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The Lovell Avenue Song

I think I hear it
question mark, mysterians
Or maybe it’s sam the sham
Something cool from ‘FIL

I always got off
Farfisa and some fuzztone
Sir Douglas, Dave Clark Five
Pop was rock on radio

We were kids with crap guitars
Dreams of Jags, no, not the cars
Waiting for my Sloopy scream

In Rick’s garage, you can’t do that
Cuban heels and Beatles caps
Take our bow and Linda claps

Little Girl, nothing to hide
Nobody can’t do the shake
Surfin’, roddin’, Liverpool
Three chords and a middle eight

Pluggin in to dad’s hi-fi
Mr. Kay’s mike’s chord is frayed
A Heathkit amp that Rick’s dad made
A new tom tom on Christmas Day

CYO, Fair Acres, too
Turtles, Cyrkle, Blues Magoos
For Your Love, For What It’s Worth
A Battle of the bands we’d lose

Mom would yell to turn it down
But we’re the coolest band around
At least on Lovell Avenue

Dad would buzz our hair each week
The mop tops made us look like geeks
As we played Eight Days a Week

Sure, it’s 1965
As long as one of us survives
Won the girls and made ‘em cry
But making music still gets a rise

Time Won’t Let Me wait that long
Though 40 years sure makes me wrong
Check my pulse ‘cause is still pounds
To Beach Boy’s I Get Around

So, turn it up and play it right
Go All day and all of the night
Green River keeps on flowing

Just like some red rubber ball
The morning sun’s still shines on us all
So come on down to my boat, baby

It’s Kinda Creepy, Baby

It’s kinda creepy baby… that kill-look in your eyes
There’s nothing worse than love that’s gone, headed south-wise
Where you stayed is haunted…by the girl I knew
And she wanders looking for a life that’s through
She’s got the chains a rattlin’
She’s got the tortured heart
She’s got the pieces of a life that’s torn all apart
She doesn’t know what’s happenin’
Can’t tell day from night
But she’s scared of you, too,
Because you’re such a fright

It’s kinda creepy baby…the way we disappeared
Poof, the love is gone, mold grows where there once were tears
Swing the wrecking ball. Screams still shatter night
The air is much too thick to breath or to let in any light
I’ve got the silver bullets
I’ve got the wooden cross
I’ve got the bitter memories of the love we lost
There’s no more guilt
There’s only pain
And a hollow place inside where my heart once had been

It’s kinda creepy baby … that you can’t move on
At least I’ve exorcised my soul in the lyrics of this plaintive song
It’s kinda creepy baby…if you look ahead
Bitter ain’t no better than the ghost of a love that’s dead

Old Belle's Bop

We’re here to please somebody
And our work is just to be
Here to count what we got
And dance to Old Belle’s Bop

You adorned in riches
And you, who is swathed in shame
We are standing in our places,
The wealthy and the lame

Cry, cry me a puddle
A puddle in the sand
Then watch the sea wash over
That’s what becomes of man

Just dancing to Old Belle’s Bop

Once I had me religion
But I found the hand of man
Between me and my Lord
Taking tithings for His Word

So we’re here to please somebody
But beware who that body be
Not your, your priest, your master
Just your God who’ll set you free

Won’t dance to Old Belle’s Bop

This End

In the night, we creep closer to the edge
Of our 50 story ledge
In the day, we wear down our mortal souls
Tear it up, tear it down

And we say, it’s alright though we know
And we say, it’s alright though it hurts
We’ll never be what we once were

Say goodby, though it seems like yesterday
We’ve moved on today
Say goodby, like we gave a tinker’s damn
Wrapped around ourselves

And we say, it’s alright though we see
And we say, it’s alright in full retreat
We are not what we thought we’d be

Regrets only…neglect’s lonely
But that’s alright, that’s alright

So they rise, replacements for us as we go
Better luck, next time
Lessons learned, but maybe not and never will
After all, the path is worn

And we say, it’s alright but, no, it’s not
And we say, it’s alright but feel the shock
We never guessed this end we got

Prayer
WE Pierce

Hold your light
Walk on step stones
Don’t your ever fall down

Who you are
And who they know
Are you one the same?

(short lead)

In the daylight
In the dark night
Better know both sides

(bridge)
Is there something left to say?
Is there nothing more to hide?
Is there someone who should know?

Go your own way
Leave tomorrow
You will never look back

Never more cry
Never more lie
I’ve been praying now

Out of Sight

High from a newfound adventure,
Scared of my racing heart,
Thoroughly lost, I'm a new man with you tonight.
Scraping the clouds as you fly me,
A kite with a crazy tale,
Out of control and so sky-high,
That I'm out of sight.
You have the power to raise me,
Tied to the end of your string,
Wrapped around your little finger:
You pull, I swing.
The wind at your back, I sail onwards
So, girl, won't you hold on tight
Cause if you let go,
I fear I'd fly to Icarus' height.
Nothing is clear any longer,
Gravity's upside down,
The earth and its laws are suspended,
Now that you're around,
I'm so out of sight.

August Avarice

The earth wilted from the touch of summer's sticky fingers
As I measured every step by the blisters in boiling tarmac
Though my mind summoned the memory of a spring breeze
My heart knew it was long ago lost to the courage that I lack

Suddenly, a draft of cool air and the sound of rushing water
My soul was filled with the redemptive life force
I stood awhile studying the scene's remarkability
But self-indulgence led me to yearn for full intercourse

I stepped into the river, whose cloak enveloped body and soul
In the sure current, I swirled, twirled, spun and reeled
Til I exploded in elation and locked the pleasure away
Resting upon the shore, I thanked God my soul was healed

On the road with miles to go, pleasure recalled over and over
I looked back and thought I could snatch one more chance to be free
Hell, yes, I ran for one more ride, one more stolen moment
But I lost my way, what I had is gone, and worse, the memory haunts me.

August avarice -- one last chance to find a real romance.
August avarice -- this life ain't long and I won't wait till my Fall.
August avarice -- Life's been good, unkind and in between.
August avarice -- gonna take a chance and find out what you mean to me.

Ordinary Man

There's a man who would give his right hand to be free, but he knows he must give his life. So he works all day long filled with hate and spite, then goes home and takes it out on his wife.

Ordinary man, ordinary man, ordinary man, he tries. Ordinary man, ordinary man, ordinary man, he lies

Sweating bullets if he's late, getting hard for a thrill from good to bad to the grave.
Has some kids who he raises to be like him, and they'll live, but they hardly are saved.
God will help you when you're gone until then say your prayers. Treat the world with love and joy and hide the grief that you bear. Hide the grief that you bear.

In a future generation many will live in peace of the world of the mind, of the soul . But no ordinary man will see the day. It will come from the ground where he toiled

Ordinary man, ordinary man, ordinary man, he cries. Ordinary man, ordinary man, ordinary man just dies.

Someone I Used to Love

In an age of ignorant youth, emotions, lust and trust,

I indulged In a time before season, reason, skepticism
I found all I wanted, all I needed and I stole it

She found all she wanted, all she needed and she gave it

By the day, we saw the sky was blue, the earth was green. By night's light, we felt our way to ecstasy and ran away

She was someone that I knew, someone I grew with someone I used to love

Life is ironic change. Life is the bubonic plague
But we all learn how to dance, don't we?

Twenty years and the river's long gone dry
There's not a green field, a warm sun, a dry eye
In a hundred years, in a thousand lives, there's no reason

Just a host of helpless, long lost souls.

Stamen and Pistil

The masks, the roles…worn so long I can’t remember who I am. But I know we started out the same

Stamen and pistil
The two sides of one man
The ying and yang,
Me and my reflection
I know why it feels all wrong

Distaff or malice or both
But I know we started out the same

Stamen and pistil The two sides of the femme
Give and receive

Me and my reflection
I’ll strip myself down, every pore
Open to receive, to accept cause I know we started out the same

Stamen and pistil
The two sides of creativity
Written and sung
Me and you, you and me

She's All Mine

A cool wind came in from Canada and blew the clouds away. The heat and haze have cleared out like my mind.

And the girl I love arrives today. She says she's right on time. I've a smile a mile wide 'cause she's so fine...'cause she's all mine.

Awake can be a nightmare, yet a dream can make you feel. That this moment lasts forever if you pray.

Well, she came to me in a dream and she made my cold life real, spinning magic, giving hope that love was mine.

And she showed me my life, showed me my strife could change. If I found my self-worth, took what I deserved, what's mine.

I am sure this baggage gets you down sometimes,
B ut we must fight the urge to give up our own happiness just to make things nice.

There's a price so don't wait til the afterlife.

Don't think I can give her back all that she's done for me.

But I'll try to show her my love's string in kind.
When we're back together, nothing's gonna tear us apart. She's my sunny day, my easy nights and she's all mine.

Living Dead

The night's upon you and the wind sends a tingle chill. The moon is hiding and the fear creeps up 'gainst your will
The man you knew is someone else instead Your love is living dead

The eyes are strange and the stare is something quite unknown though he lies beside you as a ghost and you are all alone

The love that flowed has dried, your heart's unfed
It's love that's living dead

Lock you doors, your windows and heart up, too
His words sound familiar, but his voice now rings untrue. It's over, but he's still haunting you

I am nothing but the hollow version of myself
Leave the past where it belongs, behind, there is no where else

Remember "Never more", the raven said Our love is living dead.

Cupid's Painted Blind

The course of true love never did run smooth.
My needle rakes the record in search of a groove.

The woman's love was fleeting, I could not hold on. Thrown from a bucking bronco who so soon was gone.

Now I'm looking to the left. And I'm looking to the right. Despair won't get me down. Nor the darkness of the night. Cupid's painted blind.

Suns burn out and planets die, are we through?
Chaos reigns, no love remains, so bid adieu

Breakfast bars with caviar, it now makes sense
Since we're no more, I'm naked without pretense

So, I'm looking to the sky. And I'm looking underground. And I'll never be fed up though your leaving's got me down
Cupid's painted blind

Hey, love is real and love's a lie. So, count me in.
Hey, love is binding, love's secure. Love ends and begins

Everlasting love? Maybe from Spring til Fall. We all just hope for nothing til we hit a wall. Then, we cry in pain until the spark is back. Love lives forever cause it's common sense we lack

Now I'm looking out in front. And I'm checking out behind broken wings won't keep me down. And I'll never touch the ground
Cupid's painted blind.

Deceived

Well I told you a story about the edge of night
When ghosts from the past come to give us a fright
And they say "don't repeat our mistakes". And they scream out their fears and they moan and they shake

But I seek out reflections of the sun in the dark
And I know there is love in the darkest heart
Cause the fear is overcome. By the knowledge that there is a morning sun

And the mirror shows the image of someone we know and believe
Yet, the truth is there to be seen, and we're still deceived

Trip with no fall, flap wings without flight. You say that you can't, but I think that I might. Look at the rain with new eyes. And the flowers bloom and a baby cries

And the bell tolls for departed who once achieved. And the truth is there to be seen, yet we're still deceived

Hold me when you're lonely; love's transmission received. Someone to keep us sane when we've been deceived

For the plane, it does fall in controlled descent, but we wonder where the day just went. Cause it's over before we've just begun,
and we've arrived before knowing where we came from.

When ghosts from the past come to give us a fright
And they say "don't repeat our mistakes". And they scream out their fears and they moan and they shake
We're still deceived.

Untrue

Blew the hell out of Camelot. Broke the bond of God: I’d do it again before lying to you
In the rubble and dust, we’re dazed, but still alive
And we wonder and wander. We live. We survive.

The universe is bleak, but the sparks still fly. The soul is black, but yearns to be clean. When love’s untrue. When love’s untrue

Rake the coals, look for clues and spill tears on parched earth. Find the shards of our lives and the ghosts of the past. Are there lessons to learn, Is there hope for today.
Carry on a new song, maybe something secure

The man you love is just the crippled kind:
Just walk away while time’s on your side
When love’s untrue. When life’s untrue.

Wringing the tears of a life soaked through. Where’s happiness when love’s untrue? There’s a spirit of sunrise that’s deep inside our souls. There’s a spirit of night that leaves questions of doubt, and it’s left to the heart to weather the raging storm
And it’s all in my head. Will I understand why?

In time, God reveals and the pain starts to heal
Don’t be afraid, we’ll get better every day. The world’s untrue. The world’s untrue.

When I Looked Up

When I looked up, I saw the sky cracked open
In seeped the sun, pouring light upon us and, then I knew that it's be okay

Seems that, sometimes, gray clouds overhwlm us
And we forget that there's blue behind them and that the sadness goes away with the gray

Little boys kiss pretty girls, turn red and run away
Party dresses, like rainbows, appear as they may, as they may

When I looked up, I saw your sweet smile and then I knew, we'd walk many a mile and never look back on the pain, free again

And when you saw that I loved you, too. You held me so tight that your heart beat through and now I know that I'll never let you go and so we thought so

Flowers blossom with the sun because the rain came down. I'll be happy ever more as long as you're around. You're around

In Its Place

And I sweep up all that's fallen in both time and space because nothing is in its place.

You told me: careful, there's a way of doing things. So when I tested your resolve I found all the hidden stings. Yeah, love is a hurtin' thing

There is no two ways. There's no gray. There's no venial sin. There's only your way or the highway, thus my masked grin. I just kept myself within

And I stole a moment, stole an hour, stole a whole new life. And I told myself there is no way out, after all, she's your wife. And everything's in its place

Life's a wasteland of nuclear fallout here. Blown to pieces are the little things you once held dear. Yeah, it's oh so clear

And, it's written in the lines all across your face
The air is thick with decay, and I know it's only me. Another lost soul in history

And I tried to think, tried to guess, tried to rationalize. But all I heard and all I knew were your angry eyes cause everything's in its place

I know you were locked away yourself burdened by the weight a dated mind.
But I must admit I was only thinking of myself. Your problems weren't something for which I had time

Life's a wasteland of nuclear fallout here
Blown to pieces are the little things that you once held dear. Yeah, it's oh so clear

And, it's written in the lines all across your face
The air is thick with decay, and I know it's only me: another lost soul in history

And you carry on, pray to God, must to see his face
And I sweep up all that's fallen in both time and space cause nothing is in its place.

One Moment

Remember the look across the lobby?
The corner-of-your-eye, sideswipe glance?
Did he? Did she? No, it couldn’t be!
But, it was…the thrill of that one moment!

A second when all that wasn’t, could be.
In the fractionation, all that could be became real
An instant when all I ever felt before, felt empty
All in the thrill of just one moment!

You saw a knight; I saw myself in your eyes
I liked it, I loved it, I needed it more and more
You fed my ego; I fed you sweet nothings
Just to relive the thrill of that one moment!

You thrived on words; but I starved, a glutton…
For the moment, gone; for the image, distorted
Too-soon leaving you behind to indict my dichotomy
While I was, am still, just bloodhound-crazed for the thrill

No apologies, given or received, for who we are
You had a strength and I had a weakness
They were both our charms and our undoing
But I will never forget the thrill of that one moment

Get Outta Dodge.

Get Outta Dodge. Don't you come near. Don't give me your thoughts on the reason we're here, oh no.

I gave you my all. My mind's worn out. You gave me back nothing and now there's no doubt, we're through.

I don't want to try again, for sure. I won't give the time of day…don't want you in my way, no more.

Get outta Dodge. You shot me down. You watched me bleeding all over this town, oh yeah.

Now I am gone. And, you're asking why? You don't remember when you bled me dry? You've got gall to think I'd even try.
The day I take you back, the sun will turn to black and pigs will fly.

Tell me, baby. Whatcha gonna do? Now that I won't beg to make love to you. Who will bother to meet you on their knees?
What will you do when the next one leaves? Who will you blame if you never came again?

I won't get down. I will land with my feet on the ground. Next time, it's love you've landed don't take it all for granted.

Get outta Dodge. Midnight, you're through.
There's no room in this town for someone like you, clear out.

Get outta Dodge. Answer the call. Don't want you 'round here on the day that you fall, get out.
The noon day sun fires up my mind. I'm gonna take my time, find someone with love that's blind

I know I can't turn back, I need the love you lack.
You're a bad memory. I thank God that I'm free of you.

When Philip Died

I knew it by his voice before the words arrived.
My father squeezed them out through clenched teeth:
"Philip died last night, boys..."

Right away, the fight for calm began.
Not a breath, Not a motion.
Just a tear or two falling to the floor.

And, with a high, unsteady voice
That betrayed his strength, he said:
"We're gonna have to be strong.
I'm counting on you,
To help your mother get through."

Not a word. Not a sound. No eyes to meet.
As always, we take the pain in silence.

"Let's get dressed and start cleaning up."
There should have been more.
He wanted to say more.
But he never did.