Unreleased Songs

The Gathering Field Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.And I Wanted

Lyricist:David P. Brown, William Paul Deasy, Ray Defade, Eric H.
Riebling

I can feel you in the crowded bar room
As I get into my car
Music playing, beads of sweat descending
Down your skin to where your secrets are

And I wanted
To go back in and kiss you
And I wanted
To taste your salty tongue

And I wanted
To feel your body moving
Feel your body move beneath me now
Feel your body move beneath me now

Fruit forbidden, one enchanted moment
Summer night a bit too long ago
You were waiting, he was late as usual
Saw you standing in your Friday clothes

And I wanted
To go back in and kiss you
And I wanted
To taste your salty tongue

And I wanted
To feel your body moving
Feel your body move beneath me now
Feel your body move beneath me now

All my life walked straight and narrow
Straight and narrow as a circus wire
Best friend's wife, like a poison arrow
Poison arrow filled with pure desire

Feel the chill in the air, feel her raven black hair
Told you it had to end, can't go back again
Here I go again

Desert highway, wrap your arms around me
Desert moon, the wolves are howling now
Desert wind blow away the veil of reason
Leaving just our two hearts pounding now

And I wanted
To go back in and kiss you
And I wanted
To taste your salty tongue

And I wanted
To feel your body moving
Feel your body move beneath me now

And I wanted
To go back in and kiss you
And I wanted
To taste your salty tongue

And I wanted
To feel your body moving
Feel your body move beneath me now
Feel your body move beneath me now
Feel your body moving


2.The Absence Of Her Smile

Lyricist:Lou Reed

She says that she is going home now
She says that she has seen enough
She packed her bags, she's leaving in the morning
On that 7:30 a.m. Greyhound Bus

I want to know, how to go
About living in the absence of her smile
Even now, I dream that I'll be forgiven
For the absence of her smile

Only half-remember how it was
Before I started with those lies
Before I hated her for all the ways I failed her
Before she offered me her last goodbye

And oh, I want to know, how to go
About living in the absence of her smile
Even now, I dream that I'll be forgiven
For the absence of her smile

I wonder how it will be
Beyond the shadow of me
I guess I'll never see

Oh, I want to know, how to go
About living in the absence of her smile
Even now, I dream that I'll be forgiven
For the absence of her smile

I want to know, how to go
About living in the absence of her smile
Even now, I dream that I'll be forgiven
For the absence of her smile


3.Who We Are

Lyricist:I. Martin K. Thomas A. Martinez G. Rodriguez S. Reyes

Don't know why I run and hide
Make myself so lonesome
You just say, 'That's okay
Hey babe, I'll catch you later'

It took a while
To put it all together
Now I know

You can't change somebody
With your love
No matter how right your are
We are who we are

The sidewalks teem with sunlight beams
A thousand rainbow colors
Private parts troubled hearts
All searching for the answer

Faded dreams
And broken hearted laughter
But now I know

You can't change somebody
With your love
No matter how right your are
We are who we are
We are who we are, yeah we are

Twilight fades another day
Converted into memory
We discuss the change in us
I've never been this happy

It took some time
To get it all together
But now I know

You can't change somebody
With your love
No matter how right your are
No matter how bright your star
No matter how fresh your scar

We are who we are, nothing more
We are who we are but nothing less
We are who we are, who we are, yeah


4.Morning Sounds

Lyricist:C. Van Dahl, Johnny Crypt, K. Nickels, Steve Riley, Tracii
Guns

Well, I was dabbling in the affairs of the heart
Against the backdrop of a broken one
And I was grappling with a promise I'd begun
If only an unspoken one

But in the peaceful pre-dawn with the outlines getting clearer
I saw a child's reflection in the mirror
I was driving with the windows down
The day had not arrived yet but the morning had
And with the morning came the morning sounds

I could hear the morning sounds
And the mysteries astound me
And the struggle, it surrounds me
But it was only peace that found me
When I heard the morning sounds

Well, I was leaving the apartment of some
Ballerina, waitress girl I'd met the month before
And I was grieving for the dream she'd started making
And the parts of me I knew I'd never show her

But in the dawn's confusion as the living things awaken
I felt the joyful side of me start shaking
And fatigue gave way to ecstasy
The day had not arrived yet but the morning had
And with the morning came the morning sounds

I could hear the morning sounds
And the mysteries astound me
And the struggle, it surrounds me
But it was only peace that found me
When I heard the morning sounds

Well, I could hear the morning sounds
Said it was only peace that found me
When I heard the morning sounds

Can you hear? Listen
Can you feel? Listen, listen to the
Listen, listen to the


5.Win You Back Suzanne

Lyricist:William Paul Deasy

The sunlight hits me and I shiver
I rub the sleep out of my eyes
Pull the mail box open
And hope to find a sweet surprise

I stumble back into the kitchen
I dump out last night's coffee grinds
I think the whole thing over
It's like a movie in my mind

Well, they tell me
I'm gonna have to carry on without her
But I'm afraid that ain't the way I got it planned

I'm gonna take a walk today
I'll go the old familiar way
I'll walk up to her and I'll say
I've come to win you back, Suzanne

The beauty of this life is changing
When pressed against the cold, hard facts
The fact is I got restless
And you say you ain't coming back

So hello, friendly next door neighbor
Hello bird up on the wire
The thought of her surrender
Spreads through me like a forest fire

Well, they tell me
I'm gonna have to carry on without her
But I'm afraid that ain't the way I got it planned

I'm gonna take a walk today
I'll go the old familiar way
I'll walk up to her and I'll say
I've come to win you back, Suzanne

How could you believe
That you could get away from me so easy?
What kind of man would let
The woman of his dreams just go away?

Well, you said I'd never change before
But when I knock upon the door
You'll see me, the change in me, babe
I'm on my knees, babe
Looking at you from across the way

See her diamond earrings sparkle
Hear the pounding in my chest
I wish I had a dollar
For every one of my regrets

In the distance he's approaching
The ghost of who I might have been
As I walk home alone
My memory's my only friend

Well, they tell me
I'm gonna have to carry on without her
But I'm afraid that ain't the way I got it planned

I'm gonna take a walk today
I'll go the old familiar way
And I'll walk up to her and I'll say
I've come to win you back, Suzanne

I've come to win you back, Suzanne
I've come to win you back, Suzanne
To win you back
I've come to win you back, oh, Suzanne


6.The Dirt Of Chimayo

Lyricist:Deasy William

'Burn down the mission'
So said the noon day sun
On a wearisome expedition
When the vision quest had begun

Unbeknownst to the drifter
Unbeknownst to the solitary one
In the land of enchantment
With a strand of the story left undone

The dirt of Chimayo
Make the crippled ones walk
Make the somber ones smile
And the silent ones talk

Took the path of the least resistance
To the place where the suffering people go
To touch the dirt of Chimayo

Adobe tower
Past the wooden courtyard gates
Oh, the ancient healing power
From the inside emanates

Where the walking sticks gather
That were left by the travelers of faith, yeah
And a hero's bravado
Disappears with the look upon his face

The dirt of Chimayo
Make the crippled ones walk
Make the somber ones smile
And the silent ones talk

Took the path of the least resistance
To the place where the suffering people go
To touch the dirt of Chimayo

Lost and found, gone, then saved
Turned around and made my way
Lighter now, not so brave
Don't know how I made it to that place

Chimayo
Make the crippled ones walk
Make the somber ones smile
And the silent ones talk

Took the path of the least resistance
To the place where the suffering people go
To touch the dirt of Chimayo, Chimayo

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh


7.Bound To Be

Lyricist:Deasy William

Raised on words like 'Punishment'
And 'God will get you if you don't do what you're told'
Nuns turned children into fearful right handed
Little servants of the Lord

And then the atom bomb fell down
On Hiroshima, North Dakota, the year she turned sixteen
And she said, 'There is something very wrong here
Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean?'

I got a visions forming in my head
Got keep hearing what the preacher said
He said this world will be the death of me
Yes, I know it will, it's bound to be, it's bound to be

Satchel full of broken hopes
And empty picture postcards that she'd never send
Her mama sitting on the front porch step
Daddy frowning in the darkened doorway, waving his regret

And she was jumping on the Santa Fe
Summer night in 1947, bound for God knew where
And she said, â½I can see destruction fast approaching
I feel it in the air, yea, I feel it in the air, yea'

And I got a visions forming in my head
(See the blood on the horizon)
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
(Said, â½The truth will set you freeâ)
He said this world will be the death of me
(I got no one to rely on)
Yes, I know it will, it's bound to be
(Except for me)

On a road in Valparaiso
She met a hobo named Old John
They hunkered down in a gazebo
And chose a star to gaze upon

Old John said he could see her slipping
And he asked her what was wrong
She said, 'The rope I had been gripping turned to sand
And now it's gone, it's gone'
Well she said, â½It's goneâ

Can't you see the writing on the blood soaked
Blue horizon plain as VJ day?
Hear the barking of the drowning dogs
Frozen like so many Eisenhower statues in Pompeii

I think, I'll take another taste Old John to numb my heart
God knows I'm falling fast as atoms through the sky
She said, 'This world it sure ain't no place to live in
But it ain't no place to die, no, ain't no place to die, no'

And I got a visions forming in my head
(See the blood on the horizon)
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
(Said, â½The truth will set you freeâ)
He said this world will be the death of me
(I got no one to rely on)
Yes, I know it will, it's bound to be, yea
(Except for me)

Well, I got a visions forming in my head
(See the blood on the horizon)
And I keep hearing what the preacher said
(Said, â½The truth will set you freeâ)
He said this world will be another death of me
(I got no one to rely on)
Yes, and for all of us it's, it's bound to be, yea
(Except for me)

It's bound to be, yea
(See the blood on the horizon)
Oh, it's bound to be, yea
(Said, â½The truth will set you freeâ)
Alright, alright
(I got no one to rely on except for me)


8.The Heart Of Everything

Lyricist:Bowe Kevin Joseph, Deasy William

In the dark before the day
You're still drunk from yesterday
When there ain't nothing left to say
Maybe then you'll find a way
To the heart of everything

When you've fallen off the path
Frozen in the aftermath
When the good times all go bad
Maybe then you'll make it back
To the heart of everything

When it all comes down
And you're hanging by a string
Then you'll come around
To the heart of everything

I'm not trying to pretend
That I know how your story ends
But I have been right where you are
And I know it's not that far
To the heart of everything

When it all comes down
And you're hanging by a string
Then you'll come around
To the heart of everything, yeah

When it all comes down
And you're hanging by a string
Then you'll come around
To the heart of everything

I have been right where you are
And I know it's not that far
To the heart of everything
To the heart of everything
To the heart of everything


9.Complicated Me

Lyricist:Deasy William, Houston Jamie (usa 2)

Out in the deep end
I'm alive, not that you would know
Wasted the weekend
Drivin' by places where you go

I know that you like 'em dangerous
And I ain't dangerous enough

I want to be complicated, celebrated
Mysterious, yeah, loved and hated
All my life I waited for someone to notice me
Hello world, it's complicated me

Every diamond
Starts its life as a piece of coal
I ain't a diamond
Just some guy standing in the cold

I'm an obvious victim of circumstance
And I know I ain't got a chance

I want to be complicated, celebrated
Mysterious, yeah, loved and hated
All my life I waited for someone to notice me
Hello world, it's complicated me

I know I could walk right up to you
But I'm afraid you'd see right through
You'd see right through
Oh, what's the use?

I want to be complicated, celebrated
Mysterious, yeah, loved and hated
All my life I waited for someone to notice me

I want to be complicated, celebrated
Mysterious, yeah, loved and hated
All my life I waited for someone to notice me

I want to be complicated, emulated
Mysterious, yeah, loved and hated
All my life I waited to be taken seriously
Hello world, it's complicated me, it's complicated me, yeah


10.Middle Road

Lyricist:William Paul Deasy

Take the darkest of the darkest nights
Combine it with the brightest of the sun's bright rays
And you'll see what I see in my head
What I see every day

From the pit of despair
To the arch of euphoric transcendence
I'm the middle man monkey, the misery junkie
The cat walking barbed wire fences

And I've been searching high and low
Yeah, up and down and carrying my heavy load
High and low and up and down and all around
Been trying to find the middle road

Well, I've been trying to find it
Well, I've been trying to find it

Whenever God shines his light
Well, I put on my best sunglasses
Any truth that shines through, for a moment, I view
But of course, then the moment, it passes

And I'm standing alone again
At the crossroads of my melodrama
With my heart in my hand, dumb and silent, I stand
Like some dime store Dalai Lama

I've been searching high and low
Yeah, up and down and carrying my heavy load
High and low and up and down and all around
Been trying to find the middle road

Well, I've been trying to find it
Well, I've been trying to find it

Angel, devil, it's all the same
Each one knows me by name
Each one knows me
They all know me by name

Come, the morning of my soul's dark night
When I've laid to rest these ghosts that haunt me
With sweet tenderness, I will kiss your red lips
Not the past or the future shall daunt me

But that day ain't here just yet
Oh, I'm stuck here on this roller coaster
With my hands in the air, on a wing and a prayer
Hoping it's taking me closer

I've been searching high and low
Oh, up and down and carrying my heavy load
High and low and up and down and all around
Been trying to find the middle road

Oh baby, I've been searching high and low
Oh, up and down and carrying my heavy load
High and low and up and down and all around
Been trying to find the middle road

Well, I'm still trying to find it
Well, I'm still trying to find it
Well, I've been trying to find the middle road
Well, I've been trying to find it, yeah

Well, I've been trying to find the middle road
Well, I've been trying to find the middle road
Well, I'm still trying to find it


11.The Soul Is Human

Lyricist:David P. Brown, William Paul Deasy, Ray Defade, Eric H.
Riebling

The crescent moon sits waxing in the clear, blue sky tonight
Joanna sits relaxing down by the riverside
The cigarette she's smoking, a symbol of her sin
The words they still ain't spoken, just a hanging in the wind

The soul is blackened by desire unprotected
The soul is weakened by love that goes neglected
The soul is drowning in a sea of sweet perfume and

Oh, lest we forget
The soul is human
Oh, lest we forget
The soul is human

What tangled webs we weave from idle speculation
A long, lost friend perceived the depth of her frustration
Beer bottle sweating, she sits peeling off the label
She'll start regretting this as soon as she is able

The soul is blackened by desire unprotected
The soul is weakened by love that goes neglected
The soul is drowning in a sea of sweet perfume and

Oh, lest we forget
The soul is human
Oh, lest we forget
The soul is human

Oh well, it's been so long
Yeah, since she felt this way
Oh well, it's been so long
Since she felt anything, yeah

'Just one more minute', she whispers in the moonlight
She's so deep in it, she cannot hold him too tight
The wheels are turning, she can feel them in the distance
With such sad yearning, hard to put up much resistance

The soul is blackened by desire unprotected
The soul is weakened by love that goes neglected
The soul is drowning in a sea of sweet perfume and
Oh, lest we forget the soul is human

The soul is blackened by desire unprotected
The soul is weakened by love that goes neglected
The soul is drowning in a sea of sweet perfume and

Ad oh, lest we forget
The soul is human
Yeah, lest we forget
The soul is human, hey, yeah


12.Rhapsody In Blue

Lyricist:David P. Brown, William Paul Deasy, Ray Defade, Eric H.
Riebling

She got a tattoo of a bracelet on her wrist
The love of strangers on her Christmas list
She ain't sentimental, she don't like to reminisce
She's a champion of action

You ain't never heard her voice but that's alright
'Cause you ain't never seen her face before tonight
But now you see her swaying to the left and to the right
And it rocks your whole foundation

See her spinning 'round
Blond hair falling down
You can hear the sound

Of your heart breaking
From the love she's taking from you
Song it's making
Is like a rhapsody in blue

Well, you ain't never seen no aura in your life, no
But you know her's is the color of the sky
When she looks at you it kills you, when she turns away you die
It's a tragic situation

So you drink one down for courage, two for soul
You drink a third for good luck, you stroll
Out onto the dance floor, but your feet are too damn cold
And you need more insulation, yeah, she knows

See her spinning 'round
Blond hair falling down
You can hear the sound

Of your heart breaking
From the love she's taking from you
Song it's making
Is like a rhapsody in blue

Oh, she don't love you
Oh, she don't see you in the crowd
Oh, if she did, she would not want you anyhow

The expectations linger in the air
Except the problem is that no one else is there
Just the memory of your angel, all these ghosts in empty chairs
Making comments 'bout the weather

Yeah, the taxi cab is waiting at the door
You can hear the driver blowing on his horn
So you close your eyes one last time and you conjure up her form
And you shake it down together, yeah

See her spinning 'round
Blond hair falling down
You can hear the sound

Of your heart breaking
From the love she's taking from you
Song it's making
Is like a rhapsody in blue, yeah

Well, it's a rhapsody in blue
Well, it's a rhapsody in blue, yeah
Well, it's a rhapsody in blue, alright
All, alright, down there

All, alright, all, alright, yeah, yeah, yeah
Well, it's a rhapsody in


13.Lost In America

Lyricist:Deasy William P

Snow on the railroad tracks
Dogs in the moonlight
Stoned out on Kerouac
Tryin' to get it just right

A phone in a dim lit room
Rings out forever
In a time that was still too soon
But why should he care?

He had a rambling soul
He drank a bottle of cheap wine
Turned up his collar to the cold
And waited, he waited for a sign

Fueled by amphetamines
And visions of beauty
As far as the eye could see
Was all that he strived for

A waitress in Tennessee
Said he looked like Jesus
He silenced her raging sea
Then walked out the door

He had a rambling soul
He drank a bottle of cheap wine
Turned up his collar to the cold
And waited, he waited for a sign
Oh, he waited for a sign

Under an open sky
He stands with his eyes closed
If anyone asked him why
He would not know

He's lost in America
He's hell bent for no place
A rusty harmonica
That won't even play

He's lost in America
He's hell bent for no place
A rusty harmonica
That won't even play, yeah, alright, alright

He's lost in America
He's lost in America


14.Are You An Angel?

Lyricist:David Brown, De Fade Ray, Deasy William, Reibling Eric Hunter

Born with blue eyes filled with pain
In March of 1922
Mystic fire in your veins
Mama's apron strangling you
Mama's apron strangling you
Mama's apron strangling

Young Jack Kerouac running up and down the football track
Are you an angel now?
Strong Jack Kerouac, once you're gone you can't come back, no
Are you in pain still?

Walking New York City streets
High on Benzedrine and wine
On the road and feeling beat, yeah
But chasing kicks and running blind
Chasing kicks and running blind
Chasing kicks and running

Wild Jack Kerouac, talking in a beat up Cadillac
Are you an angel now?
Drunk Jack Kerouac, once you're gone you can't come back, no
Are you in pain still?

Prayer on a red sunny Sunday afternoon
I bet you felt the wind blow through your hair
I bet you knelt down in a summer field and said a prayer
Hell, I can bet you said a prayer, yeah, alright

In '69 you found the prize
With bloated Buddha, belly up
But ecstasy your suicide
Sorrow filled your loving cup
Sorrow filled your loving cup
Sorrow filled your loving

Sad Jack Kerouac, sitting down beside the Merrimac, yeah
Are you an angel now?
Drunk Jack Kerouac, once you're gone you can't come back, no
Are you in pain still?

Fat Jack Kerouac, stumbling along the railroad track, yeah
Are you an angel now?
Dead Jack Kerouac, once you're gone you can't come back, no
Are you an angel?
Are you an angel?
Are you an angel?
Are you an angel?


15.My Serenity

Lyricist:Bassett Dave Richard, Deasy William, Kris Mackay

I want to get close to you
But I don't know where you are
I had a dream, it woke me up
Now I can't remember what I saw

Am I alone again? The room still looks the same
But there's this buzzing in the atmosphere
Your energy is everywhere
It almost speaks your name

I try but I fail, I run but I fall
And falling I find I still can crawl
I'm down on my knees, I'm reachin' for you
Are you reaching for me? My serenity

See these prison bars
Some of my best laid plans
I tunneled through the mountainside
Disregarded warning signs
Made with my own hands

I try but I fail, I run but I fall
And falling I find I still can crawl
I'm down on my knees, I'm reachin' for you
Are you reaching for me? My serenity

There's this buzzing in the atmosphere
Your energy is everywhere
It almost speaks your name

I try but I fail, I run but I fall
And falling I find I still can crawl
I'm living to learn, I'm dyin' to find
That place in my heart, that peace of mind

I'm down on my knees, reaching for you
Are you reaching for me?
Keep reachin, keep reachin' for me
My serenity, my serenity, my serenity
My serenity


16.Midnight Ghost

Lyricist:David Brown, De Fade Ray, Deasy William, Reibling Eric Hunter

Destitute, desolation
Angels eyes shine upon my curse
From this mountain, I make my way
Along the railroad earth

Steam train blazing a lonely hill
Damaged cargo am I
But not so damaged as not to see
The magic in the sky

Oh midnight, midnight ghost
Ol' zipper rollin' down the line
Oh midnight, midnight ghost
Rollin' down the line

Without a memory, without a heartache
Ain't no comfort in happiness
Tidings, whispered and merciful
Are the tidings I like best

Pre-dawn twilight, skyline glowing
Mountain wind blowing through, blowing through
And I tug upon the jug of my redemption
Nothing much else to do

Oh midnight, midnight ghost
Ol' zipper rollin' down the line
Oh midnight, midnight ghost
Rollin' down the line

In a sense, my innocence
Been waiting here all along
I thought I'd traveled so far away
But I was never even gone

Pray for me, my sweet Marie
I'm searching still for to see my sign
Rolling on to a new day
Down that midnight line

Oh midnight, midnight ghost
Ol' zipper rollin' down the line
Oh midnight, midnight ghost
Rollin' down the line

Rollin', yeah, oh, she's rollin'
She's rollin', rollin' down the line
Rollin', rollin', rollin' down the line
Yeah, she's rollin', rollin', rollin' down the line
Yeah, we're rollin', rollin', rollin' down the line
Yeah, she's rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'

Destitute, desolation
Angels eyes shine upon my curse
From this mountain, I make my way
Along the railroad earth


17.Love Me Good

Lyricist:David Brown, De Fade Ray, Deasy William, Reibling Eric Hunter

Well, I don't know why it
Makes me cry when I
Think back on the
Things we done

And I don't know when I'll
Feel again
Like this might be
Worth my while

And I don't know how we
Came to be
So far away from
Where we were

And I don't know if I'll
Ever see just
What it is you went
Running for

I got some things to do
Need some time alone
Think we'll make it through
Baby, I don't know

Taken for granted, yes and
Misunderstood
If you're going to love me girl
Well, then you better love me good

Love me good

It was a night like this
When I first felt your kiss
And the line was drawn
To set our dreams upon

Was that line too high?
Or was our love a lie?
Or were the dreams we made
Just some old game you played?
Game you played

Well, it's hard to tell exactly
Why you fell, but just like
Dominoes, hit one, the
Whole thing goes

And it's a crying shame
But only you to blame
And what's the big idea
Of crawling back to me?

Got some things to do
Need some time alone
Think we'll make it through
Baby, I don't know

Taken for granted, yes and
Misunderstood
If you're going to love me girl
Well, then you better love me good

Well, I don't know why it
Makes me cry when I
Think back on all the
Things we done

And I don't know when I'll
Feel again
Like this might be
Worth my while

Love me, yeah, love me good
Love me, yeah, love me good
Alright