I Believe
All I
know is that I've been sold
You can read my life, like a fortune told
I've seen the dream, there ain't no land of Oz
But I've got my brain and I got a heart
And courage built I won't let go
What we need right now is ......soul
I can't do this, you can't do that
They feed us lines but I won't act
And all good things come to pass
But the truth is all you have to have
And would you lie for it?
(Do you) cry for it?
(Would you) die for it?
Would you?
I believe, I believe
With every breath that I breathe
You and me can turn a whisper to a scream
I believe, I believe
You give it all, then you gave more
You know what you came here for
You'll pay the cost, like it's your cross to bear
Are we the ones that put it there
Would you scheme for it?
Scream for it?
Bleed for it?
Would you?
I believe, I believe
Believe we're still worth
The fight you'll see
There's hope for this world tonight
I believe, I believe
Don't look up to your movie screens
In record stores or magazines
Close your eyes and you will see
That you are all you really need
I believe, I believe
With every breath that you breathe
You and me can turn a whisper to a scream
I believe, I believe
Keep The Faith
Mother
mother tell your children
That their time has just begun
I have suffered for my anger
There are wars that can't be won
Father father please believe me
I am laying down my guns
I am broken like arrow
Forgive me, forgive your wayward son
Everybody needs somebody to love
(Mother mother)
Everybody needs somebody to hate
(Please believe me)
Everybody's bitchin'
'Cause they can't get enough
And it's hard to hold on
When there's no one to lean on
Faith: you know your gonna live through the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith: don't you let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord we got to keep the faith
Tell me baby when I hurt you
Do you keep it all inside
Do you tell me all's forgiven
And just hide behind your pride
Everybody needs somebody to love
(Mother father)
Everybody needs somebody to hate
(Please don't leave me)
Everybody's bitchin'
'Cause they can't get enough
And it's hard to be strong
When there's no one to dream of
Faith: you know your gonna live through the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith: now you know it's not to late
Oh you got to keep the faith
Right now we got to
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord we got to keep the faith
I've been walking in the footsteps
Of society's lies
I don't like what see no more
Sometimes I wish that I was blind
Sometimes I wait forever
To stand out in the rain
So no one sees me cryin'
Trying to wash away the pain
Mother father
There's things I've done I can't erase
Every night we fall from grace
It's hard with the world in your face
Trying to hold, trying to hold on
Faith: you know your gonna live through the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith: don't you let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to keep the faith
Faith: now it's not too late
Try to hold on, try to hold on
Keep the faith
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Seven
days of Saturday
Is all that I need
I got no use Sunday
'Cause I don't rest in peace
And I don't need no Mondays
Or the rest of the week
I spent a lot of time in bed
But baby I don't like to sleep no
I won't lie to you
I'm never gonna cry to you
I'll probably drive you wild 8 days a week
Until I'm 6 feet under
Baby I don't need a bed
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till they roll me over
And lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
So you're looking for some action
I got everything you need
Better keep your motor running,
'Cause I was built for speed
This ain't no slumber party
Got no time for catchin' Z's
If they say that it ain't healthy
Well then living's a disease
We're never gonna die baby
Come on let me drive you crazy
We'll make every night another New Year's Eve
Till I'm 6 feet under
I won't need a bed
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till they roll me over
And lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Sleep when I'm dead, sleep when I'm dead
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Seven days of Saturday
Is all that I need
Got no use for Sunday
'Cause I don't rest in peace
I was born to live
You know I wasn't born to die
But if they party down in heaven
I'll be sure to be on time
Until I'm 6 feet under
I don't need a bed
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till they roll me over
And lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
I feel like I'm exploding
Going out of my head
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
Till I'm six foot under
And they lay my bones to rest
Gonna live while I'm alive
I'll sleep when I'm dead
In These Arms
You want
commitment,
Take a look into these eyes
They burn with fire
Until the end of time
I would to do anything
I'd beg, I'd steal, I'd die,
To have you in these arms tonight
Baby I want you
Like the roses want the rain
You know I need you
Like a poet needs the pain
And I would give anything,
My blood, my love, my life
If you were in these arms tonight
I'd hold you
I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you
I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you 'till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight
We stared at the sun
And we made a promise
A promise this world
Would never blind us
These are my words
Our words are our songs
Our songs are our prayers
These prayers keep me strong
And I still believe
If you were in these arms...
I'd hold you
I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you
I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you 'till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight
Your clothes are still scattered
All over our room
This whole place still smells like
Your cheap perfume
Everything here reminds me of you
There's nothing I wouldn't do..
And these
were our words
They
keep me strong
Baby...
I'd hold you
I'd need you
I'd get down on my knees for you
And make everything alright
If you were in these arms
I'd love you
I'd please you
I'd tell you that I'd never leave you
And love you 'till the end of time
If you were in these arms tonight
If you were in these arms tonight
If you were in these arms tonight
If you were in these arms tonight
Baby...
Like the roses need the rain
Like the seasons need to change
Like the poets need the pain
I need you in these arms tonight
Bed Of Roses
Sitting
here wasted and wounded
At this old piano
Trying hard to capture the moment
This
morning I don't know
'Cause a bottle of vodka
Is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
I think she's still in my bed
As I dream about movies
They won't make of me when I'm dead
With an ironclad fist
I wake up and French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps
It's own beat in my head
While we're talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and
What you mean to me
And the truth is
Baby your all that I need
I want to lay down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on a bed of roses
Well I'm so far away
That each step thatI take is on my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I'd give each night
Just to see through this payphone
Still I run out of time
Or it's hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I'll just close my eyes and whisper
Baby blind love is true
I want to lay down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on a bed of roses
The hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry
The barkeepers wig's crooked
And she's giving me the eye
I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I'd died
Now as you close your eyes
Know I'll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonight I won't be alone
But you know that
Don't mean I'm not lonely
I've got nothing to prove
For it's to you that I'd die to defend
I want to lay down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed of nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on a bed of roses
If I Was Your Mother
If I was
your mother
Would you let me hold your hand
Would you say you were my baby
Would you always be my friend
If I was your mother
Could I teach what's right
Could I tell you stories
Maybe tuck you in
And kiss you sweet goodnight
Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was your mother
Would you always believe me
'Cause I'd wake up in the middle
Of the night
Just to see if you need me
Tell me there's no other
To who you're sharing your secrets
And would you tell me
'Bout all the boys you been
Bringing home to meet me
Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was yours
Tell me who I got to be
To make you a part of me
There's no one else you'd ever need
If I was your
Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother
When love is blood
Your never on trial
Love don't get deeper
Than a mother and child
Oh baby, I got to get that close to you
Tell me what I got to do
To make my life mean more to you
I could get so close it's true
If I was yours
Tell me who I got to be
To make you a part of me
There's no one else you'd ever need
If I was your
Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother
If I was your
Mother, mother
Dry County
Across
the border they turn
Water into wine
Some say it's the devil's blood
They're squeezing from the vine
Some say it's a saviour
In these hard and desperate times
Seems it helps me to forget
That we're just born to die
I came like so many did
To find the better life
To find my piece of easy street
To finally be alive
And I know nothing good comes easy
All good things take some time
I made my bed, I'll lie in it
To die in it's the crime
You can't help prosper
Where the streets are paved with gold
They say the oil wells ran deeper here
Than anybody's known
I packed up on my wife and kids
And left them both back home
Seems there's nothing in this paydirt
The ghosts are all I know
Now the oil's gone
The money's gone
And the jobs are gone
Still we're hangin' on
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hands
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out here alive
In the blessed name of Jesus
I heard a preacher say
That we are all God's children
And that He'd be back someday
And I hoped that he knew
Something as he drank his cup of wine
I didn't have too good of a feeling
As I head out to the night
I cursed the sky to open
I begged the clouds for rain
I prayed to God for water
For this burning in my veins
It was like my soul's on fire
And I had to watch the flames
All my dreams went up in ashes
And my future blew away
Now the oil's gone
And the money's gone
And the jobs have gone
Still we're hangin' on
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hands
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out here alive
Men spend their whole lives
Waiting praying for some big reward
But it seems sometimes
The payoff leaves you feeling
Like a dirty whore
If I could choose the way I'll die
Make it by gun or knife
'Cause the other way there's too much pain
Night after night after night
Down in dry county
They're swimming in the sand
Praying for some holy water
To wash the sins from off our hands
Here in dry county
The promise has run dry
Where nobody cries
And no one's getting out here
Dry county
Woman In Love
Call
it social commentary
Call it just what my eyes see
Seems there's more pretty woman
Than there are fish in the sea ...
Woman in love
You see there's girls who like you money
Girls who like your car
Girls who like to sip Champagne
And feed on caviar ...
Woman in love
Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman
More than a girl
Need some lip-locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I'll wrap 'em all up
And give them the world
You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing
She can't rise above
She can part the water
When he sea's are getting rough
But there ain't woman
Like a woman in love
If lust just a dirty dog
I've been scratching with the fleas
I've been waking up your neighbours
Barking up your tree
I went down to the shopping mall
To get it off my mind
But it's like sleeping with the enemy
If you're not deaf and blind
I tried to run
But it was too late for me
I tried to hide
Since the day Adam met Eve
Till I turned on television
And I looked up on the screen
I saw a hundred pretty girls
Sing this song on MTV
Send me some silk stockings
Smooth talking lipstick and curls
I want a woman
More than a girl
Need some lip-locking, cool walking
Diamonds and pearls
I'll wrap 'em all up
And give them the world
You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing
She can't rise above
She can part the water
When he sea's are getting rough
But there ain't woman
Like a woman in love
There ain't no secret
To a woman in love
You think that you can
Live without 'em
But you're asking too much
You see I've slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain't no woman
Live a woman in love
Oh, yeah
I've travelled all around the world
Across the seven seas
Got everything I wanted
There's just one thing I need
It hasn't changed forever
Fathers tell your sons
That there ain't nothing like
A thing called love
You know there ain't no woman
Like a woman in love
Ain't nothing
She can't rise above
She can part the water
When he sea's are getting rough
But there ain't woman
Like a woman in love
There ain't no secret
To a woman in love
You think that you can
Live without 'em
But you're asking too much
You see I've slept with romance
And danced with lust
But there ain't no woman
Live a woman in love
Oh, yeah...
I need a woman
Fear
I see
you looking over your shoulder
Tell me who you think's out there
You're reaching for you four leaf clover
But baby there ain't no luck down here
I swear there's no heart in this city
It's here the slogan reads "Do your time"
Everybody's doing their sentence
It's just there ain't nobody here
Who knows just what's the crime
I watched my father live a lie here
I'd rather die than fade away
I read the rules and yeah, I know them
Still you ain't ever gonna
Make me play the game of
Fear
Fear
Fear
Fear
Of
a new thing
Running with the rats through the city
Makes you fell like you're apartner in crime
Girl once you were young and pretty
Now you won't stop to watch that little girl died
Hey baby won't you stop and here me
Just being here we're breathing heart attacks
We can run and chase
The setting sun we can run
And we won't ever look back
Take my hand I know we'll make it
I'll let nothing slow us down
I know you want to curse this place
One thing that's stopping us now
Fear
Fear
Fear
Of a new thing
Fear
Fear
Fear
Of the brass ring
You ain't one for taking chances
You work and live and breathe that 9 to 5
Still that's what you call living
Man, that's surviving to me
And surviving is living to is in fear
I Want You
The last
time that I saw her
Was the night she said goodbye
She said that love's a stranger
And it's sure to pass you by
As she packed up her belongings
She wouldn't look me in the eye
But I could see a tear roll
Off her face
As we both tried so hard
Not to cry
I never wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you
I tried so hard to remember
Where when how why love went away
I tried to drown myself in pity
But your memory kept calling myname
I bought you fancy cars and diamond rings
Baby all the things that money brings
And the servants to paint the sky blue
And I worked so hard seven days a week
And built a fortress for your heart top keep
If I could I wrap these words up for you
I never wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you
But never thought you were alone
I filled the party up with company
But never made our house a home
All I got is my guitar these chords and the truth
All I got is my guitar ... but baby all I want ...
I never
wanted the stars
I never shot for the moon
I like them right where they are
All I wanted was you
So baby just turn away
Because I can't face the truth
All I'm trying to say
Is all I wanted was you
Blame It On The Love Of Rock & Roll
First
time I hard the music
I thought it was my own
I could feel it in my heartbeat
I could feel it in my bones
My momma thinks I'm crazy
Dad says I'm insane
I got this boogie woogie fever
That's burning in my veins
They took to a doctor
But it's too late for me
They dragged me to a preacher
That they saw on their TV
Who said that for a small donation
My lost soul would be saved
I said that I don't so preacher
I'll come back another day
All thatI want
Is to be a Rolling Stone
They don't understand
What we all know
It feels so good it ought be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and
I'll never grow old
Blame it on the rock and roll
My teacher didn't like me
They tried to put me down
'Cause I wore my hair too long
Played my music way to loud
Every little boy
Wants to learn to play guitar
So he can pick up all the chicks
And be a rock-n-roll star
They said it won't last,
But they misunderstood
If people thinks it's bad
I'll be bad for good
It feels so good it ought be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and
I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
Daddy just don't understand
What the little girl knows
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
All that I wanted
All I ever needed
My guitar gave to me
Every song I've sung
Blame it on the love
Every war I've won
Blame it on the love
Everything I've done
Blame it on the love
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
It feels so good it ought be illegal
I got my vaccination from a phonograph needle
I'll never grow up and
I'll never grow old
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
Daddy just don't get
What the little girl knows
Blame it on the love of rock and roll
Little Bit Of Soul
You been
robbed
You been used
You been crucified and abused
You been sacrificed and
Now you're confused
Ain't it the truth
You got a hole in your head
And this cold empty spot
In your big brass bed
When you're mad at the world
And you feel like you're losing control
All that you need to get by
Is a little bit o soul
When you're lost in the flood
And feel like you been
Kicked through the mud
You know they still
Haven't found the drug
To pick us up
Feeling down
Misunderstood, you know
These times they ain't looking so good
When you're mad at the world
And you feel like you're losing control
What we need to survive
Is a little bit o soul
Little bit of soul
Little bit of soul
Everyone's complaining
Nothing but frustration
The king has pissed in
Your pot of gold
It ain't entertaining spending
So much time in the whole
Send down a little bit
Mad at the world
And you feel like you're losing control
What we all need to get by
Is just a little bit of soul
Little bit of soul
Little bit of soul
Save A Prayer
Dear
Lord, Jesus, Buddah, Allah or can I just call you Joe
I've got a lot of things to tell you and some things I gotta know
I'm tired of hearing talk about this world's about to end
If we can die together then can't we all be friends
I gotta know Hey, I gotta know
So Mister can you tell me, gotta know
Baby can you tell me, gotta know
Whoa oh oh I gotta know
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I gotta know
Baby can you help me, gotta know
I gotta know
Did you ever feel like you were drowning
Did you ever feel betrayed by a kiss
Did you ever feel like you needed somebody
Would you feel alone in a world like this
Did you ever feel like you needed shelter
Did you ever laugh when you wanted to cry
Did you ever dream about evolution
Don't you ever feel like your living a lie
Oh, Whoa, too many children grow up blind to the truth
I say, Oh Oh, Oh, Oh, say a prayer for me
I'll save a prayer for you
Did you ever feel like you were helpless
Did you ever feel like an open wound
Did you ever feel that there ain't no forgiveness
Did you ever feel that close to the truth
Oh Whoa, the world closed their eyes on the blinding truth
I say, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh , say a prayer for me,
And I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer.... for you, for you, for you
I'll save a prayer
Did you ever feel like you need shelter
Did you ever feel like you lived in a flood
Did you ever feel a lust for survival
Did you ever feel, feel, feel
The world couldn't take me from getting dirty
There's too many hearts that haven't found a home
This train's on the tracks and the world's on my back
Save a prayer for me and I'll save one for you
No one will know , but it's hard to explain
Why too many soul's are feeling so alone
You've got to hold on if it's all you can do
Save a prayer for me,
I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer for you
I'll save a prayer.... for you, for you, for you
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