Idol I see the sad people I see the feeling on their faces I walk among them I am at one, still part of the race I have walked with affliction I have walked with the lame Walking without expectation Still barely a part of the game I don't know what to tell you I dont know what to say The star that guides us Has lost its way The things I used to fill me The imaginings of meaning Fly away scared and empty Leaving no room for dreaming I watch the idols And the gurus as they fall And in the end it leaves nothing It means nothing, nothing at all I don't know what to tell you I dont know what to say The star that guides us Has lost its way I don't know what to tell you I don't know what to say The star that guides us Has lost its way

Find You I've got nothing to say But I keep trying to say it anyway There's nothing that I want to do But I never even got to find you I've been lost for years On tangled roads of doubt and fear Looking for the trace of a clue Something that might lead me to you Who am I? I know less all the time Where are you? I don't have a clue What will be? The more I look the less I see Who can say? Everyone gets lost on the way I don't think I can beleive in the dream Of two souls becoming one No one can see the darkness hidden In a soul that knows no one I was sitting in my grave writing a song About the good things that never come About the sky that falls out of the blue And how I never did find you Who am I? I know less all the time Where are you? I don't have a clue What will be? The more I look the less I see Who can say? Everyone gets lost on the way Who am I? I know less all the time Where are you? I don't have a clue What will be? The more I look the less I see Who can say? Everything gets lost on the way I never even got to find you

Ember These are dark days indeed In case you haven't noticed If you're not paying attention If you've lost yourself in distraction Ignorance reigns supreme The fascists are living their dream Nasty, cruel and mean Tearing down everything Who will stand for freedom? Who will stand for light? Who will stand for peace and love? Who will stand for what is right? A darkness descends across the land A gloom heavy and deep that seeps into your bones Will the truly human who remain Shelter the ember and kindle the flame? Ignorance reigns supreme The fascists are living their dream Nasty, cruel and mean Tearing down everything Who will stand for freedom? Who will stand for light? Who will stand for peace and love? Who will stand for what is right? A darkness descends across the land A gloom heavy and deep that seeps into your bones Will the truly human who remain Shelter the ember, kindle the flame?

Happy I want to wake up happy And thankful for another special day Oh, why can't I feel that way? I know every moment is fleeting and precious And once it's gone, it's gone But why does life sometimes seem so long? I don't know where I'm going I don't know where I belong I don't know what I'm doing What's up or down, right or wrong I'm hoping that it's not too late While feeling that it is I find it hard to dream; it is what it is A stupid boy had a dream Of finding the perfect girl Of living in the light of love in a hateful world I'm hoping that it's not too late Hoping there's a destination Knowing that time is running out Still trying to be patient Sometimes I'm lost and empty Sometimes I've got my plate full But through it all I try to remember to be grateful I don't know where I'm going I don't know where I belong I don't know what I'm doing What's up or down, right or wrong I don't know where I'm going I don't know where I belong I don't know what I'm doing What's up or down, right or wrong

Gone Like a streak of fire Across the deep sky Catches your eye And then it's gone Like a burning candle flame Flickers in the wind Disappears into darkness And then it's gone Moths and rust Ashes and dust The shadow of life The sudden night Like a thief in the night Like a shadow That hides in darkness Like your breath Joins with the wind And goes blowing Across the land Like two people in love Hand in hand Breaking the walls So they can both expand Moths and rust Flowers of dust The shadow of life The sudden night Like a thief in the night Like a shadow That hides in darkness A voice in the wilderness Cried out for a sign What is lost with be found We're bound together in the flow of time Like a streak of fire Across the deep sky Catches your eye And then it's gone Like a burning candle flame Flickers in the wind Disappears into darkness And then it's gone

Grand Design I travel with so many memories Where my lonely heart wants to go We're all travelers on unfinished highways Not knowing where they will go So many wrong turns lead us astray But it's the only way for us to go Suspicions and contradictions lurk at every turn With forks forever in a row I look for you But only your shadow is there I have some good companions But there's a sorrow in bone And a chill in the air Because I don't know where it is But we're headed there Headed there I look for meaning A little too much sometimes I find myself leaning Towards looking for the grand design Then the sky's like a painting Of abstract purple, orange, blue and grey I try to stare through the confusion And read the signs along the way I look for you But only your shadow is there I have some good companions But there's a sorrow in bone And a chill in the air Because I don't know where it is But we're headed there Headed there

Bright Cloud My boat is in the middle of a sea My boat is in the middle of a sea Nothing but empty water As far as the eye can see My head is always filled with clouds My head is filled with clouds And blue sky and moon and sun and stars Come leaking out Follow me down There's a place I've gone to alone Inside that bright cloud Are fragments of all I have known The wind is a whisper of love The wind is a whisper of love But it stays somewhere Hidden up above In the dark night I'm chasing sleep In the dark night I'm chasing sleep I want to sleep and sleep and sleep and Sleep in peace Follow me down There's a place I've gone to alone Inside that bright cloud Are all the things I've never known Follow me down There's a place I've gone to alone Inside that bright cloud Is a darkness that has never shone Follow me down There's a place I've gone to alone Inside that bright cloud Are fragments of all I have known

For What Shall It Profit A Man ? This sick world is upside down Inside out and wrong way round Making profit from prisons Profiting from suffering and misery Making money from sickness Making money from pain and death The rich make the laws That make the rich richer Planet over profit Human rights over profit Compassion over profit Survival over profit The poor get sick and die Just trying to get by The greedy get greedier By stealing the future By killing the planet for profit By killing the planet for profit By killing us all for profit By killing it all for profit Planet over profit Human rights over profit Compassion over profit Survival over profit

Get It Don't you get it? You're never gonna get it You're better off without it Don't even think about it I wish there were a there there How I long to go there But there is no there there There is nothing there It is nowhere Don't you get it? You're never gonna get it You're better off without it Don't even think about it There is only this blanket of sorrow Wrapped around all I feel and do There is no other in it with me That's all there is, that's all she wrote Up the creek without even a boat Don't you get it? You're never gonna get it You're better off without it Don't even think about it I'm a tree falling in the forest A voice in the wilderness Baby, do you hear me? I am tree, not another soul near me No eye to see, no ear to hear me Don't you get it? You're never gonna get it You're better off without it Don't even think about it Don't you get it? You're never gonna get it And if you get it You might regret it Don't you get it? Don't you get it? Don't you get it? Don't you get it?

That Dumbass Bird That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That was a song Ben Young wanted me to write He gave me that line on the phone one night He told me "try to write the world's worst song, Something stupid, and with that line, well, you can't go wrong" That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night But now that bird has flown Oh, into the concealing light Into the west, into white Beyond the sunset, beyond the night Too soon, too late to say goodbye And I want to talk with you again We used to talk about ignorant right wing stupidity The horror in the news and the political absurdity How reality has become its own satiric parody More ridiculous than any far fetched comedy Keeping up with The Colbert Report and The Daily Show And how for all our searching, well, we still don't know We keep hitting that wall of "but I just can't KNOW" It's always "I just don't know" And now that bird has flown Oh, into the concealing light Into the west, into white Beyond the sunset, beyond the night Too soon, too late to say goodbye And I want to talk with you again I told him how I loved "Surfin' Cadillac" And he replied "Oh, that was a piece of crap, The only thing I liked it about was" and then he laughed, "Was I got you and Earl to sing 'shooby dooby ahhh'" Well, I opened my notebook just the other day And there staring up at me from an empty page Was the one line he made sure I had written down The last thing he said to me and that I write down It said: That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night That dumbass bird that shit on my porch last night