Down on Love

Beneath the door the light is dim, the dog and pony has worn thin
Close the shop, excuse the guard, scrape the tattoo off my arm

Pardon me, did I say something wrong
Words aren’t always used for lying
Buy a dog, shave my head, burn the linen on the bed
I’m down on love
Shoot the moon, drag the lake, expose the princess as a fake
I’m down on love

You left your watch and laundry soap, thanks for your time and dirty clothes
You took the net that breaks the fall, you took my shoes so now I crawl

Pardon me, did someone see the bride
She's on her back appraising diamonds

Buy a dog, shave my head, turn the mattress on the bed
I’m down on love
Shoot the moon, drag the lake, was this a wedding or a wake
I’m down on love

The roses from the yard, are suffocating they need water
They will not grow again, they’re now on someone’s grave

I left your dinner on the stove, I’m pretty sure that you won’t show
Severed strings that drag the fool, I moved your shit into the pool

Pardon me, did I do something wrong
Abuse is not a way of trying

Buy a dog, shave my head, burn the linen on the bed
I’m down on love
Shoot the moon, drag the lake, hang the judge for his mistake
I’m down on love
Buy a dog, shave my head, burn the linen on the bed
I’m down on love
Shoot the moon, drag the lake, expose the princess as a fake
I’m down on love

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Forget About You

I checked in early Monday, so sure I couldn't move
There were no choices left to choose
I took a bath on Tuesday, I’m sure you got the news
I’m unprotected, disconnected and looking for my shoes

What I earn won’t make a dent, so I sold my car to make my rent
I lost my nerve somewhere in the move
Again the first came and went, I didn’t sign the checks I sent
I lost my heart somewhere in the move
There’s one more thing I can’t forget to do
Forget about you

I stayed in bed on Friday, I felt so Goddamned confused
I could not feel my body
I must have broken the window, the glass was on the stairs
I’m detonated emasculated and looking for a groove

What I earn won’t make a dent, so I sold my car to pay the rent
I lost my balls somewhere in the move
Once again the first came and went, I didn’t sign the checks I sent
I lost my heart somewhere in the move
There’s one more thing I can’t forget to do
Forget about you

So maybe now, I’ll gravitate towards truth
Still I’m decimated antiquated
Too slow to push on through

What I earn won’t make a dent, so I sold my car to make my rent
I lost my nerve somewhere in the move
Your lips were pursed and your tongue was bent, What you said wasn’t what you meant
I lost my heart somewhere in the move
There’s one more thing I can’t forget to do
Forget about you

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Maybe That's the Way She Loves

Not again not another fight, please just say goodnight
That’s what she says to me
I need a heart, I need a voice, it gives me little choice
But I fear our love has died
I know I’ve drained you of everything you had to give
But I’m hurting now, so please don’t let me go
I think it’s time that I should know

Maybe that’s the way she loves
Maybe that’s the way she feels
Maybe that’s the way she hides
Maybe that’s the say she heals
Maybe that’s the say she loves

You hardly touch me anymore, I want things how they were before
We learn to hate the things we are
I always change the way I am, I give you everything I can
So you can have the love you need
So what’s so wrong with hurting like I do
I like to die a bit when I give my love away
I think it’s safe to say

Maybe that’s the way she loves
Maybe that’s the way she feels
Maybe that’s the way she hides
Maybe that’s the say she heals
Maybe that’s the say she loves

Every day we lose another little piece
It fuels the fire in our dirty little war
But I’m always wanting more

Maybe that’s the way she loves
Maybe that’s the way she feels
Maybe that’s the way she hides
Maybe that’s the say she heals
Maybe that’s the say she loves

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Hidden In Her Heart

She wore a ruby ring and a cotton dress
And if the sun hits her right, you can see the wear on her face
She wants to go back to school, in a brand-new jeep
She likes to bury herself in the things she’ll never complete

But I fall prey to an ounce of temptation
I knew it right from the start
Make love to her, that’s the easy part
The best of her is hidden in her heart

She says she lives in a dream, every now and then
Cherry lipstick-colored castles and beautiful men
Whispers and screams, locked inside her desk
In a room where the things that she thinks and she feels, she’ll never confess

But I fall prey to an ounce of temptation
I knew it right from the start
Make love to her, that’s the easy part
The best of her is hidden in her heart

But I fall prey to an ounce of temptation
I knew it right from the start
Make love to her, that’s the easy part
The best of her is hidden in her heart
The best of her is hidden in her heart
Make love to her, that’s the easy part
The best of her is hidden in her heart

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Roomful of Reasons

How do you know, when to turn the lights off
Where will you go when I am drunk again
Not even close, seems I drift further from the truth
Where do you go when I am gone again

But you left the lights on, you fell asleep in the chair
Roomful of reasons, rooms full of rain
Why do we heal the burn and break in half again
Roomful of mirrors, rooms full of pain
Why do we share the dark then break the glass again

The drapes are the same, the carpet is still stained
It’s only love that’s bent on change
I’ll sleep in the car, I’ll sleep in the shed in my neighbor's yard
How do we change but still stay the same

But you left the lights on, you hid the keys beneath the stairs
Roomful of reasons, rooms full of rain
Why do we heal the burn and break in half again
Roomful of mirrors, rooms full of pain
Why do we share the dark then break the glass again

Most of our lives we scrape and would trade for something better
But you can only take from what you make
Don’t let it get inside the best of you

Roomful of reasons, rooms full of rain
Why do we heal the burn and break in half again
Roomful of mirrors, rooms full of pain
Why do we shade the dark then break the glass again

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Crucify Myself

I lopped off a finger and it turned to dust
If words are like water, then they turn to rust
I went swimming for money, ended up in the sand
Impoverished and reckless, I was truly tan

In a house where injustice once lived, through the eyes of a child
So I made up my bed in the old family style
I crucify myself

I’ll do any job, that no one would do
Clean up deception, from a motel room
Dancing with junkies, for a little more than free
In a hospice for liars, lawyers, and thieves

In a house where injustice once lived, through the eyes of a child
Bury the guilt in the old family style
I crucify myself

Although never tender, though never kind
I’ll search for some pleasure, that I'll never find
A child will dance and smile through it all
until we push them off buildings and laugh as they fall

In a house where injustice once lived, through the eyes of a child
I make up my bed in the old family style
I crucify myself

In a house where injustice once lived, through the eyes of a whore
I'm still taking pills and still wanting more
I crucify myself
I crucified myself
I crucify myself.

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Another Color Of Love

Thirty-one years, looked over, looked through I am invisible
There are things I could never be, the broken branch of a family tree
If I could go back to a tin roof in Santa Fe
Maybe the heat will find some shade some day

Is this all that remains, in the death of the day
It’s the things that we feel, not the words that we say

Another color of love

Broken reminders, skeletons of ancient homes

No one can define it, someone else’s life on loan
So if we go back with a soul we built for trade
Maybe the truth will kill my lies some day

Is this all that remains, in the death of the day
It’s the things that we feel not the words that we say

Another color of love

Love, hate, birth, death, then we do it again
Birth, life, love, hate, then we do it again
It was the color of love, it had a face like nothing else
Penniless, self-effacing, self-surviving
I thought nothing could cure something as loveless as me
Ageless, faithless, invisible, it is the light inside of us

If I could go back to a tin roof in Santa Fe
If we could go back with a soul we built for trade
Maybe the truth will kill my lies some day

Is this all that remains, in the death of the day
It’s the things that we feel, not the words that we say

Another color of love

Is this all that remains, in the death of the day
It’s the things that we feel, not the words that we say

Another color of love

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Say What's on Your Mind

Have you heard, the porch door when it slams
Words are thrown and there’s damage when they land
From the ground, I’m facing up to giving in

It’s too late, I’m too tired to fight for what’s not mine
Turn your face to what you feel, just be honest and be kind
It’s easier in time, if you say what’s on your mind

If we give it more, we will likely fall away
Holes in the wall, and there’s damage if we stay
From the spare room, I’m facing up to giving in

It’s too late, I’m too tired to fight for what’s not mine
Don't be afraid of what you said, were you tender, were you kind
The hurt will fade in time, so say what’s on your mind

Letting in and letting go
Forgiving everything I know

It’s too late, I’m too tired to fight for what’s not mine
Don't be afraid of what you feel, just be honest and be kind
And say what's on your mind
Say what’s on your mind
Say what’s on your mind

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That's Just Who We Are

Princess dying in a fast car, O.J. sleeping through a side-bar
Young girls are making our shoes

Snack-pack, sandwich, and a hand gun, joyride killing for the pure fun
Flesh-eating virus and flus

Housewife talking on a cell phone, hairspray obliterates the ozone
We learn to accept the abuse

Pain pills, trying but you can’t stop, sex fiend, anything to get off
Bad habits dropping by two’s

Forget reality, forgive humanity
That’s just who we are
We crave the agony, lust for the tragedy
That’s just who we are

Magazines, cigarettes, and billboards, kids lie, they don’t want to do more
They crave an easier way

No job, living in your mom’s house no bed, sleeping on an old couch
But still you have the whole day

Forget reality, forgive humanity
That’s just who we are
True infidelity, selective memory
That’s just who we are

Kathy Lee Gifford, Ricki Lake, Callista Flockhart, see them all on Hollywood Squares
MTV, VH1, BET is coming on
The television addict, veins full of static

Health care, medicine you can’t get, detox, haven’t found a bed yet
You’ll have to wait by the phone

Actress waiting on a plush couch, intern decorates the White House
The ugly man is alone

Poor child dying on a back street, rich child working on his backbeat
Pure luck it works in reverse

Cocaine, crystal meth, and speedballs, weight loss, thought it was a cure-all
Be sure you left enough rope

Forget reality, forgive humanity
That’s just who we are
Neck deep in vanity, should be in therapy
That’s just who we are

Brad Pitt, Emeril Lagasse, Palm Beach, Cunanan shot Versace
John Tesh is singing the blues

Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky, Cher cries, Sonny Bono can’t ski
McDonald’s owns the McWorld

NesTea, keep it real in L.B, L.A., Hanson won a Grammy
The tabloids side-step the truth

Apartheid, Bosnia, Auschwitz, ethnic cleansing but you can’t quit
Catholic, Christian, Muslim, or Jew

Anthrax, scared is where you find me, head down, somewhere in the 90’s
The done is coming undone

Forget reality, forgive humanity
That’s just who we are
We crave the agony, lust for the tragedy
That’s just who we are

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Come to Me

I can’t wait until tomorrow, I can barely make it home
I just want to touch you, then you and I can be alone

Somehow, someone would always judge me, I lived a complicated lie
You introduced me to surrender, I see my childhood in your eyes

Come to me, help me through the sadness
Come to me, heal me with a smile
Sleep with me, wake me with I love you
Come to me, hold me until we die

Will you lay me out in roses, will you drink the tears I cry
Will you put me in the shower, when you wash me, take your time

Come to me, help me through the sadness
Come to me, heal me with a smile
Sleep with me, wake me with I love you
Come to me, hold me ‘til we die

We crashed right through forgiveness, I am complete again
We slept beneath the covers, with your feet next to my head

Come to me, help me through the sadness
Come to me, heal me with a smile
Sleep with me, wake me with I love you
Come to me, hold me until we die

Come to me, heal me with a smile
Sleep with me, wake me with I love you
Come to me, hold me until we die

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Noelle

Sunday's long, Monday's worn and pale, Tuesdays curt hanging on to Friday’s tale
Remember me dismembering the past, we suffocate so we can’t move so fast

A black and bruised anemic tale
A Russian wall that finally fell
Searching through reminders of Noelle

A summer’s day, hiding in a winter's coat
A sparking crew navigates a garbage boat
Can you forgive me and stop what’s come between
What we wanted and what our life has come to be

The beast in us, screams and yells
We’re drowning in our wishing well
Drying off and waiting for Noelle

The circus closed and left behind its soul parade
The mayor’s wife her percocet and hand grenade
Love that’s lost, is steeping in a marinade
A widowed wife, sifting through remains

Ugly words make me see, what it was to be with me
Rolling in the wet grass with Noelle

A black and bruised anemic tale
A Russian wall that finally fell
I've been back from the dark side of Noelle

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Half Moon Bay

Silent revolution, is living inside my heart
Emptiness and desperation
Is looking for a heart, looking for a home
A home I can call my own

I packed my things, I had to make it right
I guess I’m sleeping on this bus tonight
I tried real hard but there was just no way
I could spend another minute
In Half Moon Bay

My daddy got drunk one night
And he told me that he never got out
But you son, you’re different than me
You got guts, you’ve got soul
Don’t accept this life like I did

I packed my things I had to make it right
I guess I’m sleeping on this bus tonight
I tried real hard but there was just no way
I could spend another minute
In Half Moon Bay

So it’s goodbye again
If I’m staying here I’m staying ‘til the end
I’d rather die than give myself away
Living here with nothing left to say
In Half Moon Bay

Most folks, don’t choose their own way
They never question where they belong
But this morning I’ll look in the mirror
I face myself, I face the truth
If I walk away am I free

I packed my things, I had to make it right
I guess I’m sleeping on this bus tonight
I tried real hard but there was just no way
I could spend another minute
In Half Moon Bay

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