1. CHERRY PIE BLUES

To my misfortune, I'm goin' down

Though I said I won't no more, it's here I drown

Cos life is a river of constant flow

They tellin' me to sink or swim, they in their boats

Well if life is but a dream then I been woke

The dogs are barkin', the moon burns red

And I can't help from thinkin' this world wants me dead

They want a surrender, they want a soul

Alll these chains they put on me's a heavy load

If this life ain't meant for me just let me know

Long as I can remember, I been walkin' away

With everybody tellin' me I cannot stay

And when I go out, when I go outside

Too many devils at my heels I cannot hide

If this life just treat me mean why do I try

Why can't this life just offer me my cherry pie

2. FRANKLIN’S TUNNEL

In this tunnel there's a light

But it's shinin' on the other side of time

Notwithstanding I'm alright,

Yea I got me one good place I can hide

The shadows around me know what I like

I can be anybody when I'm unseen

Tobacco and whisky next to me

I take a drag of my Zig-Zag and have a drink

Cold air of the country on my teeth

Moonrise on the meadow and over the creek

When twilight flickers I know to sing, singin' until the morning

comes to cover me

My brothers and sister on my mind

How I wish I could be there all the time

But they don't know how hard I try

To be something to look at with easy eyes

Just tell 'em I'll come back home when it's right

I can be so helpless, I can be so blind

3. ONLY SORROW REMAINS

Close to the end of the century I had a fever dream

About all the death I might find

In it I knew every poem by heart that was ever made

then rightfully died

As of late I have long nights no matter the news of the day

And I shouldn't say

But it just don't feel right to feel right

When nothing but sorrow remains

See all the missiles that's searchin' for land

See all of the men and the women who's doin' the same

So far removed from the issues at hand in the western world

We see it in vain

As of late I have long nights no matter the news of the day

And I shouldn't say

But it just don't feel right to feel right

When nothing but sorrow remains

I live in an age that's repeatin' the past

Almost word for word, I wonder how long it could last

The Garden of Eden has not yet been found

not a single blade that grows in it's grass

As of late I have long nights no matter the news of the day

And I shouldn't say

But it just don't feel right to feel right

When nothing but sorrow remains

Only sorrow remains

4. AIN’T NO OTHER WAY (I’D LIKE TO GO)

You always run

And leave me wonderin' with thoughts to kill me

Can't you see what I'm going through got little to do with you

I need someone

Who's like a ladder I can climb to safety

When my world is flooded babe, I'm gonna need some higher ground

I was hangin' under the moonlight

Self-medicating, far from my home

Grasshoppers all stop their singin'

And when my bottle was empty I was all alone

Ain't no other way I'd like to go

I've come undone

And I've been tangled up in all my slackin'

Quit laughin', you do too, I'm not the only one

But I have fun

Hell yes, I'd rather get along with sorrow

than to borrow happiness, returning it on time

I was hangin' under the moonlight

Self-medicating, far from my home

Grasshoppers all stop their singin'

And when my bottle was empty I was all alone

Ain't no other way I'd like to go

5. LEAVIN’, GRIEVIN’

Silent my maker, silent my killer

Didn't take too long till I cashed in my fools gold

for fake silver

This land will make you mad, this land will turn

The good heart bad

Take a heavy swallow of rum before I leave my hotel

Leavin', leavin',

Grievin', grievin'

May my heart break its silence again--

Silent night