LYRICS

FORTUNE

The 84

If you want to ride with me

gotta let your hair down baby

it’s another sunny day

let’s get out on the highway

don’t sit in the back seat

I want you here riding up next to me

roll down the window

you don’t even know where you’re going baby

let your hair down

don’t worry anymore

we’ve got pavement

we’re on the 84

all the way to Grand Coulee

I’ve got the tunes picked out for you baby

leaving everything behind

heading up the road for a real good time

let your hair down

don’t worry anymore

we’ve got pavement

we’re on the 84

so we keep on driving

going down the road and never arriving

we’ve never been before

silhouette of treetops are burning evermore

let your hair down

don’t worry anymore

we’ve got pavement

we’re on the 84

 

Kiss of Fate

It was just another day in the city

But they both were in for a big surprise

Day break seemed to be a bit ordinary

Fog lifted and the sun began to rise

 

She was rushing to

Catch another subway

He was on the phone

Every city rat

knew they’d be in middle

It’s the Kiss of Fate

 

It was the dirtiest thing you’d ever seen

All the street trash were tearing at the seams

Rats of every kind couldn’t help but celebrate

This moment in time they all anticipate

 

Rats began to play

The music of a lover

What a grand parade!

When the two embraced

They knew without a question

It’s the Kiss of Fate

 

It’s the Kiss of Fate

It’s the Kiss of Fate

 

Let it Out

All this love come over me

and I’m frightened of the sound

so what is it your waiting for

turn me on and turn me down

 

I don’t know what I’m gonna do

when you talk so good

if it’s the truth I’m walkin to

or the player and the fool

 

You keep asking me to try

and I don’t want to lie

so Bleed it Out

Let it Out tonight

 

so what is it you want from me

how do you want me to find

love in something so messed up

loving something not mine

 

You keep asking me to try

and I don’t want to lie

so Bleed it Out

Let it Out tonight

 

You keep asking me to try

and I don’t want to lie

so Bleed it Out

Let it Out tonight

 

so Bleed it out

Let it Out tonight

 

I’ll keep on waiting for you

 

Let Me Know Your Heart

Let me know your heart

Let me know your heart

Who are you gonna save?

Who are you gonna choose?

If all for gain

what’ve you got to lose?

Just throw it all away

in the making

Let me know your heart

Let me know your heart

What are you gonna do?

Will you come soon?

You can tell the truth

you can let it all run through

Just throw it all away

in the making

Let me know your heart

 

Fortune

Oh my mischief maker

oh my monkey faker

my ornery ocean

could you throw me a little skin

 

heaven waits for you dear

hell will hold me tight

you’ve got rainbows in your cheek, dear

I’ve got a fire under my feet tonight

 

Oh, Fortune can have me

for I love my lady, Fate

and when the wheel does grab me

tomorrow will be too late

 

The hard shell opens

and you’re the pearl of my soul

how the memory makes me

and will never let me go

 

Oh, Fortune can have me

for I love my lady, Fate

and when the wheel does grab me

tomorrow will be too late

 

The ladies of the Eddie sing

In the darkest murky ring

I forgive you

The racoon can unmask his face

Hope to be alone to taste

the honey

 

Oh, Fortune can have me

for I love my lady, Fate

and when the wheel does grab me

tomorrow will be too late

 

Trask

Upon the Clatsop Plains

There lived a restless man

His fire was not cooled by the rain

His longing for this land

 

In 1843

With a Tamanawis guide

He crossed the great Mt. Neah-Kahnie

Under stormy skies

 

The Killamook Tyee

Made him prove his worth

He walked into the forest deep

To the belly of the earth

 

His name was Elbridge Trask

And he laid his body down upon the grass

Where his heart had called him home

 

He went solemn to his task

Searching ever for the path

Under branch and moss and stone

 

From  darkness he awoke

With spirits all around

He carried them back tied with a rope

And laid them on the ground

 

His name was Elbridge Trask

And he laid his body down upon the grass

Where his heart had called him home

 

The people followed in his tracks

And built their houses on the land

Where the spirits once had flown

 

If I Knew You Then

If I Knew You Then

I saw you when you were thirteen

I watched your family video tape

If I knew you then, if I knew you then

If I knew you then, would you be happy

ooh, I want to love you

I wish I was your first

wish I was your last

wish I was under and above you

If I knew you then, if I knew you then

If I knew you then, would I be happy

ooh, I want to love you

and now I count the days in a new way

I love a moment I am given

f I knew you then would we be

ooh, I want to love

 

Songs to Be Sung

Please come to bed is what you said

And come to live with me without regret

So don’t ever wonder if you are alone

I’m here waiting for you to want to be home

Ah ah ah

 

I know this road’s been long

And I know there’s songs to be sung

I know this road’s been long

And I know there’s songs to be sung

 

You wander around this house after dark

dreaming of melodies far and

Don’t ever wonder if you are alone

I’m here waiting for you to want to be home

ah ah ah

 

And I know this road’s been long

But I know there’s songs to be sung

I know this road’s been long

But I know there’s songs to be sung

 

Ahhhhhh

Cold Day

As the nights grow cold

And the days arent so alone

Neath the falling rain

time roll away

 

Its the days in the sun

And the time you had no one

And It feels just like an old song

Thats too sad to sing

 

Closer to me

I always want you to be

Closer to me

I always want you to be

 

On and on down you go

Being what you know

And the darkness lifts away

As the night turns to day

 

Closer to me

I always want you to be

Closer to me

I always want you to be

Closer to me

Closer to me

Closer to me

Closer to me

 

Animal Inside

Do you wish you were

under the moon with me?

you don’t have the heart

you don’t have the speed

Do you want to be

the same kind as me?

you should know

it’s for eternity

 

Do you want to see

the darkest part of me?

I’m not afraid to show you

you’ll be afraid to see

 

All of me

Do you want to see

the animal inside of me?

you won’t feel regret

you will feel relief

 

Do you want to have

a soul as old as mine?

you will understand

you will finally see

 

All of me

 

All of me

 

Do you wish you were

under the moon with me?

you don’t have the heart

you don’t have the speed

 

The White Tundra

Running out into the snow under a black sky

Leaving tracks to find in the daylight

 

Rising moon shaking in the stillness

An echo heard in the distance

 

Wolves of the Mind

Baying at the Door

Wolves of the Mind

Sing evermore

 

Shot rings, trees are shaking in the low sound

Leaves fall, shape shifter in the underground

Fire burns, Life splinters in the embers

Bones quake, souls scrapple in the maylay

 

Wolves of the Mind

Baying at the Door

Wolves of the Mind

Sing evermore

 

Will he return, will he be righted

Deformed and forgotten, white noise is frozen

Death rattles on your breath

Will it ever end?

Will he ever rest?

 

Begin again, begin again

Begin again

 

Wolves of Mind

Baying at the Door

Wolves of the Mind

Sing evermore

 

Be Good

I never trusted anybody

until you trusted in me

I never wanted

anything so bad

baby, you make me

want to be good

 

It’s a long way from home

I want to keep it that way

you ask me what am I running from

When I’m looking at myself

looking at you

I see someone brand new

 

My daddy looked me

in the eye and said

son, what kind of man will you be?

first time I saw you

I couldn’t deny how

every part of me

wants to do right

 

It’s a long way from home

I want to keep it that way

you ask me what am I running from

When I’m looking at myself

looking at you

I see someone brand new

 

I never trusted anybody

until you trusted in me

I never wanted

anything so bad

baby you make me

want to be good, baby you make me

want to be good

 

it’s a long way from home

I want to keep it that way

you ask me what am I running from

 

Count to Ten

Five is a good time

I know how to get down

 

Six is a secret

Everyone can tell

 

Seven is a stary night

in the graveyard hold me tight

 

Eight days a week, babe

oh, lonely me!

 

Nine is for nothing

Knowing ten is one and zero

 

Riddle me then

In the end who you want?