14 February 2022
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© 2021 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

We bought the colors 
that we’ve never worn before
We wear the colors
That relieve us from the war

We bought the colors that can
tantalize the mind
We wear the colors
That absolve us of the times

Brighter Colors, Brighter Colors
We wear them all
Despite the others, the others
Brighter Colors, Brighter Colors
We’ll wear them all
and spite the others, the others

We bought the colors 
From our favorite clothing store
We wear the colors
That were mixed in by the poor

We bought the colors that can
make us feel resigned
We wear the colors
That we’d like to hide behind

Brighter Colors, Brighter Colors
We wear them all
Despite the others, the others
Brighter Colors, Brighter Colors
We’ll wear them all
and spite the others, the others

Red, white, green, blue, yellow, really suit you
Turquoise, amethyst, why does this feel wrong then?
Auburn, beige, blond, while poverty is raging on, and on… and
Pink and bronze heal, tell me
does apathy go well with cherry?
Cobalt, coral red, sea green, lilac
Paid by the others who we could never pay back, paid by the others that we’ll never pay back,
Paid by others so that you can wear your blue

Brighter Colors, Brighter Colors
We wear them all
Despite the others, the others
Brighter Colors, Brighter Colors
We’ll wear them all
and spite the others, the others

Tell Me

Brighter  Colors

27 February 2022
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© 2022 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Yo hablo inglés (I speak English)
y tú español (and you Spanish)
Sometimes I don’t have the words
So let's take it slow

“No”
Para ti y para mí significa lo mismo
(For you and me it means the same thing)
“No”
With one word, we can face our fears, seremos tú y yo 
(it will be you and me)

A veces estoy (Sometimes I am)
un poco triste (a little sad)
But when you share your heart
I hear what you say

“No”
Para ti y para mí significa lo mismo
(For you and me it means the same thing)
“No”
With one word, we can face our fears, seremos tú y yo 
(it will be you and me)

Sometimes it's all too hard
To heal, oh it’s slow
Aunque es muy difícil (Although it is very difficult)
Tenemos el uno al otro (We have each other)

“No”
Para ti y para mí significa lo mismo
(For you and me it means the same thing)
“No”
With one word, we can face our fears, seremos tú y yo 
(it will be you and me)

28 February 2022
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© 2022 Robert Cooperider / Guatecoop (Instrumentation)
Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe (Vocals and  Lyrics)

Part 1 (The Promise)

I opened my eyes
And everything I knew was gone
My world had arrived, but I’ve been
thinking I’ve done things wrong

I’ve said a promise before
Like a bullet lodged inside my mind
As I was reaching the door, I fell into
A whirlwind of my own lies

Part 2 (The Sickness)

This isn’t fair
This isn’t easy
This is so terrible
I’m feeling queasy
This isn’t fair
No it ain’t easy
It’s gonna take me
The pain will take me

Part 3 (The Pain)

This time I feel it in my bones
These times I’m feeling so alone
That's right I feel it in my bones
I’m alone, I’m alone, am I alone?

Part 4 (The Questioning)

I started questioning, “what is meant for me?”
Why did it take me so long to see?
“Never stop questioning”
My inner voice is deafening
Oh and I find, it’s not easy, it’s not easy
It scares me

Part 5 (The Fear)

The fear, it overtakes my mind
Overwhelms me, overtakes me
Overtakes my time
These fears, they occupy my mind
It’s a challenge, it’s a challenge

Part 6 (The Challenge)

My time is challenging me
“Can we change? Can I change?”
We can make things better…

Step by step, day by day
A challenge for me
Accept the challenge with me

Part 7 (The Hope)

Bring the hope here
Brace your soul for these times
Bring the hope here
We’ve got love and we’ve got rhymes

Bring your hope here
Brace your soul for these times
Bring the hope here
We’ve got love and we’ve got rhymes

Just one more try…
Just one last song…

The Last Song (Guatecoop Collab)

01 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

1 2 3 4 Why am I counting any more
5 6 7 8 No better than my last date

A B C D What, you trying to bore me?
E F G H “I’m  only an hour late!”

“Not so late”, but too late
Oh I’m sitting alone Oh

Can’t you see what you’re doing to me now
Can’t you see what you do, what you do oh 

New shoes, new smile, oh it’s really been a while
White cloth, white plates, guess I’m gonna have to wait

One time, once more, could be different than before
Second time, now thrice,  why’d they’d have to seem nice?

They seem nice, but not nice
Ooh I’m better alone Oh

Can’t you see what you’re doing to me now
Can’t you see what you do, what you do oh 


Hey. I’ve been here, I’ve been here
I’ve been here for you, I’ve been here for you
And I will always be, we will always be
Me, me
You’re looking at me, you’re looking at

1 2 3 4 I’m not counting any more
5 6 7 8 damn I start to feel great

A B C D The mirror rather suits me
E F G H I don’t have to sit and wait

Not too late, not too late
Ooh no longer alone Oh

Can’t you see what you’re doing to me now
Can’t you see what you do, what you do oh

FAWM 2024

What You're Doing To Me

04 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe and Guatecoop

Instrumentation and Title: Guatecoop
Vocals and Lyrics: Your Average Joe

Every day I’m taken aback at what’s been said to me
Every day I wonder which side I’m on anymore
Every day I stand in defense of what’s been given to me
Every day I’m asking my time, oh what it’s for

But what will I do with the time that’s left?
What will I do when I see my door?
What will I do? Well I’ll...

I’ll act against my better judgment
I’ll live as if life were a game

Every night I dwell on what I see has become of me
Every night I think of the ones who were there before
Every night I lay and wait For what might come to me
Every night I’m asking my self, oh what we’re here for

What will we do with the strengths we have?
What will we do when we see there’s more?
What will our time do?
What will our life do? Oh will it...

Tease me, tease me
Could this life yet please me?
Oh yeah, tease me, tease me
These bad times won’t bleed me
Have we got a life yet to lead?

Every time I’ve felt attacked at what’s been done to me
Every time I’ve a wasted chance to open a door
Every time I ignored all that life has given me
Every time I had clearly missed what I’m here for. Next time..

Will I act against my better judgment?
Will I live as if this were a game, no

I’ll live, I’ll live
We’ll live, oh we’ll live

Against My Better Judgement (Guatecoop collaboration)

12 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

"Don't let it out."

Don't Let It Out

18 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

We were looking for a place where
Where we’d understand
We were walking at a pace
Where we could hold hands 

Oh don’t you know it’s true
I only had eyes for you
You know it’s true
And now I don’t know what to do

You, you’re holding my heart
It’s torn apart and babe
I don’t know where to be 

And you, you’re on my mind
And now I find
I’m falling behind, I’m falling behind

I’m looking for a place where
Where I’d like to land
I’m walking at a pace
Where there’s sweat on my hands 

Oh don’t you know it’s true
I only had eyes for you
Oh you know it’s true
And now I don’t know what to do

You, you’re holding my heart
It’s torn apart and babe
I don’t know where to be 

And you, you’re on my mind
And now I find
I’m falling behind, I’m falling behind

Falling Behind

18 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Everyone wants everything
And they want it now
Everything in an instant
It cannot be sustained
We’ll call it
Instability

We’re losing our rhythm
We’re losing it to 
Instability

Yeah call me
Call me, call me
I’m in this 
Instability

We’re losing our rhythm
We’re losing it to 
Instability

Take me, take me away
Take me, take me away
Away, away from this
Instability

I never knew what would happen
In the year 2024
But here we are, you and me
We can barely stand on our feet
Against this wave
This wave, call me

We’re on this wave
We’re losing our rhythm
We’re losing it to 

Come with me
Fall with me
Come with me
Fall with me
Into, into
Instability

Take me, take me away
Take me, take me away
Away, away from this
Instability

Instability

19 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

(Denial)

I can’t believe it
These things you’re saying
They’re not for me
I won’t believe it

(Anger)

How could, could you leave me like that?
Like trash? Just, like trash?
I’m trash

(Bargaining)

Baby, please
Baby, I’m pleading
Please just come back, one night
I need your light

(Depression)

I can’t think now
Everything
Is pulled by the weight of
This sting

(Acceptance)

There’s a song worth singing
And the notes are healing
“We’re free” now 
“We’re free” oh
We’re free

Grief Cycle

20 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

It’s been a long day
You’ve had a long day
Wash it all away
Watch it fall away

It’s time to shower down

You’ve had a long year
It’s been a long year
But there’s no time for fear
No there’s no time for fear
Take your troubles wash them down
Take your worries make them drown

Come on let’s wash this away
It’s time to shower down
It’s time to shower now
It’s been a long day
It’s time to shower down
It’s time to shower, it’s time to shower

Turn off that screen
It’s time to clean

Come on let’s wash this away
It’s time to shower down
It’s time to shower now
It’s been a long day
It’s time to shower down
It’s time to shower, it’s time to shower

Put that phone away
It’s time to shower down
It’s time to shower, it’s time to shower

Shower Down

21 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Tonight
I’ll look into your eyes

Tonight
Your eyes
Will be locked with mine

Tonight, it’s
Our time
We’ll press rewind
Tonight
We won’t be terrified

Tonight
Your eyes
Will be locked with mine

Tonight
Our night
We’ll be intertwined

Tonight
One night 
Our night

Tonight

25 February 2024
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© 2024 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

I’m sorting through what’s mine
I’m taking my back time
I’m letting go of tears
I’m throwing out my fears
I’m sorting through what’s left
I’ll only keep the best
It’s time to throw things away
Like the pains of yesterday
You know It’s time to throw them away
While we still have time to play
We can throw it away

Throw It Away

01 February 2025
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© 2025 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Can you feel that? Is it hope?
It’s awake, in your bones
You feel it in your mind
You need it all the time

It stirs you 
It fuels your life
When you’re feeling alive

It stirs in you
It stirs in you, tonight 

As you feel yourself shake
You’re alive
Can’t you feel yourself shake?
It’ll all be alright
Can’t you feel yourself

Wake
Did you dream that? Is it gone?
All a lie, all along?
You feel it all the time
The fear controls your mind
 
No, no
I’m gonna resist it now
I’m gonna resist the fear right now
I’m gonna make the best of my hand 
I’m gonna take it all in my hands
I’m gonna feel a love again
I’m gonna live my life again 

I remember I said
“I’m better off dead”
I take those words
And I throw them ahead
“But I ain’t there yet”

Oooh feel yourself shake
We’re alive
Can’t you feel yourself shake?
We’ll all be alright
Can’t you feel yourself

Shake
There’s a savior inside
Hold on, hold on, 
Hold on to life

Hope with me tonight
And feel your hope
wake

Shake

02 February 2025
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© 2025 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

It won’t leave my mind, you know
No mistake
I’ve hungered all this life, you know
Just one taste
Just one…

I can’t quench this thirst, you know
But I’m not afraid
There’s too much left to be tried
To behave

Why behave?
Oh, oh you’re…

Just one taste
Just one 

One Taste

18 October 2019
C-line:
© 2019 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe Under Exclusive License To McCullough Records

What can you?
What can you do?
What can you choose
To be?

Have you walked on the other side?
Was there a sign of life?

Would you be terribly bored?
Come on let’s decide

Oh looks it’s another place
I barely know my face
I need another plan
I cannot understand
How can we understand?

What can you be?
What do you
What do you 
Choose to be?

There’s a name you can’t see
What could you be?

Well I guess you’ve started
But have you got a plane?

Science doesn’t understand,
But you fly ok.

Oh looks it’s another place
I barely know my face
I need another plan
I cannot understand
How can we understand?

What can you be?
What do you
What do you 
want to be?

There’s a life you can’t see
What could it be?

What are we choosing?

Have you talked to the other side?
Was there a sign of life?

They were all terribly bored?
Oh now that don’t seem right 

What will you 
You choose to be?
What will you choose to be?

What can you be?
What do you 
What do you 
Choose to be?

Choose To Be

Release date:
3 December 2017
C-line:
© 2017 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe Under Exclusive License To McCullough Records

Lyrics:

One night when Santa got drunk it destroyed
My world, my thoughts on where I got toys.

Next to the tree, did my Santa lie
I had to sneak as I walked on by.

“Hey Mom…. hey Dad
Please don’t think I’ve been bad."

But I found… your red hat. 
"You don’t have to lie to me about that.”  

One night when Santa got drunk it reformed
My mind, like snow melting in the storm

Next to the tree, was my favorite place
I had to smile when I saw your face.

“Hey Mom…. hey Dad.
This is the best gift I’ve ever had."

When I found… your red hat. 
"You don’t have to lie to me about that.
You don’t have to lie to me about  that.”

The Best Gift (When Santa Got Drunk)

1 February 2020
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe Under Exclusive License To McCullough Records

Some say that, we’re all about the Blues
Some know that, I’m not one to let things loose
Let’s let it loose

It’s time, for us to let things loose
I’ve come to tell you there’s something left to do
Letting it loose,
We’re letting it loose.

Someday I’m going out with my friends
We’ll be making noise
I can’t tell what’s come over myself
Oh,

Sometime

Some say we’re all about the Blues
I’ve got to tell you that there’s nothing left to do
But let it loose.

It’s time, for us to let things loose
I’ve got to tell you there’s something here to do
We're gonna let it loose,
We’re gonna let things loose.
It’s time for us to let things loose.

Letting it loose,
We’re letting it loose

FAWM 2020

Let It Loose

2 February 2020
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe Under Exclusive License To McCullough Records

I see your grin
It’s about to begin
I cannot wait

You laugh with me, 
As the world deflates
The needle there,
Watch it fly away

I’m wet
I guess that’s what I get,
You chased me down the winding road

Come laugh with me,
As the world explodes
Balloon to face, I should've known

Ok, 10, 9, 8, 7…
I found you!

You'll wear the wig
We’ll play pretend
We laugh until the world will end

Come laugh with me, watch the world deflate
Not going to wait..

Come laugh with me, 
As the world deflates
The needle there,
Watch it fly away

Oh no, again, my face is wet
Balloon to face, that’s what I get

Laugh With Me

9 February 2020
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe Under Exclusive License To McCullough Records

I wrote a letter to someone today
I had a lot of good things left to say

The old man, must’ve ripped the last one apart
But could he have such evil in his heart?
How could there be such malice for his part?

It’s raining, it’s pouring.

I dropped it on the way
I dropped it
I dropped it.

It’s raining today.

There must be some way.

I took a walk down to the shore today
I sought a lot of garbage on my way.

This beautiful world, we’ve ripped it apart
But could we have compassion in our hearts?
How could we still help, and do our part?

It’s raining, it’s pouring.

I dropped it on my way
I dropped it
I dropped it.

It’s raining today.

There must be some way.

So many things are falling apart
We can’t seem to get very far

Wouldn’t know what to do or say.
We’ve gotta try something anyway.

I dropped it on the way
I dropped it
You dropped it
We dropped it

It’s raining, it’s pouring.

It's Raining

27 February 2020
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

The hours late
Yet we’re still awake

We’ve got so much left to do
Gotta shine my shoes, and run off with you
Hot sand  in my shoes, I run after you

 It’s time we finished what we both
Set out to do

Whether that’s seeing a movie
Or it’s something bigger too.

The Mornings young
And we’re not done

We’ve got so much left to do
Gotta kill my blues, and run off with you
Cold sweat, feeling blue, I look after you

What’s left for us to understand?
I must understand. 
Is this our last plan? 
Is this our last stand?

 It’s time we finished what we both
Set out to do

Whether that’s seeing a movie
Or it’s something bigger too.

Finish It

02 February 2021
C-line:
© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

I’ve gone
Beyond The Pale
My mind is frail
And I’m waiting, waiting for
Truth

Tainted my time
I didn’t see the line
Can’t take what I see
It’s not for me
It’s not for me

And I’m gone
Beyond the Pale
My mind is frail
And I’m waiting, waiting for
Truth

What’s left of this? 
What’s left of me?
Of my… 

Faded eyes
I couldn’t taste the wine
What’s left for me?
I cannot see…
I cannot see...

I’m wrong
Beyond The Pale
My mind is frail
And I’m waiting, waiting for
Truth

What’s left to tell? 
What’s left to see?
Left to me?

Beyond The Pale
My mind is frail
And I’m waiting, waiting for
Truth
You

The Age of Majoerity

Beyond The Pale

02 February 2021
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Her name is Mira and she’s hanging on
against the wall

You toss a pillow and say
“Here I hope it helps you fall”

She looks around ‘cause she couldn’t find her place
In the race

She’s crashing down, 
crashing down on her face

Can she run, run, 
run, run, run
Run away?

Her name is Mira and she’s forgotten 
Who to be.


You toss a line and say
“You’re always the best to me”
(You’ll always be the best to me)

She looks away ‘cause she couldn’t stand her face
“What is my place?”

She’s slowing down, 
slowing down in her race

Should she run, run, 
run, run, run
Far away?

Or will she run, run, 
run, run, run
Into the fray?

Her name is Mira…
Her name is Mira… 

Mira, Mira
You’re fastest when you fall.

Mira, Mira,
Your name stands on the wall.

Mira

04 February 2021
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

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Never knew just what to do with me
Never knew quite what to say, but

This is humiliation
Negative thoughts are your
Dark fixation

Been burning up to tell you the truth
But I can’t look at you

Waking up from the fright
Baptised
All for an empty mind

Never knew just how to handle me
Never knew quite how to pray, but

This is humiliation
Pervasive thoughts are your
Cruel creation

You see ‘em all looking at you
They all look at you
You know just what to do with me

This is humiliation
Intrusive thoughts are your
Own damnation

Taking up your new fight, you’re
Despised
All for your empty mind

Never knew just when to shatter me
Never knew quite when to look away , but

This is humiliation
Corrosive thoughts are our
New Sensation

Humiliation

08 February 2021
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

You never knew me
Like you thought
You never could
See all my thoughts

We’ve gotta do this
We’ve gotta play this game
We’ve gotta see this
We’ve gotta feel this shame

I’ve got to feel this shame

I never knew you
Like I thought
I never could
See past my thoughts

We’ve gotta do this
We’ve gotta play this game
We’ve gotta see this
We’ve gotta feel this shame

The sun shines on me
The sun shines you’ll see

We never knew so much
As we thought
We never could
See what we’ve wrought

I’ve gotta do this
I’ve gotta play this game
I’ve gotta see this
I’ve gotta feel this shame


Is it all so bad?
Should we be so mad?
Or should we be glad?
Oh, could we be glad?
Would you be mad?
Or can we be glad?
Is it so bad?
The shame we have.

Shame

09 February 2021
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

What did you do before?
What could we do before?
Before, before, before?

Do you remember what?
Do you remember what you loved?
What you loved before?
Did you need much more?

What did we have before?

You built a passion
And you found it for free
You gotta live it, love it, hold it, mold it
show it to me, you’re gonna

Start a fashion, steely passion, 
Running past it, you mash it
You’re burning on the corner
You got a feeling for it

You built a, you built a 
a passion
You built a
a passion.

When did you ask for more?
When should we ask for more?
For more, for more, for more? 

Did you ever make..?
Did you ever make the cut?
Were you shown the door?
Did   you own the floor?


Why did we care before?

You built a passion
And you found it for free
You gotta live it, love it, hold it, mold it
show it to me, you’re gonna

Start a fashion, steely passion, 
Running past it, you mash it
You’re burning on the corner
You got a feeling for it


You built a, you built a 
a passion
You built a
a passion.

Where did you find the door?
Where could we find the door?
The door, the door, the door? 

Can you show me what...
Can you show me what to love?
Will our passions soar?
Do we need much more?

What is a passion for?

You built a passion
And you found it for free
You gotta live it, love it, hold it, mold it
show it to me, you’re gonna

Start a fashion, steely passion, 
Running past it, you mash it
You’re burning on the corner
You got a feeling for it

You built a, a passion
a passion.

Passion

22 February 2021
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Fear controls our lives
It overtakes, it overrides

How far we’ll climb
Ambition takes its time

Time?
Where is all our time?
… It’s gone, ‘cause we...

Fell in love with it
The taste, the smell of it
The fragile way of it
The gentle sway of it
Of our...

Time


Adhering to our times
Our spirit breaks, our spirit dies

We found our crime
Tradition fades in time

Time?
What’s left of our time?
… It’s gone, ‘cause we've...

had enough of it.
But we’re…

Still in love with it
The taste, the smell of it
The fragile way of it
The gentle sway of it

Our time
We’ve had enough..
But we’re still in love....

Time

24 February 2021
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© 2020  Guatecoop / Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Instrumentals and Title: Guatecoop
Lyrics and Vocals: Your Average Joe

Listen to my heart
The beats are too far apart
’Cause I’m burned at both ends

Listen to my soul
I’m still young, but she’s so old
Listen to your dreams
They’re torn apart at every seam
’Cause we’re burnt at both ends

You’re burning with me
Burning

Listen to your time
Stop it all, and then you can start
’Cause now you’re burnt at both ends

Stop burning with me!
We’re burning!

Listen to my heart
The beats were too far apart

Both Ends of the Candle

28 February 2021
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© 2020 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Little old me
A gift to the sea
No life in my heart
But I live in the stars, and there’s

Tales, now ancient stories, of my fleece, and there’s
Children of the Earth who were born under me, one he                 
Tries to write songs, he 
Knows that he’s done things wrong, but he
warms his soul, in my Golden Fleece

What can I see?
Reflections of me, but
There’s life in their hearts
As they look to the stars, and read

Tales, now ancient stories, of my fleece, of all 
Children of the Earth who were born under me, one he                 
Tries to right some wrongs, he 
Find some peace in these songs, and he
Sings his soul, inside my Golden Fleece

Your Average Joe

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