...ire down a bending wall Or would you care to be In all the gambling that got started No one is better off Hope is a candle lit night No one is meant to be On anything afloat We just lie awake in a stolen thought We just lie awake and imagine what we are We hide and wait for some golden star...

Ain't got a soapbox I can stand upon But God gave me a stage, a guitar and a song My daddy told me, "Son, don't you get involved in Politics, religions or other people's quarrel" I'll paint the picture, let me set the scene I know when I have children they will know what it means And I pass on the...

...ook ahead, take a look ahead, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... Now everybody's got advice they just keep on givin' Doesn't mean too much to me Lot's of people out to make-believe they're livin' Can't decide who they should be I understand about indecision But I don't care if I get behind People ...

... way I think I'll go out to Alberta Weathers good there in the fall I got some friends I can go to working for Still I wish you change your mind If I asked you one more time But we've been thru that a hundred times or more If I get there before the snow flies And if things are going good...

... Well, I sold my guitar for a diamond ring Yeah the preacher's daughter's got a thing for me With all of our stuff in a pick up truck Yeah we're headed out west in a cloud of dust Runaway baby like a runaway train Like a train comin' off the tracks Runaway and never look back Well, it's a Veg...

Dirty Frank Dahmer, he's a gourmet cook, yeah I got a recipe for insane soup, yeah Wanted a pass, so she relaxed... Now the little groupie's getting chopped up in the back I Got a cupboard full of fleshy fresh ingredients A very careful at the same time quite expedient Eats meat, a relea...

... just did me some talkin' to the sun. And I said I didn't like the way he got things done. Sleepin' on the job. Those, raindrops are fallin' on my head. They keep fallin'. But there's one thing I know The blues they send to meet me Won't defeat me. It won't be long Till happiness steps u...

...erything is going my way I feel like there's no limit to what I can see Got rid of fears that were holding me My endless possibilities has the whole world opened for me That's why I'm feeling... CHORUS: I'm feeling so good I knew I would be taking care of myself Like I should 'Cause no...

...er will again What you taught me Only your love could ever teach me You got through when no one could reach me before 'Cus you always saw in me All the best that I could be It was you who set me free Is the music of my heart

...now So I learned to cook and finally lose My kitchen phobia And so I got the arms to cuddle in When there’s a ghost or a news That brings insomnia To buy more thongs To write more happy songs It always takes a little help from someone Youre my real life has just begun Nothing l...

...e Ministry don't worry me my paperwork's alright They can't touch me I got my sleep last night It's knocking out a living wage in 1969 I'm just a thiever stealing time in the Border Reiver 'Sure as the Sunrise' that's what they say about the Albion 'Sure as the Sunrise, that's what t...

...holdin' on Barley holding on to you The broken locks were a warning You got inside my head Tried my best to be guarded I'm an open book instead I still see your reflection Inside my eyes That are looking for purpose There still looking for life I'm falling apart I'm barley breathing With...

...ng around What's inside of you, inside of me [Verse 2] I've lost all I've got My self anyway I still miss the smell from the smoke of your ashtray Give me a sign to show me the way I promise to change and I'll just take the blame for you [Pre-Chorus] Feels like I'm lost in space The past became my...

...de a mistake Couldn't say it face to face You thought you wanted her and got what you deserved Now look who's getting played They say karma comes around Used to want you, but I don't now Roses are dry, violets are black And I can be cruel, just like you The tables have turned, can't help...

...t keeping you out It's about inviting you in and letting you play You've got to laugh and be happy Smile right in their face 'Cause pretty soon You're gonna take their place They'll come whack whack whackin' like old man trouble Whacking on your front door They try to send you packin' on t...

...in so claim your prize Without the facts on track sumeratism dies I've got this chronic fever You'll cure me non-believers Still ill and rehabilitated By those sick enough to have created Symbols of sanity decreasing year by year Inflated ity you learn to hold so dear Opposite, synonymou...

...I'll still be living through my musicI cracked the industry open but still got this shit on lockEven on the highway up to heaven Luda still would be on topI'm dancingTo the soundI'm upwards in the cloudsToo high to come downSo let me see your hands in the airLet me see your hands in the airLet me se...

... I never meant make you cry But tonight, I'm qeanin out my qoset Ha! I got some skeletons in my closet And I don't know if no one knows it So before they throw me inside my coffin and close it I'm a expose it, I'll take you back to '73 Before I ever had a multi-platinum selling CD I was a b...

...ack the deadbolts Let the pictures down They hold no life And if you've got some faith then you are faithful You fall down on your face You got a face full Pull down the plastic Light the gasoline Erase the lines And if you want to live Then go on living If you want to give Gotta get it ...