i did a little bit of editing according to shannon

Hard Feelings

we live in a lie
the constant lie
family of eyes
talking about common sense
coming through the bedroom window
shine across the ceiling
can't sleep in the nation of imagination
you can tell by the way i talk

i got hard feelings

two mirrors in the middle of the world
passersby thinking modern love
some sensations are better than others
some people's love isn't strong enough

we got hard feelings

we want the common desire
the fantasy is a weird dealing
we've been told pleasure kills
but don't get nervous
you can tell
you can tell by the way we walk

We got hard feelings

You can tell by the way I talk
You can tell by the way we walk

We got hard feelings

(Some people's love is strong enough)
We got hard feelings

Million Star Hotel

sick at heart, oh, city doctor
the city doctor on the 21st floor
i can see that city doctor
he can't help me anymore
the dust settles, i won't be kissing
that diamond ring anymore
he'll be looking out the window
i'll be walking out the door

that man built the city
and put up a fight
when the woman made a noise in bed
i'd just like to see it in a natural light
black water at a million star hotel

i need to see the country doctor
able-bodied, easily confused
we need to lie together
under changing weather
teach the animals to sing a tune

i'd just like to get out of the city tonight
fall back we must run
i'd just like to see it in the natural light
fallen daughter in a million star hotel

living on a little too much information
where's my black water?
where's my loving cup?
no more rags, oh
no physician
city, my city
my time is up
i can't see what i've been given
for all sights on what i want
medicine, my path is missing
for the roads i'm walking on

i'd just like to see it in the natural light
black water at a million star hotel

Trans Canada

there's no short cut
and no straight line
how am i to find the sleeping country?
ghost horse in my head keeping time
wandering lines

trans canada

hot dice keep rolling
try to lose our nothin'
now familiar, now forgotten
to get the prize
forget the song
we're here and gone

trans canada

I had that vision, brother
the one about you, brother
we did ride, ride on the shining path together
the black angel
i was on his side
burn ourdeep river
looking into the night
no vacancy
so long
trans canada
hell and gone

Shower of Stones

oh, love can be a shower of stones

said i never felt this far from home
i never felt this good before
i watched as the sky was falling
i watched as the sun explodes
it was like nothing
nothing that i'd ever seen before

oh, love can be a shower of stones

said i forgot all my other names
everything i thought i knew before
and all the tallest mountains have fallen into the ocean
and it was nothing that i'd ever seen before

oh, love can be a shower of stones

rain it down on me

and after such love we're gold
stripped to the bone
a shower of stones

oh, love can be a shower of stones

Our Age

i was not up for saying grace
hung up before our love had faced
a table set with spinning plates
only our age between us

you remember the young living
there was no real forgiving
every age coming back
wonder on at our innocence

i was that hungry little one
a pot of gold
or a rising sun
hung up on my confusion
my age was all, all that i was

you remember the young living
there was no real forgiving
every age coming back
wonder on at our innocence

make no mistake
are strong words
lessons learned
live longer
make no mistake
are strong words
lessons learned
live longer

you remember the young living (are strong words)
there was no real forgiving (live longer)
every age coming back (are strong words)
wonder on at our innocence (live longer)

it's only our age

Time Can Be Overcome

now, architect
now, archeologist
now a man whose hand's in the past
somebody's made to face the changes
somebody's built to last
what do you know
still living so young
tomorrow's no burden
time can be overcome
time can be overcome

no need yet to caution
no need for amen
yesterday'll break your heart
tomorrow'll kill you dead
hounding history
time can be overcome
all real and familiar things undone

chisel and hammer
raise the ruined architecture
i will love and understand her

what do you know?
still living so young
tomorrow is no burden
time can be overcome
time can be overcome

time can be overcome

Brother Run Them Down

Too many hospital rooms
Too many hanging nails
come living rights
come desperation
you are not your generation

days look down can ruin them
brother run them down
live and let your hand undo them
run them down
come working nights
come paranoia
come any hard time laid before you

too many restless years
friend of me or an embassy
in the middle of the night
in wavering devotion
you are not your generation

days look down can ruin them
brother run them down
live and let your hand undo them
run them down
come living rights
come desperation
you are not your generation

you come home from your good work
and i come home from singing
we'll go out and recognize each other
from a common beginning
we will bring a silence
here i am before it
i should run before her
can she deafen me?
this is a song for sensitive man
???  rather we keep (?)
let's pretend to ???
i sing so i can sleep

days look down can ruin them
brother run them down
live and let your hand undo them
run them down
come living rights
come desperation
you are not your generation

Credit River

so you decided to declare bankruptcy
said at least it brought out something bad in me
say i feel like half the man i used to be
is there any place left for me to go?

friend, i know the hounds of debt, they do get hungry
desperate times will set you often wandering
is there place under the moon where i can still get a room?
i can take you to the one place that i know

gonna live on credit river
gonna kiss up to the greatest giver
and we all will be delivered
gonna live on credit river

this place was all that i once knew
was all i needed and thought true
was now in debt that nobody could undo
hate to sign my way to a better debt

gonna live on credit river
gonna kiss up to the great misgiver
till we find ourselves a counterfeiter
gonna live on credit river

well i may be in the red but i'm still hungry
so far gone but still eating on that golden plate
why don't me and you take it to into the blue
push off those fancy banks and set sail

gonna live on credit river
gonna kiss up to the greatest giver
and we all will be delivered
gonna live on credit river

I Will Not Sing a Hateful Song

we've become the outer order
live our lives along the borders
get up in the evening, face our others
to make the sign we been born under

i was bitten by a man
trespassing in a psychic state
one well-heeled boy, one simple man
it's such a long and living wait

i will not sing a hateful song
thought it's in me to sing
i know to drink the blood is wrong
that undue error brings

born to prowl, self conscious people
living free of consequence
speak strange words louder
damn the witness, and damn the dead
in self-defense

i was also born and raised
to always speak and listen clear
to know that the last sound that i make
could be the last sound that i hear

i will not sing a hateful song
thought it's in me to sing
i know to drink the blood is wrong
that undue error brings

New King

your mother and father walked out of the city
bound together as they were bound to be
to pull a fortune from a river
drank the syrup from the trees

kith and kin when the ice gets thin
will forage and will fend
as you deliver we'll begin to deliver them

your father on the radio
your mother on the hill
with these words, together
with their bodies and their wills

kith and kin when the ice gets thin
will forage and will fend
as you deliver we'll begin to deliver them

show your faces, hear the sound
there's a new king coming 'round

you came to this world naked
to be set inside the hand
there we'll nurse and decorate you
and learn you how to stand
in your mother's leather jacket
in your father's cotton shirt
walk out into the light
go down deep into the dirt

kith and kin when the ice gets thin
will forage and will fend
as you deliver we'll begin to deliver them

show your faces, hear the sound
there's a new king coming around

your mother and father walked out of the city
bound together as they were bound to be
they'll build a bed for new beginnings
with driftwood and fallen leaves

Life or Death

i keep a lighter in my pocket
since the fall of 2005
i was there waiting on a reformation
i was lucky to get out alive
i was looking for a knife
for a place to begin again
was i mad, dreaming of a drug
a drug to rob a man

life or death

transmission from the liberation front
broken english on invisible wires
so far gone i cast a shadow
i believe i was born a liar
i was looking for a knife
for a place to begin again
i was a man losing his voice
words misused, things unsaid

life or death

come one, sweet nameless noise
a second son that learned to speak my manner
it’s new for us and free of understanding

i was lucky to get out alive (life or death)

Do What You Can Do

i wish a twelve lanes of peace and quiet
and all speed away from human sorrow
you and i, we're gonna break even
two animals on the road to animal heaven

do what you can do with what you got

tonight i wish i was dying there
punching air from cathedral to cathedral
playing endless dear organ keys
pumping never ending air against evil

do what you can do with what you got