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Lyrics
- American Road
- A Day in my Cave
- Building Up / Wall of Sound
- Instant Love (Just Add Water)
- My Gentle Warrior
- Glass Half Full
- I'm Not the Wind beneath your Wings
- It's About Time
- Enemy of my Enemy
- Stand Tall United (for 9/11)
- Will You Be my Brother?
- The High Road
American Road
The people slam their brakes to see
Other people's misery
Packaged up as reality
I‚’d like to heal the pain I see
But I’ve got responsibilities
For bigger people's prosperity
Packaged up as industry
But who's looking out for me?
The left side’s misdirected
And the right side's out of touch
The green light only seems to shine
On those who have too much
The highway that I travel
Ain’t exactly paved in gold
I love and hate this bumpy ride that we call
American Road
We stop and go
American Road
We stop and go
We rallied close together once
But that was then, that's yesterday
A land of sisters and brothers, babe
Just people in my way
To hiding in my comfort zone
Eating more than my fair share
But I'm looking for a reason now
To find the strength to care
My right side’s misdirected
And my left side's out of touch
The yellow light plays on my fear
That I'll never have enough
The highway that I travel
Ain’t exactly paved in gold
I love and hate this bumpy ride that we call
American Road
We stop and go
American Road
We stop and go
I'm sometimes misdirected
Then I'm in and out of touch
The red light's got me singled out
When I think of it too much
The highway we all travel
Has to be repaved with soul
To get us through this rocky ride that we call
American Road
We stop and go
American Road
Come on, let's roll
A Day in my Cave
Don't want to talk to no one
Don't want to talk to you
You wouldn't understand
What I'm going through
I got a funky feeling
You might call the blues
So don't bother asking
What I wanna do
I don't want to shower
I don't want to shave
Don't want to lift a finger
I want a day in my cave
I'm seeing out of focus
I'm hearing out of sync
I'm feeling out of balance
My mind is on the blink
I've got a real bad feeling
Like I'm about to sink
Don't want to make decisions
It even hurts to think
I don't want to shower
I don't want to shave
Don't want to lift a finger
I want a day in my cave
Don't want to talk to no one
Don't want to talk to you
You wouldn't understand
What I'm going through
I got a real bad feeling
And nothing gets me through
So don't bother asking
What I wanna do
I don't want to shower
I don't want to shave
Don't want to lift a finger
I want a day in my cave
Building Up / Wall of Sound
So now it's raining on a Saturday
You only wanted to go out and play
You watch your hopes dissolving in the rain
How will you heal the pain?
Lie in the warm glow of your TV set
The show is boring but it helps you forget
That in some way you're really missing out
Today you'll do without?
See that guitar that's lying on your bed
You strum some chords, the rhythms clear your head
The music flows like water from the spring
And as you stroke the strings
You raise your head and sing
You raise your voice and sing...
Chorus:
The wind and rain are blowing all around
But they won't reach me through my wall of sound
The sun is shining here beneath the clouds
Behind my wall of sound
And if the sun should reappear someday
My song won't be in vain
The melody will still be mine to play
Thank heaven for the rain...
(Instrumental)
Chorus:
The wind and rain are blowing all around
But they won't reach me through my wall of sound
The sun is shining here beneath the clouds
Behind my wall of sound
And when the sun does reappear someday
My song won't be in vain
The melody forever mine to play
Thank heaven for the rain
So now it's raining on a Saturday...
Instant Love (Just Add Water)
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In love with being in love?
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Attraction, affection, sincerity
The things that make love last
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Make you glad to be alive
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The package is bio-degradable to keep our planet clean
You can be so happy, jah - like the people on TV
Instant love come with everything but the moneyback guarantee
It will make you sparkle
It'll make you feel so fine
For a limited time it's yours now
For just a dollar-ninety-nine
Chorus
It will make you sparkle
It'll make you feel so free
For a limited time it's yours now
For the low, low price of two-o-three
Chorus
My Gentle Warrior
She lays her bandages out on the table
She has to be able to take perfect care
A living example of lifelong preparing
To go into battle prepared
She wonders at night how she got through the distance
Held up resistance to the urge to give in
A living example of lifelong endurance
To live with the battle within
Chorus:
Stronger and stronger through each day and night, she grows
Stronger and stronger with personal might
Her momentum's building up from within
She cries, “Failure will be an option again”
My gentle warrior
My gentle warrior
The vet'ran recalls those young days she retreated
Fleeing an enemy deep in her mind
A living example of growing to capture
The courage she struggled to find
Shell shocked and fatigued, yet her armor’s gleaming
She slays her demons with mind and with soul
A living example of a lifelong battle
To keep her life under control
Chorus
Glass Half Full
A sunny drive with the windows down
Next to my girl with the eyes bright brown
The wind in the waves on a seaside scene
A day in the park with the grass so green
To seeing success in the little things
To being in tune with the joy it brings
Like my bat on the ball ’cross the right field fence
And feeling the groove on my instrument
And all that gives me pleasure
Slips my mind sometimes when things go wrong
Right now I’ll remember
All that makes me strong
Yeah all that makes me strong
I’m seeing my glass half full
I’ve got enough now to be complete
My glass half full
I believe today that my life is sweet
Two miles back was a wrong-bound turn
Inside I'm feeling the tension churn
I lose my nature to smile and laugh
Preoccupied with the extra half
I shake my fist at an angry sky
Then I search my soul for an alibi
I ain't too proud when I strike that tone
’Cause all I need is here in my zone
All that gives me pleasure
Slips my mind when I'm not in control
Right now I remember
All that makes me whole
I’m seeing my glass half full
I’ve got enough now to be complete
My glass half full
I believe today that my life is sweet
I will keep it in my mind on a rainy day
I will keep it in my mind on a rainy day
I got my glass half full
I got my glass half full, yeah yeah yeah!
Chorus
I'm Not the Wind beneath your
Wings
Your sugar-coated put-downs
Backhanded compliments
I can see you thinking
How I'd hang around content
No need apologizing
Your colors show right through
It's not about connecting
It's what I can do for you
While I waited quietly for my turn to sing
You thought I was the wind beneath your wings
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
I'm sorry but the truth is gonna sting
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
Surround yourself with robots
Just wired to say yes
They're strung out on your headlines
As you fall for your own press
I see you love the limelight
Almost more than life itself
The hook is right behind you
To make room for someone else
I shake my head and wonder how you got to be the King
And treat me like the wind beneath your wings
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
I'm sorry but the truth is gonna sting
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
Yeah - Publicly you thank me
While you're basking in the sun
Privately I realize
I could be anyone
So let's take what I see coming
Write it down in one quick blurb
You'll get what you can from me
And just kick me to the curb
I have got ambitions for so many other things
Than just to be the wind beneath your wings
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
I'm sorry but the truth is gonna sting
I'm not the wind beneath your wings
It's About Time
We've been in combat too many years
On auto-pilot with rage and fear
We go in circles, with half our minds
Flying these patterns, we're flying blind
It's like we're reading from a screenplay written down at birth
One page to repeat for all our days on earth
Always one answer for every problem, thoughtlessly arranged
How bad do you want it all to change?
It's about time we learn from each other
Time to not make another
Turn around the cycle of pain and sorrow
It's about time; forget retribution
Time to find resolution
What we say today will echo back tomorrow
I like to test you; you hold it in
I push you 'til you jump out of your skin
We're a broken record - in a digital age
What will it take 'til we turn the page?
It's like I'm reading from a screenplay written down at birth
I tear that page and crumple it up - that's what it's worth
I don't feel vindicated; I'm only feeling strange
I'm terrified of how I might change
It's about time we learn from each other
Time to not make another
Turn around the cycle of pain and sorrow
It's about time; forget retribution
Time to find resolution
What we learn today turns the page tomorrow
It's time to really read the screenplay we've carried 'round since
birth
And cross out those old, useless lines - that do nothing but hurt
It's time to ask hard questions - why we act the way we do
And where are we really going to?
Enemy of my Enemy
A war's broken out in the funhouse
Targets painted in the mirror hall
Explode into shards of confusion
Embedded wit trust behind unproven walls
Dodging the bullets of jokers
I'm hunting for aces in a deck of cards
Streaming the view from the frontline
Yet the frontline may be in our own backyard
I can't turn away from the glaring
In the eyes of such desperate hate
Am I taking control of my future
Or am I just taking the bait?
Chorus:
Enemy of my enemy
I've gone out on a limb to defend
Enemy of my enemy
I may never know if he's a friend
Enemy of my enemy
On his actions and words I depend
Enemy of my enemy
He may turn on me in the end
Treading through deepening trouble
When the eyes of the world may decide who will win
Digging for facts in the rubble
When a thousand truths fit on the head of a pin
I feel like we keep going through this
The more mankind changes, the more it's the same
From our minds can spring lifesaving powers
Still we want bigger weapons, we crave bigger flames
I can't turn away from the glaring
In the eyes of such desperate hate
Am I taking control of my future
Or am I just taking the bait?
Stand Tall United (for 9/11)
In the New York rain I walk uncovered
If my city's crying
I want to feel her tears mingle with mine
For the freedom that I took for granted
For the loss of life
We'll never be the same again
It's gonna take time for sorrow
It's gonna take pain to feel
It's gonna take patience to come back
It's gonna take strength to heal
We've got to stand tall, united
We've got to stand tall, united
For Adonai and for Allah
For Jesus and for Brahma
We've got to stand tall, united
We've got to stand tall, united
While the human call is to run from danger
Just a few, the brave
Hear the call to run the other way
They were the guardians of our loved ones
Now the roles are changing
Heroes leave their loved ones to us
We've got to see them through the sorrow
It's gonna take pain to feel
It's gonna take patience to come back
It's gonna take strength to heal
We've got to stand tall, united
We've got to stand tall, united
For Adonai and for Allah
For Jesus and for Brahma
We've got to stand tall, united
We've got to stand tall, united
Will You Be my Brother?
Even if love don't conquer the World
Will you be my Brother?
Lets not wait for this Worlds fate
Let us begin to respect all skin
And see each other
For who we are within
My brother
Even if love don't conquer the World
Even if love don't conquer the World
Even if love don't conquer the World
Even if love don't conquer the World
Sky is blue for me and you
Beneath it land
From soil to sand
There we plant
Our flags of pride
Drawing boundries
That may divide
Even if love don't conquer the World
Even if love don't conquer the World
Even if love don't conquer the World
I will be your Brother.
The High Road
When I need someone to talk to
When I'm going through the maze
Just to know that you are listening
Always helps me find my way
The way you celebrate my winning
The way you catch me when I fall
In my life since the beginning
You've been there to see it all
When there's a hard choice to make
You bring me back to take
Back to take the high road
To a place that's right for me
Gently guide me to the high road
Back where I can live and breathe
When I'm in a situation
I think no one can understand
It's amazing how you find me
Where it feels like no one can
The little things that say you're thinking
About my health and happiness
Keep up my faith in people caring
You make me want to be my best
When I'm stuck between mistakes
You bring me back to take
Back to take the high road
To a place that's right for me
Gently guide me to the high road
Back where I can live and breathe
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