Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
Please, I need proof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Trapped in the snare with too much dreaming to bear
Fearful and frantic, hopeless and a romantic
Inspired but tired, I run this wide-open course
Like the sagging spirit of an older horse
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Peel back this backdrop, like the lids from my eyes
Put you in plain view, let me visualize
Touch me again in my dreams till I feel
Touch me again till I wake and it's real
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
The wisest advice to me that I didn't reach
Was to lock up the heart, but keep the key within reach
Touch me again in my dreams till I feel
Touch me again till I wake and it's real
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Shut your mouth
Raise the roof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Raise the roof
Dance till you fall
Love till you die
Not been here since I was a boy
The sky unwrapped, the world my toy
A movie reel a million miles long
On and on...
Scene after scene passes by my life
The window's a wound. The road is a knife
The irony, ask me, 'where have you been?'
I don't know, I don't know
Because I don't know where to begin
Too much to do, too much to see
Pictures to take, people to meet
When there's so much space in between
It overwhelms me
Scene after scene passes by my life
The window's a wound. The road is a knife
The irony, ask me, 'where have you been?'
I don't know, I don't know
Because I don't know where to begin
Not been here since I was a boy
Now heart full of fear and a mask of painted joy
So much for these youthful eyes to see
So much for peace and tranquility
One Prairie Outpost, you are how I feel...
Alone in a flatland 'tween the dream and the real
The irony, ask me, 'where have you been?'
I don't know, I don't know
Because I don't know where to begin
I woke up from a dream
A white rose was floating to greet... the sea
Morning light, race me down
The wooden path, can't catch me now... the sea
Will you wade with me? You and me, all alone?
Wadin' on the sea
I grab your toes and now I understand
The symbol of the rose, it floats on my hand
On this great sea strand
Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end, or until the day is through
And as we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That lures the devil in the deep blue sea
Will you always float here with me?
I don't wanna send second-hand notes
To you my friend, about the sea
So we jump back into the party
And we wade our way out past the bar
I had not planned on going out this far
Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end, or until the day is through
And as we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That lures the devil in the deep blue sea
Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end, or until the day is through
And as we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That lures the devil in the deep blue sea
'Cause the devil has a smile
And the devil has a smile
And it's thorny and it's wild
And it grows from deep inside
And you try to swim away
But the devil calls this play
Grey sky, always in your eye
Where is the girl behind the cloud?
Grey sky, always floating by
But I only peek when I'm allowed
You welcome me in
And your veil is so thin
But the mystery continues to grow
You say you must realize
That my grey sky eyes
Neither rain, nor they glow... now you know
So I'll try to not act so suprised
I'll feel my way, I'll underplay
All my curiosity and hide
All the questions in my skin
You welcome me in
And your veil is so thin
But the mystery continues to grow
You say you must realize
That my grey sky eyes
Neither rain, nor they glow... now you know
They neither rain nor they glow... now you know
Grey Sky, I think I changed my mind
I find no need to pretend
Grey Sky, would you allow me to be
So into you, my friend?
Could you welcome me in
With your veil that's so thin
As the the mystery continues to grow?
You say you must realize
That my grey sky eyes
Neither rain, nor they glow... now you know
They neither rain nor they glow... now you know
She longs for Peace
Its her revenge
She's a stark-white Pale Horse Rider
And Hell's just around the bend
She's kids to raise
She's got bills to feed
And her pride is a higher horse
Than some bum of a man upon a steed
The handle's rough,
She works it smooth
Hardened by the pace
The handds get though and it transfers through
Before the lines can reach her face
She flies like a kite held at the other end
Tuggin; dont on her cinnamon threads
Shes shreddin' in the wind
But she reads The Bible
She believes in the light
She thumbs through the pages
Til the Good Book smolders and ignites
She cries late at night
No one to hold her tight
Like she should be.. Cinnamindy
Hoarse and sore, her scratchy voice
Saws thru a song like a rusty cello
Now I lay me down to sleep
Lights out, time to dream
Her days are fine
She makes everybody smile
With her raspy laugh
The days are long
But she blows it all off
With a wink and a little sass
Today I strike out on my own
The dog is dead, the kids have grown
I fell asleep in my writing chair
I dreamt, I'd found my childhood stare
To family dinner Christmas night
We'd cross the river shipyard lights
Before the heartbreak and unknown
Today I strike out on my own
Hi-diddely-o, didn't ya know?
You fade once you glow
Didn't ya know, child?
After the rhyme, high time
Diddely-o, didn't you know?
You fade once you glow
Didn't ya know, child?
After the rhyme, high time
The families gather but we're all
Mere shadows in this Banquet Hall
I'm beggin' mom, will you understand
I'm beggin' dad, will you hold her hand
To play outside was all I'd known
And Christmas lights on every home
Hi-diddely-o, didn't ya know?
You fade once you glow
Didn't ya know, child?
After the rhyme, high time
Diddely-o, didn't you know?
You fade once you glow
Didn't ya know, child?
After the rhyme, high time
We find the people of our dreams
We find that they're not what they seem
I've learned that people come and go
I've learned that families break and grow
Toy soldiers brave away those tears
Toy soldiers hope for better years
Today I strike out on my own
The dog is dead, we kids have grown
Hi-diddely-o, didn't ya know?
You fade once you glow
Didn't ya know, child?
After the rhyme, high time
Diddely-o, didn't you know?
You fade once you glow
Didn't ya know, child?
After the rhyme, high time
After the rhyme, high time
Shootin' Stars. Gilded Age
Yeah just spoll your dreams to me
And we just hide away
You can stay if you believe
Just a leap of faith
Across a busy Boulevard of Broken Dreams
And I dream about her even though I never should...
Miss Hollywood, miss Hollywood, miss hollywood
Yeah I would ride into the sunset if I could
Ms. Hollywood, Ms. Hollywood, Ms. Hollywood
So slow to fade...
Check all the Hip across the street
Taking turns unlocking doors to fame by prozimity
Golden dreams flow like water
and the water always wins, for good or bad
Once you let it in
[Chorus]
Don't cry on Oscar night
Lifted off from Mother Earth
To find her elusive smile
You can't buy authentic vibe
But you can checkout all the detours off the 405
But you can stay if you believe
But spinning gold is never easy
When shooting stars are your dreams
Up in the sku a star's just a star
But funny thing, when looking up
It seems to follow you wherever you are
And I dream about her even though I never should
Miss Hollywood, miss Hollywood, miss Hollywood
Yeah I could ride into the sunset if I could
Ms. Hollywood, Ms. Hollywood, Ms. Hollywood
And I dream about her even though I never should
Miss Hollywood, miss Hollywood, miss Hollywood
Yeah I would ride into the sun like Clint Eastwood
Ms. Hollywood, Ms. Hollywood, Ms. Hollywood
Lie awake and look through the trees, my dear, my dear
I am waiting, breathe my name, my dear, my dear
Drift now to sleep, fall with the rain, my dear, my dear
Chase the high ground - where you'd rather be
Where you might be found
Face all aglow, to leave from here
To pack up and go
But it takes some time to get away
And you will have to build from what remains
To run it takes the courage of a lamb
To love, the fierceness of a storm
Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring , but no one is caring for you now
Just spread your wings, latch onto the breeze
Just take the leap... and you're free
Chase the high ground - where you'd rather be
Where you might be found
This move may erase the troubles in your head
Or expose the absence of your soul
And so, it takes some time to get away
And you will have to tear down what remains
And I can't stand for goodbyes
So hold on to me, or lead the way
Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring , but no one is caring for you now
Just spread your wings, latch onto the breeze
Just take the leap... and you're free
Pace yourself when outrunning fear
Take cover when it's dark
And keep an even keel
In your world you're only a phone away
But in my world you're too far to feel
And it may take some time to learn what's real
And you may have to beg and borrow
And you will surely steal
Remember all those lonely sessions
Turned into yesterday's lessons
To never forget love, to never forget love
Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring, but no one is caring for you now
Just spread your wings, latch onto the breeze
Just take the leap... and you're free
Paloma you wonder if you'll miss the thunder
Everyone's staring but no one is caring for...
Paloma you cry out you beg for connection
The dreams you seek are straight ahead in every direction
Now you're free
Now that you're, you're free
Now that you're, you're free
You're free
Today I watched the greatest thing of all
My name is Luck, this is my song
I happened by while you were gone, well...
I apologize that I could not stay
But I hope good things swing your way
I know they will... here's your horseshoe
So best of luck to you
For the stable running brave
From the cradle to the grave
This is my day, this is my song
I am alive... what can go wrong?
If we're on our way-oh, ok let me know
If we're on our way-oh, ok then, let's go
My name is Hope, Luck just ran out
He said he'd return, without a doubt
(ah, but don't you believe him!)
Oh, I happen to have a message from Love
She told me she knows what you've been dreaming of
My name is Hope, this is my song
When things go wrong
For the stable running brave
From the cradle to the grave
This is my day, this is my song
I am alive, what can go wrong?
If we're on our way-oh, ok let me know
If we're on our way-oh, ok then, let's go
Through the windswept countryside
Across the great divide
For the stable running brave
From the cradle to the grave
This is my day, this is my song
As long as I'm alive what can go wrong?
If we're on our way-oh, ok let me know
Couldn't ask for a better day, two by two
To the ring to the right point of view
Each retreat to the corner that's defined by you
To the ring to the right point of
Lonely Reign
She is the Boxer, she knows
When and where to strike
He is the Boxer, he knows
No peaceful sleep tonight
Caught the downfall of Pete and May, Ryan too
He did not approve of Rayleigh's mood
Doctor Mike was 'fight or flight' at Dun drum School
To the right to the right point of
No return, no passion left to burn
The Boxers grow weary
Their eyesight, blurry view
Lonely Reign
She is the Boxer, she knows
When and where to strike
He is the Boxer, he knows
No peaceful sleep tonight
All's quiet on the front, Smokey room
Boxer standing tall, peering through
Finding no one left to fight, what to do?
To the ring to the right point of view
Lonely Reign
She is the Boxer, she knows
When and where to strike
He is the Boxer, he knows
No peaceful sleep tonight
Lonely Reign
Lonely Reign
Long days, Come alive
I take it in through my eyes
Long days of paper tigers
They ate all the words of the wise
Now my spirit and bones take me
Straight to a fork in the road
Now my spirt and bones take me
Somewhere I've never known
And if I face indecision
Don't let me face it alone
Just take me straight to Virginia
Back to the faces of home
Long days, fade away
I take it in through my eyes
Sometimes survival's the milestone
Electrified like a lightning tree
Take these spirit and bones
And catapult from the ground
What doesn't throw you or burn you
Will surely turn you around
But if I face indecision
Don't let me face it alone
Just take me straight to Virginia
Back to the places I know
And if I face indecision
Don't let me face it alone
Just take me straight to Virgina
Back to the faces of home
Long days, Come alive
I face the trail of the Old Lonesome Pine
I catch a glimpse, flickers of brilliance
Straight ahead for what's left behind
Lond days, fade away
I hope to see them again
Sometimes survival's the milestone
I may get lost
But I will know where I've been
Know were I have been
She's assigned a witch to spell my heart
And now I'm drawn to her
And my feigning resistance is waning
Light as gossamer
And I mind
In this dark, flint a spark
Shady lady, it glows out of you
Through this complex of cobwebs
Revealing a heart for open view
And I mind, I mind, I mind, I mind
Follow the lady, go far
Follow the lady, go far
She's assigned a witch to spell my heart
And now I'm drawn to her
Siren song draw the ships, orchestrate the
Eclipse of this amateur
Then a warm sun arrived
Shady lady, it glows out of you
Like the faintest of pulses revived
And what else can you do?
And I mind, I mind, I mind, I mind
Follow the lady, go far
Follow the lady, go far
I'm far from letting go, letting go
Lady, how's the ending go?
Follow the lady, go far
And I mind
And I mind
I mind
I mind
I mind
Follow the lady, go far
Follow the lady, go far
I'm far from letting go, letting go
Lady, how's the ending go?
Float from the balcony
We ride the pine top swells
Down from the old hotel
On the Lake of Silver Bells
Leading is lonely
When you're dancing through derisions
So much left for giving
In the year of the living dangerously happy
On the Lake of Silver Bells
Light flickers by
A hundred suns hehind the trees
Melts us in a lullaby
Our eyelids are like movie screens
And we close our eyes
And feel the warmth come into frame
We close our eyes
Until our dreamsbecome one and the same
So much left for giving
In the year of living dangerously happy
On the lLake of Silver Bells
We dance across till we drop
The bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake
To muffled chimes out on the lake
We dance across till we drop
The bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake
On the Lake of Silver Bells
W've reached a secret place
To rest and reconcile
We close our eyes
The only change is no change for a while
We'll buy the old hotel
And we will make this place our own
And fill each room with sons and daughters
And never be alone
[Chorus]
Looking passed the love you face
You miss the place you never had
But what you need's not just the dream
But somethings on the other end
Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.
Call my friends to share some wine
To share some laughs, and last goodbyes
My photographs of these years
Will make me laugh through the tears
What are the odds, what are the odds?
This ends and we don't meet again
What are the odds, What are the odds?
That I will miss your smile
Take awhile! Take awhile! Take care and
Fly away and see the world
Take awhile! Take awhile! Take time and
If you need rest, I'll keep your nest
Changeless
Let fondness be our souvenir
To keep it warm, we'll keep it near
Otherwise with no heart to recall...
A memory's just a memory after all
I will not leave this pulse alone
Though it may take the long way home
I will not wait until the end
For my applause for you my friend
What are the odds, what are the odds?
This ends and we don't meet again
What are the odds, what are the odds?
This ends and we won't meet again
What are the odds, What are the odds?
That I have missed your smile
Take awhile! Take awhile! Take care and
Fly away and see the world
Take awhile! Take awhile! Take time and
If you need rest, I'll keep your nest
I fell in love with another man's woman
Another man's woman's got a hold on me
I'm on my knees, I cannot see
She came out of the sun just like a deity
She came out of the cold and she is melting me
I fell in love with another man's woman
Another man's woman's got a hold on me
She's swarming in my head just like a buzz of bees
She's hit me like a cyclone on the seven seas
She came in from the rain and she's drowning me
Adrift and marooned on a splinter at sea
Washed up in the desert and there's nothing to drink
And its no surprise that nothing rhymes with woman
Adrift and marooned on a splinter at sea
Washed up in the desert and there's nothing to drink
Well, oh Lord, I'm sure you're bored of forgivin' me
But don't you see
I fell in love with another man's woman
Another man's woman's got a hold on me
A match in the rain
A moth to the flame
A pleasure-seekin' yahoo with a penchant for pain
A double-decker bus of trouble, I'm in the way
I fell in love with another man's woman
Another man's woman's got a hold on me
I painted over truth with my tear-stained lies
I took all of the honey 'til the honeycomb dried
I opened up the music box
I wish you would have changed the locks
To keep me from replaying
All the feelings I've been saving
I did not keep them locked up inside
I did not take my steps in stride
Thought you were bluffing, trampled on you
Went from friends to nothing
Radio turns to gold
And paves the way
To find my home
When I'm alone
Overeager and underway
I risked it all, I had to say
What opened me up for the beating
But the heart is for bleeding
With scraps of songs I paste along
The seams of my clumsy tongue
In hopes of creating the golden notes
That might bring you back to me
Radio turns to gold
And paves the way
To find my home
When I'm alone
Like phantoms on the highway
After holiday, gritting their teeth
Racing to find a place for their soul
Or at least a place... that's less familiar
We offer up our heart before
The heart's invited or asked for
Oh no, here I go my friend, I'm repeating
But the heart is for bleeding...
And I've said all I can say
I am retreating, on my way
Music box, play my song I'll sing along
To that bitterly sweet tone
Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some stubborn leaves
That didn't fall with the fall, and now they clatter in vain
Holiday sky, midnight clear
Wind is high, hard to steer
Old muffler rumbles like an old fighter plane
In search of some rest, in search of a break
From a life of tests where something's always at stake
Where something's always so far
What about my broken car?
What about my life so far?
What about my dream?
What about.....
What about everything?
What about aeroplanes?
And what about ships that drank the sea?
What about...
What about the moon and stars?
What about soldier battle scars
And all the anger that they eat?
I am not in need
Get away and come with me
Come away with me and we'll see
If I was right on that night, that a future was made
Before time takes each year, like a knife cuts it clear
It's school, then work and then life that just sharpens the blade
I think about time for fun
I think about time for play
Then I think about being done, with no resume
With no one left to blame
What about fortune and fame?
What about your love to obtain?
What about the ring?
What about....
What about everything?
What about aeroplanes?
And what about ships that drank the sea?
What about...
What about the moon and stars?
What about soldier battle scars
And all the anger that they eat?
I am not in need
Holiday quiet on these streets, except for some reason me
The hometown harbor lights bright, the sailboats clatter in vain
Holiday sky, midnight clear
Wind is high on this pier
I find it hard to complain when compared with what about...
What about everything?
What about aeroplanes?
And what about ships that drank the sea?
What about...
What about the moon and stars?
What about soldier battle scars
And all the anger that they eat?
What about...
What about aliens? What about you and me and...
What about gold beneath the sea?
What about...
What about when buildings fall?
What about that midnight phone call...
The one that wakes you from your peace?
Put me in new direction
Point me to the edge of this world
With a warm heart and cold complexion
I'm feeble with a flag unfurled
Where to today?
M-miles away
And as I sigh the long goodbye
What will be found wandrin' around?
And as I sigh the long goodbye
What will be found wandrin' around?
Sister, where you going?
I have one question, maybe four
Sister, where you going?
We race straight back to where we were before
Where to today?
M-miles away, miles away
And as I sigh the long goodbye
What will be found wandrin' around?
And as I sigh the long goodbye
What will be found wandrin' around?
And as I sigh the long goodbye
What will be found wandrin' around?
And as I sigh the long goodbye
What will be found wandrin' around?
Wandrin' around
Wandrin' around
Wandrin' around
Wandrin' around
Wandrin' around
Wandrin' around
Wandrin' around
In a classroom somewhere alone
Looking at the window scene
Tune out the tutor in me
Sun is goin' down through the line of trees, I day dream
And in my head I walk along
All of the paths we have been on
There is a chance to bridge the line
Between two points ruptured in time
You lived your life like nothin' else mattered
And now you're torn, torn to tattered
And I don't need any apology
And you know, I don't need any apology
And it's a long walk away
Oh, it's a long walk away
Oh torn tattered, torn
Certain things make me feel, like it was when we could steal
The magic of moments real
Revisit, remember, reunion re-ember
The white smell of burning leaves
Walk along now
Happy new year Charlie Brown
You're full of hope with your head down
And you only have one eye to see
The other's closed and too scared to peak
And silence of the heart can leave you shattered
And now you're torn, torn to tattered
And I don't need any apology
And you know, I don't need any apology
And it's a long walk away
Oh, it's a long walk away
Oh torn tattered, torn tattered
Through the line of trees I dream
Of only good remembering
And I think of you and was it
Was it ever so bad my friend?
And what was
What was ever so bad my friend?
And in my head I walk along
All of the paths we should be on
The sun is down, enjoyed the dream
I'm full of hope, that you think of me
I think of you and how much you mattered
When I'm torn, torn to tattered
And I don't need any apology
And you know, I don't need any apology
And it's a long walk away
Shall I shy down that's boring, snoring
I'd like to teach me to sing in perfect harmony
And I'd like to change the world
It's easier than changing me
I'd like to find one girl who knows me
Strum bang the drum around or put it down
And figure out if I'm out of line
Sit around and figure out if I'm wasting time
Wait for the sign
It's time to shine shine shine
Wait for the sign
It's time to shine shine shine
Why should I sh-shy down, how are you? Fine
Why should I sit around and be dead and never shine
It's the giant, so defiant
But I'm happier if I can sleep
If I wake though, volcano. fee fi fo
Fum bang the drum around or put it down
And figure out if I'm out of line
Sit around and figure out if I'm wasting time
Wait for the sign
It's time to shine shine shine
Wait for the sign
It's time to shine shine shine
Lit a fire under my assets
I'd like to, I try to, tread tightly, so slightly
When the forest is before us
But we can't see for all the trees
That's when they fall, that's when I call
The good Paul Bunyan
Bang the drum aloud or put it down
And figure out if I'm out of line
Wait for the sign
It's time to shine shine shine
Wait for the sign
It's time to shine shine shine
We're out of line
It's time to shine shine shine
Wait for the sign
You're on my fingers, you're on my paper
We're close but far, here we are, there you are
You're on my weak heart, my heart is tissue
My heart's a scar, here we are, there you are
You're mellow tone, the stepping stone
To whittle away to get me home
I travel far to bed the floor
I've come a long way, I've come to miss
Your mellow tone, mellow tone
Mellow tone, mellow tone
Where now to begin, this deadened cove, oh
To feel your warm skin
Beneath your clothes, beneath your clothes
Dilate me in your pool, erase my memory start anew
Hide where no one knows
Beneath your clothes, beneath your clothes
The zenith hum, the perfect strum
I have become completely numb
Tone of your heartbeat, tone of your breathing
Tone of your fingertips, I'm receiving mellow tone
Mellow tone, mellow tone, mellow tone
The zenith hum, the perfect strum
I have become completely numb
Tone of your heartbeat, tone of your breathing
Tone of your fingertips, I'm receiving mellow tone
Mellow tone, mellow tone, mellow tone
It's Sunday noon in my room
The wind is really ragin'
Inside I'll hide in my tune
And think of yesterday playing
In my room
In my room
I feel like a kite high in a tree
Is this where I'm suppose to be?
I wish, I was a little boy
When love was taken care of
I know, I will say
Maybe today
It's Sunday noon, cocoon and heal
Oh no, please don't throw me in the briar
Where mother's made all the meals
And father's built the fire
When will this feeling go away?
When will this feeling ever stay?
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
And now I'm not so mournful
As I sit and watch the wind blow
This place is my cathedral
And the choir's swaying just outside the window
Everyone needs a day to dream, per chance
Today I have yesterday to tempt me
So c'mon put on your best dress and let's dance
For the chairs are all but empty
When will this feeling go away?
When will this feeling ever stay?
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
Maybe today
There's a neat little lass and her name is Mary Mac
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
Lot of other fellas want to get up on her back
But I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early
Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me
My mother's making me marry Mary Mac
Well I'm going to marry Mary for when Mary's taking care of me
We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mac
KAIYUT-LIT-L-LOT-LIT-L-LOTL-LEETLE-UM
This wee little lass she has a lot of class
She has a lot of brass and her mother thinks I'm gas
I think she's an ass to let the matter pass
She made her way
She felt she was to blame and her porcelain dolls
She's boxed them all
And along the way, she changed her name
Lonesome pine, rain or shine
Stands alone, roots unknown
And I'm as brave as you and I'm as afraid as you
And I'm as brave as you and I'm as afraid as you are too
She let me in
And then, she changed her mind
With a sad echo, she's all her own
She shook the blame, she changed her name
Lonesome pine, rain or shine
Stands alone, roots unknown
And I'm as brave as you and I'm as afraid as you
Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
Live a life less sedentary
Live a life evolutionary with me
Well I hate to be a bother,
But it's you and there's no other, I do believe
You can call me naive but...
I know me very well (at least as far as I can tell)
And I know what I need
The night you came into my life
Well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
You blew away my storm and strife
And shook the bones of me, shook the bones of me
By the way, I do know why you stayed away...
I will keep tongue-tied next time
Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
My face had said too much
Before our hands could even touch
To greet a 'hello'
(So much for going slow...)
A little later on that year
I told you that I loved you dear
What do you know?
This you weren't prepared to hear
I'm a saddened man, I'm a broken boy
I'm a toddler with a complex toy
I've fallen apart, since the ambush of your heart
The night you came into my life
Well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
You blew away my storm and strife
And shook the bones of me, shook the bones of me.
By the way, I do know why you stayed away
I will keep tongue-tied but...
Honey understand, honey understand
I won't make demands
Honey understand, honey understand
We could walk without a plan.
Honey understand (honey), honey understand
I won't rest in stone all alone
Honey understand, honey understand
I'm all ready to go
But you already know...
Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me.
If I could name you in this song
Would it make you smile and sing along?
This is the goal: to get into your soul
If I could make you dance for joy
Could that be the second-chance decoy?
The bird-in-hand I would need
To help you understand?
The night you came into my life
well it took the bones of me, took the bones of me
You blew away my storm and strife
And shook the bones of me, shook the bones of me
By the way, I do know why you stayed away
Love endures, it clings away
When asked to leave, it begs to stay
Like the perfect song at imperfect times
It's the way the chords struck with the rhymes
So let your troubles roll by
He knows he can help himself
He can tell by a look at the books on his shelf
And someone, somewhere loses her son
Before her own sunset is said and done
And she dreams of sunflowers bent-over
Frozen in the snow and thinks Colorado
But then plays her life back in slow motion
To keep in touch with that raw emotion
In the night, crushed empty can
Olive oil is waiting for her man
To come in from the fight
That will change their life for good this time
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
Let your troubles roll by
Like New Year's eve, tonight's underway
But tomorrow you'll wake up afraid of the day
'Cause underneath the scars of your broken dreams
An undone war still wages and stings
You fear the year will blow
Like a breeze through a rainbow
You swear it's there, but you can't grab a hold
So you sit and cry and wonder why, why
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
Let your troubles roll by
So many cities and windows and lives
And through each one there's a soul that strives to survive
So pay no mind, my sorrow's fine
The day is alive and that's why I cry
It's a New Year's toast, grab your list to conspire
The last snake hissed as he was thrown in the fire
You've come far, and though you're far from the end
You don't mind where you are, 'cause you know where you've been
Like a culture vulture sprawled out on the floor
Like a dead devil sailor washed up on the shore
With nothing of note but the old captains coat
And a burning boat, you just sank with your salty tears dry
Let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
When all of your tears dry, let your troubles roll by
Let your troubles roll by
You talk tough to me and it makes me smile
By the old church yard your feelings hide
I know the reason and you won't say
"If we grow too close, will you push away?"
I know the reason
And I like, that we're the same
Waterfall
Are you afraid to love? You afraid to smile?
From the inside out, to the open wide?
I know the feeling, you're way too proud
And will they find you out if you laugh out loud?
I know the reason
And I like, that we're the same
Waterfall
I know, that we're the same
Waterfall, umbrella in the rain
And I won't ask why, I know the reason
I thought you should know, I know the reason
I'll never be the same
I clearly see umbrella in the rain over you and me
You are the best thing, let it show
And if we grow to close, let it undertow, this is the best thing
I know the reason
And I like, that we're the same
Waterfall
Should we fall down?
Fall down, fall down, fall down
Fall down, fall down
I know the reason
And I like, that we're the same
Drops of rain
Oh the sun wants to break
Through April just wants
Her lazy saturday
New lovers peak
From their nesting eves
Some secrets to keep
The spill out everywhere
On the corners. Out in the streets
Just a hoody affair
A sweatshirt morning everywhere
Drops of rain on the Coffee window pane
I know I won't get hooked on simple days
If ignorance is bliss my love
I never would forget
What I knew when I was young
Man, I know I can't hold on
To April drops of rain
And then come-what-may...
But its hard to look away
Life is rich, Life is rich
Only if we live through its experience
No thought for a while
Just a quick fix on a smile
Spring is spring, forever young
Its just its job... get in and out
And then its job is done...
Before Summer's born
We;re caught between Human Condition fraility
Heaven and Hell, Love and Lust
Oh well... So much to learn
[Chorus]
Drops of rain flip flop belly ring
Pull back hair I really don't care
Just a hoody affair. A hoody affair
A hoody kind of thing
Drops of rain flip flop belly ring
Pull back hair walk nowhere
Just a hoody affair. A hoody affair
Transport me and quarantine
This feeling that is seldom scene
I'm curious and fevers peaked
Delirious with this mystique
Soaked in a blanket's warm
Ember glow
Freer now than I've ever know
I dance the fire with a crazy glaze
And juxtapose to coin this haze
Wolftrap and Fireflies
What does it mean?
Oh, the image sticks like glue to me
Is this to make some sense
Some evening
Quiet with a candle. Cheat to bring them near
Oh, silent, I the hunter, til the answers clear
I tried hard to peg this feel
The catch proved much too big to reel
You blink, you miss and bliss is dead
Playing spotlight with my head
Pop up unannounced, take aim
Snap the traps (and start again)
Quill-dip and adjustaprose
Snap-shot record what image glows
I know their eyes follow me
Track my prints, encircle me
Taste. Touch. Smell. Sight. Sound
Eyes look up, ears to the ground
Soaked in a blanket's warm ebb and flow
Freer now? I just don't know
Slate-gray sky meets musty green
Can you smell the mossy world machine?
(Cow Moo)
It's been said, keep your head
My therapy is a wooden she'd
Gave and inch and you took my yard
Now the mowing is twice as hard
I guess that's o.k. but next time
Just stay away
True I'm selfish they'll not bother me
Don't know where I keep my favorite tree
This is my day here
Ask when it's not so clear
Call me when the lines are down
I won't be around
Never took a second look
Find the trail that leads to the hollow nook
Double back
Back on track
Stack my apples in a weathered sack
I'll come across it if it crosses my mind
I'll come across it should I try to find
Keep the pace but end the race
No more starch and a lot more space
Tell me your coming
That makes two
Run and hide
Away from you
Never knew your needs required
Constant I.V.
Never knew your needs required
Constant me
Never knew your needs required
Constant I.V.
I'm not your food, your food for thought
Can barely feed myself
What is lost can be regained
Just look high, high on the shelf
One, one at a time and we roll along
One, one at a time and we roll along
One, one at a time and we roll along
One, one at a time and we roll along
Oooohhh whoooooo and we roll along
Oooohhh whoooooo and we roll along
Oooohhh whoooooo and it's on and on
I just dreamed what it's like for me to be dead
my icy body sunk in a black lake
with the leaves swirling around me
the fall can leave such a bad sting in the water
my dream ended my life because
no stays for the winter
all these dreams never really meant that much to me
always brings a hand of security
my life was spare because it was only a dream
suffice to say the water was not as cold
as the vision is old
God why can't things live when it is freezing?
ironic when I'm forced to my cave when
It's my favorite season
I don't wan't to freeze
Hang on Parade...
Catching up again
Where's the feeling we knew then
(Whisper, my friend...)
So we pick up, with empty cup
In dreaming we thrive
As we doze alone, and cradle stone
Am I alive?
...And all is fine on Kinakeet Island
Where they dance and sing
Lament the Brave
Ghost Rider the waves are rolling thin
Bang on Parade...
A magic place will wait
So we shop the streets, so indiscreet
Our eyes sedate
So we pick up with empty cup
And march along
As nostalgia plays from the tower waves
The ghost of a song...
...And all is fine on Kinakeet Island
Where they dance and sing
Lament the Brave
Ghost Rider the waves are rolling thin
We're on our way to Kinakeet Island
Lament the Brave
We're in the band... We're in the band...
Horizon Bound. Forever, horizon bound
[Chorus]
We're in the band... We're in the band
Drawing lines in the sand
Living our lives hand to hand...
...On a warm night, in my mind
I woke up broke free, drove a long time
It didn't purge you from my mind
Hang up the hill maybe your right
Chalk it up to a starry night
To be set free to live and learn
Did we pass or fail the term?
You wrote a note with chalk on my door
A message I'd known long before
On any given day you'll find me gone
On any given day you'll find me gone
Give me your reason, give me your rhyme
So I can tempo me to your time
So I can scratch your surface and be
A deeper part of the mystery
To be undone to be alone
To live life in monotone
I reach the beach and try to ignore
The warning I'd known long before
On any given day you'll find me gone
On any given day you'll find me gone
I've been down to the sea
I've been down to the sea
And so all of the lovers will say
Forever star crossed will we stay
Still I can't help feeling
Castaway on any given day
Still I can't help feeling
You'll run away on any given day
I window shop for you in my mind
A flannel shirt at the five and dime
A leather coat cut fixed in a style
Boots from plastic crocodile
A pine cone dipped in glitter glue
A penny 1942
A necklace with a cheap green stone
Barefeet, cold sand, chilled to the bone
On any given day you'll fine me gone
On any given day you'll fine me gone
I've been down to the sea
I've been down to the sea
And so all of the lovers will say
Forever star crossed will we stay
Still I can't help feeling
Castaway on any given day
Still I can't help feeling
You'll run away on any given
My eye on you, my eye on you
My eye on you always
My eye on you, my eye on you
My eye on you always
Still I can't help feeling
Castaway on any given day
Still I can't help feeling
You'll run away on any given day
Lift my hands up smell to reveal
Your perfume on the steering wheel
You're next to me asleep and I smile
I think I'll drive on for a while
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
And now without delay
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
To march in the last parade
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
If anyone wants to dare
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
For the Donnybrook affair
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
A license for leisure, What-e'er be the pleasure
The council's always up in arms
To try and take it away, hey!
Play the harp and play the fiddle
Play the whistle too
Bang the drum and use the lungs
To get the message through
But ya fight ya might get tar-n-feathered
So bow and say a prayer
To the commission for the abolition
Of the Donnybrook Fair
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
If anyone wants to dare
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
For the Donnybrook affair
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
A license for leisure, what-e'er be the pleasure
The council's always up in arms
To try and take it away, hey!
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
And now without delay
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
To march in the last parade
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
If anyone wants to dare
We're takin the road to the Dodder on down
For Donnybrook affair
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
And they aim to take it away I swear
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's always up in arms
Wide awake
I'm on a plane out of town
Fly away
From the weight of the world
On the ground
I'm international
But I don't know where to go
Hopefully where summer days
Can melt these winter bones
I'm international
And you're orbiting my brain
I'm reduced to writing nothing
All over napkins on the plane
Wide awake
I'm on a plane out of town
Taking pictures of myself
In the mirror on wall
Trying hard not to make my space
The loneliest place of all
Early warning all across the sky
Clouds are rolling in on your light
Any change from here would be
The wisest change of all
Any place from here up here
Would be the finest place to fall
Wide awake
I'm on a plane out of town
I'm losing track of myself
On all the time zone lines
And if I daylight save
Do I jump ahead or fall behind?
And I'm fine 'cause I know
Any plane I ride
Can fly me home
And I'm fine 'cause I know
You know, I know
It's easy to see
Clouds were built for dreams
Because nothing up there
Is as easy as it seems
I step out
And try to walk around
As I fall, I look up
And wonder why it let me down
I'm international
That's twice the speed of sound
I just hope I take off from here
Before I hit the ground
If I could get to heaven
By an airplane in the sky
We would always be in love
And we would always love to fly
Wide awake
I'm on a plane out of town
Taking pictures of myself
In the mirror on wall
Trying hard not to make my space
The loneliest place of all
And I'm fine 'cause I know
Any plane I ride
Can fly me home
And I'm fine 'cause I know
You know, I know
And I'm fine 'cause I know
Any plane I ride
Can fly me home
And I'm fine 'cause I know
Any plane I ride
Can fly me home
You know, I know
Please break away
Afraid you'll fray out on the game to shake change
They turn to graze and chase their shadows straight out of town
Grab a seat, here's a retreat to reckon with - please raise your glass
Season's come again. At long last, I'm long lost (but it won't last)
Minions cast opinions as they crowd outside my getaway
Hooray! Toast today! Begin this Social Event of the Century
Odd Scenery
Around in vain, I'll catch my tail
I missed your point, but anyway...
Shadows in the banquet hall recall the dance that did them in
Shins, oh so thin. Should you not feel a part of anything?
Are these not the colorful lives we intended them to be?
Freedom painted me. Begin this Social Event of the Century
Odd Scenery
I'll catch my tail. Conversation failed
I missed your point, but anyway
Come again? Come again
Social epithets fly. Arms dig deep to rake this muck
Plague me for the fool. This rendesvous must self-destruct
Time to clear! The end is near! Too late, roll in Catastrophe
Blame me, it's Chaos Carnival of the Century
Odd Scenery
I'll catch my tail. Celebration failed
Come again. Come again?
A monster used to chase me
Used to jump from the top of my stairs
I used to sit in the rain on the wet leaves
On top of the she'd roof (if my mother knew)
The clock on the wall has a good time with my time
The brainstorming rainstorm is on it's way
The pale color of the door that's seen everything before
But just from only one side
No warning, history rears it's ugly head
(Stepped on it's tail)
Still running from what I chase
The lesson learned has come so frail
The clock has fallen and the cuckoo is calling
And the blackbirds congregate and shuffle their wings
I'm on the wire and they call me a liar
But this time I'm going to sing
Chorus:
No escape
Just how I feel
No escape
Just how I feel
No escape
Just how I feel
No escape
Just how I feel
My textureless history I store
In a textured bag (it's painted real fine)
Your serious laughing, infectious clapping
Still a beat behind
Let's get to the root of the matter I have no roots
No matter I'll grow my own
Quitting's easier and time is greasier
Slipping from the metronome
Chorus
The clock in the hall has a bad time with my time
Blackbirds congregate and shuffle their wings
I'm on the wire and they call me a liar
But this time I'm going to sing
Chorus x2
Board the windows, winterize... recess with my mind
I have some in-between time... recess with my mind
Quilt of voices, piecemeal scenes... shutters clack
Hush. muffle time
Painting of a different stream... recess with my mind
Jack Frost taps the window sill
William Tell atop the hill
Dreaming arrows shoot the hay
Autumn's color wheel will fade
Stones thrown to blown spun glass... recess with my mind
Re-invention. Nurture Past... recess with my mind
Escape our Independence Day
(Battle in decline)
Correspondence won't relay... recess with my mind
Redcoats raid the Raincoats' space
Soul to storm upon each face
Clouds with roving eyes set sail
Cannon cottonballs of hail
Autumn raged the skeleton trees
Kings and queens and squires flee
Chessboard battlements ablaze
Battle photo bleached away
Lonely with the company
But when November calls me
Creation melt my enemies
Hibernation. Silencing
Makebelieve
Memory just short of what it could've been
It didn't last, it went away
Always knew it would.
It's good to leave, it's sad to leave
Nighttime bridges breathe
Ebb and flow
Cars blink by like a metronome
As the head for home
City glows up into the sky
Winter ribbon clouds
Melt down into grey sky night
Electric with light
And if you're burning like a candle all alone
And if we're burning like 2 candles
With no window to call home
Let it snow
Nighttime evergreens. Fade and glow
All the kids smell snow... it will fall
The kids know it all
Night sky. City sleep
Snow globe halos on the lamps in the street
Ebb and Flow. Fade and Glow
And you never know. You never know
If you're burning like a candle all alone
And if we're burning like 2 candles
With no window to call home
Let it snow. Let is snow over everything
When you hear the sound
Let it snow. Let the snowfall music
Shall we begin?
Gather round, gather all:
Keep it real, strip it down
Rather not wait around
With the Hungry Eyes of a snake-oil salesman
Wait/Hurry
Water to wine
Have got the patience...
Haven't got the time
Saw Dusty Eyes... some enthused
Some act the part
(but nonetheless, plan to lose)
Something wicked-good this way comes
Not twice upon a lifetime
[CHORUS]
Blackbirds... you watch 'em...
They know the black clouds
They are all runnin' home
Lightning rod (divining toy)
When the rains come, what is your source for joy?
Looked at my life: a painted clown
un-amused
Keep it real, strip it down
Rather not wait around
With the Hungry Eyes of a snake oil salesman
[CHORUS]
Home, home.
Raise your family of ghosts and spirits, Sir, we really need to drink from your wine. And yes, your skeletons in the closets (might I bring a few of mine?).
Let's see what we can't see, unlock your books for a change. Glass excavated... bits of china... Mulberry Row scars still remain.
Bones are everywhere, aren't they? Our families spring from their graves. Their Sunday Best don't fit them bones the same way and wine is seeping from
the barrel staves... again.
I'm in your tea room toasting lives unchanged (while music's playing by the garden's edge). Outside rusted joints prove souls asleep can flowers blooms from this vintage? Relative Skeletons nervously shuffle, we glance around community of our own. Quiet valley drips with hints of laughter. Mr. Jefferson, can we slip these bones?
And bones are everywhere, aren't they? What do you think they'd see through those trees? 'Resurrected Spirits Dancing,' you don't say!? (The minstrel's new arrangement of History).
We danced and drank the sun! It over flowed and washed the past away. We roamed! Echo! Laughter! Spirits danced a jig around their graves...
...Then came the rain.
A garden craves a balance of both (I guess so).
From the garden, they're all running from the garden, we're all looking for the garden. So much to maintain.
Bones are everywhere aren't they? Ghosty spirits dash right past me. Finding hidden spaces, favored places. Families disperse to there graves.
She broached again and again over the careful morning scones
That she adored all too quickly as he cranked up his jaw
And turned off his ear, and she reminded they were his favorites and
Could we please consider for our morning view
That flower box window with the three sides of glass?
(Like in the magazines)
"Consider it I will," he said, "Consider it gone from your head
As it is I'm late and not in need of a view
And you will idle your time away like a bird perched at the window sill
So off I go and I'm gonna auction you off if you insist my little gem
My little hen to persist with this mentality"
"No more of this, she said, "Living in the shadow
Of my other sledgehammer, saw hacked away at the wall
Giggles, fear and dust, she chipped away and punched a hole
And the sun winked through with its artist eye
As if to say, "Wherever you been Attica?
Break the seal of your conventionality"
Not used to this awakening in you
Stash your dreams up in the cupboard bare
You know your name
She made her way to see that sun and headed out the door
With a wide stride to attack it from the other side
She ripped away, she talked aloud, belly laughed
And one by one the bottled spirits came to the curb
To see what was goin' on, "Attica, my dear"
They said, "Have you gone and lost your head?"
Here's a magazine, now go and find me that window frame
And to the nursery with you, we've got a lot to do
You can help or get out of my way
Not used to this awakening in you
Drink your tea in the same way
(Same time each day)
You know your name and you know who you are
Well, the spirit caught like wildfire and she had a crew
And between them all her flower box window was installed after all
Fanfare from the kitchen, street bazaar in the yard
(I see you, you see me)
Soak the sun
Cinnamon
What went wrong
Summer Song
Splinter snag
Windvein ragged
Faded trends
Summer ends
What's that I thought I heard you say?
Lunarscape and cold winds on their way
Whistling banshee through the screen
Salt air and isolation sting
Melon seed-spitting wars
Toys lost in the sand
Innocence is scorched
Summer leaves it's brand
Bat away a hurricane's eyelash
Ushering by the season past
Hinting, dapples pinching through my sleeve
Intimating that I leave
Hurricane remember me
Hurricane watch over me
From this point we roll along
Tip toe, tip toe... tip toe, tip toe... out of your heart.
And I'm not that proud, I'm not that proud at all,
But I don't know how to gently break your fall.
Forgive me I'm a coward and a stray,
And I don't know how to boldly walk away.
Forgive me I'm a coward and a stray,
And I don't know how to boldly walk away.
So I tip toe, tip toe... out of your heart.
Once upon a summertime is gone,
Wide awake but drifting off and on.
I'm a boat without an anchor or an oar,
You're a cottage sitting pretty by the shore.
When love is on fire, I'm a bird on a wire.
It's easier to stay, high above the way,
It's easier to stay, high above the way,
Of your heart.
And I'm not that proud, I'm not that proud at all,
But I don't know how to gently break your fall.
Forgive me I'm a coward and a stray,
And I don't know how to boldly walk away.
I'm a boat without an anchor or an oar,
You're a cottage sitting pretty by the shore.
I'm a boat without an anchor or an oar,
Spare me boy I've heard it all before.
What have you learned, can you remember?
What would you like for me to do?
Everything you need from me is in your hands
And everything else is up to you
You're like a butterfly on a windy day
You use directions in a roundabout day
What have you learned,
Now that you've been burned
By the guy who used to be the center of your eye
And you're blown away by your own hurricane
And you wonder why
Cast away and you're looking through the wreckage for your pride,
But you can't salvage what you don't supply
What have you learned,
Now that you've been burned
By the girl who used to be the center of your world
Who used to be your center of gravity
And now you're so unsure
You're like a squirrel out in the middle of the road
You're halfway there but don't know which way to go
What have you learned
Now that you've been burned
By the one who used to be the one and only
If you could see your sinking dignity
You're like the waves beating on the sandy shore
You swear you've been there once or twice before
What have you learned?
What have you learned?
What have you learned?
What have you learned, can you remember?
Now that they don't know what to do
Now that they miss your heart of gold so badly
This is what I'd say if I were you
It's in a treasure chest that's buried in the sand
But the “x” does not mark the spot and I do not need a hand
And if I burst out into flames without your guidance anymore
What's the point in reaching you my lonely friend?
What's the point in friends if friends can't make amends?
I am not impressed not that
I claim to know what's best.
You're sick of love, you're sick of the day.
The sun's your excuse to hide away.
So why?
What about the dreams that keep you up at night?
What about the people each day passing you by?
I am not impressed not that
I claim to know what's best.
You're sick of love, you're sick of the day.
The sun's your excuse to hide away.
You're all alone
You're by your phone
You're probably stoned
So Why?
You're all alone
You're by your phone
You're probably stoned
So Why?
So Why?
So Why?
What's the point in reaching you my lonely friend?
What's the point in friends if friends cannot offend?
I am most impressed you have
ripped the heart clean out of your chest.
You're sick of love, you're sick of the day.
The sun's your excuse to stow away.
You're all alone
You're by your phone
You're probably stoned
So Why?
You're all alone
You're by your phone
You're probably stoned
So Why?
You're all alone
You're by your phone
You're probably stoned
So Why?
You're all alone
You're by your phone
You're probably stoned
So Why?
So why deny everyone?
Vagabond or a bag of bones?
They lay out loose atop the soil
They lay out and here comes the sun
And the winds to blow me away
Who who are you, who am I
Or who are we if not the seed?
Fire by the riverside
Learn to swim
Or no one gets out of here alive
Vagabond, a bag of bones
A dandelion blown to a thousand homes
With no place to go
But who is to say and who's who to know?
Vagabond a bag of bones
A dandelion blown to a thousand homes
With no place to grow
But who is to say and who's who to know?
Wind in the trees
The rain comes thundering down
It takes some water to make a cloud
It takes some seeds to sow the ground
'Cause even a seed
Needs to spend its time in the dirt to grow
But it takes motion to make a sound
It takes getting lost to be found
[chorus]
A shallow grave
Return to dreams
It's over my head
It's all make-believe
In my mind... in my mind
When my thoughts have gone to seed
I will return them to my dreams
Till I return
I return to dreams in my mind
I can hear the thunderclouds moving on
You weren't invited but you're welcome to come along
I can hear the sounds of the thunderclouds moving on
This is an atypical day (it's the State we're in):
Billow-beast clouds. Vibrant, bright like Spring.
This is a turbulent drive, mixing bowl of good and bad
Kooked by caffeine, Sky Wind Machine
And the car absorbs it all - shake, shift, rattle at me
(We're both suckers for scenery)
Should weather not match the mood?
Conjure old anti-trust flaws:
Run from blue eyes, shun blue skies the same.
Simplicity, where's the needle today?
All stacks of hay...
~ Jan. 9 / 63 degrees ~
Nonlinear thoughts on this linear road
Bluster me. Entangle - spider web spun
('Make hay while the sun shines...')
We're not victims here;
we choose our way, hunt the game
Chase to balance empty palettes
But there are emotions...and relatives and...
I'm relatively poor with social ills.
(Voluntary solitude doesn't pay the bills!)
Finding balance, you'll find, is that poignant, pointy
cliché
Stacked of the scale, kick the bale in vain.
Simplicity, where's the needle today?
In...all stacks of hay. Hey!
Pop up unannounced, take aim!
'One Day' is today, and I'm on your tail...
Fox and Field, crimson-gold (rich yield)
Elusive... catch rest for the day.
I don't want replicated History
Fired in a kiln of silence and insecurity
But you find sometimes that you've worked so hard
your perspective has been chipped away
And it's hard to speak the mind, when emotions don't
take sides
Find the balance: Show don't tell (are you still afraid
of the pen?)
We are the history of a coin! We are an out-of-control
grin!
Is This The Fall?
Free, exactly where I should be
But, I admit sometimes I lie
Lost the war but tried
I tried every day
I tried to stay away
And now I've some things to get off my chest
You have ruined my unhappiness
And planets changed, lives rearranged
And you know, time doesn't lie
Chorus:
Is this the fall? Is this goodbye?
Not really sure, perhaps I should try
New catalog something to buy
That ought to cure my lonely insides
You tell me what I should do
I admit I need a guide
I need to share what's inside
I need to be found
I need to run aground
You never gauge your life with style
You could have lost just once in a while
My days are all gone waving you on
Time doesn't lie!
Chorus
How long can I wait another day?
How long can I wait another night?
How long can I wait another day?
How long can I wait another night?
Another...
Chorus
Perhaps I've never tried that hard to see
The palm trees swinging lazy in the breeze
Perhaps I looked away too many times
Just ignoring all the signs
Riding high on a temporary vibe
Life and love are messy most of the time
Practical minds breeding practical lives
Leave it all behind
The ocean breeze, the palm trees
And the sunshine
Excuses that a pair of eyes can't hide
Perhaps this paradise is my decline
Riding high on a temporary vibe
Life and love are messy most of the time
If we were sober we would know
That this is real beyond a feeling
And I'd never let you go
If we were sober we would know
That this is real beyond a feel
I should have never let you go
Down in Mexico
We could be drinking cheap tequila
en La Playa Escondida
And it sure is good to see the sea again
We both know what this could be
Or, pretend that it's not happening
Float forever, take the trip with me
Live forever in a postcard
Where it lives and breathes
In blue and green
In the roaring of a gentle breeze
We could be drinking cheap tequila
en La Playa Escondida
And it sure is good to see the sea again
We should be drinking margaritas
In a bar in Buena Vista
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
And now without delay
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
To march in the last parade
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
If anyone wants to dare
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
For the Donnybrook affair
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
A license for leisure, What-e'er be the pleasure
The council's always up in arms
To try and take it away, hey!
Play the harp and play the fiddle
Play the whistle too
Bang the drum and use the lungs
To get the message through
But ya fight ya might get tar-n-feathered
So bow and say a prayer
To the commission for the abolition
Of the Donnybrook Fair
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
If anyone wants to dare
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
For the Donnybrook affair
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
A license for leisure, what-e'er be the pleasure
The council's always up in arms
To try and take it away, hey!
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
And now without delay
We're takin' the road to the Dodder on down
To march in the last parade
A row, a ruction, a fracas, an a fray
A rough-n-tumble free-for-all
A broil, a brawl, a melee
A ruckus to be reckoned with
If anyone wants to dare
We're takin the road to the Dodder on down
For Donnybrook affair
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
And they aim to take it away I swear
I will go! I will meet you there
I will spend a week or two with you
At Donnybrook Fair
I will go! I will meet you there
But the council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's up in arms
They aim to take it away I swear
The council's always up in arms
Hey, hey, how's it going? What you up to? How you been?
I see you're shooting ducks down in a shooting pen again
Yeah, I could use the change, I've scraped the wishing well
And I, I bought the excuse that someone's joy should be my hell
Thaw me out and warm my heart before I get consumed
By the angry bits of broken dreams in my self-inflicted wounds
Love, it's in the bones
Love, it's in the blood
Love, it's in the skin
But you can't let it out if you don't let it in
Please excuse the way I nickel and dime
It seems I spend my tender mercies all the time
Should I base my decisions on the feelings that I feel
Or base my feelings on decisions and pretend the feeling's real?
I'll wait for good times and peace to live and love
Pretty soon I'll find my time's run out and my heart's turned to dust
Cause the world keeps turning whether you live or you die
You can go it alone or leave your footprints on some hearts and minds
And sometimes they tear and sometimes they bleed
And sometimes a heart-felt whipping is just the thing you need
Love, it's in the bones
Love, it's in the blood
Love, it's in the skin
But you can't let it out if you don't let it in
Love, it's in the bones
Love, it's in the blood
Love, it's in the skin
But you can't let it out if you don't let it in (Yeah, yeah, yeah...)
Oh, love, it's in the bones
Love, it's in the blood
Love, it's in the skin
But you can't let it out if you don't let it in
Love, it's in the bones
Love, it's in the blood
Love, it's in the skin
So, she catches herself
When she looks down, or too far away
She knows the pain in her side
Is just a mirage and mirages will fade
And somewhere begins, the mirage settles in
But the sky is like pink before violet
Cause everything's now, everything's now
She notices everything
As she puts on the ring
Her world turns to pink
So, she shows all her teeth when
She's taking the photos, she knows she has friends
She wants colors like these to
Remind her of being a young girl again
She quietly pleads, god just remove
Everything that the doctors don't see
Cause everything's now, everything's now
Please remove everything that's not me
And she puts on the ring
Her world turns to pink
She puts on the ring
Her world turns to pink
She puts on the ring (7x)
Where, oh, where is that little child that used to play?
Another turning of the page, another churning of the day
Are you tired of the same? To much flower dulls the brain
(your rhyming's stale again)
I was hoping to be wise. Vision is two realeyes
I've read a lot of How-To books on how to take action
(If you would kindly lift the blanket from my eyes)
Appalachian woman is a century plus old
Is there something to be said here? Hope you
Realize
Few and Far between are these rocks to hop
So set up shop and get to work
No such thing as a living room
When you sit around.
Streaked a frozen lake just to test testosterone
Message to me (did a world of good)
Lost eleven pounds to the tracks in Ireland
Never bet on the likes of a horse named
Robin Hood
I would give anything to visit History.
Anything to replant History
Oh, to dig for parts of me
Stem to branch-trunk-seed
Caught the theme of just what life's to be
The specters speculate
With their pounding on my head
They're rattling my bed
The slumber sucks you in
I didn't hear from you
And you and you on my birthday
Message to me? (I'm quite the same way)
Building new boats instead of Raising Titanics
What am I trying to say?
We swim or die. We sink or burn
We try and fail (but try)
This message sent to me is that
This picture ain't complete
I write fingers cut same blood as yours
can't make it flow but I know
a stunted way to grow and I scream
and the kettle screams I'm so sick of it
and I want to go home(but I'm home)
I want to hear you feel it
say it like you mean it
bad half of each of me
hey heard you downstairs
I want to catch you in the kitchen kissing
and holding hands when walking
and the kettle screams I'm so tired of it
and I want to go home (but I'm home)
and you should breathe it
say it like you mean it
years together alone
life together alone
steal truly happy lives
please last please try
I know they don't last
no I lie
I want pictures of you crow's feet-joyful
to hear you laugh across the house
til it's painful
then the kettle screams your so tired of it
and you want to go home (but your home)
you want to hear you feel it
If I could see the western sky for the first time
If I could hold that horizon in my hand
If I could hold her close again before the wedding
If I could fall in love for the first time
If I could only let it go and start again
If I could write to my first love for the last time
What harm could it do?
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
If I could see that western sky for the first time
If I could hold that horizon in my hand
If I could sponge back the (pain) between two lovers lost
If I could fall in love again for the first time
If I could only let it go and start again
If I could pull the weeds of regret from a choking heart
What harm could it do?
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age
When I see that western sky for the last time
I will know for that for the first time I am done
(I will hang my head down out on the prairie)
A new age has begun
When I see that western sky for the last time
I will know for that for the first time I am done
I will cleanse my dusty hands out in the twilight
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
A new age has begun
My attic is so full of life
Why wont they come and play with me?
Backyard. Tree Fort.
Want to let them in.
But they're not my friends
Sometimes the ash grey mask will suit me fine
The moon is ignored only with the day
The sun is prettiest just before it goes away
Giants in a small world
Forever was just one day
Never really dawned on me
Such short-lived history
Everything I wanted never came
All that I'll become is for another day
Everything I had never stayed
Now the house is so empty
Put me in the chest my ventriloquist
Sometimes living in want is not so bad
Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting
Chime the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic
Shatters on the lake
You settle down
Here you runnin' to?
What else can you prove?
How many, many more until you lose?
You thought a better plan
Could shake this shadow land
This frozen tundra hand
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight roaring into firelight
Scorching up the charlatans until it's city wide
All the people mobilize, nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake
Ring around the lake
Right on time will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time through the night
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Dear I have missed your sigh
Since crystal skies moved on
Peer out through Shadow's doubt
I had no passion all along
You settle down where you running to?
What else can you prove?
Is this all a game?
Was this all a ruse?
I've waited by the phone
Cold as river stone
Anxiety, alone
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight roaring into firelight
Scorching up the charlatans until it's city wide
All the people mobilize, nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake
Ring around the lake
Right on time will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time through the night
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight roaring into firelight
Scorching up the charlatans until it's city wide
All the people mobilize, nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Right on time will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time through the night
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Necessary food for the little ones
Can't create when I'm under these guns
Feed me lies I'll throw up all over you
Ties come true don't like what I do
Skeleton man sit in the corner
Skeleton man dance that's an order
Lies come true
Thin just like you
Substantial meat to stick to my ribs
Where's my top hat and bag of tricks
I'll perform every stunt that I know
Familiar ground begins to show
Skeleton man sit in the corner
Skeleton man dance that's an order
Lies come true
Thin just like you
This has nothing to do with you
I know where I'm going sunday
Windmill fish I'll move
When the wind moves me
I'll make a roadway from the shells
(from my shells)
I'm shellfish and not ready for you
Because you're not ready for me
I'm not ready for me ever feel that way?
Maybe the treasusre will be full of people
And we'll share our lives one day
This has nothing to do with you
I'll walk blind if I want to
Maybe I'll take a trip where all I see
Is blue and white
Make a boat of paper and wax
Just enough to get there
(I won't want to return)
Discovered lots of clues but not the chest
Not the x still looking for the x
This has a lot to do with you
Here's the note I never wrote
Preocupation has paid it's price but...
Believe all of this has made me
Sick as well
I'm shellfish I'm in the ocean
I can't here you
I don't know what I know anymore
I'm not ready for me ever feel that way?
Triangle that consumed us like
All those ships at sea
What price to be opened? I'm drowning I'm breathing I'm living I'm dying frowning I'm smiling I'm laughing I'm trying shouting I'm screaming I'm happy I'm
Dreaming my nightmares are leaving It's dark and I'm tired the pain is receding I'm guilty for happy the cloud will not catch me I'm falling again I can't let water in
I can't build a boat to return
(I guess I got what I asked for)
And I'll cry when I'm glad
(because it's not what I'm used to)
Well here's my blue and white
(not that different than when I started)
I don't know I'm still young
We'll make pirate hats and rule the sea
I'm shellfish
Jellyfish point of view
I'm in the ocean I can't hear you
You've found the x don't ever worry
Be happy
And we'll dream of a day
Hold the phone.
Where's the fire?
Call the preacher.
We must pray.
Round up the kids,
'cause this is
Not your average wedding day.
What do we have?
Seven brides for seven sinners
What do we need?
Father, Son, and holy smokes.
Just, get them to the church on time
How could this happen?
Has hell frozen over?
Don't question lest you go insane.
When sons of loggers marry
Daughters of gold digging squatters
Quiet towns are never quite the same.
What do we have?
Seven brides for seven sinners
What do we need?
Hollers, guns, and rolling oats.
What do we have?
Seven brides for seven sinners
What do we need?
Father, Son, and holy smokes.
Just, get them to the church on time
The girls are saints the boys are sinners
come place your bets down at church for winners.
Don't question miracles of God.
A marriage so disparaged is the stitch
When rich and poor are hitchin'
Just run when lightning strikes the rod.
What do we have?
Seven brides for seven sinners
What do we need?
Hollers, guns, and rolling oats.
What do we have?
Seven brides for seven sinners
What do we need?
Father, Son, and holy smokes.
Just, get them to the church on time.
I see you've found a box of my things -
Infantries, tanks and smoldering airplane wings.
These old pictures are cool. Tell me some stories
Was it like the old war movies?
Sit down, son. Let me fill you in
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo don't capture the skin
From the flash of a gun to a soldier who's done
Trust me, grandson--
The war was in color.
From shipyard to sea, from factory to sky
From rivet to rifle, from boot camp to battle cry
I wore the mask up high on a daylight run
That held my face in its clammy hand
Crawled over coconut logs and corpses in the coral sand
Where to begin? Let¹s start with the end
This black and white photo don't capture the skin
From the shock of a shell or the memory of smell
If red is for Hell--
The war was in color
I held the canvas bag over the railing
The dead released, with the ship still sailing,
Out of our hands and into the swallowing sea
I felt the crossfire, stitching up soldiers
Into a blanket of dead, and as the night grows colder
In a window back home, a Blue Star is traded for Gold.
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo don't capture the skin
When metal is churned. And bodies are burned
Victory earned,
The war was in color
Now I lay in my grave at age 21
Long before you were born
Before I bore a son
What good did it do?
Well, hopefully, for you
A world without war
A life full of color
Where to begin? Let's start with the end
This black and white photo never captured my skin
Once it was torn from an enemy thorn
Straight through the core--
I lit a light on my gloom...
And now there's only a half-moon
I need to find a way home
On the moon to be alone
And so we make our way
Through the sand of a sullen day
(Whittle away... Whittle away)
Dreaming in Ether, leave atmosphere
Breathing in Neptune's Chandelier
(Whittle away... Whittle away...)
Lift away and float it on into space
Into the sublime celestial brine
It's almost time...
I made it up in my room
From a dream it is rough hewn
(Home... whittle away... whittle away...)
I make a vessel for home
Carve it out with a gemstone
(Home... whittle away... whittle away...)
Land of Sorrow sift away
Through the sand of a sullen day
(Home... whittle away... whittle away...)
Dreaming in Ether, leave atmosphere
Breathing in Neptune's Chandelier
(Home... whittle away... whittle away...)
Lift away and float it on into space
Into the sublime celestial brine
It's almost time
Time (time) time (time) time (time) time (time)
I lit a light on my gloom...
And now there's only a half-moon
(Home... whittle away... whittle away...)
I need to find a way home
Back on the moon to be alone
(Home... whittle away... whittle away...)
Lift away and float it on into space
Into the sublime celestial brine
It's almost time to ride. align
Melt these hemispheres into one
Dull and Shine intertwine
I'm torn away, I'm up and down
It's almost time...
Now I am sailing...
Sailing through the light and the gloom
Of the Sun and the Moon
I am sailing...
Sailing through the light and the gloom
Of the Sun and the Moon
Hey, hey moon, I think I figured it out
I think I'm coming about
Through the light and the gloom
My whole world is in tune and
Over Prudence Hall we fall. Unassuming, quiet all.
Peaceful town square. We float in on streams of air.
(if you take note don't stop and stare)
White steepled church we perch upon
the fenceposts, trees, poles wirelines
We stay up high
Birds eye View
Silly Humans, why burn your bridges down?
Should you go with the flow? (Drip dry)
Quick, kick your feet around
Should you never condone flash flood for medicine?
Live where you don't belong.
Just Cause. Don't judge your weatherman
Every year convention here. One by one we come
Survey the quality of your damage done
Bluejayjackdawloggerheadkingbirdwhipporwillblackbirdblack bill ed
magpiefinchravenhermitthrushblackcrow
CRUSH FLOW
FLOODS come from RAIN falls from the SKY drinks back the FLOOD
It cycles like the leaves (and so do we)
Silly Humans...
Concientious Objectors. (but we have no conscience and we won't object...'cause we're as right as rain)
We know it's only human nature is not kind
Even birds must take their bath sometimes
(too much oil on the wings is a dangerous thing)
We're your bitter partisan. Familiar, welcome enemy
view. a different view
I'm quite through
think I'll go outside and
run around til I fall down
but my feet are bound
but I look around me
tall shadows whisper
what I used to be
I know. hear it every day
I'd like to run a little further
I'll find my way
you. a different you
directions skewed
your skills aren't
what they used to be
It's not the same
(but It's new terrain)
but it looks the same
when I was a boy
getting lost was such a joy
I know. hear it everyday
I have a compass
I need to feel redeemed.
I'm going sideways down,
An ever-winding road...
With an ever unbinding load,
Of a one-track mind,
Of a love that's lost somehow,
Of a flashing sign,
I'm under the wire now.
Under the wire,
I'm a train down the line.
Nothing left to lose or gain,
But distance over time.
Under the wire,
Over all that we've been through.
Tell me what to do to get to you.
I need to feel the breeze,
Of a new day's dawn.
I need to be released,
From the cold steel rail I'm on.
Shake the love for a woman.
Break the emotion overdrive.
Take the train to oblivion,
At the crossing of our lives.
Under the wire,
I'm a train down the line.
Nothing left to lose or gain,
But distance over time.
Under the wire,
Over all that we've been through.
Tell me what to do to get to you.
I need to feel redeemed.
I wear my heart on a grimy sleeve.
I bear the pressure of oil and moving steam.
Unaware of my gaining speed.
I'm prepared to move ahead, take the lead...
Under the wire,
I'm a train down the line.
With nothing left to lose or gain,
But distance over time.
Under the wire,
Over all that we've been through.
Tell me what to do to get to you.
I am a steel freight train...
Heidi's chasing rabbits, Max is chasing cars
It's summer, it's summer, I cut through the neighbors' yards
New seat, new pads, knobbies, chromium alloy, Max
It's summer, it's summer, it's summer on riverwood
One more time, everywhere
I used to live there
I used to live there
And now I'm having fires
Out in the garden
Out in the summer sun
And the best is yet to come
I got some X-Ray goggles and an X-Ray gun
I didn't see your thing but I sure would've stung for you
I lost my money to the back of a magazine
X-Ray goggles and an X-Ray gun
I spy everyone
I used to ride my bike
My dog by my side
(Good girl)
So, box derby car, cardboard fighter plane
..., painting flames all over everything
Jumping from the pier and river on the skin
And lightning bugs, and locusts shells, its summer, summer never ends
One more time, everywhere
I used to live there
I used to live there
And now I'm having fires
Out in the garden
Out in the summer sun
And the best is yet to come
I got some X-Ray goggles and an X-Ray gun
I didn't see your thing but I sure would've stung when
I lost my money to the back of a magazine
X-Ray goggles and an X-Ray gun
I spy everyone
I used to ride my bike
My dog by my side
(Good girl)
X-Ray goggles and an X-Ray gun
I spy everyone
X-Ray goggles and an X-Ray gun
I spy everyone
I used to live there (I used to live there) (4x)
I used to ride my bike
My dog by my side
I used to ride my bike
My new dog by my side
It's dusk, y'know?
It's a purple sky... cold air... woodsmoke... pinestraw smell
I really like you. Can we play tomorrow?
I really like you. Can we play tomorrow?
But it's dusk, y'know... and I'm goin' home
It's dusk, y'know... and I'm goin' home
It's a purple sky. And the trees bow for us
Chain saw burrs... somewhere... way away
I really like you. Can we play tomorrow?
I really like you. Can we play tomorrow?
But it's dusk, y'know... and I'm goin' home
It's dusk, y'know... and I'm goin' home
Home... it's a purple sky... window light... warm light
And I'm goin'...home
home
You are too nice for your own good some people say.
You should just speak your mind and you could have your way.
Well, I wish I could,
And perhaps I should.
If I fumble the words,
If I'm speechless in your sight -
Would you help me write?
When the words don't describe?
When it feels so right so real.
Oh, well... this is how I feel.
It's how I feel, it's how I feel.
I found you and I love you.
Now how does that sound?
But you're just a pal,
And I am cursed to pal around.
This letter could be much better,
If I could have my say.
But cautions the rule of thumb -
So my secrets locked away.
I run through the motions,
And around emotions.
If I fumble the words
If I'm speechless in your sight
Could you help me write?
When the words don't describe?
When it feels so right so real.
Oh, well... this is how I feel.
It's how I feel, it's how I feel.
If you take all the blame -
What do you have?
Nothing but shame.
If you take all the blame -
What do you have?
Nothing but shame.
If you take all the blame -
What do you have?
Nothing but shame.
Keep hoping.
Keep turning -
Keep hoping the worlds wide open.
Heart keep burning,
World keeps turning,
Lost and yearning with you in my sight.
Could you help me write?
When the words won't describe.
When it feels so right, so real.
Oh, well... this is how I feel.
Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as fools
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Life's a bitter shame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeh-h
Heirs of a cold war
That's what we've become
Inheriting troubles I'm mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
I'm living with something that just isn't fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
How was I to know?
How was I to feel?
You're leaving all the lights on.
You want me to reveal,
Everything that I hide
From the bright light's glow.
Letting everything go,
To live beyond the shadow of a doubt
I'm riding to your house...
There's nothing you can do.
I'll never be without a fading afternoon.
Maybe all we need is something new.
Maybe all we need is nothing we can lose.
So I'm letting everything go,
Letting everything go.
Step inside the lights beyond the shadow of our doubt.
And never find our way out,
We'll never find our way out,
We'll never find our way out of here again.
Long gone days,
Are never so quick to fade.
It took falling away,
To fall on the same page.
Now all we see is bright lights that show,
Everything we need,
And all there is to know.
All there is to know about letting everything go,
Letting everything go,
Step inside the lights beyond the shadow of our doubt.
And never find our way out,
We'll never find our way out,
We'll never find our way out of here again.
Letting everything go,
Letting everything go,
Step inside the lights beyond the shadow of our doubt.
And never find our way out,
We'll never find our way out,
You lean forward to go
You pull back to go slow
These are the horse basics
You should know
There's no use to wait
A girl and her horse will never separate
You were done before
The gun at the starting gate
And away she rides
To the great unknown
You can wave goodbye
And spend some time on your own
And wonder why?
Sometimes you find
You're far, far behind on the course
Some things are best left
Between a girl and her horse
With no words to say
A girl and her horse can communicate
'Cause motion is motion
And nothing's up for debate
And away she rides
To the great beyond
You can wave goodbye
To a girl and her horse
With a bond you can't deny
Sometimes you find
You're far, far behind on the course
Some things are best left
Between a girl and her horse
Sometimes you find
You can't cross the line on the course
Some things best left
Between a girl and her horse
You lean forward to go
You pull back to go slow
The rest is anyone's guess
Don't you know?
And away she rides
With the best in show
You can wave goodbye
To the girl and her horse
And the bond you'll never know
And away she rides
With the best in show
You know unicorns don't exist, of course
But every girl in this world has a horse
Sometimes you find
You're far, far behind on the course
Some things are best left
Between a girl and her horse
Sometimes you find
You can't cross the line on the course
Some things best left
Everything is fine
The spirit has to spill
This blood must turn to wine
Long before you're over the hill
Service to all the kings
Falling down on their pride
The lion's den hangs the crest
Of a man too occupied
Everything was fine
Until you bruised your way
Into my life
You're like one good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
Everything was fine
Until you bruised your way
Into my life
You're one good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
One good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
Everything you have
Is all you've ever known
Hang up the golden gloves
Time to claw down to the bone
Serve it up to swill
Til everything you have begins to spill
One is all you need
And all you need is life to sing along
Everything was fine
Until you bruised your way
Into my life
You're like one good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
Everything was fine
Until you bruised your way
Into my life
One good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
One good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
Everything was fine
Until you bruised your way
Into my life
You're one good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
Everything was fine
Just a few broken bones
Then the teeth begin to fly
One good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
One good bloody
Bloody good bar-fight song
One good bloody
I woke up from a dream
A white rose was floating to greet the sea
Morning light race me down the wooden path
Can't catch me now, the sea
Will you wade with me? You and me, all alone?
Wading on the sea
I grab your toes and now I understand
The symbol of the rose, it floats in my hand
On this great sea strand
Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end or until the day is through
And as we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That lures the devil in the deep blue sea
Will you always float here with me?
I don't wanna send second-hand notes
To you my friend, about the sea
So we jump back into the party
And we wade our way out past the bar
I had not, I had not planned on going out this far
Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end or until the day is through
And as we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That lures the devil in the deep blue sea
Hang on to me and I'll hang on to you
Until the end or until the day is through
As we float, I'll wash away that part of me
That becomes the devil in the deep blue sea
'Cause the devil has a smile, and the devil has a smile
And it's thorny and it's wild and it grows deep inside
And you try to swim away but the devil calls this play
Deep blue sea, deep blue sea, deep blue sea
And the devil has a smile, and the devil has a smile
And it's thorny and it's wild and it grows deep inside
And you try to swim away but the devil calls this play
Deep blue sea, deep blue sea, deep blue sea
Deep blue sea, deep blue sea
Deep blue sea, deep blue sea
Deep blue sea, deep blue sea
There's a place we hide true selves
Shine them into golden awe
Clandestine, I. Charade, shadow the midnight
Hide, muddle the meaning. Hide, muddle the meaning
The Plan: Clan and Hide. (show the way...)
Motes protect honed purity
Storm the heartened masquerade
[CHORUS]
We all follow around the bend. (go astray...)
We fear ourselves. We lock up in rooms
We make not a sound beneath our shoes
Hi, yes, we're fine... we act enthused
Then dance with ourselves without any groove
We're all out of might. We no longer strive
We practice the art of 9 to 5
Examples are cheap and talk is proof
Do as I say, not as I do...
Intro:
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Haaaaaaaavvvvveeeeeee
Have you heard about the big strong man
He lived in a caravan
Have you heard about the Jeffrey Johnson fight
Oh lord what a hell of a fight
You can take all the heavyweights you got (Cause you got!)
You got a lad that can beat the whole lot (Whole lot!)
He use to play all the bells in the belfry,
Now he's going to fight Jack Dempsey.
Chorus:
That's my brother Sylvest (What's he got?)
He's got a row of fourty medals on his chest (Big chest!)
He killed fifty capmen in the West,
He knows no rest, kind of the man, hellfire
Don't push, don't shove, plenty of room for you and me
He's got an arm like a leg,
And a fist that would sink a battle ship (Big ship!)
Takes all the Army and the Navy
To put the wind up Sylvest
He thought he'd take a trip to Italy
He thought that he'd go by sea,
He dived off the harbor at New York
And he swam like a man from cork
He saw the Lusitania in distress (What did he do?)
Put the big ship Lusitania on his chest (Big chest!)
He drank all the water in the sea
And he walked all the way to Italy.
Repeat Chorus
He thought he'd take a trip to old Japan.
They brought out the whole brass band.
He played every instrument they got
What a lad he played the whole lot.
The old church bell will ring (will ring)
The old Church choir did sing. (will sing)
They all turned out to wish him best
My big brother, Sylvest.
Repeat Chorus
Yeah, that's my brother Sylvest
He's got a row of fourty medals on his chest (Big chest!)
He killed fifty capmen in the West,
He knows no rest, kind of the man, hellfire
Rising ash, falling snow, she used to lie and adore ye
Winding long tails of woe, she used to lie and adore ye
Nightingale, ashen-pale, whistling tunes, yeah, the moon still adores ye
Now, now, you're so young and proud,
but another name for that will be 'lonely'
Pick the lock, sweep the floor, leave without a sound
Just allow the empty space to heal
Bound in chains with a thousand rains; no wonder the storm still adores ye
Hold me down or hold me now, screaming, "I still love and adore ye!"
Past the door, winter storms through the streets of your unending longings
Flow down now to frost the ground
Like cool Hallelujahs
On the that connects us; high, high above all this torrent
Should you fall down, that wall of sound's howling,
"I still love and adore ye!"
Pick the lock, sweep the floor, leave without a sound
Just allow the empty space to heal
Grab your heart
We need to leave
There's no time to cry or grieve
For the fallen family tree
Rise above the flooding plain
Crouching low to dark the flame
Generations against the grain
Up in smoke, down the drain
If the fire, if the flood
Burns the tree and thins the blood
If your tears don't want to dry
I can help you cry
Through the night
Through the night and day
I can't take your pain away
But I can help you cry
Cut the branch from this tree
Carve a place for you and me
Wooden seat that we can string
From a branch where we can swing
We'll take this block of wood
Carve it down, sand it good
When finished it will be
Souvenir of the family tree
And if the fire, if the flood
Burns the tree and thins the blood
If your tears don't want to dry
I can help you cry
Through the night
Through the night and day
I can't take your pain away
But I can help you cry
Through the night
Through the night and day
I can't take your pain away
I can try
But God help me please
Come save the family tree
My friends are broken all
When falling off the wall
In the ash, I found an ember
Something warm to help remember
A block of wood that used to be
A strong tall family tree
A strong tall family tree
Blowing in the breeze
Cry through the night
Through the night and day
I can't take your pain away
But I can help you cry
Through the night
Through the night and day
I can't take your pain away
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