My Only Guarantee     


Keep it coming
I've got your back
Do not fear
When I'm on deck
A bigger lie I've never told
A bigger story yet to unfold
My only guarantee: i will fuck you up

Another day
Of pure energy
What wears most
Is the constancy
A bigger job I've never had
A bigger burden I could not drag
My only guarantee: I will fuck you up

Strange how things
Come about
Will I ever know
How things turn out
A bigger wish I've never known
A bigger question I'm trying to hone
My only guarantee: I will fuck you up

One     


U2


Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
you've got someone to blame

you say one love one life
when its one need in the nightone love we get to share it
it leaves you baby if you dont care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
and you want me to go without

Well it's too late tonight
to drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other carry each other one

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head?

Did I ask too much more than a lot
You gave me nothing now it's all I got
We're one but we're not the same
Well we hurt each other then we do it again

You Say Love is a temple, Love a higher law
Love is a temple, Love the higher law
You ask me to enter, but then you make me
And I can't be holding on to what
When all you got is hurt one love one blood
One life you got to do what you should
One life with each otherSisters brothers
One life but we're not the same
We get tocarry each other carry each other One

Powder Finger      


Neil Young


Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river,
With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail.
I think you'd better call John 'cause it don't look like
They're here to deliver the mail.
And it's less than a mile away. I hope they didn't come to stay.
It's got numbers on the side and a gun, and it's making big waves.

Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains.
Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou.
So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking.
And I just turned twenty-two. I was wondering what to do.
And the closer they got, the more those feelings grow.

Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring.
He told me, Red means run, Son. Numbers add up to nothing.
But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming.
Raised the rifle to my eye. Never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black and my face flash in the sky.

Shelter me from the powder and the finger.
Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger.
Just think of me as one you never figured,
To fade away so young, with so much left undone.
Remember me to my love. I know I'll miss her.

Someday Soon     


Someday soon
I'm going to find myself a saviour
Sit him on the naugahide
And make him tell me the answers
Someday soon
He'll look at me
With the word in his eyes
He'll notice the hero to come
Someday soon

Someday soon
I'm going to find myself a leader
Someone who can take me
By the hand towards safety
Someday soon
With only a wink
He'll tell me all i need know
His personal call will come
Someday soon

Find myself another heart to carry this weight
Find another part to take

Someday soon
I'm going to find myself a banner
March when they tell me to
Cheer when it matters
Someday soon
Let's take our place
At the back of the bus
Erase all the lies we've been told
Shoulder the load of those that are dear
And look to the days to come
Someday soon

Spiral Down     


Now it all begins
Or continues to
Spiral down
Spiral down

I've laid it out on paper
Instructions of what to do
As my mind begins to waver
Losing contact with you

Now it all begins
Or continues to
Spiral down
Spiral down

Look upon the self
Look upon the other
We need a better understanding
Or we'll spiral down

Spiral down
Continue to spiral down
I'm no where near my peace
As you spiral down

Still Lost     


Here we stand at the end of paths taken
guiding light inspiration, the slow decline
crumbling foundation, the stations, and now the cross
we're still lost, we're still lost

Settling now, once again
what was begun, will meet it's end
running now, time to hide
go inside, it's time to hide

Here we stand at the end of paths taken
guiding light inspiriation, the slow decline
crumbing foundation, the stations, and now the cross
but we're still lost, we're still lost

Waiting now, dull root twinning
keeping watch, for new roots shining

Here we stand at the end of paths taken
guiding light inspiration, the slow decline
crumbling foundation, the stations, and now the cross
but we're still lost, we're still lost

There you stand at the edge of salvation
guiding light inspiriation, the slow decline
crumbling foundation, the stations, and now the cross
but we're still lost, we're still lost
we're still lost, we're still lost
we're still lost, we're still lost
we're still lost, we're still lost

 This World Dreams Of     


Michael Timmins


Try to find the reference
it makes no difference to me.
Draw your own conclusions,
add to my confusion if you please.
The time for concessions
and midnight confessions is long gone.
I’ll sit here in the silence
and wait for all the violence to engulf me.

I hate to take the easy way out, now people,
but options are closing down fast.
More things are wrought by prayer
than this world dreams of.

Vengeance has been tasted,
hatred cultivated,
its an old game.
Everyone gets fatter,
people choose what matters,
there’s no shame.

I hate to take the easy way out, now people,
but options are closing down fast.
More things are wrought by prayer
than this world dreams of.

Simple as a folk tale,
deadly as a stairwell,
it surrounds you.
Stupid men and bastards
always bite their masters.
They will get you.

I hate to take the easy way out, now people,
but options are closing down fast.
More things are wrought by prayer
than this world dreams of.

This world dreams of……

Two Hundred More Miles     


Michael Timmins


Atlanta's a distant memory
Montgomery a recent blur
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire

I got Willie on the radio
a dozen things on my mind
and number one is fleshing out
these dreams of mine

I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt and light
before I sleep
But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms
to fall into tonight

In Nashville there is a lighter
in a case for all to see
it speaks of dreams and heartaches
left unsung

And in the corner stands a guitar and
lonesome words scrawled in a drunken hand
I'm travelling paths travelled hard before
and I'm beginning to understand

That I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt and light
before I sleep
But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms
to fall into tonight

They say that I am crazy
my life wasting on this road
that time will find my dreams
scattered dead and cold

But I heard there is a light
drawing me to reach an end
and when I reach there, I'll turn back
and you and I can begin again

I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt and light
before I sleep
But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms
to fall into tonight

I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt and light
before I sleep
But I wouldn't trade all your golden tomorrows
for one hour of this night

Atlanta's a distant memory
Montgomery a recent blur
Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire.

Two Soldiers     


Traditional / arranged by Cowboy Junkies


He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy
his voice was low with pain
I'll do your bidding commrad mine
If I ride back again
but if you ride back and I am dead
you'll do as much for me
Mother, you know, must hear the news
so write to her tenderly

She's a-waiting at home like a patient saint
her fallen face paled with woe
Her heart would be broken when I am gone
I'll see her soon, I know.
Just then the order came to charge
for an instant hand touched hand
They sayed "aye" and away they rode
that brave and devoted band

Straight was the course to the top of the hill
and the rebels they shot and shelled
Plowed furroughs of death through the toiling ranks
and guarded them as they fell
There soon was a horrible dying yell
from heights that they could not gain
And those who doom and death had spared
rode slowly back again

But among the dead that were left on the hill
was the boy with curly hair
The tall dark man who fought by his side
Lay dead beside him there
Well there was was no one to write to the blue-eyed girl
the words that her lover had said
While mother at home is awaiting her boy
She'll only know he's dead
She'll only know he's dead

Whalers / Mariner's Song      


Traditional / arranged by Cowboy Junkies


The last of man's great unchained beasts lies lapping at my door
The last of man's great unchained beasts lies lapping at my door
I would give it what it wants, but I do know,
it would just ask for more

I search for you with every crest I ride
in every trough I travel through
I search for you in every trough I travel through

I didn't mean to leave you,
I unfurled my sail and the wind did blow
I didn't mean to leave you, darling,
I unfurled my sail and the wind did blow
Why why why why why, oh why I did not drop my anchor,
Oh Lord, I will never know

I search for you with every crest I ride
in every trough I travel through
I search for you in every trough I travel through

On the lee of the island I hear your voice deep inside the calm
On the lee of the island I hear your voice deep inside the calm
Whispering baby, I'll be your delight, if you promise
to be my red sky tonight

I search for you with every crest I ride
in every trough I travel through
I search for you in every trough I travel through

In the storm you are my destination, in the port you are my storm
In the storm you are my destination, in the port you are my storm
But I would weather you my love, if you would be my guide,
if you would be my stars in the sky tonight

I search for you with every crest I ride
in every trough I travel through
I search for you in every trough I travel through.