Lions

Black Crowes Lions Lyrics
1.Cosmic Friend

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Down and dirty nappy
Tired sad nasty
It's not everlasting
It's bound to turn around
Need a little sweetness
A little reason to your rhyme
I got something for you
A little sugar for your mind
Hear the bells ringing
Send it down the line
Thank you for the sharing
I get you back next time

My friend the cosmos is calling
Sayin' we all should be shining

Don't you be a stranger
We like you hanging around
Be thankful of the laughter
Praise for the sound
When you're feelin lonely
You know just what to do
Put on track eleven
Get on with the groove

My friend the cosmos is calling
Sayin' we all should be shining

Now we've reached the ending
I'm sad this song is gone
But we can start at the beginning
And we can all sing along

Down and dirty nappy
Tired sad nasty
It's not everlasting
It's bound to turn around


2.'Young Man, Old Man'

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Richard S Robinson

Young man crazy, old man wise
Some folks real, some just jive
Young man crazy, old man wise
Sun, stars, earth, moon, sky, tides

It's been tough livin' rough, but you're here stay
Six feet under the ground is not as hard as it sounds, okay
Gettin' high, seein' with three eyes on a rainy day
Well, I've been dusted, busted and blown away

I'm gettin' in your ear, with nothin' but fear, let the music
play
Big or tall, it's gonna hit you all, get out the way
Come along baby, soundin' strong baby, what I say
Yeah, well we all got lines and at the end we all gonna pay

Young man crazy, old man wise
Some folks real, some just jive
Young man crazy, old man wise
Sun, stars, earth, moon, sky, tides

Murder in mind and this time baby it's for real
Take the devil aside, it's time to make the deal
Wash the blood if you want but the truth you can't conceal
I'm gonna roll on driving wheel

Young man crazy, old man wise
Some folks real, some just jive
Young man crazy, old man wise
Sun, stars, earth, moon, sky, tides

Young man crazy, old man wise
Some folks real, some just jive
Young man crazy, old man wise
Sun, stars, earth, moon, sky, tides

Sun, stars, earth
Moon, sky, tide

I said, 'Does anybody want some?' Let me hear you say
Does anybody want some? Let me hear you say
Does anybody want some? Let me hear you say
Does anybody want some? Let me hear you say, does anybody


3.Midnight from the Inside Out

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

You, with your fast and fur lined mind
With your disregard of time, virtue, horizon
Here where the angels never sleep
Where the water's dark and deep, you breathe molasses

Midnight from the inside out
Turn around and they all fall down
Screaming red and the lights go out
Turn around and they all fall down

Midnight from the inside out
Turn around and they all fall down
Screaming red and the lights go out
Turn around and they all fall down

You, madness dripping from your tongue
While starting at the sun, you speak explosion
Up, with the flies around the moon
With a needle, mirror, spoon and cotton candy

Midnight from the inside out
Turn around and they all fall down
Screaming red and the lights go out
Turn around and they all fall down

Midnight from the inside out
Turn around and they all fall down
Screaming red and the lights go out
Turn around and they all fall down

Midnight from the inside out
Turn around and they all fall down
Screaming red and the lights go out
Turn around and they all fall down

Midnight from the inside out
Turn around and they all fall down
Screaming red and the lights go out
Turn around and they all fall down

Turn around and they all fall down
Turn around and they all fall down
Turn around and they fall


4.Soul Singing

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

I've been down cascading and blue without a sound
Now I've traded my black feathers for a crown
So feed me milk and honey lay me down
Lay me down

Look around, show me holy places not yet found
Let's disappear and we'll hide underground
Oh we'll get high and we'll feel safe and sound
It comes around, around

You got my soul singing, got my soul singing
You got my soul singing, got my soul singing
You got my soul singing, got my soul singing
You got my soul singing, got my soul singing
Oh come on now, come on now

Home bound, tired of tired of running town to town
Tired of my heart turned upside down
Now my life's a smile and not a frown
The sound, the sound

Yeah you got my soul singing, got my soul singing
You got my soul singing, my soul singing
You got my soul singing, got my soul singing
You got my soul singing, got my soul singing

You got me
Yeah I did got my soul singing, my soul singing
Oh you got my soul singing, my soul singing
Oh you got my soul singing, my soul singing
Oh you got my soul singing, my soul singing

You got my soul singing, my soul singing
You got my soul singing, my soul singing
You got my soul singing, my soul singing
You got my soul singing, soul singing, soul singing
Soul singing, soul singing

Sing along everybody, come sing along


5.Miracle to Me

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

So come on off of your rooftop
So come on down to the street
So I've got something to tell you
You're secrets I will keep

Tell me why have you been crying
Why won't you look me in the eye
So I'm just trying to help you
I just need to know why
Baby, please won't you help, help me try

Be my secret, yeah, be my joy
Be a miracle to me
Baby, be my lover
So baby be my friend, yeah
Be a miracle to me

I want to sleep in moon glow
And in my mind you're smile I keep
So head over heels I go
Like a dream from a peaceful sleep
This time I know so I'm in need

Be my secret, yeah, be my joy
Be a miracle to me
Baby, be my lover
So baby, be my friend, yeah
Be a miracle to me

Be my secret, yeah, be my joy
Be a miracle to me
Baby, be my lover
So baby, be my friend, yeah
Be a miracle to me, be a miracle to me


6.Come On

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Are you feeling me groove ya
Do it get right to ya
Do it creep right on up in your bones

Well it low down and greasy
It comes nice and easy
Put a smile on your face all that long

We be frightfully righteous
And if you don't like us man
Take your ear holes and go home
Bye bye go home

So we got just what you need
We brought you the remedy

So come on, come on
Let's get this thing started
Come on, come on, everyone
I said, come on, come on
You know we're right on it
Come on come on, it's on

We ain't foolin' we ain't playin'
We lay it down no complainin'
Pick it up and break some for you

So get on up out your seat
Because you make this scene complete
And we really like to stick it to you
Yeah, yeah

So we got just what you need
We brought you the remedy

So come on, come on
Let's get this thing started
Come on, come on, everyone
I said, come on, come on
You know we're right on it
Come on, come on, it's on, yeah

Come and get some
Yeah, come on and get some

So come on, come on
Let's get this thing started
Come on, come on, everyone
I said, come on, come on
You know we're right on it
Come on come on, it's on, yeah

I said, come on come on
Come on, come on
I said, come on come on
Come on, come on
Come on come on
It's, it's on now


7.Lickin'

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Your eyes they look like two bullet holes
And you don't ever say, 'Maybe'
You knock me out with the way you talk
I like the way you say, 'Baby'

You want a mouthful of Scorpio
Yeah, but my poison be tasty
You bite my finger and say, 'Control'
You won't let me be lazy

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin'

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah

Fire out of the mouths of babes
They got you actin' so crazy
The doorknob queen of the underage
You got me rantin' and ravin'

I see the bruise you left on my page
And now the game's getting tricky
So left alone in my own parade
While the bomb keeps on tickin'

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin'

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin'

Say do you want to do it all with me?
Do you want to scream, bleed for me?
Well everything, everything
Just take all of me, just take all of me, yeah

Your teeth they taste just like razorblades
Oh, you got my tongue ready
You fill me up with your politics
Then you leave me so heavy

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin'

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin'

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin'

Night and day like a mule I'm kickin'
Girl you gonna catch a lickin', yeah
Catch a lickin', yeah

Catch a lickin'
Catch a lickin'
Catch a lickin'
...


8.Ozone Mama

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Listen, it's a trip y'all
Git hip to this y'all
It will git y'all
Make ya flip y'all
Gonna hit y'all
Never quit y'all
Right in the middle of our minds

The bug that bit y'all
Make ya itch y'all
Inch by inch y'all
Til your tall y'all
See it all y'all
Near and far y'all
We won't ever let it drag y'all

This funny feeling got me reeling
Like I'm walking on the ceiling
Do it to me now

Ozone mama lay your daddy down
Under the stars right down on the ground
Mother nature got me thinking
'Bout the love that you've been bringin'
Do it to me now

C'mon the ride y'all
We provide y'all
It's like this y'all
Never miss y'all
Git up and go y'all
Ya never know y'all
We be the bottom of your bag

Give a call y'all
Anytime y'all
Don't be slow y'all
Ya gotta know y'all
On with the show y'all
Bring it all y'all
We don't ever have to brag y'all

Well you got this poor boy thinking
From your cup I've been drinking
Do it now

Ozone mama lay your daddy down
Under the stars right down on the ground
Mother nature got me thinking
'Bout the love that you've been bringin'

Ozone mama lay your daddy down
Under the stars right down on the ground
Mother nature got me thinking
'Bout the love that you've been bringin'

Mama give it to me now
I said mama give it to me now
Said give it to me, give it to me now
Give it, give it, give it to me now
Oh, yeah, mama you got me thinking
'Bout the love that you've been bringin'
Give it to me now, yeah, yeah, yeah
I said a little bit, give a little bit, give a little bit
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ozone mama give a little bit
I like it like that


9.No Use Lying

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

You come in the room and you close the door
And you let me see what you're really here for
Then you lay me down in an un-made bed
And you show me things that aren't easily said no

Working in circles and twisting away
Making it hard to breathe
Touching my skin I don't want it to end
I'm gone, you can't catch me

There's no use lying
'Cause I've heard all your bullshit before
You've said your old line for the very last time
I don't want you round my backdoor no

She says my name and it takes me away
A kiss on my brow and I'm here to stay
When the clock chimes twelve and we're down on the floor
She tells me things I've never heard before no

Working in circles and twisting away
Making it hard to breathe
Touching my skin I don't want it to end
I'm gone and you can't catch me

'Cause there's no use lying
'Cause I've heard all your bullshit before
You've said your old line for the very last time
I don't want you round my backdoor no, alright

So there's no use lying
'Cause I've heard all your bullshit before
You've said your old line for the very last time
I don't want you to round my backdoor

There's no use in lying
There's no use in lying
There's no use in lying
'Cause I've heard all your bullshit before


10.Cypress Tree

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

So you found yourself a killer
The one with blue eyes
I guess the bloodstains on the blanket don't lie, don't

Well I guess I saw it comin'
Like a boy I just kept runnin'
But through this crime I have survived, yeah

They're gonna hang you from the cypress tree
The crowd gonna cheer when they see you swing
Yeah, they're gonna hang you from the cypress tree
Yeah, tell me now do you believe?

Glory Hallelujah
I raise my glass up to you
And I bow my head with utmost respect, yeah

But I think it's only fair to warn you
That there's a storm that's coming up on you
And like the wind and the rain my words are direct, yeah

They're gonna hang you from the cypress tree
The crowd gonna cheer when they see you swinging
Yeah, they're gonna hang you from the cypress tree
Oh, tell me now do you believe?

It's a funny word, 'Friends'
You get beginnings and you got ends
I guess I'll see you when we're ashes again, yeah

They're gonna hang you from the cypress tree
The crowd gonna cheer when they see you swing, swing, swing
Yeah, they're gonna hang you from the cypress tree
Oh, tell me do you believe?
Do you believe me?
Do you believe me?


11.Lay It All On Me

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Come on down crooked man
Step on up broken man
Well it's okay to cry troubled man
Just ease your worried mind and rest awhile

Do you remember when it started
You had a dream
Now you never talk about it

Your fame and riches were everything
No matter what the cost
Now you wish you hadn't blown it

Well lay it all on me
Lay it all on me

Well come on down crooked man
Step on up broken man
Well it's okay to cry troubled man
Just ease your worried mind and rest awhile

I came to see how you were doin'
It's been awhile
Lookin' back over your shoulder

You were restless and you were wild
Always runnin' away
Once was young now is older

Lay it all on me, yeah
Lay it all on me

To come on down crooked man
Step on up broken man
Well it's okay to cry troubled man
Just ease your worried mind and rest a while

Come on down baby
Ease your mind

Lay it on me
Lay it on me
Lay it on me baby
Lay it on me

Yeah yeah yeah
Lay it all on
Lay it all on me
On me, yeah yeah


12.Losing My Mind

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Every time I fall
I bring you along
'Cause I need you there

Every time I leave
For my selfish things
Well I know I'm wrong

No matter what I want to believe
Nothing like this comes easily

I tell you now I love you, yes I love you
Even though I know I should stay away
'Cause I hate you, yes I hate you
Even though it looks like I'm going to stay
And I think that I'm losing my mind
Losing my mind

And my time in the dark
Was tearing me apart
And that's not okay

A man of blood and bones
Alone on his throne
Could walk away

How your web has been spun
And I'm out of my mind and it ain't no fun

Tell you truth, I love you, yes I love you
Even though I know I should stay away
'Cause I hate you, yes I hate you
Even though it looks like I'm going to stay
And I think that I'm losing my mind

Tell you now I love you, yes I love you
Even though I know I should stay away
'Cause I hate you, yes I hate you
Even though it looks like I'm going to stay
And I think that I'm losing my mind

Yes I think that I'm losing my mind
Yes I think that I'm losing my mind
Said, I think that I'm losing my mind


13.Greasy Grass River

Lyricist:Christopher Mar Robinson, Rich S. Robinson

Swimming in the greasy grass river
On my way back to the black pearl sea
Floating down the greasy grass river baby
Come child, come play with me, yeah

Life is so easy on greasy grass river
Just take my hand and we can pretend to be free
You just wanna be free
Come on with me

Take me down to the greasy grass river
Wash my hands when the water is clean
Lay me down by the greasy grass river baby
And unfold my mystery

The greasy grass river has water that whispers
Let's listen closely while she said she wants to be free
Yeah, I want to be free baby
Come with me, yeah

So now I'm out of my pocket and I'm out on my mind yeah
So now I'm out of my pocket and I'm out on my mind
Well I 'm free, yeah I feel freedom
Freedom to think, don't stop me, you can't touch me
Can I close my eyes and blow it away? I'm sorry

I'm out of my pocket and I'm out on my mind


14.Love Is Now

I guess you've heard it all before
The broken heart of folklore
How it could have been so much more
Than nothing

So with nothing I begin
But it's not the same my friend
This is now and not again
Golden

I never really cried before
My tears were all in vain
I lived like this for years
Until your winds came
And blew me away

Chorus:
You let me in, I let you out
You took me away, there went my heart
I let it go, there was no other way
So love is now, hear me out
I've nothing left to say
But my love is now forever

I never told a soul before
My life felt like a war
But what was all the fighting for
Nothing

And tomorrow I confide
From your eyes I cannot hide
While you sit, watch me cry
Joyous