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Beautiful U
Cradle me (with love)
Lust From 17
My Reality
No Place Like Home
Proof
This Moment
Two Nations (Conflicted)
What’s Your Name
Why Can’t I Quit You

Beautiful U

U float through me like a feather in the wind
carrying the stories of the days before
And like that history u bring me joy
With u I've found simplicity
I found someone to build a home
I thank the Divine for blessing me
and I thank u for making me whole

Beautiful u, beautiful me
Beautiful love, I feel so free
Beautiful day, beautiful night
Beautiful dreams as u hold me tight

I surrender, I surrender to u
I surrender, I surrender to u
I love u, I love u, I love u, I really do
I love u, I love u, I love u, I really do

Beautiful u, beautiful me
Beautiful love, I feel so free
Beautiful day, beautiful night
Beautiful dreams as u hold me tight

Cradle Me (with love)

I’ve been a sinner
I’ve been a saint
I’ve walked that thin line between love and hate
I’ve cried some tears enough to cause a flood
I’ve lied down with a stranger just to find some love
Oh cradle me one more time before I go
Oh cradle me my pain is deep you’ll never know

Cuz when you give love
You can take love
Hold on tight the night is strong
I’m going up to heaven to talk to Jesus
To send you love
Cradle me with love

I’ve danced with my demons
I’ve juggled my fears
I’ve looked into the face of God
And he looks like you my dear
I’m now an angel
My wings are white and long
So please stop your crying
And remember me with love
Oh cradle me one more time before I go
Oh cradle me my pain is deep you’ll never know

Cuz when you give love
You can take love
Hold on tight the night is strong
I’m going up to heaven to talk to Jesus
To send you love
Cradle me with love

Cradle me with love
Cradle me with love

Cuz when you give love
You can take love
Hold on tight the night is strong
I’m going up to heaven to talk to Jesus
To send you love
Cradle me with love

Lust From 17

Hush little baby wrapped in a mother's arms
Stealing chokecherries dancing in the cottonwoods
Petrified of the bottle so afraid of the fights
Can’t go to sleep cuz of the ghost that comes at night

At 11 years my momma took me to a better place
And in my down south family, I found my strength
But we only stayed a year or so
and then we had to move on
Back to the place where it had all begun

I stuck out in the choir talked my way through state
16 and I'm a champion and my soul is starting to ache
And then

Lust from 17
ever since I saw James Dean on the movie screen
I finally understand my dreams
I know what they mean
Lust from 17
ever since I saw James Dean on the movie screen
I finally understand my dreams
I know what they mean
And I see everything

A couple of years go by I've exhausted my Dakota fun
I moved to the city and now I'm 21
Summertime in NY it's a hot afternoon
and I don't have much to do
I hung with Bonnie and Clyde
I met up with a stranger and I hitched a ride
another year goes by and now I'm 22

Dancing in a nightclub with my see through thong on
Doing cocaine in the backroom
Jimmy got a blowjob for 25 dollars
I have to give him credit on the extra 5
Sifting through resumes 9 to 6, 5 days a week
I have to get out of here
Flash forward to the next year
nothing seems to be going right
I'm 23 years old daddy's no longer alive

So I hoped a plane to Paris and I danced in Amsterdam,
I flirted with danger in Stockholm too
I left my heart in London
returned to the States and now I'm 24
Johari's Window is my source

Love and leave
Leave and love
Where am I going
What have I done
Love and leave
leave and Love
Time goes by and now I'm 25

My first band ended in a disaster
the second grew fate to the planes
So now I'm flying solo through my music and my pain
I opened up to God once more
threw some hot sex into the mix
Another years goes by and now I'm 26
and I've had

My Reality

Your ex-boyfriend, did he look like me?
Your ex-boyfriend, did u fulfill his needs?
Your ex-boyfriend did he sing u love songs?
Your ex-boyfriend did u love him at all?

And when u call to him, it sends me running
And if I wait for u I could be missing something

But this is my reality;
I have nothing more I can give u now
This is my reality
I'm just a simple man who's living for the love of God
But if u want to take a chance
I can promise truth and I can promise to dance
Cuz love could just be around the corner
or u could chase it like your past Saturdays
But I want to be with u here and forever
my reality is that I want u to stay

Am I your boyfriend is that what u call me now?
Am I your boyfriend is that suppose to make me proud?
If I'm your boyfriend, you're only sleeping with me
If I'm your boyfriend, mine's the only love that u need

And if u call to me, I may come running
And if u wait for me, well this could be something

And if u say u love me, I'll come running
And if u say u need me, well we could be something

But this is my reality;
I have nothing more I can give u now
This is my reality
I'm just a simple man whose living for the love of God
But if u want to take a chance
I can promise truth and I can promise to dance
Cuz love could just be around the corner
or u could chase it like your past Saturdays
But I want to be with u here and forever
my reality is that I want u to stay

So come and dance with me, set me free
Come and pray with me, set me free
Come and touch me, set me free
Just say u love me, I need to breathe
Just say u love me, I need to breathe

No Place Like Home

I fell asleep in the merry land of Oz
I didn't wake until I heard your call
I looked around but no yellow brick road did I see
Mine's one of dirt of stones it will make you bleed
And I admit I've got some monkeys on my back
This wicked witch keeps going on the attack
I've got the heart, I've got the courage I've got the brains
Need to release and free myself from this shame

But there's no ruby slippers for me to click
No tornados to take me away from this
No magic phrase to sing
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I wanna go home

I found love and it was in my back yard
And then I left I had to travel far
Past Emerald City to the place beyond my dreams
To meet the wizard to try to find some peace
And I admit I don't always have the heart
Yes I admit I could use a brand new start
Over the rainbow oh why oh why can't I
Need to release I need to learn how to fly

But there's no ruby slippers for me to click
No tornados to take me away from this
No magic phrase to sing
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I wanna go home
Just like mommy just like daddy
Just like mommy just like daddy

Proof

I’ve reconciled my differences
I’ll never be a centerfold
I’ve been denied a thousand or more times
I broke the window I’m coming through
And I tried to be true
To give my best side to you
No such thing as trying I’ve just got to
Let it all go and start a new

But there’s just no use
Cuz nothing gets to you
I could bleed and you’d still want proof
Help me God I feel so confused
I need some prayer to get me through

I can’t escape so I write lullabies
I think about smoking again
I’ve testified, I’ve justified and I’ve lied
Still chasing a dream and I see no end
And I’ve tried to be true
To give my best side to you
No such thing as trying I’ve just go to
Let it all go and start anew

But there’s just no use
Cuz nothing gets to you
I could bleed and you’d still want proof
Help me God I feel so confused
I need some prayer to get me through

Chorus again

But there’s just no use
Cuz nothing gets to you
I could bleed and you’d still want proof
Help me God I feel so confused
I need some prayer to get me through

Chorus again

This Moment

I used to be the guy that your mother warned u about
The kind that would leave u breathless,
leave u hanging in your doubt
It's funny as I write this because now all I see if your eyes
The sweet way that u smile,
the way you're keeping me satisfied
Because…

It's funny how life can change in an instant
Thought I would grow up to be all alone
I grew comfortable with the thought of my hair graying
I grew comfortable with the skin hanging off my bones
It's funny as I write this because the sky has opened wide
I never thought I'd find a lover,
someone to be stand by my side
But…

Last night I danced with the devil
and today I woke with God
And u placed your hand on my body
and u smothered me with your love
And the stars came down from the heavens
and the seas parted like your legs
And I abandoned my innocence
and I asked if we could stay In this moment
Can I have this dance?
Do we dare take that chance?
On sweet sweet roses and sweet sweet ecstasy
Our bodies move like honey
your love brings me to my knees
Oh sweet sweet candy kisses and sweet sweet turtle doves
Our minds blossom like your garden,
our souls surrender to touch

I used to be the guy that your mother warned u about
I used to be that guy but your love turned me into a man

Two Nations (Conflicted)

I am conflicted I come from two nations
Do I need to choose one in order to feel whole?
I am conflicted my mother is brown
and she lives on a reservation
I am conflicted my father is white
and I know that he’s never coming home
The blood of the men who have died
rushes through my body
And the blood of the women who have died
courses through my veins
And I stand with the buffalo as I ride in the elevator
I know what I’m not but I don’t know who I am

In this land of confusion full of white man and the Indian
Do I try to make a difference or do I turn and walk away
To the land of abundance full of technological wonder
Buy a house in the suburbs on the land
where freedom was sold
The blood of the men who have died
rushes through my body
And the blood of the women who have died
courses through my veins
And I stand with the horses as I ride in the elevator
I know what I’m not but I don’t know who I am

I am conflicted I come from two nations

What’s Your Name

Just one glimpse of you is all I need
Knowing that you breathe the same air I breathe
I want to know what’s inside
I want to know the secrets you hide
But perhaps I should start with something simple

Like what’s your name
What is your history what is your game
What is your pleasure what is your pain
I want to know what is your name
Maybe we could go outside for a walk spend some time together and we could talk
I want to know what is your name
What’s your name

I see you across the street everyday
I catch the furtive glances you throw my man
I want to know all there is to know
I want to know what makes your heart grow
But perhaps I should start with something simple

We could do dinner and have a good time
Just relax share a bottle of wine
And if we’re good together we’ll make a love that’s divine
Oh I could be your partner
I could be your friend
I could be your lover to the very end
But there’s something I should know before we begin

Why Can’t I Quit You

I have cried a thousand oceans
That have created a thousand streams
That carry my emotions about our love out to sea
It is reflected in the water and soaked up by the sun
It fills the clouds with all the raindrops that fall to welcome us
And I would have taken you home but you said no
And I would have loved you forever
but you wouldn’t allow it to grow

Why can’t I quit you why can’t I kiss you
why can’t I let you go off into the night
Why can’t I hold you why can’t I show you
what I would do for love
I’d climb down off of this mountain
and shout I’m so glad I found it
But now there’s just no way to know
I never saw it coming I’m sorry but now I have to go

I wrote you all those postcards
And I played you all those songs
On my harmonica you would laugh at me
and then you’d hold me in your arms
We’d ride off into the sunset you’d smile at me and say
Everything is so damn perfect in this moment we’d make love there would be no shame
And I would have taken you home but you said no
And I would have loved your forever but you wouldn’t allow it to grow

I promise to love you forever
I promise to never say goodbye
When they took my last breath from me
You were the last thing on my mind