B i o g r a p h y (by MacKenzie Wilson)
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 Streets, was released in 1997 and was practically unnoticed. Not discouraged by industry politics, the 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 exposed his musical styles to a global palette. 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. The album showed Arthur's musical fondness for basic country-rock and Americana. He spent summer 2000 headlining club dates across North America and additional opening dates with The The followed that fall. Two years later, Arthur issued the four-EP series Junkyard Hearts, a precursor to his third opus, Redemption Son. North American dates with Tracy Chapman followed in summer 2003, then one year later the critically acclaimed Our Shadows Will Remain appeared. After starting his own label, Lonely Astronaut (distributed by Sony), Arthur published a collection of his artwork entitled We Almost Made It, complete with a mostly instrumental accompaniment, The Invisible Parade, in the spring of 2006. A few months later fans were greeted with his fifth record, Nuclear Daydream, as well as a tour that featured Arthur with a full live band, something he had never done before. Arthur also provided vocals on "Sublime," from the Twilight Singers' iTunes-only five-song EP A Stitch in Time. In April 2007, he released Let's Just Be, his second album with his own label, with help from his Lonely Astronaut band
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Hang Around Here Bed Of Nails Prison Making Mistakes Vacancy Crying On Sunday Toxic Angel Hidden track
The Coldest Sea This Heart Will Swallow Us Jumping In With You Take Me Back Home Hold On Dear Marmalade Eyes Queen of Brooklyn Glue Sniffer Dear Lord Bill Wilson Tiny Echoes
Space Needle Be My Friend The Termite Song Favourite Girl Crackerjack Box Voices Will Fight Still the Same In the Middle of the Night
Foreign Girls Candy And Cars Lovely Cost Stay The Killer New Satisfaction
A Good Friend Of Mine And The Night Goes On Anywhere with You Build back up California Chapter 4 Chapter 15 Chapter 19 Coast Of High Barbary Cocaine blind Dark Forces Freeze You Out Glasspipe Hallelujah Heavy Bullets I donated myself to the mexican army If Yer Afraid I'm In Your Life In The Distance Jump Out Boy Last Train To Ithaca Look At Me
Magic Chances Us All More To Give My home is in your head One By One Papa Real as Rain Robin Rockin' In The Free World Saviour of the Sun Say Goodbye Ski Or Snowboard So Far Away Straw Dogs The Other Side There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out Up To Me Wait and see When the moon hits the sun Where Is My Van Wild Horses You May Go You're so true
Vacancy
*** Thanx a lot to Christophe for these lyrics ***
Hang around here
Your tongue is a razor blade (should be) careful of the things you say ('cause you) you speak your mind at me all day (of stitching) of stitching up the games we play Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here Hang around here I keep getting left behind Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here Hang around here I'll go someplace I can't be found I'll hang like my picture of you The one I took of you coming down Your sitting on the sideways chair My feet never touch the ground Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here Hang around here I keep getting left behind Hey yeah, don't have to hang around here Hang around here I'll go someplace I can't be found I'll go someplace I can't be found I'll go someplace I can't be found I'll go someplace I can't be found
Bed of nails
In the past I'm burning in the flame of hope Trouble come and turn me into solid smoke In your bar I drink until I can't stand up Your drowning heart in the bottom of my cup You are hurting but you are learning I'm still burning while I'm living In my own world On a bed of nails No one here I would even think to trust I would disappear but someone just stole my crutch You're not here but then again you're nowhere else In the spinning chair melting all around yourself You are hurting but you are learning I'm still burning but you are living In your own world On a bed of nails In your own world On a bed of nails
Prison
Help me find a reason In my darkest time To open up my heart And survive Help me gain my vision As I stand here blind Looking out for a place to be Helpless and free Where no one will recognize me A prison inside myself I look at you I think I need your help To make it through Can you find the reason To put it down But you love the poison You found And all that you've been using To get you through Soon you'll see That it was using you A prison inside myself...
Making mistakes
I can't feel now anybody Buried under who I am Just another one of many Wishing we could start again Making mistakes To kill some time Waking up with the shakes And a poisoned mind I know that you might not feel the way I do Still I hope you're going to come around I don't need an explanation Walking through your junkyard I've reached the bottom of addiction Just to make it to where we are Lying on a killing floor With a frozen spine Back to where I was before Only worse this time I know that you might not feel the way I do Still I hope you're going to come around I've been locked up with my shadow Bouncing off these crazy walls Surrounded by all kinds of darkness Praying for a light to fall So if forgiveness avoids you And all your love is soft like clay I hope you will think to call me You know I would be on my way Making mistakes Across state lines Sweeping up the dirt In my broken mind I know that you might not feel the way I do Still I hope you're going to come around What I hope you're going to come around And I hope you're going to come around
I know you're always alone Looking for someone, a home Don't wait for me I'll be all right In the ocean of your mind I know I've seen better days Walking through life like a maze But I can see You'll be alright In the ocean of my mind Turn on your light Shining vacancy With you I'm lost Like a shell in the sea But I'll pray for you I hope you will pray for me I know you're always alone Looking for someone, a home I know you're always alone Looking for someone, a home Don't wait for me I'll be all right In the ocean of your mind And you'll be alright In the ocean of my mind
Crying on sunday Crying on Sunday After church To wake up on Monday Everything's worse Forgive me on Tuesday Or live with the curse Of crying on Sunday After church We believe in redemption Yet we follow regrets To the ones we are trying always to love And respect Crying on Sunday The virgin gave birth To wake up on Monday Without her purse Destroy me on Tuesday I only get worse For crying on Sunday After church I've never been so sure of love - love I've never been so sure of love - love I've never been so sure of love - love I've never been so sure of love - love We believe in redemption But we follow regret To the ones we are trying always to love And respect Crying on Sunday After church To wake up on Monday Everything still hurts Forgive me on Tuesday Or be damned with the curse Of crying on Sunday After church
Toxic angel Cold hearts pound all around But I found my angel In the desert looking all around For someone to strangle In chains Like a mad dog barking over what you've done So strange That the one you need is the one you shun Could you follow me down With a love like yours I don't know if I'm able To keep my feet on the ground With a mind like mine you know it's never stable Are you near Are you near Are you near Are you near All my dreams underneath the ground But I found my angel Kicked off of the merry-go-round By some toxic stranger In pain Like the way you feel when you know you can't complain So strange That the one who saved you is the one you still blame Could you follow me down With a love like yours I don't know if I'm able To keep my feet on the ground With a mind like mine you know it's never stable
Hidden track I'm going out tonight (repeat again and again)
Junkyard Hearts I & II
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
Could we survive EP
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
Crazy Rain EP
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
Vagabond Skies EP
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 (?)
It's Too Late If I tell you what's on my mind Don't know if I want to What could you tell me to make me feel fine Riding up on your high horse I've been wondering all of the time Looking for something to fill up Swallows start from below underground And invented the spill up It's too late Every time I try to tell you how I feel It's too late By the time you listen none of it is still real It's too late Every time I try to tell you how I feel It's too late By the time you listen none of it is still real One dime and I could make a call If I had any number One lie (?) would cushion the fall Of looking for a new lover The sad markets are burning the prize (?) And the children are captive And almost create something to die Have you created the angels It's too late Every time I try to tell you how I feel It's too late By the time you listen none of it is still real It's too late Every time I try to tell you how I feel It's too late By the time you listen none of it is still real
Foreign Girls EP
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
Candy And Cars All the time driving (in) candy and cars Looking at photographs (moving) the stars Following spider webs spun around Mars I was (a leaf?) You were (in charge) An elegant (fear/feel) Looking for bars Living in lonely worlds where we could fight Arguing who is (the) dark and who is the light/right 'til I jumped (on/in) your car deep in the night Until you would scream Get out of my sight I know you burn Impossibly bright When will you learn Maybe your love is like gas on a rose/road Throwing down matchbook stalks/souls that (are) already froze Unless you say differently I guess I'll pretend Nobody knows What you are/were like Without any clothes What you are/were like When you're not (froze)
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
Stay Do not go / You will not go (I) Want you to stay Want you to stay Want you to stay Do not go / You will not go Want you to stay Want you to stay Want you to stay And I love you (doll) Like the dog/dark loves the night (a fight/bite) Love you 'til the morning come In the endless night Do not go / You will not go Want you to stay Want you to stay Want you to stay Do not go / You will not go Want you to stay Want you to stay Want you to stay And I love you (doll) Like the dog/dark loves the night (dark love the light?) Love you 'til the morning come In the endless night The Killer I've got nothing to justify Wing and a prayer (Wingin' a prayer) If you saw me then testify Say I was there I want you to feel alive I want you to feel alive Inside your (brain/grave/jail?) Judge come down with my punishment Guilty as sin Lethal injection of government Sticking it in I want you to feel alive I want you to feel alive Inside your (brain/grave/jail?) If you saw me then testify Say I was there There's no Jesus to crucify Anywhere I want you to feel alive I want you to feel alive I want you to feel alive I want you to feel alive Inside your (brain/grave/jail?) New Satisfaction I don't want to get angry In life Ain't it like on the TV Oh no If you think you could feed me Your dream Give me back your satisfaction Let me into your sympathy Give me back your satisfaction Let me into your sympathy I don't want to get angry In life Ain't it like on the TV Oh no If you think you could show me Your dream Give me back your satisfaction Let me into your sympathy Give me back your satisfaction Let me into your sympathy
Morning Star
*** Thanx a lot to Helen/@junkyard_h for these lyrics ***
Ghost Inside my heart There is a God There is a God He is not dead He is not dead And in this big world Everyone's lost Everyone's lost Forget what you read Forget what you read I touch your face with my fingertips Deep in the night I tell you what I miss The sound of your voice steals my viciousness I lose myself every time we kiss Inside my dream There is a ghost There is a ghost Inside my dream Inside my dream You always knew Just what he needs Just what he needs You always knew You always knew I touch your face with my fingertips The sound of your voice steals my viciousness Deep in the night I tell you what I miss And I lose myself every time we kiss Downtown Do you even know what you'd see Over the walls of your misery Behind them A world keeps passing you by Do you even know who you are If you could see underneath your scars You act like A vacuum turned to the sky Inhaling Any dirt that floats by And I feel like I'm losing my way Downtown every night looking for my fire Yeah I feel like I'm losing my way I'm older In my dream you asked me why Love should be blind opening your eyes It was a nightmare Like a neon sign in the sky I woke up from that tragedy Only to find you next to me Still sleeping Like all the secrets inside I'm keeping Next to my alibi And I feel like I'm losing my way Downtown every night looking for my fire Yeah I feel like I'm losing my way I'm older Angel every day (and the devil every day/night) Oh Lord (You know that) I feel like I'm losing my way Downtown every night looking for my fire Yeah I feel like I'm losing my way I'm older I feel like I'm losing my way Downtown every night looking for my fire Yeah I feel like I'm losing my way I'm older Pictures Of A Life Walk down the street Along the harbor She's next to me holding A rose I bought her And I See everything This is the life This is the life I'm glad I met you Glad I met you I have a friend but he's More like my brother We always laugh whenever We are together Oh I I can't explain This is the life This is the life Glad I met you Glad to know you Glad I met you Forgive Your Heart I was watching the beggar's dream I was looking at my own heart I saw the snake of you I saw the monster's face Try to forgive your heart All the way Try to forgive your heart All the way Try to forgive your heart All the way Try to forgive your heart I was watching the killer I was looking at my mind I saw the ghost of my father Burning down the walls of time Try to forgive your heart All the way Try to forgive your heart All the way Try to forgive your heart All the way Try to forgive your heart All the way
Afraid To Feel I see you outside You're looking in (Over me, downtown/downtime, I can feel) And in my own head I can hear you say/sigh (Make a change, outside, outside) I touch the window You go away (Over me, outside outside) I look with my hands Don't feel a thing (Over you, I see, over you) You're afraid to feel You're afraid to feel (You're afraid, you're afraid) You're afraid to feel You're afraid to feel (You're afraid, you're afraid) To feel The pushing back home/all/hope/of What I believe in (Over me, God guide us through this) And living by eye All I can see (Over/open, broke down, broke down) I drift in and out Pills swallowing (I would die, I feel, express this ???) It's taking/taken my bones 'Til I can float (Float away, float away, float away) You're afraid to feel You're afraid to feel (You're afraid, you're afraid) You're afraid to feel You're afraid to feel (You're afraid, you're afraid) You're afraid to feel You're afraid to feel (you're afraid, you're afraid) You're afraid to feel You're afraid to feel (you're afraid, you're afraid) To feel Cracking Heart I must have A cracking heart 'Cause I feel closest to you When we are apart I want to love you But I am afraid to start There's a sad song On the radio We both listen Like it was us it was written for A streetlight through your window That puts our shadows on your wall I am empty pass me by I am empty pass me by I am empty pass me by I am empty pass me I can feel you Thinking about me It should be so simple But that's the hardest thing to believe 'Cause when you touch me Something won't let me be free I am empty pass me I am empty pass me by I am empty pass me by I am empty pass me by Secret Ghost What if dreams were held for ransom By an angel flying over you Would you pay for a chance to have one Even if it meant you'd be untrue To be held by the ocean From what you fear You're a secret ghost You're a clouded notion In my atmosphere What if you were always running And always coming back to where you've been Would you stop and change direction Even if it took you to the end To be held by the ocean From what you fear You're a secret ghost You're a clouded notion In my atmosphere (find a way home / find a way) In the night why aren't you sleeping Why are you afraid to close your eyes No one's here, to whom are you speaking Who do you expect will sympathize To be held by the ocean From what you fear You're a secret ghost You're a clouded notion In my atmosphere To be held by the ocean From what you fear You're a secret ghost You're a clouded notion In my atmosphere
Cinderella Under Glass Cinderella under glass I thought you knew nothing could last And all the darkness that you see Out of your eyes will always bleed And I know that you can't open up Yes I know that you can't open up And I know that you can't open up And I know that you can't open up Cinderella under glass Don't you know nothing here will last And all the darkness that you see Under the truth will always be And I know that you can't open up Yes I know that you can't open up And I know that you can't open up And I know that you can't open up
Morning Star Sweet Linda God forgives you He's on your side Your sun dying Babe we all got something to hide But you won't even talk now Oh, you're frozen inside You think no one needs you Babe, you're wrong now, confide Sweet Linda God forgives you For what you've done He don't want you to suffer Take your place now under the sun But you won't even talk now Oh, you're frozen inside You think no one needs you Babe, you're wrong now, confide And pray To the Morning Star It's over you anywhere you are And pray That it helps you through Gonna make it to a better place to be
Non Albums Tracks
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
And The Night Goes On
( 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
Anywhere with you
( 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
Build back up
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
California
( 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
Chapter 15
( 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
Chapter 19
( 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
Cocaine blind
( 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
Heavy Bullets
( 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
Look At Me
( 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
More To Give
( 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
My home is in your head
( 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
Real as rain
( 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
(Robin Williams Tribute) You started out on Ork A cosmic jet fueled dork And I would love it when you Visited us on happy days Only you could know The witness of your show A brain made up of sadness And electric rays Good morning Vietnam Must’ve been your truest song For in you was a war you’d always wage The hunting of good will The laughs would never fill Your hunger for the dream To turn the page Oh Robin you flew And now robin you fly To places we can’t see or yet conceive The joy that you gave We know now was brave To be free and yet Remain still a slave The fisher king was you Those of us never knew That your demons hadn’t yet been tamed You hid in the storm Of laughter so warm Hard to see that the source Was still maimed Awakenings will come But the sadness goes on And age will come down on us all The dead poets you loved Wrote of it as they shoved Light into the darkness of the fall Oh Robin you flew And now robin you fly To places we can’t see or yet conceive The joy that you gave We know now was brave To be free and yet remain Still a slave
Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young cover / Cool For School: Benefit For The Lunchbox Fund LP) Colors on the street Red, white and blue People shuffling their feet People sleeping in their shoes But there's a warning sign on the road ahead There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them So I try to forget it any way I can Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world I see a woman in the night With a baby in her hand Under an old street light Near a garbage can Now she puts the kid away and she's gone to get a hit She hates her life and what she's done to it There's one more kid that will never go to school Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world We got a thousand points of light For the homeless man We got a kinder, gentler Machine gun hand We got department stores and toilet paper Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world Keep on rocking in the free world
Saviour of the sun
( 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
Ski Or Snowboard
( 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
The Other Side
( 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
Up To Me
( 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
When the moon hits the sun
( 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
Where Is My Van I ain't no Peter pan I ain't no Son of Sam I don't have A silver hand Where is my van Where is my van I live in A tiny can I got no Hundred grand Come on man Come on man Where is my van Where is my van Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin I ain't blaming no New York cop I ain't blaming My ma and pop I just don't want to Ever stop And I'll keep going Til I drop Where is my van Where is my van I need it back My mobile home It ain't a biscuit or a Telephone It ain't a copter or a Dead end train I swear it knows When I'm feeling pain Where is my van Where is my van Where is my van Where is my van Where is my van
Wild Horses
( 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
You're so true
( 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