FEED ON YOU

Wipe that smirk from your face stop actin' so dumb

It remains to be seen if the best is yet to come

You wouldn't lie to ghosts would you?

Ya better not, or they'll feed on you

 

Inspiration has been hard to find

I'm walkin' alone with shadows of my prime

I'm using every excuse in the book

What was that noise I'm afraid to look

You wouldn't lie to ghosts would you?

Ya better not, or they'll feed on you

 

You can't come back if you ain't been nowhere

That's what they say

It's always tomorrow when viewed from yesterday

You wouldn't lie to ghosts would you?

Ya better not, or they'll feed on you

 

METAPHOR

Wake up

You've been sleepin' too long

Have you forgotten the passion of yer youth?

Has it been too long?

Are you hiding from the truth?

Have you been hiding from your own truth?

Sorry that's not in the repertoire

 

Tax the rich, feed the poor

There ain't no secret metaphor

A sacred balance must be restored

 

Awe shucks you've come so far

Livin' on a game of chance

But life ain't checkers brother it's chess

It matters where you dance

Front or back, left or right

On the front lines

There ain't no good news tonight

Nothing to report

 

Tax the rich, feed the poor

There ain't no secret metaphor

A sacred balance must be restored

 

Aaahhhh do you feel that?

Can you feel that?

The hairs on my skin are standing up

There's a little change in the air

A sacred balance to be restored

 

I can feel a change in the air

You can feel a change in the air

I can feel a change in the air

You can feel a change in the air

 

Tax the rich, feed the poor

It ain't a secret metaphor

A sacred balance must be restored

 

FORSAKEN

Well the skipping ropes of the political landscape

Curse the age of the dawn of man

These things are never finished they're only abandoned

Forsake one, forsake them all

 

When you can't tell a lions tooth from a ravens caw

With a land so poisoned

You can't even eat the food raw

Forsake one, forsake them all

 

Well when you get home keep your eyes closed

And hide under yer shawl

There ain't no difference they're robbin' both Peter and Paul

Forsake one, forsake them all

 

Everybody's an expert on how to do things the wrong way

Opinions are assholes and they all got something to say

Forsake one, forsake them all

 

You gotta find your way through the mysterious cloud of doubt

The clock is tickin' and your time is running out

Forsake one, forsake them all

 

The skipping ropes of the political landscapes

Curse the age of the dawn of man

These things are never finished

Only abandoned for a different plan

Forsake one, forsake them all

Forsake one, forsake them all

 

CAN'T BE TAMED

A reckless narration

Movin' in and out like an apparition

Unless you crave pointless sensationalism

Don't peek behind the partition

1 country a divided nation

The cannons of bigotry

The fever swamps of their mind

A conditional reflex stripped of dignity

Singin' for the heart that can't be tamed (repeat)

 

Things haven't changed and they're standing still

Everything they don't understand they kill

They'll twist yer mind and they'll bend your will

Make you pay top dollar for the cheapest of thrills

Sing it for the heart that can't be tamed

 

Once corruptible forever a pawn

Use up everyone till everything's gone

Once corrupted forever a sheep

Follow the masses to the bottomless deep

 

Once corruptible forever a pawn

Use up everyone till everything's gone

Once corrupted forever a sheep

Follow the masses to the bottomless deep

 

HOLD ON

Hold on (x2)

What do I think about you?

What do you think about me?

What if it could be true

What if it could be we?

 

 Hold on (x2)

What do you think about me?

What do I think about you?

What do we think about we?

Has the dream come true?

 

Hold on (x2)

What do I think about you?

What do you think about me?

Think it could be true?

What do we think about we?

 

Hold on (x2)

What do I think about you?

What do you think about me?

Think we might be true?

What do we think about we?

I think we better hold on

I think we better on on

 

SOON TO LEAVIN'

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' clear

She's soon to leavin' far away from here

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' too real

She's soon to leavin' and I don't know how to feel

 

I'll write her a letter and I'll pin it to her heart

Make her remember our love at the start

 

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' clear

She's soon to leavin' far away from here

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' too real

She's soon to leavin' and my heart's not made of steel

 

I'm gonna tell the world that she's my little all and all

Any time she wants to weep my shoulder's there for the call

 

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' clear

She's soon to leavin' far away from here

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' too real

She's soon to leavin' and I'm not made of steel

 

I'm gonna tell the world that she's my little all and all

Any time she wants to weep my shoulder's there for the call

 

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' clear

She's soon to leavin' far away from here

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' too real

She's soon to leavin' and I'll be staying here

 

I always said that'll be the day I write this song

Everything reveals itself as it comes along

 

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' clear

She's soon to leavin'

She's soon to leavin'

She's soon to leavin'

She's soon to leavin'

 

And she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' clear

She's soon to leavin' far away from here

Well she's packin' her bags

It's all gettin' too real

She's soon to leavin' and my heart ain't made of steel

 

GAMES WE PLAY

Fighting freedom of action and everything

You should believe...yet don't

Find yer freedom in the things that free you

I do not know what frees me

But I know what confines me

Into a prison of the misinterpreted

C'mon now

Show me where your secret self goes to dwell

 

Where does they go with yer riches?

Are you born into numerical slavery?

Have the gates of exclusion bound you to act?

What is the self and what is the temporary?

The illusion of allusions

 

Have you no more than questions

With no possibility of finding an answer

Do you do it to make yourself think that you're really thinking

I don't know what to think about that...ha ha ha ha ha

 

Ya I said it...sacred cows make good burgers

 

What is the world coming to

I spoke through bitter tears

Are you ever gonna free yourself from the chains of normality

Where your morals are easier to change

When you are a finance minister

Working on behalf of the regime of deception

 

ONE TIME AT A STEP

One time at a step

It's always the hardest to take

You know what's at stake

And what measures you gotta break

You're much too forward to be fake

Remember you're an ocean not a lake

One step at a time?

More like one time at a step

 

It's what it's all about

 

What truly is it all about?

Are you foreshadowed with doubt?

Are you condemned to take that route of self doubt?

You don't really want an out

Is that what this is all about?

One time at a step

 

Fuck it you know what?

The simple truth is

Any laws made by a human being are doomed from the start

From the start

Humans are proven to know nothing

Not anything...fuck it

Therefore we must listen to mother earth

Bless yer soul in all her glory

Ye doomed and fearful creatures of eternity

Blessed be the name of those enlightened

 

Those ones who take it one time at a step

One time at a step

It's what it's all about

 

HEARTSTOPPER

Well wait a minute babe set yourself down by my side

Well wait a minute babe set your fine self down by my side

Gonna tell you once, gonna tell ya twice

Gonna make you my bride

 

I love the wiggle in yer walk

When you're walkin' down the street

I love the wiggle in yer walk

When you're walkin' on down the street

Oh anytime I see you babe you know my heart forget to beat

 

Awe wait a minute baby sit right here down by my side

Won't you wait a minute babe set your fine self down by my side

Gonna tell you once, gonna tell ya twice

Baby you gonna be my bride

 

I love the wiggle when you walk

When you walk on down the street

I love the way you walk

When you're walkin' on down the street

You know every time I see you babe

Well my heart forget to beat

 

Oh heartstopper X2

Oh babe you a heartstopper X2

When you walkin' down the street

My poor heart forget to beat

Awe heartstopper

 

CLOSE THE BOOK

The leaves on the ground are startin' to fade

I'm livin' and dyin' with the choices that I made

I sip on the tea and I take a breath

And remember the good ones that we lost to death

 

In the hollow moon I can still see her face

It's something no one can ever replace

My burden is heavy and my mind is ajar

Sometimes I think I'd like to swing on a star

 

I got my walkin' shoes and I'm hitting the road

Abandoning everything but the cowboy code

At one with the rocks that are below my feet

We're hummin' together all the way down the street

 

The rain keeps on fallin' just like the tears

They keep on runnin' all through these wasted years

Late at night I recall

Our echoes of laughter as they bounced around the hall

 

The smiles that we shared were a stamp in time

Before we became strange bedfellows in crime

Just before I leave I take one last look

And on this chapter of life I gently close the book