BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL

Standing all alone in the sea of love

Trying not to take it to serious

One sad face in a world of clowns

If you can’t stand up you go down down down

Chorus

Baby the rain must fall

Baby the rain must fall

Lie in bed waiting for the light of day

Squeeze my pillow make it go away

Thunder and lighting outside my door

Go to sleep rich and wake up poor

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Bridge

There ain’t no shelter gonna keep you dry

When it starts raining baby from deep inside

Pull the shades lock the door turn out the light

There ain’t no place to hide

Door fly open and fools rush in

Romance starts and love begins

Make a few plans about a brighter day

Then with someone else they just walk away

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CHAMA

You got me thinking about making a change

Pop my ballons and just go

My gardian angel she’ll watch over me

No matter which way the wind blows

Some people tell me to get over it

But what IT is I can’t comprehend

It might be fun just to see what they’d do

If I change clothes and act like a man

Now I can’t remember what I’m supposed to be

Don’t know anymore what to believe

Now I’m a joker who’s joking to cover a joke

Some joker things he’s playing on me

You got me thinking about making a change

Pop my ballons and just go

My gardian angel she’ll watch over me

No matter which way the wind blows

It’s sounding better just heading down the road

Down to Chama New Mexico

Cha cha cha Chama New Mexico

CLEARWATER

Time like a river, flows endlessly                                            

Gathering everything, left behind by you and me

But just like the river, our lives will flow

So what goes into the river, goes into the seeds we sow

Chorus

Let’s go down to Clearwater,  Clearwater    

Plant our seed along the rippling shore at Clearwater

Watch those seeds take root and grow at Clearwater

When tomorrow comes they’ll be seeds a more at Clearwater

When tomorrow comes they’ll be seeds a more at Clearwater

Oh river of life, gather up you streams

Across the mountains, prairie’s, reservations, carry our Clearwater dreams

Maybe someday, someday will come

When all of our Clearwater dreams, flow together into one

Chorus

When I’m gone they can scatter me at Clearwater

I know I’ll be in good company at Clearwater

Woody Guthrie he’ll be there at Clearwater

Mr. Pete Seeger he’ll be there too at Clearwater

Sittin Bull, Crazy Horse, all the great chiefs a Clearwater

Sittin round the camp fire talking about peace at Clearwater

Don’t want no pollution, don’t want no war, just Clearwater

Now that’s really something worth fightin for Clearwater

DESTINY

You don’t know me but we share the same destination song

Bound together down the road of life a legend being born

I know everything about your fate that a crystal ball can’t see

Still you tell me that you’d rather be a loner my friend well you better get used to me

Cause I’m your Destiny I’ve come to take you on a long hard ride    Are you ready

From the south a lonesome sound will fill you with desire

From the east a hurricane of questions starts a little fire

Through the ashes of the burned out dreams along the road to the promise land

Getting born was a freebe now you got to pay to be born again

Yeah that’s your Destiny and the pleasures all mine

They’ll come a time when all you believe will just fade away and die

Leave you standing in pool of fear down by the riverside

Just throw away your eyes throw away your ears empty all your thoughts into a dirty can of beer

Take off all your clothes burn away your skin all I want to hear is your bones rattle in the wind

Yeah you got to strip it all down

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Cause there’ll be voices humming a sad refrain Angels from on high speaking your name

Yes they will

And there’ll be demons following you at night down into your dreams you’ll be afraid

Yes you will

Wild haired night mares running scared living in a truth that don’t make any sense

The bible’s on the right the church is on the left and the contradiction feels like sin

You’ll never be a preacher of a crooked politician so you’ll probably never be a millionaire

But money can’t buy all mud and blood and guts it takes to bring you here

Face to face with your Destiny yeah I’ll be waiting for you here

Your going to graveyard about a hundred cars stretching lights down the interstate

Till you feel the walls around your soul begin to break

Out on that highway of loneliness screaming without a sound

Don’t let your conscience shake you when the walls start crumbling down

All around your Destiny you just keep the hammer down

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Now when you reach that salvation sign on the outskirts of nothinville

Just turn around and take a long hard look at what you thought was real

Some are born to wonder others they can find it right at home

Don’t make no difference cause in the end everybody’s got to find their own Destiny

Just like you and me                                                                                                               

That’s your Destiny walking with you down the street

That’s your Destiny talking to you in your dreams

That’s your Destiny come to set you soul free

DREAM AWHILE

I was born beneath a red velvet sky

First thing I saw before I cried

I swear I heard the angels sing

I swear I heard them call my name

Chorus

I got wings upon my fingers

So I can fly up to the sky

But if I don’t get up to heaven

It’ll be enough to just dream awhile

Down into the valley of the midnight sun

Deep into the desert with the lonely one

Ran across the devil on a golden mare

I drank his water then I left him standing there

All my life I towed the line

Everything I felt I felt denied

Now there’s an angel in my bed

Glory halleluiah there’s a light ahead

Maybe I won’t find where I belong

Maybe all I’ll ever do is roam

Ain’t no mystery it ain’t no sin

I have seen the shinning star and that’s enough my friend

DRIVE

Lost in the silence of this highway roar I drift out over the line

catch a glimpse of the world behind as me and this road unwind

jailhouse rocker on a dream escape in this supercharged chevrolet

don’t look for me now girl I’ll be ridin’ that milky way

in the floor I see what remains of last night’s cherrywine

in my hand the letter tellin’ me I must decide

girl you take my breath away but this guitar lets me run

don’t stop me now girl my life has just begun

In the distance the sky’s on fire I see the flamin’ star of death

a thousand faces of those like mine who lay their souls to rest

my engine screams for more air to breathe and I comb my hair with the wind

times like now girl I feel I’m my only friend

a misty rain upon my window cools the midnight hour

but nothin’ short of this high speed chase can cool my heart’s desires

all my visions they come to life on this highway to the sun

a silent death awaits me if I turn and run

EDGE OF LIFE

Chorus

Out on the edge of life I can breath fire

A Christian with the devils desire

Out on the edge of life it’s a fairytale

That leads you to heaven but drags you through hell

Out on the edge of life

Every heart has a yearning every soul has a burden

So run away little wonderer it won’t last forever

There’s a time and a place and a dream where I can be a hero

I’ll brave the thorns to touch a rose

Chorus

Ain’t no message waiting on judgment day better say what you got to say today

Turn around all your dreams are gone out on the edge is where dreams live on

I might be standing like a statue of pain along the shoulders of a hard road

Guess I wasn’t born to follow

Chorus

FORK IN THE ROAD      

I can see it a comin another fork in the road

Gotta make a decision time‘s a growin old

My car’s a swerving goin side to side

Getting faster and faster but the breaks applied

Chorus

You know there’s an eagle flyin over my head

And you can’t believe all the things she say’s

You know sometimes I think she likes to see me sweat

I got millions of miles logged under my hood

I tried to get back home every chance I could

But this road has got me really got my goat

So I can’t be responsible for all the things I wrote

Chorus

Tried to change directions and out run the law

Thought my tracks were covered  till I hit the wall

Can’t let the past forsake you can’t let your engine stall

Cause the future keeps a comin in spite of it all

Chorus

I been a red-neck wrangler with rhinestone shoes

Takein luck for granted never payin no dues

Been a long time comin been a long time gone

Looks like the right road but the scenery’s wrong

Chorus

Well the preacher man said he could lighten my load

Which ever way you choose it’s all been for told

So I guess it doesn’t really matter which way that I go

Seems there’s always gonna be one more fork in the road

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FURTHER ON

I ride my secret highway tonight                                         

I won’t sleep until the morning light                                 

Shed my clothes beneath a harvest moon

Listen to my favorite gospel tunes

Ride ride feel the midnight wind

Let me be a hero once again

I come to bid my last fair the well

Then let the demon take me if he will

Chorus

May be just my disillusion telling me to go

Disappear a life or two way down in Mexico

But I don’t know enough about the things I wanna know

So further on still seems the place to go

I gotta travel fast there ain’t much time

And a real good set of wheels is hard to find

Always trouble waiting around the bend

So I travel light but always bring a friend

Go on let those haunted voices follow me

And keep me and this road good company

As I become this midnight radio

And struggle for possession of my soul

Chorus

GRADUATION WISH

You and me we had this thing we never talked about

And back in school the things we said were never what we felt

You had him I had her there was nothing we could share

Except a painful silence between each and every stare

Graduation came and with a tearful last embrace

I watched the one I really loved just walking away

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Oh oh oh....

I know there ain’t no page for you and me in this book of love

But baby we could write one just for the two of us

Like shooting stars that cut across a cold black moonless night

Was more than the hand of fate that caused our two paths to collide

Now we’ve been traveling down different roads just to find that where we are

Is still inside each others heart where we always were

Once again here we are face to face and I’ve got this one last chance

Will I find the words this time or watch you walk again

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GREAT MYSTERY

If you’ve read the paper lately well I guess you read the news

War is the topic of the land

Some of us are for it some of us against

And some of us just don’t give a damn

Well what’s the use of fightin over somthin that is free

Who really owns this planet anyway

Take a hard look around at all this poverty and pain

Are we ready for that judgment day Oh lord

Are we ready for that judgment day

Chorus

We’re all a part of a great mystery

Earth and spirit tryin to find our way

Yes we’re all a part of a great mystery

Don’t loose your faith

Martin Luther King for his people had a dream

Crazy Horse he did too

But looking back on history I think we’d all agree

Neither one of those dreams came true

Still we say we wanna make the world a free and better place

Where everybody’s dream can be heard

I don’t put much faith in preacher’s, politicians or the law

I put my faith down in the dirt Oh lord

I put my faith down in the dirt

Chorus

I can see my mother commin up the old dirt road

Carrying her bible in her hand

Singing the only thing that matters at the end of the line

You kept your nose clean and helped your fellow man

Now I don’t know if there’s one truth that everyman to hear

As we travel down life’s forked road

But when the angels came to take my sweet mother home

That’s one truth I did never wanna know Oh lord

That’s one truth I did never wanna know

Chorus

GYPSY’S CADILLAC

Left home when I was just fourteen

Couldn’t cut it with that teenage scene

So I listen to myself and I made a promise

Gonna make it on my own

Didn’t need what they were selling at home

Gonna live my life pure and honest

Didn’t listen to my momma’s  plea

Rode the wind cause the wind was free

High above the ground my sprit flew

Wanted freedom from a would be grave

But fell prisoner to the life I made

Home is the only place I haven’t been

Wrote letters but they got  burned

I knew I couldn’t wait for their return

Watched those years slip through my hand

Late at night when I dream awake

I swear I see my daddy’s face

And I wonder does he ever think of me

Now lonely nights in this back seat bed

No longer draw me to the road ahead

I realize now my family’s where it’s at

Don’t remember the last time that I prayed

But I pray they ain’t been taken away

Man I feel the need to go back

Tired of living in this Gypsy’s Cadillac

HEART OF AMERICA

When I walked into the street last night I heard some one crying, calling out in pain

And a cold chill ran up and down my spine when I heard that same voice calling out my name

As I turned to look all the streets were bare and I realized nobody cared and there was no one there

Chorus

It was the Heart of America

Reaching out to me

The Heart of America

Trying to make me see   

Well we send our love to a foreign land and we’re proud that we can answer to their call

But there’s a whole world right outside our door just two steps away from a fatal fall

Everyday on the street I see arms reached out in desperate need of a little good deed

Chorus

From the Heart of America

To lend them a helping hand

The Heart of America

Could make them want to live again

bridge

So where’s your heart when a blind man’s trying just to cross the street

A cripple man trying to walk

The children without anything to eat

Do you really care at all

Chorus

For the Heart of America

A stranger in the crowd

The Heart of America

The few but the proud

The Heart of America

Has paid its final dews

Now the Heart of America

Is reaching out to you

HEAVEN WHEN I DIE

Well I walked the fields of a young boy

Out grew the dreams of a child

Traded my gold for a Steinbeck romance

Walked the lonesome valley end to end

I heard that’s where the hero’s ride again

I rode that black ribbon hiway

A dream catcher blowing in the wind

I never caught a dream but I caught a good glimpse of life

From the badlands all the way down to Mexico

A lot of good things gone the way of the buffalo

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Take me lead me free me save me

I don’t wanna just die and go to heaven

I wanna feel like I’m in heaven when I die

No I don’t wanna just die and go to heaven

I wanna feel like I’m in heaven when I die

I heard the prophets singing down in Memphis

All coming up from hiway 61

That Mississippi moon salvation shed it’s light on me

And old Herman showed me that it’s nothing that sets you free

And he said alone is where you’ll be when you find peace

So I went high on a mountain of madness

Saw things that I know just ain’t real

But if I can see a Red River sunset

I’ll be walking hand and hand with my destiny

In that blessed incarnation of my dream

Chorus

Now tonight as I lay by my campfire

Eighteen wheelers cryin on the line

I trace back the stars that brought me to this place

Seems like a hundred years from yesterday

The places change but that don’t change my fate

Cause way deep inside in some prison

My soul is a quest to be free

So always just beyond the horizon

This freedom road will carry a fool like me

And keep me on this closer walk with thee

HIWAY DOWN

Grew up dirty poor and mean in this classy little two room shack

Spent my life underneath some car trying to pay my daddy back

Junkyard dogs running through the house well I guess they felt at home

If I could have just saved a couple of bucks I might never have gone wrong

Now momma she begged me to be good and I tried my best to please

But finding out the hard way seemed to come more easily

So I took me that ride down to easy street looking for that passing lane

And woke up in this jail house staring out at the pouring rain

Chorus

Well I was born and raised a common man on the poor side of town

So I caught the first ride I could find on this lonely hiway down

So if you see me trying to make my way back across the tracks

With everything I own and now this here monkey on my back

Well my eyes have seen the glory and more than their share of pain

Now here I am yeah I’m right back where it all started again

Chorus

Well I was born and raised a common man on the poor side of town

Seems like my life begins and ends on this lonely hiway down

Starlight star bright first star I see tonight

I wish I may I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight

HOPE MACHINE

Chorus

We all are Hope Machines

Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger been talking about

We are the fuel for change we can do most anything

We the people we’re a mighty Hope Machine

There’s a lot of hard work being done in this country

By people with their hands on the workin wheel

Like the farmer sowin’ seeds out there in his field of dreams

All day long ridin a big green hope machine

But every year more farms are goin under

Every year our food’s costing more and more

The backbone of this land should be feeding American’s

Not forclosed on like some department store

Chorus

There’s a lot a people born in this country

Who will never have opportunity to sing

If this is Democracy it’s our law abiding duty

To make sure that freedom always rings

I wish we could all sing together

And experience the truth in harmony

Like in we shall overcome, and we all are born to run

And this land was made for you and me

I 40 EAST BOUND

I 40 east bound, north star turn around

Soul searching out loud, all alone on my cloud

All my concentration, on my salvation

I see the reflection, I feel the rejection

Thinking about tomorrow, thinking about my sorrow

Thinking about my heyday, thinking about my baby

Should I tell them, the trouble my heart’s in

Will they ever listen, where are all my friends

Time ain’t no healer, for those who never find her

Someone you dream of having, some dream you dream of living

I watch the sunset, just one more regret

Scream my name like thunder, what is this spell I’m under

I 40 east bound, north star turn around

Soul searching out loud, all alone on my cloud

Outside the world is turning, inside my world is burning

Will I find peace at last, scratched on my epitaph

I DON’T WANNA  BE A SOLDIER

On the battlefield I stand and face the devils own right hand and I see a rainbow

And I wanna be a part of that rainbow

My face into the wind I close my eyes and pray again that I was dreaming

Oh I wish that I could just be dreaming

The world is growing colder and no one has a name

No one cares to look around and no one takes the blame

Chorus

I don’t wanna be a soldier I just wanna be free

I don’t wanna be a hero I just wanna be me

You can try to justify cover up with alibis what you believe in

These things that I no longer believe in

And if you buy what is for sale you better be prepared to sale yourself and move to nowhere

Not me man I’ve already been there

And the writing on the wall tells me the sun is going down

I can live in darkness but I can’t live like a clown

Chorus

BLACK ROSES

Chorus

I got a woman she don’t love me Black roses over my door                          

I got a woman she don’t love me

Black roses over my door

There’s a river river of darkness

I can see it in her eyes

With the distance of her kisses

There’s nothing left to die                         

Chorus

Faded memories haunt the shadows

Of a doubt that come to rise

Vows lay broken truth turns into lies

Two strangers come to life

Chorus

Bridge

If I surrender to things we said today           

Maybe tomorrow I’ll see yesterday              

Chorus

BEAUTY IN DISGUISE

Blinded by the untold truth I searched in vain through out my youth

For beauty in the face of desire

Rode on every natural high let passion fill my heart with lies

Till youth was gone and so was the fire

Locked out in a four wheel drift you can feel the presence of

The loneliness that over comes a fugitive from love

Chorus

I have seen the sunshine and the rain

Sacrificed myself for love in vain

Something real something realized

To those who live in dreams that never die

Beyond the paradise there’s beauty in disguise

Out beyond those city lights I break away from all that hype

And try to find some hope for tomorrow

Somewhere where I can clear my mind into another place and time

Where beauty is I will always follow

She may not be a vision from up on the movie screen

But when she says I love you man you know that’s what she means

Chorus

Me I’m just a lonely boy holding out for something more

I can’t sleep in love that’s cruel

Maybe someday on this train fate will whisper loves true name

Then I’ll know I haven’t been a fool

These thunder rails beneath my feet they won’t thunder anymore

And I can walk these street to places I never been before

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DOWN THIS ROAD

I have been up on the mountain seeking wisdom from the man

Had a blind old gypsy read the future in my hand

She said boy your gonna travel alone down this road

My Daddy said remember you reap everything you sow

and what you gather along the way is all you’ll have to show

When you reach the end of the line down this road

Is my destiny waiting for me I don’t know

Maybe tomorrow I’ll carry a lighter load

Only thing for sure is I’ll be further down this road

I have walked inside the shadows of lost forgotten men

To hold just for a moment my fate between my hands

And felt the fear of losing it all down this road

From deep inside these prison walls that rise above my bed

Here I’m safe from everything but these voices in my head

They keep pleadin leadin me on down this road

Between death and desperation there’s a very thin line

Walk to close to either one and you can kiss you soul goodbye

Keep you eye on the sparrow when you walk down this road

Now when I look back on tomorrow and all it held in store

Will I still be prisoner of all I knew before

Or free to follow my dreams down this road

Somewhere over the rainbow down this road

GLORY TOWN

One more time around the block my friend 

Momma said son it’s time to come in               

It’s getting late and the sun’s going down         

Another day in glory town                                 

Another day in glory town                              

Another day in glory town                              

My death machine is parked out in the yard

The spokes are lined with baseball cards

When I ride down the street it makes a thundering sound

Really burning up glory town

Burning up glory town

Burning up glory town

Now everyday when my brother goes to school

I set around here ain’t got nothing to do 

Well I got dreams and I know where they’re found

Their waiting out in glory town

Out there in glory town

Out there in glory town

It’s been a long time now since I rode these streets

But for some strange reason they keep haunting me

Well I made a lot of money but I’d trade it all now

For one short day back in glory town

In glory town

In glory town 

FOLK SINGER

Well you call yourself a folk Singer

You know a hundred Woody Guthrie Songs

Bumper stickers on your guitar

Tell the world what’s been goin wrong

Chorus

Folk Singer gonna even the score

Folk Singer gonna change the world

Anti-war, Hippie, Peace marchin, left winger

Just what we need, another Folk Singer

Their commin from the heart land the cities and the coast

On souped up solar machines

They wanna save the Wolves, they wanna save the trees

They wanna save everything

Chorus

Folk Singer gonna even the score

Folk Singer gonna change the world

Environmentalist wants us all to live greener

Just what we need, another Folk Singer

Bridge

He’s anti this, she’s anti that

Always talking some kind-a socialist crap

Imagration, segrigation, crimes on the reservation

Hay hay you you get off-a my back

They don’t believe in guns, don’t believe in war

All you ever hear is peace peace peace

They don’t believe the Government should do anything

The people aren’t allowed to see

Chorus

Folk Singer gonna even the score

Folk Singer gonna change the world

Always fighting for the loser, man what a dreamer

Just what we need, another Folk Singer

MOTHER EARTH

Mother Earth I cannot hear you where are you now

My ear is pressed upon your chest I cannot hear a sound

Oh has it finally happened the words the prophets said

That we would kill our mother and soon we’ll all be dead

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Oh Mother can you forgive me now

I sold you for a ticket on this deathville train

Oh Mother can you forgive me now

My spirit is returning more and more everyday

The waning signs were always there I see them clearly now

But I was flying thoughtless above the stormy clouds

I told myself the great lie and found it to be true

Now when I look into my eyes I see no trace of you

What is it that makes a child waste and throw away

The precious gifts a mother beneath his feet she lays

With all this greed and hunger for power everywhere

Is it any wonder this time has come to bear

Chorus

Pete Seeger said he thinks we have a 50 50 chance

Tip the scales and make this world a greener place again

The air, the soil, the water our thoughts will all be clear

When the 7th generation comes their mother will be here

If I could go back turn the tide rewrite history

Honor my mother make her proud of me

I’d plant a tree tomorrow and water it real good

And defend it with my last life final drop of blood

Chorus

I FALL DOWN

I have seen ten thousand moons

and lots of lonely nights

trying to justify

the love that I denied

now every time I wake up

and I find you in my arms

I remember how it felt

when I was all alone

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and I fall down, I fall down,

I fall down on my knees and pray

now I can feel a gentle breeze

you blow upon my skin

and I can feel the magic

of your presence closing in

now I am not afraid of love

but sometime love is blind

and I don’t want to be some fool

or someone’s clinging vine

chorus

bridge

I sacrificed myself to loneliness

now I baptize myself in love again

chorus

I GOTTA KNOW WHO I AM

All alone in the darkness with my pain

Confused when they whisper my name

Lost and alone but I just can’t go home

I gotta know who I am

In my eyes there’s a sadness never seen

Revealed in this lonely lovers dreams

No way to explain so the mystery remains

I gotta know who I am

Bridge

I wanna hold in my hands what my heart can see

I wanna be everything I know I can be

Show me the way don’t let me stray

I gotta know who I am

There’s a sweet sweet spirit in this place

Where all my burdens shall be raised

And saved by the light wish I may wish I might

I gotta know who I am

Lead me home don’t leave me to roam

I gotta know

I gotta know

I gotta know who I am

I

Sometimes I laugh at my shadow sometimes I cry

Ain’t nobody knows just how I feel and I don’t know why

chorus

Oh I

Some people say I’m a hero others deny

I thought by now I’d be long gone but I’m still alive

chorus

Once I was young in a free world life was a dream

Now I’m a slave in the real world and it’s killing me

chorus

But love is a faithful believer willing to die

Out on the edge with the dreamers trying to fly

chorus

JIMMY

Hey little Jimmy wanna ride with the kings tonight

climb in back roll the window down hang on tight

don’t worry nobody’s gonna breathe a word about you

you won’t have to be involved with the things we do

you’re just along for the ride

Hey little Jimmy wanna take a little stroll downtown

stir a little action up maybe shut a few down

over by the underpass there’s a rendezvous

but if some trouble starts you don’t have to dance

just stay cool

you’re just along for the ride

Hey little Jimmy wanna take a real car for a spin

got a little stop I need to make why don’t you keep the motor running

you know we’re on the bad side of town so this ain’t no stroll

if anybody asks you anything you say you just don’t know

Hey little Jimmy can you see the light from where you are

caught up in a nightmare sprung from a bad desire

trouble is a lost soul looking for some company

to take you on a trip to a place you don’t ever wanna be

just along for the ride

JUST A MESSENGER

First time I saw him Jesus was his name

A carpenter of people building shelter from the rain

His words could heal a wounded soul his touch could raise the dead

Something just rang true with every word he said he said

Chorus

Gather round good people together we can sing

Together we make power together we make change

When we put our hearts together there ain’t nothing we can’t cure

But I am not your savior I am just a messenger

Well I seen him many other times through out the coarse of history

Always lending voice to those who were down and out in need

He was Ghandi Saint Francis he was Mother Teresa

Always there with hope to help them rise above sayin

Chorus

Well he was marching down in Washington back in 1963

Still fighting for the people still strugleing to be free

They cut him down in Memphis just because he had a dream

But today his words still ring ring ring

Chorus

The last time I saw him was up on reservation road

A poet prophet warrior called him Johnny Lobo

He was talking about the mining of our spirit into gold

That we might sell our mother and turn our hearts to stone

He said there’s a future where there’s nothing left to gain

Where everything’s been bought and sold and killed and all in vain

Where all that’s left of power are endless power lines

And all that’s left of progress is withering on the vine

For every war and deed that has taken life away

All is not forgotten it’s now in the DNA

But you who keep the promise to not forsake the land

Will on day be the power to help her live again so

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LAST REGRET

I got ice water flowing down in my veins

Spent my whole life cooling down

Running in the dark it’s driving me crazy

Just digging me a hole in the ground

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Like a falling star on a fast descent

I don’t wanna be tied to my last regret

I gotta keep moving on

Down at lake sugar tree I left a broken dream

That I know I’ll never see again

Around and around and around she goes

Forever just a long lost friend

Every day I get a little further behind

The days they go on and on

It’s hard to be a saint when it’s only you

And that part of you is already gone

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Somewhere in the mist of a yesterday

I slipped and became a man

I don’t wanna cry for the boy who died

I just wanna make him live again

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I got a picture of a lonely rider hanging on my wall

Just keeps on reminding me

The truth is the only thing to ever last

And the only thing to set you free

When tomorrow passes like a hungry breath

You know I wanna be among the free

Stand and face the world without regret

Cause my life ain’t no lie to me

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LONELY MAN

My thoughts are all scattered like the stars up above

I got nothing left to give except giving up

Lonely man

I can’t see straight and I’m afraid to look back

On all the things I gave away to be where I’m at

Lonely man

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You can go back home but you can never return

To the time and place you left with these things you’ve learned

Walked hand and hand with love into the fiery gates of hell

Turned around and said good by saved myself

Lonely man

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Now if looking to the future gave a man some company

Well it wouldn’t be so hard to trust himself faithlessly

Lonely man

Now I need a reputation that can justify this pain

I’m living in a stranger’s town searching for a name

Lonely man

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And there ain’t no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

Just a broken sign saying this ain’t no place to be alone

LOVERS LEAP

Adam and Eve they had a real cool thing

but they let it slip away

you and me could have the same thing too

I know you know the way

You say you wanna be my only one

that’s what I want to hear

but it takes more than just some magic words

to make the angels appear

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come on now baby

come on now darlin’

come on now baby I’m tired of losing sleep

come on now darlin’ climb on up and we’ll take this lovers leap

I ain’t no lover boy but I know love

when it looks me in the eye

if you ain’t ready to go face to face

you better let it pass on by

The mountain’s high and it’s a long hard climb

if you’re gonna have it all

true love is blind so ain’t no need to look down

can’t be afraid to take the fall

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MASTER PLAN

Well I’m bone tired waiting for my sun to shine, and walking with this cripple wind.

Left all my friends back in the Hollywood hills, now I’m alone again.

Been singing about the trials of this old cruel world, from the east coast to the west.

Me and this Chevy called a lot a places home but on the move is what we like the best.

Now you can talk about my clothes, hair, color of my skin, man I don’t care bout all that stuff.

I’m only trying to find myself a little peace of mind, to comfort me out here in the rough.

Cause some days I feel like a blessed holy saint, they’re ain’t no mountain I couldn’t move.

Then I turn around and find myself starring at pavement, through the windows in both my shoes.

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Well now I don’t know if there’s some master plan.

Maybe it’s better I don’t understand.

Gonna saddle up my pony, you can catch me on the backside of Eden.

Now we fly around this universe in a billion dollar rocket, scouting signs to another paradise.

Taken nearly everything this whole world has to give, and the rest is running real short supply.

You can hear it on the radio, watch it on tv, feel the vibrations in your bones.

We been cultivating everything except our own salvation, a lot of bad seeds been sown.

We got cancer growing everywhere, every shape and form, spreading out and into everything.

There’s cancer in the food we eat, and the papers that we read, their putting cancer in the thoughts that we think.

I hear lot of wealthy people talking about changes, well poor folks they want changes too.

Some are born to have it all no matter what they do, others seem like they’ve been born to lose.

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Now I know there ain’t no freedom till we all are free, but I guess it’s just to obvious.

Holding on to everything so tight you can’t help wondering, maybe this is what keeps making life so tough.

Out there in the distance surely there must be a light, bright enough for everyone to see.

I’ve heard a lot of reasons, but none that can be proved, why there is, or there ain’t nothing to

believe.

So when I wake up in the morning and my feet hit the floor, I’ll be running down this future I behold.

But it’s getting harder everyday just to make a simple choice with all these complicated truths I’ve been told.

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MISUNDERSTOOD

Poor boy with an eye for a flashy car

On a corner with a gleam in his eye

Always dreaming, talking about leaving town

And the feelings that he had inside

Well he lived his life in a silent rage

Cause they laughed and said he’s no good

So he took his life up on sunset road

He knew he’d always be misunderstood

Growing up on the streets of this country town

All I owned were the thoughts in my head

I told them what they had was just not for me

But they never heard a word that I said

So I lived my life with an open hand

Helped everybody that I could

Now here I am with this empty heart

Just like I’ve always been misunderstood

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I’d like to wash my hands and drop this mask

And to the mirror make my final vow

And when I’d hit that street man they’d all be paralyzed

And my mother she’d be so proud

Gonna dust off my old two wheeler

And with what’s left of my dreams I’m gonna climb

With just the shirt on my back I’m gonna redline this tach

Feel the wind in my face one more time

Cause if I can’t live true I’d just as soon die young

With some dignity still in my blood

So let the four winds blow, let the rivers run

But Lord don’t let me be misunderstood

LOOK OUT WORLD

We never fit in with the regular crowd

You and me baby had our own hangout

It didn’t matter what they had to say

They never really knew us anyway

I wanted money and a big fine car

You said I wanna be where ever you are

I knew together we could make it come true

We got each other so we know we can’t lose

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Look out world we’re coming around

Look out world they can’t hold us down anymore

Look out world we’re making our move

Looks like our dreams are finally gonna come true

We always talked about breaking the mold

Get out of town before we grow to old

If we stay we know what lies in store

Ain’t nothing here to hold us down no more

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