So shocked to be in the bubble, looking from all of these bubbly,
I contribute to what they may show.
I know they love me, love me now for you're loving the memory,
I miss my niggie Louie, anyway, I lead the day for symphony,
I followed through the roads they fill and sing when I go
Until they're dealing cocaine with the flow,
These hoes came with the glow.
I'm off the hook to see my name on the road,
My mind train to get the goal like the brain on the hoe.
They gave me the crown of the town, now I'm fucking on somebody's queen,
In my big I messed the devil, hoes divide the screen.
One more star starring in this movie, the perfect scene,
No hate you, momma, I just hit the purple rain.
Summer boogie, how we running through this money,
I have worked too hard to win it let a nigger take it from me, no
This ain't a game done, this is CPR.
As a kid, grandma told me never give it up,
Casualties and early buddies make a nigger tough.
Made it out a pistol fire with my living bus,
Proud out that my air grade got a kids to just,
Depending on the crime they get yourself a bigger cuff,
Ready to die, I get you an early big and puff.
I'm puffing like a king and waiting for that unlimit plus,
Princess time is only complimenting nigger cuts,
Scar the fuck up when they come up wipe away the flow,
Everybody wanna board up, wanna get the cause.
I'm getting my mind concentrate on making yours
Finger on the button, now I'm getting notes.
Summer boogie, how we running through this money,
I have worked too hard to win it let a nigger take it from me, no
This ain't a game done, this is CPR.
For religion hear my battle cry,
My shadow fly black pfeifer could inspite until I heard the shot.
Stock a dollar, never satisfied, they say I'm not supposed to be shit,
I'm like fuck them niggers, I rather try.
Board up and I set the sky, fuck the pieces, get a pie,
Scouse the hoes the day's extatic,
Now give me five and tear aside,
The people don't get subtle and put you on an automatic ride.
Loose suit, if I was corn town, it don't matter your town,
I'm kicking one away from the mission, she down.
I know a lot of niggers used to smell,
They used to paint, too many law suits to be losing now.
Summer boogie, how we running through this money,
I have worked too hard to win it let a nigger take it from me, no
This ain't a game done, this is CPR.
Summer boogie, how we running through this money,
I have worked too hard to win it let a nigger take it from me, no
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Listen,
Knew I should of never followed her
So far out the sea
Cause I've seen the tide rise high
But I didn't think it would take me
Even though my whole damn life
She was perfect for me
We ended up in tragedy
Yeah yeah yeah
If I could go back
Would've exit out the picture [?]
Can't clean up the mess
Or tell the chips where to fall
But my angel heard it through it all
Whoa whoa
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
I was fully unconscious
When you stood by my side
Slowly I began to walk away from the light
The way you touched me
Helped me open my eyes
To give love another try yeah
If I could go back
Would've exit out the picture [?]
Can't clean up the mess
Or tell the chips where to fall
But my angel heard it through it all
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
I could've found myself six feet under
[?], ashes to dust
Now to forever I will wonder
Why you pulled me back
Alive from the dark
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
If it wasn't for your CPR
Knew I should of never followed her
So far out the sea
Cause I've seen the tide rise high
But I didn't think it would take me
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah yeah
They compare me to the rappers out to sale
Who outdated other ones who had a couple hits, but
barely even made it.
When they doubt me and they out me, make me stronger,
make me face it,
But I know I’m not a phase, imma be one of the
greatest.
In beginning, when I first started and I had dreams
Didn’t wanna stop, wanna be a lyrics.
Illiest with the whole flow, west style rapping about
dope, get call on, this ain’t your shit.
Before young Jesus started rapping detailed about
things all the niggers wanna hear that shit,
I could’ve done that shit if I were to be him, but they
come along with the synthesis.
Must have went to New York like a million times, won a
mil’ on a table, they got insane.
Wanna head to it and I turned it down, did a lot of
shit in this life of mine.
I have no hip, I hit the ground, no complaints, be on
time,
The rap niggers are normal, 99 per cent niggers land.
Bigger industry, Vegas full, you won’t like to shot me
Niggers saying hip hop’s dead, CPR, wake him up.
Flat line, heartbeat, game in a coma,
Nigger, I’m a dope boy, I do what I wanna.
Grew up upon the Al-Qaeda, neighborhood, I was an
outcast,
In the middle of my hood, what break three states, get
a hundred twenty five and a clear bed.
And we got big board guns, hold a hundred,
That’s for the eating of pussy ass, nigger wanna run
her.
What it do, Rolls? What’up, Wayne? Salute, Stunner,
Gucci Mane.
Niggers ask me why I never done a song with Plaz,
I understood I gotta be as plain, so I never reply.
Race for the money, never get tagged,
Plug on the way, he never retired.
Order a Hammer and put that on my name,
Is death on the money, it’s blood on my chain.
Therefore we got bodies, niggers killing for harvest,
Nigger got holes in the roof, we got hoes in the lobby.
Bitches fucking for free, niggers killing for pennies,
See, I’m G as a team, win the streets so we’re in it.
Bigger industry, Vegas full, you won’t like to shot me
Niggers saying hip hop’s dead, CPR, wake him up.
Flat line, heartbeat, game in a coma,
Nigger, I’m a dope boy, I do what I wanna.
Remember Sosso told Tony not to fuck with me,
Then Don Sosso sent them boys at my hundred D,
Then Tony want going, but his head did,
So Tony should have listen to what Sosso said,
But he was fucking with that dope and he won’t focus,
he won’t focus,
Read between the lines, I’m talking to you, locos.
I’m diving in and nigger who won’t want,
Then let me get my hands up, you don’t wanna walk.
Bigger industry, Vegas full, you won’t like to shot me
Niggers saying hip hop’s dead, CPR, wake him up.
Flat line, heartbeat, game in a coma,
Nigger, I’m a dope boy, I do what I wanna.
I wanna plant of marijuana,
Not a plant, but a field,
Not a field, but a don.
See niggers cook gate,
Sir find me, I ain’t home,
Same niggers G’d up,
Pitch up, same song.
I wanna look at niggers different, but I can’t.
I wanna try to trust these bitches, but I ain’t.
Niggers instagraming cars that they know ain’t theirs,
And we're getting nowhere
(I bought you drugs ever weekend you ran)
What am I supposed to do when your turning blue?
And we're getting nowhere
(I bought you drugs ever weekend you ran)
What am I supposed to do when your turning blue?
Come Tuesday morning hangin out betray your friends
There's no easy way to say things anymore
Ever waking moment hangin out
you take a pill that'll make you spin
Betray your friends, you fit right in
This is what you get
This is what you get
Where were you?
(Hangin out sippin vodka with your friends)
you fit right in
watch the whole world disappear
where were you?
We watch the whole world disappear
Where were you?
Where were you?
New tone this morning
Hangin out who are your friends?
There's no easy way to disappear
It's coming clear
Every waking moment bleed it out
It'll make you sick
On and on the whole keeps opening
It sucks you in
This is what you get
This is what you get
Where were you?
(Hangin out sippin vodka with your friends)
you fit right in
watch the whole world disappear
where were you?
We watch the whole world disappear
Where were you?
Where were you?
This is what you get
This is what you get
Where were you?
We watch the whole world disappear
Where were you ?
I tell you don't come around
I really don't need you around
I don't need you around
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Listen,
Knew I should of never followed her
So far out the sea
Cause I've seen the tide rise high
But I didn't think it would take me
Even though my whole damn life
She was perfect for me
We ended up in tragedy
Yeah yeah yeah
If I could go back
Would've exit out the picture [?]
Can't clean up the mess
Or tell the chips where to fall
But my angel heard it through it all
Whoa whoa
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
I was fully unconscious
When you stood by my side
Slowly I began to walk away from the light
The way you touched me
Helped me open my eyes
To give love another try yeah
If I could go back
Would've exit out the picture [?]
Can't clean up the mess
Or tell the chips where to fall
But my angel heard it through it all
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
I could've found myself six feet under
[?], ashes to dust
Now to forever I will wonder
Why you pulled me back
Alive from the dark
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
You breathe new life in me
First kiss from you was CPR
Jump start my heart a beat
In a flash fast like a shooting star
And I know I was in it so deep
If it wasn't for your CPR
If it wasn't for your CPR
Knew I should of never followed her
So far out the sea
Cause I've seen the tide rise high
But I didn't think it would take me
Oh oh oh oh
Yeah yeah
Time is the Final Currency (5: 18)
Time is the final currency
Not money
Not power
The time will come
When you will give
Anything for one more hour
Today I learned
There are no secrets
Only time for them to unfold
And the patience to watch
The scroll of truth
Slowly be unrolled
There is a time to this
There is a flow
There is a tension here
Like a hard bent bow
Ready to send up
Send up another one
Another spark in the night
And suddenly you realize
That this time it is all right
I watched the greatest miracle
Take three quarters of a year
To bring forth life
And tiny breath
For all the world to hear
There is a time to this
There is a flow
There is a tension here
Like a hard bent bow
Ready to send up
Send up another one
Another spark in the night
And suddenly you realize
That this time it is all right
David Crosby: Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Electric Guitar
James Raymond: Vocals, Electric Piano
James Hutchinson: Fretless Bass
It's All Coming Back to Me Now (3: 50)
Words: Jeff Pevar and David Crosby
I've been through rocky waters
been over the falls
feel like a pilot
in a plane when it stalls
It's all coming back
It's all coming back
It's all coming back
Comin' back to me now
Couldn't read my compass
Can't find my pack
Didn't know if I'd ever
Find my way back
Feel like a deer in the headlights
or a car with no brakes
sometimes leaves me laughing
sometimes my heart aches
It's all coming back (3x)
Comin' back to me now
I get snapped into focus
By that oncoming train
I got too much to lose
I got so much to gain
It's all coming back
It's all coming back
It's all coming back
Comin' back to me now
David Crosby: Lead Vocal
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Electric Guitars
James Raymond: Vocals, Electric Piano, Organ
James “Hutch” Hutchinson: Bass
Michael Bland: Drums
Yesterday's Child (4: 00)
Words: David Crosby and James Raymond
I know where there's a spring of blood and water
It bubbles up from somewhere
deep in the hearts of man
There have come whirlpools
to this place in recent times
drinking down the breath of brothers
And you might think that it's
your world and the rest of us
should fall away in forty
moons you might find that it belongs
to Yesterday's Child
I wish I had been raised
wild by wolves and padded
through a forest a thousand
years before man
Singing with my clan at two moons or
three echoing across the world
The exact sound of freedom
Repeat chorus
And if you feel that way
face the dark and fight
or keep on dreaming
cause dreams make light
In forty moons you might find
that it belongs to Yesterday's Child
James Raymond: Lead Vocal, Piano
David Crosby: Vocals
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars
James “Hutch” Hutchinson: Bass
Michael Bland: Drums
At the Edge (4: 21)
Words: David Crosby
Our grasp is so fragile the thread is so thin
I wonder each day if I'm blowing away
I know that I'm lucky
I wouldn't be here at all if somebody's hand
hadn't been where I stand
at the edge of a very great fall
And like a lighthouse before you at the edge of the sea
the woman whose grip holds when you slip
But the darkness won't get you
Your family won't go
they will make your heart light
to where you know what is right
and you go where you know you should go
And it's life and it's dying
it's beginnings and end
it's what did you do
with the life they gave you?
It's were you the honest, and
did you make amends
To all the ones under your guns
How have you treated your friends
David Crosby: Lead Vocal
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Fretless Bass, Acoustic and Electric Guitars
James Raymond: Vocals, Piano
Steve Distanislao: Drums
Luis Conte: Percussion
I found a map to buried treasure
I found it deep within your smile
I think that now that I have found it
I will study it
I wear your allegiance like a cloak of trust
Wrapped around the heart of me
And no conditions were discussed
When we joined forces helplessly
Falling inward we were linked by chain
Across the length of rolling sea
Welded by laughter and sealed in pain
Floating love has rescued me
It's trust that holds it anchored
It's the trust takes years to build
Without it there is nothing
Just emptiness unfulfilled
Brick by brick you know we built it up
Built a house to hold a dream
A shape that's rising from the rubble
Where the shaking death had been
I found a map to buried treasure
I found it deep within your smile
I think that now that I have found it
I will study it for a while
No sticks and stones can hurt us
Nor the liars or the thieves
We'll use the stones to ring our garden
And the sticks to gather up the leaves
Brick by brick you know we built it up
Built a house to hold a dream
A shape that's rising from the rubble
Where the shaking death had been
I found a map to buried treasure
I found it deep within your smile
I think that now that I have found it
I will study it
I found a map to buried treasure
I found it deep within your smile
I think that now that I have found it
I will study it a while
I found a map to buried treasure Aaah ...
I found it deep within your smile Aaah ...
I think that now that I have found it Aaah ...
I will study it ... for a while
(David Crosby, Jeff Pevar and James Raymond)
The world will little know nor long remember
Why we fought these battles in the sky
And I am but a servant and a seeker
And I don't feel qualified to tell you why
Anyone should have to take another's life
Any father should find his children and his wife
Gone forever, gone forever
Gone forever, gone forever
The world will give us glimpses through the mist
Moonlit landscapes we can almost see
That feeling when you're alone that you've just been kissed
And you can fly and you shall be free
When we feel that if another page gets turned
We can save us if not one more book gets burned
Gone forever, gone forever
Gone forever, gone forever
I have been walking here for quite a while
And I think I know the path where of I speak
It's a road going up a mountain
And it might not entirely reach the peak
But I know I don't have to know it all
I would just like to see not one more seeker fall
Gone forever, gone forever
Gone forever, gone forever
Gone forever, gone forever
Gone forever, gone forever
That House (5: 25)
Words: David Crosby
You could have heard a pin drop in that house
Someone was crying somewhere
Into a pillow that it wasn't fair
It got lost somewhere
You couldn't take your heart out in that house
It just might not want to beat again
A storm is pounding on the roof outside
Like something died
You couldn't take you heart out in that house
Water dripping in the sink
I'm tired of crying you start to think
The sound leads to the kitchen
Kitchen leads to door and you think I must not live here anymore
Repeat Chorus (3x)
Then you walk
walk on down to the street
keep walking
You put one foot down, in
front of the other (repeat)
David Crosby: Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Slide Guitar
James Raymond: Vocals, Piano
James “Hutch” Hutchinson: Bass
Russ Kunkel: Drums
Luis Conte: Percussion
Waking
Stream of consciousness
On a sleeping
Street of dreams
Thoughts
Like scattered leaves
Slowed in midfall
Into the streams
Of fast
Running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here
on the delta
While they dance
While they dance
I love the child
Who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy
For the deep
And the river seems dreamlike
In the daytime
And someone keeps thinking
In my sleep
Of fast
Running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here
And it seems as if time
Stops on the delta
While they dance
One For Every Moment (3: 59)
She would run across the barren land
And pause to let the light caress her
Ask the earth to share its secrets
And listen for the wind to tell her
He could see her so very clearly
Dancing as the moon rose to see
He could feel her breath upon him
Letting all the doubt go free
He looked to the desert sky
Counting all the stars above her
One for every moment he would love her
One for every moment he would love her
She would walk to where the land and sea
met each other in a dance of violence
She found a treasure of untold beauty
Tossed it back and swore herself to silence
He could see her so very clearly
Dancing as the moon rose to see
He could feel her breath upon him
Letting all the doubt go free
He looked to the desert sky
Counting all the stars above her
One for every moment he would love her
One for every moment he would love her
James Raymond: Lead Vocal, Piano, Wedding Ring
David Crosby: Vocals
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Nylon String Guitar
Steve Tavaglione: Soprano Saxophone
Leland Sklar: Bass
Luis Conte: Percussion
Little Blind Fish (3: 37)
Words: David Crosby
Little Blind Fish in a wide river
Who is the gift and who is the giver
Is it a matter of choice where you go
Does it give you a voice just to know
You're here...
Little Blind Fish
Staring at a mirror
How far can you see
Are you getting any nearer
Little Blind Bird
sitting in a tree
Saying this is the end now
Can't you see
It's all gone... solid gone
Little Blind Fox
Sitting in a box
Saying this is an open space
and it has no locks
Tattered Old Lion
Living in a cage
Bit off his own leg in a rage
In a rage... (Repeat 1st verse)
David Crosby, Lead Vocal
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
James Raymond: Vocals, Organ
James Hutchinson: Fretless Bass
Debra Dobkin: Percussion
Crosby, Pevar & Raymond
(released June 23, 1998) [Samson Music GC0145]
Morrison (4: 45)
Words: David Crosby
Music: James Raymond
He was lost and I don't think
he wanted it that way
like a gull blown inland
on a stormy day
Lost in round one
spitting out pieces of his teeth
lost in a Paris graveyard
carrying his own wreath
And I have seen that movie
and it wasn't like that
he was mad and lonely
and blind as a bat
To the bridge
and the falling tree
Too deaf to hear his own song
You see
How does anyone get to there
We may never know
How they got that far
Or what made them go
But he had flown from his homeland
You could see him there
A gull circling
In the high desert air
(Chorus)
And somehow I
Have to learn from this
'Cause I can hear him cry
And feel the hiss
Of the wind in his feathers
and the sand on his feet
As he dies in the desert
On that Paris street.
(Chorus out)
David Crosby: Lead Vocal
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Electric Guitar
James Raymond: Vocals, Piano
Leland Sklar: Bass
Steve DiStanislao: Drums
Luis Conte: Percussion
Breathe you son of a bitch, don’t you dare let go!
Too young to die, to vile autonomy
No response and a pulse at an all time low
Please wake up my friend, I can’t stand here watching
you die
Mouth to mouth, still no sign of life
Come on my friend, you can make through it
Hang on, live on, get through this day
Wake up, stand up, don’t fuck me this way, way!
Pinch you hard, but you won’t move an inch
Eyes are closed, reflexes motionless
Skin is moist, stiff, white and cold
Can I accept that there’s no more I can do? (do!)
The irony of fate
I’m sitting here crying: too proud to admit that I’ve
lost it
The grim grip of reality sweeps me whole with misery
A friend so colourful, his body’s left, absent of soul
Freezes my thoughts, my will live, if there are lives
to take
Who wants to give?
Eyes are blurring, is this a dream?
What’s happening to me?
It’s dark, cold and I can’t see
Can’t feel the blood in me
Emptiness, I’m falling
Illusions flash aside
A struggle to recover, inside I slowly die
Somehow She Knew (7: 05)
Words: David Crosby
As the room slid into focus
and he woke up
With room service at the door
And he wondered why he
never spoke up
About all of that fear before
It was standing just an inch
behind him
A shadow stalking by his side
A thing he was afraid would
find him
And wash him away in the tide
And somehow she know why
I was crying
She knew just which fears
I had not faced
In her eyes I could see
Where I was lying to myself
And a path that she gently traced
To where the man in the movie said
Is it all right
If I miss her tonight
And the man felt just like me
They say a wolf in a trap will
chew off his own leg
I guess I did the same
It's what you do with a thing
you can't handle
A picture you just can't frame
And from somewhere deep in that movie
She opened a door in my chest
And delicately took out a death
That had never been laid to rest
And somehow she knew why
I was crying
She knew just which fears I had not faced
In her eyes I could see where
I was lying
To myself
And a path that she gently traced
To where the man in the movie said
Is it all right if I miss her tonight
And the man felt just like me
David Crosby: Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Mandolin
James Raymond: Vocals, Piano
James Hutchinson: Bass
(David Crosby, Jan Crosby, Jeff Pevar, James Raymond, Steve DiStanislao, Andrew Ford)
This dance that we do leaves me breathless
Reeling on the edge of falling down
A lodestone pull that leaves me breathless
Through many lifetimes handed down
And you touch hands
And you taste breath
And you know
You try to walk in step and stumble laughing
You hold each other up to stop the fall
You hold each others eyes like a magnet
And for a moment time just seems to stall
And you touch hands
And you taste breath
And you watch each other
A bell once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
Love is a bell, once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
The closer it is held
You lead me like a spirit through the forest
Where I alone would surely fear to go
Safely with my hand on your shoulder
Somehow it's a thing I just know
And you touch hands
And you taste breath
And you watch each other
A bell once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
Love is a bell, once struck will ring forever
It just gets louder the closer it is held
Somebody Else's Town (5: 15)
Words: David Crosby and Jeff Pevar
Blood is thicker than water
friendship's stronger than fear
love is God's favorite daughter
it's perfectly clear
I can see it tonight
in the comet's faint light
as my heels hit pavement
wet from the light
rain that's coming whispering down
on somebody else's town
A broken down diner
with three people in it
pulls my attention
for half a minute
I think about tryin' to talk
to explain why I'm takin' this walk
Why a simple motel room
can be some kind of hell room
it's making me get up and stalk this way
cause I don't want to say that
I'm down in somebody else's town
I am stronger than this
I have been here before
I am no freakin' kid
in his first taste of war
with the loneliness drifting
around here in
somebody else's town
Music spills out into the street
must be someone in there I could meet
but I think I will telephone home
hear that soft sleepy voice on the phone
keep them awake by the
sound of my talking
tell the truths I found out
walkin' in
somebody else's town
David Crosby: Vocals, Acoustic 12-String Guitar
Jeff Pevar: Vocals, Electric Guitars, Ebow
James Raymond: Lead Vocal, Piano, Electric Piano, Drum Programming
Leland Sklar: Bass
Curt Bisquera: Drums
Luis Conte: Percussion
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