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there are voices in the darkness
there is music down the hall
there are tear-stains on the carpet
there are fist-holes in the wall
there's a little boy who lives alone
and no one knows his name
people here just call him psycho
but his dog-tag still reads James
they say that he's a lunatic
and a nuisance to the world
his wife left him ten years ago
and took his little girl
his uncle sends him money
and pills to keep him calm
for all those lonely nights
when he goes back to Vietnam
cause Jimmy saw the missiles scream
and he heard the bullets cry
and Jimmy saw the eyes of men
as they suffered there and died
and jimmy felt the kick of the gun in his own hands
as he watched the men he killed with it
fall into the sand
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i am lying here
lying on the floor
watching the ceiling fan
it doesn’t work no more
you now my need
before i need it
you fill the air
so when i breath it
you fill me too
the windows are reflecting
the trees outside are dancing together
the birds are dancing too
you know my heart
im a foolish man
if you say walk easy
i can i can i know i can
the operator keeps telling me
that my phone is off the hook
but i don’t look
im watching the ceiling fan
you know the dark
before i walk there
my path is filled with wisdom so rare
you know my place of retreat
you walk with me there
the windows are reflecting
the trees outside are dancing together
the birds are dancing too
you know my need
before i need it
you fill the air
so when i breath it
you fill me too
im sad and weak
your strong and meek
and in your wings i seek
i seek my solace
i am lying here
lying on the floor
watching the ceiling fan
it doesn’t work no more
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talk to me its so quiet
tell me how you dream at night
hand me visions to hang on to
show me glimpses of the light
stay with me
i want to be alone
close your eyes and hold my hand
phoenix rise up from the ashes
consumed in fire once again
oh, alone inside this rage
oh, locked inside this living cage
you give me solace
you give me solace
from myself
its ok i know your watching
feel the burn see me rise
touch the pain inside the ashes
lye awake hear me cry
stay with me
i want to be alone
close your eyes and hold my hand
phoenix rise up from the ashes
consumed in fire once again
oh, alone inside this rage
oh, locked inside this living cage
you give me solace
you give me solace
from myself
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one two three i cannot see because the light is shining on me
haven’t seen a day in seven nights
lying in a bathtub pool of blood-red desperation
the smile i don’t remember is far away
and they say this house is haunted but it doesn’t bother me
cause i can’t feel a thing beneath my toes
and there’ s a question blinking neon sign on a foggy night
it says to me “where did the list go?”
oh, how did the light disappear
and why did i let it go
and how can i get it back
and how can i make this darkness go away
they call this my addiction
i call it my only friend
but it’s standing over me a smiling child with a loaded gun
and reality is just a word i have no meaning for
it’s image a reflection broken mirror on the floor
oh, how did the light disappear
and why did i let it go
and how can i get it back
and how can i make this darkness go away
i guess its time to time to take these chains and throw them off the bridge of night and in the rippled shadow waters i can see the answers forming
oh, how did the light disappear
and why did i let it go
and how can i get it back
and how can i make this darkness go away
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she wears a pink prom dress from 1963
i asked her why she wears it all the time
she said, “it looks good on me”
she says she dug it out of a rich woman’s trash
and not a thing was wrong with it
even came with a sash
her name is Rebecca but i call her Jane
and we take walks in the sunlight
we take walks in the rain
she says that the weather
is all in your mind
and as long as your sunny inside
you’ll be alright
and that’s Jane
that’s Jane
that’s just Jane
people call her homeless
she calls herself free
she says,”houses and cars, they don’t mean nothing to me”
and i say Jane won’t you let me take you home
so you can eat and rest
she says, “Home is where your heart is, and mines in my chest”
and that’s Jane
that’s Jane
that’s just Jane
and sometimes at night
when the weather is cold
i think about Jane
she’s so fragile and old
and she’s somewhere out there
sleeping out on the street
but i know if i went to her
i know what she’d say
she’d say, “Son what are you doing
out here this late
go back to your bed
and stop your worrying about me”
and that’s Jane
that’s Jane
that’s just Jane
well my friends all think i’m crazy for walking around
with a grey old homeless woman in a pink tattered gown
but i know that Jane has a lot more to give
she knows how to be free, she knows how to live
she says, “Live life in the moment, cause that’s all you’ve got,
and that’s always something though it’s never a lot.
and life is the same no matter where you live,
it’s not what you can take from it
but what you can give”
and that’s Jane
that’s Jane
that’s just Jane
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i can see the door in the reflection of your eyes
and i can see the way you shake when the wind blows by
now i know that i can be unkind
and there are times when i am blind
to the ways that your feeling
but i can feel you stealing away
and if i have to ask you
if i have to beg you please
and baby if you want me down upon my knees
that’s where you got me
i can hear the thunder its hiding out under the trees
but i don’t see any lightning anymore when you look at me
now i can give you what you need
i can make you sweat i can make you bleed
if that’s the way you want it
then baby come get on it now
and if i have to ask you
if i have to beg you please
and baby if you want me down upon my knees
that’s where you got me
i can hear you talking on the telephone in the other room
and your telling somebody else that your gonna be there with him soon
well you better think about what your gonna do
when that other man he’s all done with you
your gonna come back a runnin and i know what you’ll be humming to me
you’ll be sayin
if i have to ask you
if i have to beg you please
and baby if you want me down upon my knees
that’s where you got me
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she was an artist and deep in her soul the images always grew
but she kept it a secret an intimate part that nobody ever knew
and as she grew older her secrets within began to take hold of her heart
then the life that surrounded her and the passions that drowned her began to tear her apart
and she tries to forget them she tries to regret the she tries to push them away
but the feelings grow stronger and keep staying longer to torture her every day
and she feels she’s in danger and fear turns to anger and she curses what she’ll never try
and in her confusion her failing illusion she prays to the ceiling and sky
and she’s walking around Jericho waiting for the walls to fall
and she holds out her hands but the walls they still stand
no victory to claim
nobody else to blame
he gave his life to be everything and to see all that the world had to give
no commitment or circumstance would he ever give the chance to change the way he wants to live
but youth it will leave you and pleasures deceive you when passion is something you crave
and thoughts they will linger and point out their fingers and ask what it is that you gave
and he tries to forget them he tries to regret them he tries to push them away
but the thoughts they grow stronger and keep staying longer to torture him every day
and he feels he’s in danger and fear turns to anger and he curses what he’ll never try
and in his confusion his failing illusion he prays to the ceiling and sky
and he’s walking around Jericho
waiting for the walls to fall
and he holds out his hands but the walls they still stand
no victory to claim
nobody else to blame
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i heard the call today
but i can’t make out the sound
i feel like the wind is blowing
underneath the ground
and i’m drowning in my restlessness
can’t you see that i can’t stay
of course you can
lonely is the tongue that’s tied up
or so he said to me
i’m not so lonely anymore
that’s not what’s wrong you see
i need my childhood
i need my dreams
and tonight you can give those back to me
and fall upon me in my sacred hour
fall upon me in my quiet pain
i hear voices in the hallway
whispering my name
but the light will never come on
the dreams always the same
and the moon it seems to pull me
like my fathers heavy stare
i’m always packing up my bags
and never going anywhere
fall upon me in my sacred hour
fall upon me in my quiet pain
fall upon me lend me all your laughter
fall upon me like 100 flowers
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she wakes me singing in the moonlight
she brings in my dreams on a plate
she waltzes slowly with the moonbeams
that reach through the clouds to her face
she says she’s going away to heaven
says it’s a place i ought to see
she says that she wants to take me with her
but cities made of stone aren’t for me
and so she stands out of my arms reach
and shakes her smile to the ground
two steps taken slowly backward
she’s leaving me for higher ground
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i’ve been talking through the telephone lines
and i’ve been walking all around
tell me tell me what do you know
i’m always caught in the undertow
let butterflies be free to fly
let butterflies be free tonight
i’ve been speaking lovers words
have you seen me have you heard
inside the moment speak in dreams
its always never what it seems
let butterflies be free to fly
let butterflies be free tonight
met another girl
from another world
from another time
she was a butterfly
let butterflies be free to fly
let butterflies be free tonight
had to go away
wish that i could stay
in the bed of a butterfly
let butterflies be free to fly
let butterflies be free tonight
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i’ve been chasing shadows
i’ve been flying high
you’ve been back at home
all alone
i’m the reason why
you see you and me are participating
in a chance the circumstance of love
it’s intoxicating
but i know
how things go
every shiny thing fades away
today some say
isn’t any reason to cry
memories become strangers
no matter how we try
love can never wait
and we hesitate
it will leave us standing
its all OK
that’s all i have to say
i can feel you fading away
every shiny thing
every shiny thing
every shiny thing fades away
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where are we now
and how much further
there are so many things i cannot whisper
i dare to hide
i keep them locked away inside my mind
oh here we go
disagreeing
mixing feelings
with colors in the sky
no i don’t want to fight
and why cant you look me in the eyes today
and make this go away
and why does love have to be so sad
why does it feel so bad
when you walk away
please don’t turn away
where are we now
and how much further
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baby if you need me i’ll be there
any space or time
those are their concepts not mine
i’ll be there with you
i will be the blanket where you sleep
i will be the cup from which you drink
the fire that lights your cigarette
i’ll be there with you
and if you feel me in the room
even when i’m far away
don’t be afraid
i’ll be there with you
i’ll be there with you
baby if you need me i’ll be there
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discarded angles
forgotten photographs
of how it used to be
the time of you and me
i started off so slow
there’s more that i need to know
and i’m stranded on this sea of fear
discarded angels disappear
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if i touched your hand
or returned your glance
if i didn’t say goodnight
away we’d go
we’d fly as high as birds
remember what we learned
never to return
and were together
but i’m a ghost
i disappear
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brother David
across the sea
brother David
prays for me
and everywhere
these feelings come from air
to show us we’re together
to show us we’re together
sister Jane
bears her pain
to give her love
to give her love
and everywhere
these feelings come from air
to show us we’re together
to show us we’re together
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reach for me
whenever your feeling like the only
human being who has the time to care
and you will see
that there are many here among us
reach for me
and we will be together
reach for me
whenever you need something different
and i will see
a whole new person there
don’t want to be
the shutters that clutter your horizons
reach for me and we will be together
open your hands and reach for me
open your heart and we will be together
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don’t say it because i already know
got to live so i got to go
but i’m feeling
i could stay a while right here right now
ok here although there’s nothing to show
keep searching for what we already know
and i’m seeing there’s nothing to fear right here
right here right now
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look into my eyes
and hear out my sin
my body is battered
my spirit worn thin
and please can’t you see me
through the curtain of fear
and can’t someone tell me
where do i go from here
the clock on the wall
makes fools of us all
it points out its hands
with fiery demands
but it never will tell you
what exactly you should do
the options are endless
the answers are few
and can’t someone tell me where do i go
where do i go
where do i go from here
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This is kind of a "best of" album compiled from self-studio recordings and old cassettes of live gigs. I put it together for friends who have followed my music from the old days.