Pretty Little Lies
(A Song of Eve)
Don't bruise my head
Leave me for dead
My work is never done
I crawled through grass
'Cross broken glass
To bring you kingdom come
I'll swing you high up
In your favorite tree
Attach my good name to your history
And mix my blood into our chemistry
Don't be shy, tell me
Chorus:
Why would I lie to you? (say pretty little lies to you?)
Why would I lie to you?
Baby I'd die for you (pretty little lies aren't true)
Would I ever? No, I'd never
Speak pretty little lies to you
I've heard you've got
A tender spot
For sweet talk
And tattooed men
If I'm too much
Cold to the touch
There's fire beneath my skin
I'm only here to make you
Wealthy and wise
Remove the scales from your sweet
Innocent eyes
And then you'll be in for my big surprise
Now don't be shy, tell me why
Chorus
Bridge:
Don't mind the forked tongue
If I rattle you, I'm sorry
Though I'm not yet number one
For the time being that's
Not a worry
Repeat end of first verse
Music by Daniel Amos, Words T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Child On A Leash
I'm asking you why
I never get inside the place that
I belong
Whenever I
Think I've got a hold of you that's when
You're gone
Chorus:
And I'm feeling like a child on a leash
There's a hand just outside of my reach
There's a light on in another room
I'll arrive too late and leave too soon
I just die
Whenever I get sight of you you're
Movin on
I wanna cry
When I think I've got it right and then it goes
All wrong
Where would I go?
(it's always back to you)
Where would I run?
(it's always back to you)
What would I do?
(it's always back to you)
Forever back to you
Forever back to you
And I'm wondering why
Chorus
I just die
I just die
I just die
I just die
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T. S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Small Great Things
She cast her drag net
Out on the ocean
Pulled out a debt
And a sinking dream
All she had left was
Her devotion
And heaven knows that's
Everything
He staggered blind up
To the altar
And left a cup
Filled with a
Drunkards faith
In their disguises
They pass each other
The Saviors eyes
In a foreign face
Chorus: No they aren't walking
On the water
They aren't wearing their angels wings
Wayward sons and fragile daughters
A touch of faith enough for
Small great things
They're unaware they
Moved a mountain
With fumbled prayers and
Their bloodied knees
God's ruined hands,
They've read about them
They've never touched them
But they still believe
No they aren't winning
Every battle
Life is tough and death
Still it stings
Faith is fragile
Just a touch enough for
Small great things
No they aren't walking
On the water
They aren't wearing their angels wings
Wayward sons and fragile daughters
A touch of faith enough for
Small great things
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Easy For You
You own it
In a moment
It's all in the book
If you want it
You've got it
With only one look
If I doubt it
Can't live without it, that's
A habit of mine
I want to get it
I'll have to live it
One day at a time
Chorus:
How does this come (2x)
So easy for you?
You're feeling
You got a healing
Hand in the air
If you can name it
You can tame it
And it's always there
I can't hold it
I can't mold it
It's like catching a star
You've tracked it
You've trapped it
It's there in your jar
Chorus
Bridge:
You've got no time to read a mystery
You're not inclined to waste the energy
And wrap your mind around a paradox
Or bare the thought
Of my liberty
You own it
In a moment
It's all in the book
If you want it
You've got it
With only one look
Chorus
Music by Daniel Amos, Music by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Maybe All I Need
Chorus:
Maybe all I need is
Maybe all I need is
Here right now
Baby I can see this
Baby I can see this clear
Right now
Me in my graveyard face
You in your ragged grace
Wrapped in frayed Easter lace
I'm in love with this time and place
Chorus
Me with my patchwork dreams
You with your tattered wings
We're mending the broken seams
Sowing our hearts to our sleeves
Bridge:
The tunnel of love is a darkride
We'll watch the skeletons dance
In the blacklight
Leave our skin at the end
Of a good night
Meet again at the edge
Of the far side
Maybe all I need is...
You in your ragged grace
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Pregnant Pause
(A Song for Abraham and Sarah)
Wonder if the water (is) running
Wonder if the well (has) run dry
Wonder if the angels (is) coming
Wondering at the empty sky
It's a miracle we ever had faith
Enough to have a laugh in that face
Here's a pregnant pause….
While we….
Wonder if the pipes are rusted
Wonder if the power's down
Wonder if the circuits busted
Wondering if it's holy ground
It's a miracle we ever got saved
A wonder all our bills are paid
Here's a pregnant pause….
While we….
Wonder if the devil's laughing
It's a miracle we ever had faith
Enough to have a laugh in that face
Here's a pregnant pause….
While we….
Repeat verse 1
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
She's A Hard Drink
There's a sad clown
A slap stick comic
With a neon crown
Here's a mean street
Up the miracle mile
Through the demon heat
1st chorus:
There's a ghost town
In a diamond studded gown
And it's about to take another one down
She's a hard drink
a valentine bed
So pretty in pink
I'm a heart throb
a back alley cat
And a junkyard dog
2nd chorus:
She's a slow leak
And she leads me up the creek
Bridge: We'll lights the skies up
Dim-bulb lovers like me
Are too late to wise up
Between
Old thighs
A new sheen
Same lies
She's a bad dream
Like an adams apple
On a beauty queen
There's a vulture picking me clean
2nd bridge:
She kicks the dust up
It's seeping out of my skin
I'm good with bad luck
I die
She shrugs
New high
Same drugs
She's a slow leak
And she loves to watch me sputter and sink
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
So Far, So Good
One true
Desire
An invitation
One blood
One fire
An imitation
1st Chorus:
And another circle 'round this
Broken hill
And it's so far (it's something like devotion)
So good (this one I can resist)
So far (sometimes I get the notion)
So good (to betray you with a kiss)
One still
Small voice
A revelation
One hope
A choice
One hesitation
Repeat 1st Chorus
Bridge:
So far so good
I'm getting over you
I might be better off alone
And if I could I would
Get over you
Maybe better if I'd never known
2nd Chorus:
And I've placed a veil 'round this
Holy kill
And it's so far (here's my hand in motion)
So good (to cross you off the list)
So far (now I'm drowning in emotion)
So good (though I betrayed you with a kiss)
And it's so far (it's something like devotion)
So good (this one I can resist)
So far (sometimes I get the notion)
So good (I betray you with this kiss)
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Flash In Your Eyes
(A Song for Gene Eugene)
Once, we lit a candle in the
Cold dark street
And hoped the world would one day,
Burst into flame
We spilled a cup of water there
In the desert heat
And dreamed the earth was drenched
In the grace of that sweet rain
Chorus:
Now you're the catch in my throat
Was I in your dream of last goodbyes?
Now you're the thorn in my heart
Was I a flash in your eyes?
Once, we pulled some angels from
Our magic hats
Then we danced with them along
The scenic routes
Here is the dreamroom where we
Left our tracks
And dared to imagine what it
All was all about
Chorus
Bridge:
And cohen was singing
"if it be your will"
And we heard him singing
"if it be your will"
Once, we painted pictures most the
World would never see
And hung them up on nails that held
God's feet and hands
We built a playhouse
In a fallen tree,
That you'd be first to leave
Was never in our plans
Chorus
Outro:
Feels like the late great's
Around us here (repeat)
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Nobody Will
You'll see, we'll be
Fine everybody
If we climb, everybody
To the cross on the hill
"feed me, heal me" whines everybody
Blinds everybody
And nobody will
Chorus:
Motorboats on the red sea
Altar candles on the t.v.
We killed the prophets,
And we hung the sun
And finally got our
Kingdom come
We'll wake up, and make up
And cry everybody
Die everybody
At the cross on the hill
"astound me, crown me," whines everybody
Blinds everybody
So nobody will
Bridge:
We've got no taste for the new wine
Just want our faces on prime time
There was that time we fed the poor
(but we) just don't believe them anymore
A house and pool in the
Promise land
A slice of pie for the
Son of man
A little prayer, our ten percent
And a crocodile tear for any regret
Repeat 1st verse
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Fingertips
Who's softly slipping
Down the stairs?
Is someone sitting
In that empty chair?
Who's moving the air
Brushing my hair
With their fingertips?
Chorus:
Someone's coming
(ready or not)
I hear them breathing
(in the mystery spot)
Rattling locks
And winding the clocks
Leaving fingerprints
Someone's whispering
In my ears
All my hopes and
All my fears
Counting the years
And catching my tears
On their fingertips
Chorus:
Something's different
About this place
Is something hiding
In that empty space?
Walking the halls
And pounding the walls
Leaving fingerprints
Someone's coming
Ready or not
I hear them breathing
In the mystery spot
Rattling locks
And winding the clocks
Leaving fingerprints
Who's that passing
Through that door?
Another sign I
Can't ignore
Across the floor
And touched me once more
With their fingertips
Chorus:
Something's different
About this place
Is something hiding
In that empty space?
Walking the halls
And pounding the walls
Leaving fingerprints
Someone laughs and
Reaches down
Cracks the plates and
Spins the world around
On their fingertips
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
Steal Away
(A Song of the Flood)
Steal away when the tide is rising
There's a promise in
Dishonest skies
And miracles on the grey horizon
If it rains today
Don't be surprised
Bleed us, then heal us
May love bind and seal us
We'll sail away when the white doves flying
There's a promise in
Dishonest skies
A flood of fire in a lost worlds dying
Will it rain today?
Don't be surprised
Take us, and break us
But please don't forsake us
We'll steal away
Speak, breathe
And move in us
Live, love,
Forgive through us
We'll steal away when the tide is rising
There's a promise in
Dishonest skies
And miracles on the lost horizon
If it rains today
Don't be surprised
Sail away where the white doves flying
Will it rain today?
Don't be surprised
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
And So It Goes...
Let's toast the names
Of our old flames
As well as love possessed
And raise a cup
To giving up
The sins that we've confessed
Then cry some tears
For all the years
For things that might have been
The laughs, the wine
That shining time
That may never come again
Chorus:
And so it goes
The river flows, the years roll down the line
And so it goes
(to) my dear departed friends
We'll meet again
In some other place and time
Cheers to grace
And gentle faith
To the losses and the wins
To loved ones gone
Friends moving on
To beginnings and to ends
Here's to revelry and levity
To charity and grace
With tears for all
We made feel small
For the souls we laid to waste
Chorus
Music by Daniel Amos, Words by T.S. Taylor
©2001 Zoom Daddy/BMI
