lyr 33: easy now

glass hitting her face now
easy now, easy now
nothing can erase her now
easy now, easy now

why ask for a message
if you can't read the fucking words
it's the stupidest song and rhyme
i've ever heard


in for the long term
easy now, easy now
for the blood and the fur now
easy now, easy now

why ask for a message
if you can't read the fucking words
it's the stupidest song and rhyme
i've ever heard

cruise for a blessing
easy now, easy now
a full moon is setting on us
easy now, easy now

she's comin on closer
easy now, easy now
she's the kid on the poster
easy now, easy now

lyr 32: sleep to sleep

sleep to sleep
dream to dream
all is light
with nothing in between

raise the sails
trim the heat
we'll go on
to where nobodys ever been

let's be ready for the show
let's get there - somewhere somehow
i know...i know....

endless walks
on endless streets
two right hands
and two left feet

outside ourselves
we're coming clean
and then there's this
death in the morning

raise your voice above the crown
raise your arms above the clouds
i know...i know....

if you're cold
if you're lost
if you're whipped
and nailed to a cross

she just flies
into the night
like all good children
that put up a fight

it's a place where we can go
face the sun, face the snow
i know.....i know...

old ben mcgee take 2

in a land far away on a primitive sea
spinning in time, it's like death i believe
a thousand small cuts and a thousand wet leaves

he was a man best left alone
he closes her eyes, it's like death i suppose
out from the smog and the mist the story arose

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
these pains I cant carry
or receive

there sat a watermark deep on his face
permanent lines that tears can't erase
the memories tear at his heart and leave not a trace

a miniature part played with castanet hands
here everythings free and nothings for sale
he imagines she flew out of there like a bat out of hell

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
this pain I cant carry
or receive

lyr #31? old be mcgee

he walks a single line mistaken for sublime
he leans on out to time cruel dances left behind

he sees her from bar so close and yet so far
if only this guitar could play how great thou art

he's wearing his heart on his sleeve, wearing his sleeve on his heart...

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
this pains I cant carry
or receive

he dreams to take her hand and dreams of wedding bands
but he is just a man , a thousand grains of sand

and she is such a sight - as beautiful as night
an angel dressed in white - the soul would sacrafice

he's wearing his heart on his sleeve, wearing his sleeve on his heart...

old ben mcgee, listen to me
on a black horse thats running
down the street

old ben mcgee, listen to me
this pains I cant carry
or receive

lyric 30 : once or twice

fires grow by the riverside
ebbs and flows with spirit tides
it's just a dream
or so it seems

far away in another place
by committee they unleash
a thousand why's
five thousand why why's

she's a child of the sun
a bitter bandit on the run
from the sky, we will arise

she the choice the chosen one
and like everything we're done
done in time, done once, done twice

ly 29 - wall-to-wall

baby
you gotta save me
first you blame me
then you shame me

i ain't writing anymore
just these stupid open chords

honey
got no money anymore
no more fun
no more sun

just this fucked up wall to wall

i ain't writing anymore
just these stupid open chords

lyric 28: WWII

thick or fair
he throws his hands
up in the air
thin or foul
he moves his head
round and round

i'm mystified
by the look in your eyes
that says for all the world to see
i'm dead inside
and i'm paralyzed
by the sword in my side
that claims for me
the right to be utterly, totally
deceived

charlamagne
that clown is back again
what a stupid name
it is almost a sin
what his parents named him
but charlamagne
won't give in
never never never never never
give in
said winston

i'm mystified
by the look in your eyes
that says for all the world to see
i'm dead inside
and i'm paralyzed
by the sword in my side
that claims for me
the right to be utterly, totally
deceived

it 's getting hot out here
with the wind all disappeared
and it's getting clearer
that it is fear we fear
ply your wares
what the fuck, they don't care
buy and sell and sell and buy
never ever share

lyr 27: aladdin

weakly wonderful and saddened
tied onto the back of a car
dragged along a path like aladdin
a genie playing her guitar
you can be the one to believe me
you can be that wonderful girl
and i will try like hell to remember
to step with care in such a world

tomorrow i will start to be happy
flesh and bone scattered on the shores
imagining that silence is the thing
in forty five minutes or so
spare us all words of your weapons
the long numbers that rocket the mind
and allow me the sin of redemption
not just the waves of my own fire

scattered black seeds of the future
little waves with their soft white eyes
turn all those birds loose for
nothing lasts long in the sky
morals and religion and manners
with people still mocking the race
the world is full of invisible things
a stone look on the sorrowful face

lyr 26? trial : M4V04460

you're alone
you must be kidding
too far from home
to know the difference

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial

here we go
out the window
don't ya see the storm?
don't you know the distance?

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial


there's a flame
in california called
that's insane
on the northern border

it is a fact that all of god is in your smile
and it is true that we are headed for a trial

lyric 25: for a ride

last night at the pit fall....keep up...don't stall...
keep yer damn head down up down, then down down

hard right at the old store, white cotton, black doors
and the sight of the car show, bright lights on smooth floors

please folks, assemble here in a peaceful manner
you folks in the back there...can you put down that hammer?
every chance is your last chance
we all taken for a ride

it's rainin in the graveyard, amplifies the sorrow
but ya know if ya wait here it'll be sunshine tomorrow

right now it's coming down like nobodies business
cats and dogs and frogs and lizards

please folks, assemble here in a peaceful manner
you folks in the back there...can you put down that hammer?
every chance is your last chance
we all taken for a ride

lyric 24 : there's that, that there

i'm in the rough again, dixie cries
to no one in particular
i'm done and done..why's this seem peculiar?
i'm the last one out, as usual, you couldn't find me now
it's summer and it's hot out
my shoulder to the plow

there's that, that there
the final act has come
it aint good lookin
but who am i to judge?

she ran faster then she ever thought she could
he wasn't past her, then seems like still she stood
then again, it's over in a heartbeat
nothing like easy living to burn your little feet

there's that, that there
the final act has come
it aint good lookin
the stress and strain of keeping it undone

i'm on the outs again, dixie cries alone
she can't quite tell her there's no one on the phone
and back again, down again, she sighs
she's an angel, she's a sight for pryin eyes

there's that, that there
the final act has come
it aint good lookin
but who am i to judge?

lyric 23: 2 plus 2

two plus two

there
head down on the pavement
words whispered in payment
just don't blink when you say it
-
i'm so there
it keeps me from wonderin
if it lets any sun in
is it like or its lovin

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
is this awkward for you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
shy dog
steady as a steamboat
in a dark overcoat
your the hero we all toast

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
does this mean much to you?
simple as 2 plus 2
-
steady
with a hand that is held up high
you will never sip read and white
in the lingering afterlight

sigh out loud if you need me to move on
i've got nothing to prove
simple as 2 plus 2

lyric 22 - everyday

five wrongs, still wrong
don't make no right
i raise you up one rainless august night

your name wrapped tight around my chest
you reach into my heart, you break before you bend


everyday, everyday
i'll be there for you

you taught me to live without the rain
sand, wind and sun's a buring flame


you brand the breeze the hottest blue
and keep me warm, and i was born for you


everyday, everyday
i'll be there for you



you are bread and water for the thirst
we awake and the last they shall be first

five wrongs, still wrong
don't make no right
i raise you up one rainless august night


everyday, everyday
i'll be there for you