Lose My Mind (One More Time)

Lay me down, siren sound seduce and haunt me

Shattered ground, spun around won’t ever be free

I’ve forgotten many times, yet you always will remind

How I lost it all with you

I would die for yesterday, find another game to play

But instead I played the fool

Fallen down, run aground and now I’m

Wasted (out of time)

Faded (memory dies)

Will I find tomorrow’s gone?

Just like the days that came before

Waiting (things to change)

Praying (re-arrange)

Life come undone

Pieces on the floor

Lose my mind just one more time, madness sublime

Know I can’t rewind, I’m crazy now

Lose my mind just one more time, madness sublime

But I can’t rewind

Fallen down, run aground

And now I’m wasted,

And now I’m waiting

Silent sound, with you I’ve found I’ll get no warning

Look around, stand my ground, I’m slowly burning

What a deadly game we play, when we live for yesterday

But tomorrow’s only true

I fell prey to that one day, when I gave it all away

For an end that came too soon

Fallen down, run aground and now I’m

Wasted (out of time)

Faded (memory dies)

Will I find tomorrow’s gone?

Lost just like the days that came before

Waiting (things to change)

Praying (re-arrange)

Life come undone

Pieces on the floor

Lose my mind just one more time, madness sublime

Know I can’t rewind, I’m crazy now

Lose my mind just one more time, madness sublime

But I can’t rewind

Fallen down, run aground

And now I’m wasted

And now I’m waiting

I’m fallen down, run aground and now I’m

Wasted (out of time)

Faded (memory dies)

Will I find tomorrow’s gone?

Lost just like the days that came before

Waiting (things to change)

Praying (re-arrange)

Life come undone

Pieces on the floor

Lose my mind just one more time, madness sublime

Know I can’t rewind, I’m crazy now

Lose my mind just one more time, madness sublime

But I can’t rewind

I’m fallen down, run aground

And now I’m wasted,

Fallen down, I’m run around

And now I’m waiting

Fallen down, I’m run around

And now I’m jaded

jaded, faded, wasted

Greyboy

I see the people on the city streets

Where they come from and where they go I don’t know

Underneath the sodium lights I might catch an eye or two

With a wink and a nod that says you’re one of us

Jostled by the ebb and flow I feel the pulse of the city at night

Lose myself in the swirls of many evenings,

winding up, winding down

As we head into the depths between the dusk and the dawn

I feel the pull of the places where the lights are low

and the shades are drawn

You’re us, we’re them, you’re one of my kind baby

Look around you, cause everyone you see,

sees the world in black and white

Left or right, right or wrong

But not me, I’m different, well I see the shades

Cause I’m a grey boy

Finding a moment of stillness in the midst of this crush of humanity

Reach my senses out to the edges of this city at night

Feel the rhythms of the bars and the rooms, listen closely

For some the day is over but for us the evening has just begun

You’re us, we’re them, you’re one of my kind baby

Listen around you, cause everyone you hear,

hears a world that’s black and white

Left or right, right or wrong

But not me, I’m different, I hear the shades

Cause I’m a grey boy

Never Thought

Napkins litter the barroom floor,

my lyrics tossed I’m such a bore

Histories of lovers past, unenlightened,

take a blast with me

Crooked crags and worn out patches,

a bluesman’s heart is never whole

Butterflies leave the deepest scratches,

their flitting wings carve our souls

December, drown in drink again

Remember, resolutions end

Bartender, I need a pen

I never thought I’d write the blues again,

no I never thought I’d write the blues again

Bring me down with the snakeskin blues,

I can’t believe how much you shed

No matter how proud of your new skin,

the one you left me holding is dead

Breaking hearts when you’re young, its what you do

Don’t’ be too upset now, I did it too

December, drown in drink again

Remember, resolutions end

Bartender, I need a pen

I never thought I’d write the blues again,

no I never thought I’d write the blues again

Not the pretty things that break my heart,

just the ones that I can’t touch

Like when we say that looks don’t matter,

what we mean is, not much

Crooked crags and worn out patches,

a bluesman’s heart is never whole

Butterflies leave the deepest scratches,

their flitting wings carve our souls into patches

December, drown in drink again

Remember, resolutions end

Bartender, I need a pen

I never thought I’d write the blues again,

no I never thought I’d write the blues again,

No I never thought I’d sing the blues again,

I never thought I’d write the blues again

Big Time

Got a new raw silk jacket, white Miami shoes

Thirteen body piercings, multiple tattoos,

You’re on a roll, you’re never gonna lose

Welcome to the big time

Got a thrivin’ start-up business, sales are out of sight

Boogie with the vampires, your office hours at night

Christmas sure was white

Welcome to the big time

And you’re ridin’ the roller coaster, thinkin’ you ain’t gonna fall

Did you ever stop to think that maybe it ain’t the big time at all?

And how are things with the king of kings, you’re lookin’ kind of beat

Forty days, forty nights, keepin’ on the heat

Help me fleece the sheet

Welcome to the big time

Baptisms, healings, and pow-wows with the Lord.

Come on come on Christian soldiers, come on bite my sword

Keeps ya from being bored

Welcome to the big time

And you’re ridin’ the holy roller coaster,

will angels catch you when you fall

Did you ever stop to think that

maybe this ain’t the big time at all?

You messed with Mr. C now you’re going for the ride

Sex and drugs and money, all you want now is to be alive

But you’re dead at twenty-five

Apocalyptic nightmare, the bottom’s droppin’ out

Caught you with a teenage creature, the preacher’s been found out

It’s Satan’s twist and shout

Welcome to the big time

And you’re ridin’ on a roller coaster, thinkin’ you ain’t gonna fall

Did you ever stop to think that maybe it ain’t the big time at all?

But you’re, you’re ridin’ the roller coaster, thinkin’ you ain’t gonna fall

Did you ever stop to think that maybe you ain’t the big time at all?

Seed

Fall, we lose the day to the night, it’s a lesson

No not a cloud or no thunder I’m struck by lightening yeah

A wind as strong as the tide, lunar season

Feed the land with a chosen seed

Careful hand grow a mighty weed

Mother Earth give us what we need

Deadly appetite, got to find a way

Cold, the winter frost ever white, time of dying

Heard not a sound, felt no rumble, deep under avalanche

A snowflake might multiplied, suffocation

Feed the land with a chosen seed

Careful hand grow a mighty weed

Mother Earth give us what we need

Deadly appetite, got to find a way

Spring, reborn the trees green the light, life’s a blessing

A genesis, fields of color, perpetuate again

New generation take flight, celebration

Feed the land with a chosen seed

Careful hand grow a mighty weed

Mother Earth give us what we need

Deadly appetite, got to find a way

Burn, atomic blaze, summer sky, heat’s oppression

Deep amber flame, blackened timber, fire eats centuries

Sequoia seed germinate, conflagration

Feed the land with a chosen seed

Careful hand grow a mighty weed

Mother Earth give us what we need

Deadly appetite, got to find a way

Burnin’

Waiting, wish the sun would die

Striving, I leave this life behind

Burning, feel the beat of drums

Nameless, just like everyone

Acid burns through my veins, can’t believe what I have seen

Never feeling more sane

Bone white sand, to the horizon

Rocks black, lost innocence

Bone white sand, to the horizon

Iinnocence, can’t ever go back

Fire, from the temple’s eye

Water, from a passerby

Naked, the scorching sun

Boundless, desert and I are one

Acid burns through my veins, can’t believe what I have seen

Never feeling more sane

Bone white sand, to the horizon

Rocks black, lost innocence

Bone white sand, to the horizon, innocence,

Can’t ever go back

Sooner or Later

Finger the storm, worship the bitter wind, hey

Some people lust the shadows,

others dress their dreams in misty moon-gown

But, I only sleep as the moments chant by

in the sad, sad beauty of summer

Bang a drum, carve the silence

Some people live for crashes, others seeking to be tame

But I, I ain’t gonna cry no more lord, for I know I’m not to blame

And I, I ain’t gonna cry no more lord,

got this bottle for to ease my pain

Sooner or later, time is gonna get you mama, sooner or later time

Sooner or later time is gonna get you, sooner or later time

Muffin Man (traditional, arranged by Soul Patch)

Rolled up to the club, it was half past ten

I had my baby on arm, they wouldn’t let me in

So I said brother let me come inside

I’m gonna show ‘em how its done, we gonna let it ride, yeah

Mountain of a man at the door said white boy

Why don’t ya go on home?

This joint’s too funky for you son, you best to leave it alone

So I said

Do you know, do you know, do you do you?

Do you know, do you know, do you do you?

Do you know the muffin man?

On the other side of the velvet ropes

my lady purrs she wants to move

Grab our drinks and cruise through the crowd

Now we’re ridin’ the pulse of the groove yeah

Stepped onto the dance floor,

the rhythm was simply out of sight

Soul Patch was funkin’ the place up,

had everybody feelin’ right

Movin’ my hips to the music now

showin’ how I keep you satisfied

All the ladies turned their eyes to me

and just then one up and cried out, hiya

Do you know, do you know, do you do you?

Do you know, do you know, do you do you?

Do you know the muffin man?

Crazy

Sometimes I like to get naked, and dance out in the rain

And times I feel like the ostrich,

can’t bury my head deep enough in the sand

Try try try all my life to find balance

The world a bit crazy to me

Try try try all my life to find balance

Keepin’ myself just crazy enough to stay sane

And I go, do doot, da do doot

And when I finally found the wisdom to know ignorance is bliss

Now I’m not saying we all should be stupid

There’s enough lights out as it is

Try try try all our lives to find balance

The world a bit crazy

We try try try all our lives to find balance

Keepin’ ourselves just crazy enough to stay sane

And we go, do doot, da do doot

Crazy

Gremlin

Way back, in ’97, two minutes late I was cruisin’ in my Gremlin

First saw you stumbling out of Marty’s Mystery Machine

Doc Martin Boots, sundress, I think you hair was green

Well its 4:22 and I know just what to do

Put down my guitar girl, I will make you twirl

Been tiltin’ at your windmills, just like Don Quixote

But I’m a simple man, I simply want your booty

Girl I’ve got to have you, you’re my Dulcinea

Move over Sancho, and make room for the playa

Now it’s 4:23 and babe you look good to me

Seduce you with my knowledge of Spanish novelists

The boys all try to catch you, while you flit like a butterfly

Until you alight on me girl, why I will make sigh

So bring your girlfriends, baby, lets all get a deep groove on

I play my C on your G-string lady,

getting down with you straight ‘til dawn

Well its 4:24 and we’re rolling on the floor

The music is feeling right, we could dance all night

Yo baby, what you gonna do?

With these weak-ass punks, guitar pickin fools?

You need a good man, one with the rhythm as well as the rhymes

Let me play your skins and you’ll want to be mine

So its four against five in my syncopated time

Hang with my beats and groove I will make you move