All Come True

When I first saw you,

I suddenly stopped staining to see

You looked in my eyes 

And it simplified me

When we found ourselves

We both quietly knew

That all of us can come true

When I first lay with you

I held light in  my hands

Your touch on me said the world understands

And dreaming out loud 

We booth quietly knew

That all of us can come true

Here we are, here we are

We climbed into view

And we laugh and we can cry

All about this me and this you

Now that we’ve finally come true

When I first believed in you

I decided to believe in myself

You know with time and care 

Each man returns to his wealth 

And believing n love

We both quietly knew

That all who live will come true

All I Want

When the moon isn't right 

And you can't see the stars 

Can't find where you are 

On that highway to somewhere 

Then take the back road 

Come bring me the night 

Through shadows and light 

I will be waiting 

Come sit by my bed, shut the door 

We'll talk all night  

'Til clothes are on the floor 

All I want is to be with you 

All I want, that’s all I want 

All I want is to be with you 

Be with you and see us through 

That's all I want 

When the wind has an edge 

And the moon catches fire 

When restless desire  

starts building inside me 

I'll come to you then 

Take this night in my hands 

Watch the flames dance 

Lying beside you 

Yeah, too many heartaches out there 

We'll dream a little louder than  

The long nightmare 

All I want is to be with you…

I have gone it alone 

On this long journey home 

It takes two to be one 

'Til all the work is done 

All I want is to be with you…

Can’t Breathe

A black man killed

His pain runs dark and deep

Millions of people, rise up…take to the streets 

Outrage, tears, call for respect

First things first 

Get the knee off our neck 

Can’t breathe 

Down so long, so wrong

Enough is enough

They listen to their merchants of fear

but do not hear us 

Brothers, sisters, rise and resist    

America the beautiful    

you’re better than this  

Can’t breathe 

Tear gas, handcuffs   

The march goes on  

Night of the soul

Still looking for dawn   

A moment, a movement, awakening

Tear down the old walls  

Let the light in…  

Storm is coming  

Change is in the wind 

Open up your hearts, hear the caged bird sing

Black, brown, white – one human race

Equal, free, walk together in grace 

Let us breathe

Let us believe

Dangerous Heart

You got to me, came in so deep

Got me feeling like this unmade bed

Sleepless nights, tangled sheets

Now all my defenses are turning into dust

Want to get lost in the wilderness of us

Dangerous, dangerous heart, a fire in the wind

Dangerous, dangerous heart

Living on the edge, living on the edge of love

Since I let you in 

You got street-wise eyes, like satin, like steel

Lead me out beyond the made up girls

To something beautiful and real

Want to bury my past in an unmarked grave

And be the fields you walk in 

when there’s nothing left to save

Dangerous, Dangerous heart…

You got to me, now I won’t let go

In the vacant lots where I’ve lived

Something wild is beginning to grow

Love was once a ghost town a million miles away

Now I look into your eyes, now I gaze into your eyes

And the music starts to play

Dangerous, dangerous heart, you’re all I want to do

Dangerous, dangerous heart

Living on the edge, living on the edge of love 

So wide open to you 

Escape from LA

Tattoo a sunrise above my heart

Dress me in blacks and blues

Get me a taxi from a border-town

And a driver with nothing left to lose

I'll sit in the back with my bottle of rain

And my suitcase full of leaves

And say good-bye to this lottery town

Where passion gets sold but never spent

Where stars get caught in wet cement

I miss the man that used to be me

When the sky was open wide

I miss the smile I always used to see

When the sun shone from inside

I need to get away … escape from LA

I've seen too many dreamers climb Paradise Hill

Then fall down to the rocks

I've followed these freeways that circle around

'til I was light years from my heart

Can't dial 911 for the lives we live

Or a doctor for the air that we breathe

And I'd give anything to know what to do 

There's a fire in the night, no one to call 

The crash of the angels hitting the wall

Plant red roses where the dream has died

Put guitars in the hands of every child

Tell them to ride shotgun on this angry wind

Find the Mystic in the wild

I've gambled for glory and I've gambled for love

Won't gamble with this last ace in my soul

I'll go away until I understand

That the sun-down gunned-down spirit of man

Will get kicked around then rise again

I'll find the man that used to be me

When the sky was open wide

I'll find the smile I always used to see

When the sun shone from inside

I might be back some day … but for now

I'll escape from LA

Guitar & Drum

Dylan was walking on the other side

Testing out the wind

In the Age of Aquarius 

They stopped and stared at us then

Brothers in the jingle-jangle morning

Bringing the day in

We were black and white

Ready to fight and win

Enough of war and strife

Calling on life to begin

With guitar and drum

Change is gonna come

With guitar and drum

Change is gonna come

The Stones were seated at the banquet

Doors opened wide

With guitars in the night

Rivers of light inside

We walked with the promise of the music

A little help from our friends

But then dead-end roads

And hearts got closed inside men

From back of the blue bus

The songs of us 

Would soon end

Looking down on the techno jungle

Some kid writes a new song

Above the war machine

The spray paint dreams get through

And somewhere in the underground

The song will get passed around to you

Hotel Earth

I stay up late on the fire escape

Looking for higher ground

The Powers that be are digging black holes

Tearing my rainbows down

The place where I live is full of store-bought men

Sad eyed girls, alone

Becomes real clear the longer I’m here

This house is not my home

Strange times, Hotel Earth, sun going down, 

light getting worse 

Strange times, in every room, 

I raise my glass to the rebel moon 

On every floor the TVs blaze

Turning passion into stone

I’m holding out at the top of the stairs

Destination … unknown

The halls are full of hollow men

Telling me What to feel,

Follow their plan, I become another man 

Asleep behind the wheel

Strange times, Hotel Earth, sun going down, 

light getting worse 

Strange times in the land of the free, 

I raise my glass to those who see 

Morning breaks and I’m still awake, listening to the Spirit Winds cry

The sun rises up, a cathedral of fire, explodes across the oil slick skies

The dreamless men have taken my land

Built this house of pain

And I’ll fight them with every breath I take

Until it’s home again

Strange times, Hotel Earth, Sun going down, 

light getting worse

Strange times and growing cold, 

I raise my glass to the last free souls

It’s Just A Game

An angel came to me last night

Her wings were full of ancient light

In the silence words gave birth

She talked to me of Planet Earth

So much confusion, delusion is everywhere

Tossing and turning

Without every learning 

The rules that don’t change

Fighting and praying

Become lost in the playing of the game

She stood before my moonlit door

No shadow fell upon the floor

Starlight mingled with her voice

She talked to me about the choice

There’s winning and loosing

Or choosing to understand

Things that you cherish all soon will perish

But wisdom remains

Fighting and praying 

Become lost in the playing of the game

It’s just a game

We walked along the edge of night

’til she became the morning light

She whispered of a master plan

Just grow beyond the games of man

Living and dying, laughing and crying out for love

Tears turns to rivers until the soul shivers

Who is to blame

But remember her sayings 

It’s only the playing of the game.

Limo

The phone never rang, but I took the call
Went and got a highway down from the wall
Climbed in my old Limo, full of empty spaces
Sat in the dark, tried on a thousand different faces
My chauffeur appeared, he’s sometimes hard to see
Don’t follow my orders but he looks a lot like me
Turned around slow and looked me in the eye
Said I’ll take you somewhere
Where the rubber meets the sky

Driver, drive me away
Pour me a drink from the Milky Way
Somewhere, somehow
There’s that place called Love
Label my direction … in search of

He fingered the wheel
Like he was holding a guitar
Said wherever you go son

Is not always where you are
Thought I heard laughter
Underneath the hood
He said it all runs on music
When the world’s looking good
So throw away the seat belts
Roll those windows down
Tonight we’re going Zen
Strip the circus from the clown
He drove high above the city lights
Then he took a perfect smile
Tossed it out into the night

Driver, drive me away …

We ride the invisible highways
Out past the amnesia webs and the lost cities
Out where stars are born and squandered
And the Big Bands play big
And the nightlife goes on forever
And all around the secrets whisper
Drive on … drive on

We traveled in silence into deep space
Where spiritual detectives go looking for grace
And UFO boys and guys out on mission
Playing all night poker in a cosmic kitchen
Driver began to fade like a watercolor in the rain
And the planets sang like prisoners free of chains
I took off my final mask, dropped it with a sigh

You see … we’ve done a lot of crawling
But we were born to fly

Driver, drive me away
Pour me a drink from the Milky Way
Somewhere, somehow
There’s that place called Love
Label my direction
Call it disaffection … in search of

Meteor Showers

You were passion, you were pain 

You were my best friend 

Now you’re a soldier in the rain 

Come back home again 

Your sudden beauty,  your eyes remind me 

You're the only one who could find me 

Lonely lightning, I stopped to wonder 

When I kissed you I still tasted thunder 

 Let's go walking in the meteor showers 

 Break open one last starlit night and stay 

 Walking in the meteor showers 

 And the wind and light 

 Will blow these tears away 

You were seasons, You were reasons to get well 

One foot in heaven, one in hell 

That's how we fell 

Our star exploded, wrong time and place 

Too many pieces got lost in space 

Your eyes hold me now, electric storm 

Oh river of night take us deep and warm 

I find you and I lose you, 

Each time I choose you again

Your sudden beauty, your eyes remind me 

You're the only one who could find me 

Lonely lightning, I stopped to wonder 

When I kissed you I still tasted thunder 

You’re the only one who could find me

Mostly Worried ‘Bout Me

Sometime get worried

Walk around by the fences

Moon is waiting

Like a ship on the dark blue sea

Worried about money

Worried about the price of tomorrow

But Lord I'm ashamed

'Cause I'm mostly worried about me

Seems I feel sad

For the seeds that never get planted

Seems I feel love

For the last leaf upon the tree

Worried about the barn

And the leaks that the rain will surely find

But Lord I'm ashamed

'Cause I'm mostly worried about me

Just another song drifts over the fences

Goes climbing to the prairie in the purple sky

And someone needs to care about all those children

I just take walks and worry about getting by

Moonlight on the mountains

And things that reach out towards heaven

Moonlight on a man (down on bended knee)

Worried about my woman

And the way she stairs out out window

But lord I'm ashamed

Mostly worried about me

Just another man

Waited for harvest

And the world

Keeps turning turning turning

Like a sleepless night

Mystery

Rainy Night, roadside bar 

Stare across the room 

Wonder who you are,

Straight black hair 

Red-brown skin 

Woman by the window 

Listening to the wind 

You're from the desert 

I'm from the street 

You've learned from the Earth 

I've been taught by concrete 

I'm full of noise and surface heat 

But the things that you know 

Run silent and deep 

I can not speak… I do not heal 

I've lost that part of me that feels 

The mysteries 

I see with your eyes 

You gaze at the room 

TV glows like a pale dead moon 

Plastic flowers, pre-fab walls 

The only spirit here is alcohol 

Dark woman, I would follow you 

Dark woman, I'm a stranger too 

A soft smile …you walk outside 

Pick up truck roars  

And you vanish in the night 

There's rain on the highway 

Rain on the sea 

Let there be rain on the desert in me 

The sky still calls, 

Through glass and steel 

Awake that part of me that feels 

The mysteries

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

You started to dress, moonlight and loneliness

You can’t go on

You brushed back your hair

Suitcase and prayer

You’re on your own

Your final wish, a long slow kiss 

Then you were gone 

I’m driving down the freeway

On the endless road

In the rear world view mirror 

My world explodes

The heart is a lonely hunter  

The heart is like a restless sea 

The heart is a lonely hunter  

Since you went from me

The bed is unmade

Pictures won’t fade

Of sleeping with you

Alone in the wilderness

I fight for the tenderness 

Where I hold you 

All along the city night

Every heart is a search light

Trying to break through

Calling out to you from the edge of time

Looking for eyes in a world that’s gone blind. 

Calling out to you from the edge of time 

Looking for your eyes in a world that's gone blind

All along the city night 

Every heart's a searchlight 

Splendor in the dying light 

Every heart's a searchlight