Underneath

Waking up this morning
Thinking this can't be real
But they say there is nothing
love can't heal
Why don't you come on down
So you can feel what I feel
I know your tired so let me help you relax
Take off your worries from your shoulders
Soak up your feet in the water

Sitting all alone in this place
Even though my soul is taken
There is nothing planned
But there's something wrong
I believe im mistaken
Im getting older and lonelier as days go

Can't you see that I'm stuck here underneath
And you're making it hard to breathe
So take a look around and tell me what you see
don’t tell me its not your fault
Then who can I beg for change
Im not strong enough to be alone
Not another day…

I know what to say but don't know where to begin
The fear of losing you beneath my skin
Is there resolution for this pain that I'm in
Sitting all alone in this place
Even though we are face to face
There is nothing changed
But change itself

I'm stuck here underneath it all
waiting for you to make a move
So take a look around
Tell me what you need
I will support you till the end
As long as I know your next to me
There is nothing more that I need

If only you could feel what I dream
Maybe you could hear what I mean
There is nothing gone
But there's something missing
when you see me underneath it all.

Revolution

I got a text message from a pelican
Said in the clouds last night
she got higher then she's ever been
Seen shuttles and huddles,
hard rocks and war bombs
In other words
nothing more then distorted dreams
Coke and Hennessy mix,
guitar playing by Jimmy Hendrix
The world's corrupt,

how can I defend it?

you Know what it is
when you really trying

to be something
But in your mind
you really can't find nothing

But am I wrong
if a preacher can't reach me?
Or am I dumb
cause a teacher can't teach me?
I have pigment so this world here
wants to bleach me
I'm too much hell
for this heaven here to keep me
But you can beat me, slander me
But you will see I'm real…
so you still got to answer me
when revolution is near

The thought of all destruction,
man wont let anything last
I feel the pain and suffering,
the world system collapsed

Wood is burning,no more war for oil
Shattered glass the aftermath,
tragic death on our hands
there's heaven and there's hell
Burning souls, the opposite of peace
It's time for revolution, no more bullets off the shelf
Because we need to end war

The end is almost here
but we have been here before
So I haven't any fear
for I trust in the Lord
If I die for this revolution
I want nobody to cry,
nobody shed not a tear.
In the middle of the floor
pour out your liquor and your beer

hear me loud and clear
When I'm howling at the moon
Mama heard me scream
for freedom in the womb
Heard me strengthening
with the beat of her heart

the streets won't repeat
If it ain't adverse,
then the reverend won't preach
Into the big bad world
Where it takes you 'bout an hour
Just to cross the road
Just to stumble across another poor old soul
my eyes fight with my brain

to believe this sadness
That creeps up my spine
And haunts me tio madness

And I'm wondering around
With a half pack of hope
Searching for the change

that I've lost

These streets have

too many names

to remember them all

Where'd the days go?

When all the children did was play
And the stress that we had

wasn't stress at all
Just a run and a jump

into a harmless fall

Walking by a high-rise

to a landmark square
You see millions of people

with millions of cares
And I struggle to the train

to make my way home
I look at the people

as they sit there alone
Life and the sun is shining
Everybody needs peace
a revolution to change.

You are so Hollywood

This life is out of line
Backs off when you’re falling down
Look to all your friends for some clarity
The Republic got a war they cant win
yeah, a dollar
a liter
makes you shit-scared at the pump
where's the worlds obligation to make
decision's not for some

What they say
What they do
Must be an election to make a change
Yeah the fear is an infection
So rise above, here comes the flood
Use your words to show your feelings
It's the liars who'll be kneeling

Well it's a common attraction
Searching for the rich man scene
Cause you're so Hollywood
And they are all
looking for some action
I got to get out of this town
Got to get my feet back on the ground
Don't want to sell my record collection
So take a look in different direction

I'm feeling down
It's getting tough
You know that
the getting out is getting rough
This town is fucking with my head
You're becoming Hollywood they said

And it's getting close to dark now
On the Sunset Boulevard
With the designer medications
Just another valium in the red wine
So sit back and watch me rise
Higher than the moon
I'm up here all Hollywood
Looking down at you

I Listen for sounds
I've been chosen to hear
Like you're laughing alone in the dark
Feeling so down
With nothing to fear,
But the break that I feel in my heart.
I'm hearing sounds of the turntable spinning
And you're running on air
As you dance the night in Hollywood square

So look out yesterday
Tearing out the thoughts
With every word you say
Numbing the pain out
like a brand new beginning
Cause everyone here looks the same
The merry-go-round traffic makes me
Feel like I'm spinning and
Everyone's screaming my name

Well time is slowly tearing me apart
So I'm just holding on
Cause I know it's a ride
And it feels so hot today
even in west LA

Burn all the candles out
Make a wish, but not aloud
Re-live the here and now
To see you now and then
I'm a revolving door
I've seen it all before
I will begin again
I took a look around
I believe in hand me downs
The treasures we found inside Hollywood

I'm feeling out of touch

Maybe I think too much
That old familiar touch
Will always sting my skin
The good in everyone in this town
The ties we've left undone
The heart that moves your blood
All the things that bring me
right back here once again

If morning never brings
Salvation,
Leave me and save yourself,
I'll only slow you down.

Breathe in slowly,
Are you listening?
On this muted Hollywood block
Everything is paused.
So add another notch.
In your painted town I'll hide.
As another nameless face.

Nobody but a Fool

Going through my old dresser drawer
Fumbling through the closet
Searching from room to room
We couldn't have just lost it
It's got to be here somewhere
I know it's round here somewhere

Maybe we packed it up
With old books and winter clothes
Things we thought were in the way
Out of style or just outgrown

We didn't give it away
We just left it alone
We tried to find it one day
That's when we noticed it gone
I turned the house upside down
Praying I'd stumble across
Some sign that’s it's still around
Got to find the love we lost

Captured in old picture frames
Shinning in those faces
It used to be here somewhere
Reflected in our eyes
How could we misplace it
I know it was here yesterday
How could it just slip away
it was more then just a box of junk,
We stored away to gather dust.
This was a dream we thought,
We always could reach out and touch.

Don't waste your time giving' me your reasons
Let's skip the ceremony of goodbye
Let's get down to the part where you are leaving'
You can skip all the who, what, when’s and whys

Just hit the road
You won't find me standing' in your way
If you're not happy with me
Then I'll gladly set you free

You want to talk this through to make it easy
you want a break-up just as painless as can be
And there's that line

that you never meant to hurt me
Well, you're just trying

to clear your conscience as you leave
Nobody but a fool would love you
After the way you've done me
Broke every promise you made me,
I lie awake all night,
cry till you were out of sight
Loving you with all my heart
Nobody but a fool

I don't know what it was

that made me stay for so long
Stars got in my eyes or either rocks got in my head
All I know was your two lips promise me heaven
Till yesterday those tender lips whispered goodbye

I put on the saddest song
ignore the telephone
I go ahead and cry the pain from my eyes
I let my mind play tricks and then
I let it fool me once again
Into thinking' that I'll never be alright

People tried to tell me

how you'd hurt me I suppose
But I was blind as any bat and deaf as any post
You clawed me like a tiger, I loved you like a lamb
And knowing I still do

just shows me up for what I am

Time heals hearts, so I know
Passage of years slowly pulls the pain away
But there's still a little tenderness

left in everything I do
It's what I learned from loving you

Times have changed, I have changed, too
Even my eyes have turned a lighter shade of green
Well, I guess it's all that crying they went through
It's what I learned from loving you
And someday soon,

someone else will need this heart
And the next time

I'm going to know who to really love
It's what I learned from loving you
Im nobody but a fool.

The man I am Today

Like a misty breeze
on a summer day
Or the warmth of sun
after rain, peace,
Always seem to balance me
with your touch
If you're far away
I want you near
might sound cliché
But my words are so sincere
can't you Taste the joy
inside my tears

I've lost a man’s treasure
in this ocean of pleasures
And now that I have depression
I won't search for anything more
this is a group endeavor
And there's nothing I'd rather see,
Than the truth about God
'Cause this feeling
is so surreal,
Over this connection between
empty thoughts and the void
inside of my soul.

Middle of the night
it's getting so hard to breathe.
I can't sleep, can't think,
can't hardly dream.
Sometimes I fear
what the world wants me to be

but then I Opened my eyes
and saw what the world is,
I opened my mind and I was set free.

There's more in this world than we see,
Just leave these illusions behind
run with me.
If all of the things
that you thought
you would be,
Pass you by.
We'll still find
what we need
in our lives.

I spent a lifetime
hoping it would come to me.
Getting lost in the lies I believed.
We're covered by a mask
that we think is our sin,
But we never realized
that the truth is within.

And what are you hiding from?
Is it safe there inside your walls?
'Cause your chance is bound to come,
If you're strong enough to live at all.

I’m crying in the kitchen
Even Amber can feel the chill
She lays her head down on the table
Next to a stack of my unpaid bills

When I was younger wishing I was richer
I woke up one morning homeless in the streets
I tried to talk to my friends
they told me not to bother
boy being a man
means being strong
this I was told by my father

So you say you want to see
behind the curtain
you want to know
why I don't show it when I'm hurting
It never did me any good before
so long ago I locked that door
But please don't think
I'm pushing hope away
It's just the man I am today.

Nothing makes Sense

Einstein got nothing on me
when it comes to over thinking
Paranoid, is how I prefer to be
into the ground I'm sinking'

in your ordinary way
you can't help me out of the ordinary
You're just like the LA Dream

man you're over and done
before you've begun

I won't be like the only one
who would stand here and smile
and try to act like nothing is wrong
go back to beginnings of stories
too long to be told
Like you were the only one
who ever got left in the cold.

Hurricanes are blowing
out my brains
but my eyes are calm and hollow
Air plane stalls from the sky
it falls
you can read the news tomorrow

Leave if you want to leave
It's alright....
I know what it's like to feel like....
life is passing by
and you are stuck in the place you're in,
stuck out of luck and it hurts.

I met a King of a country once
but the guys in the deli don't believe me.
And I think that the problem is mine
And I should start to take a more positive line
on the situation when solutions
are staring me right in the Face

I had a dream about a song.
It was so strong.
It made all the rights wrong
I tried to write it all down.
Capture the sound.
You won't believe what I found.
The good turned to bad,
sad and mad
when I played it
nothing made sense.

Where does it end?
'Cause I don't know where to begin
Again and again…
I ask myself why?