Over and over again, this battle’s raging on in my head about what I could have done differently, the past it haunts me cause I can’t let go the payment of my debts, these things I should have said, these painful regrets When no one’s left to forgive me cause they’re gone, and I can’t find the strength to just move on Lying awake at night trying to make all this right while the holes I’m diggin in my sleep ain’t ever as deep when I wake up in the morning and the blackest black loosens up its grip on what I’ve got left to do while the suffering that surrounds me seems to be indiscriminate about who it’s bringing down Somehow at the end of the day I’m still standing and I got to find my own way out If I carry all this weight upon my head until I’m dead and gone then I will no longer see to be myself to live my life the only way I ever thought I would know how it ain’t these dreams gonna catch in the tangled web that I’m weaving oh they’re leaving me behind I didn’t pull the trigger, but I seem to keep on digging a grave to bury my own salvation down, deep into the ground cause I put a gun into her hand and then sat quiet while she did what she felt like she had to and in the days after I paid the devil what he was due Every time I make excuses it always ends up useless leaves me feeling even more shameful for the not one, but two lives I have wasted I don’t have any room inside my mind for these angels of destruction but I’m blinded by compunction If I carry all this weight upon my head until I’m dead and gone then I will no longer see to be myself to live my life the only way I ever thought I would know how it ain’t these dreams gonna catch in the tangled web that I’m weaving oh they’re leaving me behind trying to hold myself to account of what is wrong and what is right ain’t nobody gonna gain from my suffering but I’m just standing around here wondering If I carry all this weight upon my head until I’m dead and gone then I will no longer see to be myself to live my life

Autumn breezes never felt so free to be twenty-three and falling into winter like a leaf drifting off a tree Trips over the bridge for love down second avenue next to the river where another’s eyes were piercing into her soul Long legs and a mouth that’ll turn you inside out a smile so captivating it kept him from making advances all the while she’s getting entranced by the one who’s making it easy behind these eyes he hides So he sits this next one on the side while tears fill the gap like a crack in the blacktop as the temperature drops it gets wider it turns out those icy blues have cut through to a different heart and now it’s two ways that he’s falling apart behind these eyes he hides and it feels alright He doesn’t allow his soul to speak, or let fly these words so sweet even though this fire yearning is burning him up in desire Oh he buries it all, afraid to say something cause he don’t want to change nothing] and it makes him feel flawed It tastes the way words do that can never be taken back still hanging on his lips but feeling slapped in the face cause after all that turmoil he ended up with her boy but she found a dirty magazine and couldn’t put back what she was imagining inside a box, that’s where she put him, cause he wouldn’t ever be satisfied without a man inside and so he locked it up and threw away the key, determined to never let anybody else see behind these eyes he hides, and it feels alright it feels alright he doesn’t allow his soul to speak, or fly a flag so sweet even though it’s already mired in the complexion of his desire Oh he buries it all ashamed what they would think, other people, if they saw what she saw and it makes him feel flawed when he’s just jagged and raw Oh he buries it all this frame that contains him, these labels they could never name him but they make him feel flawed when he’s just jagged and raw.

I’m smelling roses on a sunny afternoon taking my time just thinking this through but when your door closes only in my mind I’ll be holding you The full moon’s rising, it’s dancing on the sea as your hand inches closer and closer to me my body’s writhing just thinking about what could be But this night’s not gonna last forever and when it’s gone, I’m gonna feel so wrong if I let you go so I gotta let this feeling show Oh I got to let this feeling show Let my body take control I got to let it show Sunday morning and the sky is so blue there’s only one thing left for me to do throw back these curtains and let me love shine through cause this life’s not gonna last forever and when it’s gone, oh my only wrong is if you never know so I got to let this feeling show oh I got to let this feeling show let my body take control I got to let this feeling show

These days I seem to just start crying and I don’t know why there are tears falling from my eyes cause it feels like joy and then it feels like sorrow and in the end they wrap back around again and leave me tangled up inside Sometimes the road skips when I go running and I bounce along to the sound of the world drowned out by my own drumming in time I’m gonna trip and I’ll go stumbling head over heels oh I won’t stop calling when I’m falling for you Long drives and sleepless nights are getting to be a ball and chain to me cause the open road when you do it alone isn’t all they make it out to be I keep charging down these freeways always making a new acquaintance when all you got is three days it turns friends into strangers and I don’t know if I can sustain this Sometimes the road skips when I go running and I bounce along to the sound of the world drowned out by my own drumming in time I’m gonna trip and I’ll go stumbling head over heels oh I won’t stop calling when I’m falling for you when I’m falling for you

Blue jeans and a worn out t-shirt make the best kind of pajamas for you girl when we spend the afternoon just laying around It really drives me bananas when you stop by just to say hi and we end up loosing all track of time cause you try to say goodbye and then I give you hug but that’s just a drop in the bucket cause you got your hands in my pockets and give me a little shove pull me closer and I’m tingling up from my toes it slides down my back and that’s when I know just what’s gonna happen cause you got your arms around my waist you give me a little taste of your sweet, sweet honeysuckle flipped up under the covers until the morning comes oh and I’m reminded that I can never get enough Enough of your love (your love baby!) oh enough of your love (your love baby!) cause you fill me up (with your love baby!) but there’s never enough (of your love baby!) You say we should go get coffee sometime, and I say yeah, that’d be nice just a couple of friends sticking together through this lonely life oh but I always end up spending the night and waking up to the morning light pearing through the windows at as we sit there wondering just what to do about the situation in which we’re both participating it’s out of control like a time bomb ticking it’s bound to blow but as soon as I know it you got your arms around my waist you give me a little taste of your sweet, sweet honeysuckle flipped up under the covers until the morning comes oh and I’m reminded that I can never get enough Enough of your love (your love baby!) oh enough of your love (your love baby!) cause you fill me up (with your love baby!) but there’s never enough (of your love baby!)

Wherever this road leads, you know I will follow sure as the wheat flows into glasses of beer til the day that my pride I will swallow that’ll be the day when I know you grow near Late nights by the campfire drinking strong whiskey the embers are burning full of desire I spent all my money smokin the kind but I got one more bottle of wine that you can drink with me We’re in love and that’s how you do it in Texas you don’t need no diamond ring or necklace of pearls you take me on the town and leave me under the table that’s why I love you, you’re my country girl My momma always told me, there’d be good days and bad and hell you can tell her that she was right about that but she never could have told me how good it would be to have you on the bed of this dried up old creek We’re in love and that’s how you do it in Texas you don’t need no diamond ring or necklace of pearls you take me on the town and leave me under the table that’s why I love you, you’re my country girl The’ll be plenty other birds singing out my name like they have for too long now but don’t you worry baby, I ain’t no damn fool I could never look at another the same way anymore I been down that road before I want to lay you down under an old oak tree and take my time poring over this heavenly deed if you promise not to leave oh then never will I falter at the foot of God’s altar won’t you marry me

Long blond hair and sleepy blue eyes luring in from underneath those lids of deisre the deep release of a satisfied sigh blow against my cheek with your face pressed next to mine and the beads of sweat sliding down curves of an hourglass figure casting shadows of my tears rolling down the breast of another inside, grains of sand reach towards her thin wasteline to land on the memory of a happier time Oh I feel like I am doing this all over again cause I don’t want to be lonely and I think you’re the only one who will come my way, before it’s too late I will hold you all night long until the sun comes up and starts singing this song cause even though it’s all new, I know that I’ll never love you. Enamored like a crimson fox, into my coup you’ll slip under the cover of darkest night, when sharpest hounds of mind are nowhere in sight to hear soft tapping on my heart’s closed door and chase away the emptiness you’ll find when no one is there to give you more but the open space beside me whispers to the empty place inside me and pulls down a veil of innocence to blind me from reality so I can feel better for a night and I can pretend that everything is gonna be alright Oh I feel like I am doing this all over again cause I don’t want to be lonely and I think you’re the only one who will come my way, before it’s too late I will hold you all night long until the sun comes up and starts singing this song cause even though it’s all new, I know that I’ll never love you. If I touch your body, it’s gonna feel like love do so please don’t tempt me lady it’s gonna hurt the same way too

I woke up this morning to sirens in the media sounding the alarm of another attack on our freedom This time it came down in Tucson, Arizona Blacksburg, Virginia, Oklahoma City Oh how well do we know ya’ Now we’re sitting around pointing fingers at each other, leveling the blame down on our sisters and our brothers as I stare down the barrel of this life as an American I find myself in the sites of a loaded gun. Outside that cactus town there lives a deserted man whose eyes pierce right through you like an army sharpshooter battered though not broken, this gentle cowboy so soft-spoken finds his strength buried deep down in the ground while his countrymen are nowhere to be found Cause teachers, doctors, patriots, we just can’t seem to pay for it they say “please, we all gotta tighten our belts a little” but we’re already getting squeezed in the middle while record profits line the pockets of those who already got it see cause this is Ameritocracy, not American democracy the way the founders thought it. Oh we’re living out of love green’s the color of new beginnings but under all this paper we’re just suffocating we’re living out of love if you got something real to bring it ain’t worth shit cause we ain’t gonna value your contribution til you figure out how to own something. When I woke up this morning they had taken everything from me robbed me of my livelihood and of my human dignity the officer he told me wasn’t much could be done, to find those who had perpetrated this act or to keep it from happening again That night I heard a knock on my door the same officer appeared in my window he said, “son, you can’t sleep here anymore,” “See the neighbors they been complaining about a vagrant in their front yard and while they’re sleeping safe and sound inside their own homes you gotta move on down the road, move on down the road, move on down the road” Cause we’re living out of love I’m gettin real sick and tired of people talking about how it’s just the economics of the situation we’re living out of love hell yes we’re bankrupt but it’s not the money that we’re missing it’s all this love that we’re living out of They can keep on passing laws down out of Washington but until they’re in the hearts of men it ain’t gonna make any damn difference Cause this ain’t about whether any government or the free market can lead us better if we’re gonna make a change we’re gonna have to figure out how to fucking treat each other Cause we’re living out of love honking horns, waching porn on the internet never stop to think that maybe people shouldn’t live like that oh we’re living out of love send our children off to war just so we can keep on getting more, getting more getting more

I’ve been trying to fly like a bird oh higher and higher on the wind it’s less restricted and I’d rather be winged and feathered than bound and tethered With my feet back on the ground I can feel my way to walk around cause my wheels have been grinding and wheezing with nothing to seize on I could keep moving forward if I could find something to grab a hold of I’ve been just a little too long in the saddle to be tamed but your sweet love has set me free to be the man that I want to be a good woman ain’t gonna take nothing away you’re gonna make a better me July days and December rain don’t feel like they used to never thought it could be real, what you would get me through what it means to believe in somebody oh there’s power in one but love only comes by two and I’ve been just a little too long in the saddle to be tamed but your sweet love has set me free to be the man that I want to be a good woman ain’t gonna take nothing away you’re gonna make a better me You ain’t an anchor, you’re gas in my tank girl the extra weight don’t slow me down, you give me strength now with my body up against you the friction sparks my interest lights a fire inside to do what I need to oh I’ve been just a little too long in the saddle to be tamed and I know that you never ever wanted it, wanted it that way but your sweet love has set me free to be the man that I want to be a good woman ain’t gonna take nothing away you’re gonna make a better me

Bye, bye little raven, I see you playing on the wind as you fly off to another place won’t you tell me where it is that you are going cause there’s a parade of others waiting in line just to follow you out while my feet stay planted on this cold hard ground And I’m stared down by the moon like it’s got something to prove keeps going round in circles, full one minute and it’s working then back to nothing into blackness, it always wanes faster than it waxes and at times this is so effacing meaning is so evasive it’s real then it feels fake something changes and then nothings ever the same again I will fall along the way won’t you catch me if you can take me by the hand help me keep all this bitterness at bay sometimes it seems like I can preach but I don’t practice, these words are speaking louder than my actions Though I know it sounds familiar won’t you help me to remember what I said yesterday It’s the small things, baby steps are what it takes to change the way another thinks but it’s the same choices every day that left me lost and alone when you’re searching for solutions you try to find out what’s not working you end up spending all of your time buried deep down in the holes left by the trees you can’t see the forest for I will fall along the way won’t you catch me if you can take me by the hand help me keep all this bitterness at bay sometimes it seems like I can preach but I don’t practice, these words are speaking louder than my actions Though I know it sounds familiar won’t you help me to remember what I said yesterday I look down at my feet I’m running again the wind’s blowing in my hair I look up and the sky is blue, white clouds are floating by overhead I’m going higher and higher I’m going higher and higher and higher and higher oh and higher I look down at my feet I’m running again the wind’s blowing in my hair I look up and the sky is blue, white clouds are floating by overhead I’m going higher and higher I’m going higher and higher and higher, I reach the top and I don’t stop no, no

Skinny dip tock ticking on the clock like the time was for the taking you and me down by the swimming hole lying naked to the world outside we were blind, just looking for salvation not a lover or a mother, you can’t lay me down at night and whisper and my ear tell me everything is gonna be alright but I’m still sleeping next to you wondering what I’m gonna do when you decide it’s time for something new When you go I hope that you know that I feel my heart breaking every time I see that you’re walking away and it doesn’t get any easier to say that it’s all the same to me if you stay or if you leave cause every time we get together it’s like you came in on the wind and blew that stormy weather out to sea we’re in the eye of the hurricane just you and me I’m starting to wonder if it’s not worth it cause when you’re gone this hurt it makes it all so uncertain. When two brothers share the same love but not the one for each other oh there’s bound to be trouble somehow we made it through learned how to endure those things that might divide us in spite or in righteousness but these wounds have cut me open and your blood runs through me just like my own does and sometimes I don’t feel anything pulsing in my veins and I wonder if I could ever love anybody else the same When you go I hope that you know that I feel my heart breaking every time I see that you’re walking away and it doesn’t get any easier to say that it’s all the same to me if you stay or if you leave cause every time we get together it’s like you came in on the wind and blew that stormy weather out to sea we’re in the eye of the hurricane just you and me I’m starting to wonder if it’s not worth it cause when you’re gone this hurt it makes it all so uncertain.