Falling to the Ground
In a funk all damn day
Just wanna get lifted
Can’t seem to find my way
Can’t keep from driftin
Haunted by every move I make
Feels like I’m falling to the ground …With every step I take
Something that outrageous
With In the mystery of love
Could only be that dangerous
That girl I’m thinking of
She’s taunting every note I play
I’m falling to the ground.. just trying to save my face
It can’t get much worse
Even If your deaf dumb and blind
When your gift’s your greatest curse
Can’t help but fall behind
Drowning with every past mistake
My worlds closing all around… with every breath I take
Gotta Hold On Me
I was once a rich man
Now I feel so poor
But Never in my short sweet life
Have I had much more
Your love is like water
Splashing on the sea
It’s gotta hold on me
It’s gotta hold on me
Must have lost my mind
Bout a thousand times
So put me on a jet plane
Before I go insane
Blinded by your love
And now baby I can’t see
You gotta hold on me
You gotta hold on me
Stripped your toll … from my soul
But my heart now
Carries the weight
Can’t seem to help….. myself
Like a fool
I give it all away
When you took take my soul
And my heart away
You gimmie no reason
Like that movie on that plane
With no reservation
And I’m running free
But you still gotta hold on me
Still Gotta hold on me
Can’t you feel the burn
Of a soul on fire
That’s Bound to get hurt
By a lonely desire
Like smoke to a your flame
And baby I can’t breathe
Gotta hold on me
Gotta hold on me
Thieves & Yesterdays
Such a bitch to come undone
With no mercy in your days
You die down in the sun
Casting darkness now your way
Ain’t it strange that crazy sound
Can’t kill the pain coming down
Like thieves and yesterday’s
Beat the need for showing what
Sorrow for someone
When a soul departs from one
Past these shadows of our love
Don’t go chasing anyone
Who’s breaking hearts with everyone
Look how careless we’ve become
Like thieves and yesterday’s
We never saved enough and gave
Each other our separate space
Now enslaved my heart remains
Enraged like burnng flames
Same old tastes and scars remain
Another line just to stay stay awake
Such a tragic tragic waste
Like thieves and yesterdays
Shake That Thing
Shake that thing
Shake that thing now baby
Shake that thing, now honey all night long
Shake that thing
Shake that thing now baby
And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn
See I’m your king
And you’re my queen now baby
Do your thing
In this here kingdom
Do your thing
Do your thing now baby
And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn
But don’t hurt yourself
Don’t hurt yourself now baby
Save yourself
Now honey one more dance
When the neon lights
Start to come on down
It’s time to make our final stand
So Shake that thing
Shake that thing now baby
Shake that thing, now honey all night long
Shake that thing
Shake that thing now baby
And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn
When the sweat and booze
Pour over you now baby
And you’re done with
The evening fun
Let me cleanse your soul
Under My control
And I’ll leave you in the morning sun
So Shake that thing
Shake that thing now baby
Shake that thing, now honey all night long
Shake that thing
Shake that thing now baby
And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn
After The Rain
Maybe the sun will shine
Maybe it’ll rain
Maybe we’ll learn to take our time
After Racing through these days
Maybe the fall won’t hurt so bad
And be such a drag
Maybe your love won’t fade
Maybe time won’t slip away
Maybe we’ll get away after the rain
After the rain
Maybe you can save yourself from falling
Maybe I can save my soul
Maybe next time you’ll hear me calling
Before we head down that empty road
Maybe the winter’s freeze won’t last
And I won’t feel so sad
Maybe your love won’t fade
Maybe time won’t slip away
Maybe we’ll get away after the rain
After the rain
Maybe we’ll be letting go
Of all we know
After the rain
Maybe what’s trapped inside
Becomes alive
Maybe our love won’t fade
Maybe time won’t slip away
Maybe we’ll get away after the rain
After the rain
Shirley
Shirley you can’t do this to me baby
Take your things… and walk right out on me
I got hit and strung out from your loving
It tears apart my heart piece by piece
Don’t you know it’ll never ever be like this
Your breaking down and screaming out to leave
All the pain and rage two souls have uncovered
Left a mess like death into a murder scene
Left a mess like death into a murder scene
But now I’m free
I’m so lonely baby
You’re in my mind
I’m I can’t breathe
But the vision of our days seem so out numbered
By the loneliness
See I can’t help myself from believing
When you need your time from me released
I’ll be far away standing in the distance
Day by day your world falls away from me
Day by day your world falls away from me
Memphis Sky
Pick up your broken heart
And give it one more try
We got years and nothing to loose
Except our pride
You were hanging… with those stars
In a bright blue Memphis sky
I was in a burned out basement dreaming of you
I was drunk and high
No matter how long we go
This love just seems to grow
Like Alabama Pines cross the county line into a Memphis Sky
Burned out from chasing my own tail
And howling at the moon
Ain’t nothing like living the dream
Alone home with you
This road’s left me cold and grey
How I long for sunny days
And all this time just can’t erase
The smiles you’ve put on my face
Been gone long enough to know
No other feels quite like home
No I can’t deny
I feel so alive… under this Memphis Sky
All those years and years I roamed
My heart like a stone
In need of home
Far from where I belong
And I’m just trying to hold on
You see no matter how long we go
Nothing feels quite like home
No i cant deny
I feel so alive
Under a Memphis Sky
Heavy Toll
So many times
I give my love to you
Ain’t no surprise
In all that you do
Your heavy toll takes my soul
You’re my desire
You and your crazy ways
You take my time
You take all my days
Your heavy toll takes my soul
Ain’t got no time
To live in this hell
So get it right
Let go of your spell
Your heavy toll takes my soul
I Gotta Reason
I gotta reason… to be lonely
I gotta reason… for these tears
I’ve been drowning… in my sorrow
I beed missing you baby for all these years
Forever broken hearted
Lord knows I been cold cold to the bone
Isolated… with in these walls we created
Going at… this world all alone
Living with this ugly head of fear
You know sometimes ya sometimes you live and get burned
But the lesson the lessons are here
Gotta hold now baby let go live and learn
Green Eyed Girl
Green Eyed Girl
I’ve searched this world
Swam deep in the sea
Roamed country sides
Trying to find
What hypnotized me
I drank from your magical potion
In a spell that ruled my world
Cause you can’t get love
From hell or above
That you get with a green eyed girl
Razor sharp
Straight through my heart
Cutting to my soul
Left for dead
In a bleeding bed
Of your unknown
From one glance… of your eyes
I’m floating… through space
My hearts frozen in time
I’m forever… on your chase
Haunting… my world
Am I wasting time
On my green eyed girl
Palest Rider
Palest Rider breathes death in the night
Palest Rider on a ghost horse of white
Say he gonna take my life
Lord he wanna take my life
Coming down in my room all alone
Shadows killin the will of my soul
Baby you gotta know
Baby you gotta know
So lay me down by the river
‘Neath the straight so high
Allow my soul to float alone
Through heaven’s gate tonight
Palest Rider given what I owe
High as hell the hangman’s rope
As my blood turns cold
As my blood turns cold
No need for tears or cries of mercy
Let my body go before me
Heavenly joy I seek
Heavenly joy I seek
So lay me down by the river
‘Neath the straight so high
Allow my soul to float alone
Through heaven’s gate tonight
Grinding These Gears
You can’t be wise and in love at the same time
As true love has a habit of coming back
But you re a dream to me not reality it seems
Years and miles are killing what we had
When you listen to the sound of your heartache
And you re all out of love
I’m afraid I’m down to losing you
And we’re both all out of luck
Chorus: Time ticking away taking who I am
Time gonna leave us empty Time don’t give a damn
Still dreaming of you and fueling my fears
Another 7 damn years of grinding these gears
Have faith in me ….old love
My will is good so set your spirit free
From the shackles of time that feed on our minds
Dream your dream and your way back to me
Bridge: No more twisted fate
Old love that went away
Let The moon fade away
with yesterday’s pain
Forever Yours
Girl why you messing with my mind
One minute you’re cool
Next you’re cryin
We both know
You’re heart I’m a patient of
Cause I’m a fool
For your love
Fighting restless nights
And the days are tough
Wrap you’re arms around me
Cause darlin I’m praying praying my love will be enough
Babe you’re the angel in my dreams
Blind to my eyes
You’re all that I see
And you’re kiss
It’s like heaven in disguise
The trouble I’m in
Took me by surprise
Having a hard time baby
Girl you’ve been playing me for sure
But I’m here to tell you
I’d never walk out that door
My heart forever
Forever is yours Forever yours
Vagabond
Trying to get over you
And right our wrongs
Hiding in shadows
Where we don’t belong
One day I’ll be strong
And I’ll be moving on
Slipping and sliding
Chorus:
Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…
Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…
When darkness is upon you
In your favorite color black
Lay there and take it
Or fight your way back
Don’t wanna get lost
Gotta be strong
At your expense
Chorus:
Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…
Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…
Dark Hearted Woman
Dark hearted woman
I can’t turn to you
Dark hearted woman
I can’t be your fool
All you do is break me down
Break me down
Break me down
When I try and love on you
Dark hearted woman
I am torn for you
Dark hearted woman
I still burn for you
Leave me in this misery
Misery
Misery
When I try and love on you
You keep me awake
In a way that I can’t bare
I hear you leaving
Out the hallway down the stairs
You’re a dark hearted woman
No mercy found for me
You’re so heavy on my heart
Now my soul can’t breathe
Dark hearted woman
Never coming back to me
Dark hearted woman
I can’t shake to break free
All you do is break me down
Break me down
Break me down
When I try and love on you
Second Hand Man
I don’t wanna be your second hand man
The one you come crying to when your other man can’t
Time burns to ambers so believe what you can
I’d give my eyes only to be where we began
Dreams seem twisted now we fight till we’re damned
Cursing like enemies lost in Satan’s trap
My days have no reason restless through the night
Your beauty is the theme to the song inside my mind
Our hearts won’t leave alone what feelings we once had
Like two empty shadows left to withstand
Alone we die living together too far
Stained from a memory or death to each heart
I don’t wanna be your second hand man
The one you come crying to when your other man can’t
Time burns to ambers so believe what you can
I’d give my eyes only to be where we began
All the times you toy and leave I still want you back
I can’t sleep or even speak killing me fast
When did we stop loving crashing off the path
Into our lone memory of a life we once had
I don’t wanna be your second hand man
The one you come crying to when your other man can’t
Time burns to ambers so believe what you can
I’d give my eyes only to be where we began
I’d give my eyes only to be where we began
Memphis Murder Blues
I’m standing on a dead end street
Darkest part of night
Waiting on a deal to break
This evil from my mind
I can’t lose
I can’t lose
It’s hard doin time (livin) with a crooked mind
Like a fool
Trying to murder these Memphis blues
Can’t cry no more to win you back
Your sorrows left behind
All these dreams your enemy
No kind words can you find
I can choose
What’s right
Your heart is blind to righteous vibes
Like a fool
Trying to murder these Memphis blues
Your soul can’t stand to have
Love to heal what’s blind
Got to keep on moving momma
It ain’t worth a waste of life
Ain’t worth a waste of life
Like a fool
Trying to murder these Memphis blues
I Will Take Care Of You
The thought of what you and me could have
No matter where I am
I d come running to see you again
I could spend my whole life just loving you
Nothing’s ever gonna change the way I feel
Nothing’s ever gonna change the way I need you
I will take care of you
Sure as the sunrise baby
Give my heart up to you woman
I will take care of you
Tired of holding onto soon and maybe
Love sick
But never sick of you
Love don’t you keep me waiting….. Show yourself to me
Call on me to ease your pain… And to stop the rain
I will take care of you
Sure as the sunrise baby
Give my heart up to you woman
I will take care of you
You could spend your whole life running
Always chasing pleasure after pain
As long as you save your last dance for me now darling
Our love…. Will remain
Coming Clean
She’s so fine it could hypnotize
Any man that gazed her way
And oh my eyes are paralyzed
When she loves me and looks my way
I can’t stay clean there’s no remedy
Drives my mind insane each day
But coming clean ain’t no heavy thing
When you’re loving me that way
And oh I say my love you are the one
I can’t leave or stay away
If I can’t hold you next to me
My heart will surely break
All those times you left me high and dry
I never wondered where you stayed
But coming clean ain’t no heavy thing
When you’re loving me that way
Ain’t it hard to love somebody
When they give all that you can take
It’s a messed up fuss to come undone
From an angel’s jealous face
So complete and deep this destiny
Nevermind what’s left to fate
I’ll follow you no matter who
Should say that I’m insane
Ain’t it hard to love somebody
When they give all that you can take
It’s a messed up fuss to come undone
From an angel’s jealous face
From an angel’s jealous face
The Struggle Is Real
The struggle is real
The struggle is real
The struggle is real
Inside of you and me
Like a lie you just can’t believe
Giving up on everything
Drowning in all you see
Heavy eyes try to stare
Through darkness you can’t see the light
Fail at what you thought was right
Lord knows all the ways I’ve tried
Mama it’s a struggle out there
Drowning in a seasick heart
Love you wanna tear apart
A real mother for ya right from the start
…….. More than you can bare
From habits you can never beat
You’ve tried about everything
Working hard can’t get no sleep
Mama it’s a struggle out there
The sea is getting rough again
Always Run by the egos of men
Don’t give it all to the man instead
Awe… Don’tTry and tell me what’s fair
We walk into this battle blind
Seen heartbreak and a lot of hard times
Nothing left than to lose your mind
Mama … It’s a struggle out there
It’s a struggle out there
It’s a struggle out there
It’s a struggle out there
Empty Roads
Babe I’m going crazy, I can’t live this way
Heavy walls are breaking me, like my brain to cocaine
So may the daylight find you, as I fly away
Maybe down to Tennessee, to ease my troubled fate
I drove alone through midnight, December air was cold
Wore your favorite jacket baby, the leather one so old
All these distant reasons, small town’s not my place
The avenue seems crowded now, with blood I had to pay
(Chorus)
I couldn’t leave no money, cause I sold my soul to go
If you need a heart to bleed, find it in your soul
Please don’t pray forever baby cause angels burn out slow
Sleep and dream your vanities, don’t think of Empty Roads
This old song sounds familiar, the chorus needs a change
I hope next time I find you, caught up in a different place
As for me I’m leaving, heading down that Empty Road
Searching for another soul to lean on, drinking alone
(Chorus)
I couldn’t leave no money, cause I sold my soul to go
If you need a heart to bleed, find it in your soul
Please don’t pray forever baby cause angels burn out slow
Sleep and dream your vanities, Sleep and dream your vanities
Don’t think of Empty Roads
Fight Club
It was two long years ago when they tried to take away
Your life and reality as we knew it on that day
You were lying looking up at me with a tear in your eye
But like a lion in zion with the drive to provide and lead the pride
(Chorus)
Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you
Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you
We’re not living in the promise land where everything is fine
And your body and soul is one and there’s no fussin’ or a fightin’
But I’m drawing inspiration from your everyday life
Amazed at how life can be when your spirit is alive
(Chorus)
Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you
Don’t let ’em take away the things you love to do
Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you
Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you
(Chorus)
Don’t let em take the fight out of you
Don’t let em take away the things you love to do
Don’t let em take the fight out of you
Don’t let em take the fight out of you
Crazy Days
These crazy days
Your frantic ways
Leave me stumbling
Blessed is your ground
Two souls lost and found
My world is crumbling
Forced in your fun
Never paying for one
Your mystery I’m loving
Precious diamond rings
Pretentious limousines
Your style keeps me wandering
And when the sea gets rough
And one’s never enough
The fish keep on jumping
You know trying to keep up on you
Sure ain’t easy to do
But I still need your loving
Exile Blues
When you leave it won’t be long
‘Til my heart dies alone in this room
When you leave it all goes wrong
My soul is empty lord it’s true
You got me shaking in these shadows
Howlin’ at you with these Exile Blues
Used to rock me all night long
Ride upon my love woohoo
You used to rock me all night long
‘Til my brain would come undone woohoo
And you sting like morning whiskey
Stain me like a bad tattoo
Used to call me on the phone
‘Til my love was running home to you
Now you throw me to the road
Stray like a dog with the flu
You got me shaking in these shadows
Howlin’ at you with these exile Blues
To Youngstown
If you take my love To Youngstown
So we can be low key
Keep them bed sheets burning
In flames of ecstasy
Where dreams turn to heart break
Like a hurricane through me
Such a young girl fooled to learning
Abandoned free to leave
(Chorus)
I’m a stranger to Ohio
The back roads winding deep
Breathe your precious breath now
And all our secrets keep
If you take my love To Youngstown
Where the river never sleeps
Where country birds are singing
‘Neath the willows and the reeds
(Chorus)
I’m a stranger to Ohio
The back roads winding deep
Breathe your precious breath now
And all our secrets keep
And all our secrets keep
And all our secrets keep
Brother
Brother you just don’t get it
When you heart’s just in it to win it
And your soul is cold but alive is your pride
And brother you’re lost in illusion
Don’t resist helpful intrusion
When you stand alone lord knows there ain’t nowhere to hide
It gets lonely out on that island
Stars shine but you’re stuck behind them
Lonely thoughts get lost just floating in the wind
(Chorus)
Old pitfalls
Trapped in time
Deadly sin
Build your walls
As the tide
Rushes in
Darling see your smiling face
Burns through me like the devils embrace
Drank you wrong for so long just wringing myself dry
Darling keep on driving me wild
Hearts on Fire minds in denial
Keep me running running miles and miles
(Chorus)
Old pitfalls
Trapped in time
Deadly sin
Build your walls
As the tide
Rushes in
(Bridge)
Fear resides brother
Old ghosts never sleep
So don’t you lay down
Gotta keep on moving on to better things better things
(Chorus)
Old pitfalls
Trapped in time
Deadly sin
Build your walls
As the tide
Rushes in
Dizzy Eyes
Cigarettes on your breath, Darling I love you still
Wash it all away, With perfume and your pills
You’re lost and doing time, It’s a crime and a shame
Loneliness at night, Love without a trace
(Chorus)
Dizzy Eyes never lies they can’t hide the pain
Fever deep inside floating to your brain
Dizzy Eyes
When Jesus can not hear, The sorrows that surround
In the darkness come the devils, No angels can be found
(Chorus)
Dizzy Eyes never lies they can’t hide the pain
Fever deep inside floating to your brain
Dizzy Eyes
Years of buried truths, Hidden by disguise
Fears deep in root, A garden of lies resides
See I don’t want to wait, Racing in my mind
No other love but you, Can my body find
(Chorus)
Dizzy Eyes never lies they can’t hide the pain
Fever deep inside floating to your brain
Dizzy Eyes
Irony
Irony
These words indeed
Can’t express my love
These melodies
They ring in me
Laughing dancing high
Heaven moves inside of you
Lonesome alibi
Be your dreams reality
Floating through the sky
I love you now
For you a kiss
Open up your mind
And death to each
Sweet vanities
Blinding to my eyes
Scream out load
Your soul’s alive
Liberate to find
Buried truths deep in root
Love I have inside
So may the moon
Watch over you
Shining through dark night
Inspire things
To be and breathe
Blessings be your guide
Irony the Irony
Irony these words indeed
Irony the Irony
Irony these words indeed
Can’t express my love
Keep Love in Mind
If you Keep Love in Mind
Near beside not far behind
Your heart will – Go crazy
If you wake up to lies
That ruin down your life
Do you dig – What I mean
If you gamble on time
In a ghetto flying high
As these days – Die away
Bitter lips never part
Unadorned from the start
How they leave – Empty things
Sweet love don’t deny
This heart I have inside
As these dreams – Stray away
Don’t leave it all to find
All the loneliness in life
So just – Keep Love in Mind
Love Games
You have no shame in this love game
Darling now how can that be
Songs we sang yesterday
Fade like empty dreams
If all for simple nothings
We fell to each as ease
Feel your burning body
At a cost that kills complete
When evening brings darkness
Don’t shine no light shadows
The less I have the more I feel
Leaving all control
If time don’t make us crazy
We die a little in each breath, like emptiness of death
Two can play these love games
And when it ends darling it’s over
Distant hearts betray
Harmony is frayed
Distant hearts betray
And harmony is frayed
Harmony is frayed
Sniper
Screams for your submission
Remember an endless spring
This bitter world delivers
A summer’s quick fling
My soul is stained and tattered
My eyes are cold and dry
Waiting for the time – to say goodbye
We left in poor condition
We left it all behind
Dying for forgiveness
Giving up inside
My finger’s on the trigger
Your heart is on the line
Waiting for the time – to say goodbye
I got lucky in Kentucky
On my way to Tennessee
But the ghosts of Carolina
Just won’t let me be
I got my finger on the trigger
My eyes are cold and dry
Waiting for the time – to say goodbye
Waiting for the time – to say goodbye
Dying for the time – to say goodbye