Cold Heart

All songs written by M.Beatty / bluewingmusic / BMI

 

I never felt my life so off it's course
Like a sail caught in the wind
Like a baby when it cries
For a mother when she dies
Things will never be the same again
 
Out on the street
Feeling restless and wild
Throwing bottles at the moon
All alone on a Saturday night
All alone and thinking about you
 
You were with me like a shadow
I cannot understand 
Where you learned to be so cold
An angel without wings
And a box of broken dreams
I never thought of growing old

Out on the street
Feeling restless and wild
Throwing bottles at the moon
All alone on a Saturday night
All alone and thinking about you

No one ever mentioned 
The miles before we sleep
No one ever talked about the dark
Now I am all alone - out here on my own
Waiting for the wind to catch my spark

Out on the street
Feeling restless and wild
Throwing bottles at the moon
All alone on a Saturday night
All alone and thinking about you

Every now and then do you ever wander back again?

Shotgun

Shotgun was slackin mojo
From the devil to the dime store down
I was a whisper there
Trippin like an east side hound
Down to nothin
Where cheap wine bleeds on lace
Catchin the cuff of the east side muff
Vanishing without a trace

Take it to the limit
Take it downtown
Rock it to the rhythm
Of the California sound

Shotgun on a two lane strike
Set the pins up all in a row
Side to the left at a boy and his friend
Who strike a benevolent pose
Suburban skate boy punks
Jeer and poke as they cruise
Hang ten with the men that the cat dragged in
And the only yellow blossom that bloomed

Take it to the limit 
Take it downtown
Rock it to the rhythm
Of the California sound

Shotgun going one on one
Flippin like a vertical hold
Callous for the colors of the cartoon kids
Who never learn to do what they're told
It's never happy
It's never sane
Comin right down to the way that you found
A needle stickin into your vein

Take it to the limit 
Take it downtown
Rock it to the rhythm
Of the California sound

Shotgun with the brickhouse sides
Got my porno in hand
Flyin down to the underground
Lookin for a one night stand
When I was sixteen
I did it all in a year
Blacklight shine like a valentine
With a bit of belladonna and beer

Take it to the limit
Take it downtown
Rock it to the rhythm
Of the California sound

Something About Walking

I know something about walking
On a wire, on a cloud
I've been fearless with my walking
Moving high above the crowd

Do you ever think to wander?
Join a circus, join a band?
I cannot help but wander
Drifting out across the land

I am the Great Valerio
I am the Lonesome Dove
So sure that I am over you
Steady, stalwart, homing from above

I know something about water
Like the turning of the tides
I've been steady gauging water
moving out across the wide

To the rocking and the reeling
Say a prayer for Captain Joe
And the broken days of leaving
Ten thousand miles to go

I am the Great Valerio
I am the Lonesome Dove
So sure that I am over you
Steady, stalwart, homing from above

Accidental Tourist

When I was seven
I heard voices in the night
Calling out my name 
Across a shadowed hallway light
"Come on" they said
"Come with me...take an open hand...
And we'll travel to a dark and distant land"

I have seen the light of day
Through the darkness
And I felt so far away
In the darkness
This wasn't supposed to happen
Will you take my hand
I'm an accidental tourist
In a dead man's land

A million lights were shining
Underneath my plane
Like a million broken hearts
That have been left out in the rain
Well I guess that I'm the lucky one
I have found my friend
Shouting love like rock n roll pretend

I have seen the light of day
Through the darkness
And I felt so far away
In the darkness
This wasn't supposed to happen
Will you take my hand
I'm an accidental tourist
In a dead man's land

Black crows are in the field
My best defense is down
Cause I see the past like sorrow sleeping
All around this town
I need you to be here with me
I need to clear my mind
I've been ravaged by cold effect of time

Now I have seen the light of day
Through the darkness
And I have felt so far away
In the darkness
This wasn't supposed to happen
Will you take my hand
I'm an accidental tourist
In a dead man's land

Appalachian Sunset

Way down dark in the deepest of the woods
You'll find a tree that falls where no one should
Hear it suspect as if to see
The Appalachian sidewinder comin for me

Get down to the square in the town with the one light flashin
Ladies with their hair so high and out of fashion
Party in the pokey with a son of a gun
Gotta get me home cause I gotta get me some

Appalachian Sunset
Fruit on the vine
Appalachian psychedelic
Appalachian wine

Dancin in the church by the hill where the corn is growin
Serpents in a box by the pew with the strychnine flowin
Howlin like the hounds of calvary
The Appalachian banshee makes a sweet harmony

Bow down to the velvet head of the king a-glarin
Cowboys with their hawgs of steel and their jeans a-flarin
I know you'd like to think you've done it all
So pour yourself another give your mama a call

Appalachian Sunset
Fruit on the vine
Appalachian psychedelic
Appalachian wine

Ghostlight

The sun was going down
Times Square to Central Park
Moving through the glare
And out into the dark
I saw you for a second
Saw you like a spark
You're a ghostlight

Outside the Blue Sahara
You lingered like a storm
Other worldly beauty
Past the neon, past the porn
The sins of my undoing
A hundred times reborn
You're a ghostlight

Take it all, take the good
Give up the bad, you know you should
Time will come you'll be fine
Spark into the night
Ghostlight

Driving through the desert
I saw you once again
Out along the astral highway
Like a long lost friend
I heard a blind side siren
I saw a jack-knife in the wind
You're a ghostlight

Take it all, take the good
Give up the bad, you know you should
Time will come, you'll be fine
Spark into the night
Ghostlight

In all of my searching
In all of my time
I never knew for certain
So much mine
You keep it real
You make it shine
You're a ghostlight

Take it all, take the good
Give up the bad, you know you should
Time will come you'll be fine
Spark into the night
Ghostlight

Battle Scars

Love is cold, love is hard
It will leave you battlescars
It will leave you at the station
Without a ticket in your hand
Then you'll recall
Right before the fall
When everything was perfect
And you took it all in stride

We all die a little
And we try a little
That is the way of life
We all try a little
Wonder why a little
That is the way of life

I was there by the way
And I had nothing to say
I was like a cactus
Out looking for the rain
Hallow or whole
All the shrapnel in my soul
Got me to believing
I can't take it anymore

We all die a little
And we cry a little
That is the way of life
We all try a little
Wonder why a little
That is the way of life

By the look and the sound
And all the pieces on the ground
You were only taken
For a minute and a day
Just count me in
Like a long lost friend
I'll see you in the trenches
Gonna watch the bullets fly

We all die a little
And we cry a little
That is the way of life
We all try a little
Wonder why a little
That is the way of life

Lost Highway Home

I took to a night road
Like a sailor takes to sea
To find the long lost child
Inside of me

I looked upon the rolling hills
And splinters of the sky
To find my double image
In a truck stop light

I am young but I am old
I never do what I've been told
I'm all revved up, good to go
Two lane time, lost highway home

Now I am not alone
I've got these memories of you
Playing four square ball
Behind the school

Photographs or memories
Which ever vice you choose
Will silently unravel 
The hang mans noose

I am young but I am old
I never do what I've been told
I'm all revved up, good to go
Two lane time, lost highway home

Visions of another time
Confront the beast within
On a jet black off-ramp
I'll return again

Cause night will fall
Like an anvil in your heart
Waiting on some love
For the clouds to part

I am young, but I am old
I never do what I've been told
I'm all revved up, good to go
Two lane time, lost highway home

The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood

Music & lyrics by Richard Farina / Ryerson Music / BMI


As gentle tides go rolling by
Along the salt sea strand
The colors blend and roll as one
Together in the sand
And often do the winds entwine
To send their distant calls
The quiet joys of brotherhood
Where love is lord of all

The oak and weed together rise
Along the common ground
The mare and stallion, light and dark
Have thunder in their sound
The rainbows sign, the blended flower
Still have my heart entralled
The quiet joys of brotherhood
And love is lord of all

But man has come to plow the tide
The oak lies on the ground
I see their fires in the field
They drive the stallion down
The roses bleed both light and dark
The winds do seldom call
The running sands recall the time
When love was lord of all