I stand accused on the shore of a stormy sea

And I have been abused for the visions that I see 

I survived the bullet you shot right through my heart

And in this crime I have surely taken part

Why you want to do it to me? Why you want to try? 

Why you want to hurt me baby? Why you want to lie?

Why you always smiling baby?

Why I always cry? Why you want to cross your fingers?

Why you hope I die?

I’ve been made to suffer for your indignities 

And I’ve forsaken kindness for there is none

For me 

You gave me madness on it you told me to feed 

And I’ve been cast aside for the truth that I believe.

Why you want to do it to me? Why you want to try? 

Why you want to hurt me baby? Why you want to lie?

Why you always smiling baby?

Why I always cry? Why you want to cross your fingers?

Why you hope I die?

Cross your fingers, cross your fingers, hope I die, 

Cross your fingers, cross your fingers, cross your fingers, hope I die, cross your fingers, cross your fingers

Why you want to do it to me? Why you want to try? 

Why you want to hurt me baby? Why you want to lie?

Why you always smiling baby?

Why I always cry? Why you want to cross your fingers?

Why you hope I die?

Yeah you’ve been seen downtown hanging 

With the rats  clowns 

Greasy feet on dirty streets 

Arizona rubber sheets 

Runny nose and bleeding ear

How’d you get so far in here 

Poison powder everywhere 

But no one has a grain to spare 

Do you want some baby ?

It’s hard to get your fill

It’s overflowing baby 

Yeah it’s going to spill

Yeah you know what you’re doing 

Your touch gives me such a thrill 

And if it ain’t killed me yet

It never will 

Push a needle sew a seam

Shooting with the zip gun queen 

Living like a real antique 

Thinking that you’re so unique 

Doubting Thomas eats his words 

Now he’s seen the other world 

Come on baby take a ride I 

A dug a hole now jump inside

Do you want some baby ?

It’s hard to get your fill

It’s overflowing baby 

Yeah it’s going to spill

Yeah you know what you’re doing 

Your touch gives me such a thrill 

And if it ain’t killed me yet

It never will 

Do you want some baby ?

It’s hard to get your fill

It’s overflowing baby 

Yeah it’s going to spill

Yeah you know what you’re doing 

Your touch gives me such a thrill 

And if it ain’t killed me yet

It never will 

Do not disturb on the door 

Pile of clothes on the floor 

Bedside manners, profane grammar 

I’ve seen this scene before 

It’s got me down on my knees 

Begging but I won’t say please 

Shell shocked and rolling 

Bells are tolling 

But this won’t be the end of me 

If you don’t want my diamonds 

Don’t shake my tree

Yea you think you know what’s good for me 

Flies in my eyes, but I can still see

What you’re doing to me 

Stab a knife in my back and then you 

Want a please 

With friends like these who needs enemies 

Fighting over rags

Dirty fingers in the bag

Parasites inside ya ride the black Mariah

Thumb prints and toe tags 

A million stone cold miles 

Sore throats and empty viles 

My hearts been ravaged torn apart

And savaged but here I am

All smiles

If you don’t want my diamonds 

Don’t shake my tree

Yea you think you know what’s good for me 

Flies in my eyes, but I can still see

What you’re doing to me 

Stab a knife in my back and then you 

Want a please 

With friends like these who needs enemies 

Gone long gone

It’s been a month of Sundays since I could fake a smile 

Trying to lose my lonely in self-imposed exile

Trying to stay friendly but feeling so hostile 

It’s like I’m cold to touch mortuary style

If I could have one more kiss 

You know the one you miss 

Now I’m nothing but lonely 

Waiting and wanting 

Wanting and waiting for you 

Now I’m blind with no tomorrow in my eyes

The harsh sting of sorrow is one I recognize 

The truth of the matter is just one you can’t disguise 

I’ve been so lost on my own since the day you said goodbye 

I know we don’t stand a chance 

But  gimme gimme this last dance

Now I’m nothing but lonely 

Waiting and wanting 

Wanting and waiting for you 

All night Now I’m nothing but lonely 

Waiting and wanting 

Wanting and waiting for you 

Now I’m nothing but lonely 

Waiting and wanting 

Wanting and waiting for you 

Blood blood my bloods on fire

You’re not promised a hot meal
It’s just another raw deal
Just another rainy day, everyday yeah
So you say that you cannot relate
No, no its not up for debate
You know your bills they cannot wait
But you still have time

[Chorus:]
You’ll find peace anyway
You’ll find peace anyway

Just got to look baby, alright
Listen

So your bright eyes, they don’t shine
And your watch, it don’t keep time
Well guess what, neither does mine
Neither does mine
It just makes you want to cry
Just drink it all and say goodnight
But giving up don’t make it right
Alright, alright

[Chorus]
And well I know that you might get so scared
Well, about what you find
What it means to you baby when you get there

You were so sad, you made my dogs howl
You kept the ring, forgot the vow
You were so sick that you almost died
You needed help but nobody tried

Will this crime ever go to trial?
My heart’s killing me, my heart’s killing me
This love won’t let me be
My heart’s killing me
It’s just you, it’s just me
My heart’s killing me

One sad bird, one sad fence
I cannot love, I’ve no defense
Staring at two helpless hands
And all I want is to hold you again

Will this crime ever go to trial?
My heart’s killing me, my heart’s killing me
This love won’t let me be
My heart’s killing me
It’s just you, it’s just me
My heart’s killing me

One time I was down and out
And out and in
Well I had myself a little problem
But that’s not where I want to begin
Cause lately there’s been a funny feeling
That’s peering out from inside
I thought that I loved you baby but
I know I got to survive

And I know, know in my heart
It’s better that we’re apart
I love you but you ain’t no friend
This is where I want to be grinnin’

Grinnin’ all the time
You’re on your way, I’m on mine

Now this sordid little tale
Has come to an end
All those evenings I was gone and you were
Hanging out with your so-called friends
But a rumor is a rumor, I want the truth
I wasn’t born yesterday, I know what you’re up to

And I know down in my heart
It’s better that we’re apart
I love you but you ain’t no friend
This is where I want to be grinnin’

Grinnin’ all the time
You’re on your way, I’m on mine

Headaches, heartaches
Windfalls and pitfalls
They pay what they pay

Car crash, talk trash
Bloodbaths and witchcraft
If that’s what you see

[Chorus:]
How can I make somethin’ so wrong somethin’ so right
How can I make somethin’ so wrong somethin’ so right

Shipwreck, lifevest
You swim to shore
Or you sink away
Mistake, bad take
Just spit it out
And it goes away

I could lay my head down on your floor
Empty my pockets to make room for more
I can make it bleed or just make it sore

Well I
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song

Some day I will find my home in the ground
Hand on my bottle and I looked around
Some day I’ll leave this place for some holy ground

Well I
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song

I want you to sing along
Never forget this song
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song
I’ve got to sing along
Never forget this song

Dug yourself out of
The hole you were in
Heard you got a new job
Selling half of nothing

Why don’t you come to town
Ain’t seen you hanging round
I’m going to hear your new scheme
Fill me in on your pipe dream

You’re so predictable
You’re all the same
You’re so predictable
You’re all the same

Whatever became of all these years
You’re like nuts you’re so fried
Who’s wet behind their ears

Why don’t you come to town
Ain’t seen you hangin’ round
I’m going to hear your new scheme
Fill me up with your pipe dreams

You’re so predictable
You’re all the same
You’re so predictable
You’re all the same

It turned ugly that day
Tried to hide my heart
And run away
Will it always be this way
I can’t see the future
No way to say

You’ve beautiful but you’ve flawed
You’ve desperate but you’ve strong
You’ve lonely but never alone
You’ve empty, like Wyoming and me

It’s the nature of things
Tried to leave a little
Of what you bring
Let’s all join hands
And form a ring
Cross your fingers
Then we will sing

You’ve beautiful but you’ve flawed
You’ve desperate but you’ve strong
You’ve lonely but never alone
And you’ve empty, like Wyoming and me

You’ve beautiful but you’ve flawed
You’ve desperate but you’ve strong
You’ve lonely but never alone
An you’ve empty, like Wyoming and me

When you’re lost, then I am found
When you slip, I hold my ground
When I fall, please take your bow
And when you’re up, just remember I’ve been down. I’m down

People looking for fortune and fame
They don’t know that it’s all the same
Just like any other game
You know there has got to be a loser

If it ever stops raining
If it ever stops raining
If it ever stops raining
We can dry our eyes

I’ve been over the hill and back
Survived every kind of attack
Been a few times at bat, as a matter of fact

Good luck is just good luck
Can you go hungry if you pot luck?
I’ve been down, but never on my knees
I’ve seen the forest for the trees

If it ever stops raining
If it ever stops raining
If it ever stops raining
We can dry our eyes

Seven less sorrows
Seven more mistakes
Seven things to borrow
Seven more to take
Seven times I’ve fallen
Seven times I’m up
Six times I’ve wondered
Where was one more?

Why did I sleep so late?
Lost my mind seven days straight
If I go for sever more
Paint an 8 on my door

Sevens windows
And seven doors
Seven sisters
And seven boys
Seven full words
And seven lines
Same old story
Same old crime

Why did I sleep so late?
Lost my mind for seven days straight
If I go for seven more
Paint an 8 on my door

Why did I sleep so late?
Lost my mind for seven days straight
If I go for seven more
Paint an 8 on my door

Yes I’m full blown low down
Full blown low down
Fear a sound from way down
From way on down
Make a man’s backbone stiff now
That is low down
So low down

Slowly roll low, low down
Slowly roll down
Alone and our hearts slow down
Want to slow down
Ya see the devil like to get down
That is so low down
So low down

Hate and greed
Swollen and sweet
Let’s start this misery
If that’s where you want to be
Fear and love from down or from up above
Come to me
Come to me
I beg you please to set me free
I beg you baby
Yeah

Like a one-eyed dog’s growl
When the foul wind blows around
An evil kiss on my brow
So I go down
You know I go low down

Hate and greed
My hate and my greed
Swollen and sweet
So swollen and sweet
Let’s start this misery
Well if you wanna start then this is the way you ought to be
Fear and love
With our fears and all our love
From down or above
From here baby or from up above
Come to me
Come to me
Come to me
Come to me
And I’ll let you
I’ll let you set me free.

Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind
Other times sunshine high head fine
In between I get cold, old mean
Intertwined with country pride open and kind
This draws a line
Sorry to coin a phrase
On either side is wisdom and rage
So keeping track of time
Racing with my age
Sleeping with the snakes
Forget that you showed up late
It ain’t worth it baby

A charmed life it is
At least they tell yo so
I got a good idea
It ain’t like they say is so
And if it is then let me go
Let me go
Any day there might be hell to pay
But in other ways
It makes it seem ok
I’ll tell you what I mean
It’s not a plot nor a scheme
It’s just peace in my mind
Again can I use the word kind
I ain’t sorry about it baby
Chorus

Dirty hair halo
There you go
Here I am
Wonder in my eyes
You see Dirty hair halo
Where you go
Tell me where you have been
Lost in sad silver skies

I cry
Romance of a downfall
Memory like a waterfall
Feeling like I’ve never lived before
Leading life takes two to soar
It’s not happening to me

Dirty hair halo
Never knows
Thinks out loud
And I just have to smile inside
Dirty hair halo
Always knows
Never cheats, not proud
Matter of fact, she is just fine

Any time
Romance of her downfall
Memory like a waterfall
Feeling like I’ve never lived before
Leading life takes two to soar
It’s not happening to me

All the time

This is illegal
Thru an evil eye
And I won’t deceive you
This I testify
You all know the reason why
I won’t enslave you

A little bliss forever
I’m not afraid to love you
A little bliss forever

Look at the world with an evil eye
Your cold heart won’t let you cry
Try to make a change in the wink of an eye
Do you have it in you to even try?

Jesus can’t save you
Though it’s nice to think he’d try
This is not to scare you
This is to make sense of your time
Do prophets speak in rhymes?
Then you die!

If you come to my house
You gonna find me around, Lordy
Somewhere baby
Lordy shake ’em on down, Lordy

If you see my baby,
Lordy, standin’ round
You know we getting ready now,
we gonna shake ’em on down, Lordy

Put your knees together
Let your backbone move
Ain’t no one in town can
Shake ’em on down like you—Oh Lord, you

Going way up on the hill
Gonna get some ice
‘Fore we get back gonna
Shake ’em down twice

Twenty-five pounds of pure cane sugar
She’s got in each and every kiss
You wouldn’t know what I’m talking ’bout
If you never had a love like this
Well, I don’t mean to be frank with you all
It’s a natural fact
Good things come wrapped up in small, small packages now
Well you can’t argue with that
Oh, oh, yeah
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul, oh, oh
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul
Twenty-five pounds of tenderness
She got in each and every touch
Twenty-five pounds of understanding my woman
‘Cause I was the one running ’round town worrying too much
Twenty-four pounds of Sunday
That I can’t see, yeah
And it all adds up to ninety-nine big pounds
Oh, I’m talking about a feline friend
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul
Ninety-nine pounds of natural born goodness
Ninety-nine pounds of soul

JAH would never give the power to a baldhead
Run come crucify the dread

Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell

Back them up, oh not the brothers
But the ones, who set them up

Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell

Oh children weep no more
Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree
Saw you settle the score
Oh children weep no more
Weep no more, children weep no more

JAH would never give the power to a baldhead
Run come crucify the dread

Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Think you’re in heaven but you’re living in hell

Sleeping eyes sleep awhile
And let me get to know your language
If I believe all I see
I would hate to be around for the dawn

Sleeping eyes stay awhile
And give me some cause to rejoice
A parody of the scene
Where my three wishes were granted to me

What you got buried in your backyard?
What secret do you sleep with when the black moon come
Sleeping eyes please come clean
I’m not giving you the third degree
When you live with no man’s time
Ain’t it hard to find some peace of mind

Sleeping eyes don’t you cry
And don’t pretend this is not an ending
Your history yes it seems
Has been swept out with the leaves

Oh good heavens, baby where’s my medicine?
I must have left it outside with my etiquette
The undertaker’s rule of thumb
It’s hard to talk with a novocaine tongue

This room smells like hotel illness
The scars I hide are now your business
I can’t seem to make hair nor hide of this
No baby love is not a punishment.

Hypnotized by your rotten behavior
This week’s fashion is last year’s flavor
I got a head full of sermons and a mouth full of spiders
The politics of the world’s greatest liar

So tell me baby is it true all those things that they say about you…

To lessen my troubles
I stopped hanging out with vultures
And empty saviours like you
I wish I had a nickel for every miracle
That you easily tricked me into

You can lead a horse to water
But faith is another matter
So don’t you surrender
Cause sometimes salvation
In the eye of the storm

I’ve no time for accusations
Or conversations on all the bad, bad things you do.
Just a note from your jailor
Drugs and the relations
To all the people around you

You can lead a horse to water
But faith is another matter
So don’t you surrender
Cause sometimes salvation
In the eye of the storm

I’ve kept secret your superstitions
And all its twisted wisdom
That I fell into

Sister can you try and find me?

With my winter time
My idols and stage fright
In another night
Where the lights are loud and bright

One dream from waking up saved
Too shy to hold in the rage
I know no luxury
Of knowing what your eyes read
I know one million ways
To always pick the wrong thing to say

A love that you never gave
Always a time zone away
It’s not out of spite
I know what’s right

Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye

Sometimes a memory
Only sees what it wants to believe
And what’s filled in between
Are days and nights that don’t mean a thing
Such a simple suicide
A second chance never tried

And you don’t understand
I need a helping hand

So you think that you’ve seen it all
Is that a fact?
So out your mouth a dictionary
Spouts about this and that
You got your do’s, your don’ts
Because and why
I don’t trust no one who don’t
Take their own advice

Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye

Wake me when the day breaks
Show me how the sun shines
Tell me about your heartaches
Who could be so unkind?
Do you dream to touch me?
And smile down deep inside
Or could you just kill me?
It’s hard to make up your mind, sometimes.

My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride.
Are you wanting inspiration
You spill your secrets on me
Then you tell me with a whisper
Of things that will never be.
Do you hear me breating?
Does it make you want to scream?
Did you ever like a bad dream?
Sometimes life is obscene.

My angels, my devils, my thorn in my pride.
Lover cover me with your sleep
Let your love light shine
Lover cover me with a good dream
Let your love light shine

If you feel like a riot, then don’t you deny it
Put your good foot forward
No need for heroics I just want you to show it
Now’s the time to shine
Your independence is a half ass deliverance
The train left the station
The recognition of the same old condition
Your symptoms showing through

Well regardless of the truth
You still act so aloof
In the face of your judge & jury
You have the nerve to say not guilty

But can you sting me
Can you sting me
Right to my rotten bones

Well the bells ring out for the crimes of the century
By courtesy of your mother
The signs reads welcome to the valley of discovery
Look at what money can buy
Sons & daughters better open your eyes
Tell me what you’re seeing
This submission is a tired tradition
It’s everyone’s sacrifice

Well believe you me
I’ve got nothing up my sleeve
Except a heart and a chip on my shoulder
Yes I’m young and don’t like getting older

Yeah but can you sting me
Can you sting me
Right to my rotten bones

Come on my sweet little thing
What new things can you show me today
I got one question
I believe it’s subjective
What is a wasp without her sting?

I don’t want to sound bitter
Yeah you touch me just like murder
Living ain’t so easy
When all I want from you is to sting me

Can you sting me

Baby, baby why can’t you sit still?
Who killed that bird out on you window sill?
Are you the reason that he broke his back?
Did I see you laugh about that?
If I come on like a dream?
Would you let me show you what I mean?
If you let me come on inside?
Will you let it glide?

Can I have some remedy?

Remedy for me please.
Cause if I had some remedy
I’d take enough to please me.

Baby, baby why did you dye your hair?
Why you always keeping with your mother’s dare?
Baby why’s who’s who, who know you too?
Did the other children scold on you?
If I come on like a dream?
Would you let me show you what I mean?
If you let me come on inside?
Will you let it slide

Rooster crows at the break of dawn
A mother dies without her only son
A doctor laughs in the face of disease
I never once heard a preacher say please

And you, you want to be heard
But none of us understand a word
And you, you want to be free
Then don’t speak like a slave to me.

Policemen who break the laws
Politicians rise and fall
A baby crying for its mothers milk
A daddy’s secret hidden guilt

And you, you want to be heard
But none of us understand a word
And you, you want to be free
Then don’t speak like a slave to me.

Hey Blackberry, How you taste so sweet
Hey Blackberry, tell me what you see
Tell me is it interesting
Hey Blackberry pay some attention to me

Hey Blueberry look at my bumblebee
Hey Blueberry you know he never stings
And he only hums for me

I need some L-O-V-E-N to make me happy
You got to be L-U-C-K-Y to git
With a girl like Blackberry

Hey my cherry, coming up my street
Hey my cherry, you make it hard to breathe
Look what you’ve done to me
Hey my cherry, be sure to keep your nose clean

Dizzy found me last night
Saw some kind of new light
I woke up in a whirlwind
Just you watch my head spin

The spectacle that made you cry
It’s a thrill a minute plane ride
It’s over time at ring side, no lie

March me down to the seven seas
Bury me with a ruby ring
Kiss me baby on an Easter Sunday day
Make my haze blow away

I hide I seek I go and I find
Truth in a fable faith in a rhyme
So why you want to bad talk me
Are you surprised by what we see?

Like the tables and the tides turn
On my bed the emperor worm
Is that enough for me, could be

If music got to free your mind
Just let it go cause you never know, you never know
If your rhythm ever falls out of time
You can bring it to me and I will make it alright

And if your soul is let go
Oh you never know, no you never know
And if your heart is beating free
For the very first time it’ll be alright

Just come out and say it
Spit the words out of your mouth
It needs no explaining
‘Cuz we both felt it go south

Just stop kickin’ my heart around
For the last time
Stop kickin’ my heart around

Well I told you so
Now it’s time to go
Got to get this show on the road
Just stop kickin’ my heart around

In the beginning
There was no wrong you could do
Now in this ending
I can’t stand looking at you

What kind of trouble did I get into?
Gotcha moving, gotcha moving

Not staying long just passing through
Keep you rolling, keep you rolling

I know the chemicals you like too
Gotcha moving, gotcha moving
And if you ask me nice
I’ll take you to school
Keep you rolling, keep you rolling

I took all I need
I don’t need no more
Then I’ll take what I want
Until I want some more

You can’t stop
Or I might pass ya
If you slow down
I’ll out last ya
But when you’re down
You won’t find me laughing
Just one question I might ask ya
It might sound like a disaster
Can you make this thing go faster?

I know something baby we can do
Gotcha moving, gotcha moving
A pinch, a bite, a lick or maybe two
Keep you rolling, keep you rolling

Saw what I came to see
Don’t want to see no more
I don’t think it’s diseased
But it sure is sore

Gonna stop on the dot, got the ground all shaking
The wink of and eye see the noose still swinging
Feeling tounge tied and I’ll nver sop falling
Waste of my time and the girls start stalling

Don’t wake me up
Don’t wake me

Sleep walking dry, got everybody shaking
Make it all right, see the old man coming
And the cat in the bag, she gonna start scratching
Jack-knife’s fine and the blood mean’s nothin’ but

Don’t wake me up
Don’t wake me
Don’t wake me up
Don’t wake me

Somebody ain’t running
Somebody ain’t walking
[Incomprehensible] talking

[Incomprehensible]
Gun-filing code
And the teeth start scraping
The grave [Incomprehensible] doves
And nobody laughing

Live that life
Rolling in the backroom
Thorn stuck in my side
Some kind of trouble

But don’t wake me up
Don’t wake me
Don’t wake me up
Don’t wake me

Well I dream of a lady
Like an angel comes to me
And she cools me with water
Cause I’m scared of the heat
But when I’m gone lord have mercy on me
When I’m gone lord have mercy on me
Well I once held my promise
In the palm of my hand
And the twelve unopened letters
I should rest baby when I can ?
When I’m gone Lord have mercy on me
When I’m gone Lord have mercy, baby on me
Yeah when I’m gone Lord have mercy on me
Yeah when I’m gone Lord have mercy, oh, on me

Under the weather
I never got better
Wrapped up in my disease
Mile away, she want to count my day
Look a little older in the light

Under the weather
Feelin’ very heavy
Never up for no air

Sea legs start to wigglin’
And sick I’m still feelin’
Just know I never cared

Don’t you want to feel it
Don’t you want to stare it cold
Don’t you want to feel it
Don’t you want to stare it cold

Never thought about it
And never no questions
Seein’ where I’ve gone wrong

No kiss made it magic
‘Cause that old girl has had it
Then it’s time for me to run along

Hey boys, buzzin’ bee stingin’
Ringing ears never gonna’ stop
Stand tall sickness creeping right on
Struttin’ blues gonna’ find me again

Got my head spinnin’ round
Wonderin’ when it’s gonna stop
Got my head spinnin’ round
Wonderin’ when it’s gonna stop

Out there, breeze is finally blowing
No tellin’ when the train pulls in
My baby got her engine hummin’
Struttin’ blues gonna’ find me again

(Repeat Chorus 3 times)

Hey boys, hanging on the corner
Where you hidin’ when the lights go dim
This thing lightin’ got your thunder want to crack’n
Struttin’ blues want to find me again

(Repeat Chorus 4 times)

She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company
Yes, she’ll tell you she’s an orphan
After you meet her family

She paints her eyes as black as night now
She pulls those shades down tight
She gives a smile when the pain comes
The pain gonna’ make everything alright

Says she talks to angels
They call her out by her name
Oh yeah, she talks to angels
Says they call her out by her name

She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket
She wears a cross around her neck
Yes the hair is from a little boy
And the cross from someone she has not met
Not yet

(Repeat Chorus)

She don’t know no lovers
None that I’ve ever seen
And to her that means nothing
But to me it means, means everything

(Repeat second verse)
(Repeat Chorus)

Got a chainsaw buzzin’
Who’s that cussin’
Eyes start blinkin’
The boys all start their wishing

Left holdin’ the bag again
Buring it at both ends
Don’t believe she’s a friend

Chorus:
Thick, thick & thin
Let it loose now, let it go to the wind

Got my clock tock tickin’
Hear the madame start bitchin’
See the boys itch itchin’
Do girls ever know what they’re missin’

But it sounds like shit to me
Last laugh mine will be
I don’t believe she is clean

Chorus:
Thick, baby, yeah, thick & thin

Baby here I am
I’m the man on the scene
I can give you what you want
But you gotta’ come home with me

I have got some good old lovin’
And I got some more in store
When I get through throwin’ it on you
You gotta’ come back for more

(Chorus)

Boys and things that come by the dozen
That ain’t nothin’ but drugstore lovin’
Pretty little thing let me light your candle
‘Cause mama I’m so hard to handle now

Yes I am

Action speaks louder than words
And I’m a man of great experience
I know you’ve got another man
But I can love you better than him

Take my hand don’t be afraid
I’m gonna prove every word I say
I’m advertising love for free
So you can place your ad with me

(Chorus)

Boys come along a dime by the dozen
That ain’t nothing but ten cent lovin’
Pretty little thing let me light your candle
‘Cause mama I’m so hard to handle now
Yes I am

(Repeat Verse 1)

I find it hard to shed a tear
You brought it all on yourself my dear
Wrong, yes I may be
Don’t leave a light on for me
‘Cause I ain’t comin’ home
It hurts me baby to be alone
Yes, it hurts me baby

A hundred years will never ease
Hearing things I won’t believe
I saw it with my own two eyes
All the pain that I can’t hide

And this pain starts in my heart
And this love tears us apart
You won’t find me bent down on my knees
Ain’t bendin’ over backwards baby
Not to please

‘Cause I’m seeing things for the first time
I’m seeing things for the first time, oh yeah
I’m seeing things for the first time
In my life, in my life

I used to dream
Of better days that never came
Sorry ain’t nothin’ to me
I’m gone and that’s the way it must be
So please I’ve done my time
Lovin’ you is such a crime
You won’t find me down on, on my knees
Won’t find me over backwards baby
Just to please

‘Cause I’m seeing things for the first time
I”m seeing things for the first time
Seeing things for the first time
Oh I’m seeing things for the first time
Yeah, seeing things for the first time
I’m seeing things for the first time
Yeah, I’m seeing things for the first time
In my life, in my life

How could I’ve been so blind
So empty that I’ve never felt warm
Can I spell it out
Turn myself out of my home
Lookin’ like a fool
Feelin’ even worse than it seems
Tryin’ hard as nails
Beleivin’ only in myself

And now it looks like innocence is gone
I know right and I know what’s wrong
Feeling lonely that’s the way it goes
Sometimes

But my greatest fear
Paint a smile from ear to ear
Alone and cryin’
Living like this is no better than dying

I tell you baby things are gonna’ change
Looking like we were caught out in the rain
Feeling lonely
That’s the way it goes
Sometimes

Chorus:
Could I ever have been so blind
Hardest thing I ever had to do
Was stand up straight and tell it all to you
Look you right in the eye
Tell you baby sorry but I have lied

And now it looks like innocence is gone
I know right and I know what’s wrong
Feeling lonely that’s the way it goes

Sometimes
(Repeat Chorus 4 times)

Worried sick my eyes are hurting
To rest my head I’d take a life
Outside the girls are dancing
‘Cause when you’re down it just don’t seem right

Feeling second fiddle to a dead man
Up to my neck with your disregard
Like a beat dog that’s walking on the broadway
No one wants to hear you when you’re down

Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else’s name
Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else’s name

A flip of a coin
Might make a head turn
No surprise, who sleeps
Held my hand over a candle
Flame burnin’ but I never weep

Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else’s name
Sister luck is screaming out
Somebody else’s name

What a shame
(Repeat 2nd Chorus)

Cheat the odds that made you
Brave to try to gamble at times
Well I feel like dirty laundry
Sending sickness on down the line
Tell you why

‘Cause I’m jealous, jealous again
Thought it time I let you in
Yeah, I’m jealous, jealous again
Got no time, baby

Always drunk on Sunday
Try’n to feel like I’m at home
Smell the gasoline burning
Boys out feeling nervous and cold

(Repeat 1st Chorus)

Stop, understand me
I ain’t afraid of losing face
Stop, understand me
I ain’t afraid of ever losing faith in you
Never felt like smiling
Sugar wanna’ kill me yet
Find me loose lipped and laughing
Singing songs ain’t got no regrets
(Repeat 1st and 2nd Chrous)

Don’t you think I want to
Don’t you think I would
Don’t you think I’d tell you baby
If I only could
Am I acting crazy
Am I just too proud
Am I just plain lazy
Am I, Am I, Am I, ever

Clean as a whistle
Smellin’ like a rose
She got no dirty little fingers
Bloodshot eyes are gone
Tell me I’m wrong

Twice as Hard
As it was the first time
I said goodbye

And no one ever wanna’ know
Love ain’t funny
A crime in the wink of an eye

Your sister always singing
She play the step child
A broken little memory
Her heart was never kind
Tell me I’m blind

Yeah, bloodshot eyes are gone
Tell me I’m wrong

(Repeat Chorus 5 times)

I feel clean again
I don’t waste my sin
I can’t spare a grin
Because it’s bad blood time again

My morning full on speed
No it’s not so rare to me
This is, this is a hungry need
Won’t you help me to plant the seed

And if it grows
Yes, we’ll know, oh we’ll know
If I found you a floating feather
Sent down to help me fly away
If I found you a floating feather
I would be amazed
I’d be amazed

Your lips taste dry again
A death cold has got your skin
I’m not lost in who loses or wins
I would just like for this spell to end

Cause I’m ready
Ready to begin
Begin again
If I found you a floating feather
Sent down to help me fly away
If I found you a floating feather
I would be amazed

I, well I remember one time
You were all smiles
Nothing stood in our way
Well so here I am now
Here I am just wanting to return to those days
We’ll get there baby
I’ll take you there babe
Oh, we will find, we will find our way

Well I’m gonna buy you a watch and chain
I’m gonna buy you a watch and chain
I’m gonna buy you a watch and chain
And do cool stuff for you baby
And do cool stuff for you

I’m gonna buy you a Chevrolet
I’m gonna buy you a Chevrolet
I’m gonna buy you a Chevrolet
And do cool stuff for you
Yeah do cool stuff for you

Gonna build you a house and home
I’m gonna build you a house and home
Said I’m gonna build you a house and home
And do cool stuff for you baby
Said do cool stuff for you

Now I’m going take back my diamond ring
I’m going take back my diamond ring yeah
I’m going take back that diamond ring
Gonna get it back from you baby
Said get it back from you

Take back my credit cards that’s right
I’m gonna take back my credit cards
I’m gonna take back my credit card
Take it back from you yes I will now
Take it back from you

Say re-possess that Chevrolet yes I will
Re-possess my Chevrolet
I’m gonna re-possess that Chevrolet
Take it back from you
I’m gonna take it back from you

I’m gonna tear down her house and home
I’m gonna tear down her house and home
Brick by brick you know it’s gonna go
To take away from you baby
To take it away from you

Gonna buy the girl five dollar drinks
Gonna buy her five dollar drinks
I’m gonna buy her five or six them thing
To get her home with me now
I said to get it on with me

And then I’ll roll up my highest gauge
I’m gonna roll up my highest gauge
I’m gonna roll up my Sunday night gauge
To do blow smoke from you
To blow smoke over you

I’m gonna beat ya black and blue huh
I’m gonna beat ya beat ya black and blue
Yeah just tell me baby if you want me to
I’ll beat you black and blue
hey if you ask me to

Well beat ya
Well I’m gonna beat ya
Well baby
That’s what I
That’s what I
That’s what I’m gonna do yeah
I said now that’s what I wanna do

(Yeah)

I forgot I found you tied up and swallowed
A mess with the magic and the knot
You touch my teeth and say you like the way I bite ya
Sin, skin, sounds wrong but it’s not

Chorus:

Everybody says that you’re such a pity
Well baby, they, they ought to know
Everybody says you’re such a pity
Tell ya baby, they, they ought to know

Touched from up above and touched between your legs
But which one, baby, burns
So you’ve been touched so many times so many ways
Come on baby, who gets hurt

Chorus

Chorus

Instrumental

Curse the wicked whisper here in this ear
Make my honey
Grind that salt before the rains come this year
Make it all muddy

So now you have called
And now you want to ring my neck
Oh baby you talk so tight
Tell me now who’s all wet

I could kiss your promiscuous mind

My flesh is yours and there is nothing to fear
Make us all alone
Wind your watch and bless all my prayers
Make ready to get home

Oh now you get so hard
Now you ring my neck
Now you wanna talk so tight
Tell me who’s all wet

I could kiss your promiscuous mind
I could kiss your promiscuous mind

Yes I could

I have four lone stars
That you have given me

Yeah, why don’t you give it baby
Well, the feeling you’re giving baby
Tell me, what you give away
Give it, give it, give it

Have mercy baby
I’m descending again
Open your eyes
This time it’s sink or it’s swim
No sermons on ascending
No verdict on deceit
No selfish memorandum
No confusion for me

Curses
Curses and clues
A feast for fools
Have mercy baby
And hand me downs
It was just a few years ago
You’d hand me ups and map
Right out of town
But I would let it slide
Like mercury
Silver and quick
Poisonous and deadly
So deadly

To my low down downtown
Money waster
Your only saving grace
Is that i like to taste ya
But your flower is spoiled
Too easy to make ya
You got a .38 and your book of revelations
I got a .44 and a load of temptation

I am a rounder, like to round around
Two for one at the store on the corner
Little girl like to drink and sniffin’ powders
Like the bars that stay open after hours
Like the boys that go 24-7
Too many late nights and you don’t go to heaven

No time left now for shame
Horizon behind me, no more pain
Windswept stars blink and smile
Another song, another mile

You read the line every time
Ask me about crime in my mind
Ask me why another road song
Funny but I bet you never left home

On a good day, it’s not every day
We can part the sea
And on a bad day, it’s not every day
Glory beyond our reach

Fourteen seconds till’ sunrise
Tired but wiser for the time
Lightning 30 miles away
Three thousand more in two days

On a good day, it’s not every day
We can part the sea
And on a bad day, it’s not every day
Glory beyond our reach

Here with me
And this price you pay
Just a wishful dream could be blown away
Ask yourself for better or worse
Because what’s the use if it’s just good luck

A black cat has crossed my path
Tell me what’s good luck about that

Hate and greed
Swollen and sweet
Let’s start this misery
If that’s where you wanna be
Fear and love
From down or from up above
Come to me
Come to me
I beg you please
Come set me free

Excuse me please
For my definition
But deeper still are my convictions
Urgently I wait to hear an answer
While I misconduct
A sad lost anthem
An anthem like you have never heard
Have you heard something so absurd

Hate and greed
Swollen and sweet
Let’s start this misery
If that’s where you wanna be
Fear and love
From down or from up above
Come to me
Come to me
I beg you please
Come set me free

I am a cobweb
in the corner of the room
I tell you I build myself a boat baby
so c’mon and cry me a monsoon

get busy on it
and make it deep

chorus:
imagine how surprised all the kids will be
empty bottles, saviors they crawl
that has always been and will always be
there’s a hornet’s nest in my head,
come and save me

If I dont say nothing (if I don’t say nothing)
you say now tell us what to do
so I tell ya’ll this is just how I feel
someone else calls it the news
but that’s yesterday
yesterday’s news

chorus

I’ve been lost in the headlights
All night long
Said i’ve felt taller, yes I heard
the dealer’s song

Say babe don’t mark me absent
I only missed out by a fraction
Be the sun that bursts through my clouds
It’s hard enough just living on this ground

chorus:
Say don’t pretend to me
I beg and i plead, your sunflower I need
Thought nothing would surprise me
I was wrong now i see
Come on baby and just do me
if you please

This made me reminiscing
About the honey we made
I feel warm in your blizzard
And your flood I crave
I won’t abuse my anger
I promise you no lecture

Come be the sun bursting through my clouds
It’s hard enough just living on the ground
chorus

I don’t know my telephone number
But you kiss good and I’d like to
See you tomorrow
And I don’t beg, I pay, I don’t barter
And if we had a child I’d like a son,
Not a daughter
‘Cause she’d be just like you
You know that would not do

I’m no builder, I’m no gardener
I sing some songs, have a friend
Who’s a photographer
There ain’t no other language
I know how to speak
Some like their water shallow
And I like mine deep
Tied to the bottom
With a noose around my feet

The clouds conspire
Above my head
I overheard them
Say I wish he was dead
Today the sunset
Burned my eyes
And in the next room I hear someone cry

I like to dress up like the jury
To eat like a king, to poke fun at clergy
To talk like dirt
To love you like tar
But never fall in too fast
With my north star
While you pull your hair out
I buy the drinks at the bar

The clouds conspire
Above my head
I overheard them
Say I wish he was dead
Today the sunset
Burned my eyes
And in the next room I hear someone cry

I lose myself
I forget myself
Sometimes I fault myself
I might fight myself
But then I make amends

I freeze myself
Rain on myself
Ok, so I stone myself
And I might even find myself
But then again what happens if I do

So unzip my pride
Open me up wide
So I can show this to you

I want to shine for you
I want to sparkle too
Just like a diamond cursed
Well you know it don’t get worse
You know that I’ll save you time
Your trouble now is mine

Hold me baby
Hold me girl
And I will laugh with you
If you want me to
Roll me in your splendor
I’ll envy your surrender
And show you victory

I hate myself
Doesn’t everybody hate themselves
So what, I scare myself
Then I tell myself that it’s all in my mind
So I let the poison go
‘Cause baby I always know
It will be there for me

Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind
Other times sunshine high head fine
In between I get cold, old mean
Intertwined with country pride open and kind
This draws a line

Sorry to coin a phrase
On either side is wisdom and rage
So keeping track of time
Racing with my age
Sleeping with the snakes
Forget that you showed up late
It ain’t worth it baby

Chorus:
A charmed life it is
At least they tell you so
I got a good idea
It ain’t like they say is so
And if it is then let me go
Let me go

Any day there might be hell to pay
But in other ways
It makes it seem ok
I’ll tell you what I mean
It’s not a plot nor a scheme
It’s just peace in my mind
Again can I use the word kind
I ain’t sorry about it baby

Chorus

Did you ever hear
The one about last year
It was all a lie
Ain’t it funny how the time flies
What we gonna do baby
What is left for us to prove
I’ve never stolen nothing, not a thing
Tried to stay away from this year’s
Big thing
Ain’t as easy as it seems
To find a mutual dream
Can you tell me wrong from right
Do you know when to freeze or take flight
Can you tell me more or less
I got to know confess

Don’t neglect me
Come be my conspiracy
Don’t neglect me
Come be my conspiracy

Now you got a question about your answer
Say try your adam’s apple
You talk it try it bite it right
So now you want to fight? Ok
Let’s step outside
I got tradition it’s an addition
My definition it don’t hold me back
Well what you think about that
What you don’t understand
This is a very old land
Can you tell me wrong from right
Do you know when to freeze or take flight
Can you tell me more or less
I got to know confess

Don’t neglect me
Come be my conspiracy
Don’t neglect me
Come be my conspiracy

Save me, save me baby
From this season’s dead air
Take, take, take me baby
Blind naked and scared
So scared
Want you to burn me, burn me baby
Burn me and cover your eyes with my ashes
Why don’t you pray for me baby
Sit back and watch my divine spark flash

Gone
Good riddance I’m gone
Gone in a wasted way
Wasted my way I’m gone

Pull, push and pull on me baby
With your fingernails full of fur
I want you to stab me
Do it, do it, ’cause you know it don’t hurt

Gone
Good riddance I’m gone
Gone in a wasted way
Wasted my way I’m gone

Jinx me, jinx me baby
Beautiful like a fool
C’mon and remove me
Dilated and burned

Gone
Good riddance I’m gone
Gone in a wasted way
Wasted my way I’m gone