Live Vol. Four

Satan Pulls the Strings

Baby's in the cradle, Mama's in the bed
Sparrow's on the windowsill and the devil's in my head.
Devil's in my head mama, devil's in my head
Baby's in the cradle and the devil's in my head

When the winter yields to summertime
The whip-poor-will she sings
My heart is in the puppet box and Satan pulls the strings
Satan pulls the strings mama, Satan pulls the strings
My heart is in the puppet box and Satan pulls the strings

Well the front beat's in my brother, Lord
And the back beat's in me
God is in the song and the devil's in my feet
Lord, devil's in our feet, mama devil's in our feet
God is in the song and the devil's in our feet

Mama's cooking something up, serving to us all
Satan's ringing in now and I gotta take the call
Gotta take the call, boys, gotta take the call
Satan's ringing in now and I gotta take the call
Gotta take the call, boys, gotta take the call
Satan's ringing in now and I gotta take the call

Laundry Room

Don�t push me out,
just a little longer
Stall your mother,
disregard your father�s words.

Close the laundry door,
tiptoe across the floor
Keep your clothes on,
I�ve got all that I can take.
Teach me how to use,
the love that people say you made.

Stop your parents� car,
I just saw a shooting star.
We can wish upon it,
but we wont share the wish we make.
But i cant keep no secrets,
I wish that you would always stay

Last night I dreamt the whole night long,
I woke with a head full of songs.
I spent the whole day,
I wrote em down but it�s a shame.

Tonight i�ll burn the lyrics,
cause every chorus was your name

Break this tired old routine,
and this time dont make me leave

I am a breathing time machine,
i�ll take you on for a ride

Another is Waiting

It's a fake
It's a hoax
It's a nowhere road where no one goes
Anywhere
Anyhow
Where you're following your heart right down

She's a rose
She's a queen
But she's staring at a magazine
In the dark
On that path
Where they doctor every photograph

Another is waiting
She isn't saying anything

If you care
If you like
Well I'm standing in the lantern light
With our weapons
And our love
And I use 'em both to cover up

Another is waiting
She isn't saying anything

But I love you and I care
So you got to get off that conveyor belt
If I could
I would come right in and take you off myself

It's a fake
It's a con
The nature of the road you're on
Lets me see
Your skeleton
Well before your life is done

Another is waiting
She isn't saying anything
Another is waiting
She isn't saying anything

Shame

Okay so I was wrong about
My reasons for us fallin� out
Of love I want to fall back in

My life is different now I swear
I know now what it means to care
About somebody other than myself

I know the things I said to you
They were untender and untrue
I�d like to see those things undo

So if you could find it in your heart
To give a man a second start
I promise things won�t end the same

Shame, boatloads of shame
Day after day, more of the same
Blame, please lift it off
Please take it off, please make it stop

Okay so I have read the mail
The stories people often tell
About us that we never knew

But their existence will float away
And just like every word they say
And we will hold hands as they fade

Shame, boatloads of shame
Day after day, more of the same
Blame, please lift it off
Please take it off, please make it stop

I felt so sure of everything
My love to you so well received
And I just strutted around your town
Knowing I didn�t let you down
The truth be known, the truth be told
My heart was always fairly cold
Posing to be as warm as yours
My way of getting in your world
But now I�m out and I�ve had time
To look around and think
And sink into another world
That�s filled with guilt and overwhelming

Shame, boatloads of shame
Day after day, more of the same
Blame, please lift it off
Please take it off, please make it stop

And everyone they have a heart
And when they break and fall apart
And need somebody�s helping hand

I used to say just let �em fall
It wouldn�t bother me at all
I couldn�t help them now I can

Kick Drum Heart

The footprints over the snow
the fabric of all the lonely
C-Covering only
the fables and hands
the rest is out in the cold
holding the last of the season
F-F-F freezin� Yeah

My my my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My love like a voice

We�re walkin� in to the fields.
We�re walkin in to the forest.
The moon is before us.
Up above
We�re holdin� hands in the rain
S-sayin� words like I love you
D-d-d�you love me? Yeah

My my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My my love like a voice

Mother Mary heard us approaching her door
Although we didn�t make a sound.
There�s nothing like finding gold
within the rocks hard and cold
I�m so surprised to find more
Always surprised to find more

I won�t look back anymore
I left the people that do
Its not the chase that I love
Its me following you

Rejects in the Attic

I've been hanging out with the rejects in the attic
Can't get out of my head the way you left
I got a sense of belonging but what does it matter
The winter's on its way here to collect
The colors we thought were ours to protect

I was born on the outskirts of a dream
My daddy was a miner of almost anything
And I've been busting stones
Too proud to go back home
Admit that all my digging was in vain

But don't we talk different than we did?
Am I more quiet than I've been?
Don't you look brighter than the moon?
Don't I look different without you?
Don't I look different without you?

I'm taking rain like an Appaloosa hoofprint
And you know I'm drinking sunlight all day long
I'm opened up just like a dogwood flower
And winter's on its way here to collect
The colors we thought were ours to protect

Well you think we'd be used to it my dear
Well seeing how it happens every year

But don't we talk different than we did?
Am I more quiet than I've been?
And don't you look brighter than the moon?
Don't I look different without you?
Well don't I look different without you?

I was taken on the outskirts of a dream
I had a been a miner of almost everything
Well I stopped busting stones
I had to go back home
Admit that all my digging was in vain

Ten Thousand Words

Ten thousand words swarm around my head
Ten million more in books written beneath my bed
I wrote or read them all when searchin� in the swarms
Still can�t find out how to hold my hands

And I know you need me in the next room over
But I am stuck in here all paralyzed
For months I got myself in ruts
Too much time spent in mirrors framed in yellow walls

Ain�t it like most people? I�m no different
We love to talk on things we don�t know about
Ain�t it like most people? I�m no different
We love to talk on things we don�t know about

And everyone around me shakes their head in disbelief
And says I�m too caught up
They say young is good and old is fine
And truth is cool but all that matters
Is that you have your good times
But their good times come with prices
And I can�t believe it when I hear the jokes they make
At anyone�s expese except their own
Would they laugh if they knew who paid?

Ain�t it like most people? I�m no different
We love to talk on things we don�t know about
Ain�t it like most people? I�m no different
We love to talk on things we don�t know about

And after we are through ten years
Of making it to be the most of glorious day dues
I�ll come back home without my things
�Cause the clothes I wore out there I will not wear �round you
And they�ll be quick to point out our shortcommings
And how the experts all have had their doubts

Ain�t it like most people? I�m no different
We love to talk on things we don�t know about

Talk On Indolence

Well I�ve been lockin� myself up in my house for sometime now
Readin� and writin� and readin� and thinkin�
And searching for reasons and missing the seasons.
The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow.
The record will stop the record will go.
Latches latched the windows down,
The dog coming in the dog going out.
Up with caffeine and down with a shot.
Constantly worried about what I�ve got.
Distracting my work but I can�t make a stop
And my confidence on and my confidence off.
And I sink to the bottom and rise to the top
And I think to myself that I do this a lot.
World outside just goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes�
And witness it all from the blinds of my window.
THREE, FOUR

I�m a little nervous �bout what you�ll think
When you see me in my swimming trunks
And last night in New York I got raging drunk
Remember one time I got raging drunk with you

Now, I can recall a time when we made the city
Streets our playground, kissing in the fountains
Filled with cigarettes and bottles
Sped through Italian city streets of cobblestone

Because we had to
Because I loved you
Because the damned alcohol
Beacuse what ever at all

Now I�ve grown to aware of my mortality
To let go and forget about dying
Long enough to drop the hammer down
And let the indolence go wild and flying through

Because we had to

Auld Lang Syne

Not Available Yet.

The Boys are Back in Town

Thin Lizzy Cover.

I and Love and You

Load the car and write the note
grab your bag and grab your coat
tell ones that need to know
we are headed north

One foot in and one foot back
but its okay, to live like that
so i cut the ties and i jumped the tracks
for never to return

brooklyn brooklyn take me in
are you aware the shape im in
my hands they shake my head it spins
brooklyn brooklyn take me in

when at first i learned to speak
i used all my words to fight
with him and her and you and me
oh its just a waste of time
its such a waste of time

that women shes got eyes that shine
like a pair of stolen polished dimes
she asked to dance i said its fine
ill see you in the morning time

brooklyn brooklyn take me in
are you aware the shape im in
my hands they shake my head it spins
brooklyn brooklyn take me in

three words that became hard to say
I and love and you
what you were then i am today
look at the things i do

brooklyn brooklyn take me in
are you aware the shape im in
my hands they shake my head it spins
brooklyn brooklyn take me in

dumbed down and numbed my time and age
you dreams to catch this world the cage
the highway sets the travelers stage
all exits look the same
three words that became hard to say
I and love and you
I and love and you
I and love and you

Slight Figure of Speech

They say you�ve got to lose a couple fights to win
It�s hard to tell from where I�m sitting
They say that this is where the fun begins
I guess it�s time that I was quitting

A slight figure of speech
I cut my chest wide open
They come and watch us bleed
Is it art like I was hoping now?

They said "I hope that you will never change"
I went and cut my hair
They say "Don�t take your business to the big time"
I bought us tickets there

A slight figure of speech
I cut my chest wide open
They come and watch us bleed
Is it art like I was hoping now?

What did you expect
And what did you forget
That to live you let go of me with each step
It becomes a progression I won�t let regret manifest
To aggression
Are you to assess what I�ve been? What I am? Or become?
Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb
It can be to
Attack those around �cause you�re
True to color, a town, a time, or a place?
It�s not you, it�s not mine
And besides it is gone
And you never will find it again
But I don�t want to fight
I just ask let me be
I won�t give the chance to be my enemy
So go home
Think it through

A jet plane and a big idea
I jump over the sea
What ifs hot on my trail
But that can�t catch me, no

A slight figure of speech
I cut my chest wide open
They come and watch us bleed
Is it art like I was hoping now?

Happy Trails

Happy Trails to you
Until we meet again
Happy trails to you
keep smiling on till then

Who cares about the clouds when we are together
just sing a song about sunny weather

Happy trails to you
Until we meet again
Happy trails to you
keep smiling on till then

Some trails are happy one, other trails are blue
Its the way you write that counts
heres a happy one for you

Happy trails to you
till we meet again