Paper Chase

now i lay me down to sleep
just like my mama told me
i pray the lord my soul to keep
i'm hopin darkness overtakes me

if i should die before i wake
would i really even know it?
i pray the lord my soul to take
at least that's how my mama told it

i'm headed out into the night, far from the city lights
to a place where I can stay
where there's no one around and there's nothin to say
cause when you're livin by yourself you don't need nobody else
to pick you up or bring you down
what you think you found was always around

now i'm lyin here on the sheet
i bend my ear to the cicada
always tryin just to get some sleep
and save everything for later

just head out in to the woods, it'll do your head some good
leave your history behind
there's somethin to be said for some peace of mind
and when you're talkin to yourself, you won't need nobody else
to beat you up or beat you down
what you thought you found was always around

when you're talkin to yourself you don't need nobody else
to beat you up or bring you down
what you thought you found was always around

song 1 (wilderness)

Dreaming

when i was young and hungry and every sunset was new
i had to taste every bottle and fall asleep in the dew
the hills tumbled on like a river
time fluttered by just like a feather
that floated on down to the coast where i saw the curve of the sea

i crossed many great nations sleeping behind the gas stations
thumb supplicated in patience, i hummed tunes to myself
but i got tired of singing
it seemed the words had no meaning
so i just started running from here to there and back again

i ended up in the mountains where the trees sang in the wind
crouched down by the wood stove, happy having something to tend
i was as dry as boot leather
as resolute as a desert
lonely like a lake loon and happy just to stay that way, goddamn

song 2 (folly of youth)

she was an eighty-eight corolla with a death wish
born on an unpaved county road
the rust ate up her fenders like cancer
she was sacked out and ridin low
we'd been playin bar gigs in the south lands
we were washed up with no place to go
so we hung a hard left off of I-10 west
and crossed into old mexico

we had the pedal to the metal cross the nueces plains
we held our breath till the sun went down
we rolled in late down in potosi state
into some little mountain town
my mama always told me i had no direction
and i just pointed south
as long as there's somethin in the gas tank
we'll drive her till the road runs out

she was an eighty-eight corolla with a carburetor
she ran like she had nothin to lose
passin sugar cane trucks on the switchbacks
of the trans-sierra madre routes
well, we parked her up on a clifftop 
lookin over ol' pacifico
the grass grows 'round her fenders
and she's just waitin for some place to go...

song 6 (88 corolla)

What would you say if I said that I’d like to get down
What would you say if I dug a big hole down in the ground
What would you say if I said that I’d jump in right now
And then climb out and start again

What in the world am I doing not to allow
What in the world is not love, it’s all love anyhow
What in the world am I complaining about now
There I go I start again

I’m a go x5
Not go if I can catch up,  though I may be a bit slow
I’m a go x5
This is not a fight that I’m going to throw
This is not a fight that I’m going to throw

What’s the resistancre to things I deem that are bad
What’s with the clinging to those things that I used to have
What good here can I add
Right now as I start again

I’m a go x5
Not go if I can catch up,  though I may be a bit slow
I’m a go x5
This is not a fight that I’m going to throw
This is not a fight that I’m going to throw

Start Again

walking home through soft beds of needles
you stoop to roll stones into their resting places
all the while, with no human eyes to observe them,
they will stay there just as you have laid them

there they lay as young girls grow into women
they remain as nations fall into ruin
they grow beards of moss on their dark faces
or lay in ashes in their resting places

Resting Places

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Elders 0101

Folly Of Youth

Say my name
Like the first time we met
When you walked my way
With whiskey on your breath

Say my name
Like you bought me that first drink
we just kept on talking
And didn’t sleep a wink

Say my name
Like you said I’m comin’ in
And threw out all my things, you said,
So livin’ could begin

Say my name 
Like when you said I do
When we were young and foolish
With nothing else to do

Say it loud
Til the neighbors come out
Like we have found a reason to shout
C’mon now
Say it loud

And I’ll say your name
Like a house on fire
Like we’re running for our lives
From some old gun for hire

And I’ll say your name
Like it’s my last breath
like it’s the only thing left now
To get off of this old chest

We’ll say it loud
Til the neighbors come out
Like we have found a reason to shout
C’mon now
Say it loud


We’ll say it loud
Til the neighbors come out
Like we have found a reason to shout
To shake these walls right down to the ground
Like something lost is something found
C’mon now
Cmon now
Cmon now
Say it loud

C’mon now
Cmon now
Cmon now
Say it loud

Say It Loud

I had a turtle, I would give him his food
His head and feet would disappear when he was in a bad mood
But one day he died; all I have is an empty shell
It only hurts when I look at it, but I know all is well

Then I had a bird, he would sing me sad songs
Swingin' on his trapeze, he was so happy, but a cage is all wrong
So one I day I let him go; all I have is a feather
It only hurts when I hold it high, way up in the sky he flies...

I found a caterpillar, he was fuzzy and green
He would crawl along my finger, and slept in the leaves
But where did my friend go? I have an empty cocoon
Well I hope he's doin' all right, and we'll be together soon

And I never used to cry
Till I saw this butterfly
And as the years go by, and the young grow old
I find myself believing a hope

Now I met a girl, who's so much better than I
I could ask her to marry me, we could share our whole lives
But I had to let her go; she had all her dreams to live
It only hurts when I think that I had nothing to give

Then one day she came to
And she gave to me her love
'Cause I broke the chains that bound her heart
And now she lives free
And I never used to cry
Till I saw this butterfly
And as the years go by and the young grow old
I find myself believing a hope

Say It Loud

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