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Crescent City
what’s happening Crescent city? / I can’t figure outno explanations / no apologies / just levies crashing down / tell me who can afford, uptown or 9th ward, to be treated like animals? / not much to do / not much I can say, when I watch it all from 45 minutes away / what’s happening crescent city? / named for the river bend / your spanish streets and your jackson square / you were a city to defend / so tell me who can support the one’s who’ve ignored every grain of your history / not much to do / not much I can say when I’m staring through the glow of my tv screen / what’s happening? / I’ll stand up, raise my hand up, ask the questions that won’t let me sleep / no longer can I turn a blind eye, while silent tears fall / I say what we need, what we need is a change / It cannot stay the same / stand up / raise my hand up / ask the questions / what’s happening Crescent city?
This side alone
I don’t want to burn any bridges with you or stay on this side alone / I will settle for the way you drive me crazy and the mysteries of you I’ll never solve / come into my arms one more time and one more time I’ll hold you close maybe we can find solid ground instead of sliding down that slippery slope / they say time is the only perfect indication to know what you got is love / for years i’ve been sleeping on a graveyard of clocks till this morning something woke me up / ticking tock they never stop, shake the ground underneath my feat / open eyes i can’t deny that you are what i need / love, I know we could go our separate ways / find someone to fill an empty space / but what can replace this love? / I’m awake and I have lost the fight / you’ve invaded all my days and nights / I’ve got heart but no home, on this side alone
Leave Hollywood
hollywood has got me sick again / I swear to god I’m never going back / I’m blinded by the smoke / I’m bleeding from the mirrors / my crime is that I don’t know how to act / excuse me if I trade ecstasy for prose / I know it kills the buzz, I’m left alone cause you can’t snort it up your nose / I’m going to wave my white flag / this place is no good / I know you’re searching for a remedy / here it is: leave hollywood / I know you had dreams / you had something that shined and kept you moving but now your stuck / you’re relating with support groups and nothing is changing / come home / come home / you know we’re waiting / go on and wave your white flag, this place is no good / you can do better from a distance / pack your bag baby / leave hollywood / now your stuck / you’re relating with support groups and nothing is changing / come home / come home / you know we’re waiting
Let me sleep
I wake to find the sunlight fighting morning blinds again and the shadows on the wall retreating / like any morning I’m debating with my bed: do I rise or do I lie a little longer? / the phone rings and shatters my sweet dreams / let me sleep / let me sleep / let me sleep / I only ask you return a moments peace / let me sleep / let me sleep / let me sleep / behind closed eyes forgetting time I skip across the world / parting the stars with my hands and robbing the sea of every pearl / I know you could say I’m hiding / well, I’m hiding from what’s coming / don’t you know it’s a mad world waiting outside my door? / the phone rings and shatters my sweet dreams / let me sleep / let me sleep / let me sleep / I only ask you return a moments peace let me sleep / let me sleep / let me sleep / before the daylight comes tearing me away / let me sleep / let me sleep / let me sleep / I only ask you return a moments peace / let me sleep / let me sleep / let me sleep
Hold on
Hold on before you reach much further into a world you think you understand / yes I’ve kept my mouth shut many times before but this time I won’t hear another word from you again / you’re running through the warnings and there’s no trail of pain prescription pills can’t cast from your mind / hold on / these words i say again, but once again you knock down every sign / the day, it comes, with or without you / the sun, it falls, without shining on your face. I hope that you will see the hands that you have been biting are the same hands that keep you from your grave / you say whatever words you need to get you to the fix you adore / but we can’t believe everything you preach when you don’t even love yourself anymore / you say, “Why can’t you understand there’s something shining in the sand?” / but there’s never any treasure to be found / hold on / these words I say again / but you keep digging deeper while the walls are falling down / still, the day it comes, with or without you / the sun, it falls, without shining on your face / how I hope that you will see the hands that you have been biting are the same hands that keep you from your grave / before the sun falls down / your shadow leaves the ground / won’t you listen to the sound / love, calling out / we’re waiting in the wings with our own dark histories, no strangers to addiction / hold on
Awake and Dream
Underneath the changing sky the world, it spins around me / my mind is full of lullabies and melodies that haunt me / underneath the changing sky I wait for someone to love me / they say that every man must die but I don’t think I’m ready / let the bow play the strings / feel the wind through the trees / I am walking somewhere in between awake and dream, awake and dream
Today
I’ve been brought here to this mountain where my eyes have seen your view / taken back by your beauty. To my heart you speak the truth / planted deeply in this river / roots extended in your love / hands of freedom have unchained me / hands of freedom from above / why should I worry about tomorrow? / Won’t it all just fade away? / trading in my heavy sorrows, to the Lord I give today / it’s so good to walk in this light that runs away the dark / from the deepest part within me, only you can change my heart / so I say, why should I worry about tomorrow? / won’t it all just fade away? / trading in my heavy sorrows, to the Lord I give today / no reason or rhyme I bury the chord I can’t untie and let fear rewrite my songs and guide my steps / no no no I cannot abide with hate filling my skies / let love be the only drum beating in my chest / on this rock I found a freedom / one foundation that is strong made by christ for our redemption / to our hearts he sings his song / song on / keep singing your song
My singing stars
one more try one more day for sleeping eyes to finally wake / my singing stars have fallen away from the sun / there’s no one left to hear me complain / the radio try’s to communicate / I listen but all of the songs sound the same / you’re singing a new song / one more try, one more day to find the rhymes that keep me moving / chaos takes a break to hear your voice and for once this mad world is slowing down / you’re singing a new song / sing over me
Ocean Atlantic
Ocean Atlantic you look different from this side / your waves are more romantic, each one crashing in time with my footsteps / although my path is fading, I feel that things are changing / as edges become smooth, I’m walking into you / ocean Atlantic did you call the starlight? / cool breeze remains constant / I give to you this night and my footsteps / although my path is fading, I feel that things are changing / as edges become smooth, I’m walking into you / now no need to be afraid / an ocean away from home / I jump into the water and it chills me to the bone / as deep calls to deep, I know I’m not a lone in my footsteps / although my path is fading, I feel that things are changing / as edges become smooth, I’m walking into you
Dont run away
one more time again I’m up before the sun has made it to my window / I’m not trying to start a scene but you’ve sabotaged my dreams all while sleeping so peacefully beside me / I know you’re not afraid to walk through life alone / If it’s love we make, don’t you run, don’t you run away! / Come on, I’m from the south but don’t you put words in my mouth to justify walking out the door / please let’s don’t pretend to go from lovers back to friends and deny this heart the only thing worth beating for / I know you’re not afraid to walk through life alone / If it’s love we make, don’t you run, don’t you run away / darling I will sing you the melodies of all the songs have held inside my heart / there’s no time to fight, surrender never felt so right / I know you’re not afraid to walk through life alone / if it’s love we make, don’t you run, don’t you run, away!
Overcome
Lying in my bed, my thoughts have gone flatline / I see the illumination but can’t feel the sunlight / my skin it crawls from the shock and awe / it seems her claws go deeper than believe / father sends peace through the landline, even though he was standing closer to the fault line / I guess it’s just a lesson he learned when my brother died / I hope I can do the same so I don’t lose my mind / what can we overcome? / I’ve seen the sun fall down / I know my time has a count down / what can we overcome? / what can we overcome when the sun falls?
