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Freedom
They were seventeen
in the early Spring of 1973
A couple of middle-American kids
just longing to be free
She was the queen of the roller rink
And he was the quarterback
And they drifted off
to the great beyond
And never looked back
Oh freedom
Sometimes you get a little bit more
than you had planned
And it seems you'll never make it
to the promised land
Nah nah nah
And it's too late
By the time you really understand
L.A. wasn't the paradise
they thought that it would be
too many players and not enough roles
was a harsh reality
They got by a few more years
and eventually fell apart
You can hear the echoes still today
of their broken hearts
Far Away From Here
Trapped inside this cell
In this living hell
Never have I suffered
so much loneliness
Choices that I made
Debts that went unpaid
Left me in this pit
of endless emptiness
I sit and watch the clouds go by
I only wish that I could fly
Somewhere out beyond
the walls of stone
That keep me here
Where the souls that time forgot
Won't have to live in fear
And the mountains I must climb
Don't seem so near
When I'm in your tender arms
Far away from here
Out here on the road
Doing what I'm told
Driven by a mindless curiousity
Some are lead astray
Standing in the way
Subject to my endless animosity
Flower
Hold me in your arms
I've been waiting all my life
for this moment
I swear to God
I'll never let you fall or slip away
Feed me with your soul
Let me learn to love you
in a different way
Meet on the shore
Laughing with the tide
each and every day
Flower
I can't hold you, I can't touch you
Sometimes it gets too much
I want to wrap my arms around her
Flower
Flower
I can smell you, I can feel you
And sometimes it seems so real
I want to feel your flower power
Flower
In and of myself
I am just a ship on the horizon
I am just a grain of sand buried
On your endless summer beach
Down this weary road
I will travel longer than I should
And if I die before I wake
I pray you'll be within my reach
The Beast Remains
Born into this cruel earth
A monster from my birth
Drowning in the flood
Of cursed family blood
A glance into the sky
Can set these demons free
But I try to hold it inside me
I know you're lonely
I know you're only
Trying to save me
Trying to tame me
But the beast remains
You, so innocent and pure
A spellbinding allure
A heart so free and brave
That any man would crave
But you'll fall victim soon
To my lycanthropy
But I try to hold it inside me
It may seem inhumane
But leave these chains on me
For the moon is full
And my poor soul succumbs to lunacy
But I try to hold it inside me
The End Of The Day
Mesmerized by an insatiable hunger
The child will sit on the throne
Dividing and hating and pontificating
And turning bread to stone
Greasing the wheels
of the scribes and the troubadours
Dishonouring these hallowed halls
They rise to the surface
and march to the furnace
When Autumn falls
At the end of the day
Far and away
They'll hear us say
That we came and conquered
And we weren't lead astray
Seeking and end
to the weakened battalions
The chosen ones capture the gold
The trumpeter sounds
and freedom abounds
Like the days of old
Lily
Girl, I've loved you
since the day I found you
I just want to put my arms
around you yeah
And hold you oh so tight
Girl, I can't believe that you are mine
Oh, I just want to hold you
all the time, oh yeah
Every day and night
Well there's Annie, Bella,
Carrie, Daisy, Emma, Frida, Ginger,
Haley, Ida, Josie, Kitty, Mary, Nelly,
Olive, Phoebe
But I really, really, really, really,
really, really, really love Lily
Girl you'll never know
how much I love you
And you know
I'm always thinking of you yeah
Every night and day
When I see you and your lovely smile
Oh you know it makes
it all worthwhile, oh yeah
Don't ever run away
Queenie, Roxy, Sophie, Trudy,
Uma, Velma, Wilhelmina
Xena, Yoko, Zoe
every beauty queen and ballerina
But I really, really, really, really,
really, really, really love Lily
I don't ever want to break your heart
I don't ever want to make you cry
I just want to spend my whole life trying
To make your dreams come true
Someday
She was just a young girl
When she found life was no fairy tale
Daddy was a loser
Mommy was for sale
Nothing in the future
Too much in the past
An occasional break in the clouds
But it's never gonna last
I know
And the walls fell
And the roof came down
She said I'm stranded here
In this dead end town
But I'll fly away
So far away from here
Someday I will
I swear
She grew up so fast
She was just seventeen
When she gave it all away
In the back seat of a limousine
It was raining on prom night
It seemed to wash it all away
And nothing else mattered
She was queen for a day
One day
In The Western Sky
Stranded alone, so far from home
Here in the thermosphere
Humanity, there beneath me
Everything seems so clear
If I returned, I'd be concerned
I'd feel like I don't belong
Seems to me it's easy to see
What in the hell went wrong
In the western sky
You'll look up one day
and think of me
And you'll begin to wonder
Why they pulled the plug on me
What will they gain?
What will they learn?
When it's all said and done
The things we've conceived,
things we've achieved
The battles that we have won
Mission control will try to extol
The heroes to some degree
They pull on the reins,
and nothing remains
but skeletons and debris
Back In Your Arms
As I look out across the desert skies
Oh I'll be dreaming of your angel eyes
And through the fear and pain
You know our love will still remain
When we've said our goodbyes
Oh girl I told you from the very start
I'll never leave you with a broken heart
The void inside me
oh you know it won't subside
Every second that were apart
Hold me one more time
Keep me in your heart, girl
Even though I'll be half a world away
I'll be back in your arms again someday
Honey you know I wish that I could stay
Just hold me tight before I go away
And though I'm leaving babe
You know that I'll be dreaming of you
every night and day
Sad to say it, but it's time to go
The thought of you will set my heart aglow
Babe I'll missing you
and wish that I was kissing you
More than you'll ever know
Baby you know that I'll be coming home
But it might take awhile
Someday I'll never have to leave again
And live without your smile
Torn
Girl
In the beginning
It seemed we were winning
It was just me and you
Now
I feel so uncertain
I've caused all this hurtin'
It's somethin' I can't undo
And if I run away with you (her)
I'll always think of her (you)
I'll always think of her (you)
What am I gonna do?
I can't decide what I should do
I'm torn between you two
I never really thought it through
Oh
I guess that's the danger
Of lovin' a stranger
It's tearing my heart in two
Now
It's all so confusing
And I'll end up losing
Both of you
Hollywood Ending
Hey you
What am I gonna do?
When your gone
Little ingenue
Your fall
Was just a curtain call
One last stand
In your Waterloo
You're my fairy tale
Here in chapter 24
One more role before you fly
To the limelight, by and by
My Maid Marian
I'm your knight in shining armor
You are the leading lady
In this hollywood ending
Broadway
Just seems so far away
Is it all just a sad soiree?
You'll go
But I want you to know
You'll live on
In the matinee
Ghosts Of Mulholland
I'm a slave to this town, sad and beaten down
Swollen hands and bloodshot eyes
Feeling I could drown
It took away my childhood
and it took away my life
I've seen my share sorrow
And I've seen my share of pain
I've heard alot of thunder, but seen very little rain
I feel as if I could be going totally insane tonight
All the dreamers that have come and gone
They haunt these hills from dusk to dawn
And they see the streets they used to roam
When the lights come on at night
At Hollywood and Vine
Out here with the other dogs, waiting by the phone
Hell, once in awhile they might throw you a bone
At least the backdrop's beautiful
even though it's overblown
It cast me in a roll I reluctantly have played
For fifteen in the spotlight
and thousands in the shade
Many dreams unrealized
and many many debts unpaid
Released June 2011
Released 1997
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