Lyrics:
Look at our lives
Look at the way we are
Look at your world
It's what you are
Over the edge
Going way too far

You're watching violence
The world is violent
You're self centered
The world is selfish
You have no limits
The world is ruthless

It's not someone else
It's you
It's not someone else
It's you

Sitting on your couch
On your phone
Feeding the machine
Bowing to the throne
If it's just entertainment
Then look at your world

It's not someone else
It's you
It's not someone else
It's you

Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, acoustic guitar, cowboy guitar, bass, drums

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

It's Not Someone Else (It's You)

Lyrics:
Sweet lovely lady
Please give your love to me
And make this little paradise 
Here on earth complete
I'm chasing all these rainbows 
Trying to quell the storm
And all the while I'm missing you
Dear woman won't you please
Please love me

Won't you please love me

My pride and my fear
They get me all the time
Sweet lovely lady
I need you 
Please love me

Won't you please love me

My pride and my fear
They get me all the time
Sweet lovely lady
I miss you 
Don't leave me behind

Don't leave me behind

Credits:
Vocals: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Guitar: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Cowboy Guitar: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Piano: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Bass: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Drums: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Music and lyrics: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Executive producer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Recording engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Mixing engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Mastering engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Sweet Lovely Lady

Lyrics:
This is the ballad of Emmett Till
This is your news for today
Back in 1955 Mississippi remember the place
He was a teenage kid you wouldn't recognize 
They beat the portrait off his face
Witnesses came they testified to the defendants not his race
The white jury freed the white man on trial forever to be free
Confessing their story for money and glory protected by double jeopardy

This is your news for today 
My white folks will only hear it this way
Evil don't discriminate but the white news don't seem to see it that way

Rasheem Carter was a young man he was a certain race
It was 2022 Mississippi yeah you know the place
He texted his mom to let her know that white men were hot on his trail
He said if something happens to me mom this is the man to put in jail
That was the last she heard from her son a black man gone missing
Barely a peep from the white news though they found his body all in pieces 
All over the woods

This is your news for today 
My white folks will only hear it this way
Evil don't discriminate but the white news don't seem to see it that way

Then there's Daniel Robinson Keeshae Jacobs Jelani Day
It seems to me that the white news think that evil discriminates
White people victims of real life horror but black folks why should we bother
To pressure the cops to find the genius committing these perfect crimes
So this is for all my white folks out there so you can make up your mind
And pressure the news that skews your views makes you double blind

This is your news for today 
My white folks will only hear it this way
Evil don't discriminate but the white news don't seem to see it that way

Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, acoustic guitar, cowboy guitar, piano, bass, drums

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

The Ballad Of Emmett Till

Lyrics:
This life so long 
This place I just don't belong
And these times so tough 
My best ain't never enough

But this is it this is your life 
Stop waiting for everything to be just right
Cause fear she tries to pretend 
She's a cunning iseductress she gets in your head
She steals you she steals you 

One shot another comes in 
Life is short it doesn't forgive
But time will run its course 
Before you know
The door is closed 
Ain't long you count the years
One shot one chance to steer your course or someone will 
Hold tigh no promises but one

But this is it this is your life 
Stop waiting for everything to be just right
Cause fear she tries to pretend 
She's a cunning seductress she gets in your head
This is it this is your life 
Stop waiting for everything to be just right
Cause fear she tries to pretend 
Has you ducking for cover before you begin
She steals you she steals you 

This is it this is your life 
Stop waiting for everything to be just right
Cause fear she tries to pretend 
She's a cunning seductress she gets in your head
This is it this is your life 
Stop waiting for everything to be just right
Cause fear she tries to pretend 
Has you ducking for cover before you begin
She steals you she steals you 
This is it
This is it

Credits:
Vocals: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Guitar: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Cowboy Guitar: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Piano: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Bass: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Drums: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Music and lyrics: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Executive producer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Recording engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Mixing engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Mastering engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

This Is It (This Is Your Life)

Lyrics:
If I could count the ways
That you could take me home
Then I could count the stars you made
The truth is Lord
Only you can know

You are God You are life
You are love
You're everything
And I know you have no need of me
Yet here I am
In your mercy Lord

Lord I cannot hide
Nor comprehend
You see the hearts of men
There's and mine
Only You can know

Cause you are God You are life
You are love
You're everything
And I know you have no need of me
Yet here I am
In your mercy Lord

You are God You are life
You are love
You're everything
And I know you have no need of me
Yet here I am
In your mercy Lord

Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, piano

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

In Your Mercy Lord

In Your Mercy Lord (acoustic version)

Lyrics:
When I'm on my knees
With my face close to the ground
My heart and my breath
Are the only sound 
But inside there's a war
All I want is God's rest
But out there all they'll take is my best
All I want is God's reat
So I'm here on my knees
With the clock ticking away
Tugging at me

But when I get to heaven
There will be know place to go
No more time no more pain
No more tears and no more shame

When I get to heaven
There will be know place to go
No more time no more pain
No more tears and no more shame

Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, acoustic guitar, cowboy guitar, piano, bass, drums

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

When I Get To Heaven (acoustic version)

Lyrics:
You promised to send your son and you did
You promised to give us time and you did
Almighty God you promised to save all who would believe
Almighty God you gave us everything

For you are life on that cross
You rose that we may live 
It's finished
All is done Lord
There's nothing to do except believe
That You are the Messiah

Your promise Lord is written in our hearts
Your promise Lord is written in your word
It's written on this earth for all who will see
Almighty God you gave us everything

For you are life on that cross
You rose that we may live
It's finished
All is done Lord
There's nothing to do except believe
You are the Messiah
You are the Messiah

You promised Lord that you will return
You promised Lord to judge us by your word
You promised to give us time and time would run its course
Your promise Lord is all the proof we need
Cause you are the Messiah
And you are the Messiah

Credits:
Vocals: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Guitar: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Cowboy Guitar: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Bass: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Drums: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Music and lyrics: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo
Executive producer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Recording engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Mixing engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo 
Mastering engineer: Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

The Promise

The Promise (acoustic version)

Lyrics:
You are Almighty God
And I'm just me
Search my heart Lord
You are all righteousness
Search my heart even now

You owe me nothing Lord
Still you care for me
Please forgive me God
This is more than I can bear
You are my God even now

There's nothing I can say
You see these trembling fears
Thank you God
For saving his precious soul
He's with you even now

You owe me nothing Lord
Still you care for me
Please forgive me God
This is more than I can bear
You are my God even now

There's nothing I can say
You see these trembling fears
Thank you God
For saving his precious soul
He's with you even now

You owe me nothing Lord
Still you care for me
Please forgive me God
This is more than I can bear
You are my God even now

Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, acoustic guitar, cowboy guitar, piano, bass, drums

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

You Are My God (Even Now)

Lyrics:
I'm never alone
You're here with me
By your grace
You remember me
You made the stars
And all we see
All mighty God
You remember me

And all my deeds are filthy rags
And all my words are emptiness
You shed your blood for my sins
My Lord my God
You remember me my Lord

And Lord
There's no height
That I can reach and know your might
You made it all
By your word
My Lord my God
You Remember me

And all my deeds are filthy rags
And all my words are emptiness
You shed your blood for my sins
My Lord my God
You remember me

My deeds are filthy rags
And all my words are emptiness
You shed your blood for my sins
My Lord my God
You remember me my Lord

Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, acoustic guitar, cowboy guitar, piano, bass, drums

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

You Remember Me

I'm a million miles away standing right next to you
You say it's day I say it's night and I can prove it
When was the last time you looked me in the eye
And told me something other than another big fat lie
 It's just another big fat lie

All the things you said and done to me
Trying to poison my life
How vicious can you be
Hanging around just to take me down
This isn't something new
But I just can't get rid of you
You got a strangled hold on me
But I don't fit your mold you can't let it go

I'm a million miles away standing right next to you
You say it's day I say it's night and I can prove it
When was the last time you looked me in the eye
And told me something other than another big fat lie
 It's just another big fat lie

We're right here in the same room
I don't need your friends to tell me anything
If you want to take me down
I'm not the one you need to fight
If you want to do this right
You gotta change your ways gotta change your ways

I'm a million miles away standing right next to you
You say it's day I say it's night and I can prove it
When was the last time you looked me in the eye
And told me something other than another big fat lie
It's just another big fat lie
It's just another big fat lie


Credits:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo:
Vocals, acoustic guitar, cowboy guitar, piano, bass, drums

Produced by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Written, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by:
Joseph Anthony Ricciardo

Volume IV: You Remember Me

A Million Miles Away (Standing Right Next To You)

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