Dawayne BAILEY

Everytime I walk into your garden
Something lost is not forgotten
Noone can deny the magic of your mystery

Deep inside the sacred temple
Reaching for an answer not so simple
Naked to the power of your history

Beautiful ruins
You turn a black sky blue
They're always coming
Beautiful dreams of you

Through a wall of alibaster
Silent echoes of a master
And the spirits of a hundred thousand
Children flying above

Stuck inside a universe
Where apathy is only growing worse
Desperate for a god who speaks
The language of love

Chorus

й 1998 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

2. A Black Church In Marietta

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Something pernicious
Something in green
Something so familiar
Something so obscene

All that I remember
Is all that I believe
Every inch of rope that you keep hiding
There up your sleeve
Right up your sleeve

Blown through the woodwork
Like a hole in the sky
Like an Arkansas twister
Like a bullet in your eye

Burning like a black church in Marietta
Spirits fly through a hole in the sun
A gentle breeze is blowing through
The distant fields of Armeggedon
Armeggedon

Count all the crosses
Multiply the souls
Castrate each pussy
Hiding behind every big white robe

Take 'em to a mountain
Throw 'em off the other side
Till every whore selling civil war has
been crucified
Till each one has died

Chorus

й 1996 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

3. Los Angeles

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I've got OJ
All year long
In the papers
Growin outside
On the lawn

In the land of
The cutest ass
Who can you impress
Man I'm livin
God this is livin

In the wild wild west

Flambe' from Malibu
To Watts and Chinatown
Tomorrow could be
All she wrote
So tonight I'm throwin down

And when the
House starts rockin
From some earthquake
Nuclear test
Man I'm livin
God this is livin

In the wild wild west

When your rights
And your pride get stolen
Everyone knows someone
Who's been raped

And your wife gets robbed
At fuckin gunpoint
Better make my great escape
From this planet of the ape

I've got Polaroids
Of smog-filled skies
Killer babes, killer bees
And a killer property tax

I got nightmares
Every afternoon
While the sun shines down
On every beautiful baboon

Man I'm livin
God this livin
Man I am living
In the wild wild west

й 1995 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

4. Nicole: Acts I & II

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Act I: (Nicole speaks to OJ)

You can stay or you can go
Do you love me, heaven knows
Will I let you draw me in
To your battlefield again

Another ride upon your rollercoaster brain
Another bug just flying right back to your flame

Wouldn't you want a love like that
Wouldn't you want a love like that

I will keep my pride unseen
Wash it down with gasoline
Between a heart and a fist
Lives the pain a junkie
Just can't resist

Every wicked word that keeps you satisfied
Every chance to heal would always be denied

Wouldn't you want a love like that
Wouldn't you want a love like that

Act II: (Ron Goldman speaks to OJ)

Picture perfect
In an ugly kind of way
Like a statue
Like a begger in Bombay

Your Picasso
Hides a crack in your wall
Like a prophet
Who never speaks at all

Like a dam slowly breaking
Like a vulture on the wing
The worm turns over
And nobody hears a thing

Like a thief and an actor
Work at mutilating speed
Would you kill your lover
For anything you need

Stop and listen
And tell me what you see
Right beside you
Such a pretty casualty

Can you hear the sound
That silence makes
Just another life
That someone's gonna take

Chorus

й 1996 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

5. The Living Room Of Me

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In the kitchen of my head
Eating words that leave you dead
In the basement of my soul
There's a creature you control

In the shower of my eye
There's a floor that's never dry
In the garden of my hand
Fear is growing on command

In the living room of me
There's no sofa - no TV
Just a monkey on a chair
Getting good at getting nowhere

In the living room of me
Choking ghost for all to see
If you wonder where I'll be
Dying..........
In the living room of me

In the bedroom of my skin
Faith and hope are sleeping in
In the laundry of my dreams
Evil rinses as it cleans

In the chapel of my spine
Drunken sinners come to dine
In the duplex of my heart
Love and hate live an inch apart

In the living room of me
There's no sitcom on TV
Just a monkey on a chair
Getting good at getting nowhere

In the living room of me
Choking ghost for all to see
If you wonder where I'll be
Dying.........
In the living room of me

й 1995 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

6. Darian

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( instrumental )

7. Chief Old Fox

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Chief Old Fox
Was a wise old fox
You couldn't snag him easy
You couldn't put him in a box

He was a wise old chief
But he wasn't always that way
He was wild in his youth
But he knew there would come a day

When he would lead his people wise
Teach and protect them
From the white man's lies

Promises were broken
At every turn
Try to guide the young ones
So they would learn

Heya heya hoka hey
All the people laugh
Heya heya hey
All the people rise
Heya heya hoka hey
All the people live
Heya heya hey
All the people grow

Now the Fox
Was true to his name
Cause he finally learned
How to play the white man's game

They heard him speak
With a forked tongue
Every eye saw everything
That they had done

He told the people
To keep their ways
By and by they would all see
A brighter day

The circle would someday
Come back around
Ways of the Indian
Have been lost and found

Chorus

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI
Jimmy Carl Black Music, BMI,
Lauren Scheff Music, BMI

8. My Life

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Another day in the promised land
I've got my life in the palm of my hand
Something there right by my side
It's gonna take me for a ride

Don't let it ever bother you
You'll see these things happen
When you think you're through

It's my life, I'm gonna live it
It's my life

It's my life, my life, my life

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

9. Something Out Of Me

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You're the ruler
Of many horses
Many servants
May crown you king

Your head is spininning
Like a big fat planet
So fast can't hear the
Caged bird sing
So fat can't hear the bird sing

I get the feeling
Through every bone
Every time I lay before your throne

Tell the truth baby
if you must
Show me a lier
Just one that I can trust

Everybody knows the heart runs free
But since I met ya
Took something out of me
We came together
So perfectly
But deep inside
Took something out of me

Happiness
Should fill the soul
My spirit's sinking through
A black hole

Love's a begger
That keeps on giving
Turns the dead back
Into the living

I'm a time bomb
So don't come near me
Unless you wanna feel
My big bang theory, baby

Chorus

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

10. Ariad (Blue Turns Black)

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Stars are falling
From a desert sky
Spirits flying into nothing

Cathedral burning
Only miles away
Still it's much too dark to find you

I could stand
A lifetime in hell
As long as you bid me
Babe I wish you well
Here in the land of the living

Felicia
She is not dead
Felicia
Just lives in my head

Blue turns black
When hearts run red

And when my memory
Simply fades away
Once again you kill
Your vacant sign

Will you remember
To forget the love we made
And forgive the fool
Who was so blind

Is there a planet
That doesn't spin so fast
Less revolution
And more love to last
Here in the land of the living

Chorus

Instrumental Section

Chorus

Stars are falling
From a desert sky
Felicia
Sprits flying into nothing
Felicia

й 1995 Dawayne Bailey 2001

11. Over The Underwall

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Rip it up
Not another spin
Tear it down
Start all over again

Burn the bridges
Between heart and soul
Take this reverie
To place we know

40 days and 40 nights
Waiting over by the underwall
Everyone says it's there in sight
Waiting over by the underwall
Everybody says it's there alright
Waiting over by the underwall
Nobody gets out alive
Waiting over by the underwall

Repeat Verse and Chorus

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

12. Little Freight Trains

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( instrumental )

13. Easier Than Breathing 1

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Here comes the night
There goes the truth
That I am

Softly divide
There goes the one thing
That I am

From the way I want to feel
And in this lie where I'm revealed
Take me where I don't care anymore

Cause letting go is
Easier than leaving
Letting go is
Easier than breathing

I'm all alone
Here in the garden
That I am

Words turn to stone
Back to the reason
That I am

From the way I want to feel
And in this lie where I'm revealed
Take me where I don't care anymore

Letting go is
Easier than leaving
Letting go is
Easier than breathing

I've been dreaming of you
I've been dreaming of you

Here comes the night
There goes the one thing
That I am

й 1996 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI & ShaynaSongs, BMI

14. Easier Than Breathing 2

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( instrumental )

15. Nowhere Fast

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We make believe that we're going somewhere
Forget the price that we pay when we get there
Acceleration of the nuclear race
Annhialation all over my face

Nowhere fast
Without a reason
Nowhere fast
Why is it taking so long
Nowhere fast
How will I find my way home

Stuck in the middle of this deadly show
You gotta take it anyway that the wind blows
Put on your makeup people, don't delay
They're taking pictures on the Judgement Day

Chorus

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

16. I'll Carry On

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I'll carry on without you
Just a little everyday
I'll carry on without you
I'll carry on

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

17. In God We Thrust

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In god we thrust
Every dagger of doubt
Lamb's blood we lust
Twist it in
Till the last drop runs out

In this winter
Of kill or die
We will master
The skills of hate

Poison splinter
In god's good eye
Devil dancing
At the garden gate

Gasoline
On a soul still burning
Until death
Do we really part
We've got one
One chance in hell
And three strikes in heaven

There's an alter
Where we pray
Every minute
Every day

Holy water
So divine
Tastes so bitter
Cause there's blood in the wine

Open season
Close the door
Did you lock it
Twice, my dear

What did reason
Ever stand for
God I'm sorry
But it's all disappeared

Into nothing
Into everything
Into silence
Where no heart can be seen

We've got one
One chance in hell
And three strikes in heaven

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

18. He's Not Anywhere

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Whenever you want me
Whenever you need me
Whenever you want me
Whenever you need me

You're gonna feel something
When you hear that sound
Noone's gonna be there
You might be sorry when
He has to leave town

And he's not anywhere
He's not anywhere

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

19. Raised By Vultures

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( instrumental )

20. Full Time Lover

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From the early early mornin'
To the middle of the afternoon
To the late hours of the night time
You know it never is too soon

Gonna give it to you better
Than you've ever had it before
Upstairs, downstairs
Right there on the kitchen floor

Cause I'm your full time lover
Don't need no part time helping hand
Think it's time that you discovered
Gonna be your full time lover man

Some people wait a lifetime
For the right thing to come around
No need to look no further baby
Cause your daddy has been found

No need to watch the clock, mama
Cause I'm comin' right on time
Better tell those little boys outside your door
You won't need their help tonight

Chorus

Got miles and miles of lovin'
Got plenty of heart and soul
Gonna fill your empty oven
With a monster casserole

Just wave your freak flag high, mama
You can put your mind at ease
After I give ya what ya want
I'm gonna give ya what you need

Chorus

й 1981 Bailey Dwana Music, BMI

21. Waiting 2

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There in your lonely room
I hear your crying
You in your private tomb
You are not dying

Chorus

I'm just waiting
I'm just waiting

Your sons and daughters
Will live but we will falter
Who knows how long
Before I feel the chill
Big man, big mission
Victim of your ambition
I'll move when the time is right
But it's your move tonight

Chorus

I'm just waiting
I'm just waiting

й 1986 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI,
Last American Music, BMI

22. Whatever Happens

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I don't know if it's something to believe in
I don't know if it's right
I don't know if it'something so much better
But it's there in your eyes

What's done is done
Sooner or later
But you know what's gonna happen tonight
You're the one who said everything is better
But you, you've got it all right

When it comes to givin' love
I'm sure you know the way there
When it comes to givin' love
I want to stay there

Whatever happens
Whatever's wrong
Whatever happens
Whatever's wrong

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

23. I Know How 2 Love U

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So ya think you'll find a man
Who loves ya more than I do
Don't hold your breath girl
You might just end up
Asphyxiatin' yourself
Before that dream comes true

Anyone, anything, everything in between that ya
Think you really need girl
Is just a picture in a magazine
Just an imitation beauty queen
It's the same old Madison Avenue

I know how to love you
He can't do the things - I do
I know how to love you
Baby let me prove it to you

So a 10 cent lover makes ya feel so fine
He's a disco romeo, Don Juan of the video
A real arcade hero
He knows every button
But the one that plugs you in

He knows Ringo, Devo, Oingo Boingo
Yoko Ono, The Gos Gos, who knows!
Why, he even knows a real live BLACK PERSON
An exclusive so and so
He knows every joint on Sunset Boulevard

I know how to love you
He can't do the things - I do
I know how to love you
Baby let me prove it, to you

Bridge

Who's gonna love ya when the stores close down
The snow starts fallin' and your mama leaves town
Your daddy can't come cause the car won't start
Who's taking care of your heart

Chorus

й 1982 Bailey Dwana Music, BMI

24. Her Last Request

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( instrumental )

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DISC 2

25. I Keep Running

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My dreams are always a mystery
Twisted names and faces
I try to believe it's imagination
Secret fear and revelation

Something deep inside
Won't let me get away
The kind that you find
In your mind each day

I keep running
I keep running after me
I keep running

Repeat

й 1985 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

26. Monkey Man 1

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When he needs a drink of water
Throw the dog a bone
Cock - fight
It's Blood Bath Night
Monkey finger on the telephone

He's running out of daydreams
Under that overtime
Fat-cat
Monkey on his back
He's a killer for the deadline

Chorus

He's the monkey man
Monkey man

Monkey in the morning
Monkey every night and day
Rat- race
Shove it in your face
Till the dream just fades away

It's another monkey movie
In a world full of greed and pain
King-Kong
Something's all wrong
'Cause he's itching like a boomerang

Chorus

Who the hell needs the future
When tomorrow's been left behind
Bye-bye
He'll never know why
He's a victim of the monkey grind

й 1986 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI,
Last American Music, BMI

27. Back On The Road Again

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Too many places
Too many nights flying up that hill
Take it for granted
Take everything that your eyes can steal

Look at the faces
What you see here, God only knows
I couldn't tell you
I couldn't tell, but I think it shows

Die laughing from the pain
But you're on the road again
Back on the road again

Pieces of paper ($$$)
Fair exchange for the heart and soul?
That's what you live for
And that's how you die when you lose control

You justify the gain
But you're on the road again

Take another 20 years from your life each day
Keep on talking when nothing's left to say
All you're looking for is someone who will stay
To stay

Hearts and headlines
Pay your dues for the life you choose
Money and lovers
One thing remains true

You're back on the road again
Back on the road again

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

28. U Kill Me

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I spent a lifetime babe
In a coma on your killing floor
Buried alive with eyes wide open
Good god, who could ask for more

Here comes your headache
Bones in my heart break
Here comes what I pray for

U kill me
I Don't Know why
U kill me
Laugh till I cry

Kill me till I die to death
You can suck my last breath

I've got an ocean for an eyeball
Someone should seperate the two
Just when that blue ball goes dry as a whistle
I see your face
And all hell breaks loose

Here comes your headache
Bones in my heart break
Here comes what you love to do

Chorus

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

29. Ocean Of Tears

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Sometimes I feel like
I'm standing on a highway
Just like a movie
Right before my eyes

Freedom in the eyes of
One man's widow
The stolen dreams
Of another man's bride

I walked away
Before the ending
Too tired to care about it
Maybe supersticious

But was it truth or consequences
My defenses always paralyze

Kiss me now or kill me later
Do what it takes to make the days go by
Who's got the time
To fix some radiator
When there's oceans of tears
That never run dry

Repeat All

й 1988 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

30. Triel Sur Seine

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( instrumental )

31. Before You Start

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When the day grows dark
The sun goes down
The sirens call for you

When the voices fall
Time's the river
That washes it all from view

Who cares what's right
Who cares what's wrong
For it does not compute

Before you start you're through

Lost in the poison grammar
Of saints who slander
For the right to walk with you

And they shall kill
With a holy hand
Take your ammunition
From your sacred mission
Spread it all over the land

Before you start you're through

Instrumental Section

Lisa please I need you so much
Lisa please I need your tender touch

й 1985 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

32. Emily 1

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I come home early one day
I could tell something wasn't right
An unfamiliar car was in the driveway
I walked in on your little surprise

We've been together for so long
My suspicion was history
Don't deny it - the truth is strong
Everything is clear to me

Chorus

Emily I caught you
Emily I caught you with another heart
Everything that you do
Will return like flames burning in the dark

Look at me - look at you
We're the victims of love gone blind
All the stupid things that love goes through
I thought we stood the test of time

й 1986 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI,
Last American Music, BMI

33. Stand The Fall

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I will always live my life for you
Cause that's the only thing that I can do
To take you everywhere I go tonight
Everything I touch just isn't right

All that we can say
About a love that is so true
Take the time
But time is much too hard

They say that there's a heaven
Where love is standing tall
Take me where a man can stand the fall

All the plans and promises were made
All the broken dreams have slipped away
But something still lives here inside my heart
That time can never ever take away

Jumping to conclusions
Through rings of blazing doubt
Life went on and we forgot
To put those little fires put

Now it's heaven or Las Vegas
Where the winner steals it all
Take me where a man can stand the fall

To answer all the questions
That are left here in my mind
We'll never have the patience
And we will not find the time

To relieve our expectations
The empty, vacant call
And never have to stand before the fall

I will always live my life for you
That's the only thing that I can do
Take you everywhere I go tonight
Everything I touch just isn't right

I will always live my life for you
That's the only thing that I can do

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

34. Give Me Everything 2

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Murray was a gambling man
You know he do everything he can
To buy the house and the gasoline
To burn rubber on his Angelyne
Driving to Las Vegas for the night
'Cause he like to take his chances

Chorus

Give me everything
Give me everything I want
Does it matter if it's what I need?
So long as it's what I got

Angelyne wanna be a star
Silicone and the little pink car
Stick it up on the telephone pole
Today's special on the rock-n-roll
The aperture is there for all to see
Is it really worth the camera

Chorus

Give me everything
Give me everything I want
Does it matter if it's what I need?
So long as it's what I got

й 1986 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI,
Last American Music, BMI

35. Refrigerated Hate

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Hate
Refridgerated
Refridgerated hate

Hate
Refridgerated
Refridgerated hate

й 1984 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

36. Hyena Weeps

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( instrumental )

37. Day Tripper 1

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I've got a good reason
For takin' the easy way out
For takin' the easy way out
For takin' the easy way out

Sunday driver - yeah
It took me so long
I found out
I found out

Well see the little teaser
Take me half way there
The little teaser
Takin' me nowhere

One way ticket - yeah
It took so long
It took so long
To find it - I found it

I tried to please her
She's just a one night stand
See the little teaser
Take everything she can

Sunday driver - yeah
It took so long
Took so long to find it
So long I found it
So long I found it
So long

Day Tripper - Day Tripper - Day Tripper

38. Right Back To The Blues

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There's noone here
As far as I can tell
I close my eyes
Climb back to an empty shell

There's no need to
Shine a light
Upon these jester shoes

Since you found me
I lost you
It's right back to the blues

Since we grew closer
I threw some old dreams away
But that didn't matter
As long as this one would stay

Thought this was some
Lifetime promise
I thought we paid those dues

Since you found me
I lost you
It's right back to the blues

Never knew how good it was
Much more inside
There's a voice that says
You must not hide
I know that love is lost
On pride

Thought this was some perfect movie
Where the heros never lose
Since you found me
I lost you

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

39. Square Dancers Firing Squad

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( instrumental )

40. Bed Of Roses

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I've got no business in this business
You call a business
I've got to work a few things
Out on my own

I don't remember did I die
Or did I just surrender
Too busy watchin' ya
Kickin' god off his throne

You gave the dog a bitch
I gave the cat a bone
You say I need you now
I say you're history

I've got no problem watching you
Down on your knees
Before you go
Before it's much too late

I've got a secret baby
You're gonna love to hate

I got your water
I drank your blood red wine
I got the message
Throw the pearl before the swine

Bed of roses
Bed of suicide
Best of everything
The best that money can hide

Sun on the moon
Moon on your face
Face in my dreams
My dreams are blown into space

Fuck the logic
Fuck the brain
Forget the thin line
Between a man and a stain

Forget you knew me
Shove in your blade
Forget the ugly mess
That we so beautifully made

I've been a witness
To the holy three
God, his mother
And your family

Black the Urth
Erase the sky
Rip the truth
From my naked eye

Chorus

й 2001 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

41. Rest Of My Life 1

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There's a city lying underneath this river
There's a face that's missing behind the door
There's a flame that burns below this long forgotten
history

After everything that we've been through together
We replace them all along the way
There's a chance that all has a reason
But this memory stays alive in me

Chorus

Maybe I will wait for you
Maybe I could wait forever
Maybe I will wait for you
For the rest of my life

While the planets spin in endless repetition
Maybe love gets lost and soon returns again
If I can find the will to last another season
There's a memory that stays alive in me

Chorus

Maybe I will wait for you
Maybe I could wait forever
Maybe I will wait for you
For the rest of my life

There's a city lying underneath this river
There's a face that's missing behind the door
There's a flame that always burns bellow the surface
There's a memory that stays alive in me

Chorus

Maybe I will wait for you
Maybe I could wait forever
Maybe I will wait for you
For the rest of my life

й 1986 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI,
Last American Music, BMI

42. Waiting 1

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I come home early one day
I could tell something wasn't right
An unfamiliar car was in the driveway
I walked in on your little surprise

We've been together for so long
My suspicion was history
Don't deny it - the truth is strong
Everything is clear to me

Chorus

Emily I caught you
Emily I caught you with another heart
Everything that you do
Will return like flames burning in the dark

Look at me - look at you
We're the victims of love gone blind
All the stupid things that love goes through
I thought we stood the test of time

й 1986 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI,
Last American Music, BMI

43. Steff Signer Speaks

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( instrumental )

44. Give Me Everything 1

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( instrumental )

45. Amy & Hilary

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Amy and Hilary
Look at each other
One starts to laugh
And spits on herself
And the other says
"That's really wierd,
But I like it"

Amy and Hilary
Think of new ways to dance
One stands in the corner
On one leg with her hand on her head

And the other sits
And paints her toes
A bunch of different colors
Like purple, and black and green

Sometimes you don't
Have to care if the world passes by
As long as you've got a friend
Who understands just how strange you are
And it helps if they have a car
And maybe a drivers license

"Oh well, just a few more years
(A few more years) and I'm gonna get...a Honda
A Honda?"

Amy and Hilary
Best friends are hard to find
And it's harder to keep them
If you're stingy
Or forget to bathe
For a long time

But if you're friends
Friends don't
Friends won't.....mind

Amy and Hilary
Amy and Hilary
Amy and Hilary

й 2002 Dawayne Bailey Music, BMI

46. DB @ 10 Years Old

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(interview )

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