MESSENGER
I set out to Phoenix
Headed west on a train
Through the desert, On a mountain
In a chasm In a dream
I was thinking about Elvis
I was thinking about home
I was thinking about you
And how you know I like to be alone
Until I stumbled on a thought
In the darkness On a train
In a rail car On a mountain
Just after midnight In the rain
I remembered Jackson
& Monroe in the snow
We caught a flight to Norfolk
& drove out to the coast
Back to Carolina
To a station in the rain
I was listening to Johnny
When A man stepped on the train
He started saying something
Talking bout George Jones
The orange blossom special
And the Carolina rose
We painted the town Red
With just a hint of Blue
Before we called it a night
The sun started peeking thru
The clouds above the waves
And the sand and all the sea
And all the love that stretched out on the road
In front of you and me
Now we're sitting in a diner
In a town just on the border
Hoping the answer
Lay around the next corner
We're hoping for something
To turn out to be nothing
Waiting for the next big thing
To reveal itself to us
Sometimes I start feeling
Like the last leaf on the tree
Like the last cherry in a bowl
Or the last fish in the sea
Sometimes I start dreaming
of some place I'd like to be
but everywhere is nowhere
if you're not there with me
One day I stormed the castle
the kingdom fell by dawn
I burned down the village
Then I rode back out of town
On the back of a pony
I boarded a boat
I never looked back
I hardly ever spoke
I climbed into a window
Last night inside your dream
and now everything all around
is not quite as it seems
I hope to end up somewhere
just where I'm not quite sure
But anywhere is better
than this place I've been before
...And there in the silence
Alive inside a void
A voice of light & reason
Everything we could've hoped ...
Think of me as a bumblebee
With dragon wings and monster teeth
A fire breathing love machine
A messenger of hope
Think of me as a bumblebee
With dragon wings and monster teeth
A fire breathing love machine
A messenger of hope
A messenger of hope.
...
SILVER LUNG
Waking up as someone else
I'm not feeling like yourself
Waking up as someone else
I'm Fading in and out....
Once I was paid in silver
In ancient bronze and gold
Once I was a farmer
Pushing stones up the hill...
Me and my atomic bomb
Took a walk to walk the dog
In the misty morning
Me and my silver lung
Hey old grey fox
With a tiny little plastic robot heart
With lady bug eyes and a blood hound bark
Me and my silver lung
Waking up someone else
I'm not feeling like yourself
Waking up someone else
Me and my Silver Lung
We're fading in and out
.....
GOD SHAPED HOLE
My self control
Has got a god shaped hole
There's not enough rock n roll
To fill it up anymore
Nothing stops the rain
Or Reignites the flame
There's not enough rock n roll
To save my soul
Now we're all made of glass
Our future, our past
We sit alone on the moon
Singing darling, won't you be home soon
There's not enough rock n roll
To make my house a home
I carry stone after stone
To make my house a home
There's not enough rock and roll
to make my house a home
there's not enough rock and roll
to ever save my soul
.....
SIMPLISTICALLY
Come All ye joyous and thankful
Come here just to fill up your cup
My black horse is over the rainbow
Where it waits with a patient heart
Yeah my bluebird lies over the Ocean
And my lion hunts through the night
My black horse is over the rainbow
And my soul is a Great divide
We can be momentarily
Or we could not ever be at all
Yes we can be simplistically
Patiently, Waiting for the sky to fall
My black horse lies over the rainbow
Where it's waiting to take you on a ride
.....
LOVE RESURRECTED
I put your picture on a train
I took it down from its frame
Still the memory remains
I trapped your voice inside a jar
I put it in the trunk of my old car
I drove it far away
And threw it in the ocean
Back On that train headed south
I'm still dreaming of your mouth
I'm longing for Your lips
And the words that fell from it
Now lost somewhere out at sea
Riding waves in a cool breeze
On a tiny island just for me
Waiting...
Flying high throughout the night
I tell myself we'll be alright
We hope with all our might
But the endings all the same
First come sun then come rain
Every sad minute on that train
Love, resurrected
Love, resurrected
Love, resurrected...
.....
ALCHEMISTS
It's a bad time to have nothing
But it's a good time just the same
I got time but I ain't got money
I ain't got money but I got little love
If I've learned something from nothing
Love is often enough
Chop Wood, Carry Water
Carry Water, Chop Wood
Sit quiet by a fire
Alchemy of desire
You and me
Just you and me
In the sky and in the breeze
In the sun and the air that I breathe
It's a bad time to have nothing
but it's a good life just the same
......
I set out to Phoenix
Headed west on a train
Through the desert, On a mountain
In a chasm In a dream
I was thinking about Elvis
I was thinking about home
I was thinking about you
And how you know I like to be alone
Until I stumbled on a thought
In the darkness On a train
In a rail car On a mountain
Just after midnight In the rain
I remembered Jackson
& Monroe in the snow
We caught a flight to Norfolk
& drove out to the coast
Back to Carolina
To a station in the rain
I was listening to Johnny
When A man stepped on the train
He started saying something
Talking bout George Jones
The orange blossom special
And the Carolina rose
We painted the town Red
With just a hint of Blue
Before we called it a night
The sun started peeking thru
The clouds above the waves
And the sand and all the sea
And all the love that stretched out on the road
In front of you and me
Now we're sitting in a diner
In a town just on the border
Hoping the answer
Lay around the next corner
We're hoping for something
To turn out to be nothing
Waiting for the next big thing
To reveal itself to us
Sometimes I start feeling
Like the last leaf on the tree
Like the last cherry in a bowl
Or the last fish in the sea
Sometimes I start dreaming
of some place I'd like to be
but everywhere is nowhere
if you're not there with me
One day I stormed the castle
the kingdom fell by dawn
I burned down the village
Then I rode back out of town
On the back of a pony
I boarded a boat
I never looked back
I hardly ever spoke
I climbed into a window
Last night inside your dream
and now everything all around
is not quite as it seems
I hope to end up somewhere
just where I'm not quite sure
But anywhere is better
than this place I've been before
...And there in the silence
Alive inside a void
A voice of light & reason
Everything we could've hoped ...
Think of me as a bumblebee
With dragon wings and monster teeth
A fire breathing love machine
A messenger of hope
Think of me as a bumblebee
With dragon wings and monster teeth
A fire breathing love machine
A messenger of hope
A messenger of hope.
...
SILVER LUNG
Waking up as someone else
I'm not feeling like yourself
Waking up as someone else
I'm Fading in and out....
Once I was paid in silver
In ancient bronze and gold
Once I was a farmer
Pushing stones up the hill...
Me and my atomic bomb
Took a walk to walk the dog
In the misty morning
Me and my silver lung
Hey old grey fox
With a tiny little plastic robot heart
With lady bug eyes and a blood hound bark
Me and my silver lung
Waking up someone else
I'm not feeling like yourself
Waking up someone else
Me and my Silver Lung
We're fading in and out
.....
GOD SHAPED HOLE
My self control
Has got a god shaped hole
There's not enough rock n roll
To fill it up anymore
Nothing stops the rain
Or Reignites the flame
There's not enough rock n roll
To save my soul
Now we're all made of glass
Our future, our past
We sit alone on the moon
Singing darling, won't you be home soon
There's not enough rock n roll
To make my house a home
I carry stone after stone
To make my house a home
There's not enough rock and roll
to make my house a home
there's not enough rock and roll
to ever save my soul
.....
SIMPLISTICALLY
Come All ye joyous and thankful
Come here just to fill up your cup
My black horse is over the rainbow
Where it waits with a patient heart
Yeah my bluebird lies over the Ocean
And my lion hunts through the night
My black horse is over the rainbow
And my soul is a Great divide
We can be momentarily
Or we could not ever be at all
Yes we can be simplistically
Patiently, Waiting for the sky to fall
My black horse lies over the rainbow
Where it's waiting to take you on a ride
.....
LOVE RESURRECTED
I put your picture on a train
I took it down from its frame
Still the memory remains
I trapped your voice inside a jar
I put it in the trunk of my old car
I drove it far away
And threw it in the ocean
Back On that train headed south
I'm still dreaming of your mouth
I'm longing for Your lips
And the words that fell from it
Now lost somewhere out at sea
Riding waves in a cool breeze
On a tiny island just for me
Waiting...
Flying high throughout the night
I tell myself we'll be alright
We hope with all our might
But the endings all the same
First come sun then come rain
Every sad minute on that train
Love, resurrected
Love, resurrected
Love, resurrected...
.....
ALCHEMISTS
It's a bad time to have nothing
But it's a good time just the same
I got time but I ain't got money
I ain't got money but I got little love
If I've learned something from nothing
Love is often enough
Chop Wood, Carry Water
Carry Water, Chop Wood
Sit quiet by a fire
Alchemy of desire
You and me
Just you and me
In the sky and in the breeze
In the sun and the air that I breathe
It's a bad time to have nothing
but it's a good life just the same
......
