Lyrics

Til She's Not Afraid

She always looks so lovely from the highway, lopin’ in the sun

A chestnut appaloosa, Lucy has the devil in her eye

No one dares to ride her, couldn’t be wilder, they say evil’s in her blood

But I’m stubborn as a mule, maybe a fool, I’m gonna try

Til she’s not afraid

Ole Charlie he’s a mean one, that owns that rotten land

You could ask him to allow you, but to spite you he’d grunt a mean no way

If you ever ask again he’d come after you with a red hot brand

So I’m going in the dead of night, it could be my grave

But I'm not afraid

I’ll tell you why I need to, she’s my mountain to climb

Gonna start by bringin’ apples, spoil her every way

She just needs somebody who takes the time to treat her kind

Gonna stroke her coat, give her some rope, til she's not afraid

Til she's not afraid

West With The Night

Her house is the seat of many myths

strewn on the ocean waters

Decaying wrecks, abandoned strands of starlight

She’s a dreamer, She’s a healer

Her sacrament is the Harley sound

She’s headed west with the night

The tall benedictine, the silent one

Sawdust in his sandy hair

In his bag waits a hammer, two shirts and a nail

The Indian flute he made

Sacred vision wisdom journey

To break the chains across the river

He’s headed west with the night

Throw off the cloak you’re burning

You're burning

At a quiet cafe west of Wichita

She’s reading his tarot at a table, she says:

You've chosen to wear the cloak of fear

Feels warm but it's on fire

Further on the road is out of sight

together down the highway

We’re headed west with the night

Throw off the cloak you’re burnin

You're burnin

Who Would You Be Like

The singer sounds like a lonely hound in the backyard

The dancer watches the drummer groove, would it be hard

Do you think you could

The sound man dreams of stayin clean get a new start

If you could be anyone

Had the will to bend a gun

And nobody’s askin’ you why

Walking with a halo

Moving through the shadows

Who would you bother to show

Who would you be like

If I could be as free, as free as Mandela

Or half as good as Theresa showed us the way up

Don’t you wish you could?

Or half as strong as MLK longs to make us

If you could be anyone

Had the will to bend a gun

And nobody’s askin’ you why

Walking with a halo

Moving through the shadows

Who would you bother to show

Who would you be like

Come what may a beautiful way is to be love

The river pure like a mother gives her free love

It could be so good.

To be the only you, Be somebody's hero

Walking with a halo

Moving through the shadows

Who would you bother to show

Who would you be like

Gotta Be Alone Some Time

A man’s gotta be alone sometime
A man’s gotta be alone sometime
He need’s the time to breathe
He wants the time to wonder
He takes the time to question
Everything that’s under the sun
Everything he knows

A woman’s gotta be alone sometime
A woman’s gotta be alone sometime
She need’s the time to dream
She want’s the time to heal
She takes the time to listen
To everything she feels
Everything she feels

A love is something holy
A wandering coyote
A fugitive of faith
So, why give up so easy
'Cause I need you to stay
I want you here to stay

We all gotta be alone sometime
We all gotta be alone sometime
We bleed inside too long
We try to hide forever
We take the time to remember
Everything togetherness brings
The mind’s a lonely thing
The mind’s a lonely thing
Come on I want back in
Come on won’t you let me in?

Find Your Self In Love

You decide you’re not the loving kind
‘cause you tried too hard last time
Then you find yourself in love
You find yourself in love

You got a head on those shoulders
Both feet on the ground
And the world seems colder
the more you frown
Even then you’ll find yourself in love
You’ll find yourself in love
Find yourself in love
Find yourself in love
Find yourself in love

Maybe love deserves a second chance
Blow the clouds out of your shadow eyes
When you find yourself in love again
It’s suddenly sunrise
A beautiful surprise

You say you haven’t found your reason to be
Go ask someone who’s been around, do you believe
That you find yourself in love
You find yourself in love
Find yourself in love
Find yourself in love
Find yourself in love

What I Was To You

When you were a furnace I shovelled in the coal
When you were a diamond I tried to drill a hole
When you were a mountain I thought I saw the view
But all along I never knew what I was to you

When you were a statue I polished and I stared
When you were a mirror I saw I wasn’t there
When you were a record playing I quivered in the groove
But all along I never knew what I was to you
All along I never knew what I was to you

Once you were a treasure I'd trade my soul to keep
Now you're just a photograph I kiss before I sleep
We could be a painting and I would be the blue
Because all along I never knew what I was to you
All along I never knew what I was to you

Straight Ahead Blues

She says you can’t have your arm ‘round one woman
And your eyes around another
But that’s like livin’ on a boat
Without noticin' the moonlight on the water
Like Niagara Falls should be cut and dried
Like the Caribbean should be moved inside
I ain’t thirsty, you keep me satisfied

Straight ahead, that’s what she said
Eyes straight ahead, that’s what she said
But ain't that livin’ in a museum
Without seein’ the beauty of the paintings
Like the Mona Lisa is just a rag on the wall
Like Whistler’s Mother is just a bunch of scrawl
I promise not to touch, that’s all

She says you can’t have your arm ‘round one woman
And your eyes around another
But that’s like livin’ in New England
Without seein’ the foliage in the fall
Like the Grand Canyon is just a ditch in the sand
Like Mount Everest is just a bump in the land
I ain’t cheatin’ you babe, I hope you understand
I ain’t cheatin’ you babe, gimme your hand

Love's For Believing

Jake’s got his head out the window and his ears inside out
We're singing crazy with the radio, twist and shout
We’ll spend the day by the river beat the heat of the summer
We’ll be layin’ together in the cool blue water
I’ve been waiting for you all of my life

Today is for dreaming
Tonight is for longing
The searching for meaning
A new day is dawning
The body’s for needing
Be time for talking
Now is for breathing
The morning is yawning
and love,...love’s for believing

sunbeams are shining through the window we’ll slowly wake up
I’ll tiptoe by the kids room to the kitchen and bring you a cup
'Cause its sunday we could go play get the bills paid mow the lawn
get the chores done, Let the dogs run, talk to mom
But I just wanna stay right here with you

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Never knew love could get stronger
Never knew love would be true
Cause I believe in our love and I believe in you

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Early to Rise

I got up before the early bird today
The sun ain’t shinin’, tryin to make some hay
Sweat running down now, holes in my boots
Doing what I’m told to, by guys in suits

Remember what Ben Franklin said
Early to rise, Early to bed
Makes a man healthy wealthy and dead
Makes a man healthy wealthy and dead

When I’m done diggin’ holes, and filling ‘em in
The night is when the real fun begins
But I gotta hit the sack now, it’s 10 again
Another night wondrin’ what might've been

Early to rise, Early to rise, Early to rise, Early to rise

Remember what Ben Franklin said...

I wanna be the dog, but I’m the tree
Them bill collectors just won’t let me be
I’m a hair trigger snake, don’t tread on me
Don't know why I got that Phd

Ole Ben he had a word for the wise
Early to bed and early to rise
Only problem is, it’s a pack of lies

Early to rise, Early to rise, Early to rise, Early to rise

Solemn Dancer

Pete’s world at sea was steel and gray
Storm and sickness, cold and hunger, salt and spray, fighting fear
One quiet moment lyin’ in his bunk
He got Kate’s picture out of his seaman’s trunk
And wrote these words, “my dear,
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Alone is a solemn dancer
And you my love are the only answer I’ll ever need
And if I question my will to live
I’ll think of what I’d give to touch your skin,
Warm as a memory”

Kate suffered too, the missiles fell,
Bloody bandages, men in agony, no one can tell you how it feels
In the private refuge of her mind
Her only solace, like a prayer, was the note soaked in wine
She knew by heart, she sang
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Kate nursed a sailor, and Pete survived
She held his hand and she danced beside him
Pete asked her, “could we marry before I go?”
But Kate said “no”, she said,
“If this war can tear our souls apart
Then our love can mend our broken hearts,
When I see you walkin’ off that ship we're talkin'
Our eyes will meet and then our lips”

With a flag for a blanket, and a box for a bed,
Pete came home, in dress whites, and they all said
Kate fell in tears
Nobody knew that mom was carryin me
She always said the strangest thing as we walked down by the sea
She would tell me, my dear

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Dragonflies

Dragonflies on a pond
You and I flyin’ all day long
We got places to go, bugs to eat
Enchanted by a world of slimy green
Look out for the snakes along the stream

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We can fly by ourselves and be free
We can fly side by side and be free
You can guide me
You can ride with me
Won’t you come and fly
We’re just dragonflies

We're so small, yet we’re strong
To just crawl, would take way too long
Get up in the air get outa the weeds
Honey you’re a graceful slender thing
Show me how ya use these crazy wings

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We have dreams, twice our size
See the world, flyin, touch the sky
Come winter, seek shelter from the storm
Your eyes how wonderful they shine
Maybe tonight, your lily pad or mine

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