Blood to Bone

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Lyrics: Gaffney
music: Reed, Derby: Keller

it feels like I’m just kidding myself sometimes
when nothing ever works as I design
trusting, caring, hoping, sharing
feeding more and more from my own spine

heart becoming stone
blood to bone
now I feed on my own lie/
now listen to my cries

I’m I so wrapped up in it all
that I can find my way out?
I’m I so late
that it crawls into my own spine

heart becoming stone
blood to bone
now I feed on my own lie/
now listen to my cries

I must turn away from it all
I must look away before I fall on my back
facing the sky

turning away, looking away from my own disgust
fighting I pray, ready to pay
who can I trust if I can’t trust myself--
blood to bone
now I feed on my own lie
heart becoming stone
blood to bone
now listen to my cries

For You
lyrics: Gaffney
music: Walter, Derby, Keller, Reed: Gaffney

we do the best we can with what we’re given
trying to take it all in stride
compassion is obstructed by the way your livin’
thinking of what’s there of you inside

*   turn into what they want
turn into what they want for you
for you

each day I wait with a new thought on my mind
what can I do? what can I see?
wondering what the day has in store
yet, they’ve already decided for me

*
-break-
*

Five Hundred Megahertz
lyrics: Derby
music: Walter, Derby, Keller; Gaffney
 

oh, the shallowness
of the materialist
I can only afford
to be a minimalist
keeping up
keeping up ‘till you explode
keeping up

five hundred megahertz
just to make me hurt, just to make me hurt

unable to stand out
in a metropolis
one of the million
one of the million
a dog eat dog
climb to the top
a dog eat dog
climb to the top

five hundred megahertz
just to make me hurt, just to make me hurt
 

Feel the Peace
lyrics: Gaffney
music: Derby

how can we talk about peace and happiness
when our lives are filled with daily strife and stress?
how can we see all that is beautiful
when our eyes are covered making us into fools?

 the only one that makes me feel the/that peace
is you
is you---

look out at me, mending me, molding me, bending me
into all that I am now
the state of mind were in
when all the world looks grim
I know I’ll always have you to turn to

the only one that makes me feel the/that peace
is you
is you---

you are the one that sustains me
the only one who contains me
the only one that sees inside me
inside me
inside me
 

Wing of a Prayer (into the churn)
lyrics: Derby
music: Walter, Gaffney

before the best laid plans put to rest
allowing the passage of time to breath
with all the burdens of stress strewn behind
the power of passion and pain it seethes
an unexpected turn
a rhythm of random
a grasp into the churn
in tide into the tandem

to take on a life of it’s own
step into organic process
to command a tide on a turn
maybe on the wing of a prayer
step into organic process
grab the moment when it’s there
# when all your plans lie in ruins
you’ve yet to learn the lesson
shit happens when it happens
in a world of second guessing

an unexpected turn
a rhythm of random
a grasp into the churn
in tide into the tandem
 -break-
# when all your plans lie in ruins
you’ve yet to learn the lesson
shit happens when it happens
in a world of second guessing