Noise From Words (2007)

1. Mess Of Things2. Still Ain't Over You Yet3. Tread Lightly4. The American In Me5. A Kind Of love Song6. No Words7. All My Love8. Just A Little Blue9. Broken10. A Long Way From Heaven11. My Father's Son12. I Shall Be Healed

Mess Of ThingsThe sweet Kentucky rainHit the New York streetI was on the lambI was in retreatBut I swore i'd never let this happen againBut i'm on 23rd, waitin on a friendThis city, girl, got the best of meAnd taught me how to make a mess of things

Through recent history, I have never knownThis feeling of feeling so aloneListen to me i've said it beforeThat I love you and will forever moreLike a poet writes, a singer singsYou and I we make a mess of things

The circus lights shine as bright as dayI'm terrified by what you might saySometimes I behave just like a kidBut I love you and I always did

The trouble with troubleIs that it sometimes sticksIt plays tricks with your mindWhile it gets its kicksThen slowly there's a momentum shiftThe weight becomes too great to liftI woke up last night and heard my mama screamSaying " Boy you always make a mess of things"What will become babe of you and meIf we keep on making a mess of things

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Still Ain't Over You YetLA woman, babe what are we gonna doI'm so tired of drinkin'I'm so tired of thinkin' about youWe ain't even together but still something seems so wrongThat's got me turned upside down, Its got me singin' this song

Hey pretty babe, get out of my mind gal for goodI know it ain't up to you , but i doubt that you would if you couldThe moon shadows are many and i can hear each one of them breatheThe way i've been actin', well frankly, its hard to believe

Most nights i wish, that we never metMost days i choke on my fear and regretBut I hate to admit, but I still ain't over you yet

Some mornings I wake and i'm startled when i see you're not thereI remember the way we made love, in the cool morning airBut your good intentions they never seemed to be quite good enoughMaybe I was right, maybe you're just not that tough

I remember the way that you'd talk to your friends on the phoneI remember the day you swore you'd never leave me aloneBut you live by an ocean, and babe, I live by a lakeI hate to believe, that this whole thing has been a mistake

Most nights I wish, that we never metMost days I choke on my fear and regretI hate to admit, but I still ain't over you yet

I've been wandering around, as lost as i've ever beenI don't even think that Jesus Christ knows the piss poor shape i've been in Everything it seems so hazy and i'm wondering, " what the hell have I done?"Yeah, I'm certain I'm crazy, because I was thinking that you were the one

Most nights I wish, that we never metMost days I feel weak and i just can't forgetI hate to admit, but I still ain't over you yet

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Tread LightlyThis water ain't holyThat bird ain't a doveBut when the road gets darkestTread lightly my love

When your heart gets heavyWith what you've been in fear ofWhen you need some surrenderTread lightly my love

The spring it is coming and the air it is sweetThe ice it is beginning to thawThe seasons of running from the winds of defeatThe ugliness we're certain we saw

There's a distant moon laughingHe's perched high aboveTake my hands and trust meTread lightly my love

There's a box you've been keepingFilled with old useless stuffLet's set it all a fireTread lightly my love

You've colored every rainbow with the colors of your soundThe blue skies are beginning to crackYou've got a rusty ole halo, you've lost what you'd foundYour innocence it ain't coming back

There are sunday's of wonderSome roads ride so roughDon't disappear underTread lightly my love

I'd be willing to bet youBut your money ain't enoughI'll be coming to get you Tread lightly my loveI'll be coming to get you Tread lightly my love

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The American In MeSteeples of white, winds of change and fear Flag's on fire, something looming near From shore to shore, from sea to shining sea I am this land, maybe this land is me Familiarity breeds contempt, My innocence, wondering where it went You must defend what you think is yours Sometimes I fight little dirty wars It's the American in me

Foxhole prayers, crucifixions burn You can endure, that don't mean you learn I'm not even sure what is being done Sometimes I wonder what will become Of the American in me Sometimes I look, I don't want to see It's the American in me

Old men in dining cars of all-night trains Looking out the windows at the small town names They dream of days gone by with eyes soaked in reverie And singing "My Country 'tis of Thee"

Sometimes I'm right and sometimes I'm wrong Sometimes I go where I don't belong What's liberty? The history books are stained Sometimes I'm proud, sometimes I'm so ashamed

Of the American in me Don't mistake dissent for disloyalty It's the American in me

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A Kind Of love SongI'm sorry my sweet belle My sweet loverThat things didn't work out as you plannedKnow that i loved you like no otherA love I couldn't even understandMy love is like a raging riverSometimes it will crash youUpon the rocksIn these nights aloneI start to shake and shiverListening to the ticking of the clocksYou can blame it on everything around usI know the blame it rests with no one elseThe last thing she said it just destroyed meShe said " I'm sorry but i have to save myself"

I wish i could write you a kind of love songThat a better writer than I could penBut all I think about is all that went wrongAnd the things I'd give my life to do again

Listen hard and you will hear me singingSinging a song just for youEvery time your ears begin a ringingKnow that my love for you was trueEvery time you see a leaf fallingRemember all the times we stoodEvery time you hear a voice callingKnow I'd be there if I could

I wish i could write you a kind of love songThat a better writer than I could penBut all I think about is all that went wrongAnd the things I'd give my life to do again

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No WordsPaint me with rubies and rustScars that you can't cover upYou see the beauty in something so wrong

Here at the end of it allWhere even angels can fallIf you had wings I swear you'd be gone

The night has come undoneThe world has just begunThere are no wordsThere are no words

Find me a black colored roseOpening doors that have closedLean in to show me that you are still listeningI need you to be here with meThe night has come undoneThe world has just begunThere are no words There are no words

The nights getting colder With the world on your shoulderI see you and run to your sideCloser and closer i'm falling like starsThrough your eyes

The night has come undoneThe world has just begunThere are no words, There are no wordsNothing can convey, why it is i feel this wayThere are no words

( McDermott, Petty, Lewis)

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All My LoveThe air is stillMy breath is goneLay down the phone and put on Highway 61I shut my eyesTo see you againAn image burned into meLike a halo round the sun

I give all my loveI give all my loveI give all my love to you

I wasted timechasing ghostsdreams that were never realizedUntil that door was closedBut its your smileEtched on the faceOf one who will rememberWhat we never can replaceYour love I can't replace

I give all my loveI give all my loveI give all my love to you

Maybe all we are Is all we are right nowI had to lose to find outwhat i want has been here all alongAnd before its gone, before its gone

I give all my loveI give all my love I give all my loveto you

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Just A Little BlueI'm just a little blue, my love looking for youBecause you’re so far awayI'm just a little blue, and all I want to doIs to see your faceI'm just a little blue in this place

Soon a day will comeWhen we won't have to runBabe, you give me this hopeWill you whisper me a wordI know it seems absurdSo i could feel your breathI'm just a little blue I guess

I close my eyes and call you nameWhen I open them, its still the sameBecause I don't feel you nearI'm just a little blueMy love, my love is trueAnd I'll keep holding on

I'm just a little blue, and all i want to do Is to be by your sideI'm just a little blue tonightI'm just a little blue tonight

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BrokenThe nameless and faceless The infinite placesThat hands reaching out are deniedThe night tends to swallowThe meek and the hallowLiving on burnt, borrowed timeThe feelings resounding When you're taking a poundingYou tell yourself you don't careInside the museums The lost mausoleums Some lives just can't be repaired

The pieces line these streetsWith bloodshed and tokensSay a prayer tonight, for the broken

Old hags and dime bags Lost SoCo day dragsPick yourself up off the floorThere's bending and breakingThe endless forsakingThis path that you've traveled beforeI know for certainWhen God raised the curtainI wasn't prepared for this roleThere's knowing and learningThe one light a burningIn the cool dark night of the soul

The gypsy's and magiciansSaid the God's were all awokenBy the roar of the lost and the broken

Reflections so tellingThe feelings I’m quellingI've walked a mile in your shoesThe face that you don't recognizePontificate or philosophize Deep down you know its a ruse

She comes from her castleWhere the winds cannot lassoThe moons that exist in her skiesBabe, forever talk to meI swore you once knew meI see my regret in your eyesYou spoke like a witness Of love and forgivenessMaybe its just noise from wordsWith your sweet misdirectionYour songs of rejectionYou said you know its realWhen it hurts

So go ahead and walk awayThis time i ain't jokingRemember me tonight, among the broken

From the mountains to the rooftopsThe muskets all are smokingSay a prayer tonight, for the broken

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Long Way From HeavenWandering streets with rain and lightI'm not feeling like myself tonightCrossroads and signs we cannot readI'm not sure what it is you think i needIts a city of ghosts that no one trustsIts a city of wings that turn to rustI'm turning and I still can't findThese things i wish to leave behindIts a long, long, long way from heaven

Twilight leaks through this open bookI know what you're saying with every lookDanger dances in these half lit roomsConfusion reeks in these saloonsHey Lazarus, where have you been boy?Is death something you still enjoy?You're a long, long, long way from heaven

The lord he giveth and the lord he takeI've broken laws that i couldn't' faceBetween the colors of your love and hateIts a time to murder and a time to create

The din of despair and broken, drunken tonguesWho are these people we've becomeI feel it, do you feel it toHappiness always eluding youI'll weave you a liars blanket, snugAnd show you what i've learned from loveYeah, we're a long, long, long waySuch a long, long, long wayWe're a long, long, long way from heaven

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My Father's Son

My old man, I don't understandNeither does my momSometimes I look at him and smileBecause I'm my fathers son

We're getting older, he and ITime keeps rolling on I see myself, there in his eyeYeah I'm my fathers son

He knows something about everythingThere ain't nothing, he ain't seen or doneMe, I was born with a crooked wingYeah I'm my fathers son

He spent every dime he ever hadBoy he had some funI don't know why i get so sadI guess i'm my fathers son

The sickness got into his bloodHe'll fight it until he's wonMe, I'm still drowning in the flood

He carry's around a heavy loadIts as though it weighs a tonI wish I could help him carry itI'm my fathers son

The cops came and took him a year agoFor some damage with a gunMe I did some time myselfI'm my fathers son

My old man, I don't understandNeither does my MomSometimes I look at him and smileYeah I'm my fathers sonI'm my fathers son

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I Shall Be HealedEverything here latelyEverything, more or lessSeems its slowly becomingSuch a beautiful messFrom the gates west of EdenTo the oceans leading outRound here everybody's bleedingEverybody's filled with doubtThen out on the horizonThey say the truth is revealedSay the word, Just say the wordSay the word, I shall be healed

My mother and my fatherThey always believedBut me I felt differentI always felt so deceivedI went looking uptownWent looking downtown tooI even went to the westsideI went looking for youOne day in South CarolinaI saw you in a cotton fieldSay the word, Just say the wordJust say the word, and I shall be healed

Many is the hour, that i've seen go to wasteIs your heart wilted like a flowerHow will i find you in this place?

I heard you were seen on AshlandOn your way to Wicker ParkThey say that you looked differentYou were standing in the darkYou were there for just a minuteWhen they looked back you were goneYou were always like thatYou loved to keep on keeping on Then I stood at an alterThe weight had caused me to kneelSay the word, Just say the wordJust say the wordI shall be healed