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{ Lyrics }

Lines on the Road (unreleased 2006- avail. on myspace page)

you flew into my city
to see another friend, of yours
but we both know that it will be
my open floor, youre sleeping on
we'll pretend not to know each other,
in these new lives, that we have forged
and i'll pretend that i don't mind,
were only catching up on time, because
its convenient

well, you know, when you go
i'll be counting the lines on the road
until i remember, life moves slow
but it's always moving along

and we don't ask why
we just hold our tongues
we will find our answers
in, tomorrows sun
in every line, on the road

the one i'm thinking of,
he's got eyes as wide as diamonds (tries to hide em)
and he's running wild tonight,
just across east river's skyline
yeah, he's filling up his hands,
with the trappings of the flesh, oh
just to try,
and ease his mind

well, you know, when you go
i'll be counting the lines on the road
until i remember,
that love moves slow
but it's always moving along

and we don't know why
sometimes we fuck it up
but we all are lovers
beneath, tomorrow's sun
in every line,
on that road

long before the new days breaks,
they are baking tomorrow's, daily bread
for all the starving bodies,
who do not know that they,
are hungry yet
i can smell it oh so strong,
thought that i felt it on my tongue
but i could not
quite taste it yet
and it's funny how sometimes
senses we normally rely on can deceive
us just like that

and you know, when I go
i'll be counting the lines on the road
til i remember,
that this life moves slow
but it's always moving along

and we don't know why
we sometimes get it wrong
but well find our answers
in, tomorrows sun
in every line,
on the road
in every line, yet to come


Gypsy Queen (TBR Live CD 2006)

I went down to see my, gypsy queen
She said, child, where you been?
I went down to my, fathers grave
But nothing there had changed

Should you be a poet, a dancer or lark,
May you be offered more than you are
Drink with the devil, but go home alone
Search with the hunters, but dont fire their guns
and dream, with the gypsies, child, but dont fall asleep
Make love, to your lovers,
For the memories are,
Yours to keep

I went back to my, old home town
To feel my feet upon the ground
And I drove straight to my,
Childhood house
But strangers live there now

And I heard them say&.
Should you be a poet, a dancer or lark,
May you be offered more than you are
Drink with the devil, but go home alone
Search with the hunters, but dont fire their guns
and dream, with the gypsies, child, but dont fall asleep
Make love, to your lovers,
For the memories are,
Yours to keep

I went down to my, gypsy queen
She said child how youve changed
I saw your father in this evenings dream
And he said this to me&&
&&&&&&&&&&&...he said&..

Should you be a poet, a dancer or lark,
May you be offered more than you are
Drink with the devil, but go home alone
Search with the hunters, but dont fire their guns
and dream, with the gypsies, child, but dont fall asleep
Make love, to your lovers,
For the memories are,
Yours to keep

The memories are,
Yours to keep


Just Passing Through (unreleased)

Hey there kid, where you going?
Running around in such a hurry
Didnt your mama tell you?
Oh didnt she say?
Theres no race to be won

Hello old friend, how you doing?
Its been ages since we met
Youve evolved just like the wind in a sail
Making shapes out of your formlessness
But I still know you well
When Im driving down that highway,
The clocks they all fall off of their shelves
Cause the hands that hold you know not of time
No, nobodys counting it
Were all just passing through

I heard the march of the lonely hearts,
They sound just like the soldiers drum
Heavy and so hopeful, but never really sure
What this resistance is for

I saw parades for the dying men,
There was music dancing down the streets
I saw the wings upon the whitest doves
And I could see most everything
Why didnt anybody tell us?
That we need not worry..
Were all just passing through now&

Just passing through. Were all just passing through

Well, hey there love, where you going?
Dont you think its a little too soon?
Of course, I know, nothing lasts forever
But somehow I was thinking (hoping) &.
Maybe we could &
Maybe we could

But were all just passing through now&
Just passing through now
All just passing through


Just Know That My Soul Will be Free (unrelased 2006)

Oh dearest mother, I got the news today
The man in black called,
Hes gonna take me places I aint never been
gonna show me this big world were livin in

Were gonna sail into the big sky,
clear across the ocean blue,
gonna teach me how to sail and survive
And to run, run, run from the machines

But I might not be coming back real soon, No I might not be coming back at all
And if these words are all youre left with, then I wanted you to know, I wanted you to know

That if my bodys taken out,
if my bones rest in this earths ground
Just know that my soul will be free
And every imposed enemy will be there free of race and creed,
Saying brother, its behind us now
its behind us now

Oh dearest brother, I tried to be such a good, good man
But even good intentions, fall short
when theyre tainted by patriot hands

And if it takes my body, then I hope it goes to show
That life is not a gamble to spend on ancient holy wars
If these words are all youre left with, then I wanted you to know, I always hope you know&..

If my bodys taken out, when these bones rest in the ground,
Just know that my soul will be free
And every imposed enemy will be there free of race and creed
Saying brother, its behind us now
Its behind us now

So when my bodys taken out, when the ashes finds resting ground
Just know that my soul will be free
And when the world is done with me, Ill be in perfect company
In the heavens of all innocent men

Well be singing&.
Brothers arent you glad, arent you so damn glad,
arent you so glad its done now?
Brothers arent you glad, arent you real damn glad,
that it is all behind us now


Water Keeps Rising(unreleased 2006)

We would march up into the mountains, if we had the luxury
But were stuck down here in the lowlands, dont got shoes upon our feet

And if this water keeps rising, were all going down

We have cultivated your country, We have raised your precious sons
We taught you how to swing your hips, And to sing the working mans song

But what have you done for us lately? Nothing at all.
What will you do for us now? So we can move on

Well, were camped out here in the lowlands, yeah, this waters sure getting high
And the babies all are crying, cries, that no mother knows how to quiet

And if this water keeps rising, were all going down
All going down

They say in this great country, that we are all born as free men
But freedom here sure is hard to find, unless you can afford it

So we gotta do for ourselves, what weve always done
Were gonna do for ourselves, until our battles been won

Give us good schoolin systems, give us opportunity
So the workin men can keep on workin
And not dying from this inequity

And we do not want no hand outs. We got ideas of our own
We just need some tools to build with
So you can have your life and we can have ours

What have you done for us lately? Will you do something now?
Cause if this water keeps rising, were all going down

Yeah, this waters sure getting high
This water is sure getting high


Ill be Leaving (played on electric guitar w/ band) Ill be leaving, just as soon as I gather my things Ill be going, and I aint coming back here again oh, my darlin girl, hope you miss me when I am gone But I know that you, Will be better, off on your own Now my darlin, I hope you understand The best thing I could do for you, is to be leaving When the morning comes, Ill be gone When that daylight breaks, girl, you will be, all alone Oh my darlin one, I did love you true But I could not be good to you And love you too So Ill be leaving real soon, real soon We had good days, they were few and far in between I was just a child, when you needed a man out of me But I hung around, hoping one day i would grow Into this coat, of a suit I aint never worn Now my darlin, I hope you understand I never meant all those awful things I did &. When the morning comes, Ill be gone When the new day breaks breaks, you will be Back on your own Oh, my darlin girl, I did love you true But I could not be good to you Just could not be good to you&.. And love you too And love you too Ill be leaving, real, real soon DEAR AMERICA (night 1 played w/ electric & band, & night 2 solo on acoustic) DEAR AMERICA, MY HEART BROKE TODAY DEAR AMERICA, ITS BROKEN AGAIN CAUSE I PLAYED MY SOUL, LIKE A SOUL-LESS UNSTRINGED HARP I PLAYED IT LOUD, SO LOUD AND WITHOUT ANY RESERVE I MADE NOT A PENNY TO MY UNKNOWN NAME AND OWED MORE THAN I OFFERED TO THE SOUND MEN FOR LENDING ME THE CHANCE JUST FOR LENDING ME THE CHANCE, DEAR AMERICA I WALKED HOME IT WAS IN THE DEAD COLD AND ITS APRIL FOR CHRISTS FUCKING SAKE AND I TREMBLED IN TERROR, AMERICA, OF WHAT YOU CREATE THE DRUNKARDS ON THE AVENUE THE COLLEGE BOYS WITH LIBATION AND NO BOOKS THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS WHO KNOW BEAUTY IS A HIGH EXCHANGE RATE CURRENCY AND ME, WITH MY AMERICAN BROKEN HEART STRAPPED TO THE ASPHALT, DRUG ALONG THE CONCRETE THE END. THE GOD DAMN END OF ME. I AM DEVOURING A BAG OF COOKIES, SWEET AMERICA BECAUSE THERE IS NO MORE SWEETNESS LEFT BUT IN A BAG, IN MY HAND, PURCHASED WITH MONEY I DONT EVEN HAVE. AND GOD DAMN GOD DAMN AMERICA IM DRINKING MILK OUT OF A CARBONATED CAN! IT TASTE LIKE WATER, TASTES LIKE POISON WHEN WAS IT I LOST I LOST YOU, DEAR AMERICA I LOVED MY MOTHER MORE THEN EVEN I, SEEM TO KNOW SHE TOLD ME OF SHELTER AND MAKING A GOOD HOME AND SHE VOTES NOW, EVERY FOURTH YEAR IN VAIN FOR THE ONLY MAN WHOM MOST HER RELATIVES DONT SHAME AND I WAS THINKING ISNT IT IT SHAME? WAS THINKING THAT ITS A DAMN SHAME A DAMN SHAME AMERICA GOD DAMN IT BREAKS MY HEART, DEAR AMERICA HOW YOU SHAME YOUR CIVILIZED NAME I SPENT MY DAY TODAY IN A WAITING PLACE FOR THE DOCTORS TO SAVE THE POOR HUMAN RACE (AND THE DARK PEOPLE THEY CRIED, THE FAIR SKINNED MOANED, NOT A MAN WOMAN OR CHILD WAS JUSTLY OCCUPUIED NOT A MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT AMERICA? AND TODAY I SAW THE SWEETEST CHILD, WITH A HEART BIGGER THAN GROWN MEN. AND A SOUL MAYBE OLDER THAN MINE. HE COULDNT HAVE BEEN MORE THAN THREE. AND HIS HEART WAS FULL, HIS FEET WERE DANCING FREELY HE ROCKED HIS BABY SISTER IN HER CRIB FOR CARRYING AND HE SMILED AT THE WILTED, GROWN LOST HEARTS, FOR ALL THE FAITH HE STILL KNEW OF AND GOD FUCKING DAMN I DO LOVE YOU AMERICA LIKE I LOVE ALL THE LOVE THAT IVE LOST AND YOURE A TORN AND UGLY THING BUT I HAVE FAITH IN WHAT YOU ARE TO BECOME AND GOD DAMN, DISTANT AMERICA I JUST WALKED OFF A JET PLANE FALLEN HALFWAY CROSS THE EARTH, AND YOURE POLITICS ARE JUST THE SAME When will you change GOD DAMN, GOD DAMN AMERICA IM SO SORRY ABOUT VIETNAM IM SORRY ABOUT HIROSHIMA IM SORRY ABOUT IRAQ IVE BEEN READING THE HISTORY ACCOUNTS THE ONES WHITE, PRIVELEGED MEN DONT ACCOUNT. AND IM SORRY FOR MY BLOOD BEFORE I COULD RECOLLECT (BEFORE I WAS EVEN BORN) AND SWEETEST, MOST PURE, DEAR AMERICA I STAND BEFORE YOU SO PROUD NOT OF WHAT YOU ARE A DISMAL, BLEAK, BATTERED SOUL BUT SWEET, SWEET, DARK AMERICA IM WAITING FOR YOUR RECOURSE WAITING FOR YOUR TURN AROUND TO WASH HANDS CLEAN OF THE CAPITAL MACHINES YOU AND ME, COULD ONE DAY BE FREE WASH OUR HANDS GOOD AND CLEAN AND BE FREE YOU AND ME, AMERICA Handsome Young Men Scarlet eyes fall upon, restless men The chills creep in for the rest of us, I was pent up, and all full of myself Ominous nights bleed to sunrise And we survived The handsome young men on the avenue, never asked for war, but they received armor and all the young girls look so good in blue Red, white and blue well arent you? Red, white, and blue All the children fold their Innocent hands And they laugh, just to keep from crying They button their uniforms, just like their fathers did The outfittings are so old, Yet they go Unquestioned The handsome young men on the avenue, never asked for war, but they received armor and all the young girls look so good in blue Red, white and blue&..red, white and blue&. &well, these ashes have stained our hands, Long after the waters been run through them And the smoke still blinds our eyes Long after our guns, Have been fired They were handsome young men, they were such handsome young men The handsome young men on the avenue, never asked for war, but they received armor and all the young girls look so good in blue Red, white and blue well arent you? Red, White & Blue