There's a dry wind blowing this way

Shaken the fields and the graves

Under pressure like an earthquake

Flood came took them all away

The day is coming, gather the proud

And the wicked burn like an oven

Two women grinding at the mill

Two men working in the field

Going to purge the floor with a fiery fan

Gather the wheat with His mighty hand

There's the chaff it's going to be burned

But He says gather the tares first.

I could never refuse you no I never could

I am standing where no man has ever stood

The pressure is great

But the fear is my fuel

You make me do the things I would never do

I am jumping 13 stories down to the ground

Everything that I do

Is to impress you

CHORUS

I'm not afraid to hold your hand

Who cares who sees us kiss in the park

Were more than friends could ever be

Let's get lost in the dark

The sun is blazing down and I don't care

Though I'm melting, I am with you

Your driving is killing me

It doesn't matter as long as I have you

Sounds all around but only your voice I hear

Share your heart and share your mind

You belong to me

We are running out of time

My heart is crashin in

I have no where to go

What's the point of living

If I am to live it alone

I have no where to run to

I can't go on today

Where am I to go

Far from this world of pain

I'm lost without your love Lost without your light

You're the only one Who can bring me through the night

I am lost without your love Lost without your light

You're the one to make me see the sun rise

Lord help me now

I feel like I don't know why

Wish I had the answers

My soul is going to die

How could I have known

There was someone as lonely as me

Can I share with you my fears

That makes me incomplete

I am ready to throw it all away

But I am passing out on you

This is not the end

But if it were I would spend it with you

There was wind and fire

There was an open door

Maybe she didn't know

what I was going through

Know one knows my name

After all these years

I have been forgotten

All I have are tattooed tears

Never wanted it to end

But that's the way it should be

Some days don't turn out

The way you want them to

The storms came and the rains fell

The water got deep and the schools closed down

The flood it came no one welcomed her

Looked like an underwater ghost town

It took some time to clean up the mess

Good measure, pressed down running over blessed

Love our neighbors as ourselves

River can't move you from where you belong

CHORUS

When she stepped back thought to recede

We all breathed a sigh of relief

She left her mark she left her mud

She left her touch

She kissed us hard

Take your life to higher ground

West Point sank and Shepherdsville drowned

Everyone reflects and everyone prayed

Let the sun shine upon us today

You may be right I am callused

But my arms their rock hard

I can take your best shot Love is not made

Love is Divine I've taken it before

Didn't mean to let you down

Didn't mean to give up

Didn't want to let go

But I did anyways

I told you that I loved you

Then the whole world found out

What could have been your motivation

To be so careless

CHORUS

Just keep on needing me and know I don't care

Now you are drifting

I had the power to save

Now were both lost

Falling together through eternity

BRIDGE

Don't say you hate me

I gave you reason to leave

We had it all and would have had more

Were you afraid of me

It's not up to them to understand what we've done

They'll just shake their heads in amazement and wonder some

I'm going to bed without you

I'd spend all I own to bring you hear

I don't know you well enough to have you

But I crave a moment of your time

Why did you come to earth

I pray it's to be with me

You seemed to have descended

Like an angel next to me

CHORUS

Have you come to rescue me

My Soul Jesus Christ

Have I lost my mind

Subdue me I'm your servant

If you're not convinced then what's it all for

How did you get into my life

If you pass by and I don't see you

Cross over into my earth

This is so strange how I grow weak

Though I'm feeding off you

You taste so sweet to me

Why am I dying, Why am I dying

Spoiled through Philosophy and vain deceit

after the traditions of men

Trapped and held captive to this world

spiritually barren and desolate

Chorus

That great city over All the earth

Causing them to drink of her wine

I see through the semblance of peace and unity

Your master is your flesh divine

Artificial wonders will fall

Your beauty is perpetual destruction

Babylon the great unregenerate souls

making the Word of God of none effect

Entangled in Hypocrisy

Your creed adds to your yoke of bondage

Disobedient unto every good work REPROBATE,

Turned again to the weak and beggarly elements

Separation and division condemnation and guilt

Destroyer of my heritage

A great rock in a weary land

Gave me liberty from your truthful lies

Is there hope for groaning creation shall it be delivered

Restitution and Restoration All things put under Him

Through the greatness of love and mercy seek and save that which is lost Who will have All men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth

Ask of me things to come

Everything that has breath mystery of His will be done

Not willing that any should perish that all should come to repentance No pleasure that the wicked should die Judgement sent unto victory For all to be testified in due time that All men might believe All men Every where All flesh from the least to the greatest

I close my eyes and I go inside

And I find you there

You want the Stars I am the Universe

I am melting in this heat

But I'm with you

I am suffocating in this traffic

But you're with me

You need power steering and a little air

Cause the city is too Big YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME!

Woke up older than the day before

My hands ache and my shoulders sore

Takes a little effort put my feet on the floor

I don't think so straight I won't be ignored

I won't be ignored

It's been some life one hell of a ride

I've lived and loved and stole some hearts

I never been innocent but live without guilt

No one could take this or tear us apart

Told you I am the worm where I die not

Fires not quenched til' they done their job

Just can't live in torment

No more hell and there's no more death

Could have never made it this far

without you

I just pray before I die

We can do all the things

That we said we would do

What you've looked for has called to you

You won't find it on a Sunday morning

Seek with all your heart hunger and thirst

And you will be rewarded

No man made altar will change your life

No doctrine will satisfy

Burning desire within you

Go takes us the way we are

CHORUS

I've learned to live His life

Instead of mine

Chosen generation holy harmless undefiled

The devil finds nothing within me

The devil finds nothing within me

With All your heart you cry out

Soul longs for peace

You try with all your strength

Invite His life to flow through you

What you are is what you've received

The way of transgressors hard

As a man thinks so, He is

From the east westward

Way of the righteous made plain

Shake loose the illusions of this life

Who are you going to serve?

What do you think you deserve?

Overcomer is Firstfruit

Make my Election sure

Under pressure press me hard

Grapes for the new wine

I'm taking another pill

Another shot of pick me up

I don't like what I see

The reflection of a worn soul

I am searching for life

I'm coping with tragedy

How many do I take

To reach eternity?

CHORUS

I'm obsessed I am driven'

Be my fountain of youth

My tree of life

If you bring me death

I'll die with a young heart

I am searching for life

It's not in this bottle I hold

How many do I take

To reach eternity?

You flow like a river

You're the sunshine on my face

Down at the Pool of Bethseda

Don't push me away

I thought she was the only one

Who could move me

The nights were hard for me to sleep

I'd wake screaming

The day she stopped talking to me

I thought I had died

My heart fell into darkness

Hated everything that I stood for

Hated everything that I stood for

I looked into her eyes I didn't see me

I traveled many miles to hear her side

Could this all be true

Had she walked out of my life

Was it a waste of time

Then you came with your breath of life

An Angel

Drew me from the earth and the dust

Now I'm Born Again

Born Again

I found a treasure hidden in a field

I sold All I had

She's a pearl of Great Price

What can I do

Now the Daystar rises in my heart

I'm full of light

Looking for a Happy ending to this Love Song

This is a Love Song

By your words justified by your words your condemned Better watch what you say cause he knows where you been Better watch what you do better watch what you think Better watch where you go cause you know he knows What's in the heart of man There's a time to sleep time to be awake There's a time to work there's a time to play Time to laugh a time to cry Time to be born were all going to die Better watch what you say Cause you know he knows what's in the heart of man We all have sinned came short of the glory There's none righteous no not one If I say I have no sin call me a liar Better watch what you do cause he knows where you been

He'd been saved all his life Been brought up on the lie His Father's Father reserved him a place On the front row of saving grace Said he couldn't kneel Cause his suit was too tight He been heard praying sometimes But he's never saw the light He got hand me down, hand me down Hand me down religion He said the church has no business Tampering with a man's soul Cause he swears their ain't no devil Down in no big black hole If the devil doesn't exist If he's a creation of man Then man created the devil In his own image with his own hands Had a cigar in his mouth But he said he didn't smoke Had shoes on his feet But you didn't see him walk Slung cards like throwing knives But you never saw them stick Carried a pearl handled pistol But you never heard the hammer click Said he don't go to church to be preached at He got hand me down religion

His mouth as dry as a sack of flour Dusty as a lizards back Sitting on the davenport Fishing a cufflinks from a crack He sported two bellies One high one low Held his pants with a diaper pen Never let his pride show Chorus Some say he had his own teeth But I seen him slip'em in and out Jackolantern smile With a head full of cabbage in his mouth Played his nose like harmonica Hair in need of an oil change Smoked ox blood through chicken bones Used god's name in vain Chorus birds nest portland hair He knew she was trailer park trash Barley sky gave him a Pumpernickel rash Chorus

Heard the sound of rain Dripping from a tin roof into a can of lard Like a tad pole on a dry rivers bed Took a swim to the nearest star I would be president but I'm not without sin You rode the bus while I jumped the fence Take a Tooth (Give an Eye) Lived in a shotgun house Close to the tracks Spray painted your name On the over pass Is there grace without gravity faith for the blind The barns are raising the devils killing time I was a writer before I could speak And I spoke before I could think I've stopped to hear a still small voice Giving me freedom Giving me a choice

With jaundiced eyes on the road to perdition Always kept his powder dry All is fair in love and war Pursuing the apple of his eye Between you, me and the lamppost She was dressed to the nines But she tired men with her idle chit chat Not one word worth a cold thin dime Between the devil and the deep blue sea Every cloud has a silver lining Every ocean has a green eyed monster Dyed in the wool and still shinning Feet of clay and a pair of purple valentines Gave him the slip on weaver's run She's running with the hair hunting with the hounds With a slender reed the cat's on the prowl She became penny wise and pound foolish Couldn't make a silk purse out of a sows ear Living in clover squeezing blood from a turnip In a blue funk crying crocodile tears Left no stone unturned smart as a whip More than one way to skin a cat Spit and polish spic and span Bull in the china shop is wearing a brass hat He bought her love for a song She couldn't see the forest for the tree's Half a loaf is better than none Bought a pig in a poke with a head full of steam Action speaks louder than words Cut off her nose with a fish hook to spit her face Heaping coals of fire upon her head She's a millstone around his neck She threw the baby out with the bath water And put bats in the belfry Hell is paved with good intentions And a month of sunday's

Don't call me good, there's only one that's good Jesus came to save sinners of which I am the worst (Drums kick in) Don't you judge the preacher The preacher he is judge God called preaching folly So don't you hold a grudge If you don't have the faith You can't understand it If you have the faith Nothing left to explain I have died to sin Used to walk in these ways Truth are in the headlines At the bottom of a bird cage Had my oxen in a ditch Jesus wept Sunday's turning black The rocks cry out

The snow fell like butterflies The air was bitter cold I crossed the sugar tree field Warmed my bones in a worm hole Fire by night cloud by day I don't regret one minute along the way When the evening sun Starts sinking low I count my many blessings upon the road Many lay by the way side Cuz the journey is long Lost in their aching heart is desire to move on Road less traveled Jesus lead me home Good morning mule skinner I'm going to move on Mocking bird be singing That I'm not alone When I enter that city paved with gold Pearly gates going to open take me to my home Sky opened up Latter rain began to fall Ushering in the crops As the willows are tall Down by the waters course Remember from where I came Dip my hat in the pool I must be on my way

Make the Mississippi run backwards Flood waters are going to crest Going to flood the old devil Can't give him no rest The devil going to be running Like a Jack Rabbit out of New Orleans High tail'n it up north That's where he outta be Got to resist his temptations Stomp him under your feet Sun is going to shine on the cotton fields The day that ol' serpent leaves Don't drink from the devils troft He's the father of lies Leaving a trail on the river banks Swore I seen mud in his eye Greater is He that is in me Than he that is in the world

A boon companion Promised a chicken in every pot Feast or famine deep six or starve Burning the candle at both ends Crossed the rubicon Nervous tic pulled at the corner of his mouth Jumping like a big mouth bass down south Chorus Light at the end of the tunnel Became a runaway train Wearing jack boots like a gestapo When it pours it rains Fall on stony ground trampled under foot The fats in the fire cats on a hot tin roof Chorus Down at the beauty parlor They gave her a permanent fit Her hair looks like something You'd pound meat with Her hub cap eyes looked at him like a t-bone Like a wild horse stampede But he had loosed his demons And his spirit been set free

Lost in the Canopy of tree's he never had horse sense Oaks and Pines cap off the skies he wandered through the circus tent Before the eyes of God tried squeezing through a needles eye The world is a small place every face tells a lie He drank a gallon of embalming fluid which kept him in the stir When your full of Helium best keep your shoes on and your thoughts pure Forest is a poachers paradise and the squirrels jumping from the tree's Nose as red as a tomato livers spotted with disease The way he plays the game it's never a game of chance Took him many a year to learn this side step dance It's a nice day but that's just One Man's Opinion Nosey Parker with her little acorn going to plant a mighty oak tree in her neighbors yard Weed benders always ready to run him out on the rail But the checker players like the tales he tells They seem to want bad news and they always want more He said he'll sleep it off and in the morning shove it under the door Who walked over his tongue with their muddy shoes Bending and twisting to shake the snapping turtle loose Never met Jesus the Son of man waking up civilized In the pine cones in Birmingham Concert in the Park recorded live 8-22-96

The fellow was familiar with Bulldogs and Water hoses With coat hanger shoulders and a silver spoon in his mouth With a pocket of fools gold Ingenuity and elbow grease He got a $50 Erie Root Canal Killed the pain with a bottle dipped from the Hudson Gave his liver an eviction note With corn rolls on his head like a big black widow He rode the stick horse derby mounted on a goat Readers Digest and a T.V. guide is all the bible he ever read Captain Marvel and Wonder Women the mom and dad he never had On a dark Kentucky night about to take a bullet in the back He saw Jesus standing there by the caution sign Ain't no devil in the fiery furnace in the burning bush In the lions den pushing this pen Going to raise the dead sleeping in my bed Going to open blind eyes can satisfy At the pearly gates walking on the lake On the mountain top going to steal and rob By the river side going to baptize Going to dry those eyes ain't no devil going to crash them skies It all came crashing down timber tumbled to the ground With a tobacco tan he climbed thin air Life's too short to box with God promised he would not spare the rod Surrendered to Jesus in the back of a Corvair

I got a girl she's all I have But sometimes she makes me sad When i'm tempted by her skin I got a girl she looks so fine But she wants too much of my time When i'm tempted by her hair Chorus I love Jesus more than I love you Cause he ain't done me no wrong I got a girl she's first class But sometimes she goes too fast When i'm tempted by the speed

If I plant a tree today I may never sit under its shade But I look at the dirt on my hands And I wonder why God made man I hold my sons in my arms Could I send them away to war I see the trust in their eyes And I wander if God cries I look up at the stars And I wonder where you are Are you looking back down at me Your as far as the eye can see It must have been some sacrifice Ask your son to give his life There is no greater love that I know Cause a father don't want to let go

Looking classy in his zoot suit Passing counterfeit bills and paste Backside numb in a water melon truck Couldn't wipe that smile off of his face He was as thin as a dollar bill Like a muckraker slinging mud on capital hill didn't want to die in anyone else's war A gum ball kid with a bombay taxi horn Eyes that look into the here after Heads tilted back and noses pinched There's only two ways to come out from the front on a stretcher or stiff in a flag draped trunk He was a fugitive long shore sailor Drifting with a bald headed friend Taking the jitney down broadway Trying to hide the whiskers on his chin

The day was long like a servant of hell Couldn't keep the flies away sweat dripping from the window seal Someone is coveting his brother's spanish wife Better cut the barrel short and sleep with a knife There are no picket fences in this dreary town Only bad guys, dirty cops, and dice throwing blood hounds Kiss the gunners daughter I heard someone scream A radio drowned out the sounds of a melting summers dream Lemonade on ice just pour it on my brow Water pipes a clanging to the sounds of a hoot owl I hear a baby crying but mums a baritone The father did a dry dive many moons ago T.v. a glowing in the window across the street Like a bleached desert bone but I got to get to sleep My head is a throbbing like an axe squeezing a stroke Across the hall the boards are squeaking as a man kicks and chokes Then it starts a raining I scatter the buckets and pans Smell of wet dogs, and cigarettes, fish heads and garbage cans Hotel sign a flickering like a neon typhoon Pack me in ice wash off that cheap french perfume Cannot rest your eyes when you hear a fly swat banjo picking You are near lick skillet when you feel the ken worth engine Think i'll hoof the pavement my belly is a growling Before the zombies have their tea and the wolves start a howling.

I saw him coming in his duesenburg sj Through a cloud of dust like nitro Wore his beard like rain dog waits Had the head of john the baptist on a silver plate We sat on sad stools biggest part of the night Had holes elbows of my shirt and the bar lost it's shine I told him I wasn't a drinker I never drink He said have one have two have three on me He picked a five string gibson that wouldn't stay in key Said he'd played the tomb but the seats were all empty Pickled politician in washington d.c. soaked them in the potomac until their skin turned green He drew a raven from beneath his top hat Lit a candle picked a rose watched the stock market crash Drank the rust from a wet cigar Spit out the sailors like vinegar He wore all black with bells on his boots Mississippi string tie and solid gold tooth Swore he pulled the trigger on john wilkes booth No grey bar hotel or dye on his roots

She had a sleazy look about her like she came out of a violin case Like smeared lipstick on the rim of a coffee cup The kind you'd see on a late night picture show She was stern to the ground like a fire hydrant A little warn but red army tough she choked a lie down her throat the size of a gutter ball Chipped and rusty like a stove bolt grill Picked up many a hitch hiker and left long stem roses Her lips were like sand paper her voice like a siren He was a three piece suit and tie A ten dollar haircut on a five cent head Hand cuffed to a rainy night and a bruised wrist lie His brain was reduced to the size of a pinball marble In that cap he called a skull claimed to be a gangster His identity shadowed by sunglasses and a pulpit smile Sits alone in the café like a convict tapping his foot to a blinking neon sign Derby day and he was a long shot running on a sloppy track But he claimed to be looking for the killer of marilyn monroe Like a black cat spooked down an alley way No one ever questioned joe dimaggio The city blows people out like candles throws them from the bridge to drown When he was a kid he'd play outside I guess the world just turned around Wringing his hands like an old dish towel

The princess had a criminal mind Monkey, monkey, funky shine After she pulled and sprayed her hair She fired her daddy's gun everywhere Brushed on her face with native war paint Pretending to be the patron saint Get'in a switching from a knotty boned tree Ain't nobody going to lay their hands on me She blacked out playing russian roulette No remorse no regrets Talking dirty the sky turns red The king rat is in her bed She lied about her age to get a skinny millionaire All they see is her flaxen hair Wears a toe tag like a carnation prom Her last words was the 23rd psalm They heard her swear on her father's grave Cursed the sins that he forgave When the band began to play All got quite on the subway

I thought I found God living in a cardboard box He was chewing a two inch cigar and he had a sleight cough His hair was dull and white he had a road map for a face Once he thought he ruled the world now he found he had no place He said he gave up on man after 1963 Cause everybody seemed to love their pain and enjoy their misery He said people stopped listening to what he had to say That's why eden had been pushed so far away If God is dead who keeps us alive Who paints the pretty rainbows up in the sky How would we know the grace of God without the sacrifice How would we know true love unless he gave us his life Spitting red man between the pigeons and the cracks Leading karaoke on the subway tracks He never talked about dying or raising from the dead But he ask me if I could hear the voices ringing in his head

Bullet proof body walking through walls Vegas like a birth mark let the chips lie where they fall Gun powder on his corn flakes get's him high like caffeine Rolled his own cigarettes mind full of jealousy Brass knuckle collection good with a tire iron Prozac kept him steady black coffee was the snake charm Never bit his nails cause his knuckles drug the ground Now he's fishing with Jesus outside of town Used to drink the muddy water drank it from a bone Danced with spirits promenading from stone to stone Bruised like the bismarck heart like the arctic ice Eyes as big as half dollars when he threw the dice He found love on three rusty nails

Surrendered all on three rusty nails Used to sharpen his fist on a smooth wet stone Scars stitched like a railroad track up and down his arms Then he saw life cursed upon a tree Like a lone flower at cave hill cemetery

I could lay down crippled and never walk again I could put on a dress and parade like a women I could crawl into a corner and roll up into a ball I could bury myself in a fox hole and watch the night sky fall I could throw my hands up and wave them into the air Surrender my soul to the fear unknown can't see me cry there I could butcher the innocent in the name of god I could deceive the young starve the children spare the rod I could be sleeping and dreaming through earthquakes and fire I could race down a mud slide build a babylon tower I could camouflage my face disappear in the pine I could fill my lungs with years of smoke and my liver with cheap wine I could make my message clearer to pacify the weak I could dig deeper into my soul and force feed you meat I could do nothing and I would loose them all I could preach Jesus christ until my throat bled raw\

There is always something cooking In the old grave yard you know There's always something burning In a sinner's bitter soul They found his body tied To the trunk of an old oak tree His skin was still burning From the pepper and antifreeze He was born in babylon Atlanta the home of the brave But he fell from the railroad trestle Into an open grave His mother said he went to l.a. Had a speed ball affair Blinded by tequila sunrise Hand of the devil is everywhere Bet he wished he was on knob creek road Instead of the box lowered down Just dirt in the ground Ain't nobody remembers He's a forgotten soul Ain't nobody sending flowers The winters are so cold When the blues rain fog From the painted sky Tobacco barn still standing Casting headstone eyes

Flat tops crew cuts lather and a shave Planters in my mountain dew Sit up tall and brave Take a little off the sides My brother said give me a burr Looking for a sunburn for sure Vodka don with his toupee on Mom's doing the laundry At the mat next door Like to watch the candy cane Swirl round and round Feed me a belly of an old french horn Up and over the railroad trestle The back water is up Dixie highway in a ford fairlane 44 is like a swamp Cosmodale cement plant Rolling out clouds of smoke Let's stop by the root beer stand sip those frosty mugs

Tried to kill me with a piano wire Got a tattoo to cover the scar Hop on a freighter ride the rails out of town Glass eyed skip tracer trying to track me down Flat on my back wish this box car had wings Chasing the turquoise across the sky Got born again listening to cold steel Shaking the cob webs from my mind The wind is whistling through the cracks Like a teapot about to burst I'd trade this tattoo for one square meal Not too bad cause i've been worse Stop the world and let me off Stop the world I need a little more room St. Vitas dance in the wilderness Met Jesus under silver moons

Sipped his coffee from a saucer dish Bacon and eggs on his grocery list Loved saltines and yellow moon pies Sitting under the shade tree's looking up at the sky Armstrong radio and a shinny spit tune Pulling up turnips middle of the afternoon Reading the king james from a rocking chair Sear's and roebuck got everything there Back the road he seldom came Take us to brown's store I watched for the train Walking hat and a crooked cane His blood runs through my veins Garage smelled like a buick a hint of saw dust Straight razor shaving well water strain the rust Out house is clean it sits over the hill Long walk in the winter easy to get a chill