The Wrong Side

Sleepin beside you
Holding you tight
I'd rather be nowhere else
at least not tonight
Then a crash of the thunder
I awake & see
it was just a dream
You ain't here with me

This bed's mighty empty
but it still smells of you
Cos I keep a pillow
Full of your perfume
As I light a candle
I say a prayer for you
& your safe return
While I watch it burn

Everyone knows
Despite my prayin'
That you ain't coming back this time
And everyone knows
What no one's sayin'
I'm on the wrong side of my right mind

Nights I'm sleepwalkin'
Days I'm daydreamin'
Whenever I'm talkin'
It's about you it seems
Friends never ake me if I'm hearing from you
It seems a little rude
They were your friends, too

But everyone knows
Despite my prayin'
That you ain't comin' back this time
And everyone knows
What no one's sayin'
I'm on the wrong side of my right mind

I'm on the wrong side
I'm on the wrong side
The wrong side of my right mind

Stopped into a churchouse
To see if Jesus was there
To ask Him in person
If he was hearing my prayers
Met a kind hearted preacher
whose encouragement ceased
When I said you left me
In Two Thousand 16

Everyone knows
Despite my prayin'
That you ain't comin' back this time
And everyone knows
What no one's sayin'
I'm on the wrong side of my right mind

I'm on the wrong side
The very wrong side
The wrong side of my right mind

Lyrics by King Rio
Copyright 2021 Dreampeople Music

The Wrong Side

Then There Was U


Alone adrift at sea
A storm crashing outside
Waves that tossed my vessel
Fro and to
Just when I thought I'd sink
I heard someone speaking peace
And walking on the water
Then there was U

The forecast stayed the same
Only darkness and the rain
The whole foundation shook
As the wind blew
I hid as best I could
While outside the thunder roared
But riding on the lightning
Then there was u

The sun came out
Clouds disappeared
The nightmares blew away
The Angels sang as Heaven played the Tune
And with the break of dawn

Nightmares when I'd sleep
Much worse when I'd awake
Night that seemed as if
It would never be through
But in the darkest moment
The light came flooding in 
Illumination, liberation
Then there was u

The sun came out
Clouds disappeared
The nightmares blew away
The Angels sang as Heaven played the Tune
And with the break of dawn
Then there was U

The sun came out
Clouds disappeared
The nightmares blew away
The Angels sang as Heaven played the Tune
For every tear I cried
Then there was U

Lyrics by King Rio
Copyright 2021 Dreampeople Music

Then There Was U

Things I Should Have Said

Was I ever in love
Names and faces all fade
In the light of your eyes my love
I am reborn inside my love
These are things I should have said

Was there ever a voice
Leaving lips sweet as yours
Speaking into my soul my love
Making emptiness whole my love
These are things I should have said

But the days go by
And the words don't come
As hard as I try
They remain the
Things I should have said

Was there ever a dream
I had dreamed before you
Sweet as this time awake my love
When I'm seeing your face my love
These are things I should have said

But the days go by
And the words don't come
As hard as I try
They remain the
Things I should have said

Was I ever in love
Names and faces all fade

Lyrics by King Rio
Copyright 2021 Dreampeople Music

Things I Should Have Said

Your heart has been broken
By the one of your dreams
I'm not tryin' to tell you
It's not bad as it seems,
but hear what I say
Someday 
It's all gonna be okay

Find time for 'Thank you's'
Make room for faith
It don't help to worry
And it don't hurt to pray
Just hear what I say
Someday
It's all gonna be okay

When you're out there searching
You best believe that
Love's somewhere waiting 
And it knows where you're at
As sure as the sun comes up in the sky
There will be a tear that's the last one you need to cry

Your dreams may be shattered
Betrayed by your friends
But I just want to tell you
This ain't where it ends
You trust what I say
Someday
It's all gonna be okay

Your joy may be stolen
But there's one thing I've learned
When you least expect it
Your joy will return
As sure as the sun comes up in the sky
One day you're gonna wake up from your last lonely night

Find time for 'Thank you's'
Make room for faith
It don't help to worry
And it don't hurt to pray
Believe what I say
Someday
It's all gonna be okay

(Pt 2)
Sometime you might have to walk a hard road, but if you
didn't walk that hard road you might never have
got to a whole nother road you didn't even know
exist.
A road that lead to joy, a road that lead to glory
a road that lead to happiness
keep walkin' y'all
it's ALL gonna be okay someday
Believe that

Lyrics by King Rio
Copyright 2020 Dreampeople Music

Someday (It's All Gonna Be Okay) Parts 1 & 2

Songs That No One Wants To Hear

He thought he'd shut the song off
But he played it again
It hits a little different
than it did way back when
He never thought he'd end up
Where that singer must had been
When he sang 'How can you respect a man who
Needs you more than you need him?'

She pulled into a truckstop
But she didn't want to eat
She wanted a distraction
From the pain she tried to leave
The jukebox seems speak for her
As the singer starts to weep
'I'll be alright in a little while,
but you'll be permanently lonely..'

Songs of heartbreak
Songs of tears
Songs of losing
Songs of fear
These are songs that no one wants to hear
But sometimes you got to sing them anyway

He found a box of records
in the things she left behind
He thought her favorite music
Might help him take his mind
Off how he'd lost too often
And his family now it seems
The needle sticks, the line repeats 
'They're playing songs of love
but not for me'

Songs of heartbreak
Songs of tears
Songs of losing
Songs of fear
These are songs that no one wants to hear
But sometimes you got to sing them anyway

Songs of heartbreak
Songs of tears
Songs of losing
Songs of fear
These are songs that no one wants to hear
But sometimes you got to sing them anyway

Lyrics by King Rio
Copyright 2022 Dreampeople Music

Songs That No One Wants To Hear

As Above So Below

Stars are not so far away
I see them in you eyes each day
Galaxies of promise and peace
Reaching down and raising me to eternity

As above so below 
Your lips hold secrets angels know
Paradise resides inside your soul
As above so below
As above so below

Heaven is not far from me
It's become reality
On earth it is as it must be
Your name's become a prayer to me, each breath I breathe

As above so below 
Your lips hold secrets angels know
Paradise resides inside your soul
As above so below
As above so below 
Your lips hold secrets angels know
Paradise resides inside your soul
As above so below
As above so below

Lyrics by King Rio, copyright 2022 Dreampeople Music
Music by Dan William Rooney
https://www.danwilliamrooney.com/songwriters-backingtracks

As Above So Below (featuring Dan William Rooney)

All instrumentation written & performed by Backing Track. Used by permission. 
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'Change Your Mind'

There's lots of things you cannot change
But you can always change your mind
An Eye for an eye somebody said
Will leave the whole world blind
If you lay down the weight of all that hate
You'd be surprised at what you find
There's lot of things you cannot change
But you can always change your mind
Change your mind

There's lots of things you cannot do
But you can always do what's right
I'm sure you've got a point to prove
But it ain't always worth the price
Sometimes the way to keep a friend
Is to walk away from a fight
There's lots of things you cannot do
But you can always do what's right
Do what's right

There's lots of things you cannot know
But you can always know yourself
Specifically uniquely you
That can't be nobody else
That thinks your thoughts & says your words
& helps the way you help
There's lots of things you cannot know,
But you can always know yourself
Know yourself

There's lots of things you cannot change
But you can always change your mind
An Eye for an eye somebody said
Will leave the whole world blind
If you lay down the weight of all that hate
You'd be surprised at what you find
There's lot of things you cannot change
But you can always change your mind
Change your mind

There are lots of things you cannot change
Change your mind

Lyrics by King Rio
Copyright 2023 Dreampeople Music

Change Your Mind

UCANHAVEIT
all instrumentation by MIKEE at YT Jam Tracks
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Time I spent anticipating
Things that really weren't worth creating
I don't need it anymore
Time I spent regretting doing
Things that weren't worth my pursuing
I can't use it anymore

U can have it I don't need it
I don't need it where I'm going
Where I'm going I don't need it anymore
U can have it I don't need it
I don't need it where I'm going
Where I'm going I can't use it anymore

Time I cried for fear I'd lose
People who were never true
I don't need it anymore
Time I lost trying to please
Someone who was less than me
I can't use it anymore

U can have it I don't need it
I don't need it where I'm going
Where I'm going I don't need it anymore
U can have it I don't need it
I don't need it where I'm going
Where I'm going I can't use it anymore


Going 2 a place
Where there'll be no more crying
Going 2 a place where there'll be no more dying
Going 2 a place
Where there'll be no more crying
Going 2 a place where there'll be no more dying

U can have it I don't need it
I don't need it where I'm going
Where I'm going I don't need it anymore
U can have it I don't need it
I don't need it where I'm going
Where I'm going I can't use it anymore

lyrics copyright 2023 King Rio
dreampeople music

UCANHAVEIT

It Would Be Yours

In the light of the rising sun I see
You the way you truly be
And it still amazes me 
That I could now be yours
A storybook reality
A dream I'd only dared to dream
A lonely schoolboy's fantasy
Coming true as I am yours

And if Heaven was an earthly place
It would be yours, it would be yours
And if angels songs could have a face
It would be yours It would be yours
If a smile could light the darkest space
It would be yours, it would be yours
If love was clothed in human flesh
It would be yours

And if Heaven was an earthly place
It would be yours, it would be yours
And if angels songs could have a face
It would be yours It would be yours
If a smile could light the darkest space
It would be yours, it would be yours
If love was clothed in human flesh
It would be yours

In the light of the rising sun I see
You the way you truly be
And it still amazes me 
That I could now be yours
A storybook reality
A dream I'd only dared to dream
A lonely schoolboy's fantasy
Coming true as I am yours

Lyrics copyright 2023 Dreampeople Music

It Would Be Yours

With Every Break In My Heart

Spent a long time sleepwalking
wishing on distant stars
Til I moved to a daydream
where the stars ain't that far
I paid for the privilege 
with every break in my heart

I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart
I won't ask for permission
Not to be who you are
Cos I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart

Took a long trip through lonely
Seeking love near and far
Till the morning love whispered
'I've always known where you are
And boy, you've paid for the privilege
With every break in your heart'

I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart
I won't ask for permission
Not to be who you are
I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart

If you see me walk calmly
While the world falls apart
Unaffected by people
and who they think they are
See I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart

I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart
I won't ask for permission
Not to be who you are
Cos I paid for the privilege
With every break in my heart

lyrics by kingRio
Copyright 2024 BanjoThomas Music

With Every Break In My Heart

Brown eyes staring painfully,
wondering remembering 
a darker time, a darker place
a little boy whose heart would break
again & again, misunderstood
convinced that he was less than good
reminded every time he sat in Sunday School

The pointing, whispers overheard
until he'd run in tears and hurt
To the secret place
his stereo & back to her
To dream of far off distant things
Tomorrowland, prodigals and kings
The only one who ever seemed to understand

Lady sing to me of rainbow painted skies
and Joseph coats of multicolored leaves
Let your words become a wall around my heart
and let your voice become my place of peace

They stabbed him with their judging eyes
they'd throw the book and criticize
So much that time alone was all that he'd dream of
And the lady with the knowing smile
who spoke right to the hurt inside 
with 'Don't Give Up'and 'You'll come forth as gold..'

Lady sing to me of rainbow painted skies
and Joseph coats of multicolored leaves
Let your words become a wall around my heart
and let your voice become my place of peace

Times have changed, or so it seems
 I still have scars that never leave
And people who condemn,
but mostly I don't mind
Cos anytime it gets too much 
I reach for neverending love
and run back to the shelter of your song

Lady sing to me of rainbow painted skies
and Joseph coats of multicolored leaves
Let your words become a wall around my heart
and let your voice become my place of peace

Lyrics by King Rio with assistance from Arthur Severio, copyright 2020 Dreampeople Music & Prodigal Arts.
(Dedicated to Reba Rambo, my first favorite singer/songwriter. This track does reference some of her lyrics, song titles, and ideas, so she deserves more songwriting credit than I, because without her, there would be no this.)

Lady

King Rio

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