Talking With The
Angels Song List:
(released 2004)
Zombie Without A Home Song List
(released 2002)
We'll All Be Gone
You been hangin' 'round
With dysfunctional clowns
No wonder you been
Feelin' down
But you don't need
To live your live this way
There's only one thing for certain,
We'll all be gone some day
Well I've been good
And I've been bad
But the worst feeling
I know
Is when I've been had
But no one here needs
To understand these blues
There's only one thing for certain
We'll all be gone someday
Just live your life
The way you want to
Cause nobody here
Has to walk 'round in your shoes
But everybody here
Has to pay their own kind of blues
There's only one thing for certain
We'll all be gone someday
You look at me
And I look at you
You act like an angel
People say I'm the devils fool
But what do they know
Living their life inside of a cage
There's only one thing for certain
We'll all be gone some day.
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Leave This Town
I'm ready
Said, I'm ready
Yes, I'm ready to leave this town
And nobody here can hold me down
I'm tired
Said, I'm tired
Yes, I'm tired of being your fool
Now, I'm gonna make my own rules
I'm shoutin'
Said, I'm shoutin'
Yes, I'm shoutin' I'm a free man
Gonna make you finally understand
I'm ready
Said, I'm ready
Yes, I'm ready to leave this town
And nobody here can hold me down
I'm drivin'
Said, I'm drivin'
Yes, I'm drivin' down this highway
Nobody here is gonna get in my way
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Coffin Bone
When I woke up this morning I was all alone
No one could hear me I felt like a coffin bone
Like a coffin bone
Everybody else is dead as far as I can know
This world is darkness I feel like a coffin bone
Like a coffin bone
The demons are not dreams to wake up from
The sun is gone down I feel like a coffin bone
Like a coffin bone
Too many times I wished for my dying day
When the images of evil would not go away
Now I'm living here in this blackness all alone
Each day I wake up I feel like a coffin bone
Like a coffin bone
How many people in the world feel like me
Watching inmates run the asylum of misery
Too many times I wished for my dying day
When the images of evil would not go away
Now I'm living here in darkness all alone
Each day I wake up I feel like a coffin bone
Like a coffin bone
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Suburbia Amerika
We're out here in the suburbs
Our healthy conscience is diseased
We started something in the '60s
Then traded freedom for a life of ease
But we'll never forget the history
That we lived as our past
Toothpaste ads and TV news
And body counts rising fast
We drank our morning coffee
And smoked a last cigarette
The taste of all our memories
Is a taste we can't forget
And hey where are you going
Why are you in such a rush?
You used to be a thinker then
Before the thoughtful got crushed
Look right here in the global village
Priest and mullahs reign supreme
The earth is bloated with their children
Victims of a broken time machine
And the earth keeps on spinning
Through this never ending space
Looking tired around her corners
Moving with a little less grace
And hey where are you going
Why are you in such a rush?
You used to be a thinker then
Before the thoughtful got crushed
Pyramids and calculators
And things that will not rust
Is this our immortality?
The death that waits for us…
So if you could be a nut case
As crazy as a certified loon
Would you renounce your sanity?
Or would you come back soon?
And hey where are you going
Why are you in such a rush?
You used to be a thinker then
Before the thoughtful got crushed
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Ain't Nothing But…
You don't need no high tone explanations
And you don't need no biblical revelations
That tell you why people do what they do
If you listen, you'll hear it all around you
It ain't nothing but the blues
I said: the blues
You don't need no scholar's computations
And you don't need no reverend's lamentation
To tell you why people do what they do
If you look, it's there all around you
It ain't nothing but the blues
I said: the blues
You don't need to hear the devil's desecrations
And you don't need any angelic exclamations
To teach you why people do what they do
If you listen, you'll hear it all around you
It ain't nothing but the blues
I said: the blues
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Heart
I have followed my heart
I have followed it true
But every road I've taken
Brings me right back to you
I can hear some explosions
Right inside of my head
It's just the dying emotions
And voices of the dead
But don't let this harm you
It's just the mystery of love
No, don't let this harm you
You can never have enough
I have seen both sides now
And one is you and one is me
But when it's time to leave
That's the time some freeze
I have followed my heart
I have followed it true
But every road I've taken
Brings right back to you
But don't let this harm you
It's just the mystery of love
No, don't let this harm you
You can never have enough
I may know all the questions
But that is all that I have
No other consolations
For a wandering blind man
I have followed my heart
I have followed it true
But every road I've taken
Brings right back to you
But don't let this harm you
It's just the mystery of love
No, don't let this harm you
You can never have enough
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Angel Dreaming
Across the frozen water
Where the ocean runs too blue
I left an angel dreaming
Of paradise with a view
She paints her face so white
And her lips are much too red
But she promised me happiness
And a warm place in her bed
The ancient gods were rhymers
Always turned a clever word
But this goddess is an earthling
Black hair and eyes that burn
A jealous woman is hateful
Her only thoughts are of crime
She prosecutes my innocence
In the courtroom of her mind
So take me off this planet
Fling me up there with the stars
She resorts to open warfare
In this paradise of ours
Across the frozen water
Where the ocean runs too blue
I left an angel dreaming
Of paradise with a view
A jealous woman is hateful
Her only thoughts are of crime
She prosecutes my innocence
In the courtroom of her mind
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Talking With The Angels
So you talk to the angels
And it's a mighty fine thing
But it's always the devil
Who get the last word in
Angels are timid and shy
Barely have a thing to say
But the devil shows movies
To complement word play
Up there in heaven's domain
Things remain pretty calm
But down here in hell
Bodies manage to stay warm
Hold on now
Which way is up?
Hold on now
Which way is down?
Somebody turn me around
I'm about shout aloud
Which way is up?
Which way is down?
If you could talk with the angels
Would you find the right words?
But why is it the tempting devil
Whose conversation makes you burn?
The angels blow a cool philosophy
Reading from their weighty tomes
But it's always those little devils
Acting out their vivid sex poems
You might carry me to heaven door
Push me through those pearly gates
But the devil is selling cheap seats
To the kind of show I crave
Hold on now
Which way is up?
Hold on now
Which way is down?
Somebody turn me around
I'm about shout aloud
Which way is up?
Which way is down?
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The Razor's Edge
This old world
Is all screwed up
I'm sick and tired
I've had enough
But where do you go
When you're sick of it
And you know already
You'll never really fit
So many gods here
They get the blues
They keep you down
And you act the fool
They don't own heaven
And they don't own hell
Don't be believing
In what they sell
This is the razor's edge
I'm on the razor's edge
I feel the razor's edge
Inside of my head
It's in your head
It's in your heart
Don't let them kill you
Don't act their part
Don't fight their battles
You'll never win
They'll steal your morals
And call them sins
This dream is real
You hold the key
Don't let them tell you
How you should feel
This is the razor's edge
I'm on the razor's edge
I feel the razor's edge
Inside of my head
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Drag
It's such a drag
Everywhere I look
I see your face
I can't escape
You're in the newspapers
On the TV news
I seen you online
I can't escape you
I'm wondering now what will you do
When someone comes along
And takes it all away from you?
I'm wondering how you'll see it through
When the only image in view
Is the face that broke your heart in two?
I'm on the ceiling
You're on the floor
I'm on the outside
You've closed door
The sound I hear
Is a dissonant roar
My heart is bleeding
Yours is triple X heartcore
I'm wondering now what will you do
When someone comes along
And takes it all away from you?
I'm wondering how you'll see it through
When the only image in view
Is the face that broke your heart in two?
It's such a drag
When things go wrong
You feel justified
And I write this song
You declared war
To save yourself
My heart is bleeding
Yours is triple X heartcore
I'm wondering now what will you do
When someone comes along
And takes it all away from you?
I'm wondering how you'll see it through
When the only image in view
Is the face that broke your heart in two?
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A Dream Unrefined
I'm walkin' down this highway
You know I'm livin' my life
I've got no complications
With what's wrong and what's right
The sun is shining outside
Everything is so bright
The stars are twinkling overhead
Their own ancient light
I feel the wheel is turning
Turning round in my time
I've go no hesitations
I will accept what I find
The river flows into the sea
The river flows inside of me
But why do I feel so sad?
Yeah, why do I feel so…
The birds are singin' proudly
Their songs of delight
Tree locusts hum so loudly
All buzz and no bite
The world is in sharp focus
Yet cannot be defined
I feel as though I'm moving
Through a dream unrefined
The river flows into the sea
The river flows inside of me
But why do I feel so sad?
Yeah, why do I feel so…
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Still Not Satisfied
I used to work in a factory
Woke up every day at five
Now I write book reviews
I've got a big city byline
….and I'm still not satisfied
I used to work for the wrong man
Watched his greedy flesh tremble
Watched the drop of the coins
His heart came to resemble
….and I'm still not satisfied
Talked to Venus in the morning
Twisted starlight in my eyes
Kissed the Milky Way for fun
And somehow I survived…
….and I'm still not satisfied
I put on the shiny suit for you
Played the money monkey too
Tasted the meat grinder
Got suckered and pulled right through…
….and I'm still not satisfied
On my left sits a friend of the devil
On my right is an emissary of god
Neither one has any time for me
Because I live outside their laws…
….and I'm still not satisfied
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Christian Deformed Blues
My baby woke up this morning
With a great deal of pain in her head
She was bred Christian Deformed
They programmed a robot in her head
My baby said she want to be an artist
Let all her creative dreams soar
But she was bred Christian Deformed
And her parents branded her a whore
My baby tried to break the chains
Memories of all her childhood pain
But she was bred Christian Deformed
Yeah, she chose the controllers again
Tell me people, yeah can you tell me
What could this grown man hope to do
When a flesh and blood hurting woman
Craved those Christian Deformed rules?
Work breed and pay lip service to god
Work breed and pay lip service to god
Ignore all dysfunctional family secrets
Hide the truth in church and a good job
(spoken outro over slide blues meltdown)
So I went down to the charnel house of love,
Listened to the machines grinding down love
Heard the dying whispers, the death of love
Spoke the words goodbye friend, and lover
My love for you will never die even here inside
These Christian Deformed charnel house blues
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Two Fallen Angels
We were going down
Going all the way down
Couldn't get much deeper
Here in Dante's underground
All the way down
I can hear your voice
Whispering hush now
I'm feeling kind of wild
You and me were ridin'
All the way down
You and me were burnin'
All the way down
We cause a commotion
But the frownin' dead can't speak
But I know for sure
They can feel this heat
We were midnight creeping
Creeping all the way down
Everybody is shouting
All the way down
Not just any sinner
You don't know my last name
And I kiss your hot face
All the way down
Two fallen angels stumble
Stumble all the way down
Running on empty
All the way down
No misunderstanding
Feel my love come tumblin'
Feel it come tumblin'
All the way down
Give me a piece of your soul
Give me a piece of your heart
I'm tired of living
All the way down
No misunderstanding
Feel my love come tumblin'
Feel it come tumblin'
All the way down
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UFO Louisiana (Instrumental)
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Zombie Without A Home
I've spent my whole life
Or at least part of yesterday
Watching so many colorful people
Wondering what they all had to say
I ride the seahorse
Beneath the surface of all their pain
And I would reemerge hopeful
Before sinking below the waves again
You wore the jewelry and I,
I wore all of the blame
Part of you was an Aztec clone-
My heart beat in the palm of your hand
I stood there staring
Just like a zombie without a home
I stood there staring
Just like a zombie without a home
I'm not here looking
For some kind of emotional rosetta stone
Your truth is pompeii-molded
My ashes scatter across the floor
You stand there staring
Just like a zombie without a home
You stand there staring
Just like a zombie without a home
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Erasable Bond
If I took the time to erase my point of view
Would this mean I could get a little bit closer to you?
Is that what you'd really want me to do?
Yeah, want me to do.
If I took the time to erase my point of view
My point of view
What if I made a movie of all these pictures of mine
A long-playing movie of the pictures in my head?
And without any hidden regrets, I burned them all
Just so I could watch all your movies instead
Your movies instead
If I took the time to erase my point of view
Lost all my meaning for a carbon copy or two
Is that what you'd really want me to do?
Want me to do
If I took the time to become a replica of you
A replica of you
You said that you loved me and I believed you
Some kind of blues crept in and then we fell
You had a tortured youth: religion and fools
Religion and fools
You imprisoned me inside of your personal hell
Your personal hell
There's just one consolation I keep deep inside
When I look in the mirror now it's me that I see
You tried to shift the blame but I let you go
Yeah, I let you go
One less crazy diffused now I am immune
Yeah, now I am immune
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Headfull of Day Glow
I've got a headfull of day glow
So don't ask me
Cause I don't know
About the stars in their places
Way up there in outerspaces
And I've walked with the insects
Metallic green and neon specks
And I don't know the reasons
For the changes in the seasons
I knocked on all the doors
Heard all the words
But I craved more
So I asked all the saints
And I listened to all the whores
But their answers were all the same
Everybody's gonna play some games
Some church folks will bless
But watch out for the ones who'll screw you
I like to read all kinds of books
Take long walks
(And hey, Nixon was a crook)
And it doesn't seem to matter
If I find that path to Nirvana
But if there's one out there
That will take me to you
I'll walk it as long as I have to
I've got a headfull of day glow
So don't ask me which way you should go
Maybe there's no such thing as answers
And maybe the questions will have to suffice
You'll have to make up your own mind
This old world can be so unkind
You don't have to take this advice
But if you find a good friend
Hold on tight
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Hieroglyphic Love
You had your fortune told
Hieroglyphic love all around you
Three hundred billion light years
Of open road just up ahead
The earth the moon and the stars
A liquid melting table cloth
A DaVinci universe is crossed
And nobody here knows what it means
Your face your eyes the morning light
An angel and a smiling sinner
A Michelangelo glimmer
And nobody here knows what it means
The path is complicated and tangled
A feverish dance with death
A longing for one last breath
And nobody here knows what it means
Face to face we have our little secrets
And the truth remains chained
But we love a good embrace
And nobody here knows what it means
Your soul your heart and your mind
Attraction's heat can wither
This love lost goes no further
And nobody here knows what it means
There's so much light outside
All I feel is this darkness
You're the person that I miss
And nobody here knows what it means
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Down That Road Before
I've been down that road before
The one they say never ends
And I've met all kinds of people there
They're drifters without friends
And I remember all the sheriffs
Riding 'round in their black and white cars
Young kids wavin' Viet Cong flags
And I wonder just who they are
And do you remember back
Way back to the year 1969
It was a different kind of warfare then
Our home town was the front line
And take a look around you
Things haven't really changed
People still killin' people
On this planet with no name
So pass me another bottle
It's time to drown this sorrow
The holy men are drinking with us
They no longer pretend to know
They no longer pretend to know
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Bisexing the Blues
I know this woman whose been hurt too many times
I could tell you stories about the woman hurt too many times
I want to comfort her
And I know that I could
But in the end I might
I'm afraid that I just might
In the end I think I might
Hurt her, too
She says she loves me and I know that means a lot
But she loves a man who wants another man
A complicated blues
But this is not a song
A mixed up life all gone wrong
Well the man he doesn't know
I'm afraid he just might know
In the end will I let him know
Will it hurt him, too?
I've lived in a prison all these years with the only key
Couldn't see the inside imprisoned on the outside of me
A straightjacketed fool
But this is not a song
A mixed up life all gone wrong
How do I slow these things down?
I'm over my head upside down
I can't slow my heart beat down
Am I a fool to you?
Who wrote the script we live by when we act out life?
There are no happy endings when we live a lie
Yet who tells the truth?
But this is not a song
A mixed up life all gone wrong
We could end up all alone
It's a risk we have to take
Better real than a living fake
I just don't know
I know this woman whose been hurt too many times
I could tell you stories about the woman hurt too many times
I want to comfort her
And I know that I could
But in the end I might
I'm afraid that I just might
In the end I think I might
Hurt her, too
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Devil Is A Man
(alternate lyrics)
The devil is a man
I've seen his face
The devil is a man
I've seen his face
Look in the mirror
You'll take his place
I don't need sympathy
That's not for me
I don't need sympathy
That's not for me
We could get together
Make some love release
Caught in the moment
No thoughts at all
Caught in the moment
No thoughts at all
We ride the mystery
With no worries at all
Angels point and sigh
It's a familiar sight
Angels point and sigh
It's a familiar sight
Nobody fucks in heaven
But it's alright because
Right here on earth
It's in your face
Right here on earth
It's in your face
And I said:
The devil is a man
Look in the mirror
You'll take my place
Yeah, you'll take my place
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Tell Me Now
OK, my head is spinning
Wondering about your state of mind
You sleep so peacefully
Sometimes I must be blind
Yeah, I must be blind
I've seen all the sorrow
Floating in your eyes
But everytime I've seen you cry
It takes me by surprise
Always by surprise
So we pull up a friendly cloud
And try to talk things out
But it's just passing by
With memory on full splash and flow
It's on full splash and flow
Tell me now if you can
Where do we go
Up here in the clouds
Rain on our feet below
Where do we go
Up here in the clouds
With the rain on our feet below
And a head full of searing doubt
You smile a little
And say I think I know
Yeah, I think I know
Maybe tomorrow it will be all right
Yeah, tomorrow things will be all right
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A Couple of Fools
(alternate lyrics)
I was hoping you'd bring the voodoo
Attached to your frenzied world view
I was hoping you'd help me undo the truth
Tied up in knots all these years by a couple of fools
Then there was the moment when I realized
You had to fracture yourself into a multi-person fuse
It the moment when I felt totally lobotomized
When we cooked up our love into a brain-fried blues
If you had the crystals and you were me and I were you
Tripping over each other like a couple of drunken buffoons
How would you cauterize the flow of bloody clues
Dripping from the hacked-up body of our lovelorn muse
You've seen the pictures moving across the stone wall
Hieroglyphically depicting the memories we filmed inside
The mythological creatures we fantasized before the fall
Within our garden of mutating self-perpetuating delights
Tell me now I'm Jesus Christ hung out to dry in the hot sun
No panic on my face until a crow mimics my bloodless death
And you, faux Mary Magdelene in the passion play undone
Sobbing for our too human love entwined in my dying breath
I was hoping you'd bring the voodoo
Attached to your frenzied worldview
I was hoping you'd help me undo this truth
Tied in in knots all these years by a couple of fools
A couple of fools who look a lot like
A couple of fools who look a lot like
A couple of fools who look a lot like
Me and you...
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Too Many Words
Don't waste your words
On these last moments
Solomon had his wives
And you've got your lies
You had a timetable
For the perfect crime
But too many words
Won't make you wise
So don't waste your words
They're too easy to contrive
The sunshine is gone now
And night is black as hell
Memory is just a misery
A dysfunctional menagerie
Hold on lover hold on
No, no don't you cry
Love is just a coverup
For the death we despise
The sunshine is gone now
And night is black as hell
I have been to the slaughterhouse
The slaughterhouse of love
You cut me real bad there baby
You drank all of my blood
And you thought I was a dead man
So why do you feel cold to the touch
You might feel a little cheated now
Because I never loved you that much
It was a case of glandular function
Runnin' rampant, crazy, out to lunch
Don't waste your words
On these last moments
Solomon had his wives
And you've got your lies
You had a timetable
For the perfect crime
But too many words
Won't make you wise
So don't waste your words
They're too easy to contrive
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Circle of Light
There's a river of darkess here
But it can't close out this light
No matter how hard it tries
To bring down the night
And maybe time is a spinning wheel
Going round and round
We end up in the same old places
With our feet on the ground
And every time I see your face
This message comes through
I know the other half of me
Is the other half of you
And every time I see your face
This message comes through
I know the other half of me
Is the other half of you
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We Are Free
unless i'm mistaken
without hesitation
i want to hold and
kiss your face
but my ego trips
next door to mars
beneath the waves
i wreck this grace
we are free
we're so free
yeah, we are free
to disappear from this place
this sad inertia
and violent revolutions
utopia is drowning
to save her face
how foolish me
a jester in diguise
against this rain
a soulful embrace
i speak in tongues
a mad diatribe
swiftly tumbling
i am erased
we are free
we're so free
yeah, we are free
to disappear from this place
my mask is you
i'm wearing you
i'm floating over
my own disgrace
will you remember
the rules of courtship
a brief encounter
no hints no trace
we are free
we're so free
yeah, we are free
to disappear from this place
a dance refined
begin the rhythms
the light of emotion
a butterfly encased
and we are free
we are free
and we are free
to disappear from this place
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Talking To The Teapot
I'm talkin' to the teapot
Standin' in the rain
I think I finally forgot
To pull the moon down
You pushed inside of me
Standing with my pain
You rode in on a cloud
And pulled my heart around
A human traffic jam
Laughter like the insane
To speak in all these tongues
And ride the currents down
I collect your images
Inside of my head
A wide screen version of you
Is opening in every town
I love the love of your love
Standin' in the rain
I think I finally forgot
To pull the moon down
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Aztec
When I see your beauty on the outside
I wonder why, I'm afraid on the inside
You don't look like anyone that I know
But I'm sure that you been here before
I knew an Aztec once who stole my heart
Showed everyone in town before departin'
Burned one hundred times so now I'm shy
I seem to recognize the Aztec glint in your eye
We sit here at the bar drinking alcohol
Recalling how we both had some downfalls
We smile now at our common point of view
One more drink and to hell with the blues
Back at my place we fall down on the floor
Make love all night like a million times before
But in the early morning I begin to wonder why
I feel like an Aztec who's gonna make you cry
When you wake up without any makeup
You're so beautiful I just wanna hold you
But there's work so we both have to get up
Another day, another dollar for the blues
When I see your beauty on the outside
I wonder why, I'm afraid on the inside
You don't look like anyone that I know
But I'm sure that you been here before
I knew an Aztec once who stole my heart
Showed everyone in town before departin'
Burned one hundred times so now I'm shy
I seem to recognize the Aztec glint in your eye
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Sister Mary
Tell me Sister Mary, tell me
Just don't read the cards too fast
Tell me everything you know
Just make my future last.........
I know you're a holy woman
But do you practice the voodoo too?
Look at my palm now
Tell me everywhere the lines will go
Will I be healthy happy and wise
Or does my excessive curiosity show?
Tell me everything you know
Just make the future last
I know you're a holy woman
But do you dabble in the voodoo too?
Can you see me at night in the city
Walkin thru your back streets
Queens and queers and jungle teens
Red bricks, the steam and the heat
Release me from this nightmare
The one that won't let me sleep
Sometimes I hear the sound of spaceships
And vampires on a midnight creep
Tell me Sister Mary, tell me
Just don't read the cards too fast
Tell me everything you know
Just make my future last...
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Drifter
Tell me your story
I'll tell you mine
You might have to save yours
For some other time
You see I'm a drifter
And that's all
I really wanna be
I've been around
A time or two
You hurt me
And I hurt you
'Cause I'm a drifter
And that's all
I really wanna do
Never built a pyramid
Or a house I owned
In the middle of a crowd
I feel all alone
'Cause I'm a drifter
And that's all
I really wanna do
There's a lot of places
I still wanna see
The faces change
But not the personalities
Yeah, I'm a drifter
And that's all
I really wanna be
Pontius Pilate asked
What is truth?
I guess it all depends
On your point of view
Yeah, I'm a drifter
And that's all
I really wanna be
Some folks say
The devil lives inside
But I've seen more hell
On the outside
Yeah I'm a drifter
And that's all
I will confide
If I stop here
Can you spare a dime
The world's my oyster
But I don't have much time
You see, I'm a drifter
And that's all
I really wanna be
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All words and music ©2002 and ©2004 by Bruce Madden
