TRUE BELIEVER
Greg Joseph music Scott Blasey lyrics
She stepped in the light
Opening night
And delivered her lines
Life is nothing she sighed
Nothing without
The fire inside
She lives alone
And cries when she paints
Self-portraits seldom seen
She swore she loved me and I believed her
Then she lowered her eyes
There’s a real thin line between actor and deceiver
She knew how to play the true believer
On the edge of the night
She studied her lines
For the very last time
Life is nothing she cried
Nothing without
Someone by your side
She lived alone
And died on the stages
Of her broken dreams
She swore she loved me and I believed her
And then I saw that look in her eyes
There’s a fine black thread between deceived and deceiver
She once played the true believer
INSIDE
Scott Blasey
I don’t want to talk about the world today
Wars and revolutionaries fade away
I just want to know what kind of state you’re in
Did you kill your love did you lose your friend?
The middle of the nighttime what gets you through?
What pulls you back to daylight from the deep dark blue?
So tell me if your life has been a lonely ride
Did you take it on faith just to be denied?
Even if your broken heart’s a hundred miles wide
I just want to see what’s on the inside
I don’t want to read it in the news today
The ringing of a cell phone from a shallow grave
I just want to know how far and deep you’re in
Where’d you hide the bottle what’d you put it in?
The middle of the nighttime what gets you through?
What pulls you back to daylight from the deep dark blue?
So tell me if your life has been a lonely ride
Did you take it on faith just to be denied?
And even if your broken heart’s a hundred miles wide
I just want to see what’s on the inside
I guess we won’t be talkin’ ’bout the past today
Fingerprints and memories they fade away
I think I can tell what kind of place you’re in
Underneath the bruises and the dirty skin
The middle of the nighttime what gets you through?
What pulls you back to daylight from the deep dark blue
So tell me if your life has been a lonely ride
Did you take it on faith just to be denied?
And even if your broken heart’s a hundred miles wide
I just want to see what’s on the inside
TRAMPOLINE
Greg Joseph
It was never your face on the pictures I never had
There was never your place or mine, words I never said
Did he leave you hanging?
Did you make a real big scene?
I was never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
It was never your name on the postcards I never send
It was never our lives in a song that I never penned
Did you say I’ll show him
Who gets caught in between?
I was never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
Never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
You never place a call to a number you never had
There’ll never be a time we can say split it all in half
Did he bring you down?
Did he make you scream?
I was never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
Never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
Oh, I’m never your lover and I’m not your trampoline
MIDNIGHT ROSE
Scott Blasey
They park the old coal cars on the inside track
Leave them there for awhile
And in the spring coriander grows
I walk the railroad ties to a secret place
Wait it out by the fire
And in the moonlit sky she glows
She’s pulling into town
But she’s leaving soon heading into the night
Whistle blows everybody knows
She’s on the move again
She’s climbing high I think I’m gonna try
To catch a ride on the Midnight Rose
They junk the rusting cars in the salvage yard
Leave them there for awhile
And in the summer the river slows
I drive the old dirt road to a secret place
Sleep it off through the night
But in the morning the blood still shows
They put the broken men on the edge of town
Leave them there for awhile
And in the winter a cold wind blows
I dig the last few feet the secret place
Leaving here tonight
And in the morning they’ll all know
She’s pulling into town
But she’s leaving soon heading into the night
Whistle blows everybody knows
She’s on the move again
She’s climbing high I think I’m gonna try
To catch a ride on the Midnight Rose
Catch a ride on the Midnight Rose
SOUL AND SKIN
Greg Joseph
I just read your letter
That bled from your pen
Lest I forget I’ve been let go
I’m a long gone player
In this theatre of the absurd
We sang the score and kept the sour notes
It was a kick in the shins
To drag me through it again
You ripped a fault line into my soul and skin
If you get this message
I figured it out
You locked the door but won’t let it close
Just tossed your letter
In a ball on the floor
Next to the pissed in cat box on the dirty oak
It was a kick in the shins
To drag me through it again
You ripped a fault line into my soul and skin
It was a kick in the shins
To drag me through it again
You twist heel in the ground
To push me further down
You ripped a fault line into my soul and skin
SUNSHINE
Scott Blasey
I stand on a bridge on the west side of town
I watch them put up and I watch them knock down
The river below is frozen in time
Nothing left of the five and the dime
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine
Sit in a bar north end of the street
I get around on my bike and my feet
Grey sky above is frozen in time
Nothing left of the reason or rhyme
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine
I’m carrying time right out the door
Walked out on love gave up on the store
Guess I had a good life wish I’d known at the time
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine
I wake up alone I wake up the same
A little regret and some debt in my name
Pictures of you frozen in time
Nothing left of the love that was mine
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine
I’m carrying time right out the door
Walked out on love gave up on the store
Guess I had a good life wish I’d known at the time
I couldn’t see it I was in the sunshine
COME ‘ROUND HERE
Greg Joseph
Sherrie don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Sherrie don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Hooked up with a bad man at a good time
Said she ran into a door
Left her by a thread on a life line
And that’s the reason why she don’t come ‘round here no more
Huey don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Huey don’t come ‘round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Heard he had a drink with some old friends
Turned into three then four
Kept on going straight around ‘round that old bend
That’s the reason why he don’t come ‘round here no more
It’s just a mix up it’s not your time
Do you want a second try?
It’s just prediction then fate collides
Not sure if I’m surprised
John don’t come round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
John he don’t come round here, don’t come ‘round here no more
Checked in a casino with a girlfriend
Did a line then did some more
Thought his heart could keep up like a young man
That’s the reason why he don’t come ‘round here no more
RESTLESS DAYS
Scott Blasey
Sin and salvation walk hand in hand
Right past the jury to the promised land
And I’ve been in prison baby most of my days
Must be these reckless ways
God and creation roll side by side
They wave to the jury and the gates open wide
And I’ve been hard and ancient like dinosaur bones
Hiding under these stones
Restless days
Feel like I’m falling away
Restless nights
When you’re holding me tight
Restless world
I thank God for my girl
Restless days
My salvation runs hot and cold
I plead to the jury I know I borrowed I know I stole
And I’ve been trying your honor in so many ways
Must be these restless
I guess it’s these restless
I know it’s these restless days
Restless days
THE CLOWNS
Greg Joseph
There’s a rusting religion with a broken converter
Parse the good book’s words justifying hate and murder
In a government lockbox everything gets lost
Like old grease on a sprocket
We sent Jack up the Hill to fix it all
He tumbled down with gold lined pockets
It’s going down right now
What do we do now?
Send in the clowns, the clowns
Run into the ground
When you send in the clowns
Winner at all cost on a soapbox
He spoke in doubletalk and riddles
Sounds so good I was in a spell
But while the town was burning he played the fiddle
I had a dream that I would come back
And what was stolen by the state had been replaced
And we’d replant love where there was loss
Then send the grifters a coup de grace
It’s going down right now
What do we do now?
Send in the clowns, the clowns
Run into the ground
When you send in the clowns
THE RUNAWAY
Greg Joseph
She swore by the deep long lines on her face cut like a badge of life
Worn by tracks and trials and alone somehow that didn’t seem right
Somehow that didn’t seem right
She lived for…
Sins of a better day
Girl you’re a runaway
Rode hard torn and frayed
When you’re a runaway
Stood for something and I stood too long I don’t know when to quit
Got a conscience on hold and the road reels me in I don’t know where I fit
I don’t know where I fit
She dreamed of
Sins of a better day
Girl you’re a runaway
Rode hard torn and frayed
When you’re a runaway
Face full of wind her mysteries survive I want to ride that wave
It keeps me running it keeps me high last words I heard her say
She drown in
Sins of a better day
Girl you’re a runaway
Rode hard torn and frayed
When you’re a runaway
IN BETWEEN
Greg Joseph
Turns out everything is ok
But that’s not the way it’s always been
Time was everything bad outside
Was all in my head
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Time was I used to stare at my feet
Counting up cracks getting up the nerve
I’m gonna whip this mess color over the lines
Spit off a bridge then kick up some dirt
I want to thank you for being ‘round
To scare away what brings me down
I want to feel your cool serenade
And if the clouds form again will you stay?
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Turns out everything is alright
‘cause I see more than what’s inside me
When curses freeze my soul I keep in mind
Most of what’s real is what you believe
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Here comes the night here comes the rain
And if the clouds form again will you stay
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Robert Thiele George David Weiss
I see trees of green, red roses, too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I say to myself what wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
Bright sunny days dark sacred nights
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow are so pretty in the skies
Are also on the faces of people walking by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do?
They're really saying I love you
I see babies cry I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself what a wonderful world
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