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Empty Highway

  • Albums: Into The Blues


Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face

Watch the rain gently fall
Like the tears running down my face

Sometimes it feel like the sky' is violence
Sometimes it feels like nobody hears
Sometimes it fells like I'm on an empty highway
And I'm on a road to nowhere
I'm on a road to nowhere

As I watch the street lights flicker
Like the dying embers of your affection

As I watch the street lights flicker
Like the dying embers of your affection

Sometimes it feels like we never kissed
I've got no interest in the push and pull of the tides
Who cares if the world stops spinning
Cos I'm a lonely number
Yea I'm a lonely number

As I lay me down to sleep
All the little birds and the bees
That would sing to all the lovers
They just pass me by
Yea yea yea

Even in my dreams
Vivid colours turn to a grey scale

Even in my dreams
Vivid colours turn to a grey scale

And I turn to you and I ask
How can I make things better
And you say it's gone it's gone it’s gone it's over
And I stand outside in just my underwear
And I watch the gentle rain fall
Yea watch the gentle rain fall down
Yea I watch the gentle rain fall down

Eating The Bear

  • Albums: Walk Under Ladders


He had me down
But I put up a fight
I saw those teeth
And I groped for my knife
Big brown bear
With the juice from his mouth
He could taste my leg
And he thought he'd got me

But I am eating the bear

He lurked around
'Cos he knew where I lived
I'm in the jungle
And he means to eat me
He means to eat me
He's a hungry bear
He touched my arm
And he thought he'd got me

But I am eating the bear

Some days the bear
Will eat you

Some days you eat the bear

And I am eating the bear

It's not just girls
He eats who he wants
He's big and strong
Fights dirty
And mean
If you spill some blood
He'll smell you for miles
You better watch out
'Cos he's right behind you

Everybody Gotta Know

  • Albums: The Key


I've done it myself
I've done things
I never thought I would do
We all make mistakes
And I'm no exception
Sometimes
I think I've told it all
So plainly
But there's no one there
To hear the words I say
Sometimes
It all sounds so crazy
Your version of the story
That I know
Oh when your memory
Fails you

Everybody
Gotta know this feeling
Everybody gotta know
Everybody gotta know this feeling
Inside

I've been there myself
I have been some place
I never would go to
Just not my style
But persuasion made me
Open my mind
Sometimes
I think I know it all so clearly
But then someone comes
And show another way
Sometimes
I think that I am going crazy
My character changes
For one day
Oh when your habits fail your

Everybody
Gotta know this feeling
Everybody gotta know
Everybody gotta know this feeling
Inside

Everyday Boy

  • Albums: What's Inside


Well I've never met anyone
With your courage
And the way your enjoy life
Puts me to shame
Just an hour with you
And I understand
Why we had to meet

I saw you look in the mirror
And adjust your hair
Smile and leave the room

Just an everyday boy
Doing everyday things
But you're somebody special
Somebody who feels
You're not the first
And you won't be the last
But you are the one
I'll remember

It's God's revenge
You're surrounded by fear
A compassionate man
You hold people dear
No blame for the mother
Who curses your name
She fears for her son
It's death by association

But you respect yourself
And you let it show
Some fade with guilt
And the shame
They way you
Tell your story
With no tears
For yourself

Just an everyday boy
Doing everyday things
You're not the first
And you won't be the last
But you are the one
I'll remember

Hey hey
Just an everyday boy
Just an everyday boy

Doing everyday things
Just an everyday boy
Just an everyday boy
Just an everyday boy
Doing everyday things
Just an everyday boy

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