"Body Talk"


Like this....I've never seen a woman baby
That looks quite the way you do
The way you shake that thing now honey,
Can't take my eyes off you

The way you work it honey
It brings me to my knees
You give me what I'm looking for,
I'll give you what you need
And I said

Chorus:
I got the one thing you want,
Get it all night long
You got the one thing I need,
When your body talks
I hear it talking to me
Say, get it all night long
Woman why can't you see
You're my one thing

I got a world of trouble, baby
It's going on inside my head
Playing your game, got me half insane
Trying to make sense of every word you said

Stop beating around the bush
You're just wasting time
Let's get down to the business honey
And lay it one the line
And I said

Chorus

Tell me the news,
Let's hear your story
You think you got nothing to lose
You better use it up
before it gets old, baby
And becomes yesterday's news

Chorus out

"Bring It Home"


Stand and rise and before your eyes
the lions will appear
And when they do they'll be filling you
with all the lies you will need to hear

Mr. Politician, just keep on dishin'
your sh!t for the TV screen
Turn off his camera, he'll drop the propaganda
faster than the poverty that he just seen

Got to bring it home
We got to bring it home

See his campaign run by the power funds
And makin' all the deals he can
Isn't it funny what greed and money
can do to the soul of a man

We don't seen nothin', hear nothin'
Just get their news stuffed down our throats at 10
Makes it hard to conceive who the f*ck to believe
When I don't see no means to an end

Chorus:
We got to bring it home....
I don't know what to believe
We got to bring it home
Don't you think you're fooling me
We got to bring it home
In this world that's grown so cold
We got to bring it home
We will never know until we bring it home

Watch the walls around come tumbling down
Like a house that's built on a hill
How can we change a thing or even get in the ring
If we're living our lives in guilt

We don't see it comin' hear it comin'
Acting like we know nothing, chills me to the bone
Sure as hell stop foolin' ourselves
Till we bring it home

Chorus

Time has come now to bring it home
We got to get it home
Time has come now to bring it home
We got to get it home
The truth we will never find
Until we bring it home

"7 Days Over You"


Well it's Friday night and I'm waiting
On your call girl, like I do
Am I wasting my time by this telephone line
Waiting on your call to come through

Chorus:
I should be already over you
Tell me Mama, what can I do
It's been a long hard road that you put me through
Seven days over you
Seven days, seven days over you
Seven days over you

Kick it

I kick and fight for you baby
But that's never enough for you
You've been twisted and torn since the day you were born
You make a game of breaking hearts in two

Now I want to give up but I dig the rush too much
I guess that's what love will do
So drag your heart-stopping mind trip downtown, girl
By Friday night I'll find someone new

Chorus
Lord knows what you put me through

Already over you, tell me mama what can I do (repeat)

Chorus out

"Ain't That the Truth"


Now pardon my personal demons, child but if you do insist
Sit down and listen to me story awhile, cause it goes something like this

The joint was small but we were having a ball
At a place called the Blue Duck Inn
When I couldn't help but notice her
My future wife walked in

I needed me a dose of her, so I got a little closer
And this is what she said
My old man stands about six foot five
And if he catches you, you're dead

Now I don't need none of that
giving me the blues
The old man sitting next to me said
Son, let me tell you

Chorus:
Life, you just can't fake it
Love, you gotta make it
Time, you better take it
Lord, ain't that the truth
Hear me out
Your heart will surely feel it
Women come and steal it
Time can only heal it
Lord, ain't that the truth

I save Friday night for the ladies
Saturday night for my gin
Come Sunday morning, I'm asking the good Lord
To forgive me for my sins

Lately my heave-ho get-up-and-go
Wouldn't get me out of bed
I felt like some big wrecking ball
Done hit upside my head

Now I don't need a preacher man
Telling me how to run my life
Until an angel sitting next to me
said son, heed my advice. She said

Repeat chorus

You better get your story straight
What comes around goes around

Chorus

"Theatre of the Soul"


On a cold night in a hotel in New Orleans
came the final blow
And somehow somewhere we lost sight
in our search for that pot of gold

And all that happened I don't understand
Could somebody here, somebody please explain to me
Cause I'm feeling so damn deceived

And I can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
Theatre of my soul....play on child

Ashes to ashes...Light the good Lord lays us down
Dust to dust, oh, no
The time has come to lay to rest the years
All the years it took this heart to trust

Maybe too much too soon, I couldn't get my head on straight
All that worry, just wasted time
and now it's much too late to save it

Long forgotten midnight dancer
plays her final role
The curtain falls and I'm still standing
Theatre of my soul you left in vain
Could someone please explain, and I said

Solo

I know that nothing's the same
Riding blind on the winds of change
But in my head that scene just keeps on playing

Long forgotten midnight dancer
plays her final role, oh, yes she does
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
The curtain falls and I'm still standing
In the theatre of my soul
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
When time it just keeps on passing,
I got to let it go, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
I keep searching for those long lost answers
In the theatre of my soul
Theatre of my soul

"Strike Up the Band"


Living off the friends we made
Never ever getting paid
Kicking ass and paying dues
Lose our mind in self abuse

Loving ladies by the score
Waking up and wanting more
I hope my Mama understands
When I strike up the band

Well I spit out my anger as the sweat do fly
Fifteen years of paying dues just to get me by
Now the barkeeps would pay us by the crowds we bring
But those son-of-bitches never paid us one damn thing
And my poor Daddy, he just don't understand
It's balls out tonight, watch the sh!t hit the fan
When we strike up the band

Now those drop dead ladies line the very first row
I do believe I'd like to spend some time after the show
Now them years gone by, the barkeeps pay in cash
And them lovely ladies feed me an earful of trash

And my old lady, she just don't understand
Why those floozies got their hands on her man
And my poor Daddy, he still don't understand
Why it's balls out tonight watch the sh!t hit the fan
Give it all that we can, we don't give a good damn
When we strike up the band

Living like a gypsy,
an air conditioned hippie
Who's never seen the light of day
Rode dog and cowboy
Don't know how, boy
I ever lived this long this way, no, no, said

And my poor Daddy, he still don't understand
Why it's balls out tonight watch the sh!t hit the fan
Give it all that we can, we don't give a good damn
When we strike up the band

"Ride Child Ride"


Well I'm sitting here this evening
I've got some old friends on my mind, yeah I do
Yeah, me and Slick and Davy saluting Mr. Daniels
For the very first time
We was jamming to old Jimi, singing Purple Haze,
no doubt, no, no
I think between weed and whiskey
my head went north and man, my feet went south

We had some good times,
and man do I remember them well
Those days are long gone,
but now I got to tell you just how we left some stories to tell

Chorus:
Ride, child ride
Hell we had some good times then
Ride, child, ride
Sometimes I need those times again
Do you remember when?

Remember all our big talk,
how we were going to be president, one day, baby
How we were going to save the whole world
but man, I got to tell you Lord,
Didn't have a clue back then

We had some good times,
and man do I remember them well
Those days are long gone,
but now I got to tell you just how we left some stories to tell

Chorus

Ride, child, ride
Hell, we had some good times then
Ride, child ride
Sometimes I need those times again
Ride, child ride
Hell, we had some good times then
Ride, child, ride
Take me back there, man, do you remember when?

"Blind Faith"


In a smoky room
Could have been a devil's tomb
90 miles east of LA

Feeling desperate and cold
Barely 19 years old
Searching for the light in the pouring rain

I visualize the cold reality
If I don't try, the answer dies inside of me

Chorus:
Blind faith takes me to the mountains
Blind faith lead me to the sea
Blind faith takes me to a higher ground
Come on, come on, come on, and help me find my way

In a small town school
Caught between the liars and fools
She spent her days thinking about her life

She was full of dreams and doubts
searching for that one way out
Didn't want to spend the rest of her days being a small town wife

She could visualize the life she wants to lead
But deep inside, she didn't have the heart it takes to leave

Chorus

I just got to get myself out of here
We visualize the life we want to lead
But deep inside got to find a reason to believe

Chorus out

"Bastard Son of a Thousand Blues"


Well it's four o'clock in the morning
and I'm knocking on your door
She says she's tired of me
Don't want me here no more

She said stop your pissin' and moanin' and groanin'
go sleep outside with them dogs
Now honey let me please explain
cause I didn't mean you no wrong

I didn't mean to hurt you baby
Wouldn't do that to you
She said bite your lip, now, sweet child
You're the bastard son of a thousand blues

Well my Daddy was gone by the day I was born
And my Mama I have never seen
I was born in the back of a black Cadillac
And raised by a Gypsy queen

And as a child I was hell gone wild
Raised in the eye of a storm
By the time I was ten I was doing time again
Cause I knew what that gun was for

Chorus:
No, no, no, I'm the bastard son of a thousand blues
No, no, no, Don't know what I'm going to do
No, no, no, I'm the bastard son of a thousand blues
No, no, no, Tell me, mama, what I'm going to do

Ladies have come and ladies have gone
But there's one I remember quite well
Years have gone past, but her memory lasts
But the story I cannot tell

Well I've lived and I've lied
And I've loved and I've tried
To put my soul to good use

Guess I'm sh!t out of luck
Cause that name, it just stuck
I'm the bastard son of a thousand blues, dig

Chorus, out

"The Best Thing You Ever Had"


(Yeah, Blues!)
I won't ask where you're going
If you don't ask where I've been
'Cause if you're looking for an answer, babe
I wouldn't know where to begin.

I don't know what I want sometimes
But I sure know what I likes
You've got that thing about you
Gets me hot inside

If it makes no sense when I wrote this song
Cause half way through it you were turning me on

Chorus #1:
Lay me down
I just might be your kind
I'll show you a better way
We can do away the time
If you stop looking so hard
I think you just might find
I ain't finding it so bad
Might be the best thing you ever had

You know a little 'bout love and
I know a lot about hate
I believe you gotta make things happen
You believe in fate

But this won't be the first time that
we didn't see eye to eye
You may not be religious but I'll make you see God
If you give me a try

I know love can get me through it
If you give me that look we'll get down to it

Chorus #2:
Don't shoot me down
I'm not a social disease
You've got that thing about you
Bring a grown man to his knees
I'll teach you baby
'bout them birds and them bees
When you get around
And think about it ain't so bad
Might be the best thing you ever had
Best thing I ever had

Solo
Ah, give me some of that!

When I put out the dog
ya get them old ghosts out of bed.....
I ain't looking for a little to say
Baby some place to lay my head

I'm the one to right your wrong
If you give me a chance and I'll turn you on

Chorus #1
Chorus #2