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Greed On Fire
03:13
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Set a course, get me out of here
This land has lost its way I fear
Set a course, some place far away
For war is just a devil’s game
And broken from where we began
Our soul was lost in Vietnam
The machine took us all for a ride
Will sacrifice everyone greed on fire
How can we stay where the storms blacken the sky?
How can we change the weather when no one’s asking why, why?
I want to be more than a coward
On a hill the morning after
Looking upon the wasteland below
Set a course, get me out of here
I will not be one of their souvenirs
Abetting whores, giving them a bad a name
Takes two to understand and play this game
So we try, hold them accountable
I see them take it all in, smiling
And the last, the last time I tried
I ended up crucified
How can we stay where the storms blacken the sky?
How can we change the weather when no one’s asking why, why?
I want to be more than a coward
On a hill the morning after
Looking upon the wasteland below
How can we stay where the storms blacken the sky?
How can we change the weather when no one’s asking why, why?
I want to be more than a coward
On a hill the morning after
Looking upon the wasteland below
I want to be more than a coward
On a hill the morning after
Looking upon the wasteland below
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2. |
Changes Everything
03:41
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You got fire in your blood, you got freedom in your veins
No way to get around, no way to escape
There is no henchman, no monkey dragging on your back
No judge or jury, it changes everything
So, open your heart and let it flood right in
It don’t play games with pride or innocence
And it don’t turn around or do you in
It changes everything
Oh, oh, oh, it changes
Money ain’t no savior, power is twice as bad
Dealers and pimps cut out the other half
Down the river we profit in their pain
And we export this virtue like it’s the Holy Grail
Security should cause no man oppression
Just boil the blood of a hunted nation
Terror don’t take away your tribulation
It don’t give respect and it changes nothing
Oh, oh, oh, it changes
And my mothers and fathers get up and tow the line
Stop covering up, open up their eyes
You only get one chance to do what’s right
So, teach them that it changes everything
Love changes everything, I’m warning you
Can you see how love changes everything
And with love in your heart you don’t make a fist
Join the clan or call a woman a bitch
You don’t curse a man ‘cause he’s down in the ditch
You help him out
You got fire in your blood, you got freedom in your veins
No way to get around, no way to escape
There is no henchman, no monkey dragging on your back
No judge or jury, ‘cause it changes everything
Oh, oh, oh, it changes
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3. |
Nerve
03:37
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Help me down this steep wall
Help me down before I fall
Not so sure that I want to come down
Not so sure I want to touch the ground
I always want another drink
Calms my nerves and helps me think
You look on the bright side
You see right past the red light
I’m a lost soul in a burned-up world
Digging up diamonds that I sell for dirt
My only worth in this universe is
I haven’t lost my nerve
Sometimes I feel like America
Good at heart, want to help the world
But when I push my weight and I stand my ground
I undo all the love I found
I’m a lost soul in a burned-up world
Digging up diamonds that I sell for dirt
My only worth in this universe is
I haven’t lost my nerve
Just say the word and I’ll take my leave
I’m a changed man from what you’ve seen
I let you down, I went astray
I was wondering how I would pay
I’m a lost soul in a burned-up world
Digging up diamonds that I sell for dirt
I’m a lost soul in a burned-up world
Digging up diamonds that I sell for dirt
My only worth in this universe is
I haven’t lost my nerve, I haven’t lost my nerve
I haven’t lost my nerve
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4. |
Madness
03:44
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Madness is a lonely man’s tale
Take you down and take away
Whatever good you had to say
How some just let it go
I am sad the way sad can be
Steal away your dignity
Turn the night into a raging sea
How some just let it go
Madness is a lonely man’s tale
The more you cry the more you wail
Ain’t no one left to watch you fail
Madness is a lonely man’s tale
Now, I am mad the way a man can be
You lose the love, you lose the need
For anyone to come and help you breathe
How some just let it go
Madness is a lonely man’s tale
The more you cry the more you wail
Ain’t no one left to watch you fail
Madness is a lonely man’s tale
You want to roll like a cannonball
You want to run ‘fore you can crawl
You want to think you can have it all
Can’t have it all
Madness is a lonely man’s tale
The more you cry the more you wail
Ain’t no one left to watch you fail, watch you fail
Madness is a lonely man’s tale, madness is a lonely man’s tale
Madness is a lonely man’s tale, madness is a lonely man’s tale
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5. |
Trouble Zone
05:02
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Into the trouble zone we are riding
Got no one’s answer ‘cause no one’s listening
Heading to the front line, living in a siren
Into the trouble zone we are riding
Into the trouble zone we are following
Weapons of what for from my homeland
While we may stand strong against the winds of war
Into the trouble zone we are following
Ask someone straight, they’ll tell you what you get
Hoping for a green zone while living in the red
‘Cause yesterday’s news so soon we forget
Living in a siren in the desert of death
Into the trouble zone ain’t nothing quiet
Look at that man, woman, child inside are dying
And now I can’t help but wipe both my eyes
Into the trouble zone ain’t nothing quiet
Ask someone straight, they’ll tell you what you get
Hoping for a green zone while living in the red
‘Cause yesterday’s news so soon we forget
Living in a siren in the desert of death
Into the trouble zone we ain’t standing still
Crossing that river, why they won’t let us in
Ain’t nothing gonna save them from the sin of sins
Into the trouble zone we ain’t standing still
Out of the trouble zone ain’t nothing you want to take
Step out of line, see the flash bang of a hand grenade
For only time will tell or emancipate
Out of the trouble zone ain’t nothing you want to take
Ask someone straight, they’ll tell you what you get
Hoping for a green zone while living in the red
‘Cause yesterday’s news so soon we forget
Living in a siren in the desert of death
Living in a siren in the desert of death
Living in a siren in the desert of death
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6. |
Last One In
04:26
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Last one in, close the door
Last one in, close the door
Now that we’re all here I can say it straight
I don’t believe we’re from the same place
What about the dark side of Mars
Where they grow a human heart
We come and go just as we please
Falling hope from falling trees
Where lightning strikes
And thunder’s close
Sun light sun
See the scars on the moon
Settled scores of ancient runes
Just say the word, I’ll find my way
Leave you to your sad parade
Where teardrops fall
And doors will close
One by one
We don’t live in a dream
We don’t scream in the dark
We don’t hope for the best
As they’re ripping out our hearts
We come and go just as we please
Falling hope from falling trees
Where lightning strikes
And thunder’s close
Where teardrops fall
And doors will close
Sun light sun light sun light sun
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7. |
One More
03:24
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I love to watch you dress
Pull yourself from our bed
Dazed you stand, catch a breath
I’m barely there
You return a scent of rose
Slowly put on your clothes
My heart it pounds, natural
Never more beautiful
Your eyes, I swoon, I fall in love with you
Each day we rise, another dream come true
Give me just one more
Then you’re off to start the day
Wake the kids, get breakfast made
I sleep into the day
Late nights
We’ve had our toasts of wine
Laughed with friends through the night
I never once thought I would find
Someone as you
Your eyes, I swoon, I fall in love with you
Each day we rise, another dream come true
Your eyes, I swoon, I fall in love with you
Each day we rise, another dream come true
Give me just one more
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8. |
Living With The Top Down
03:36
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I dream of waves in my little boat
Rolling over the horizon
Tumbling walls that can stand no more
Breaking onto tomorrow
We made the bar, but we got shot down
We smoked a joint and we passed it around
We made good speed, got to Zuma by three
I might as well come from Venus or Mars
What a strange hallucination
By the time they break down all of my thoughts
There'll be nothing left of what I'm saying
We made the bar, but we got shot down
We smoked a joint and we passed it around
We made good speed, got to Zuma by three
I’m just a redneck with a big empty heart
Peddling rum and religion
You were on your knees honey, beggin’ me please
Beggin’ for a one time
We made the bar, but we got shot down
We smoked a joint and we passed it around
We made good speed, got to Zuma by three
We made the bar, but we got shot down
We smoked a joint and we passed it around
We made good speed, got to Zuma by three
Living with the top down
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9. |
Mule Train
03:43
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Down in the valley you got looking for an easy way out
Thought he was your mule train, thought he was the easy way out
You’ve been so busy looking up
Never even looked down
Never even noticed you were standing on shaky ground
When you cross that river, don’t you be thinking that you’re done
When every step you take is one step closer to the gun
You got to walk right up and shake it
If it bends, then you break it
‘Cause a broken gun’s a whole lot better than a loaded one
Wake up little darlin’ the walls are tumbling down
You thought that they were joking when they told you not to make a sound
Well, you know everyone is gone
Everything is wrong
And even deliverance is nowhere to be found
Now up on the mountain you got 10 white men looking down
They say the woman is weak and don’t belong in this crowd
Who the hell do they think they are
Do they think they own the stars
It takes a man and a woman to keep this old world rolling round
It takes a man and a woman to keep this old world rolling round
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10. |
Mercy’s Edge
05:20
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When I found dry land, I was already old
And well passed my prime
I’d drifted so long away from home
Father I could not recognize
I could tell by his hat it was him all right
As he shuffled down to the dock
A smile had I, proud like a child
I held him with all of my might
He said under his breath, son, you are motherless
She went up last March
Her fading words before destiny
Were, I loved him from afar
He helped me home to where I was born
And he laid me down in my bed
I lay motionless, my grief not shy
My guilt larger than life
He was 73 on a very good day
As he struggled to catch his breath
From years of smoke his teeth were yellow
And was living his one last leg
So, I told him then of the things I had learned
From the sea, time and him
And I told him too that forgiveness came
With a cold and sober wind
I came home to care for them
Before me my father wept
He’d held those tears for forty years
Not even my mother was blessed
He loved her so and now alone
Could find no reason on
His work was done and proud was he
Too proud to carry on
He asked for help only a son could give
It was not I to refuse
He knew a place that was swift and deep
Where his last love was true
So, I walked with him, we arm in arm
He told me of their years
And how I broke my own mothers’ heart
That he could never mend
So, I helped him down a very steep bank
Down to mercy’s edge
He made me swear, took a lock of my hair
To meet St. Peter there
So, off he went, no tear shed he
And I wept like a child
I sang him verse, Amazing Grace
‘Til not him saw I
So full was I of misery
I stumbled into the deep
My God, my mother, my fathers’ soul
And mine will you keep
When I found dry land, I was already old
And well passed my prime
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Joseph Parsons Berlin, Germany
Long a fan of multi-dimensional recording productions, Parsons writes distinctive songs that often defy categories. He
weaves genres as he fuses traces of Emo, Soul & Folk to create his own unique style of Rock & Roll. Always emotive and energetic on recordings, his live shows are a spirited and at times deeply personal experience.
Joseph Parsons is a European based artist.
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