White Lies For Dark Times

Ben Harper and Relentless7 White Lies For Dark Times Lyrics
1.Number With No Name

I'm serenaded by a chorus
of 1,000 burning cigarettes.
you were taking chances, mama
while I've been placing bets.

So tell it to the ashes
they know we've served.
it may be good for the soul
but it's hard on the nerves.

the very thing that drives you
can drive you insane.
I've got a head full of funk rhymes
and a number with no name.

got an eleventh hour Jesus
and a mouth full of blame.
casket lined with silver dollars
and a number with no name.
number with no name.

there's no where to run
I've got no one to tell.
my face has become a mask
and i'm not wearing it well.

for the last 5 days i've been breathing fire.
don't have room on my body for another scar.

the very thing that drives you
can drive you insane.
i've got a head full of thunk rhymes
and a number with no name.

got an eleventh hour Jesus
trying to explain.
casket lined with silver dollars
and a number with no name.
number with no name.


2.Up To You Now

You can run away from home
but you can't run away from your pain.
Now I sit, here alone
as I place someone else to blame.

It's up to you now.
It's up to you now.
Don't want to be your broken dream
We've run out of things somehow.
And it's up to you now.

I have to hide from my own face
now that we have fallen from grace.
Arms that hold you close
are the arms that hold you back.
While your world is under attack.

It's up to you now.
It's up to you now.
I stumbled to your archer
with my knees bent my head bound
And it's up to you now.

Alls there with stoned
letters that wore
and we don't have to borrow anymore.
You wrote a list
with all your demands
and you nailed it to both of my hands.

and its up to you now.
oh its up to you now.
my fist is full of ashes
and my blood is in the ground.
so its up, yes its up, its up to you now.


3.Shimmer & Shine

It takes a 100 mile of love
to heal a mile of pain.
I never say goodbye to the sea
and I never blow out a flame.

and I've got white lies for dark times
and I don't need your crutch.
I'm kicking out glass windows
and I'm tender to the touch.

Shimmer and shine
believe it all behind
shimmer and shine
when you tell that you're mine
shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine.

Bring me the music for the revolution
it puts my mind at ease,
to know, we're the problem, we're the solution
the cure and the disease.

but life is trying to force me,
force me to trust.
I've done all I can
I'll do what I love.

Shimmer and shine
we leave it all behind
shimmer and shine
when you tell that you're mine
shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine.

Shimmer and shine
leave it all behind.
shimmer and shine
tell me that you're mine
shimmer and shine, shimmer and shine.

shimmer and shine
tell me that you're mine
shimmer and shine
when we leave it all behind
shimmer and shimmer and shine.


4.Lay There & Hate Me

Lay there and hate me
lay there and burn.
One side to the other
you toss and turn.

Never trust a woman
Never trust a woman who loves the blues.

Mistake number one
I made it 3 times today.
We best talk over hows theres
nothing left to say.
I feel like an under paid concubine
whose overstayed her welcome.

You gave me an 8 paged letter
front and black.
Written in your favorite colors,
blood and black.

You choose your words as careful
as you choose your own gravestone.
You lay there and hate me
better then being alone.

Had to fight your way in
you've got to fight your way out.
Ain't no fool like the fool you love
so let me hear you shout

Shakedown breakdown
just can't sit still.
you cutoff your hair and sold it
for your pretty little pill.
I've learned some things about myself
I wish I didn't know.

You gave me an 8 paged letter
front and black.
Written in your favorite colors,
blood and black.

You choose your words as careful
as you choose your own gravestone.
You lay there and hate me
better then being alone.

Had to fight your way in
you got to fight your way out.
aint no fool like the one you love
so let me hear you shout.

Lay there and hate me
Cold as a stone
I just hope it's better then sitting alone.
never trust a woman who loves the blues.

You gave me an 8 paged letter
front and black.
Written in your favorite colors,
blood and black.

You choose your words as careful
as you choose your own gravestone.
You lay there and hate me
better then being alone.

Had to fight your way in
you got to fight your way out.
aint no fool like the one you love
so let me hear you shout.
so let me hear you shout.


5.Why Must You Always Dress In Black


6.Skin Thin

Now that you've grown older
you can finally learn to be a child.
We made it to the end of the world
but we'll never make it out alive.

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
but the days seem so long
Skin thin. Blood again
It's all I can do to hold on.
We're just skin thin.

Always knew that if we didn't have each other
we'd have nothing at all.
But you were always brave enough
to live like you could never fall.

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
but the days seem so long
Skin thin. Blood again
It's all I can do to hold on. hold on.

Now that we have grown up
can finally learn to be a child.
With good friends behind me
with ghosts up ahead for miles and miles.

Skin thin
I breathe out you breathe in
The days they seem so long.
Skin thin. Blood again.
its all i can do to hold on.
Life's just skin thin.


7.Fly One Time

I have an ability
It's pounding at my door.
Screaming for more.

In the world that owes you nothing
you give everything.
Everything.

And now I'm caught in between
but I can't leave behind
the world I may never find.
So fly one time.
So fly one time.

Standing at the edge of your life.
At the edge of our lives.
Don't hold on
There's no fighting back the years
so hard to unlearn fears.

Now your caught between
what you can't leave behind.
And all that you may never find.
So fly, just fly
just fly one time.

I've seen you so clearly,
so clearly up so high.
I see you up so clearly,
up so clearly, up so high.

And now your caught in between
what you can't leave behind.
And what you may, what we may never find.
So fly, so fly one time.

So clearly so clearly so high.
If i would die,
just fly one time.
If you fly one time.


8.Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)

I'm not sure what worries me more
the fact I keep talking to the wall
or that the wall keeps answering me.
Saying that I heard it all before.

Never under estimate how complicated a simple life can be.
You gotta keep it together.
You gotta keep it together.
You gotta keep it together.
So I can fall apart.

I know you've grown tired
of trying to feed me.
And I know by now my reputation proceeds me.
I know you've grown tired of trying to fix me.
And I know by now
my best years are no longer, no longer, with me.

You've gotta keep it together.
So i can fall apart.


9.Boots Like These

Tonight I'm going to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight were going to live forever

Easy come.
Easy go.
Get it where you fit in
You've got to slow your roll.

Tonight I wanna to lose my mind.
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight were going to live forever.
Tonight were going to live forever.
Never pretend to be a gambler.

The smoke from your lips.
The fire from your hips.
She's just a slow walking woman.

Tonight I wanna to lose my mind.
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight were going to live forever.
Never pretend to be a gambler.

I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
I've gotta get out from inside my head.
You double the dose and I ran out of rope
It's me and you against the world.
You double the dose and I ran out of rope
It's me and you against the world.

You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.
You gotta live my life to get boots like these.

Tonight I wanna to lose my mind.
Tonight I'm trying to lose my mind
Tonight I hope I lose my mind
Tonight were going to live forever.
Tonight were going to live forever.
Never pretend to be a gambler.


10.Word Suicide


11.Faithfully Remain

I learned to say goodbye
to say goodbye to young.
I learned to duck from words
like bullets from a gun.

How long can you pray?
How long can you pray
and still not see a change?
I faithfully remain. I faithfully remain.

Somethings, somethings
you have to let be lost.
Some battles some battles
you have to leave unfought.

Then the truth just wastes away
in all we dare not say.
And then all we can't explain.
But I faithfully remain. I faithfully remain.

Now I'm afraid once again.
Once again it has all come to this.
When it all goes dark nothing stays the same.
Now I'm only what i miss.

And my memories they turn to tears.
Oh they turn to fire, blood, and pain.
and i, i faithfully remain. i faithfully remain.
and i, i faithfully remain. i faithfully remain.
i faithfully remain.