SUGAR TOWN
I just want to kiss your face
During the apocalypse
I just want to keep you safe
On the day the asteroid hits
I went down to sugar town
But the candy man never came around
I waited in the dark for days
Until the cravings finally went away
And in the valley of the sun
The hunting has begun
Dinah's in the kitchen with Satan
The devil's got a red dress on
Daddy's loading up the shotgun
Putting his blue suede shoes on
In the valley of the sun
Deconstruction has begun
Now we're standing in the middle
Of everything that is
Don't think for a minute
That there's any more to it than this
In the setting of the Sun
Celebration has begun
I went down to sugar town
_____
OSCILLATOR
The rain, the rain, the rain
Washed it all away
And we're wondering
How much we got left
When we landed on the moon
All I really wanted to do
Was sit down next to you
In the quiet of the night
I left, I left, I left
I left it all behind
In a little black box
In hopes that you would find
I crawled, I crawled, I crawled
My way back in time
Just to get back to you
To watch the sun rise
Now here in this place, in these times
In these minutes, of this life,
We get by, we strive, to do better
To provide.... Just a little bit of light...
And all the clouds in the sky,
Remind me of you, and I,
And all that's passed by
I'm the blink of an eye.
_____
DREAM EATERS
Jezebel...up on the hill
Sunlight dripping from her face
She's up there still, waiting for the kill,
Waiting for the sounds of silence
The queen of skies has fire for eyes and
She rides a horse made of silver
The midnight creatures, magnetic dream eaters, keepers of darkness and light
A place in my dreams,
Where I can be free,
A place in my dreams,...To believe
Just like a king, A devil with blue bird wings
An invisible thing on the edge of rapture
A loan shark, A saber toothed meadowlark
With a bark much worse than it's bite
The sun would rise and set In her eyes,
from the west over the ocean
saddle up the dragons, the prehistoric magic,
The beautifully tragic end to it all
A place in my dreams,
Where I can be free,
A place in my dreams,...To believe
Jezebel, she's up there still
_____
GOLDEN COYOTE
Golden Coyote
Beneath a blue moon
Where did you come from
Will you return
Golden Coyote
Your song in the wind
Where are you going
Please come back again
Your head on fire
Your heart of wildflower
Golden Coyote
With eyes like the sun
Where did you come from
Will you ever return
You head on fire
Your heart of wildflower
You soul on fire
Your heart of stone
My Golden Coyote
_____
WORKIN FOR THE QUEEN
I took a job working for the queen
from an ad I found in the magazine.
I've been coming apart at the seams
under the gun eight days a week.
I took a job working for the queen
on her fancy flying space machine
Now I feel like I'm trapped inside a dream
Back in time in New Orleans
I took a job working for the queen.
I'm seeing things I thought I'd never see
I'm high up in her apple tree
Feeding all the birds bumblebees.
I took a job working for the queen
on a train in the woods north of Abilene
You could smell the smoke and kerosene
All aboard the 219
I took a job working for the queen
working in the land to make believe
Working steel and concrete
Laying yellow bricks down in the street
I took a job working for the queen
but she swept me off my feet.
I fell for her eyes of green now.
Now I love her and she loves me
I took a job working for the queen.
I took a job working for the queen.
I love her and she loves me.
I took a job working for the queen
_____
GREAT WHITE WOLF
I set out from Reno I was trailed by seven white wolves
I travelled in the darkness by the light of the moon
I'm listening to the silence, I'm searching for the sacred chord
I'm following my gut, I'm listening to Leonard Cohen
I set out from reno in the back of a pickup truck
A 45 Dodge with 90 Horse under the hood
A lil 'bit of hope & lead pumping through my blood
I'm gonna get across the river and disappear into the woods
I'm riding down the river in the morning light
I'm climbing up the mountain to the other side
I'm heading back to Reno to run with the wolves
I'm heading back to home cuz there's gold in the hills
When I left Reno I was sorry for that look on your face
I'm sorry for the rolling thunder and the hit parade
I'm sorry for the devil dancing & the laughing rain
I'm sorry for a dead love dying & the mess I made
I'm riding down the river in the dark night
I'm climbing up the mountain just to laugh at the tide
I'm heading back to Reno to bark at the Moon
I'm heading back home just to be with you
Hey hey mama I'm heading back to Reno
Cause I believe in love still
I'm searching for the long lost kingdom
I'm dreaming of the great white wolf
Hey hey mama I'm dreaming
I'm dreaming of the great white wolf...
_____
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Let me tell you How the West Was won
it was days like this in the blistering Sun
It was nights with you in the freezing cold
watching bullets fly out our window
Sometimes in the desert air
things aren't always as they appear
And Sometimes under desert skies
Change awaits in a thin disguise
Then One morning you were gone
I picked up all the pieces up off of the lawn
I packed them in an old sack of coal
And I headed downtown to the old rail road
Then one night I thought you came back
but it was just another ghost and a cowboy hat
He Started shooting his pistol and waving his arms
Set fire in the field burned the whole farm down
So let me tell you How the West Was won
With a heart of gold and an old shotgun
With Silver Spurs and a serpent's tongue
let me tell you How the West Was won
In pearls and lace and a feathered gown
Like a hurricane she blew into town
Started dancing atop the old piano
In the bar room down at the bordello
And in the desert wind she disappeared
No sound no trace the worst was feared
but I see her rise with the morning sun
And I hear her break when the day is done
So let me tell you How the West Was won
With a heart of gold and an old shotgun
With Silver Spurs and a serpent's tongue
let me tell you How the West Was won
_____
CLOUD BALLOON
Looking out my window
thinking about the weather
thinking about leaving this place
leaving on a jet plane
leaving on a coal train
leaving on a dragon's wing
tossing pennies in the fountain
throwing prayers up to heaven
each and every day
I'm not asking for something
Or hoping for nothing
I'm just giving thanks
lately I've been thinking
the mistakes i been making
will come back to bite me in the end
but I can't stop now, I've come too far
To start all over again
I can tell you one thing
I'm not scared of the mountain
that grew from a smile on your face
I'm over the moon in my cloud balloon
I hope to see you there someday
I'm over the moon in my cloud balloon
and I hope to see you there someday
_____
LOVE SWEET LOVE
When I opened my eyes I couldn't believe
I was floating in the air above all the trees
the wind then carried me far out to sea
Above all the clouds through the air that we breathe
Up through the heavens and cosmic debris
Light years away in a new Galaxy
Kodachrome colors and soft melodies
Everything living in sweet harmony
Like, love sweet love.....Love sweet love
So I boarded a ship and I headed west
But I couldn't believe just what happened next
With eyes wide open and baited breath
A thumping resounding from inside my chest
I said a quick prayer and I hoped for the best
I took what I could and I left all the rest
Then I spread my wings and I flew from the nest
And floated above this big beautiful mess
Back to love sweet love....Love sweet love
She looked at me and she asked me to dance
Im not a gambling man but I took the chance
I smiled at her and she took her hand
under the lights, we never looked back
we danced til the sunlight peaked through the cracks
we spilled to the Streets with our hearts in our hands
Down to the beach across the sands
lost in an ocean of true romance
and love sweet love....love sweet love
Won't you please let me out
Won't you please come on in
Won't you please sit down
Tell me how have you been
Won't you tell me about All the ways to win
The ways of man, The ghosts of sin
The wicked rain, The seven moons
The winds of time, The clouds of doom
The changing tide, The twisted pine
The toxic leaf, The evergreens
And of love sweet love....Love Sweet Love
But let's get back to the task at hand
Tied to the tracks by a gun toting man
Blindfolded and ball gagged
Left for the vultures up overhead
Left alone to fend for myself once again
While the bandit rode off, into the sun
with a bag full of money and an old shotgun
I heard him say it was all in good fun
Just like love sweet love....Love sweet love
Now Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
From leaf to leaf and tree to tree
Limb by Limb and stem to seed
Stone by stone, sticks and weeds
Colored glass washed up on the beach
And heart shaped rocks that remind you of me
The tides that carried us back out to sea
Clinging to life and the sweet relief of
Love sweet love...Love sweet love
_____
GATES OF GRACELAND
I stepped into the ether
I stepped up to the ledge
Up on the rooftop
The clouds got In my head
I looked down all around me
All the waves and all the rocks
All the little things
Started adding up to a lot
I can see all of the stars
From The Dark side of the Moon
I hear the angels call
From the light inside your room
I feel your heart pulling me
And tugging at my soul
A great magnetic burning
Fueled by love and fueled by hope
In the ancient garden
In the meadows where we roam
I can I feel the four winds blowing
Calling us back home
In the great deception
In the silence in, the void
We wait out the winter
We seek shelter from the noise
And in the ancient garden
The flowers all take bloom
From the cracks in the concrete
From where the sun once had shown
From the gates of Graceland
To great heights unknown
A great magnetic burning
Fueled by love and fueled by hope
A great magnetic burning
Fueled by love and fueled by hope
I just want to kiss your face
During the apocalypse
I just want to keep you safe
On the day the asteroid hits
I went down to sugar town
But the candy man never came around
I waited in the dark for days
Until the cravings finally went away
And in the valley of the sun
The hunting has begun
Dinah's in the kitchen with Satan
The devil's got a red dress on
Daddy's loading up the shotgun
Putting his blue suede shoes on
In the valley of the sun
Deconstruction has begun
Now we're standing in the middle
Of everything that is
Don't think for a minute
That there's any more to it than this
In the setting of the Sun
Celebration has begun
I went down to sugar town
_____
OSCILLATOR
The rain, the rain, the rain
Washed it all away
And we're wondering
How much we got left
When we landed on the moon
All I really wanted to do
Was sit down next to you
In the quiet of the night
I left, I left, I left
I left it all behind
In a little black box
In hopes that you would find
I crawled, I crawled, I crawled
My way back in time
Just to get back to you
To watch the sun rise
Now here in this place, in these times
In these minutes, of this life,
We get by, we strive, to do better
To provide.... Just a little bit of light...
And all the clouds in the sky,
Remind me of you, and I,
And all that's passed by
I'm the blink of an eye.
_____
DREAM EATERS
Jezebel...up on the hill
Sunlight dripping from her face
She's up there still, waiting for the kill,
Waiting for the sounds of silence
The queen of skies has fire for eyes and
She rides a horse made of silver
The midnight creatures, magnetic dream eaters, keepers of darkness and light
A place in my dreams,
Where I can be free,
A place in my dreams,...To believe
Just like a king, A devil with blue bird wings
An invisible thing on the edge of rapture
A loan shark, A saber toothed meadowlark
With a bark much worse than it's bite
The sun would rise and set In her eyes,
from the west over the ocean
saddle up the dragons, the prehistoric magic,
The beautifully tragic end to it all
A place in my dreams,
Where I can be free,
A place in my dreams,...To believe
Jezebel, she's up there still
_____
GOLDEN COYOTE
Golden Coyote
Beneath a blue moon
Where did you come from
Will you return
Golden Coyote
Your song in the wind
Where are you going
Please come back again
Your head on fire
Your heart of wildflower
Golden Coyote
With eyes like the sun
Where did you come from
Will you ever return
You head on fire
Your heart of wildflower
You soul on fire
Your heart of stone
My Golden Coyote
_____
WORKIN FOR THE QUEEN
I took a job working for the queen
from an ad I found in the magazine.
I've been coming apart at the seams
under the gun eight days a week.
I took a job working for the queen
on her fancy flying space machine
Now I feel like I'm trapped inside a dream
Back in time in New Orleans
I took a job working for the queen.
I'm seeing things I thought I'd never see
I'm high up in her apple tree
Feeding all the birds bumblebees.
I took a job working for the queen
on a train in the woods north of Abilene
You could smell the smoke and kerosene
All aboard the 219
I took a job working for the queen
working in the land to make believe
Working steel and concrete
Laying yellow bricks down in the street
I took a job working for the queen
but she swept me off my feet.
I fell for her eyes of green now.
Now I love her and she loves me
I took a job working for the queen.
I took a job working for the queen.
I love her and she loves me.
I took a job working for the queen
_____
GREAT WHITE WOLF
I set out from Reno I was trailed by seven white wolves
I travelled in the darkness by the light of the moon
I'm listening to the silence, I'm searching for the sacred chord
I'm following my gut, I'm listening to Leonard Cohen
I set out from reno in the back of a pickup truck
A 45 Dodge with 90 Horse under the hood
A lil 'bit of hope & lead pumping through my blood
I'm gonna get across the river and disappear into the woods
I'm riding down the river in the morning light
I'm climbing up the mountain to the other side
I'm heading back to Reno to run with the wolves
I'm heading back to home cuz there's gold in the hills
When I left Reno I was sorry for that look on your face
I'm sorry for the rolling thunder and the hit parade
I'm sorry for the devil dancing & the laughing rain
I'm sorry for a dead love dying & the mess I made
I'm riding down the river in the dark night
I'm climbing up the mountain just to laugh at the tide
I'm heading back to Reno to bark at the Moon
I'm heading back home just to be with you
Hey hey mama I'm heading back to Reno
Cause I believe in love still
I'm searching for the long lost kingdom
I'm dreaming of the great white wolf
Hey hey mama I'm dreaming
I'm dreaming of the great white wolf...
_____
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Let me tell you How the West Was won
it was days like this in the blistering Sun
It was nights with you in the freezing cold
watching bullets fly out our window
Sometimes in the desert air
things aren't always as they appear
And Sometimes under desert skies
Change awaits in a thin disguise
Then One morning you were gone
I picked up all the pieces up off of the lawn
I packed them in an old sack of coal
And I headed downtown to the old rail road
Then one night I thought you came back
but it was just another ghost and a cowboy hat
He Started shooting his pistol and waving his arms
Set fire in the field burned the whole farm down
So let me tell you How the West Was won
With a heart of gold and an old shotgun
With Silver Spurs and a serpent's tongue
let me tell you How the West Was won
In pearls and lace and a feathered gown
Like a hurricane she blew into town
Started dancing atop the old piano
In the bar room down at the bordello
And in the desert wind she disappeared
No sound no trace the worst was feared
but I see her rise with the morning sun
And I hear her break when the day is done
So let me tell you How the West Was won
With a heart of gold and an old shotgun
With Silver Spurs and a serpent's tongue
let me tell you How the West Was won
_____
CLOUD BALLOON
Looking out my window
thinking about the weather
thinking about leaving this place
leaving on a jet plane
leaving on a coal train
leaving on a dragon's wing
tossing pennies in the fountain
throwing prayers up to heaven
each and every day
I'm not asking for something
Or hoping for nothing
I'm just giving thanks
lately I've been thinking
the mistakes i been making
will come back to bite me in the end
but I can't stop now, I've come too far
To start all over again
I can tell you one thing
I'm not scared of the mountain
that grew from a smile on your face
I'm over the moon in my cloud balloon
I hope to see you there someday
I'm over the moon in my cloud balloon
and I hope to see you there someday
_____
LOVE SWEET LOVE
When I opened my eyes I couldn't believe
I was floating in the air above all the trees
the wind then carried me far out to sea
Above all the clouds through the air that we breathe
Up through the heavens and cosmic debris
Light years away in a new Galaxy
Kodachrome colors and soft melodies
Everything living in sweet harmony
Like, love sweet love.....Love sweet love
So I boarded a ship and I headed west
But I couldn't believe just what happened next
With eyes wide open and baited breath
A thumping resounding from inside my chest
I said a quick prayer and I hoped for the best
I took what I could and I left all the rest
Then I spread my wings and I flew from the nest
And floated above this big beautiful mess
Back to love sweet love....Love sweet love
She looked at me and she asked me to dance
Im not a gambling man but I took the chance
I smiled at her and she took her hand
under the lights, we never looked back
we danced til the sunlight peaked through the cracks
we spilled to the Streets with our hearts in our hands
Down to the beach across the sands
lost in an ocean of true romance
and love sweet love....love sweet love
Won't you please let me out
Won't you please come on in
Won't you please sit down
Tell me how have you been
Won't you tell me about All the ways to win
The ways of man, The ghosts of sin
The wicked rain, The seven moons
The winds of time, The clouds of doom
The changing tide, The twisted pine
The toxic leaf, The evergreens
And of love sweet love....Love Sweet Love
But let's get back to the task at hand
Tied to the tracks by a gun toting man
Blindfolded and ball gagged
Left for the vultures up overhead
Left alone to fend for myself once again
While the bandit rode off, into the sun
with a bag full of money and an old shotgun
I heard him say it was all in good fun
Just like love sweet love....Love sweet love
Now Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
From leaf to leaf and tree to tree
Limb by Limb and stem to seed
Stone by stone, sticks and weeds
Colored glass washed up on the beach
And heart shaped rocks that remind you of me
The tides that carried us back out to sea
Clinging to life and the sweet relief of
Love sweet love...Love sweet love
_____
GATES OF GRACELAND
I stepped into the ether
I stepped up to the ledge
Up on the rooftop
The clouds got In my head
I looked down all around me
All the waves and all the rocks
All the little things
Started adding up to a lot
I can see all of the stars
From The Dark side of the Moon
I hear the angels call
From the light inside your room
I feel your heart pulling me
And tugging at my soul
A great magnetic burning
Fueled by love and fueled by hope
In the ancient garden
In the meadows where we roam
I can I feel the four winds blowing
Calling us back home
In the great deception
In the silence in, the void
We wait out the winter
We seek shelter from the noise
And in the ancient garden
The flowers all take bloom
From the cracks in the concrete
From where the sun once had shown
From the gates of Graceland
To great heights unknown
A great magnetic burning
Fueled by love and fueled by hope
A great magnetic burning
Fueled by love and fueled by hope
