Velvet Shoreline / Cal IV / Grand Ridge Shuffle Music
DOC:
September 11, 2007
PRO:
ASCAP
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
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
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
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
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
Velvet Shoreline / Cal IV / Jeremy Lister Music / Warner Chappell
DOC:
7/24/06
PRO:
ASCAP
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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