1.The Once and Future Carpenter
I ain't from Texas, but I made my way from Dallas
And I know the lonesome sound is following
I ain't a gambler, but I can recognize a hand
And when to hold, when the queens are staring back at me
Once I was a carpenter, man my hands were calloused
I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight
But I took to the highway, a poet young and hungry
And I left the timbers where they lay
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
Well we're all in this together
If I live the life I'm given, I wont be scared to die
And I don't come from Detroit, but her diesel motors pull me
And I followed till I finally lost my way
And now I spend my days in search of a woman we called purpose
And if I ever pass back through here town I'll stay
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
Well we're all in this together
If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die
And my life is but a coin, pulled from an empty pocket
Dropped into a slot with dreams of sevens close behind
And hope and fear go with it, and moon and the sun go spinning
Like the numbers and fruits before my eyes
Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind
Sometimes I hit, sometimes it robs me blind
Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
Well we're all in this together
If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die
2.Live and Die
All it will take is just one moment and
you can say goodbye to how we had it planned
Fear like a habit run like a rabbit out and away
through the screen door to the unknown
and I want to love you and more
I want to find you and more
can you tell that I
am alive let me prove it.
You and I we're the same
live and die we're the same
hear my voice know my name
you and I we're the same
Live like a pharaoh
sing like a sparrow anyway
even if there is no land or love in sight
we bloom like roses lead like moses out and away
through the bitter crowd to the daylight
and I want to love you and more
I want to find you and more
can you tell that I
am alive let me prove it to ya.
You and I we're the same
live and die we're the same
you rejoice I complain
but you and I we're the same
live and die we're the same
you and I we're the same
hear my voice know my name
you and I we're the same
I want to love you and more
I want to find you and more
where do you reside
when you hide how can I find ya
cause I wanna save you and more
I wanna tempt you and more
can you tell that I am alive let me prove it
You and I we're the same
live and die we're the same
you rejoice I complain
but you and I we're the same
live and die we're the same
you and I we're the same
hear my voice know my name
you and I
you and I
3.Winter in My Heart
It must be winter in my heart
There's nothing warm in there at all
I miss the summer and the spring
The floating, yellow leafs of fall
A million colors fill my eyes
The Roman candles and the stars
The calendar says July 4th, but it's still winter in my heart
They say flowers bloom in spring
Red and golden, blue and pink
They say seasons turn in time
Theirs are changing, why won't mine
It must be winter in my heart
There's nothing warm in there at all
I miss the summer and the spring
The floating, yellow leafs of fall
The air in there is frigid cold
I don't know what the reasons are
Calendar says August 1, but it's still winter in my heart
They say flowers bloom in spring
Red and golden, blue and ？ink
They say seasons turn in time
Theirs are changing, why won't mine, why won't mine
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
I don't know what the reasons are
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
I don't know what the reasons are
It must be winter in my heart
It must be winter in my heart
4.Pretty Girl from Michigan
Can you not see what you've done？
You gave your heart away like that.
I didn't want to fall in love with anyone, but you did.
I can still hear the song,
The melody behind the kiss you gave me.
You were wrong, I was right- so I walked away,
And left you there, alone-
I got so tired of talkin on the telephone,
How many times would we say the words goodbye
I made mistakes, and one was telling you that I'd be there,
When telling time had come,
I should've said I didn't care.
Ohh, the time I would have saved,
If I had been less willing to accommodate,
You'd been a little less likely to cry.
You go back to the high life,
And I'll go back to the low.
I should've known, but now I know-
There'll be no word from you,
Describing how it felt to go through what I put you through.
It all makes perfect sense.
The way you cut the rope,
That kept you dangling from such pitiful amounts of hope-
I would have cut it too.
5.I Never Knew You
Well I guess it's kinda funny how
I loved you so way back when.
You say I wouldn't know you now,
Well I didn't even know you then.
We take (we take)
a lot (a lot)
and no one here can stop
that train (that train)
before (before)
it gets to where it's goin'.
And aaaahhh
Well I guess it's kinda funny how
I loved you so way back when.
You say I wouldn't know you now,
Well I didn't even know you then
I heard (I heard)
About (about)
the company you're keeping
And from (and from)
someone (someone)
Who didn't have much interest
in keeping us apart.
Well I guess it's kinda funny how
I loved you so way back when.
You say I wouldn't know you now,
Well I didn't even know you then
And so I go out friday night and talk to anyone I can.
If they can see me they can hear me run my mouth.
I tell them all I'd love to see you once again
Or maybe just run into you hanging out,
hanging out.
You know (you know)
I lie (I lie)
So it comes as no surprise
When I (When I)
Can't hide (Can't hide)
Don't really want to reunite.
Well I guess it's kinda funny how
I loved you so way back when.
You say I wouldn't know you now,
Well I didn't even know you then.
So I guess it's kinda funny how
I loved you so way back when.
You say I wouldn't know you now,
Well, I didn't even know you then.
No, I didn't even know you then.
No, I didn't even know you then.
6.February Seven
I went on the search for something true.
I was almost there when I found you.
Sooner then my fate was wrote
Perfect blade to slit my throat
And beads of lust released into the air.
When I awoke you were standing there.
I was on the mend when I fell through.
The sky around was anything but blue.
I found as I regained my feet
A wound across my memory
That no amount of stitches would repair.
But I awoke and you were standing there.
There's no fortune at the end of the road that has no end.
There's no returning to the spoils
Once you've spoiled the thought of them.
There's no falling back asleep
Once you've wakened from the dream
Now I'm rested and I'm ready,
I'm rested and I'm ready to begin.
I'm ready to begin.
I went on the search for something real.
Traded what I know for how I feel.
But the ceiling and the walls collapsed
Upon the darkness I was trapped
And as the last of breath was drawn free
The light broke in and brought me to my feet.
There's no fortune at the end of the road that has no end.
There's no returning to the spoils
Once you've spoiled the thought of them.
There's no falling back asleep
Once you've wakened from the dream.
Now I'm rested and I'm ready
I'm rested and I'm ready
Yeah I'm rested and I'm ready
I'm rested and I'm ready
Yeah I'm rested and I'm ready
I'm rested and I'm ready
To begin
I'm ready to begin
7.Through My Prayers
Hard to believe I won't see you again
We were just fighting when winter began
The coldness of our words competing with the wind from the
north.
Still they make me shiver but in a very different way
The pages of the calendar kept turning away
I have some better words now but it's too late to say them to
you.
My dream of all dreams and my hope of all hopes
Is only to tell you and make sure you know
How much I love you and how much I always did.
And yes I know you loved me, I can see it in your eyes
And it was in your struggle and it was in your mind
And it was in the smile you gave me when I was a kid
Feels like no one understands
And my only chance
To talk to you is through my prayers.
I only wanted to tell you I cared
Every night after and every day since,
I found myself crying when the memory hit.
Sometimes it knocks me down, sometimes I just put it away.
Down in my mind where I don't care to go
The pain of a lesson is letting me know
If you have love in your heart let it show while you can
Yes now I understand
But now my only chance
To talk to you is through my prayers.
I only wanted to tell you I cared.
I only wanted to tell you I cared.
8.Down With the Shine
Down with the shine, the perfect shine
That poisons the well and ruins my mind
I get took for a ride, every time
Down with the glistening shine
Its in with the new, and out with the old
Out goes the warmth, and in comes the cold
Its the most predictable story told
In with the young, out with the old
Down with the shine, the perfect shine
It poisons the well and ruins my mind
I get took for a ride, every time
Down with the glistening shine
A belly full of high dollar wine, a fat hand, a fat wallet too
Things change and get strange, with the movement of time.
Its happening right now to you.
Down with the shine, the perfect shine
It poisons the well and ruins my mind
I get took for a ride, every time
Down with the glistening shine
Its a real bad time to bring up the truth
But we searched we found no fountain of youth
Not in spain no where near any where close to here
There's nothing good cause nothing last
And all that comes it comes here to pass
I will voice my pain but the change wouldnt last
All that comes it comes here to pass
Down with the shine, the perfect shine
It poisons the well and ruins my mind
I get took for a ride, every time
Down with the glistening shine
I get took for a ride, every time
Down with the glistening shine
I said down with the glistening shine.
9.A Fathers First Spring
The sweetest surrender of winter
She put up a flag it is waving
The thunder of summer is rumbling in.
And I haven't seen you in days.
And my how that feeling has changed.
Oh I have been homesick for you since we met.
I have been homesick for you.
I've got to take to the sky.
And I'll tell you what that means for you and I,
If I die it's for you.
If I die it's for you.
I never lived til I lived in your light
And my heart never beat like it does at the sight
Of you baby blue, God blessed your life.
I do not live 'less I live in your life.
I do not live 'less I live in your life.
The realest thing I ever felt
Was the blood on the floor and the love in your yell.
I was a child before
The day that I met Eleanor.
Kiss of the wind in the hills,
The clearness, the morning, the late evening thrill
Blurry and grey like the roar
The wheels on the highway above them I soar.
When I'm in my sweet daughter's eyes
My heart is now ruined for the rest of all times
There's no part of it left to give.
There's no part of it left to give.
I never lived til I lived in your light
And my heart never beat like it does at the sight
Of you baby blue, God blessed your life.
I do not live 'less I live in your life.
I do not live 'less I live in your life.
I do not live
10.Geraldine
I come from a place
where every name
and every place
seem so familiar
In came this progress
In her black dress
look at the mess
she is a killer
Much like you and I
and every case that's made
There has to be a traitor
It's me this time
And i'm trading fun for right
Will I regret the notion later？
Geraldine is the name that comes to mind
When I go back to reminiscing
Abilene's a woman for my childhood
I spent the evenings kissing
I'm a fool for treating her alive
And loving something cold and rocky
The homophobic gentlemen
they'll barricade but their efforts couldn't stop me
In came this progress
In her black dress
look at the mess
she is a killer
In came this progress
In her black dress
look at the mess
she is a killer
In came this progress
In her black dress
look at the mess
she is a killer
oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
11.Paul Newman vs. The Demons
You may have to drag me away from my demons
Kicking and screaming
It's been so long now, I've been with them
Don't know where they stop and I begin
We draw a line in the sand
Will you cross it？ Oh, will you die for this？
Got nothing to tell you that you don't
Through your sadness below, already know
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Live through the past again
How many times must I live through the past again？
No more
Truth beyond truth and by our design
It is very fine like Newman's wine
Oh, to be like him and walk a path
To lend a hand, do something worth a damn
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Live through the past again
How many times must I live through the past again？
No more, wait
You may have to drag me away from my demons
Kicking and screaming
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Live through the past again
How many times must I live through the past again？
No more, wait
12.Life
What comes of it？ ／ Love it, love it
Let go of it ／ Love comes from it
We're not of this ／ world for long
Faith and promise ／Keep me honest
When starvation ／ Falls upon us
Daylight told me ／You would be
Gone with cold words ／ spoke upon hers
Wretched in the ／ tongue of their world
We're not of that world at all ／ We will never be
Chorus：
Wouldn't it be fine to stand
Behind the words we say
In the best of times
Oh, and you and I know all too well
About the hell and paradise
Right here on earth
Keep it, use it ／ Build it, move it
Flames can't touch ／ how time will prove it
Watch us fly ／ as loud as we can
Let her heart beat ／ change what I am now
Chorus：
Wouldn't it be fine to stand
Behind the words we say
In the best of times
Oh, and you and I know all too well
About the hell and paradise
Right here on earth
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