Your love is an oasis
Tall Man, Small Man
Come To Me
FootSteps
Flowers for julia
Mercy
My Eyes are my own
The Best is yet to come
A quiet street
orbit
heroin's child
Rotten Town
A little every day
Dear mom and dad
surprise
everybody wants to go to heaven
desert rose
will i ever find a place in this world?
I won't give up on you now
god bless you on your birthday, u.S.A.
ennui
Less blue
underdressed
Your Love is an Oasis
I'd do just about anything just to see you smile
Do just about anything just to see you smile
I'd do just about anything just to see you smile
Baby that's just my style
Ask me why I won't do that, oh baby that's not my style
Ask me why I won't do that, well, baby that's not my style
Ask me why I won't do that, oh baby that's not my style
No that's just not my style
In my life your love is an oasis
In my life your love is an oasis
When I'm dry you come to me like water
In my life your love is an oasis
Your love is an oasis
These old dry bones'll moan and groan if you leave 'em alone
These old dry bones'll moan and groan if you leave 'em alone
These old dry bones'll moan and groan if you leave 'em alone
So please don't leave me alone
Baby you can drive my car, drive it all night long
Honey, you can rev my engine, run it all night long
Be sure you don't go too far and don't be gone too long
Baby you can drive my car, honey
In my life your love is an oasis
In my life your love is an oasis
When I'm dry you come to me like water
In my life your love is an oasis
Your love is an oasis
I love ya 'neath the sun and moon, in the morning, in the afternoon
Love ya 'neath the sun and moon, in the morning, in the afternoon
Love ya 'neath the sun and moon, in the morning, in the afternoon
'Neath the sun and the moon, honey
In my life your love is an oasis
In my life your love is an oasis
When I'm dry you come to me like water
In my life your love is an oasis
Your love is an oasis
Tall Man, Small Man
Hey Mr Tall Man ive seen you around
Peekin over fences all over town
Changin every burned-out light bulb you can see
Rescuin little girls' kitties from the trees
Me? I was born just a regular joe
Five feet n ten from my head to my toe
But now and then you know we standard-size guys
Like to fantasize that we're otherwise
And if I was tall like you
I tell you what I would do
I'd cast a shadow from Kansas City to Kalamazoo
Stay in the back row for photos, at picture shows too
I'd decline to climb ladders, helping hands I'd refuse
And maybe, Mr Tall Man, even tower over you
I would never call shotgun, it would be understood
Every shot a slam dunk, id be the king of the hardwood
Breathin rarefied air with all my inches to spare
And when the ladies say hey! hows the weather up there?
I'd say it's sunny, honey it's always sunny
And with my long legs gobblin up the spaces between
I'd stroll around lookin down at the tops of things
For stimulatin conversation I could visit the zoo
You see the giraffes and I would always see eye to eye
And because they can fly the birds can come too
For a nice big slice of pie in the sky
Now a feminist can hate me, chide and berate me
Call me rude, call me crude, but even a middling-height dude
Will surely understand when I say a lady
Loves lookin up to her man
I know a small-minded fantasy is all this will ever be
But shed me no tear from altitudinous eyes
Cuz though I said goodbye to my loftier dreams
Still if I were tall like you
I know just what I would do
I would never call shotgun, it would be understood
Every shot a slam dunk, id be the king of the hardwood
Breathin rarefied air with all my inches to spare
And when the ladies say hey! hows the weather up there?
I'd say it's sunny, honey it's always sunny
And with my long legs gobblin up the spaces between
I'd stroll around lookin down at the tops of things
Come to Me
Come to me
When the night falls too fast
Bring company!
Every ghost from your past!
We'll wave our hands through them like smoke
And peer through them like glass
Drop what you're doin baby
Come to me
Come to me
The day promises to be long
I'm not sayin' we
Can make rights out of wrongs
But if you teach me all the flowers' names
I will sing you nameless songs
Drop what youre doin baby
Come to me
Oh I'll run to you
In the hour of your strife
Straight to your rescue
To pull out the knife
No trouble at all
To come over and save your life
Please dont go
Please stay with me a while
Doesn't it show?
I'm so high on your smile!
These feelings might be real
And I just wanna put them up on trial
Drop your other plans baby
Stay a while
These feelings might be real
baby, stay a while
footsteps
Just after midnight, im all alone
Walkin slow and im halfway home
Suddenly I hear footsteps fallin behind
I try not to pay them any mind
But isnt it strange at this late hour
That anyone else would be walkin this road?
I try not to let my mind spin out of control
It's just somebody with somewhere to go
But deep in my legs I feel this urge to run
What would I do?
If it were more than my imagination?
What would I do
If my darkest fear came true right now?
Behind me I see the silhouette
Of a man in the dirty yellow glow of a streetlight
Hands in his pockets, hood over his head
He looks strong and tall
I try not to feel
Scared and small
But my nerves arent made of steel
And how long has he been followin (me)?
I start walking faster now
The moon is down, there's no one else around
He starts walkin faster
And what will I do?
If it's more than my imagination
What will I do?
If he jumps out of the night right now
If I run
Will he run me down?
If I scream
Will I be heard?
If I fight
Will I be strong enough to overcome a madman?
If I comply will he spare my life?
Or will I vanish quietly into the night?
Will I be the next helpless girl gone missin?
Will I be the subject of another search mission?
Will I be the latest pretty face on the tv news?
That's a fate that I refuse
So with the nine and the one already dialed
I wrap a fist around my keys
Adrenaline rushin through my veins
I'm ready as ill ever be
Ready to kick, ready to claw
Ready to yell until my voice is raw
Not goin down tonight, it's not my turn
I'm ready to fight, ready to learn
What I will do
If it's more than my imagination
What I will do
If he jumps out of the night right now
If I run
Will he run me down?
If I scream
Will I be heard?
If I fight
Will I be strong enough to overcome a madman?
If I comply will he spare my life?
Or will I vanish quietly into the night?
My heart is like a hammer
Every nerve on fire
I can hear him coming closer
Now he's right behind my shoulder
Then he walks on by
Softly humming a tune
He just walks on by
And vanishes quietly into the night
With trembling hands I catch my breath
and get my legs back under me
How long have I been standing here
It feels like eternity
Now it's well after midnight im almost home
Walkin fast and im all alone
When suddenly
Behind me I hear footsteps
flowers for julia
My body is at war with itself
Blackness from my lungs slides down my drain
Livin and dyin on morphine and cocaine
Is hardly better than the pain
In dreams I still lead armies across rivers to hell
The newspapers called me a butcher in those days
Now the blood is a powder, it covers the fields
While I cough mine onto the page
Oh Julia! I am a dyin man
Writing takes all the strength in my hand
Where I held wildflowers from the Rio Grande
Julia! Just for you
Pressed into my letters
Blazing star
Trailing windmill
My country is at war with itself
White hood, black blood, a wheel of vultures flying high
Peace will come, I can feel it in my heart
But I'll never see it with my eyes
Cuz ten smokes a day is killin' me they say
I surrender my pen, more than ready to die
Maybe someday you will find me in that sweet river valley
Where angels, not bullets, fly
Oh Julia! I am a dyin man
My old hand is out of my command
Never again will I send flowers from the Rio Grande
Oh Julia! Just for you
Dressed in heaven's own hues
Golden wave
Menadora
Wild olive
Wild petunia
mercy
You're only human
What did you expect of yourself?
No super power, no angelic perfection
Just a mortal like everybody else
A little mortal like everybody else
I ain't sayin you didn't blow it big time
I'm just sayin show yourself a little mercy
Doin it for the first time
This crazy little game called "Happy Ever After"
Only yesterday you were a child
Did you think you'd be a master by now?
Did you think you'd be a master?
I ain't sayin you didn't fuck it up, yeah
I'm just sayin show yourself a little mercy
Some debts can never be paid
They can only be forgiven
The blood shed between you and me
So long ago is permanently lost
And now it pains me more to see
You nailin yourself to that cross
Why are you nailin yourself to a cross?
I ain't sayin you never really hurt me
I'm just beggin show yourself a little mercy
A little mercy can go a long way
My Eyes Are My Own
A shadow scared me yesterday
As scuffled through a dream
Angels lie in wait behind their wings
They will carry me away
Tomorrow I might find a letter
From my grandfather to his son
What do you do when you realize there was a time
That your father was young?
We are all the dream of a sleeping soul
We are islands in a sea of diamonds
We are distant stars shining yesterday's light
But my eyes are my own, I will not share them
Oh my eyes are my own I will not share them
You are a bottle bearing a message
Come find your way to my shore!
You stand mighty and tall like a lighthouse
You cry like a melancholy foghorn
We are all the dream of a sleeping soul
We are islands in a sea of diamonds
We are distant stars shining yesterday's light
But my eyes are my own, I will not share them
Oh my eyes are my own I will not share them
We are all more fragile than we suppose
Ready to crumble when a cold wind blows
We all fall down like petals from a rose
But my eyes are my own I will not spare them
Oh my eyes are my own I will not spare them
I will not spare them beauty
And I will not spare them pain
I will not spare them thunder
And I will not spare them rain
I will not spare them grief
And I will not spare them joy
I will not spare them darkness
And I will not spare them love
We are all the dream of a sleeping soul
We are islands in a sea of violence
We all fall down like petals from a rose
But my eyes are my own, I will not share them
Oh my eyes are my own, I will not share them
The best is yet to come
When all the flowers in your garden bend low
Beneath the weight of April rain
When you're restless like the seasons
And all you can do is turn again
Around to face the past ashamed
And you cannot bear the pain
Don't you know you don't have to
Find your own way around the dark
I'll be there to guide you
Don't you know you don't have to
Find your own way to heal that broken heart
I can show you how to
And don't despair my love
The best is yet to come
When you're tired of time alone
And love in vain is all you've known
When for all your seekin
You cannot find
A way to ease your worried mind
And when you feel
Like all is lost
And you dare not count the cost
Don't you know you don't have to
Find your own way around the dark
I'll be there to guide you
Don't you know you don't have to
Find your own way to heal that broken heart
I can show you how to
And don't despair my love
The best is yet to come
When you're sick and you need a helping hand
I will be your medicine
When you're sinking deep into thick quicksand
I won't let it take you in
Don't you know you don't have to
Find your own way around the dark
I'll be there to guide you
Don't you know you don't have to
Find your own way to heal that broken heart
I can show you how to
And don't despair my love
The best is yet to come
A Quiet street
What did I expect to find
When I came back to this old street of mine
The queen of hearts right where I left her
In the spokes of a rusty bicycle wheel
The body of the bird
I wept over for days, the spot of blood
On her wing colored my dreams
Ugly hues I'd never seen
My old glove with the hole in the palm
From the day I caught a falling bomb
The tiny house in the giant tree
Where my first love first loved me
Now there's nothing but a quiet street
Even the memories are almost gone
Nothing here but a quiet street
And two old feet to walk along
Half a century ago
My mother barely more than a girl
Did I think I would hear her calling
Me in from my infinite little world
Where shadows could be outrun
Words were magic and war was just a game
My mother died almost ten years ago
How could she ever call my name?
How could my birthday balloon
Still be rising into the sky?
How could the church choir still be singing
In The Sweet By and By?
When there's only this quiet street
Even the memories are almost gone
Nothing here but a quiet street
And two old feet to walk along
What did I expect to find
When I came back to this old life of mine
What else but a quiet street
For two old feet to walk along
orbit
You're up there in my sky
A bright and shining star
Even with a weary eye
I see how beautiful you are
But just too far away
To engage in gravitational play
I wish there was a way
To get closer to your rays
To erase all the light years
And stay together right here
Always
I wanna be in your orbit, baby
I'd give anything for it, baby
Even if it's only for one night
I would give anything to be your satellite
Anything to move around you
LIke a needle in a groove around you
To feel your heat and see your light
On a dark and moonless night
From a deep and cloudless sky
Kaleidoscopic light
Into my telescopic eye
And though not remotely near
The signal's comin clear
All the way from there to here
Through a haze of atmosphere
We could start a revolution
Around your heart of fusion
And light
I wanna be in your orbit, baby
I'd give anything for it, baby
Although I'm free I'd much rather be
In the sweet captivity of your gravity
Anything to spin around you
And say that I have been around you
And get a little taste of your energy
I wanna be in your orbit, baby
I'd give anything for it, baby
I don't need to be a permanent moon
I'd settle for only one December to June
Anything to twirl around you
To whirl my little world around you
If only from midnight to noon
I wanna be in your orbit, baby
heroin's child
You're just a shadow at play
You're the invisible girl
You'd swear she doesnt even know you're in the house
Until she locks the bathroom door
The way she often does
After the shadow man has gone
Maybe she'll hide in there all night until dawn
Maybe she'll lock you in your room
You dont have to live a lifetime
You dont have to live a lifetime right now
You dont have to live a lifetime
Not a lifetime
Just a moment more
She will lie there all day
In some unreachable world
While you make supper for the baby and yourself
And every hour or two
You feel her for a heartbeat
Just like she taught you to
Palm up, two fingers on the wrist
No danger youll wake her
You dont have to live a lifetime
You dont have to live a lifetime right now
You dont have to live a lifetime
Not a lifetime
Just a moment more
Do you ever have nightmares?
Do you sleep without a care?
Do you ever have nigmtares?
Or only these dreams?
Dreams of running away
She can read it in your eyes
“You wouldnt dare, you ungrateful little shit!
Who else could love you like I do?”
Now the shadow man is at the door
Youre invisible again
Someday youll no longer be heroin's child
For now youll stare down at your shoes
And burn holes into your shoes
You dont have to live a lifetime
You dont have to live a lifetime tonight
You dont have to live a lifetime
Not a lifetime
Just a moment more
rotten town
Another day in this rotten town
What you're lookin for when you look straight down
Youll never find it
Youre just behind it
Joy is bound to remain unfound
Faces pale 'neath a whte streetlight
Oh it's church in the morning and the bars at night
An old rugged cross on an old brick wall
Obscenities graffitied on a bathroom stall
Oh this rotten town
It cant get much worse than this rotten town
The devil's not a stranger, he lives next door
In the eyes of your kids, he's on channel four
He's in the bloody thoughts and the fantasies you
Entertain when nobody sees you
He's in the little lies you toss like quarters
Disgused as the guy that's dating your daughter
The devil's not a stranger, the devil's all around
The devil's everybody in this god-forsaken town
Oh this rotten town
It cant get much worse than this rotten town
My best friend Carlos got a deal on a Harley so
In a month we're bound for Dodge City
From there it's farther West or bust
Where Tucson lies on the night like stardust
There's whiskey and wine and wild, wild women
I'm gonna rob and steal what nobody's given me
Not too worried about gettin into heaven
It doesn't bother me to be unforgiven now
I might be hell-bound
But at least I'm leavin
This rotten town
A little every day
One house – many rooms
One line – always opposite sides
One bed – two dreams
One love faded with no tears left to cry
But I remember when you were my girl
Ive got letters and pictures to prove it
But it doesn't matter now
Old histories of a heartbreak
A moment falling in
A lifetime crawling out
As I withdrew and left
You all alone with the time
I just got tired of takin
Helpless as gravity
Slowly took hold of the smile
You got so tired of fakin
Til finally we let the passing days undo
The love we both got tired of makin
A little every day
A little more every day
And so you found yourself
Longing for moments alone
Without me in the picture
While I hated myself
Feeling no pain with you gone
From my dreams of the future
Trapped in prisons made
Of promises to stay forever
While time grows tall
Hearts grow hard
And love grows small
But I remember when you were my girl
Ive got letters and pictures to prove it
But it doesn't matter now
Old histories of a heartbreak
A moment falling in
A lifetime crawling out
As I withdrew and left
You all alone with the time
I just got tired of takin
Helpless as gravity
Slowly took hold of the smile
You got so tired of fakin
Til finally we let the passing days undo
The love we both got tired of makin
A little every day
A little more every day
dear mom and dad
Mom and Dad, it's your boy
You know the one you rarely hear from
I heard a Nanci Grffith song today
And it made me think of you
I try to picture your faces
Imagine what you're doin
Maybe watching all the birds come and go
Outside your kitchen window
I know sometmes 've been angry with you
And said words meant to sting you a little
We all carry the weight of remorse
But we're stuck with the past
And it's time we made our peace with that
Our days are short and it's time we made our peace so
Dear mom and dad
I'm sorry I got mad
You gave me the best
Childhood ive ever had
And sometimes it was hard
And we hurt each other pretty bad
But its all good
And im glad youre my mom and dad
Never once been sad
That youre my mom and dad
Mom and dad I hope youre well
In body mind and spirit
Rest assured I am the same cuz I know
Its what you want most of all
And its mostly thanks to you
You gave me everything I needed
And though I left home wth a scar or two
It didnt ruin my heart
and now I'm older than you were when I was born
Fighting many of the battles you were fighting then
In a world unforgiving and wild
It's hard to grow a flower let alone raise a child
It's hard to grow a flower let alone raise a child
so
Dear mom and dad
I'm sorry I got mad
You gave me the best
Childhood ive ever had
And sometimes it was hard
And we hurt each other pretty bad
But its all good
And im glad youre my mom and dad
Never once been sad
That youre my mom and dad
Mom and Dad all I wanted you to know is
I forgive you and im sorry and even though in this
Hard life nothin's harder than family
In that lottery I feel pretty lucky oh
In that lottery I got pretty lucky so
Dear Mom and Dad
Im sorry I got mad
You gave me the best
Childhood I ever had
And though sometimes it was hard
And we hurt each other pretty bad
Its all good and im glad
You are my mom and dad
Ive never once been sad
You are my mom and dad
Surprise
I never thought id write a song for a girl
Never thought id get along with the world
I thought love would never give me a whirl
Never thought id write a song for a girl
You really did a number on me
Did me easy as 1, 2 3
All the way to infinity
You really did a number on me
Love is like a sunrise
Happens before your very eyes
Still somehow a surprise!
Youre as cool as the moon above
Hot as noonday in the summer of love
When boys daydream what they dream of
As cool as the moon above
You taught me the only truth I know
No holy book ever told me so
Never heard it in birdsongs or rivers that flow
You taught me the only truth I know
Love is like a sunrise
Happens before your very eyes
Still somehow a surprise!
Livin's got much treasure in store
Alone has some, together has more
I'm never far from your front door
Livin's got such treasure in store
Love is like a sunrise
Happens before your very eyes
Still somehow a surprise!
everybody wants to go to heaven
Everybody wants to go to heaven
But nobody wants to die
So everybody's lookin for a way to get there
In somebody else's ride
Everybody wants to be
Cosmic number one
Everybody wants someone else
To pay for all the fun
All the fun
The strong do everything they can
Whle the weak suffer what they must
And time grinds the halls of so-called
Justice into dust
Everybody wants to be
The snake among the doves
Everybody wants everyone else
To give up all the love
All the love
I never wanna go to heaven
And I just cant wait to die
The only reason im still alive
Is just to be your ride
Youre my idol, my god
My blazing sun, my number one
The only thing I live to do
Is give you all my love
all my love
DEsert Rose
I was a young nuclear scientist
From a small farm n the Midwest
You were a city girl, a pacifist
You said you lost your daddy when you were four
He crossed the sea to fight a great war
And never returned from that foreign shore
Somewhere between your hours in picket lines
And mine splittin atoms, workin overtime
We fell in love and married in 1939
Three years later to the day
Watchin the sunset and our little boy play
Came a letter from the army of the USA
It said take your wife and child and go
To the hills of socorro, new mexico
Leave by night, let no one know
To the dry land, where no one goes
To the white sand, where no wind blows
To the ground, where no flower grows
Make a miracle, a desert rose
Whle you waited for me in a lonely room
I filled chalkboards with equations of doom
Risin over the desert like a rose in bloom
Around sunrise I would stagger in tired
And fall into dreams of a world on fire
While you dreamed of a life outside barbed wire
you said I just cant take this life anymore
I never married a master of war
Youre harder now then you were before
It's like this bomb is a part of you
Tickin away in the heart of you
And Im damned if it destroys me too
Damn the dry land, where no one goes
Damn the white sand, where no wind blows
Damn the ground where no flower grows
Damn your miracle: your desert rose!
t minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Every night another fight that couldn't be won
You were punishin me for what I'd done
'Til you couldn't even look my way anymore
Or laugh with me like you did before
And our love became our own cold war
So no surprise to rise before dawn
To find that you and the boy were gone
And I was alone with what I'd sewn
In the dry land, where no one goes
In the white sand, where no wind blows
In the ground, where no flower grows
With my miracle, my desert rose
will i ever find a place in this world?
Some people die right where they were born
They sacrifice all to the gods of hearth and home
They bury their souls in the old familiar mold
So they can die right where they were born
Some people die a million miles away
From any chance they'll hear the name their mama gave
They say they came from nowhere and they're headed for the same
So they can die a million miles away
Some people live a loop that never ends
Set out to find themselves and find themselves back again
Part-time orphans, halfway prodigal children
Oh, they live a loop that never ends
Will I ever find a place In this world, in this world?
Will I ever find a place In this world?
Somewhere I can stay
Where I don't have to pay
Will I ever find a place in this world?
In my father's house there is no room for me
In the arms of the one I love there is no room for me
The house of god is for those who still believe
In my father's house there is no room for me
If I'm damned to die all alone
A pilgrim, a stranger, unwelcome, unknown
A man from elsewhere everywhere I go
If I'm damned to die all alone
There's a tree by a river dark and deep
Where the grass is soft and the water is sweet
Where the stars smile down on me while I sleep
By a tree, by a river dark and deep
Will I ever find a place In this world, in this world?
Will I ever find a place In this world?
Somewhere I can stay
Where I don't have to pay
Will I ever find a place in this world?
i won't give up on you now
I can see in the fall of your shoulders
In your eyes that look older than eyes ever should
This fight has you feelin alone and defeated
You wanna walk away and leave it for good
But youre not the only one
Who's ever been down so far
More than once in my time
Ive been right where you are
And I wont give up on you now
I know youre gonna win this battle somehow
Youre down for the moment but not for the count
And I wont give up on you now
So dont you worry that ill stop believin
As though ive never seen you bleedin before
We're not even close to my point of breakin
Just when you think I cant take anymore
I will always bend
Im an all-weather friend
I was there at the start
Ill be there at the end
Cuz I wont give up on you now
I know youre gonna win this battle somehow
Youre down for the moment but not for the count
And I wont give up on you now
Ive seen you move bigger mountains than this
Slay giants and whisper peace to a tempest
Swindle the devil out of your own soul
So I know youll come out of this fight more than whole
Youre a livin, breathin
Reason to believe
And if your strength ever fails
Come lean on me
Cuz I wont give up on you now
I know youre gonna win this battle somehow
Youre down for the moment but not for the count
And I wont give up on you now
Back to top
God Bless You On Your Birthday, USA
Red, white, and blue confetti falls
On the fourth of july parade
overhead cuttin through the open sky
The fifty-seventh airborne brigade
Look! here comes uncle sam!
And there's lady liberty
His trouser buttons all undone
A bottle where her torch should be
Over the blare of mariachi bands
You can hear the bagpipes whine
Teenage lovers steal more than a kiss
Behind the coca-cola sign
Everybody's waitin, wavin flags
Through the slowly fallin dark
For the fireworks to turn the sky
Into a banner spangled with stars
Somewhere some wasted soldier
Blows slightly out of tune
'My country tis of thee'
On a battle-hardened kazoo
May those stars and stripes forever wave
And may we all be so brave
and god bless you on your birthday, USA!
Here comes the mayor, he's flashin a smile
From a blue 62 cadillac
His wife is glarin from the passenger seat
At his new girlfriend in the back
Here's the fire engine, the orphanage
And the high school marchin band
And some dude in an Elvis suit
singin 'Wish I Was in Dixie Land'
It started in philadelphia
Where it ends cant be told
Im goin home before the grand finale
The night is young but I feel so old
Hey lady liberty
Will you spend the night with me?
Dont you know its independence day
And i'm in need of settin free
Now a crowd of many colors
Sings uncertain harmonies
Something about amber waves of grain
And mountain majesties
May your stars and stripes forever wave
May we all find our way
And god bless you on your birthday, USA!
Oh god bless you!
Happy birthday, USA!
Ennui
Every day is a brand new day
Still every day's like every other day
Same long faces, same old horse-play
Why do I bother?
Vanity, vanity! All is vanity!
What goes up is up for gravity
Tryin hard to keep my sanity
So far no good
The million-footed rain is fallin down again
But the fire keeps on burnin
My bridges down
So I'm standing on the edge of a precipice
I'm way too old for this
Must be on some divine hit list
Too old for this
I am a man of many addictions
Fact of the matter is the fix is a fiction
The quest to fix everything that's broken
Is just one more
Funny how the tables turn the way they do
Aint it funny how trouble
Turns over on you
Take me back to the days
When I was just a boy
And the world was just a toy
Must have taken a wrong turn somewhere
Now I'm lookin at the long way home
That's alright, I've got all the time in the
World for my own
Sweet serenity is callin me again
But the world keeps on turnin
My head around
Less Blue
I'll just find trouble
If I go lookin for love
But I do love trouble
Seems I cant get enough
Im no romantic
But is that really so true?
If Im no romantic
Then why am I blue?
Someday I'll find you
And I'll believe you're true
And color this faded heart
A shade less blue
Here with this bottle
Like some detective with a crime
Head down and hellbound
To get to the bottom in time
Now Im just talkin
Crazy and lettin off steam
But its better than prayin
It beats interpretin dreams
Someday I'll find you
And I'll believe you're true
And color this faded heart
A shade less blue
Now the moon's just hangin
All big and bright up above
And the stars are shinin cold
Perfectly content without love
But Im not a moon
And Im not a star
Nowhere as old or as cold as they are
Not nearly as steady
Not nearly as far
But it's not like we've got
Nothing in common
We do!
Like some moons and some stars
I shine blue
Maybe I don't need you
Don't need you to be true
Or to color this faded heart
Any less blue
Underdressed
Im staring down at your body
It's weirdly still and quiet
And im talking to your spirit
Even though I dont believe
In heaven or hereafter
Persistence of consciousness
The hell you told me I was bound for
Every chance you could get
Now im remembering the coffee
You brewed for me one morning
I never did like coffee
You never really knew me
But I was pleasantly surprised
By your kindness because it was so rare
So I swallowed every bitter drop
Until the cup was bare
Im starin down at your body
Your cold, lifeless body
Nothin left to bow down to anymore
Nothin left to live up to
No angry god of my childhood
Just the shell of a mean old man
And I swear you retain
In your posthumous expression
A vestige of disdain
Chalk it up to projection
Hunched over your bible
You found the words to justify
Doin harm to a child
but those words were only lies
When I was small I thought you were strong
Now im big and I can see you were only stern
Thats a world of difference
It took me years to learn
Now here I am at your funeral
And Im not exactly wearin my Sunday best
But its funny I dont feel at all
Underdressed
WOULD WE KILL JESUS
Would we kill Jesus
If he came back today?
Would we shut up and listen
To what he had to say?
If we heard him knockin'
Would we invite him in?
Or would we find him guilty
All over again?
Since he walked the hills of Galilee
We haven't much changed
So I bet his message
Would also be the same
Would we mock him and spit on him
And cry 'shame, shame, shame!'
Might we even kill Jesus
In Jesus's name?
I know we'd never nail him to a cross
We've got other ways to silence wiser men
Make him poor, make him pay
Make him face his judgment day
Make sure he can't rise again
Again
Would we give him the needle
A double-deadly dose?
Strap him down in the electric chair
Burn him like toast?
Or in front of a firing squad
Make him a holy ghost?
If he told us we got to start lovin'
The ones we hate the most
I know we'd never hang him out to die
Plenty other ways to punish honest men
Call him crazy, call him odd
Call him enemy of god
Make sure he'll never rise again
Again
If he showed us the pearls of heaven
Would we trample like swine
Or offered us the living water
Would we yell for more wine
And what if he told us
That every single day
We've been killin' each other
In so many little ways
When we crucify what we don't understand
Or make another taste the poison in our pain
Sayin' words meant to wound, belittle, or deceive
It's like we're killin' Jesus all over again
So would we kill Jesus
If he came back today?
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