Verse 1:
I think it’s something that we look at the TV
And listen to the radio
But come on baby let’s go look at the stars
And see what we don’t know
Seems to me that if we don’t change
We won’t have a place to go
Except for rocket people living in outer space

Chorus:
When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day
When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day

Verse 2:
Oh boy when we look inside ourselves
It’s like trying to see in the dark
Only know what we’re told to know
Ain’t nothing to set us apart
We look for power in the goods we can buy
Don’t know why we’ve got a suffering heart
If we don’t open it it’s going to stay that way

[Repeat Chorus:  “Till the sea . . .”]

Bridge:
[Instrumental]

Verse 3:
There’s nothing bad about something good
Why hate the rain
In a desert and dying of thirst
Soak it up let it ease the pain
Put out the fire of hate and greed
Peace will thrive again
Don’t take a rocket scientist to fear the day

[Repeat Chorus:  “When the sea . . .”]


Words and Music by Jack E Morris
Copyright (c) 1985

Seventh Day

Verse 1:
The carnival is over now you say
You must have met the juggler yesterday
And I in all my silly innocence
Gave to you my last fifty cents

Chorus:
Yeah you’re like a carousel
You picked me up and then you kicked me off
Like all is well
You run around in circles like a carousel
You run around in circles like a carousel

Verse 2:
When I held you in our first embrace
The gypsy woman laughed into my face
And all the spotted horses fell in line
Knowing you would soon give them the sign

[Repeat Chorus]

Bridge:
Now I see
You give nothing for free
A nickel a ride
You’re never satisfied
You’re never satisfied

Verse 3:
Well I must admit I had myself some fun
If I was a clown you’d be the one
But I don’t care for living in a tent
Anyway my money’s all been spent

[Repeat Chorus]


Words and Music (c) 1980
by Jack E Morris

Carousel (Slow Ride)

Carousel

Verse 1:
I have a notion that the sun will rise again
It always has in every other place I've been
I ain't afraid that all my stars will fall
And leave me in the dark
I ain't afraid that all my dreams will end in
     sorrow
I ain't afraid that I will waste away
And never make my mark
I ain't afraid that I will die before
     tomorrow oh no

Verse 2:
There was a time when I would curse the frozen
     night
But now I know that everything will be all right
I don't believe that all my stars will fall
And leave me in the dark
I don't believe that all my dreams will end
     in sorrow
I don't believe that I will waste away
And never make my mark
I don't believe that I will die before
     tomorrow oh no

Bridge:
Ain't no doubt about it
You can never win them all
Today you're down and out and
Tomorrow you're feeling ten feet tall oh yeah

Verse 3:
I have a notion that the sun will rise again
It always has in every other place I've been
I ain't afraid that all my stars will fall
And leave me in the dark
I ain't afraid that all my dreams will end in
     sorrow
I ain't afraid that I will waste away
And never make my mark
I ain't afraid that I will die before
     tomorrow oh no
I ain't afraid that I will die before tomorrow oh
     no
I don't believe that I will die before tomorrow
     oh no

Words and Music (c) 1980
by Jack E Morris

Before Tomorrow

Verse 1:
To say I love you
Is equivalent
To saying I breathe air
Such sustenance as I derive from oxygen devolves
So liberally so reflexively upon me

Verse 2:
Were I deprived
Of atmosphere
The words "I breathe" would not avail
To fill my lungs with what they need nor would the words
"I am a fish" convert my lungs to gills

Chorus:
Air all around
But I would drown
Without you there
Because I breathe you
Because I breathe you

[Repeat Chorus]

Verse 3:
To say I love you
Is equivalent
To saying I breathe air
Ethereal by nature not by choice I'm bound to love you
Notwithstanding my voice

[Repeat Chorus 2x]


Words and Music by Jack E Morris
Copyright (c) 2000

I Breathe You

Baton Rouge has the Tigers
Houston has a dome
Neither one has what we need
We need to go home
Ever since Katrina
We’ve bounced from town to town
We took eight feet of water
But didn’t drown

Lafayette likes to party
Dallas has the dough
Now the Saints go marching in
San Antonio
I’d rather be in the Quarter
Sipping Hurricanes
Jamming to blues and jazz
My heart remains

Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna rock
Back in New Orleans
We ain’t gonna stop
Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna roll
Back in New Orleans
The heart of soul

New Orleans
Sundays in the Quarter
Café au lait
We’ll be home in time for Mardi Gras
Home to stay

Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna rock
Back in New Orleans
We ain’t gonna stop
Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna roll
Back in New Orleans
The heart of soul

Home is where the heart is
Home is in that town
Katrina tried to wash us away
She can’t keep us down
See you in the Quarter
Music everywhere
Rex Parade will ride again
And we’ll be there

Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna rock
Back in New Orleans
We ain’t gonna stop
Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna roll
Back in New Orleans
The heart of soul

Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna rock
Back in New Orleans
We ain’t gonna stop
Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna roll
Back in New Orleans
The heart of soul

New Orleans
Back in New Orleans

Words and Music by Jack E Morris
Copyright (c) 2005

Back In New Orleans

Back in New Orleans

Verse 1:
Even after the 
Trying and succeeding 
After the 
Unflagging effort 
And after the 
Flagging effort 
To make Another effort 
And finally 
After the 
Culmination 
Finally 
After the 
Vindication 

Chorus: 
We are still alone 
We are still alone 
Still alone 
All alone 

Verse 2:
Not that we 
Do not choose 
To be alone 
But that we 
Cannot choose 
Not to be 
For if we proceed 
As if we did 
We find 
The trying and succeeding 
Designed 
To fail 

Chorus 2: 
We are still alone 
We are still alone 

Verse 3:
Not that we 
Cannot choose 
To be alone 
But that we 
Cannot choose 
Not to be 
For if we proceed 
As if we did 
We find 
The trying and succeeding 
Designed to fail 

Chorus 3: 
We are still alone 
We are still alone 
Still alone 
(Despite the trying and succeeding) 
All alone 
(Despite the trying and succeeding) 

[Repeat Verse 1] 

[Repeat Chorus 3 2x]


Words and Music by Jack E Morris
Copyright (c) 1999

Still Alone

Verse 1:
I’ll never the know the answers
To the questions
That keep running though my mind
Ever since you stole my heart

Verse 2:
I remember when I met you
With your painted face
You said that love is a game
That you would win at any cost

Chorus:
I suppose I’m just a dreamer
You turned out to be a cheater
You took me baby for everything that I had
Now you’re gone
Now you’re gone
Without me
Without me

Verse 3:
Nothing lasts forever
Though I wonder
Why we didn't last at all
I woke up and you were gone

Verse 4:
In the end it doesn’t matter
That you hurt my pride
Because I know time is my friend
And someday she will lay me down

[Repeat Chorus]

Bridge:
Didn’t you believe me
When I said I love you so
I guess you didn’t need me
I guess you had a place to go
Without me
Without me

[Repeat Verse 1 and Verse 4]

[Repeat Chorus]


Words and Music by Jack E Morris
Copyright (c) 1985

Without Me

The Tyger

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?


Words by William Blake (1794)
Music by Jack E Morris
Copyright (c) 2000

Tyger

We were lovers we were friends
We broke up in the end
Now I think about you all the time

Kept my heart on the run
Did not see you’re the one
Don’t know how I could be so blind

I want you back again 
Again

Want you back again
Again I want you back
I’m back and I want you
Want you back again
Again I want you back
It feels like deja vu
I’m back and I want you

Loving you I can't forget
Losing you I regret
I still think about you all the time
Don’t know how I could be so blind

I want you back again 
Again

Want you back again
Again I want you back
I’m back and I want you
Want you back again
Again I want you back
It feels like deja vu
I’m back and I want you

Time after time
I run the memories through my mind
When I’m alone
Made up my mind
To put it all on the line
When we’re alone
Again

I want you back again 
Again
I want you back again 
Again

Want you back again
Again I want you back
I’m back and I want you
Want you back again
Again I want you back
It feels like deja vu
I’m back and I want you

Loving you I can't forget
Losing you I regret
I still think about you all the time
Don’t know how I could be so blind

I want you back again 
Want you back again 
I want you back again 
Again again again again
Want you back again
Want you back again
[Repeat and fade]

Words and Music (c) 2016
by Jack E Morris

Again

Throw out the furniture appliances TVs
Flood water gets in everything
Throw out the memories the comforts of the past
Pile them up on the curb more debris

Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me high help me rise above the tide
Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me wise help me climb
The mountain in my mind
Where the tide never rises so high
Keep me dry

Rip out the floors and walls the wires and the pipes
Salt water eats through anything
Rip out the heart and soul the spirit and the pride
Gut the house air it out let it breathe

Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me high help me rise above the tide
Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me wise help me climb
The mountain in my mind
Where the tide never rises so high
Keep me dry
Keep me dry

When the eye of the storm
Comes ashore let it roar
Let the ocean rage against the sky
Well be home with a prayer
No more running anywhere
The city on the hill will survive
Safe and dry

Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me high help me rise above the tide
Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me wise help me climb
The mountain in my mind
Where the tide never rises so high
Keep me dry
Keep me dry
Keep me dry

Keep Me Dry

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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul."

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