Collective Soul Lyrics

Collective Soul Lyrics by Albums

2006-04-26T09:59:00.000-07:00

Youth [2004]
01 Better Now
02 There's a Way
03 Home
04 How Do You Love?
05 Him
06 Feels Like (It Feels All Right)
07 Perfect to Stay
08 Counting the Days
09 Under Heaven Skies
10 General Attitude
11 Satellite

Blender [2000]
01 Skin
02 Vent
03 Why, Pt. 2
04 10 Years Later
05 Boast
06 Turn
07 You Speak My Language
08 Perfect Day
09 After All
10 Over Tokyo
11 Happiness

Dosage [1999]
01 Tremble for My Beloved
02 Heavy
03 No More, No Less
04 Needs
05 Slow
06 Dandy Life
07 Run
08 Generate
09 Compliment
10 Not the One
11 Crown

Disciplined Breakdown [1997]
01 Precious Declaration
02 Listen
03 Maybe
04 Full Circle
05 Blame
06 Disciplined Breakdown
07 Forgiveness
08 Link
09 Giving
10 In Between
11 Crowded Head
12 Everything

Collective Soul [1995]
01 Simple
02 Untitled
03 The World I Know
04 Smashing Young Man
05 December
06 Where the River Flows
07 Gel
08 She Gathers Rain
09 When the Water Falls
10 Collection of Goods
11 Bleed
12 Reunion

Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid [1993]
01 Goodnight Good Guy
02 Shine
03 Wasting Time
04 Sister Don't Cry
05 Love Lifted Me
06 In a Moment
07 Heaven's Already Here
08 Pretty Donna
09 Reach
10 Breathe
11 Scream
12 Burning Bridges
13 All
14 Beautiful World

Youth [2004]

2006-04-26T09:50:00.000-07:00

Better Now
Yeah Yeah Oh I'm newly calibrated
Yeah Yeah All shiny and clean
Yeah Yeah I'm your recent adaptation
Yeah Yeah Time to redefine me

Let the word out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now
Break the news out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now

Yeah Yeah Oh I'm happy as Christmas
Yeah Yeah All wrapped to be seen
Yeah Yeah I'm your recent acquisition
Yeah Yeah Time to celebrate me

Let the word out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now
Break the news out I've got to get out
Oh I'm feeling better now

The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking me down

The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking
The world's done shaking me down

There's a Way
There's a way to carry on
To push me out then place me back where I belong
There's a way to make anew
To resurrect the wishes that I wish for you

I'm going on and on
I'm going' for the

There's a way to say what you say

There's a way to recognize
All the pride that wraps around for my disguise
There's a way to talk me through
To open the silence that belongs to you

I'm diggin' on and on
I'm diggin for the

Find some words that you can steal or borrow
Don't give it away
Save 'em up cause there's always tomorrow
C'mon c'mon

I'm going on and on
I'm diggin for the

Home
Poetry of politics and lost entities
Government is loneliness on this we agree
High are the angels and low I decree
Love only burns when fueled by belief.

Home, welcome home
Take a little walk, take a little walk right through our
Home, this is home
Take a little walk, take a little walk right through our... home.

Climb up the mountains then slide to the seas
Beauty adores us on this we agree
God is a witness and God is a tease
Pick up your faith, yeah, everybody come with me.

How Do You Love?
There once was love thrown into your room
But you never knew
A calendar of days just for you
But you never knew, never knew no
And the truth that you'll find will always be
The truth you hide.

So how do you love, how do you love
When your angels can't sing, and your world is still
Lacking of me.

There once were eyes that only saw you
But you never knew
A portrait of a flower in full bloom
But you never knew, never knew no
And the words that you fear will always be
The words you hear.

This space where you've been living
Has gifts you've never given
That's the face you always show
Ask me for words of wisdom
Tell me of your condition
I don't know, I don't
I don't know.

And the truth that you'll find will always be
The truth you hide.

Him
Well I took a little ride through the pouring rain
To think about the casualties of your exchange
Cause what you said ain't what you do
You know you live by the words you choose.

Was it him, was it me
Were his lies easier than my truth to believe.

Well I took a little walk through the driving rain
To catch my breath from your self-inflicted change
Cause what you said ain't what you do
I feel this storm wasn't with you.

And the rain comes just like a bed of nails
And the rain comes just like summer in hell.

Feels Like (It Feels All Right)
Feels like a new regime
All hail to the soul machine
Feels like what I taste
Always better than yesterday

Feels like sweet sixteen
All sugar and nicotine
It feels like ready go
I'm full throttle while the fluids flow

I said it feels like it feels like feels alright
Yeah and it feels like it feels like feels alright

Feels like a Sunday dress
I'm stained with sin but always blessed
It feels like the great escape
I love you baby but life can't wait

Feels like what I like

Perfect to Stay
She said good day boy, are you ready to shake
I said I love noise and this life that it makes.

See I have a line though it's subject to change
I once had a thought but then I gave it away
Yeah sooner or later I'll be perfect to stay.

She said good night boy, are you feeling alone
I said I love time but never ever this long.

Like the sun surely loves it's newborn days yeah
Like all oceans love their waves I'm perfect to stay.

Counting the Days
Hey baby are you listening
I've batten all the hatches down
I've taken all of your prescriptions but no remedy I've found.

Counting the Days (yeah)
Until some freedom can scream my name
Counting the Days (yeah)
Until the gods break these chains.

hey baby are you watching
I'm saddling for your side show
I never want to become precious
This life is so touch and go.

Counting the Days (yeah)
Until some freedom can scream my name
Counting the Days (yeah)
Until the gods break these chains.

Dig it, get it, dig it what your looking for?
Dig it, get it, dig it what your searching for?
Dig it, get it, dig it yeah, dig
Yeah, dig.

Counting the Days (yeah)
Until some freedom can scream my name
Counting the Days (yeah)
Until the gods break these chains.

General Attitude
Time, you've had more than your share of mine
I'm a criminal with no crime
Sing like a bird that is now released
Like an angel with clip-on wings.

Yeah nothing that's etched in stone
See I'm already who's already gone.

Love's a joke, love's a tease
Love's a cause I do believe but
Let it run now, let it run out to me.

Low I can live in a sinking hole
Cause I'm as high as the grass will grow
Gone like a stage with its curtain drawn
Like the loss as of Babylon.

Yeah I can mumble and talk again
But I'm a promise that's never been.

Love's a thrill yeah, love's a scene
Love's a reason I believe but
Let it run now, let it run out to me.

Yeah I'm coming round, this world loves me now
Feel the rhythm of changes laying down.

Satellite
Soon a man will kneel to pray
Soon the light will burn our shade
And with the sweet the bitter fades
So my heart and take your place

Cause I will be your force
And I will be your right
And I will watch over you like a satellite

Soon reason will have rhyme
Soon wisdom will imply
And with courage doubt subsides
So take my heart and take my pride

And I will be your side
And I will be your might
And I will watch over you like a satellite

River will flow from scenes unknown
I'll guide you through by the love I'll show
And the stars will wish upon the night
That they could have a guiding satellite

Blender [2000]

2006-04-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

Skin
I'm starting to feel loopy
Your dizziness consumes me

Jesus don't speak english
But I do think I understand
The rhyme and the reason
Of a goody good gentleman
If I were one I swear
I'd still be tasting your skin

The sky tonight is gracious
To rain on me your sweetness

I scream an explanation
Your world is so contagious

Vent
Shut your mouth
My mother said
Don't saddle me
With selfishness

Do you feel your tongue quivering
It's moments like these I revel in

Your conversation never sticks
'cause no truth in you exists
Yeah you bite before you lick
I love ya 'cause you're such a prick

One more time
Don't fashion me
With stylish word
Of ramblings

Do you feel my pulse lingering
It's moments like these I revel in

Why, Pt. 2
In the air I'm tasting your perfection
Forgive me dear for my misdirection
As I crawl beneath this torture you adore
I fall face to face with my scars you've ignored

So tell me why it don't feel the same
Tell me why I've got to feel this way
Yeah you leave, you're gone
And I'm left here with the blame
So tell me why it don't feel the same

All my props I swear they were in order
Even with the warnings of your thunder
Now I pause to let my silence scream tonight
Awhile you roam like a serpent satellite

10 Years Later
Lack of knowledge has a source (oh boy)
Still my thoughts must run their course (oh yeah)
And they do

Does my memory comfort you
While your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh I'm crying

Caution breathes a lonely breath (oh boy)
Love withstands but time must rest (oh yeah)
And it does

Does my memory comfort you
Your eyes see me through
Well it's 10 years later and still I haven't a clue
Oh it's 10 years later

Boast
Yeah you want to
'cause you say so
'cause you need to
Yeah you need to need to
I don't want to
I don't have to
But you've got to
Yeah you got to got to

Could you stay in line
Do you follow what I say
Can you read my mind
Then off where you lay

Feel the water rise
Can you swim now on your own
Do you act surprised
When you hear lies you have told

Oh now
Now you're motoring
Oh now
Now you're fluttering
Oh now now

You Speak My Language
All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows what I'm trying to say.
All around the world
No one understands me
They look at me when I talk to them
And they scratch their heads
They go "What's he trying to say?"

Chorus
But you....
You speak my language
Yeah you....
You speak my language

All around the world
Everywhere I go
No one understands me
No one knows what I'm trying to say.
Even in my home town
My friends make me write it down
They look at me when I talk to them
And they shrug their shoulders
They go "What's he talking about?"

Chorus

Perfect Day
(featuring elton john)

There she stumbles
Falling to her knees
I think she tripped on reality

I have witnessed
Tragic comedies
That's the world in which she leads

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
But she would walk a million more
To do what she believes

She'll have a perfect day

Troubles blooming
Innocence now fades
But still she's dry through
All the rain

There's no purpose
She has yet to crave
She's like the big dog on parade

Well I would walk a million miles
To give her all that she needs
She would walk a million more
To do well as she pleased

She had a perfect day

I can't figure this one out
I've no words here to explain
She'll just sugar kiss me off
She'll just have another perfect day

After All
We steal to lose every colour
From the sky
Then crawl as a child
While the shadows burn our eyes

We know there's no longer shine
On this burned out rainbow

Lately it seems we've been chasing
What times resolved
Maybe something means nothing here
After all

Whispers are now screams
This conclusion never ends
My pride with your kiss
Even angels can't defend

We know we're running head on
Into our confusion

Still we hide safe behind these crumbled walls
Cause we know there's nothing here after all

Over Tokyo
Got a photograph of a smile
Taken way back when we could smile
Now this plane will take me
Where I don't know
Maybe tokyo

'cause there's no memories over tokyo
And there's no hurting over tokyo

Got a photograph of some tears
Taken presently with more tears
Now I'll search for happiness
Where should I go
Maybe tokyo

Attention will this pain go away
My condition oh it's just not the same

Happiness
Congratulations, oh baby I'm back again
I'm loaded down with my God and my medicine

I know wisdom is change
So why can't you function that way

Here I am flaunting my self control
'cause happiness is more than a kiss you know

I'm activating all your promises once again
And pushing forth dear with the rage of my reverence

We could close our eyes
And recklessly run on through
Any space and time
That we choose

Dosage [1999]

2006-04-26T09:41:00.000-07:00

Tremble for My Beloved
The hour has begun
Your eyes have now opened

To a world where madness craves
To a world where hope's enslaved
Oh, I'll tremble for my love always

Your windows, opened wide
Your innocence takes flight

To a world where madness craves
To a world where hope's enslaved
Oh, I'll tremble for my love always

It's a world where madness craves
It's a world where hope's enslaved
Oh, I tremble for my love always

It's a world where madness craves
It's a world where hope's enslaved
Yeah, I tremble for you, love, always

Heavy
Complicate this world you wrapped for me
I'm acquainted with your suffering

And all your weight, it falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight, it falls on me
It falls on me

Hold me up to those whom you decieved
Promises you break, you still believe

And all your weight, it falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight, it brings me down
It brings me down

And all your weight, it falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight, it falls on me
It falls on me

And all your weight, it falls on me
It brings me down
And all your weight, it falls on me
It falls on me

No More, No Less
Here I lie, motionless
Catch me if you can
My properties of no defense
So strike at your command

But, don't bring me down
Alright
Don't bring me down
'cause there's purpose for this night

Save me, come tomorrow
Lead me to my urgency
See, I'm no more, no less
Of an angel than you'd have me be
So let's shake it like this

Steady here, I cast my lines
Only to expose
A weaker sense and no constraint
Now, my true self shows

But don't bring me down
Alright
Don't bring me down
'cause there's promise in this night

Save me, come tomorrow
Lead me to my urgency
See, I'm no more, no less
Of an angel than you'd have me be
So let's shake it like this

Just a little bit like this

Don't bring me down
Alright
Don't bring me down
And there's still promise in this night

Save me, come tomorrow
Lead me to my urgency
See, I'm no more, no less
Of an angel than you'd have me be

Yeah, save me, come tomorrow
Lead me to my urgency
See, I'm no more, no less
Of an angel
So let's shake it like this

A little bit, just like this
A little bit, a little bit like this
A little bit, a little bit
A little bit, we'll shake a little bit like this

Needs
All around me, I see what weakness has made
Too much tomorrow, I think I'll take all today
Am I a poison, am I a thorn in the side
Am I a picture perfect subject tonight

And I don't need nobody
And I don't need the weight of words
To find a way to crash on through
And I don't need nobody
And I just need to learn the depth
Or doubt of faith to fall into

Here I slumber to awaken my daze
I find convenience in this savior I save
Am I a prison, am I a source of dire news
Am I a picture perfect reason for you

And I don't need nobody
And I don't need the weight of words
To find a way to crash on through
I don't need nobody
And I just need to learn the depth
Or doubt of faith to fall into

In this time of substitute
It's my needs I've answered to
All the while
And all the hope that I invest
Turns to signals of distress
All the while

I don't need nobody
And I don't need the weight of words
To find a way to crash on through
And I don't need nobody
I just need to learn the depth
Or doubt of faith to fall into

Doo doo doo doo doo, you're a lightning
Doo doo doo doo doo, yeah, when the water runs deep
Doo doo doo doo doo, yeah, you're a lightning
Doo doo doo doo doo, now I cry my soul to sleep

Doo doo doo doo doo, you're all I need
Doo doo doo doo doo, you're all I need
Doo doo doo doo doo, you're all I need
Doo doo doo doo doo, you're all I need

Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo

Slow
Mornings like this make me feel
Like I never could float
Glimpses of peace portray
All that you never could show

I'm not weakened by the fears
That you have applied
See, I'm now learning in these walls
That I've been supplied

Slow down
Slow down, boy
Slow down to control
Slow down, slow

Clothed in new costumes
That weather your newfound storms
Staring through reason
Content with your newfound décor

I'm not weakened by the fears
That you have applied
See, I'm now learning in these walls
That I've been supplied

Slow down
Slow down, boy
Slow down to control
Slow down, slow

- I passed the darkened vaults of late doorways as if I were a king. like this, I chain a wisper to my faults.

I'm not weakened by the fears
That you have applied
See, I'm now learning in these walls
That you have been supplied

Slow down
Slow down, boy
Slow down to control
Slow down, slow

Dandy Life
Took a walk to a caution scene
I guess I crossed the line somehow
And if I lost some of your hope
I'm sorry for the folly was all mine

And I don't ever really understand
All the things that we say, but I try to anyway, anyhow
For what's in a day of a dandy life
For what's in a day of this dandy life
Everything, everything, everything

Oooh, hangin' on every word
Oooh, my social butterfly
Oooh, everyone wants to be loved
Oooh, loved in their own way

I can say I spent the night
On this telephone inside
When you said that every single one of us can find a happy face
So why don't you go try, try anyway

And I suppose I was born yesterday 'cause I never thought of things
Quite in that way at all in that way
For what's in a day of a dandy life
For what's in a day of this dandy life
Everything, everything, everything

Oooh, hangin' on every word
Oooh, my social butterfly
Oooh, everyone wants to be loved
Oooh, loved in their own way

Oooh
Oooh

Oooh, hangin' on every word
Oooh, my social butterfly
Oooh, everyone wants to be loved
Oooh, loved in their own way

Oooh, everyone wants to be loved
Oooh, loved in their own way
Oooh, hangin' on every word
Oooh

Run
Are these times contagious
I've never been this bored before
Is this the prize I've waited for
Now with the hours passing
There's nothing left here to insure
I long to find a messenger

Have I got a long way to run
Have I got a long way to run
Yeah, I run

Is there a cure among us
From this processed sanity
I weaken with each voice that sings
Now, in this world of purchase
I'm going to buy back memories
To awaken some old qualities

Have I got a long way to run
Have I got a long way to run
Yeah, I run
Yeah, I run

Have I got a long way
Have I got a long way
Have I got a long way to run
Have I got a long way to run

Yeah, I run (have I got a long way to run)
Yeah, I run (have I got a long way to run)
Yeah, I run (have I got a long way to run)
Yeah, I run (have I got a long way to run)

Generate
Hey
You give me no choice
I entertain by the silence
That you created by noise

Oooooh

Hey
I'm flirting inside
I need the floor opened up
For the scream I'd now love to shout

Oooooh

I can't convey, I can't relate
To the thoughts you now g-generate
I can't contain, I can't explain
All the words you now g-generate

Hey
I swallowed your pride
To gather up confrontation
That you have so long denied

Oooooh

I can't convey, I can't relate
To the thoughts you now g-generate
I can't contain, I can't explain
All the words you now g-generate

Can't convey, can't relate
To the thoughts you now g-generate
Can't contain, can't explain
All the words you now g-generate

I can't convey, I can't relate
To the thoughts you now g-generate
I can't contain, I can't explain
All the words you now g-generate

Compliment
Now, I've taken the side
Of a beautiful calm
Can you see this disguise
Fading to a resolve

And there it goes, my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than the world out there
The world out there

And hesitation compounds
I've nothing left to sustain
My worries here have allowed
A momentary refrain

And there it goes, my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than the world out there
The world out there

And there it goes, my innocence
While gathering up a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than the world out there

And there it goes, my innocence
I'm dying here for a compliment
And here I lie with words to swear
There's something more than the world out there
The world out there
The world out there

Not the One
I waltzed around you seven times
Only to become
A melody you never sang
I'm not the one

Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one
Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one

Clouds of thought you filter through
Never to reason
While patiently, your world still bleeds
Who shall be your one?

Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one
Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one

Oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh

Oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh

Oh (I waltzed around you)
Oh oh oh (seven times)
Oh oh oh (only to become)
Oh

Oh (a melody)
Oh oh oh (you never sang)
Oh oh oh (I'm not the one)
Oh

Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one
Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one

Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one
Oooh, oooh
I'm not the one
Not the one
Not the one

Crown
Who's gonna be my savior
Now that I've learned to believe
Who's gonna be the answer
To all of my questioning

Well, I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distancing
And the words that secure a cause
Are not faint whisperings

Who's gonna wear my crown
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know
I just might, alone

Who's gonna wear my crown
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know
I just got to go my way

And who's gonna be my partner
Now that I stand here alone
Who's gonna be the shepherd
To lead this poor boy back home

Well, I hope I'm not lost
But I think that hope is now distancing
And the words that secure a cause
Are now faint whisperings

Who's gonna wear my crown
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know
I just might, alone

Who's gonna wear my crown
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know
I just got to go my way

Who's gonna wear my crown
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know
I just might, alone

Who's gonna wear my crown
Who's gonna wear my crown
I don't know
I just got to go

Oooooooh
Oooooooh

Disciplined Breakdown [1997]

2006-04-26T09:38:00.000-07:00

Precious Declaration
Hitched a ride to the peaceful side of town
Then proceeded where thieves were no longer found
Can't crash now I've been waiting for this
Won't crash now I found some encouragement
Precious declaration reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

New meanings to the words I feed upon
Wake within my veins elements of freedom
Can't break now I've been living for this
Won't break now I'm cleansed with hopefulness
Precious declaration reads
Yours is yours and mine you leave alone now
Precious declaration says
I believe all hope is dead no longer

Once I jumped thru hoops of fire
As high and far as you required
I was blind but now I see
Salvation has discovered me

Listen
Hey your thirsty
Walking in the desert all alone
Hey you're now searching
Lost in isolation from your soul
The bullets you bite
From the pain you request
You're finding it harder to digest
And the answers you seek
Are the ones you destroy
Your anger's well deployed
Hey why can't you listen
Hey why can't you hear
Hey why can't you listen
As love screams everywhere
Hey you now hunger
Feeding your mind with selfishness
Hey you now wander
Aimlessly around your consciousness
Your prophecies fail
And your thoughts become weak
Silence creates necessity
You're clothing yourself
In the shields of despair
Your courage now impaired
Your crucify all honesty
No signs you see do you believe
And all you words just twist and turn
Reviving just to crash and burn
You're fighting to the bitter end
If only your heart could open up
And listen

Maybe
The sky now divides
To bring you back into the fold
Welcome home
Still my need to recognize
Any comfort you may show
Only grows
Guess I'll learn to accommodate
While my heart just sits and waits
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now
Where am I to take refuge
When the storms of pain release
Shelter me
This blessedness of life
Sometimes brings me to my knees
I call on thee
I have not the words to write
A farewell to you tonight
Maybe God you found
Maybe is all that you can offer now
I know hearts are weeping
While your voice is now singing
On high, angel on high

Full Circle
Drowning to discover
I'd swim but then why bother
Wrestled with decisions
And fools with their opinions
One fine morning I'll awake
Then hope to learn
One fine morning I'll awake
To love's return
Round and round and round
I believe love goes round and round
Round and round and round
I believe love comes round and round
Singing the rendition
Of hope in my condition
Caught up in defending
That truth is never ending
One fine morning I'll awake
Then reaffirm
One fine morning I'll awake
To love's return

Blame
You pushed me down
For all the world to see
I guess that's your price
For my loyalty
So while you tasting sin
And swallowing pain
Don't look at me
To take your blame
When your willing to render
To the guilt you concede
When truth is your reason
Then lay that blame on me
When you unveil a conscience
And with peace you agree
When love is your constant
You lay me out
In hopes that I'd wilt away
But strength rained down
And love provided shade
So while the pageant of lies
Still glow from you tongue
Don't blame me for
Your kingdom come
Questions your answers
Truth has no anger
Gather up your words
Redemption now offered

Disciplined Breakdown
I never ever can remember
All the things that go bump in the night
Quietness uncovers
Betrayal now hovers
And my comfort levels not quite right
I'd love to stay and evaluate
But my torture can't wait
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown
I never can decipher
Who listens to the words I say
While I sense I'm searching
I never know who's lurking
To scare my sacred thought away
I'd love to hang and chat a while
But my minds become vile
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown
I never can contribute
To finding all the faults that sustain
Never mind the answers
To who spreads the cancer
When the questioning of why remains
I'd love to sit and rationalize
But my tongues become dry
It seems I'm losing ground
Welcome all to my disciplined breakdown
Breakdown reality
Breakdown my ability to get it back
Breakdown honesty
Breakdown now deliver me
From all this madness and all this agony

Forgiveness
In my silence I would love to forget
But restitution hasn't come quite yet
And with one accord I keep moving forth
I stretch my heart to heal some more
It used to be all I want to learn
Was wisdom trust and truth
By now all I really want to learn
Is forgiveness for you
As my seasons change I've now grown to know
When one's heart creates, one's soul doesn't owe
So I wash away stains of yesterday
Then tempt my heart with loves display

Link
I'm sleeping to encompass myself
I wake up then distribute what's left
With my anger well defused
The link to love I now may choose
With my heart no more abused
The link of love I now may use
I'm sleeping to develop myself
I wake up then relinquish what's left
With my anger well defused
The link to love I now may choose
With my heart no more abused
The link of love I now may use
I was caught by your lies spinning
Then was saved by truth's opinion
All's quiet now

Giving
Giving me cause so I may yearn
Giving me words so I may learn
I want more I want more
Giving me thoughts that I may keep
Giving me dreams so I may sleep
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more
Giving me calm to fall into
Giving me hope to guide me through
I want more I want more
Giving me light to see through tears
Giving me strength to crush my fears
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more
I won't bring you down
I won't bring you down anymore
Giving me choice so I may seek
Giving me faith so I'll believe
I want more I want more
Giving me breath of your mercy
Giving yourself to comfort me
I want more I want more
Still all I need is love
So give me more

In Between
In between us
Good and evil wait
To lie beside us
In our bed we make
In between us
Caution never heeds
We prey on weakness
Then beg for sympathy
In between words
Silence parades so confusion is heard
Our voices afraid
To speak up and reassure
So in between words we remain
In between
In between us
Hope we've yet to see
We long for healings
But the scars never leave
Silence fills the void
Of love and hate
An effective tool
When used to separate
Now separate

Crowded Head
All the words that I want to hear
Are distorted by your weaknesses and fear
And your lies that I push away
I might accept them on your good self pity day
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head
And the peace that I really need
You substitute it for your policy of greed
Still your pride always suffocates
Any truth that your heart might want to make
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head
With all your static
I can't distinguish between what's being said
I have no room for this
You see I'm living with a crowded head
And the path that I needed shown
You left me stranded in the darkness all alone
All the promises you fed to me
I'm now choking for the taste of cruelty
All of your sadness is crowded in my head
All of your madness is crowded in my head

Everything
With the faces I now wear
It's only proof of my thoughts
Have become impaired
And courage I shall build
Stands at distance still
Everything is physical
Everything takes precedence
Everything's admissible
Everything is evident
And this comfort I've designed
Will only stay intact until
The truth I find
As some answers fly around
No cure I have found
Guide me, save me, teach me
I need to learn from this
Hold me, soothe me my love
The reflection I now see
Is always trying to blind
And discourage me
But my patience still prevail
And myself as well
Everything is comfortable
Everything's a brighter shade
Everything is suitable
Everything is?

Collective Soul [1995]

2006-04-26T09:36:00.000-07:00

Simple
Tangled up your twisted tongue. it's simple.
Mesmerize your everyday. it's simple.
Hey hey can't you see?
Love is all that you should need.
Can't you see?

Ease your troubled mind.
Let love seek and let love find. it's simple.
Ease your weary soul.
Let love lead and let love flow. it's simple.

Pry into combative times. it's simple.
Forfeit all lush concerns. it's simple.
Hey hey don't you care?
Love is all that you should share.
Don't you care?

Cleanging out your tarnished heart. it's simple.
Learning from each other can be simple.
Hey hey don't we know?
Love is all that we should know.
Don't we know?

Untitled
Who have I left to please?
Take what you've yet to sieze.
No more questioning
'cause love is what love should be.
Unveil to me all that you want me to do.
But why should I stop bearing allegiance to you?
See, I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers.
I just don't believe in you.
And I don't believe in
The scholars or wise men.
I just believe in you.

What have I left to prove?
I speak all the words you choose.
Confine me in walls of truth
'cause love does that love should do.
No more sentence. all of my pain has been freed.
Why should this end when your mercy's all I need?
See, I don't believe in
The sorcerers or the preachers.
I just don't believe in you.
And I don't believe in
The scholars or wise men.
I just believe in you.

The World I Know
Has our conscience shown?
Has the sweet breeze blown?
Has all the kindness gone?
Hope still lingers on.
I drink myself of newfound pity
Sitting alone in new york city
And I don't know why.

Are we listening to hyms of offering?
Have we eyes to see that love is gathering?
All the words that I've been reading
Have now started the act of bleeding into one.

So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below.
And I laugh at myself
As the years roll down.
'cause it's the world I know.
It's the world I know.

Smashing Young Man
Beggar's description
Of what I've been missing
Exploit your position
Don't think I didn't listen
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little better now

Success is so tragic
Pain is your gadget
Your tongue's just lashing
Just bitching by habit
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little purer now
Hey I hope you're feeling
Securer now

Help me I plea
I don't understand
Your ways and means
You smashing young man
Help me to see
The good you have planned
You're wearing thin
You smashing young man

You preach synthetic-like
Peace is an oversight
It's nothing to ignite
Your self-lit spotlight
Hey I hope you're feeling
A little special now
Hey I want to tell you
I think you're special now

I don't recall asking for guidance
I don't recall wanting to
I don't recall bowing before you
But I'm so impressed
With the kindness in your attitude

December
Why drink the water from my hand?
Contagious as you think I am
Just tilt my sun towards your domain.
Your cup runneth over again.

Don't scream about
Don't think aloud
Turn your head now baby
Just spit me out
Don't worry about
Don't speak of doubt
Tourn your head now baby
Just spit me out

Why follow me to higher ground?
Lost as you swear I am.
Don't throw away your basic needs,
Ambiance and vanity.

December promice you have unto me
December whispers of treachery
December clouds are now covering me
December songs no longer I sing

Where the River Flows
Give me a moment
Got to get this weight up off my chest
Don't feed me sorrow
Pain is a poison I digest

Find yourself another soul to hold
You think, you thought, I know
Off upon my journey I must go
To where the river flows

I'll give you answers
To the questions you have yet to ask
Silence is beauty
Words they only complicate the task

Make no more wishes
All of my patience has been spent
Gods of the season
Lead me to my next incident

Gel
Color me any color.
Speak to me in tongues and share.
Tell me how you'd love to hate me.
Tell me how you'd love to care.
Well I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.

Clothe me in any fashion.
Glitter to so mundane.
Tell me how you'd love to change me.
Tell me I can stay the same.
I just want to shake us up.

Let's mingle
And make it well.
Come together now.
Yeah let's gel.
Well let's bungle
And live to tell
How we came together.
Yeah how we gelled.

She Gathers Rain
Today she dresses
For the change she's facing now
And the storm that's raging
A safe haven she has found
She doesn't care
What the prohpets say anymore
For the love she had
She has no more
So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

Her imagination
Has started stretching wide
And her new conviction
No longer will she hide
She's not branded
When prophets speak words of fire
The same love she gives
She requires
So she gathers rain
She gathers rain
To rinse away all her guilt and pain
She gathers rain
She gathers rain
To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

When the Water Falls
She's a picture perfect child
Of innocence.
Searching out in childlike ways
For knowledge.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her.

Do you know where the sun goes
When the water falls?
Do you know where the rain goes
When the water falls?

Though I think her subjects could
Run far and wide.
She has centered on the topic
Of the sky.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her.

Collection of Goods
Resonate tones of saving grace
Separate from the gods of hate
Alleviate all our doubting ways
Congregate to more loving days

A collection of peace where we could live
A collection of hope for us to give
A collection of words that mean we care
A collection of love for us to share

Recognize all equality
Vocalize solidarity
Excercise your tranquility
Glamourize all of love's needs

Bleed
I think her gun's unloaded now.
I guess tomorrow will be after all?
Who made me judge and jury here?
It seems I'm bearing witness to her fall.

I don't know why she cries to me.
(she keeps pain as company)
'cause it's only time before we all must bleed.

Mirrors of her memory
Reflect nothing with each word she says.
Her views have got me spinning 'round.
I think she's burning altars in her head.

Reunion
Change will come
Change is here
Love fades out
Then love appears

Now my water's turned to wine
And these thoughts I have
I now claim as mine
I'm coming home

Change has been
Change will be
Time will tell
Then time will ease

Now my curtain has been drawn
And my harts can go
Where my heart does belong
I'm going home

Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid [1993]

2006-04-26T09:24:00.000-07:00

Goodnight Good Guy
Somebody told me about a worn out distraction
That I had let slip away
Then it comes back and rides my shoulders
And burdens me every new day
Well I'll just sit here like a slow burn out
And try to figure out how to do without you

Who's going to straighten me up when I'm leaning
Who's going to soothe my heart when it's burning
Who's going to be the one to tell me everything's
All right well, goodnight, good guy

I'll break the bread of a new day and wonder
If faith will carry me along
But days are longer as my heart gets weaker and
I can only stay so strong
Well I'll just sit here like a wounded soul
Who's finding it difficult to just let go

I'm gonna let you sleep
I'll let you fade off in the night
I pray the lord to keep
I pray the lord to hold you tight
Goodnight

Shine
Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell what will I find ( will I find )
Lay me on the ground
Fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find ( will I find )

Oh, heaven let your light shine down (x4)

Love is in the water
Love is in the air
Show me where to go
Tell me will love be there ( love be there )
Teach me how to speak
Teach me how to share
Teach me where to go
Tell me will love be there ( love be there )

Oh, heaven let your light shine down (x4)

I'm going to let it shine (x2)
Heavens little light gonna shine on me
Yea yea heavens little light gonna shine on me
Its gonna shine, shine on me
Its gonna shine, come on in shine 111111111111111
Wasting Time
Something's going wrong inside of you
Burdens bearing down and seeping through
Well, I don't want to bleed andymore for you
And I don't want to breathe any hatred too

Sitting while your world just floats around
Now you want to move 'cause it's crashing down
Well, I don't want to sing you guarantees
And I don't want to cling to our use to be's
So take your heart, take your soul
Just get yourself on out of here
Yeah, just take your hurt, take your pain
Just get yourself on out of here

Wasting time
That's all you'll do if you're waiting for me
Wasting time
I don't see what you think I see
Wasting time
That's all you'll do if you're waiting for me
Wasting time
I don't want what you think I need

Sister Don't Cry
Overseas through the air
Touched your heart down with care
All the thoughts left behind
Soon will catch you in time
Well, if I could, you know I would
Let salvation reign on you
So, won't you push away
All this pain that you've been through

Sister don't cry
Sister don't cry no more
Sister don't cry anymore

While the scenes shuffle 'round
Let your world anchor down
Pull your heart from your sleeve
First react then believe
You won't always get thunder
To warn you of stroms ahead
So bury all this pain
And get on with your life again

Conquer some serenity
Lay yourself in fields of poetry
Close your eyes to all you see
Lay your weary head here with me

Love Lifted Me
Wait just a second now
Love's easier lost than found
So learn baby learn
It's time to up and turn the other way
Yeah peace baby peace
It's past time to release and fly away

Once I was down and couldn't see
Then love lifted me
Yeah love; it was love
I believe that love lifted me

Hush not another sound
Time to move up to higher ground
Now time baby time
No longer's on our side so make a way
To ride baby ride
And pull me upon high and fly away

Don't push me, don't shove me
Don't make me go down in flames
Pull me to safety and help me
To feel no more pain
Come on just lift me up

In a Moment
The walls came up as the thoughts went down
To the hush of disparity
Sure we know the problem lies
With some insecurities
But we'll never see eye to eye
As long as our tongues are tied
And we'll never be seen as one
Until we find love

In a moment it could happen
We could wake up and be laughing
In a moment it could happen
We could forgive and be happy

It's a shame our world responds to life
As a puzzle in disguise
I wish our course would lead us towards
The peace and loving kind
But we'll never walk hand in hand
Until we let old wounds mend
And we'll never sing songs as one
Until we find love

In a moment some wisdom could be learned
In a moment new voices could be heard
In a moment we could make heads turn
In a moment we could change

Heaven's Already Here
Wake up to a new morning
Got my babe by my side
Now I won't yield to new warnings
'cause I got peace of mind

Who's gonna bring me heaven
When heaven's already here

No more living in darkness
Now that love lights my way
I don't need and new changes
To make me love today

Pretty Donna
(instrumental)

Reach
Should I thirst for knowledge
Can I beg you for some water
Should I fight your battles
Can I rest upon your shoulders
I hope I'm able to ride out this storm
So come on gabriel and blow your horn

Reach, reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to save me
Yeah, reach, reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to hold me

Should I beg for mercy
Can I be the one you treasure
Should I question knowledge
Can I have all of your answers
I hope I'm able to find love today
Can I ask you to light my way

Reach, reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to guide me
Yeah, reach, reach out to me
Can't you see I need you to love me

Take me out of these walls
Take me somewhere I can see
Take me away from it all
Please just reach out to me

Breathe
Down by the sea
I think I saw our love dissolve

So plant a little seed
Soon it starts growing
Shed a little light
Soon we'll be glowing
Hear a little tune
Soon we'll start singing
Give a little love
Then love will start breathing

Out by the bay,
I long to be a man of peace
I'm gonna breathe love
Yeah, I'm gonna take a deep breathe for you
Come on now people
Come on now breathe

Scream
Push me to the left, hold me to the right
I never know where to go
Burning that trail to the promised land
You're moving on out of control
Well I don't want to be some puppet on a string
And I don't want to learn of things you can't explain
And I don't want to have your views on everything
I just want to scream

Scream about hurting
Scream about mercy
Scream about something
Scream about nothing

Drop me in the hills, leave me in the plains
Give me some room to breathe
The words you spill, the moves you make
I find them all hard to believe
Well I don't want to be statistic industry
And I don't want to give when all you share is greed
And I don't want to have one more enemy
I just want to scream

There you go with all your might
Giving promises by decree
Well God is great and God is good
But God you'll never be
Well I don't want to be in your hospitality
And I don't want to live in false reality
See I'm the one obsessed with truth and honesty
I just want to scream

Burning Bridges
Been thinking a lot about my ways
Guess I'm sorry baby
Been searching
Out a way to say
Guess I'm sorry baby
This time I give all to you
It's time I prove something to you

So I'll lift you up and hold you near
Warm your heart and calm your fears
See I don't want to lose this love I found
So I'll burn my bridges, burn them down

Been hurting a lot without you here
Guess I need you baby
Been sleeping upon a bed of tears guess I miss you baby
This time I give all to you
It's time I prove something to you

Take all my world and shake it
Take my dear heart and embrace it
Take what I say and listen
My world's changing, changing for you

All
Watch my world spin round
It stops for you
I'll give you heaven for a view
I set my sights on high my aim is true
I'd walk on water just for you

All is all I can give you
All is all I can do
All is all I wish for when I'm with you

Come lay your troubles down
Rest here with me
My kingdom is all yours to receive

Well, I'll push the clouds away
So you can have sunshine
I'll give you anything that your heart desires