All Away

You may wake up some day soon,
find yourself in some new place
find you've crawled across the room
your hands held up in some supplice
maybe calling for someone
to come and tear you apart
and you're so gentle as a lamb
laying down for the slaughter
All away
All away
Have you gotten right with God
have you seen the end of history
have you found your way to the rock
you'll be covered in water
and the water tastes like wine
and you don't know your mother
you find your eyes turned up to the sky
you're becoming another
All away
All away
Have you let it fall away
can you tell me where to go from here
will I crawl across the floor
and wash the feet of the sufferer
and will the water taste like wine
will I be drunk with liberty
can I free myself from this
can I throw it all away
All away
All away

We Shall All Be Overcome

Take me before the night turns to day
Take me into the light before it goes away
Will you drive me to hallelujahs
or to some courageous act of self despair
soon
soon
We shall all be overcome

If you know the way come find me
The meek have shown up for their blessing
Time to take off all of my faces
Oh this wonderful day
soon
soon

Take me now before I change my mind
take me take me I'll give up everything
I will sing my hallelujahs
close my eyes on this wonderful day
soon
soon
We shall all be overcome

War On Terror

What you think and what you know
sacrifice the truth for a pocketful of gold
politicians in a struggle to survive
who can see the truth when we're living in a lie
broken promises on the ground of Iraq
images on the television and the talk
show I know you got to make a rating
people round the world it ain't America they're hating
just power walking tall through another country
kill your wife kill your children
tell you that you're free
War
this is people looking for another kind of level
War
this is people taking bribes from the Devil
War
this is people killing everything they don't understand
War
this is people cutting off their own right hand
War
this is people fighting war on terror
War
this is people fighting for another political error
War
this is people who see war as a solution
War
this is people caught up in another illusion
War
politicians say we gotta kill if we want peace
take on the world unleash the beast

People dying while the Congress signs another bill
Oligarchs and cronies with agendas to fill
on the evening news another war breaks
cue the graphics: Operation What a Mistake
"How will this latest attack affect the election?"
cue the theme music: Islamic insurrection
experts feeding us the latest hypocrisy
gotta kill some motherfuckers if you want democracy
War
this is people looking for another kind of level
War
this is people taking bribes from the Devil
War
this is people killing everything they don't understand
War
this is people cutting off their own right hand
War
this is people fighting war on terror
War
this is people fighting for another political error
War
this is people who see war as a solution
War
this is people caught up in another illusion
War
politicians say we gotta kill if we want peace
take on the world unleash the beast

Hallelujah

Hallelujah
trouble find every house
move a bed up there
just when think you found your feet
you're still falling through the air
Hallelujah
this man with no strength to fight
his oppressors anymore
Lord give him a strong right arm
push trouble out his door
It's the story of all history
one a slave, one a master them see
if you black yellow white or red
ya born in a palace or ya born in a shed
ya feel it in the bass come-a come follow me
all a them a people them a struggle to be free
you mistreat me
I remember you
so many wrong the people they
suffering through
you no mind what then come before
you no mind what them fighting them for
we know the one son of man
developed from the one woman
see them believing him there - the good man
them believing me yeah

Hallelujah
suffering find every man
make him cry and then
if him know what life is worth
him pick himself up again
Hallelujah
one man him gwan run no more
one man stand and fight
one man toss away the wrong
stand up for his rights
it's the story from the one garden
them eat from the tree, they wanna cover them
we struggled then and we struggle now
we na want trouble but we na want run for sure
look pon the earth, look pon the sun
everywhere I look them want a revolution
you mistreat me
I remember you
so many wrong the people they
suffering through
you no mind what then come before
you no mind what them fighting them for
we know the one son of man
developed from the one woman
see them believing him there - the good man
them believing me yeah
 

Save Me

It's been one year since you checked on me
from what kind of prison did you strive to be free
so forsaken, such misery
today I covered you with flowers again
sorrows and joys, and none of it ever ends
we're born and we die again and again
so come save me
come save me
come save me
before I am gone

I've been to the bottom and I need a friend
to show me this valley has some kind of end
everything that falls will come up again
I've felt like a sinner and I've felt like a saint
I've hidden my light behind a wall of pain
won't you come save me so I don't fall again
so come save me
come save me
come save me
before I am gone

It's been one year since you checked on me
from what kind of prison did you strive to be free
so forsaken, such misery
today I covered you with flowers again
sorrows and joys and none of it ever ends
we're born and we die
again and again
so come save me
come save me
come save me
before I am gone

Home

Sunday morning downtown Baghdad
momma never told me about days like this
the sun glares down like a cold-hearted lover
caring nothing for my journey home
I want to go home
home

Six months ago I was still in high school
rolling with my friends down the strip on a Saturday night
i traded the life I knew for dust storms and deserts
oh Lord I don't wanna kill another man tonight
I just wanna go home
home

oh my god don't let me die here today
don't let my only taste of love be the whores down in Jackson
I wish someone would just come and take me away
Oh mommy, come and take me home
I just wanna go home
home
home
home
 

Fated

Tell your story to someone who loves you
who was there when everything was new
when you feel like you can let me in
call me up and I'll come running
All these worlds of wine and roses
I am just as confused here as you
take a seat and find the tune
try and laugh it will all be over soon
if it's down this way we're walking,
it's fated, it's fated
and if we should end up talking,
it's fated, it's fated

in the days when we were children
life was simple and we had no end
we grow tall and throw it all away
trade it for loneliness and pain
take your rest from all these futures
I will promise to hear you
find your way across the room
hold your head up and
I will be there

in the end your story may be short but sweet
remember we walk upon the earth
with God's own feet

if it's down this way we're walking,
it's fated, it's fated
and if we should end up talking,
it's fated, it's fated
if we should end up living
it's fated
if we should end up loving
it's fated
if we should grow old
it's fated
it's fated

So Lonely

The boy waits through the afternoon
his mother picks him up from school
so many things to say
no one hears a word
it's so lonely
he's been there before
it's so lonely
he'll be there again

The man falls back against the night
empty pockets eyes turned to the light
the woman spins she says "I love you so"
that's the way the story goes, and goes
it's so lonely
she's been there before
it's so lonely
she'll be there again I know

She said everything comes to an end
sometimes easy, sometimes hard
falling from my mouth
words die before they start
it's so lonely
I've been there before
it's so lonely
I'll be there again I know

The Secret Life of Mr. Punch

If you start at zero
there's never far to fall
and if you need a hero
you know just who to call
take a drink for all the years
that you only waited
take a drink for all the years
somehow made you crazy
it's the secret life of me and you
it's the secret life of me and you
it never really bothers me at all

If some day you're falling
you might need a place to land
when I hear you calling
I'll give you a hand
look into another
see your own face looking back at you
all you self-intended lovers
finding some new way to be untrue
it's the secret life of me and you
it's the secret life of me and you
it never really bothers me at all

If you start at zero
there's never far to fall
if you need a hero
you know just who to call
take a drink for all the years
you were sad and lonely
take a drink for all the years
almost made you crazy
it's the secret life of me and you
it's the secret life of me and you
it never really bothers me at all

Heart of the Lion

I was there when they took him down
I rolled away the stone and
watched him walk around
there is an answer
in the back of my mind
try to understand
this courage like a lion
road is long work is hard
don't fall down and lose your heart

Jesus got down from his cross
said "kiss me I'm alive
the rest is a loss"
there is an answer in the back of your mind
try to understand this courage like a lion
road is long work is hard
don't fall down and lose your heart

on a road in the jungle
by a stand selling flowers
two people comb their hair in the mirror
collide at sixty miles an hour

I was there
I ripped his side
I rolled the dice
for his clothes when he died
there is an answer
I'll try and take you there
try to understand this courage like a lion
this is how it all began
the Son came up, everyone ran
road is long
work is hard
don't fall down and
give up give up your heart