Lyrics

Cool Guy

I’m waiting on a cool guy

Right at home underwater

Keeping a tinder box

I’m waiting on a cool guy

Loves himself, loves his mother

Knows how to kneel for needs

Faithful to one lover

Now where waltzing and carrying on is concerned,

I’ve been bad, I’ve been burned

But, it’s safe to say, by God I’ve learned

It’s best to wait

I’m waiting on a cool guy

Someone who knows what it’s worth

Ain’t afraid to feel it all

Loves me like a church

You’re standing in the doorway in a boat necked sweater

Wondering if I ever answered your love letters

I’m waiting on a cool guy

Someone who rings these bells

Answers when I call,

Loves my wishing well

I’m waiting on a cool guy

He’s waiting for the world to start

Wondering who I am these days

Baby you could break my heart

Find My Way Home

I could go anywhere and find my way home

If you were my north star and the wind was my comb

I’m breaking through to somebody’s dream laden sea

The moon is my cradle rocking my restless heart

Silver stars ladle my love to her mark

I will quit waiting as soon as we start the dance.

Wild things are roaming, the silent rain  falls

Into my garden and over my walls

My smoke and fire will always be calling you home

Hot Tears

Hot Tears,

We’ve been robbed blind,
We call the darkness light
We don’t need God to tell us
That the world ain’t right
Open hearted policies
Seem completely obsolete
Or perhaps it’s really fine out there
And the problem is all
With me

Have you got
An attitude
Like cement around your heart?
What you need and what you want
Can you tell them apart?
Watch out for hollow signposts
And glossy paper dreams
There’s a garden gone and a skeleton
Is offering you relief
         Inside the air at dusk and dawn
         Where the owl and the hawk still fly
         A trail of smoke can still evoke
         A time before True Love could die.

Bad dreams
Invade our time
In the name of love and peace
God’s name is a market place
For the powerful elite
The good life
Is thought and taught to be
Something you’ve got to buy
And no one knows
Just what He wants or why
He draws a diving line

Good luck,
It’s not enough
To guarantee your style
All kinds of tricks and trades
Have made our troubled water vile
No doubt good reasons
Our backs are against the wall
But True Love will be rising up
And none of her children fall

I Wanna Be Pretty

I wanna be pretty, but I don’t feel pretty
I wanna be nice but I don’t feel nice
I wanna be kind, but I’m too pissed off
Can’t seem to shake it’s like a bad cough
|So I wait and I wait and I wait and I wait
For love to come to me

I wanna love you but I can’t feel my way
There’s no one above you, but where are you today?
I wanna be happy but I’m too damn sad
I wanna be good but I was born bad
So I wait and I wait and I wait and I wait
For love to come to me

I ain’t feeling well, I can’t hide it no more
When I’ll be fine time will tell who evened the score
It’s way too late now for fooling around
It’s so dark outside, we all fall down

I wanna be burning, but I need your spark
I’d drive across town, but I’m stuck in park
I wanna be faithful, shining and true
But I’m covered in mud baby, just like you
I wait and I wait and I wait and I wait
For love to come to me

I want to know you, but I feel so strange,
It’s got to be time the whole deal changed,
I’m going to turn my face to the day
And if I don’t see you I’ll fall down and pray 

I wanna be with you but I’m on my own
It’s a sign of the times that we walk alone
I wanna be smiling, but I’ve got these blues
Dancing, but I’ve got on my walking shoes
I wait and I wait and I wait and I wait
For love to come to me

Man In The Moon

I’ve got the man in the moon on my mind

I hope that soon he will find me

Back in the swim,

Talking to him

Doing the Texas Two Step or the waltz

Man in the moon of mine

You lead me round and I’m blind to

Any other dream,

Any other sympathy

But not to doing the Texas Two Step or the waltz

I don’t mind my solitude

As long as you’re with me

But I don’t like to sit and brood

So baby if you leave

I’ll be doing the Texas Two Step or the waltz

Man in the moon, you’re so fine

All my dreams are pickled in your brine

And I just want to know,

As you just sit and glow

Do you like doing the Texas Two Step or the waltz

Man in the moon, it’s no crime

To dream of the fullness of time

And I’d love to hear you say,

 You would love to stay with me

Doing the Texas Two Step or the waltz

Whatever I Wish  

Whatever I wish, you said ask  

Well, I want my love’s address

So I can burn right down to ask on

His tear stained front steps

Let me face the one I love
One time before I go
So I can fly right beside him
Until you close the door 

Mercy, let love breathe,
Deep as sweet belief
In all his dreams and mine,
Sometimes I feel
So shaken and so real,
And oh those songs they’ve eased my mind

Sometimes dreams, they can tell you lies
Sometimes plans go wrong
I have seen through his eyes
Somewhere my heart belongs 

Some of us are afraid of love,
Some of us are blind
Some of us have been blamed and shoved
And some of us are crying

 
But prison walls weren’t built, won’t fall
Before His love so true
Where questions asked are answered, all
And love remains with you

 
Mercy, let love breathe,
Deep as sweet belief
In all our dreams tonight
Sometimes I feel
So shaken and so real,
And oh those songs they’ve eased my fright

If your heart is moved by mine,
Please give me a call
I know I have been hard to find,
But Love can reach us all.

As I’m helplessly revealed
To be just who I am
My only prayer is to be received
Well at Love’s right hand

Who Stole Paradise

I know who stole paradise

And I know who’s going to bring it back

If you would look into my eyes

You could be the train,

I would be the track

So I drag my cape across the floor
Taking one step at a time
So you can scrutinize some more
As I’m turning slowly in your mind

Feelings falling to the ground
Won’t you come and take my hand
Some sweetheart’s crying without a sound
Lead me away from shifting sand

Children laughing in the night
Their world is lost we both agree
Something must be going right
I am waiting by the apple tree

I know who stole paradise

And I know who’s going to bring it back

If we would look into His eyes

He would be the train, we would be the track.

Dreams Of The Earth

You’re cool ‘cause you’re old and you’re worn in
I’m cool cause I know what that’s worth
We’re fools and we’ve both been sworn in
To the same old dreams of the earth

I know who I am and I know who I’m not
And if love gave the command,
I’d give it a shot 

Baby I’ve got a secret
You can ask me if you really need to know
I’m trying hard to keep it
But you can read and I can’t help but show 

I know who you are and I know who you’re not
And if love gave the command,
I’d give it a shot

I’ve got Tommy on my right flank
and Adam on my left
I’ve got a cloak around my shoulders
And I’m feeling less bereft
But in case you hadn’t noticed,
I always sleep alone
‘Cause something about you Baby sounds like…..  

I just keep on reading the papers
By now I’ve got a PH.D in the blues
Everybody’s rattling their sabers
For that love they want but will not learn to use

I know who I am and I know who I’m not
And if love gave the command,
I’d give it a shot

 
You’re cool ‘cause you’re old and you’re worn in
I’m cool cause I know what that’s worth
We’re fools and we’ve both been reborn in
To the same old dreams of the earth

Heaven Knows

I don’t want to go to heaven, heaven knows

I want to live with my lover here below

Wrapped in the arms of a holy secret

Heaven dreamed up years ago

I heard the story as a child

Of peace in the valley but the valley’s defiled

Racked with the screams of the wicked lies

From valley so low to mountain so high

 
I long for the drummer to beat in the time

Where the gift and the giver are no longer denied

I don’t want to go where lovers can’t go

And God knows I’m tired of dreaming alone

So wrap me up tight with a moonlit soul

Walk me through death, but drop me back home

I’ll tend the garden, the fruit and the vine

And I’ll stay with him, if he’ll stay behind

I Can’t Imagine

I can’t imagine heaven without dancing
I can’t imagine dancing without you
I can’t imagine anywhere that you ain’t going too
So tell me, what shall we do?

I can’t imagine why you’re with that woman
I can’t imagine why you don’t want me
I can’t imagine anyone could love you as I do so
Come here, I’ve got something for you to see.

I’m talking to the priest,
Confessing all my crimes
I’m down upon my knees
But guess who’s on my mind?

Baby what’s the reason I let you haunt me for?
Have you got what I need behind those doors?

I can’t imagine you’d ever say it’s over
You told me we hadn’t yet begun
I guess I’m gonna keep my dance card empty
In hopes we waltz right into kingdom come

 
I can’t imagine where you think you’re going
Without my picture and my autograph
You know I’d do most anything you wanted
Eat, drink, dance, sing, walk, talk, kiss, cry, laugh

 Let’s Ride

Hey there baby, start up your Harley, let’s ride

You could take me out across the countryside

I’ll be holding on so tight,

We’ll watch the sun rising up through the night

Hey there baby, start up your Harley, let’s ride

Oh, my darling, put your leather jacket back on

I love to recall how you look in it when you’re gone

Something in your eyes makes me feel real good

Better than I ever thought I could

Oh my darling, put your leather jacket back on

 I love the things that you take in stride

I love the secrets you’ve found inside

I love the things you just don’t say

I wouldn’t mind looking at you every day

Hey there baby I can’t wait to see your curls hang down

Won’t you take me riding on that thing through town

You’ve got pointed boots, a pointed smile

Piercing eyes and a reckless style

Hey there baby, I can’t wait to see your curls hang down

 Too Big To Baby

 
I’m too big to baby, can’t carry me upstairs
Could not stop my crying, honestly who cares
I can see I’ve fallen to the bottom line
Through the cracks and frozen
To the breath of time

And I decided in midair to be a waterfall
And I’ve been falling ever since
Through rain and feathers,
Mirrored halls
In silence as you
Called and called

 
Looks like I can’t reach you, somehow I will stand
Gathering my sorrows like treasures in my hand
In the name of right and reason
I have lusted after sand, but
Not one lover loses in the promised land 

Where do you want to go? What do you want to do?
Who do you want to know? Who does it matter to?
What do you want to do? Where do you want to go?
Why am I asking you, Why does it matter so?

 When The Deal Goes Down

 I’ve been scared of love, scared to be touched
Scared ‘cause I know I need it so much
Scared to be feeling these feelings of mine
Scared to be seen, scared to unwind
Who’s going to help me stand my ground
I do not want to be scared when the deal goes down
 
I’ve been scared to know you, scared to know myself
Scared to be needing anyone else
I don’t want to live my life in shadows and rain
When I know that love is the name of the game
Who’s going to help me stand my ground
I do not want to be scared when the deal goes down

Somebody told me it would turn out cool
If I learned me the difference
Between wise men and fools
I’m gonna find me somebody I can trust
Before my soul returns to dust

I’ve been scared of living, scared to death of life
Scared to be defined as any man’s wife
But I need to reveal what I feel to be true
I hate to admit it, but I’ve been scared of you
Who’s going to help me stand my ground
I do not want to be scared when the deal goes down 

I’m scared of what’s right, scared of what’s wrong
My virtues are weak and my weaknesses strong
I’m scared of the reasons we do what we do
Scared of the One who makes it all come true
Who’s going to help me stand my ground
I do not want to be scared when the deal goes down
 

I want what you’ve got…please give it to me
I’ll be a beggar with my heart on my sleeve
Breathing a whirlpool of earthly delights
Keeping a flame burning straight through the night

I’m scared of the news, scared of the times
Scared of the view from this heart of mine
Scared for my children, scared for my friends
Scared for us all as it comes to an end
Who’s going to help you stand your ground 

You do not want to be scared when the deal goes down