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Me and You
words by Jeff and Mike Ski
Feed my child, he says you are his friend.
Feed My pride, and I will be begin again.
Every time I see you, you're coming down on me.
Every time I need you, you just walk away.
So take my hand, its open just for you.
Give Me some, of your love.
Feeling just like, feeling jsut like you ya know.
Sorrow, feels like you do.
Everyone wants a piece, so take another poud of flesh.
In your search for release, you'll find there is nothing left
In your swarm of sorrow, so blind that you can't see,
That in the depths of your heart, death is all you feel.
So show me how, you do it alone.
Give me some, of your soul.
Free your Mind, i'll open it just for you.
Stare into my eyes, I'm looking down on a fool.
Every time I see you, you're nowhere to be seen.
Every time I need you, you just walk away.
So take my hand, i'll open it just for you.
I'll give you some, of my soul.
Sheperd's Pie
The Liars they're trying,
but their eyes are denying,
they don't think that we know their ways.
Well if I did now I wouldn't tell you,
'cause it's not sound advice anyway.
But hey don't you worry,
it will all trickle down.
From the crocodile tears
of these sick clowns.
300 for 30 well that's filthy dirty,
it's not a good deal for you or me.
Well I wouldn't know cause I'm not a rich man,
but that's not the point anyway.
You'll get what you get
and that's just what they'll give you,
you just must have faith can't you see.
If you don't like it,
well that's just too bad,
you can always play the lottery.
From the Album Moral Hazard
Separate Boxes
Keep it in separate boxes in your mind.
The only way that you know how to deal with your life.
Well now you can't.
Now you are so confused,
About who said what and where was I what's it to you.
I have seen the light. In so many ways. And I'll call you the friend that I thought you to be no more. No more.
I have seen the truth. Its not in you. I will wait at home alone by the phone for you, No more. No more.
Tune into too many channels its all the same.
Do you ever get tired of playing your game.
Well it's a new day,
First and honored son.
It's a new day
Mother you have won.
The Big Black
I reach down and feel that aching in my chest.
I know it's the one that is going to put me to an early rest.
Should I just lay right down here and die.
Oh mother take me, before I start to cry
You know I
I don't remember the last time I died for you.
I don't remember the last time I saw your face.
I don't remember the last time you cried.
Because even in my sleep you die alone.
Big Black rain cloud coming out of the west.
I know it is the one that is going to put me to the test.
Should I just turn around and head back for home.
Or Should I just keep on rolling on and on and on and on.
Falling
Wonder no more no more. Wonder no more more. We're Falling.
You've got your finger on the trigger, And your foot's out the door. These people pushing you, you won't take anymore. You're falling.
Cause that's the way we do it a big country Solve our problems down the barrel of our guns, We're falling.
You don't even have to wonder why. Let me tell you one big lie.
Such a brief history For everyone except you and me, We're falling, falling….
Well, you've got to have your god and you've got to have your guns
You have got to believe the enemy is living in the slums you're falling.
You pick up those pieces and you can't put them down, thinks its going to make you the big man around town, you're falling.
Because that is the way we do it in a big city, I shoot at you and you shoot at me, we're falling.
Victim
He walks in and she walks out. There's nothing left to talk about, it was over, before it began.
She's buying clothes and fancy shoes while he's thinking about it, thinking what to do, it was over before it began.
Victim. Why do you have to be that way.
Victim. Don't want to ride your wave now.
Victim. Don't want to live like that.
Victim. Don't care about your kiss tats no.
Well here you are you've some so far, never one to dress up like a rock star. You've got it made, by the look on your face.
You've got yourself a girl with long brown curls, living on the other side of the world you just got laid, in the shade.
Old Souls
Long gone days of time gone by, happiness never alone. Places and thoughts that fill my mind, from so long ago.
The sun is coming up over the trees, I can see her eyes. Intoxications filtered by these should come as no surprise.
Save those curses for our past lives. Forget all your fears drop everything and smile.
So high now its hard to discern, but shouldn't we have taken that last turn.
You have to question your faith, when you think it's too late. I tell you all the time, but all you do is,
Deny me my old friend, deny me, again and again and again and again and again.
I can feel the warmth on my skin, taste the cold in the air. Water that heals the bones within, leads me without a care.
Tall trees they put my mind at ease I can feel those old souls, as they sway and chat and the breeze and tell me of green and gold.
LAX
If I ever see you again, it'll be too soon. Packing my bags I'm getting on the plane, enjoing boo hoo hoo hooze.
All she wanted was, for someone to say. Call her clever say she's brilliant, say it every single day.
If he says it again will she believe the lie. He said it so many times he don't even need to try.
So sick of you, yadadada.
You know it now and you knew it then. You know it true hoo hoo. So unfriendly so unpleasant to everyone you knew.
All she wanted was, for someone to say. Call her clever say she's brilliant say it every single day.
If she says it again will she believe her lie. She said it so many times she don't even need to try.
So sick of you, yaddada.
Life
Dear Papa, yes my son. What have I, what have I done.
You killed a man. It was an accident. You didn't understand, the consequences of the gun in your hand.
Didn't know it was loaded. So you lied on the stand for me, for me.
Dear Papa, life has just begun, what have I what I have I done.
It is ended now. Have no exuses. Don't understand how. Oh I think you do.
What will you say, to your mother and father. Gave their lives away, for you, for you.
Caught in a wave that I just can't understand. I remember when you were small you would fit in my hand.
Then you broke into the school and I said so what. Your mother always said you had bad luck. 'O...
What do see Incarcerated. What do you see when the turn out the lights. Is there any hope for redemption son.
Cause it is a long damn day on a pile of rocks, it is a hell of a thing to go get yourself boxed away.
Dear Papa, life has just begun, what have I what I have I done.
Rise & Fall
You say, you want to dominate me. I say well that is alright by me because,
you are you're everything that I always wanted to be. No I don't think so.
Because I stand up and take it. With the rise and fall.
Never get up to fake it. So in love with it all.
I guess you never been alone. Pleasantly stoned. High.
I guess you never felt as free, as free as I can be, so goodbye, goodbye.
I want, I want to dominate you. You say that alright by me because I am,
I am everything that you always wanted to be, no I don't think so.
True Love
Well consequently I yell you she is still in love me.
Got married got a house got a car and a baby well now we're three.
We've been together for such a long time.
I can tell you that you know its real, when you read each other's minds
Its just a question of fate
When it gets into your face
You are going to find out if you're real
Because True Love, you cant steal.
Well incidently I'll tell you she is still in love with me.
She treats me right she's a sight, she is all I ever need.
We've been toegether now for such a long time.
It still amazaes me when she says that she is mine.
Warm With You
Here I sit.
Waiting for the snow to fall.
Will it be the end as they say, of it all.
I know that I'm going to stay right here,
Warm with you.
No use sitting, waiting for the end to come.
Go on forget about it, go on and have some fun.
Don't hide in line Behind those little lies
Cause you know you know You're running out of time
Don't you cry there's no shame Run away bye bye
Cause you know you know Its always on you mind
One day we'll all look back and
Have a laugh
Cause it wasn't really that good you know
But it wasn't that bad
From the Album The Bitter Roots
Fall of the Empire
Kingdom come our empire falls had a great time we lost it all.
We let our fate, be decided by other men.
In our grief we try to see,
We try to hope we try to believe.
But its too late, Yeah yeah.
And if you believe,
Well then God save you.
Well I don't believe,
Any of its true.
Just not true
The ocean comes, our cities fall.
We didn't plan ahead we wanted more, we want it all.
We let our fate, be decided by greedy men.
In our grief we try to swim, we all wash away kingdom for a day.
We let our fate be decided by greedy men.
PTSD
Lay me down.
I want to sleep now.
Cannot speak, so I cannot say.
How I got here, how I became this way.
Do you want to see man broken in two.
Well here I am
Don't want your sympathy.
No no no.
Can you at least tell me who I am or how I got here.
Would you please look at me.
PTSD
So you lay me here to die.
Can't even look me in the eye.
Feels just like yesterday.
That's because yesterday is just the same as today.
Mother's Slight Return
My mother covered me in all of her love.
I miss the conversations, I miss her smile.
My mother made so I thought I would cry.
I miss the good times, that I had with my mom
Sincereity, Doesn't mean a whole lot to me.
My mother loved me all the days of her life.
I know she did, she told me all the time.
My mother she just sadly slipped away.
No it wasn't okay, she never said goodbye.
Three
My darling Amy.
Pretty Lady.
So dear to me.
My sweet Amy.
And you say you're in love with me.
Live together happily until the end.
There is no end to you and me.
My sweet Amy.
Liam Baby.
Mean the world to me.
I can't even say.
No words will convey.
And you say.
We will have a baby.
Be together for always until the end.
There is no end to us three.
Liam and Amy.
Fresh
Suddenly you find yourself alone.
Isn't strange to not have a home.
Because you, you come for a good family.
At least you think so
So messed up inside your brain.
You got a million little me say the same thing.
Where you going and where you been.
Why did you have go do that shit again.
Suddenly you find that you need to score.
You don't care if they call you a whore.
Because you, you come for a good family.
At least you think so
Sobriety Test
Tight lipped walking the line.
Officer do you have the time.
There's someplace that I have to be.
Meeting my love there you see.
Oh please let me Go I won't tell a soul.
Don't throw me in a deep dark hole.
Complicated getting Z to A.
Put that bright light away.
High on love and nothing else.
My little girl's got me under her spell.
She covers me in all her love.
The one for me.
I am the one for her.
Late night, have no time.
Officer to walking your line.
Theres a place I have to be.
See your way clear to let me be.
Complicated you know why.
Never guess who is high.
High on love and nothing else.
Oh baby get me out this hell.
Sorrow Away
Sorrow away.
Sorrow Away.
Not going to be too long.
We're Going to live up for what's done wrong here.
Not going to be too long.
We're Going to live up for what's done wrong here.
Redemption comes my way.
Redemption comes today.
Not going to be too long.
We're Going to live up for what's done wrong here.
Not going to be too long.
We're Going to live up for what's done wrong here.
Lindsay
What am I supposed to say.
Didn't think we would end up this way.
All these thoughts in my head.
Let me know that we are dead.
What am I supposed to say.
When you tell me that you are gay.
You're kissing that girl so tenderly.
Is she more man than me.
Oh I'll miss you tonight.
When you're holding here tight.
We were living a lie
What am I supposed to do.
When you say that we are through.
Since the first time you saw her eyes.
Honey I'm home I've got a surprise.
What am I supposed to do.
Can't bring myself to look at you.
All these thoughts in my head.
Make me know that I have been misled.
What was and What Could Be
Come to me, let me see you with my own eyes.
Come to me, well isn't this a nice surprise.
Come to me, let me tell you what went wrong.
Come to me, let me hold you in my arms.
Still remember what you said.
That day you left.
Words still ringing in my head.
You told me dad was dead.
How long has it been.
My dear old friend.
Words still ringing in my head.
You told me dad was dead.