What’s Wrong

What’s wrong with what your eyes are seeing? Does this really all add up?
What’s wrong with the words we’re saying Here in the dark when we talk about love?
Don’t you feel a hand on your shoulder And a soft voice in your ear
Telling you honey you better beware, And let me make it clear

There ain’t no soul in a world gone black
There ain’t no point in looking back
There’s nothing here like the things you see
That you think you see in me

What’s wrong with you darling anyway You let it go so long
And listened to the lies But you were never half so strong
As you wanted to believe you were, As you told yourself over
When I was lying deep in someone’s arms, lying underneath their cover

There ain’t no need to cry no more tears
They won’t do no good from here
I got nothing left to wipe them dry
And if I knew, I’d tell you why

What’s wrong with you that it took so long, to open up your eyes
And see who it was sleeping in your bed, and waiting to slip inside
What’s wrong that you didn’t see it coming, From the start when you heard my name
What’s the matter that you think in all of this there’s anything else to blame

But the words that I told you were real
And the promise I said I would keep
And the road that went nowhere so long
I can’t find the answers, I don’t know what’s wrong
Please tell me what’s wrong
What’s missing, what’s wrong

Beneath The Red Moon

Before this night is finished, before the dark gets through
Before the red moon climbs up through the sky over everything we do
For every empty promise, for every broken word
For everyone who’s been on their knees for every little hurt

Just count up all the miles on the road as they’re slipping by
And tell me if we try can we be the same again
And the darker gets the road, show me a little bit of your soul
If it’s all there is, then that’s all you got to know

When faith is broken on you and there’s a hard rain falling down
When beauty sleeps far from your door and nobody’s coming around
When the answers that you need, don’t seem to want to be found
And every step you want to run is like crawling on the ground

Just count up all the miles on the road as they’re slipping by
And tell me if we try can we be the same again
And the darker gets the road, show me a little bit of your soul
If it’s all there is, then that’s all you got to know

If love is all you’re seeking here, then love comes with a price
For every confused, misused, abused one of us tonight
Looking for just one light in the darkness of their lives
In the hollow of their loves and in the sweetness of their time

And when innocence has faded, and you learn how to be cruel
There’s just one lesson here to learn that I can teach to you
That’s if hope is all you seem to find when courage is what you seek
Then take what hope there is and find something to believe

Just count up all the miles on the road as they’re slipping by
And tell me if we try can we be the same again
You’re just another one for the road, with some heart and a little soul
If that’s all there is, then that’s all you gotta know
If that’s all you got, then that’s all you got I know

Out Of Order

Everything will change, when you just close your eyes
You know that you can’t fight it, you can’t leave it behind
There ain’t nowhere to hide cause it comes to everyone
Every mother’s daughter, every father’s son
Every night and every day no matter what you do
Something’s coming creeping crawling up on you
And it won’t let go until it’s through

Well it’s broken and it’s used, it’s out of order
It’s breaking down on you, it’s out of order
Just because you don’t want to know, don’t mean that it ain’t so
I know it, I’m out of order

Can’t you see it right before your face
Everything you do could be your last mistake
When you try to hold it close, it all just falls away
But everything must pass, nothing’s built to stay
Well the things you thought mattered weigh nothing in your mind
What’s the point in looking when there’s nothing left to find
Might as well be trying to find the darkness when you’re blind

Well it’s broken and it’s used, it’s out of order
It’s breaking down on you, it’s out of order
Just because you don’t want to know, don’t mean that it ain’t so
I know it, I’m out of order

I want to burn out the places that I’ve been
I’m standing on the outside and I’m looking in
I need to know just where in this world to begin

Well it’s broken and it’s used, it’s out of order
It’s breaking down on you, it’s out of order
Just because you don’t want to know, don’t mean that it ain’t so
I know it, I’m out of order

I Belong

I was born on the far side of the river, other side of the tracks
Where I was born there’s a storm blowing, and I’m not going back
Till it’s blown away everything that’s lying in it’s path
And it has faded to a memory and that cross is off my back

I left before the winds blew up, but not in time to beat the rain
I left and walked until I remembered my own secret name
I did not stop to rest or sleep until I’d found some place
To wash my hands and rest my eyes and let it fade away

I belong some place far away
I belong some place far away

There was shelter waiting in the city between the gutter rats and the lights
Man I wasn’t looking for pity, but I found it in her arms that night
She said “I’ll stay here with you in this place, if you’ll only let me stay”
I saw her waiting back there still as I walked away

I belong some place far away
I belong some place far away

Tonight I’m thinking about the river, and the storm on the other side
Tonight I’m thinking how I’ll cross that river when that storm has died
I’ll carry with me in my heart, all I’ve learned in between
And I’ll be bringing with me what I’ve gained, and everything I’ve seen

I belong some place far away
I belong some place far away

To Be Alone

She says she don’t know what to do with her life
Or if anything’s worth the sacrifice
Baby I don’t have the answers left inside of me anyway

I say I don’t know how to face up to it all
She says she can’t see passed the point where we fall
It’s just too tough being something you’re not these days

She says “Tonight don’t leave me alone. I’m not too good at being alone
You know I don’t have a heart of stone. We were not meant to be alone”

Now tell me baby how it is it’s gonna be
She says “I get the feeling you’ve been here before, just like me
Let me tell you something that I’ve learned, and I like you so I’ll tell you for free

She says “Tonight don’t leave me alone. I’m not too good at being alone
You know I don’t have a heart of stone. We were not meant to be alone”

So tonight, don’t leave me alone. Tonight I don’t want to be alone
I’m miles away from home, and tonight I don’t want to be alone

Two For The Road

Put all your faith in the burning sky
And turn your wheels into the sun
Run with the river till the river runs dry
And tell yourself this chance is your last one
Faith is broken, and hope has faded
When it’s dark tonight just think we nearly made it

The city’s closing down, the lights are going out
Pretty soon there won’t be nothing left
The last train’s left the station and is running down the track
It’s all over now so babe let’s drink a toast
To broken ramblers, two for the road

Throw a coin in the air to decide our fate
See what destiny has in mind of us
It all comes down to blind chance anyway
But that coin has got three faces and I’m all out of luck
There’s your face and there’s mine and someone else outside
Waiting for the ending of our rollercoaster ride

But the circus has left town, the lights are going out
Pretty soon there won’t be nothing left
Just the memory of music and a shadow of what we had
It’s all over now so babe let’s drink a toast
To broken ramblers, two for the road

One for the road that leads back the way it came
And one for the hard road that goes nowhere
One for the lies we can’t help but tell
Watching all our promises as each one fell

The city’s closing down, the lights are going out
Pretty soon there won’t be nothing left
Just the memory of music and a shadow of what we had
It’s all over now so babe let’s drink a toast
To broken ramblers, two for the road

Not In My House

You can follow a dream right through to it’s end
And if you can’t keep it real you could always pretend
You can lament it all that you don’t have a friend,
But not in my house
You can’t tell lies and you can’t hide the truth
You can’t pretend that there’s more to you
Than there really is to get you through
Not in my house

Not in my house
Not in my house
Not in my, not in my house

Well you can’t bring hate, you gotta bring love
And I’ll be the judge if you’re bringing enough
Show some guts and you won’t be judged
No, not in my house
Well you can’t say nigger and you can’t say kike
You can’t bleed your heart when we pass the mic
Don’t show us your soul nailed high on a pike
Not in my house

Not in my house
Not in my house

You can’t get by on another’s grace – Not in my house
You can’t sit next to your chosen race – Not in my house
Nobody cares if you can’t last the pace – Not in my house
Not in my house
I don’t care who you been before - Not in my house
You don’t carry that shit in through the door – Not in my house
Nobody cares which side you’re fighting for – Not in my house
Not in my house

Last Train

Now who’d have thought that it would ever have ended like this?
Who’d have seen it all turning out so bad?
I guess the way we walk in ain’t the way we walk back out again
Guess there’s just no reason to be mad

We tried our damndest, we gave it everything
But in the end it was just bigger than us
All the songs are sung, and everything is broken
There’s nothing left to do...but board the last train

I couldn’t see you when it was all falling apart
To ask you to see it in time to pull me back out
Instead of turning blind and deaf to it all slipping away
Now we’re staring across the room trying to figure out how

We tried our damndest, we gave it everything
But in the end it was just bigger than us
All the songs are sung, and everything is broken
There’s nothing left to do...but board the last train

Even

Even when the sky is turning black, don’t look out for me, I won’t be back
I’ll be moving further up the road, you’ll feel it in my passing as I go
Even if you fall, I won’t be there to catch you
After it all, I don’t have nothing for you

Even after everything’s been said, after all the words they have been read
There’s still nothing new for us to know, we’re standing in the rain out in the cold
Even if it’s gone, vanished before your eyes
Don’t worry at all, don’t try to figure out why

Even when everything is lost, I don’t want to think about the cost
Even if we’ve given all we own, and you’re left there in the dark all alone
Don’t look to me to guide you, I don’t know the way myself
I won’t be there behind you, there won’t even be nobody else

Comes Down To This

Maybe it’s worth a try, they say anything’s worth a try
Try to find new ways, to say the same old good byes
Now me, I don’t know, I’m inclined to just let it go
And let it roll, and see just where’s it’s gonna roll

If you don’t do anything, don’t do what you’re supposed to do
You can’t ever go back, start over even if you want to
I’m running fever, and it’s running away with me
But it’s cleared my eyesight, and I think that I can finally see

That the things you want are never all the things you get
But maybe you can find something you need
And getting lost out on a road you thought you knew
Is easier than you think it’s gonna be
But whatever it was or it is
It all comes down to this

So maybe nothing, maybe nothing’s worth a try
Cause in the end, we’re just always gonna say good byes
So me, I guess I’m inclined to just let it go
Just let it roll, and man I think I know just where it’s gonna roll

Cause the things you want are never all the things you get
But maybe you can find something you need
And getting lost out on a road you thought you knew
Is easier than you think it’s gonna be
But whatever it was or it is
It all comes down to this

Look at me now, look at us then
Before the world came crashing down to its end
In another time, and a far off place
And the mirror looked back with a whole other face
Now it’s passed like the miles beneath my wheels
And I don’t know just how to feel
I don’t know at each day’s end if I was wrong
Or if this really is where I belong... down here

Listen to these voices, and try to hear these words
They hardly come anymore like they once understood
Driving within me, every nerve and bone
Needed like water to wash the hardened stones
To break to the silence and the stillness down
That hangs heavy over this quiet lonely town
Where I have learned to be still but lost my voice
Like I ever rolled the dice or even had a choice...down here

Come out at midnight come out at dawn
Come out and find out where you’ve been going wrong
Come see what’s changed since we put skin to steel
Come see what’s left from what we used to feel
Come see what’s passed and what is left to find
Come look deep inside what’s on your mind
Come back and haunt me lest I can’t recall
How we spent our time before the fall ...down here

Tonight I it feels I’ve gone so far behind, and can’t get back ahead
When you ain’t got nothing left to guard you find something you can lose instead
And what’s lost can’t ever be re-found no matter what you do
But all I know is there’s something wrong in me, when there’s something wrong in you

So if you’re broken down then let me fix you
And if you’re falling down hard let me fall with you
If it’s not right in your world as you turn out the lights
Let me stay here with you, and make it alright

Don’t try to tell me what it is I feel, even though I need the words
It’s nothing new but what I already know, and everything I’ve heard
And with everything I’ve heard, still I cannot seem to budge
From standing over everything I’ve done, as the jury and the judge

So if you’re broken down then let me fix you
And if you’re falling down hard let me fall with you
If it’s not right in your world as you turn out the lights
Let me stay here with you, and make it alright

Outside there’s a new rain falling, and down the streets it’s running hard
I hear the echoes of voices calling to me from out of the dark
But I turn the lights down and I won’t listen I don’t want to hear those words
That wanna take me back to that world

They all seem to know my name, they whisper my secrets that I once told
I’ve lived too long in the quiet, and the blood in my veins ran cold
I try so hard not to hear it, but it stirs me up and I can’t hide
It’s gonna have its way, I can’t deny

I put skin to steel for the first time and see what might arrive
I put voice to the emptiness I feel, and man it feels good to be alive
To wake from a dream I’ve been dreaming in which I thought I was fulfilled
And find once again the only thing that’s real

Out in the rain I’m standing alone now finding a voice that had been stilled
Letting whatever’s coming wash over me, until once again my will
Will take me out of this darkened room, and let me once again see your face
And let my find my way back to our secret place

Live a life hard and it’ll harden you
Live a life on something built to last
Live a life with some hope for tomorrow
Live your life not buried in your past

Live a day when the burden that you carry
Is just a little lighter than before
Live a day when you don’t have to keep from crying
Live a day not dragged down by the days that went before

I live a life looking for peace or passion
I live a life trying to decide
I live a life waiting for something that won’t come
I live a life in which that life is passing by

Hold on to anything that heals you
Of all the damage that gets done
When you let go of love and lay don’t with lies
Hold on to anything that comes

Live a life hard and it’ll harden you
Live a life on something built to last
Live a life with some hope for tomorrow
Live your life not buried in your past

Well the fever’s back and running, rushing through your veins
You can turn around whichever way but it always ends the same
It always ends up trouble the kind you can’t resist
And ends up feeling no different to like this

I got so much left to tell you, though I think you’ve heard before
Every lesson that I’ve learned and a couple maybe more
You’ve seen it all roll by too hard to ever miss
And knew that it would end up just like this

Lives get left at the lost and found, I take a look inside
But sleeping dogs are best left sleeping where they lie
Where the faith that you have gathered that you can make it only if
You can keep your hope alive in the face of it like this

Hang around a little while till we reach the end at least
And see if we can learn to live like this

Tonight I don’t want to talk too much
Tonight I don’t want to talk too much
Tonight I don’t want to talk too much
I got nothing left to say and nobody to listen

There ain’t nobody to listen
There ain’t nobody to listen
There ain’t nobody to listen
And no words worth hearing if they stood me the time

So I need to find a little quiet
I need to find a little quiet
I need to find a little quiet
I need to find a little quiet and get my thoughts gathered together

And find something good in all this mess
Yeah find something good in all this mess
Oh find me something good in all this mess
Man if I cant rise above it I’m gonna end up dead

There’s something buried inside me
There’s something buried deep inside me
It’s way down deep inside of me
Well it’s way down deep inside me and I’ll work till it’s done

I never asked any man a question
I never stopped to ask any man no questions
I never asked you any old questions
I just looked in your eye and went for my guns

But I done hung up my guns
I done hung up my guns
Yeah now I done hung up my guns
Now I don’t have lead when I need to start firing

We’ll make it Gods at 12 paces
We’ll make it Gods at 12 paces
We’ll make it Gods at 12 paces
Yeah it’ll be deities at dawn and only one man left standing

I cannot change who it is you think I am
I cannot be something that I’m just not
I cannot find what I have not lost
I can’t make this alright but I’ll give it my best shot

Let it be if there’s nothing you can do
Let it lie you can’t always go back home
Let it go if you can’t hold on any more
Let it be what it is, you can’t change what you don’t own

You don’t have nothing but who you are
If you can get by at all you can get by on faith
If you can get numb enough then you won’t have to feel
If you find what you need then you won’t have to wait

Let it be if there’s nothing you can do
Let it lie you can’t always go back home
Let it go if you can’t hold on any more
Let it be what it is, you can’t change what you don’t own

You cannot change who it is that you are
If you can get by at all then get by on faith

Let it be if there’s nothing you can do
Let it lie you can’t always go back home
Let it go if you can’t hold on any more
Let it be what it is, you can’t change what you don’t own

Well they days and nights they keep switching and I know there’s something I’m missing
Without a name or a face that I can recall
Seems like the days turn into dust the only thing I’ve learned to trust
Is the misty cloud that lingers but never seems to fall
And cover this whole town with summer rain
To wash the doubt and sadness away
Baptised by fire, baptised in fear
Of always feeling it waiting there

Lie awake at night and feel the need, the sun’s coming up and you can’t sleep
There are no words left for you to understand how it is you feel
There’s nothing else that’s ever been so real, you can’t see it but you sure can feel
Its weight is pressing down on me, and I can feel the need

I walked for miles and now I’m weary and all the world is dark and dreary
And in the still I try to scratch out my old secret name
Quiet falls like a blanket tonight, and I’m close to even feeling all right
But what it is when the lights come up, well I cannot really say
If it’s ghost or flesh or shadow
If it’s cause or cure of sorrow
If it’s truth or wrapped in lies
As it’s drifting by

Outside today I feel the need, like a lover coming back to me
I can’t help myself but to believe
There are no words left but tired repeats to try to tell you how it is it feel
Its weight is pressing down on me, and I can taste the need

Everything gonna one day pass
Seems like nothing’s built to last
All that’s left when it’s all new again
Is this need like a sad old friend

And you cannot live without the need, or live a day if you don’t feel
It’s in every breath you ever take; it’s in everything you see
There’s nothing else that’s ever been so real, you can’t see it but you sure can feel
What’s only known in times like these, as nothing but the need

Don’t turn around, don’t look back, keep your eyes straight ahead
Don’t think about what can’t be, don’t wish for more than you can see
Don’t let your mind start to wander into the shadows and let yourself want more
It’s nothing worse than you ever imagined, and nothing less that you can’t have
Three bullets loaded in the chamber
Which one of us gets to be the stranger
To walk away and here comes another one
To step into line here under the gun

I tossed a coin and watched it fall, for the good or for everyone’s downfall
And felt the world shook as it fell into the water of our wishing well
I took the road that I could not see and felt something else slip away from me
I vowed to my own code of silence and let go of my last resistance
But don’t tell me I didn’t have to be here
And don’t tell me something I don’t want to hear
Don’t tell me there might be some other one
Waiting for me when I’m not under the gun

Come on lay your head here beside mine, it’s ok for once we’ve got the time
I don’t have any place I have to be, and I could use someone like you beside me
Turn off the lights we don’t need them, it’s too bright anyway where I’ve been
I need shelter, oh I need refuge, I feel stretched out worn and over used
Restore my faith and make me over
I can find what I need beneath your cover
I’ll find devotion in flesh and bone
And fix back right what I can’t alone
I know with you I’m not the only one
Who chose to live life under the gun

Sun comes up again, on another lonely day,
The house is cold and empty, and silent as the grave
No bells ringing outside, no news to herald in
Nothing worth the telling just more of whatever’s been before
I’m still addicted to you

Get home from work at twilight get drunk on radio
All those words I can’t say, that get caught in my throat
There’s no one in the streets, and the rain is creeping in
Pull up my coat around me and again try to begin denying
That I’m addicted to you

I’m addicted – it’s there in my eyes
I’m addicted – shut out the lights
I’m addicted – one more hit might make it right

She waits inside for me, filled with love and light
She doesn’t see the secret I’m trying hard to hide
She can’t see my addiction, outside I’m strong, I’m clean
My hands don’t shake with need, but yet I’m just as weak
As that man out on the corner, dying day by day
He’s losing ground each moment, and my life’s wasting away
I’m addicted…