Life: Here & Now II

Walking among the saguaro Late in the afternoon

When we were younger, lighter The days were longer, brighter We knew what we wanted to be and do Dr. Pepper was colder, sharper The nights were bolder, harder Than most things we'd ever been through But now I think I see How this was all meant to be Everything in my life is a stream carrying me to this end Sundays were for more than naps after loud shouts and the hand claps and those funny funeral parlor fans Summer days filed with books Summer nights exchanging looks and hoping we can just hold hands But now I think I see How this was all meant to be Everything in my life is a stream carrying me to this end... yeah, it all brought me to this momentous place where I'm finding you with your hands on my face You know I'm lovin it all like watching you get up and start a pot and I'll pour us a cup and we'll have a talk You know I'm loving it all I'm loving it all... When we were younger, lighter The days were longer, brighter

Left my truck out in the lot Left to find myself and what have I got? A luckless, truckless loser lookin for you Heard the poet making up a rhyme Heard him say I was a man out of time A late and lonely loser lookin for you But now I've found you I don't need what I had Now I've found you There's nothing quite as bad as looking over my shoulder and thinking 'bout all of that Put my guitar back in its case changed the strings, but a bit too late An out-of-tune loser lookin for you Put down the very best book Didn't give it another serious look An unhooked, unbooked loser lookin for you I don't need what I had Now I've found you There's nothing quite as bad as looking over my shoulder and thinking 'bout all of that This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

There's a light It's always bright I saw it last night In your eyes There's a kind of peace I find And I found it last night In your smile Don't say a word Just look at me Look down and hold right there Something I heard When you told me and the fan blew your hair There's a start here in my heart and it started last night with your smile. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Do what you want to Do just what you say Do what's best for you Do what's right for me Not going to hold you To some standard bearer's dream or even keep you within the bounds of a bounty hunter's scheme to save the world from crumbling by making one more arrest and capture those that are stumbling and falling like all the rest Do what you want to Do just what you say Do what's best for you Do what's right for me Not going to make you say every prayer you have ever prayed or shove aside some more beads as you approach this particular day there may not be a way out that keeps everyone satisfied not everyone seems to be happy that a seed first has to die Do what you want to Do just what you say Do what's best for you Do what's right for me what it all comes down to when we get to the very very end is that everything goes on without you it all happened before, and it will again so Do what you want to Do just what you say Do what's best for you Do what&#

I've got all my gadgets Everything is plugged in I've got every single thing that's Required to really win I've got a bunch of answers written down in one big list But until I found I had you I had no idea I had all of this I have love I have love I have love when I have you I have love I have love I have love when I have you I've got a plan for living A plan for dying too A pimped car with lots of bling was what that was leading to I've got a song I wrote down, a movie I watched last night The reel ends with a flipping sound And I have to get this right I have love I have love I have love when I have you I have love I have love I have love when I have you This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

"once you're gone, you can't ever come back" is all Neil had to say promised me rock and roll would never die but what's he know, anyway? burned out basements and silver ships flyin blurred visions in his head left by all that sugar mountain tryin stretched out on that big old bed Just because Neil said so Didn't make it real just because he told us We thought we'd feel just that way too.. didn't you? I saw the water rising in Cripple Creek, but not the way he did I jumped in; got myself all wet, But I didn't think it'd be like this We saw the Devil, and the damage done felt the spirit prick like a compass spinning in everyone and I'm glad it looks like this Just because Neil said so Didn't make it real just because he told us We thought we'd feel just that way too.. didn't you? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Gone down this road before, Once or twice at least... Already knocked on that door Done did kill the ugly beast But that's not keeping me from going after you Saw this picture a few years back on the big wide screen... Saw the director's cut on some Chinese bootleg DVD But that's not keeping me from knowing it's true A sudden realization That slowly comes around An instant flash of insight without a thunderous sound A restraint has been ordered By heart's short circuit judge Gives guided tours of the park, but he doesn't get out much. Been here and there; done all that Have half a dozen shirts Though the callous is deep and hard God, that really hurts But that's not keeping me from going after you I've forgotten again about déjà vu But here it is again Out of the shadows to remind me of where it's been But that's not keeping me from going after you A sudden realization That slowly comes around An instant flash of insight without a thunderous soun

just like a suffering fool he's trying to keep his cool sidestep the possibility of tears though there's never any doubt how this is gonna all turn out if he keeps on chasing his fears just like a suffering fool

deep in the shadow in the cleft of the rock I've hidden my trinkets there no one can find them and no one can see as for me, I don't care if they are stumbled upon escape or are searched out it matters not a whit to me though I know what they are and I have stowed them away I remain arrogantly naive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

let the warrior rage let the lovers weep again let the sovereign demand all while in the far corner the magician weaves a story of shock and awe dark drapes dragging shrouding the shadows as the loom is employed and lines from each life tucked and warped virgin wool and soiled weave magus weave the strands into one pattern that only you perceive and hang it here in the sovereign's hall for the lover and I to see This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Called him up, said "hey where'd you go? when you got up off that stool? were thinking we would never see? Did you think we're all just fools?" I knew then, By the silence on the line That I could duck what was next It was getting clear, even to me He's living in a different kind of complex Hey, sometimes you fall But you get back up When your friends call You don't tell 'em that stuff Don't expect me to believe That bull you're trying to sell There's nothing inside Or lurking out there That scares me enough to make me wanna hide I'm not going to leave When you're going through hell Hey, man, give me call... Waited a few hours to call him back But the phone just rang and rang. No voice mail, no way to leave the essence of what I had to say Hopped in the car just to see If the worst might have come true And he was on the floor crying And giving it all up to you Hey, sometimes you fall But you get back up When your friends call You don

Don't let it just happen Don't let it turn you around Don't let it tear you apart or let it get you down Don't give up so easily Don't ignore that fading sound Before you know it's true It's just a memory in your heart Too much livin Without a second thought Too little givin Except to get what I have got Too soon quittin Before the real startin starts Too many players And never enough parts And nothing left of you But this memory in my heart Though I seem alright You might look one more time And you'll see that inside Nothing is looking fine So if you can, Stop this train before it starts and leaves nothing for you But a memory in your heart Too much thinking Without any real thought Too much shopping With nothing valuable bought Too many endings And only one place to start And nothing left of you But this memory in my heart Though I seem alright You might look one more time And you'll see that inside Nothing is looking fine So if you can, Stop this

She said she loved the boy She said she'd always stay Right there in that small town Neatly tucked away He should have known right then Should have been able to tell That she would break his heart And it would hurt like hell They spent their long summers Down by the lake's shore Content to simply be there Dreaming 'bout more But she left one winter Didn't return in spring And he knew he'd lost her Spent days mourning He knew he'd always loved her, she had once loved him And on that day she'd left the boy became a man This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Listen here here's a story to be told Get it clear, Something you need to know I've been down, but never completely out Just waiting for a sign

some friends come by on sunny days to ask me out to play some friends wait till the lottery is at 22 and i have tickets in my hand some friends show up for dinner, or lunch on 2 for 1 Tuesdays Some are always there for breakfast Putting the pillows away