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Unreleased Songs

Mother's Night

Oh, people killing people
Kings to conquer kings
Always in the seeker
Taking the light
Away from me
Death comes to the seeker
And death comes to the fool
Death comes to us all one day
Let the river of time swim over you
Oh swim over you
Oh time swim over you
Mother fighting mother
Children killing kings and kings and children too
[ HELP!!! I can't figure this one out ]
Playin a different tune
The music binds them ho
The music binds them all
The music binds them
{Ahh another line to figure out!!!]
Stronger than the chain gang
Smarter than the song
Let the music bind them
Each my face inside here?
Teach my light to wear a different?
I have many parents
I have only one mother too
Of the open west you waitin'
Sprung me unto you
Sprung me unto you
That sprung me unto you
I have many fathers
But only one mother
Sprung beyond emotion
That sprung me unto you
So I bring a word
So I bring a word here
So lights out away
Death comes to the seeker
Well death come to the fool yes he do
Death come to us all one day
Sit back and let the river of time run over you
Oh and mother make them...
Rhythm is the one I climb as
The heartbeat of the time is beating on us
Speaking of the time is beating on us
Snap up the gate shut on yourself
Snap up the gate shut on yourself
Snap up the gate shut on yourself
Snap up the gate shut on yourself
Snap up the gate shut on yourself
Snap up the gate shut on yourself
Oh yeah
Oh I was dreaming
Oh...???
Some people locked in cages
With the keys on the inside
With the keys on the inside
Ahhh well aww too bad ......[don't know]
King to King oh many colors
Paint the songs that roll to smother everyone
Black as night oh black as night
[don't know???]
If you are in the corner
Locked in the shadow
Don't try to cast your shadow
On the bear upon your [don't know]
Just step out into the light
Yes and let the sun shine bright on you
Just step out into the light
Yes and let the sun shine bright on you
All these changes happen with changes
One day has a good king
One day has a bad king
All the same in time
Be your own king

Blue Water Baboon Farm

Walking by the river's edge
Reach my hands to cup the sky
Run down my arms a bitter blue
Turn to red and the gashes grew

The river taste me
I'm so much more than I have ever been
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Take this my arms
Take this my eyes
Take this my mouth
And god it seems to be
Completely true
Oh, oh, oh, oh...yeah

Walking by the river's edge
Reach my hands to cup the sky
While on my arms a bitter blue
Turn to red and the grew

The river taste me
I'm so much more than I have ever been
Oh, oh, oh

Spotlight

In the Spotlight life is so peachy yeah, yeah, yeah
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million?

A million beating hearts
Behind brick and cold steel piping
Fighting for the top
Fighting for the room to breathe
Bench parks sleepers lie
Cold blanket bedless babies
Here this must stop
I cannot stay

Damn you, big city, black city
Rising up around me, steal my soul away
Big city, black city
Rise and take me over, steal my soul away
But all out in this world
The night it crawls it falls much harder than i recall
Out in this world
A siren calls from every corner

In the Spotlight life is so peachy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All of us in the Spotlight for a reason, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Caught for stealing somebody's riches, no, no, no, no
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million bucks?
Yeah

Came here from a small town
I see my dreams here in the big city
Sour dissapointment
I cannot stay

Damn you, big city, black city
Rising up around me, steal my soul away
Big city, black city
Rise and take me over, steal my soul away
But all out in this world
The night it crawls it falls much harder than i recall
Out in this world
A siren calls from every corner

In the Spotlight life is so peachy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All of us in the spotlight for a reason, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Caught for stealing somebody's riches, no, no, no, no
Wouldn't you like to retire with a million bucks
Yeah

Yeah....
Yeah....
Yeah....
Yeah....

Help Myself

A hungry boy
In a town of one hundred more
The food is out the door
Make me want to help myself help myself
A river red
Pouring from the side of his head
A bullet through the brain
Make him feel different today

Oh colder grow the days
Oh much faster pass the years by
'Til we die

A treasure not my own
I take it, took it, nobody will notice
Well that suits me well
Big house, big yard, help myself, help myself

Every once in a while
To help the helpless comes into style
The mercy mercy mile
1-800-help-myself, help myself

Oh, colder grow the days
Oh, much faster pass the years by
Oh, colder grow the days
Oh, much faster pass the years by
'Til we die

Summers here we're swimming in the river
Summer rain burns holes in flowers
Dangerous hours
Dangerous hours
Dangerous hours

Every now and then
TV preacher tell of heaven
Redemption for a penny a soul
1-800 help yourself, help yourself
Help yourself

Summer's here we're swimming in the river
Summer rain come down come down come down come down
Summer's here we're dancing in the daisies
Summer rain burns holes in flowers
Dangerous hours
Dangerous hours
Dangerous hours

#34 (w/ Words)

Oh, my head lay back on the seating
Been so tired, throw away my surrounding
Like the sun and moon take for granted
Soon we move through the flood and we fade away

Lie about it,
Cry about it,
We'll be ok

Lean upon me,
I'll lean upon you,
We'll be okay

Oh, I lay myself at your feet laughing
Hope mine eye made of the soul choir

Lean upon me,
I'll lean upon you,
We'll be okay

Lie about it,
Cry about it,
Soon fade away

Lie about it,
Cry about it,
We'll be okay

Lean upon me,
I'll lean upon you,
We'll be okay

Heathcliff's Haiku Warriors

My head won't leave me crying
And I lay this one
She won't give me happy
As I lie here alone
My own will give you baby

Call again
Let me be the number
You lead me away again
It was anything I need to
Find my way through this sand (?)
My baby lead my head away
And calling by my head.

Boy
When you away we go
Sending me crawling back over
And crawl back to say

My head, my head won't rely
On the troubles today
And my leave my head in worry
Like the summer rolls
My own won't leave me happy
Don't make me give it back
And on we will go

And have you called me there way before
And I leave this song with you
Feeling colder
than I ever have
She won't be my lady
And some of you fall

And I give you happy
Fools you know
My mind is wide and away
And for well it's gone
And only leave me happy
You wouldn't make me fall

And when we call
Maybe, baby say
And you call
I don't know again
Say too much...

Get In Line

Hey
Mama took everything
See you change and leaving
Come on, come on, baby, yeah
Telling go with you
Man, he don't call back
I'm worried, worried
Take him, take my time to go
And I wonder and I'm happy well say

Yeah, I'm coming
Oh aren't, oh aren't you
Yeah, Tired
And write you, and write you

Yeah, and leave me i'll turn you away
Like a fool
More happy than sad and again
I'm in a hurry, oh
Please don't go away
By the colors out of place
Please don't hurry
Turn your back
Back outside

Yeah, You come
Oh where, oh where
Oh and i tell him, tell him get in line
Oh calling stand again
Watch him, watch him as he smiles
You never can tell it's coming
And i don't want to wonder again
I'm begging you for a female (Sounds like female, at least)
Taking, taking all my time
How old and lay asleep

Oh yeah
I'm coming
Oh aren't, oh aren't you
Yeah, I'm running for ya to, for ya

Yeah, and scurries
And I mind
I don't, I don't

Yeah, leave me back home to my trance
And I'm saying it
Oh, baby
I'm too worried for my health
And the reasons change
Please don't forget
To turn me back
Like a (?)
Please don't worry
Our lover yeah

Yeah, I scream and say
Yeah, turning back, turning back

Oh yeah
Come and turn back the screen
And it's open
Yeah
Darkness it needs me again
Please don't worry
About the colors 'round your eyes
Just because
What lies inside the smile

Oh yeah
Lover lie, lover lie
My running, feet too fast
Well I run back and call it an answer
Come on, come on give me time
And i receive
And i don't even question why
I say I'll come again
I say I'll come again

#40

Share the time again
I spend with you
A friend is always good to have
But a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down at me
I dream of you at times when your by my side
Dream you're not just like you are
So troubled and doubling my pain
Just one more tear
You shed for me
I wish that I could climb inside your mind
And spend some time and hug and hold you
And mold you into what i'd like
But no i can't do this
Just a kiss to spend a while by you
And your familiar smile and voice

I lay awake
Then you lean back and smiling
On you
Most everything you do for me, I say
And the while let's make our way
And feel warm
In the middle of this storm with you
Like an angel

Oh, what the friends say is good is right
I say
When you were again
And you were my friend
Before the lie
This one
Say yes I do
And with you
Sometimes

But while i do my best
With all the rest i leave to you
Can't wait for the hour
And when two things become this
All this trouble from a kiss from you, i'll do it
And then you come up smiling
And I'm thrown
Into I get a little storm with you, I'll do it

Always
Lover, line up and yeah
The road to you is long and I've been on it for a while
And a need a warm embrace
I'll take a break
And say I want to leave you awake

Always

I feel tired...

Don't Burn The Pig

Don't burn the pig
Throw it in the water again
See if it float or sink
Don't burn the pig

What Will Become of Me?

Disputed Between A Song And An Outro Of Jimi Thing

I was falling always
And now I'm falling this way
What will become of me
When I'm all far away

I'm spinnning down
I'm spinning up
Upon this way
Wondering what will become of me
When I'm all far way

I'm spinning down
I'm all away
A greater way

What Will Become of Me?

Toy Soldiers

Toy Soldiers Coming Soon!

Weight of the World

Lyrics from 2/19/96, by Ron Villanueva.

So we wrote,
On precedents and angels,
We build a book,
We build a road out of nothing but a saying,
On governments and police we build a book,
Of how the things we know should be,

So when a man comes with a difference,
A woman comes with an idea,
We crush it down to nothing in the fear that we will lose it,
Open up the books,
I'm guilty of it, too,
Just like all of us,
The information flies without us through,

And say the way,
This may have leave my head run over,
And pass through a night so black I can't see you, oh,

Hope from the speeches spoken in,
Hope from the speeches made day in, day out,
With money paid,
And advertising raging,
A woman and a child sleep well as the day ends
Raising me up,
Raising me like a man, oh, man(?)

Oh mother everything good I've gained I've gained from you,
Oh and mother everything I know I've learned from you, oh,

But, the reign in the house so no one sees me,
Oh, should we brothers and sisters upheave it?

I read a book of a man most worshipped,
A man who most worshipped,
For ideas and for the birth of freedom he showed,
Well, in, oh, in twenty years,
He begged the revolutions come,
So that no pig headed bastard would steal you and I from.../my fun(?)

Rain in the eyes,
Rain in the mourning eye,
Oh, rain/reign in the love of my mother, my brothers,
And I hear the voices of the women calling loudly and (here, Holding, holding, holding),
And nothing should address this like our love for each other...

This land is your land,
This land is my land,
From California to New York Island,
From the redwood forest,
To the Gulf Stream waters,
This land belongs to you and me,

Rain/reign in the eyes that we should lead it,
And the brotherly love and go away,
And rain/reign the eyes that we should lead it...

Hold Me Up

I'm still working on these lyrics... (from 2/19/96)

Hold Me Up
So I can see you
Hold me down
If running's what's got into me
What cries my name
I won't set you away

Oh I'm older
Still the years give
And I'll walk into the big line
And I'll hold me
And soon I'm in the big door
And your deceit is growing big (?!?)

Oh, I know
That you rather be somewhere else
But I'm not here all alone
Trying to wish you so

Hold Me Down
If I've got the fear
Hold Me up
If running's what's gotten into me
Cause cry as I may
These tears won't wash you away
Though I'm older
I cry like a baby everyday

Then I come into the big line
Let it all go out in the wee hours of the morn'
I'm coming back a chased time (?)
And the fool will leap to bed (?)

Cry as I may
These tears won't wash you away

Then I'm --
And I'm all facing at an empty room again
No one's coming to the *something*
I feel the *something* is rising
Oh, *something*

Cry as I may
These tears won't wash you away.

Crazy

Crazy as I may
Make my way through this world
It's for no one but me to share
What direction I turn in

'Cause I am the captain of this ship
Eyes, eyelids, and kissing lips
The same as it was and should be when you will
You give
Roll me back again
You give
Roll me away
You give
Roll the homes back again
You give

The same respect for them that turn and change
And don't you see the strange way
That the girl dances away a day
Even ridiculed display
Won't stop her feet from moving

Because I am the captain of this ship
Eyes, eyelids, and kissing lips
Just the same as it was away (?)

Maybe it's strange
I live a lie
I'm going back again

Oh, turn back
The lights from yourself
And turn the spotlight down
Or turn it on yourself

Because you are the captain of this ship
Eyes, eyelids, and kissing lips
Just the same as for all
I reign and waiting to be

Why should I be hypnotized
By someone else's lie?
Why should I
Oh, take time and pride in
What someone else believes?
Oh, tell me go on
Won't you roll on then maybe you
You give
Roll the backside on the wind
You give
Roll me away
You give
More than ever seen before
You give

Say, It may be all I can
Same as it was
And made me believe my head, my whole

Dreamed I Killed God

Dreamed I killed God, and woke up
Dreamed I killed God, and woke up
He's begging, "Please, please, please."
"No, don't..."

Dreamed I killed God and woke up
Time dries, time dries my mind
Oh, I'll survive, no one can save us
Talk to myself, talk to my soul

I want you to follow
Yes, follow...
It's only, it's only a dream, only

Dreamed I killed God and woke up
He was lying, bleeding, wishing

It's passing
It's passing
Dreamed I killed God
Dreamed I killed God
Is he dead?
And then I dreamt of him

Reconcile Our Differences

As played on 1.29.99 in Syracuse, NY
Special Thanks to Nicolas Gyma.

Oh my dear,
When I was dreaming,
I wish you would take your lies elsewhere
Don't give them to me.

Oh my friend,
Old as you are,
How could I trust you as far
As I could throw your brother?

As to you my love,
My precious baby,
If I die be sure that you meet me up
Where I can stay with you.

Take my flesh,
And eat it down
Drink my blood for every pound you can brother.

We reconcile, our differences,
When I saw God and the devil walking on and on.
We reconcile, our different tastes,
When I saw the devil swimming in the Lord's swimming pool.

To drink his wine,
God forgive him,
Your falling angels doing fine
He's got you under boards.

Oh then God,
This dream may be done,
How he had given rise to him what would we care.

If there were no Judas,
Or there were no devil,
Where would God and this little boy be now?
No where I swear.

Oh it's said,
When it seems extreme,
When all we do is reconcile our differences here.

Bartender

And if I go, before I'm old
Oh brother of mine, please don't forget me if I go
And if I die, before my time
Oh sweet sister of mine, do not regret me if I die

Bartender, please fill my glass for me
With the wine you gave Jesus
That set Him free after three days down

Bartender, please fill my glass deep for me
With the wine you gave Jesus
That set Him free after three days down

On bended knees, I pray, Bartender please
On bended knees, God please

Oh, and if this gold, should steal my soul away
Oh mother of mine, please redirect me if this gold...

Bartender, please fill one up for me
Of the kind you gave Jesus
That set Him free after three days down

On bended knees, I pray, Bartender please
On bended knees, Bartender please

Digging a Ditch

As played on 2.27.99 in Luther College, IA
Special Thanks to Phoenyx16@aol.com.

I'm digging a ditch
Where madness lives
I'm digging a ditch
Where my silence lives
I'm diggin a ditch and when I am through
Digging this ditch I'll dig one for you
Digging a ditch
As black as cold
Digging a ditch
Where I can hide my soul
Digging a ditch
Where my secrets stay

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