Blessed Blackness (S. Lunsford)
you have a different view from your eyes i think it's good and what you play is such a surprise i think it's good blessed blackness i love you blessed blackness i worship you i'm tuned in to just what you feel it's all the same we need some music we need love it's all the same looking at your hands you are the ancient man i know you will do better than i can blessed blackness i love you blessed blackness i worship you
Bright Day (S. Poff, J. Thompson)
look at the sky and see the man in the sun casting his rays down for every single one it will be a bright day for all of us no need now to make any sort of fuss we'll just cast away all our petty tears and embrace all the coming years how simple it could be how simple it would be to stop all our doubts from haunting and be with the sun king
Canceled Flight (S. Lunsford)
i took a trip to london but it didn't swing me right i went to new york city but i didn't like the lights i'd stay right where i am if i could fall asleep at night you can find me at the airport getting on a canceled flight i've been working at the movies selling tickets through the glass i'd feel better if they knew me but i just smile and take their cash i stare out of that window and count the cop cars as they pass gonna lift up off the concrete put my fingers in the grass
Canyon (D. Cundiff, S. Lunsford)
farther down the canyon is where you'll find us dreaming in the rain again you are all welcome come into our hearts speak in scarlet letters that never fall apart coloring the leaves changing into dreams the sound they make is real to me and it can be real for us and it can be real open your hands feel the rain descend form together as friends made from the same place born with a different face there is a pattern of sound and light vision of beauty we make at night and it can be real for us and it can be real you can't divide us it's inside us will you follow come tomorrow
Can You Hear The Bells? (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
David (S. Lunsford)
i have never been inside of ruby's house i often want to see but i can't venture out the street's so full of faces here's my invitation is it really real will i finally tell her how she makes me feel i'm walking out my door i can't hide it anymore here i go now standing on here front porch with the cigarette it's early and no people are arriving yet it's just me and ruby you're welcome to stay thank you ruby
Didn't You Baby (S. Lunsford)
i thought i told you not to speak to me although you want to you should leave me be you tried to burn me didn't you baby i won't make that mistake again now when you see me turn and walk away i'm not in any mood to talk today you tried to freeze me didn't you baby i won't make that mistake again
Die (S. Poff, J. Thompson)
Don't Put The Blame On Me (D. Cundiff, S. Lunsford)
you lost a million dollars and your stock is falling fast you're walking in a puddle and your car won't run on gas you gave your love a diamond and she won't wash your clothes your hands are tied behind your back and you can't wipe your nose i know it hurts don't put the blame on me i didn't scuff your shoes when you passed me on the street you were talking on some telephone you were holding with your feet you hide your love away and you guard it with your life you never thought another man would take you for a wife
Dr. Alabaster (D. Cundiff)
hello hello hello hello i have a surprise of course you don't know my mind is in the clouds i'd love to tell you how it sounds just take a walk inside your mind the doctor will see you in due time kaleidoscopes and flowers in bloom come take a trip inside a balloon oh me oh my everyone's here up in the sky i can see the land and ruby's hand waving goodbye just take a ride in the air with dr. alabaster there's no care i've seen you here before i hear the birds at the door
Engineer Man (S. Lunsford)
he's the engineer man he's the leader of the band he does all the work 'round here he has to be alone no time to be at home there's no people here to fear engineer man he stays inside he is barely alive would you believe in him he cannot talk and he trips when he walks and you are inside of him engineer man
Feel Bad (S. Lunsford)
don't feel bad you're feeling me don't feel bad you're feeling me need you feel you i'm opening you're closing me breathing you you're choking me let it all fall away
Find It All Around (D. Cundiff)
We go out. there is nothing there. all the comments gone. we can just sit and stare. why are you sitting down? there is something to be seen find it all around
Future Man (S. Lunsford)
I'm very smart you know I'm reading all the time
fine art and poetry and slavery and wine
are you impressed with my intelligent today?
extract the meaning of a stupid thing to say
future man
digital distraction has become something required
you once felt peaceful but you just thought you were tired
optic limitations have you permanently bummed
drugs and transportation always got you on the run
future man
Golden Circles (J. Thompson)
Good Review (S. Lunsford)
you don't like the way i sing my songs does that mean we can't get along i guess that i'm the same as you i heard your songs i hate them too i thought that we were fine until we had some time i see right through the rain parade of yourself a fool you've made you don't sound just like you are have you travelled just as far we were feeling fine until we had some time
Happier (S. Poff)
let's take the time to wander if we get lost well that's ok we'll just take the city bus until we find our way its just another night on the town and we could not be happier with our mouths like smoke stacks and our eyes like headlights to us this night could not get any brighter
Have a Home (S. Lunsford)
we use each other for personal gain only to leave or still worse to remain i think i'm playing your game i seem to be there when moments arise we have no memories attached to our lives except for those in the skies i need protection from those who try to use me i don't possess you and still you do this to me how could it be that you'd never want to have a home you have to wander to know you can breathe to be a sender and not to recieve with the greatest of ease like tools of heaven we cross in our paths the words of treasure you'd said with a laugh i didn't want to be mad
Honeysuckle, Rose, & Pumpkin (S. Lunsford)
you're the reason and you are the inspiration in my life i love you in the sunshine i love you even more in moonlight i'm so glad you didn't die from that disease when you were young i don't think that you and me are at the end we've just begun you smell sweetly of honeysuckle rose and pumpkin i have a good life but if i don't have you it's nothing you're always with me a hundred miles away or by my side when you touch me it makes me so happy i want to cry i'm proud to walk with you your flames are burning high little fire
Hot Pursuit (S. Lunsford, S. Poff, J. Thompson)
see your life begin to spiral out of control seek your feathers they'll kill your mind to teach your soul they're gonna catch you they're gonna find you no matter what you do they're gonna get you
How You Sleep (S. Lunsford)
is it easy for you to love her i don't know how you sleep i believe you are out to get me i don't know how you sleep did you know when i lived inside you can this feeling be a dream would you say she's a certain girl since it's empty in her world can't you see this is killing me as i bottom out on your memory there's nothing left for me to prove i love you
Hurt My Pride (S. Lunsford)
you run your mouth all day long i can't get you to say a word seems like the truth is something you don't think i deserve you better tell me everything about your other guy or little girl you know that one of us is gonna die you tried to hurt my pride but you don't know you say that you don't know just what's going on i know that you just can't admit how you've done me wrong you're doing evil cause you can't understand my happiness you don't know
I Can't See You (Not Today) (J. Thompson, S. Poff)
i see through you your mind's no mystery to me your time is wasted you didn't stop to see you're waiting there you still wait there people still don't know your name you're family and you play their game things are falling all around where is your sound i hear you talking i hear the things that you say but i can't see you not today not today
I Could Die (S. Lunsford)
tomorrow when it comes i'm down by that old graveyard in the morning fog you cry out in the dark open the gate now i could die now lord take my hand now
I Don't Know Why (S. Lunsford)
i used to be a man she couldn't understand about my life now she's gone and i don't know why she wouldn't live my life i wouldn't take advice i told her i didn't want to go away and i don't know why
I Make My Own Laws (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
i don't want your money i don't want your life i don't want your car or your beautiful wife how can i grow when you're cutting me down i'm spending my time getting run in the ground this town is a drag i said that's for sure but i'm splitting the box and i'm going on tour going to hell that's what you say but don't you understand that i'm there every day i wear my hair long i ain't no g.i. joe got a new way of life now i'm letting you know talk about your problems and you say i'm the cause but this is my life and i make my own laws
I Need You To Be Strong (S. Lunsford)
you were always talking you were too proud to listen
laughing at me for a while
you've had it bad but I doubt you're worried
I just wanna see you smile
I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you to be strong
all the years you want to do alone
songs to show her for she's dying
please believe I'd never try and turn you
don't belong and don't be mine
I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you to be strong
I can feel it when I start to dream
I'll Get Even (S. Lunsford)
you search for a key and you spy from a tree
and you slip along corners between
every note that you smoked was a cough in your throat
and a song that you tossed in a dream
and who was it on the hearing end?
you slip through the woods in fear and then
you finally make it back
in the shadows he can't track, but he's tracing your steps
you keep out of sight like a creep in the night
and you sneak along numbers so plain
you're sorry you looked what I wrote in the book
one of us cannot have a name
you scrape underneath what I use for a seat
and the remnants are all you can take
for me to come in and sit right down
cause he don't want me comin' round and believin'
that the world has been deceivin'
can't you see how I'll get even?
I'm Not Sorry (S. Lunsford)
you tried to turn her and yourself against everyone else
a dark cloud full of rain you complain but you don't want to help
what to do? I can't trust you - oh, and everyone sees through you
you can't be wrong so I don't know what to say
you'll get defensive or something so I'll keep away
where to go? I don't know - oh, and I told her so
if I'm not just how you want me to be - I'm not sorry
no pity party thrown for you - I'm not sorry
I don't have all the answers and I'm not perfection myself
but I know how to be a true friend to somebody else
where to go? I don't know - oh, and I told you so
if I'm not just how you want me to be - I'm not sorry
no pity party thrown for you - I'm not sorry
and you're not sorry
I'm not sorry.
Indian Winter (D. Cundiff, J. Thompson) When the winter comes she'll be all mine. she can shake the trees empty of leaves. hiding in the tipi its feathers she brings me. walking on the ground im leaving town. indian winter. I can see the tracks running in the snow. smoke from the hills no i wont go. we ride horses underneath the pink sky. we float like spirits when we die. Indian Winter.
It's Real and It's the End (S. Lunsford, S. Poff, J. Thompson)
hear me for the first time and take you far again follow through the water it's real and it's the end feed me for the last time sweet nothing is waiting there play the final notes to your song and die
Just Give Up (J. Thompson)
Keep Them Down (S. Poff)
pass us around do as you want our bodies are yours just leave our minds free to be you can't stop us from thinking you don't want to know our dreams they'll leave you confused vision has no chains to keep them down
Kind of Soul (S. Lunsford)
Are you really gonna let her win after all she's done?
She's just another one.
Are you really gonna speak to her? I can't believe
you wouldn't let her leave.
Recognize her mystery - if you'll promise this to me
Don't be around that kind of soul.
Are you really gonna take her back after where she's been?
Do you see what I mean?
Are you sleeping standing on your feet after all you've done?
you're not the only one.
Recognize her mystery - if you'll promise this to me
Don't be around that kind of soul.
Ladder Face (S. Poff, J. Thompson)
if you find yourself feeling bad just take it all in everything's ok you know you really don't have to feel that bad immerse yourself in the rhythm of today when overcome in the dark it gets brighter with knowledge the brain becomes wiser climb your own ladder leave behind the matter
Larry Fern (S. Poff, J. Thompson)
look at all the people down there so small the sky is so pretty up here i think i'll go for a walk and never fall that's when larry took his trip to be with the people in the grass then larry thought to himself this trip is moving too fast how do i slow down calm down my eyes are tearing shut them my ears are popping its just the wind my chest is heaving accept it all is this the end it will soon begin i can breathe again you're calming i can see the people they're all waiving for many people they're all waiting goodbye larry fern
Left and Right (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
come down to earth i know it's always in your mind you made the choice to go you have to toe a line i hope you're feeling better than you were now she's changing colors and she's flying around the room there's whistles on the left missles on the right the middle of your head is like a parasite you're like a parasite girl
Magic Bears (D. Cundiff)
(Darling) Magic Twig Ain't Nuthin To Fuck Wit (S. Lunsford)
use my friends and put us down i don't need to bicker with you go burn the capitol right to the ground if your precious ideals are so true second-hand activist why do you preach you act like you're some kind of master or priest you're hung up on garments and haircuts and flesh your experiments are just like all the rest how do you feel when you're out in the street or when you're alone in a bed i wrote and recorded hundreds of songs and they will live on when i'm dead so go right ahead and talk and talk cause you're too afraid to sing another white man on stolen land we'd kill you if you were a king if you're such an intellectual man then go teach politics don't be in a band you're hung up on garments and haircuts and flesh your experiments are just like all the rest
Memory System (S. Lunsford)
you just have to listen closely i'll tell you how to develop a memory system that works there's a skull beside the door everyone is watching it so closely i'm reading a magazine in the dark a memory system that works
Mr. Stafford's Daughter (S. Poff, J. Thompson)
sandy is not the girl i used to know sandy where did you go she's playing with the boys down the street those boys are not the crowd you want to meet sandy i'd help you if could sandy let me know if i shoud i just want that girl back
Needing A Friend (S. Lunsford)
when all the faces have disappeared the thoughts you used to have they don't come true you're needing a friend and once again she is by herself you realize that you are alone as well you're needing a friend sometimes i need her sometimes i'm singing does anybody need the things that i am bringing
Never Know (D. Cundiff, S. Lunsford)
girl you'll never know if you have to ask about it be yourself and know that nothing's real you've had one too many lies i'm going to cut you down to my size and all i ask of you is do what you first wanted to girl you'll never know
O Bummer (S. Lunsford)
you're just looking at some kind of screen and you didn't know that the king was a queen the sun's up at last i go check my tracks cut the wings open and strap to your back through the walls of water you're making a torch i turn on my camera and make my report you can't move forward you're facing the wind you can rest for a while then you're moving again after all you're just flesh and bone and you've got a mind of your own your parachute is filled with snow is there a person that you know fall in easy and it's hard to climb out all or nothing is what it's about they're all scared to sing and dance they've planned it all out and they don't have a chance when the storm comes you can dig in the flat and sleep in a cave when the sky tips its hat time is running its hands through your hair and your face and your body have turned into air yourself for real is so hard to see when an actor is what every man has to be you're living on a higher plane you're awake but the dreams were the same
Push Down On You (S. Lunsford)
you haven't been amazed with what we've done but have you ever felt the piercing gaze from everyone pull you apart push down on you yes they do pull you apart push down on you yes they do there's so much to be said do you agree i know that we can move ahead if you come with me pull you apart push down on you yes they do pull you apart push down on you yes they do
Remember This Song (S. Lunsford)
bright lights big city went to your head you think something's happening it's already dead remember this song you took what you wanted then you went away you latched onto someone new and you repeat what they say all you want is new people to see your new clothes you say you're so open how many times have you turned up your nose remember this song
Ruby's Party (D. Cundiff, J. Thompson)
Seems To Be (J. Thompson)
Sight (J. Thompson)
Sleepyhead (S. Poff, J. Thompson)
if you look in my window you will see me sleeping not giving a damn if i ever wake up maybe you should try it it ain't that bad everybody needs a little relaxation to keep from going mad and i'm constantly tired all i want is sleep cause when i'm awake i'm a boy you don't wanna meet cause in my dreams i've got all the time that i need to be free
Special Friends (S. Lunsford)
i am dumb from holding you i think it's time i put you down forevermore and what's in store for me this game has gone too far i'm tired of knowing where you are and what's the matter with my laughter we remain expressionless how could we invest in this new distraction the arms that i am trapped in there are things that i could say but why should i speak anyway where does it end and where does it begin stop the time and touch my skin we'll turn to special friends follow me just follow me leave it up to you to take a love that i was born to make you've heard before you've heard that before
Strangers (S. Lunsford)
strangers that's what you need tell them who you are and they believe strangers don't have a past trick your mind into thinking that it's gonna last strangers come from the dark they think that it's real when you pretend that you've got a heart strangers hear what they say put on your mask when you see they are coming your way
Stray (S. Poff)
i am just a poor boy with nothing left to say you are such a rich girl who only stands in the way but its all these indifferences that makes me want to stay we must not no we must not stray don't be such a downer everything thing has its way of showing its provided way to take so despite all of this girl we must open our eyes to wake we must not no we must not stray
Talisman (S. Lunsford)
sacred texts of noble man recieve your thoughts with open hands germ of life a time and space insects on a dying face my talisman will keep you bright my pentagram and clothes of white the fire is green and gold within my eyes crystal stone the astral salt away with guilt and fear and fault flames that ripen sand and ash we never die we turn to glass my talisman will keep you bright my pentagram and clothes of white the fire is green and gold within my eyes
Thanks Paul Horn (S. Lunsford)
turn around and leave me here don't believe in anything turn your eyes into my heart don't believe in anything
The Ballad of Jimmy Campbell (S. Lunsford)
from within the grave you take my hand the things you made i understand you had something to show at the end of life's game i will spread your love and praise your name
The Most Impressive Thing of All (D. Cundiff, S. Lunsford, S. Poff)
my name is written everywhere the most impressive thing of all and when the eyes begin to stare our feet stop working and we fall there's things that keep us far apart and you know we're not the same there is no light without the dark the meaning's different in your brain my feet are growing weary now and my eyes becoming dim my mind starts to wonder how and these strange feelings do begin to creep inside of my being i need this doubt to survive because when faced with it i win relief rush over and i thrive this is the great light when we end the night we can take you to the fields golden green makes it heal the most impressive thing of all is that we know
The Sun King & The Man (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
we remember for so long what we have put there when you spoke the words were wrong you're right but what do you care the sun king and the man could have awoke by now they heard you stop dead when you were walking they heard you lying when you were talking i can't understand
Tribe (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
i could think forever about what to do and i won't get through first of all jump in and try see if you die it's not that bad with the tribe on your side if you don't have it then here's some of mine when the silence comes you'll be ok i'll bring the day when the night is done we won't get paid but love is made do you think the sound is me it's not supposed to be but you know that there's no rules am i a fool it's not that bad with the tribe on your side if you don't have it then here's some of mine
The Way You Are Inside (S. Lunsford, S. Poff, J. Thompson)
i'll help you understand the way you are inside just what you say to me it's keeping me alive so take these words with you it's time to start anew if what you say is true you've done what you can do i'm turning on and on don't turn me off quite yet everything you didn't want is what you just might get you're open up too wide and the world has crawled inside it's keeping me alive the way you are inside
They're Not Writing (S. Lunsford)
you play the part of someone you don't know you heard about the river how it flows a sleeping mind of magic weaves a spell you're following the ringing of the bell a lighthouse in the morning comes to view and suddenly it's shining right on you they're not writing anymore then the ghosts they reveal your second pulse the children they are planted in the mulch you pause for just a blink and then it slips you're shaking but you just can't escape the grip they're not writing anymore
This Tyme (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
mother was expecting me to sleep in my own bed i walked alone to Georgia with a raincoat on my head you could have been important and you could have been so good you could have ate your children like i told you that you should on the way to daylight but i never got that far somebody with a suitcase tried to sell you my guitar i wrote a thousand letters and threw them all away you didn't hear a sound when i was calling every day
Time Is Not Today (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
locked into a reason have i now become a room the walls have made us wiser in our decorated tomb and i wonder why the people live this way and i say to you that we don't live today time is not today the door was locked before but it was never there at all you've got to know to leave before the ceiling starts to fall and i wonder why the people live this way and i say to you that we don't live today
Tough Face (S. Lunsford)
you say the city would do me good you're wrong you're wrong you think i haven't been experienced you're wrong you're wrong don't you think it's time for living your life your life are you happy with what's going on your life your life all i really want to do is be your friend your friend what about people makes them not be your friend your friend i do me you do you your thing your thing you are you i am i your thing your thing
Tree in the Rain (S. Lunsford)
when something is standing right in front of you does it mean it is blocking your way or is it the door you were meant to go through to the quarters you keep for the day you're far down the street yes your body is gone but your image remains in my hands the embers still glow and the smoke it still blows from our camp to the mountainous land in ancient times we danced the dance from which all dances come i have no doubt that you've got to get out if you feel like you're under a thumb it should be the fabric that keeps you alive and the song that keeps you sane and if you should rise and you cast it aside then the love is still there just the same and we'll meet by a tree in the rain
Up Against The Wall (S. Lunsford)
wake me up this morning softly face the day we can live together float and drift away thinking much too hard again sing your mind to sleep keep your head held high you know Earth beneath your feet and you'll find that you are real and you'll know you have it all and you'll see that i am here we are up against the wall
Wait Girl (A. Angle, S. Lunsford)
everybody comes from all around trying to move there's a change to make today but i'm gonna wait and you're gonna wait for me i believe in being alone yeah i've got to be alone i don't want you to hear me a little bit too late girl yeah you better wait girl you're gonna wait for me same shape little weight girl good smell with the sex mix taste girl yeah i wanna mate girl but i ain't stayin' late now baby you better hope for fate now baby yeah you're gonna wait girl
We Spoke Our Minds (S. Lunsford)
people didn't find it acceptable at the time
we spoke our minds, we spoke our minds
you can call it what you want - I'm lookin' fine
we spoke our minds we spoke our minds
when I take sick one day and lay my head to rest
the papers all will talk of when I was my best
I'll keep repeating myself all of the time
we spoke our minds, we spoke our minds
you should check out the world it's lookin' fine
we spoke our minds, we spoke our minds
will daybreak come tomorrow? You'll have to wait your turn
the clock will strike your number the candles cease to burn
we spoke our minds, we spoke our minds
we spoke our minds, we spoke our minds
What Once Was Mine (S. Lunsford)
don't you know she once was mine we could've had a real good time you turned around and walked away i want you baby here today all right
You Can Have Her (S. Lunsford)
you can have her cause she'll only bring you harm you can love her but you're just a thing on her arm you can have her cause I know she's gonna drain your waters dry she doesn't need you she just needs a reason to cry oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah you can have her man you wait 'til she rears her ugly head you can love her but before to long I bet the love is dead you can have her cause she feels the need to leave everything behind she doesn't need you she just needs a piece of your mind oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah you can have her cause she feels the need to leave everything behind she doesn't need you she just needs a piece of your time oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
You Got Inside (But So Have I) (S. Lunsford, J. Thompson)
when you look at me this is what i see four eyes in a square and there's something there i can see a change and it seems so strange like you got inside but so have i colors mix together and they stay forever two people alive a good friend of mine i can sense a change and it seems so strange like you got inside but so have i