It is not the past few daysThat have has me feel this wayAnd it is not the tiny marks of doubtThat cover everything I seeIt is just the way she looks at meWith a love so completeThat I have never seenAnd from this growsA strong, undying guiltAnd the feeling of […]
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Closing Time
Ah we’re drinking and we’re dancingAnd the band is really happeningAnd the Johnny Walker wisdom running highAnd my very sweet companionShe’s the Angel of CompassionShe’s rubbing half the world against her thighAnd every drinker every dancerLifts a happy face to thank herThe fiddler fiddles something so sublimeAll the women tear […]
Continue ReadingI Get Around
Last week in AtlantaI met her at the Freak NikIn a black truckwith a short haircut& a gang of her homiesAnd she was on me cuz she said she liked Cali menSo that translated to grits and cabbage early in the morningShe used to scream "TQ I’ll do anything that […]
Continue ReadingPlayin the Game
[Puba]I Self Lord and Master Chorus: repeat 4X "You’re playin a game.. it’s all plain.." [Puba]UhhHere go the style to make the young girls smileThey go wild when Grand Puba’s on they radio dialAlamo hit me off with the butter creamWatch me run the ghetto scheme, givin all the honies […]
Continue ReadingCherish The Day
you’re ruling the way that i moveand i breathe your airyou only can rescue methis is my prayer if you were mineif you were minei wouldn’t want to go to heaven i cherish the dayi won’t go astrayi won’t be afraidyou won’t catch me runningyou’re ruling the way that i […]
Continue ReadingHunter's Lullaby
Your father’s gone a-huntingHe’s deep in the forest so wildAnd he cannot take his wife with himHe cannot take his child. Your father’s gone a-huntingIn the quicksand and the clayAnd a woman cannot follow himAlthough she knows the way. Your father’s gone a-huntingThrough the silver and the glassWhere only greed […]
Continue ReadingPasserby
I’m not crazy like my brotherbut it’s the way I chooseI don’t hang around with a six pencewhen I got everything to lose would you bring me my moneyand take from me all that I was worthcause I wasn’t worth nothingand I wasn’t yours oh don’t you be a passerbyoh […]
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Thinking back when we first metI remember what you saidYou said you’d never leave meI let go of your handBuilt my castle in the sandBut now I’m reachin’ out againAnd I’m not letting goTill you Hold meMold meSometimes I feel so all aloneSee, I gotta find me way back homeSo […]
Continue ReadingOur Song
I’m lying in my bed, all aloneCalled you once again, no one is homeIt’s raining outside, on Saturday nightTurning out the light, again I tried My friends say I’m too good, too good for youAnd maybe that is true, well I don’t careWhat do they all know, they got it […]
Continue ReadingAin't It Fun
Ain’t it fun when you’re always on the runAin’t it fun when your friends despise what you becomeAin’t it fun when you get so high, well that you, you just can’t comeAin’t it fun when you know that you’re gonna die young It’s such fun, good fun, such fun, such […]
Continue ReadingCarpe Diem Baby
Hit dirt, shake treeSplit sky, part sea Strip smile, lose coolBleed the day and break the rule Live to win, dare to failEat the dirt and bite the nail Then make me miss youThen make me miss you So wash your face away with dirtIt don’t feel good until it […]
Continue ReadingHe's A Man
All work and no play,Makes Dick a dull dull boy, career gets in the way.Square jaw, ooo, such a handsome face,Why do you have to save the human race? Life of crime, no it never pays,Clean up the streets and make your secret get-away.All alone, in your room with your […]
Continue ReadingOne For My Baby
It’s quarter to three, there’s no one in the placeExcept you and meSo set ’em’ up Joe, I got a little storyI think you should knowWe’re drinking my friend, to the endOf a brief episodeMake it one for my babyAnd one more for the roadI know the routine, put another […]
Continue ReadingHear It
Like a morning crow and his unwelcome songOr a worn-out broken record that keeps skipping alongMountains of instructions you keep piling on meResound like a cacophonous symphonyBut I don’t wanna hear it anymorePriests and politicians pretend they’re your friendAnd police speak to you like you’re a child againBlanket statements cover […]
Continue ReadingO Holy Night
O holy nightThe stars are brightly shiningIt is the nightOf our dear Savior’s birthLong lay the worldIn sin and error pining‘Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth A thrill of hopeThe weary world rejoicesFor yonder breaksA new and glorious mornFall on your kneesO hear the angels’ voicesO night […]
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