A guilty mind doesn’t sleep at night
I’ve been doing just fine every since you’ve been gone 
I’ll be coming by to collect the rent 
For the space you occupied within my mind

Everything I got, everything is for free 
Nothing’s for sale, yet you took it from me
The harder they come, the harder they fall
I fell apart when you got down on your knees 

When the shit hit the fan, I was on my knees 
It really hurt my pride to be begging “please!”
Hurt people hurt people 
I wish you the best
Don’t get caught in the middle

Everything I got, everything is for free 
Nothing is for sale, yet you took it from me
The harder they come, the harder they fall
I fell apart when you got down on your knees 

No way in hell you’re gonna steal the night 
I grabbed the mic and everything is alright
Kisses like you the world has seen its share 
From New Dal to Mongol they are everywhere 

Everything I got, everything is for free 
Nothing is for sale, yet you took it from me
The harder they come, the harder they fall
I fell apart when you got down on your knees

I’ll be coming by to collect the rent 
For the space you occupied within my mind

Collect The Rent

Shaniqua, my beautiful 
You won’t have to wait 
For the kids to be good and grown 
To run off to LA
Me, you know, I got to stay 
For those who depend on me 
But at night when they’re all asleep 
I’ll see you in my dreams

A dream deferred could be a lot of things 
And none of them seem good 
So think of me while you’re out there 
Chasing yours in Hollywood
This place here always looks the same 
It looks nothing like me 
I carry this dream inside my chest 
Until it can be free

They say that you waste yourself, but I won’t 
They say that you lose yourself, but I won’t 
If you don’t believe me, come on
Come on and try me 
If you don’t believe me, come on 
Come on and try me 

Come more flowers every spring 
Than stars in the northern sky 
Some get trampled while others shine
But they’re all born to die 
Something sweet that you can’t have 
Pulls you down like a heavy load 
I want to set this dream free 
Before it runs or explodes 

They say that you waste yourself, but I won’t 
They say that you lose yourself, but I won’t 
If you don’t believe me, come on
Come on and try me 
If you don’t believe me, come on 
Come on and try me 

I’m not sitting here waiting in vain 
I’m building myself as I’m holding back 
I don’t have a ticket for the glory train
But I can walk the railroad track

L.A.: A Dream Deffered

TRAIN IN THE NIGHT

NO ME GUSTA QUAND TU T'EN VAS

KEEP YOUR LIGHT ON

A 1/4 Mile From Pontchartrain

I 'LL BE YOUR NOAH, ZAPATA, SCHINDLER OR SCHOLL

Piracy

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"Orson works only one way and that way is HARD."-Nathan Raleigh. From his childhood room in France where he multitracked with 2 mono tape recorders for hours to the stages of NYC and Maine; from the streets of New Orleans and a squat in Loísaida to a lonely house at the end of a long dirt drive way in Maine, he has lived the better part of the last 25 years pregnant with songs. Songs that he relentlessly channels, carves, builds and bends into the soundtrack to your life.

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