Lyrics

For the lyrics for songs featured on the live albums, Live at Pegasys, Acoustic Grey see Colours or Rock & Pop.
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All songs (c)Grey Way Publishing (ASCAP)
Songs recorded at Grey Havens Studios in Enid, Oklahoma.
Songs written by Grey except: "At the End of the Bend" on Rock & Pop by Yvan Mirouse; "Chanson" lyrics by Victor Hugo;

All the Love in the World
Story:

A love song, what else with a title like this one.

Had this title in my head and decided to write
something around it. I was inspired somewhat by
what I saw in the various parks in London, in
effect,the greenery. I had taken a trip there
about six months prior. I also wanted to use some
British english for some of the words. By this
I mean things that I had heard actual speaker's
use or in films or songs from British artist.

Lyrics:

V1:
Laughing to each other, distant plans, a future in exotic lands.
Longer walks than we'd ever had. Forgetting that we had ever felt sad.
Driving the country, waving hands, people saying we must be mad.
Chasing through the parks, into the greens, trading touches you say to me !

Chorus
All the love in the world, awakes in you right now.
All the smiles in the world, shine on you right now.
All the happiness in the world, flows through you right now.
All the love in the world, comes from you right now.

V2:
Uncertain we could ever pull this one off,
So much at stake, to much left apart.
A summer of love, flowers to ther stars.
a peace in thought, kept a peace in heart.
Fall a color, an edge untaught. Deep inside
not actors on lovers parts. Spring bloomed
with kisses so hard. Crushing our fears,
crashing the bed before dark.

V3:
Yes to you whenever you need me. I'll wait for you if you'll wait for me.
Guess it's the hour, the day or the year. For you and I it's all to clear.
Mess up your hair love I couldn't care. It's not a look but feelings so dear.
Yes to you even if it seems rare. You please me here and I'll please you there.

Clandestine Love
Story:

A song about three people in a relationshipbut one doesn't know what the other two know.

I wanted to try to write something of a love
triangle situation. I was inspired by an
ex-girlfriend that liked many guys but never
committed to one. She was/is a nice person
but it was frustrating at times. It always
left you wondering whose night it was with her.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Introduced as strangers, we played a masquerade.
Trading ordinary civilities, words leading astray.
She didn't know, the evenings we had spent.
She didn't know, that lovers will deceive even their friends.

Verse 2:
Drinks, perfume, and sweating. Empty words of love.
The atmosphere was sinking, as she moved across the floor.
She didn't see, the glances what they meant.
She didn't see, that lover's will deceive even their friends.

Chorus:
Just like a movie romance. Two people hurting someone with a slow dance.
And I'm sure it would take her to extremes if she knew what we'd done to her dreams.
With the love that we have, with the love that we hide.

Verse 3:
She does not see our deception, clandestine plan to meet.
I said goodnight to her early, she'll have dreams perfectly sweet.
She doesn't know, that together we will sleep.
She doesn't know, that lovers will deceive even their friends.

Verse 4:
For the love that we have, our silent tragedy.
For the love that we hide, I won't tell her what she can't see.
She didn't know, the evenings we had spent.
She didn't know, that lovers will deceive even their friends.

I Love Her
Story:

A pop song about a chase.

I imagined something out of the 1920's and
set in the French Riviera. A rich girl that
strings along a man who just can't break
away from her charms as frustrating as she
makes him feel.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
She said another time, another place, anytime or any place.
And though we never disagree, I think she's jealous.
She said, I love the best, I am the chase !
A moments rest, a moments pace.
And though we always disagree, I think I'm jealous.

Chorus:
I love her, oh I love her, i love her everyday.
I love thinking of her and I love it when she
says I'll never let you slip away.

Verse 2:
She often takes me for a fool at very best, or her tool to get the rest.
And what she gets, she needs the least but feels much better.
She talks of being a lovely motion picture queen and
of the scenes she'll steal on screen but any
part would drain her heart so she says never.

Verse 3:
She drives a fast Mercedes Benz, around the curves and through the bends.
And all her men she stears the same but with no limit.
she wants to live forever and a day, live it
all up in a day and given more time says she hopes to do it better.
She says she's the one I gotta face and in court she'll win the case.
If I should ever cheat or leave her for another.
I believe her when she says to me, oh Grey,
if I want to play around I'll play and though
you'll have to wait , don't fear I love no others.

In a Field of Dreams
Story:

A song about possibilities.

Liked the movie title and the idea that
anything is possible.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Anything's possible in a field of dreams.
Anything is possible even when it doesn't seem.
It adds up, it brings me whole. It is the
thread in us that pulls love through the seams.

Verse 2:
Anything's possible with a bald girl on my screen.
Anything is possible with no thirst at a desert stream.
It calls us, it whispers gold. it is the
thread in us that pulls love through our souls.

Middle Eighth:
I never listened to my dreams.
Now I only listen to my dreams.

Verse 3:
Anything's possible in a field of dreams.
Anything is possible when the sun sinks
to the sea. It sets sail. It floats a mystery.
It is the thread in us that pulls love
through tragedy.

Verse 4:
Anything's possible with a friend I've never seen.
Anything is possible as we talk of places we've been.
It holds us. It lets us know. It is the thread
in us that pulls our love between.

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In the Spring of Youth I Died
Story:

A song about looking back to your youthfulpast.

Simple chords, simple theme, all about
being young and some of the problems
that being young raises.

Lyrics:

We can walk this road together or run to a forest and hide.
Give yourself a place to be, dreams set high in the mind.
Walked right off the front lines of a brighter side of life.
Gave up all the hope once held and began to sympathize.

Eyes of steel in a rainstorm, won't pass for tears you've cried.
Pleasant thoughts gone far away for in the spring of youth I died.

Am I hiding from a new love or old loves chasing through the dark.
Give me a safe asylum where I can forget all your parts.
Loneliest place I ever visited was the place inside your heart.
Everybody screaming at me. "Now why won't you make a new start ?"

Misery loves company and such a warm friend I've made.
May not be the best place but it's the only place my head has laid
for a while.

I pray to the dead, all my friends gone that are dead.
Wish they could come back for a moment and show me through my head.
Don't know if they found any secrets or if they're keeping them back.
Just know I lost what I was living for when she left this young man's bed.

It's You and I
Story:

A love song with strings and the French cityof Toulouse, where I lived for two years,in mind.
I was motivated to write this after seeing
couples walking along the banks of the Garonne
river in Toulouse, France.

Lyrics:

It was a moment, when we walked in silence, beside taht river.
It was a feeling, that I saw in our hearts, along the Garonne.
If in a heaven there lies a love which cannot be broken.
It's in this place that you and I will stand forever.

It's a moment without any end.
It's a feeling when two just must begin.
It's a heaven of love all again.
It's you and I. It's you and I.

1992 Grey.

It's You and I (Version francaise)
Words and Music by Grey

30 April 1992

Verse: C'etait un moment ou nous marchions au bord de fleuve
C'etait un sentiment que je vis dans nos coeursle long de la Garonne.
Si au paradis repose un amour, qui ne peut mourir.
C'est dans cet havre que toi et moi resterons pour toujours.

Chorus: C'est un moment qui n'a pas ne fin.
C'est un sentiment ou deux ne font plus q'un.
C'est le paradis d'un nouvel amour.
C'est toi et moi.
C'est toi et moi.

Joyous Occasion
Story:

A song about youth.

I believe, as Jim Morrison said, that the
future is uncertain and the end is always
near but possibly there may be some hope
in the end.
However,don't count on it !

Lyrics:

Joyous occasion, beautiful vision
Everyone saying, Dionysus is dead.
Youthful invasion, across the nation
Authority saying, it'll be our death.

Got some good news for you.
It's a time we'll see them through.
Your gonna have the blues you few.
Who would hold us from our youth, in the end.

Love's dedication, hate is frustration
Everyone saying, they hate love.
Our movement is raging, just ask the nations
Authority dazed and asking for our end.

World's away they, stare to today
Authority saying, see our world today.
Youth so crazy, we are not so crazy,
All we are asking is to be left a place.

On a Cross Nailed to Your Heart
Story:

Torture and pain = a love song

I wanted to build a song around the title
I had. I felt that all of the ideas of being
tortured or struggling in life would apply.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Burning sands, burning suns. Parched lips grasp to be quenched by love.
Ivory tower, ivory steps lead up. Red walls chain me to your masonry of love.

Chorus:
Move me now, move me now. On a cross nailed to your heart.
Please me now, please me now. On a cross nailed to your heart.
Leave me now, leave me now. On a cross nailed to your heart.

Verse 2:
Tears fall, tears reign. tears of love resist being wiped away.
Fool of trust, fool of love. For you, nothing I can't do.

Middle Eighth:
And when I think it's over, she laughs and says
it's just beginning to take. So lay back, be
sober, she says, let us see what we can make.
Yes you're in my heart, in my heart.
Yes you're in my heart to stay.

Verse 3:
Nervous talk, nervous touch. So afraid I won't be perfect enough.
Walk so far, walk so close. Hope it lasts for tomorrow never knows.

Peasant Town
Story:

An imaginary road trip.

I had been reading a biography of
Jim Morrison and thought what if he
weren't dead but was in a sleepy little town
in Mexico and what if I were to run across
him and what if I were to party with him.

Lyrics:

Down to the village under scorching sun.
To see the peasants provide us with fun.
To rape and pillage our pocket books.
We're taking pictures cause we like the looks
that surround, the peasant town.

She took my hand and led me through the door.
Told me secrets that I already know.
The tourists call her beautiful.
And pray for their daughters to look so, but
do they know.

From the roadhouse, Jim and I come.
Getting drinks underneath a parasol in the sun.
Getting drunk until the evening comes round.
Stumble out before the sheriff puts us out
of his town, dusty peasant town.

Jim is still there under the sun.
Now part of the sideshow presented for money
for fun.
I ask if he'd sit and have a drink that day.
He said he couldn't I knew they'd stole his
heart away.

1986 by Grey.

Story Book Love
Story:

A song about memories.

All about what we remember and what we
want to forget.

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
She remembers love. She remembers hope. She remembers all those days.
And she'll tell you so.
I remember holding. I remember summer days. I remember souls.
And I remember how souls sway.

Chorus:
Trying to be innocent. Trying to reach above.
Trying to recover from a story book love.
Trying to make sense. Trying to see away.
Trying to leave behind me all those bad days.

Verse 2:
She remembers smiles. She remembers songs. She remembers dancing days.
I remember words. I remember wonderous days. I remember hearts.
And I remember how hearts can sway.

Verse 3:
She remembers Europe. She remembers the Orient. She remembers loving me.
And she'll tell you so.
I remember paris. I remember laughing days. I remember love.
And I remember how love kills.

All of a Tremble

I had some chords on the guitar that I was workingon and I wanted to work the words around it.
I focused in several ideas; truth, gold, fear, big brother.Really a free flowing word association exercise.Written in 1985. Recorded in 1991.
Free flowing word association for the lyrics.

Verse 1:
Formed of scenes shown separately.
Sideways from unsheltered skies to I.
Why come to see me here ?
Explanations are the only words of crime.
Farewell to arms and say, hello I say there
stranger take my worries away.

Chorus:
Won't feelings show true and make the blue feel new.
Yet I'm waiting for the answers alone.
And down, down, down we go.
To the bottom of the back seated row.
Setting suns will never show.
All of a tremble for the gold.

Verse 2:
Along these lines laid seemingly to hold back all those crowded fires.
Why come to be so near ? Your spoken words just aren't so clear.
Hiding there the trembling fears.
The men machines taking the things I once held so dear.
Once held so clear.

Verse 3:
Dancing round the open floor.
Trying to find the hand to go.
Setting suns have never shown, the look of
the people we let gold take away.

Conscience Calling

One person in a relationship trying to reach the other.They are the same but only one sees it.We all need mirrors to check our hearts and minds.
This was written just after my divorce.
I was 23 and thought that it was a very big deal at the time.
I learned that sometimes it is better not to try to salvage things, just them go.

Verse 1:
If you could see into this heart.
It's just a mirror reflecting your own guilt and sorrow.
If you could touch my held out hand.
It's just a cold skin much like yours my darling.
But if you hear a lonely voice like mine, it's not me, for it's you and your conscience calling, our conscience calling, my conscience calling.

Chorus:
If you could just open your heart, you'd realize what all the confusion is saying.
If you could just open your heart, you'd see it's time for us two to be beginning.
A future that never has these hearts, never these hearts apart.

Verse 2:
If you could see my sleepless nights.
It's just that your so tired from no sleep alike.
If you could hear all my crying.
But you're sobbing so loud my only darling.
And if you hear a lonely voice like mine.
It's not me, for it's you and your conscience calling.

M8:
And if the past was a bad dream, we'll wake up and start.
Start with no expectations but happiness in these hearts.
But it will still take three words to tell each other we're on the mark. And can you say them ?
It's "yes I will" and these words must come from your heart. Yes I will now !

Empty Souls

A mixture of mythology and classical literature and love song.In the end... they jump off the cliff ?
or maybe being together is the cliff ? You get to use your imagination and fill in that part.Written in 1988. Recorded in 1991.
I had been reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton and also The Divine Comedy.
I wanted to incorporate some of those themes and characters into a song.
I built a love song around it.

Verse 1:
I say, ah girl, let me take you down.
Follow me to the depths and see what really surrounds.
Come my young one close to the flame.
Feel the warmth of some 1000 years.
See Prometheus unbound.

Chorus:
Off the edge of the world, two go.
So long to lovers now, empty souls.
Off the edge of the world, two go.
A desperate exit for us, empty souls.

Verse 2:
Lie here with me and share the guilt.
To learn that the drink we take keeps us still.
Holding hands while the shadows evil kill.
All our dreams taken to eternity.
Below this earth we'll feel.

M8:
What's so different from those days when peace marched through the flowered paves ?
What's so different from those days when all we lived for was warmth and wine ?

Verse 3:
Through these chambers we walk alone.
Searching leave out of paradisio.
A requiem song all we know.
A taste of all happiness I've known.
Yet you and I must walk on our own.
A divine comedy is shown.

Farewell to Arms
This is on "Faded Colours"as it is anolder song recorded in 1987.
It with the other songs on "Faded" represents the first part of my songwriting and recording period.
This is a song that I wrote after being inspired by the novel of the same title by Hemingway.
Read the book instead ofwatching the movie versions ! It's great.

V1:
Tonight I see the stars, not just the war
torn skies. And it comes as really no surprise
that we must say a farewell to arms. A destiny
we could never forsake. This flight from war
will give our love freedom.

Chorus:
And I won't change my mind, and you don't
seem to mind, if I should take you away
to a much brighter day. For now we will say
our farewell to arms.

V2:
Across the lake is the shore of a new day.
In the silence, frozen air chills our faces.
This boat takes us farther from the storm
behind. Catching your eyes I knew I could
feel it. A sting of life as two hearts entwined.
The storm behind us no longer in our mind.

M8:
And this will be our side of paradise.
And you see the sun also rises on you and I.
Tender is the night that we spend together love.
Only shows the bells are tolling for you and I.

V3:
I a warmer bed than I had yesterday, your presence
feels new as I remember a time in the sun of
a sidewalk café. The war does as always still
rage but I won't be fighting in my old place.
Now between us there is nothing to keep us so
estranged.

In the End

This is the first song that I wrote. I was stillin high school, October 1981.
It wasn't recorded however until September 1991 while I was stilliving in Landstuhl,Germany. It is a winter song.
It was winter and I wanted something to convey
that idea and mix it with a love song theme.

Verse 1:
A time for coldness in which winter grows lonelier,
a sad song, in your heart.
A place that's barren and you're but the only one, let
yourself be a part.

Verse 2:
You travel long and hard and nothing seems to change,
could this be the end of your road ?
So depressed and feeling, feeling apart from
the things, the things that you've known.

Chorus:
The love you'll find in the end, will bring a smile that
you would send. A song of hope can give the heart to mend,
a love for two in the end.

Verse 3:
Leave today, I'll show the way to go, I know
you can grow.
Our ups and downs leave us with something, when our time
comes I know we'll glow.

Verse 4:
But will they get what they ask for, in the end ?
I know in the end.
And things are different, yet so unchanged,
for now I see, see what the cold brings to me.

Shadows of a Vanished Summer

Dedicated to a friend that committed suicide.
We spent alot of time doing all sorts of thingsthat we should and shouldn't do.
It's about thatand questioning myself as to why he did what hedid.
Dedicated to the memory of Raymond Earle Prince Jr.
Suicide 13 June 1986

Verse 1:
So far away. Too far for me to see, why on that day I thought a laugh, a smile would send your memories far away.
I cry. I try to run away. Why did we say that in this crazy world we'd reach a path to the end and slip away.

Chorus:
All you said goes by so fleeting.
A moment you should give me before leaving.
Shadows of a vanished summer.
Shadows of a vanished summer.

Verse 2:
Rains the same. The same rain everyday. And no umbrella overhead as the wind pours the clouds our way.
With sunny days, memories of a crystal lake. The lake, a bottle, and worries gone away. It was our path to the end so far away.

M8:
And even in those darkest moments. (In my darkest moments.)
Did you have to really cross that brink ? (I had to cross and see.)
If you could have showed me of those torments. (I couldn't show you.)
I would've never let myself sink. (I had to be free.)

M82:
And even in those darkest moments. (In my darkest moments.)
Signing your name on that note. (I had to leave a note.)
If you could have showed me. If you could've told me.(I couldn't show you.)
I would have never let myself sink. (I had to be free.)

Song of a Broken Glass

Another song about relationships gone wrongor just generally screwed in one way or another.
Originally titled "Emotional Baggage". Recorded in 1987. Enjoy !

I had the title line "broken glass" and of
a couple fighting about this or that and
one breaking a glass, simple enough right.
I later thought about one of them thinking
back and so we are looking at this event from
the present looking back. I also wanted to
use a mandolin and I found a place.

V1:
To change my looks I got that letter today.
I thought of her as them and she as me.
Turned to face a reflection to agree.
Seeing pictures could not relieve the pain.

V2:
This great transition, it just wasn't to be.
Thinking you true. Thinking to find you knew.
In your web of deception to my lair of deceit.
What we felt was for two. So two feeling unique.

Chorus:
Song of a broken glass. I don't miss the scene
of a broken past if only they would remain
to pass. Take a way but find it only turns
back, only binds my arms to her rack.

V3:
Soaking wet I sit with my bleeding hand.
Blood profuse still I thought the line amusing.
Caught a chill on the wake of a day.
Trying to leave but so forced to stay.

Take the Fall

Friends sometimes have one that would like to be more than friends and this is the case with this song.
One sees how another continues to see how the other is hurt. A relationship song; one in love the other just friends.

Verse 1:
I know we say we're just close friends.
I know we trade close secrets and yet I ask you to take my hand
and care for someone who has loved you all along.
Heartfelt I've always heard you speak of the others, heard you say I'm only a brother
and yet I can't break the ice.
Clenched teeth and tears on my cheek when we say goodbye.

Verse 2:
I still can see us standing there laughing.
I see the school, feel our rare attraction ,
for what we used to do and say, scoffing at those
who said our dreams would never pay.
I know we say we're just close friends.
I know we trade close secrets and yet I ask you
to take my heart and care for someone who has
loved you all along.

Chorus:
How is it that they always seem to hurt you ?
Always seem to hurt you most of all.
How is it that they always desert you ?
Always let you take the fall.

Verse 3:
In between the years and years now, waiting for something must I ask ?
Ask you to come friend take my hand, come be my love, be my love at last.
I know we say we're just close friends.
I know we trade close secrets and yet I ask you to take my heart and
care for someone who has loved you all along.

M8:
My dreams are filled with two silouettes who
stream across a misty dance floor twirling.
And the dreams we had in youth aren't gone,
only the people who laughed at us for,
doing so well together, friends in love,
while the others just don't know, know we're in love.

Trauma
A song about forms of communication and the past.Written in 1985. Recorded in 1991.
I had this idea of sitting on a bench, being
older and writing to a friend about past events.
From there it developed into this song.

Intro:
All of a tremble after what's been said.
The trauma resembles those thoughts in my head.
Wind and rain under clear grey, the city bends
to tradition, adverse conditions, watch the
go'ers get gone, while I'm ...
(last intro:..just sitting there writing.)
Verse 1:
Writing my dear friend and this message is binding,
so find out by trying, what more of a sign need you to have.
Calling hello there and numbers go where they won't be missed,
in your black book list, here write it on this.
Looking toward my dear friend, my eyes signaling, let us leave this place
to those left standing, their task a talk to deceive.

Chorus:
My dear friend I've come to the serious end.
Lying to myself I know, Yes I'm so sure.
Nothing is wrong, no words have been committed.
Yes I'm so sure.

Verse 2:
Hearing those nostalgic words, think of times we had,
truantly mad and so glad to have left our school.
Running out the back ways, all to save your days, an only
days you say it's where you might be.
Calling hello there and numbers go where they
won't be missed in your black book list, write it on this.

Don't Deny Me

A songabout a guy in love with a girl from New York of Puerto Rican heritage.
A love song.

V1:
Don't deny me, don't deny me tonight.
What you don't say, love I like.
Don't leave me, don't leave me tonight.
I need you and I only said hi.
So love me now, love me right.
Oh, I need you tonight.

Chorus:
You got a way. You got a way with words.
You got a way. You got a way with your eyes.
You got a way with, you got a way with my heart.
You got away with my heart.

V2:
Ask me why. Ask me why. If I had an answer I could try.
Ask me why. Ask me why. It's because I love you deep inside.
Tell me now. Tell me now tonight. Do you love me or is it all aside ?

M8:
Leave me in New York, a winter alone.
Leave me on an island your parents call home.

V3:
Don't tell me. Don't tell me no tonight. What I can't say you read in my eyes.
Don't tell me. Don't tell me no tonight.
So love me. So love me right. Ah, I need you tonight.

The Promises Obscene
A song about language and how one thing said by one person can be taken by another as possibly obscene.
An implied statement. We never hear it so we have to use our imagination.

V1:
He was a boy just 17. He wanted love. He was so damn hungry.
And if she touches him I know he'll scream.
And if she does the promises obscene.

Chorus:
Yeah that little girl makes me wonder.
Yeah that little girl goes to extremes.
She can take you through the might and in the morning still wind you tight.
Yeah she does the promises obscene.

V2:
She was a girl of 23. She wanted love. She was so damn hungry.
I showed her things she'd never seen.
I touched her right, yeah, I made her scream.

V3:
I was scared of being free. I told her words I'd never heard.
I promised things for which I wasn't sure.
I wanted that girl next to me.

Can It Be ?

The impossibility of a good thing happening to a guy yet it does.

I started with the question "Can It Be ?" and went from there with a pop song in mind.
Written 20-21 March 1989.

V1:
Yes me, I can't tell if you're on or off, just couldn't say if you are real or not, what you say.
Please be, and don't lead my mind astray. I've just no heart for that kind of play, and when you say.

Chorus:
I've never it it off any better, ever felt so good in this weather.
Can it be ? Can it be ?
I've never hit it off any better, with you I feel a change in the weather.
Can it be ? Can it be ?

V2:
Yes me, I can't tell if I'm on or off, just couldn't say if I'm real or not, won't you say.
Please be and don't lead my mind astray. I've just no heart for that kind of play, to you I say.

V3:
Yes you, you can turn me on or off. You can make me real or not. I say you !
You could call me up when you want. You could leave me for many months, what you say !
I say you, you can turn me on or off. You can make me real or not, what you say !
I say you, oh all I say is you, all I say is you, and what you say, what you say.

I Got A Moment

A song about having the time to give if another would take it.
Written 3 Nov 1989.
V1:
I got a moment to spend, why be so lonely ?
I got a moment to spend, come be my only.
And you got a moment to spend, why be so lonely ?
And you got a moment to spend, be a friend hold me.

V2:
I see a time to live, why so tired inside ?
I see a time to live, I'm coming out to try.
And you've got the time to live, why so much inside ?
And you've got the time to live, so let's leap to fly.

Chorus:
All we really need is.
All we really need is love.

V3:
I got a moment to spend, why be so lonely ?
I got a message to send, if you'll be the only.
You see the start of the end, so sleep till the morning.
You scream, "No not again !" and you leave your fears showing.

V4:
I took your hand to the wind, storm clouds glowing.
I grasp a bottle to pretend that two hearts were growing.
You said we should begin but couldn't say when.
You said that love was trend but such a fitting end.

If Love Is So Easy
The title says it all with this song.
An example of having a title and working a pop story around it.
Written and recorded in July 1990.

V1:
Must have held a dozen thousand hands.
Could have kissed no less than a hundred girls back then.
Woke up beside so many girls with the lovely tans.
Nothing to show but a lonely heart, a lonely heart in the end.

V2:
Spent every dollar I ever got in hand.
Wined and dined and movied every chance I ever had.
Diamonds are forever, so the ad, it read.
Forever's getting shorter or three weeks is what they meant.

Chorus:
If love is so easy - why don't I know ?
- why won't it show ?
- did I study the wrong book in school ?
- why do I feel like a fool ?

V3:
Swing out little sister, let yourself go.
Put it all up front. I'm looking for love you must know.
Swing out little sister, don't mind this heart on my sleeve.
Swing out little girl, you know, you could never go wrong with me.

It Looks Familiar

A relationship getting closer but not yet stated as such.

Written July/10 Aug 1990.

V1:
Lost direction. Got alot of emotional detention.
She won't let me show it and no she won't throw it.
Insecure dedication. Gonna take her medication.
Try to swallow and know. Trying always to show.

Chorus:
Swaying hearts playing the parts.
Waiting the days not to be lonely.
Swaying hearts, passionate answers.
Wanting to say I'll be your only.

V2:
Deep admiration. Got alot of education.
She won't hear it and she won't come near it.
Close scrutinization. Gonna forge examination.
Probing her glowing. Wanting her knowing.

V3:
Crush alienation. Gotta take her foreign nation.
She can't see it. She can't believe it.
Worship. Idolization. Gotta grab her realization.
Taking her form. Feeling her warmth.

M8:
It looks familiar but we turn away.
It looks familiar yet she won't say.
It looks familiar and I say love, I say.
It looks familiar but sometimes it takes much more
for two hearts to give each other away.

It's All I Need

A song about a girl getting ready to commit suicide. Sometimes reality is just too much for some.
I wanted to put suicide and the idea that a friend knew but couldn't stop the girl.
Written 20 Oct 1989.

V1:
I know it's the situation. I know it's her dedication.
And I understand it's all I need.
She tells me her situation. She hints at the implications.
And I understand she has my need.
On the verge of reconciliation. I grab for some vindication.
And she lets me down to the world to see.

V2:
She sells me on her true intentions. Takes a rope from the closet the instance.
And I understand she's leaving me.
I know it's the situation. And she hints at implications.
And I let her down to the world to see.
So sad I wouldn't stop her creation. It's all to think her gone to the station.
On the train that will never bring her home to me.

Chorus:
Down to the world, down to the world to see.
We all need a little. We all need a little.
Down to the world, down to the world to see.
We all need a little. We all need a little.

V3:
The cold stone makes for decoration. Tells of her life in a short summation.
And I understand she did succeed.
I told another of my situation. They thought I was leaving the same station.
They couldn't see it was advice I was giving for free.
And I feel for those at the station. They have got their reasons and their indications.
But I can't cry for all who are near to me.

It's In Season

About some people treating love as if it were a fashion.

I just got the idea that alot of people do not take very seriously their relationships.
I had been married and divorced at (20-22) and so this song also poses alot of "why" questions and "why" reasons for that experience.
Written 31 Mar 1989.

V1:
Was it all for convenience or true to start ?
Did we use our heads to feel or our hearts ?
Now moving in shadows as shade from the truth.
How we let it slip away, blaming ignorance on youth.

Chorus:
And it's in season to just let love go.
And it's in season but I just won't, no I just won't let love go.

V2:
Was it only in movies we played our part ?
Did we make what could never make a new start ?
Now it splinters every time I want to see you.
How we let it fall just to feel new.

M8:
And I move to , to be into, to find we two.
And you see to, to be into, is to find you.

V3:
Was it a puzzle where we both feel to pieces ?
Did we not stop to see the incompleteness ?
Now it brings me the winter through spring breezes.
How we took away a lifetime so easy.
Was it a scenery change that we needed ?
Did we run from a deluge of pleases ?
Now one is all I am as it leaves me.
How we ask of each other, believe me ?

She's Just One

My friend John Hill had talked to me about writing a song about a girl who "got around" the post where we were stationed, Landstuhl, Germany.This is what became of it. It has much that didn't happen on base, in terms of drugs but the rest applies.John's voice is heard at the beginning saying, "This is where it all begins" and I state, "you can't say that" and John says, "well I did in It's A Wonderful Life".Two inside jokes here. The first part is the beginning to a Cult song popular in 1989. The second was that it was Christmas time and John did a pretty good James Stewart imitation.John would be dead a few years later and I look back to this song beginning and other songs that didn't make the CD's here.

Written 4/5 July 1989.

V1:
Grab my hand, let's run to the door.
These rooms of crazies and the drugs they adore.
Let's take a ride down the motor strip.
Let's take our passions out and just get ripped.

V2:
Pack your bags and head for the door.
You got the nerve but you still got to go.
Ah, my dark-haired women with the stringy dress.
Just take her number and you'll get her address.

Chorus:
She's just one for the town, the whole town.
She gets everybody off. Yes she does the whole town.
She'just one for the town, the whole town.
She does a crazy shuffle. Yes, she does the whole town.

V3:
Watch her move. Oh lord how she roams.
Got inspected. I just had to know.
Taking the money she glides across the floor.
She laughs when they kick down the door.

Shuttered Door

Three different situations of life put into one song.
A song about taking the chance in life that may lead to your dream.
We know it doesn't turn out that way always.

Written 27 Dec 1989.

V1:
She sits in the garden dreaming of one that would take her love away.
And in the springtime such a newborn but age gathered faster each and every day, oh lord why ? !
And in the summer when he stood there, she couldn't see him, she couldn't see him, oh lord why ? !
And in the winter all the wuthering and she would cry lord bring my time back,
she screams oh lord why ? !

Chorus:
Only for this day can we live.
If we never get another, take this chance and live.
Only for this day can we live.
If we never take another, we may never get another chance again.

V2:
His dream wasted as he stood in those construction lines.
Always dreaming of a future where water would turn to wine.
And the sweat didn't get him any closer to his tomorrow.
Got his gray and the shattered dreams that followed,
he screams oh lord why ? !

V3:
They held hands walking from the schoolyard, always loving.
Thinking about the two degrees and the house on the hill that someday they would buy.
With the drugs and a new kid they could never make it happen.
Now in the bottoms with less that they could have imagined and they scream, oh lord why ? !

Some Days I Don't Want To

Just as the title states. Why ? Because some days it would be better to stay in bed and dream.

Written Aug/Sept 1990.

V1:
Some days I don't want to;
-move with this shuffling town.
-talk to people all around.
-or hear those voices putting me down.
Some days I don't want to;
-hear that you love me most.
-talk to the stranger's lost.
-or move myself from this bedroom loft.

Chorus:
Some days it's;
-stranger than the life of a roving salesman.
-odder than the man with the whistle wailing.
-ancient as the fish in the deep sea sailing.
And here I ly;
-in a large bed dreaming.
-where only stars can see me.
-with orange moons believing.
-in a large, a large bed dreaming.

V2:
Some days I don't want to;
-ever leave you love alone.
-walk without your hand in hold.
-or leave for work when we could both be moaning.
Some days I don't want to;
-eat dinner at the corner stand.
-see TV until the fuzz comes around.
-or tell you love is really dirty in the sand.

V3:
Some days I don't want to;
-give my life a second chance.
-talk dirty to you in such sexy pants.
-or take work serious when I'm in a trance.
Some days I don't want to;
-do all my dirty laundry.
-face those bills piling up on me.
-or read the news of another war coming.

The Same Sky

Heather once told me that during the summer we'd have the same sky over our heads.
I wasn't aware that she knew anything about science.
She meant more of course. This is a love song based around that idea.

Written 18 May 1990.

V1:
I can't go home and I can't see your face.
Don't want to take the town.
Don't want to be in this place.
You can't say no. You can't see a way.
Don't want to wait with me.
Don't want to leave your heart in this place.

Chorus:
Hearts entwined.
The same sky above our heads.
Two people sobbing.
The same sky above our heads.
The same sky above our heads now.

V2:
I dress in white. I am ready to say.
Don't want to be in love.
Don't want to leave your love in any way.
You undress with eyes.
Don't want to hear the words.
Don't want to give your love away.

M8:
Never alone. Never together
Always on the phone talking love to our best friends.
Feeling so warm. Filling our spaces.
Always talking love like a drug that leaves us wasted.

V3:
I pace my room. I can smell you scent.
Don't want to be alone.
Don't ever want to hear another say you said.
You could leave me and you could take a lover.
Don't want a love with me.
You don't ever want to get out of my bed.

Whisper It's All True

A song gives and takes. A few real names thrown in for fun.
Real life mixed with fiction.
Written 1 Dec 1989.

Intro:
The past is just a window, makes the future contrast.
The present just a wonder if I could ever make it past.
The future just a blind slate, makes me wonder what I'll present.
The minute is the matter and I have had all that I can have.

V1:
She took a piece of my window.
She took a piece of my sight.
She had the motion to make me leave you.
She had the movement of a lie.
Be it in a shape of the past that I see you.
Be it in a voice like yours she knew.
Being all that I was, was washed away.
Being all that I should, got away.

Chorus:
Whisper to the wind love.
Whisper to a restless soul.
Whisper it's all true.
Whisper it's only you.

V2:
You cried in the car as I said I had to leave you.
I cried out in laughter as I knew that I was free.
Being all that I know now I can't believe it's true.
Seeing all that I do, know it was only you, what'd she do ?

V3:
Becky in the corner, yes we see you, see you.
Dawn in the night, yes I feel your hands.
Ivy got a case of the me's I can't help you, help you.
Rhonda had the only reason to pass me by.

Stop the Car

October 1994

V1:
She told me she was going home,
but said, I don't even know where I am.
I wouldn't recognize anyone and,
if I did, I'm not sure I'd really care.

Chorus:
Stop the car, who's driving ?
It was my life before I lost the keys;
I was crying.
Must've left me here
and I'm needing directions; I feel so cold.

V2:
She told me he had taken her heart,
but said, I never really needed it anyway.
I couldn't feel it and when I did,
it just hurt me day after day.

V3:
She told me love was very cold,
but said, I've never really loved anyone anyway.
I wouldn't recognize it and if I did,
not sure I'd want to guess I'm out of luck.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums - Mikey Harbour
Piano - Steve Harwood
Backing Vocals - Jerry Patterson

Dying in Denial

15 June 1994

V1:
"Spike me I feel so blue I need it !", she begged.
"I feel better closer, to dead, than to be scared."
Faces flush red and we're closer to dead, closer to dead and...

Chorus:
Dying in denial, I got no, I got no problems.
I got no problem dying. I got no denial. I'm not dying !

V2:
"Drink this, you'll feel good, you'll need it !", he said.
"Let's do this bottle together, time to fly, time to spin and die !"
But it's better when our blood runs thin.

V3:
"Take this rock candy, we'll need it !", she said.
"Let's smoke this gun together, time to fly, time to spin and die."
But it's better to die without our same old fears.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour

Addiction

14/21 Feb 1997

V1:
She's so scared behind her door. She just can't let it get to her tonight.
It's so hard in such a mood, not to take it and just give up the fight.

Chorus:
It's gonna make you, gonna make you feel so nice.
It's gonna break you, leave you darker than the night.

V2:
Loud and soft and left to scream, she feels it run through her like a storm.
Underneath her breath she says if I could only escape its charms once more.

M8:
Scream out loud if it's horrifying and when it pushes you to fly say good-bye.
Tell your friends it's okay I'm not dying, I just up it before I start the ride.

V3:
Through a moment of in-between, she ends it all so sure that she is right.
Looking back in my memories, maybe I'd be wrong to say that she wasn't right.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums - Mikey Harbour
Backing Vocals - Jerry Patterson

Sex Is....

25 Dec 1991

V1:
Sex is rebirth. Sex is redemption.
Sex is a place where the empty find attention.
Sex is a word. Sex is a visual phrase.
Sex is the place where you don't have to behave.
Sex is.... Sex is...ahhhh !

V2:
Sex is a power. Sex is a vision.
Sex is what you get when you turn on the television.
Sex is your sister. Sex is your brother.
Sex is called incest baby when these two get together.
Sex is.... Sex is...ahhhh !

Chorus:
And this brings to mind
the world's terrible state.
Everybody equates love as sex
and I agree (disagree).

V3:
Sex is a part of me. Sex is all of you.
Sex is right baby, you know it's all what
we should all do.
Sex is sacrifice. Sex is a feeling your dying.
Sex is holding someone to whom
you know that you've been lying.
Sex is.... Sex is...ahhhh !

V4:
Sex is politics. Sex is election.
Sex is a vote for the leader with an erection.
Sex is rich. Sex is poor.
Sex has no class that it doesn't employ.
Sex is.... Sex is...ahhhh !

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums - Mikey Harbour

This Is The Time And This Is The Place

21 Sept 01

V1:
Morning glories and psychedelic shades.
In a green-laden garden on purple haze.
And the day isn't important because they're all the same.
I feel no worries and I've got to say. I've got to say.

Chorus:
This is the time and this is the place.
Space to dream and space to play.
No other moment is in our way.
This is the time and this is the place.

V2:
Traffic all around and making my way.
CD's loud and speed pushes me.
And the job isn't important as there's more out there.
I sing along and I think it's true. I think it's true.

V3:
Night is closing in and here with friends.
Laughing and talking about our lives again.
And we see the end yet we dream away our days.
We love each other and life is flowing away. Life is flowing away.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour
Backing Vocals - Jerry Patterson

Enough For Me Tonight

22 Oct 00 / 20-22 Nov 01 / 01 Dec 01

V1:
Why try ? Why even, get up and go out at all ?
Why me ? Why must I, be anyone's friend at all ?
Why think ? Why do what, others do for me so well ?
Why be ? Why have feelings when I don't feel anything at all ?

V2:
Why walk ? Why move as I'm, not really needed at all ?
Why run ? Why must I, hurry through life at all ?
Why yes ? Why say yes, when all you want to say is no ?
Why three ? Why a number that breaks a two and laughs at us all ?

V3:
Why say ? Why do they, say we don't care at all ?
Why you ? Why must I, feel these feelings for you at all ?
Why love ? Why love and, risk a break to your heart ?
Why two ? Why does it always take the two of us to a fall ?

Chorus:
I can't answer why.
And so you know, I don't know even try.
To discover you and feel the truth.
Is enough for me tonight.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour
Backing Vocals - Jerry Patterson

So...

06 Aug 2000

V1:
It seems such a long time, such a very long time ago,
That we were together and said that our love was forever, so...
Only a short few days or years ? It's still a blur and we were in tears,
And you were saying and I was saying, so...
Beautiful and mad, out of our minds, desperately sad,
All over again, we'd probably end up, probably end up, so...

Chorus:
I am drowning, please let me drown.
I am screaming, please don't hear a sound.
Inside, Inside, Inside.
The feeling is good but, to me, unsound.

V2:
It seems such a waste of time, how could I ever know, you were right for me,
and I was right for you, so...
We were on such a collision course, couldn't steer and couldn't rejoice in all
the love we knew and the hate of two, so...

V3:
It was just a feeling, a feeling that couldn't last.
So it was doomed to fail and we said what the hell, so...
And I believe it was just the sex. So damn good. Maybe the best.
And we destroyed ourselves over nothing more, so...

Vocal - Grey
Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar & Bass - Jason Harbour
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour

Walking Today

18 Feb 2000

V1:
Walking today and wondering what to say,
oh I know she'll be there at two.
So afraid and wondering what to do,
oh she knows I'll ask for sure.

Chorus:
Try to be as calm as I can.
Mature and smart and cool but I see myself,
playing the fool, playing the fool again.

V2:
Lost everyday and lost in every way,
oh I want to be near her again.
So afraid and what do I say,
oh she makes me feel just like a kid.

V3:
Walking today and walking away,
oh I knew this love couldn't be true.
Just another day and I'm feeling free
but I'd like to feel that with you.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar & Classical guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour
Piano - Steve Harwood

And If You Knew
19 Oct 2000
V1:
Don't feel sorry, it's all about normal and if you knew how normal,
you'd probably do yourself in.
Don't feel lonely, it's everybody's torment and if you knew about torment,
you'd probably jump off a bridge.
Being sorry, it's all about the end and if you knew about the end,
you'd probably do yourself in.

V2:
Don't feel angry, there's always fear and if you are afraid,
you're as sane as can be.
Don't feel horny, it's all in your head and if you use your head,
you may create more than you think.
Being lonely, it's all alone in bed, no covers to share and no voice to hear.

V3:
Don't feel claustrophobic, it's not closing in and if you were that close in,
you'd scream clawing at the lid.
Don't feel holy, it's so slow a journey and if you know how slow,
you'd probably run to sin.
Being a martyr, it's all about giving in and if you give in to death,
you'll never live to see the end.

Chorus:
Try to take a piece at a time, anymore is just less, life is already a mess.
And yes we've made it.
Try to ease your mind from the stress, just do your best, life is this mess.
Don't complicate it.

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour

Take You Off My Mind
February 2001
V1:
I've got books out the ass but I don't feel like reading.
I've got movies on a list but I don't feel like seeing them.
I could call you up but not sure I have a reason.
Maybe there's something else to take you off my mind !

V2:
Changing channels till I'm bored and yet I can't stop believing.
I haven't seen them all yet the numbers are repeating.
You still come to mind so I click it like a demon.
Is there something that'll take you off my mind ?!

V3:
Got a lot of homework but the pages aren't turning.
You were sitting in the class and I was looking at you learning.
You may be the one but I'm the one hurting.
Is there something that could get you off my mind ?!

Chorus:
And if I go on playing, this game that is so frustrating.
I'm very sure I'm going to lose my mind.
And I don't know what I'm saying, don't know why I keep on waiting.
Just keep anticipating that you will be mine

Vocal, Bass, & Rhythm guitar - Grey
Lead guitar - Jason Harbour
Drums - Mikey Harbour
Piano - Steve Harwood

At the End of the Bend

(By Yvan Mirouse)

V1:
Shiny chain. A shiny chain is on my neck.
On your mouth, ... losing my time.
I seek the silence of a quiet house.
I still drive, but... I don't know where I go.

V2:
Flee the shame. Such a shame, it's far away.
A holy crime,...sullies my soul.
I have the remorse of a schoolmaster.
Who has raped a child, oh no, oh no.....

Chorus:
She was just an object.
A vicious desire.
An angel of innocence.
I seek the silence of a quiet house.
I still drive, but... I don't know where I go.

V3:
Excuse me girl. Please get dressed now.
We are both,....victims of the joy.
I seek the silence of a quiet house.
My dooms waits for me...at the end of the bend.

Vocal, Bass, Rhythm guitar & Mandolin - Grey
Drums & Synthesizer - Mikey Harbour
Piano - Steve Harwood

Love and Not Money
7-12 Jan 02
Words and music by Grey
V1: I wanna buy the world a day off. Wanna buy my girl something cool.
Cho: But I have love and not money and I don't know how to give it all away.
V2: I feel a time is coming for our world. Feel a day will soon decide it all.
Hope to say it was really worth our heart. Hope to say it was really worth our call
V3: I think that I wanna be the one on top. Think I wanna be the one who never stops.
I believe that nothing is in our way. Believe that what we do will surely stay.
I wanna buy myself a day off. Wanna buy my girl something cool.

A Moment
30 Mar 02
by Grey

V1: I'm wondering if you'd like to talk ? Was thinking we could take a walk around the corner of our lives.
Maybe we could get some coffee ? Both admit how we're both sorry of all those affairs, we only hurt ourselves, and still.
V2: I was wondering if you'd like to start ? Was hoping that we'd both see in our hearts a view that stretches to the sea.
Maybe we could sail to the islands ? Reach a place where love is hiding
an anchor ourselves, leave well enough aside, and try.

Chorus: And it would only take a moment, to start this out.
Set aside your doubt, being open is what we can't do without.
And it would only take a moment, so please let's now.
Set aside our doubt, being open is what we can't do without.

V3: I was thinking that life is so very short. Was feeling we'd do better to sort out us and find a point of view.
Maybe we could end this hurting ? Start it over and try enjoying all that's left of this love that's ours, and then.
V1: I was wondering if you'd like to talk ? Was thinking we could take a walk around the corner of our lives.

S. P. R.
Words and Music by Grey
June 2002

Need to say I thank you.
Need to say I love you.
Need to say you've changed my life.
And my world is better because of you.
Yes it is.
Thank you, thank you tonight.

Soldiers
Words and Music by Grey
5 October 2002

V1: We regret to inform you, who was once here now is gone.
We had the guns but they had the numbers, all we could was stand our ground.

Cho: But it isn't always so bad, some days they're not all our best friends.
And just when you think it's over, come the memories flooding back again.

V2: We regret to inform you, nobody wins when this days done.
We had to carry some out but there were the others still on the ground.

M8: Life is coming always. We must be ready.
And dying is part of it, while living is being steady.

V3: We regret to inform you, you'll look back and think of them.
We had those times together and we made some lasting moments then.

All in the World
Words and Music by Grey
22/23 September 2002

Cho: All in the world. All in the world, girl.
All in the world. All in the world, girl.

V1: In a moment of decision. In a moment of crisis. There's the wisdom.
So much derision. Added to the living. There's the system.
And nothing is fair to anyone at all.

V2: Hope for the kingdom. Hope for the people. There's the sword.
So much love. Added to our lives. There's the wisdom.
And nothing is fair to anyone at all. (2)

V3: Once a world of vision. Once a world of tradition. There's the change.
So much at stake. Added to this wake. There's the blame.
And nothing is fair to anyone at all. (2)

Something Like Perfect
Words and Music by Grey
14/19/20 December 2002 // 26Jan 2003

V1: I'm feeling something like hysteria.
I'm saying something like love.
I'm hoping something like you and I.
Everybody tells me you're the one !

V2: You're looking something more than beautiful.
You're saying something more than one.
I'm showing something more than adoration.
Everybody says that we're in love !

V3: They're saying something like inseparable.
They're glowing something like the sun.
I'm certain everybody knows it.
Everybody smiles when we're around !

V4: He's looking something like dedicated.
They're feeling something like being one.
She's telling everyone it's forever.
Everybody knows they're having so much fun.

Chorus: And I'm so sure. Yes I'm certain, someone's watching over us.

She's Going Home
Words and Music by Grey
25 December 2002 / / April/May 2003

V1: I'm glad she's going home.
She still feels, and when one is so lonely.
Maybe feeling is just too much to bear.
When one is so alone.
One is the loneliest, and when you're going home...
Maybe the surest friend is there.

V2: All up in the air.
Everything thrown to the wind, and then it settles.
Maybe unsettling describes it to well.
When one is so afloat.
Ripped and torn by the wind, and then you're landing.
Maybe the fall won't treat you unwell.

Chorus: I climb the stairs of a thousand. People are there.
Holding out their hands and welcoming the wear.
That's on my face, that's in my soul.
Everyone, everywhere knows, it's in them. (it's so clear)

V3: She's cleared up the air.
Feelings new and sure, and soon it appears.
Oh, it's certain that she's unafraid.
When one is in the clear.
All is within reach, and for each a surety.
Their brand new day is there.

The Haunting
Words and Music by Grey
27 January 2003

V1: Odd to see. So strange to feel.
The black shadow floated through the living room wall.
just talked to me.
Although it's light. It's not safe.
Light can't protect you nor will it send away the thing that.
Just touched your leg in bed.

Cho: And it's a haunting you see. So hard to believe. What can it be ?
And it's a haunting you see. So hard to conceive. Until you see.

V2: Hard to believe. Who can I tell ?
Movement on the shelves and the raging sounds of hell.
All so vividly.
The figure there. Glowing red eyes.
Moving slow and telling me now the family; they've all got to die.
V3: Next to me. An icy chill.
Thoughts are stirring, yes they're stirring and they're telling me, yes.
Yes, you've got to kill.
Moving slow. So sure we'd go.
In our hand, a weapon can and with a thirst and a lust to.
To let blood flow.

Shallow
Words and Music by Grey
August 2002

V1: If insides were out and outsides were in.
All could be seen and everyone would win; except you.
Because you're shallow and you're thin !

V2: If downsides were up and upsides were down.
Balance wouldn't exist and all would be missed; except you.
Because you're shallow as a clown !

Chorus: Change is hard to do and change is all around.
And what it doesn't do for you, just can't be found.
Not in this town.

V3: If sideways were straight and upright were twisted.
All would be sure and everyone uplifted; except you.
Because you're in the shallow end.

V4: If the truth were lies and all the lies were wishes.
All would be a dream and everyone deceived, except you.
Because you're such simplicity .

Flowing

Words and Music by Grey
April 2003

V1: Flowing down the river of life.
Going with the current, so alive.
It's all I can do to hold back the truth.
Yes, it's all I can do when the world comes through.

Cho: And in the mirror finding nothing that's mine.
Look a little deeper to see the empty lines.
Where will I be when the world finds,
That the flowing is life and the lines are fine.

V2: Just one moment at a time.
Never knowing where to find.
The reasons out there, or to you in that chair.
And the reason I care is because you are here.

V3: Spinning in this universe so blind.
Moving to an end without seeing why.
It's all I can do to look for a clue.
Yes, it's all I can do when the stars shine through.

If Only
Words and Music by Grey
3-6 June 2003

V1: If only this moment would last forever.
Then surely it would be mine.
And all that I don't know would come.
And all of our lives would be fine.

V2: If only this day would end okay.
Then certainly it would be kind.
And all that I hoped for would be.
And all of this mess would be gone.

V3: If only I could be the genius.
That they all expect me to be.
Then all of that stress that I feel.
And all of the pain it would spare me.

Cho: I'm waiting for some inspiration.
I'm waiting for someone to come.
And I hope it'll be better tonight.
As all that I am now is unsure.

V1: If only this moment would last forever.
Then surely it would be mine.

Popularity
Words and Music by Grey
May/June 2003

V1: Who's gonna be there when it's gone away ?
Who's gonna see you when your story's played ?
And who's gonna want to be your friend ?
When all you do is try to mess with their heads !

Cho: And that's your popularity.
So what do you think now that everyone's turned away ?
And here's to popularity.
Where playing the fool is the lead role you ultimately play.
Last Chorus repeat:
(Where impressing the next , showing how you're the best is king.)
(Where you lower yourself just to fit in with what others say.)

V2: And you can pretend it's going away.
That your little click is gonna go your way.
But you're such a prick that they're gonna say.
Find yourself another place to be !

V3: So two at once might to you seem the way.
But in the end a decision must be made.
And who's gonna want to make your bed ?
When all you do is cum and then go away ?

Innocence Lost
Words and Music by Grey

19-20 Dec 1989
V1:
Innocence Lost but it's the same blue sky.
I see the others with that same look in their eyes.
I can't remember when I must have crossed that point.
And now naivete's what I need to calm those thoughts.

Cho:
Only for this day can we live.
If we never take another, take a chance and live.
Only for this day can we live.
If we never take another, we may never get another chance again.

V2:
His dream wasted as he stood in those construction lines.
Always dreaming of a future where water would turn to wine.
And the sweat didn't get him any closer to his tomorrow.
Got his grey and the shattered dreams that followed.
He screams oh lord why ? !

V3:
They held hands walking from the schoolyard, always loving.
Thinking about the two degrees and the house on the hill that someday they would buy.
With the drugs and a new kid they could never make it happen.
Now in the bottoms with less than they could have imagined, they scream oh lord, why.

Dream Country

Words and Music by Grey

April 1990

V1:

Just a dream and she's on my mind, lying beside me all the time.
And I can't wake up. I can't wake up.
I'm losing my sleep, my time. I think of her during the day and here in the night she climbs, my dream country inside.

Chorus:

And all the day goes by so fleeting. A moment she should give me before screaming.
I don't move and I can't see why she needs to be inside all the time.
(--Because I don't want to wake up her mind.)
(--I don't want to wake up and find she's leaving my dream country.)

V2:
I'm not gonna move for fear she takes me completely to the end of my life.
I don't have the time to waste, to escape her reaches, she always teaches me
and I need to run because I swear it's her at night.
She climbs, she climbs my dream country inside.

V3:
I'm not feeling. I'm not stealing her words or taking her feelings to account.
It's not me, it's her and I'm singing, singing jealousy in my dreams.
In my day, in my nights, it's me because I need her.
She's not to blame because it's me in my dream country.

The Laughing Dance Song

Words and Music by Grey

21 Aug 1991

V1:
We felt the same. Just a sea of leaves and over it our dance through the trees.
And hand in hand. Autumns rustling waves and lovers splashing once again, thinking only of how they.

Chorus:
Dance, dancing in the sun and never once a worry.
Laugh, laughing in the sun while all the others hurry.
Dance, laughing in the sun.

V2:
It's so easy. A loving place and happiness shining over our faces.
We give it all and giving nothing away makes it so much fun, leaves us where we want to be.

V3:
Some people would say, you kids will grow up some day and have to face some sorrow.
But it's safe to say. Gonna prove them all wrong and dance and sing our song.
Show them how we have won by.

M8:
If you don't feel you're the one.
Don't be discouraged because you only need love.
Think of your heart as a burning sun.
And put a ray of love on everyone.

Yes, She's the One

Words and Music by Grey

17 Dec 1991
V1:
All in a moment. A trigger for the passion crime.
She won't admit it but to deny it doesn't even come to mind.
And so she waits in a space for a decision over how much this time.
They say she's a killer for a thriller but the men still wait for a turn.

Chorus:
She's you lover, she's your mother, she's whatever you need at the time.
She's your mistress, she's your sister, she's whatever you need at the time.
Yes she's the one.

V2:
She says I couldn't be guilty not even of a romance crime.
Yes I loved that one but to murder would be too very kind.
I was going to break his heart yet make it a painful time.
Show up with another, yes a lover, who'd look so much better than my kind.

V3:
She held a razor to her wrist asking why should he climb ?
Never to let her go she screams, my name is mine.
And she sees his going as just a matter of time.
On to another, one more lover, because they're all just waiting in line.

Hammer of the Gods

Words and Music by Grey

Fall 1986

V1:
Dark skies fill the eyes where a hand in hold is cold.
Another night with you my love and another piece of my heart dies.
Anything to please my love and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

V2:
Waves roll over the heartbeat where the wind is always cold.
Another day with you my love and I promise myself I'll leave.
Anything to turn the trick and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

Chorus:
Darkness at noon. (2) Daylight fades and all I see is darkness at noon.
Drakness at noon.
Darkness at noon. (2) Daylight fades and all I see is darkness at noon.

V3:
Storms roar overhead where the umbrella stops no rain.
Another night with you my love and all senses dead again.
Anything to please my love and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

V4:
Fog veils the street as I walk the winds that blow.
Another day with you my love and I promise myself I'll go.
Anything to please my love and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

M8:
Can't you see I love you. It's not a whim or a flesh delight.
Why won't you say forever. Don't be so scared it's such a very short life.
For we are on the wings so don't hold back this flight.
Ask yourself, ask yourself, aren't I what you need tonight ?

Real Friend

Words and Music by Grey
Spring 1986

V1:
As I wanted so to visit you at home.
You'd flown from our country and lying in the summer sun.
I could not find you when I finally reached the beach.
To find you'd gone to winter in a Munich retreat.

Chorus:
Rich man's daughter has gone out to see.
What makes the world turn. What makes you burn for me ?
Rich man's daughter has gone on a fling. What makes your world turn ?
I ask you now, won't you be a real friend ?

V2:
Caught you in the ocean sailing for Seychelles.
A native attraction to the shade of the green sea.
I gave you the message but you'd thrown it into the water.
You say I disturb you yet you ask me back tomorrow.

V3:
From the lights of Paris to the London fanfares.
I walk alone in search of the girl with the ruby hair.
I make for New York to find you in deep despair.
Dying inside while your world is free.

Sexual Thing

Words and Music by Grey
July 1986

V1:
Says she won't take her love with a sting.
Says she knows what a rushed affair will bring.
She says happiness is waiting in the wings.
She say our love, she says our love is only a sexual thing.

V2:

Says she hears only passion in those words I've said.
Says she wants our love moving a step ahead.
She says happiness is waiting in the wings.
She say our love, she says our love is only a sexual thing.

V3:
Says she knows I'm rehearsing, words so well-timed.
Says she won't have another, no, not a glass of wine.
She says happiness is waiting in the wings.
She say our love, she says our love is only a sexual thing.

Chorus:
You can stay for less than an hour or you can take a trip to the city
lights, but ask yourself, ask yourself, aren't I what you need tonight ?

V4:
Says she won't promise her heart without a ring.
Says she knows what a rushed affair will bring.
She says happiness is waiting in the wings.
She say our love, she says our love is only a sexual thing.

M8:

Can't you see I love you. It's not a whim or a flesh delight.
Why won't you say forever. Don't be so scared it's such a very short life.
For we are on the wings so don't hold back this flight.
Ask yourself, ask yourself, aren't I what you need tonight ?

Darkness at Noon

Words and Music by Grey

August 1986
V1:
Dark skies fill the eyes where a hand in hold is cold.
Another night with you my love and another piece of my heart dies.
Anything to please my love and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

V2:
Waves roll over the heartbeat where the wind is always cold.
Another day with you my love and I promise myself I'll leave.
Anything to turn the trick and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

Chorus:
Darkness at noon. (2) Daylight fades and all I see is darkness at noon.
Darkness at noon.
Darkness at noon. (2) Daylight fades and all I see is darkness at noon.

V3:
Storms roar overhead where the umbrella stops no rain.
Another night with you my love and all senses dead again.
Anything to please my love and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

V4:
Fog veils the street as I walk the winds that blow.
Another day with you my love and I promise myself I'll go.
Anything to please my love and make the smiles come out alive.
Another night with you and heaven I can't find.

M8:
Can't you see I love you. It's not a whim or a flesh delight.
Why won't you say forever. Don't be so scared it's such a very short life.
For we are on the wings so don't hold back this flight.
Ask yourself, ask yourself, aren't I what you need tonight ?

Tears on the Canvas
Words and Music by Grey
May 1984

Verse 1:
Can we see what we are doing to ourselves in the world ?
Say we know who we are choosing for ourselves. We don't know.
Maybe someday, find the right way, to express, what a mess, we've made.

Chorus:
If I painted a picture. It would be so bleak as our world is.
Tears on the canvas streaked to be unique.
And colours change, from clear to grey, as our world does.
Tears on the canvas. Hearts melting away.
Hearts always seem to melt away, like my day.

Verse 2:
Will you feel me when I'm reeling ? Do I look tired today.
Can you be there when I'm lonely ? Is there anyway to tell ?
a-[Will you find the answers only to display a different way we've made.
b-[ Maybe someday, find the right way, to express, what a mess, we've made.

Verse 3:
Do you love me when I'm lonely ? Is there any way to tell ?
Someday I will see the only, part of you , that won't show.
Maybe someday, find the right way, to express, what a mess, we've made.

M8: Brushes always stained in grey.
My canvas bleeds of love, of love gone away.
The smock I wear over the heart has one big tear.
Tears I cry streaked in red and grey.
Grey like my day.

Tears in the Rain

Words and Music by Grey

June 1984

Verse 1:
Look to see what is the future. I have seen things you people couldn't believe.
I have no memory speaking this eloquently, might just prove to be true,our close relation, looming animation to the stage of a space.
I have shown sycophants just what to say, to repudiate.

Chorus:
Being thrown together. To the ends of wherever.
I have see moments you couldn't believe.
I as the last am cold to the pain.
Andd al these memories will pas as do tears in the rain.

Verse 2:
All those men controlling my answer. I think to be only their intrinsic man.
Are they not changing, their minds arranging, all but.
This will to live grows stronger each day. Hold fast to those you call acquaintance.
I have seen dying, full scale desolation, eradication to...

Verse 3:
Finally I am here to repudiate the end. No possessions to leave or family to see.
I have no memory of tears and the pain.

Spoken: I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire
off the shoulder of Orion. And these images are never ridden from your mind.
Do you know what it I s like to be destroyed from inside and to out.
You can't move and you can never shout. And all these emmories will pass as do tears in the rain.

So Much the Same

Words and Music by Grey

March 1985

Verse 1:
No travel and no see of the things I wanted to be. I still think of what I never heard you say.
Acting was the only word to use out of fantasy. It was nothing new to me or for you.
And to write about the situation, a movement to regain my senses to sensation.
Once, once again.

Chorus:
I'll tell you. So to be in your view. Is so, he's so, she's so.
We're so much the same.

Verse 2:
Never passion on shouldered tears, through a city of torn eyes.
Hands like ice. It wasn't the same as we'd planned.
No move. I got no play. All that's left to say. Is I give into this shattered truth.
On a string must I dangle in this world so tangled.
Take me away. Show me, show, diversities play.

M8:
Are you alone ? Do you feel my presence ? Am I on your mind ?
Or just one of the tenants?
Do you have these feelings ? Am I out of your way ?
Should we be dialing? Or are we too cold to say ?

V3:
First asleep, then asking, why did you call ?I'd only been a friend and this line so far.
So cold to my feelings once that you had stayed. And all those times, all those times just seem so blown away.
To look and see no one, not a friend in the least. An irascible person, one who never ever heard of me.

Emotional Baggage(Song of a Broken Glass)
Words and Music by Grey
October 1985

Intro:
I carry and a year has gotten in front of me.
I am weary for close again is an autumn breeze.
In the midst of summerit feels so very cold.
Feels more October beacause I don't miss the sun.

V1:
To change my looks I got that letter today.
I thought of her as them and she as me.
Turned to face a reflection to agree.
Seeing pictures could not relieve the pain.

V2:
This great transition, it just wasn't to be.
Thinking you true. Thinking to find you knew.
In your web of deception to my lair of deceit.
What we felt was for two. So two feeling unique.

Chorus:
Song of a broken glass. I don't miss the scene
of a broken past if only they would remain
to pass. Take a way but find it only turns
back, only binds my arms to her rack.

V3:
Soaking wet I sit with my bleeding hand.
Blood profuse still I thought the line amusing.
Caught a chill on the wake of a day.
Trying to leave but so forced to stay.

Once in a While

Once in a while, I see a face, reminds me of yours and another time.
And once upon a time, it was you and I, and all those days were fine;
What did we have in mind ?
But back then I come to reality, the usual, and I sigh, why oh why ?

It’s a moment of zen and then I see.
It’s a moment that couldn’t be repeated.
It’s a moment of when and then we see.
It’s a moment of endless frustration.

And then sometimes, I hear a voice, reminds me of yours and when
we were young.
Once we were inclined, to hold onto, each other through the wine,
what did we really love ?
But back then I come, to reality, the usual and I sigh, why oh why ?

September

You want to bring your religion. I say come on down, we’ll play.
You say you’ve got a mission. Well I have got one too, it’s you.
You see yourself as a hero. We see you as you, a zealot fool.

And now we find we must turn your land into glass.
You took our innocence and now we’re taking it back.
Say goodbye to all that you know, the flash will warm you.
We’re taking your people, you think they’re innocent, we’re so sure.

You want to trade ideologies. Well I’ve got a trade for you,
a slap with a shoe.
You hope confusion will reign, but you see we carry through,
in looking for you.
You see yours as the only way. We see more than one and we see you
with a gun.

You want to conquer our fears. But we’re not afraid so soon, of you.
You see yourself as a fighter. We see a coward in a cave,
a religious slave.
You see the people embrace us. And you can’t stand this truth,
so you lose.

“Once Upon A Time”, Believed.

Warm feelings. Eyes squinting against the sun.
Words weeping. All the stories about one.
And it seeming. Today is the longest day of all our lives.

A warm breeze. And through the trees the voices hum.
Winter ceases. Yet without our friend we’re numb.
And it will be. Today’s a new life yet it’s lacking one.

Happier days were once certain.
No worries. No fears. No sadness.
“Once upon a time”, believed.
And everyone as mad as the hatter.

Granite gleaming. Letters much too cold to touch.
Friends beside. All around lifting you off.
And yet we see. You’ve left us memories for the evening dusk.

So hard leaving. One by one, we walk away.
Give me healing. Not sure I can take this much.
And we see. Your short life was not enough for all of us.

Round Girl

Once I was proud of… having been around the world.
And I knew once a girl who…
A girl who was round. Pretty and sound.
Loved to go down and was my friend.

Once my friends knew of…us being two, together.
And they at once were saying…
That girl is round. Pretty but unsound.
Loves to go down but isn’t your friend.
Who are these friends of mine ?
Do they really know me or really want what’s mine ?
Who are these friends of mine ?
Would they really show me or really leave me blind ?
Who are these friends of mine ?
Will they leave us be or be just so unkind ?

Once she saw how I was…unsure to stay with her as...
All of my friends were sure that…
She was too round. Pretty and unsound.
Loved to go down yet I wasn’t her friend.

Fell Into

And there were you and I.
Traveling through the wilderness of life.
And though we tried and tried.
We just couldn’t make it work, and…

Fell into… the abyss of alcohol and drugs.
Fell into… the way that was blind and so unkind.
Fell into… moments where the only exit was in tombs.
Fell into… the search for a way out, search for a way out.

And there seemed to be no end.
Walking forward but not toward anything.
And though we loved and lived.
We just couldn’t get it right, and…

I’m falling down but it seems to be so real.
I’m looking around and all of you seem to feel.
Like you want to see what happens when I fall.
Like you need to know what happens when you step
into the unknown.

And the rain, it flew in streams.
Drowning all our hope and happiness.
And though we longed to see.
We just couldn’t find our way, and…

The Moth

It’s looking for you cause you’re happy.
It has searched you out as you are so content.
Your world is coming down.
Your feeling very scared.
Because you knew that this way may very well be your end !

Yeah that’s it. Lights out. It’s all over.
It’s never what they told you.
If you live through it, you’re sure to be stronger.

You’re looking at it because you must.
You are running to it cause you must know the truth.
It’s a reality coming down.
It has you more than scared.
Because you must know you are so very unsure.

To us they’re electrical impulses, punching through our reality.
To feel our souls or just to see how it is to be, because they can
and because we can’t stop them, no !

They’re looking at us because they can.
They’re telling us more but not making a change.
Our world is all around.
Our world is bigger still.
Because you can’t see it all does not mean that you can feel.

America

It’s not about a first one.
It’s not about a last one.
It’s not about just one.
It’s about America.

Everyone has come with a vision.
Searching for a place to live and hoping to just live and breathe it free.
Everyone who wants to see it. Risks it all to try and be here.
Hope at last to spend their days in peace.

It’s about being spirited.
It’s about self-driven.
It’s about endurance.
It’s about America.

It’s somewhat a steeple chase.
It’s somewhat a crap shoot.
It’s somewhat a point-moot.
It’s about America.

There’s always a big risk.
Always a sure twist.
Always a tight fist.
It’s about America.

Super Ego

It’s all up it’s all down. It’s all about what’s going around.
It drives all the money. It’s ratings.
It’s a win. It’s a loss. It’s the throw of the toss.
It fuels all the money. It’s ratings.

And blindly so many follow the lead.
Spoon fed and told just what they need.
Bow down and sell your soul to me.
I’ll take it all and more cause I’m greed.

You’re once lost. You’re once found. You’re being tracked on the net.
You’re still buying it all. You’re yourself.
You’re a figure. You’re a get. You’re seen only as the rest.
You’re eating it all. You’re yourself.

Life is soft. Life is hard. Life’s so long on the screen.
Life is in bed with the future. Life is sex.
Life is hot. Life is cold. Life’s so very hard to hold.
Life is one big thrill. Life is sex.

Spiritual Cemetery

In a spiritual cemetery again. I called my friend, said, what’s going on ?
Can you save me from going wrong ?
This world’s gone down hill so fast, how long can it last ?
Can we go on ? I wonder all day long.
People killing each other for a crumb. Just ask how come.
And what do they say ? Hasn’t it always been that way ?

And no, there ain’t no good reason why we should spend another
season in hell.

In a spiritual cemetery again. Got a call from a friend asking.
What’s going on ? Can you save me from going on ?
Please don’t ask me to help you die. It makes me cry.
To think we’re so lost. You know dying won’t help our cause.

In a spiritual cemetery again. I called my friend.
And ask her, “Are you gonna be fine ?” “Are you gonna be mine ?”
She said, “It’s always only been a matter of time. I knew we’d find.
That I’ve always loved you and you’ve always loved me.

Love Song

Sing me a love song. Words which bring a warm feeling home to me.
I feel alone.
Tell me of your heart. Bare all your secrets so I can see.
Just where to touch.

It’s lovers dancing, without music, all alone.
It’s lovers walking but with no real place to go.
Why can’t this be you and I ?

Are you alone girl ? Do you like what you see in the mirror ?
Your eyes seem so worn.
You run and you hide. Yet always a smile. I sense a tragedy.
Tell me if I’m wrong.

Open your heart girl. Leave a space for yes they’ll be others.
Who’ll treat you nice.
Look to this bright day. For you might say then, looking back.
I acted the fool.

Altar

I saw Ghandi. He was in Delhi. Waving a flag that said peace to man
and all the nations.
We were in Warsaw. She was exploding. People were running.
The skies rained of bombs and the streets of occupation.

This is but another altar in the church of hate.
But another, altar in the church of hate.
Let us altar this church of hate.

I saw Lennon. He was in Amsterdam. Wagging his tongue, he said
All we need is love to have peace and patience.
We were in London. She was weeping. Smoke everywhere.
The IRA had bombed Victoria Station.

I saw Kennedy. He was in Dallas. A smile. A wave.
Bullets took a man from a needy nation.
We were in Berlin. She was undivided. People were shouting.
This is our spirit. A joyous occasion.

I don’t listen anymore when my neighbors say.
“There just isn’t love around like we had in the yesterdays.”
No, I ain’t gonna listen to their bullshit traditions !
They’re only politicians selling their hypocrisies to the weak !

The Promises Obscene

He was a boy just 17. He wanted love. He was so damn hungry.
And if she touches him I know he’ll scream.
And if she does the promises obscene.

Yeah, that little girl makes me wonder.
Yeah, that little girl goes to extremes.
She can take me through the night and in the morning still wind you tight.
Yeah, she does the promises obscene.

She was a girl of 23. She wanted love. She was so damn hungry.
I showed her things she’d never seen.
I touched her right, yeah, I made her scream.

I was scared of being free. I told her words I’d never heard.
I promised things for which I wasn’t sure.
I just wanted that girl next to me.

Chanson

Words by Victor Hugo / Music by Grey

Si vous n’avez rien a me dire, pourquoi venir aupres de moi ?
Pourquoi me faire ce sourire, qui tournerait la tete au roi ?
Si vous n’avez rien a me dire, pourquoi venir aupres de moi ?

Si vous n’avez rien a m’apprendre, pourquoi me pressez-vous la main ?
Sur la reve angelique et tendre, auquel vous songez en chemin.
Si vous n’avez rien a m’apprendre, pourquoi me pressez-vous la main ?

Si vous voulez que je m’en aille, pourquoi passez-vous par ici ?
Lorsque je vous vois, je tressaille, c’est ma joie et c’est mon souci.
Si vous voulez que je m’en aille, pourquoi passez-vous par ici ?