Edwin McCain

The strands in your eyes
That color them wonderful
Stop me and steal my breath
Emeralds from mountains
Thrust toward the sky
Never revealing their depth
Tell me that we belong together
Dress it up
With the trappings of love
I'll be captivated
I'll hang from your lips
Instead of the gallows
Of heartache
That hang from above

I'll be your crying shoulder
I'll be love suicide
I'll be better when I'm older
I'll be the greatest fan of your life

Rain falls angry on the tin roof
As we lie awake in my bed
You're my survival,
You're my living proof
My love is alive not dead
Tell me that we belong together
Dress it up
With the trappings of love
I'll be captivated
I'll hang from your lips
And stand at the gallows
Of heartache,
That hang from above

I'll be your crying shoulder
I'll be love suicide
I'll be better when I'm older
I'll be the greatest fan
Of your life

I've been dropped out,
Burned up,
Fought my way back
From the dead
Tuned in, turned on,
Remembered the things
That you said

My love is alive not dead,
Tell me
That we belong together...
I'll be love suicide

REASONS
Maurice White, Charles Stepney & Philip Bailey

Now, I'm craving your body,
is this real
Temperatures rising, I don't want to feel
I'm in the wrong place to be real
Woahh and I'm; longing to love you
just for a night,
Kissing and hugging and holding you tight
Please let me love you
with all my might
Reasons, the reasons that we hear,
The reasons that we fear
our feelings a-won't disappear

Oooh! And- after the love game has been played
All our illusions were just a parade
And all the reasons start to fade

LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
After all our reasons why
All the reasons were a lie
After all the reasons lo-ove was ne'er decide

And, longing to love you for one night
Please let me love you with all of my might, baaaaby
OOOHHH, Baby!

Reasons, the reasons that we hear,
The reasons that we fear
our feelings a-won't disappear

Oooh! And after the love games have been played
All our illusions were just a parade
And all the reasons start to fade

And, in the morning when I rise,
no longer feeling hynotized
For no reasons, our reasons, our reasons
have no pri-ii-de

LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
After all the reasons why
All of the reasons were a lie
After all the reasons lo-ove was ne'er decide

Heeehhhhh, Ooooh, yeaahhh, Oohhh Baby,
I can't find the reasons
That my love won't disappear
Can't find the reasons
Why I love you ,my baby, my dear
Can't find the reasons
Wanna love you all night
Can't find the reasons
Gotta squeeze ya, real tight
Can't find the reasons
Baby- yeah,
For my tears
Can't find the reasons
Why I love ya....
(fade to black)

© 1975 Saggifire Music, Eibur Music (BMI)

"Prince of Darkness"
E.Saliers

Maybe there's no haven in this world for tender age
My heart beat like the wings of wild birds in a cage
My greatest hope my greatest cause to grieve
And my heart flew from its cage and it bled upon my sleeve
The cries of passion were like wounds that needed healing
I couldn't hear them for the thunder
I was half the Naked distance between hell and heaven's ceiling
And he almost pulled me under....
.....My place is of the sun
and this place is of the dark
(By grace my sight grows stronger, grows stronger)
I do not feel the romance
I do not catch the spark
( And I will not be a pawn
for the Prince of Darkness
any longer)

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L o c u l a t e d L o o k s

peering out from behind...
watching behind your peers...
satin latitudes shrinking,
telling of your fears...
.Don't Blink.

an odd way of looking,
an off way of thinking...
...a dream of reaching...
never belonging.
.Ride your own Rail.

© mcd163 2002 ________________________________

F r e e d o m

F r e e d o m
from my Beating Heart
Furiously fluttering
it's Wings against the
cool metal of it's cage.
F r e e d o m
from my Bleeding Heart
fraying at the edges
trailing
blood
upon my sleeve.
F r e e d o m
To F l y.
© mcd163 2002

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ëleven windows
i opened the window in my heart where you've always lived
i said goodbye--stupidme,
i said fly...
i reached toward the heaven to see how far you'd been
but when i glanced up
it was dry...
[you never went by].
slowly i turned back into myself, i searched through
my soul warm and high...
and when finally i saw you holding on, oh so tight,
i closed the window behind. © mcd163 2002

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Heart Jumper
my heart needs a help-line...
cause it's close to the edge,
ready to jump...
'cause it's love is past dead.
whether diseases have ravaged...
stripping warmth from
it's veins,
or torrents washed freely...
away with the rains.
one eight hundred and more...
say goodbye to this beat,
oval window now closed...
all supplies are repleat.
the moral & danger...
of the jumper do not lie,
cherish your lover...
or let part of
you
die.
........................heart jumper-mcd-'99

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FOOL IN THE RAIN

Oh, baby

Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can't wait for a night
I hate to think I've been blinded baby
Why can't I see you tonight
And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin'
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And I'm shaking so much, really yearning
Why don't you show up, make it all right, yeah, it's all right, all right

And if you promised you'd love so completely
And you said you would always be true
You swore that you would never leave me, baby
What ever happened to you
And you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true, hey
It ain't the first time believe me, baby
I'm standin' here feeling blue, blue
Ha, yeah, I'm blue, hoh, baby

Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I'll watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then I'm turning around, 'round
The clock on the wall's moving slower
Oh, my heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found, found
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Ohhhh, that I found

Hey babe

Oooh, hand that ticks on the clock
Just don't seem to stop
When I'm thinking it over

Oooh, tired of the light
I just don't seem to find
Have you wait, get away

Whoa oooh, I see it in my dreams
But I just don't seem to be with you
You I gotta get it all
Gotta get it all, gotta get it all
I've got to get all

(Guitar Solo)

Ooh, now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet, ohh
I've got no reason to doubt you baby
It's all a terrible mess
An' I'll run in the rain till I'm breathless
When I'm breathless I'll run till I drop, hey
The thoughts of a fool's kind of careless
I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block, ohhhhhh yeah
Hey now, ohhhhhh-hoh

Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love, hey now
Light of the love, hey now
Light of the love that I found
Light of the love that I found

Led Zeppelin: In Thru the Out Door ©1980, all rights reserved.

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The Search-mcd 10-18-99

i've got to lose you to find me,
i don't wan't you angry,
without you i'm lonely,
but i've got to loose you to find me.

you've got to lose me to find you,
clear your head--it's true,
neuveau--be new,
you've got to lose me to find you

we've got to lose us to find us,
fill up my back pack,
(love you so....)
fill up the cooler-if we must,
we've got to lose us-
to find...trust.

so i'll strap on my
Doc Martin's,
i'll hop on my two wheeler,
i'll head up to the mountains,
i'll pray real hard to
Jesus.
i'll bathe myself in
New Spring,
i'll breathe when i'm in water,
i'm writing all my thoughts down,
---feelin' like i oughta.
i'll be howlin' at the
landscape-
crying in my old boots
holding what my hands
can't
christening....
cahoots.

when my race is over
I'm eaten by the sun
and my heart's still beatin'
to my own internal drum.
and oneday when
i'm brand new
maybe then
you'll need me
to
find
you.

mcd163

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Singular not much...but,...alone..
I'm alone all the time, the epicenter of faults.
I have burn holes in the mind-springs-
though everything is pristine...
I think before I speak,
and blurt out words-inappropriate.
I am the eyes of society..
the soul of repression...
I breathe out atoms from the legacies;
the cast of humanity.
I am boxed.
Grinning.

© mcd163 1999

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