ordinary day
just a day, just an ordinary day
just tryin' to get by
just a boy, just an ordinary boy but
he was looking to the sky and
as he asked if I would come along
I started to realize that everyday he finds just what he's lookin' for
and like a shooting star he shines, and he said

take my hand, live while you can,
don't you see your dreams lie right in the palm of your hand

and as he spoke, he spoke, ordinary words
thought they did not feel
for I felt what I had not felt before
and you'd swear those words could heal and
as I looked up into those eyes, his vision borrows mine
and I know he's no stranger
for I feel I've held him for all of time, and he said

chorus

please come with me, see what I see
touch the stars for time will not flee
time will not flee, can't you see...

just a dream, just an ordinary dream
as I wake in bed
and that boy, that ordinary boy
was it all in my head?
don't he ask if I would come along
it all seemed so real, but as I looked to the door
I saw that boy standing there with a deal, and he said

chorus

just a day, just an ordinary day
just tryin' to get by
just a boy, just an ordinary boy, but
he was looking to the sky


unsung

if only I could get into that corner of your head
where things finally match and meet the standards that you set
oh how I wish I was the treasure that you were lookin' for
bet I would feel better if only I could find the door

I am cryin'
you aren't tryin'
I am melting away

I wait for the words on the tip of your tongue
I'm only as good as the last one
well you decide and I abide as my song goes unsung (yeah, yeah, yeah)

things are goin' crazy and I'm not sure who to blame
everything is changing and I do not feel the same
I'm slippin' through the cracks of floors I thought that were strong
I'm tryin' to find a place where I can feel like I belong

well, I am cryin'
you aren't tryin'
I am melting away

chorus

if I could be the lesson that you learn, you learn if only
I could be the last one that love burns, it burns...yeah
if only I could get into that corner of your head
where things finally match and meet the standards that you set
of how I wish I was the treasure that you were lookin' for
bet I would feel better if only I could find the door

well, I am cryin'
you aren't tryin'
and I am melting away

chorus


a thousand miles

makin' my way downtown
walking fast
faces pass and I'm homebound

staring blankly ahead
just makin' my way
I'm makin' a way
through the crowd

and I need you
and I miss you
and now I wonder

if I could fall into the sky
do you think time would pass me by
cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
if I could see you ... tonight

it's always times like these
when I think of you
and I wonder if you ever think of me

cause everything's so wrong
and I don't belong
livin' in your precious memory

cause I need you
and I miss you
and now I wonder

chorus

and I, I don't want to let you know
I, I drown in your memory
I, I don't want to let this go
I, I don't ...

makin' my way downtown
walking fast
faces pass and I'm homebound

staring blankly ahead
just makin' my way
I'm makin' my way
through the crowd

and I still need you
and I still miss you
and now I wonder

chorus


pretty baby

you light me up and then I fall for you
you lay me down and then I call for you
stumbling on reasons that are far and few
I'd let it all come down and then some for you

pretty baby don't you leave me
I have been saving smiles for you
pretty baby why can't you see
you're the one that I belong to
I'm be the embrace that keeps you warm
for you're the sun that breaks the storm
I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound
as long as you keep comin' round, oh pretty baby

and I know things can't last forever
but there are lessons that you'll never learn
oh just the scent of you it makes me hurt
so how's it you that makes me better

chorus

why can't you hold me and never let go
when you touch me it is me that you own
pretty baby of the place that you hold in my heart
would you break it apart again ... oh pretty baby

chorus


rinse

she'd do anything to sparkle in his eye
she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise
she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright
for answers to questions that will haunt her tonight

she must rinse this all away
she can't hold him this way
she must rinse this all away
she can't love him this way

how she'd be soothed, how she'd be saved if he could see
she needs to be held in his arms to be free
but everything happens for reasons that she will never understand
'til she knows that the heart of a woman will never be found in the
arms of a man

chorus

and if she runs away she fears she won't be followed
what could be worse that leaving something behind
and as the depth of oceans slowly become shallow
it's loneliness she finds ...
if only he was mine

she'd do anything to sparkle in his eye
she would suffer, she would fight, and compromise
she's been wishin' on the stars that shine so bright
for answers to questions that will haunt her tonight

she must rinse him
she must rinse him
she can't rinse him
she can't rinse him
she can't, she won't, she must rinse him
she can't, she won't, she must rinse him
she must rinse him
she can't rinse him
she must rinse him
she can't rinse him


sway

my heart, your hands, gentle my friend
break me neatly numb me sweetly

say you would, say you could
say you'd come and stop the rain
say you'd try and hold me tight
and you just give me away
make me high on lullabies
a melody for me to sway
say you would, say you could
and you don't do anything

come down heavy, try and steady
precious ladies, love you, love me ...

chorus

hold my head up to the lies that you feed me
I'll fall under the spell you cast as you let me down

say you would, say you could
say you'd come and stop the rain
say you'd try and hold me tight
and you just give me away
make me high on lullabies
a melody for me to sway
make me high on lullabies a melody for me to sway

chorus

say you'd come and stop the rain ...


paradise

once upon a year gone by
she saw herself give in
every time she closed her eyes
she saw what could have been
well nothing hurts and nothing bleeds
when covers tucked in tight
funny when the bottom drops
how she forgets to fight ... to fight

and it's one more day in paradise
one more day in paradise

as darkness quickly steals the light
that shined within her eyes
she slowly swallows all her fear
and soothes her mind with lies
well all she wants and all she needs
are reasons to survive
a day in which the sun will take
her artificial light ... he light

and it's one more day in paradise
one more day in paradise
it's one more day in paradise
one last chance to fee alight ... alright

don't pretend to hold it in just let it out
don't pretend to hold it in just push it out
don't you try to hold it in just let it out and
don't you try to hold it in you hold it in

chorus

once upon a year gone by
she saw herself give in
every time she closed her eyes
she saw what could have been


prince

willing and able to run
I am
willing and able I'm able to come

and if I wait for you now
would you come
would you run
would you bring it back around
oh, baby how

if it all went away
nothin' left to say
would you fight it or would you lay down
at the hand of your God could you see the light
oh my prince can't you see what's been found

willing and able to run
willing and able to come
I am willing, I'm willing

willing and able to run
I am
willing and able I'm able to come


paint it black

I see a red door and I want it painted black
no colors anymore, I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they are painted black
with flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
like a new born baby it just happens every day

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it's heading into black
maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
it's not easy facing up when your whole world is black

I wanna see it painted painted, painted black, oh baby
I wanna see it painted painted, painted black, oh baby

no more will my green see go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
if I look hard enough into the setting sun
my love will laugh with me before the morning comes

I wanna see it painted, painted, painted black, oh
black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
painted, painted, painted black oh baby
painted painted, painted black


wanted

I have wandered far and wide
for something real something to die for
but I have found you and you do not see
all that is me all that is true

I am more than you will see
I am more than you will need
I am more than you will see
more than wanted

as you float the flimsy surface
you should know life lies beneath it
don't pretend you feel what I feel for you
live illusions and I am real

chorus

I know, I know you like the way
you feel when I play
I know, I know you don't really
hear what I say
I know, I know you are waiting
for something to raid
I know, I know you wish you could be
more than you say

I have wandered far and wide
for something real something to die for
but I have found you and you do not see
all that is me all that is true

chorus

more than you'll love, more than you'll hate
more than you'll hold, more than wanted
more than you'll crave, more than you'll cherish
more than you'll have, more than wanted


twilight

I was stained, with a role,
in a day not my own
but as you walked into my life
you showed what needed to be shown
I always knew, what was right
I just didn't know that I might
peel away and choose to see
with such a different sight

and I will never see the sky the same way,
and I will learn to say good-bye to yesterday
and I will never cease to fly if held down,
and I will always reach too high cause I've seen,
cause I've seen twilight

never cared never wanted
never sought to see what flaunted
so on purpose so in my face
couldn't see beyond my own place
it was so easy not to behold what I could hold
but you taught me I could change
whatever came within these shallow days

chorus

as the sun shines through it pushes away
and pushes ahead
it fills the warmth of blue
and leaves a chill instead and
I didn't know that I could be
but as illusion dies
I see there is so much to be revealed

chorus

I was stained, with a role,
in a day not my own
but as you walked into my life
you showed what needed to be shown
I always knew, what was right
I just didn't know that I might
peel away and choose to see
with such a different sight

chorus


(taken from the Be Not Nobody CD booklet - typed out by Judy)


red ditty

if in the middle of a vital conversation
I chose not to listen
would that be okay?

and if in the middle of a heated confrontation
I chose not to
would that be okay?

and if I love you without reference to occasion
would you run away?
or would that be okay?

and if in the middle of this final declaration
I walked away
what would you say?
would that be okay?

swindler

I've been mistaken
you swindled once again
now there's no question
I, I was wrong
and now I stand alone
just ? your throne
your true colors shown
you don't belong 

and now I'm lost
and now I run from you
and now I see
just how I bleed from you
and all the lies, all the lies
how could I let you in?
but now it's clear
I went along for the ride 

hey, Mr. Merry Man
I know you'll come again
till you find just what you're looking for
and if I'm your little lamb
oh, would you leave again?
oh no, I bet you'd stay for more 

and now I'm lost
and now I run from you
and now I see
just how I bleed from you
and all the lies, all the lies
how could I let you in?
but now it's clear
I went along for the ride 

and now I'm finding out
you were nothing about
what I thought you were
and now I understand
just how you work your plan
first you're warm and then you just burn 

and now I'm lost
and now I run from you
and now I see
just how I bleed from you
and all the lies, all the lies
how could I let you in?
but now it's clear
I went along for the ride 

and now I'll make my way
through another day
'cause I know better now
you'll drop another line
on someone else's time
but in me you still resound 

and now I'm lost
and now I run from you
and now I see
just how I bleed from you
and all the lies, all the lies
how could I let you in?
but now it's clear
I went along for the ride