| 1 - All the Way to Midnight
Here I am alone again
Waiting on that special friend
It’s getting harder to pretend
All the way to midnight
Smoked a thousand cigarettes
Too many things now to regret
Wonder how I’m gonna get
All the way to midnight
Looked for you everywhere
In the muddy water there
Wonder if you ever cared
All the way to midnight
Silver moon is hanging low
At least it had the nerve to show
Together we are gonna go
All the way to midnight
I don’t need no smokin’ gun
To know that you’re the one
That has left this hole in me
After midnight I will be
A ghost you will never see
Through the trees the black wind howls
Nothing gonna save me now
One day love will make you bow
All the way to midnight
I made this prison cell
Waiting for my trip to hell
The sins I keep I’ll never tell
All the way to midnight
I don’t need no smokin’ gun
To know that you’re the on
That has left this hole in me
After midnight I will be
A ghost you will never see
2 - When I Rule the World
It is hard to know just what to do
In this world today
Trying to make that dream come true
Can take up your whole day.
Now I have got an answer but no one seems to understand
Just let me be the master of the world now here’s my plan
Down, down, everybody down
Look up how do you like the crown.
So hold on everything is going to be all right
When I rule the world
Have you heard the news there’s good rocking tonight
When I rule the world.
There is peace and love all across the nation
When I rule the world
This song is going to play on every radio station
When I rule the world
When I rule the world.
Give me a chance and you will see
I handle power well
When everything you need is free
There will be nothing left to sell
Now everyday is a promise that is broken or made whole
We feel the world upon us and we know there is no control
So dream, dream, all of life’s a dream.
Are we here but never seen
So hold on everything is going to be all right
When I rule the world
Have you heard the news there’s good rocking tonight
When I rule the world
There is peace and love all across the nation
When I rule the world.
This song is going to play on every radio station
When I rule the world
When I rule the world.
Everybody’s gonna love me, don’t you see
And maybe you’ll come back to me
Everybody’s gonna love me, don’t you see
And maybe she’ll come back to me
3 - Novocaine
Honey grab you ticket
We’re gonna catch that train
There’s no rest for the wicked
Honey, I’m a blind man and you’re my cane
All the way to Memphis
Down to New Orleans
It’s been my consensus
You’re the finest I’ve ever seen
Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
In a world where there is so much pain
Honey, you’re my novocaine
Seems the human condition
Goes from bad to worse
So just assume the position
Life’s a cold wind that blows on an open nerve.
Well everybody needs something
And this you’re gonna find
Sometimes you’re gonna need numbing
From a world that is always so unkind.
We all want piece of mind
And honey you’re mine.
In a world filled with so much pain
Darling you’re my novocaine.
Got a bird that whistles and can sing.
When my baby holds me I don’t feel a thing.
Come on now honey let the games begin.
You got that needle you can stick it in.
4 - What I Wanted to Say
She asked
How are you doing
I said I’m fine
But I know she’s screwing someone at the office named Todd
Who wears a three piece suit.
She said
I love you honey.
I said I know
We need more money to spend on accessories
So you can look real cute.
There are words in my head
That never no never get said
And I wondering how everyone’s so self assured.
Cuz what I wanted to say is I hate your guts
What I wanted to say is you’re an evil slut
They would put me away and I mean right away
If I said for one day
What I wanted to say
Boss inquired
How’s it working?
Said I’m inspired
But I know he’s jerking me around and he’s thinking right now
How he can get me replaced
When you’re grown up
You’re gonna know it
Keep you’re mouth sewn up
Or you might blow it away, baby everyday
Put on a happy face
There are words in my head
That never no never get said
And I wondering now is everyone so insecure?
Cuz what I wanted to say is I hate the way you laugh
What I wanted to say is Stick this job up your ass.
They would put me away, and I mean right away
If I said for one day
What I wanted to say
5 - Love’s First Lesson
How long has it been
Well its hard to say
I don’t even remember
How I got this way
It seems like a lifetime
It seems like a dream
It seems like someone
Should know what I mean
Then I saw you
All dressed in black
I said goodbye to my heart
I know it ain’t coming back
I got a check
If the wounds have all healed
I’m so afraid
I’ve got nothing to feel
And when I feel like this
And remember love’s first kiss
And the broken heart that mends
I still remember when
I learned love’s first lesson
When we first touched
I learned love’s first lesson
Never love too much
I learned love’s first lesson
when you put me down
I learned love’s first lesson
And love will turn you around
I was all right
I was doing just fine
I already promised myself
There wouldn’t be a next time
Then you came from somewhere
Out of the blue
Now I walk around
Wondering what I should do
You say love is the answer
And I hope that your right
Cuz I got some questions
I need answered tonight
Is there a god
And is he up above
And does he cry or he laugh
When men fall in love.
And when I feel like this
And remember love’s first kiss
And the broken heart that mends
I still remember when
I learned love’s first lesson
When we first touched
I learned love’s first lesson
Never love too much
I learned love’s first lesson
When you put me down
I learned love’s first lesson
And love will turn you around
6 - Better Than You
Some people want to put you in a circle
Some people want to put you in a square
Some people think life is just a rehearsal
Some people act like they don’t care
Now maybe you’ve got a good education
Or maybe you got your©ˆs the hard way
Maybe you don’t want to have this conversation
But I hear the words that you don’t say
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault
That you are about to get screwed
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault
That I am better than you
Better than you
Now maybe you’re born inside some white skin
Or maybe you’re born inside some black
Maybe you don’t dig the fact we’ve all sinned
And what you put in is what you get back
It’s so easy today to be condescending
At the end of the gene pool it’s easy to sink.
Everybody wants to try to have a happy ending
It’s amazing to me most people still think.
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault
That you are about to get screwed
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault
That I am better than you, better than you
7 - Just A Girl
Hey I’m thinking out loud
And wondering how
I’ll ever get through
I’ve got something to say
My mind’s in the way
But my heart knows the truth
Why am I so blue
Cuz she’s just a girl
She is just a girl
She is just a girl
But nothing else matters to you
Hey I’m never this shy
Can’t figure out why
There’s nobody else
Makes me feel like I feel
To know love is real
Not a prize on the shelf
I must remind myself
She is just a girl
She is just a girl
She is just a girl
But nothing else matters to you
Who knows what time may bring
So just keep remembering
The dream I always dream is you
Yeah its you
Cuz she’s just a girl
She is just a girl
She is just a girl
But nothing else matters to you
Hey I’m thinking out loud
And wondering how
I’ll ever get through
I’ve got something to say
My mind’s in the way
But my heart knows the truth
Why am I so blue
Cuz she’s just a girl
She is just a girl
She is just a girl
But nothing else matters to you
8 - I Don’t Like Anything
Somebody’s locked the door
Maybe you got the key
I’m feeling awfully bored
Maybe you’re just like me
If I hear one more verse of that stupid song
I might be forced to take the singer’s life
Someone tell me where it all went wrong
When you get more than you need
And still are never satisfied
I don’t think much of you
I don’t think much of me
There is nothing I can do
So I don’t like
So I don’t like anything
Please show me something new
I can’t see the sun that shines
It feels good feeling blue
I gives me peace of mind
Here we are now hoping for the best
When the worst is all we will receive
Trying hard now just to catch our breath
Trying to remember what we thought we once believed
I don’t think much o f you
I don’t think much of me
There is nothing I can do
So I don’t like
So I don’t like anything
I don’t like the President
I don’t like Junior Mints
I don’t like Wall and Beave
I don’t like Keanu Reeves
I don’t like to sing along
I don’t even like this song
I don’t like the way I sing
No I don’t like anything
9 - Light Inside
She says I need
To try to find some cover
He thinks she means
That there will be no other
What he hears
Are not the words she thinks she saying
What they fear
Is being trapped in the game they are playing
Now they’re praying
Soon they’re saying
Why do I still love you?
Why do I still look for the love you hide?
Why do I still love you?
Why do I still see the light inside?
No one can feel
The darkness we know only
Two hearts of steel
This magnet draws the lonely
Now we see
The falling star that lights the night sky
So are we
A burning light that love won’t let die.
Only god knows
Only god knows
Why do I still love you?
Why do I still look for the love you hide?
Why do I still love you?
Why do I still see the light inside?
10 - Trailer Park Girl
Well everybody here just tries to put here down
Talking all about the wrong part of town
But they don’t understand and they will never see
Why that little girl has a hold on me
She is what I am waiting for
Didn’t graduate from our high school
It don’t matter to me
You know I am still her fool
Working with her mama over in the K-Mart
She’s got a blue light special on my heart
She is what I am waiting for
Now see her coming
Well ain’t she something
I don’t need nothing else in this world
She’s got me humming,
She’s my trailer park girl.
She’s got long brown hair and a tattoo on her breast
That says you got my heart you’d better take the rest
And every Friday night you know she’s always ready
Turns up the radio when she hears Tom Petty
She’s what I waiting for
And when we are all alone in the middle of the night
I know everything’s going to be all right
Well everybody’s looking for love in this world
I found my buddy with my trailer park girl
I don’t need nothing else in this world.
She’s got me humming
She’s my trailer park girl
11 - Anyway
If she’s a story
You know that I could write a book
Don’t ignore me
You know I need a second look
She won’t see me give what she’s not taking
You won’t hear it but something in here is breaking
So how long, how long, tell me now can I please
How long, how long, down on my knees
How can I think you’re perfection
When all you give me is rejection
No matter what you do or say
I want you anyway
I don’t believe this
How could you want somebody else
Man, I don’t need this
I look at you and see myself.
I hate the way you always act so certain.
But my surprise is this time your lies aren’t working.
So how long, how long, tell me now can I please
How long, how long, down on my knees
Time for you to be corrected
From my heart you’re now dissected
No matter what you do or say
I don’t want you anyway.
12 - Just Like You
Now you look like all the rest
First you’re cursed and then you’re blessed
Make your pain the perfect guest
I know I know
Pour the salt in an open wound
Let it heal but not too soon
Let me crawl back into the womb
I’ll go I’ll go
Just like you I want somebody
Just like you I can’t pretend
Just like you I’m on the bottom
Just like you I’m near the end
Everything’s just out of reach
Floating hearts all soaked in bleach
Never show what’s underneath
Oh no oh no
Walk around with a crown of thorns
Now don’t complain that you weren’t warned
Mend the fabric that’s been torn
And so and so
Just like you I want somebody
Just like you I can’t pretend
Just like you I’m on the bottom
Just like you I’m near the end
13 - Skin Tight
When you walked my way
Everything was working
My heart felt like a yo-yo
On the string you were jerking
Well I’m not too smart
But I know one thing for certain
You are skin tight
Can’t judge a book by the cover
I want to read the pages
And when you’re next to me babe
I feel the rock of ages
Whatever you have
I hope it’s contagious
Cuz you are skin tight.
Well it’s a very old story
But it bears repeating
It starts I love you with all my might
Then you move a little closer
Feel your heart beating
Feels so good
Feels so good
Skin tight
14 - Ride
Maybe we’ll wake up here tomorrow
Who knows if we’ll see another day
Forget about all the things you borrowed
Be careful what you throw away
River’s deep and you know the mountains high
Like a leaf on the wind you blow right by
There’s no reason why
It’s just the ride
Now I don’t know if there is a deeper meaning
Maybe some things are better left alone
I know a few more beers and I’ll be leaning
I’m just looking for someone to take me home
River’s deep and you know the mountains high
Like a leaf on the wind you blow right by
There’s no reason why
It’s just the ride
So long til we find the things that we don’t need
Hold on the world is turning there’s no gravity
For all we know this is where it ends
For all we know this is where is begins
For all we know never be satisfied
For all we know we look inside
And there’s the ride.
15 - Found
There you go
You won’t be back again
Did you know
I’ll always be your friend
It’s hard to say
The things you really mean
You’re on your way
Believe in what’s not seen
But I know a game we used to play
Hide and seek, where are you today?
Where am I but lost and down
Now you are free
You are free
You are found
You are found
Home at last
Bathe in the memory
You live too fast
There isn’t time to see
What it’s worth
No one can hold you now
Not on this earth
We’ll meet again somehow
But I know a game we used to play
Hide and seek, where are you today?
Where am I but lost and down
Now you are free, you are free
You are found
You are found
There’s good somewhere
In everyone you see
You’ll find it there
Beneath the misery
An open wound
To hide the kindest heart
We’ll see real soon
When all the dark clouds part
But I know a game we used to play
Hide and seek, where are you today?
Where am I but lost and down
Now you are free, you are free
You are found
You are found
16 - 1957
Little baby in the cradle
Mom and Daddy they aren’t able
Feel the spirit in the body
Won’t get near it you’re a hobby.
What were they thinking of
What they had you can’t call love
How could they call on you.
Give you life and take it too. Take it too.
He’s born in 1957, all good children go to heaven.
Now they got you got the power
For them it’s always happy hour
Glass is breakin’ kid is crying
Scared of waking no use trying
And the softest thing he ever felt
Was the end of a belt
And the hardest thing to do was hide
And hold it all there inside
He’s born in 1957 all good children go to heaven.
17 - St. Marie
She sees you lying there and the sun shines everywhere
Like heaven just opened up today
No need now to fear she’ll hold every tear
And wipe each one of them away
So thank your lucky stars your redeemer sees
How to hide each scar and your salvation will be
St. Marie
Most don’t understand why you need a hand
Is it a blessing or a curse
She tries to make it up but there never seems to be enough
Of love here for you on this earth.
So thank your lucky stars your redeemer sees
How to hide each scar and your salvation will be
St. Marie
And the only mercy mild
Shone to this troubled child
Comes from St. Marie
With every bridge you burn and each lesson never learned
You can always seem to find your way back home
She looks at you and sees all you’ll never be
It’s a love she has for you alone.
So thank your lucky stars your redeemer sees
How to hide each scar and your salvation will be
St. Marie
18 - Dad
Hey look at me
I’m bigger than you
And you better see
Who’s in charge of who
When I say jump
Just say how high
Well, you’re out of luck
And I am the reason why
And if you think it don’t get no worse
I got news for you that’s really bad
Of all the creatures in this universe
I’m your dad
Now what’s wrong with you
When you talk don’t stutter
I’ll beat you black and blue
You’re just like your mother
Now you’re the dumbest kid
I’ve ever seen
It ain’t nothing you did
I’m just plain mean
And if you think it don’t get no worse
I got news for you that’s really bad
Of all the creatures in this universe
I’m your dad
Yeah I like to drink
Maybe you can tell
I don’t want to think
About heaven or hell
But I’m God in this house
And you better see
Even if you get out
I made you just like me
And if you think it don’t get no worse
I got news for you that’s really sad
Of all the creatures in this universe
I’m your dad
19 - Betty Jane
She looks into the mirror
Now your sins are clearer
Than before
You can’t live this way no more
You’re too weak to fight her
Who knows what’s inside her
Is this what love is for?
Who will take this pain away
Will you ever change, Betty Jane
She thinks she’ll have another
Who’d dream she’d be a mother
Anyway
There’s nothing left to say
Daddy’s oldest boy
No one’s pride and joy
Feel the weight
Of what you are today
Who will take this pain away
Who makes love so strange, Betty Jane.
20 - Family
Who’s that runnin’ its your cousin
The sun shines down on a field of gold
It’s the summer he is with your brother
Life is great when you’re ten years old
There’s no more there’s no more than this
There’s no more nothing that you’ll ever miss
And as time goes by the more we see
As we live and die we will always be
Family
Start to shiver swim in the river
No one cares if we stay here all day long
Grandma, Grandad, the love that we had
There was a place a place where we belonged.
There’s no more there’s no more than this
There’s no more nothing that you’ll ever miss
And as time goes by the more we see
As we live and die we will always be
Family
I’m telling you now honey don’t forget
These memories are as good as it gets
Softened by the years it gets harder to see
Your family
Now I look at my children and I hope that God willing
I can give them love like I got from you
Always remember love lasts forever
Even when our life our life on earth is through
There’s no more there’s no more than this
There’s no more nothing that you’ll ever miss
And as time goes by the more we see
As we live and die we will always be
Family
21 - The Road Not Taken
First day of high school and no one knows who you are
Everybody’s trying to be cool but maybe you just try to hard
There are the hardest times to find where you fit it
One day you look back and see this is where it all begins
So night after night
We pray to the light
That shines from above
Please show us love
Where the road parts
That’s where are hearts are breaking
So we cry a tear
For the road not taken
Everybody’s talking but they ain’t got much to say
Everybody’s walking but they’re walking the same way
It takes everything you got just to be yourself
It’s easy to be what your not if you want to please someone else
So night after night
We pray to the light
That shines from above
Please show us love
Where the road parts
That’s where are hearts are breaking
So we cry a tear
For the road not taken.
There’s a voice inside so blue and no one knows just why
You let your pain make the choice for you now you don’t know how
to get high
So you have another drink but there never is enough
There’s a hole inside of you,you think you can fill it up
So night after night
We pray to the light
That shines from above
Please show us love
Where the road parts
That’s where are hearts are breaking
So we cry a tear
For the road not taken.
22 - Wedding Day
There couldn’t be a better day
The sun has burned the clouds away
Hide the nerves you hold inside
You’re the groom, she’s the bride
Brother will be your best man
And I will play in the band
Everybody hopes it lasts
Say the toast, break the glass
Now we hope and pray
All your dreams come true
And may the light above
Always shine on you
So hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it’s your wedding day
Where’d the years go anyhow
I can’t believe you’re married now
Throw the garter cut the cake
Now it’s time to celebrate
We’ll have some smoke just a touch
And everyone drinks too much
The future now, no one can see
Belongs to you like family
Time to move on now
You got a brand new start
And may love light the way
When the road gets dark
So hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, it’s your wedding day.
23 - Summer Ends
Remember nights so long ago
Playing cards and dominoes.
Drinking beer and cooking dinner
Listen to Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Times goes by like the wind
Can’t go back there again
Season’s change and
Summer ends
No one sees how it slowly happens
How have you been is what you’re asking.
Move away don’t talk too much
Hard these days to stay in touch.
Times goes by like the wind
Can’t go back there again
Season’s change and
Summer ends
What we were before
We can’t be anymore
Summer ends
No one knows how life will change us
Time and space will rearrange us
Nothing’s lost of you remember
How it was before September
Times goes by like the wind
Can’t go back there again
Season’s change and
Summer ends
24 - Wasted
Burned every bridge you ever crossed
Tried to blame someone else for what you lost
But the finger’s pointing right at you
For all the things you had to do
Put that needle in your vein
Still the pain won’t go away
Life’s too hard for you to face
So you just get wasted
We come in this world and we leave alone
He without sin cast the first stone
And now just watch how the rocks will fly
They bury you up til the day you die
And no one can judge you on this earth
Or tell you what your life is worth
We’re just cut out dolls that get pasted
Pray we’re not wasted
They say it is never too late to change
But this chapter is over now, turn the page
All of these songs are just prayers for you
I guess they’re really prayers for me too.
If you’re not here, then you’re somewhere else
Who knows how long it takes to find yourself
With this little bit of life that we have tasted
We know love’s not wasted
25 - Here and Now
There is nothing to do today
Look at the sky and breathe the air
Don’t even think about forgiving
The living
For being there.
It’s easy enough to just be lonely
And think of the friends who didn’t make the grade
Time will leave you here with only
Dreams that slowly
Fade away
Hey now hey now
It always ends
So come on come on
You’ll need a friend
Hey now hey now
I’m back again.
And I am learning how
To live in the here and now
Don’t even think about tomorrow
It never turns out the way it should
I’m looking for clues like Phillip Marlow
Life you borrow
And wait for something good
We waste so much time looking for an answer
Why can’t we be happy where we are
No who’s the slave and who’s the master
When time moves faster
Than a shooting star
Hey now hey now
It always ends
So come on come on
You’ll need a friend
Hey now hey now
I’m back again.
And I am learning how
To live in the here and now
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