Lyrics

Ancient man

From some unknown clan

Same weaving liquid snake

Wandering tributary

From Sullivan Lake

Northwestern AZ

Down through the forest shade trees

The water makes its way

Rapids racing

The world is ever changed

Here near the edge of

Phoenix Basin

Verde River flowing through all-time

Verde River winding like an old vine

Thunderstorms

Late summer so warm

Arroyo whitewater runs

Spring snow now melted

By the blistering sun

Horseshoe Reservoir

Mossy green Chino Valley star

Sycamore Canyon Road

Nesting eagles

Holding their own

This story of their trials

Reigning regal

Verde River

Peaceful symbol my vital sign

Verde River

Stay fluid even though you’re confined

Verde River

We’ll leave the strife behind

Verde River

Your past life keeps running

Through my mind

Passing the days

Looking for ways

To get around the mountain

He had journeyed long

But which way was wrong

It had to be found gilded fountain

Path growing cold

Fortune hunter stayed bold

Still he felt the hourglass empty

Then he fell as he saw

Crushed skull and bear claw

He cried damn the amber that tempts me

Seeking the El Dorado legend

Fool’s gold in the hills that beckoned

Leading him straight to a dead end

The El Dorado legend

Seeking the El Dorado legend

His very life’s existence threatened

Wise up wisdom is a godsend

The El Dorado legend

Losing his strength

Worn road at length

He met the lurking revenant

I’m pleading said he

Tell me where can it be

Before I return to the elements

Wranglers met death

Who came before has no breath

Hope you find what you’re looking for

Only catch is

The magic can never be his

His Eureka moment was chasing folklore

Seeking the El Dorado legend

Fool’s gold in the hills that beckoned

Leading him straight to a dead end

The El Dorado legend

Seeking the El Dorado legend

His very life’s existence threatened

Wise up wisdom is a godsend

The El Dorado legend

Light and shadows

Nights and days collide

Broken windows

Looking in from outside

Trouble comes and finds you

All the kinds you’re blind to

You never see it coming

The doomed doorways

But there’s been satisfaction

Maybe not the main attraction

But the battle just plays out

And replays

Half in the Sunshine

Half in a moody shade of noir

Part of a painted landscape

Part of the night sky dark star

Guess that’s the way it is

The way these times are

Sunshine and noir

Sight and blindness

Each story has two sides

Forget and forgiveness

It’s up to the winds and the tides

Wonder where the place is

You see good will in the faces

Whether you’re winning big or

Nursing a losing streak

Fortune is just trickery

Like a neon sign that’s flickering

Fall to the valley floor

Or scale the peak

Half in the Sunshine

Half in a moody shade of noir

Part of a moonlit landscape

Part of the night sky dark star

Guess that’s the way it is

The way these times are

Sunshine and noir

True you weren’t always there

But when you spoke

Your words would ring

Told me deal on the square

Or whatever you may gain

You’ll lose everything

Stay within reason

You would say

This isn’t Eden

Find the sunray

You defined it the world

Now I’m reminded to pay

This debt to you

My man from Louisiana

To me you stood as tall

As a Redwood tree

Transplant from the grassland savannah

To the hills of California

By the Western sea

Army hat and blue bandana

My man from Louisiana

I’m still your wild Lantana

My man from Louisiana

The years have shaped memory

Now careless deeds

All seem so blessed

The twenty first century

So lonesome with you gone

Now who would have guessed

Keep falling forward

That’s your voice

Freedom or cornered

Make the choice

You designed it my faith

All mankind can rejoice

In a soul like yours

My man from Louisiana

To me you stood as tall

As a Redwood tree

Transplant from the grassland savannah

To the hills of California

By the Western sea

I can’t forget you don’t wanna

Looking up to you

Your very own devotee

Family with you was no Nirvana

I’m you’re mirror JC

I’m you and you are me

Forgotten strangers unwritten pages

Brave nomads on the move

Travels without leaving traces

But listen to the wind

Seek universal truths

Our endless crossing back and forth

East and West South and North

When there’s no record to go by

All we can do is imagine

The Far Country is

Closer than you think

Somehow homeward bound

The Far Country

Survival doesn’t just happen

It’s something earned not simply found

Our boots are on this noble ground

It’s Far Country we’re riding through

The Far Country surrounds us

It’s Far Country

That sound is their sighs you hear

The Far Country’s near

Coming in hushed but blue sky clear

The Far Country

The low downtrodden sacrifice honor

Never and always with grace

Wherever it is we may wander

Searchers changing

But not the soul (thread) of the place

Blood brothers and sisters too

Like a wolf on the mesa I’m tracking you

When there’s no record to go by

All we can do is imagine

The Far Country is

Closer than you think

Somehow homeward bound

The Far Country

Survival doesn’t just happen

It’s something earned not simply found

Our boots are on this noble (storied) ground

It’s Far Country we’re riding through

The Far Country surrounds us

It’s Far Country

That sound is their sighs you hear

The Far Country’s near

Coming in hushed but blue sky clear

The Far Country

Far Country I’m standing here humbly

The Far Country floating above me

It started out

In Black Rapids Roadhouse

Son of a drunk

From Cedar Hill

A rebel rabble rousing

The devil in Levi Strauss

Soon he raised the gates of hell

A chill like a winter kill

It ended up

In a hail of fire

Six-gun bullets flying

And so he fled in a cloud of dust

By then it was getting

Down to the wire

Barflies pleading give it up

He just turned to spit and cussed

The Ballad of Cody Jarrett

Now an outlaw he’s raw white heat

Fierce and fiery

Desperado made of mean spirit

Resolve like rebar set in concrete

Wanted dead or alive

Pale rider right by his side

Nobody left nowhere to hide

The Ballad of Cody Jarrett

He saw us all

As his mad adversaries

Battle and clash

The hardest way

All roads lead to

Sleepy Hollow cemetery

Or some graveyard in a snake pit

His time this judgement day

But they say he’s out there

Still roaming the high plains

Looking over his shoulder

Rogue soldier on the lamb

Ghostly figure

Clad in iron cross chains

One thing we can count on

He doesn’t give a damn

Lost neon wasteland

Far cry from King’s Graceland

Sharkskin sheen sinks down to low style

Chasing fortune and fame

Twenty four seven

But not like

Ocean’s Eleven

The strip has been

Slipping mile by mile

Oh my Flying V

Don’t forget about me

Take me with you on your journey

Into space

Rocket flights starlit nights

We can look down on Vegas landing

Hi fi desert what a sight

Mood is bittersweet as I write

From up here

Dark sand bright sparks of white

Sin City sky

Nevada lights from on high

Nevada lights from on high

Once a hot boneyard

Then the Rat Pack my old guard

Pioneer Club sign those days I miss

How far can you get

From Made in Heaven

The question itself

Is the lesson

Can’t believe the

Cowboy’s tale has come to this

Oh my Flying V

Don’t forget about me

Take me with you on your journey

Into space

Rocket flights starlit nights

We can look down on Vegas landing

Hi fi desert what a sight

Mood is bittersweet as I write

From up here

Dark sand bright sparks of white

Sin City sky

Nevada lights from on high

Nevada lights from on high

Leaving Barstow

Inland Empire crossroads

Old Spanish Trail

Now Route 66

South to Palm Springs

Hearing those same Scott’s Orioles sing

Arid world

The devil’s playground depicts

We’re in the land

Of atomic sun

Bullhead City

Rain shadow dry run

You find the Silence

In the Joshua Tree

Beauty and violence

Hand in hand in Mojave

Westward journey

Guided by the Joshua Tree

Westward journey

Guided by the Joshua Tree

Desert sandman

Weathered leather bronze tanned

From the high on stable

Of great falling stars

You’re prehistoric

Standing so stout and stoic

Uphill climb

No feathered nest no wood tar

Still in these times

Of transonic speed

Slow death valley

Against a warrior’s creed

Find the Silence

In the Joshua Tree

Beauty and violence

Hand in hand in Mojave

Wise iguana

Rough chuckwalla tell me

Thriving rival relic of survival

Unlock the mystery

Secret Joshua Tree

Westward journey

Guided by the Joshua Tree

Westward journey

Guided by the Joshua Tree

My ripping ride hard shifting

You’re bouncing up and down

Around inside my wake

Hot sand shooting up under my wheels

It’s blinding you can’t see

I’ll make your engine bake

It’s an outsider art

Victory was mine from the shotgun start

Rough n’ rugged but I stay fluid

Pure power

Sky high voltage undiluted

I’m throwing my rooster tail

I’m really going blowing like a gale

Kicking up a low down n’ dirty rusty dusty trail

Throwing my rooster tail

Thrusting like I’m busting outta jail

Friction sliding speedy clutch

Only gear I know is way too much

I got a hammer and your coffin nails

Steer clear of my rooster tail

Volcanos spew hot lava

I’m smoking just like that

Competition so cutthroat

Melting down all the challengers

My full throttle’s got you beat

Now you know that I’m the goat

Propelled by burning fuel

Bursting blazing motor madness duel

Breakneck by nature racer blunt force

Through the dunes

Like a shockproof rocking horse

I’m throwing my rooster tail

I’m really going blowing like a gale

Kicking up a low down n’ dirty rusty dusty trail

Throwing my rooster tail

Thrusting like I’m busting outta jail

Friction sliding speedy clutch

Only gear I know is way too much

I got a hammer and your coffin nails

Steer clear of my rooster tail

Buried roots

But hearty faith

Above the rants and raves

To a new golden age

Distant trail

With twists and turns

Along the road confirms

How my hunting soul it stirs

I’m always searching

For Santa Fe

Any escaping from nowadays

The place coexists

With its former ways

Lifetimes lost

But the phantoms stay

Always searching for Santa Fe

Bolero song

Old Pueblo hymn

Land of enchantment

Past was fading dim

But upwards view

And memories rebuild

Authentic symbol of free will

Ancestral voices echo still

I’m always searching

For Santa Fe

Any escaping from nowadays

The place coexists

With its former ways

Lifetimes lost

But the phantoms stay

Always searching for Santa Fe

Rambling but ready

Watch me really go

Maybe not so steady

But it’s the only way I know

Now then I can’t change

Not a thing that I can do

Say when but I tell you what

One and one don’t always make two

Living life like a

Lone Star tumbleweed

All I ever wanted to be

Was a roadrunner

Somehow scraping by

Getting what I need

Only passing through

Uprooted and freed

Lone Star tumbleweed

Uprooted and freed

Lone Star tumbleweed

Tumbling tough Texan

Wind takes me where it will

Without direction

At least I ain’t standing still

No ties told you before

I’m old guard bad company

Bull’s eye when you said

I’m checked out always absentee

Living life like a

Lone Star tumbleweed

All I ever wanted to be

Was a roadrunner

Somehow scraping by

Getting what I need

Only passing through

Uprooted and freed

Lone Star tumbleweed

Uprooted and freed

Lone Star tumbleweed

On a saddle made of smoke

Sits the skull and bones rider 

Crooked straight from Hell

Outlaw insider

Behind his mask and cloak

Lies a world of darkness

Here to steal the night

See through he’s heartless

Nothing is there

Be warned beware

Comes a skeleton on horseback

Against crimson sunset’s pall

Dead on arrival

Ghostwriting on the wall

Watch the man from perdition fall

The vision is black sun

Just a skeleton

On horseback

He’s a wrangler feeding fear

Spreading melancholy

But we created him

Out of human folly

For some reason we revere

Our own grim destroyer

We battle with the beast

Fate that fallen warrior

Nothing is there

Be warned beware

Comes a skeleton on horseback

Against crimson sunset’s pall

Dead on arrival

Ghostwriting on the wall

Watch the man from perdition fall

The vision is black sun

Just a skeleton

On horseback

From Independence

Out of Missouri

Heading out west

Promised land by the sea

Might take better than a year

Home is nowhere even near

Just chasing the setting sun

Through snow and rain

Fierce terrain

Every wagon train

Onward and upward

Against the grain

Cross the plains

Every wagon train

Circling with the buzzard

Dream in vein wagon train

Dream in vein wagon train

Trail to transcendence

Mighty big country

Hope for the best

But no guarantee

Night makes ghosts start to appear

Future’s far and still unclear

Just chasing the setting sun

Through snow and rain

Fierce terrain

Every wagon train

Onward and upward

Against the grain

Cross the plains

Every wagon train

Circling with the buzzard

Dream in vein wagon train

Dream in vein wagon train

Hushed crickets’ wings

The rebel’s ballad

Devil’s horses serenade

Slow fade

New Orleans night high

When sundown falls

Swamp land of secrets

The liquid darkness creeps

Willow weeps

Chickadee far off cry

Calliope on Steamboat Natchez

Pounds out a haunting tune

Outside it’s January

Inside a dream of June

Light sweeps through

Suddenly lifting you

Black turns indigo blue

Moon on the bayou

Old Second line

The rhythm pulses

Funeral march low trumpet trill

From Storyville’s

Mahogany Hall

Wrought iron spikes

Deep sky French Quarter

The music stew it broods

Sets the mood

Feel the real above all

Calliope on Steamboat Natchez

Pounds out a haunting tune

Outside it’s January

Inside a dream of June

Light sweeps through

Suddenly lifting you

Black turns indigo blue

Moon on the bayou

In the great wide open

Spaces of the West

You’ll find freedom’s symbol

The California Condor’s nest

Birds of Jove you can’t rope in

Liberty won’t lay to rest

Beacon’s emblem to rekindle

Must have been born in a

Condor’s nest

Cliff cave in the mountains

Refuge from high winds

And in Giant Sequoia Redwood

Tree trunks numbers dwindling

Looking for protection

From the ravages of man

Hideaway from the haunted days

Straw bed built strand by strand

In the great wide open

Spaces of the West

You’ll find freedom’s symbol

The California Condor’s nest

Birds of Jove you can’t rope in

Liberty won’t lay to rest

Beacon’s emblem to rekindle

Must have been born in a

Condor’s nest

For eagles across this country

Honor is the creed

Outlasting is their legacy

For their survival they believe

Memory collecting

Through the vexing years

Choose the spots to untie the knots 

Go free and fly away in pairs

Sailor’s doom

Sweet alluring tomb

Swansong of the ages

From the river’s edge

Soothing wicked pledge

In man-made satin cages

They glide through water

I’m stuck on ground

Neptune’s daughters Celestial sound

Lagoon lit by lanterns

Paradise found

Hear the call of the Sirens

Trick velvet trap no going back

Call of the Sirens

Spellbinding sighs I’m hypnotized

Call of the Sirens

Rapture flows

Through the quiet rose

And the whirlpool starts spinning

Floating mermaids sway

Your soul you’ve signed away

The lost tunnel’s just beginning

They glide through water

I’m stuck on ground

Neptune’s daughters Celestial sound

Lagoon lit by lanterns

Paradise found

Hear the call of the Sirens

Trick velvet trap no going back

Call of the Sirens

Spellbinding sighs I’m hypnotized

Call of the Sirens

Hangman

Only you between the reaper

And where I stand

Who made you the gatekeeper

Gallows

Rope railroad ties and trestles

Every man knows

The conscience that he wrestles

Should I

Try to get up to that ridge

Or die at

Down at Owl Creek Bridge

Accused

Fugitive from justice

Never proved

Allegations made to crush us

By chance

Can’t you let me slip out

Snake dance

In your debt if there’s any doubt

Should I

Try to get up to that ridge

Or die at

Down at Owl Creek Bridge

Sun and wind

Pound the badlands again

Sagebrush scent

So bittersweet

Almost wonderful

Rocks to sand

Vista barren but grand

Greasewood shrinks

In deadly heat

So colorful

Blood red desert

Release me

From your stranglehold

Blood red desert

Beneath me

Passion savage and uncontrolled

Peaks from dunes

Clean bleaching what blooms

Where does that leave

Life on earth

Desolation vast

Rim round bed

I’m begging you I’ve bled

Now I’m looking

For my rebirth

Escaping a troubled past

Blood red desert

Release me

From your stranglehold

Blood red desert

Beneath me

Passion savage and uncontrolled

Salt of Cortez

In the Steinbeck tales

Stuff of legends

At Cabo Bay

Basks in sunshine

He soars and sails

Leads with the knife end

Making ocean spray

Silver swordfish leaping

From sea to sky

Putting on an exhibition

For me you personify

Pure joy golden boy

Fly silver swordfish fly

Deep in daylight

With rays and sharks down there

Ancient wisdom

Guides your fin

Breach the surface

Straight into sparkling air

Reach for the heavens

You might just get in

Silver swordfish leaping

From sea to sky

Putting on an exhibition

For me you personify

Pure joy golden boy

Fly silver swordfish fly

Amazon Kingfisher

Your fluttering wings fanning

Zacate Creek

Just soldier on

South Texas son some well wisher

Almost two hundred years since

Casa Ortiz

Those times are gone

Pages from my Laredo journal

The saga still hovers above the land

Ages overtake and that’s eternal

Got my Laredo journal in hand

Once the Republic

Of the Rio Grande

Got my Laredo journal in hand

Once the Republic

Of the Rio Grande

Fallen oak unspoken star

Your weakening state shared by

Strong and meek

Place remains unchanged

Spirit broke but not done by far

Escape to the shadows

Weathered mesquite

Hard bitten stark terrain

Pages from my Laredo journal

The saga still hovers above the land

Ages overtake and that’s eternal

Got my Laredo journal in hand

Once the Republic

Of the Rio Grande

Got my Laredo journal in hand

Once the Republic

Of the Rio Grande

Untamed past

From the crazy horse desert

Unforgiving landscape

Forgotten lone star child

Open range

Now been closing for decades

Second born son of gun

I was bred to be wild

I’m from a riled dying breed

Distant call like a tractor beam

I just wanna be

Breaking loose

Running free

Like the Mustangs across the stream

Mustangs across the stream

Natural state

Wish you would have left me

Mess with what I’m made of

What did you think I’d do

Broken fence

Wood slats hanging in the wind

Bucking is my ingrained way

Now I’m busting clean through

I’m from a riled dying breed

Distant call like a tractor beam

I just wanna be

Breaking loose

Running free

Like the Mustangs across the stream

Mustangs across the stream

Tumbling thunder I’m a third wheel

Gas gauge showing

Not much left no

Running empty it’s a done deal

Lost my I.D. to your

Little grand theft oh

I’m just driving

To the end of a dream

Road keeps rising you’re my mirage

Or so it seems

Beat soul reviving

Twilight silent symphony

Path unwinding staring into night

In hazy gray I can see

I’m just driving

To the end of a dream

Still I’m searching for my Raintree

Turning the burning

Into a glaze now

But where in the world would I be

If I didn’t go on

My motor getaways wow

I’m just driving

To the end of a dream

Road keeps rising you’re my mirage

Or so it seems

Beat soul reviving

Twilight silent symphony

Path unwinding staring into night

In hazy gray I can see

I’m just driving

To the end of a dream

Battle royal in the cypress swamp
Tupelo honey
You just came to stomp

Carolina I’m a native son
With a cousin destroyer
My tale is pure homespun

Golden nectar from the sour gum tree
Gulf Coast killer
Death by decree

Fierce invader of those mossy oaks
Force your way in
Press your own kinfolks

All the backstabs then left for dead
You do unto others
That’s just the tip of the arrowhead

The rock is gone I was leaning on
Now I’m right back where I was planted
Sunburned by life
Still I don’t take a moment for granted
Just a road warrior
Savanna man on a path well worn
Let me be the Bitternut Hickory
To your Southern Buckthorn

Through the years mostly times of drought
Still looking for a spot
Where a simple bud can sprout

Stick to myself all I can do
Cast a cold eye
Try to stumble through

Hope for the best by small degrees
Take bad seeds
Pray for early freeze

Summer’s ending still you’re on the march
Taking over
Under triumph’s arch

Didn’t want to leave this left unsaid
If I had my druthers
Wish we all could blossom cherry red

Survivor climbing higher
Southern Buckthorn
Outsider like a spider
Southern Buckthorn
Low rider in barbed wire
Southern Buckthorn
Outlier lit spitfire
Southern Buckthorn

Dear Georgia
Haystacks in Spring
Your sweet rakes of light
Wildflowers blossoming

Dear Georgia
I’m worshiping
Heaven’s presence
It’s a mystical thing

Atlanta
Know I’m on my way to you
Always loved it
When I passed through

Peachtree Road
With all your soaring trees
Can’t wait to feel
Your docile breeze

Dear Georgia
Haystacks in Spring
Your sweet rakes of light
Wildflowers blossoming

Dear Georgia
I’m worshiping
Heaven’s presence
It’s a mystical thing

Savannah
How I miss your Spanish moss
Open letter
To the Southern Cross

Pirate’s House
I swear you’re haunting me
But for your coastal town
Hospitality

Dear Georgia
Haystacks in Spring
Your sweet rakes of light
Wildflowers blossoming

Dear Georgia
I’m worshiping
Heaven’s presence
It’s a mystical thing

Samuel C.
Longhorn man
In and out with
Haley’s Comet

A Tramp Abroad
With his bluejay yarn
Toughest wit
Feisty prophet

Riverboat man
Yelling safe to pass
Eagle screaming
Banjos bluegrass
Dressed in white
When summer ends
Deadpan script
Comes alive again

Neighbors few
Travels far
The decades melt
Epic figure

To the point
No holding back
To this day
The truth will trigger

Riverboat man
Yelling safe to pass
Eagle screaming
Banjos bluegrass
Dressed in white
When summer ends
Deadpan script
Comes alive again

Letters from Earth
Back to the cave
What you know ain’t so
Heading backwards

Lost in crowds
Write so brave
Simpler time
Here’s the password

Appalachian dream ‘til
May of 1915
Shock to your steady stream
Describing grief unseen

Stolen moments of closeness
Father and son remoteness

Rufus spread your grace
On the mysteries of life
And sudden death
Aftermath’s birthplace
Pearls of wisdom
Paint a town with your wordplay

Knoxville U.S.A.

Lyricism unleashed
Speechless passion unbound
Poignant ache released
Insights clear and so profound

Finding depth of attachment
Build back fragment by fragment

Rufus spread your grace
On the mysteries of life
And sudden death
Aftermath’s birthplace
Pearls of wisdom
Paint a town with your wordplay

Knoxville U.S.A.

Proof is in the pain
A small boy of six
His dad’s dying breath
From your loss our gain
In Tennessee that night
James Agee’s blackest day

Knoxville U.S.A.
Hard knocks motorway
Knoxville U.S.A.
Hard knocks motorway

We were as one
Some days
Surface talks turning deep
Interstate 20 East

That Summer of
Lazy ways
Couple of tight jams but
Overall sense of peace

I haven’t forgotten
My rare bird
I’m here to say
It all replays
It was not all for naught
Rio Rancho remembered

Behind the wheel
Driving shifts
Shreveport just starting out
It’s Roswell or bust

The time we took
What a lift
In a car on a cloud that
Road trip trek you know what

I haven’t forgotten
My rare bird
I’m here to say
It all replays
It was not all for naught
Rio Rancho remembered

Deep into that darkness
Over South Atlantic shores
Supernatural atmosphere

It’s the rebel riding fire
Burned into my soul’s core
Omen bleak mystique austere

Between the material world
And the spirits’ prophecy

Angels in Heaven above
Demons down under the sea
Comes the raven
Hoodwink or haven
He’s wiser than we

The Raven
Messenger
Blackbird of persuasion
Saboteur
The Raven

Both trickster and creator
His only answer is nevermore
Badge of honor to confuse

We’re an island of lost souls
And now he’s at our chamber door
A chill that kills trust that’s misused

Astonishing or so you say
He’s contradictory

Transit across the skies by night
Half-truth half heresy
Comes the raven
Brash and brazen
That’s no saint you see

The Raven
Messenger
Blackbird of persuasion
Saboteur
The Raven

You brought the Sun
And Moon and Stars
Made us think that
They were ours

Somehow got us
To believe
In these mirages and illusions
All designed to deceive

I never knew you
You didn’t get to know me
Ghostly guru
Might have got on famously

I’ve had the bluest of blues
But your music like magic
Made it all the way through
With a kiss what a blessing for this

Livinia in absentia

I’m telling my Sun Belt stories
To whoever’s listening
Western to Southern territories
I’m a man on a mission

Sun Belt Stories
Some shame some glory
Sun Belt Stories
Tales of virtue and sin
I’m telling my Sun Belt stories
again

Silent teacher
I wish you were still here
Part-time preacher
Your message won’t disappear

Like hands across centuries
Reading your diaries
Paints portraits of you
Hidden meanings you whisper to me

Livinia in absentia

I’m telling my Sun Belt stories
To whoever’s listening
Western to Southern territories
I’m a man on a mission

Sun Belt Stories
Some shame some glory
Sun Belt Stories
Tales of virtue and sin
I’m telling my Sun Belt stories
again

Sun Belt Stories
Allegories
Sun Belt Stories
Of right now and back then
I’m telling my Sun Belt stories
My friends

Lost in America
Looking to be found
Still searching
For my sound

See me I’m there with ya
U.S. by Greyhound
Communicating
Voices drowned

In my journals
Reunited
Oh South Star
Shine on me

Springs eternal
Unrequited
Human nature
Always the same you see

Dig for roots
My boots been on the ground alright
I’m Bogalusa Bound tonight

Bogalusa Bound
Longleaf pines years running

Bogalusa Bound
Bayou Railroad years running down

Bogalusa Bound
Dark water Dixie I’m coming

Bogalusa Bound
Mockingbird hear me I’m coming round

Banging my head again
Caught up with closed minds
Tough descendants
Takes all kinds

Reeling can’t comprehend
The resistance to redefine
Guess we’re all alike
Just not aligned

It’s my private revolution
I see the change
Needs to be in me
My quiet resolution
I’ll take full
Responsibility
Revive it no retribution
Survive it seek new solutions
It’s all part of my private revolution
And it has begun

Can’t look outside
For answers or blame
Nobody to guide
About the rules of the game

I’m stuck inside
Myself common plight
These walls made of pride
Me and my own internal fight

It’s my private revolution
I see the change
Needs to be in me
My quiet resolution
I’ll take full
Responsibility
Revive it no retribution
Survive it seek new solutions
It’s all part of my private revolution
And it has begun

Keep my thoughts steady
While I ask and I ask
This asphalt cowboy’s ready
I swear I’m up to the task

Time sure is flying
It’s in all of our faces
Ruins not even trying
All our deep secret places

No regrets
Well maybe just a few
But I’ll never forget
My life and times with you

Tomorrow meant a new road
Exploring we did our share
Every rambling episode
Home was anywhere

Grounded some and that’s alright
Lead on
Every dawn
Has to end in night
We saw the sights
It’s all finite
Nature’s sweet delights

When my traveling days are over
Not sure I’d even mind
Where there’s two like me and you
No one’s a loner
Treasure’s what you find
Each path of discovery
Grows cold or goes sideways
At least while we reigned we blazed
Getting close to a faraway gaze
Thinking back on my traveling days
Traveling days
Wanderlust
The need to change the place
That was surely us
But the swift don’t win the race

Remembering the small things
That’s what it’s all about
Even if our feet had wings
Time is running out

Still there’s hope for the darkest night
I contend
Around the bend
Now we just might
Hit the highest heights
Spirits soar in flight
To the Southern Lights

When my traveling days are over
Not sure I’d even mind
Where there’s two like me and you
No one’s a loner
Treasure’s what you find
Each path of discovery
Grows cold or goes sideways
At least while we reigned we blazed
Getting close to a faraway gaze
Thinking back on my traveling days
Traveling days

I’m walking away from my traveling days

Wise sage
I’m just a ghost rider
From a vanishing age
Lone raccoon
What’s the secret to survival
I’m staging a revival here

Times change
You’re still hiding like a bandit
In a century that’s strange
Out of tune
Message going viral
From a curving spiral frontier

Be home soon
Lotsa blind alleys
Long way from Cali
Still I’m ready to reconcile even rally
Mississippi Valley return
Mississippi Valley on my way Sally
Big yearn
Mississippi Valley my final finale
Return

Clouds pass
Whichever way the wind blows
Still can’t see through smoked glass
From saloons
Getting repetitious
Circle sure is vicious I swear

Live fast
No matter how I run it comes
From out of the past
Dead balloons
Wheel without the motion
But always the notion is there

Be home soon
Lotsa blind alleys
Long way from Cali
Still I’m ready to reconcile even rally
Mississippi Valley return
Mississippi Valley on my way Sally
Big yearn
Mississippi Valley my final finale
Return

Mississippi Valley
I see now I’m not walking alone
Mississippi Valley
Just a wayward one coming home

Bordertown
Heading down
Next to Mexico
Windy gust
Eating dust
Highway 118

Far west side
Devil’s ride
A new fandango
A few exits past
McMurtry’s last
Abandoned scene

Destination Terlingua
Fascination atlas obscura
Straight ahead keep chasing the thread

Dragonfly in my Texas tequila
Moody skies over Lost Gringo RV
Let’s drive by the old Starlight Theater
Where adobe walls
Meet liquid neon dreams
Primitive
Way to live
Blasting radio
Empty place
On the face
If you don’t see ghosts

Let them be
Humanity
Learn to let it go
Fade away
All someday
Read the worn sign posts

Destination Terlingua
Fascination atlas obscura
Straight ahead keep chasing the thread

Dragonfly in my Texas tequila
Moody skies over Lost Gringo RV
Let’s drive by the old Starlight Theater
Where adobe walls
Meet liquid neon dreams

n winter’s coldest months
After all the leaves have fallen
Clearer views come streaking through
To the chilled stark valley below

Spring forward and summits lift
Flat ridge top on rolling hillside Farming town East Tennessee
All colors where wildflowers grow

Big House mighty mountain
You symbolize
The shining rise to freedom
Big House mighty mountain
Before your eyes
Virginia skies
Big House

Summer breeze beats the heat
World view turns panoramic
Glass vista see the steep ascent
Elevating up to better days

In fall when trees catch fire
Orange autumn displaying
Lighting the brightest highest point
In the most hypnotizing ways

Big House mighty mountain
You mesmerize
New liberty what a feeling
Big House mighty mountain
Majestic size
Yet you harmonize
Big House

Big House mighty mountain
You symbolize
The shining rise to freedom
Big House mighty mountain
Before your eyes
Virginia skies
Big House

Lost age of innocence
Now harsh reality
The span from ignorance
To knowing all that we
Have learned

We see we all have
Our limitations
No less than
Birth and death
Futility
Fragility

Signal that time is leaving
Decay marching slowing motion
Faded glory then dust
Coming to understand rust

Might this be the metaphor
For man’s search for dignity
The wisdom we’ll need for sure
These ruins just can’t be
Overturned

We struggle and meet it
With perseverance
Stubborn and
Spiritual
The soul survives
Our life’s demise

Icon of long neglecting
So much sea salt in the ocean
Robust iron encrust
Destiny so much like rust

Buckeye Butterfly

Hey Buckeye butterfly
Cowgirl stunner
With the target shaped eyes
Your figure eight
Drop-dead beautiful bait
I couldn’t catch you if I tried

Hey Buckeye butterfly
In your splendor
Let the looker glide by
An open field
The only place you might yield
But we’re both stuck here roadside
Buckeye butterfly

Fishnets doing the trick
Long eyelashes brunette
Yeah you got the old ice pick
Mantrap giving cold sweats

I’m not getting sentimental
But I kinda thought we were friends
Now you found your next conquest prize
And we’re strangers once again

Hey Buckeye butterfly
Cowgirl stunner
With the target shaped eyes
Your figure eight
Drop-dead beautiful bait
I couldn’t catch you if I tried

Hey Buckeye butterfly
In your splendor
Let the looker glide by
An open field
The only place you might yield
But we’re both stuck here roadside
Buckeye butterfly

Lipstick shiny and wet
But Rosie Riveter type
1940s hair net
When you flutter your wings sideswipe

Meeting you was accidental
But to me it felt like fate
I saw your magnificence
You sure can captivate

Tune in
Gonna pay attention now
While I can
Look alive
Porch bench or bee hive
The universe I will see
Carolinas calling to me

From rock bottom
Outta Nashville
Tennessee
But it’s Autumn
In Asheville
Turning leaves

Blue Ridge
Green to orange red then brown
Peace at hand
Warming winds
And so it begins
I’m suddenly aware
Fall colors everywhere

From rock bottom
Outta Nashville
Tennessee
But it’s Autumn
In Asheville
Turning leaves

What the poet sees
Transformation in the trees
Watch Spring erase what Winter weaves
The seasons are the thieves
Tomorrow’s ash hill
Turning leaves

Ever wonder
What a wanderer believes
Just in distant thunder
In trust and turning leaves

Sky Ranch Motel

Once again
The frost is splintering
Muted snowbird tones
Skin as dry as bone

Time of year
Last travelers lingering
Hey old school screen door
Guess we’re dinosaurs

Luna moth against the light
Dayglo wings bright green at night
Rebel citadel roadhouse farewell

Sky Ranch Motel
Truckstop abandoned
Now where do gypsy drifters dwell

Tell me why you rose and fell
I’m not understanding
Your dark deserted shell

I’m just another nomad
You were my shady dell
Sky Ranch Motel

Purple cast
Your sign was flickering
A bit dog eared
But all were welcomed here

Blanket me
This town is withering
Dwindling flames
Won’t ever be the same

Luna moth against the light
Dayglo wings bright green at night
Rebel citadel roadhouse farewell

Sky Ranch Motel
Truckstop abandoned
Now where do gypsy drifters dwell

Tell me why you rose and fell
I’m not understanding
Your dark deserted shell

I’m just another nomad
You were my shady dell
Sky Ranch Motel

I’m cruising slack into Memphis
Yesterday made my way
Returning son low gear

Weaving around the edge of the river
Can’t believe it’s been years

Wild rock dove homing pidgeon
By feel and pilot’s wheel
Gonna get to you

Now I’m knocking down the distance
Cultures keep crashing through

I can see the signs ahead
Memories I could sketch
I’m on the homestretch

Rolling down the road
Bringing us all back together
Black Hawk bridge
Louisiana ridge
Rolling down the road
We are all birds of a feather
Spanish moss
On a field church cross
Ballad of a searcher
This restless one’s code
Rolling down the road
Na na na na na
Rolling down the road

My Baton Rouge red stick’s waiting
Rusty truck pulling up
I’m already there

Halcyon days getting better
This trip’s like an answered prayer

Grand Prairie calm is tomorrow
Ride the wind once again
To our days of youth

Oxbow lake alligator
I’ve made peace with your sawtooth

Can’t you see good times ahead
Reunite the wrecking crew
Can’t wait for that homebrew

Finding Key Largo
Once homeland of the Seminoles
Southerly open shutters to the sea
Sympathy Rock Harbor calling to me

Had to go
Pilgrimage odyssey
Emerald Coast
County of Monroe

Florida Sun King
Watching the swaying of the palms
Lining the sand
Myth and man now you’re here near me

Florida Sun King
Knowing by feel your heart of bronze
I think I understand
My elder I’m seeing things clearly

Nearby Everglades
Sawgrass prairies of green on blue
Coast bound across Blackwater Sound
Way down where family tree fronds are found

Amber glow
All of your wit and wisdom
Timeless
Balance you bestow

Florida Sun King
Watching the swaying of the palms
Lining the sand
Myth and man you’re here now near me

Florida Sun King
Knowing by heart your face of bronze
I think I understand
My elder I’m seeing things clearly

Florida Sun King
Your life is my wellspring
Florida Sun King
Thank you for everything

It’s days like these
The ones that bring you to your knees
I’m holding only handlebars
Desire is just some old creaky streetcar

I can’t bring a bit of it back
Too much to own up to and unpack

I wanna be deep
In dreamless sleep
Suspended state
Reality can wait
No epic size sweep
Just counting sheep
My upended world
Here no heartaches hurled
Just gliding
Nobody guiding
Riding the delta waves
Wash over me ocean graves
Immerse me in watery caves
Have mercy my delta waves

Some nights I can rest
But forget about you that’s the hardest test
Imagination’s the place
Trail of love that leaves no trace

I can sing about the fates and breaks
My narrow escape from being wide awake

I wanna be deep
In dreamless sleep
Suspended state
Reality can wait
No epic size sweep
Just counting sheep
My upended world
Here no heartaches hurled
Just gliding
Nobody guiding
Riding the delta waves
Wash over me ocean graves
Immerse me in watery caves
Have mercy my delta waves

Elysian fields of green
Always Sunkist
Winding lines of trumpet vines
Picture this

Orange Crush pink leaves
Reckless abandon
Bikini girls another world
Far from my Radio Flyer wagon

River raft float on
Strawberry Canyon
Night blooming jasmine wind
All I imagine
Strawberry Canyon

Summer skin slink by
Stored in memory
Treasure box for precious rocks
Coral trees

Fanta Grape blue moon
Coppertone like satin
Found my way in those days
To the lady in white nurse’s cabin

River raft float on
Strawberry Canyon
Night blooming jasmine wind
All I imagine
Strawberry Canyon

Fighting through the streets
Driving straight outta here
Writing in my journal
Set to chords and beats

Whipping around the bend
Taking it day by day
Tipping the scales towards justice
With my sword it’s penned

Born in Motor City
So many turns since then
Jot some bits of it down
What a funhouse ride it’s been
Some Las Vegas sinning
Vancouver and I’m stoked
Get me back to Lotusland
I’m gonna go for broke
You gotta let me light it up
The Big Smoke

Taking the corners hard
Revving engine roaring
Shaking like a speedway
Won’t catch me off guard

Seeing through the glass
Escaping the picture frame
Being present resurrection
Checkered flag I’ll pass

Born in Motor City
So many turns since then
Jot some bits of it down
What a funhouse ride it’s been
Some Las Vegas sinning
Vancouver and I’m stoked
Get me back to Lotusland
I’m gonna go for broke
You gotta let me it light up
The Big Smoke

I’m a desperado
Stumbling and parched
Stung again by the scorpion
With a venom kiss

Waiting for a new moon
Barely made it through March
You’re my savior champion
Against the rattlesnake hiss

You came along like a cooing dove
Cloudburst flash flood labor of love

Out of the sand
Comes my desert flower
Hardly planned
How can you thrive here

In a hostile land
Born of summer shower
You blossom every year
Then flat like that you disappear
My desert flower

Imagine an oasis
When the dry wind blows
Red rock remember then
Already morning rays

Melting under the harsh sun
Such mighty highs and lows
Got my angel guardian
For these hell-on-earth days

In such an arid atmosphere
You bring life to my death valley here

Out of the sand
Comes my desert flower
Hardly planned
How can you thrive here

In a hostile land
From a summer shower
You blossom every year
Then flat like that you disappear
My desert flower

Once again
In the middle of madness
I push my pen
Try to justify some downfall

Time to walk away
From this asphalt jungle
Slow death if I delay
I gotta scale this prison wall

There’s only one thing
Gonna make it alright inside
Grab the keys go get the car
Kill reminiscence while I ride

As long as it’s all
In the rearview mirror
I can breathe easy
Start to see things clearer
Shotgun can’t outrun
Ain’t getting any nearer
To blasting the past
Still seeing that view of you
In the rearview mirror

Get ahead
It’s a riddle can’t figure
So well tread
I wanna take things in reverse

Now I’m heading out
Try to find a lane open
Change up the route
Wave of trouble’s turning worse

Only one sound
A purring engine revving red hot
I’m in the saddle settled in
Like a Marshall hundred watt

As long as it’s all
In the rearview mirror
I can breathe easy
Start to see things clearer
Shotgun can’t outrun
Ain’t getting any nearer
To blasting the past
Still seeing that view of you

I can’t manage to navigate
Where I’m going there ain’t no map
Passing up all the traffic
And I just might close that gap

Race through this life
Edge of the big knife
Saving it all up
For nothing in the end

Take a deep breath
You ain’t cheating death
At the pearly gates
All those nickels you can’t spend

Confessions of a Lounge Lizard
Spare me those peak performance bros
I’m just some old vine
Wine wizard
Competition blows
Completely missing the point
The path you chose

Bison buffalo
Emerson Thoreau
All things exist
In a ceaseless flow of change

American thought
Hard won and fought
It’s all a frame of mind
Roam on home on the range

Confessions of a Lounge Lizard
We all fall down like dominoes
Can’t blunder through
Here comes a blizzard
The rivalry is closed
There’s just the Great Plains
We’re all plain John Does

Confessions of a Lounge Lizard
We rise by lifting each other brothers
Sock it away in your
Chicken gizzard
When empathy goes
Humanity’s up the creek
You can bet Heaven knows

Old Polaroid
I found stashed
Small numbers sixty six
Colors
So faded over time now

Straight from the void
A picture speaks
Words all in shades of bricks
Wonders
Eternal so sublime somehow

Bygone are the days and lost ways
Doesn’t change
What the truth is

Live on totem poles holding souls
Spirits hover like hawks
On the road
To Las Cruces

Soon Southern Cross
Down to Taos then
Through to Santa Fe
John Ford
Movie in my mind’s eye

Scratch off the gloss
See roots they go
Back quite a ways
And forwards
Enchantment written in the sky

Bygone are the days and lost ways
Doesn’t change
What the truth is

Live on totem poles holding souls
Spirits hover like hawks
On the road
To Las Cruces

On the road to Las Cruces
Find what your truth is

Ask me if I’m nostalgic
I’ll say always everyday
Living in the past keeping classic
Back then was the place to stay

Timeless is forever
Always the better plan
No trying denying
I’m a twentieth century man

Kinda everything was better before
Can’t stand this millennium anymore

Yesteryear versus today
Which is best no contest
You say it’s all OK hey hey
But I’m still not satisfied
Wanna watch me up and come alive?
You got a time machine
Let’s ride let her rip
Gimme Sunset Strip 1955

Say Crackerjack black Cadillac
Take me back
My Coupe DeVille it’s been all down hill
Coupe DeVille

You here’s the overview
Everything is over-cranked
And stuck in overdrive too
We’re all drawing a great big blank

Culture takes a nosedive
Been sliding since I was a kid
What’s right now and what’s the latest
Doesn’t mean a thing never did

Something’s lost and that’s for sure
Flailing and ailing so what’s the cure

Atmosphere speaking to me
Vintage vibe killer tribe
Who do you want to be
Searching for the bona fide
Wanna watch me just thrift and thrive?
You got a time machine
Can’t abide one way trip
Pretty much any zip 1955

Say Crackerjack black Cadillac
Take me back
Coupe DeVille been all down hill
Coupe DeVille
Sound feel or look guitar car or book
Colors getting worse and worse
Not a day goes by I don’t curse the curse
Throw it in reverse

Always looking to belong
To the world not so withdrawn
Like in the land of Oz

I had to leave to find it out
Nowhere better no doubt
Golden one you give me pause

You got me in a dream state
Who knew a place
Could be a real soul mate
By day your sunshine radiates
By night I’m deep in meditation
On your moon beam
You caught me you’re my supreme
Dream state
You’re just a dream state

Couldn’t wait for my turn
Sometimes failing’s the way to learn
That’s what the poets say

Winding path from Motown
Spent some years thinking upside down
Eldorado Nation hideaway

You got me in a dream state
Who knew a place
Could be a real soul mate
By day your sunshine radiates
By night I’m deep in meditation
On your moon beam
You caught me you’re my supreme
Dream state
You’re just a dream state
Dreamscape
Dream state

Dusk hits the Saguaros
Fade back ‘til tomorrow
Farewell to today
Old West Highway
Still haunted phantom miners

Goldfield Ghost Town sign
Superstition’s outline
The forks set the stage
The road is my page
Recollections designer

Reaching into night sky
Out to the stars
Celestial wish wide screen
Dreaming of the twilight high sheen
Apache Junction Sunset serene
Apache Junction Sunset sacred scene

All galaxies closer
Nature as composer
Specters hiding the gems
A new chapter begins
Ancient ages out in the open

Stories in sandstone
In darkness alone
Then a scout sees ahead
Desert secrets not dead
Cliffs are soaring myth unspoken

The tempest is forming
Turbulence warning
Better take cover
Not a minute to waste

A rainy day dawning
You’re still all I’m wanting
Sweetness sometimes poison
Voodoo through black lace

Wicked queen magic powers
Fortune’s arrows you sling
Some upside down hours
All the same I feel like a king
Lightning flashing
Quite a strike your jolt
You loving me
Like a thunderbolt
Yeah yeah
Thousand volt
Thunderbolt

Rumble clap in the distance
Here it comes no resistance
Your blitz is too much for me
You hit like a big barbell

Clock keeps on running
Your silhouette’s stunning
Killing off or saving grace
Can be kinda hard to tell

I tried to go on
The straight and narrow
But now I’m slipping
Into flip flops
Second hand sombrero

Dead lucky stiff
And I never forget it
The havoc only hurts
When you let it in
Let me begin by saying

I’m a Baja Bohemian
Living in the California Caribbean
Chasing perfection oblivion
Baja Bohemian

Skating and surfing
Sidewalks and sand dunes
Melodies locked inside me
Making it up
Rock roots beach tunes

Too late to change
I’m sticking to it
Get through life with style
Just ask how I do it now
As the palms are swaying

Somewhere in the void
Between mercy and serenity
From some small yarn
Falling down barn
Open land with dying grass
And twisted trees

Now there’s a phantom in its place
Not even half of what it used it be
But I ain’t worried
No big hurry
Still got my monochrome memories

It was in the last picture show
I could see something
Like I like it
Going nice and slow oh oh
Even now as I try to write
You radiate the heat of night
That silver screen glow
The lost world I know
The last picture show
Sometimes I drift off
Your shadows flicker
Blurry image instant chain
Glamour’s dwindling
Time keeps swindling
But across the decades
You come like summer rain

Childhood in black and white
But don’t even ask me
Just what I believe
Different drummer
Endless summer
Hiding out from myself
And my company

It was in the last picture show
I‘m still defiant
I want the world
Turning sweet and low oh oh
Up until my time is through
I’ll be thinking of and seeing you
Dark movie house from long ago
Breath of fresh air good inflow
The last picture show

Forage in the morning
Plus prowling evenings too
Relentless savage they all say
Except when I’m with you

Dangerous even ruthless
Foes call me fiery
Full of furious uproar
Fight the fight energy

I’m territorial
Hermit like a bear
Resting in cover by day hey hey

Time immemorial
Spent in my den
Dormant state it’s my way hey hey

All alone and in my zone
Huckleberry turned sour cherry
I’m solitary

Courage and conviction
Sticking to my word you’ll see
Lie to me just start running
I’m gonna chase that tail up a tree

Don’t mind going solo
If you’re saying that you can’t hang
But I’m gonna bet you circle back
A returning boomerang

Our old turnstile
Hardly worthwhile
On the high wire
Toying with desire
Then the big crisscross
Almost everything lost and still

A passion replay
The power to stay
Rests within you
Decide what you will do
Rolling stone or moss
What does it all cost cheap thrills

Round and round in circles then
Through this revolving door

We did that dance for sure
Remember when
Would never do it to
Each other again
Not anymore

The new frontier
Have it all here
We can’t advance now
If we’re praying for the chance
The eye for an eye
Always every time try for even score

Let’s stop and think
We’re at the brink
The edge that pulls us
Running out of trust
The rule applies
Trouble magnifies just like before

Perfect day for a rolling raceway
Wishing I was buzzing
My way round the track
But it’s only me in my ’63
Still you can’t catch
Mercury in jet black

Hotfoot ferocity
Driving high velocity

Shooting for the speed of sound
Pedal to the metal I’m one Hellhound
Blistering I’m victory bound
Faster faster
That’s my creed
Living for the sound of speed
Speed of sound Speed of sound

Hard machine like popping amphetamines
Turning and curving
With muscle car force
Accelerating with my double V8
Power sheer as I steer
My ride through the course

Constant animosity
Burning up viscosity

Shooting for the speed of sound
Pedal to the metal I’m one Hellhound
Blistering I’m victory bound
Faster faster
That’s my creed
Living for the sound of speed
Speed of sound Speed of sound

Set the pace it’s a lifelong car chase
Going for the record
Never second that’s me
Working my way up
Dreaming of a trophy cup
But this ain’t nothing like
The Long Beach Grand Prix

No crowd at capacity
Just my endless tenacity

What are you doing here
Didn’t know you were anywhere near
You came to make violent waves
Put some locals in their watery graves

Crashing down on those unlucky laggers
Thrash around stab with your daggers

Hammerhead
With wings at your temples
All you use them for is cold bloodshed
Hammerhead
Stingray stunned spinning trembles
Pin him to his ocean floor deathbed
For this you’re purebred
The spreading of dread
Tear it all to shreds
Killing machine
Quick and clean
Hammerhead

Look at you sowing fear
Creeping along grind is your gear
You lust for more and more prey
Might just eat your young one grim day

By surprise you hunt for the tumble
Capitalize dark shark rumble

Late afternoon
In the valley of the rocks
Vivid tones and raven’s caw

Open monument
My thorny sunset rose
Panorama feel the awe

Four corners the land uncaged
Just a few hundred miles to go
Three sisters hardly aged
You’re all allure
Genuine and pure
Home to New Mexico

Wide vista now
Nation of the Navajo
Tree sparrow fly away

Vastness all around
Driving my trusty Jeep
Tires in the deep red clay

Four corners the land uncaged
Just a few hundred miles to go
Three sisters hardly aged
You’re all allure
Genuine and pure
Home to New Mexico

Starting from Yosemite
Gonna give myself the time
Arizona then Colorado
Running through my mind
But there’s a place I can’t let go
I follow the amber arrow
Home to New Mexico

These hallowed halls
Keep descending
Heavy walls closing in conspiracy
Havoc reeks never-ending
No remorse change the course
So here it comes

Their shallow graves
Doom impending
Satan’s slaves bells toll what will be
Now it’s too late for amending
Down the road will explode
With thunder drums

Well welcome
To the land of the black swans
Their bedlam for their evil these icons
In darkness looms the prince
Now they’re just his pawns
Can’t take back the trade
The deal with the devil
The bed they made
Land of the black swans

Up in smoke
Hell ascending
Fire stoked biding time bitterly
Gate keeper’s cruel so mind-bending
Fell in the trap then lost the map
Whirlpool too strong

Sentence passed
No suspending
Shadows vast too blind to see
Voodoo hex underworld sending
Nerves of steel but no appeal
Go where you belong

Took a long time
To get to this place
Talking legendary
Blazing the trail with
Equal parts grit and grace

No destiny
From our point of view
Still we’re temporary
Future’s unknown
Everlasting Eden untrue

Just better to stay
Party of two no one betrayed

It’s forever for now
If it happens you need me
I’ll try to be there
Forever for now
I know you read me
Be open beware
Our only prayer
Live by our unspoken vow
Forever for now

Far from the scene
Our own life freestyle
Maybe visionary
Magic is made
Forget the rank and file

More soldiers down
From chasing the dream
Tale is cautionary
The rules won’t hold us
Convention too extreme

Together this way
Steering clear of the old clichés

Moving from dark to light
Low down to heaven
Azure blue filtered through
California sky

Difference is day and night
Our lucky seven
We found a new avenue
Here to pacify

All along the bay
Our shoreline drives
Feel the ocean spray
Entire time we see
Taking heart’s the thing to do
Watch the waves break strong
Cruising along
Pacific Coast Highway

Firebirds lost in flames
Reached the outer limit
Take a ride deep look inside
Nirvana nearby

Wandering no real aims
The surf you skim it
Try to glide rising tide
Fall down or fly

Time and time again
I say I see right through you
Uphill climb you say when
I tell you I’m no fool
Going through this groundhog day
You always saying to me
Stay hound dog stay
Throw me a bone or leave me alone
Girl just go go go
Until tomorrow anyway

Stray cat go back where you been
I’m still searching for that zen within
Ascend transcend
Zen within

Throw your bombs
I’ll find peace and calm
You can scratch
But I quit crawling
Hiss and howl
You won’t hear me growl
Go on and bite but
I’m done brawling

In plain sight your tiger stripes
I’m staying out of that lion’s den

On and on it goes
No way that we can keep up
Almost gone in the throes
Don’t waste those moves on me
Been down that back alley before
Playing hide and seek
No thanks no encore
All on your terms only confirms
I say no no no
Here comes comeuppance any day

Stray cat go back where you been
I’m still searching for that zen within
Ascend transcend
Zen within

Had nine lives
Teeth like carving knives
Met your match
And so you tantrum
Body and soul
I’m just trying to stay whole
My mantra
Now an anthem

You smile I see panther’s teeth
Cagey cougar in her playpen

Hip shot shark
Handcuff artist
I’m skunked I’m marked
From your hustling

You’re just a jewel
With a little cruelty
Playing jelly roll pool
Girl you’re all back spin

A swing of the pendulum
And all of a sudden
Vixen with the one master key

Hellcat quit I’m overcome
When flames start to flood in
This daredevil’s final plea

Like a sky rocket in the corner pocket
You got me baby doll
Right behind the 8 ball
Hot as a smokestack
A pin up throwback that’s all
And I’m up against your stonewall
Catcall
8 ball

I’d say it’s a shame
But I ain’t blaming
I’ve seen your game
All the tricks you got

You rack ‘em up real cute
You’re my tomboy beauty
The way you shoot
I’m Johnny on the spot

Thought I was adventuresome
But a tornado’s coming
You just twist and I’m hypnotized

Eat me alive like you’re chewing gum
I better start running
Quite a punch from one so pint sized

Lost in a dream
On a mountain top
Looking down at the clouds
Then the haze
Made a misty maze
Each sound was
Echoing so loud

Wide awake now things are brutal
A buck shot of reality
Shocked and rocked I know it’s futile
I’m stung and you’re the killer bee

La La La
I don’t know a thing
You’d think I’d learn my lesson
La La La
The misery love brings
Just like some Smith and Wesson
Oh well never can tell
Who’s gets the good luck
You’re at the wheel and I’m stuck under
Your pickup truck
This time you’re the hunter
And I’m just a dead duck

Let off steam
Drink to make it all stop
Liquid fire fills my mind
But it never pays
Just a blinding blaze
Hide and seek
Déjà vu same every time

Light of day and the gap is glaring
Your double barrel pointed right at me
My fantasy keeps tearing
I’m sunk and you’re the stormy sea

Pretty on the outside
But it don’t run deep
Try to scratch the surface
Nothing underneath

I see the diamonds
Just no heart of gold
You might be hot
But you’re still dry ice cold

You think I’m helpless
Under your spell
You’re just some reckless
Good looking beach bombshell

Hey Malibu princess
Can hate the attitude but still dig the view
Of your mean queen’s necklace
Can’t lay off what can I do
Believe me I know you’ll leave me
Breathless

Fully superficial
Every smile is fake
No denying that you’re slinky
Like a poison snake

Go and blow an air kiss
Count me out not me
You’re so full of it
Total apathy

Seen some dark days this house
Once was a haven
It’s pretty plain black and white
You’re the fugitive kind

Animal trapped claws out
Afraid you’ll cave in
Now we’re both undercut
It’s all intertwined

Wild one walk away
Just turn your back and leave it all behind
Setting sun another day
Your freedom’s won and now it’s time
Come with me across this county line

County Line
Strangling you like a creeping vine
County Line
Tangling rose it’s just another sign
County Line
Wrangling with the Ventura county line
County Line

No taming you for long
Everlasting loner
But the lore of these hills
Grapes of wrath hold you back

Native to you to flee
I ain’t your owner
I’m on your side can’t you see
The façade start to crack

Wild one walk away
Kill the ghosts for good let the myth unwind
No dream to chase or hell to pay
Forgotten place ain’t no goldmine
Come with me across this county line

Camouflage keep me secret
Almost invisible
Interior life I lead
Me and myself

Protecting the private sanctum
All that’s my inner world
Fly on the wall I’d climb
Up on the shelf

Smooth slayer
Started losing scales
More layers
Slithering closing in on your zig zag trail

Disguised from inside my snakeskin
Looking so tough but wears thin
Sliding
Hiding
Inside my snakeskin

Strike first seems like it’s built-in
Shedding how hard it’s all been
Wriggling around
Slipping out
Of my old snakeskin

New barrage daily sequel
Can’t say desirable
Inferior thing most times
I just won’t miss

Reflecting with iridescence
Trying to lay as low
Keep crawling along in waves
Over this abyss

Sidewinder
With an iron grip
Pathfinder
Hothead with a tail like a cracking whip

Went all around most every city
Sifting through the stories
Hailed the common ground
Watched unlikely heroes

But town to town show no pity
Drifting territories
Like a witness see it all go down
Next day start back at zero

So difficult to communicate
Sentences impossible to formulate
Hard to put in words
Something as natural as the
Songs of the birds

Nothing more to say for now
Guess I had to get it off my chest
It’s all just me scrawling thoughts
In my notebooks from the west

Documenting dive bar
To mountain crest
I do my level best
In my notebooks from the west

Trace the troubled times we live in
Chronicle the voiceless
Deep down we’re all scarred
Without the past no future

Rise above you can’t give in
See pathways through the pointless
Foreign land my own backyard
Cleve the fact from rumor

So critical to investigate
Halls of history reverberate
With letters pictures paint
The elements our guardian saint

Gotta make sense of it all
Can’t keep me from my quest
It’s all just me sorting out
My notebooks from the west

Celebrating small star
To Eagle’s nest
Nothing close to the vest
In my notebooks from the west

All inscribed from inside for my tribe
In my notebooks from the west
Set to rhyme long hard climb lost in time
In my notebooks from the west

Love always
Starts with the best
Of intentions don’t you know
How it holds up is the test
No predictions now where it goes

Paved in gold with a catch
The silver moon
Look for the bright side
The patch of blue
We’re still sailing to
The blacksmith’s side of
The silver moon

Love often
Ends with the worst
Accusations seen it so
The last thing we need coming first
No confessions while we’re in the throes

Day breaks but sun fades
Time lies
In between railroad ties

Love takes self-mades
Tons of tries
Don’t let it die too soon

Let’s make it 10,000 midnights
It ain’t near enough
Let’s keep following light
Through all the shadows
10,000 midnights
Might be flying blind
But getting it right
Is all that matters now
10,000 midnights

Just what makes our cutting blades
And steel mill skies
Failing to realize

That heartaches are just new shades
We’re heaving sighs but still
Getting wise to things

Let’s make it 10,000 midnights
It don’t sound like much
Let’s keep rising up
Minds in the meadows
10,000 midnights
What we’re looking for
Is made not found
It’s all that we can do
10,000 midnights

Let’s make it 10,000 midnights
Girl that ain’t no bluff
Let’s keep riding high
Above the valleys
10,000 midnights
Can’t be counting on
But ain’t it always
Worth another try
10,000 midnights

I’m not sure I’ve gained the wisdom
Even though I’ve been feeling the strain
These ruins are still my kingdom
Still trying to break the locks and chains

Was it all worth it
Can you say it’s fair
Can’t help or hurt it
I don’t have a prayer anymore

It’s Providence
Against lady luck
There ain’t no defense
It’s about giving in
Without giving up
That’s the way to win
Guess it’s all in the cards
Gotta stop working so hard
To make sense of Providence
No making sense of Providence

It’s not clear what’s next and coming
No time to dwell on the history past
For some triumph just comes running
For me it’s feeling like the die is cast

Tough to call it
Could go any way
Best to bite the bullet
Don’t matter which just pick any door

It’s Providence
Against lady luck
There ain’t no defense
It’s about giving in
Without giving up
That’s the way to win
It’s all there in the cards
Why am I trying so hard
To influence Providence
Can’t influence Providence

Living life like
There’s no tomorrow
I know that ain’t
No way to be
Having fun but
Causing sorrow
Now’s about time I see

One look in your angel eyes oh
And you can bet the devil in me dies

And now I’m hellbent
On making my way back to you
Girl you’re Heaven sent
Putting up with what
I put you through
You know I’m hellbent
Burning white hot and blue

Giving up that ain’t
A thing I’m thinking
Sticking to my story
And to you like glue
I’m signaling
Red lights blinking
My view is all fixed and new

No more of those lies and alibis no
Can’t let you go you know I’ve tried

And now I’m hellbent
On making my way back to you
Girl you’re Heaven sent
Putting up with what
I put you through
You know I’m hellbent
Whatever I need to do

We’re been running
From ourselves it’s true
It’s been tricky
But we’ve been lucky too

And maybe wisdom
Ain’t the only way
Maybe holding on
Is all it takes

We walked through fire
Faced down desire and now
We’re putting it back
Together somehow

No smoke and mirrors
Each night still shimmers
Silver bright
It’s finally feeling alright
Again
The end
Is fading into the distance
Baby just maybe we’re going
The distance

We’ve been changing
All along we know
When doors keep closing
Gotta hit the open road

Look for justice
And you’re just asking for pain
Seems like the secret is learning
To love the rain

We walked through the fire
Faced down desire and now
We’re putting it back
Together somehow

No smoke and mirrors
Each nights still shimmers
Silver bright
It’s finally feeling alright
Again
The end
Is fading into the distance
Baby just maybe we’re going
The distance

Girl we’re going the distance
Comes from knowing the difference

Now how many times did we see signs
To turn back
Sticking it out no doubt
Up ‘til our backbone’s breaking
Hard holding on when hope is gone
Don’t we both know it
Ain’t no escaping
This hunting ground

Come Hell or high water
Let’s keep on pushing through
All the pitfalls and firewalls
Aim for staying around

We’re still standing
Survivors of the longest night
Still standing
When we should be down
We start to fight
Our way through the crowd
Still standing
Still standing proud

Lying here in limbo no fear
Look at us
You’re my rock taking knocks
Just like an earthquake shaking
Tough staying strong
On right from wrong
What we believe in world’s moving
Like a dragging wagon wheel

Devil’s chasing demons
Tell us what else is new
Long odds and lightning rods
Baby it’s a battlefield

Cloudy skies
And drowning dreams
Same forecast
Just like in the past
I’m reeling
Falling free

No disguise
Can’t hide it seems
Hard to sleep
I just keep on
Fighting this feeling
C’mon and answer me

Just what happens
To a hurricane
That’s still blowing hard
But ain’t got nowhere to go
I’m a hurricane
Without a name
Howling fast and low
Oh I’m still a hurricane
Hurricane

Winter’s rising
This storming wind
From day one
Has been haunting the sun
No anchor
To hold me down

Why ask why
Our luck dead ends
Some see saw
It’s the cards that we draw
Check our hand
We’re swirling around

I’ve been waiting for you
Such a long long time
Baby
I thought you’d stay a vision in my mind
Surreal you’re real and I’m dying
Sure feels fine
Sadie
You came out of the clouds and now you’re mine

I was just sitting there stargazing
Searching for meaning in this life
Looking for what’s true
And suddenly finding you
Girl this feeling
Is just like a bent jackknife

I’ve been waiting for you
Such a long long time
Baby
I thought you’d stay a vision in my mind
Surreal you’re real I’m dying
Sure feels fine

You came out of the clouds and now you’re mine

You got me going I’m daydreaming
No notion you too you felt that way
Was chasing the fantasy
Then it caught up to me
It’s all led to this moment
Say you’re my main mainstay

I’ve been waiting for you
Such a long long time
Baby
I thought you’d stay a vision in my mind
Surreal you’re real and I’m dying
Sure feels fine
Sadie
You came out of the clouds and now you’re mine

Surreal you’re real
Sadie baby I can feel you’re real

Surreal you’re real Sadie
Surreal you’re real baby

Shifting ground
And now we’re going one more round
I say we’re drifting too far
From the dream

It’s a cold heart town
You can feel the streets
Pulling you down
All the while
We’re fighting our way upstream

We’re trying to hit the bullseye
But we keep on shooting broken arrows
Having some trouble aiming straight
But we’re gonna find the secret
Ain’t in waiting for a break
Or some new tomorrow
Never too late to start twisting our fate
Shed the deadweight
You know it ain’t no deathblow
Just some broken arrows
Broken arrows
Just some broken arrows

Sifting through
The piles of lies and truths
We see that lifting it up
Is the only way

It’s the things we do
Gotta stand up
And make that move
Go and grab our chances
start seizing the day

Went through some tunnels
And ended up here
Needed some space
And a place I could clear my head
Suddenly everything
Feels alright
At the edge of the earth
Where paradise lights up the night

And I’m so lucky I found you
Now I’m waking up to

A California morning
You’re my state of bliss
California morning
Gold sun and ocean mist

Go follow the coastline
There’s no getting lost
I’m finding my way
With no map saying where to go
Finally freedom
And it sure feels alright
At the edge of the earth
Where paradise lights up the night

It’s a blessing what you do
And I’m dreaming of you

California morning
You’re my state of grace
California morning
I finally found my place

And I’m so lucky I found you
Now I’m waking up to

A California morning
Not just a state of mind
California morning
Come seek and you will find

Putting the time in
Building up from the beginning
No guarantee you win
Might all slip away

On a dime then
You’re losing all it’s been
I ain’t some pretender
All I said is are you gonna stay

Then suddenly
It was the end of April
It’s as if time could fly
Wasn’t up to me
It was the end of April
All she said was goodbye
I tried
No ties
Goodbye goodbye

I was hoping it works out
Even though we both had our doubts
Still wondering what it’s about
No I never could read minds

Watching this flame out
No reason to rave and shout
Circling roundabout
Must’ve been blind not to see the signs

Lost in the universe
Can’t find my way
What’s going on
All over today

What they’re calling progress
Nobody can agree
Someone from somewhere in time
Come and save me

Now which way is up
This is getting me down
I’m fighting the driest desert
But I feel like I could drown
Well I can’t even stand
To look at the news
Welcome to the 21st Century
21st Century Blues

Found a few answers
From digging down deep
Feeling wide awake
While the world is fast asleep

Moving slow and foggy
The struggle to be free
We listen but are we hearing
Can we be believing what we see

Now this way is so tough
All this grinding on the ground
Do we rocket to another planet
Race to break the speed of sound
We’re living in an age
We don’t get to choose
Welcome to the 21st Century
21st Century Blues

Now and then
I sink just thinking back on when
We first were falling oh
How it mends or ends
It’s all way up in the air

And while I
Could try
To see all things the way you do
Plain truth is
We’ll always be two

But the one
Rising sun
The thing that’s bright the brilliant
Ray of hope here
It’s still me and you

Signs we send
Little lies we try and then defend
Our conscience calling
Mistakes no saints no sin
It’s all in the getting there

And while I
Could try
To see all things the way you do
Plain truth is
We’ll always be two

But the one
Rising sun
The thing that’s bright the brilliant
Ray of hope here
It’s still me and you

High up
In the sky you’ll see
Triumph
Melting down mercury
Hold on
To the dream we’ll be
Golden
And not just in memory

Ray of hope here
You’re my Rising Sun
Ray of hope here
You’re the Rising Sun

What a lovely day
I heard the lady say
Just not for us

Skies are turning gray
And it’s looking like they might hold sway
We’ve blown away our trust

And so we’re sitting here
Another path to clear
Keep climbing it’s all that we can do
When we’re seeking truth

Now there’s no shame in working at it
And there’s no time like now
I never claimed ain’t nothing to it
We’ll get through this somehow
Love is rising
Just keep your eyes on the horizon line
Horizon line

What a perfect world
When we’re on girl
Sunshine on us

But when we take a dive and swirl
We’re only gonna lose that pearl
Then our fortunes go bust

Might be fitting here
To say it ain’t what it appears
Let’s keep trying it’s all that we can do
The one thing that’s ringing true

The more I wonder the less I know
Trying to get closer just gets me drifting far away
The spell I’m under bubbles up from below
Guess finding peace ain’t the same
As finding the way back home

When I saw you standing there
It all came flooding back
Inside I tried my best not to stare
But in a flash I’m pulled like that

You’re like a magnet
You draw me in
Then like a bandit you make me spin
You’re like a magnet
You would do me in
But I can withstand it
Again n’ again n’ again n’ again
Again n’ again
No I’ll never say when
Keep it coming again n’ again

The score will never be even up
Dying to get traction just sets me slipping far behind
Struck like thunder so I fumble all the words
Winding roads is all I can find
But winding it up would be so much worse

When I saw you standing there
I knew I was on the hook
Inside I sighed but then I caught my breath
You were reading me just like a book

So shut down the both of us
We can’t help going round and round
When once is enough

Run in place or walk away
We can’t keep going on and on
Gotta make the change today
For tomorrow

It’s time we’d best be gettin’ along
Leave the place in the state we found it
Now it’s an open road we’re heading down
Let’s start the march stop messing round
Good to be moving on
Best be gettin’ along
The long long road
Gettin’ along

Too much talk just ain’t a plus
Always at it head-to-head
‘til the rapids get rough

We’re playing games nobody wins
I hope you’re on the up and up
No better way to begin
Our tomorrow

It’s time we’d best be getting along
Leave the place in the state we found it
Now it’s an open road we’re heading down
Let’s start the march stop messing round
Good to be moving on
Best be gettin’ along
The long long road
Gettin’ along

We see the signs let’s read them
But baby let’s not beat them
Like chains ‘til we’re bound
The freedom comes from knowing
Whatever fate’s got going
Our feet are on the ground

Guess today I’ll hit the road
Even though I can’t see too far
Carrying hurt and my heavy load
Trust me ain’t just me that’s battle scarred

Secret tales etched in inked in pictures
Making me another also ran
Believe me there ain’t no victor
Don’t know of no master plan

What’s coming into view
Is a soul that’s lost without you

Comes a time in a dark horse life
Take the fall or make a stand
My pen is my sword I wield like a knife
To mark my bloodline in the sand
But mine ain’t some headline story
Forgetting the pride and the glory
I’m doing the best I can
Just another illustrated man
Illustrated man

Guess tonight I’ll hit the hay
In a place I ain’t never been
Might meet some people it’s hard to say
Oh Lord I’m floored and here we go again

Could go alright I wouldn’t want to wager
If there’s a single thing I’ve learned
Don’t never bet against human nature
Surefire way to get burned

But it’s a blessing not a curse
In my heart I put you first

When we were young
We couldn’t see
All of this
Misery made up
Straight up
We’ve been fooling ourselves

So if we can
Why wouldn’t we
Keep hold of this
History we see some good
Seems like we should just
Learn to be thankful

Come escape into the past and see
We were tied but still breakin’ free
Come escape to the past with me
Breakin’ free

When I think back
What it used to be
Every kiss
Poetry made up
Paid up
We want a clean slate again

So if we stand
Stand proud and be
The best we were
Seriously we’ve seen some bad
Seems like we should just
Learn to be thankful

Been around as much as the next guy
No more no less
Then she came from out of the blue
Haunting me from stage left

Now who knows what’s coming
Of course I don’t need to wait and see
You wanna know what’s coming
Just ask me

Forever Amber
Wanna shout it out to the world
Whatever happens
No matter what might unfurl
Forever Amber
Well she’ll always be my girl

Been around as long as the dusty hills
Bit more or less
Stumbled across her along my travels
And my heart at the moment ain’t nothin’ left

Put on blinders
Shut out old reminders
But that act
Ain’t helping us at all

Face our nature
Girl we better make sure
Where we’re headed
Ain’t the final fall

We oughta know
By now it’s how it always goes
Seein’ the show
Ramp up again well why pretend
We’re at a crossroad
Could be our last episode
Might not be going far
‘til we start seein’ things
Really seein’ things
For what they are

When we wander
No way we stronger
We’re just banging our heads
Against the wall

Gotta face our future
Learn some new maneuvers
Catch our love
Before the curtain call

Started with a spark
Then built up to a blaze
Now we’re blocking sun and on the run
Trying to make sense of this maze

Some dreams seem like they’re up in smoke
And others are doing fine
Which way will we turn our gaze
Towards the devil or divine

To be close
Is the key we know
The very most
We could ask for

Fire n’ ash
Two sides of the same branch
Bound to clash
But are we done
Or has a new leaf just begun
Is there still a chance or just destruction
For a while goes well then some detour to Hell
Comes in waves and flashes
We started a fire now we’re left with ashes
Fire n’ ash

I know I did my part
Let the heat drop and watched us fade
Got caught up in all the tangling
Lost the poetry we made

Back and forth on destiny’s wheel
Baby where will we land
We’re getting whipped by a howling wind
It’s all slipping away like sand

Why are we drifting so off course
Ranging from fury to remorse
Dancing around answers then not paying attention
How it all ties in we’re rising to redemption

Soaring through the skies
Just watching how the crow flies
Shortest path between two points of view
The more we hear his cries
The more we feel we need to keep on trying
Hey baby word to the wise
Let’s take it as the crow flies

How do we get this back in on track
Seeing the light cracking through the black
Thinking we’re sinking in our own creation
Girl this ain’t playing we’re praying for salvation

Soaring through the skies
Just watching how the crow flies
Shortest path between two points of view
The more we hear his cries
The more we feel we need to keep on trying
Hey baby word to the wise
Let’s take it as the crow flies

Watch the crow always knows where he’s going
But how can we find our way
Seems like there’s always something
That’s leading us astray
We’ve been looking for a road map
When our guide’s up in the air
Let’s just get right to it
Trade hope for our despair

Call it smoke of dreams
Or fog of love
Truth is we’re not up in the clouds
Like we were dreaming of

Sure some of it’s a blur
But you’re still the one thing
Gets my soul to stir
But now we’re both needing space
A little time anyway
You can feel it I’m sure

We’re living in a house of strangers
And now we’re strangers for the second time
It ain’t safe when a kiss can mean danger
Now maybe it’s the wine
But baby here’s the line
It’s a house of strangers
House of strangers

Wall it off from pain
It’s a tug of war
Truth is it’s not just that we’re fighting
We forgot what we were fighting for

Well maybe it’s the end
We’re gonna break in two unless we learn to bend
The finish line is up ahead
A few kind words just to say
Instead of making trouble
Let’s make amends

For the first time in a long time I feel alive
Not thrown or thunderstruck
Sun’s out and I’m unstuck
Life’s new and I’m getting to it
For the first time in a long long time

Life’s been flying by
But the light’s not right it’s dimming
Struggling all the time
With just the part that’s living

What can we do to keep it all going
Move it along not go and throwing
It all away

For the first time in a long time I feel alive
Not thrown or thunderstruck
Sun’s out and I’m unstuck
Life’s new and I’m getting through it
For the first time in a long long time

Ever wonder why we think
We’re due the few things we’re missing
Always wrestling with the world
But that don’t make destiny listen

So what can we try to keep the good showing
Have the inside out and both knowing
Love is the way

Never saw it coming
What a beautiful surprise
Through the shadows I could see
Moon in her hair fire in her eyes

Another golden day
Is coming to a close
Under sapphire skies
My silver star she glows

Feels like I’ve seen it all
Then I look at her and now
A sleepless night
I leave the earth like a bird in endless flight
She’s quite the sight
Dawn in twilight

Never heard a saying
That captured her majesty
The way she moves every turn and twirl
The girl she sure moves me

Never want to leave
Ain’t no bad side
Call me blind and crazy
But in her I will confide

Digging through the rubble
And replaying games again
Borrowing back the trouble
Ain’t the way I recommend

We get back inspiration
Rearview mirror is known to lie
Let’s wait for some new station
Down the road is where we should shine our lights

Yesterday is gone forever
And today may be good or bad
But we know we can’t be living in the past
Look ahead instead and tell me
What you think the secret is to make it last
Maybe right now we’re seeing red
But baby let’s not be misled
Let’s keep lookin’ up ahead
Things are lookin’ up ahead
Lookin’ up

Going back to old days
Won’t change a single thing
Heading straight for old ways
And all the sorrow that it brings

It’s all our own creation
We got a line we must defend
Let’s wait and be real patient
Let’s get it out and then let it all sink in

Yesterday is gone forever
And today may be good or bad
But we know we can’t be living in the past
Look ahead instead and tell me
What you think the secret is to make it last
Right now we’re seeing red
But baby let’s not be misled
Let’s keep lookin’ up ahead
Things are lookin’ up ahead
Lookin’ up

We might have it right right in front of us
Might have lost sight but if we love enough
Might be right in front of us

Tell me somethin’ baby
Tell me somethin’ I wanna hear
Doing nothing maybe
Now that’s somethin’
We wanna steer clear of

It’s all good baby
Ain’t no big decisions
I’m just sitting here looking and wishing
You nothing but love
Don’t gotta be the one thing
But baby please tell me somethin’
Nothing ain’t enough
Tell me somethin’

We’re not the same no one is to blame
Ain’t just a game the pain we’re in
Must be the moon I hope it’s ending soon
It’s just a tune a battle cry we’re singing

Tell me somethin’ baby
Tell me somethin’ I wanna hear
Doing nothing maybe
Now that’s somethin’
We wanna steer clear of

It’s all wrong baby
Some real bad conditions
I’m just sitting here looking and fishing
Don’t gotta be the main thing
But baby please tell somethin’

We’re off the rail we’ve lost the trail
Are we gonna bail or just hang in
Must be the time ready to redefine
Who knows what we’ll find
Once we stop dragging

It’s in my dreams
Out of a mysterious past
Images
I can’t help but see betrayal

I can’t run
Time to take off all of the masks
There’s nowhere to hide
Confrontation is the only way

I’ll chase down all the lingering ghosts this time
Gotta keep them in line
Now I’m willing to start rebuilding

Stone by stone
I’m taking my time
Reading all the signs
It’s a long road home
Checking every winding path
Every twisted vine
Stone by stone
Clearing a way making peace
With just what I’ve reaped and
What I’ve sown
Stone by stone

It’s in your eyes
Into a swirling world I see
Images
You can’t keep from me you’re drowning
Baby I’ve been there
And I’ve got the key to set us both free
Let’s reach deep inside
Every thorn we’ll wear proud like a crown

No pointing fingers
Better pay the fine
It’s our burden but it ain’t no crime
Lord willing let’s start rebuilding

I only see what I see
I only know from what you’re telling me
You only do what you wanna do
What’s the latest story your selling me

I can’t follow you where you’re going
Who can say where you been

There’s no keeping watch I promise you that
Who’s keeping score anymore
The past is the past
To live is to forgive
Life goes by
Faster than fast
Sand is slipping
Through the hourglass

We only think we have control
We don’t only know what we learn in school
I only hope we get it right
It ain’t from blindly sticking to the rules

Don’t follow me no sense of direction
Who can say where’s where it ends
No keeping watch I promise you that
Who’s keeping score anymore
The past is the past
To live is to forgive
Life goes by
Faster than fast
Sand is slipping
Through the hourglass

What happened then no fatal flaw
There’s still a chance I’m still in awe
Of way back when
What went down
Was way back then
Way back then

Hey robin sing your song
And one more thing
How did it come to you
Anyway I hear your call
I guess you too are only passing through

Now fly just as high in the sky as you can
By the time you reach night
You just might need a hand

No river is too wide to cross
No mountain too high to scale
If you ever need a friend
I’ll never falter never fail
I’m here for you I’m there
Anytime anyplace just say when and where
Hit me up you’ll see
You can count on me

Hey baby bring me along
And one more thing
How do we keep it true
It was only in September
We were doing good now we’re just making do

Try as we might it’s fight or flight that’s our way
At the darkest edge of night
In our sights
A brand new day

Triumphs and flame-outs
Good times and bad
Headlocks and heartaches
What a ride we’ve had
Let’s get perspective
It’s a big world out there
It’s all connected
Ain’t going nowhere

We’re all hoping for justice
Looking for the next break
Just how important us is
It’s the only big mistake
We can make

Come fly over the moon with me
Come lie under the stars and you’ll be
Amazed to face this grace set free
Look how small we all are
In this endless sea
Endlessly

Late nights and burn-outs
Tried to find the way
Head-on and carrying on
Thinking come what may

But love is collective
The work is never done
It can’t be perfected
But it can be undone

We’re all hoping for justice
Looking for the next break
How important us is
The only big mistake
We can make

Come fly over the moon with me
Come lie under the stars and you’ll be
Amazed to face this grace set free
Look how small we all are
In this endless sea
Endlessly

Ain’t a question of what we take
But what we’re giving
Gotta make our peace with this world
This world we live in

Where do we find the courage
How do we come up with a plan
We ain’t the first and we ain’t the worst
We’re just like every woman and every man

Why do we play
What we know is a losing game
I’m just thinking of
Life and love
They’re both the same

Don’t wait a minute come at it
There’s no hiding out
Or going half the way
You know you’re in it come at it
Gotta give all we got to give
That’s all I wanna say
Don’t waste a minute come at it
Today

Where do we look for answers
How do we live up to a dream
We ain’t the only that are lost and lonely
So tell me what does it all mean

Why do we stay
When we know a better way
I’m just thinking of
Life and love
They’re both the same

Don’t wait a minute come at it
There’s no hiding out
Or going half the way
You know that you’re in it come at it
Gotta give all we got to give
That’s all I wanna say
Don’t waste a minute come at it
Today

Don’t wait a minute come at it
There’s no hiding out
Or going half the way
You know that you’re in it come at it
Gotta give all we got to give
That’s all I wanna say
Don’t wait a minute come at it
Face the world and feel the pain
Don’t waste a minute come at it
Today

Being so close can cloud the view
And girl we’ve been so blind
Don’t know what we were thinking
What we thought we’d find

Why do we go and turn our world
Inside out and upside down
Just crash and burn the past
When it’s gold we found

We’ve seen it before
Still the hunt for love goes on
How do we make it stronger
Before it’s up and gone

We’ve been searching everywhere
Under the sun
Couldn’t see that we
Might be our own salvation
We had all the answers all along
Thought our luck ran dry
But you and I guessed wrong

We’re all looking looking for the one
That’s Heaven on earth the one
Under the sun
We’ve come too far to give up now
The future’s ours to take
Find a new way of thinking
Playing it smart for old times sake

I know we can save it girl
If we could come around
To the fact that a big comeback
Means driving it home not in the ground

We’ve seen it before
Still the hunt for love goes on
How do we make it stronger
Before it’s up and gone

We’ve been searching everywhere
Under the sun
Couldn’t see that we
Might be our own salvation
We had all the answers all along
Thought our luck ran dry
but you and I guessed wrong

No more looking looking for the one
You’re heaven on earth the one
Under the sun

Started with a heart the size of Texas
Got beat down along the way
Been feeling like I’m under it
On the other side and over it
That is until today

It all weighs on you
Ain’t that so true

In my dreams
I’m back in Abilene
Back before life got so complicated
And you’re there with me
We’re back in Abilene
Asking why we waited so crazy long
To follow the path
That will lead us home
Back to Abilene

Wanted to forget the way the world is
Just hide inside your arms
Follow bliss straight back to this
All we need is all we miss
Where we can be safe from harm

It all weighs on you
Ain’t that so true

If we drive all night
We’re back in Abilene
I for one will sure appreciate it
And you‘ll be there with me
Back in Abilene
Asking why we waited so crazy long
To follow the path
That will lead us home
This road we’ve always known
The yearning has grown
Let’s get back
Back to Abilene

I know by heart
The beacon that leads me home
In the back of my mind
I guess I’ve always known

All roads lead straight to
Heading back to you
Somewhere out there
I’m thinking of you
Hope you’re thinking it too

Leave a light on
Don’t think of me as gone
Was out all night well alright
But I’ll be back before dawn
Baby leave a light on
Leave a light on

I know by now
Ain’t worth it to always roam
In the back of my car
Some nights that’s been my home
All thoughts lead straight to
You and all you do
Out there somewhere
I’m hoping that you
Have forgiven me too

Leave a light on
Don’t think of me as gone
Was out all night well alright
But that don’t make me all wrong
Baby leave a light on
Leave a light on

Leave a light on
Don’t think of me as gone
A candle burning bright what a beautiful sight
Told you I’d be back before long
Always leave a light on
Leave a light on

Where do we stand
And how do we get by
How much can we withstand
We still have to keep on trying anyway
Rewrite our history every day

Now we’re rolling the dice
And we just might see what fortune brings
That’s the way with this life
Suffice it to say just like all things
It’s mostly out of our hands
And sometimes we don’t understand
We’ll take our chances we’ll find paradise
Keep on rolling the dice

There’s the big rub
I can’t win in the end
Everything we love
We still have to lose and make amends any way
And remake the mystery every day

Now we’re rolling the dice
And we just might see what fortune brings
That’s the way with this life
Suffice it to say just like all things
It’s mostly out of our hands
And sometimes we don’t understand
We’ll take our chances we’ll find paradise
Keep on rolling the dice

It’s mostly out of our hands
And sometimes we can’t understand
We’ll take our chances we’ll find paradise
Rollin’ the dice

We might just find
You get what you give

We’re rolling the dice
Think twice
Take flight
Just one shot to live

Keep on rolling the dice

I could tell when I met you
One thing was true
That I could never forget you
I was struck
And we were stuck like glue

From first light through every trial
We picked up speed
Then we started to pile up the miles
Unleashed a stampede

On that desert drive
When we came together
Just two hearts melting in the sun
It’s been years
And we’re still counting
We know it’s hard
But we know that we ain’t through
Let’s take that desert drive again just me and you

We could live like we want to
Make our own mistakes
Each knew the other would come through
Take the time
Read the signs and renew

At first sight it started to glow
We stoked that fire
No second guessing off to the show
Full of desire

On that desert drive
When we came together
Just two hearts melting in the sun
It’s been years
And we’re still counting
We know it’s hard
But we know that we ain’t through
Let’s take that desert drive again just me and you

Our first night open and bright
Made us feel so alive
We’ve lost sight let’s make it right
C’mon let’s go for a ride

Take that desert drive
And come back together
Spark two hearts melting in the sun
It’s been years
And we’re still counting
We know it’s hard
But we know that we ain’t through
Let’s take that desert drive again just me and you
Just me and you

In calm or in tempest
In the glare of noon
Or black of night
You are my temptress
Could lead me to doom
Or my highest height

Just out of curiosity
What am I to you
You’re everything to me

Will it be sun or shadows
Living free or bound
Just can’t walk away
From the battleground
Think I’ll stick around
Check it out
Stick around

In storm or in stillness
Any color you choose
You still shine through
There’s always that brilliance
I would hate to lose
What keeps me loving you

Don’t need no high velocity
Let’s take it slow
Seize the moment and we will see

Will it be sun or shadows
Living free or bound
Just can’t walk away
From the battleground
Think I’ll stick around
Check it out
Stick around

Wanna stick around to see
How it might work out with you and me
Nothing could have kept me from it
All we want
We won it

Back and forth with these battles
Swim across or drown
We gotta get this love
On solid ground
Think I’ll stick around
Check it out
Stick around

It’s been such a long while
And I’m really alright with that
Things can’t always go your way I know
And though it’s so that opposites attract

Sometimes the tangling is just too much
And we lose our grip and sense of touch
But you’re still stuck with me
At least in my fantasies

No day goes by
That I don’t think of you
I wish time would fly like it used to oh
No matter how hard I try
Makes no difference what I do
No day goes by I don’t think of you

No day goes by
No day goes by

I’m seeing your sweet smile
And really so much more than that
If lady luck could come my way you’d see
I’d be back in the ring and baby that’s a fact

Sometimes the hoping just ain’t enough
We lose our way when the breaks get tough
The way it is with me
It’s pretty plain to see

No day goes by
That I don’t think of you
I wish time would fly like it used to oh
No matter how hard I try
Makes no difference what I do
No day goes by I don’t think of you

No day goes by

Your shadow I can’t seem to shake
And in my dreams we’re lost in love
Makes me wanna break right through that wall
You’re still all I ever wanted
All I’m dreaming of

No day goes by
That I don’t think of you
I wish time would fly like it used to oh
No matter how hard I try
Makes no difference what I do
No day goes by
No day goes by
No day goes by I don’t think of you

No day goes by
No day goes by
No day goes by

Everything in life is timing
And everything in love needs to feel real
Can’t fake your way into Heaven
And love just ain’t something
A lonely heart can steal

It’s gotta be given to you
And if you want you can give it back

Love times two
Helps when devotion is returned
One day it’s ringing so true
Then that night you might get burned
Be careful who
You’re giving it to
Loves times two
Love ties two

What if all the strife was silver lining
And we’re all born to push and pull through
We know it can go from good to wicked
But love sure is something
Has the power to renew

It can be the greatest thing
Let’s keep trying til we get the knack

Love times two
Helps when devotion is returned
Just when dreams are coming true
Then like a spike you’re getting spurned
Now careful who
You’re giving it to
Loves times two
Love ties two
Loves times two

If you’re anywhere
Anywhere at all
Or maybe not and now you’ve got
Your back against the wall

We all still know
Can’t make it through alone
Just think what we owe
To all the unknown
Gone but not forgotten

It’s all built on the shoulders of brothers
And friends we never met
And now getting older it’s getting easier
To deny it or just plain forget
Without the power of mothers
It ends and we all know that
Just keep on looking back with no regret
And in your heart start paying back the greatest debt
Gone but not forgotten
Not forgotten

Here’s to the pioneers
Who got us here today
Gotta be grateful for those who came before
The ones who paved the way

Their words still echo
Most deeds would make you proud
Their voice is so silent
So I’ll say it out loud
Gone but not forgotten

It’s all built on the shoulders of brothers
And friends we never met
And now getting older it’s getting easier
To deny it or just plain forget
Without the power of mothers
It ends and we all know that
Just keep on looking back with no regret
And in your heart start paying back the greatest debt
Gone but not forgotten
Not forgotten

Just wondering why
It needs to be tonight
You know it’s nothing new
It’s just what we do

But I keep holding on
Won’t be too long
Until we find our way again
Our feet of clay will catch some wind

Oh if we could fly and be seeing down over it
We’ll ride through the skies surveying everything
We’d realize that the size well it just don’t fit
Our kind of trouble is just the littlest bit
And we gotta get over it
We’re chasing shooting stars
Shooting stars

It starts when we see
Ain’t all about you and me
You know it’s nothing bad
The heartaches we’ve had

So keep holding tight
Gotta get this part right
We’ll find our way to land
Get our feet of clay out of quicksand

Oh if we could fly and be seeing down over it
We’ll ride through the skies surveying everything
We’d realize that the size well it just don’t fit
Our kind of trouble is just the littlest bit
And we gotta get over it
We’re chasing shooting stars
Shooting stars

In the winter
Guess things tend to look their bleakest
That was in our weakest moment
We went and broke it
In two

Just a trial so we’d see
If we could be apart

Sometimes it might feel one-sided
But love’s better when we’re undivided
Undivided
Reunited being split we tried it
Baby it feels like it’s been decided
Undivided
Undivided

Just a splinter
Starts us off and now the latest
It’s true not our greatest moment
But we better own it
Us two

In denial so we’d hide
Too much pride inside we know

We’ll never be satisfied if
We can’t go back to being undivided
Undivided
Might have been more than a bit misguided
I don’t see how we can fight it
Undivided
Undivided

Takes faith to wait and not to run
Let’s make believe that we’ve just begun
Reset and forget and once again we can be as one

Every story has got two sides and
As long as love can stay undivided
Undivided
If it’s flagging we got to revive it
Baby please tell me you’ve decided
Undivided

Sometimes it might feel one-sided
But love’s better when we’re undivided
Undivided
Reunited being split we tried it
Tell me you’ve decided
Undivided
Undivided

Why do we trip ourselves
I can hear warning bells
Looking through a different lens
Try to remember when
It was more blissful than it’s been
Baby I’m asking you

What can the eyes see
That the heart can’t see better
Gotta cut through the fog of love
All that’s obscured by storming weather
You make it all alright
You’re my daylight

How can we change the atmosphere
Now to a place that’s clear
Something’s in the air
We’re flying blind beware
Love is great but it ain’t fair
Baby it’s nothing new

What can the eyes see
That the heart can’t see better
Gotta cut through the fog of love
Hanging on to keep it together
You’re holding back the night
You’re my daylight

You took me to your dark side
And I was looking for a safer place to hide
Once we found each other we could not part
And we could not be stopped once it started

Still
Nothin’ could ever make me stop loving you
The world turns but nothing
Could make turn away from you

You thought I might shine a light
Showing us both a way to finally get it right
Create the space we need to take another chance
It’s hard to hold the reigns while we’re in this trance

No
Nothin’ could ever make me stop loving you
The world turns but nothing
Could make turn away from you

With the wind
We will blow
With more time to see
Baby we will know
If it comes from the ground
It will grow

By the sea
We were one
By the look in your eyes
Heaven had begun
A blinding light
Like the sun

And when this world
Knocks you down
You need somebody
To be around
When the waves
Crash all around
You get lost
Then you get found

With the wind
With the wind

One season
Was not enough with you
You’re the one reason
I come alive
Now what do we do
So hard
The times that we fell
So far
From Heaven to Hell

A new season
Lets you see what is true
The real reason
I came by
Is I came for you
So hard
The times that we fell
So far
From Heaven we know well

Our love is
For the ages
We’ll write
All new pages

Free doves
Open cages
Baby our love is
For the ages
We’ll write new pages

I’ve been sinking lately
Started thinking maybe
This one won’t be flying

You’ve been drifting from me
We’re all missing something
We can just keep trying

To breathe again
Push back the end

We’re all waitin’ waitin’ or the rain
We’re all wanting pretty much the same thing
Our own wings
Our own wings

Where your love keeps going
There’s no way of knowing
Can’t catch horses running

Living in this desert
What’s it all gonna be worth
Hope the flood is coming

Around the bend
Begin and never end

Every time I try
Understanding why
It don’t make no sense
I can’t make a dent

But it don’t matter anymore
With you in my life there’s an open door

And now I’m steppin’ through
Straight on into
Your sanctuary
So real
So true
And I’m steppin’ through
To you

No more time to cry
We’re down to do or die
I finally see the light
I was wrong and you were right

But that don’t matter anymore
With you in my life there’s an open door

If we gotta face the music
Then baby let’s do it
Worst thing in this life
Is sleeping through it
We’re waking up from a dream
Coming down from the clouds
And just like lightning
We’re losing steam

Here we go again
Down the hall of flames
Can’t see what’s in front of us
Through the rings of smoke
We can’t find the way
But just think of what we’d be throwing
We know we got a good thing going
Going down the drain
Down the hall of flames

Do we wanna keep it going
‘cause this might be chronic
Best thing in this life
Is sleeping on it
We’re breaking up all the time
Then coming back for still more
It’s getting frightening
Love can lead to war

Here we go again
Down the hall of flames
Can’t see what’s in front of us
Through the rings of smoke
We can’t find the way
But just think of what we’d be throwing
We know we got a good thing going
Going down the drain
Down the hall of flames

Who can put the fire out
Guess that’s what this is all about
When will our hall of flames
Be quenched by the falling rain

Trying to reach the top
Can’t imagine second best
Why don’t we ever stop
Struggling to beat the rest

‘Cause we’ve lost it all
Our sense of place
Now we have to heed the call
It’s time we face

Love with humility
And more than a bit of gratitude
Gratitude
There ain’t no guarantees
We need a wait and see attitude
Gratitude

What‘s the giant rush
Climbing mountains needs to wait
What’s been wrong with us
Let’s create a different fate

‘Cause we’ve lost it all
If we’ve lost grace
Baby we’re bound to fall
It ain’t no race

And love ain’t no fantasy
A ton of hard work you’ll see all attitude
Gratitude
There ain’t no guarantees
We gotta give it up gratitude
Gratitude
Face love with humility
And more than a bit of gratitude
Gratitude
There ain’t no guarantees
We need a wait and see attitude
Gratitude

I’m bringing my pen to paper
It must finally be that time
Better soon than later
Just gotta get it off my mind

It’s not just for me it’s for you too
Baby look into these eyes
You gotta trust I know it’s long overdue
But you gotta realize

I’m looking inside and though
I’ve tried to do good
Still hurt some people that I love along my way
Gotta make it up and then make it right
It’s understood
True confessions
I learned my lessons
I gotta say
I gotta say
Gotta say

I’m singing my friend I’m braver
It’s a little easier in rhyme
You’ve been a real life saver
And I’m so lucky that you’re mine
It’s not just for show I’ll do it too
Though it’s been a thousand tries
Now I’m ready to really be with you
And I’ll take off my disguise

I’m looking inside and though
I tried to spread love
I let down some people that
I need to light my way
Don’t let’s break it up
‘cause when breaks go right
Then that’s enough
With this letter
I promise better
I gotta say
I gotta say
Gotta say

I’m liking the way you let me
Be what I needed to be
I gotta say
I just gotta make it to
And then try to make it
Through another day
Another day
What I’m asking is
For forgiveness
Baby lead the way

Serve the purpose
Toe the line
Sometimes I sit and wonder
When’s gonna be our time
All the traveling
Nights of fear
One thing I keep on pondering
How’d we wind up here again

Always chasing dollars
And letting love life go
Trying to keep in touch with kids
And being brother’s keeper
Oh I know all that I owe
But it’s hard enough
Just paying for that truck
Tomorrow is borrowed and today is all used up
I said
Tomorrow is borrowed and today is all used up

All day I’ve been working
Dead tired when it’s dark
Feeling every morning
So fallen down and stark
Gotta get off this road
Lord knows I’ve had my fill
We need a place we can call home
Wanna hear the whip-poor-will again

One thing’s sure
Life’s a one way trip
Just what you prefer
Ain’t always what you get

Baby nature wins
And the clock don’t stop
Once it begins
Gotta look alive have the right mindset

Dwelling on the past
It’s just gonna get you nowhere fast

If only we could go back knowing all that we know now
If only we could change up drifting love save it somehow
But the truth is
Can’t do none of that
Fate can be ruthless
Those forks in the road you don’t get them back
Choose wisely
Don’t worry what might be
Don’t be thinking
If only

Two steps more
Takes you to the edge
Better think twice before
You start stumbling down the path

Baby destiny
It’s never up to you
As you search constantly
For what surely must be greener grass

Now maybe moving on
Is the very thing that’s keeping us strong

If only we could go back knowing all that we know now
If only we could change up drifting love save it somehow
But the truth is
Can’t do none of that
Fate can be ruthless
Those forks in the road you don’t get them back
Choose wisely
Don’t worry what might be
Don’t be thinking
If only

Would’a could’a should’a done it different
Ain’t gonna help at all
Don’t be dreaming of other ways n’ better days
Otherwise we’re gonna fall

We been trying to get wiser
While time keeps marching on
Thought the way was all-in
Never settle for small wins
We were getting burned
Until we learned the truth

We were buying into legends
Believing all the hype
But now we know how to lay-off
Found the secret that pays off
You and me we’re the living proof

Let it go by you might find that you hold the key
To set yourself free
Let it go by all the things you won’t miss you’ll see
You will be
Kissed by bliss and you’ll know why
You let it go by
Let it go by

Maybe crying out for justice
Can’t set the world straight
You just set up a showdown
Better look for the lowdown
Fight the fight alone
On your own ain’t enough

When you’re dying to make it your way
You know it takes a toll
So we’re starting to drop back
Letting loose all the slack
Breathing deep when times get tough