1. (CALIFORNIA) california speak to me, i can’t write it out loud but i can put it down on stationary on this road alone you hardly miss a beat, with music in my soul and traveling in my feet there’s no sound like the wind and the rhyme of the road set a course for a place where the red sun goes
there’s a place where you end and slowly begin to unfold staring starry as scenery inspires california sing to me, counting down the miles
passing simply through ordinary oh this road is my home, all the places i shown all i need is a song and the company that i keep
2.(CHANGE) I have a jar full of coins that fell out of pockets into my bed
I found them just this afternoon I’ve been away from myself and the dreams in my head I go out walking for a while, these streets are tangled with places of love The things the left behind in me, my heart is tangle with traces of us I’ve never seen a winter grave The seasons change in spite of my mono tonal moods I have a reoccurring dream
The hasty summary that you dramatically wrote not all at once, but take your pace, everything is easier with the passing of time For all the love, once had its place, still I cannot forget the reasons I’ve cried
I have a pocket full of coins to leave inside of photo booths for someone else to find I have a different kind of change, a chapter waiting to begin, a new kind of life
3. (FORESHADOW TOO)I can’t hold your hand when you cry Cuz you don’t think I feel you
But what you need to understand Is when I’m by your side you know I see right through you When her pane goes down You know I go down too, with you Feel the dust in our eyes Are we searching for life I wait to play this sound Cuz everything I play predicts a future with you, predicts a future with you Everything I sing is the same, everything coming out of my mouth Is just a foreshadow too I see her plane falling now
And I’m falling too, with you Feel the dust in our eyes Are we searching for life Feel the pain and close our eyes We can start a new life
4. (NEW SONG) when i was just a young girl, my father said to me, “I’m leaving child but I’ll be around so go on peacefully” a bond of words, spoken like an electrified peace in my mind I’m half past eight and I don’t know what love is I’m all wrapped up in it, this thing they call happiness the first part is letting go one night in mid december my lover came around, I knew the time was coming I would let my demons out, a steady vow I’d spoken, my mother said to me “just wait one year and look in the mirror and go on peacefully” a bond of words spoken like an electrified peace in my mind ten years of hindsight I don’t know what love I’m all wrapped up in it, this thing they call happiness the first part is letting go the weary world has found me on this side of eternity, another life I’ll do it right, It’s peace love and free, my shackles all are broken, my soul said to me “forever is within your grasp so go on peacefully
5. (CARS ON THE BOTTOM) Sweet Victoria plays with Hannah Louis Jumping rope taking turns on the swing
Sixteen children, one to watch over them They’d breathe their last breath, they were half way to ten Who are you Thomas, no one knew your name Until you pulled the trigger, ending all the games I wonder if you knew that I’d read your story What were you thinking right before you made yourself history We all just want to be in those cars on the bottom Jumping off the cliff to escape all our problems We all just want to be in those cars in the bottom But I’m not ready to be one of them Why did you do it, Joel Henry Hinrichs What did you think that you’d fix Until you died you weren’t at all known
I know you now that you’ve driven off life’s road We all just want to be in those cars on the bottom Like falling off a cliff will solve all our problems We all deserve to be in those cars on the bottom But I’m not ready to be one of them Its a lack of purpose I’ve come to realize Mr. Williams writes, right before he died Oh, what’s the bloody point Oh, what’s the bloody point I’m standing on the edge of life Looking down at all these souls that have already died Heaven and Hell await their arrival As for myself I think I’ll stay here for a while
6. (ECHO OF THE GREATS) So many time we’ve been called to attention By a motivation to replace our intentions
Song struck lies become our invention The very imitation of an old creation Sanctification in my imagination A sudden immigration of creative procreation
And the words are lost To seek again comes at a cost All I ought and all I ought not
Come with a single piece of though Peace of mind, the hand written plot And the words take shape No longer confined to factory made Assembly lines and minimum wage The finish product represented by a different name He’s no creator keeping you inside a cage To spill out your soul page after page You are the poetic loner who roams the empty streets at night A dreamer at heart, your eyes imply A certain distance, a certain drawing in In comes just a moment passing like the wind The things worth fighting for never meet an end Cuz it’s just an echo of the greats - again If I picked you a flower from the riverbank I would give it as a promise If I gave you a plain white blanket
I would write all over it or under it But don’t you sleep with the light on i don’t need you any more Don’t you think that I’m crying I don’t need you anymore Don’t you think that I’ll never change I don’t need you anymore
7. (HIS LAST WISH)Keep the door open he says to me Find your way back inside when you find your peace So I’m walking these streets with a little more A little more reason to believe If I can find me and just be now Just be happy with my destiny We don’t always choose, just let it find you Sit back and accept the times All of our likes and all of our dislikes Aren’t all there is to this life Keep the door open he says to me Find your way back inside when you find your peace Would you dive in Would you wash away the past
I ask, I ask He’s asking me to dive on in Can make a new beginning When I find myself
No doubt my heart is free Would you go there with me Touch the bottom of the deep, deep Come up to breath- in Find our meaning
8.(MATERIALISM IS A GOD) What’s a boy without his crown What’s a girl without her frown What makes them play make believe The boy is the king and she is the unhappy queen She follows him around all day He doesn’t pay any attention He is sinking so far into a debt he can’t make up for
Even if he could it would do him any good A boy without a crown is a thunder coming down And a girl with a smile is a rainbow It’s the promise that this curse will shatter
And even when it hurts all that matters All that matters Is love
9. (MISSISSIPPI MAN) that old man, down by the river side he ain’t got no money, he ain’t got no where to hide his suitcase, yeah its full of blues and he lost his last pair of traveling shoes mississippi man say what you gonna do what you gonna do what you gonna do when the same thing happens to you the heavy smoke, it takes him home he limps alone on an empty road by days he plays, in that chair he sleeps he would never take a ride from you or me I said nice to see you, my old friend we said goodbye down by that river bend he turned from me, said “what you seek will only find you ending up like me”
10. (PEOPLE IN THE STREETS) before we get to heaven gotta work real hard, find it in ourselves and find it in our hearts, got to love one another and love ourselves, thats the hardest part, thats the hardest partbefore we get peace gotta wage war, unseen forces fighting for us, people in the street begging please, losing faith in humanity, turning on our brother like he’s the enemy, why is love so hard to see?
play us a happy song its been so long hey mister money man play us a happy song before we find the light, journey through the darkness, weary heads fall all we get are restless...nights are cold and in the soul lies eternities battle zone, one step back and two steps home, sway me just to find control, ashes fall lose my mind, trying to escape it all, empty bottles mountain in this valley where we crawl, no time to do what’s right, cuz you’ll always be a wretch in his sight i feel happy...so...good
11.("A SONG") these words in my soul, will they ever get out, lose all control, get em out of my mouth these words in my soul, so hard to contain, take all control, and there’s on one to blame in a hallway chilled with marble stone, cold hard cash won’t keep you warm there is no compromise between roads these words in my heart, beginning to burn, leaving their mark, and they never return these words in my heart, speaking all on their own, let them depart, let them go where they go in a hallway chilled with marble stone, cold hard cash won’t keep you warm
there is no compromise between roads how much does it cost, for a fiery young soul, to find his way across a desert of burning coal
son i’ll say this once again, there are two loves, in your heart and that of reason, which do you trust? the world is takes and takes faulty members can be replaced they built a road “happiness way” line for miles just to pay the toll there in an empty state of mind, to each his own perception of time effects of undecided loyalty slip away like expected pleasantries in a hallway chilled with marble stone, cold hard cash won’t keep you warm there is no compromise between roads
12. (TAN BYD) As the world spins the fires burn Eating up green, leaving charred earth, Ash in the sky as our globe turns With everything ending I found the worth of your love, your love I can’t believe that it took me this long for the haze in my eyes to finally clear There’s too many things I need you to hear I’m not sure just how long we will be here So let me hold, hold you dear. So many thing that I needed to say Any other way I can convey would just be too late So let me say that in this world I’m never able to find a more beautiful girl On the inside outside underneath I’ll hold you close as the world burns under our feet We’ll take it it to the streets even though the heat Threatens to destroy everything we believe. As the world spins the fires burn Quenching my soul for the flame that it yearns Cleaning the land and revealing what’s true I burned this world just to find you and your love
13.(TRULY) come away i’ll do my best to do our love justice and its just us you and i here we are truly i was made for this surely there are no stars that could grant this wish when souls collide, the universe shifts its eyes you and i, were born to fly have some faith i’m doing all i can don’t run away it’s more than I can stand if you doubt i’ll love you, if you cry i’ll cry too, if there’s fear i’ll turn on the lights if I doubt please love me if I cry please hold me, if I’m afraid, show me your light
14.(THE AUSTRALIAN AFFIRMATION) red, on your lips paint a perfect picture of well developed poise shape, of your hips
scoff at all the boys who think they have a choice red, on your lips
dance a practiced cadence to distract the lonely boys the sight, makes me sick they say life’s a stage but you’re life’s only play face it, you don’t know how to make it alone oh no, i think, i said what i mean, you are what you seem lets face it, no one knows how to make it alone, please, believe i said what i mean but now that i’m up on this stage i can see her eyes making their way through the crowd, to you now red, on your lips
paint a perfect picture of well developed poise shape, of your hips scoff at all the boys who think they have a choice a mocking, bird of life created opportunity for script to force its part unmake, your disguise you’ll find all they wanted is far from your heart face it, you don’t know how to make it alone oh no, i think, i said what i mean, you are what you seem
lets face it, no one knows how to make it alone, please, believe i said what i mean now that i’m up on a stage i don’t see your face in the crowd
wrapped up in a melody, close my eyes and sing
15.(HIGHLAND HOSPITAL) Think I’ll take a trip To the end of the road Your father has taken sick
A voice says on the phone And I’m driving down this avenue I used The news for my ears didn’t give a chance to choose I was running for the stairs, all my hopes and my cares fell behind me on the floor Behind closed doors lies a frightened soul from whose cold hands betray the man Running from the past and the memories that outlast a broken will Devil has come to make a deal, dare I say on a deathbed confusion burning in his head Reached out his hand, there’s nothing there, nothing there...something’s there Think I’ll take a walk Back into myself at home We need to have a talk Your voice says all alone Oh don’t forget the things you loose when you trust the blind to guide you
looking back through his life to see the wrong lost sight of the line between father and son recognition slipping in the highland hospital home when you loose yourself you’re someone else alone I was running for the stairs, all my hopes and my cares fell behind me on the floor Behind closed doors lies a frightened soul from whose cold hands betray the man Running from the past and the memories that outlast a broken will Think I’ll go to sleep For an hour or two The secrets people keep Fight their way through
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