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1. I Love You
A man carried metal, carried gold
More than he could handle, more than he could hold
It weighed him down to a sand shallow grave
Where his bones were eaten by a heat wave
While here it rains all night and it blows a sweet breeze
I think I'll call you up
And say please, baby, please
I love you, I love you, yeah, I love you, yeah, I love you
Ah the dream machine
Makes it hard to see
If I could stand outside myself and watch it come to me
I'd make the dream
Filter down to my fingers and rip at the fools head
and follow your scent that lingers
'cause I love you, yeah I love you, I love you, yeah I love you
'til the crash and the booming of
the white bomb come sure,
come soon, come leave just one song
one song, one beat, one dust, one end, one for all
one stone for the marking for the dream when it falls
when I love you, and I love you,
yeah I love you,
oh yeah I love you I love you
2. Falling At Your Feet
Every chip from every cup
Every promise given up
Every reason that's not enough
Is falling, falling at your feet
Every one who needs a friend
Every life that has no end
Every knee not ready to bend
Is falling, falling at your feet
Have come crawling, falling at your feet
All fall down, all fall down, all
fall down, all fall down
all fall down, all fall down, all fall down, all fall down
Every teenager with acne
Every face that's spoiled by beauty
Every adult tamed by duty
all falling, falling at your feet
Every eye that's closed by a bruise
Every player who just can't lose
Every pop star hurling abuse
Every drunk back on the booze
all falling, falling at your feet,
all falling, falling at your feet
all the information
all the big ideas
all the radio waves
on electronic seas
how to navigate
how to simply be
to know when to wait
explain simplicity
in whom shall I trust
and how might I be still
teach me to surrender
not my will, thy will
3. As Tears Roll By
I've been working downtown inside my troubles
I've been working downtown inside my troubles
I've been sleeping under the bridge of highway 1
And I don't know where my savior is
As tears roll by
Oh dear heart I know it's been a
long time
And the pendulum swings so wide
I've been wrestling with the burning spear
With the burning spear
don't want to be like this another year
As tears roll by
I could never see your perfect rainbow
avalanche buried me deep in the snow
Murky smoke stack made me fall
Cold ambition written on my wall
I got mixed up and fell down
I got mixed up
As years roll by
I could be a patriot if I could
see
But the t.v. talkin' man make no sense to me
And I don't know where our savior lives
And I don't know where my savior is
Building up, building down
As tears roll by
Gotta keep my spirit out of trouble
Keep myself out of trouble
But the hands of need are calling me
I feel mortality
Tumble down, tumble down
As years roll by
They were building a building like
forever
Heads buried deep inside a fever
The spirit cried out from the ground
Sweet, sweet maternal sounds
Tumble, tumble, tumble down tumble to the ground
As fears roll by
As tears roll by, as tears roll by, as tears roll by, as tears roll by
4. Sometimes
Sometimes, sometimes
Sometimes I feel like I'm playing on the radio
Sometimes I feel like I'm on a travelin' road show
Sometimes I got the power of the will
and I know my song is gonna be alright
Sometimes I feel like I'm on a freight
train
Forever rescued by the mystery rain
Sometimes I'm just out for a thrill, she always said, 'baby,
you're gonna be alright'
The sun gonna come shining down;
push it all away, make it alright
Sometimes in the heart of a long, cold night
It's all too far out of sight, out of sight
Hard to know everything's gonna
be alright
Everyone thinks you got everything you want
Hard to have and then have not
Hard to have and then have not
Sometimes I wanna take a pill and
hide
Sometimes I wanna shut down and ride
And go where no man should go
Go where no man should go
Go where no man should go
Go where no man should go
Could it be, ever really be, alright
5. Shine
I have wandered far and wide
All the way from paris to mexico
'til I was gone and didn't know
In the end the thing that keeps
me walking
Is your shine, your shine in the morning, your shine in the distance
your shine inside the laughter and the ghosts
They have spoken of the river forever
bending inside the fever
of the saints that walk all night with no domain
In the end the thing that keeps
them walking is your shine
Your shine when they wear no coat,
Your shine when the feelings low
Your shine when it's too late to turn around
I have frozen up my dreams, thinking
I was all alone
Fighting every minute for each turning stone
I have reached the rocket speed
I have touched the ground that feeds
Scaling fences, looking for the healing sun
In the end the thing that keeps
me walking is your shine
Your shine in transmissions, your shine in decisions,
your shine when I labor to the new day, it's your shine, your shine,
your shine, shine, shine on
6. Transmitter
(Instrumental)
7. San Juan
Make me see a whole new way
Make me see the new day, the new day, the new day
Make me be, make me be, make me be a whole new way
Meet me in san juan, baby I'll be true
Whisper sweet everything to you
Yellow cactus rose
Cotton blown by wind
Beaten brown hands, perfect skin, perfect skin
In san juan, I don't wanna know, all the reasons why you gotta go
In san juan
Meet me in san juan
Where nobody has and everybody gives
There's no sad where death lives
I see your love, I see your love
Baby I'll be true
Yes, I'll be true for your love, for your love, for your love, love
8. Matador
(Instrumental)
9. Space Kay
(Istrumental)
10. Slow Giving
Slow giving, slow coming
Slow giving, slow coming
Joy giving, joy coming
Love giving, love coming
Angel, I've seen you in the rocket
speed
I've seen you in the ground that feeds
My angel, with me you've crawled through the trenches
Forever scaling my defenses
I need you now in my rebel mind
Please lock the door and hang a sign
My heart is open wide but the bleeding's hard to stop
Explain to me what is and what is not, what is, what is, what is
Slow giving, slow coming
Slow giving, slow coming
Joy giving, joy coming
Love giving, love coming
Angel, until the beast in me forever
burns
It's hard to know which way to turn
On the guard rail of your 25 years
I feel the piercing ember of every tear
On a desert plain, on my knees, broken and ragged
saying please baby please baby please
Oh angel I've lost so many times
Please, please show me a sign
On a pretty lip
On a broken grip, don't let me bring the roof down
Let me build my spirit sound
I'm standing right back where I started,
please let me stay open hearted
Oh my angel, my sweet angel, angel
11. Fire
My angel I promised her we'd be dressed in a cloud
Standing on pillars of fire singing out loud
Shot from truth and love, not darkness
With the moon under your feet
Where birth goes on and rides terror
My shine will be complete
With your fire your fire
My tremolo
You're my fire
Every so softly it grows when you
don't wear your armor
Crushing the burden and confusion soar
Trembling high on every leaf
Raining light down on your belief
Oh my angel unburdened by the race
I'll go down burning in your embrace
On fire, fire
My tremolo
You're my fire
Don't take away my shine
My shine is all I have
My heat, my love, my beauty and my glad
It worries me sometimes that I want love
And live a life of sad
My tremolo
Sweet baby, my fire
My desire, fire
12. Power Of One
In the middle of the night it came to me
A bridge to your ecstasy
Images of a burned out hell
You comin' in with your mission bell
Don't sit, waiting for the thing
to come
Get lit, feel the power of one
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come
Get lit feel the power of one
Little sister let's go downtown
And dance to the night sounds
Hear the bass wafting down the hill
From echo park my Jamaica in LA
Don't sit, waiting for the thing
to come
Get lit, feel the power of one
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come
Get lit feel the power of one
It's in the shadows, in the sweet
scent breeze
In the riding out of a death disease
The prettiness shining into complete
In the bitterness burning up in the heat
Don't sit, waiting for the thing
to come
Get lit, feel the power of one
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come
Get lit feel the power of one
I was drowning in champagne eyes
Skipping along in compromise
When dignity rattle me on the back
And my rebel mind needed to attack
Don't sit, waiting for the thing
to come
Get lit, feel the power of one
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come
Get lit feel the power of one
My sweetness you were with me when
I was sad at an evolution bend
Hiding alone like a rolling stone
Now I wanna know the power of your home
Don't sit, waiting for the thing
to come
Get lit, feel the power of one
Don't sit waiting for the thing to come
Get lit feel the power of one
Don't sit, waiting for the thing to come
Laugh in the face of a hundred planet guns
13. JJ Leaves LA
(Instrumental)
14. Red (Bonus Track)
I'm going to where the sun burns
And the heat stays in command
Come and lay by my side
Come and lay right here
To where the river turns to dust
And god is never rushed
Come and lay by my side
Come and lay here
Red I need you and the world
Ah the buzzing, the stink, and the
smell
Ah they're choking me
Come and lay by my side
Come and lay right here
You'll be dressed in a cloud
I'll be singing out my tune real loud
Come and lay by my side
Come and lay right here
Red I love you and the world
Yes it seemed to make sense when
Brother santo said one more run be enough
Gonna be enough, be enough
Money for everything, silver toed boots and gasoline
Come and lay by my side
Come and lay right here
Red I worry about you and the world
When I see you behind the glass
I forget that I'm the cage
They bring me to Sunday mass
But it never wipe the rage
Red I love you and the world
Seven months gone and seven years
to go
Red I can't stay no more
Come and lay by my side
Come and lay here
Red I need you and the world
Red I love you and the world
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