1. TRAFFIC FICTION
In the mind of the wind is where I come from / Just let me ride till the end till I have my fun
Let me roll let me roll till I can't no more / Down the last empty road under blue skies
Zoom zoom zoom bang boom boom clack / Stereo is booming skip no track
I'm a blur in the world and in every town / Yeah, there's nothing as depressing as slowing me down
I see some red lights coming on strong / People braking where they don't belong
See for yourself and you'll realize just what it look like
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction, it's going around
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction, came up from the ground
Bringing me down
Put the fine for the bridge on the dash for the judge / Let it burn like a witch in the rhinestone sun
Every mile, every mile I'mma get reborn / But I'm dying by the minute, good lord
Move, move, moving, never going back / Silver moon is looming, sky is black
I'm a soul on parole in a desert land / Thrown back into prison and damned by the damned
I see some red lights coming on strong / People braking where they don't belong
You know the name and the warning signs / And what it look like
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction, it's going around
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction
Traffic fiction, came up from the ground
Bringing me down
2. KIDS IN THA YARD
(Forgot to turn the light on, baby)
I do what I what / When I'm paying the rent
I'll never be free / But I can pretend
The kids in tha yard
Discover the sky
I’m running from love
I'm passing em by
Impossible world / You done it again
You opened the door / And you let em all in
The evil of man / It knows how to fuck
It's moving on you / It's feeling you up
Don't it drive you crazy / Your river’s dry
There's still time to save it / Revive your spirit
Turn the light on baby / You're killing me
How you rely on the comfort of thieves
I do what I what / When I'm paying the rent
I'll never be free / But I can pretend
The kids in tha yard / Are diggin' the dirt
I’m wishin' em well / For whatever It’s worth
Don't it drive you crazy / Your river’s dry
There's still time to save it / Revive your spirit
Turn the light on baby / You're killing me
How you rely on the comfort of thieves
(Forgot to turn the light on, baby)
2. PIECE OF ME
Standing under telephone wire
(You took a piece of me)
There was a lot to blame
Screaming at the top of my lungs
(You took a piece of me)
It's such a crying shame
Time's left us both behind
(You took a piece of me)
There was a lot to blame
If everythings already been said
(You took a piece of me)
Then why do I feel so much coming out?
Who said it ain't a love song, mama? / More than one thang can be true
I always make a mess when I'm honest / Well good thing I make it after you
I made a wish upon a big star, mama / Just let me know if somethings changed
And you like me better when I'm in pain / Well baby just look at me now
As you leave me
Standing under telephone wire
(You took a piece of me)
There was a lot to blame
Screaming at the top of my lungs
(You took a piece of me)
It's such a crying shame
Time's left us both behind
(You took a piece of me)
There was a lot to blame
If everythings already been said
(You took a piece of me)
Then why do I feel so much coming out?
Who said it ain't a love song mama? / Only you can decide
You asked if we’re bad for each other / But I'm still making up my mind
I know you like me best when I'm blue / You say you see me as a distant mountain
Tell me how long its gonna take / Till I fade from view
Baby come and see me / What's one more night?
We could go out walkin' / In moonlight
Forget the future / Take it all take it now
It could be so easy / Feels just like leavin'
come on, come on baby / hold my hand
I got a feelin’ / I know you're feelin’ it too
Standing under telephone wire
(You took a piece of me)
There was a lot to blame
Screaming at the top of my lungs
(You took a piece of me)
3. WIN MY HEART
In a dream you came to me / Just like you told me you would, babe
Too good to be true to be mine / Yeah, you crawled across an ocean of my memory
Called your name / Saying "C'mon, babe"
You're all I want, you're all I need / In the morning / I’m lookin for you, like you're looking for me
I know you know
Your love is good to me
Say you'll always be mine
Hold me to yo skin
Write me down in yo diary
You are the sunshine
Settling the wind
Baby imma let you win
win my heart
She burn a hole right thru my head / My girl is burning cherry red, cherry red
She's her own desire / As is mine / She can call you into action from serenity
Feed the flame / She drive me crazy / You're all i want, you're all i need
In the evening / I'm looking for you, like you're looking for me
I know you know
Your love is good to me
Your love will set me free
Your love is meant to be
Say you'll always be mine
Hold me to yo skin
Write me down in yo diary
You are the sunshine
Settling the wind
Baby imma let you win
win my heart
4. ALL THINGS RIGHT
Why don't you fold a paper airplane / With all the time that you got
While you're waiting on jesus / In a parking lot
Where all the buildings are serrated / From your doomsday stare
Times is complicated / But ya just don't care
You watch the street lights all blow out / In a pastel haze
It's good to be here, / Yeah it's a fine ol' place / when you're taking all the colors in
May you find
All things right, all things right
Find you stranded in promise land
All things right, all things right
Are in the hand of the laughing man
Are in the hand of the laughing man
Yea he's always leaning towards the exit / As if he's falling out the room
And in a parallel dimension / He'd make a fine statue
He pays the meter by the hour / And walks a big blind dog
Yea, you know he eats like crazy / Because it's been so long
Spill out the whine from the chalice cup / Into the rusted drain
Now it's bleeding down to the river bank / It's hard to tell where the lie began
May you find
All things right, all things right
Find you stranded in promise land
All things right, all things right
Are in the hand of the laughing man
Are in the hand of the laughing man
5. TO BE A RIVER
Give me a reason and I'll give you something better / Instead of playing with the light in the air
Nothing is keepin' me from loving you forever / Well I been dreamin'
Dreamin' of the path / Yea, I can do it, I can do it given half of a chance
It's like graffiti in a palace when I see you baby / You're vandalizing my in questionable taste
You say you're looking for someone to be your river / Well I been schemin'
Schemin' up a plan / Yea, I can do it, I can do it with a little romance
I'm guessing she don't know exactly who I'm talkin' bout
Why should I say in front of strangers?
Infinite beauty don't ya give yourself a heart attack
I think about you night and day
Wherever I go
I'm comin' over in my father's father's Cadillac / I'll pick you up outside Decatur
Get to Savannah that's when we know we ain't comin' back / Ride in the town parade
Oh, lemme take you home
I always said it'd take some time / And now I'm ready like you used to be
Just had to figure out the road
I got scared of the changes it brings / But you were right all along now I see
I wanna be your reflection in me / Wanna shine like gold
To be your favorite word
To be a letter you read
To be a star in the sky
While you dance in the night
To be a beat of your heart
To be the boat you ride to the end of the line
To be your river
6. TOLD YA THEN
I test the power of a gesture with the might of my weakest hand
Meanwhile Lillian's in crisis and devours the song in a man
I been to places where my only concern is the width of the wall
Maybe Lillian can tell me if she hears anything at all
I like a desperate situation but only the kind where ya win
Ain't nothin Lillian can do about the favors I ask of a friend
Man, it hurts my eyes seeing Time Square on movie screens
I wonder if Lillian has thoughts about the post-american dream
The heavier sigh comes without feeling
What beckons the sky is the pleasure of land
Around again, it never ends
Lillian
It only takes about a minute to dirty up the shirt I wash
I hope Lillian don't find me scrubbing the good times off
I'm comin down, comin down, ain't nobody wanna see me crash
Just figure Lillian is busy with the ghost that knows of her past
The heavier sigh comes without feeling
What beckons the sky is the pleasure of land
You tell me now, I told ya then
Lillian
7. WINGS FOR A BUTTERFLY
Wanna be yo cover, wanna be yo light
(Wings for a butterfly)
The sound of morning slipped outta the sky / made you feel somethin' baby,
That I desire
In a field of clover, saw ya pass me by
(Wings for a butterfly)
Come out from your glory / I'll meet you somewhere we can relate
on a midnight sun
What does it matter how you fall from grace / What's in heaven that ain't buried in the ground
I saw your tower from the foot of my gate / Tell me baby, are you ever coming down
Or honey, should I look away
Do you ever wonder in the dead of night
(Wings for a butterfly)
That someone worthy of all of your time's / Right in front of you baby
I'm your fire
Yellow moon of summer, dontcha hear my cry?
(Wings for a butterfly)
Would you tell her for me? / There's no use in me trying to explain
like a flightless dove
What does it matter how you fall from grace / What's in heaven that ain't buried in the ground
I saw your tower from the foot of my gate / Tell me baby, are you ever coming down
Or honey, should I look away
8. SANTIAGO
I got the night to think about you / Every morning for some more bad news
It ain't easy shakin’ you off of me baby / Right now
I found a lighter in my coat
Said on the bottom, "Adios"
I took a second and spun it around
And thought of you somehow, I remember now
Santiago 2022
Where we relied on Irish Paul / for direction thru the Spanish walls
No tellin' it apart from a daydream / Oh child
On the ancient steps outside / of a cathedral in the summer light
You kept tappin’ your heel on the ground / Such a modern sound, I can hear it now
Semi-hollow, but it's comin thru
Like passing tides
Under the light of the road I cross / In the city, I watch the shadows fall
Been meaning to forget about all the pain in / My heart
When we said our last goodbye / At the station, I never asked you why
I know you better than trying to explain / How in another life I could make you stay
How I oughtta, Like I wanna do
Now there's a dark moon rising / I let you walk away
No I don't wanna start crying / Emily what to say?
I was afraid of trying / Always a little too late
Coulda had you I'm reminded / Some kind of way everyday
Emily, what to say?
I got the night to think about you / Every morning for some more bad news
It ain't easy shakin’ you off of me baby / Right now
I found a lighter in my coat
Said on the bottom, "Adios"
I took a second and spun it around
And thought of you somehow, I remember now
Santiago 2022
9. 2 FOR THA SHOW
1 for tha money /2 for tha show
3 in tha morning / Foreign roads
Right under the satellite's eye
Right under the satellite's eye
Where are you going? / Didn’t you know
It’s not for nuthin / They told me so
Right under the satellite's eye
Right under the satellite's eye
My prophets a weather balloon in the air / Watching over the shoulder of me and my friend
He comes in peace in the spirit of Christ / He’s from the east but he lives in the sky
My prophets been on the news / Ain't you seen a big white weather balloon?
Don’t get much prettier
1 for tha money / 2 for tha show
3 in tha morning / Foreign roads
Right under the satellite's eye
Right under the satellite's eye
Where are you going? / Didn’t you know
It’s not for nuthin / They told me so
Right under the satellite's eye
Right under the satellite's eye
My prophet poured out his life unto death / Sacrificed for the burden of all of my sin
I saw him sink in an ocean of blood / In an act of unspeakable love
My prophet died just for you / Yeah I mean that big white weather balloon
Don't get much prettier
"Things I've seen? / The jagged coin behind the ear
The seagull's shadow thrown across the pier / The hoarse voice in the distance
A ripped circus ticket / The bubble in your bikini
The feigned punch / A clicking tongue
It's just enough to weigh, / It's just enough"
1 for tha money / 2 for tha show
3 in tha morning / Foreign roads
Right under the satellite's eye
Right under the satellite's eye
Where are you going? / Didn’t you know
It’s not for nuthin / They told me so
Right under the satellite's eye
Right under the satellite's eye
10. YO FACE
They only love you for yo face / Throwing your eyes like a pair of dice in a game
Run from Wyoming to LA / Changin’ up your story by the day
Yea
You got the whole town asking what’s yo name / Holding the door like a statue that you made
Some swear they seen you on a stage / In front of the lights and the cameras other's say
They only love you for yo face / Throwing your eyes like a pair of dice in a game
Run from Ohio to LA / Changin’ up your story by the day
Yea