Have Another Cigarette

You're coughing up them bad emissions

                choking on your words

            Hacking up your inhibitions

                  grasping in the dirt

        You're choking your enthusiasm

                    suffocating hope

   Pacing like your nerves are shattered

             while hiding in the smoke

                Have another cigarette

                Have another cigarette

                Have another cigarette

          ... then try to catch your breath

       You're choking off your circulation

                  yellowing your skin

         Cruddin' up your pearly whites

                  darkening your grin

      You're coughing like a motor racing

                   hacking up a lung

        Lapping up them cancer causing

                        carcinogens

                  Shake For Me Now

   Shake for me now, don't let me down

    You've got outlandish kinds of ways

                of dragging me down

           I hear the thunder rumbling

     like it's coming through the stereo

Shake, shake, shake it like the freak you are

   Shake for me now, don't drag me down

       I'm working on a bottle of whiskey

                      and a fat cigar

     I see the smoke is rising underneath

                      the neon lights

       You've got that bump and grindin'

               kind of look in your eyes

                 Like the freak you are

                 Like the freak you are

      Shake for me now, I'm hypnotized

                 My heart is pounding

               and I'm losing my mind

           All the diamonds and Pearls

                      wine and caviar

Shake, shake, shake it like the freak you are 

                         Disgruntled

         Well I'm feeling kicked around

               a little bit beaten down

        Wound up tight and a little freaky

            So I guess it's safe to say

         that you'll be in my face today

 Acting kind of strange and a little creepy

          Well I just don't give a damn

        about your sad pathetic plans

 cause you justify yourselves by being sneaky

              So let there be no doubt

          you better stomp that fire out

  Cause we ain't gonna take it anymore !!

 So you thought that you had us beaten down

    Well in the end it all comes back around

         Now you're looking beaten down

           and a little bit kicked around

       Wound up tight  and a little freaky

              Well what else can I say

           then I guess it ain't your day

 and you got to pay the price for being sneaky

    So when you're shaking at the knees

          from all your sad hypocrisies

 All short of breath and feeling kind of creepy

     Cause you've finally been exposed

                and everybody knows

     that we ain't gonna take it anymore !!

 Now you're looking like a sad pathetic clown

   Cause in the end it all came back around

                       One Out Of Many

  If money couldn't walk and money couldn't talk

             money wouldn't mean a thing

I'm sitting on a fence trying to make a little sense

              strumming on an old guitar

 I take a look around and watch the sun go down

        and wonder if there'll come a time

   When money can't walk, and money can't talk

        We're working like slaves trying to find

      a better way, to send it on down the road

 For a little common sense I feel a bit repressed

              Where did all the money go ?

  If money couldn't walk and money couldn't talk

              money wouldn't mean a thing

If money couldn't  breathe and money couldn't think

              money wouldn't mean a thing

    If money couldn't laugh and money couldn't cry

              money wouldn't mean a thing

    If money couldn't buy what money couldn't hide

          then money wouldn't mean a thing

 And money couldn't walk, and money couldn't talk

I'm sitting on a fence trying to make a little sense

                 strumming on an old guitar

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                          New Orleans                                                  

         They said I'd settle down someday

        as I watched the morning slip away

     Was born and raised on the rising sun

             but I never was wide awake

Too many doors that I've been through before

         turned around and opened again

All left to hide somewhere in the back of my mind

             in a complicated kind of way

      Nobody else seemed to understand

     I could have lit the fire and died young

           She said he was a loaded gun 

       as I watched the morning slip away

Come pack your bags and we'll leave for a while

                it's better you do as I say

  We'll meet the stars and ride in limousines

        cause there's got to be a better life 

                   down in New Orleans

           I found myself sitting all alone

     as I watched the morning slip away

I woke up to a life that I couldn't understand

I hoped and prayed someday it would end

But when I turned around I was no longer young

         wide awake and cursing the sun

        I'm guessing I have settled down

            in a complicated kind of way

We've met the stars and rode in limousines

        there just had to be a better life .....

                down in New Orleans

                 Halfway To Memphis

              Don't take my world away

            it's never too late to change

 I've gotten myself in a whole lot of trouble

            and that's the price you pay

            I know I've made mistakes

         some people get all the breaks

      I travel on down that road, away I go

It's the same sad songs playing on the radio

I'm halfway to Memphis on this cold, damp,

                         dusty road

         You just don't mean a thing

until you're buying them diamond rings

You better brace yourself for them rough waters

                 and hope you float

              I dread that dusty road

   All the faces seem to come and go

You have to keep looking back over your shoulder

                   why, I don't know

               It's just so hard to tell

I dropped a dollar in the wishing well

and found me a lady that I called my baby

         and bought the diamond ring

         She flushed it down the drain

   and hitched a ride in the pouring rain

        and traveled on down that road

                   away she goes

                       Baby Doll

      Well it was just about that time

when I am feeling alright, another Saturday night

I'm gonna meet up with some friends

at the "Don't Drop Inn", everything will be alright

     Baby Doll I swear I won't be long

and she says "Oh no no no, oh no no no no ! "

Well it was just about that time  and I'm still

feeling alright,  another Saturday night

I'm gonna cuddle with my girl and get to 

feeling alright, you know what's on my mind

Baby Doll it's your love that makes me strong

and she says "Oh no no no, oh no no no no !! "

           It's gonna take a long time

        I'm running out of silver lining

          And the clock keeps ticking

          on the other end of the road

Well it was getting past that time when I am 

feeling alright, another Saturday night

I'm gonna head out to the shed and light me up 

a joint, and get to feeling alright

     Baby Doll I swear I won't be long

and she says "Oh no no no, oh no no no no !!! "

                     Dusty Road

   I'm guessing you have gone away

          in a hapless kind of way

     You've left it hard for me to see

      come shed some light on me

Who am I to wait and worry if you've gone

Can't you see you're casting shadows in the sun

  So many nights have slipped away

    in such a hopeless kind of way

     I've lied awake so many nights

             and let it burn inside

     It's just so hard for me to see

I guess it's lost and it's meant to be

  I've traveled down that dusty road

        just how far I'll never know

      Where you wake up far away

    in such a darkened kind of way

        Are you holding me tonight

         somewhere deep inside

      Are you sad you had to leave

       don't shed your light on me

                  Silence

       (poem appears in the Songs CD sleeve)

            Oh how we never know

            the mystique of silence

        Waiting in a hopeful trance

         so many thoughts unknown

          Is it privacy or freedom

      to touch what we need to feel

             Solitude isolation or

              a paradise to heal

  We close our eyes and drift away

          in a softness so serene

       And in just a moments time          

      the silence becomes a dream

                   Into The Unknown

      I wonder if I'd ever care to know

  what lies beyond the great unknown

     Is over in a flash before our eyes

      when we say our last goodbyes

If God could take us far across the sky

  I wonder if we're really worth the time

    It's burning like a fire inside of me

         why can't we open our minds

                        and breathe

         It's such a long winding road

         such a long, long lonely road

               It's a dark, dusty road

                   into the unknown

I wonder when our time is finally gone

   And we realize we knew it all along

  It was over in a flash before our eyes

      when we said our last goodbyes

             Shadows (instrumental)

                   Break The Walls

    I wake up in the light of a midnight

      moon, half a million miles away

    The winds are blowing blind in my

    bloodshot eyes, is it heads or tails

                             today

         I'll wave away my when I do's

           I'll wait a while without you

             But something in the air 

               wreaks of I don't care

          Break the walls, take the fall

            build it up and do it again

      Something in the night is too still

      I'm standing here in wasted time

       Sifting through the thoughts left 

                      so distraught

      A little frayed in my state of mind

                    Black Cat Saloon

        I'm sorry Lord but I can't afford

                to let you down again

     I'm sorry 'bout all the whiskey and 

            them double shots of gin

    But the devil's got a way of playing 

                   devil's in my soul

   Snake eyes spitting venom's on the 

                   fire's down below

 But I promise Lord there'll come a day

           I swear I'm gonna change

    Cause I'm drowning in the sorrow

         of a damp ole shallow grave

         Where darkness shades the 

 nightmares that flash before my eyes

   I'm sorry Lord but I can't afford to lie

     Please hurry Lord I'm running out 

                            of time

        Spent many nights of drinking

          at the ole Black Cat Saloon

       Where old man fills the bottles

          with emptiness and gloom

        Then he pats you on the back

  and takes you down that lonely road

         That takes you to them fires

                       down below

Please hurry Lord the devil's in my soul

   With the howling winds it all begins

             underneath a full moon

             Gonna raise a little hell

          at the ole Black Cat Saloon

  Where shadows lurk and spirits rise

       Witches brew and devil's dine

    on the desperate souls at the ole

                  Black Cat Saloon

        Say ya'll come back to the ole

                  Black Cat Saloon

        I promise Lord I'll find a way

          I swear I'm gonna change

   There's a rumbling in the distance

         and I'm standing in the rain

         With a lantern in my hands

    I see my name engraved in stone

     and hear the laughter's from the 

                   fires down below

                      City Streets

    I don't know what to say cause I'm 

       standing in the rain without you

 I don't want to be without you anymore

    It's lonely on the streets with all the

    dopers and the freaks without you

 I don't want to be without you anymore

 On these cold, dark, damp city streets

    Don't you worry 'bout me I'll be fine 

                darling without you

 I don't know what to do and I'm feeling

             kind of blue without you

 I don't want to be without you anymore

   I pass away my time turning circles

             in my mind without you

 I don't want to be without you anymore

     I don't know what to think and I'm 

      really startin' to stink without you

 I don't want to be without you anymore

   It's lonely on the streets with all the 

    dopers and the freaks without you

 I don't want to be without you anymore

                  Lost At Sea

      When I see the light again 

        it all comes back to me

       It's funny how a halogen 

      can open my eyes to see

     It's possible I've fantasized

             in light of memory

           Is it just a cold wind

           blowing through me

            Is it only in my eyes

something's wrong a million times

    Am I lost and floating at sea

I hope to be, holding you closer to me

   I can feel the time, tick ticking

              away my melody

Don't tell me my clock is running

              low on batteries

   It's possible I've thought a lot

                about eternity

          Is it just a cold wind

          blowing through me

                  Everything

       It's all a merry-go-round

         Sometimes you're up,

       sometimes you're down

Such a wonderful life that we know

   Don't go doubting your wings

you'll lose your grasp on everything

   Such a bitter life that we know

Give me a mask and a pot of gold

      I'll give you my conscience

                and my soul

           Give me a shelter

with the whole world at my feet

    and I'll give you everything

       ... I want everything !!!

          Take A Look Around

Take yourself a break and take a look

around, you can't slow me down. I've

been holding my breathe, I'm dying to

let it all out. You've got yourself in the

gutter and you're known all over town

Take it on down the road, and try to

find a place where nobody knows

that the lights are so dim in your soul.

And the same damn songs keep 

           playing on the radio

Take yourself a break and take a look

around, you can't slow me down.

I've been after myself to keep my feet 

                on the ground

Tossing, turning, running from the law

another night another empty wall,

           for nothing ... at all

You've got yourself in the gutter

and you're known all over town

     I'm gonna load up the car

   and take it on down the road

  While the same damn songs

     keep playing on the radio

                  Oh Desiree

She wore leather, lace and a taste

for warm brandy. A midnight queen

in a tattooed limousine. A tarantula

buzz from a head full of drugs. I'm

ready to play but the chanting is 

                 haunting me

She had burgundy lips and burgundy

eyes. I danced with the devil in her 

garden of lies. A mandolin plays

while the orchestra waits. In faith, for

           the whistling winds

Touch me, Haunt me, Tempt me

             ...... Oh Desiree

She was an all night minded kind of

machine. Where anything you want is 

what she wants to be. In the still of the 

night came the vampire bite. In the 

      light of a vanishing moon.

Touch me, Haunt me, Tempt me

             ...... Oh Desiree

             Sunday Morning

Been telling myself I need to get away, 

I woke up Sunday morning to the 

pouring rain. I stumbled out of bed 

and threw water in my eyes. I think I'm 

         gonna lose my mind.

Been working day and night cause 

bills are overdue, my pickups broken 

down and the kids got the flu. My 

baby's throwing a fit cause I just ain't 

got the time. I swear I'm gonna 

               lose my mind

Oh what would I do honey without you

You help me understand what the 

Hell I'm going through. On all the 

sunny days everything is OK, but 

      damn that pouring rain.

Lets load up the car and take off down

the road. Don't worry about a thing 

we'll find somewhere to go. Your mom 

will watch the kids I'm sure that they'll 

be fine. Come on doll lets take a ride.

Been telling myself I need to get away

I woke up Sunday morning to the 

pouring rain. I stumbled out of bed 

and threw water in my eyes. I think I'm 

gonna lose my mind. My baby's gone

away and left me all alone, the kids

have grown and gone and rarely ever 

do come home. I miss them like a 

breeze across the Summer sky, I 

think I've gone and lost my mind.

Oh what will I do honey without you

You helped me understand what the 

hell I'm going through. On all the

sunny days everything is OK, but

      damn that pouring rain