1.Something To Do
Try to lose your attitude, put it in your boots
Or stick it where the sun doesn't shine
Try to have a good time, it's something to do
I read a good book, buy a pair of shoes
Maybe i'm a strange kinda dude
But, hey, maybe it's you, it's something to do
I understand unhappiness
An excellent plan for a martyr to have
But what is the sense of having regrets
It's only just a waste of time
I look at the sky, i walk in the yard
Study little birds with binoculars
So, call me a nerd, it's something to do
Try a day in the park, play in the dirt
Or go to the mall if that's what blows up your skirt
What can it hurt？
It's something to do
2.- In My Backyard
Everything is pretty in my backyard
There's no ugly city in my backyard
Underneath the trees there's a little stream
And that's where i go to dream
3.On
Look at the sky the sun is rising
With another day
Look at the sky the sun is rising
With another day to lay at our feet
What will we do and what will we see
Are the questions that keep us intrigued
Look at the world of possibilities
What happens now and where will we go
And there's a kind of freedom in knowing
It's a little beyond our control
That life keeps moving
On
People laugh, markets crash,
Someone takes a photograph
The mail arrives, babies cry
Someone tries suicide
A building burns, a crime occurs,
Tankers sink, satellites blink
People shop, traffic stops,
But life keeps moving
On
Look at sky, the new horizon
Look at the changes it will involve
Someone will die, a country may fall
But the world will continue to roll
Life keeps moving
On
4.- A Plate Of Words
Shakespeare picks at a plate of words
Van gogh doesn't know half of what he's heard
Pablo picasso's at the bottom of the sea
Painting all the fish in the coral reef
5.Word Play Drum Beat
Tear gas gun fire fire arm fire ball
Pipe bomb hair trigger drive by elephant gun
Night stick body bag loan shark bone yard
Man hunt hit man kid nap dead duck
Mug shot nut house crack house black out
Black out
6.I Remember How To Forget
Too many struggles, too many scenes
A broken record of miseries
And if you let it, it makes you cry
And you can never be satisfied
I see the victims of low esteem
The empty people without a dream
The bitter faces of bitter men
And i don't want to end up one of them
How will it make me cry
If i won't let a tear in my eye
How will it make me feel worse
If i won't let it hurt
I've been through trouble before
I stood tall when i got up off the floor
To find myself a different situation
Now when the sun rolls across the sky
And the autumn leaves fall before my eyes
I can see the reason why
I remember how to forget
Too many troubles and memories
Of disappointment and apathy
And if you let it, it makes you hate
You've got to learn to take it day by day
I see the victims of low esteem
The empty people without a dream
The bitter faces of bitter men
But i don't want to be one of them
I see the sun roll across the sky
And the autumn leaves fall before my eyes
And i know the reason why
I feel so fine
7.What Do You Know
What do you know about love
Only that you live without it
It chewed you up and spit you out
What do you know about life
Maybe you read a few books
And maybe you'd skip through a chapter or two
Cause you haven't got a clue
What do you know about anything
You always talk a big game
But in the end you'll only complain
Cause that's all you know about
Love is the greatest happiness
And it's something you missed
8.Six String
I saw you the very first time
Built so pretty
You looked just right
It was love at first sight
I looked real close
I touched your arm
My heart went off like a fire alarm
I was amplified
Something happens
When i hold you in my hands
I'm a different man
Something happens
And i lose all sense of time
I can almost fly
Everytime i go to pick you up
I feel a little spark in my fingertips
I'm electrified
The magic touch
You feel so good
The way you respond to everything i do
I'm magnetized
Something happens
When i hold you in my hands
I'm a different man
Something happens
And i lose all sense of time
I can almost fly
I love your back, i love your head
But i love it best
When i run
My fingers down your neck
9.Modern Man Hurricane Blues
When i was a boy
Simple times, simple joy
And life was not full of hate and chaos
A modern man
Lives in some kind of hurricane
I need your love to keep me calm
When the world is a storm
Hell fire man desire
Downtown scream siren
Ghetto gun drug lord
Kill children stillborn
Asphalt flesh bone
Trash bag alley bomb
Hey, hey, it's a sin
About the shape the world is in
Hey, hey, it's a shame
Modern man hurricane
Earth dump suck soil
Sewer spit sea oil
Toxic ocean chemical fish
Man made death wish
Hey, hey, it's a shame
Modern man hurricane
I need your love to keep me calm
When the world's a storm
10.Time Waits
Time wasted, wasted worrying
Hurrying down the same street
Time beats with every moment
Eroding from under my feet
Time waits, it waits for no one
And here i sit, i'm standing still
Time waits
I'd like to go on but i'm out of time
My own doubt eats a hole
From the inside out through my plans
Work it out, i need to now
But i don't know how to begin
Time waits, it waits for no one
And here i sit, i'm standing still
Time waits
I'd like to go on but i'm out of time
And if i could make it stop
Or if i could have what i've lost
In time
11.All Her Love Is Mine
She carries me
Through days of apathy
When i am a desert
She washes over me
And it gives me peace
To know she accepts me
Even in my folly
If the spotlight falls from my face
Or when i lose my grace
Oh well...
All her love is mine
Until the end of time
Even if the sun won't shine
Or the money runs dry
All her love is mine
Until the end of time,
Whatever happens then
She saved my life
In a manner of speaking
When she gave me back
The power to believe
The rest of lifes' changes
I might dread to weather
Except that i know
She and i will go together
All her love is mine
Until the end of time
Even if the sun won't shine
Or the money runs dry
All her love is mine
Until the end of time,
Whatever happens then
12.Sky Blue Red Bird Green House
13.Beautiful
Blue water
Swimming in pools around you
Blue water
Everything cool and quiet now
The wind has gone to sleep
Beautiful the way you are
Walking on the edge of time
Painted by the golden sun
Blue shadows
Running along the sand
How happy they seem
Blue shadows
Moving like fingers through your hair
Something from a dream
Walking on the edge of time
Standing in the warm sunlight
Painted by the golden sun
Beautiful the way you are
The way you are
14.Live In A Tree
Your mama is crazy
And your daddy's evasive
And they probably won't leave you alone
Between the neighborhood screaming
And the laundry and the t.v.
You can hardly hear the cellular phone
You feel stress, you need a rest
Too many things you've got to get off your chest
To be free to get some peace
You have to live in a tree
You gave away your stereo
And kept your pocket radio
And threw away the keys to your car
Then you loaded up a t-shirt
Booked a ticket on a steamer
And you boarded it for zanzibar
You had stress, you needed rest
Too many things you had to get off your chest
To be free to get some peace
You had to live in a tree
'live in a tree'
15.Of Bow And Drum
'far away,' said the matriarch,
'i once heard from the tongue of a lark
Of golden days
Of bow and drum
And of men who chased.
Now they come in rags of greed,
No regard for our dignity.'
She began to dream
And the wind did rage
And the forest cried
'run away,' she told him then,
'find a place to hide from them.'
Far away from behind a tree
Came a sound to defy the peace
And the son went down
Quietly in a pool of reeds
'of bow and drum'
16.The Ruin After The Rain
When it first began
In the light of sacred things
And you felt oblivious to any sort of pain
When it first began to rain
Then there came the steady flow
Slowly like a flood
Sweeping over everything and turning into mud
Why？
Is there nothing sacred left, nothing to hold on to？
Is there no way to make it up, nothing that you can do？
You believe what you want to believe
Not so long ago
It was as perfect as the snow
You can never know what things
May come to spoil your dreams
And to hurt you as they have
Do you hear the rain
So insistent on the windowpane？
A reminder of a night when everything was changed
Why？
Is there nothing sacred left, nothing to hold on to？
Is there no way to make it up, nothing that you can do？
You believe what you want to believe
When the light of morning comes
You see the damage done
And you know how many things
May never be the same
There you will remain
In the ruin after the rain
'the ruin after the rain'
17.I Have A Dream
Tragedys of kennedys, refugees, aids disease,
Photos of hiroshima, the holocaust, and kosovo,
Tim mcveigh, saddam hussein, the bombing of the world trade
Hostages in bosnia, atrocities, south africa,
Abortion and kevorkian, vietnam, napalm,
Lady di, and lennon died a violent crime, columbine,
'i have a dream that one day...'rodney king, o.j.,
Symbols of our lives and times, 'one giant leap for mankind'
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