringing me relief
I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
I do it for you, I do it for us
The trinity of honor, love, and trust
I do it for you, I do it for us
A mirror in the hand
Is worth ten from afar
Come close enough so I can feel you breathe
And see for who you truly are
I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
Do it for you, do it for us
The sunset burns of flaming ash and dust
I do it for you, I do it for us
I do it for you....
I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
I do it for you, I do it for us
The trinity of honor, love, and trust
I do it for you, I do it for us

She loves almost as good as she lies
She pretends almost as hard as she tries
Desperation, she wears it so well
Flips on her electric light like ringing a bell
She's the kind of woman only a town like this could produce
Just mean enough to hang a man
Just kind enough to cut the noose
Reached into her purse to pull out her disguise
Put it on her lips and she put it on her eyes
A little lonesome would do her some good
She'd only come out at night if she could
She does it the hard way
Or she don't do it at all
Dirty little lover, who you gonna call?
She's her daddy's karma
And her mother's suit of armor
The bright light in a man's dark eyes
Saved all of her money wasting all of her time
She's the kind of woman
Only a town like this could produce
Just mean enough to hang a man
Just kind enough to cut the noose
She does it the hard way
Or she don't do it at all

If it hurts, do it twice
Avoid the void
Dont miss out on your life
like a pair of shoes
Haning from a wire
I have no idea how we got here
There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground
Clearly, Severely
Time, it cant erase
Love or part of faith (?)
When a smile goes to waste
I'm tired of being sick
Your sick of being tired
I have no idea how we got here
There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground
Clearly, Severely
If it hurts, do it twice
Avoid the void
dont miss out on your life
There is no more breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground
Shatters to the ground
To the ground
To the ground
Shatters to the ground
There is no more beath for words
They have all been spoken for

Don't you get ahead of me
And I won't leave you behind
If you get unhappy
Won't you show me a sign
There's no love like lost love
And no pain like a broken heart
There's no love like you and me
And no loss like us apart
Promises, promise is only a word
And when softly spoken is never heard
And a heart is not a stone
And is fragile, is fragile when alone
By my side, by my side
Won't you be by my side?
By my side, by my side
Won't you be by my side?
Oh, my care for you
Is from the ground up to the sky
It's over under up above
Down below and to the side
There's no use in pretending
No use in saving face
For my love is never ending
And you are my saving grace
By my side, by my side
Won't you be by my side?
By my side, by my side
Won't you be by my side?
Won't you be by my side?

We made love until we cried and cried ourselves to laughter
Laughed until we realise our hearts were struck were fear
How in just a moments time could one see for ever after
I gently lie beside of you and dream away my tears
Won't you let me treat you kind
We're gonna burn to shine
Won't you let me treat you kind
We're gonna burn to shine
Funny things you learn from your mama, like the way to throw your head back when your swallowing pills
Funny things you learn from your papa, like when you're talking you just can't keep your hands still
But that was now and this is then
It never lasts for long
How I miss the good old days; but I'm so glad they're gone
Won't you let me treat you kind
We're gonna burn to shine
Won't you let me treat you kind
We're gonna burn to shine
I'd like to spend the time that you would like to spend with me
So that you could help me out with my dependancy
'Cause I'm hoplessly addicted, addicted to your sorrow
Makes me never wanna work, beg or borrow
Won't you let me treat you kind
We're gonna burn to shine
Won't you let me treat you kind

If I knew being here with you today,
Would mean being alone tomorrow.
I would gladly trade all of my tomorrows away
For a moment with you.
Brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool.
Say yeah,yeah,yeah
Can you look,can you look into my eyes
Or has your heart,said has your heart gone blind?
Can you look,can you look into your own
And find the safe place to hide.
Brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool.
Say yeah,yeah,yeah
Why be with strangers
When you can be with your friend.
If you're ever lonely
You know I'm lonely too
And i will stay lonely until I'm again with you.
I said brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool.
Say yeah,yeah,yeah
I said brown eyed blues
You can find yourself another fool.

Living these days is making me nervous
Archaic doctrine no longer serve us
Now we're left as silent witnesses
We don't know quite what this is
Other than a war that can't be won
I feel like i'm crowded, i can't get out
World keeps on filling me up with doubt
When you're trapped you got no voice
Where you're born you got no choice
Other than to go and take you some
One dimensional fool
In a three dimensional world
Politics, it's a drag
They put one foot in the grave
And the other on the flag
Systems rotten to the core
Young and old deserve much more
Than struggling every day until you're done
Tension
Too much to mention

Yes indeed, I'm alone again.
And here comes emptiness crashing in.
It's either love or hate,
I can't find in between,
'cause I've been with witches and I've been with a queen.
It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
So now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now it's just another lonely day.
Wish there was something now I could say or do.
I can resist anything but the temptation from you.
But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around.
I'd rather fall myself than let you drag me on down.
It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
And now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now, it's just another lonely day.
Yesterday seems like a life ago,
'cause the one I love today, I hardly know,
You I held so close in my heart, Oh dear,
Grow further from me with every fallen tear.
It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
So now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now it's just another lonely day.
For now it's just another lonely day.

I know you wanna leave me
I refuse to let you go
If I have to beg, plead for sympathy
I don't mind, 'cause it means that much to me
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Well, I heard a quiet man
Half a man, with no sense of pride
If I have to cry to keep ya I don't mind weepin'
If weepin' gonna keep ya by my side
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go
If I have to sleep on your door step all night and day
Just to keep you from walkin' away
Let my friends laugh, for this I can stand
Just so long as I keep ya, yeah, yeah, I can
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Well, your love's so deep in the pit of my heart
Every day it grows more and more
I'm not ashamed to come and plead with you, baby
If pleadin' keeps you from walkin' out the door
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby

I believe, I believe I'll dust my broom
I believe, I believe I'll dust my broom
Girlfriend, you know the man you've been lovin'
(Black)
Girlfriend, can get my room
I'm gon' write a letter, telephone every town I know
I'm gon' write a letter, telephone every town I know
He's not in West Helena, she must be in Claremont now
I'm gettin' up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom
I believe, I believe I'll dust my broom
Girlfriend, the black man you've been lovin'
Girlfriend, can get my room
I believe, I believe
I believe, I believe
Yes, I'm gettin' up in the mornin', I believe I'll dust my broom
I believe, I believe I'll dust my broom
Girlfriend, the black man you've been lovin'

Oh- Once you know you can never
You can never turn back
Oh- But I understand
'Cause we all fear what we lack
Being with you
Makes me tired as hell
Tired as hell
And it's so high, so low
Oh- So high, so low
Now if I was strong
And you were male
You'd be dead
And I would be in jail
Being with you
Oh- makes me tired as hell
Tired as hell
Now it's so high, so low
Oh- it's so high, so low
Don't go making promises
You know you won't keep
Weddings turn to funerals
Both with songs that make you weep
Being with you
Makes me tired as hell
And it's so high, so low
Oh- Now it's so high, so low
Now it's so high, so low

Oh - I sat down upon the church house steps
I sat down upon the church house steps
I sat down upon the church house
Down upon the church house steps
With all my hopes and dreams
All of my regrets
Oh - I sat down upon the church house steps
I sat down upon the church house steps
I sat down
I sat down upon the church house steps
With all I have lost
And with all I have been blessed
Oh - I sat down
Oh - I sat down
Oh - I sat down upon
I sat down upon the church house steps
I reached to the sky
As I hung my head and wept
Oh - I wept
Oh - I sat down
Oh - I sat down
I sat down
Oh - I sat down
If these wings should fail me

You and I were looking at old pictures yesterday
Sitting in disbelief at how time slips away
Both at a loss for words to say, who knew we'd never be younger than today?
Foolishness protected us from the world outside
They could never come between us but we knew they'd try
We remembered living as if there were a way to forever be younger than today
Never looked at anything you didn't care to see
I was the one who wouldn't let you leave
Even though it was a clear you couldn't stay
Had to try to be younger than today
Had to try to be younger than today
As we parted, you reminded me I'm alive
To remember when the stars danced just for you and I

I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place
Oh- with my
Oh- with my own two hands
With my own
Oh- with my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
And I can clean up the earth
Oh- with my own two hands
And I can reach out to you
Oh- with my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
Oh- with my own
Oh- with my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a brighter place
(with my own)
I'm gonna make it a safer place
(with my own)
I'm gonna help the human race
(with my own)
(with my own two hands)
Now I can hold you
With my own two hands
And I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own
Use your own two hands
Use your own two hands
And with our own
With our own two hands
With our
With our
With our own two hands
Oh- with my own
With my own two hands
I'm gonna make it a brighter place
(with my own)
I'm gonna make it a safer place
(with my own)
I'm gonna help the human race
(with my own)
Oh- make it a brighter place
(with my own)
I can hold you
(with my own)
And I can comfort you
(with my own)
But you got
You got
You got
You got
You got
You got
You got to use
Oh- use your own
Oh- use your own
Lord
But you got
You got
You got
You got
You got to use - use
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own
Use your own

Children come running to the truth
But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit
And while one's living high another's grieving
But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening
Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening
The wicked
The wicked
The wicked man shall fall
The wicked
The wicked
The wicked man shall fall
When the moon chase away the sun
And cause my day to run
I will not fear the darkest night
For I know upon the other side is light
Oh - The other side is light
The wicked
The wicked
The wicked man shall fall
The wicked
The wicked
The wicked man shall fall
Every man is a common man
And every common man has his plan
But while the hungry man seek any food in sight
The greedy man seek only appetite
Oh - The greedy man seek only appetite
The wicked
The wicked
The wicked man shall fall
The wicked
The wicked
The wicked man shall fall
Oh - The wicked man shall fall
Oh - The wicked
The wicked
Oh - The wicked man shall fall
Fall - Fall - Fall - Fall
Wicked man
Wicked man

You may be a cheap date
But my therapy's expensive as hell
Then you pay a psychic healer who lets you know
Things aren't really working out so well
Tomorrow's shining off our face
Yesterday's shadow is at our back, at our back
So why must you always dress in black?
People, they don't take advice, they only give it
And the only way you're ever gonna learn is to live it
So what you spent your younger years
Parlaying on the wrong side of the track
Why must you always dress in black?
If you have to lie, do it as quickly
And as thoroughly as you can
This morning I woke up slow feeling like the shell of a man
Don't blame me for us, you cried!
Oh, cut me some slack
And tell me why must you always dress in black?
She wore high heels, the ones that can pierce your heart
Just 'cause you go down in history
Doesn't mean you're really all that smart
Like Robert E. Lee, you're at your best when under attack
Why must you always dress in black?
You call in sick on Monday
Tuesday you show up late
Wednesday you left early
Thursday you fight with a boss you hate
Friday you up and quit
Saturday you want your old job back
Sunday morning you wake up all dressed in black

Well you can need me
Well I want you to
And you can feed me
How I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
Whipping boy
You can tease me
How I want you to
And you can squeeze me
Baby I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
Whipping boy
You can hold me
Baby I want you to
And you can scold me
Yes I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
Whipping boy
Well you can need me
Well I want you to
And you can feed me
Baby I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your

The man who stole the water will swim forevermore
But he'll never reach the land on that golden shore
That faint white light will haunt his heart
Till he's only a memory lost in the dark
Dig a hole in the ground straight down to hell
Till there ain't no more water in the well, well, well
When you're down on your knees with nothing left to sell
Try diggin a little deeper in the well, well, well
Well, well, well
Well, well, well
Take care of your body like you care for your soul
Don't you dig yourself into a hole
Until you've paid the price you can't know what it's worth
The air and water, the fire and earth
Dig a hole in the ground straight down to hell
Till there ain't no more water in the well, well, well
When you're down on your knees with nothing left to sell
Try diggin a little deeper in the well well well
Well, well, well

Welcome to the cruel world.
Hope you find your way.
Welcome to the cruel world.
Hope you find your way.
Oh- Oh- it's a cruel world.
Try to enjoy your stay.
Yes, it is a cruel world when you're tryin' to get by.
Oh- Oh- it's a cruel world when you're tryin'
when you've seen the look in their eye.
Makes life hard living but I'm so, so scared to die.
Welcome to the cruel world,
welcome,
welcome.
Don't know how we've lasted here so long.
There must be more good than bad or we'd already be gone.
And if you get up to Heaven before I do, I'm gonna tell ya,
it's gonna be cruel there too,
cruel there too.
You can't hide from this cruel world cause there is no place to run.
You can't hide from the cruel world there just is no place to run.
It's been cruel from the beginning, it will be cruel when we're done.
So when I'm gone, I will gladly say goodbye.
When I am gone, I will gladly say goodbye,
and if you want to feel me, put your hands up to the sky.
Welcome to the cruel world,
welcome,
welcome.
Hope you find your way.

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down
And I know you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
But I know I'm on a losing streak
'Cause I passed down by your street
And if you wanna show, just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
So baby, Woh- if heaven calls, I'm coming too
Just like you said you leave my life, I'm better off dead
All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down
The drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
So baby, Woh- if heaven calls, I'm coming too
And like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead
But if you wanna show, just let me know
And now I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But now I know I'll see your face again
Yeah- I know I'll see your face again
Yeah- I know I'll see your face again
Oh- now
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Never coming down, Never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more
Never coming down, never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
Oh- now

I killed a snake with a bible
I was living a Johnny Cash song
I'm afraid for this I may be liable
So its best I be moving
Moving along
Just a temporary remedy
Running through my
Running through my veins
Summer lasted through November
Funny when its gone you miss cold
Words can be spoken for a lifetime
We can never hear until we're told
Just a temporary remedy - yeah
And is running through
Running through my veins
They tell me nothing is perfect
Then tell me why is it a word
Oh- Yesterday's news is tomorrow's blues
And now they're perfectly blurred
Temporary remedy
Running through
Running through my veins
Just a temporary remedy - yeah
Running through

Lord I work to serve you
And I hope I've served you well
Oh - I've lived a life to join you
And now only time will tell
Oh - Take my hand when you are worried
Take my hand when you're alone
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home
Father dear father
Pulled his car to the side of the road
Looked at his children with tears in his eyes
Said life is too heavy a load
Take my hand when you are worried
Take my hand when you're alone
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home
Some days I'm struck with sorrow
Need a place to hide
There's nowhere else you can put life
But way down deep inside
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand when you're alone
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home
Take my hand when you are worried
Take my hand to lead you home
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home

Won't you sing me the blues
Won't you sing me the blues
Sing me something my heart can use; misery loves a symphony
Does your face, your pretty face get lost in a crowd?
And you say no one's there
To hear you cry out loud
What will you do, Suzie Blue?
Where did you learn to do that so well?
Where did you learn to do that so well?
I guess that would be like kiss and tell
If it's a secret, why did you show me?
But your far away from the love you used to hold, don't sit and watch your self
grow old
The day is new, Suzie Blue
The day is new, Suzie Blue
Real life has let you down
Real life has let you down
Someone stripped the jewel from your crown
Everybody owes somebody something
Kissing from heaven in your arms
And we'll make love to the memories
They will always see us through, Suzie Blue
The day is new, Suzie Blue

Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real and there's nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real and there's nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't you know tune in but it's alright
That is I think it's not too bad
Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real and there's nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Always no, sometimes think it's me but you know
I know when it's a dream, I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree
Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields
Oh, nothing, nothing is real and there's nothing to get hung about

I used to know her before she changed her name
And I still adore her just the same, just the same.
There comes a time when all we do is look back on what we’ve done
She could greet you in five different languages, but say goodbye in only one
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
I always hoped it would change over time
Cause she drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
My Spanish Red Wine
It isn’t that she lied, there just was no truth to tell
I had always wished for her, while she just wished me well
Wished me well
And we don’t need to go and drag this out into the light
I blame it on the lost days, while she blames the cold lonely nights
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
Cry for a nickel, you die a dime
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
My Spanish Red Wine
With her I should never have gambled
She could turn her heart into a spade
And she was a shining example that it’s hard to not want what you need
Not want what you need
So kiss those dirty streets for me
Tell them I’ll soon be there
That ocean lies between us, while her scent lingers in the air
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
She drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine
Then she uttered the words I’ve committed no crime
As she drank the last of my Spanish Red Wine

It hangs above my altar
Like they hung him from a cross
I keep one in my wallet
For the times I feel lost
I feel lost
In a wooden frame with splinters
Where my family kneels to pray
And if you listen close
You'll hear the words he used to say
I've got a picture of Jesus
In his arms so many prayers rest
We've got a picture of Jesus
And with him we shall be forever blessed
Forever blessed
Forever blessed
Now it has been spoken
He would come again
But would we recognize
This king among men
There was a man in our time
His words shine bright like the sun
He tried to lift the masses
And was crucified by gun
He was a picture of Jesus
With him so many prayers rest
He is a picture of Jesus
In his arms so many prayers
So many prayers
So many prayers rest
With him we shall be forever blessed
Forever blessed
Forever blessed
Some days have no beginning
And some days have no end
Some roads are straight and narrow
And some roads only bend
So let us say a prayer
For every living thing
Walking towards a light
From the cross of a king
We long to be a picture of Jesus
Of Jesus
In his arms
In his arms so many prayers rest
I long to be a picture of Jesus
With him we shall be forever blessed
With him we shall
With him we shall be forever blessed
Oh- Oh- I long
I've got a picture of Jesus

I'm serenaded by a chorus of a thousand burning cigarettes
You've been taking chances, mama
While I've been placing bets
So tell it to the ashes, they know we served
It may be good for the soul but it's hard on the nerves
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane
Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name
Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame
A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name
There's nowhere to run
I've got no one to tell
My face has become a mask and I'm not wearing it well
For five days straight
I've been breathing fire
Don't have room on my body
For another scar
The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane
Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name
Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame

There is not a river wide.
Not a mountain high.
And neither sin nor evil.
Could change how I feel inside.
Could change how I feel inside.
Not all the strength of the ocean.
Not all the heat from the sun, from the sun.
Now, others have tried, I just can't deny.
For me you are the one.
For me you are the one.
The true love is priceless.
For true love you pay a price.
But there's nothing can keep me from loving you.
Not fire, no not ice.
Not fire, no not ice.
Like a hero or a champion.
You are the best, you're the best.
Like religion or superstition.
With you I am blessed.
With you I am blessed.
Now the river may grow wider.
The mountain may reach past the sky.
And wether or not you feel the same.
My love shall never die.
My love shall never die.
The true love you give and take.
The true love is sacrifice.
But there's nothing can keep me from loving you.
Not fire, no not ice.
Not fire, no not ice.

Like an old man
Sitting alone at a lunch counter
Never leave lonely alone...
Like a small town girl
A big city devours
Never leave lonely alone...
Some of us laugh
Even in our darkest hour
Never leave lonely alone...
Unspoken rules of solitude
Wound without a trace
A lifetime of dreams roll down your face
All that we can't say
Is all we need to hear
When you close your eyes
Does the world disappear
There's something in everyone
Only they know
Never leave lonely alone...
It moves in the hidden ways
Of joy and sorrow
Never leave lonely alone

Papa he left home today
Said he ain't comin' back again
Said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best
Just cause mama's got a special kind of friend
Papa he left home today
Said he ain't comin' back no more
Said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat
And how could mama do him so low
But mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's got a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now
You see mama don't watch your damn football
And your beer drinkin' just won't do
You're just stayin' out late
And you're preachin' the hate
And you never have been true
You see mama she want her somebody
Who will let her be herself
So she's leavin' you
And your stinky damn ways
Cause she's found somebody else
And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Papa he left home today
He was wavin' his hands and cryin'
You could tell by the sound
And the tone in his voice
That his heart was slowly dyin'
But mama said "Boy if I ever
Catch you 'round here again
You ain't never gonna have nobody else
Not a woman or a man"
And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend

Papa, he left home today and said he ain't comin' back again.
Said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best, just cause mama's got a special kind of friend.
Papa, he left home today, said he ain't comin' back no more.
Said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat.
And how could mama do him so low.
But mama's got a girlfriend now, boy!
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
Mama's got a girlfriend.
Mama's got a true friend.
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
You see Mama don't watch your damn football.
And your beer drinkin' just won't do.
You're just stayin' out late.
And you're preachin' the hate.
And you never have been true.
You see, Mama, she want her somebody who will let her be herself.
So she's leavin' you and your stinky damn ways, cause she's found somebody else.
And Mama's got a girlfriend now boy.
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
Mama's got a girlfriend.
Mama's found a true friend.
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
Papa he left home today.
He was wavin' his hands and cryin'.
You could tell by the sound and the tone in his voice that his heart was slowly dyin'.
But mama said: "Boy if I ever catch you 'round here again, you ain't never gonna have nobody else not a woman or a man".
Yeah! Mama's got a girlfriend now boy.
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
Mama's got a girlfriend.
Mama's found a true friend.
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
Mama's got a girlfriend now, boy!
Mama's got a girlfriend now.
Mama's got a girlfriend.
Mama's found a true friend.

Lay there and hate me
Lay there and burn
One side to the other
You toss and turn
Never trust a woman, never trust a woman
Who loves the blues
Mistake number one, I made it three times a day
We'd best talk over how there is nothing left to say
I feel like an underpaid concubine
Who has overstayed her welcome
You gave me an eight-page letter front and back
Written in your favorite colors, blood and black
Choose your words as careful as you'd choose your own gravestone
You lay there and hate me, better than being alone
Had to fight your way in, you got to fight your way out
Ain't no fool like the fool you love
So let me hear you shout
Shake down, break down
Just can't sit still
You cut off your hair and sold it
For your pretty little pill
I've learned some things about myself I wish I didn't know
You gave me an eight-page letter from front and back
Written in your favorite colors, blood and black
You choose your words as careful as you'd choose your own gravestone
You lay there and hate me, better than being alone
Had to fight your way in, you got to fight your way out
Ain't no fool like the one you love
So let me hear you, hear you shout
Lay there and hate me
Cold as a stone
I just hope it's better than sitting alone
Never trust a woman who loves the blues
Gave me an eight-page letter front and back
Written in your favorite colors, blood and black
Choose your words as careful as you'd choose your own gravestone
Lay there and hate me, better than being alone
Had to fight your way in, now you got to fight your way out
Ain't no fool like the fool you love

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken
Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk
When you have awoken from all the dreams broken
Come and dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk
Dance with me in the colors of the dusk
The paths we're walking on, they crumble behind us
But if we leave now, they will never find us
And if this crazy world spins itself down to dust, I want to be with you in the colors
When you again start hoping with your arms wide open
Come on, dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk
And all will be right, dancing like water with the light

How I am strong
is to know what makes me weak
how I am found
is to know just whom I seek
the gift of a blessing
the burden of a sin
turn to him
I want to be ready
ready to put on
my long white robe
Nailed across
from hand to hand
for the sin
of woman and man
all upon his earth
is all within his plan
and I know this shall be
my journey home
I want to be ready
ready to put on
my long white robe
Covet no silver
covet no gold
reach your empty
hands for him to hold
up in his kingdom
glory shall be proclaimed
sing the song

You look like gold to me
and I'm not too blind to see
you look like gold
you make me wanna sing
with all the joy you bring
you look like gold
like the rays down from the sun
when a new day has just begun
you look like gold
I've been fooled before
but now I know
I've made the mistake in the past
but now I know the difference
from gold and brass
not the kind of gold you wear
but the kind that can feel my care
you look like gold
some shine when the day is new
but fade when the day is through
but you look like gold
I've been wrong before
but now I know
I've made mistakes in the past
but now I know the difference
from gold and brass
you look like gold to me
and I'm down on bending knees
you look like gold
and I just want you to know
to me you mean so much more
than all the gold

Have you ever lost your way
have you ever feared another day
have you ever misplaced your mind
watching this world leave you behind
won't you
won't you give
won't you give a man
give a man a home
have you ever worn thin
have you ever never known where to begin
have you ever lost your belief
watching your faith turn to grief
won't you
won't you give
won't you give a man
give a man a home
in a world that is unwhole
you have got to fight to keep your soul
some would rather give than receive
some would rather give up before they believe
won't you
won't you give
won't you give a man

It's late and I can't sleep
I've made promises that I can't keep
Cobblestones and broken bones, has a kingdom but he's got no home
Last night is still ringing in my head like that lonesome whistle in the rain
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
The lifetime we've left behind with strangers
Promises and lies both have their dangers
I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough
So far away, but I still feel your pain
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'd try to say goodbye but I never got your name
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm your fool for a lonesome train
I know it sounds crazy but I'm painfully sane

Inevitability
Is pounding at my door
Screaming for more
In a world that owes you nothing
You give everything
Everything
Now I'm caught in between
What I can't leave behind
And what I may never find
So fly one time
Fly one time
Standing
At the edge of your life
At the edge of our lives
Don't hold on, there's no fighting back the years
It's so hard to unlearn fears
Now that you're caught between
What you can't leave behind
And all that you may never find
So fly, just fly
Just fly one time
I see you so clearly, so clearly up so high
I see you up so clearly, up so clearly high
Now you're caught in between
What you can't leave behind
And what we may never find
So fly, so fly one time
So clearly, so clearly
So high, fly one time
Just fly one time

Oh - excuse me Mr.
Do you have the time,
Or are you so important that it stands still for you?
Excuse me Mr.
Want you lend me your ear,
Or are you not only blind but do you not hear?
Excuse me Mr. but isn't that your oil in the sea,
And the pollution in the air Mr.,
Whose could that be?
So, excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.
And, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.
It's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.
And I've seen enough,
Oh - I've seen enough,
I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.
Excuse me Mr.
Can't you see the children dying?
You say that you can't help them,
Mr. you're not even trying.
Excuse me Mr.
Just take a look around.
Oh, Mr. just look up and you will,
You'll see it's coming down.
Oh, excuse me Mr. but I'm, I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.
So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you that puts the rest of us to shame.
it's a Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame.
And I've seen enough,
I've seen en..., I've seen en...,
I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.
I've seen enough,
Oh - I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.
'cause Mr. when you're rattling on heaven's gate.
By then it is too late.
'cause Mr. when you get there,
They don't ask what you saved.
All they'll want to know Mr. is what you gave.
So, excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too.
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like... you.
So, I'm taking the Mr. from out in front of your name,
'cause it's a Mr. like you puts the rest of us to shame.
Mr. like you, puts the rest of us to shame.
Oh...

I wish i was a thought
I'd run all through your mind
And come out being everything
You ever tried to find
Life's the longest picture
You're ever gonna take
Love's the longest promise
That you're ever gonna break
I wish i could yell sorry
Louder than i screamed
All of those other things
I said but didn't mean
Some days i'm the lord's servant
Some days i'm satan's pawn
Some days i just wish
The voices in my head were gone
The sun's a moon that warms you
The moon's a sun with no heat
The sky above is to remind you
What's under your feet
This life's not big enough
To fit our love inside
'cause i remember you from heaven
The last time i died
It's an engraved invitation

You say what's mine is mine
And what's yours is mine too
Now you've got more than you can spend
But all of the money
In the whole wide world
Is not gonna help you in the end
Now while there's still time to be saved
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Might be too late for you I'm afraid
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Don't you take it there
I hear helicopters
Over my house every day
Shining their lights and flying low
Treat a child like a criminal
From the day that he is born
And you're gonna reap just what you sow
Now while there's still time to be saved
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Might be too late for you I'm afraid
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Don't you take it there
So you can move your court case
Way across town
You can move it across the whole wide globe
But it ain't gonna help your court case
Up in the sky
When you go to put on your white robe
Now while there's still time to be saved
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Might be too late for you I'm afraid
They don't want it there
Don't you take it there
And you dare the children
To stay off of drugs
Now I dare you to stop letting them in
And how dare you point your finger
At a gang out on the street
While it's you who is committing the sin
Now while there's still time to be saved
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Might be too late for you I'm afraid
Don't take that attitude to your grave
Don't you take it there
They don't want it there
You know your mother taught you better

I knew a girl
Her name was truth
She was a horrible liar.
She couldnt spend one day alone
But she couldnt be satisfied.
When you have everything,
You have everything to lose.
She made herself
A bed of nails
And shes plannin' on puttin' it to use.
Cos she had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
Diamonds
A candle throws its light into the darkness
In a nasty world,so shines the good deed
Make sure the fortune, that you seek
Is the fortune you need.
So tell me why,the first to ask,is the last to give,everytime
What you say and do not mean
Follow too close behind
Cos she had diamonds on the inside
She had diamonds on the inside
She wore diamonds on the inside
Diamonds
Like a soldier standing long under fire
Any change comes as a relief.
Let the giver's name remain unspoken
For she is just a generous thief.
But she had diamonds on the inside
Cos she had diamonds on the inside
She wore diamonds on the inside
She wore diamonds
Oh diamonds
She had diamonds
She wore diamonds

We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
Put on your Sunday best
I'll put on mine
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
Need to hear the preacher
Give me a sign
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
I'm gonna get my soul in line
I'm gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna leave all of our troubles behind
I'm gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it to the church on time
You may be rich may not have a dime
We're gonna make it to the church on time
We're gonna make it
Oh - We're gonna make it
Oh - We're gonna make it to the church on time
Trouble at heart - Oh - trouble in mind
We're gonna make it, Lord, to the church on time
Revelation chapter eight
Revelation chapter eight
Seven angels at the gate
You don't want to make them wait
Oh - We're gonna make it
Oh - I'm gonna make it
I'm gonna make it
Oh -I'm gonna make it to the church on time
Oh - To the church
Oh - To the church on time
On your Sunday best
On your Sunday best
Sunday best
I'm gonna put on
I'm gonna put on

When it's on the one
You know the funk's begun
When you are down and out
There is no doubt
You need the funk
Just bring the funk
Bring the funk
Bring the funk
Now what's the problem
Everybody's got them
Just get the hole
Out of your soul
And bring the funk
Bring me the funk
Bring the funk
If you got a glass closet
Don't you throw no bones
There's only getting
Until the getting's gone
So pass me the funk
(pass the funk)
Got to have my funk
(got to have my funk)
Oh- I need my funk
(need my funk)
Got to have my funk
(got to have my funk)
Some are jiving
Some are shuck
Some are just
Down on their luck
They just need the funk
(need the funk)
They got to have the funk
(got to have the funk)
Just bring 'em some funk
(bring the funk)
Just bring the funk
(just bring the funk)
Well, well
Bring it (repeat...)
Well stay black
(stay black)
Stay white
Stay brown get on down
Just bring the funk
Got to bring the funk
Bring the funk
Need it - I need it (repeat...)
Yeah
Well it's got to be solid
That's what you call it
Funk me up
Funk me down
Funk me sideways
Funk me all ways
Bring the funk
Got to bring the funk
Bring the funk
Oh- some things money can't fix
(like what?)
Some things only money will do the trick
It's not the end of the world
But I can see it from here
So bring - bring - bring - bring
Bring me the funk
(bring the funk)
Just bring the funk
(just bring me the funk)
Oh- bring the funk
(bring the funk)

You don't believe that I love you
And even if that was true
Why just to keep our unhappy home
I'm gonna try to pretend that I do
But I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
My baby she left me
said she ain't comin' back around
and I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
And if I thought that it was okay
For a grown man to cry
I would have filled up the whole mighty ocean
When she said goodbye
and I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
You know my baby she left me
said she ain't comin' back around
and I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
One day you said everything was just right
I don't see how it changed overnight
One day you said everything was so strong
The next day you turn to me and say
It' s been wrong all along
Oh and now you won't even look at me
You pass me by in the street and you won't even speak
I never meant to cause you any harm
How could two people start so close
And end up so far
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down

Tonight I'm gonna lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind tonight
We're gonna live forever
Easy come, easy go
Get in where you fit in
Gotta slow your roll
Tonight I wanna lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight we're gonna live forever
Never pretend to be a gambler
Smoke from your lips
Fire from your hips
She's just a slow walking woman
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I need to lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I'm gonna lose my mind
Never pretend to be a gambler
I gotta get out from inside my head
Gotta get out from inside my head
You doubled the dose and I ran outta rope
It's me and you against the world
You doubled the dose and I ran outta rope
It's me and you against the world
You gotta live my life to get boots like these
You gotta live my life to get boots like these

This empty room it fills my mind
Freedom it leaves me confined
Every single wall has cracked
But in this life you can't turn back
I don't want to live,
I don't want to live alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
As these words are with my tongue
I question why they're even sung
I have promised but I lied
I don't even know myself inside
I don't want to be,
I don't wanna be here alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
Today and tomorrow have become,
Become one
Every single thing has become none
Human nature is a beast
What I've done the most to show I have the least
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here
Don't you leave me alone
Alone
Alone