DOWN THERE

Meet me by the river when the sun's going down
Make a little fire pass a bottle ‘round
Ain’t no path, so follow all the sounds
Oh I’ll see you down there
You could tell two friends and they could five
We’ll all be here when Jack and Jim arrive
It’ll be just us and the trees, and a little fresh air

And when the whiskey’s all gone and the night grows old
There's no more sense in the stories told
We can laugh down the path with smoke in our clothes
And find a little peace down there

So maybe I’ll see you down there
We’ll all get together for a while
So maybe I’ll see you down there
Everyone together for a while

Oh, I’ll see you there
Oh, I’ll see you there

Meet me in the city where the street's run down
Gather up a crowd in an empty town
It's where the people speed up and the time slows down
Oh, I’ll see you down there
Sally pours a drink and the glasses raise high
We wrote on the wall in a crooked line
The same song plays that we heard so many times
And now we’ll hear it down there

So maybe I’ll see you down there
We’ll all get together for a while
So maybe I’ll see you down there
Everyone together for a while

Oh, I’ll see you there
Oh, I’ll see you there

WONDER NO MORE

Ghost with a name, it used to haunt me
Taunt me with shackles and chains
When I used to believe

But the ghost was alive and hollow inside
Her body still warm with the tears in her eyes
She wouldn’t leave
She wouldn’t leave

Four long years and I know where I’ve been
I’ve been stuck up in a slow rewind
From the sweat of my mind

It comes and it goes from the shadows below
It hung high so I laid low
And now I leave it behind
And now I leave it behind

Oh oh oh

A mile down the road that the black stones pave
I ran from the sea and got caught by her wave
She took me away

While my faith was blind, my eyes could see
I was sure that the cure would remedy me
But it was just the disease
Just the disease

Now I stop thinking about it
It's wasted enough of my time
I catch a breeze and throw a fit
Now I know

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

I wonder no more, I don’t wonder for the sake of making new mistakes, oh no no no
I wonder no more, I don’t wonder for the sake of making bodies ache and my head so sore
Wonder no more now I wonder no more
Wonder no more now I wonder no more

SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE

Line the room
Find a drink and drain the glass as fast as you can think to
The cheap perfume
In a room of people watching it intoxicates you
They start to play
Then they start to play

It shakes the floor
It stings your ears, but this is what we trade our hearing for
The crowd stands still
No one's moving, they’d just rather stand and wait until
Someone starts to move
Someone starts to move

Shake, shake, shake
It's all what you make of it, take what you will
You know, know, know your only mistake
Is if you stand still
So shake, shake, shake
It's all what you make of it, break it until
You know, know, know your only mistake
Is if you stand still
It's only up to you
It's only up to you

Forget yourself
This room is hot, but we can make it hotter with your help
I’ll dance with you
We’ll dance together until everybody’s moving too
Everybody moves
When everybody moves

Chorus
It's only up to you
It's only up to you

WARM DAY, COLD WAR

Even cold wars have their warmer days
When everything stops and we sleep on it, it's when
Cold enemies look like warmer friends
If they don’t, let’s pretend, hey we’ve all got some rules to bend
We all reach a point when we find a way
To sink into a place where we think the same, but then
Find a loose end and a new reason to blame
What we can’t contain, and the war carries on

Look out, look out man
When the cold's rolling in
You look out and see the wreckage
Let the warm day begin

In automatic battle it feels cinematic
So dramatic that eventually you’re numb too
All the others that see another point of view
Not like you, you're not like them- hey we’ve all got some rules to bend

Chorus

It's all coming down to the line in the sand
Where the people gather ‘round and decide where to stand
If the winds came in and blew away the lines
Just a bunch of people standing with nothing to divide
It sounds so easy but really there is no chance for
Breaking up the lines that decide what we stand for
So for now let’s find a little common ground
And make a warm day in a cold war

Chorus

BLURRY-EYED WORRIES

A standard lie, or common truth
I don’t know for sure
A cloudy sky, that hovers over you
It's what you worry for

I know I’ma gonna, lay down and die
Don’t need nobody now to tell me where and why
I know I’ma gonna, lay down and die
Don’t know for sure

That the wind it blows no matter where you are
So hold your place

Stay today ‘cause tomorrow comes for sure
I’m gonna live (I’m gonna live) ‘til I die (‘til I die)
Until the blurry-eyed worry’s gone by
Stay today ‘cause tomorrow's at my door
I’m gonna live (I’m gonna live) ‘til I die (‘til I die)
Until the blurry-eyed worry’s gone by

You feel you’re bound, with bills to pay
Or maybe you’re secure
You double down with a baby on the way
It's what you worry for

I know I’ma gonna lay down and die
Someday somehow, a little later down the line
I know I’ma gonna lay down and die
Why worry now?

That the wind will blow no matter where you are
So hold your place

Chorus

ROUGH TOWN

“Where you from?” he asks
“Oh no, that city I always pass”
He told me he heard it’s so hard to last
On a rising star, that seems to be sinking fast.

The bad news travels here so fast
While the tales of the good never will reach the mass
But I live here among the broken glass
It's not what you see, it's how you will make it last

From the late light after all the day is gone
When everybody leaves and the trouble comes along
There’s not quite a welcome sign aglow
It’s a rough town man, a rough town I know
The sound bites of dying city noise
Are a fraction of the action that no one here enjoys
If you hold tight and you listen past the lows
It’s a rough town now, it's my rough town I know

“Hold your tongue, man” I say
‘Cause it's easy to scoff and underestimate
All the things you can’t relate to
Is the fabric I keep my memories sewn to

Chorus

CURSE THE GROUND

Pull the ropes up tight and we’ll swing above this place
Get high for a while and watch the moon melt
From this roof-top seat we can dance above the town
On the soles of our feet and curse the ground

We’ll pretend to be hung upon apostrophes that pluralize the empty eyes
And judge a man by his degree
But it's so nice up here and the air feels good to breathe
My vision's clear, but it gets harder to see
Harder to see…

BROKEN OCEAN

When the roof falls in, the sky begins to pour
All the ground erodes away with rushing water
The tide comes in and swallows up the shore
All the land disappears, we walk no longer, we walk no longer

We float upon a broken ocean
Where nothing ripples in its wake
We float but nothing stays in motion
‘Til the broken ocean breaks

When the lesson’s learned and written on a page
I’ll buy the book to watch it burn and save the ashes
For soon arrives an age, a loss of innocence when we get judged in every way
That stop the splashes, stop the splashes

Chorus

EVERYTHING MOVES

Stumble in, fight the spin
If you don’t you’re falling on your face again
Tumble down, roll around
You know that everything is moving now

Lately I, can’t decide, run or hide
Oh and when I do, I’m sure I’ll end up moving too
Suit and tie, sell or buy, laugh or cry
What’s a guy to do, when nothing's standing still for you
So many angles, so many lines
So many ways to see the sunrise

Everything moves, everything pulses
Everything lies in the eyes of you
Everything moves, everything pulses
Everything lies in the eyes of you
Everything lies in the eyes of you
In the eyes of you, in the eyes of you

Ramble on, chug along
And if the beat stops thumping man then something’s wrong
Ignore it son, it's just a song
But I can see your white-knuckled hand from holding on
So lately I, wonder why, we rely, on the sure thing
It's too damn comforting
To stay alive, overdrive, ‘til we find, something new
To keep the pulse alive in you

So many angles, so many lines
So many ways to see the sunrise

Chorus

Even though I don’t know quite what to do
The time will show what we know is hardly ever true
I’d rather have then never had the spinning room,
The feeling that I moved
No more standing still at your will but you can try until you see the motion's moving you

Chorus

WHAT GOOD

What good is a microphone?
When your words, you still don’t own

What good is this telephone?
If no one calls to say come home

So what good good good is good for?
I don’t know, I don’t know- it doesn’t mean much
And it should should should be the right more
I don’t know, I don’t know it doesn’t take much
To come loose, oh man
What’s the good now?

Oh oh, what good
Oh oh, what good
What's the use?

What good is a fancy school?
If you leave broke and no one hires you

What good is the golden rule?
If you treat others like you do
And no one treats you like it too

So what good good good is good for?
I don’t know, I don’t know- it doesn’t mean much
And it should should should be right more
I don’t know, I don’t know it doesn’t take much
To come loose, oh man
What’s the good, what’s the use

Chorus

SELL IT TO YOU

I find myself staring at the shelf
With a hundred boxes and I need some help
They all look the same and each seem to claim
That they’re better than the other one

And on second thought I don’t
Need another answer to a phony problem
‘Cause everywhere I go, everything I see
Everything is sold to me

“It's made just for you”
Now I hope you don’t think that’s true
It's made from the man with the cash in hand
For you to buy into

And when it breaks
However long that may take
It won’t be long before the next comes along
And sell a new mistake

‘Cause if you want it then, they’ll sell it you
In a box so beautiful it blinds your point of view
Don’t buy it then, they’ll wrap it up again
Twice the price for bad advice
As long as you keep buyin'

It's not what you need
It's how you fuel the want you feed
Mr. Follow often holds the hands of Ms. Lead (mislead)

It's something new
Or becoming long overdue
Simon says it's not what it is man
It's how it's sold to you

Chorus
If you want it then, you're sold before you even know it begins
It doesn’t matter even

STICKS AND STONES

Oh, just leave it all
We found the pipe here that leaks between the walls
And like you it begins to all wash away from within
No more time on your side, nothing to tie you here

It's like sticks and stones and rubber and glue
Letters strung together that get stuck on you
Don’t stick around here to feed the mouth that bites you
I can see it in your eyes and your black and blues
Familiar is the spice and it salts your wounds
Don’t stick around here to feed the mouth that bites you

Oh, it’d be your shame
If you became another hanger in the closet where you hung yourself to blame
With the letters of your name, feel lost and rearranged
To the corner, to the man, a man, a man

Every day you wash your body down
Can’t scrub away the scars beneath your skin

Chorus

 

LO-FI

I said this old time speaker just blew my mind
It's so lo-fi
That crackle sizzles my soul
And I just fell in love with a 45
That I kept alive, in a box over 30 years old
And I don’t know what it is,
But there’s something there
I hear that needle scratching, vinyl catching
Warmth you can’t compare

It's lo-fi
And when the static moans
Tape hisses and the beat breaks through your bones
Don’t try to get your dial tone
Its lo fi on the line, gonna take you home
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi

Now everything seems so high defined
And over shined
I couldn’t tell you what's real
Can’t hear between the lines
Cuz what we find
Is sound for mass appeal
But what keeps me moving
Keeps me going
Old tape reels that keep improving
I always come back to my four track
With a tape stacked and I wonder why

It's lo-fi
And when the static moans
Tape hisses and the beat breaks through your bones
Don’t try to get your dial tone
Its lo fi on the line, gonna take you home
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi

It's lo-fi
And when the static moans
Tape hisses and the beat breaks through your bones
Don’t try to get your dial tone
It's lo fi on the line, gonna take you home
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi
Oh my Lo-Fi

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DIGITAL LOVE

I can’t do this no more
Pulling myself up off the floor
And if I’m not plugged in
You’re not coming in
Cause I don’t need another chore to do
I’m an analog man with a digital case of you

Sign me off now, sign me on
Write me off now before I’m gone
And If I keep plugged in
You keep coming in
And maybe I need something new
I’m an analog man with a digital case of you

Oh I’ll love you through the wire if the wire is strong
Cause a cool cable crumbles when this wire gets long
And I say I know it, you know it, I say hey
It's like digital, digital, digital love

Mama don’t see me no more
I tell you, I tell you
Mama don’t see me no more
I tell you, I tell you
And on and on, it goes and goes
I can’t get closer if the distance grows
This is digital and I take it as it flows

Dial me up now, dial me off
Communicate this before it’s lost
And If I’m here, you’re there, its always where
We can never get together in the same damn room
I’m an analog man that your wires always run to

Oh I’ll love you through the wire if the wire is strong
Cause a cool cable crumbles when this wire gets long
And I say I know it, you know it, I say hey
It's like digital, digital, digital love

Do do do do do do do do do do …
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh I’ll love you through the wire if the wire is strong
Cause a cool cable crumbles when this wire gets long
And I say I know it, you know it, I say hey
It's like digital, digital, digital love
It's like digital, digital, digital love
It's like digital, digital, digital love

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IT'S OK NOW

Hold it down
Don’t let it go and slip through your fingers now
It's today's routine
That pushes us around
So grin and bear it
Cause nothings gonna change if we always wear this
Same half smile that suits us for a while
But don’t feel despair
cause everybody’s walking there
When the last whistle blows
Then everybody knows
The weight is off your shoulders so let go

Now it's ok now
The day is almost over so lets play now
Take it off your shoulders, it's ok now
The day is almost over so just wait
Oh now, take it down yeah…

And we find ourselves
Like numbers in a book on a dusty shelf
We’ll exercise to better chase our wealth
But if you're fine, fall in line
I hope I’m not wasting all your precious time
So go find yours and I’ll find mine
For those of you who feel like I do, then you should know man
What we do for a while to get what we need
Buys time to allow us to kill this routine

Now it's ok now
The day is almost over so lets play now
Take it off your shoulders, it's ok now
The day is almost over so just wait

lets hold on to our edge
stay sharper than the system says
lets hold on to our edge
stay sharper than the system
now its o, now its o, now its o
now its o, now its o, now its o

Now it's ok now
The day is almost over so lets play now
Take it off your shoulders, it's ok now
The day is almost over so just wait
Now it's ok now
The day is almost over so lets play now
Take it off your shoulders, it's ok now
The day is almost over so just wait
Oh now, take it down, take it down, yeah

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STRAWBERRY HILL

Get your thrills on strawberry hill
And all your wounds the berries will fill
It’ll make your pain taste sweeter
It's when the time stands still, it’ll lean on your will
Let the juices soak the memories to kill
And we’ll drink it by the liter

Nobody smiles, but we laugh so hard
Nobody cries or hides their scars
We just fall so far

It's alright, it's okay
I don’t think I’m coming down
It's alright, it's okay
I’ll eat this fruit from the ground
It's alright, it's okay
And you’ll see what I have found
On strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
Nothing matters…

Fill your glass, rest your feet
Empty cheers, celebrate defeat
It’s a party and its on repeat
But no ones here on their own free will
Something chased them up this hill
And we won’t come down til, we forget whats below

Nobody smiles, but laugh so hard
Nobody cries or hides their scars
We just fall so far

It's alright, it's okay
I don’t think I’m coming down
It's alright, it's okay
I’ll eat this fruit from the ground
It's alright, it's okay
And you’ll see what I have found
On strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
On strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
On strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
On strawberry hill, on strawberry hill

on strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
on strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
On strawberry hill, on strawberry hill
Nothing matters.....

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PLAY IT ON ME

You don’t know, but you’re on my radio
I hear you singing everyday
all across these radio waves
The second half of this record is scratched
but it still plays cause every song
Has memories attached
Just look and see

Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…

The stormy days and the minor melodies
makes what we hear so sincere
when every word is weighed
And when the good days come,
Oh, the tune we’ll hum
Is the receipt we keep to save these sweet moments
And what they may become
It's how I recall the things I’ve seen

Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…

All these things that buzz and ring
Are all what we keep intact
And on this path we collect them all
And they play on our soundtracks
And its sounds like…

Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…
Play it on, play it on, play it on me…

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WOLVES

thick fog
it hangs, it hangs in the air
for now, our vision impaired
we can't see far
but we can see right here

and it feels like something is coming
and we've got no time to prepare
and the woods around us are humming
with the howls of a new affair
and are we listening now?

now you know you can't fool everyone
because soon we'll all catch on
that the wolves are back again
you can hide or you can run
against the grain
but as soon as the thunder comes
all the wolves are back again

we won't be afraid and wont look away
because it's happening
we can fight it or invite to stay
and it won't be long
before the fences are
taller than our happy homes

and a beast still has a heart
and it beats real hard
pumps the blood like a flood
to its open scars
and it'll bleed like you and me
to find out just what we are

and it feels like something is coming
and I'm glad its finally here
and it might be worth all becoming
like the wolves we used to fear
and are we listening now?

Now you know you can't fool everyone
because soon we'll all catch on
that the wolves are back again
you can hide or you can run
against the grain
but as soon as the thunder comes
all the wolves are back again
all the wolves, all the wolves,
oh they’re back, oh they’re back
oh they’re back, oh they’re back again

Oh, I’m gonna let it in
Oh, Im gonna let it in,
Oh, I’m gonna let it in
Oh, Im gonna let it in,

Now you no you can't fool everyone
because soon we'll all catch on
that the wolves are back again

Oh, I’m gonna let it in
Oh, Im gonna let it in, I am, I am, I am
Oh, I’m gonna let it in
Oh, Im gonna let it in, I am, I am, I am

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WORTH WONDERING

Four long years
I don't know where I've gone
but I'm awake now, so withdrawn
like pennies on the beach
king kills pawn
no one sheds a tear
life goes on
and the world gets colder every year

and you decide when you come and go
And you kept me wondering if you’ll let me know
and I've waited in the shadows down below
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering

all my thoughts, crowd my head
and sweat inside my mind
perspiration drips
and waters down the time
like sea glass tumbling
all your dreams, lost among the wind
Get trapped inside my net
and I’ll place them, in the sauna in my head
where they'll melt together there
where they'll melt together there

and you decide when you come and go
And you left me wondering if you’ll let me know
and I've waited in the shadows down below
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering
and you've kept me wondering if it's worth wondering

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CANNONBALL

These old rusty sails
Still guide my way
Open waters
To the edge of a quiet bay
When my ship rolls in
On a gentle wave
I see clouds of powder
From shots that were aimed at me

Oh no, cannonball
Won’t take us down, wont break these walls
Or sink, sink my sturdy ships down
Don’t you think, think you could ever make drown
Oh oh cannonball
Oh oh my cannonball
Oh oh cannonball
Gonna take us in, take us in, take us in, take us in

I’m no pirate babe
I don’t act that way
Float my boat
On a quarter note sea sway
There's no need for this
All this hostile fire
But rest assured, when waters are stirred
We all ride the tide and nothing is yours

Oh no, cannonball
Gonna take us down, gonna break our walls
and sink, sink just another ship down
Don’t you think, think you could ever make drown
Oh oh cannonball
Oh oh my cannonball
Oh oh cannonball
Gonna take us in, take us in, take us in, take us in

Oh woah la de da ya ya…

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PULLIN' ON THE REINS

Kyle is a cashier in the corner village store
Seven days a week he works
Just pushing on a cash drawer
The gambling debts and empty bets
Have chained him to this place
Now all the money he touches now
Gets locked in the store safe

Mr. Claire was a millionaire and a caption of his field
On his farm a lucky charm
Made all the cash crops yield
Then one July Uncle Sam came by
And shut that farmer down
Cause Mr. Clair had not declared
All the cash crops in his ground

Cause there’s always someone
Pullin' on the reins
Cause there’s always someone
Pullin' on, pullin' on, pullin' on

Look around and what you’ll see
Is everybody tied down to some degree
We’re like links upon an endless chain
Someone’s gotta pull our reins
Look around and what you’ll see
Is everybody tied down to some degree
We’re like links upon an endless chain
Someone’s gotta pull our reins
Someone’s gotta pull our reins

Dr. Lee has a family and a nice house in the hills
No money in his pool
He uses it to drown in bills
Every single day, more pour in
Many mouths to feed
But not enough to swallow them

Cause there’s always someone
Pullin' on the reins
Cause there’s always someone
Pullin' on, pullin' on, pullin' on

I don’t know, but the things I’ve seen
Now I’m a younger man and I might be green
But for many years and the time between
We’re all the gears on the fixed machine

Look around and what you’ll see
Is everybody tied down to some degree
We’re like links upon an endless chain
Someone’s gotta pull our reins
Look around and what you’ll see
Is everybody tied down to some degree
We’re like links upon an endless chain
Someone’s gotta pull our reins
Someone’s gotta pull our reins

I don’t know, but I must say
Don’t need no one now to guide my way
Gonna sing my song, gonna work all day
And no one's gonna pull my reins
I don’t know, but I must say
Don’t need no one now to guide my way
Gonna sing my song, gonna work all day
And no one's gonna pull my reins
And no one's gonna pull my reins

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Stone's Throw Away

hold on, this big wave
will wash us all ashore
with nothing left to save
so leave here, and be brave
theres nothing more in store
for a man that never gave
so go find, a remedy
a medicine, we all agree

you should know
I'm just a stone's throw away
a mile down the road
in a phone booth I'll wait
and when all you call
I hope I hear you say
You’ll be sure to bring the cure
and I'll be here another day

so go on, stead fast
this town is slowly closing down
the present never lasts
So hold on, this blind faith
is harder now to see
in the darkness of this place
the glass full, the candle burn
And I push pull when hope returns

you should know
I'm just a stone's throw away
a mile down the road
in a phone booth I'll wait
and when all you call
I hope I hear you say
You’ll be sure to bring the cure
and I'll be here another day

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MIRRORS AND SMOKE

I feel much older now
But not because I have myself more years to count
I got more to think about
Like why and how
Got a second look at a common crook and he left me in doubt
Like sugar on top, blind man smiles when it hits his mouth
So lets all go out
Put your best clothes on that people talk about
But don’t you turn around
Cause you might see clearly what you’re looking at
Nor this nor that no
What it seems to be is what it seems to me
Is just a face put on, hide the eyes
Carry on and turn the truth to lies

It's just like candy and coke
And it's like killer in coats
Amoung the people and folks
Standing in mirrors and smoke
It's just like candy and coke
And all the people we know
Among the people and folks
Standing in mirrors and smoke
Oo la la lay
Oo la la low
Oh la la lay
I lay low, I lay low

So let's think on back
To your neighbor's home where you used to go
But don’t you dare back
Don’t you dare go back, no
Now I’ve come to terms
With a certain clean comes a certain germ
And I’m concerned that the clean I’ve seen is overturned
I just read Mrs. Jones was found
With her husband down at the corner crown
Bought a bag of sunshine just to pass around
Rolled two bones and threw the rest all out
And Mr. Tom with a big white house
Put a party on with his other spouse
And outside smoking was the mayor's kid
Joking bout then what his daddy did

(CHORUS)

Storm passes by and the dust settles in
The smoke fades away
The black kettle cools and the coals lay dim
And the smoke fades away
Coward lay day when the courage begins
And the smoke fades away
You face looks down and the eyes look in
And the smoke fades away
The smoke fades away

(CHORUS)

Oo la la lay
Oo la la low
Oh la la lay
I lay low, I lay low
Oo la la lay
Oo la la low
Oh la la lay
I lay low, I lay low

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IF THE ROOF IS LEAKING

Now we can dance, all alone
Or we can even take a chance and never go home
It’s the thought of running out with a dash of doubt
Makes me never want to loose my song
And if we stop time we still grow older
Cuz the days still pass in our minds
And if we get out where we living now
We best be living with some brand new eyes

So saddle up and put the car in drive
Put the radio on to find a song to tell your momma good bye
And if the roof is leaking slowly
Then why don’t we just stand outside?

We may find a new place to lay down
Along the long horizon line
Until the sun don’t shine
Don’t hold back, don’t be bored, oh no . . .
Because I’ve heard this track all before
And it's time to move on
And it's time to move on

Now let's romance, let's forget
And let's take a chance with no regrets
Cuz if we don’t stop moving we won't stop loosing it yet
And it all starts in the studio
And when we get done, we want the radio
And when the curtain pulls we want the people to know
That the groove keeps moving and so should you

Pack your bags and put the car in drive
Put the radio on to find a song to tell your momma good bye
And if the roof is leaking slowly
Then why don’t we just stand outside?

So let's find another place to call home
So let's find another place to call home

Cuz it’s the east coast villain on the west side killing
With the south beach prize on the north shore chillin
The water keeps spilling and the fire keeps burning
And there's smoke in this town so let's get out of this place

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DON'T WAIT ANY MORE

Well there's too many people in the world today
Waiting on the world to change
There standing around, heads on the ground
Hoping things will re arrange
And they don’t know what to do
And they don’t know what to say
Ase the old generation fades

Oh we take a little, we give a little
Then we take just a little bit more
It’s the system we live in, no it’s the times we live in
We owe just a little bit more
Now I may not know what to do, and I may not know what to say
But I know I don’t wait anymore for change
Don’t wait anymore for change

I don’t wait, I don’t wait, I don’t wait anymore
Because you can’t change fate when you show up late
And leave it like it was before
And if your standing still like they think you will
Then want are you standing here for
I don’t wait, I don’t wait, I don’t wait anymore

Well there lovers and haters and phonies too
We see them on the tv screen
And they talk and they talk, but they rarely walk
To things that they say they mean
Now you don’t have to listen to them
and you don’t have to listen to me
because nothing more will change

If you see something wrong start doing it right
You don’t have to say a thing
Cause talking don’t mean that you’re saying too much
When you’re waiting on this world to change
Stop and wait no more
Stop and wait no more
I know I don’t wait anymore for change
Don’t wait anymore for change

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SHADE TONIGHT

Woke this morning and my head was pounding
Should have been there an hour ago
Gotta go gotta go to the places we know
And let the time slip away to hide the feelings we show
Get on down with my feet on the ground
And I’m trying not to walk away
Just another day, just another day
When the shadows gone come to play
Got nothing in my kitchen, but that’s alright
Cuz I got 45 dollars gonna keep me high all night
Now all these things will fade when I find myself some shade

Credit man calling and he wants to talk
But I’m not speak to him
Cuz his tone is grim and his chances are slim
To ever get my money again
That’s alright baby, I don’t mind
When things like this go bad
Cuz you can never lose something you never had
When the shade still keeps you glad

Now I don’t want to leave here baby,
But I’m sure it will follow me
Cuz where ever I may go
My shadow will shade on me

Early in the morning, sun's last light
Me I want to find my shade tonight
Some people like to drink a few and some folks like to fight
But me I want to find my shade tonight
Me I want to find my shade tonight

And I’m thinking that I just don’t mind
When the shadows come and shade my time
And I’m thinking that I’ll be just fine
Cuz the shade is gonna keep me smiling by

Some people saying that its just no good
That the shades no place to be to be
And that’s there advice and while it's very nice
The shade's alright with me
Why cant we spend some time and watch it all pass by
In the shade we’ve made a place to fade the daily pace
And that’s gonna get us by
Got nothing in my kitchen, that’s all right
Cuz I got 45 dollars gonna keep me high all night
Now all these things will fade when I find myself some shade

(Chorus)

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THE TRUTH

Outside today a little boy cried
Cuz the bully took his bike out for a spin
And down the street he went til he’s out the line of sight
Where he stopped to break them back tires in
Two rusty nails and an appetite for bad
He took revenge upon them two shiny wheels
Cuz its one thing he had was making people sad
And he knew that’s how the little boy would feel

And it tasted like a flavor you thought you knew
And the truth might be just a little too sour for

You, you don’t, you can’t, you won’t, you will
From the house up on the hill
Where time begs the truth to tell
And the clocks demand that time will run the show
And truth has found that there’s nowhere else to go
But hide among the shadows of the lies, the lies
We told

Inside today a fine young woman cried
Because her husband won’t be coming home again
And across them battle lines he took a bullet in the chest that claimed his life
And colonel fear had to take some time and make some truth up for his wife
Cuz she just needed a little something now to hold on to
For the only truth she ever knew just died

And it tasted like a flavor she thought she knew
And the truth might be just a little too sour for

You, you don’t, you can’t, you won’t, you will
From the house up on the hill
Where time begs the truth to tell
And the clocks demand that time will run the show
And truth has found that there ain't nowhere to go
But hide among the shadows of the lies, the lies
We told

You told, you told,
You told, you told,
All the lies, all the lies, all the lies.

(Chorus)

 

It ain’t so black and white
Between the truth now and our lies
So lets find another place to go
And take the blinds up off our eyes
And it’s a myth we’re living in
Cuz there ain't no wrong or right
All you know is what you see
Let's hope that you’re not blind
To the truth . . .

(Choral vocal ‘ohhs” under outro)

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