Searching
So far in the distance
Still far from resistance
I’m surrounded by all that you are
Believing
Or maybe I’m dreaming
I awake to the feeling
Never knowing if I’ve crossed the line
(Redline) Do I wait for a sign?
(Redline) Have you made up your mind?
‘Cause I don’t wanna lose the chance of you
Redline
Am I working on a deadline?
I been sitting here on a goldmine
Just afraid you’ll make me pay
(Don’t make me pay)
(Uh Oh Uh Oh) It’s just a redline
Certain
I’m so far from an answer
Should I come out and ask her?
Started in pursuit of happiness
Then came endless days of work for debt
As he looked up to the hypocrites
Heard the things they say but soon forget
Saw the sociopaths with their corporate cards
Blowing smokescreens with their liberal cause
Said he never would be one of them
Oh how slowly it crept into him
As it clouded up his conscience
He got caught up in the objects
Of G-R-E-E-D
Now a big fish in a bigger pond
Swimming with the sharks that brought him down
To the cesspool of his confidants
To the parties with the debutants
Blast the right-wing from his velvet tower
You should never have to ask how to get lost
Cast your worries aside ‘cause it
doesn’t cost a thing
If you’re his little lady but he lies in your
lap
Quit the what ifs but don’t show him a map or
complain
‘Cause it’s a pain
Everybody’s talking I wasn’t listening
I've been trying to tell you that it’s
intuition
But two minus one and one plus one isn’t one
and the same
How to get lost
You should never need permission to get off
Put your heart in your hands when it glows and
it’s soft it’s insane
Paint your warning signs with your burgundy mouth
(Carey Ott - ASCAP 2007)
Come to me
In our old haunt
If it were up to me
I never would’ve left our prison cell
Minutes tick
But she ain’t coming
You know it’s easier to think
Just knowing that now I may see myself
Like a song
We’re like a song
We’re like a song
Get a little drunk
All dressed up
I come to show you love
Now I’m thinking that I wanna fight
You’ve seen this place
A hundred times before
All the fictional nights
And days are just a recent episode
Like a song
We’re like a song
We’re like a song
(That never ends)
Like a song
Of ten things you might say leave off nine
Leave off nine
Of ten things you might say leave off nine
Leave off nine
No sound after the sound like a bell hung in the air
There are people everywhere
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice
Fool me twice
Fool me once shame on you fool me twice
Fool me twice
No sound after the sound like a bell hung in the air
There are people everywhere who care
No sound after the sound like a bell hung in the air
There are people everywhere
There are people everywhere
There are people everywhere
Waste not want not
Waste not want not
(Carey Ott ASCAP 2007)
Creating a scene for the screen
Maybe you’re not what you seem
Magick Alecks
Promises you couldn’t keep
Sounding too good to believe
You’re Magick Alecks
Amazing how the people delight
In being made a fool or a follower
What makes you think you’re right?
How will you get to sleep tonight?
Whooooooooooooooooooooooo
Hard to tell your face in the crowd
You try to keep the people in doubt
Magick Alecks
Who do you think you are?
Don’t you take it just a little too far?
Magick Alecks
It’s amazing how the people delight
Laid Back Day (Ott, Pasley) 3-18-08
On a laid back day
It’s less work more play
Just letting the time run away
Nothing else to do
But love all over you
Living for a moment made for two
Always distractions a caustic reaction gonna save my getaway
Glue come unfastened whenever you’re dancing on a tightrope borderline
Metal feather attraction the instant defection to run run hide behind
Lily white vices and saccharin ties if she could sing you a lullaby
She could scream you a lullaby
She could scream you a lullaby
Collision addiction a drag out fight and a face full of water spit
Basic gut feeling I won’t be the goat for your late night undertow
It’s your late night undertow
Your late night undertow
Love is a many splintered scene
You let me down all the time
Let me down all the time
You
You let me down all the time
I forgive you
You don’t have to stay
You don’t have to stay
I won’t keep you
You don’t have to wave
You don’t have to wave goodbye
You left me down on my knees
You left me down on my knees
Yeah you
You left me down on my knees
I forgive you
You don’t have to lie
You don’t have to lie
I won’t keep you
You don’t have to say
You don’t have to say goodbye
You let me down all the time
You left me down on my knees
You let me down all the time
get out alive
you know what you gotta do
get out alive
call them but no one's there
look up into the air
they're everywhere you can see
they're people like you and me
devils who comb the streets
looking for crooked beats
watch how they move their feet
watch how they move their feet
get out alive
devils who know control
dealt with a broken nose
but they don't pick the fights
they don't dim the lights
what you're saying you're gonna see
what you're giving is what you get
but you don't know it yet
you don't know it yet
get out alive
Style
Dress up an old corpse
With a new face
Like a handkerchief on an old Hollywood dog
Style
Lay it in a shallow grave
Take off the white lace
Counting on a big, black bowtie
Style
You try so hard to play the part
A lazy way to look real smart
And you want style
Style
Get on the bus get off the bus
Don’t make a fuss
Don’t confuse yours and mine
Style
Looking at the inside
Look at the upside
You’ll never find another flawed design
Style
You try so hard to play the part
A lazy way to look real smart
And you want style
And you want style
Break
As lust is to love
A buzzard to a dove
Step out of the rain into a flood
As lust is to love
A penny in a well
Wishes bound to fail
Pouring out of every single sentimental cell
As found is to lost
Feathers to the frost
I pray your saints and statues can forgive you for it all
Broken as the bread
Like all humankind
You cannot blame the victim for the gallows in her mind
Gallows in her mind
Sentimental queens
Do we all do?
Do we die to please?
Our sentimental queens
As lust is to love
A buzzard to a dove
Step out of the rain into a flood
A penny in a well
You’re standing accused
On the Ten-O-Clock News
A Jury of your peers
Say you’re rotten
You’re cold and unfeeling
Should of never been born
You look like somebody who’s guilty
Darling ain’t no use in crying
Or getting the lawyer on the phone
Drum up some nerve for better or worse
Cause in here, you get what you deserve
Nothing just
‘Bout a justice game
Put a human being
Into a nightmare
He can never wake up
She can never come clean
‘Til you sell to the tabloids
Darling ain’t no use in crying
Or getting your Congressman on the phone
Trickle into Tennesee make a new start
I’m a half-pint bleeder with a swollen heart
I’ll be out raging dark ‘til dawn
Can we meet up later let me sing you songs
I’m a flower and a faker and a shining seed
But I gotta dig into the ground I need
We can sing at the moon and yell at the stars
And pretend we’re better than we think we are
We don’t grow if we don’t know who we are
We don’t see what we miss when we’re closer than this
This Distance
Would you choose me if I chose you
I’ll be your Gram if you’d be Emmylou
We can light the sky
At 463
It’s just you and me for a while
Always yesterday
In my vacant town
And when she’s around I’m away
Main Street it’s so plain to see
You can follow me chasing her
Department stores of glass
Mannequins in gray
The people made of clay you pass
Automotive men
Sweating gasoline
Bleeding Valvoline from their veins
Main Street it’s so plain to see
You can follow me chasing her all around
Main Street it’s so plain to see
You can follow me chasing her up and down it
Solo
I will carve your name
In the starving rock
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
And we don’t wait any longer
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Waiting for you
We’ve been waiting for you
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
And we don’t wait any longer
Ahhhahhhhahhhahhha
I thought I knew
What smiling faces mean
The grass is always green
I thought I knew
Tears never shed
Blood never bled
Answers to the questions
I thought I knew
Who is our leader
When we’re following the blind
Wading in this river wasting time
The wars they’d have us fight
Following faded signs
Forbidden ties that bind us
To the limits of our minds
You’re still a child
Though time’s a ticking fast
I’d try to make it last
If I were you
Walk with your love
And wear it like a badge
Shine it up and bask
In the glory of the sun
Hey man I heard that if you’re out for number one
The guys down at the station use ink inside the gun
I’ll strike the match but my soul won’t be for sale
I’ll write you dudes another one the check is in the mail
Aren’t we all just sinners
Cause you know we ain’t ever been saints
But that’s how it is
We we’re never good friends in the first place, yeah
It all go down
It all goes down
How it all goes down
In the contract
All of this bickering keeps ringing on inside
I keep deciding to forget you
Better ways to spend the days than counting up the red
Look at the time you spend in a life
Are you awake or sleeping?
Making sense out of so many sounds
How much have you been missing?
Listen
People attack you from too many sides
Leave you afraid of sinking
There is a love that’s deeper than us
And it doesn’t have to question
Listen
Is your love something true to me?
If you love something let it be
I can hear you when you talk to me
If I listen
Listen
Look at the time you spend in a life
Are you awake or sleeping?
Making sense out of so many sounds
How much have you been missing?
Listen
Verse 1
Boy there ain’t no need to hurry you should learn to take it slow
Cause you ain’t gotta rush the feeling maybe you should just let it go
I think I'm feeling you
Look ma I feel the groove
Aint tryna get into nothing
I'm tryna get at you
You feel it too
Shawty go head let it make you move
It's like oooo
Verse 1
Shawty slow down a minute
Cause I’d like to getcha name
Game I don’t need to spit it
Cause my truth is just the same
And I can’t help but wonder
Verse 1
You’re looking good it’s been a minute since I talked to you
Heard you dun moved out living yea your doing cool
(Do you)
Gotta knew man (No)
Intro
Don’t
Don’t let it go
Go
Don’t
Don’t let it go
Go
Verse
Tell me is this how its gonna be
Fussing and fighting over everything
Verse
Oh OH OH
Baby step right on in MY
Ro Oo OM
Feenin to get it started up
Baby let me start it up
I I I
Dim the lights low yea
Pedal on the floor yeah
Unplug on the phones here
Intro
You’re so beautiful
Eh
You’re so beautiful
Eh
Verse 1
If I never told you
Huh
Maybe I should show you
What
Cause u know he don’t love you
Chorus
Oh
You got me going crazy
Look at that body baby
You know that I want it
You drive me crazy girl
I just got to have it you drive me girl
You got me you got me
I have spent such a long time waiting
I believe dreams come true
I have searched for that happy ending
I found you
Someone to rely on
Someone to rely on
When the world seems too much
When life plays too rough
Someone to rely on
You gave up when he left you crying
You believed love would let you down
You would say there is no use trying
Now you found
Someone to rely on
Someone to rely on
When the world seems too much
When life plays too rough
Someone you hold on to
Someone who can pull you through
I’m always here for you
Someone to rely on
Verse 1
Do you know what a girl needs?
Uh huh
I’m talking really what a girl needs
UH huh
Cause baby I don’t need to be yours
Aint no body own me
Baby I’m my own me
Bsec
Chorus
What you wanna do
Lil mama
Let me know
Cause I aitn tryna wait to long
What you wanna do
It aint gotta be nothing
cause even doing nothing with you aint wrong
She Bad
Look at her
She’s the kinda gurl you only dream of
She got her own shit
And don’t need no one
You could turn out all the lights
And see her shine out
Got a body
Body like oh
Verse 1
Im superbad! Ouh!
The flyest thing uve seen in a while
See now id be hot as hell
Aint nobody putting it down
Like me
It aint that easy
To do it like me
Gotta wake up early
Verse 1
Damn
She got me feelin like a nig aint a thing no
More
But I’m stuck on her its too hard I cant let her
Go
With everything that we been through
How could she do me
Wrong
Verse 1
Girl whatcha doin
I can t believe that you’d call
After so long
tell me Were you get off
I’m tired of hearing
Your feelin all alone
Your feelin all alone
Your feelin all alone
B sec
Lone listen girl I aintcha comfot zone no more
You need to leave it alone
Go head and do what you want
Yea I’ll be doing my own thing
Like I already been girl
Cause there aint no way
Cause
Chorus
There aint no way
girl its too late to try
There aint no way
I had enough
Of all the lies girl
You Can’t get it right
There aint no way
Verse 1
Do you wanna get into
IT
See I can’t take you anywhere
(That you wanna go)
Tell me what you wanna do
Eh
See it aint nothing baby gurl
(Tell me how you wanna roll)
B sec
Verse 1
Baby
I been thinking bout
About cha u lately
See I got a feeling u been feeling on me
So if its cool baby girl would u let me
Break u off doin something good to ur body
99
In the shade
A homeless man
Pocket change in a paper cup
Tired eyes
He could use some sleep
He could be you
He could be me
But we don’t see
What we don’t wanna see
Verse 1
Oh I love the way her body speak
I can hear it calling out for me
Telling me to come inside
Her
Oh oh oh
Chorus
If only for one
I want to love her
Body like
She is the only one
I need her laying next to me
If only for one night
If only for one night
Verse 2
I would give it all up just to have a taste
Of her she got cause unreal
I never felt this way before
oh oh
Chorus
Bridge
I need her body
Oh
Cause she's got
Oh
Chorus
I’m the Indian on the hood of your flying machine
I’m the headlights shining lighting up the highway to your dreams
I’m the tread on the tire
I’m the wheel in your hands
I’m the radio playing every song you know
When you’re close
I’m anywhere you want to go
When you’re close
I’m anywhere you want to go
I’m the town just up ahead on a map that someone drew
I’m the friend of a friend a stranger you swore you knew
I’m the sun comin’ up I’m the lines on the road
I’m the sign that leads you home
When you’re close
I’m anywhere you want to go
Intro
Oh
Verse 1
2 month 3 weeks since she went away
I can help feel it in me everyday
And I know I treated her her so bad
But I guess I didn't realize what I had
I couldn't confess it
It was just the ego trip in me
Cause I know I messed up
Baby gurl it as the man in me
That kept my pride and didn't care
Girl I wasn't fair
And now I'm missing out
Bsec
See now I'm lost
Been going in circles too long
Can somebody help
(can somebody help)
Cause I need to know
Can somebody show
Chorus
Why should I keep keeping on
My time is creeping along
Mind won’t oblige
There were stars brighter than mine
Who gave up fighting it
Why shouldn’t I
Just let it die
Because
The darkest hour of the night came right before the dawn
The darkest hour of the night came right before the dawn
The darkest hour of the night came right before the dawn
Hold On
Hold On
Now and then I get so down
I feel so fortunate
To have you around
I need your love and your advice
When you say keep fighting it
Don’t let it die
Don’t let it die
Because
I don't deserve you, I don't deserve you
Where did you begin, lend me some of that innocence
I saw your soul shine, I found a gold mine
I don't deserve you, I don't deserve you
Let me if I tried, keep you safe and satisfied
Where do I begin, lend me some of that innocence
Ooo that innocence
You make my sun shine, no chance of rain
When the day goes grey, I'm not afraid
Let me if I try, keep you safe and satisfied
I want time
To stand still
You give my heart
Such a thrill
I work so hard
To keep you mine
So you know by now
My love is kind
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
Never want it to end
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
Never want it to end
I want time
To get going
When you’re ready for me
I get caught on the street
The pace is slowing
It’s like Murphy’s law
For some spoiled men
Get a taste of some
Want it all instead
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
Never want it to end
I never want it to end
Never want it to end
too much red wine
am i justifying
what it is i want
too much escape
not enough facing
what it is i need
in a song for a bedroom wall
i thought i could break your fall
with a song for a bedroom wall
yeah i thought i could break your fall
too much caffeine
now i gotta screen the calls
i spent too much time
lying in the same room
to figure out who i am
in a song for a bedroom wall
i thought i could break your fall
with a song for a bedroom wall
yeah i thought i could break your fall
everything seems so perfect
and calm
in a four-walled womb