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Both Sides Of The Gun

Morning Yearning

A finger's touch upon my lips
It's a morning yearning
Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark
But the sun is burning

The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning

Another day, another chance to get it right
Must i still be learning
Baby crying kept us up all night
With her morning yearning

Like a summer rose, i'm a victim of the fall
But am soon returning
Your love's the warmest place the sun ever shines
My morning yearning

Waiting For You

I've been waiting for you
Never found anything else to do
But waiting for you

I've been calling your name
Never found anything else the same
Nothing's the same

I keep hearing your name
Nothing else sounds the same
As hearing your name

I've been hoping for you
What else can i do
But keep hoping for you

You can kill a lot of time
If you really put your mind to it
Or leave it all behind
And never go through it

What else can i do

Keep waiting for you

Picture In A Frame

You can sell your soul
But you can't buy it back
I've spent my whole life
Working to give you
Everything you lack

I would gladly trade
All of my sympathy
For sorrow
If i could have you
Here with me tomorrow

So many wasted days
The past is so hard to get out from under
So many words that i wish i could say
The future rattles my bones weak like thunder

I wish you were here
So we could walk and talk
In the soft rain
Now all that's left of us
Is a picture sitting in a frame

Everything i wish for
Is everything i see
I remember when your kisses were for me

Never Leave Lonely Alone

Like an old man
Sitting alone at a lunch counter
Like a small town girl
A big city devours
Some of us laugh
Even in our darkest hour

Never leave lonely alone

Unspoken rules of solitude
Wound without a trace
A lifetime of dreams roll down your face
All that we can't say
Is all we need to hear
When you close your eyes
Does the world disappear

There's something in everyone
Only they know
It moves in the hidden ways
Of joy and sorrow

Never leave lonely alone

Reason To Mourn

I can't know the hell you love
But i know you've had enough
Some baptize in water
Some in flames

What has life done to you
All you ever wanted was someone to run to you
There's more to life than what makes you cry

Don't you give me a reason to mourn
Look into my eyes with all your hate and scorn
I'll remove the crown of sorrow which you have been adorned
But don't you give me a reason to mourn

More Than Sorry

Goodbye
Hasn't been so good to me
Stepped out into the night
Back against the moon
I saw ten thousand hands with candlelight
We all think that we're right
It's hard to tell
If the night is full of hope or doom

My eyes
Burn with unshed tears
My body is weak
From so many silent years
Too many people say goodbye
Before they say hello
Step into the morning
And disappear

What more than sorry can i say
What more than sorry can i be
Before our love fades away
What more than sorry
Do you want from me

Cryin' Won't Help You Now

Sit there and call me
A liar and a cheat
I just wish you'd pin a rose on me
Now you won't even
Come out and take a bow

Cryin' wont help you now

Now your poets
Have all put down their pens
The only songs to sing
Are those sung again
Lonely just doesn't
Look good on you somehow

Cryin' wont help you now

I just keep on staring
Into the black eyes of the truth
We'll have to learn to live apart somehow

Cryin' wont help you now

Happy Everafter In Your Eyes

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
Held the sea in your hands
And happy everafter in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection i see
Happy everafter in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
To ever so heavily rest upon

All that i can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up every day with a dream
And happyever after in your eyes

Happy everafter is in your eyes

Better Way

I'm a living sunset
Lightning in my bones
Push me to the edge
But my will is stone

Fools will be fools
And wise will be wise
But i will look this world
Straight in the eyes

What good is a man
Who won't take a stand
What good is a cynic
With no better plan

Reality is sharp
It cuts at me like a knife
Everyone i know
Is in the fight of their life

Take your face out of your hands
And clear your eyes
You have a right to your dreams
And don't be denied

I believe in a better way

Both Sides Of The Gun

Living these days is making me nervous
Archaic doctrine no longer serve us
Now we're left as silent witnesses
We don't know quite what this is
Other than a war that can't be won

I feel like i'm crowded, i can't get out
World keeps on filling me up with doubt
When you're trapped you got no voice
Where you're born you got no choice
Other than to go and take you some

One dimensional fool
In a three dimensional world

Politics, it's a drag
They put one foot in the grave
And the other on the flag
Systems rotten to the core
Young and old deserve much more
Than struggling every day until you're done

Tension
Too much to mention
Living on both sides of the gun

Engraved Invitation

I wish i was a thought
I'd run all through your mind
And come out being everything
You ever tried to find

Life's the longest picture
You're ever gonna take
Love's the longest promise
That you're ever gonna break

I wish i could yell sorry
Louder than i screamed
All of those other things
I said but didn't mean

Some days i'm the lord's servant
Some days i'm satan's pawn
Some days i just wish
The voices in my head were gone

The sun's a moon that warms you
The moon's a sun with no heat
The sky above is to remind you
What's under your feet

This life's not big enough
To fit our love inside
'Cause i remember you from heaven
The last time i died

It's an engraved invitation
To leave all this time we've been wasting

Black Rain

You left them swimming for their lives
Down in new orleans
Can't afford a gallon of gasoline
With your useless degrees
And your contrary statistics
This government business
Is straight up sadistic

You don't fight for us
But expect us to die for you
You have no sympathy for us
Still i cry for you
You may kill the revolutionary
But the revolution you can never bury

Don't you dare speak to us
Like we work for you
Selling false hope like some new dope
We're addicted to

I'm not a desperate man
But these are desperate times at hand
This generation is beyond your command

It won't be long till the people flood the streets
And take you down
One and all

A black rain
Is gonna fall

Gather 'Round The Stone

You're too young to know
That you're too young to go
There's no freedom to be found
Lying face up in the ground

Ashes from an unfinished life
Are all that's left
In a tear-drop-shaped locket
Hanging from his mother's chest

You whip the back of freedom
‘till it bleeds an oil stream
Then you sail down upon it
In your killing machine

Old men who send children
Off to die in vain
They will hear death's constant whisper
Call remember my name

Gather 'round the stone

Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating

You're the first one to get there
And always the last one to leave
You're the first one to chuckle
But the last one to grieve
I know all too well the world takes a daily beating

Please don't talk about murder while i'm eating

You walk into the temple
And call it a church
I try to keep things simple
But you always need the works
Your life is marked by numbers and symbols
Excessive drinking from out of golden thimbles
Just a moment of silence i'm needing

So let's not talk about murder while i'm eating

You get all hot and bothered
At the strangest times and places
But don't notice the looks on all the other faces
You're dressed for summer in the middle of december
What you've all but forgotten
I painfully remember
I don't care in the least what you're reading

Please don't talk about murder while i'm eating

Get It Like You Like It

Throw your hands up to the sky
And scream out loud i'm free
'Cause wrong is the new right
So we can cut loose tonight
It costs a lot to look this cheap

Fire makes it burn and water makes it turn
We must still be here living on earth
They keep telling me jesus walked on water
He shoulda surfed

In 1918 the great bambino
Kicked a piano into willis pond
But johnny damon swung a bat
Grand slam that was that
An 86 year curse is gone

Throw your hands up to the sky
And scream i'm not alone
Is it irony or fate
Don't become what you hate
We've all got stardust in our bones

Get it like you like it

The Way You Found Me

The more i smoke, the more i drink
The more i talk, the less i think
The less i think, the more i feel
Folks don't change
They just reveal

My mind is broke, my last nerve is shot
What you want from me, i ain't got
Two plus two will never be twenty-two
So please don't tell me twice what i need to do

There's no rules to lust
Only passion, and it can be so unjust
If we don't speak, we'll get along just fine
Don't ask me how i'm doing
'Cause i don't feel like lying

Take me as i am
Or leave me the way you found me

Serve Your Soul

Battles over which direction to kneel
People reaching out to touch
But forgetting to feel
Daily breath shouldn't be a daily penance
Is that what you believe
Or just a life sentence

I look into the mirror
And i see someone there i used to know
They all want you to serve them
But the only one you got to serve
Is your soul

So much time
And at such a cost
We spend looking for what we've lost
Now that you know
You can't find it from him
You're gonna have to find it within

I look into the mirror
And i see that life has taken its toll
They'll all want you to serve them
But the only one you got to serve
Is your soul

Listen to the wind it won't lie to you
If you love it let it go
And watch it fly to you
Every setting sun gently weeps
You can always hear it
'Cause trust never sleeps

Lifeline

Fight Outta You

They'll look you in the eyes and stone you
Then turn and disown you, don't you let them take the fight outta you
They'll walk all over your name 'til they find someone else to blame

Don't let them take the fight outta you
Secrets hide their lies inside hidden alibis
Don't let them take the fight outta you
They put the world on a hook, it's worse every time I look
Don't let them take the fight outta you

I would rather take a punch than not give you a shot
I'd rather find out who you are than who you're not
Should have known better than to mistake business for love
Should have known better than to mistake a fist for a glove

It will be in your honor 'til you're not needed any longer
Don't let them take the fight outta you
Don't believe the headlines, check it for yourself sometimes
Don't let them take the fight outta you
The lies you live become you, the love you lose it numbs you
Don't let them take the fight outta you
They say that you've arrived but that's just a high-class bribe
Don't let them take the fight outta you

There's always someone younger, someone with more hunger
Don't let them take the fight outta you
They'll say you're the one and only
Then straight up leave you lonely
Don't let them take the fight outta you
Like a transplant-patient waiting for a donor
Don't let them take the fight outta you
Like a half empty balloon after a party in the corner
Don't let them take the fight outta you

In The Colors

When your whole world is shakin'
From all the risks we have taken

Dance with me
Dance with me
Into the colors of the dusk

When you have awoken
From all the dreams broken

Come and dance with me
Dance with me
Into the colors of the dusk
Dance with me
Into the colors of the dusk

The paths we're walkin' on
They crumble behind us
But if we leave now
They will never find us

If this crazy world spins down to dust
I wanna be with you
I’m gonna be with you
In the colors

When you again start hopin'
With your arms wide open

Come on dance with me
Oh dance with me
Into the colors of the dusk

And all will be right, will be right
Dancing like water with the light

Oh dance with me
Won’t you dance with me?
Into the colors of the dusk

Oh dance with me
Into the colors of the dusk
Dance with me
Into the colors of the dusk

Fool For A Lonesome Train

It's late and I can't sleep
I've made promises that I can't keep
Cobblestones and broken bones, has a kingdom but he's got no home
Last night is still ringing in my head like that lonesome whistle in the rain

I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm a fool for a lonesome train

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers
Promises and lies both have their dangers
I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough
So far away, but I still feel your pain

I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'd try to say goodbye but I never got your name
I'm a fool for a lonesome train

I'm a fool for a lonesome train
I'm your fool for a lonesome train
I know it sounds crazy but I'm painfully sane
I'm your fool for a lonesome, lonesome, lonesome train

Needed You Tonight

My every breath is a prayer for you
You know I’m waiting there for you
I’d rather learn to live with you and suffer
Than to see you in the arms of another

And now my heart aches, a little
Now my heart breaks, a little
I lie awake, in the middle
Of a cold empty room with one light
I needed you tonight

I am not your tool or your born again fool
I’m not in the mood to serenade sorrow
There was a time when I could get by
But this was once upon a lie

And now my heart it aches, a little
Now my heart breaks, a little
I lie awake, in the middle
Of a pain with no end in sight
I needed you tonight

Violin is my instrument of choice
It recognizes the pain in my voice
Now you’re the “R” and are we gonna make it
And you put the “T” in I just can’t take it

But now my heart aches, a little
And my heart it breaks, a little
And I lie awake, in the middle
Of a cold empty room with no light

Having Wings

I heard a street singer play a song I knew
It brought me closer to you
I heard a street singer play a song I call my own
It brought me to my childhood home

Did you go back from where you came
If I get there, will they have my name
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame
For all these things, true happiness is having wings

Life is a blurry-eyed, heavy-hearted whirlwind of a storm
Some things just hurt too much to cry
Memories are like shadows the light won't make disappear
I still see you smiling with your eyes

Did you go back from where you came
If I get there, will they have my name
If they don't, I'll only have myself to blame
For all these things, true happiness is having wings

Say You Will

Baby, say it's all right if it takes all night
We won't have to be alone if you say you will
If you say you will, if you say you will

Like Marie Antoinette said to Louis XVI
"Man, I think we're going down
Our chances are slim and none, and I'm afraid slim just left town."

Say you will, darling, won't you say you will
Won't you say you will? Darling, won't you say that you will

Now you've had me hanging all on your line
But I know all too well, love ain't nothing but a worried mind

Say you will, darling, won't you say you will
Won't you say you will? Darling, won't you say that you will

I love you like a candle loves a flame
Like a crying man that has no shame
When you hit me, I feel no pain
Like the last days that remain, say you will
Darling, won't you say that you will
Darling, won't you say that you will

Younger Than Today

You and I were looking at old pictures yesterday
Sitting in disbelief at how time slips away
Both at a loss for words to say, who knew we'd never be younger than today

Foolishness protected us from the world outside
They could never come between us but we knew they'd try
We remembered living as if there were a way to forever be younger than today

Never looked at anything you didn't care to see
I was the one who wouldn't let you leave
Even though it was a clear you couldn't stay
Had to try to be younger than today
Had to try to be younger than today

As we parted, you reminded me I'm alive
To remember when the stars danced just for you
And I may the shimmer of the summer always light your way
And make you feel younger than today

Put It On Me

She eats nectarines with honey and spends her daddy's money so easy
She cuts cherry pie while she looks you in the eye so easy
The innocent naivety of hairless cheek
The politics of generosity make me weak

You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me, you put it on me

There's an assassin out to get me and they claim that she's never missed
The one with an ex-lover whom she claims to have never kissed
We turned at twenty paces for love as a duel and we stood as still as stone
I can't imagine that this is in the best interest of flesh and bone

You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me, you put it on me

I've been living in the city for much too long
There's a neon sign in my mind flashing right and wrong
I can't afford your company, I spent my money buying time
I was lost out in the desert while you were busy swimming in wine

You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me then left me lonely
You put it on me, you put it on me

Heart Of Matters

I've heard all of your parting lines
Can only say goodbye so many times
Before you know you have nothing to show for your pain
Sorry is a word you just can't seem to find
Does it ever enter your mind
I am in doubt that you are about to change

Now if your heart, your heart isn't in it
If your heart, your heart isn't it it
If you have nothing left to give, won't you go on and let me live again

You can't just say 'I love you'
You have to live 'I love you'
I will forgive every time but the last

If your heart, your heart isn't in it
If your heart, your heart isn't it it
If you have nothing left to give, won't you just go on and let me live

I wish I could find a way to sing the life back into you and I
But now I am afraid that it is just too late to lie

Lifeline

Life is much too short to sit and wonder
Who's gonna make the next move
And will slowly pull you under
When you've always got something to prove

I don't want to wait a lifetime
Yours or mine
Yours or mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline
Your lifeline
Your lifeline
Your lifeline
The lifeline

You say that I misheard you
But I think you misspoke
I hear you laugh so loudly
While I patiently await the joke

I don't want to wait a lifetime
Not yours
Not mine
Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline
The lifeline
The lifeline
Your lifeline
Your lifeline

It's a crime with only victims
We're all laid out in a row
And it's hardest to listen
To what we already should know

I could hold out for a lifetime
Yours or mine
Yours and mine
Can't you see me reaching for your lifeline
Your lifeline
Your lifeline
The lifeline
The lifeline
Your lifeline
Your life
Your life

White Lies for Dark Times

Number with no name

I'm serenaded by a chorus
Of thousand burning cigarettes
You were taking chances, mama
While I’ve been placing bets

So tell it to the ashes
They know we've served
It may be good for the soul
But it's hard on the nerves

The very thing that drives you
Can drive you insane
I've got a head full of funk rhymes
And a number with no name

Got an eleventh hour Jesus
And a mouth full of blame
Casket lined with silver dollars
And a number with no name
Number with no name

There's no where to run
I've got no one to tell
My face has become a mask
And I’m not wearing it well

For the last five days I’ve been breathing fire
Don't have room on my body for another scar

The very thing that drives you
Can drive you insane
I've got a head full of thunk rhymes
And a number with no name.

Got an eleventh hour Jesus
Trying to explain.
Casket lined with silver dollars
And a number with no name.
Number with no name.

One, two, three

Up to you now

You can run away from home
But you can't run away from your pain
Now I sit, here alone
As I place someone else to blame

It's up to you now
It's up to you now
Don't want to be your broken dream
We've run out of things somehow
And it's up to you now

I have to hide from my own face
Now that we have fallen from grace
Arms that hold you close
Are the arms that hold you back
While your world is under attack

It's up to you now
It's up to you now
Don't want to be your broken dream
We've run out of things somehow
And it's up to you now

I stumbled to your archer
With my knees bent my head bound
And it's up to you now

Alls there with stoned
Letters that wore
And we don't have to borrow anymore
You wrote a list
With all your demands
And you nailed it to both of my hands

And it’s up to you now
Oh it’s up to you now

My fist is full of ashes
And my blood is in the ground.
So it’s up, yes it’s up, it’s up to you now

Shimmer and shine

It takes a hundred mile of love
To heal a mile of pain
I never say goodbye to the sea
And I never blow out a flame

And I’ve got white lies for dark times
And I don't need your crutch
I'm kicking out glass windows
And I'm tender to the touch

Shimmer and shine
Believe it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell that you're mine
Shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine

Bring me the music for the revolution
It puts my mind at ease
To know, we're the problem, we're the solution
The cure and the disease

But life is trying to force me
Force me to trust
I've done all I can
I'll do what I love

Shimmer and shine
We leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
When you tell that you're mine
Shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine

Shimmer and shine
Leave it all behind
Shimmer and shine
Tell me that you're mine
Shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine

Shimmer and shine
Tell me that you're mine
Shimmer and shine when we leave it all behind
Shimmer and shimmer and shine

Lay there and hate me

Lay there and hate me
Lay there and burn
One side to the other
You toss and turn

Never trust a woman
Never trust a woman who loves the blues

Mistake number one
I made it three times today
We best talk over how’s there’s
Nothing left to say
I feel like an under paid concubine
Whose overstayed her welcome

You gave me an eight paged letter
Front and black
Written in your favorite colors
Blood and black

You choose your words as careful
As you choose your own gravestone
You lay there and hate me
Better then being alone

Had to fight your way in
You've got to fight your way out
Ain't no fool like the fool you love
So let me hear you shout

Shakedown breakdown
Just can't sit still
You cut-off your hair and sold it
For your pretty little pill
I've grown so antsy by myself
I wish I didn't know

You gave me an eight paged letter
Front and black.
Written in your favorite colors
Blood and black

You choose your words as careful
As you choose your own gravestone
You lay there and hate me
Better then being alone

Had to fight your way in
You got to fight your way out
Ain’t no fool like the one you love
So let me hear you shout

Lay there and hate me
Cold as a stone
I just hope it's better then sitting alone
Never trust a woman who loves the blues

Why must you always dress in black

You may be a cheap date
But my therapy's expensive as hell
Then you pay a psychic healer who let you know
Things aren't working out so well
Tomorrow’s shining off our face
Yesterday's shadow's at our back
At our back

So why must you always dress in black

People they don't take advice
They only give it
And the only way you're ever gonna learn
Is to live it
So what you spent your younger years
Parlaying on the wrong side of the track
Of the track

Well why must you always dress in black

If you have to lie
Do it quickly and as thoroughly as you can
As you can
This morning I woke up slow
Feeling like a shell of a man
Don't blame me for us you cried
Oh cut me some slack, cut me some slack

And tell me why, why must you always dress in black

She wore high heels
The ones that can pierce your heart
Pierce your heart
Just 'cause you go down in history
Doesn't mean you’re really all that smart
Like Robert E. Lee you're at your best
When under attack, under attack

Why must you always dress in black

You call in sick on Monday
Tuesday you show up late
Wednesday you left early
Thursday you fight with a boss you hate
Friday you up and quit
Saturday you want your old job back
Old job back
Sunday morning you wake up
All dressed in black

Why must you always dress in black

Skin thin

Now that you've grown older
You can finally learn
To be a child
We made it to the end of the world
But we'll never make it out alive

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
But the days seem so long
Skin thin, blood again
It's all I can do to hold on
We're just skin thin

Always knew that if we didn't have each other
We'd have nothing at all
But you were always brave enough
To live like you could never fall

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
But the days seem so long
Skin thin, blood again
It's all I can do to hold on, hold on

Now that we have grown up
Can finally learn to be a child
With good friends behind me
With ghosts up ahead for miles and miles

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
The days they seem so long
Skin thin, blood again
It’s all I can do to hold on
Life's just skin thin

Fly one time

I have an ability
It's pounding at my door
Screaming for more

In the world that owes you nothing
You give everything
Everything

And now I'm caught in between
But I can't leave behind
The world I may never find
So fly one time
So fly one time

Standing at the edge of your life
At the edge of our lives
Don't hold on
There's no fighting back the years
So hard to unlearn fears

Now you’re caught between
What you can't leave behind
And all that you may never find
So fly, just fly
Just fly one time

I've seen you so clearly, so clearly up so high.
I see you up so clearly, up so clearly, up so high.

And now you’re caught in between
What you can't leave behind
And what you may, what we may never find
So fly, so fly one time
So clearly so clearly so high
If I would die
Just fly one time
If you fly one time

Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)

I'm not sure what worries me more
The fact I keep talking to the wall
Or that the wall keeps answering me
Saying that I heard it all before

Never under estimate how complicated a simple life can be
You gotta keep it together
You gotta keep it together
You gotta keep it together
So I can fall apart

I know you've grown tired
Of trying to feed me
And I know by now my reputation proceeds me
I know you've grown tired
Of trying to fix me
And I know by now
My best years are no longer, no longer, with me

You've gotta keep it together
So I can fall apart
You've gotta keep it together
So I can fall apart

Boots like these

Tonight I'm going to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight we're going to live forever

Easy come, easy go
Get it where you fit in
You've got to slow your roll

Tonight I wanna to lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight we're going to live forever
Tonight we’re going to live forever
Never pretend to be a gambler

The smoke from your lips
The fire from your hips
She's just a slow walking woman

Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I need to lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Never pretend to be a gambler

I've gotta get out from inside my head
I've gotta get out from inside my head
I've gotta get out from inside my head
I've gotta get out from inside my head
I've gotta get out from inside my head

You double the dose and I ran out of rope
It's me and you against the world
You double the dose and I ran out of rope
It's me and you against the world

You gotta live my life to get boots like these
You gotta live my life to get boots like these
You gotta live my life to get boots like these
You gotta live my life to get boots like these

Tonight I need to lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight we're going to live
Tonight we're going to live
Gonna live forever

I hope I lose my mind
Just trying to lose my mind
Just trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope
Tonight I'm trying
Trying to lose
Lose my mind

The word suicide

The word suicide is irresponsible
Still you offer to buy me a gun
What's so hard about sympathy
Love is a lonely road
Love is a lonely road

When out on the edge
There’s just two directions
And somebody has to lose
I should know better
Then to use words like never and hate
Love is a lonely road
Love is a lonely road

And this is no way to live
And this is no way to die
Who in the hells life is this
I'm living this way
Love is a lonely road
Love is a lonely road

Faithfully remain

I learned to say goodbye
To say goodbye to young
I learned to duck from words
Like bullets from a gun

How long can you pray
How long can you pray
And still not see a change
I faithfully remain, I faithfully remain

Somethings, somethings you have to let be lost
Some battles some battles you have to leave unfought

Then the truth just wastes away
In all we dare not say
And then all we can't explain
But I faithfully remain. I faithfully remain

Now I'm afraid once again
Once again it has all come to this
When it all goes dark nothing stays the same
Now I'm only what I miss

And my memories they turn to tears
Oh they turn to fire, blood, and pain
And I, I faithfully remain, I faithfully remain
And I, I faithfully remain, I faithfully remain
I faithfully remain

Give Till It's Gone

Don't give up on me now

Time it opens all wounds
And trust gonna put me in the tomb
The world isn't mine
The world isn't mine to save
I can't afford to lose
What you easily throw away

I don't even know myself
What it would take to know myself
I need to change I don't know how
Don't give up on me now

It's not what we do
It's what we do with what we feel
Takes all you have to stare him down
And whisper devil no deal

I don't want to fight
Don't want to fight my father's war
You can wait your whole life
Not knowing what you're waiting for

And I don't even know myself
What it would take to know myself
I need to change I don't know how
Don't give up on me now

Don't give up on me now
Don't give up on me now
Don't give up on me now
Don't give up on me now
Don't give up on me now

And I don't even know myself
What it would take to know myself
I need to change I don't know how

And I don't even know myself
What it would take to know myself
I need to change I don't know how
Don't give up on me now

I Will Not Be Broken

Give and you give and you give till it's gone
Then the people you fight hardest for say you're wrong
Before me flash all of my memories and days
So don't stand insincere at the side of my grave

I will not be broken
I won't be turned away
When it's too cold to breathe
And too dark to pray
I will not be broken

I go too far then I go further still
Time starts to collapse leaves a void none can fill
Nothing you can say to hurt me with your forked tongue
Through blood shot eyes I watch the world come undone

I will not be broken
I won't be turned away
When it's too cold to breathe
And it’s too dark to pray
I’ve come too far to give up
Or to be turned around
I will not be broken
I will not go down

I will not be broken
I won't be turned away
When it's too cold to breathe
And it’s too dark to pray
I’ve come too far to give up
Or to be turned around
I will not be broken
I will not go down

Rock n' roll is free

Say goodbye to tomorrow
And hello to today
Take a look at your world
In a brand new way

The masters of convention
Count on you to never change
But the law of reinvention
Knows nothing stays the same

Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Rock n' roll is free so come and get it
Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Free if you want it
Free if you want it

They're crying in the alleys
Screaming in the streets
With a dignity amongst thieves

You don't have to answer
If the question isn't clear
May not know where I am
But I’m glad it’s here

Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Rock n' roll is free so come and get it
Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Free if you want it
Free if you want it
Free if you want it
Free if you want it

Say goodbye to tomorrow
And hello to today
Take a look at your world
In a brand new way

Pick the price you want to pay
If you think you should
But I have heard the news
And the news is good

Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Rock n' roll is free so come and get it
Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Free if you want it
Free if you want it

Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Rock n' roll is free so come and get it
Rock n' roll is free if you want it
Free if you want it
Free if you want it

Feel Love

We stood in the dark
With our hands over each other's heart
And we didn't waste a word
Grace is love undeserved

When you feel love
You remind me I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love
When we feel love

I've give up
I've give in
I've give out
And back again
Now that we're in from the cold
Our days are made of gold

Now you remind me I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love
When we feel love

What has been lived
Can't be changed
But what we have lost
We can still
Still be reclaimed
And I won't
I won’t let you down

When you feel love
You remind me I can feel love
We sleep and share the same dream love
When we feel love
When you feel love
When we feel love
‘Cause we feel love, feel love
When we feel love

Clearly Severely

If it hurts
Do it twice
Avoid the void
Don't miss out on your life

Like a pair of shoes
Hanging from a wire
I have no idea how we got here

There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground
Clearly severely

Time it can't erase
The look upon a face
When a smile goes to waste

I’m tired of being sick
You’re sick of being tired
I have no idea how we got here

There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground
Clearly severely

If it hurts
Do it twice
Avoid the void
Don't miss out on your life

There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground
Shatters to the ground, to the ground
To the ground
Shatters to the ground

There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground

There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground

There is no breath left for words
They have all been spoken for
All we say just shatters to the ground

Spilling Faith

Things are looking up today
How long have I been looking down
Traded a blue sky today
For the cold hard ground

Don’t let one day go to waste
I’m filling space
I’m spilling faith

Things are looking up today
I didn't have to look away
There’s so much to be said for letting go
So much tomorrow only knows

Don’t let one day go to waste
I’m filling space
I’m spilling faith
I’m filling space
And I’m spilling faith
I’m filling space
I’m spilling faith

Today it all became so clear
Looked out my window not in my mirror
Make the book that is your life
Worth reading

Don’t let one day go to waste
I’m filling space
I’m spilling faith

I’m spilling faith
If we love long enough
I’m spilling faith
We can get there from here

I’m spilling faith
If we love long enough
I’m spilling faith
We can get there from here

Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn

Silence is the hammer of betrayal
Upon love's coffin for the final nail
Disguised as one another for so long now
I try to be myself but I forget how

Pray that our love sees the dawn
Pray that our love sees the dawn
My last line of defence is gone
Pray that our love sees the dawn

Homeless family stands outside the church house
Trying so hard to believe
Desperately waiting for an answer to the candle the lit
To end their grief

Pray that our love sees the dawn
Pray that our love sees the dawn
The conspiracy of whispers are not wrong
Pray that our love sees the dawn

Traded a ghost for my pain
Traded an echo for the sound of my name
And if our love was jus a burning flame
We could melt away all of our blame

Pray that our love sees the dawn
Pray that our love sees the dawn
We’ve knocked our bones together for so long
Pray that our love sees the dawn

Pray that our love sees the dawn
Pray that our love sees the dawn
Our last line of defence is gone
Pray that our love sees the dawn

Waiting On A Sign

I didn't come here
Trying to find forgiveness
I didn't come here
Looking for a fix
I didn't come here
In hopes of seeing
How the unforsaken get their kicks

It's like a cry for help nobody hears
Close as you can get
But I'm still nowhere near

Now I'm just down here
Waiting on a sign
I'm running out of time
I'm here waiting on a sign

A mother is only happy as her saddest child
To learn to live without can take awhile
And it's a long way back to anywhere
And it's not too late, oh but it's getting there

And like a cry for help that nobody hears
Close as you can get
But I'm still nowhere near

I'm just here
Waiting on your sign
I'm running out of time
I'm here waiting on a sign

So you blow a veil of smoke
To protect yourself from the joke
Look around this room and say
"Man, I don't belong here"

There's so many sides to the truth
But only one side to a fact
What will we do
With what we can't take back

Like a cry, like a cry for help
That nobody hears
Close as you can get but I'm still nowhere near

Now I'm just down here
Waiting on a sign
I'm running out of time
I'm waiting on a sign
Waiting on a sign
Just waiting on a sign

Dirty Little Lover

She loves almost as good as she lies
She pretends almost as hard as she tries
Desperation, she wears it so well
Flips on her electric light like ringing a bell

She's the kind of woman
Only a town like this could produce
Just mean enough to hang a man
Just kind enough to cut the noose

Reached into her purse to pull out her disguise
Put it on her lips and she put it on her eyes
A little lonesome would do her some good
She'd only come out at night if she could

She's the kind of woman
Only a town like this could produce
Just mean enough to hang a man
Just kind enough to cut the noose

She does it the hard way
Or she don't do it at all
Dirty little lover
Who you gonna call

She's her daddy's karma
And her mother's suit of armor
The bright light in a man's dark eyes
Saved all of her money wasting all of her time

She's the kind of woman
Only a town like this could produce
Just mean enough to hang a man
Just kind enough to cut the noose

She does it the hard way
Or she don't do it at all
Dirty little lover
Who you gonna call

Do It For You, Do It For Us

Tattoo your name across my heart
Every letter bold and dark
So that every time I breathe
You can know you're bringing me relief

I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
I do it for you, I do it for us
The trinity of honor, love, and trust
I do it for you, I do it for us

A mirror in the hand
Is worth ten from afar
Come close enough so I can feel you breathe
And see for who you truly are

I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
Do it for you, do it for us
The sunset burns of flaming ash and dust
I do it for you, I do it for us
I do it for you

I have stalked those hollow halls of lust
I do it for you, I do it for us
The trinity of honor, love, and trust
I do it for you, I do it for us
I do it for you

Get Up!

Don't Look Twice

In the days of love and honor
I was a fool for love
Gave my heart and soul
But it was hardly enough

It ain't love
Unless it brings you to your knees
It ain't salvation
If you're still begging to be free

Don't look twice
Don't look twice
Be glad your worries ain't like mine
Don't look twice
Don't look twice

If your ship hasn't come in
Don't have a problem with the shore
If you're locked out of your house
Don't have a problem with your door
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
The dice are no man's mistress
Black diamond snake moan
Wake up in the morning
Honey I'll be gone

Don't look twice
Don't look twice
Be glad your worries ain't like mine
Oh don't look twice
Don't look twice

You know it's bad
When the ceiling says to the floor
I'll trade you places
I can't take it up here no more

I'm a living nervous habit
I tremble and I twitch
Keep on pulling at me
Like I'm some kind of hanging stitch

Don't look twice
Don't look twice
Be glad your worries ain't like mine
Don't look twice
Don't look twice

I'm In I'm Out And I'm Gone

Don't want no high rise tombstone
Gonna gather up my saints
Don't wanna hear you fussing, no
If it is or if it ain't
If it is or if it ain't
My life needs no witness
And my burden is my own
My burden is my own

I’m in, I’m out, and I’m gone
I'm gone, gone

You gotta answer to somebody
You gotta answer to somebody
If you didn't learn
Then you didn't read
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Gotta live with it
Gotta live with it, yeah
What's a man to do
What's a man to do
Gotta answer to somebody
Answer to somebody
Gotta answer, answer yeah

I’m in, I’m out, and I’m gone
Gone, I'm gone, gone

The death row preacher
Came to the backdoor to greet her
He didn't blame her
For trusting the one armed lion tamer

She stepped in from the storm
She was dry as a bone
The preacher thought to himself
The devil takes care of his own

She said look what your prayers
Look what they've done to me
What can your prayers do for me
Preacher said careful talking to yourself
'Cause you may be listening
Careful talking to yourself
'Cause you may be listening

I'm in I'm out and I'm gone

We Can't End This Way

There's a man on the corner
Begging for help
And there's a man that walks past him
And he's drowning in wealth
Who doesn't understand
Who doesn't understand
How disappointment destroys the soul

We can't end this way
We can't end this way
We can't end this way
We can't end this way
We can't end this way

Every look of shame
Is a wound that will never heal
What has he done to deserve this
What have I done to deserve this
It's easy to remember
But it's easier to forget
Life has a way of getting in our way

We can't end this way
We can't end this way
We can't end this way
No, we can't end this way
We can't end this way
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I don't want to go my way
If you're not going my way
So I guess that means
I'll be going your way
I will lead or follow
Beg steal or borrow
Just for one more day

We can't end this way
We can't end this way
We can't end this way...

I Don't Believe A Word You Say

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe

I see your mouth moving
But there's a circus coming out
Always busy proving
What the world is all about
Now it's no use looking you in the eye

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe a word
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe

Blame it on hard living
Blame it on the times
Blame it on the victims
All stumbling behind
And I don't even need to look you in the eye

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe

Don't know what to do without you
Don't know what to do with you
Used to look at you with wonder
Now I look at you and wonder
And I can't even look you in the eye

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe

I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe
I don't believe a word you say
I don't believe, not a word

You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend)

I sit here in a daze
Wishing I could change my ways
And let's not pretend it isn't what it is
It's time we both go on and live

You found another lover
And I lost another friend
You found another lover
And I lost another, I lost another friend

We've been living like it's raining
When it's just been pouring down sun
We've been living as if life is over
When it has only just begun

So you found another lover
And I lost another friend
You found another lover
And I lost another, I lost another friend
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I may lie to my heart
But my heart never lies to me
I'm defenseless, oh repentless
And there is nothing I can do to prevent this

You found another lover
And I lost another friend
You found another lover
And I lost another, I lost another
I lost another friend

I Ride At Dawn

Like my father
And his father
And his father before
Watched the soil burn with fire
War after war
Done things I didn't know I could
For the common good
Tomorrow I ride at dawn

Give a man a hundred years
He'll want a hundred more
Give him a hundred choices
And he still chooses war
From Salem poor to Genghis Kahn
Tomorrow I ride at dawn

I was born for battle
I was born to bleed
I was born to help those
Who have dreams of being free
Mother stop your crying
Sister dry your eyes
You'll hear my medals ringing
From Shreveport to Sheberghan
Tomorrow I ride at dawn
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
At first light I march to battle
Not my own life but my brothers I must save
And when you hear those pipes and drummers
You'll know I marched to glory or proudly to my grave
Tell my loved ones they must carry on
Tomorrow I ride at dawn
Oh tomorrow I ride at dawn
Tomorrow I ride, oh dawn
Tell my loved ones they must carry on
Tomorrow I ride at dawn

Blood Side Out

Got a wine soaked heart
And whisky soaked lips
Don't know how to get to you
But I know how to get my kicks
Out in the cold, the cold and damp
Out on the streets just like a tramp
There's a siren in the distance
And it's screaming my name
Blood side out
I can't win
I'm down again

Something illegal is on my mind
But it ain't murder
Took all I can take I ain't broke I might break
Don't go no further
These streets they're littered with faces the same
And all these strangers, strangers have no names
Blood side out
I'm going in
I'm down, I'm down again
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Got a wine soaked heart
And whisky soaked lips
The country may be in your bones
But the city's in your hips
There's a siren in the distance
Screaming my name, my name
Blood side out
I can't win
I'm down again, down again
Blood side out
Will it ever end
I'm down, I'm down again

Get Up!

I have a right to get up when I please
Don't tell me I can't break the law
'Cause the law has broken me

I have a right to get up
Don't care what you say
I have a right to get up
Don't care what you say
You're much too late to be thankful
But thank you anyway

I have a right to get up
Anywhere I'm bound
I have a right to get up
Anywhere I'm bound
Gonna tell the pain dealer
To keep his nervous breakdown
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I have a right to get up when I please
I have a right to go, to go where I please
Don't tell me I can't break the law
'Cause the law has broken me
I have, I have a right

She Got Kick

She got kick
From her toe up to her crown
Well, you know that she got kick
From her toe up to her crown
The girl got so much kick
Oh that nothing gets her down

She’ll kick you in the morning
She’ll kick you in the day
Oh she’ll kick you in the morning
And in the middle of the day
And when the sun goes down
She’s gonna kick the night away

And when she gets to kicking
Oh, you had better duck
Oh when she gets to kicking
Oh, you had better duck
‘Cause if her kicking catches you
You'll be stone outta luck

Don’t say that I didn’t warn you
Or that I didn’t let you know
Don’t say that I didn’t warn you
Or that you didn’t know
She’ll get to kicking all on you
Then she’ll move on down the road
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Oh that girl, she got kick

Hey you know she got kick
From her toe up to her crown
Oh that girl got so much kick
From her toe up to her crown
She got kick
And nothing gets her down

Oh, that girl got kick
Oh, that girl got kick
Oh, you know she got kick
Oh, she got kick

All That Matters Now

It's been a long hard day
And a long hard night
Been a hard year
It's been a hard life
But we're together
And that's all that matters now

Well the time has come
And the time has gone
Maybe I was born to be alone
But we're together
And that's all that matters now
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Been thrown by the wind
Drowned in the rain
I walked through some things
You don't want me to explain
But we're together
And that's all that matters now

I can't get well
There's no cure for life
Let me down easy
At least tonight
We're together
And that's all that matters now

Childhood Home

A House Is A Home

A house is a home even when it's dark
Even when the grass is overgrown in the yard
Even when the dog is too old to bark
And when you're sitting at the table trying not to starve

A house is a home even when there's ghosts
Even when you gotta run from the ones who love you most
Screen door's broken paint's peeling from the wood
Locals whisper when they gonna leave the neighbourhood
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
A house is a home where the chores are never done
Where you spend your whole life running to and from
And if the life that you live is not the life you choose
Make your child a home and start anew

A house is a home
Even when we've up and gone
Even when you're there alone
A house is a home

City Of Dreams

Day breaks over the city of my childhood
Daybreak over the city I called home
Where the sage met the sea and the groves were sweet and green
It's a city that lives only in my dreams

The groves where we played when we were children
The groves where we fooled around as teens
Those green groves are paved from la to Santa Fe
That city lives only in my dreams

Landmarks lost to parking lots in the city i called home
Looking back i see what used to be
Now freeways crawl though the suburban sprawl
As far as the eye can see
And the city lives only in my dreams
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Twilight shades the valley of my memory
When citrus groves still perfumed the sky
But i guess those orange blossoms weren't so special after all
Now it's a city of days gone by

Landmarks lost to parking lots in the city i called home
Looking back I see what used to be
Now freeways crawl through the suburban sprawl
As far as the eye can see
And the city lives only in my dreams

Born To Love You

Was thinking just the other day
Of something I’ve been trying to say
But I couldn't find the way
To tell you I was born to love you

Some born to lose
Some born to win
They say we're all born into sin
That's a hard way to begin
But I was born to love you
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Some come in with a burden
Heavy hearted and hurting
Who's unworthy who's deserving
But i was born to love you

Some made for days some made for nights
Some to stand up for what's right
No matter how hard the fight
I was born to love you

I love you
I live you
I love to live you
I live to love you

I was born to love you

Heavyhearted World

It’s Christmas morning in the psych ward
There’s a flight risk today so a nurse guards the door
There’s a man in the corner who sounds just like me
Rambling on about time square new years eve
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
If I could only forget what I’m supposed to know
If I could only keep from sinking so low
Strapped me down and into the void i was hurled
With nowhere else to turn in this heavyhearted world

Traded our rage for broken bones
Traded our fear for someplace to call home
Traded a lifetime for one long day
Nothing is more beautiful than to fade away

Fear and the memory of painful youth
It prepared us for the painful truth
So gather only what’s sacred summons all of your courage
And walk with me into this heavyhearted world

Farmer's Daughter

My daddy is a farmer, that makes me the farmer’s daughter
But it’s no joke we’re always broke, can’t live on dirt and water
Can’t live on dirt and water

We can’t plant and we can’t grow. We can’t reap and we can’t sow
Don’t own the seed can’t plant our rows, it all belongs to Monsanto
All belongs to Monsanto.

Dupont, Dow and Monsanto, we are what we eat
They own the pollen own the seeds, own us from head to feet
Own the air we breath
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Sister shed her overalls, put on heels and skirt
City bound she fled the ground to strike her own pay dirt
Strike her own pay dirt

My brother donned a uniform, to keep us safe from harm
But terror is as terror does, the bank foreclosed our farm
Foreclosed the family farm

Jesse James he robbed the banks, they shot that boy to death
Now the banks are robbing us we got nothing left
We got nothing left
We got nothing left

Memories Of Gold

Days must be untangled
For years to be revealed
We’ve looked from every angle
With nothing left concealed

In the winter she wants to be dancer
In springtime she wants to be a scribe
In summer she wants to be a painter
Come autumn the mother of a child
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Where the edge of the hill
Meets the end of the road
We make memories of gold
Our memories of gold
To have and to hold
Our memories of gold

Altar Of Love

She was his high school sweetheart, ‘til death do them part
Wife of so many years, been through blood sweat and tears
She raises his kids, while he went out and did
All of those things a successful man does

He always works late, determines his own fate
He’s found his true match, he’s found his soul mate
Sorry he says, sorry he feels
Can’t help himself he fell head over heels
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
And now she’s another wife and a mother
Sacrificed on the alter of love
She’s just another wife and a mother
Earning her righteous place up above

Beautiful stranger, she’s so enthralled
She hangs on every word, makes him feel like god
Pleads with his dear wife, but she’s heard it all twice
With stars in his eyes, it’s true love! he cries

And now she’s another, wife and a mother
Sacrificed on the alter of love
She’s just another wife and a mother
Earning her righteous place up above

Break Your Heart

Here’s to looking at you
‘Cause it’s all I get to do
I got so much to lose
You do too, you do too

We can walk side by side
You can run, you can’t hide
The look in your eyes
I know it’s true, so do you
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
If I was hoping I’d wish upon a star
If you let me I’d just love to break your heart
Break your heart

Love conquers all, it’s a matter of time
Call me a dreamer. I don’t mind
Love conquers all it can happen any day
Call me a schemer I don’t care

I’ve got patience I can wait
Call me fickle, call it fate
We can see where this could go
But you and I, we both know

If I was hoping I’d wish upon a star
If I was looking I’d know right where to start
If you let me I’d just love to break your heart
Break your heart

Learn It All Again Tomorrow

What I've got I don't want
All it does is hover and taunt
Reminding me what I used to be
What I may never be again

Turns out what I'm good at doing
Is making something out of the ruin
Borrow this wasted space
That could never be replaced

Learn it all again tomorrow
Learn it all again tomorrow
Nothing I have you can borrow or steal
Yes I think we have a deal
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
If my wheels were square, but the earth was jagged
I rode along, it'd be no less ragged
And seems to be the day
I'm usually this way

Learn it all again tomorrow
Learn it all again tomorrow
Nothing I have you can borrow or steal
Yes I think we have a deal

I wish every harder day only took an hour
And I'm not just like the people I resent
I wish someday I could truly be a power
Say exactly what it is I meant
All I have that's in abundance
Is my perpetual redundance
It's hard for me to say, I face it everyday

Learn it all again tomorrow
learn it all again tomorrow
Nothing I have you can borrow or steal
Learn it all again tomorrow
Learn it all again tomorrow
Nothing I have you can borrow or steal
Yes I think we have a deal

How Could We Not Believe

Was so beautiful how could we not believe
So beautiful how could we not believe
We love
We grieve
Then all seek our reprieve
So beautiful how could we not believe

Was so beautiful we had to stand aside
So beautiful we had to stand aside
We had to stand aside
With our arms open wide
So beautiful we had to stand aside
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Was so beautiful we had to close our eyes
So beautiful we had to close our eyes
And listen to the sound
It could be heard miles around
So beautiful we had to close our eyes

So beautiful to be free from my name
So beautiful to be free from my name
To be free from my name
And all those who lay claim
So beautiful to be free from my name

Was so beautiful how could we not believe
So beautiful how could we not believe
How could we not believe
Having lived through times like these
So beautiful how could we not believe
So beautiful how could we not believe
So beautiful how could we not believe

Non Albums Tracks

Ain't too proud to beg

( The Temptations Cover / Standing in the Shadows of Motown OST )

I know you wanna leave me; I refuse to let you go
If I have to beg, plead for sympathy
I don't mind, 'cause it means that much to me
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

Well I heard a quiet man, half a man, with no sense of pride
If I have to cry to keep ya I don't mind weepin'
If weepin' gonna keep ya by my side
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

If I have to sleep on your door step all night and day
Just to keep you from walkin' away
Let my friends laugh, for this I can stand
Just so long as I keep ya, yeah, yeah, I can
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

Well your love's so deep in the pit of my heart
Ev'ry day it grows more and more
I'm not ashamed to come and plead with you, baby
If pleadin' keeps you from walkin' out the door
Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, don't you go

All along the watchtower

( Bob Dylan )

"There must be some way out of here"
Said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that,
And this is not our fate.
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

Beautiful boy

( John Lennon / Instant Karma The Campaign To Save Darfur CD )

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster's gone
He's on the run
And your daddy's here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Out on the ocean
Ship sailing away
I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
I guess we'll both just have to be patient
'Cause it's a long way to go
And a hard row to hoe
A long way to go
But in the meantime

Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It's getting better and better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

You're my beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Be My Guest

( Fats Domino Tribute )

Come on baby won't you be my guest
Join the party and meet the rest
Everything is gonna be so right
Just be my guest tonight

We're gonna dance to the rock 'n' roll
We're gonna groove do the stroll
We're gonna Lindy Hop and Suzy Q
A special party for you

My, my-oh-mine, you know you know you're so fine
Don't let me down
I'm the king but you can wear my crown

I'm gonna sing, my band is gonna play
Won't you be my queen for a day
Everything is gonna be all right
Be my guest tonight

My, my-oh-mine, you know you're so fine
Don't let me down
I'm the king but you can wear my crown

I'm gonna sing, my band's gonna play
Gonna make you queen for a day
Everything, everything will be all right
So be my guest tonight

Burnin' & lootin'

( Bob Marley )

This morning I woke up in a curfew.
Oh- Lord, I said Oh- God, I was a prisoner too - yeah.
I did not recognize those faces that are standing over me.
These faces of brutality, of brutality - yeah.

How many rivers do we have to cross, cross, cross,
Before, before we can talk to the boss?
All that we've had, all that we've had,
It seems we have lost, lost, lost.
We must have really paid, really paid,
Paid the cost, paid the cost.

And that's why, that's why we gonna be,
Burnin' and lootin' tonight.
Yes, we (gonna be) burnin' and lootin' tonight.
Burnin' and lootin' tonight.
Burnin' all illusions tonight.

Concrete jungle

( Bob Marley )

No sun will shine in my day today.
The high yellow moon, it won't come out to play
Darkness has covered my light - Yeah
And has changed my day into night - Yeah
Where is the love to be found?
Concrete jungle, jungle
Where the living is the hardest.
Concrete jungle, jungle
You got to do your best.
Concrete jungle, jungle
Where the living is the hardest.
Concrete jungle, jungle
You got to do the heaviest.
You got to do your best

Deportees

( Words by Woody Guthrie / Music by Martin Hoffman
Live performance with Ellen Verdries, his mother )

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps.
They're flying you back to the Mexico border,
To pay all your oranges to wade back again.

My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life.
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the trucks till they took down and died.

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees".

Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
When contract is out, we've got to move on.
Six hundred miles to the Mexico border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

We died in your hills, and we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees".

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills,
Who are these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees".

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves and rot on our topsoil,
To be known by no name except "deportees"?

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria.
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees".
All they will call you will be "deportees".

Do right woman

( Aretha Franklin Cover )

Take me to heart
And I’ll always love you
And nobody
Can make me do wrong

Take me for granted
Leaving love unsure
Makes willpower weak
And temptation strong

A woman’s only human
You should understand
She’s not just a plaything
She’s flesh and blood just like her man

If you wanna do right all day’s woman
You’ve gotta be a do right all night man

Yeah, yeah, they say that it’s a man’s world
But you can’t prove that by me
And as long as we’re together, baby
Show some respect for me

If you wanna do right all day’s woman
You’ve gotta be a do right all night man

A woman’s only human
This you should understand
She’s not just a plaything
She’s flesh and blood just like her man

If you wanna do right all day’s woman
You’ve gotta be a do right all night man
You’ve gotta be a do right all night man

Dressed in black

You may be a cheap date
But my therapy's expensive as hell
Then you pay a psychic healer who let's you know
Things aren't working out so well
Tommorow's shining off our face
Yesterday's shadow's at our back

Why must you always dress in black

People don't take advice
They just give it
And the only way you're ever gonna learn
Is to live it
So what you spent your younger years
Parlaying on the wrong side of the track

Why must you always dress in black

If you have to lie
Do it quickly and as thoroughly as you can
This morning i woke up slow
Feeling like a shell of a man
Don't blame me for us you cried
Just cut me some slack

Why must you always dress in black

She wore high heels
The ones that can pierce your heart
Just 'cause you go down in history
Doesn't mean your really all that smart
Like robert e. Lee you're at your best
When under attack

Why must you always dress in black

You call in sick on monday
Tuesday you show up late
Wednesday you left early
Thursday you fight with a boss you hate
Friday you up and quit
Saturday you want your old job back
Sunday morning you wake up
All dressed in black

Why must you always dress in black

Exodus

( Bob Marley )

Men and people will fight you down
When you see Jah light
But let me tell you if you're not wrong
Then everything is alright
We gonna walk through this generation
Leaving Babylon
Oh - We've trod through this generation
In this Exodus, movement of Jah people - yeah
In this Exodus, yeah oh yeah yeah
Movement of Jah people, yeah

Get up, stand up

( Bob Marley )

I say we're sick and tired of your poison technology
Slowly, surely, killing all humanity
We know when we understand:
The light of God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes
But you can not fool all the people all the time.
So now you see Jah light
We gonna stand up for our rights!

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know, I know you don't know
What Jah life is really worth
It's not all the glitters is gold
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light
Stand up for your rights

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight
Don't give up the fight

Helpless

( Neil Young Cover )

There is a town in north Ontario,
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked and tied across the door,
Baby, sing with me somehow.
Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us
Helpless, helpless, helpless.

High tide or low tide

( Bob Marley )

Yes, in high seas or in low seas
I'm gonna be your friend
You know that I'm gonna be your friend
Any so in high tide or in low tide
I'll be by your side
You know that I'll be by your side

I heard her praying, praying, praying - mmh
I said I heard my mother
Her praying, praying, praying - mmh
She was praying in the night
And the words that she said, the words that she said
They still linger in my head, linger in my head
She said : "A child is born into this world
He needs protection" - yeah

God, guide and protect us
When we're wrong, please correct us
When we're wrong, correct us
And stand by me

In these high seas or in low seas
I'm gonna be your friend
You know that I'm gonna be your friend
Any so in high tide or in low tide
I'll be by your side
You know that I'll be by your side

I said I heard my mother
Her crying, crying, crying - mmh
She was crying in the night
And the tears that she shed, the tears that she shed
They still linger in my head, linger in my head
She said : "A child is born into this world
He needs protection" - yeah

God, guide and protect us
When we're wrong, please correct us
When we're wrong correct us
And stand by me

In these high seas or in low seas
I'm gonna be your friend
You know that I'm gonna be your friend
Any so in high tide or in low tide
I'll be by your side
You know that I'll be by your side

I heard it through the grapewine

( Marvin Gaye )

Ooh, I bet you're wondering how I knew
About you're plans to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before.
Between the two of us guys
you know I love you more.
It took me by surprise I must say,
when I found out yesterday.
Don't you know that...

I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oh I heard it through the grapevine,
Oh and I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

I know that a man ain't supposed to cry,
But these tears I can't hold inside.
Losin' you would end my life you see,
Cause you mean that much to me.
You could have told me yourself
That you love someone else.
Instead...

I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oh I heard it through the grapevine,
Oh and I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

People say believe half of what you see,
Son, and none of what you hear.
I can't help bein' confused
If it's true please tell me dear?
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy you loved before?
Don't you know...

I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oh I heard it through the grapevine,
Oh and I'm just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.

In the sun

( Joseph Arthur Cover )

I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in

May God's love be with you always
May God's love be with you

I know I would apologize if I could see your eyes
cause when you showed me myself I became someone else
but i was caught in between all you wish for and all you need
I picture you fast asleep
A nightmare comes
You can't keep awake

May God's love be with you always
May God's love be with you

Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find you

I don't know anymore
what it's for
I'm not even sure
If there is anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand
Cause i been caught in between all I wish for and all I need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me

May God's love be with you always
May God's love be with you

Indifference

( Pearl Jam Cover )

I will light the match this mornin', so I won't be alone
Oh, watch as she lies silent, for soon night will be gone
I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I'm free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through one more day in hell

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired
I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind
But, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind

How much difference does it make
Oh, how much difference does it make

I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room

How much difference does it make
Oh, how much difference does it make
Oh, how much difference does it make
Oh, how much difference does it make

Lay your burden down

( Gov't Mule Cover )

It's heavy-lay your burden down
It's heavy-lay your burden down

Brother, can't you see stars in the night
Brother, can't you see stars in the night
There's a road up yonder far beyond the light
Take a ride this morning on a slow train through the sky
Take a ride this morning on a slow train through the sky
My life is just a fast train, gone in the blink of an eye

It's heavy-lay your burden down
It's heavy-lay your burden down

Felt the hand last Sunday when the stars refused to shine
Felt the hand last Sunday when the stars refused to shine
I'm just a young man, I don't feel like dying

It's heavy-lay your burden down
It's heavy-lay your burden down

Can't you hear the angels screaming or is it all my head
Can't you hear the angels screaming or is it all my head
I'm looking out my window and the sky is blood red
The sky is blood red
The sky is blood red
You got to lay your burden down
Lay your burden down
It's heavy

Let's get it on

( Marvin Gaye Cover )

I've been really tryin, baby
Tryin to hold back these feelings for so long
And if you feel, like I feel baby
Come on, oh come on,

Let's get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on

We're all sensitive people
With so much love to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be
Lets say, I love you
There's nothin wrong with me
Lovin you
And givin yourself to me can never be wrong
If the love is true

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful, life can be
I'm askin you baby, to get it on with me
I aint gonna worry, I aint gonna push
So come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Stop beatin round the bush....

Let's get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on
Let's get it on

Louis collins

( Traditiionnal )

Mrs. Collins weeped, Mrs. Collins moaned,
To see her son Louis leavin' home
The angels laid him away
The angels laid him away,
They laid him six feet under the clay
The angels laid him away
Mrs. Collins weeped, Mrs. Collins moaned,
To see her son Louis leavin' home
The angels laid him away
Oh, Bob shot once and Louis shot too,
Shot poor Collins, shot him through and through
The angels laid him away
Oh, kind friends, oh, ain't it hard?,
To see poor Louis in a new graveyard
The angels laid him away
The angels laid him away,
They laid him six feet under the clay
The angels laid him away
Oh, when they heard that Louis was dead
All the people they dressed in red
The angels laid him away
The angels laid him away,
They laid him six feet under the clay
The angels laid him away
Mrs. Collins weeped, Mrs. Collins moaned,
To see her son Louis leavin' home
The angels laid him away
The angels laid him away,
They laid him six feet under the clay
The angels laid him away

Love gonna walk out on me

( Toots and The Maytals Cover )

Everytime that I see your face
Something moves within my heart
And it thrills me to my soul
And tell me that
Love is gonna let me down
Oh no, oh no
Love is gonna let me down

As I see the morning sun
I know everything, everything is alright
I could see you rushing to my door
And tell me that
Love is gonna let me down
Love is gonna let me down
Love is gonna let me down
No, no
Love is gonna let me down
No, no
Love is gonna let me down

Oh, I can see the morning sun
And knowing that everything, everything is alright
I can see you rushing through the door
And tell me that
Love is gonna let me down
Love is gonna let me down
Love is gonna let me down
Oh, love is gonna let me down
No, no
Love is gonna let me down
No, no
Love is gonna let me down
No, Love is gonna let me down
Love is gonna let me down
No, no, no...
Love is gonna let me down...

Manic depression

( Jimi Hendrix )

Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just don't know
How to go about gettin' it
Feelings sweet feelings
Drops from my fingers, fingers

Manic depression is catchin' my soul
Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
You make love, you break love
It's all the same when it's over
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress

Manic depression is a frustrating mess

Well, I think I'll go turn myself off
And go on down
All the way down
Really ain't no use in me hanging around
In your kinda scene
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress

Manic depression is a frustrating mess

Music, sweet music
Music, sweet music

Mary

( Patty Griffin Cover )

Mary
You're covered in roses
You're covered in ashes
You're covered in rain
You're covered in babies
You're covered in slashes
You're covered in wilderness
You're covered in stains

You cast aside the sheet
You cast aside the shroud
Of another man, who serves the world proud
You greet another son and you lose another one
On some sunny day and always you stay
Mary

Jesus said Mother I couldn't stay another day longer
He flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels were singin' his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Oh Mary
You move behind me
You leave you fingerprints everywhere
Everytime the snow drifts
Every way the sand shifts
Even when the night lifts, you're always there

You cast aside the sheet
You cast aside the shroud
Of another man, who serves the world proud
You greet another son and you lose another one
On some sunny day and always you stay
Mary

Jesus said Mother I couldn't stay another day longer
He flies right by and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels were singin' his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Oh Mary
You're covered in roses
You're covered in ruins
You're covered in secrets
Your'e covered in treetops
You're covered in birds
Who can sing a million songs without any words

You cast aside the sheet
You cast aside the shroud
Of another man, who serves the world proud
You greet another son and you lose another one
On some sunny day and always you stay
Always you stay
Mary
Na, na, na...
Oh Mary

My father's house

( Bruce Springsteen )

Last night I dreamed that I was a child
Out where the pines grow wild and tall
I was trying to make it home through the forest
Before the darkness falls
I heard the wind rustling through the trees
And ghostly voices rose from the fields
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path [way]
With the devil snappin' at my heels
I broke through the trees and there in the night

My father's house stood shining hard and bright
The branches and brambles tore my clothes and [caused me harm] (scratched my arms)
But I ran till I fell shaking in his arms
I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts
I got dressed and to that house I did ride
From out on the road, I could see its windows shining in light
I walked up the steps and stood on the porch
A woman I didn't recognize (came and) spoke to me through a chained door
I told her my story, and who I'd come for
She said "I'm sorry, son, but no one by that name lives here anymore"

My father's house shines hard and bright
It stands like a beacon calling me in the night
Calling and calling, so cold and alone
Shining cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned

Nobody's fault but mine

( Traditional )

Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
Nobody's fault but mine

(My) sister she taught me how to read
Sister she taught me how to read
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
Nobody's fault but mine

Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
And nobody's fault but mine

Now I got a bible in my house
I got a bible in my house
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
Nobody's fault but mine

Sister she taught me how to read
Sister she taught me how to read
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
Nobody's fault but mine

Mmh...

Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
Nobody's fault but mine

Nobody's fault but mine
Nobody's fault but mine
If I don't read, my soul would be lost
Nobody's fault but mine

Not fade away

( Buddy Holly )

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be
You're gonna give your lovin' to me
I'm gonna love you night and day
You know my lovin' won't fade away
You know my lovin' won't fade away
My love is bigger than a Cadillac
I try to show you but you drive me back
Your love for me has got to be real
For you to know just how I feel
A love for real, not fade away
I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be
You're gonna give your love to me
A love to last more than one day
A love that's love and not fade away
A love that's love and not fade away

One love

( Bob Marley Cover )

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
Hear the children crying (One love)
Hear the children crying (One heart)
Sayin', "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Sayin', "Let's get together and feel all right."
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One love)
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One heart)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own?
Believe me

One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One love)
So shall it be in the end (One heart)
Alright, "Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
"Let's get together and feel all right."
One more thing

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armageddon (One love)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One song)
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation

Sayin', "One love, one heart
Let's get together and feel all right."
I'm pleading to mankind (One love)
Oh, Lord (One heart) Whoa.

"Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right."
Let's get together and feel all right.
(Repeat)

People get ready

( On "Higher Ground" The Blind Boys Of Alabama / Curtis Mayfield Cover )

People get ready, there's a train a-comin'
You don't need no baggage, you just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel's hummin'
You don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord

People get ready for the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers for coast to coast
Faith is the key, open up the doors and board them
There's hope for all among those loved the most

There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner whom would hurt all mankind
Just to save his own
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner
Ain't no hiding place against the kingdom's throne

People get ready, there's a train a-comin'
Don't need no baggage, just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesel's hummin'
Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.

I believe...

Pressure drop

( The Maytals Cover )

Yeah - yeah
Hmh mmh mmh - yeah
Hmh mmh mmh - yeah
Hmh mmh mmh - yeah
It is you - oh yeah
It is you - oh yeah
It is you - oh yeah
Pressure drop, oh - pressure drop
Oh - I say pressure drop, a drop on you
I say pressure drop, oh pressure drop
Oh - I say pressure drop, a drop on you
I say when it drops, oh you gonna feel it
How much you were doing wrong
Oh - when it drops, you gonna feel it
How much you were doing wrong
It is you - oh yeah
It is you - oh yeah
It is you - oh yeah
I say pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
Pressure drop, a drop on you
I say pressure, pressure, pressure
Pressure drop, a drop on you
I say a drop on you
(solo)
It is you - oh yeah
It is you - oh yeah
It is you - oh yeah
I say pressure drop, pressure drop
Pressure drop, a drop on you
I say pressure drop, pressure drop
Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
Pressure, pressure, pressure drop
Pressure drop, a drop on you
Pressure, pressure
Pressure drop, a drop on you
Pressure, pressure
Pressure drop, a drop on you

Redemption song

( Bob Marley Cover )

Old pirates yes they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottom less pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation triumphantly
All I ever had, is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
Redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but oursekves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all I ever had, redemption songs
All I ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom, songs of freedom

Remember

( Jimi Hendrix )

Won't you remember the mocking bird, my baby bun.
He used to sing for dinner, baby.
Oh, he used to sing for his supper -- .
He used to sing so sweetly.
Since my baby left me, he ain't sang for two long days.

Oh, remember the blue-birds and the honey bees.
They used to sing for you and me.
Oh, they used to sing about you and me.
They used to sing so sweetly.
But since my baby left me they ain't sang in two long days.

Oh, won't you please come home.
Come on home, come to me.
Make everyday happy as can be.

And if you'll leave come on home to me, I'll kiss you for my dinner, baby.
I'll kiss you for my supper -- .
But if you don't come back - you know, I'll have to starve to death.
'cause I ain't had noon of your loving all day now.
Oh, remember.
Oh, would you remember.

Oh, remember the blue-birds and the honey bees singing sweetly for you and me.
Oh, the mocking bird, my baby bun.
Oh, don't you come home to me.
Remember.
Will you remember.

Slave driver

( Bob Marley )

Every time I hear the crack of the whip
My blood runs cold
I remember on the slave ship
How they brutalised our very souls
Today they say that we are free
Only to be chained in poverty
Good god, I think it's all illiteracy
It's only a machine that make money
Slave driver the table is turned now
Catch a fire so you can get burned now
Slave driver the table is turned
Catch a fire so you can get burned

So you want to be a rock'n roll star

( The Byrds Cover / Live with Pearl Jam )

So you want to be a rock and roll star?
Then listen now to what I say.
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time
And learn how to play.
And with your hair swung right,
And your pants too tight
It's gonna be all right.
Then it's time to go downtown
Where the agent man won't let you down.
Sell your soul to the company
Who are waiting there to sell plastic ware.
And in a week or two
If you make the charts
The girls'll tear you apart.
The price you paid for your riches and fame,
Was it all a strange game?
You're a little insane.
The money, the fame, and the public acclaim,
Don't forget who you are,
You're a rock and roll star

Strawberry fields forever

( The Beatles )

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real, and there's nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real, and there's nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.

No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right, that is I think it's not too bad.

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real, and there's nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream.
I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real, and there's nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Superstition

( Stevie Wonder Cover )

Oh- very superstitious, writings on the wall.
Ooh- very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall.
Thirteen month old baby, breaks the looking the glass.
Seven years of bad luck, with the good things in your past.

When you believe in the things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Superstition is not the way.

Oh- very superstitious, that you wash your face and hands.
Ooh- very superstitious, do all that you can.
Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong.
You don't wanna save me, sad is your song.

When you believe in the things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Superstition is not the way.

Very superstitious, I got nothing more to say.
Oh- very superstitious, the devil's on his way.
Thirteen month old baby, breaks the looking the glass.
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.

When you believe in the things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Superstition is not the way.
When you believe in the things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

The modern world

( The Jam Cover )

This is the modern world
This is the modern world

What kind of fool do you think I am?
To think I know nothing of this modern world
All my life it's been the same
I've learnt to live by hate and pain
It's my inspiration drive
I've learnt more than you'll ever know
Even at school I felt quite sure
That one day I would be on top
Another dot upon the map
The teachers who said I be nothing!

This is the modern world that I've learnt about
This is the modern world we don't need no-one
To tell us whats right or wrong

Say what you like 'cause I don't care
I know where I am and going to
It's somewhere I won't preview
To have to explain myself to you
I don't give a damn about you if you

This is the modern world that I've learnt about
Yeah- this is the modern world we don't need no-one
To tell us whats right or wrong
This is, this is, this is, this is, this is
This is, this is
Yeah-
This is, this is, this is, this is, this is
This is, this is, this is
We don't need no-one
To tell us whats right or wrong
Ah
This is the modern world
This is the modern world

Tomorrow is a long time

( Bob Dylan cover / Live performance with Ellen Verdries, his mother )

If today was not an endless highway
If tonight was not a crooked trail
If tomorrow wasn't such a long time
Then lonesome would mean nothing to me at all

Only if my own true love was waitin'
And if I could hear his heart a-softly poundin'
Only if he was lyin' by me
Could I rest in my bed once again

I can't see my reflection in the water
I can't speak the sounds that know no pain
I can't hear the echo of my footsteps
Or can't remember the sound of my own name

Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin'
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin'

And only if my own true love was waitin'
And if I could hear his heart a-softly poundin'
Only if he was lyin' by me
Could I rest in my bed once again

There's beauty in the silver singin' river
There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky
But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty
That I remember in my own true lover's eyes

And only if my own true love was waitin'
And if I could hear his heart a-softly poundin'
Only if he was lyin' by me
Could I rest in my bed once again
Could I rest in my bed once again

Voodoo child (slight return)

( Jimi Hendrix )

Well I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well I stand next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand
I pick up all the tiny pieces and make an island
Might even raise just a little sand - Yeah

'Cause I'm a Voodoo Child
God knows I'm a Voodoo Child

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time
I'll give it back one of these days
I said I hate to take up all your sweet time
I'll give it back one of these days
And if I don't see you no more in this world
I'll meet you on the next one
But don't be late
Don't be late

'Cause I'm a Voodoo Child
God knows I'm a Voodoo Child

Waiting for a miracle

( Bruce Coburn )

Look at them working in the hot sun
The pilloried saints and the fallen ones
Working and waiting for the night to come
And waiting for a miracle
Somewhere out there is a place that's cool
Where peace and balance are the rule
Working toward a future like some kind of mystic jewel
And waiting for a miracle
You rub your palm
On the grimy pane
In the hope that you can see
You stand up proud
You pretend you're strong
In the hope that you can be
Like the ones who've cried
Like the ones who've died
Trying to set the angel in us free
While they're waiting for a miracle
Struggle for a dollar, scuffle for a dime
Step out from the past and try to hold the line
So how come history takes such a long, long time
When you're waiting for a miracle
You rub your palm
On the grimy pane
In the hope that you can see
You stand up proud
You pretend you're strong
In the hope that you can be
Like the ones who've cried
Like the ones who've died
Trying to set the angel in us free

War

( Bob Marley Cover )

Until the philosophy which holds one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war
War - War - Oh...

Until there is no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
I got to say War
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
I got to say War

That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
I got to say War

And until that day of the dream of lasting peace
And world citizenship
And rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be pursued, but never attained
Now everywhere is War
War - War... Oh...

Oh - Oh no more
War in the east and, war in the west
War up north, war down south
And war down south
War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
Oh War - Oh war... No more war...

Oh - we got to use
We got to - We got to...

Of good over evil
Oh we know we shall win
We are confident in good over evil

You got to use your own....

Waymore's blues

( Waylon Jennings )

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

You can't blame the youth

( Bob Marley )

Your teacher used to learn in school how a cow flies over the moon.
Your teacher used to learn in school how a dish runs away with a spoon.
So.
You can't blame the youth.
And you can't fool the youth.
You can't blame the youth of today.

You teacher used teach about Christopher Colombus and you said he was a very great man.
You used to teach about Marco Polo and you said he was a very great man.
So.
You can't blame the youth.
And you can't fool the youth.
You can't blame the youth of today.

When every Christmas comes around you buy the youth a fancy toy --.
When every Christmas comes around you buy the youth a fancy toy --.
So.
You can't blame the youth.
And you can't fool the youth.
You can't blame the youth, not at all.

Your teacher used teach about Pirate Hawkins and you said he was a very great man.
Your teacher used teach about Pirate Morgan and you said he was a great man.
You teacher used teach about Christopher Colombus and you said he was a very great man.
You teacher used teach about Marco Polo, you said he was a very great man.
So.
You can't blame the youth.
You can't fool the youth.
You can't blame the youth --.
You can't blame the youth.
And you can't fool the youth.
Oh, you can't blame the youth of today.
Oh, not at all.
The youth.
The youth.

Zimbabwe

( Bob Marley / Live performance with Michael Franti '94 )

Every man gotta right
To decide his own destiny
And in this judgment
There is no partiality
So arm in arms, with arms
We will fight this little struggle
'Cause that's the only way
We can overcome our little trouble

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fight for our rights

Natty dread it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe

No more internal power struggle
We come together, to overcome
The little trouble
Soon we will find out
Who is the real revolutionary
'Cause I don't want my people
To be contrary

Brothers you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

We'll have to fight, we gonna fight
We'll have to fight, fighting for our rights

Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
I and I a liberate Zimbabwe

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right

We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

To divide and rule
Could only tear us apart
In everyman chest
There beats a heart
So soon we'll find out
Who is the real revolutionaries
And I don't want my people
To be tricked by mercenaries

Brother you're right, you're right
You're right, you're right, you're so right
We gonna fight, we'll have to fight
We gonna fight, fighting for our rights

Natty trash it ina Zimbabwe
Mash it up ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Natty dub it ina Zimbabwe
Set it up ina Zimbabwe
Africans a liberate Zimbabwe
Every man got a right
To decide his own destiny