***

THERE YOU GO AGAIN

Ooo-um
I get it darling you are getting cold
You had it steady it was on the road
You’re ridin’ so dirty, dirty and fast but
You’re goin’ three sixty right off of the track

There you go again
Out of the cave into the freezing flame
There you go again
There you go in the media, insane

Now is there anyway left to go
The highest highs, the lowest lows
A friend with a doctor, a friend with a gun
You got big trouble, you better run run run run

There you go again
Walkin’ straight into the freezing flame
There you go again
There you go in the media, insane

Tell me baby, how’s it gonna go
Who’s gonna show you the things you don’t know
Who’s gonna hush, who’s gonna hush your sweet mellow

Just keep your eyes on the flyin’ sky
You’re blind-sided, you’re hypnotized
Fast talkin’ and riding so high
But the gobblin’s gonna get you by and by and by and by

There you go again
Out of your cave into the freezing rain
There you go again
There you go in the media
There you go again
Out of your cave into the freezing rain
There you go again
In the flash of the media, insane
Oh-whoa
Un-oh

***

WTF

How much talking does it take
Talking ’bout your bad mistakes
Gonna to talk you wide awake
Talk until your ego breaks

The past is dust, undo concern
There’s hell to pay and it’s your turn
The hardest thing you’ll ever learn
Is what bridge to cross and what bridge to burn
WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN

WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN

How much talking does it take
Talk about your bad mistakes
Gonna to talk you wide awake
Talk until your ego breaks, yeah

What’s the matter with you?

WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN
WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN
WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN

Ooo-yeah

How much talkin’

WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN

WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS

WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN
WHAT BRIDGE TO CROSS AND WHAT BRIDGE TO BURN

Ooo-yeah

***

RED VELVET CAR

No need standing in the rain
Just call and tell me where you are
That icy wind will bring the pain
And I don’t care if it’s far

Don’t sit cryin’ in your room
Stealin’ candy from the jar
I will be there very soon
In my red velvet car

Maybe you got hit real hard
Maybe you are on the floor
People screamin’ out your name
‘Cause they don’t trust you anymore

I’m comin’ for you, I comin’ for you, I’m comin’ for you, I’m comin’
Oh yeah
I’m comin’ for you, I comin’ for you, I’m comin’ for you, yeah yeah
I’m comin’, yeah yeah
Oay

So pull your weary bones inside
You can sleep while I drive
Watch the moon out on the lake, I won’t even touch the brake
In my red velvet car
In my red velvet car
My red velvet car

***

QUEEN CITY

Once when I was just a child
Little creature runnin’ wild
In Queen City
Something happened to me there
They slip it to me in the air
In Queen City

Evening shadows started to glow
Colors like you’ll never know
Sitting pretty on the hill
Ancient of a million thrills

Yo-ho, yo-ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in my leaky boat
Yo-ho, yo-ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in my leaky boat

Take me home
Home

Later on, I got around
Stories of the underground
In Queen City
Tales of love and squandering and
Tales of spirits wandering
In Queen City

Tumble, crawl, and reaching bold
Fill it till the glass is full
Standing, screaming, on a hill
Little creature loves me still

Yo-ho, yo-ho, gotta keep afloat
Crazy cradle in my leaky boat
Yo-ho, yo-ho, got to keep afloat
Crazy cradle in this leaky boat

Can you take me home
Take me, take me back home

Gotta keep afloat now
In my leaky boat, hmm
(Take me, take me, home)
In Queen City
In my leaky boat
Queen City, yeah
(Take me, take me, home)
In Queen City
(Queen City)
(Take me, take me, home)
In my leaky boat
Gotta keep afloat now
(Take me, take me, home)
Queen City (whoa)
In my leaky boat
In my leaky boat

***

HEY YOU

You’ve been down this lonely road
You have kissed the face of sorrow
You have bought but you’ve been sold
But you still won’t buy tomorrow

You are one of a kind
You are some kind of fine
Hey you
(Hey you)
Until the heavens and the stars refuse to shine
(Hey you)
Until the darkness and the light decide to rhyme
(Hey you)
Until forever and a day run out of time, hey

Swear by my September star
I will go where you are going
Forever’s never very far
As my love is overflowing

But the cards up in your sleeve
Did you fumble with your keys
Hey you
(Hey you)
Until the heavens and the stars refuse to shine
(Hey you)
Until the darkness and the light decide to rhyme
(Hey you)
Until forever and a day run out of time, hey

Na-na-nas

Chilly wind of wanderlust
I’ve been out here for so long
Chokin’ on the diamond dust
And the symphony is gone, gone, gone

Are you tangled in the trees
Did it bring you to you knees
Have you had enough of me
Hey you

Hey you
Hey you
Hey you
Na-na-nas

***

WHEELS

Night inside the city
Empty sidewalks
Stretching under dizzy lights
Rain is hummin’
The streets are runnin’
Underneath the neon lights
We run together
We’ll run forever
Outta here ridin’ the wheels

Look at pretty windows
At shiny people
Statues under sparkling lights
Just take a picture
And a melted moment
Flashin’ on the crazy ride
Just close your eyes now
And breathe a sigh now
We’re gettin’ outta here
Outta here
Ridin’ the wheels
(Ridin’ the wheels)
Ooo-uh
Ridin’ the wheels
(Ridin’ the wheels)
Ridin’ the wheels

(Wheels)

Outta here, ridin’ the wheels
(Ridin’ the wheels)
Ridin’ the wheels
Ridin’ the wheels
(Ridin’ the wheels)
Ridin’, ridin’ the wheels
(Ridin’ the wheels)
Ridin’, ridin’, ridin’ the wheels
Ridin’ the wheels
Ooo-oh
Oh
Aye

***

SAFRONIA’S MARK

Down the winding alley ways of Soto
Where the rain is painting down the streets
Where she’s walkin’ evey morning
I don’t know

Though her eyes are far away, she looks at you
Through her windows, darkness she don’t see
Secrets in her keeping, solitary
Just a fleeting glimpse like floating out to sea

Safronia’s marked, she took the sting
She’s fillin’ the colors in under her skin
Safronia’s heart with only one wing
How can she fly
How can she fly on a broken wing
That carries the stain of everything
Safronia’s soul is wandering
She just walks on by

Suddenly she’s standing there before you
Reaching out her arms just like a child
Her face is like a door you wanna walk on through
And somethin’ deep inside just might belong to you

Safronia’s mark, she took the sting
She’s fillin’ the colors in under her skin
Safronia’s heart with only one wing
How can she fly
How can she fly with a broken wing
That carries the stain of everything
Safronia’s soul is wandering
Walks on by

Hey, Safronia’s marked, she took the sting
She’s fillin’ the colors in underneath the skin
Safronia’s heart with only one wing
How can she fly
How can she fly with a broken wing
That carries the stain of everything
Safronia’s soul, oh yeah
She just walks on by
She just walks on by

***

DEATH VALLEY

I looked outside of my window
There was fear in the pit of my heart
There was desert as far as the eye could see
Blistering, dusty, and hard
I trusted you in desperation
I said heaven forbid this place
It’s hotter than hell and I’m loosing my cool
It’s just not in the human race

No, no
(Way down low)
Death Valley
(A thousand miles to go)
Ho-ooo
(Way down low)
Hey there Death Valley, yeah
(A thousand miles to go)

Ooo, what if the engine should break down
What if the tire should blow
What if my soul should slip off this bus
And land in the inferno
Tossing and tumbling onward
Watchin’ in vain for change
A windmill, a billboard, a Joshua Tree
A rusted old home on the range

Yeah
(Way down low)
Hey, hey, Death Valley, yeah
(A thousand miles to go)
Death Valley
(Way down low)
Hey, oh, oh, oh
(A thousand miles to go)

Slippery sand in the back of my throat, silica in my eyes
Pretty soon this will all be another bad dream if we make it
To the other side
If we make it
If we make it

Death Valley, yeah
(A thousand miles to go)
Aye-yeah Death Valley
(Way down low)
Death Valley
(A thousand miles to go)
Hey

(A thousand miles to go)
The human race
No
Hmm, none of the human race
Uh-yeah
I got slippery sand in the back of my throat
Silica in my eyes
Just another bad bad dream
If we make it to the other side

***

SUNFLOWER

Sunflower
Blooming in your finest hour
You have come into your power
And you spill it over me

Such petals
Standing shameless in the air
Catch the eyes of other lovers
With the colors that you wear

I have only seen you grow
From the seed I used to know
In the burning breath of summer
Gardens off to glow

Sunflower
Just the way you speak my name
I will never be the same
Oh yeah

Sunflower
Never steal your eyes away
Even when the seasons change
A little sun, a little rain

I have only seen you grow
From the seed I used to know
In the burning breath of summer
In the gardens off to glow

Sunflower
A little sun, a little rain
(Even when the seasons change)
Even when the seasons change
Sunflower
Even when the seasons change
A little sun, a little rain

***

SAND

I asked a distant star
I wonder where you are
The shadow at my door
A friend who is no more
I watched him go to the wind
I close my eyes
Goodbye, goodbye my friend

Friends and family
The branches of the tree
Sheltered in the rain
Telling me again
No matter how raindrops run
World will ture
Turn back to the sun
Yeah, yeah

A trick of light upon our eyes
A trick of time upon our lives
Ancient songs cry out to you
Surely this sweet sand is slipping through

I watched him go to the wind
I close my eyes
Goodbye, goodbye my friend yeah

A trick of light upon our eyes
A trick of time upon our lives
Ancient songs cry out to you
And surely this sweet sand is slipping through
Slipping through the glass of time
Surely this sweet sand will run on by and by
And while the days come down to you
You are just a traveler passing through, yeah
Yeah

***

IN THE COOL

I’m not a hero
Not a saint
I’m just a fever tryin’ to cool it
Through the bedlam days

I’m not leadin’
Or mis-led
I’m just tumblin’ through the sun
Heals over head

But in the cool there’s a place
I’d lay away the day
And forsake all the hours unkind
When the moon melts the sun
Take my dreams and let ‘em run
And roll all this heartache down to none

Road I travel
High and low
People shake their heads and wonder
If that’s the way I go

And I’ve been fighting
And I am sore
I’m just an accidential soldier
In a private war

But in the cool there’s a place
I’d lay away the day
And forsake all the hours unkind
When the moon melts the sun
Take my dreams and let ‘em run
And roll all this trouble down to none
Yeah, when the moon melts the sun
Take my dreams and let me run
And roll all this trouble down to none
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The Tunnel Of Love
by Sander Roscoe Wolff ©

I met a woman at a traveling show
Who stood in line at the Tunnel of Love
Complaining:

“I don’t understand why its always my fate
That every boy I meet is a freak or a geek!
I’m not pretty, but I’m not plain…”

I swear I’d heard the same refrain
From someone I knew in a bad dream once.

“I’m not pretty, but I’m not plain,” she repeated,
Tapping her ash as we were seated,
“But love has, somehow, eluded me.”

The barker stepped forward, admonishing us:
“Keep all your limbs, heads, and tentacles inside the car!”

“My mommy told me I’d never go far
But here I am, with you, and that star
Flashing red and white in the painted sky
Tells me that tonight is different, tho I don’t know why.”

Then the car lurched forward through the heart-shaped doors
And shrieks and roars of lovers everywhere
Echoed in my brain, that same refrain,
That same refrain, the wolf-cry howl of
“Love me, embrace me, fill me, fulfill me!
Make me feel whole, or forget that I’m empty!”

Then our car in the tunnel derailed from its track
And I said, “we are stuck, we may never get back.”
So we made sweet freak love on the side of the road
And after, our red velvet car was towed.

In the cool evening air, as I watched her depart,
I knew she wouldn’t capture my heart
‘Cause, though she certainly wasn’t plain,
Her tentacle suckers were really a pain.