IT'S THOSE OTHER TIMES

It started with an idea Neil Young gave to me

There ain't no easy answer to living free

There are no rules no laws to break

Don't even try to find a rhyme

Ahh but then again it's those other times

 

Well I'm tryin' to make my way

Down along the ol' dusty track

Just like Bob Dylan said

That woman she don't look back

Heaven help you if she does

Cause it'll feel like a crime

It's cause and effect it's love and it's war

It's those other times

 

Cravings??? Hell ya I got em'

But I'm waging heavy peace

The MP3 big oil machine

Never seems to stop or sleep nor cease

Nowadays politicians seem to me

To be nothing more than a troupe of mimes

It's gotten to the point where I can't relate

To those other times

 

Time flies like an arrow

Fruit flies like a banana

I preached the gospel of Peggy

Went Tiger Woods for Daryl Hannah

I don't know but I feel content

And that might change at the drop of a dime

I'm alright in between

But ya know it's those other times

 

Well I gotta thank you Neil

Praise Ben Keith & Danny Whitten too

For all those other kind of other times

You know it kept me goin' through

 

OUTTA MY HEAD

Tell me, tell me true

Baby what do you want me to do

I'm goin' outta my head without you X2

 

This love, this love is tough to chew

So give me something I can really sink my teeth into

I'm goin' outta my head without you X2

 

Tellin' tall tales that always make me shine

In the end I thought that you always would be mine

The sun will pierce my eyes if I look up from the ground

So I'm stayin' here with you till you ain't around

 

Get away, I gotta get away to some place new

Forget we were I swear to god gonna remember we're through

I'm going outta my head without you X2

 

DARK WATER

When there're too much time and not enough foes

You make enemies of your friends

Feel all alone in the universe

Like Arthur Dent I'm tryin' make amends

 

When there's too much knife and not enough steak

You gotta find something else to cut

Don't take to long to find out everybody's wrong

It's buried inside my gut

 

(CHORUS)

Dark water, dark water

Dark water ragin' under me

Dark water, dark water

Reflectin' that full moon to be

 

You might know the answer

But it's the question that's in call

Every ounce of my energy

I ain't using so I don't to fall

 

But when it rains it really pours

And there's no way to stop the pain

All alone and drenched to the bone

Don't ask I can't explain

REPEAT CHORUS

Is this the price of progress

Then this must be paradise lost

Are these the planks of freedom

And if they are tell me how much did that cost

 

It's gettin' down to the bitter end

And nobody gonna share the blame

Get on their knees swear to god they're gonna change

Then glorify in doin' the same

REPEAT CHORUS

 

SOUL PEOPLE

Lonely people feelin' less alone together

Frightened creatures bedding down against bad weather

All things big and small sooner or later bound to fall

 

What would you do for it

That heart that you stole

What price would you see fit

Would you forsake the whole

 

You better not quit now cause you're on a roll

But it ain't got nothing if don't got soul

Soul People

 

Take your courage vomit it into the breeze

Are you a parasite or just the queen of sleaze

Mother Mary what she say

I don't want that bitch round another day

 

The bird is on the wire what news will it bring

The fat is in the fire can you make it sing

Nothing you can control shoot down or pigeon hole

Shove it up yer blow hole

If it ain't got soul

Soul People

 

BESIDE ME

I got an idea and it's lookin' good

My baby's beside like I knew she would

It don't take long until our hearts start to sing

When my baby's beside me I don't need a thing

 

Girl when you left I said come back home to me

Only if you'll be true answered she

It don't take long till the moon and stars start to do their thing

And when my baby's beside me I don't need a thing

 

You belong in my arms woman oh can't you see

You got no idea what you're doin' to me

I can't wait to see what the future might bring

Cause when you're beside me I don't need a thing

 

FOR GOOD OR iLL

I got a little bit of something whole lotta nothing

But enough to drag me down

Life ain't easy peasy doin' as I'm pleasin'

But I'm making the rounds

For good or ill, for ill or good

I know I can't but I feel like I should

 

I feel like I feel like singing a song I ain't never sung before

Something I can feel something that's real

Something that cuts to the core

For good or ill, for ill or good

I know I can't but you knew that I would

 

But you knew I'd stick around to be your clown

And you could treat me like a mangy dog

It ain't coincidence yer makin' no sense

When you're lost in a fog

For good or ill, for ill or good

I know you can't, I know you wish you could

 

You knew what you shoulda done when you did it wrong

But you went and did it anyhow

Ain't much to say coulda gone either way

But it's all over now

For good or ill, for ill or good

I know you can't, I know you dream you could

 

EVERY BODY

Every body walkin' their own trail

Circumstance will prevail

The hidden truth behind the veil

Every body walkin' their own trail

 

Every body carvin' their own path

Forsakin' the godly wrath

You paint the picture you do the math

Every body carvin' out their own path

 

Every body walks some kind of line

They smile and say their fine

As long as it's someone else's wine

Every body walks some kind of line

 

Every body lookin' to look good

They're never doing what they should

Carve your initials on an old piece of wood

Every body lookin' to look good

 

Every body carvin' their own path

Forsakin' the godly wrath

You paint the picture you do the math

Every body carvin' their own path

 

GOOD MAN TO KILL

Well this gal I'm loving she's rotten to the core

Each time she comes around it's like heroin and I need more

This gal I've been lovin' she's gone to the top of the hill

She's goin' off to find herself another good man to kill

 

Take it from the taken

More to that mess there than meets the eye

Every limit of logic she'll constantly defy

She's frothing at the mouth ya'll wanting more fresh blood to spill

She run me down so hard lordy like another good man to kill

 

She got a nasty reputation as the weakest nightmare on the street

She goes crazy after midnight

Eyeing me up like I'm a piece of meat

I might have to go to China might even have to go to Brazil

She run me down to hard lordy like another good man to kill

She's gone off to find herself another good man to kill

Just go and let her find herself another good man to kill

 

CAMUS

There's gods of light and idols of mud

There's Stack-a-Lee and Bud the Spud

There's a hard rain blowin' in the wind

Expression begins where thought ends

 

(CHORUS)

Silence all the idols contemplate your fate

All is well, everything is permitted

And nothing is hateful

 

Go roll your rock ol' Sisyphus

At the foot of the mountain in eternal bliss

It might be true, it might be myth

But my memory's eye is the stone your with

REPEAT CHORUS

Too much stubborn hope in the human heart

Way to easy to tear it apart

What you create with your words or clay

It has no future can be destroyed in a day

REPEAT CHORUS

As I negate on the left I magnify on the right

And I fill in that void with a blinding light

The view always has a wee bit of a twist

If the world were clear art could not exist

REPEAT CHORUS

 

LAUGH SO HARD (IT MAKES THE GODS CRY)

Dig the earth don't count the miles

Pain after pain, pile upon pile

You get used to it after a while

So take that step and watch it fall

Take the next bite out of the wall

Now ain't no time to stall

Don't you go expecting the heavens to tell you why

You gotta laugh so hard it makes the gods cry

 

You deserve what you've got

So be the things that you claim you're not

Your alibies are all shot

Did you go expecting the heavens to tell you why

You gotta laugh so hard that it makes the gods cry

 

Don't deny what's done in your name

You played the role, ya you played the game

Ah ain't that a shame

I guess you went expecting the heavens to tell you why

You gotta laugh so hard that it makes the gods cry

You gotta laugh so hard that it makes the gods cry

 

MAN IN THE TREE

There's a man in the tree and he's talking to me

Saying welcome to the land of death

You'll die down here he said with a sneer

Liqour heavy on his breath

 

Then he started to unwind saying humans ain't kind

Man they lie they cheat and they steal

It's easy to see you won't get it for free

And they don't give a damn how you feel

 

There's a man in the tree and he's preachin' to me

About the weather, the church and his son

We're down for the count he said from his mount

The final deals almost done

 

So speak up while you can and fight for your land

Before you can't make a sound

Man it ain't no lie we're all gonna die

And just be dirt in the ground

 

There's a man in tree who thinks he's starting to see

The 4 horsemen drawing their swords

And he starts to wince and he seems convinced

It's the second coming of the lord

 

Things ain't like they were we're no longer pure

Our hands are stained with sin

There's nothing to save except a spot for your grave

You can't deny the shape we're in

 

There's a man in the tree and I'm startin' to agree

With every single word that he says

They'll play along nice if you cover the price

It comes down to whatever pays

 

Then he lifted his cloak and said this ain't no dirty joke

Can't you tell by the look on my face

Yes the end is here but you got nothing to fear

It's only the end of the human race