Vol.1-Jeff's Last Dance

Shawn Mullins Vol.1-Jeff's Last Dance Lyrics
1.Birds

Lover, there will be another one
Who'll hover over you beneath the sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come
Today

When you see me
Fly away without you
Shadow on the things you know
Feathers fall around you
And show you the way to go
It's over, it's over.

Nestled in your wings my little one
This special morning brings another sun
Tomorrow see the things that never come
Today

When you see me
Fly away without you
Shadow on the things you know
Feathers fall around you
And show you the way to go
It's over, it's over.


2.Ear Of The Mind


3.Lately

Lately i've felt deep inside myself maybe something ain't right
I feel like i've been turned and put on the back burner
And there's no rescue in sight maybe i have changed
But you know i feel the same still got this hunger in my bones
I feel like an all night drive all the way to the other side
There's a place i used to call my home
Lately i've seen a different side of me i don't know where i
have gone
I'm killin' friend and foe somebody tell me so i know
Whose side i am on like a cat stuck in a tree
I gotta jump before i'll be free i guess the ground will break
my fall
Lately i've been lost gotta find me an albatross
To lead me back into my port of call hey i hey i
Got something to tell you hey i hey i never meant to hurt you
Gotta get my stuff and go gotta leave to free my soul
Lately i've been out of my head again i don't know what i have
found
I feel at home here i'm not alone here 'lot of messed up heads
in this town
But i never drew one single word from you you lay there hidden
in the prone
I never proved to be anything but an oddity i guess i'm better
of alone
Hey i hey i got something to tell you hey i hey i never meant to
hurt you
Gotta get my stuff and go gotta leave to free my soul


4.Pandora

We opened pandora's box just to see if she was
Home she had an apple pie a jaundiced eye and
A big red telephone she said 'boy's i know why
You are here, you wanna take me for a ride
But before we go i think you ought to know
That i'm awful hard to hide i'm awful hard to
Hide so how will you do in this town boy's(sic)
How will you call him dead? will he die in his
Rack from a heart attack or from a bullet through his head?'
Then she whispered as we took her out 'he need not be afraid
'cause deep inside
The system hide's the truth that you've betrayed the truth that
you've betrayed.'
No where for us to run thirty silver pieces got the job done got
the job done poor
Pandora's life it was not as it had been portrayed a government,
an accident and
Now the bed is made and we tried to put her back but we were
defeated by our
Greed tried again while shadowmen did their dirty little deed
their dirty little
Deed we opened pandora's box just to see what we could find and
in there was a
Note pandora wrote just before she lost her mind it said 'my
passing will allow
A peak(sic) behind the veil of secrecy it's farther out than you
can see just no telling
Where that trail will lead no telling where that trail will
lead.'


5.Roni


6.Same Old Thing

You've got your mind made up
Your heart's in a song
No pot to piss in
But a voice of your own
You can take it anywhere
This road leads you down
Any old ghost town
I hope it's all that you want it to be
Sometimes it is for me
Sometimes it ain't
Life's a lot like a ferris wheel
It's a hell of a thrill
But it just does the same old thing
You paint yourself a picture
That only you can see
Where the blue of the sky
Melts into the green of the sea
Let the wind fill your sail
And carry you along
Sail on
Sail on
Just remember that you've chosen this way
That's the price you pay
You're living your own life
No destination has been set for you
So take your green and blues
And sail on our of sight
They'll try to get you caught up
In your own little web
Spinning out your demons
With a price on your head
They'll try to take your faith away
You got to stand tall
Keep on singing your song


7.Shimmer

Sharing with us what he knows his shining eyes are big and blue
And all around him water flows this world to him is new
To touch a face to kiss a smile new eyes see no race
The essence of a child he's born to shimmer born to shine
Born to radiate born to live born to love but we'll teach him
how to hate
And true love it is a rock smoothed over by a stream
And no ticking of a clock truly measures what that means
And this thing we call our time i heard a brilliant woman say
You know it's crazy how i want to try and capture mine
I think i love this woman's way the way she shimmers
The way she shines the way she lives the way she loves
The way she never hates sometimes i think of all the shit that
can surround me
I know it all as being mine then she kisses me and wraps herself
around me
She gives me love she gives me time and i feel fine but time i
cannot change
So here's to looking back i'd drink a bottle of my pride and
toast to change
To keep these demons off my back get these demons off my back
Cause i want to shimmer i want to shine i want to radiate
I want to live i want to love i want to try and learn how not to
hate
Try not to hate we're born to shimmer we're born to shine
We're born to radiate we're born to live we're born to love
We're born to never hate...


8.Smile


9.Song To The Self

Be good to you
Take care of you
Shake loose of those self-help blues
You gotta lot of livin' to do
Can't be givin' up on you
Sometimes the stars or the moon gonna play a trick on you
And i will try to believe what you tell me
And i will try to be true to my self
Cause i'm as free as i ever will be
So don't be tryin' so hard
Don't be feelin' discarded
Just feel that love surround
Cause there's a whole lot there
A whole lot waitin' to be shared
There's still enough to go around
And i will try to believe what you tell me
And i will try to be true to myself
Caues i'm as free as i ever will be
But where do i begin
Is there god within
Sometimes i'm not so sure
So won't you teach to me
But keep it simple please
Would you help a friend who's feeling low
Would you help a friend who's feeling low...


10.Spring Forward, Fall Back


11.The Frozen Man


12.The Sky's The Limit

There are blackberry brambles down where the railroads cross
And old timer trees wearing the spanish moss
No better place for a boy to get lost in a dream
He won't learn to tell a real lie for another year or two
Or offer any alibis just to please you
Forgetting the truth is something odd for him to do
It seems the sky's the limit for the bird on the wing
Every minute now the view is changing
It's life on earth with the ground as an optional thing
Well the boy becomes a bigger boy and that bigger boy yearns to
write
So his eyeballs take a good look at a new book every night
It's cover to cover page by page as he reads left to right
He may learn to tell his own tale in some summer yet to come
But for now he serves it piecemeal never sure it's ever done
And like the color of a baby's eye
You see him change from this to that into someone
The sky's the limit for the bird on the wing
Every minute now the view is changing
It's life on earth with the ground as an optional thing
I've been staring out this window through last years
fingerprints
Studying each cloud form as it came and as it went
Slowing down the world to a crawl is a planned accident
The sky's the limit for the bird on the wing
Every minute now the view is changing
It's life on earth with the ground as an optional thing