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B i o g r a p h y Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-'90s and soon signed to his Real World label. His debut, Big City Secret, was released in 1997 and practically went unnoticed. Not discouraged by industry politics, this native of Akron, OH, continued to make music and dove into his Earth-inspired abstract art. His eclectic brooding is similar to the likes of Leonard Cohen, Joe Henry, and the late Jeff Buckley. He doesn't stick to one sound, for his time spent with Gabriel has exposed his musical styles to more global outlets. Arthur participated in Gabriel's annual WOMAD shows, and spent the latter part of the '90s on the road with residency tours in the northeast and northwest, which included opening dates for labelmates Ben Harper and Gomez. In 1999, Arthur released the seven-song EP Vacancy, in which he received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package thanks to his design with co-art director Zachary Larner. Following brief critical acclaim, Arthur released his sophomore effort Come to Where I'm From on Virgin a year later. This album showed Arthur's musical fondness for basic country-rock and Americana. He spent summer 2000 headlining club dates across North America. |
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The
coldest sea
Have you always been a refugee
Going back from where you came
And even though you are much older now
In your heart you feel the same
Tell me how you used to be
Swimming in the coldest sea
And if you hide your memory
Could you open up your heart
To a world that tore you apart
To a world that tore you
And you always follow everyone
Never wanting to stand by
And every time there was
You tried to run
And it helped you fall in love
Tell me all you use to be
Swimming in the coldest sea
And if you hide your memory
Could you open up your heart
To a world that tore you apart
To a world that tore you
This
heart will swallow us
Until i wake myself
I'm only sleeping
Like the darkness waiting for the touch love bears
Dream beyond the sunrise
Live within a prayer
This heart will swallow us
This heart will swallow us
Will you give yourself up to the savior
Or will you drink from the cup of your madness?
To feel the devils pleasure
Burning your way into this place
This heart will swallow us
This heart will swallow us
No one else
Can save you
Jumping
in with you
Help me after the travelling
Come back through
Help me after the travelling
Glad i missed you
Down by the lake
In your heart
I'm making it too
Down by the lake
In your heart
Jumping in with you
Help me after my money's spent
Come back through
Help me after the travelling
Come down next to you
Lie down next to you
Down by the lake
In your heart
I'm making it too
Down by the lake
In your heart
Jumping in with you
I' m still in love with you
Take me
back home
Take me back home now
Take me back...
Hold
on dear
Hold on dear
Let me wipe away your weeping eyes
I love you
Even in a wind thats cold as ice
No rule can make you stay
My soul can make you stay
No more time
My eyes can see
Where your gonna hide
I love you
Even though your dreams
Have stolen my nights
No rule can make you stay
My soul can make you stay
There's no more time
Marmalade
eyes
Don't want to be your airplane
Flying you around the world
Giving you something to believe
After your dreams have gone to bed
Seeing mama's marmalade eyes
Lighting up the sky
You could feel her
Heavenly hard
Beating on the eye
Don't want to be a boogieman
Looking for a place to hide
Hoping that you turn out the lights
So i could crawl into your mind
Seeing mama's marmalade eyes
Lighting up the sky
You could feel her
Heavenly hard
Beating on the eye
Don't want to be a greyhound bus
Taking you in the night to find a city you can trust
To make all the wrong seem right
Queen
of Brooklyn
Beautiful Woman
Waves of my ocean
Forget about love
It's too early for us
And it's so hard to trust
With a heart of dust
We don't ever want to fight
From the feelings that
Break us down in the night
After we have shown each other
A fragile light
We don't ever want to fight
Powerful woman
Queen of Brooklyn
I know who you are we made it this far
And we both had to starve
To feel our hearts
We don't want to fight
From the feelings that break us
Down in the night
After we have shown each other
A fragile light
We don't ever want to fight
Glue Sniffer
Can i open up my heart
You can't hear this sound
I can tell you never cared
About yourself
When i open up my heart
You can't hear this sound
And I kept you inside
I can tell you never cared
About yourself
Dear
Lord
I can't take what's going on
With my friends and family
I can't take what's going on
Baby with you and me
I'm sorry for the things I've done
I'm sorry for wanting to run
But dear Lord when you did not come
My faith was gone
With this world gone to hell
And my freedom locked away in jail
Lord it's become so hard to tell
If you're there at all
I'm sorry for the things I've done
I'm sorry for wanting to run
But dear Lord when you did not come
My faith was none
Fail me and I won't need to shout
When I turn your water into wine
Fail me and I won't need to shout
When I turn your water into wine
Is there a chance to be redeemed ?
Is there another night to dream ?
Lord are you somewhere unseen
I believe you are
I'm sorry for the things I've done
I'm sorry for wanting to run
But dear Lord when you did not come
My faith was born
Fail me and I won't need to shout
When I turn your water into wine
Fail me and I won't need to shout
When I turn your water into wine
Bill
Wilson
All my junkie friends are getting straight jobs
Trading in their hearts for second place
Everybody on this planet is lost
I feel like Bill Wilson broke my legs
Oh my darling how come you look nervous
Is it 'cause my lips are turning blue
I can tell that you don't think I'm worthless
I wish I could think the way you do
I don't want to party anymore than I have
I just want to make it
In your world
Make it in your world
Everyone says I should get a sponsor
Someone I can call on everyday
Tell him everything that I've been thinking
Throw my poison flowers on his grave
It's been so long since I've made a meeting
Cause they always say the same thing twice
I guess I would rather just be myself
Instead of always trying to get nice
I don't want to party anymore than I have
I just want to make it
In your world
Make it in your world
In this room the wheelchairs are on fire
People here are made of ice and salt
Raising hands in brave communication
Breaking over what the public thought
Afterwards we count our time like money
Holding hands in circles made of prayer
When you're with them you feel like your family
But when you're gone it's like you were never there
I don't want to party anymore than I have
I just want to make it
In your world
Make it in your world
Tiny
Echoes
Sometimes I feel like giving up
Giving in to the dark
Sometimes I feel like crying out
Trying to speak from my heart
I wish you could hold me here
Give a reason what it's for
I would try to become pure
A tiny echo of the lord
Sometimes I feel like loving you
Is all I have holding on
And sometimes I feel like letting go
But it's a gift to be born
I wish you could hold me here
Give a reason what it's for
I would try to become pure
A tiny echo of the lord
Junkyard
Hearts III & IV
Space
needle
Hey Mama
Whatcha doing in Seattle
With a needle
Shooting up into the sky
We quit smoking
On our way up from Portland
But we had to start again to get us by
No one knows which way it's gonna go
We just keep showing up
Never asking why
Not quite sure where we've been before
We just keep growing up
In order to survive
With Lisa
Getting to be vicious
You could see the damage blowing in her eyes
And Eric
Pretending not to see us
He's adding up statistics in his mind
To Vancouver
Where we had to cross the border
So we ditched our shit
Somewhere along the I-5
Were tired
Cause we spent the whole night wired
With Jane's Addiction
Blasting down the alpine
No one knows which way it's gonna go
We just keep showing up
Never asking why
Not quite sure where we've been before
We just keep growing up
In order to survive
Hey Mama
Whatcha doing in Seattle
With a needle
Shooting up into the sky
Sky
Sky
Sky
*** Thanx a lot to
Nicole who corrected this one ***
Be my
friend
I want you to be my friend
I want you to act nice
I want you to be my friend
I want you to act nice
I want to live in the country
I want you to be my friend
Bankrupt on the ball
Bankrupt on the eight ball
The
termite song
I couldn't make it up as we go along
I don't have any words to put into your song
Looking through the junkyard of your heart
I need to find an engine for my car
I don't know where you are
I don't know where you are
When I drive, when I drive around the bend
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye
And though I really tried I've never have been good
And for my missing heart I carved one out of wood
Now I see the termites crawling in on me
And after they are finished I wonder where you'll be
I wonder where you'll be
I wonder where you'll be
When I drive, when I drive around the bend
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye
You never have been young
you never have been sane
And though you say that you don't care
In your eyes I see the shame
Looking through the window of your mind
I see a lonely shadow running out of time
Running out time, running out of time
When I drive, when I drive around the bend
Singing bye, bye, bye, bye
*** Thanx a lot to
Susana for this one ***
Favourite
girl
In your version of this world
You're everybody's favorite girl
But that don't mean I'll be the victim
Of any pain you are inflicting today
I don't know what I should do
I've been so happy
Being unhappy with you
But I've just had a revelation
My heart's been dying of starvation and I need
Somebody who will feed me
And if salvation only comes when you fall
Oh Lord
It's so hard for me to believe
Oh Lord
I'm still waiting for you to call
Oh Lord
Trapped inside my memory
Oh Lord
Pretending to be
Someone you know nothing about
Oh I wish you were
Someone I knew nothing about
You're looking for any explanation
Your words they only find a meaning in between
What's real and what will only ever be
Your dream
And if salvation only comes when you fall
Oh Lord
It's so hard for me to believe
Oh Lord
I'm still waiting for you to call
Oh Lord
Trapped inside my misery
Oh Lord
Will salvation only come if I fall ?
If I fall ?
Crackerjack
Box
Hey
We almost died
On our way to Toronto
The plane was shaking all around
I put my teeth in my heart
And my dreams
Back on the ground
Hey
We almost lived
In love with each other
My heart was shaking all around
I put my teeth in a plane and I prayed
It would never come back down
Hey
My daddy said
"One thing you can count on
Is things will change"
And he was right
Though I never realized
It would be the light
Fading from your eyes
And if we could re-live
All those wonderful times
Maybe I would appreciate you more
Babe
That's how it goes
Licking a tattoo
From a crakerjack box
Put it on my wrist
And wish it was LSD
So I could melt myself into infinity
And recapture this lost humanity
Or even maybe
Turn into a crocodile
See you later alligator
Voices
will fight
And where we live
Is where we hide
Cause we can't forgive
What's inside
We have sweet love
We have sweet love
We have sweet love
We have sweet love
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows
And the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
And when we wake up
It's already dark
And i touch your face
To feel your heart
We have sweet love
We have sweet love
We have sweet love
We have sweet love
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows
And the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
Still
the same
No religion is gonna cure you of your pain
Life is a terminal condition
And we all must repeat
It's old refrain
You're still the same
Oh how much have you changed?
Now you're still the same
There ain't no drug
That's gonna give you another start
And there ain't no great love
That's gonna find the missing pieces
Of your heart
You're still the same
Oh how much have you changed?
Now you're still the same
You're following yourself
Into an empty space
There is nobody else
Left in your hiding place
Cause you're still the same
Oh how much have you changed?
Now you're still the same
Now you're still the same
In the
middle of the night
In the middle of the night
I can feel the sun
In the middle of the night
I think we'll vow our love
It's a terrible secret
That i keep from you
I vacate my soul on the broken hearted avenue.
We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
In the middle of the night
My heart is never free
In the middle of the night
The truth is easy to see
If i could hold you
Now i would never let you go
But I'm all alone
Knowing that you reap what you sow
We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
After the end
After the end
After the end
In the middle of the night
I think you're following me
In the middle of the night
In the doorway of my memory
I ask how everything is going for you
Between is a wall
Both our hearts see through
We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
After the end
After the end
After the end
In the middle of the night
Is when i start to cry
In the middle of the night
I throw a prayer for you
Across the sky
It's a terrible secret
That i kept from you
I vacated my soul on the broken hearted avenue
We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
After the end
After the end
After the end
Rages Of Babylon
Another time happened before
Fighting in a rich man's war
Blood can't fill oceans of sand
I no longer possess my hand
Or my mind
Or my heart
Or my will
Do you notice when we are gone
Through the rages of Babylon
To protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me
Is my home this ugly place
When will darkness reveal his face
To feed the mouth of misery
They ship our bones across the sea
And our lives
And our love
And our kids
Do you notice when we are gone
Through the rages of Babylon
To protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me
Will my family remember me
Now my wife says she can't see
Another time to lay with me
As the bombs fall overhead
If I'm not I wish I was dead
In my mind
In my heart
In my will
Do you notice when we are gone
Through the rages of Babylon
To protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me
Do you notice when we are gone
Through the rages of Babylon
To protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me
Will my family remember me
Will my family remember me
Will my family remember me
Morning
Cup
Because I love these people
I wanted you to stay
Can we now surrender
The games we used to play
Won't it all come back to
The will to love and treat you right
Ability to hold you
Anytime day and night
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
Give up your soldiers
The battle has been won
You fell so far upwards
You fell into the sun
Yesterday's over
So different from today
When nothing is hidden
There's no reason not to stay
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
Taking the long way
To where you were before
Your shadow keeps turning
The knob of every door
But none of them open
You're disappearing now
You'll always be lost here
And finding yourself somehow
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
Because I love these people
I wanted you to stay
Shadows Of
Lies
Lying next to you at night when you're sleeping
Wishing I could join you on the other side
When you shake I wonder what are you dreaming
In the dead of night there's no place I can hide
With wide open eyes in the dark
Shadows of lies on my heart
The moon it bleeds through winter's window freezing
My memories play movies in my mind
As sorrow sings for my child in Ohio
The nighttime brings every demon it can find
With wide open eyes in the dark
Shadows of lies on my heart
And when you're dreaming
I'm running through your veins
And when I am dreaming
You're running through my veins
And when you are dreaming
I am running through your veins
And when I am dreaming
You're running through my veins
Lying next to you at night when you're sleeping
Wishing I could join you on the other side
When you shake I wonder what are you dreaming
In the dead of night there's no place I can hide
With wide open eyes in the dark
Shadows of lies on my heart
On my heart
On my heart
On my heart
Could We
Survive
Hallelujah, stop and stare
When will Jesus find us here
Could we survive
How can you pretend to know
Who you are or where you will go
When you just get by
And dream, dream all the time away
And dream, dream all your time away
My father's mother sings this song
My mother's father's gone beyond
The clouds, the rain
They protect me from above
I can feel their tender love
When I'm in pain
And dream, dream all the time away
And dream, dream all the time away
Walk Away
So long
You went alone
Holding on
To what you'll never know
Who were you
Pretending you should be
Never enough
Of who you thought you'd be
You walk away
You want to walk away
You want to walk away
From who you are
You look away
For some eyes always see
Far beyond
Your reality
Look within
Into the universe
Ask yourself
If you belong to this
You walk away
You want to walk away
You want to walk away
From who you are
King Of
The Pavement
The gods can hear me sing
From inside the basement
It's good to be King
King of the pavement
Our friendship is pure
Like lights inside us pouring
I knew you before
But never in the morning
It's good to be King
King of the pavement
But you can't kiss my ring
Down in the basement
Our spirits will soar
My soul needs a cleansing
I want to explore
Being forgiven
We lay down at night
In darkness together
The moon and you fight
To capture forever
The gods can hear me sing
From inside my basement
It's good to be King
King of the pavement
Killer's Knife
Wanna feel your heartbeat
On the ocean line
Wanna feel your heartbeat
Right next to mine
There's so many motions
To the dance we do
I regret my past
Without you
Oh, ah, you
'Til the night turns blue
Oh, ah, you
'Til the night turns blue
'Til the night turns blue
On the way to mercy
Followed by the dead
On the way to mercy
In the leper's head
In the after hours
And in the after life
As we bloom like flowers
Into the killer's knife
Into the killer's knife
Oh, ah, you
'Til the night turns blue
Oh, ah, you
'Til the night turns blue
'Til the night turns blue
Radio
Euphoria
It's a lark when you're looking good
Boys and girls, they both getta load of you
It's safe to stay/say, we're/where afraid
I think it's strange when you say you're gonna go to bed
And it's only 5 o'clock - p.m.
You always look the same now
Always out in the rain somehow
Let the lights shine on our soul
And set the dial to Radio Euphoria
I like to hold you in the freezing cold
It's a lot like life when I want a kiss
I always thought you were my saving grace
But that was a different kind of face you had
And you can't get it back
No you never get it back
No you can't get it back
No you never get it back
You always look the same now
Always out in the rain somehow
You always look the same now
Always out in the rain somehow
Always out in the crazy rain
Always out in the crazy rain
Dream Of
The Eternal Life
You got lost
Now you're scared
Because if you pay the cost
You won't be here
Dream of the eternal life
Where you're from
Riddled with the will to survive
Everyone
And now you don't believe
Freedom's coming
Because you've been deceived
And you still keep running
Dream of the eternal life
Where you're from
Riddled with the will to survive
Everyone
Dream of the eternal life
Where you're from
Riddled with the will to survive
Everyone
I Come
Down
I come down
And don't know
Who I was
Or where I was
I come down
And the tattoos
Of distant avenues
Litter my skin
Like the junk of fallen thieves
I come down
And I have myself
Been crucified
Against myself
Once again
On my knees
Once again
On my knees
Once again
On my knees
Once again
On my knees
Once again
On my knees
I come down
I come down
I come down
And belief is a residue
Of everything seeming man made
And none too pure
I come down
A cadaver
Hanging there in thin air
Like so many forgotten sons
Or bugs who just float thru thin air
I come down
And don't know
Who I was
Writing and saying things
That resemble
Just because
A madman
A saint
A trickster
A megalomaniac
A poet
And even
A human being
And even
A human being
On my knees
On my knees
On my knees
Once again
On my knees
On my knees
On my knees
Once again
Nobody Make It Home
Nobody make it home
Nobody survive
You're still runnin' scared
'Cause you got no place to hide
And your walls are thin
And your life is so fucked up
And your eyes are dim
And your mind is wasted
Save me
Nobody make it home
Nobody survive
You're still runnin' scared
'Cause you got no place to hide
And your walls are thin
And your life is so fucked up
And your eyes are dim
And your mind is wasted
Save me
Nobody make it home
Nobody survive
You're still runnin' scared
'Cause you got no place to hide
Hide, hide, hide, hide
Hunter
You couldn't hang
With your pain
You shot yourself
In the brain
You couldn't lie
Wave goodbye
You couldn't cry
Anymore
You couldn't fall
Against the wall
You couldn't call
Anyone
You couldn't hang
With your pain
Shot yourself
In the brain
You couldn't hang
With your pain
Shot yourself
In the brain
Slow Me Down
Don't know where I'm going
Don't know what I'm trying to find
Wish you could come with me
To the spaceship in my mind
You
Slow me down
And I can't wait
For you
Slow me down
And I can't wait
For you
You can't take it easy
All the people you conceal
Judgement day is coming
Everything will be revealed
You
Slow me down
And I can't wait
For you
Slow me down
And I can't wait
For you
Even When Yer Blue
You take a stand
On everything you do
But if you reach out your hand
I come to you
And when you are sad
Remember no one gets it easy
And though it ain't half bad
Still no one's gonna right your wrong
Find you a home
Soften up your heart of stone
Even when you're blue
Everyone's got
Something to hide
Quit being who you are not
On the inside
And when you are sad
Remember no one gets it easy
And though you ain't half bad
Still no one's gonna right your wrong
Find you a home
Soften up your heart of stone
Even when you're blue
I come to you
I come to you
I come to you
Where will you go?
Creeping past
This life seems to move slow
But it's over so fast
And when you are sad
Remember no one gets it easy
And though you ain't half bad
Still no one's gonna right your wrong
Find you a home
Soften up your heart of stone
Even when you're blue
Pretty Good Company
In the dark
I wait for you to come
The knife in your back
Ain't as sharp as your tongue
Ain't it funny
All the ways we run
First for the love
Then the money, then the spirit in the sun
You're pretty good company
A fire in the sky
And when you lie down next to me
My heart goes wild
How can we tell
Which one of us is sane
Mechanical beasts
Turning pleasure into pain
Riddle me this
What the hell's your name
Then give me a kiss
From the middle of your flame
You're pretty good company
A fire in the sky
And when you lie down next to me
My heart goes wild
Feel, feel, feel...
She Paints
Me Gold
She paints me gold
When I'm asleep
She paints me gold
And follows me
And I'm never alone
And I'm never alone
We kiss God together
Our love is real forever
And I'm never alone
And I'm never alone
She paints me gold
When I'm awake
She paints me gold
And I believe
That I'm never alone
And I'm never alone
Second Sight
When I
Pray for you
It's true
'Cos I'm
In the dark
But I see the light
And even if it's only in my mind
I know how to fight
For a second sight
Run away ...
Run back down the aisle (?)
When I
Pray for you
It's true
'Cos I'm
In the dark
But I see the light
And even if it's only in my mind
I know how to fight
For a second sight
Run away ...
Run back down the aisle (?)
Foreign Girls
Foreign girls
In New York
Sit and smoke
Smoke and talk
Looking for
Dudes and lust
Looking for
A cherry bust
Foreign girls
With speedy tongue
Old enough
But still too young
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Plan to drink
Musica and
Lust won't think
Foreign girls
With ripped jeans
They've read about
New York scenes
Foreign girls
Sit and smoke
Perfume kiss
Could make you choke
Show their legs
And glance around
Looking for a thrill
Downtown
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Everybody loves
Foreign girls
Everybody wants
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Young and old
Foreign girls
Bought and sold
Foreign girls
Hot and cold
Foreign girls
Made of gold
Everybody loves
Foreign girls
Everybody wants
Foreign girls
Everybody hates
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Foreign girls
Lovely Cost
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
And I needed to get hit (heat?) back
Cause I knew that they would hunt me down
Even friends sometimes attack
When they know there's no one else is around
Such a lovely cost
I only want to dance with you
And if you feel you're lost
Remember I'll be finding you
And the speakers drink champagne
And the judges all so drunk with me
And I was dancing in their love
As the women face up to their need
Such a lovely cost
I only want to dance with you
And if you feel you're lost
Remember I'll be finding you
Such a lovely cost
I only want to dance with you
And if you feel you're lost
Remember I'll be finding you
A Good Friend Of Mine
( Unreleased / Live 2007 )
In a hungry time
In the middle whirl (?)
Pearls before swine
In the dark a girl
Where are you this time
I consider you to be
A good friend of mine
In a haunted light
Will you take my call
I can't win this fight
Unless you take a fall
Where you are this time
I consider you to be
A good friend of mine
I consider you to be
A good friend of mine
Love is our war
And a poltergeist
You always want some more
More truth than lies
Where are you this time
I consider you to be
A good friend of mine
I consider you to be
A good friend of mine
I consider you to be
A good friend of mine
( Exclusive iTunes song for the
UK release of Our Shadows Will Remain )
With the weight of the world I can't get on
Dying of this thirst drinking from your cup
Let me be the first one
To say good-bye
From the depths that you plunge
To get high
Look into your eyes nothing is real
Why do you pretend that you still feel/fear
Let me be the first one
To say hello
To the space that you will leave
When you go
Walk away
Over me
From your pain you are free
No one has to know
Where we have been
We don't have to trust us all
Or pretend
From the highways of lonely kinda years have lost
And for the minutes of pleasure no matter what they cost
Let me be the first one
To say good-bye
From the depths that you will plunge
To get high
Walk away
Over me
From your pain you are free
No one has to know
Where you have been
You will have to trust us all
Or pretend
And the night goes on
( And the Thieves Are Gone EP -
2004 )
Check
Belief is just a residue
Of things you heard when the pain was clear
You've been traveling so far
Only to find out you're still nowhere near
You're the creator of the gods
And the whores of Babylon
Most just want your money
But one or two will kill you for a song
Singing to the drifter
Singing to the banker and the maid
Singing to the sling shots
Singing to the diamond and the blade
And the thieves are gone
And the thieves
And the thieves are gone
Ready to go anywhere
Anywhere with you
And we sing this song over over
With you my love
Shouting at the fire engines
Rolling down Jefferson at dawn
Everyone corrupted
Looking like there's nowhere to belong
I see your eyes are spinning
Swallowing the world the way it blooms
The walls begin to dance
And your thoughts begin appearing in balloons
Silhouetted strangers sugar-coat servants at the scene
As the beggars beating butchers betting back the bread the bank bribed you to
bring
And trucks with number flames roll undisturbed through Greenhill, so will I
You're trying to nurse the spirit but it's enough for most just to survive
And their eyes are gone
I'm ready to go anywhere
Anywhere with you
As we sing this song over over
With you my love
Someone needs an operator
Someone else is broken on the road
And one bomb loves itself too much
Never got around to explode
Games and animators saying
We'll be forgiven in due time
But has there always been an alligator
Biting off the heads of those who shine
Nothing here is real
And nothing here holds any true weight
Heading out of Troutville
Bleeding hands reaching for the bait
Pull me from the stream
And I will flap like danger in the air
And as you're driving by the accident
Each of you will stop and stare
I'm sending you a postcard
I'm ready to go anywhere
Anywhere with you
As we sing this song over over
With you my love
I'm sending you a postcard
But I am nowhere
And you are nowhere too
Well I don't have a stamp
So I'll just burn it if it's all the same to you
It held no information
Cause every word that's spoken is a lie
For you were never born
So there is no way you will ever die
What's the use of feeling for someone
That you made up in your mind
You dream that you are lost
And you imagine that there is a you to find
But there just ain't nobody
No savior, no heaven and no hell
Just a load of broken junk
You're looking for an idiot to sell
Your life it doesn't work
But you've resigned yourself to live it to the end
The way you look so calm
But no one seems to notice so you just pretend
Then you get depressed
I'm ready to go anywhere
Anywhere with you
As we sing this song over over
With you my love
Then you get depressed
So you find yourself a doctor and a pill
To make the lie more comfortable
And make believe you're following your will
The mayor is nervous
He's trying to clear the street
His people dead buried underneath concrete
No one knows exactly what it's all about
The firefighters can't put this fire out
We build back up (2x)
You can't destroy our love
New York is tough
The Twin Towers aren't here anymore
We fell down with them through the clouds unto the floor
Praying that things could go back as they were before
The hate and evil dragged us underneath the war
We build back up (2x)
You can't destroy our love
New York is tough
There's no survivors underneath the devastation
And now their families wait forever at the station
White noise is the only explanation
For destruction trying to swallow up creation
We build back up (2x)
You can't destroy our love
New York is tough
We build back up (2x)
You can't destroy our love
New York is tough
( Rusty Water Bootleg )
Well I tried to hold you
But you could not be held
I had to let you go
Maybe I still don't know you
But I am waitin' for you
To make it back here on your own
California's not my home
I'll still be here when you're gone
And I tried to warn you
But you did not believe me
When I said I should never drink
So when we tried one own
All of my anger poured out
Like rusty water from a tortured sink
Oh darling please forgive me
Sometimes I lose my temper
I regret everything I said
But it's so hard for me not
To become aggravated
From all the noise ya put in my head
California's not my home
I'll still be here when you're gone
I hope you keep in mind
A soul evolves through time
And people they can change
I wish we could rewind
When love becomes unkind
I know it's strange
Arrested for my crime
I'm serving up this time
Feels like a million days
I hope you keep in mind
A soul evolves through time
And people they can change
I know you lost respect but
Somehow I'll get it back
This time I'm really gettin' clean
And now I know for sure
Those things I thought before
Were just the voice of my disease
California's not my home
I'll still be here when you're gone
California's not my home
I'll still be here when you're gone
Chapter 4
( The Invisible Parade LP )
Hello brother, Hello sister
Hello
Care and share, love and give
Apply it
In your very own life
Our truth is one, paths are many
Mohammed
Mohammed and Jesus
Are one and the same spirit
Expresses itself
Delight in humanity in the name of
That which is supposed to unite us
One and the same spirit
Mohammed and Jesus
They want us all to be together
The sages and the prophets
Who gave us these beautiful paths
Who are dividing us
They want us all to be together
Oh Mohammed
Hello Mohammed, Hello Jesus
Hello Mohammed, Hello Jesus
Wherever you go, say:
"We look different
But we are all one in spirit"
Hello brother, Hello sister
Wherever you go
We look different
But we are all one in spirit
Wherever you go, say:
"We look different
But we are all one in spirit"
Hello brother, Hello sister
Care and share, love and give
Apply it
In your very own life
Apply it
Hello Jesus, Hello Mohammed
There is no need to claim
That only one should be worshipped
There is no need to claim
That only one should be worshipped
( The Invisible Parade LP )
I want to wake up
I want you to wake up
I want us to start a revolution
I want to wake as a soldier of mercy
A merchant of peace
A bringer of glory
And a keeper of faith
I want fear to dissolve
And I want to honor the voice of God
Which I hear clearly now
Telling me happiness is mine
Peace is ours
And joy will bloom in every heart that beats
On this strange rock
Heated so delicately by a flame which rages deep in space
A flame of unknown origin
A flame like the heart of God
A gift of mystery and passion
A bringer of life
A protector
A nurturer
A mother and father a sister and brother
A flame which exists in consciousness
A flame which I ignited before the beginning of time
Before I created this mind
Which can only feel its heat as a dream
And sees its opposite glow on the moon
Which guides the tide of the waters
From which we were born
We are water and we are fire
We are the earth and we are the air
God is mercy
We give ourselves
When we wake up
We are one
God is mercy
We give ourselves
When we wake up
We are one
When we wake up
We are one
( The Invisible Parade LP )
I saw a nail driven into his hand
I was close to it
I saw the flesh cave and the blood leak around the edges of the nail
I saw a nail driven into his feet
And into his other hand
His face flew into my heart
I begged for salvation
I begged to be forgiven
I said I love you
To his impossible light
I saw the crown of thorns forced onto his head
I saw the blood drip into his eyes
I saw him naked and exposed
And displayed on the cross
I could feel what he felt
I could feel that salvation has a weighty price
I could feel that salvation has a weighty price
And that my soul is lost
Then I was with my guru
An african tribesman
I loved him
With a love that wasn't human
He was everything to me
He said its simple. I love you
Then he disintegrated
His body blew away into the wind
And his skull fell to the ground
But he appeared again as spirit
He was showing me that he was not his body
Then I was a corpse
My bones and dusts of skin
Lying in the desert
My spirit still trying to exist
In this motionless pit
I was illuminated
I was not my body
My body was blown away by the wind
Then I was asked where love comes from
I was not my body
My body was blown away by the wind
Then I was asked where love comes from
The emotion of love
Separate from your animal self
I saw love as a spirit
Which is my nature
Love can save me
I heard myself say I love you
Over and over
To this formless presence that was with me
I love you so much
I felt protected
I felt safe
I was outside my body
I saw my body function as an animal
And I realized that this is not me
But knowing what I was went so far beyond comprehension that I couldn't take it
An animal
And I realized that this is not me
But knowing what I was went so far beyond comprehension that I couldn't take it
I opened my eyes
I saw the african statue of two heads connected in a kiss that blended faces
I was on a trampoline
I was falling so fast and so far
I was going into hell
I was falling thru fire
Nothing could save me
I prayed earnestly
I hit the trampoline
I flew up so far
Into the sky out of the atmosphere
Deep into space and then some place beyond space
I touched him again and then I fell again
All the way back down
And then I went all the way up again
And I saw a painting I made of Cerise
She appeared as an angel of mercy
I closed my eyes
I saw my dark nature
My greedy conniving lying self with red lips and plastic body melt away in
damnation
I begged again to be saved
I begged again to be forgiven
I was stripped away of everything
I was laid bare
I was naked in a hot room
With a fan blowing on me
My hands were holding each other over my chest
And I was praying
I was humbled
I saw a cartoon version of my heart
Beat outside of my body
Which was covered in white healing light
And mending my smoky throat
I love you
Is my mantra
I love you
Is my home
Coast Of High Barbary
( Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys )
There were two lofty ships
From old England came
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
One was the Prince of Luther
And the other Prince of Wales
A-cruisin' down along the coast
Of High Barbary
"Aloft there, aloft there"
Our jolly bosun cried
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
"Look ahead, look astern,
Look to weather an' a-lee"
Look down along the coast
Of High Barbary
"There's naught upon the stern
There's naught upon our lee
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
But there's a lofty ship to wind'ard
An' she's sailin' fast and free"
Down along the coast
Of High Barbary
"Oh hail her, oh hail her"
Our gallant captain cried
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
"Are you a man-o-war,
A privateer or a merchant ship?" said he
A-cruisin' down along the coast
Of High Barbary
"Oh, I'm not a man-o-war
A privateer," said he
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
"But I am salt sea pirate
All a-looking for my fee"
Down along the coast
Of High Barbary
For Broadside, for broadside
A long time we lay
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
UnTil the Prince of Luther
Shot the pirate's mast away
Down along the coast
Of High Barbary
"Oh quarter, oh quarter"
Those pirates they did cry
Blow high, blow low
And so sail we
But the answer that we gave them
Was we sank 'em in the sea
A-cruisin' down along the coast
Of High Barbary
A-cruisin' down along the coast
Of High Barbary
A-cruisin' down along the coast
Of High Barbary
( In the Sun EP )
Cocaine blind in Times Square
The dark sun shines
Found you there
So alone, it's hard to go home, baby
Skin and bones is all you are now, baby
Been a ghost all your life
Now you're lost in the night
So alone, it's hard to go home, baby
Skin and bones is all you are now, baby
Dark Forces
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
Crazy
I'm going crazy
Dark forces read the sign
Your voices fill my mind
Heartbeat
Skip another heartbeat
Tough choices far behind
Get back now some other time
Hold on
Can you hold on ?
Feed back, come through the light
Here now, it's always night
And I'm looking for a dream to have
I'm coming back for you
And I'm never gonna be the same again
Baby I'm looking for a dream to have
I'm coming back for you
And I'm never gonna be the same again
Freeze You Out
( Rusty Water Bootleg )
Hey babe
Love alone's not keeping you with me
You need someone touching you so deep
Just one more dependency you feed
Under secret lock and key
Cause I've been opened up
But I need to go away and freeze you out
Of my heart
I know that you're weak but I pick you up each time
You've been falling down too much
You take too much of my energy
It's fake
What you call reality
I hate
Swallowin' your misery
You break
Every time I move
To Leave
Cause I've been opened up
But I need to go away and freeze you out
Of my heart
I know that you're weak but I pick you up each time
You've been falling down too much
I wish you were courageous
I need to try to change
Your misery's contagious
I got to get away
I wish you were courageous
I have to try to change
Your misery's contagious
I got to get away
Cause I've been opened up
But I need to go away and freeze you out
Of my heart
And I know that you're weak but I pick you up each time
You've been falling down too much
Glasspipe
Say your prayers, a flicker on your candle
I see my baby, she's lying on your table
Got my glass pipe filled
So I know my mind will be still until tomorrow
Dancing and singing with you
Get out of your bed and up to your window
Get out of your head and out of your shadow
Outside of your window
It's the sun that's bringing your kingdom into bloom
Get up to your window
And away from all those shadows in your room
Hey, what if the damage was surrendered?
And what if the sacrifice was butchered?
Would the gods then smile on our crops
And bring us gold?
Got my glass pipe filled
So I know my mind will be still until tomorrow
Dancing and singing with you
Hallelujah
( Leonard Cohen cover / Deliver Us From Evil OST )
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
( Chemical EP )
Hey man, there's a revolution over here
I feel heavy bullets flying through the air
We can fly high together
'Cause I know that you could never be
Less than free
You know I will try to be here if you come
I trust you will be behind me if I fall
We can fly high together
'Cause I know that you could never be
Less than free
Hey man, there's a revolution over here
I feel heavy bullets flying through the air
We can fly high together
'Cause I know that you could never be
Less and free
I donated myself to the mexican army
I donated myself to the Mexican army
We were ten thousand guns shooting into the night
Turning screams into sand and sand into blood
And murdering darkness with fire and light
I don't know where we're going from here
I'm just following orders
I don't know how we'll conquer the king
This ain't my revolution
Out in the field there's no such thing as mercy
We bloom through the night into flowers of death
"I don't believe anything that I’ve said"
Jesus was heard saying under his breath
I don't know where we're going from here
I'm just following orders
I don't know how we'll conquer the king
This ain't my revolution
I donated myself to the Mexican army
I gave all my love to a Mexican whore
I gave her my dreams and I gave her my money
I buried my family under her floor
I don't know where we're going from here
I'm just following orders
I don't know how we'll conquer the king
This ain't my revolution
I wish I believed in divine destinations
I wish I believed in a world made of light
But needles are biding the arms of salvation
And the Mexican army is trained and ready to fight
I don't know where we're going from here
I'm just following orders
I don't know how we'll conquer the king
This ain't my revolution
I don't know where we're going from here
I'm just following orders
I don't know how we'll conquer the king
This ain't my revolution
If Yer Afraid
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
You crawl inside
I wanted you to leave
Because you love me
And I can't hide
If yer afraid
To be apart
You got your own self
To save
Follow the endless night
Believe in the dawn's first light
There's no one else you can fight
Your eyes are soft
But you can see
There ain't no real life
In memories
When we are gone
An empty room goes
With the light left
By our ghosts
Follow the endless night
Believe in the dawn's first light
There's no one else you can fight
I'm In Your Life
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
I've been thinking 'bout my friends now gone
I'm in your life
Seems like yesterday when they sailed along
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
If I jump into the deepest sea
I'm in your life
Would you promise to look out for me?
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
Hey don't drop into the ocean
I'm in your life
Hey don't drop into the ocean
I'm in your life
Hey don't drop into the ocean
I'm in your life
Hey don't drop into the ocean
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
I'm in your life
I'm in your life
I'm in your life and I'm real
In The Distance
( Rusty Water Bootleg )
You never let them make you a slave
I throw this flower on your grave
In the distance I could see the setting sun
I know some day I won't fear anyone
You were your own enemy
You never let yourself get free
In the distance I can see the horses run
I hope somehow you have found where you belong
In your oh so lonely heart
In your desert burned my car
All alone your love is strange
No one knows/goes you got/gone so far
You know I didn't kiss you days/daze
A soul like yours is hard to tame
In the distance I could see the danger come
No one witnessed when they came to take you home
In the distance I can see the setting sun
I know some day I won't fear anyone
Jump Out Boy
( Can't Exist 7'' Single )
Avoid me, avoid me
You have a monkey heart
You lost your angel eyes
Someone must've ripped your face apart
Just like a jump out boy
You snap a gun in my face
Just like a jump out boy
You're chasin' what you waste
Criss-cross me, criss-cross me
You have a leper's soul
You took your final chance
You took your final chance
Just like a jump out boy
You snap a gun in my face
Just like a jump out boy
Sling-shot me, sling-shot me
I used to speak to you
But you have broken down
On every follow-through
Just like a jump out boy
You snap a gun in my face
Just like a jump out boy
You're chasin' what you waste
Just like a jump out boy
Destroy me, destroy me
You have a razor tongue
You never did receive
The calling to become
Just like a jump out boy
You snap a gun in my face
Just like a jump out boy
You're chasin' what you waste
Just like a jump out boy
So here I stand accused
You try to slit my throat
So here I stand accused
You're just a dirty goat
Just like a jump out boy
You snap a gun in my face
Just like a jump out boy
You're chasin' what you waste
Just like a jump out boy
Last Train To Ithaca
( Hurricane Katrina Benefit Song )
What is it you're born to lose
When you're just like the rest of us
Just like the rest of us
There's really nothing you can lose
On the last train to Ithaca
Last train to Ithaca
This light
This light is the devil's smoke
On the year we choke
This light
This light is a needle mark
The forgotten spark
Everybody lost their home
In a wind named Katrina
Wind named Katrina
I wonder what it was he saw
Through the eye of a hurricane
Eye of a hurricane
This light
This light is the devil's smoke
On the year we choke
This light
This light is a needle mark
The forgotten spark
( John Lennon cover / Recorded exclusively for Q Magazine )
Look at me
What am I supposed to be?
What am I supposed to be?
Look at me
What am I supposed to be?
What am I supposed to be?
Look at me
Oh my love oh my love
Here I am
What am I supposed to do?
What am I supposed to do?
Here I am
What can I do for you?
What can I do for you?
Here I am
Oh my love oh my love
Look at me, oh please look at me, my love
Here I am - oh my love
Who am I?
Nobody knows but me
Nobody knows but me
Who am I?
Nobody else can see
Just you and me
Who are we
Oh my love oh my love
Magic Chances Us All
( J.A Myspace )
Oh
I love you guys
The magic chances it all
I give beauty
All that I can
Don't even know what fear is
To be free
Free
Free
I love me
I love god
God is me
I am the witness
I am wilted
Bloomed and broken
Healed and transfixed
Do your thing
The magic chances it all
Yeah
The magic chances us all
God loves me
He woke me up
My brain is a hatching seed
My brain is his alibi
But he loves me
He let's me bee
He let's me be
He let's me see
There is a flower of fire
Speaking from my head
A bliss electric wire
Spinning and red
It says
God loves you
He woke you up
Now you are a zoo
A leper and a priest
A pilgrim and a poser and a bowlful of yeast
God loves me
He woke me up
Spit flames in my brain
To help the hatching seed
There is a crucifix and a bottle of wine
Which used to be water turning into blood
Growing from the flower of love
There is a minnow and a shark
A monkey and a bark
A building and a park
And an elegant spark
In the flower
Chancing us all
Someone said
Yer a genius
But God woke me up
My head split open with a burning flower
In the sky
Licking the sky
He danced for me
I saw him dance for me
I saw him dance for me
Then I was sure of his love
He told me to say
That I am awake
He told me to say
That I am an earthquake
And he chances us all
He told me to say
That I am awake
He told me to say
That I am an earthquake
And the magic chances us all
We could be heart bubbles
I am enlightened
This is a love poem to all of you
And it chances us all
I am god
I love you
I am
Heart bubbles
Goodnight
Hello
We are free
I am the sun
And it chances us all
Well
Beauty is my name
Love is my name
Truth is my name
Love is my name
Yeah
It chances us all
And you know now
Truth is my name
Love is my name
Pain is my name
Shame is my name
We are heart bubbles
And it chances us all
Sex sex sex sex sex sex chances us all
Death death breath breath death chances us all
God is in love with me
I am everything
We are freedom
You are me
We are one
Chances us all
Yeah
Big kiss
From the sky
Big kiss
Evil eye
Dream
A solid bliss
Dream
Yeah
He chances us all
Well
Big kiss
From the sky
Big kiss
Evil eye
Dream
A solid bliss
Dream
And you know
He chances us all
And you know
Big kiss
From the sky
Big kiss
Evil eye
Dream
A solid bliss
Dream
Well he chances us all
Big kiss
From the sky
Big kiss
Evil eye
Dream
A solid bliss
Dream
Yeah
He chances us all
Abwoon abwoon abwoon chances us all
Abwoon abwoon abwoon chances us all
( Can't Exist 7'' Single )
You were made for me
From the finest yarn
I hope I will see
Who you really are
Touched by light and love
Cracking over scar
When you need a place
All you have to do is call
Cause there always more to give
You have so much in your life
Please don't be afraid to live
To surrender to the night
When the dancers flash
Their last victory smile
You are not alone
You are with them in this dream
Cause there always more to give
You have so much in your life
Please don't be afraid to live
To surrender to the night
It's all in your mind / You are not alone
( And the Thieves Are Gone EP -
2004 )
You want to be free
Don't act like it's bad
I'm already dead
My home is your head
Hey you and me
Can get what we need
Hey you and me
Can get what we need
You're a suicide
Only out for revenge
You can't control my mind
If I don't believe you're gonna try
Hey you and me
Can get what we need
Hey you and me
Can get what we need
You want to be free
Don't act like it's bad
I'm already dead
My home is your head
Hey you and me
Can get what we need
Hey you and me
Can get what we need
Help me I'm jumping around
Forgive me
Oh please forgive me
One By One
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
Nights like this gets twisted
When the light hits the frame
If you don't wanna be resisted
It's good to feel your pain
Smile when the camera holds you
With its evil knife
Burn your edges and make your mark
With the gift of your life
You always look at me
And then you look away
As I pretend to stay
Mannequins drinking bourbon
On a street with the same name
Little kids singing songs
Before they find out about the flame
One by one they tear stars out of the sky
And one by one throw them back
'cept for now there's a wish behind each
As one by one they turn black
You always look at me
And then you look away
As I pretend to stay
One by one they turn black
We are too late
One by one they turn black
We are too late
One by one they turn black
To go back there now
One by one they turn black
One by one they turn black
We are too late
One by one they turn black
We are too late
One by one they turn black
To go back there now
One by one they turn black
I can't hear you darling
Underneath your strange cough
Wearing your skin-tight outfit
Only you could pull off
It's hard to know where you're going
Or even where you stand
When you're running or you're burning out
In the promised land
Roses fill up dusty glasses
Drunk in the lungs of your dreams
Blooming inside cadavers dancing
And zombies coming clean
One by one they turn black
We are too late
One by one they turn black
We are too late
One by one they turn black
To go back there now
One by one they turn black...
One by one they turn black
One by one they turn black
One by one they turn black
One by one they turn black
Papa
( And the Thieves Are Gone EP - 2004 )
I
Needed you to love me
But you
Did not know how to love
Papa
You've been gone too long
And papa
Oh I'm so glad you're home
You
Were living in a separate world
I
Tried so hard to impress you
Papa
You've been here before
And papa
Oh I'm not as strong as you are
I can finally see you
Looking through your eyes
I will try to honour you
With my life
Papa
You've been gone too long
And papa
Oh I'm so glad you're home
( And the Thieves Are Gone EP -
2004 )
If I show you who I am
Would you stay?
It's not hard to understand
Why you went away
Reaching out for love
To feel a hide out in your heart
And steal a graceful hand to hold
And help me to regain control
Real as any rain
Must there always be a prayer
To buy or sell
Pretending you were never there
As you crawl out of yourself
Reaching out for love
To feel a hide out in your heart
And steal a graceful hand to hold
And help me to regain control
Real as any rain
And I watched you come
And I watched you turn away
With seagulls flying all along the shore
Asking you to stay
Something's always gonna come
Between me and you
Both of us know how to run
More than follow through
Reaching out for love
To feel a hide out in your heart
And steal a graceful hand to hold
And help me to regain control
Real as any rain
All your rain's gonna come down
Child of your pain
All our rain's gonna come down
Real as any rain
( And the Thieves Are Gone EP -
2004 )
She became the servant of the moon
She represents with binocular eyes
All of the London crowd
The affectionate zombies weep and cry
Whenever she leaves town
Abused and fucked up
Under the knife
Wearing a mini skirt
Painting her lips in the museum of her strife
Where she worships, how she hurts
No one was waiting for her love
She was the savior of the sun
And through the thinnest needle
Slipped into a cocoon
Where she became the servant of the moon
She was half starved up in her head
With an inward gaze
She could paint your portrait as you bled
And expect your praise
Like a desert spider
She will burn
Burn in the sky
She is more beautiful than anything
When she cries
No one was waiting for her love
She was the savior of the sun
And through the thinnest needle
Slipped into a cocoon
Where she became the servant of the moon
Say Goodbye
( Unreleased / Live 2007 )
If you're going leave, you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
Can't help but be a liar, sayin' we'll never die
but you should say goodbye
you should say goodbye
You left on a cold afternoon
bringing winter to the month of June
Here for a while, now you're gone too soon
Like a hidden flower that forgot to bloom
If you're going to leave, you should say good bye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
I know it's gettin' harder every time you cry
But you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You burnt the sun and broke the moon
I can still see you lying in an empty room
The letter you left me was laced with your perfume
Like a butterfly tryin' to fly back into her cocoon
If you're going to leave, you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
If you're going to leave, you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
If you're going to leave, you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
If you're going to leave, you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
If you're going to leave, you should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
You should say goodbye
( Come to where I'm from Bonus
track )
I've been on the mourn
In my war
Trouble has begun, oh
Hey, it's a revolution
Forgive and forget
A kind of isolation
That you can never admit
Time to become the other one
Not yet become time to become the other one
Not yet begun time to become the other one
Not yet begun
So Far Away
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
Looking from my window
There's a graveyard in my view
Fresh flowers on a tombstone
Is the way I feel for you
I miss you
And I wish you were near
Lord, you're so far away
Oh no it's just another day
Away
Black birds flying from the trees
Disappear into the sky
I wish that I could join them
But I've forgotten how to fly without you
And I wish you were near
You're so far away
Oh Lord it's just another day
Away
I've got to stay inside my mind
I've got to stay inside my mind
Or I will lose you
For a second time
You're so far away
Scattered around my room
Is the junkyard of our life
Things I forgot to throw away
Ganging up now to twist the knife
When I need you
And I wish you were near
Oh you're so far away
Oh no it's just another day
Away
Away
Away
Straw Dogs
( Unreleased / josepharthur.tumblr.com )
Death is what you came for
Death is what you paid for
Again
Riding on your white horse
Underneath the black night
Of your sin
Into the air
I can
Find a friend
I don't care if I never see your face again
I can
Find a friend
I don't care if I never see your face again
Death is what you came for
Death is what you paid for
Again
And you're riding on your white horse
Underneath the cold black night
Of your sin
Into the air
Where I can
Find my friend
I don't care if I never see your face again
I can
Find my friend
I don't care if I never see your face again
Is what you came for
Death is what you paid for
Again
Again
Riding on your white horse
Underneath the black night
Of your sin
Into the air
( In the sun EP )
Let go of your fear
Live life everywhere
We are born on the other side
With the night, with the night raging in
Come on out from where you hide
We will be, we will be born again
In God I will trust
Let love be with us
We are born on the other side
With the night, with the night raging in
Come on out from where you hide
We will be, we will be born again (3x)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
( The Smiths / Sweetheart Compilation - 2005 )
Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, It's their home
And I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask
Take me out tonight
Oh take me anywhere
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Oh, I haven't got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
( Bob Dylan cover / The Times they are a Changin LP, A Tribute To Bob Dylan volume 3 )
Everything went from bad to worse,
money never changed a thing
Death kept followin', trackin' us down, at least I heard your bluebird sing
Now somebody's got to show their hand, time is an enemy
I know you're long gone
I guess it must be up to me
If I'd thought about it I never would've done it
I guess I would've let it slide
If I'd lived my life by what others were thinkin'
The heart inside me would've died
I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity
Someone had to reach for the risin' star
I guess it was up to me
Oh, the Union Central is pullin' out and the orchids are in bloom
I've only got me one good shirt left and it smells of stale perfume
In fourteen months I've only smiled once and I didn't do it consciously
Somebody's got to find your trail
I guess it must be up to me
It was like a revelation when you betrayed me with your touch
I'd just about convinced myself that nothin' had changed that much
The old Rounder in the iron mask slipped me the master key
Somebody had to unlock your heart
He said it was up to me
Well, I watched you slowly disappear down into the officers' club
I would've followed you in the door but I didn't have a ticket stub
So I waited all night 'til the break of day, hopin' one of us could get free
When the dawn came over the river bridge
I knew it was up to me
Oh, the only decent thing I did when I worked as a postal clerk
Was to haul your picture down off the wall near the cage where I used to work
Was I a fool or not to try to protect your identity?
You looked a little burned out, my friend
I thought it might be up to me
Well, I met somebody face to face and I had to remove my hat
She's everything I need and love but I can't be swayed by that
It frightens me, the awful truth of how sweet life can be
But she ain't a-gonna make me move
I guess it must be up to me
We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex
It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects
When you bite off more than you can chew you pay the penalty
Somebody's got to tell the tale
I guess it must be up to me
Well, Dupree came in pimpin' tonight to the Thunderbird Cafe
Crystal wanted to talk to him, I had to look the other way
Well, I just can't rest without you, love, I need your company
But you ain't a-gonna cross the line
I guess it must be up to me
There's a note left in the bottle, you can give it to Estelle
She's the one you been wond'rin' about, but there's really nothin' much to tell
We both heard voices for a while, now the rest is history
Somebody's got to cry some tears
I guess it must be up to me
So go on, boys, and play your hands, life is a pantomime
The ringleaders from the county seat say you don't have all that much time
And the girl with me behind the shades, she ain't my property
One of us has got to hit the road
I guess it must be up to me
And if we never meet again, baby, remember me
How my lone guitar played sweet for you that old-time melody
And the harmonica around my neck, I blew it for you, free
No one else could play that tune
You know it was up to me
Wait and see
( live )
Come back alive I wanna hold you
Come back alive I wanna hold you
I can see you don't know where you should be
Everything will be alright
Just wait and see
You're not the things that you have done
You're far beyond places you're still running from
I can see you don't know where you should be
Everything will be alright
Just wait and see
Don't trade this game for ???
Mistakes that you've made aren't who you are
I can tell you may be home where you fell (?)
...out of hell
I can see you don't know where you should be
Everything will be alright
Just wait and see
Just wait and see
( live )
Rita ...
I thought I could save her
but she was sinking too fast
We danced to Duke Ellington
Like neither of us had a past
I never knew where she came from
And how I never even asked
Rita
Were you happy all the time
Rita
Were you happy all the time
Rita
Were you happy all the time
Were you happy being mine
When the moon paying through the sky
In a world passing us by
I could see the fire in your eyes
Rita needed love
But she had no love to give
And even though she was full of guilt
She was easy to forgive
We danced to Duke Ellington in the bottom of a cup
And ... the only way you can
By completely gibing up
Rita
Were you happy all the time
Rita
Were you happy all the time
Rita
Were you happy all the time
Were you happy being mine
When the moon paying through the sky
In a world passing us by
I could see the fire in your eyes
When the moon hits the sun
We will never ever become him back
When the moon hits the sun
We will never ever become him back
( With Faultline on Your Love Means Everything LP
)
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted
I bought them for you graceless lady
You know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hand
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
I watched you suffer
A dull aching pain
Now you're decided
To show me the same
No sweeping exits
Or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter
Or treat you unkind
I know I've dreamed you
A sin n' a lie
I have my freedom
But I dont have much time
Faith has been broken
Tears must be cried
Let's do some living
After we die
Wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses
Couldn't drag me away
You May
Go
( Exclusive iTunes song for the UK release of Our Shadows Will Remain )
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
And I leave you there (2X)
In your life (2x)
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
And I leave you there (2x)
In your life (2x)
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
You may go
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
You may go
Gone
You are cut
And blind
You may go
Gone
( Shrek 2 soundtrack )
I'm strange and you're strange
Don't want you to change
No way
Ah ha ha ha
How can I explain
Flying to the sun without a plane
When you're here
Ah ha ha ha
And don't you worry about me, babe
'Cause I'm right here for you to say
Hope you know you inspire me
You're a flower and I'm a bee
I need you
Ah ha ha ha
All this you do for free
Give me hope and I can see
You're so true
Ah ha ha ha
And don't you worry about me, babe
'Cause I'm right here for you to say
One day I will tell
You and I know well
You're the waves of my ocean
Here's my ring and my devotion
One day I will tell
You and I know well
You're the waves of my ocean
Here's my ring and my devotion
You're strange and I'm strange
Don't want you to change
No way
Ah ha ha ha
How can I explain
Flying to the sun
Without a plane
When you're here
Ah ha ha ha
And don't you worry about me, babe
'Cause I'm right here for you to say
Don't you worry about me, babe
'Cause I'm right here for you to say
