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Strange a cat in love with a dog
Strange a cat in the eyes of a dog
Love this kitty lost in the fog
Love this kitty in love with a dog
I saw you down in the night
Fending my usual shadows in light
Pack of dogs ready to fight
But I saw you and love in the sight
I saw your eyes fear for me to go
I saw me there and I saw the glow
Love this kitty lost in the snow
Love this kitty in love with your soul
There's blood-matted fur
When the dogs find a cat
And it's a long way for me
To find where you're at
But I can survive
Thinking of you
Your puppy dog brown reflecting my kitty blue
I'll remember your eyes in the light
I'll remember love and hope you might
Remember this kitty lost in the night
Remember this kitty lost in flight
I used to love you with all my heart
But I don't no more
I used to love you with all my heart
But I don't no more
I even said I'd marry you
But I don't know what for
I used to love you with all my soul
But I don't know what for
I used to love you with all my soul
But I don't know what for
Even said I'd marry you
But I won't no more
You never thought
My love would end
I'd just keep waiting
To be your friend
But where were your brains
When you stepped on my face?
Time and again
And time can't erase
You'd think I'd hate you with all my guts
But my hate's too good for you
You'd think I'd hate you with all my guts
But my hate's too good for you
But love, I'll always remember
The things you put me through
words by Brian Cheaney
In 28 years I've gone to
Places you've not yet seen
But apparently not the places
I should have been
I�m lacking all the tools
To survive in your world
I guess in your eyes
That's a sin
So why on earth did you
Begin to love me
Why did you
Let it go so far
Just to pull away
And rise above me
Could loving me
Really been so hard?
In 28 years I've learned
Words you've not yet heard
But apparently not the right ones
To keep you in my world
I don't speak the language
You understand
I guess in your world
That's a sin
So why on earth did you
Begin to love me
Why did you
Let it go so far
Just to pull away
And rise above me
Could loving me
Really been so hard?
So why on earth did you
Begin to love me
Why did you
Let it go so long
Just to fly away
And leave me grounded
Could loving me
Really been so wrong?
Could loving me
Really been so wrong?
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I've been to the crossroads
And I said "No"
Not for all the gold
It's a beat up, patchwork,
Broken-down soul
But it's all I've got�
That's mine
Does the answer to my future
Lie within my past?
There's a pathway that I cast
If the answer is
It doesn't
I can put my demons down�
At last
Are the keys to my redemption
Still within my grasp?
How far have I to go?
Enough! Slay the dragon
He's granted you control�
And time
Here I stand, no longer heart in hand
Trying to explain about me
And asking you why, you never told me why
You knew you could live without me
I'm looking for a lesson to be learning
Standing on a bridge quickly burning
See your reflection in the waters, but they're churning
And I can't find you
Did you think I wanted to own you?
Did you think I wanted to turn you into something
You never even wanted to be
Or did you just find when you looked in your mind
Not the boy you once thought was me?
Couldn't you believe I could love the girl you were
When you weren't the girl you wanted to be?
Did you think I wanted to own you?
Here I stand, no longer heart in hand
Trying to explain about me
And asking you why, you never told me why
You knew you could live without me
I'm looking for a lesson to be learning
Standing on a bridge quickly burning
See your reflection in the waters, but they're churning
And I can't find you
Words by Brian Cheaney
It's a long, long time before the dawn
And it's a long thin line I'm walking on
Picking up the remnants of tickets torn in half
Taping up the pieces of a ripped up photograph
Standing on the battlefield of another skirmish lost
Never feel the warmth of summer under permafrost
Its just another day, another day to fade away
I don't care what others say
Even a glass half full can be shattered
And I don't want to say that I've been scattered
But for a long time, little else has mattered
For a long time, nothing has mattered
Living in a world where love gets prismed into reasons
Only serves to make us feel alone
Of all the things I left behind or lost along the way
The thing that I miss most of all is a sense of home
It's a long, long time before the dawn
And it's a long thin line I'm walking on
Picking up the remnants of tickets torn in half
Taping up the pieces of a ripped up photograph
Standing on the battlefield of another skirmish lost
Never feel the warmth of summer under permafrost
My heart is heavy and it hurts
From things I've done
And what was done to me
But I don't want it to fade
For the possibility
That you'd come out and play
I can remember
Banana popsicles
Cool days we'd lay in the sun
Late summer breezes
Smelling of cut grass
On bikes with friends on the run
In my mind there'd still be
Hills to roll down
And new games to make up
I still remember
Wishing on first stars
Nights without any moon
There I would see you
Across a clearing
Like the stars gone too soon
There you catch up with me
Playing hide and seek
And we laugh with delight
Those dreams overlap
New years at school
And hearts that stand still
But I will remember
Holding popsicles
Cool days out in the sun
And late summer breezes
Smelling of cut grass
On bikes with friends on the run
And in my mind there'll still be
Hills to roll down
And new games to make up
Don't know where to go
But to head into the haze
Still I walk around in circles
Sleepwalking through my days
Is this the start of something
Or another trip to nowhere
If I am going nowhere
Well, I ain't going nowhere fast
I've seen you on that limb
Try to bring you in
But I envy you your choices
And your seat out on that limb
I wondered where you'd go from there
Don't guess I'm going anywhere
What ya gonna do
With the going nowhere blues
Just one leave left
Don't pick the one I choose
I went down the valley
Back from where I came
Thought of giving it all up
But you said there was no shame
No need to give it up
And no need to worry
If nobody ever
Likes my songs but you
And you said you're going my way
But I can't go there with you
What ya gonna do
With the going nowhere blues
And just one leave left
Don't pick the one I choose
You said I may as well
Give up being me
We do it cause it's who we are
Not who we try to be
Well, I misunderstood
I thought you said
Stop trying to be
Something you are not
So I labeled myself Jesse Dean
Cause God hasn't named me yet
And I swore I will one day be
Something I am not
Please tell me what to do
With these going nowhere blues
Just one leave left
Tell me what one to choose
Please tell me what to do
With these going nowhere blues
And just one leave left
Tell me what one to choose
Now that I have told you
All the truth I've known
Tell me how I can atone?
Who will be the one
Who gets to pick my penance?
Would you hold the rope
Or the one who holds me sinless?
My greatest crime aloneness
My brokenness my hope
I didn't mean to do them wrong
It's not like I can't hear
But I can't always come running
At the sound of every fear
Pain is not the enemy
But tell me is it fear?
Pain is not the enemy
Could He make it any clearer?
Would you be the one
To stay and hear my side?
Would you hold the rope
When my feet beneath me slide?
My greatest strength aloneness
My crime I never tried
Now that I have told you
All the truth I've known
Tell me how I can atone?
Sometimes the current takes me slowly
The way I want to go
Sometimes it leads me toward the fall
I've no effect at all
All my life I cursed the current
And sometimes the other boats
Swift and sleek they sail away
Where they want to go
But every night I dream of home
Cerulean blue and midnight foam
And the sea within my blood
Calls to me, "take her out again"
Mariners from these same stars
Drew meaning I cannot see
Tiny holes in the blackness
So faint and random to me
Fear and chaos ebb and flow
Pirates board undetected
What hurts me most, what I don't know
My rudder is defective
But every night I dream of home
Cerulean blue and midnight foam
And the sea within my blood
Calls to me, "take her out again"
I decide to jump the ship
Fear blows in winter squalls
Set to take my broken boat
Leaving no escape at all
Think how "drowning men can see you"
The feeling swells and then recedes
Strains of hammered dulcimer
Skipping out o'er the seas
But every night I dream of home
Cerulean blue and midnight foam
And the sea within my blood
Calls to me, "take her out again"
As love can vanquish fear
Like strength alone cannot
Quiet clear pushes off the storm
Calm I long forgot
As the sun burns off the fog
I wake up safe and sound
In the same peaceful harbor
I left homeward bound
But every night I dream of home
Cerulean blue and midnight foam
And the sea within my blood
Calls to me, "take her out again"
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