The Wilderness Years - lyrics
Fools Like Me
Never count yourself away from danger
Put yourself behind reality
Counting on your stars
Will take you just so far
But then again there’s lots of
Fools around like me
Oh i walk, down inner-city blocks
Turn your head sure gotta watch the way you walk
Well i like to dig the scene
It’s no fun stuck in-between
Get me high man scoot me along
That’s my natural speed
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I don’t have what you call a book education
I learned most of my lessons after school
I have what you call a real life education
And i try to be no bodys fool
Well i’d rather a little sense than a lot of wiggle
Sometime i hide my dollars in my shoes
I read my horoscope every day
I like my work to be like play
Aint’asking for much
Just want the whole damn thing my way
chorus repeat 1st verse
Change First With Truth
Sometimes i think you’re lazy,
you wanting to run away
Where’s the hope if you see the problem
and you choose not to stay?
I can’t deny the curtains falling
and the colors turned to blue
but i guess if i’m not leaving
I think you should stay too
Don’t you know you can’t run forever
but it’s your right to go and try
forget the need for answers
and the need for reasons why
Buy yourself your solitude
Bolt and lock up all the doors
but remember if it falls apart here
The flood will still be at your door
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You never get nothing
from doing nothing it’s true
Push away the shadows
Chase away the darkness and blues
Change first with truth
I can understand frustration
It twists lives unusual ways
And i don’t call it freedom
Sticking dreams back day by day
But you if you gotta work for that dollar
Yes you gotta have your pay
Just remember if you have to give up much
You still gotta debt to pay
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You never get nothing
from doing nothing it’s true
Push away the shadows
Chase away the darkness and blues
Change first with truth
A New Heart
I need a brand new heart
And then i’m going to run away yes
I need a little bit of time
to figure out what’s really mine
I’ll leave a part of me here though
to mind the store yes while i am away
He will pay the bills and send me checks
I’ll never worry as i rest
Do you think it’s strange
Well I ’ll tell you that i hardly care
I’ve been in here much too long
Let me out, watch me run,
say goodbye Terry Lee I’m gone
Run
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I’ve been around these streets
Up and down it seems i’m always talking about changes
Now look who needs the major changing
Don’t ask me how i know, on a hard line it shows
A new heart's the thing i need
A new heart's the thing for me
Do you think it’s strange?
Well i’ve some doubt about it happening yet
Given half a chance, I could build a heart that lasts
I know a little place that’s warm
And a place where all the shadows hide
That’s the place for me
With my new heart, there I ’m gonna go
I’m never going to leave
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I’ve been around these streets
Up and down it seems i’m always talking about changes
Now look who needs the major changing
Don’t ask me how i know, on a hard line it shows
A new heart's the thing i need
A new heart's the thing for me
Casting No Shadows
Casting no shadows, no brilliant displays
Look into mirrors, want to run away
Casting no shadows, taking no place
Asking for two, lost in the space
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What’s wrong, whats the matter with me
Can you say what’s wrong?
Can you say, can you see?
Casting no shadows, I cry as I play
The space in my laughter won’t go away
Casting no shadows, perhaps time forgot
But maybe I should feel that what I have’s enough?
Ah what’s wrong, what’s the matter with me
Can you say what’s wrong
Can you say, can you see
Casting no shadows, but maybe I ’m wrong
Maybe I should that feel that half enough is enough
Casting no shadows, dissatisfied me
Looking for the sun and wanting to see
Just what’s wrong, what’s the matter with me
Can you say what’s wrong
Can you say can you see
Ragged Caravan
Instrumental
Cruel World
I’ve got nothing, fallen idols
The loss was not kind
One by one it’s old and moldy
They all seem to fade with time
What did you do when the innocence was gone
Did you cry, run and hide or were you just pissed off
Loving mothers, kind fathers,
The loss was not kind
Tell yourself that it really doesn’t matter
But i think i might be just a lie
I couldn’t believe they would intentionally never see
I couldn’t believe they would try to kill a dream
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But it’s cruel world
It’s an cold world
It’s a hard world
It’s a cruel world 2x
Good intentions, words that promise
The loss was not kind
You might say that it doesn’t really matter
But i think it might be an alibi
Cause half of everything is not the part you need
But what you find is sometimes hard to keep
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But it’s cruel world
It’s an cold world
It’s a hard world
It’s a cruel world 2x
If You Don't Love Her
If you don’t love her why don’t go
you should just tell her, she deserves to know
Why don’t you now, now is a good time
Once it is done everything will be fine
If you don’t love her and it’s a fact
You should admit it and tell her that
Why don’t you now, now’s a good time
Though it might hurt in the end it is kind
If you don’t love her don’t lie to yourself
Say it out loud, lies never help
So won’t you tell her, now’s a good time
Once it is done everything will be right
If you don’t love her it’s not big crime
Somethings don’t work no matter who trys
So won’t you tell her, now’s a good time
Once it is done everything will be fine
So won’t you tell, now’s a good time
Once it is done everything willl be fine
Some Girlfriend
I have a girlfriend but she doesn’t live here,
she lives far away
I have a girlfriend but I sleep here all alone
every morning so all alone
Some girlfriend
That woman that can love me so far away 2x
I have a girlfriend but I hear the hum that’s in the wire
I hear the hiss that’s on the line
I have a girlfriend but she lives down in texas
and I stay here all alone
Some girlfriend
That woman that can hold me so far away 2x
I have a girlfriend but she’s not moving back here
and I ’m not moving back there
I have a girlfriend but I wonder what I ’m going to do
with that girlfriend of mine who needs to move
Some girlfriend
That woman that keep me so far away 3x
Two Windows
The urine smell of darkened halls,
it’s fried meat every evening
This old apartment building reeks but we all live in it
I’ve got a corner room, it’s long and narrow
Of course it’s a fire trap with hot plates and cigarettes
and it’s hard for me to trust anyone
cCuse anymore you just don’t know who is who
I stay alone in my room
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But at least I ’ve got two windows
two windows are my world
I’m lucky to overlook the street
lucky to be warm
My neighbor listens to bad music
I think he gets drunk every night
I can hear him move in there
and the silence that comes from his squeeky chair
I can hear him snore, right through the walls
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But I ’ve got two windows
two windows are my world
I think I ’d die without them
into the void I ’d hurl
I have two windows
two windows are my world
I look out on the street
I look and I live in my corner room
Countdown
Political thinking from any point of view
Is just another focus but how much is true
If you get along yes then you're probably leaning right
If you don't, then you'll want to be inside
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Floodwaters grow volcanoes erupt
Too much of nothing never have enough
Poking through the garbage looking for some food
I saw it with my own eyes, could not believe it was true
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Long white fingers clutching green bills
They don't mind don't count who they kill
Overweight meat-eaters, mostly well dressed
You can tell they've been and gone
They never leave nothing left
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You see it the Philippines you got it down south
Everywhere there are jails you got people busting out
Chile, Ireland, Palestine too,
Way too many places, way too many people overdue
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Our great white fathers meet out East
Meanwhile back here on the streets
We've guns, incest, drugs and crime
Hang on to yours folks,
I'm putting bars on mine
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Our sons and daughters growing up too fast
In a world that they know nothing ever lasts
You better grow, gotta hurry, better get it while it lasts
You gotta hurry man, hurry, hurry, and hurry, hurry
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Little Wood Guitar
Don't play so loud they said, learn a little control
What do you think that you're trying to do
This is folk music, not rock and roll
Yes but I'm working
Stand up there with a wood guitar
Making too much noise is breaking rules
Why don't you play us an intricate folk song
What about tradition and not so much new
Well I try, try and try
Yes I'm working
Turn it up so we can feel it
Where's the drummer and the bass playing hard
We know what's rock and roll
And it ain't you with that wood guitar
Yes but I'm working
There's such a thing as a rock and roll tradition
There's such a thing but it you take it too far
What you need is a lot more power
It ain't enough with just one guitar
Well I try, try and I try
But I'm working
Everybody speaks with such conviction
They know the secret, just what the world needs
Ain't it funny how they point their fingers
I listen but do not heed
Yes and I'm working
When I play I get some satisfaction
And when I play yes I work at it hard
But what I am is how you hear it
But it's just me and a wood guitar
Well I try, try, yeah I try
And I'm working
(C G C G C E)
Ride Hard
Just grab a horse I'll go get mine
Not much that’s left to do
But just get on and ride
And somebody's coming
,And we haven't much time
It's such a bloody mess
But what was I to do
It's true he was a friend of mine
But he wouldn't let go of you
And jealousy's a poison
As we ride cry
So much trouble, for me and you
So much trouble, but it's almost through
Long as I remember, it's always been this way
just when I get a foot on the ground
it ends up next to a grave
And yes there's a poster
A dollar sign and my face
Now I'm burning up the leather
Another man shot down
But just as long as it's not me
I'll find another town
And I don't mind the running
I just hope not too late
Someone's coming, for me and you
But ride hard and we might get through
The hiss and a whine
And an ugly slap
I know a bullet's got my
But thirteen steps and a hanging tree's
Not gonna be my fate
Ride hard
It was all for the love of you dear
I swore I'd try and change
But I warned you once
I’m a jealous man
And it's a part of myself I hate
But ride hard
And we might get through
Ride hard me and you
Ride hard
Ah Love
I know, a friend told me so
Well I want to do it but I couldn't let it go
And it even while it burned
It was too late to try and turn
Well I hang me head why
I bled my heart dry
Yes I even knew it but I couldn't help but try
'cause my empties on full
And I couldn't let go
Ah Love
Well I couldn't help myself I get lucky sometime
I thought that I could do it I could get her on my side
But what you going to say
If she don't want to stay
I've been trying on the phone
Walking 'round her block
Peeking in her window, I couldn't even stop
I've been calling out her name,
I've been calling out her name
Ah Love
I'm been chasing after true love
I swear I'm going to change
I know that it's a real love
Ah Love, say you're gonna stay
I know, I did it all wrong
And now she won't believe me and she's almost gone
It's not good the "I love you's",
Oh what you gonna do?
True love's pushing out the boundaries of my heart
But what you gonna do if you never get to start
And I don't want to lose, I never want to lose
Ah Love
I'm chasing after true love, I need another chance
I'll prove that it's a real love
Ah love, let me be your man
I'm been chasing after true love
I swear I'm going to change
I'll prove that it's a real love
Ah Love, ah say you're gonna stay
(D G D G B D capo 4)
Hardly Ever two
She likes to slam the door in anger
but it slaps like a guillotine
It disconnect my head from my shoulders
I wonder which part she'd claim of me
Oh, you'd think i'd know
but i haven't got a clue
'cause most times she only likes one hald
Hardly ever two
Yes her words they cut like daggers
and these days i bleed so easily
I wonder how i ever got this fragile
I wonder why i let that happen to me
Oh, you'd think i'd know
but i don't know what is true
'cause one day i look in the mirror it's me
But hardly ever two
We started out with good intentions
but for a dime now i think i'd walk away
I can't believe that this is my surrender
I wonder why i even choose to stay
Oh, you'd think i'd know
but i haven't got a clue
'cause one day it feels so good to me
Hardly every, almost never
Hardly ever two
Life's The Time
Let’s go get a drink friends, maybe go downtown
I can see you need to kick it, kick it all out
‘cause pushing that hard will give you bent-back blues
Grab a little of this, grab a little of that
Oh it’s hard to stay loose
But I know how your feeling
For me too, it’s been hard to find
But so what, if your living
Life’s the time
Everyone complains, I guess there’s nothing wrong with that
But if you hate it so much, why don’t you quite just take the chance
'cause your worry lines are showing, I see them pulling at you face
You know that if you want to make the change
your just going to have to have a little bit of faith
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My Confession
I thought I would be so cool, pretend like I did not care
When all I wanted was your arms
Yes but sometimes the little boy inside
wants to play stupid games and run and hide
Well I put on my coat to watch you cry
I wanted you to do for me what i so often had done for you
It was to reach out and touch me, reach out and touch me
But like it or not this stupid pride does nothing more
than tear and divide
Well I kept it in and watched it die
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It’s my confession
I did it wrong
I wish she knew that part of me had changed
but we learn our lessons and we can’t go back again
It’s my confession yes
Darling I ’m the one to blame
Well I like to have things my own way
It was hard for me to share
I liked my space
But it was not my intention to drive her away no
But here comes the day she said enough
She said Terry Lee you play too rough
She said, goodbye baby, I gotta go
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It’s my confession
I did it wrong
I wish she knew that part of me had changed
but we learn our lessons and we can’t go back again
It’s my confession yes
Darling I ’m the one to blame