Rebels | Ryan Dorward

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SHE'S GONE

(CHORUS)

Don't you go a roamin' if you got a gal at home

You'll come back one day

To find she's not there

She's gone

Well her sister told her brother that she seen me with another

Drinkin' wine down on the corner and I was holdin' her hand

Landlady broke my cover when confronted by my lover

Who then soon discovered truth in the gossip of the land

REPEAT CHORUS

Got a letter in the mail from a friend of mine

Said he's workin' at the jail on the Mason/Dixon line

He got a mistress who is clueless keeps his wife that way too

But you better watch it buddy or you're going to lose

REPEAT CHORUS

EARL'S REDEMPTION SONG

Hey Earl don't go there

Their just chickens with blonde-dyed hair

Some chicks from Dixie done Earl wrong

They killed poor Earl in their song

Now Earl ain't around no more

They wanted a song that would be a hit

So they thought a while and they drank a bit

They drank a bit till the thinking quit

Now Earl ain't around no more

(CHORUS)

Hey Earl don't go there

Their just chickens with blonde-dyed hair

Hey Earl don't go there

They're just chickens in their underwear

Earl mighta done wrong but he mighta done good

Sometimes he didn't do like he mighta should

What he mighta shoulda done was to not do wrong

Then Earl'd be here not gone

Where Earl went no one can tell

Some say heaven and some say hell

But if you add all the parts and take out the blame

It's a lovers quarrel and a foolish game

REPEAT CHORUS

THE GREAT BEYOND

There ain't much in this world that can bring me down

But your touch seems to cure what I picked up in town

I can't move and my voice is gone

I'm livin' on the edge of the great beyond

Well it's a mystery just how things they ever got this way

All I see is every bit of beauty starting to decay

I can hear the song of the swan

Livin' on the edge of the great beyond

Is there more to this picture that can meet the mind

Cut to the core if you look close enough I'm sure you'll find

A new day is startin' to dawn

I'm livin' on the edge of the great beyond

TIME FADES AWAY

It's all been said before like time fades away

I keep searchin' for a better way to pray

I crawl across the floor and live to see another day

Sometimes things ain't half bad I don't think of you at all

The times we've had to me are just like another brick in the wall

Now don't go away mad just cause I don't jump to your call

Come on now and give your best to me

You outta know somehow

That if you don't then you just gotta let me be

I won't allow you to keep my heart in misery

It's all been said before like time fades away

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

Pick up the phone, answer the door

You can't even say you don't love me anymore

It's a cryin' shame it's me to blame

Is love to you just one big game

You don't even try

To comprehend what I go through

Sometimes I think

You don't even know the things you do

Love is blind and hard to find

These things weigh heavy on my mind

My bloody valentine

Well I walked 5,000 miles for your denial

You kick me out then you take me back for a little while

It's plain to see it's meant to be

You showed 1,000 different faces to me

You had 3 children and I called them mine

I hope you're happy and you're feelin' fine

Cause you raised your standards and I've lowered mine

My gift to you is this bloody valentine

You raised your standards, I've lowered mine

My gift to you is this bloody valentine

LOVE IS A DEMON

I've never been righteous

I walked to the left, I walked to the right

I never walked a straight line in my life before tonight

My hearts in prison you found me on parole

Love is a demon my life is rock and roll

Castrate my mind with your actions so bold

You had all my love but you kept it cold

My hearts in prison you found me on parole

Love is a demon my life is rock and roll

Find yourself and the rest will come to you

Find the time to let your dreams come true

My hearts in prison you found me on parole

Love is a demon my life is rock and roll

REFUSE TO GROW

Well not I said the tin man with a heart full of steel

I'll just keep on climbing to the top of the hill

I might be fighting for my breath

I'll reach the peak eventually

Gotta keep my concentration

The best is yet to be

(CHORUS)

Well if you're walkin' in the moonlight

Do you ever think of me

Can you recall the love we shared

Or was it all just a dream

I didn't want this separation

But you did it on your own

Well you keep on walking backwards

And you refuse to grow

There are things that I'm saying

But other things I'm not

You cast a spell you pay the price

For the vengeance you sought

Did you believe what you were sayin'

When you looked me in the eye

Well you say that things will change

But you don't even try

REPEAT CHORUS

Can't seem to beat this temptation

That's got control over my mind

There's no reconciliation

So it's better left behind

Well I don't hold many grudges

I find it easier that way

But I ain't holdin' any punches

I say what I have to say

REPEAT CHORUS

WORDS OF WISDOM

Well there are things that happen

When a heart turns bad

The sun seems to hide

And the flowers are mad

The escape is complete

And I got a heap to learn

It takes compassion and patience

For the home fires to burn

Tis not for the weary

Or the unstable of mind

You'll fold up and wither

And then get left behind

And it's not for the careless

Who take their life lights

But if you watch your step

Oh God what a sight

The song of the wind

Howls it's secrets to me

And I find myself dreamin'

Of the way things ought to be

The nature is endless

And the people are few

But that's the way I like it

And swear that it's true

Your spirit might be tested

In some kind of inner war

You can dig your heels in

Or you can run for the door

But I'm stickin' around at least for a season

For it's cowards and hustlers who leave with no reason

And I am a poet

A man of the land

My words in my pocket

And my head in the sand

This is my story

This is the song

This is our future

In the wild Yukon

DILGO

There are things one can change

There are other things that one must accept

And try to comprehend

Time...Love...Revenge

They are all the same...

One big energy that you must accept

Or go crazy and love drunk for the rest of your life

Life is not any one thing

'Tis in the combination of everything

Every single word...

Every single action is under the microscope

Of a 1,000 different hearts

1,000 different minds

We have many different options in life

But it comes down to two

Compassion

Patience

HOWLIN' AGAIN

I'm a fool but you're just a queen

You think you're cool, proper and clean

This highway will take me where it wants to go

Why you stayed even god doesn't know

(CHORUS)

Can't you hear me babe

Callin' out your name

Can't you hear me babe

Howlin' again

I ain't lying when I say this to you

Cut out the jivin' make some elbow room

You think it's easy to love then forget

Take it from me cause that's all your ever gonna get

REPEAT CHORUS

FAR FROM MYSELF

So many times you'll find yerself

In some kind of mental corner

Kickin' and floppin'

Too much memory and yet not enough experience

Desire what you have and you will discover it

Cherish it

Do not forget

The battle shall never stop

The wounds shall never cease to be forgotten

I am body and I am spirit

(CHORUS)

I gotta get away

I gotta get away far from myself

Thinkin' of time

Time, time, time

Everything isrevealed through time

Everything is disclosed through time

People born in time yet out of place

Ye that shall kneel down to billboards

Will die with electricity and modern icons

REPEAT CHORUS

We are one together

In the mad money machine of electricity

With validity in actions

No more words

Just actions

Show me what you are made of

Piss and blood

Vomit and pubes

A couple of winners

Billions of Rubes

Yet I hold no grudges in any forms

Some days we are masters

Other days we are cock-a-roaches

REPEAT CHORUS

Fuck it man...

This is the reality...

The evolution of awareness

On all it's different levels...

May you be blessed to see

Your true calling in life...

And I the same

YOU GOTTA BE THERE (IN THE MOMENT)