 *Right-click and choose Save Target As... to download clip Produced by: Mitch Allen and Laughing Colors
Recorded at: High Heel Studios
Mixed by: Mitch Allen and Arnold Geher Intro (0:47) InstrumentalI (4:02) Iwill dance inside your head
I will paint your sunshine red
I will call on you to come
I am not the only one I have been here before time
I will make you walk my line
I will bring you thoughts of grace
I will laugh right in your face Believe in this salvation
and you'll burn and burn again
I don't need that deliverance
because I'm higher than I've ever been I will quicken all your years
I will drown your face in tears
I'll know everything you do
But I can be destroyed by you I have called your bluff
Because you were not enough
And I have turned away
But I will never… Cherry (4:17) They closed the bars and shops on the other side of town
I keep on looking for the woman but I know she's not around
My Cherry loved me, but she loved the needle more
I found a note in the morning, I was passed out on the floor
We met in April with the summer 'round the bend
Those hazy August nights that I thought would never end
The sand slipped through our fingers, and so did our lives
But Cherry had to have her fix when the money went dry
and I…
Don't know where to begin
The powder in her hands was as brown as her skin
Who were you fooling?
Cherry - What have you done?
Cherry - The only one
At night I had you by my side, you were gone
before dawn, and Cherry
Where have you gone?
They closed the bars and shops on the other side of town
I keep on praying for the bitch, but I know she's in the ground
My Cherry loved me, but she loved the needle more
A thousand miles an hour's not enough for that whore
And I'm twisted, falling again, close my eyes…
Can't help but see, falling away - Running down
call it "again"… Shadow Child (5:16) WhenI was young I saw a man in uniform
He asked me for a dime to get something to eat
I said, "Mister, you look like the man on the
movie screen, what are you doing out in the street?"
He said he lost his arm in Vietnam and "If you
don't know go ask your mom. She'll let you
know as she rocks you to sleep." Hey, I heard you found the life you wanted
Hey, I'm not sure that this life's for me
Hey, I'm finding it hard to stand and be counted
I'm a child of the Seventies When I was young I felt a burning part of me
Maybe that's the thing that makes me real
Or maybe that's just something I left open
With the latch key, left for anyone to steal But if you don't know or understand
It just gets worse when you're a man
I guess I wish I still knew everything When I was young I held my dreams in front of me
Now I pick the pieces up off the floor
Maybe that's the key to knowing what you are, or what you'll be
But that key won't unlock the door,
It doesn't matter anymore Stone of My Ways (2:29) She was younger, so much younger
Last December was many years ago
She pulls her hair back, rolls her sleeves up
Trying not to choke me on her own sorrow
What happened? Where am I?
All these excuses that I must sell
My life is like a minute hand
How long before I reach the twelve?
Alone, and far from home
How am I supposed to conquer the world
Tied to this stone?
He dances, takes chances
Ripping holes in an otherwise perfect day
He drives on towards the office, drinks his coffee
and wishes he could go out to play Let Them Shine (4:07) I used to wonder why I'd see the dark before the dawn
But deep inside my soul there burns a need to carry on
And I will never walk alone because I will always have my song
Walking down the street I see the children playing there
Reminded me of yesterday when I didn't have a care
When I heard their laughter, you know I had to stop and stare
But there ain't no chaining down a young child's dream
And you can't stop their beating hearts from
Tearing at the seams
When it's time to let 'em shine
You let them shine
She looks around and around, I see her fading there
She longs to touch again, but she don't care
for a moment, and the moment slips back again
And I've found everything I trust in the eyes of little ones
We long to be them
But the years have had their fun
And now all we have is to learn from some mistakes 10,000 Miles (4:01) We've frowned at the weather
and the shoes that are on our feet
Take a look at a young boy or a young girl
that's got nothing to eat
And all wrapped up in the American dream,
in a house with a white picket fence
But the streets are cold, for the lonely souls
That's where they pay their rent
We don't care about discussion,
No there's no need to argue
Use the concrete as a cushion,
You'll want someone to talk to
10,000 miles below
And I can fly to where I want to go
And I can see, I have
10,000 more to go
Sometimes when it's raining,
and the light ain't shining in
I don't bother complaining,
only God knows where I've been
And all tied down in the American dream
In a house with a white picket fence
But the streets are pain, they remain the same,
and then… Down By the River (3:49) Walkin' through the forest
Didn't have a care
Saw her walking down by the river
With a ribbon in her hair
Well then I start my feets to walkin
The river's looking fine
But she got what she got
She'll take what we can give her
Wrecked my liver down by the river
Start my feet to walkin
River looking clean
Took my baby down by the river
You know just what I mean
We can walk together
We can walk alone
Took my baby down by the river
And throw that girl a bone
And I said…
But she got what she got
She'll take what we can give her
Wrecked my liver down by the river
Start my feet to walkin
River looking nice
Took a bottle down by the river
Don't forget to bring the ice
We could walk together
We could walk alone
Took my baby down by the river
And throw that girl a bone
And I said… No Such Thing (2:42) InstrumentalMercy (4:09) Show me the secret you're pretending
to keep inside, to ease the pain
We'd like to have a happy ending
but your empire of illusion
falls like rain
And when it's time
You'll walk the jagged line
Change places then we'll see
I bet you'd beg for Mercy
Rivers of peace flow through your vision
But did you bother asking why?
We'd like to know if your decision
Has given you wings, but taken away the sky
This voice inside
Has called my name
Then it spoke no words to me
And in the end, I've come
To see it rise and see it fall… Youngstown (5:06) It was two summers ago when
Bobby came to Youngstown
And I believe he was only 25 years old
But he longed for the right to speak his mind
So he left those big city lights behind
All he wanted was land to let his life unfold So he sang . . .
Good Lord, pull me under
Sweet Jesus, lay me down
All I want is a life
Can it be in Youngstown? Now the autumn was near, and leaves fell all around him
So he'd harvest the land and reap all of its yield
With a smile on his face, he looked out on his country
For he knew not what lay right on the edge of his field
The body of a young boy was found on Bobby's land
The townspeople only saw it must have came from Bobby's hand
He said "This can't happen to me, I've done nothing wrong!"
And as they carried him away, he still sang his song Sunday afternoon they hung Bobby in the rain
There was no jury, there was no trial
Then a man in Wood County confessed to the crime
It wasn't Bobby all the while Well the reason I tell you my story
While my thoughts aren't far away
Because I was a man who judged another man
And I was the man who tied the rope
On that day Where's My Pick? (2:07) InstrumentalAutumn (5:30) Shelled by my misfortune
Bleeding from a wound that never heals
Mine is gone and I'll be leaving
Far away across the fields
Winter is so unkind now
Autumn stays and waits with me
When she's gone I've lost a friend
The only thing I'll ever need
Remember, we laughed and you said that
It would never die
Maybe something will remind you
In the Autumn sky
Leaves are turning in my head
Head is much too blind to see
Sea of hate surrounds me
Oh how it used to be
Believed in the way you lived for me
Believed the wind would take me home
Believed someday I'd find myself
Now I'm all alone The Uptown Trailor Park Funk Jam (4:22) Well,
spring has sprung
And the the time has come
To fire up them Coleman stoves
Do us a favor
And call all the neighbors
'Cuz they'll all come in droves
Well, Billie Joe is way down below
And he knows what it means
He's going to call up Uncle Mo
And bring that can of beans
Well jump in the car
'Cuz we'll go far
We're gonna raise some hell
Put your panties back on the clothes line
And ring that dinner bell
Open the gate stay up late
'Cuz this time anything goes
It's time to crank it up to ten
On our Camaro stereos
In the light we'll do it right
But wait 'till after dark
'Cuz the cops won't bother your
Mother your father in this here trailor park
We're going uptown
That's where we really get down
Don't wanna be downtown anymore
Yes indeed let's jamboree
'Cuz we just got a bottle of Jack
If Aunt Regina feels like fighting
Billie Joe has got my back
Well my brother Ray
Will be out on bail
You know he's got the point
He's going to wake up our grandmother
and make her roll a joint
Well jump in the car
'Cuz we'll go far
We're going to raise some hell
Make sure you bring them foodstamps
And try to ignore the smell
Open the latch
And chug down a Pabst
'Cause this time it's for real
We're uptown in the trailor park
We got to do anything we feel Someday We'll Fly (5:24) Sometimes
I remember
When I was a child
Your eyes were blue and I was too
And our dreams were running wild
Now that's just a memory
A blister on my mind
Sad to say, but yesterday
I was killing time
Now I've taken a smile from the sun
But I'm left with just ash on my fingers
There is reason and then there is rhyme
I will shelter these gifts
'Cause they are all mine
Someday we'll fly to the moon
Unless we ask to meet our maker
Just a little too soon
Someday you and I will walk on the sky
I just hope we get there before we die
We can walk with our heads held high
In the seasons of anger and hate
We can shelter a thought that is pure
When we rest at the end of the day
I don't need all the tools of the greed
Not the gold or the Cadillac
I could sell my soul to the devil
But he'd want his money back  | 
