SINGLE IN THE CENTER

On a street named Two’s where it all began

Grabbed that phone with my hackin’ hand

Dug a bit and found the dirt

Razed me down like a pile a’ hurt

From us to me, the ground’s the sky

Lookin’ single in the center of its bloodshot eye

Trapped like a dog in the house that was

Center of life till the deed was done

What once was good is turning bad

Walls around me stark ravin’ mad

Left me quick it’s a shame that I’m

Lookin’ single in the center of its bloodshot eye

It’s only human to want a person who

Don’t run, when they had their fun

And when the road gets dark, that lover’s open heart

Should shine, always remind

Brooklyn babes and the city queens

Can’t see me comin’ through the glitter sheen

Bright lights bounce of the buckle belts

Manhattan club is my own hell

Too many drinks for me tonight

Lookin’ single in the center of its bloodshot eye

It’s only human to want a person who

Don’t run, when they had their fun

And when the road gets dark, that lover’s open heart

Should shine, always remind

Driving hard to the tar heel state

Back where I made my first mistakes

Finding truth in the bacco fields

Heart is heavy but my soul won’t yield

Take a hit my mouth is dry

Lookin’ single in the center of its bloodshot eye

Buckle up for a ride

Lookin’ single in the center of its bloodshot eye

Salvation-free I’ve seen the light

Lookin’ single in the center of its bloodshot eye

DON’T SEE THE LIGHT

You never set boundaries before 

Normal days are done and you’re on the run

You got one foot out the door 

With a waistband gun, and a setting sun

When I fall to the ground

Single shot and I’m down

I don’t see the light, or my Mother’s smile

With a glance like a knife

You walk out of my life

I feel the fire, hear the devil’s choir

I always knew I broke the rules

I just didn’t know, what was down below

Felt the moment as they came

Thought when I slept, it was my final rest

But as the darkness crept in

So did the heat and the sin

I don’t see the light, or my mother’s smile

And with each ring i broke

I became the joke

I see the fire, hear the devil’s choir

Got a little bit of love to give, gotta a little bit of little of love to give

Got a little bit of love to give, gotta a little bit of little of love to give

It’s the life that i live

And all the lovers I left

I don’t see the light, or my mother's smile

I look back in shame, realize

I’d do it ll the same

I’ll start the fire, lead the devil’s choir

ME, NO MYSELF & I

I’m surrounded by strangers by people that i’ve never met

They’re telling me all of my songs are all about them

I feel in my heart the words that they tell me are true

But just between us, I wrote all of those songs about you

Hey you’re taking me

Back to a time when I

Felt so insecure

Just me no myself and I

I’ll play the victim if you the play the one I loved

Two people can never know each other till one is gone

Im righteous I’m holy im howling at the moon

Wishing a life I lost was still with you

Hey you’re taking me

Back to a time when I

Felt so insecure

Just me no myself and I

If I could just talk to you i would go on and on

And do all the things that I should have done all along

Changing my habits, fixing my sadness

Stop drinking like it was the cure to my madness

Hey you’re taking me

Back to a time when I

Felt so insecure

Just me no myself and I

Hey you’re taking me

Back to a time when I

Felt so insecure

Just me no myself and I

ONE HAND ON THE BIBLE

They told me it would pass, eight years I thought would last

Dripped away like water, we’ll never name a daughter                                     

The healing doesn’t help, don’t feel like myself

Crowded but lonely, restless and roaming

Lives change like the night sky

Happiness to sorrow, there’s always be tomorrow

I lost too many of my people in this life

One hand on the bible, the other on the bottle

The other on the bottle

Can’t seem to give up hope, will not let go of that rope

That’s holding us together, trailing on forever

I heard that you moved on, someone else to sing you songs

But no one told my memories, still playing on inside me

Lives change like the night sky

Happiness to sorrow, there’s always be tomorrow

I lost too many of my people in this life

One hand on the bible, the others on the bottle

The others on the bottle

Lives change like the night sky

Happiness to sorrow, there’s always be tomorrow

I lost too many of my people in this life

One hand on the bible, the other on the bottle

The other on the bottle

the others on the bottle

the others on the bottle

LOVEMARES

Hate when the night breaks my soul is for morn

Scared of the moments the sunlight is gone

I dream of my lover she aint in my arms

Lovemares all evenin’ from dusk until dawn

The rays of the days sun they keep in line

Lady Luna she hates me she’s calling my time

When I see the last bit of day hit the hill

I know I’ll be restless when night’s on my sill

MY OH MY

Every single word I said was true

Doing the thing fate wants us to

baby let me in i’m knocking at your door

Show your worth don't change a thing

dealing you hurt or a diamond ring

bring the heat its my finally my turn

My Oh My

You’re making me cry

Yeh I wish I didn’t love you

Yeh I wish I didn’t have to

My Oh My

You’re making me cry

Yeh I wish I didn’t love you

Yeh I wish I didn’t have to

Say I’m the best you never saw

Honey I aint no paper doll

Don’t think I never heard it all before

I’ll show you my cards I keep em on my chest

Maybe you’re nothing or maybe youre the best

This could be fire I feel the heat I might get burned

My Oh My

You’re making me cry

Yeh I wish I didn’t love you

Yeh I wish I didn’t have to

My Oh My

You’re making me cry

Yeh I wish I didn’t love you

Yeh I wish I didn’t have to

Yeh I wish I didn’t love you

Yeh I wish I didn’t have to

My Oh My

You’re making me cry

Yeh I wish I didn’t love you

Yeh I wish I didn’t have to

BUILD IT ALL

If could just go back in time forever 

like Superman id spin id spin off all the days

I’d change the way acted when I found about the bomb

Keep you close and never let you stray

(Of) course I know cannot change what happened

Un-break the shit we shattered from the start

Aint nothing in this world you cannot leave or lose

A life worth livings means a broken heart

Build it all to watch it fall apart

Can’t keep from blaming all the bad on action

The good just seems to feed enough away

That every time i talk to you I lost a little more

of myself that just wanted you to stay

Of course I know cannot change what happened

Unbreak the shit you shattered from the start

aint nothing in this world you cannot leave or lose

A life worth livings means a broken heart

Build it all to watch it fall apart

dreams at night leaving me mad, when do I land, when do I land

trying hard to understand, I need a hand, I need a hand     

Of course I know cannot change what happened

Unbreak the shit you shattered from the start

aint nothing in this world you cannot leave or lose

A life worth livings means a broken heart

Build it all to watch it fall apart

BLAME ME

Don't blame it on your father or your mother

Don't blame it on the company you keep

Don't blame it on my lacking as a lover

It's the man I caught you kissing who gets all the blame from me

Yes my life is different situation

Than the one most women often seek

I chase dreams while you chase accommodation

I wont apologize for being I, myself, and me

I Keep on holdin

I keep on holdin

To what we had, but what we had is gone

I guess I’m rollin

I guess I’m rollin’...on

One more year and we probably could have made it

Talked it out bought a house up on a hill

What I have just isn't what you wanted

Hope your happy with a life where working is your biggest thrill

Don't blame it on your father or your mother

Don't blame it on the company you keep

Don't blame it on my lacking as a lover

It's the man I caught you kissing who gets all the blame from me

I Keep on holden

I keep on holdin

To what we had, but what we had is gone

I guess I’m rollin

I guess I’m rollin’

On

SORROW LADEN SONG

It’s my life, but it’s your world

I said all the things I need to say

Looking  back, I should have known

All the signs were laid out plain baby

The lonely nights, the cries of pain

Wasn’t spared a single day

I locked it up, never made a key

But you done blown the safe to bits baby

Hangin back never helps you to move on

Thank each sunrise down the line

Eastward track, with sorrow-laden song

Don't read the lyrics I am fine

How Do I say, what i cannot speak

Feelin lucky just to breathe again

And how do i stay, this kind of weak

Feelin thankful just to sing with friends

Lord let me write just one more song they all love

A little pain can help me shine from above

It’s like you know me but your memories are numb

It’s like you know me but your memories are numb

Hangin back never helps you to move on

Thank each sunrise down the line

Eastward track, with sorrow-laden song

Don't read the lyrics I am fine

Eastward track, with sorrow-laden song

Don't read the lyrics I am fine

HORIZONS

My Horizons just got violent

All is silent as I slip across the land

Call your mothers, hug your brothers

Southern living’s looking better i’ll be damned

Hark the angel, death don’t fear me

I am coming like a freight train leaving town

Haulin’ broken hearts a plenty

Black like coal from the mountains bearing down

Then I see your face, like a star in space

It takes everything I have just not to scream,

What does it all mean

Feelin lonely, young, and restless

Sang Hallelujah for the seventh time today

Where’s my savior, oh she left me

Im better off looking inward anyway

God don’t love me, the devils lost me

Knowing less although I age more every day

When I’m sleepin’ six feet under

Make carolina this man’s final resting place

Then I see your face, like a star in space

It takes everything I have just not to scream,

What does it all mean

Life is change and change is sufferin

Spreading love is the only way to grow

Leave the circle, bent and broken

Final trip around the sun will make me whole

LOVEMARES II

Hate when the night breaks my soul is for morn

Scared of the moments the sunlight is gone

I dream of my lover she aint in my arms

Lovemares all evenin’ from dusk until dawn

My woman she left me before I did know

A secret the world knew oh I was forlorn

It takes every ounce of my God-given strength

To take on the moonshine and horror she brings

Hate when the night breaks my soul is for morn

Scared of the moments the sunlight is gone

I dream of my lover she aint in my arms

Lovemares all evenin’ from dusk until dawn

City of neon, of glitter, and gold

Millions of wandering suffering souls

Run from the grip of the City That Saves

To hearts that are beating like mine all the same

Hate when the night breaks my soul is for morn

Scared of the moments the sunlight is gone

I dream of my lover she aint in my arms

Lovemares all evenin’ from dusk until dawn

DIAL UP PAIN

Accidents happen but mistakes are partly my fault

I been dreaming of something so long i don’t know where it’s gone

I’m setting myself up for hurting just one final time

Hoping you keeping a part of my heart on your mind

It seems like my life ain't worth nothing to you anymore

Took all your baggage and saw you drag it out the door

It’s simply too hard to imagine a life without you

Doin what I’m doin and Lord well it’s all I can do

So I dial up pain

When I dial up you

Lord keep me from hurting myself once again

I Will Cry Like The rain

When I dial up pain

Shit, it’s the least your cheating ass could do

What have I done to end up way down on your list

Of people you hate and despise and will never miss

I guess all that money I spent on our lives was a waste

Should of put down my wallet and said some kinds words to your face

So I dial up pain

When I dial up you

Lord keep me from hurting myself once again

I Will Cry Like The rain

When I dial up pain

Shit, it’s the least your cheating ass could do

So I dial up pain

When I dial up you

Lord keep me from hurting myself once again

I Will Cry Like The rain

When I dial up pain

Shit, it’s the least your cheating ass could do

City That saves

Writing love songs to the city that saves

Hallelujah till she washes away

Gives me power in my darkest hours and

She’ll hold me gently when I enter my grave

I came, with loving’ crossing my eyes, hypnotized

Alone, was never this hard to describe, all the light

Writing love songs to the city that saves

Hallelujah till she washes away

Gives me power in my darkest hours and

She’ll hold me gently when I enter my grave

Ohhh ohhh oohhhh

Ohhh ohhh oohhhh

Good lord, you’ve made a mess of this town, by the sound

God bless the silver, scared, and the down, underground

Writing love songs to the city that saves

Hallelujah till she washes away

Gives me power in my darkest hours and

She’ll hold me gently when I enter my grave

feelin’ good

Fear me, fear not, the hold you’ve got

On me it’s so good, we didn’t end up like I thought we would

Long road, rough home, it’s all, we’ve known

Whatever helps me feeling soo good, didn’t end up like I thought it would

And if I hunt it down 

Will it make you proud

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

When I find a way

I’m gonna make you stay

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

My mom, she said, use it, instead

Of trying to feel sooo good, she’d seen it happen long before i did

Leave now, one day,  this time, i’ll stay

In the judgment of the greatest ones, who helped to make me what I have become

And if I hunt it down 

Will it make you proud

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

When I find a way

I’m gonna make you stay

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

And if I hunt it down 

Will it make you proud

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

When I find a way

I’m gonna make you stay

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

I’m feeling good

USED TO BE

I’m not the man I used go be

life has had her way with me

A change we always knew would come

A shadow of the boy I was

I dream of days when I was young

A drunken lover on the run

Took for granted all that I had

Not caring for the good or bad

I’m not the man I used go be

life has had her way with me

A change we always knew would come

A shadow of the boy I was

My reflection 

Bears my life’s direction

Every forward moment

Has made me who I am

What people think I no longer care

Inked my skin, grew a beard and my hair

Would my momma’ rest in peace know who I am

Her baby boy a lawless broken man

I’m not the man I used go be

life has had her way with me

A change we always knew would come

A shadow of the boy I was

A shadow of the boy I was

A shadow of the boy I was

things i don’t see

It’s the things I don’t see that hurt me the most

Imagine sad endings I’ll never behold

Dark things will happen, non-memories unfold

Takes the time and the terror, the giving and the gold

What really happened that night

Why did you end up in flight

I’m going to sleep with my head at your feet

Refusing to turn out the lights

It’s the things I don’t see that hurt me the most

Imagine sad endings I’ll never behold

Dark things will happen, non-memories unfold

Takes the time and the terror, the giving and the gold

Did you both finally know peace

Soaring and thinking of me

I can’t let you go you’re the stuff of my dreams

No answers for questions like these

It’s the things I don’t see that hurt me the most

Imagine sad endings I’ll never behold

Dark things will happen, non-memories unfold

Takes the time and the terror, the giving and the gold

pour me a drink

Pour me a drink

As sweet as the sunset

As sweet as the day you were born

Pour it softly 

Like the winds that blow through me

Like the winds that blow through the stories you tell

Get her out of here

I got too much to fear

Every second she stays is another day

That I will live in that year

Pour me a drink

As sweet as the sunset

As sweet as the day you were born

Pour it softly 

Like the winds that blow through me

Like the winds that blow through the stories you tell

I forgot how to steer

Life is starting to veer

Everything second I stay is another day

That i must live in that year

Pour me a drink

As sweet as the sunset

As sweet as the day you were born

Pour it softly 

Like the winds that blow through me

Like the winds that blow through the stories you tell

Pour me a drink

As sweet as the sunset

As sweet as the day you were born

Pour it softly 

Like the winds that blow through me

Like the winds that blow through the stories you tell

jupiter

We’re looking at the stars

Maybe jupiter or mars

The only time I’m calm

Is when  I drink till I am numb

One day I’ll go too far

Sometimes I pray for  loss

Of my thoughts and all that’s gone

They say it’s pain that makes the man

If they knew only who I am

I would prove that they were wrong

My time’s been spent waiting for you

To arrive so I better make room

If it’s alright I’ll take the side with the view

I am bright at the sight of you

Celestial light from the heart of you

There’s before and then there’s now

The sky and then the clouds 

Lined with silver and with gold (vocal harmonizing comes in here through rest of verse

All the things I can afford

Are the things that weigh me down

22

The first step you take is the last one away from your youth

All that you’ve taken for granted is starting anew

And the friends that you made that very first day

May well be the one sayin’ prayers at your grave

All you see is ahead

Where love ain’t just love and pain is a new kinda’ truth

A day holds adventure that leads to a bloody tattoo

Kissing with moonlight soon fading to day

Just taking off clothes when there’s no words to say

And all you see is ahead

Twenty-two

I don’t remember you

Yet still I managed to learn things I’ll never forget

Like heartache and headaches

And friends who will stay with you long after your dead

That lovin and livin ain’t fair but it’s all that we get

Breaking down daily just tell me I’ll do what you say

There’s nothin’ left here to keep me from walking away

A move made with passion intentions were good

Paving the way for a future with you 

And all I see is ahead

Twenty-two

I don’t remember you

Yet still I managed to learn things I’ll never forget

Like heartache and headaches

And friends who will stay with you long after your dead

That lovin and livin ain’t fair but it’s all that we get

Xanax, cocaine, & WHISKEY

Xanax, cocaine, and whiskey, are the things that I like

When you put ‘em together, you’ll forget the whole night

Bars, white powder, and lightnin’, it’ll get you fucked up

You’ll forget all your worries, till the sun comes up

I met a girl, she gave me the drugs

Turnt’ me a sinner, thought I was in love

When she up and left, she took all I had

Cept’ this bottle, bottle, this and this little bag

Xanax, cocaine, and whiskey, are the things that I like

When you put ‘em together, you’ll forget the whole night

Bars, white powder, and lightnin’, it’ll get you fucked up

You’ll forget all your worries, till the sun comes up

It started out small, just a Saturday night

Soon it was leakin’, through the weekend’s moonlight

When wakin and baking, just wasn’t enough

I get all I need from blue, white, and buff

Xanax, cocaine, and whiskey, are the things that I like

When you put ‘em together, you’ll forget the whole night

Bars, white powder, and lightnin’, it’ll get you fucked up

You’ll forget all your worries, till the sun comes up

NAME OF FAME

Born to be a ramblin man

A new town every night

I won’t remember, the countless bartenders

Who kept my spirits high

Born to hit that rocky road

My six  in my hand

Singing songs of sorrow, not carin’ for tomorrow

Ready for my next crash land

I’ll never have a home

Highways’ in my bones

Beneath the stage lights is where I’ll shine

Puttin’ heavy on the gas

Leavin’ last night in my past

Do it all in the name of fame

Born to see the night moon shine

From the window of my big tour bus

Sleep until the next show, forgettin’ where the days go

Hoping for that royal flush

Born to sing of things I know

Sweeping girls right off their feet

If only for an hour, beneath the water tower

With whiskey wine and songs so sweet

I’ll never have a home

Highways’ in my bones

Beneath the stage lights is where I’ll shine

Puttin’ heavy on the gas

Leavin’ last night in my past

Do it all in the name of fame

And I hope hope hope it turns out fine

Followin’ my passion, surviving on my rations

I’ll never have a 9-5

Life’s too short to settle down

There’s plenty time for resting, sleeping and regrettin’

When I’m six feet underground

I’ll never have a home

Highways’ in my bones

Beneath the stage lights is where I’ll shine

Puttin’ heavy on the gas

Leavin’ last night in my past

Do it all in the name of fame

TIME TO RISE

Last night I said things I now regret

Your father’s bourbon, couple of words and your upset

But please close the door

It’s too early to apologize

I was wrong I know

But let me get there on my own

Fighting dirty when your post 30 doesn’t help

Verbal dancing with past Romances doesn’t sell

But please close the door

It’s too early to apologize

I was wrong I know

But let me get there on my own

Please let me speak

We’ve been down this road before

And women like you are much too strong

I’m worn and i’m weak, from a night turned into morn

And isn’t time, and isn’t it time to rise

Last night I said things I now regret

ALL I NEED

Even if you want me and even if you don’t

Even if this body isn’t something that you want

Perhaps maybe on day you’ll notice I’m alive

But even if you never I still think I’ll try

I wish I had a reason to live and let go

If i had a reason you’d give me one more

Perhaps maybe one day you’ll look up and see

But even if you never it don’t matter to me

Cause all I need

Is all you give

And All I see

Is all you live

Most people tell me forget and move on

Most people never have lived on their own

Perhaps maybe one day you’ll stop and just think

But even if they never don’t matter to me

Well i have been found

To give a little reason I think sounds

Good enough for you

So even if it comes from my mouth

Cause all I need

Is all you give

And All I see

Is all you live

Myself through you

I’m seeing myself through you

'Bout time I saw your shade of blue

I’m watching myself stumble too

Inside, I won’t let go of you

I’m seeing myself through you

Well I get mad when I regret

All the words to you I never said

And I understand you had to run

From the songs I never sung

I’m seeing myself through you

'Bout time I saw your shade of blue

I’m watching myself stumble too

Inside, I won’t let go of you

I’m seeing myself through you

Don’t call me blind, don’t call me weak

Call me just another man at your feet

If I have to choose, who to be

Then i guess I’m choosing me

I’m seeing myself through you

Bout time I saw your shade of blue

I’m watching myself stumble too

Inside, I won’t let go of you

I’m seeing myself through you    

I know when it hurts really bad you lift me up, you lift me up

And despite of all the mess that we have you lift me up, so I know

It’s time to go, so I go

I’m seeing myself through you

I’m seeing myself through you

I’m seeing myself through you

'Bout I saw your shade of blue

I’m watching myself stumble too

Inside, I won’t let go of you

I’m seeing myself       

I’m seeing myself through you

Bout time I saw your shade of blue

I’m watching myself stumble too

Inside, I won’t let go of you

I’m seeing myself through, seeing myself through, seeing myself you

Born a preacer

I was born a preacher    

I was born a saint

I was born nothin that I ain't

I was born a lover

with a fire in his eyes

I was born into a world of lies    

And when I’m down and out rock bottom in the street        

I’m singing out with ill defeat    

For rising quickly like a fire in the night

Takes love, take spirit, and a fight,

Takes love, takes spirit, and a fight

I was born of David

Born in dixie too

Born different though I look like you

I was born a hater

With anger that burns within

And I’ll die and I’ll die buried with sins

And when I’m down and out rock bottom in the street

I’m singing out with ill defeat

For rising quickly like a fire in the night

Takes love, take spirit, and a fight,

Takes love, takes spirit, and a fight

Please hold me now

I am different somehow

I didn’t want to be, the man the set you free

But life Is funny sometimes

And when I’m down and out rock bottom in the street

I’m singing out with ill defeat

For rising quickly like a fire in the night

Takes love, take spirit, and a fight,

Takes love, takes spirit, and a fight

I was born a hater

With anger that burns within

And I’ll die and I’ll die buried with sins

golden

The weight of the world has told me that I am forsaken

My actions have proven them right when I lose my way

I show no regret on the dark roads that I have taken

It’s my time to choose the prices that I’m willing pay

For too long, For too long

For too long, I have been broken

When I fly away, F\fly away

Fly away to the land that’s been chosen

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Seeking a path while the best of the present’s untaken

While looking for happy my now is completely delayed

Just one step will lead me to where my mind will awaken

Forget the past and the future and live for today

For too long, For too long

For too long, I have been broken

When I fly away, fly away

Fly away to the land that’s been chosen

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Someone will see

Someone will see

Someone will see

For too long, gor too long

For too long, I have been broken

When fly away, Fly away

Fly away to the land that’s been chosen

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Then someone will see that I’m golden

Someone will see

Someone will see

Hardcore medicine

faded red

sorry's not the way

how to feel

Heat Me Up

too bright

too crowded already

denny's song

sorrow and sight

no elma