Lyrics

Falling to the Ground

In a funk all damn day

Just wanna get lifted

Can’t seem to find my way

Can’t keep from driftin

Haunted by every move I make

Feels like I’m falling to the ground …With every step I take

Something that outrageous

With In the mystery of love

Could only be that dangerous

That girl I’m thinking of

She’s taunting every note I play

I’m falling to the ground.. just trying to save my face

It can’t get much worse

Even If your deaf dumb and blind

When your gift’s your greatest curse

Can’t help but fall behind

Drowning  with every past mistake

My worlds closing all around… with every breath I take

Gotta Hold On Me

I was once a rich man

Now I feel so poor

But Never in my short sweet life

Have I had much more

Your love is like water

Splashing on the sea

It’s gotta hold on me

It’s gotta hold on me

Must have lost my mind

Bout a thousand times

So put me on a jet plane

Before I go insane

Blinded by your love

And now baby I can’t see

You gotta hold on me

You gotta hold on me

Stripped your toll … from my soul

But my heart now

Carries the weight

Can’t seem to help….. myself

Like a fool

I give it all away

When you took take my soul

And my heart away

You gimmie no reason

Like that movie on that plane

With no reservation

And I’m running free

But you still gotta hold on me

Still Gotta hold on me

Can’t you feel the burn

Of a soul on fire

That’s Bound to get hurt

By a lonely desire

Like smoke to a your flame

And baby I can’t breathe

Gotta hold on me

Gotta hold on me

Thieves & Yesterdays

Such a bitch to come undone
With no mercy in your days
You die down in the sun
Casting darkness now your way

Ain’t it strange that crazy sound
Can’t kill the pain coming down
Like thieves and yesterday’s

Beat the need for showing what
Sorrow for someone
When a soul departs from one
Past these shadows of our love

Don’t go chasing anyone
Who’s breaking hearts with everyone
Look how careless we’ve become
Like thieves and yesterday’s

We never saved enough and gave
Each other our separate space
Now enslaved my heart remains
Enraged like burnng flames

Same old tastes and scars remain
Another line just to stay stay awake

Such a tragic tragic waste

Like thieves and yesterdays

Shake That Thing

Shake that thing

Shake that thing now baby

Shake that thing, now honey all night long

Shake that thing

Shake that thing now baby

And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn

See I’m your king

And you’re my queen now baby

Do your thing

In this here kingdom

Do your thing

Do your thing now baby

And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn

But don’t hurt yourself

Don’t hurt yourself now baby

Save yourself

Now honey one more dance

When the neon lights

Start to come on down

It’s time to make our final stand

So Shake that thing

Shake that thing now baby

Shake that thing, now honey all night long

Shake that thing

Shake that thing now baby

And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn

When the sweat and booze

Pour over you now baby

And you’re done with

The evening fun

Let me cleanse your soul

Under My control

And I’ll leave you in the morning sun

So Shake that thing

Shake that thing now baby

Shake that thing, now honey all night long

Shake that thing

Shake that thing now baby

And I’ll love on you til’ the break of dawn

After The Rain

Maybe the sun will shine

Maybe it’ll rain

Maybe we’ll learn to take our time

After Racing through these days

Maybe the fall won’t hurt so bad

And be such a drag

Maybe your love won’t fade

Maybe time won’t slip away

Maybe we’ll get away after the rain

After the rain

Maybe you can save yourself from falling

Maybe I can save my soul

Maybe next time you’ll hear me calling

Before we head down that empty road

Maybe the winter’s freeze won’t last

And I won’t feel so sad

Maybe your love won’t fade

Maybe time won’t slip away

Maybe we’ll get away after the rain

After the rain

Maybe we’ll be letting go

Of all we know

After the rain

Maybe what’s trapped inside

Becomes alive

Maybe our love won’t fade

Maybe time won’t slip away

Maybe we’ll get away after the rain

After the rain

Shirley

Shirley you can’t do this to me baby

Take your things… and walk right out on me

I got hit and strung out from your loving

It tears apart my heart piece by piece

Don’t you know it’ll never ever be like this

Your breaking down and screaming out to leave

All the pain and rage two souls have uncovered

Left a mess like death into a murder scene

Left a mess like death into a murder scene

But now I’m free

I’m so lonely baby

You’re in my mind

I’m I can’t breathe

But the vision of our days seem so out numbered

By the loneliness

See I can’t help myself from believing

When you need your time from me released

I’ll be far away standing in the distance

Day by day your world falls away from me

Day by day your world falls away from me

Memphis Sky

Pick up your broken heart

And give it one more try

We got years and nothing to loose

Except our pride

You were hanging… with those stars

In a bright blue Memphis sky

I was in a burned out basement dreaming of you

I was drunk and high

No matter how long we go

This love just seems to grow

Like Alabama Pines cross the county line into a Memphis Sky

Burned out from chasing my own tail

And howling at the moon

Ain’t nothing like living the dream

Alone home with you

This road’s left me cold and grey

How I long for sunny days

And all this time just can’t erase

The smiles you’ve put on my face

Been gone long enough to know

No other feels quite like home

No I can’t  deny

I feel so alive…  under this Memphis Sky

All those years and years I roamed

My heart like a stone

In need of home

Far from where I belong

And I’m just trying to hold on

You see no matter how long we go

Nothing feels quite like home

No i cant deny

I feel so alive

Under a Memphis Sky

Heavy Toll

So many times

I give my love to you

Ain’t no surprise

In all that you do

Your heavy toll takes my soul

You’re my desire

You and your crazy ways

You take my time

You take all my days

Your heavy toll takes my soul

Ain’t got no time

To live in this hell

So get it right

Let go of your spell

Your heavy toll takes my soul

I Gotta Reason

I gotta reason… to be lonely

I gotta reason… for these tears

I’ve been drowning… in my sorrow

I beed missing you baby for all these years

Forever broken hearted

Lord knows I been cold cold to the bone

Isolated… with in these walls we created

Going at… this world all alone

Living with this ugly head of fear

You know sometimes ya sometimes you live and get burned

But the lesson the lessons are here

Gotta hold now baby let go live and learn

Green Eyed Girl

Green Eyed Girl

I’ve searched this world

Swam deep in the sea

Roamed country sides

Trying to find

What hypnotized me

I drank from your magical potion

In a spell that ruled my world

Cause you can’t get love

From hell or above

That you get with a green eyed girl

Razor sharp

Straight through my heart

Cutting to my soul

Left for dead

In a bleeding bed

Of your unknown

From one glance… of your eyes

I’m floating… through space

My hearts frozen in time

I’m forever… on your chase

Haunting… my world

Am I wasting time

On my green eyed girl

Palest Rider 

Palest Rider breathes death in the night

Palest Rider on a ghost horse of white

Say he gonna take my life

Lord he wanna take my life

Coming down in my room all alone

Shadows killin the will of my soul

Baby you gotta know

Baby you gotta know

 

So lay me down by the river

‘Neath the straight so high

Allow my soul to float alone

Through heaven’s gate tonight

Palest Rider given what I owe

High as hell the hangman’s rope

As my blood turns cold

As my blood turns cold

 

No need for tears or cries of mercy

Let my body go before me

Heavenly joy I seek

Heavenly joy I seek

So lay me down by the river

‘Neath the straight so high

Allow my soul to float alone

Through heaven’s gate tonight

 

Grinding These Gears

You can’t be wise and in love at the same time
As true love has a habit of coming back
But you re a dream to me not reality it seems
Years and miles are killing what we had

When you listen to the sound of your heartache
And you re all out of love
I’m afraid I’m down to losing you
And we’re both all out of luck

Chorus: Time ticking away taking who I am
Time gonna leave us empty Time don’t give a damn
Still dreaming of you and fueling my fears
Another 7 damn years of grinding these gears

Have faith in me ….old love
My will is good so set your spirit free
From the shackles of time that feed on our minds
Dream your dream and your way back to me

 Bridge: No more twisted fate
Old love that went away
Let The moon fade away
with yesterday’s pain

 Forever Yours

Girl why you messing with my mind

One minute you’re cool

Next you’re cryin

We both know

You’re heart I’m a patient of

Cause I’m a fool

For your love

Fighting restless nights

And the days are tough

Wrap you’re arms around me

Cause darlin I’m praying praying my love will be enough

Babe you’re the angel in my dreams

Blind to my eyes

You’re all that I see

And you’re kiss

It’s like heaven in disguise

The trouble I’m in

Took me by surprise

Having a hard time baby

Girl you’ve been playing me for sure

But I’m here to tell you

I’d never walk out that door

My heart forever

Forever is yours Forever yours

 Vagabond

Trying to get over you

And right our wrongs

Hiding in shadows

Where we don’t belong

One day I’ll be strong

And I’ll be moving on

Slipping and sliding

Chorus:

Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…

Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…

When darkness is upon you

In your favorite color black

Lay there and take it

Or fight your way back

Don’t wanna get lost

Gotta be strong

At your expense

Chorus:

Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…

Like a vagabond I’ll be moving on yeah…

Dark Hearted Woman

Dark hearted woman

I can’t turn to you

Dark hearted woman

I can’t be your fool

All you do is break me down

Break me down

Break me down

When I try and love on you

Dark hearted woman

I am torn for you

Dark hearted woman

I still burn for you

Leave me in this misery

Misery

Misery

When I try and love on you

You keep me awake

In a way that I can’t bare

I hear you leaving

Out the hallway down the stairs

You’re a dark hearted woman

No mercy found for me

You’re so heavy on my heart

Now my soul can’t breathe

Dark hearted woman

Never coming back to me

Dark hearted woman

I can’t shake to break free

All you do is break me down

Break me down

Break me down

When I try and love on you

 Second Hand Man

I don’t wanna be your second hand man

The one you come crying to when your other man can’t

Time burns to ambers so believe what you can

I’d give my eyes only to be where we began

Dreams seem twisted now we fight till we’re damned

Cursing like enemies lost in Satan’s trap

My days have no reason restless through the night

Your beauty is the theme to the song inside my mind

Our hearts won’t leave alone what feelings we once had

Like two empty shadows left to withstand

Alone we die living together too far

Stained from a memory or death to each heart

I don’t wanna be your second hand man

The one you come crying to when your other man can’t

Time burns to ambers so believe what you can

I’d give my eyes only to be where we began

All the times you toy and leave I still want you back

I can’t sleep or even speak killing me fast

When did we stop loving crashing off the path

Into our lone memory of a life we once had

I don’t wanna be your second hand man

The one you come crying to when your other man can’t

Time burns to ambers so believe what you can

I’d give my eyes only to be where we began

I’d give my eyes only to be where we began

 Memphis Murder Blues

I’m standing on a dead end street

Darkest part of night

Waiting on a deal to break

This evil from my mind

I can’t lose

I can’t lose

It’s hard doin time (livin) with a crooked mind

Like a fool

Trying to murder these Memphis blues

Can’t cry no more to win you back

Your sorrows left behind

All these dreams your enemy

No kind words can you find

I can choose

What’s right

Your heart is blind to righteous vibes

Like a fool

Trying to murder these Memphis blues

Your soul can’t stand to have

Love to heal what’s blind

Got to keep on moving momma

It ain’t worth a waste of life

Ain’t worth a waste of life

Like a fool

Trying to murder these Memphis blues

 I Will Take Care Of You

The thought of what you and me could have
No matter where I am
I d come running to see you again
I could spend my whole life just loving you
Nothing’s ever gonna change the way I feel
Nothing’s ever gonna change the way I need you

I will take care of you
Sure as the sunrise baby
Give my heart up to you woman
I will take care of you

Tired of holding onto soon and maybe
Love sick
But never sick of you
Love don’t you keep me waiting….. Show yourself to me
Call on me to ease your pain… And to stop the rain

I will take care of you
Sure as the sunrise baby
Give my heart up to you woman
I will take care of you

You could spend your whole life running

Always chasing pleasure after pain

As long as you save your last dance for me now darling

Our love…. Will remain

 Coming Clean

She’s so fine it could hypnotize

Any man that gazed her way

And oh my eyes are paralyzed

When she loves me and looks my way

I can’t stay clean there’s no remedy

Drives my mind insane each day

But coming clean ain’t no heavy thing

When you’re loving me that way

And oh I say my love you are the one

I can’t leave or stay away

If I can’t hold you next to me

My heart will surely break

All those times you left me high and dry

I never wondered where you stayed

But coming clean ain’t no heavy thing

When you’re loving me that way

Ain’t it hard to love somebody

When they give all that you can take

It’s a messed up fuss to come undone

From an angel’s jealous face

So complete and deep this destiny

Nevermind what’s left to fate

I’ll follow you no matter who

Should say that I’m insane

Ain’t it hard to love somebody

When they give all that you can take

It’s a messed up fuss to come undone

From an angel’s jealous face

From an angel’s jealous face

The Struggle Is Real

The struggle is real
The struggle is real
The struggle is real
Inside of you and me
Like a lie you just can’t believe
Giving  up on everything
Drowning in all you see
Heavy eyes try to stare

Through darkness you can’t see the light
Fail at what you thought was right
Lord knows all the ways I’ve tried
Mama it’s a struggle out there
Drowning in a seasick heart
Love you wanna tear apart
A real mother for ya right from the start
…….. More than you can bare

From habits you can never beat
You’ve tried about everything
Working hard can’t get no sleep
Mama it’s a struggle out there

The sea is getting rough again
Always Run by the egos of men
Don’t give it all to the man instead
Awe… Don’tTry and tell me what’s fair

We walk into this battle blind
Seen heartbreak and a lot of hard times
Nothing left than to lose your mind
Mama … It’s a struggle out there

It’s a struggle out there

It’s a struggle out there

It’s a struggle out there

Empty Roads

Babe I’m going crazy, I can’t live this way

Heavy walls are breaking me, like my brain to cocaine

So may the daylight find you, as I fly away

Maybe down to Tennessee, to ease my troubled fate

I drove alone through midnight, December air was cold

Wore your favorite jacket baby, the leather one so old

All these distant reasons, small town’s not my place

The avenue seems crowded now, with blood I had to pay

(Chorus)

I couldn’t leave no money, cause I sold my soul to go

If you need a heart to bleed, find it in your soul

Please don’t pray forever baby cause angels burn out slow

Sleep and dream your vanities, don’t think of Empty Roads

This old song sounds familiar, the chorus needs a change

I hope next time I find you, caught up in a different place

As for me I’m leaving, heading down that Empty Road

Searching for another soul to lean on, drinking alone

(Chorus)

I couldn’t leave no money, cause I sold my soul to go

If you need a heart to bleed, find it in your soul

Please don’t pray forever baby cause angels burn out slow

Sleep and dream your vanities, Sleep and dream your vanities

Don’t think of Empty Roads

Fight Club

It was two long years ago when they tried to take away

Your life and reality as we knew it on that day

You were lying looking up at me with a tear in your eye

But like a lion in zion with the drive to provide and lead the pride

(Chorus)

Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you

Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you

We’re not living in the promise land where everything is fine

And your body and soul is one and there’s no fussin’ or a fightin’

But I’m drawing inspiration from your everyday life

Amazed at how life can be when your spirit is alive

(Chorus)

Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you

Don’t let ’em take away the things you love to do

Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you

Don’t let ’em take the fight out of you

(Chorus)

Don’t let em take the fight out of you

Don’t let em take away the things you love to do

Don’t let em take the fight out of you

Don’t let em take the fight out of you

Crazy Days

These crazy days

Your frantic ways

Leave me stumbling

Blessed is your ground

Two souls lost and found

My world is crumbling

Forced in your fun

Never paying for one

Your mystery I’m loving

Precious diamond rings

Pretentious limousines

Your style keeps me wandering

And when the sea gets rough

And one’s never enough

The fish keep on jumping

You know trying to keep up on you

Sure ain’t easy to do

But I still need your loving

Exile Blues

When you leave it won’t be long

‘Til my heart dies alone in this room

When you leave it all goes wrong

My soul is empty lord it’s true

You got me shaking in these shadows

Howlin’ at you with these Exile Blues

Used to rock me all night long

Ride upon my love woohoo

You used to rock me all night long

‘Til my brain would come undone woohoo

And you sting like morning whiskey

Stain me like a bad tattoo

Used to call me on the phone

‘Til my love was running home to you

Now you throw me to the road

Stray like a dog with the flu

You got me shaking in these shadows

Howlin’ at you with these exile Blues

To Youngstown

If you take my love To Youngstown

So we can be low key

Keep them bed sheets burning

In flames of ecstasy

Where dreams turn to heart break

Like a hurricane through me

Such a young girl fooled to learning

Abandoned free to leave

(Chorus)

I’m a stranger to Ohio

The back roads winding deep

Breathe your precious breath now

And all our secrets keep

If you take my love To Youngstown

Where the river never sleeps

Where country birds are singing

‘Neath the willows and the reeds

(Chorus)

I’m a stranger to Ohio

The back roads winding deep

Breathe your precious breath now

And all our secrets keep

And all our secrets keep

And all our secrets keep

Brother

Brother you just don’t get it

When you heart’s just in it to win it

And your soul is cold but alive is your pride

And brother you’re lost in illusion

Don’t resist helpful intrusion

When you stand alone lord knows there ain’t nowhere to hide

It gets lonely out on that island

Stars shine but you’re stuck behind them

Lonely thoughts get lost just floating in the wind

(Chorus)

Old pitfalls

Trapped in time

Deadly sin

Build your walls

As the tide

Rushes in

Darling see your smiling face

Burns through me like the devils embrace

Drank you wrong for so long just wringing myself dry

Darling keep on driving me wild

Hearts on Fire minds in denial

Keep me running running miles and miles

(Chorus)

Old pitfalls

Trapped in time

Deadly sin

Build your walls

As the tide

Rushes in

(Bridge)

Fear resides brother

Old ghosts never sleep

So don’t you lay down

Gotta keep on moving on to better things better things

(Chorus)

Old pitfalls

Trapped in time

Deadly sin

Build your walls

As the tide

Rushes in

Dizzy Eyes

Cigarettes on your breath, Darling I love you still

Wash it all away, With perfume and your pills

You’re lost and doing time, It’s a crime and a shame

Loneliness at night, Love without a trace

(Chorus)

Dizzy Eyes never lies they can’t hide the pain

Fever deep inside floating to your brain

Dizzy Eyes

When Jesus can not hear, The sorrows that surround

In the darkness come the devils, No angels can be found

(Chorus)

Dizzy Eyes never lies they can’t hide the pain

Fever deep inside floating to your brain

Dizzy Eyes

Years of buried truths, Hidden by disguise

Fears deep in root, A garden of lies resides

See I don’t want to wait, Racing in my mind

No other love but you, Can my body find

(Chorus)

Dizzy Eyes never lies they can’t hide the pain

Fever deep inside floating to your brain

Dizzy Eyes

Irony

Irony

These words indeed

Can’t express my love

These melodies

They ring in me

Laughing dancing high

Heaven moves inside of you

Lonesome alibi

Be your dreams reality

Floating through the sky

I love you now

For you a kiss

Open up your mind

And death to each

Sweet vanities

Blinding to my eyes

Scream out load

Your soul’s alive

Liberate to find

Buried truths deep in root

Love I have inside

So may the moon

Watch over you

Shining through dark night

Inspire things

To be and breathe

Blessings be your guide

Irony the Irony

Irony these words indeed

Irony the Irony

Irony these words indeed

Can’t express my love

Keep Love in Mind

If you Keep Love in Mind

Near beside not far behind

Your heart will – Go crazy

If you wake up to lies

That ruin down your life

Do you dig – What I mean

If you gamble on time

In a ghetto flying high

As these days – Die away

Bitter lips never part

Unadorned from the start

How they leave – Empty things

Sweet love don’t deny

This heart I have inside

As these dreams – Stray away

Don’t leave it all to find

All the loneliness in life

So just – Keep Love in Mind

Love Games

You have no shame in this love game

Darling now how can that be

Songs we sang yesterday

Fade like empty dreams

If all for simple nothings

We fell to each as ease

Feel your burning body

At a cost that kills complete

When evening brings darkness

Don’t shine no light shadows

The less I have the more I feel

Leaving all control

If time don’t make us crazy

We die a little in each breath, like emptiness of death

Two can play these love games

And when it ends darling it’s over

Distant hearts betray

Harmony is frayed

Distant hearts betray

And harmony is frayed

Harmony is frayed

Sniper

Screams for your submission

Remember an endless spring

This bitter world delivers

A summer’s quick fling

My soul is stained and tattered

My eyes are cold and dry

Waiting for the time – to say goodbye

We left in poor condition

We left it all behind

Dying for forgiveness

Giving up inside

My finger’s on the trigger

Your heart is on the line

Waiting for the time – to say goodbye

I got lucky in Kentucky

On my way to Tennessee

But the ghosts of Carolina

Just won’t let me be

I got my finger on the trigger

My eyes are cold and dry

Waiting for the time – to say goodbye

Waiting for the time – to say goodbye

Dying for the time – to say goodbye