“Listen my child,” you say to me
“I am the voice of your history
“Be not afraid, come follow me
“Answer my call and I’ll set you free”

I am the voice in the wind and the pouring rain
I am the voice of your hunger and pain
I am the voice that always is calling you
I am the voice, I will remain

I am the voice in the fields when the summer’s gone
The dance of the leaves when the autumn winds blow
Ne’er do I sleep throughout all the cold winter long
I am the voice that in springtime will grow

I am the voice of the past that will always be
filled with my sorrow and blood in my fields
I am the voice of the future
Bring me your peace
Bring me your peace and my wounds, they will heal

I am the voice in the wind and the pouring rain
I am the voice of your hunger and pain
I am the voice that always is calling you
I am the voice

I am the voice of your past that will always be
I am the voice of your hunger and pain
I am the voice of the future
I am the voice
I am the voice
I am the voice
I am the voice

go on, go on, just walk away
go on, go on, your choice is made
go on, go on and disappear
go on, go on, away from here

and i know i was wrong when i said it was true
that it couldn’t be me and be her in between without you

yesterday i got so scared i shivered like a child
yesterday away from you, it froze me deep inside

come back, come back, don’t walk away
come back, come back, come back today
come back, come back, why can’t you see?
come back, come back, come back to me

and i know i was wrong when i said it was true
that it couldn’t be me and be her in between without you

but please remember me fondly
I heard from someone you’re still pretty
and then they went on to say
that the pearly gates had some eloquent graffiti
like “We’ll meet again” and “fuck the man”
and “tell my mother not to worry”
and Angels with their great handshakes
but always done in such a hurry

and please remember me at halloween
making fools of all the neighbours
our faces painted white,
by midnight we’d forgotten one another
and when the morning came, i was ashamed
only now it seems so silly
that season left the world and then returned
but now you’re lit up by the city

so please remember me mistakenly
in the window of the tallest tower
call at passersby but much too high
to see the empty road at happy hour
gleam and resonate just like the gates
around the holy kingdom
with words like “lost and found”
and “don’t look down”
and “someone save temptation”

please remember me as in the dream
we had as rugburned babies,
among the fallen tree and fast asleep
beside the lions and the ladies
that call you what you like
and even might give a gift for your behavior
a fleeting chance to see a trapeze swinger
high as any savior

please remember me, my misery and how it lost me
all i wanted, those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains
the colored birds above there running in circles ’round the well
and where it spells on the wall behind St Peter
so bright on cinder gray and spraypaint
“Who the hell can see forever?”

and please remember me seldomly in the car
behind the carnival, my hand between your knees
you turn from me and said the trapeze act was wonderful
but never meant to last
the clowns that passed saw me just come up with anger
when it filled with circus dogs,
the parking lot had an element of danger

so please remember me finally in all my uphill clawing, my dear
but if I make the pearly gates, I’ll do my best to make a drawing
of G0d and Lucifer
a boy and girl
an angel kissing on a sinner
a monkey and a man
a marching band
all around a frightened trapeze swinger

Yknow I’ve always wanted just to feel the touch of your love
Yknow I’ve always hated knowing how far apart we are
Someday, some way, somehow, we will be together again

I just want you to know, baby I’m all messed up in you
You’re far away, but you’re here with me
Baby, I’m all messed up in you
You’re all I need, my everything

Every night I wake up hoping that I’ll find you here
and there’s not a day that goes by I don’t think about your smile
Someday, some way, somehow, we will be together again

I just want you to know, baby I’m all messed up in you
You’re far away but you’re here with me
baby I’m all messed up in you
You’re all I need, my everything

I know that we will find a way to be together some day
I promise you that I won’t leave, I’ll be here forever

Baby, I’m all messed up in you
You’re far away but you’re here with me
I’m all messed up in you
You’re all I need, my everything

I want you
I need you
I’m lost here without you
I’m all messed up in you

I hope I never wake up, I dream about you all the time now

I don’t wanna fall in love
No, I don’t wanna fall in love with you

What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way
What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you

I don’t wanna fall in love
No, I don’t wanna fall in love with you

The world was on fire, no one could save me but you
It’s strange what desire will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I’d love somebody like you
I never dreamed that I’d lose somebody like you

No, I don’t wanna fall in love
No, I don’t wanna fall in love with you
No, I..

nobody loves no one

We’ll end up hand in hand
somewhere down on the sand
just me and you

Just as free
free as we’ll ever be
Just as free
Free as we’ll ever be

We’ll drive until the city lights
dissolve into a country sky
just me and you

Lay underneath the harvest moon
do all the things that lovers do
just me and you

just as free
free as we’ll ever be
just as free
free as we’ll ever be
and ever be

We were born before the wind
also younger than the sun
and the bonny boat was won
as we sail into the misty

Hark now, hear the sailor’s cry
You smell the sea and you feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the misty

When a foghorn blows, I’ll be coming home

I wanna rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
and together we will flow into the misty

No we don’t have a lot of money
No we don’t have a lot of money
No we don’t have a lot of money
No we don’t have a lot of money
No we don’t have a lot of money
No we don’t have a lot of money
No we don’t have a lot of money
All we need is love

We’re free as we’ll ever be
Just as free
Free as we’ll ever be

We live out in our old van
Travel all across this land
Me and you

This is my life
It’s not what it was before
all these feelings I’ve shared
These are my dreams
that I’ve never lived before
Somebody shake me ’cause I
I must be sleeping

Now that we’re here, it’s so far away
all the struggle we thought was in vain
all the mistakes one life can take
they all finally start to go away
now that we’re here, it’s so far away
and I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I’m not ashamed
to be the person that I am today

These are my words I’ve never said before
I think I’m doin ok
This is the smile I’ve never shown before
Somebody shake me ’cause I,
I must be sleeping

Now that we’re here, it’s so far away
all the struggle we thought was in vain
all the mistakes one life can take
they all finally start to go away
now that we’re here, it’s so far away
and I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I’m not ashamed
to be the person that I am today

I’m so afraid of waking
Please don’t shake me
afraid of waking
please don’t shake me

Now that we’re here, it’s so far away
all the struggle we thought was in vain
all the mistakes one life can take
they all finally start to go away
now that we’re here, it’s so far away
and I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I’m not ashamed
to be the person that I am today

I don’t mind where you come from as long as you come to me
and I don’t like illusions, I can’t see them clearly
I don’t care, no I wouldn’t dare to fix the twist in you
You’ve shown me eventually what you’ll do

I don’t mind
I don’t care
as long as you’re here

Go ahead, tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
holding your scarred heart in hand
it’s all the same

and I’ll take you for who you are
if you take me for everything
We’ll do it all over again
it’s all the same

hours slide and days go by ’til you decide to come
and inbetween it always seems too long
but I have the skill, yeah I have the will to breathe you in while I can
However long you stay is all that I am

I don’t mind
I don’t care
as long as you’re here

Go ahead, tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same

and I’ll take you for who you are
if you take me for everything
we’ll do it all over again
it’s always the same

wrong or right,
black or white
if I close my eyes
it’s all the same

in my mind
the compromise
i’ll close my eyes
it’s all the same

go ahead, say it, you’re leaving
you’ll just come back running
holding your scarred heart in hand
it’s all the same

and i’ll take you for who you are
if you take me for everything
do it all over again
it’s all the same

What day is it and it what month?
this clock never seemed so alive
I can’t keep up and I can’t back down
I’ve been losing so much time

’cause it’s you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do, nothing to lose
and it’s you and me and all of the people
and i don’t know why i can’t keep my eyes off of you

What other things that I wanna say
just aren’t coming out right?
I’m tripping on words, you got my head spinning
I don’t know where to go from here

’cause it’s you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do, nothing to prove
it’s you and me and all of the people
and I don’t know why I can’t keep my eyes off of you

it’s something about you I can’t quite figure out
everything she does is beautiful
everything she does is bright

’cause it’s you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do, nothing to lose
and it’s you and me and all of the people
and I don’t know why I can’t keep my eyes off of
you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do and nothing to prove
it’s you and me and all of the people
and I don’t know why I can’t keep my eyes off of you

what day is it and it what month?
this clock never seemed so alive

So lately been wondering, who will be there to take my place?
When I’m gone you’ll need love to light the shadows on your face
If a greater wave shall fall, and fall upon the stars
Then between the sand and stone, could you make it on your own?

If I could then I would
I’ll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I’ll go wherever you will go

and maybe I’ll find out a way to make it back some day
to watch you, to guide you through the darkest of your days
if a greater wave shall fall and fall upon the stars
then I hope there’s someone out there who can bring me back to you

if I could then I would
I’ll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I’ll go wherever you will go

Run away with my heart
Run away with my heart
Run away with my love

I know now just quite how my life and love might still go on
in your heart, in your mind, I’ll stay with you for all of time

if I could then I would
I’ll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I’ll go wherever you will go

If I could turn back time
I’ll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine
I’ll go wherever you will go
I’ll go wherever you will go

Only time will tell
Time will turn and tell

We are who we were when
Could’ve been lovers,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend
Who knew what we know now?
Could’ve been more,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend

But thoughts, they change
and times, they rearrange
I don’t know who you are any more
Loves come and go, and this I know
I’m not who you recall any more
but I must confess
you’re so much more than I remember
Can’t help but entertain these thoughts
thoughts of us together

We are who we were when
Could’ve been lovers,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend
Who knew what we know now?
Could’ve been more,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend

So let me get this straight
all these years and you were nowhere to be found?
and now you want me for your own?
but you’re a day late
and my love, she’s still renowned

We are who we were when
Could’ve been lovers,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend
Who knew what we know now?
Could’ve been more,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend

We are who we were when
Could’ve been lovers,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend
Who knew what we know now?
Could’ve been more,
but at least you’re still my day-late friend

Look into your heart, pretty baby
Is it aching with some nameless need?
Is there something wrong and you can’t put your finger on it?
Right then, roll to me

and I don’t think I have ever seen a soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through guess who will be there

So don’t try to deny, pretty baby
You’ve been down so long you can hardly see
When the engine stalls and it won’t stop raining
it’s the right time to roll to me
roll to me
roll to me

and I don’t think I have ever seen a soul so in despair
So if you want to talk the night through guess who will be there

So look around your world pretty baby
Is it everything you hoped it’d be?
The wrong guy, the wrong situation
the right time to roll to me
the right time to roll to me
the right time to roll to me

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the lord
But you don’t really care for music do ya?
It goes like this, the forth, the fifth,
the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled King composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your thrown and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Baby, I’ve been here before
I know this room and I’ve walked this floor
Y’know, I used to live alone before I knew ya
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march,
it’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

There was a time you’d let me know
what’s really going on below
but now you never show that to me do ya?
But remember when I moved in you
and the holy dark was moving too
and every breath we drew was Hallelujah?

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above
but all I ever learned from love
was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew ya
It’s not a cry that you hear at night
it’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Cry alone, I’ve gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I’ve gone alone, took all my strength
I’ve made the change
I won’t see you tonight

Sorrow sank deep inside my blood
all the ones around me I cared for and love

Building up inside of me
A place so dark, so cold
I had to set me free
Don’t mourn for me,
You’re not the one to place the blame
as bottles call my name
I won’t see you tonight

Sorrow sank deep inside my blood
All the ones around me I cared for and most of all I love
But I can’t see myself that way
Please don’t forget me or cry when I’m away

Cry alone, I’ve gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I’ve gone alone, took all my strength
I’ve made the change
I won’t see you tonight

So far away I’ve gone
Don’t follow me tonight
And while I’m gone
everything will be alright

There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
Summer warms the open window of her honeymoon
And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her
Wooden spoons, her children stir her bougainvillea blooms

There are things that drift away like our endless numbered days
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
and she’s chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves

There are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grass
Springtime calls her children til she lets them go at last
and she’s chosen where to be though she’s lost her wedding ring
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of bougainvillea seeds

There are things we can’t recall, blind as night that finds us all
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
but my hands remember hers, rolling round the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I never learned

There are names across the sea, only now I do believe
Sometimes with the windows closed, she’ll sit and think of me
but she’ll mend his tattered clothes and they’ll kiss as if they know
a baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone

My young love said to me “My mother won’t mind
“and my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind”
and she stepped away from me and this she did say
“It will not be long, love, ’til our wedding day”

She stepped away from me and she moved through the faire
and fondly I watched her move here and move there
and then she turned homeward with one star awake
like the swan in the evening moves over the lake

the people were saying “No two e’er were wed
“but one has a sorrow that never was said”
and she smiled as she passed me with her boots and her gear
and that was the last that I saw my dear

Last night she came to me, my dead love came in
She came in so softly, her feet made no din
and she laid her hands on me and this she did say
“It will not be long, love, ’til our wedding day”

I must away, love
i can no longer tarry
The morning’s tempest I have to cross
I will be guided without a star, love
into the arms I love the best

I walked up to her bedroom window
I leant my foot there against the stone
I whispered softly into her window
“My darlin’ lassie, do you lie alone?”

She raised her head from her snowy pillow
and with her arms raised across her breast
said “Who’s this at my bedroom window
“Disturbing me at my long night’s rest?”

I said “My true love, it’s your own true lover
“Open the door now and let me in
“For I’ve come on a long, long journey
“and I am drenched to the skin”

She opened the door then without a murmur
Opened the door then and let me in
We gently kissed and embraced each other
and in the morning, we lay as yin

the day was dawning, the cocks were calling
the birds were whistling in every tree
“Farewell, my true love, for I most leave you
“For now the long night has turned to day”

“I must away love, I can no longer tarry
“The morning tempest I have to cross
“I will be guided without a star, love
“Into the arms I love the best”

I’m becoming less defined as days go by
Fading away and well, you might say I’m losing focus
Kinda drifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself
Sometimes I think I can see right through myself
Sometimes I think I can see right through myself
Sometimes I can see right through myself

Less concerned about fitting into the world
Your world, that is
‘Cause it doesn’t really matter any more
No, it doesn’t really matter any more
None of this really matters any more

Yes, I am alone, but then again, I always was
As far back as I can tell
I think maybe, it’s because you were never really real to begin with
I just made you up to hurt myself
I just made you up to hurt myself
I just made you up to hurt myself
I just made you up to hurt myself
I just made you up to hurt myself
and it worked – yes it did!

There is no you, there is only me
There is no you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
Only
Only
Only
Only

The tiniest little dot caught my eye
and it turned out to be a scab
and I had this funny feeling,
like I just knew it’s something bad

I just couldn’t leave it alone
I kept picking at that scab
it was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
but I climbed through

Now I am somewhere I’m not supposed to be
and I can see things I know I really shouldn’t see
and now I know why, now I know why
things aren’t as pretty on the inside

There is no you, there is only me
There is no you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
There is no fucking you, there is only me
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only
Only

You let me violate you
You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you
You let me complicate you

Help me
I’ve broke apart my insides
Help me
I’ve got no soul to sell
Help me
the only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself

I wanna fuck you like an animal
I wanna feel you from the inside
I wanna fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to G0D

You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absense of faith
You can have my everything

Help me tear down my reason
Help me
It’s your sex I can smell
Help me
You make me perfect
Help me become somebody else

I wanna fuck you like an animal
I wanna feel you from the inside
I wanna fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to God

I would swim across oceans just to talk with you
I would climb a tall mountain just to look at you
I’d give my soul to the devil if you asked me to
I would walk out of heaven just to be with you

This is absolute
This is absolution
This is absolute
This is absolution

I will be your disciple and I’ll worship you
Burn the prophets of reason, light the sky for you
Kill the children of Eden if you want me to
Close the dead eyes of G*d if they offended you

This is absolute
This is absolution
This is absolute
This is absolution

The more I take a look inside, the more I’m fried
The more I understand the ride, the more I slide
The more you put me back in line, the more I tried
The more you looked into my eyes, the more you lied

I come back crazier, but feel much better
You’ll come back crazier, you’ll feel better

The more I disregard the signs, the more I fly
The more I walk across the lines, the more I glide

You come back crazier, but feel much better
You come back crazier, you feel better

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift,
Guide me towards you
Know something’s left
and we’re all allowed
to dream of the next
of the next time we touch

You don’t have to stray
the oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring
The sea will rise
Please stand by the shore
I will be
I will be there once more

I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on
the Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top

I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds
for fifty million hands upraised and open towards the sky

I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro’s hood

I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on
I wish I was the verb ‘to trust’ and never let you down

I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up

I read the news today, oh boy
about a lucky man who made the grade
and though the news was rather sad
I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of lords

I saw a film today, oh boy
the english army had just won the war
a crowd of people turned away
but I just had to look
having read the book

I’d love to turn you on

Woke up, got outta bad
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
Looking up, I noticed I Was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
and somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today, oh boy
four thousand holes in blackburn, Lancashire
and though the holes were rather small
they had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert hall

I’d love to turn you on

What would you do if we woke up and the whole world was gone?
Would you believe with me is where you belong?
Well, there goes the world and we’re right in the middle
There goes the world and we’re right in the middle

I said leave me here
I said leave me here with you

As the city crumbles I see that there’s nothing left behind
as we lay here together, I feel your heart beat with mine
With time standing still, here is where we’ve always been
Well, there goes the world and we’re right in the middle again

I said leave me here
I said leave me here
I said leave me here
I said leave me here with you

Hey you, where are we going from here?
Hey you, where are we going from here?
Hey you, where are we going?

‘Cause there goes the world
and I’m right in the middle with you
I’m right in the middle with you
I’m right in the middle with you
I’m right in the middle with you
I’m right in the middle with you

Fall into you is all I seem to do
when I hit the bottle ’cause I’m afraid to be alone
Tear us in two is all it seems to do
as the anger fades, this house is no longer a home

Don’t give up on the dream
Don’t give up on the wanting
and everything that’s true
Don’t give up on the dream
Don’t give up on the wanting
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you

Stumble into you is all I ever do
My memory’s hazy and I’m afraid to be alone
Tear us in two is all it’s gonna do
as the headache fades, this house is no longer a home

Don’t give up on the dream
Don’t give up on the wanting
and everything that’s true
Don’t give up on the dream
Don’t give up on the wanting
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you

Fall into you is all I ever do
When I hit the bottle ’cause I’m afraid to be alone
Tear us in two, tear us in two, tear us in two
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you too
‘Cause I want you
‘Cause I want you

you’re a woman now
you’ve become a woman now
the weight of the cradle has broken the bow
you’ve become a woman now

momma woke me up at dawn
she helped me get my best dress on
she braided flowers in my hair
so sweet was the summer air
i’m to meet my groom down by the sea
a perfect stranger to correct me
the judges arrive in pairs of three
“don’t be scared, just relax and breathe
“’cause good girls hold real still
“surrender your free will”
they cracked the crown to pluck the pearl
here on the jagged edge of the world

you’re a woman now
you’ve become a woman now
the weight of the cradle has broken the bow
you’ve become a woman now

standing on the welfare line
my daughter clinging to my side
i see the faith in her eyes
i whisper “baby we will be just fine
“i’ll get a good job and find a new place
“i’ll work real hard and we’ll make our escape
“i promise you i’ll get us through
“together we will bloom”

you’re a woman now
you’ve become a woman now
the weight of the cradle has broken the bow
you’ve become a woman now

awesome song by Otep.

I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
I’m hoping for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey, mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train
Hey, mama rock me

Running from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band
My baby plays the guitar, I pick a banjo now

North country winters keep getting me
and I lost my money playin’ poker so I had to up and leave
but I ain’t turning back to livin’ that old life no more

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey, mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train
Hey, mama rock me

Welcome to the South outta Roanoke
I caught a trucker outta Philly, had a nice long toke
He’s headed west from the Cumberland gap,
to Johnson City, Tennessee

I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby callin my name and I know that she’s the only one
and if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free

So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey, mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train
Hey, mama rock me