Give Up the Fright
If you must go overseas
If that's where you feel that you ought to be
Well I can't promise anything
We'll just have to wait and see what the year will bring
I still crave you I hope that's alright
You're the first one to bathe my shadows in the light
Making my ghosts give up the fright
You know some gave up the fright
How I wish, wish I could tie you down
Though we have sometimes we were fooling round
Oh girl with your kinks like mine
Surely that is hard to find
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This was the year, the year my ma did prophecy
Love, as love would pin a tale on me
Don't know if it was wishful thinking on her part
For now, this little rogue has got my heart
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Lift Yourself Up
God this town,
everybody’s got their sob story down
nailed down
It’s like the craters of the moon,
you can see them as depressions
or as carved by a spoon,
God’s spoon
Lift Yourself Up,
Lift Yourself Up
Lift Yourself Up Now
Oh, you know you want to
and you don’t have to hypnotize your mind
to dance your truth and joy find
This could be your heartache
or put here for goodness sake
to give you a shake
oh sleeper awake!
Lift Yourself Up,
Lift Yourself Up
Lift Yourself Up Now
One day it’s going to hit you,
it may come as some surprise,
that you’re really doing fine
There’s pain and then there
is suffering of the mind
Don’t mourn the time that’s passed you
the future is opening up
and it’s letting in the light
So let in the light!
Lift Yourself Up,
Lift Yourself Up
Lift Yourself Up Now
And Love Again
I dust my hat off and tip it to the rising sun,
my thirsting in the desert I feel is nearly done
By now sweet mercy, I must have paid my debt,
spent my time in this purgatory of regret
I’m ready to live, and love again
Ready to live, lo and love again
I can feel the tingling coming back into my hands,
just as the ground warms as the sunlight expands
At last the shame of folly slips into the past,
ooh, and my mid-morning the night’s shadows
will no longer cast
I’m ready to live, and love again
Ready to live, lo and love again
It’s not quite a choir of angels bringing in the morn,
it’s more a settling of demons tired out from their scorn
I see the dew drops forming on the green leaves,
it’s all alright now, we all need our time to grieve
I’m ready to live, and love again
Ready to live, lo and love again
I’m ready to live, and love again
Ready to live, lo and love again
Mistakes and Victories
Oh honey I want to fall out of this tree
With the scent of spring, beside you land gently
And under these cherry blossoms taste your kiss
It's heaven to see your eyes up close,
Yes it's bliss
Constsllations are like runway lights that lead me into your life
These petals rain upon us and spark a fire
I could even dedicate my mistakes to you,
And see if these stumblings can have a kinds grace just like the victories do
The heart's yearning has a delicate agony,
But I wouldn't trade these aching ribs for anything believe me
There's indeed a map in the stone that you found
With the first touch of our lips we dipped our toes in the ocean's sound
Wordless poems wrap around us with the warm breeze if the night
The song on your headphones was just right
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If it's not meant to be that's just the way it is
I could try to be satisfied with the memory of your kiss
Be man enough to care but not turn into a mess
Learn that it's the acts of love that count the most I guess
I could even fall back into the sky
Quite honestly I like this idea of you and I
Flee with me
Gingerly you start your songs
With hazy crescendos in the strange colors for the dawn
A pulse and blast sent us back
Left us stranded without the knowledge that we had
Flee with me, leave this city
It was just you and I under ground
The buildings collapsed with a horrifying sound
We crawled through the rubble when the heat died down
With what food and water and clothing could be found
Chorus
You know it's true what I said
There's no-one I'd rather be with on a certain road to death
I'll carry you or you carry me through the storms
Through these cold lightless months we'll huddle and stay warm
Chorus
Ashen faces pass in the dark
Come and join us my brother no difference sets us apart
If we can last til the sun comes back
We'll plant our fields and sing under stars at last
Chorus
Disappear Into Love
So many desires they're working me over
I'm like a tired nervous little soldier
Too much opportunity I want to pull the trigger
God made me a pacifist with such an itchy finger
Time will tell me you gotta make space
Space will say hey man you're running out of time
If it's all the same I'll disappear into love
With any luck this will all end in love
Oh chemistry I'm an experiment of the maker
Pipets and pipe bombs, whistle bells and shakers
I'm not your monkey yet I'll dance for a nickle
I throw my heart around but if it nests? it's fickle!
Chorus
Why don't you summer down your blood is toil and trouble
Do some of that yoga man before your karma doubles
The situation is better than you figure
Just put your heart on the line and see what it will deliver
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Off The Beaten Path
There's a man in black suit
that fits him well, a bit too well
Kinda speaks of the crude he sells
The second hand is now speeding up
better act while there's time to act
if we want to last
This road is crumbling
It's time to get of the beaten path
She wraps her hands around the last big trees
and with her eyes says "join me
keep me warm keep me company"
The bulldozers are drawing near
and with her heart she stills my fear
Nothing to worry with you right here
Chorus
Every age speaks of the end
but only few truly comprehend
How we all go how we might ascend
Gather together all your loved ones friends
community survives anything
from seeds of love hope does spring!
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Damn-it Man, Crazy-making woman
She was out there searching in the darkness for me
She's a beauty the way she makes me see
I've got a good mind to stay and get some rest
But I'm a scoundrel, a trickster, and a thief
She's a mystery I would steal
A troubled queen
She can't need me, she says she does
Damn-it man, crazy-making woman
I've been searching for trouble all these days and lo she wants love
When she dreams it gives me scare
She sees things that ate not fully there
I feel I'm in a witches room with a spell on me
And for a moment I thought it was real
I stopped drinking it was too much to feel
I found a crater the size of my soul
Chorus
Our hopes await us like a child's silent cry
Visions of freedom not willing to die
But the past hangs on our backs like a leach
Maybe together these bonds may be loosed
We might shine a light on each other's truths
And from our love live again
Chorus
Jokers Always Crush
Better call a state of emergency
inside your head, all the things you said
sound like a short-cut to death
With all the bureaucrats in your mind
with their philosophies arcane
you’re better off blind
I hear you reciting your prayers backwards
it ain’t gonna work,
sorry to sound like a jerk!
With every card that you draw
you surely know it’s a game that can’t be won
When the Jokers Always Crush
Even Kings and Queens,
The Jokers Always Crush
Seems you’ve blown a fuse
somewhere along your spine
Your wires get crossed
your nervous system’s fried
I don’t know if you can hear me now
while I tend your fever and mop your brow
Trust me I’ve been here before and
visit once in awhile but it helps if you smile!
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I believe it’s about knowing which rules to break
and when to break them
When to be wild and when to be docile
Everything catches up to us
even when death has a stitch
he’ll meet you at the finish line
With that said and with these rush of words
it’s all about not taking yourself so serious
Soldier
Rise Soldier Rise
The great eastern sun has come
abandon your gun
Trust in the one
Flow by the riverside flow
the salmon return to the source
You too must follow this course
bringing you back home
No man is forsakenon either side It is all life
When I see you in the morning
we’ll erase the lines that divide
Be free children be free
sway with the dancing leaves
breathe with the trees
be taken by the breeze
Grow mountain grow
we pass in the blink of an eye
Both you and I,
from all things earth and sky
No man is forsakenon either side It is all life
When I see you in the morning
we’ll erase the lines that divide
