Hoosegow: Mighty

Mighty

Mighty like a fist in a hand
means good company
means bad times are calling on you
before the day is through

Mighty like a chain in motion
swinging like theres no tomorrow
bringing up a mouthful of sorrow
from which you cant beg steal or borrow

Mighty like a gift Gods giving
coming at you steady and strong
losing ground but not my religion
taking aim with a nice strong arm

CHORUS:
Mighty, mighty
Mighty, mighty

Mighty like thunder and water
heavy like bright sunlight
Im so twisted I stop and falter
straightaway I got to look no further

Dead or Alive

Dead and dying
Lying in the road
Sick and tired/trying
They done owed/what they sowed
Bodies upon bodies
Swaying to and fro
Make believe that theyre alive
Shake them down and tell them so
Does it matter?

Hardly breathing
Heaving happiness
Hapless living/giving
Less than nothing at best
Having heartache
Holding hope so high
Slipping through your fingers/filthy
Crushing down your soul/so pithy

CHORUS
Doesnt matter
If they sprout wings
And fly into the ground
Dead or alive
They come and go
And hardly make a sound

Alive and kicking
And feeling misery
Wandering through your years in tears
It tears you at the seams
Seems like living
Aint got no life at all
Cause you dead and dying
Your grave aint gonna stall

Trouble

Trouble/Everyday it hunts me down
Seems to be/no way to shake this on away from me
And I see/Trouble running things
I see bad times/and all the wrong it brings

Trouble is a thing/Ive had plenty of
Trouble is a man/I know I hate to love and leave
Trouble has wings/and prayers made of stone
That it piles up on my table/cant leave well enough alone
Cant leave well enough alone

CHORUS
Trouble, trouble, trouble

Trouble/everywhere I go
Trouble/always seems to know when Im low
Its lowdown and always down on me
Got to get away from trouble fore it gets on into me

Junky Heaven

Gone, gone, gone/its gone
So go get some more
Gone, gone/you done gone on out the door
And the daylight hits you
Like its always done before
Gone, gone/into you
And brought you back to life
Gone, gone/into your bones
Make you wreak and wreck and fall

CHORUS
When you havent anymore, your body
feels your wasted years
When you get some, you go slam dance with Jesus
When you run out, it whips you good and plenty
When youre with me, its forgotten
Forgotten

Carry heaviness
It makes you weary for tenderness
Cant you feel it/ticking like a bomb
And stringing you along?
All strung out and wasted on the way
On the way/to the next sensation
the next darkening day

And all of the darkness comes out of your insides like goo
And all the sunshine in the world cant seem to find you
And all your blood is tainted and almost all your life is wasted
And all you do is sit and sigh and wait to die

You Never Can Tell

Its running on empty/and full of gas
Its skipping a beat/how long will that last?
Its hollering “Maybe, maybe”/But say it aint so
Its lying cause it knows better
How many miles to go until
You get enough strokes in/And perfect your backhand
You turn the rules your way/Til its lies on demand
And then the curtain rises/Your candor hypnotizes
And no realizes/you and your demise is

CHORUS
Six feet under/and doomed to hell
So have your fun in the sun
You may as well
You love each other so
Its a beautiful thrill
It just might last forever
You never can tell

Its stretched open wide
And arent you glad?
Theres room for all of you/The best times yall had
It makes me laugh and cry/So many friends have I
Cant stop to question why
Only to do or die

CHORUS
...beautiful, beautiful, beautiful so beautiful
Beautiful.

Later

Someday Ill get it right
Ill land on my feet again
Someday money wont be so tight
Someday Ill have time but I dont know when Ill find it

Someday Ill get there from here
And Ill be moving slow
Someday Ill turn around and Ill steer clear
Cause someday Ill know which way to go

CHORUS
Im waiting for someday
Im waiting for someday to happen

Someday Ill get it done
Ill land on my feet again and again and again
Someday Ill get me one
Someday Ill have time but I dont know
when or where Ill find it

Someday Ill get there from here
And Ill be moving slow
Someday Ill turn right way around and steer
Someday Ill know just where to go

Is It Any Wonder?

Moneymakers, fakers/holding hands
Sweethearts of rythym/kiss each other on command
Must be a filthy feeling
coming over like darkness, stealing
All your nerves shot/your nerves are shot

Honeydrippers/trip into a life sublime
Fall into debt and out of love and off the line
Wonder where you went wrong
Wonder what you did right
Wonder if youll ever
If youll ever, ever

CHORUS
Is it any wonder/the weight youre living under
Is it any wonder/it dont pull you asunder

Daytrippers/drip along lifes narrow way
Cant smell the roses/or the coffee so they say
Sleeping heavy/traveling light
Living large enough to know better

Wonder where you went wrong
Wonder what you did right
Wonder if youll ever
If youll ever, ever

Over My Shoulder

Easy/easy tide
Pulls me/all the way
All the way outside myself
The help I need/is what I see
When I look over my shoulder
And youre looking back at me
Looking back at me

Hard/hard living
Pushing/all the way through me
Makes me stronger, stronger, stronger
For what I have to do

CHORUS:
Living this life/ so carefully
Cant turn around/somethings gaining on me

Slow/slow it goes
Today is tomorrow
Coming and going/which way/who knows
Whatever the law allows
Is whatever Im having
Youll swear Im satisfied
But youre only backstabbing

CHORUS:
Living this life/ so carefully
Cant turn around/somethings gaining on me

Intuition

I heard you thinking out loud last night
Sounded like a mistake youre making
I heard you thinking out loud last night
Come sunrise/youll sleep and dream of me
Youll sleep in a sweet dirtbed
Unsatisfied

I heard you thinking out loud last night
Sounded like a big chance youre taking
A mighty mighty big chance
Come sunrise/youll sleep
And dream of what could have been
Youll sleep in a sweet dirtbed
Unsatisfied

Eyes closed/in a dark reverie/seems to me
I heard you thinking out loud last night
Tonight, tonight
Sounds like trouble is waiting/waiting on you
To put up some kinda fight
Someday a sunrise/is gonna catch you
Thinking out loud
In a sweet dirtbed
Unsatisfied

Blues & Grass

You Lied

You got your problems
They avalanche me
You got your positions
They circumstance me
You got your confusion
They try to romance me
You give me contusions
and pithy illusions to try to entrance me

I got my wits
and yes, Ive got my pride
I got this feeling
deep deep down inside
I got to let go
and Ive got to leave
before I get a good look at the next thing
thats up your sleeve

CHORUS:
You know that you lied
You know I was right
I was wrong about you
The truth is, you knew that, too
Its high time you realize
You know that you lied

Its too bad
the way things got waylaid
The world turned on the plans we never made
But I stayed
and thats on me
that debt is paid, paid, paid

what you dont know
is that theres something you owe
no matter how far you run or where you choose to go
now that Im free/I cant believe
before I get a good look at the next thing
thats up your sleeve

CHORUS/OUT

Im Goin

Im goin (3x)
Goin on to see
Im goin (3x)
To see what my end will be
Im goin (3x)
You cant follow after me

CHORUS
Im on my way
My soul is satisfied cause Im in the light of day
Im on my way
I cannot be denied no matter what you say

Sunnyland

Someday/someday/somehow/someway
Im going to Sunnyland (3x)

Sunnyland
Is where I belong
Sunnyland
Is what makes me strong
Sunnyland
Aint it grand?
This place dont know me
Im going to Sunnyland
Someday/someday/somehow/someway
Im going to Sunnyland (3x)

Sunnyland
My people wait for me
Sunnyland
Thats when Ill be truly free
Sunnyland Ill take my stand
No, I wont do what you tell me
Im meant for Sunnyland

Someday/someday/somehow/someway
Im going to Sunnyland (3x)

Sunnyland
My soul is in the sky
Sunnyland
Hes there and so am I
Sunnyland
Take my hand
Sweet dirt wont hold me
Im bound for Sunnyland

Sunnyland
Take my hand
Sweet dirt cant hold me
Im in Sunnyland

Talkin' Fishbowl Blues

Promise Me

Could you promise me a little more time
To turn the clock back in my mind
Til the spring collapses and you are mine
And the world disappears
and everythings fine

The pretty flowers sing to me
They grow inside me carefully
You put them there so I could see
Everything you promised me

CHORUS:
Until your voice stops ringing/in my head
Until I stop feeling close to you/for whats unsaid
Until theres no more reasons
to remember somethning youd say
Until theres no more yesterdays
Thats when youll go away

BRIDGE:
Until/Until
Until I see you again
Until/Until
Until that great getting up morning again

Could you promise me another way
To see you again without delay
I fall asleep to get to you right away
But could you promise me another way

Shine

All I want to do is shine for You
And live my life underneath Your sun
You know that my heart is true
But there are moments when I come undone

I tend to fall down under the weight
When they ride on my mistakes
They can say what they will
They can do what they may

CHORUS:
But I'm gonna shine/shine
Shine all the time
I shine because You are mine

Sometimes I don't know what I'm gonna do
And I don't know what I'm gonna say
But You love me and I love You, too
So it doesn't matter anyway

When I fall down in Your arms
I don't care who's right or wrong
When I'm with You I know that's where I belong

BRIDGE:
Since I don't know when
It's always been You and me
I guess that means that we're just meant to be
Just You and me

Talkin Fishbowl Blues

I left my fishbowl in the hands of so-called friends
And when I returned, I found all of my goldfish drowned
New York City stress level dont turn me into
what I hate the most

I been running around I been chasing the sky
Ducking the clouds trying to stay dry
I been laughing at fate trying to stay awake
Trying to get some sleep on a sleepless street

Oh, my loveless landlord says that all my neighbors complain
And the walls of ears have been hearing it all for years
New York City mind your business
Next time I will smash your stereo

Im a blooming weed from an ugly seed
Sprung out of the mouth of a careless freak
Im the sensitive kind, need my peace of mind
And my real estate is blown sky high

After forty hours you can barely keep your wit
Its a party town but the wake up times aint it
New York City money magnet
Send your sacred cash cow to the slaughterhouse

I been out in the world I been up in the sky
I was riding on clouds just to keep alive
And youre laughing at me trying to stay awake
Do you get some sleep on a sleepless street

Tasters Choice

We used to turn on a dime
And then youd turn on
And then youd fall into me
I used to hold you in my arms
And wish that we were meant to be

You used to dance with me slow
in the kitchen with your wake-up
When you knew I had to go
You had to turn on turn on turn on/to live

Do you remember when wed sleep the time away
Wed talk all night and then youd say
We could sit and talk forever
and never see the light of day
I used to wonder if you would ever find a way

CHORUS:
Not to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live

We were going nowhere
and we were happy when we got there
Because we both really wanted to stay
But when I finally wanted to get somewhere
and you could not be moved
I knew Id have to be the one to walk away

You looked so happy to see me
I could hardly tell
Youd been gone so long
and been through so much hell
And you said you could feel things
you never thought youd say
But there are moments when
you turn and taste again

CHORUS:
You have to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live

Love

Loves a funny thing/that can make you feel so high
Loves an awakening/that can make you live or die
Love can make you sing the saddest goodbye
Why Ill never know but I know you know its so

Love, love me do/but dont make me wait too long
You might miss the moment that could last
our whole life long
Love disappears/and you dont know whats wrong
Why, you never say does it have to be this way

CHORUS
Oh, love goes and love comes again
Love finds a way/you never know when
When love passes by/Say hey love
Love, love, love

Love will live between us/until our dying day
Real love never dies/no matter what we say
No matter what you think/your heart wants you to stay
Why does what I say make you want to run away?

Love can really break you until you start to bend
When it finally shakes you/you never really mend
Shows you what youre made of/until you depend
On love to make you over until the very end

So Real

Im gonna get a gun to kill my pride
Tell my fears to step aside
Let my anger take a backseat to what I really feel
Because my love for you is so real

Im gonna sink the past into a sea of regret
Watch it drown in the waves of a reverie
Im gonna hold on to all the good things I remember best
Because my love for you is so real

CHORUS:
Its real/Its real
My love for you is so real
Some day later on/when all the hurt is all gone
Youll know my love for you is so real

BRIDGE
Tomorrow is another day
Thats always on its way
Back to me/back to you/back to love

I know that someday youll try to say
All the things I cant conceal
Theyll be buried alive
In the blues youll sing
Because my love for you is so real

New York City
I danced with a day-job demon
so pleased to see me
Then I jumped through hoops and rings
Just trying to do the right thing
I couldnt see it for the hell it was
when I got here and thats because
My heart was open and my eyes were closed
o the stench coming down the road

Sleep-walking sister slinging
salutations in a blue hue singing
Whacha gonna do/if its

CHORUS:
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Whacha gonna do

Maybe the deal went down/the day before yesterday
Maybe itll all fall over/no matter what I do or say
Maybe if I last a little longer/therell be hell to pay
Maybe if this dont break me/I need to be on my way

Sweet swinging sounds of suffering
And Im suffocating as Im slipping and sliding
Whacha gonna do/if its

CHORUS:
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Whacha gonna do

SOLO

Sleep-walking sister slinging
salutations in a blue hue singing
Whacha gonna do/if its

Leave Me Alone

You say you wanna stay/wait and see what happens
Countin' on fate to fix all our problems
Whatever's wrong will disappear like magic
In a pink cloud of happiness
But I won't live in a fantasyland
Where everything is fine 'cause you ain't got a plan
You should have done way more than try to understand

CHORUS
Leave me alone/leave me alone
why you messin' with me?
Leave me alone/leave me alone
go on, Im setting you free
Leave me alone/leave me alone
we weren't meant to be
Leave me alone

I ain't got the time to sacrifice myself
To your heap of problems and your nonsense
Whatever's right disappeared like magic
In a black cloud of funkiness
What we had could only stop and start
'Cause when things went wrong it wasnt ever your fault
You couldnt recognize and do way more than
talk and grandstand

BRIDGE:
Understand/my love life is not a rinse cycle
This back and forth has caused a big wrinkle I can't ignore
I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Put a flounder on a tricycle and watch her go
Go head and leave me alone

Get It Right This Time

I thought about what we were
And all of what we thought we had
I thought about the things we did
The way we hung on til it all went bad
I thought about the ties that bind us
How they tried to rip right through us
Nothing was enough to kill
This feeling in my heart/breaking

I think about the friends we lost
And found and lost again
I think Im glad I never
Gave way and fell off the deep end
I think Im happy knowing
Time aint showing on me
But what I got to give
Lives in me forever
And keeps me free

CHORUS: Time wont hold up for you
Better try to keep up before you get left behind
Time wont slow up for you
Better not wait and see
Do what you gotta do to get it right this time

The Way of the World

Its the longest line that runs between what was and what could be
Its the longest road that takes me back to things I couldnt see
Its the longest time to wait til Im the one who wont believe
That the happiness I left behind is right in front of me

CHORUS:
Thats the way of the world

Its the shortest way to get to where I once belonged and knew
That the shortest time would pass me by til all my dreaming grew
Seems the whole world changed and so did I/had nothing left to lose
Feel the ground thats shaking as the wheels are turning
Im swinging and singing the blues

Help Me

I know how to swim but Im drowning
Cant seem to help what Im feeling
Everyone sees me free-falling
Watches me crash through the ceiling

Up through the ground I am soaring
Everything in me is roaring
Twisting into me so sweetly
Breaking my heart so completely

CHORUS:
Help me to say no
Help me not to want more
Help me to let go
Help me to walk out that door

Day break and night time is falling
Comes to me without any warning
Punch-drunk enough to contain me
My hopes can never sustain me

Feeling the weight of confusion
Happiness is an illusion
Smiling to keep on romancing
The danger I keep second-chancing

Im too numb to care for you Im too cold to feel what you do
Its too late to face the truth between us
What we had wont see us through

Stand By Your Man

Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
Youll have bad times/and hell have good times
Doing things that you dont understand

But if you love him youll forgive him
Even though hes hard to understand
Oh, say you love him/and be proud of him
Cause after all, hes just a man

CHORUS:
Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man