SunflowerSoulSerenade

SunflowerSoulSerenade
I’m dreaming my heartache away
SunflowerSoulSerenade
I’m watching this lonely parade

The audience watches a man in the air
He falls without caution ‘til he’s barely there.
He dreams of his family, he longs for his youth
In his freefall he finds love; in his fear is the truth.

SunflowerSoulSerenade
I’m dreaming my heartache away
SunflowerSoulSerenade
I’m watching this lonely parade

We hear there’s a glory in loving too long
The only real story is your heart’s own song
The acrobat wakes a foot from the ground
We live while we’re dying; we’re lost when we’re found.

Nanananana Nananana

                                    2 Guitars, Bass And Drums

We set our hearts on rock and roll when we were boys
then banished ourselves from their world.
We placed our faith in all that beautiful noise
Then swore we’d stay close to the bone.

We made sense of the world with two guitars, bass and drums
Fell in love with the girls with two guitars, bass and drums.

We had ‘em lined up down the street those summer nights
They’d yell ‘til they heard Brown Eyed Girl.
Now all those lovely joints have burned down to the ground
Close your eyes you can still hear the sound.

We made sense of the world with two guitars, bass and drums
Fell in love with the girls with two guitars, bass and drums.

After all this time it’s still the two of us
After all those midnight rides, just the two of us
and all those empty bars, just a few of us
You always made me laugh, just the two of us...yea yea yea

We made sense of the world with two guitars, bass and drums
Fell in love with the girls with two guitars, bass and drums.

Have All The Good Things Come and Gone?

As I lie awake in my bed at night
I can’t leave these darker thoughts behind
Why do children die? Making mothers cry?
Can’t you hear us Jesus calling out?

Have all the good things come and gone?
Do nightingales still sing their song?
I hear people speak of faith
I’m hangin’ onto my brave face.

As I walk alone through these empty streets
I wait for someone just to speak to me
All this suffering, all these lonely things
Can’t you see me Jesus, on my knees?

Have all the good things come and gone?
Do nightingales still sing their song?
I hear people speak of faith
I’m hangin on to my brave face.

Leave a light on, Let it shine on high!

Have all the good things come and gone?
Do nightingales still sing their song?
I hear people speak of faith
I’m hangin on to my brave face.

                                    Something To Be Said For The Light

Girl you’re lookin’ so worn out
and I hate to see you cry
I know you’re scared that our time is running out
Baby that’s a lie
There’s something to be said for the light
Tell me when we’re done with the night

I couldn’t sleep at all last night
I heard that train cry in the dark
Will you walk me through this devil’s ride?
Will you stay right by my side?
There’s something to be said for the light
Tell me when we’re done with the night

Someday soon we’ll catch our breath
and leave this all behind
I’ll let your hair fall in my hands
and gently kiss your eyes
There’s something to be said for the light
Tell me when we’re done with the night

A Place To Stand In The World

Scared of the world around me
You reached through the dark and found me
Now I know my heart
your love gives me a place to stand in the world.

Kiss me for dreams I’m keeping
Kill all my schemes still sleeping
Help me know my heart
Your Love gives me a place to stand in the world
Promise you’ll never let go...my voice has found its echo
Now I know my heart
Your love gives me a place to stand in the world.

Every One Hurts and the Last One Kills

Hamilton streetlights shine on high like bursting pearls shot through the shadows
of the Frutchey bean silos that hang on by the Saginaw river
While Johnny walks, guitar in hand, into Old Town.
Johnny and The Boomers are gonna play tonight

A lonely line waits for cover in the closing, clinging murmur of summer while
the wreckage of a high, white moon stripes the empty Waterworks
Johnny’s Fender tunes out dayshift drunks screamin’ “Eddie Cochran!”
As lonely lawyers ride the rails Johnny sings “Hey Hey My my.”

            His faith in the future will ring in the night
There it will linger then fade ‘til the daylight
Every one hurts and the last one kills.

Out M-13 a Polish guy fists a long-necked Carlings and a Rueben on rye
in a nickel-plated booth atop a bridge that never opens
While Johnny walks across his worn string carpet and fills his head with Tangueray,
to kill electric crickets crawlin’ ear to ear, day to day.

            His faith in the future will ring in the night
There it will linger then fade ‘til the daylight
Every one hurts and the last one kills.

Sinners & Saints

Jackoff Jimmy’s got a record store upstairs,
he waits on those mint Elvis Sun sides
When it’s closin’ time at the Harbor Lights he’ll see what he can find.
Don’t hold me so tightly
I can take care of myself
Sinners and saints, strollin’ down the alleyway
Rollin down the lost highway, like unsuspecting criminals.

Darlene Hudson never lost her looks
Her money’s the only thing her husbands took
When it’s closin’ time at the Harbor Lights she’ll see what she can find.
Don’t hold me so tightly
I can take care of myself
Sinners and saints, strollin’ down the alleyway
Rollin down the dark highway, like unsuspecting criminals
Sinners and saints, strollin’ down the alleyway
Rollin down the dark highway, like we almost had a chance to get it right.

Sleep, baby don’t you cry, Sleep my love
Let your daddy keep the world from your eyes.

Me I somehow found my way through town
Dreaming up God with a blonde guitar
When it’s closin’ time at the Harbor Lights I lay my burden down.
Don’t hold me so tightly
I can take care of myself
Sinners and saints, strollin’ down the alleyway
Rollin down the dark highway, like unsuspecting criminals
Sinners and saints, strollin’ down the alleyway
Rollin down the dark highway, like we almost had a chance to get it right.

                                    Watertown

We live and we work in Watertown, Watertown
We’re born and we die in Watertown, Watertown.

People on the street, people on the street pass me by
I walk alone, and hope to meet a stranger’s eye
Well I wear the clothes of another man
and take great comfort in a stranger’s hand
I pray for water but I walk on land...
and count my blessings while I still can.

We live and we work in Watertown, Watertown
We’re born and we die in Watertown, Watertown.

I can hear voices from across the field; summertime is here.

There’s a girl, there’s a girl that I know
She lives alone out on Radio Road
Well we go downtown to the five and dime
But the five and dime died before our eyes
So we tell each other perfumed lies
and count our fortune by the riverside

We live and we work in Watertown, Watertown
We’re born and we die in Watertown, Watertown.

                                    (She’s As) Right As Rain

She’s as right as rain and I’m as lost as any man has ever been
Who put the devil in my heart?

I’m falling down drunk and I’m calling my baby

She won’t waste her time on corner boys with shiny little Broadway rhymes
Who put the devil in my heart?

I’m falling down drunk and I’m calling my baby.

                                    Turning In The Twilight

Julia never looked finer, dressed in calico and blue, hummin’ the Wichita Lineman
We could walk to the river, past the buzzing poweryard and the lighted diamond.
Arm in arm, turning in the twilight
Arm in arm, everything is alright
Walking arm in arm every little thing’s alright

If it rains we’ll sit ‘neath the porch light, with the radio on and a new moon risin’
Or drive on out of the city where the bittersweet grows wild and the hay is shining.
Arm in arm, turning in the twilight
Arm in arm, everything is alright
Walking arm in arm every little thing’s alright

We’ll run through the fireflies in the haze,
Talk about the old days, laugh about the old days