Ode to songwriters

All those words in all those songs, I wonder what they mean
Speak of loves and social wrongs and everything in between
A Window to your soul, your thoughts everything that can't be bought
And everything between

They wrote the songs to protest the war, to reclaim lovers lost
Politics behind it all but who would bear the cost
They sang with such emotion see, and through their songs they spoke to me
Although they'd never know

How Much a song can change your life
How Much a song can change the world. 

Everyday my thoughts are turned into a song for you
For anyone who takes the time to listen to
Thoughtful rhyme and spare a thought
Listen Hard and maybe they will talk to you

When all the soldiers walked the line to do to die to kill
As we watched around the world the leaders sign the bill
A single solid protest voice, rang above the bar room noise
Said to me one man could make a change

When Lennon Sang, "Give peace a chance"
When Jeff Buckley Sang, he sang about romance
Well Jimi, Jimi used guitar to sing. 
What others saw as future days, made me stop and still
I wonder





Without You

Oh, Hold on baby
Oh Hold on baby
It's been my song for I was once lost in time

Oh hold on baby
Oh hold on baby
It's been to long for I was once lost in time

Oh for if I think too much
And for if I drink too much
And I know time's not on my side

Oh Hold on baby
Oh Hold on baby
I'm growing older without you

Oh Hold on baby
Oh Hold on baby
I'm growing colder without you

Tomorrow's just another day without you
Tomorrow's just another day I can't escape my hopeless fate,
Tomorrow's just another day without you

Oh Hold on baby I'm afraid to place my heart into your hands
For If I go on this path I know, Could I ever let it show
I'm growing colder without you

Ohh if you can't believe
Save a little time, in Time we'll see
Save a little place, for you and me
Keep me from my grace, slip away from mee

Ohh hold on baby

It will be alright again
It will all be just fine
If you Believe in the strength that you carry in your heart is gonna
Be enough to get you through
Hope you know that I'll be there, to guide you j




Alright again

Look upon an old familiar face
The one who brought me here
Haven't seen you in quite a while
Since you moved away

Do you remember all those times we had when we were younger
Down by the bay
Times back then they seemed so easy seemed so easy
My how things change

It will be alright again. 
It will all be just fine
If you Believe

Don't you need my shoulder
To dry your eyes
Don't you need someone just to listen just to listen
To dry your eyes
ust to lend a hand,
I know we're gonna see the sun again
If you believe. 

The storm passed you by
And Everything's alright
Don't you worry don't you worry anymore
Everything's alright
If you believe




Passive Recreational Lover

I don't care about, my old friends,
I don't care about anyone new
Just in case you were wondering
I don't even care about you

I'm a passive recreational lover
Passive half emotional friend
Strung out knocked down convenience lover
Lead me to a bitter end
I'm sitting here

I'm sitting here, just thinking
What I'm going to do with myself
I find it easy to be different,
Just as long as you hide your view

I'm a passive recreational lover
Passive half emotional friend
Strung out knocked down convenience lover
Lead me to a bitter end. 




 
 
 
 
 
 

I love you

Sorry that I made you cry and made you want to go
Sorry that you feel this way but baby don't you know
Just how much you mean to me in every single way
Sorry I don't tell you girl they way I know you want me to and
I ------ I ------

I love you, I love you I love you I love you
And sometimes that's enough

I think we've got it right but sometimes it gets tough
All those other things in life as if there weren't enough
To take my thoughts away my girl from loving you a little more
But can you stay by me forever girl because

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
And Sometimes that's enough

And when I leave you girl to travel on my way
All that I can think is how much I want to stay
To be beside you late at night and hold you in my arms
I get this feeling, that somehow you're the one because

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
And Sometimes that's enough



If you were there

Oh how moments pass away
Live for the moment seize the day and I
Can't remember what you say and I
Can't remember yesterday

Preach to many speak to a few
Always remember that I love you
Oh how life can cut you down but I
Never have the time to frown

If you were there
I'm sure you'd know the way I feel right now
Oh If you were there
I'm sure you'd know the way I feel right now

So I have no sympathy,
All those things been done to me
And I can't remember what you say
I can't remember yesterday

If you were there
I'm sure you'd know the way I feel right now
Oh If you were there
I'm sure you'd know the way I feel right now

So I wait here patiently
Waiting for some empathy and I
Can't remember what you say
I can't remember yesterday

If you were there
I'm sure you'd know the way I feel right now
Oh If you were there
I'm sure you'd know the way I feel right now



Runaway from the truth

Oh I'm exposed to the cold hard truth
It justifies the means to the end
I'm silent of my thoughts
I always want to think
And I said I would like to think all I said was true
And I would always want to mean all I said to you
When All I did was runaway from the truth

Oh hide my head in the sand it's true
All I'm dreaming for is you
I'll float away on clouds of grace
Humour all the things that place a burden on my heart
When All I did was run away from the truth

Oh I can't wait, baby I can't contemplate ohhh
Oh I can't wait, cause I've got so much on my plate
When All I did was run away from you



Golden Box

This is most strange that she but now
Is falling for reflections of herself somehow
She's chasing after everything in sight, I might
Take her in another place and time

She has these things she keeps
In a little golden box beside her bed
She sings, she said it helps her keep from feeling bad
Although, she knows it's just another state of mind

I still want to know so much more about here
She will want to go when I tell her where
I know that it's me that's making here crazy

Its like forgetting where I left my key
In fact it's not that fun at all
And how it turned from such a tragedy
To the most inebriating remedy
Oh these things


What's a memory

Shadows dancing round me and I'm clutching at your heart
Will I make it home I'll just keep driving through the night
All that I can think of is sleep rest my eyes and hold you there
What if all I thought was wrong temptations there but I know a way
I can steal into the night
Reveal a lovers plight oh

If I was serious you'd know by now all of them stand up and say to me
Have I seen you somewhere before or is it me is it me
Did I kiss you in a bar one night some crazy scene that I can't remember
All these things coming from my past was I really there at all

I had some times I can't remember when all I did was fall asleep fall asleep

Now I want to drive back to that place so I can see your face again
Pick up the pieces that I left behind what about now, and what about tomorrow
What about in ten years from now who's life can I borrow
Beg and steal to find a memory long gone

What's a memory what's a memory what's a memory if I can't remember
What's a memory what's a memory what's a memory at all
 
 
 
 

Human Disgrace

I can't understand why this guitar in my hands
Provides me with a voice it's just music and noise
Some of our people don't have no choice
All because of a government choice to imprison them
To imprison them

How are they so different from you and me
They want to raise a family safe and be free
In a free world without guns and bombs and
Tanks driving past their front door at dawn door at dawn

What do we do to slap them in the face
As soon as they arrive they get thrown in a cage
I can't believe we do this to refugees
They're only trying to flee from a killing spree killing spree

Then we have the nerve to protest
Yeah well you know that we're doing our best
To find them a place back in their home land
Totally ignoring the reason they ran it was death
And destruction
From the death and destruction

And while we're at it lets tear down the trees
Pump all the oil from under the sea
I can't believe this is the human race
Have we become such a fucking disgrace a disgrace

The situation can be remedied we need
You and I to speak up and to be
Just a little more tolerant of all we see
And stop thinking in terms of money and greed money and greed

Try to make a difference in someone's life
Only then are you free to die
With a conscience free from all your wrongs
A conscience, a guitar and a song guitar and song
Guitar and a song




On and On

Living out of an overnight bag
Moving around from house to house
I'm tired of falling asleep on the floor
Tired of wanting so much more than I have

On and on it rolls around again
On and on it rolls around again

I'm so anxious to find a place to call home
Lay my head down and get a little stoned
Spend some quality time with my girl
Read today's paper and bitch about the world
What can you see getting better
What can you see getting better

On and on it rolls around again
On and on it rolls around again

Life's secret message has dropped me a line
To teach me a lesson and waste my time
Trying to keep my feet on the ground
While I'm keeping on trying to reach for the clouds
Oh what am I supposed to do with my time
Working for the man then end up dying
Well I'm not so sure if I want it that way
To keep me from giving up well I just say

On and on it rolls around again
On and on it rolls around again

Well I guess there's just no point to it all
I'm not about to give up and grow old
View it with a silent contempt in my eye
No one will know any different when I say

On and on it rolls around again
On and on it rolls around again
On and on
On and on



Bide my time

Bide my time for ya
Wait in line for you
Don't know how I feel for you just yet

I don't mind waiting
In a line for you
Let's make up the rules as we go along

She won't cry for you
She won't lie for you
Let's just make up the rules as we go along

I've been staring at you
Staring from afar
Don't quite know how to say hello just yet

When I do you'll know
How I feel for you
I hope I am all you dreamed of

I won't cry for you
I won't lie for you
Let's just make up the rules as we go along

Oh it's like that feeling
When you've started something new
Oh it's like that feeling
That I get when I'm with you yeah




Media Baby

So many questions
So many answers
Running round in my head
All tainted by the media

Trying to find the real truth
Is something that I can't fight
It's not through lack of trying
It's all tainted by prejudice

Oh, they tell us how to think and I said

Don't want to be another media baby
Don't want to be another mass produced idea
Ohh and I lie awake wondering
Don't want to be another media baby
Don't want to be another wheel in the machine
Ohh and I lie awake wondering

So much conflict
So much bloodshed
So many enemies
Fighting with nothing to win

Ooh if I could spend some time
In somebody else's shoes
Then I'd know how they feel
And I'd sleep at night time
Oh
They tell us how to think and I say

Don't want to be another media baby
Don't want to be another mass produced idea
Oh and I lie awake wondering
Don't want to be another media baby
Don't want to be another wheel in the machine
Ooh I lie awake wondering



Hey Amore

Faking Pleasure
Faking pain
Faking desperation in your eyes you will have it your way

So much contact
So much said
I could do to hold your hand
Whisper in your ear till it bled

Ohhhhhhhhhh won't you be my shoulder

I want something more
But to get it I would lose it all
I think things I should never say
I'll do tomorrow what I should today

I see beyond these wall
I see behind the mask you wear
I see all your thoughts and I'm alive
For one more day
For one more day

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh won't you be my shoulder

Hey amore, hey amore, hey amore
Hey amore, hey amore, hey amore




Three wishes

Be careful what you wish for
Cause it just might come true
Three wishes and a song girl
Reminds me of you
Be careful what you dream of be careful what you do
I've seen so many shining stars
Burn and fade burn and fade like you

My mother always told me
Look out for what you say
Don't go round telling other mans stories
About back in the day
Be careful what you said boy
Watch out for your words
Don't go around breaking young girls hearts
You'll surely get
Get what you deserve

Three wishes on a birthday cake bound to bring you luck
Three wishes from a wishing well fall and you'll get stuck
Three wishes from a wishing tree you read it in a book
Three wishes from desire within into your heart into your heart I look

If I could have three wishes
I know just what I would do
I'd give them all to you girl
So you could wish me back with you back with you yeah

Three wishes on a birthday cake bound to bring you luck
Three wishes from a wishing well fall and you'll get stuck
Three wishes from a wishing tree you read it in a book
Three wishes from desire within into your heart into your heart I look



Dangerous

It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much

Before you came along I was fine by myself
Now I can't imagine being with nobody else
Oh and if something were to happen to you
Surely I don't know what I would do

It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much

Now I know time between us has gone by fast
Now I couldn't bear for us to part
Girl you know that you have my heart
I promised it to you right from the start

It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much

Girl I think about you every single day
Can't believe something so good has finally come my way
Oh when you tell me that you feel the same way
It makes me smile on the inside

It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much
It's dangerous loving someone so much



Jaded

I am jaded help me out
Listen to me scream and shout
Do you know what I want
Do you know what I need
Do you know me at all
Do you know what I need can you give it to me
Right now

I am jaded help me out
Listen to me scream and shout
Do you know what I want
Do you know what I need
Do you know me at all
Do you know what I need
Can you give it to me
Right now