The window burns to light the way back homeA light that warms no matter where they goThey’re off to find the hero of the dayBut what if they should fall by someone’s wicked wayStill the window burnsTime so slowly turnsAnd someone there is sighingKeepers of the flamesDo you feel your name?Did you hear your babies […]
Headshrinker
I know a girl who’s lost and lonelySits by the phone on her ownBut the phone don’t ringAnd the birds don’t sing in her treeShe lost herself in a haze of pityAnd doesn’t know where to runShe needs a headshrinker nowAnd I think it’s time we had some fun Lost in a fogUp a tree […]
Nurse Rozetta
I’m a shepherd for the pentecostI got my scriptures and my wires crossedI got no kids and I got no homeThey want us holy men to live alone Since I’ve been here for a little stayI see Rozetta day by dayShe turns my head makes me coughI want to tear my collar off I just […]
Had A Dad
Had a dadBig and strongTurned aroundFound my daddy goneHe was the oneMade me what I am todayIt’s up to me nowMy daddy has gone away… Well I spoke to the mountainI listened to the seaBoth told me that the fountainWas the best that you could beMy daddy’s hand it growedShow to the lickinSonny boyGrow to […]
No Reply
Listen, I’m leaving, I can’t have your talking I hate it so hear this, I want to stop But I can’t seem to fall, no heart, no reply No reply I have been hoping to get it together There has been nobody who told me to stop But I can’t and I won’t stop, no […]
Good Time
The gentle man caller in the blue suede shoesHe don’t know what to dohe just wants to look good for youSo he rushes in to tell you what he did todaybut he can’t think of what to sayI think you’ll listen anyway.He wants to have a good timejust like everybody elseHe doesn’t want to fall […]
Never Too Far
You’re with meTil the bitter endWhat we had transcends This experience Too painful to Talk about So I’ll hold it in Til my heart can mend And be brave enough to love again A place in time Still belongs to us Stays preserved in my mind In the memories there is solace Never too far […]
(We Won't) Stop The War
So now we talk about destruction’bout the way that we might goI’ve seen the headlines in the papers,The truth is more that we should know. Somebody wake me from this nightmare,Is this a TV horror show?We can run and we can walkWe can sit and we can talk. But we won’t stop the war – […]