The Gracious Few

The Gracious Few The Gracious Few Lyrics
1.Closer

I have been wronged by you
Someday you'll, someday you'll see
What has been done brings you
Closer to, closer to me

Did you say you never meant it?
Did you scream it out loud?
Someday you'll, someday you'll be
A ship afloat, and endless road, an empty soul
And nothing to

Nothing to me

The closer that we grow
Always high always low
The harder that we fall
Always right always wrong

I have been wronged by you
Someday you'll, someday you'll see
What has been done brings you
Closer to, closer to me

Unbroken and reborn
Second sights and well-worn
Unbridled and restless
Reminded and venomous

I have been wronged by you
Someday you'll, someday you'll see
What has been done brings you
Closer to, closer to me

Did you say you never meant it?
Did you scream it out loud?
Someday you'll, someday you'll be
A ship afloat, an endless road, and empty soul
And nothing to
Nothing to

Nothing to me

Closer to me
Closer to me
Closer to me
Closer to me
Closer to me

I have been wronged by you
Someday you'll, someday you'll see
What has been done brings you
Closer to, closer to me

Did you say you never meant it?
Did you scream it out loud?
Someday you'll, someday you'll be
A ship afloat, and endless road, an empty soul
And nothing to

Nothing to me


2.Appetite

Another child without a mother
A bastard son tired old man
Just wasting away as the pipe become his lover
Not a man in this world, understand?

Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy, trigger finger
You know you ain't got the right

Another year of city streets
That child's child the casualty
Not a book in the world could ever reteach her belief
That there's more to this world than just death and debris

Kill it quicker, stick it deeper
Tuning out the fights tonight
Got an itchy, trigger finger
You know you ain't got the right

Should you stay or should you go
Enduring pains but nothing grows
You never dream, I've always been
The look, the lips, the appetite.
We all need some lovin' sometimes.


3.Honest Man

With a riot in mind
Comes an angry young man
With a stone from the pavement
Comes an army of unrest
Stripped bare by her bachelors
Stripped bare on the ground
Knuckles bared and still bleeding with the blood of this town

They take my home they take my land the flower of my life
They take my friends; they take my love and cut me like a knife
I spit these words at vile lies the worlds forgotten men
Aint no work
Aint no work
For an honest man

In a daze of confusion
Lies a troubled broken land
As they feast upon my table
I am left with an empty hand
Stripped bare by her bachelors
Stripped bare on the ground
Knuckles bared and still bleeding with the blood of this town

They take my home they take my land the flower of my life
They take my friends; they take my love and cut me like a knife
I spit these words at vile lies the worlds forgotten men
Aint no work
Aint no work
For an honest man

For so long we've been told
That our paths lead us home
Are we safe from ourselves?
Have we strayed have we failed?

With a riot in mind
Comes an army of unrest


4.Guilty Fever

I got a guilty fever feelin' buzzed
Thinking bout your love
I got to see you babe for I think I might give up
I wanna shake it, I wanna shake things up

You know I want you baby, I wanna shake it up.
You got your foreign kisses & sugar drips
From the sweetness of your tongue
You got me burning babe and I think I'm going numb

You've got me shakin' baby, you make me shake it up
Oh I've gotta, I got to quit this quick you make me shake it up.
I've got a guilty fever to much love
Babe you got me high

I couldn't quit you mama I feel I'm gonna die
You make me crazy baby you got me so shook up
Oh I've gotta, I gotta quit you baby you make me shake it up

I gotta quit you baby you make me shake it up yeah.
Oh I gotta get away
I've got to lose your love baby yeah
Oh you got me runnin' crazy
I got to get away yeah.


5.The Few

Don't you step your dirty foot in here brother
And don't you ever think to come around here no more
You've gone and done it you'll never be the same again.
I want blood and I want it now yes
Everything you see is everything you'll lose so
Let it be baby we'll entertain you
They let you in I showed you out the only way I can
The only way I thought I ever could destroy you.

Wrapped up in the grapevine
We're gonna raise it
Bound and tied
We're gonna break it
Hold your breath
We're gonna face it

You're going down, yeah we're gonna turn it up loud
Whose side are you on and whose race you runnin'
Give it up you nearly killed yourself last time
Everyone you see is everyone that knew you were wrong
They want blood and they want it now yes.
A little bit of what you thought was never gonna surface
Its come around its been brought to attention
We let you in we showed you out the only way we can
The only way we thought we ever could destroy you.

Wrapped up in the grapevine
We're gonna raise it
Bound and tied
We're gonna break it
Hold your breath
We're gonna face it
You're going down, yeah we're gonna turn it up loud
We're gonna raise it
We're gonna break it down now
If you never believed baby believe in this
We're gonna face it
We're gonna turn it up loud
If you never believed baby we're leaving this town


6.The Rest Of You

Walk away I know
You're not coming back
No one was ever told and you dared not to ask
I had this feeling you'd rehearsed 'cause all the words you
spoke were so divine.

Left beside myself your silhouette just passing by.
I hear you breathing fast asleep
Is it really so? I'm tangled up in plaid and basking in the
afterglow

I have this feeling we been here to long the circles worn upon
these floors
I stand beside myself a sea of change addressed unsure.

If you feel you've got to break my heart
That nothing here could ever heal you
If I could be the mend the cast, restart
Would you let me fix the rest of you?

So I wipe away the years
You've blossomed through it all
Had my knees been there for me I might have never fallen
I want this feeling to deny it all, deny you felt the same and I
I left you by yourself my faults were there
Waving their goodbye's

If you feel you've got to break my heart
That nothing here could ever heal you
If I could be the mend the cast, restart
Would you let me fix the rest of you?

You've gone uncomfortably quiet & I am comfortably sad
I given in and resigned you held the rein's in your hands
My hearts divided, I've been placed securely under your thumb
My betters been best and I am feeling unsung
Baby walk away I know
You're not coming back
No I was never told and I dared not to ask

If you feel you've got to break my heart
That nothing here could ever heal you
If I could be the mend the cast, restart
Would you let me fix the rest of you?


7.Crying Time

Did you ever want out of this, out of this life?
Did you ever think about it love from time to time?
Did you believe in everything they said, they're saying things I
don't know?
How did you get so far my friend, so far from home?
Did you ever draw outside the, outside the lines?
Did you mean to make others hurt, from time to time?
Did I tell everything's been said what they're saying it's so
untrue?
How could you ever let this life get the best of you?

All those memories but you're still alone
It's crying time but there's still love.
Oh and I tried so hard to get to you

I know you never meant
You never meant those things you'd done
I never meant to leave you but
It's crying time but there's still love.

Did you ever look back and wish, wish you'd have shinned?
Did you ever feel less than low or more than high?
Did I tell you I believed in everything they said, none of it
true?
I could have been a better friend, a better friend to you.

All these memories but you're still alone
It's crying time but there's still love.
Oh and I tried so hard to get to you

I know you never meant those things you'd done
I never meant to leave you but
It's crying time this time for you.

Oh and these trying times so hard for you
Oh and it's crying time but there's still love


8.Silly Thing

I could be set aside
Forgotten, drained and burnt alive
Ooh, I could be buried beneath your grounds
I could be left outside and tossed around
I could be here and there whenever you head out
Standing by your side amongst this battleground

Ooh lover you better settle down
Ooh lover you better settle down

I could be anything
Invaded and surrendering
Another step beneath your feet for you to walk upon
I could be tattooed, scared the past bygone
I could be all you need the night the dawn
Give you shelter from the pains that life has set upon

Ooh lover you better settle down
Ooh lover you better settle down

It's such a silly thing I been waiting forever
It' such a simple thing I was under your cover
If you'd rush through me and blushed my cheeks and reminded me
who I'm supposed to be, I would, I could for you.

Ooh lover you better settle down
Ooh lover you better settle down
Ooh lover you better settle down
Ooh lover you better settle down

It's such a silly thing I been waiting forever
It' such a simple thing I was under your cover
If you'd rush through me and blushed my cheeks and reminded me
who I'm supposed to be, I would, I could for you.


9.What's Wrong

Never thought about all the ins and outs
We said forever vows baby can you do without
Can you do without me?
I know we've had our doubts, the sun is setting now
We said it's over cos baby I can't live without you
Can you live without
Can you live without

You and me and all degree and everything to make it seem
Like you and me supposed to be the envy of most everything
What's wrong?
What's wrong?

How come we never tried to see each other's side?
I was so wrong, baby everybody hurts
and you hurt me sometimes
how can i stitch it up
the scars, the wounds, the cuts
are we so broken and bruised that we can't feel the love?
We can't feel the love
Love that started with

You and me and our degree
and everything to me is seemed
Like you and me supposed to be the envy of most everything

Now you and me and our degree
and everything to make it seem
Like you and me supposed to be the envy of most everything
So.. what's wrong?
What's going on?

Baby
Could we ever let the melody we made together
Could we ever let the melody we made together
Could we ever let the melody we made together
Get so far from where we started lover

You and me and our degree
And everything to make it seem
Like you and me supposed to be the envy of most everything
Now you and me and our degree
And everything to make it seem
Like you and me, we're supposed to be the envy of most
everything
So.. what's wrong?
What's wrong?
What's wrong?
What's wrong?


10.Tredecim

I am the harvest moon
My autumn spry
As summers rapture comes to close
A glow of orange at night
These leaves they lay upon me still
A seasons resting place
Careless and free
I am the winter's stay

For days upon days I've sailed for your shores
These waters between us crashing and cold
I said I could change for your season I would
I said I would change for this reason I could
No house for my rage a shell of securities
Your beaches littered with dead and debris
I said I would come for this reason I could
I said I could stay for this season I would
I have grown older will

By another name
My days have grown shorter filled
A bit more life upon my plate
I cannot return to days of yore
I commit to time, speed forth
Relentless and rife
Splendor, encore

For days upon days I've sailed for your shores
These waters between us all crashing and cold
I said I could change for your season I would
I said I could change

No house for my rage insecure yes diseased
Your beaches littered with dead and debris
I said I would for your season I've changed
I awaken I am dazed
I returned a gilded man
My life has made me calendar
My life is flatland.


11.Nothing But Love

I listen to your summers' breeze
I listen to your heart and breathe
I listen to your pulse racing
Baby you got nothin' but luv

I listen to the song of trees
Sweet lady walk with me
No matter where we journey
Baby you got nothin' but luv

You got nothing but love
I listen to your rhythm swing
Laughing dancing everything
Sing baby make me believe
Baby you got nothin' but luv

In the vein of my reflection
In the ruin of its remarks
In my broken down confession I prepare and I remark
I am mistaken misdirected over acting and a fool

Ain't no captain on this sea of love
A spinning whirlpool you got nothing but love
You got nothing but love
I listen to your summer's breeze

Sweet lady walk with me
Sing baby make me believe
You got nothing but love

I listen to your summers' breeze
I listen to your heart and breathe
I listen to your pulse racing
Baby you got nothin' but love


12.Sing

Song in my mind keeps me right it seems I,
I've worn through the soles of my,
The soles of my boots take a beating, a beating I've known.

I've know days into weeks into years I've run,
Seattle to Austin the Apple and on
So on with the boots and on with the soul
And on with the people and on with the show
I wanna sing, sing my song
I wanna feel alive, 'cause I wanna sing my song

I've waited so long.
Can you see in my stance it seems I,
I've awakened the ghost of my,
The ghost in my mind and I'm guessing, guessing who'll show.

In hours in minutes in seconds so close,
So close to the beating the chanting the roar,
So on with my boots and on with my soul,
And on with the lights and on with the show
I wanna sing, sing my song
I wanna feel alive, 'cause I wanna sing my song

I've waited so long.
I'm barely breathing still I,
Step to the stage heart beating,
The lights descend upon me,
I take my place and I am song.
I wanna sing, I wanna sing my song

All these songs in my mind keep me right seems I've
Worn through the soles of my,
Yes the soles of my boots take a beating, a beating I've known.
Oh it's on with boots and on with the soul
And on with you people and on with the show

I wanna sing, sing my song
I wana feel alive, I wanna feel alive, I wanna feel alive, I
wanna sing my song.


13.All I Hear

I see that,
You got the gun made me realize, that I hold the trigger
Both of us knowing we're both alike, we're both digging deeper
I could, hold you for ransom or free you
Yes free you from mind
And everyone's singing like everything's
Like everything's fine
I don't want to change for sake of change
I don't wanna bring back yesterdays
I don't wanna know who's who what's what just gimme that goddamn
truth today

You can,
Toy with that army or maybe you'll
You'll play with your soldier
You're, you're getting your back up but yet you know
You'll never get over
Your, your people unanswered adverse yes they're
Adverse, overthrown it's a,
A coup d'état by the few yes the gracious
The gracious bold

I don't want to change for sake of change
I don't wanna bring back yesterdays
I don't wanna know who's who what's what just gimme that goddamn
truth today
I don't want to change for sake of change
I don't wanna bring back yesterdays
I don't wanna know who's who what's what just gimme that goddamn
truth today
Ooh today.

You're Heartless, Gold Diggin got them Diamonds Forever
Them white folks been singing your blues they love ya dressed up
in leather
You're forever the freshman aint no graduate to be seen
Hey brother, them white folks keep spending on you
Hey mama, he squeaky-clean.

All I hear is all I hear is all I hear is all I hear is all