Oh California, if there's one thing I like to see
It's miles of asphalt boiling under the Sun
I'm rolling up my sleeves and I'll wait
For the Moon rise for any phase it's in
Pray I see no black dogs running
And ride all night till the early morning
Steer with the memories

Never underestimate the glory and the grace in the way you move
Moving through me so enthusing
I've never seen the likes of you in any other year I ever knew
Searching through me just to find you

And all I could ask for is a thousand moments
And all I could hope for is a th

Did you ever wander far from home?
Far from what is safe and comfortable?
Trading all your demons for the moon
And sleeping till the sun makes it all true

I don't know how long I've been gone
And I can't say when I'll get home
I'll keep my engine clean and strong
An

I see the fire through the trees
Hear the hollers through the breeze
Drowning out the season like there's none
Hold the blue steel in my hands
Moving my feet over land
While I'm thanking God I've got a gun
Nothing like a war at hand
To turn a boy into a man
Learni

They took him in arrest with a shot through his chest
And many more followed through
The men folk shook their heads and said we did what we had to do

While the women folk buried their heads in their hands and covered the children's eyes
Before that mob turned to see Mr. Watson'

How cold can a heart become
Before it crumbles or decides to stay numb
I know what it's like to feel cold
And I don't want to die alone

Cause I can't stand feeling nothing
I can't stand feeling old
I can't stand standing for nothing
When standing up is all I know

Pack up the truck and that old road
Headin straight up 395
There ain't nothing much like freedom and wind
To make a tired man feel quite alive

Oh and heaven's having your girl by your side
Oh and heaven's as close as taking a ride

Well Bishop has passed and I roll dow

He woke up one day and made his way down to the waterfront as he did all the days in his 44 years as long as the ships made in
He stands for a cause. He stands for a union from older days gone. A dying breed of workers who lived to carry on and die for the age that we're in.

In a cloud

Come dance with me or I'll explode
The reckless side is now shining through you
So shake your hair and do what you do
And I'll break my legs to keep up with you

Cause I don't like being alone
Unless I feel alone
Dancing with you is everything
I know that it can't be

Do you pray?
Do you fall
On your knees when everything goes wrong?
Go back to the word
In the good book you heard
That will save you a place somewhere.

Do you sing
From your soul
When you feel that calm before the storm?
Bleed out your throat
Or sound ju

Don't cry if you've never seen the rain
a thousand ways we come undone
and they're never quite the same
When the air we breath is golden brown
I don't seemly understand
We have built a common masquerade

Don't cry if you've never seen the rain
Go back to where your m

Don't cry if you've never seen the rain
a thousand ways we come undone
and they're never quite the same
When the air we breath is golden brown
I don't seemly understand
We have built a common masquerade

We are not down. So why dismount?
For the walk to the store is

Why do we never know
Questions come and answers go
Somewhere else besides our head
We wear the stripes until we're dead
And we only want to love
Spending time here and above
Hopelessly devoted of flesh and blood
Until we're done and done

Wake up now we've got to

A miner was leavin' her home for work
When she heard her little child scream
She went to the side of her little girl's bed
Oh mama I've had such a dream

Oh, Mama don't go to the mines today
For dreams have so often come true
Oh, mama, dear mama, please don't go away

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord,
I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
Feeling funny in my mind, Lord
I believe I'm fixing to die
Well, I don't mind dying
But I hate to leave my children crying
Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground
Look over yonder to th

Where are the ones who carry the guns to the far away lands with the blackened suns from the smokened narrow minds. The half-truth trails and the holy lies of an empty heart and overflowing mouth, a plastic smile and a cowards frown. Reprecussions come around when the word named free burns to th

Simple backbeats seem to soothe me.
If i could hold them i would let's say,
Take some rest as if not wicked.
And walk around enjoying silence.
A world away, elders gather.
Speak their tongue and hardly falter.
With words of bound, joy and grievance,
Simple songs, work

All aboard the river
A way for rain and soul
Unsure of destinations

We'll absorb oh every
Wind and current
In a bosom of a worthy expedition

Whether we are weak and weary
Whether we walk tall and brave
I'll be there for you, you'll be there for me
In the d

Hold tight Geraldine
I need to say what I mean
Time's gone by for so long and I've
Seen all the wrongs that I've done

Since we have yelled and
stomped our feet
after you took me in your arms

Cut from you near death you drew
the breath that made me one

An

Let water wash away, the shore of bleeding pain.
And erode to start anew, on foundations once consumed.

Glory [x4]

Pay homage with that pain.
And relish all the same.
In fire of warm array, in arms, voice and days of

Glory [x4]

Our days are numbered surely. (L