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| 1. |
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The hour is early
The whole world is quiet A beautiful morning's about to ignite I'm ready for danger I'm ready for fire I'm ready for something to lift me up higher Life's been good, I guess My ragged old heart's been blessed With so much more than meets the eye I've got a past I won't soon forget You ain't seen nothing yet I'm still learning how to fly It's the dreams that die hard With old habits to break You can't let down your guard When there's so much at stake I'm halfway to heaven, halfway to hell But I might roll a seven You never can tell Life's been good it's true When I'm feeling just like new The same old rules need not apply I've got a past full of sticks and stones And a good feeling in my bones I'm still learning how to fly I wanna go faster I don't wanna slow down I don't wanna get off of this merrygoround I wanna be reckless I wanna be vain I wanna make love like a runaway train Life's been good I said I'm 10,000 miles ahead The day I rest is the day I die I've got a past like a broken wing But you ain't seen anything I'm still learning how to fly I'm still learning how to fly |
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| 2. |
| 5:26 |
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Cool as a rule you don't learn in no school
You can't brown nose the teacher from a dunce hat stool It's the hum and the rhythm of the birds and the bees The momma's and the poppa's and the monkeys in the trees It's the brothers and the sisters living life on the street Play a hunch pull the punch and you'll never get beat By the junk food tattooed white dude true blued Honky with an attitude coming unglued Fate's right hand...I don't understand at all Billy loves women like a junkie loves dope Give him just enough rope the monkey's gon' choke She's a Bill Blass combo maxed out mambo D.K.N.Y. caught him in a lie Ken Starr word man were talking absurd Spending forty million dollars just to give the man a bird He's a king she's a queen so the rap won't stick Get it on with a rubber and you won't get sick Fate's right hand...I don't understand at all Redrum dot com dim sum smart bombs Double cappuccino and a heart like a tom tom Ozone long gone that's it I quit Natural inclination says enough of this_____ Brat pack black jack heart attack crack We need another news channel like a hole in the back There's a one eight-seven on the four-o-five And we all go to heaven on a hard disk drive Fate's right hand...I don't under stand at all Hard rain fish seine hurricane Jane Don't forget about Carla when you're talkin' about poon tang Slow song on the bone rec hall dance Double date Debbie with a pole in my pants First comes love like it always did Or we wouldn't be talkin' 'bout The Houston kid Po-dunk piss-chunk old dead skunk drunk Trot/line Freddy's got his dogs in the trunk Fate's right hand...I don't under stand at all Fate's right hand...man I don't under stand at all |
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| 3. |
| 4:25 |
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I could shed my skin and in the blink of an eye,
I could fly, fly, fly. Tie my dreams up in a sack and lay my head down on the track, And die, die, die. My life's been so sweet I just can't stand it. I must admit I've made out like a bandit. Last night's conversation with a real good friend of mine, Drinkin' wine, wine, wine. Said fifty years of livin' and your worst mistakes forgiven, Just take time, time, time. One man's lust for life brings world reknown, And the next guy can't get two feet off the ground. He's Earthbound. Earthbound; hear the wind through the tops of the trees. Earthbound; summer sun nearly ninety degrees. Earthbound; big 'ol moon sinkin' down, think I might stick around. I'm Earthbound. I knew love once way back when--she had almond eyes and olive skin, And long black hair. She was Irish-Spanish mix-breed, I was southeast Texas hayseed, We were almost there. Her daddy did not like my kind around. The true love took the next train out of town. Earthbound. Earthbound; where there's fathers and daughters in pain. Earthbound; mama's boy walkin' home in the rain. Earthbound; like a ship run aground, think I might stick around. I'm Earthbound. With each new day that passes I'm in need of thicker glasses, But it's all okay. Some day I'll be leavin', but I just can't help believin' That it's not today. (hey) Every golden moment I have found I've done my best to run right in the ground. Earthbound. Earthbound; see the sky big and beautiful blue. Earthbound; fallen angels come calling for you. Earthbound; keepin' close to the ground, think I might stick around. Earthbound; Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Mary Karr Earthbound; Walter Cronkite, Seamus Heaney, Ringo Starr Earthbound; the Dalai Lama and Charlie Brown make me wanna stick around. I'm Earthbound. |
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| 4. |
| 5:20 |
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It's time to go inward, take a look at myself
Time to make the most of the time that I've got left Prison bars imagined are no less solid steel Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid To stare down the barrel of the choices that I've have made The ghost of bad decisions Make mountains out of everything I feel Outside my window the wind weaves a path through the trees The moon takes a shine to the shadows that fall on the leaves It's time to go inward, hmm I don't know if I can do it after all that I've become I've been a fool for money But it's vanity that always leaves me flat It's time to go inward, man I hope I have the nerve To take an inventory of the causes that I serve They say a man without a conscience Is like a man without a country or somethin' like that It's time to go inward, time to be still If I don't do it now I don't believe I ever will My mind is like a chatterbox Whose noise pollutes the pathways to my soul Time to go inward, time to get a grip Time to put an end to one long bad acid trip I'm all out of excuses now For the way I've let my choices take a toll Jesus and Buddha and Krishna and Minnie Pearl knew To do unto others the things you want done unto you It's time to go inward and take a look at me Try to make some sense of life's illusions that I see And try to solve the riddle Of what it is I have to offer to this world |
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| 4:20 |
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There's a man in me
He's cold and he's hard He's got an eye for deception He's always on guard He's swimming in concrete Drowning in fear And he keeps it all locked in his heart This man is a tyrant, a fault finding hack You can't tell him nothing There's no turning back He leaves blood on the highway And scattered debris He crawls from the wreckage But he still doesn't see He's alive, the man is jive There's a man in the mirror I don't like his looks His teeth, they are crooked His hands are like hooks He speaks four letter language Because his mind is so small His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all God, I gotta get away from the man in me She says, "What are you afraid of? There's no need to judge You know I can help you But you won't even budge" Pretty flowers surround you But all you can smell is a rat She says, "Why do you insist On your head in the sand? Building walls all around you You don't understand These ways are outmoded" But all you can change is your hat The man in me don't wanna Know nothing about that There's a man in the closet He wants to come out He wants to be noticed But he's so filled with doubt He wants to be well known and famous But he's so filled with pride The keys to his fortune stay locked up inside Can it be the man in me? She says, "Now what are you afraid of? There's nothing to fear You want me to help But you won't let me near" In your heart you can hear me But all you believe are your eyes Tell me why you're convinced That a fist in your face is all you deserve From love you've misplaced The truth is salvation But all you believe in are lies The man in me wants to believe But he won't even try There's man in me And he's so full of hate He's so misdirected He thinks it's too late Pours salt on the wounds Only time wants to heal He's dying inside And he don't wanna feel anything The man is strange |
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| 6. |
| 4:36 |
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Ridin' Out The Storm Lyrics
The New York City winter comes in cold grey sheets of steel The numbness in his hands and feet is all that he can feel Alcohol and sterno turns a doorway to a bed And the ghost of who he might have been lives on inside his head In a canyon made of brownstone on a sidewalk icy black He wanders nearly barefoot with his righteousness in tact A man of many mansions in a cardboard box replete He lies sleeping with an angel while his heart pretends to beat The wind blows down on Lonely Street like an ice pick through the air Midst the Sunday times and coffee grinds and wino's in Times Square Five flights up on Easy Street you know she's safe and warm Way down low neath a foot of snow he's riding out the storm I offered him my winter coat politely he refused Like an educated man he spoke with words I seldom use He said I don't need pity for these choices are my own He bowed his head just slightly and quietly moved along Its not like he's a victim of the homeless life he stalks Nor helpless to get back across the fine line that he walks Riding out the storm means yesterday's already spent Tomorrow don't mean nothing it won't even make a dent |
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| 8. |
| 4:01 |
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To make the world a better place like dreamers often will
We left our bed of roses to push that rock up hill The way we went about our task proved destined for to fail Who we thought we were don't ask there's no way you can tell It's a different world now to say the least The sun comes up from in the west and sets down in the east The stars are out there shining but just where we can not say It's different world now like night and day In the name of self defense we built bombs to prove a point And we'd drop them on our neighbors when their nose got out of joint To sell the same hamburger rain forests had to go Hell we don't need no air to breathe but just don't tell us no It's a different world now without a doubt The raindrops fall to Heaven and the tides go rolling out The rivers flow like powdered milk and the wind blows with a wheeze It's a different world now there are no trees I take a look around and I see ice caps in your eyes Desert where the swamp should beneath cold black canvas skies I take a look around and I see crossbones on a rose How we let this come to be seems no one really knows In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage Said flash your soft white belly child but just don't act your age Sell sex like cotton candy to young and old alike When you've outlived the fantasy girl you can take a hike It's a different world now but what to do We had our fifteen minutes and we blew it right on cue We used up mother nature like a twenty dollar whore It's a different world now there ain't no more |
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| 3:48 |
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I don't want to wind up bitter lost inside a silent rage
Or become like Rilke's panther out here locked up in a cage The old man I've been talkin' to has cotton in his ears But then who am I to blame him I've had mine stopped up for years Singing come on funny feeling L.A. out my windshield's one big Armageddon sprawl Planting palm trees in the desert makes no sense to me at all In a science fiction world where walkin' wounded leave their mark I just took my place among them trying to find a place to park Singing come on funny feeling The funny feeling comes when you're in love with everyone And all your races have been run or laid to rest Get this freakin' anvil off my chest Come on funny feeling The funny feeling knows the way the whole thing comes and goes Make's you stop and smell the roses if your smart Get this freakin' anvil off my heart It's not like I'm not blessed with something special in my world Just around the next dark corner there's a blue eyed dancing girl Who loves me like tomorrow comes with everything I need I just have to pay attention where this road I'm on might lead I'm singing come on funny feeling The funny feeling knows the truth the eye for eye & tooth for tooth It's something way back in your youth you should not second guess The funny feeling never lies it's there to open up your eyes Make you stop and realize you're blessed So get this friggin' anvil off my chest Come on funny feeling |
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| 4:54 |
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We don't want to say goodbye.
We don't want to feel that empty. But it's time to face the dawn head on. Then there's something in the wind when the days go getting shorter And the nights run cold and clear Down here. We'll take each new day to give what we need to do our part While were learning how to live With a lifelong broken heart. And we never will forget. It's a privilege to remember. The sound of days gone past will last. We can see you in the stars Come some vivid night in November And with the last few leaves that fall, Recal.l Surely, each new day will give What we need to do our part To keep learning how to live With a lifelong broken heart. Oh, you beautiful one, So clearly a gift. Life had designs of its own To set you adrift. So go lightly where you must, Travel soft upon new wings. You will never be alone. Go on. When we cannot understand, When we cannot find new meaning, We'll seek out the ones you loved And love. Taking each new day to give What we need to do our part. We'll keep learning how to live With a lifelong broken heart. We're just learning how to live With a lifelong broken heart. |
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| 4:16 |
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This Too Will Pass Lyrics
When the winds of change hit hard and knock you off your guard And you find out there's a serpent in the grass Though forked tongues might speak if truth is what you seek This too will pass When your all tied up in knots and your friends are taking shots And the sun comes up and kicks you in the ass When your stumbling down the aisle and you feel like you're on trial This too will pass Sometimes you've gotta go down the middle of the road Where compromise puts speed bumps in your path If you know what you won't let no one say you don't This too will pass Sometimes you gotta crawl through the middle of it all But don't compromise your heart for something crass When everything you do just feels like nothing new This too will pass When your all locked up in pain be careful who you blame This too will pass |
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