Still the passing of the torch
The sounds of traffic roll
Music will record the birds and bees
The thunders and the rains will call
From over mountains peaks
Rumble go the train wheels over steel
I only wish I’d seen you before you left my dear

I wish that I had seen you before it was too late
Heard the breezes whispers that carried on its wings
So I could know the present in the way I know it now
And I could pull in on the reigns & slow the horses down
I’m on my way to town to see you bury you in the ground and grieve
Pull in on the reigns…go slowly
Pull in on the reigns…

Moon will glow tides will rise
Waves roll on the beach
Crashing waters wash the sand to sea
A witness to the wonderful
Silence and of peace
Fly the blackbirds off to warmer trees
Only wish I’d had seen you before you left my dear

Miss your breathing while you sleep
While sailing off to dream
You held me in your arms where I could weep
Laughter and the pain are like
The beauty and the beast
Live within my dreams and memories
Only wish I’d seen you before you left my dear

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Charlie’s got a song in his head
He’s born to walk along to his tune instead
He doesn’t hear noise that is on the street
Doesn’t hear things that people say as they speak to him He hears his tune instead
Let his voice be strong when he sings
Never turn away from his beat
Let him carry on and on sweetly singing
Charlie is a boy with a dream
His eyes are made of love and purity
The world comes alive in his smile
Music of his mind has hypnotized in peaceful ways May it last all days
Living with the songs that are in his head
when his life is sad may he sing instead
Life ain’t half as bad when songs keep you dreaming
Charlie’s got this song in his mind everybody says to get in line
No one hears his little song everyone says to move along
They’re not listening they don’t hear him sing

Teach him to be kind thrifty with time
Respect his mind and be faithful
Where willing ones able
Show him its ok to walk any way when
Steps he takes are peaceful
Done good over evil
Teach him to be true in all he’ll do
Love will follow too when friendly
Treat others as family
Some times you’ll fall on your face
Some times you’ll be far from grace
Keep your heart with song through time
With your goals alive, life will Enable
When you are Faithful
And True.

When Charlie turns from boy into a man
Will he keep his song as a loving friend?
Walk on the sands with his song in place
Gaze on the stars with his smiling face and sings his tune
A little song for you
Living with the songs that are in our heads
When our lives are sad may we sing instead
Life ain’t half as bad with songs that keep you dreaming
So keep on singing My Friends

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Where do you go when your heart is lost
lost and estranged with nowhere to start
Will you find the ones who love you and who know your heart
where will you be when those who love you have gone

My mother was there when my life began
I see her move through as hers comes to an end
A fear to be alone does worry her sweet mind
A fear she conceals that gleams out from her eyes

love will you be there in the end
will you look me in the eyes for my last breath
its all I fear in the world as I pass through
is to be without the love I’ve got in you

I am a man who plays guitar
pick it up for my days withdraw
try to play hard make money and shine like a star
all I got was tired and dirt in my claws

I want know what happiness means
try not to stray to far from my dreams
to be without a dream is a knife buried in your knee
and a long walk anyway till its your day in the grave

Love will you be there in the end
will you look me in the eyes for my last breath
its all I fear in the world as I pass through
is to be without the love I’ve got in you

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Life is for the living where its wasted bye and by
Abandoned stones they mark us generations under sky
ants and birds and trees they share our vessel's where we lie
now whisper words of wisdom as we listen walking by In Life

We are all just children with arrogance and pride
in our eyes are fires where our souls live out their strife
competing for our values in a universe of wars
building matter growing madder souls live in a curse But why

Each moment that is loved in life a star put in the sky
and all the ones you cannot see are still out there to find
If I could be a traveler through time and universe
I’d take the light from all the love and heal the living curse
a solemn sense of sadness leaves and grains of sand
days like seconds lives they slip through the hourglass

We validated our victories but still we don’t know peace
rising up to choke on dreams that weren’t within our reach
success is often failure illusively diseased
its the wicked truth we lather as we climb up from our knees disease

The past becomes the present and its you that's sitting here
read the names and numbers and calculate the years
try to think them lives with footsteps traveled in the air
every day is getting closer your stone will declare
A life with breath imprinted moments nectars sweet and rare to share

Each moment that is loved in life is a star put in the sky
and all the ones you cannot see are out there still to find
If I could be a traveler through time and universe
I’d take the light from all the love and heal the living curse
a solemn sense of sadness colored leaves and sand
days like seconds lives are slipping through the hourglass

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Oh God oh God its not about me
Not about me all the time
Its my friends and love’s that need you
Won’t you please lend them your hand

Oh God Oh God through the struggles
When abandoned and betrayed
May we all come back to loving
The beauty in life you made

Lord take from all you need
I’m but a vessel for your deeds
Know even if you claim him Jesus
You still get lost at times
Life aint here just to please us
Our best is just to try

Oh God I don’t need religion
They’re just words upon a page
I believe your love is still with me
Though your preachers preach disdain

Oh God is your love prejudicial
Did you refuse your fellow man
Did your blood not bleed for the lover
That lays down with the same

Lord take from all you need
I’m but a vessel for your deeds
Know even if you claiim him Jesus
You still get lost at times
Life aint here just to please us
Our best is just to try
Our best is yet to find

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I cant find myself in the shoes that once fit me
Yeah I wore them down till they ain’t gotta sole to live
I’m a shell of a man who lived just one year ago
All I got is a shadow and a dream

Lay me down what is left to do… I
Followed you… and broke down
All of the doors hoping that I might see
What’s left in life, what’s left in life for me

The future is to make yeah but where is the pavement
Sniff around in your mind try to find a clue
The ink the is the mark and the measure that made you
So you dig around till you’ve worn down all of your tools

Hit the ground try to run but the world overcame me
Yeah it wore me down with my head hanging low in defeat
The nightmare will claim your soul when heaven won’t take you
And run you down to hell and its fiery seas

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Its you Honey my little piece of sun
Its you Honey when the day is done
We ain’t always pretty ain’t always lots of fun
We don’t chase each other like stars around the sun
But we have love and love will make our home

Its you honey a warm and welcome soul
Its you honey the calm in this great world
When roads we drive get rocky when life’s hard to adore
Your hearts what keeps mine singing and I knowing
I ain’t poor man in this fight
Your the one thing right

How my heart sings when I look in your eyes
How did I find in the lonesome night such a king
You were the piece that I dreamed at night
Fell into place in my puzzled life now it seems...honey I’m your queen

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I hope when you leave me you will not linger for long
And pray on my mind as the road we did not drive
Decide and be faithful please make up your mind
Decide and remember with loving eyes we cried
You know when I met you I thought that we’d be alright
We tried for the better until that fateful night
When time and her strange ways she led our hearts astray
And time and her mercy held us in her arms…
It’s a sweet life I am thankful for you
It’s a sweet life thank the heavens
We found each other’s songs to carry us along
And though we are alone I still sing your little jingles with joy in ruin

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Push comes to shove There’s always love a vice and virtue of the heart
I really care tried to be there to see things through the times we failed
All I wanted was a chance to see
A life fulfilling all our childhood dreams
When I got the coaches call
The rug came out from under me
I felt the tear drops start to fall
People pointing and laughing at me
As I lie here on the floor broken down in shattered pieces
I felt that love had pulled the chord left alone to search my heart for the cause
I wondered why we fought each night I know the answers is not far off
Two hearts will bleed for eyes will cry if we part ways and bide our time
All I wanted was a guiding light
A love to hold me through the darkest night
When I’m down I learn to crawl
I try to find my feet again
And when my back’s against the wall
You are there to share your hand
Now every time I slip and fall I hear love call, get off the floor
Say try again and make it right let love guide you through your life tonight
Push comes to shove There’s always love a troubadour to warm your heart
Know that I care I’ve come prepared to see things through when we have failed
All I want in life is you and me
To feel alive in life and reach our dreams
To ride the breeze through time walk softly
Slow things down and know the flowers
With playful hearts and minds carefree
Walk through town in April showers
I know that love’s an open door free in life to come and go
I hope that you will come back home please don’t stay away to long my love

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Doesn’t matter how strong
You cannot hang on or control
And the tighter that you squeeze
The more need to breath you won’t hither
The scheme

From your secrets you might tumble
Lost and spinning in the tunnel of your mind
You might reason you might desire
Be lead astray by the liar in yourself
And so we pray

And if God is a witness or if Christ walked among us
Why is life so appalling always shocking
I believe in conditions to receive restitution
For our lives as sinners as stone throwers

And the peace that we crave it will not last our many
Till its over and were covered in our grave

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