1.Shelter
If I lose all respect for you
Can I still call you friend？
Why expose myself to disappointment
Over and over again？
The cycle has to end
Can someone give me shelter
From the pouring rain？
If the water washed your lies away,
Maybe I could trust you again
If anything remained
I'm tired of masking anger,
With humor and diplomacy,
I want to scream out all the fucked up things
We both know about you
Embrace the honesty
I'm sick of the pain,
Give me one good reason,
To believe that you'll change
I wonder how we got this far,
After all these years,
I still don't know who you are.
Like a dream I've fallen down,
I need to wake up,
before I hit the ground
If the water washed you away,
Could I be myself again？
If the water washed you away,
Could I be myself again？
If the water washed you away,
Could I be myself again？
2.Riptide
Lyricist：Mike Post, Pete Carpenter
I could've lied the truth, a needle in your eye
The wound a Band-Aid won't heal
But I persist and try to tell it like it is
What's the point if we're not real？
Riptide sweeps me out to drown
Flailing arms and aching chest the more
I struggle the more it wears me down
How long can I hold my breath？
Another test you used to say I was the best
So proud to walk by my side
Now you see all the wrong with me
Can you accept it, will you try？
Riptide sweeps me out to drown
Flailing arms and aching chest the more
I struggle the more it wears me down
How long can I hold my breath？
Rolling, choking still I'm kicking
Drifting farther out to sea
I won't let go of my dim hopes
Somehow you'll make it out to me
Rolling, choking still I'm kicking
Drifting farther out to sea
I won't let go of my dim hopes
Somehow you'll make it out to me
3.Plastic
obsolete
i cant complete
thrown away
an 8-track tape
time
no friend of mine
faded works of art
stopped my
friend's heart
i want to last forever like plastic
in the landfill of your memory
will u remember me？
Stay
another
day
let's just talk
ignore the clock
go
like melting snow
dont ask why
hello goodbye
when my warranty expires
when ive been
replaced
when all is said and done
will there be a trace？
will you remember me？
4.Giving Gravity A Hand
triple bypass
knocked on his ass
the doctor told him not to smoke
but late at night
he dims the light
puffing through the tube jammed on his throat
giving gravity a hand
feels all right, feels all right
giving gravity a hand
cutting life short by making it grand
giving gravity a hand
feels all right, feels all right
giving gravity a hand
one step closer to the promise land, yeah
scars from road rash
gifts ffom each crash
memory of road grinding my bone
i die inside
if i can't ride carving through the canyons flying home
5.Do It Again
dad can u spare $50
suprise a musician down on his luck
i could use a hand to pay the rent
'son you could
have been someone
a doctor, a lawyer, not a bum
have you learned you lesson？ half your life is spent!'
if i could turn back
time
hit rewind
if i could start all over again....id do it again
i followed a dodgy path
playing songs not chasing
cash
shivering in a van in prague
i wont call my lyrics art
but some kids know the words by heart
i like to think we share a
bond
if i could turn back time
hit rewind
if i could start all over.......id do it again
6.Happy Daze
wake up
oceans are the shower that we need
waves crash
worries in our mind are finally freed
laughter
echoed
by seagulls in the air
high on summer
and all the carefree times we share.
memories
will help us as we go our
separate ways
we will always be
connected by thoughts of these happy days
nightfall
make a wish as the stars
begin
vomfort
fell the cool wind breath against hot skin
singing
our favorite songs with beers in hand
life seems
perfect
walking at midnight on the sand
wish everyday could be like this
7.Armchair Quarterback
at work your mouth stays firmly shut
while your boss asks for advice
later at the bar behind his
back you criticize
an armchair quarterback you never have to lose
you never have to wipe the dog shit off your
shoes
an armchair quarterback
do you get those armchair blues？
when your girl asks what you like
you shrug, make it her
choice
when shes not around you share her failures with the boys
instant replay
perfect hindsight
in slow
motion
youre always right
watching life on tape delay
you know what happened yesterday
8.Nova Scotia
i watch the objects for in cloudy skies
a bat, a pirate ship and then her eyes
so i pound a shot down
punch
my arm and set up a new round
till me, myself and i cant concentrate
the clouds conspire to show me what i miss
her
hair, her cheeks, her lips puckered to kis
the wind blows
drags her nose
through her forehead like a horn grows
the omen
clears but years too late
nova scotia's so damn cold yeah
i moved here to give her space
drinking stoli to kill my
memory
theres not enough to lose her face
she poisoned our hometown
so i moved a half a world away
where frozen
winter chokes the color
leaving black and gray
9.Sarah Jones
Sarah jones is acting out a monologue
To teach the world about justice
What women want
'im not an
Object!'
She screams with eyes on fire
The crowd goes wild
Shes preaching to the choir
W. is making love to
Shareholders who own a piece of sunshine
We own the world
'oil is our saviour!
Now we can all retire'
A billion reasons why
Hes preaching to the choir
Yeah i wanna find some friends
Some common ground
Where everything is fine and
Everything is easy
Yeah im gonna speak my mind
And sing out loud
Where everyone is kind
And everyone who sees me nods
Moses junior on the streets of hollywood
Shouting meets a sinner
'god save your soul'
'repent,repent
The devil is a liar'
A brick screams out the cost
(of)not preaching to the choir
10.One Hero
Prison walls
Outside your cell a bloody tyrant falls
No shots were fired
He said you were weak
You turned every
Cheek and turned the brute away
One hero
One vision
Your word
My religion
No regrets
Not hollow
You go and i follow
Fear of death
No worry poisoned you
Your every breath
Love for the moment
No gun can undo the power of truth
The voice alive
Today
My rock. my guide
Your book right by my side
Your voice,your tone
Ill never be alone
11.Wanna Be Alone
awake again
at three AM
i need a hand to get me off to sleep
in vain i try
i feel the eyes
all my dead
relatives here for a peep
i shut the blinds turn out the lights for privacy
its har to concentrate with grandma
watching me
alone
wanna be alone
theres grandpa fred
with aunt ingrid
carryinga bible and her eyes are wide
the
saints sing while
the angels smile
everyone sees me on the other side
how i hope they rest in peace
somewhere
else while i feed the geese
its nice to think that they could come back
not while im choking kojack
12.Fall in Line
shine your boots
so you can march across the desert
lift your knees look sharp as a knife
youll learn to
like it
youll be all that you can be
no one can stop our way of life
fall in line
no back talk do what we told you
step in time
learn to show your pride
turn the wrench
vuild more trucks than your neighbor
only work gives the
right to live
feeling righteous
defending gods own country
and wish you had more lives to give
the empire calls
for you to make a sacrifice and fall in line
rows and rows of cars
rows and rows of credit card loans
rows and rows of bars
rows and rows of bones
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