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Twelve Tall Tales

by Jeffro Bodeen

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1.
Carry me through darkness Show me things I've never known But bring me home Give my life direction Even though my heart may roam Just bring me home And I don't care if I don't know When and how I have to go 'Cause I know I'm not alone So bring me home Teach me love unselfish And let me teach before I'm gone Then bring me home My faith can make a difference I know Your Son arose and shone To bring me home And I don't care if I don't know When and how I have to go 'Cause I know I'm not alone So bring me home
2.
Sometimes it gets lonely Living out here on the plains My throat gets dry and thirsty And my head keeps playing games But that's okay, I sure can take it I'm a man of steel When you said you didn't care I said I never will 'Cause I'm free and easy, nothin's on my mind I feel so light and breezy wasting all my time Ever since you left me, you've tried to make me small But I'm free and easy, I don't need you at all It's been three months since you've been gone And I've been by myself And all this time I've been alone You've been with someone else But that's okay, I sure can take it You can't make me cry When you said you were leaving me I just said goodbye 'Cause I'm free and easy, nothin's on my mind I feel so light and breezy wasting all my time Ever since you left me, you've tried to make me small But I'm free and easy, I don't need you at all Now that time has passed You say you've had a change of heart Maybe we should try again To make a brand new start But that's okay, I just won't take it I'll be who I am When you said you were coming home I just said no ma'am 'Cause I'm free and easy, nothin's on my mind I feel so light and breezy wasting all my time Ever since you left me, you've tried to make me small But I'm free and easy, I don't need you at all
3.
I don't recall this shade of blue An unfamiliar hue The truest color, I thought I knew Every shade of blue I don't remember this brand of pain That drives a man insane Soaking me like a summer rain Saturating pain But if I believe the sun will shine Will that make a difference in my life I'll do anything I have to do To change this shade of blue
4.
One less man to carry the name Everyone guilty, no one to blame Inflicted on you, too much pain Nothing now will be the same With father knowing what would come He led the way and made us numb Words were silent, mouths were dumb It seemed a fitting end to some One less song to tickle our ears Fate stands accused, stolen years You braved the storm, the flash-flood of tears You were stronger than your fears Now mother, mourning still her son Prays your life has just begun Finding an answer where there was none Her faith restored, you were the one Your courage made us all discover Some things lost we can't recover Now we comfort one another Save a place for us my brother One less Bird to roam the sky Forever we could wonder why And yet we know you're flying high Looking down to say don't cry Our sisters' quiet pain is heard One's vision of the future blurred Another clinging to the Word The youngest driven by what's occurred Your courage made us all discover Some things lost we can't recover Now we comfort one another Save a place for us my brother Well you were too young And it seems so wrong It's not supposed to be this way And the last time I Looked into your eyes I didn't know what else to say But save a place for us
5.
Kris Knew It 04:02
Visions of the emerald beyond Ram Dass and Timothy Vanishing for hours on end Long nights at Yogi's The cliffs at Peabody's The Cliff on main street The bypass Pitstop The burger doodle to eat We tried to pull stars from the sky We thought we could do it The left side of my head shrunk that night I remember Kris knew it I remember Kris knew it Doritoes in the dorm The picking down at the pool Getting busted by Mr West After that I knew he was cool The trips to bootlegger's The parties out at the ranch My Falcon, the brother's Birdmobile Up and down Thomas Branch We tried to pull stars from the sky We thought we could do it The left side of my head shrunk that night I remember Kris knew it I remember Kris knew it Knowing it all would end someday We naturally savored Pushing the envelope of luck I guess we were favored I dreamed that God had spoke to me He wrote a message in the sky It changed my life, that single dream My mortality clarified We tried to pull stars from the sky We thought we could do it The left side of my head shrunk that night I remember Kris knew it I remember Kris knew it
6.
Love, well she owns my love I'm existing for her touch But the other night at the tank I drank too much And I don't remember anything I blacked out, and she's not talking about it Something I said went to the core I hurt her deeper than I have before Something I said, something I said And you'd think that I would know by now I could never trust my head Something I said, something I said Life, well she rules my life I am living for her love And I'm on my knees Will it ever be enough 'Cause I will do anything I can To make it up But she's not talking about it Something I said went to the core I hurt her deeper than I have before Something I said, something I said And you'd think that I would know by now I could never trust my head Something I said, something I said
7.
Gone is the day I don't need it anyway Lost here in the night Nothing said, nothing to say I could just leave this earth forever These feelings would have to stay Silent is the sound Of this trembling, crumbling ground Shaken by a word No more talking, pass it around If only my heart had lived to join me If love could come falling down Bless the wind that moves this storm But damn the thunder Bathe me in your waters warm Don't pull me under Lift me up and touch my soul I need forgiving Raise me from this sinking hole Until I'm living Gone is the day Gone is the day I don't need, I don't want No more will to carry on Gone is the day Gone is the day
8.
So Much Love 03:44
The morning comes and you are gone I guess last night was real You and me is all I want But that's not how you feel You said you need some time to find yourself But will you find somebody else All the years together here They seem so far away A million laughs, a thousand tears But just one yesterday There isn't anything I wouldn't do Is anything enough for you So much love I have left to give to you So much life we have yet to live through So much love is waiting here for you I wonder where you are today And if you think of me I've tried but I can't find a way A way to make you see Neither one of us should be alone I'm begging you to come back home So much love I have left to give to you So much life we have yet to live through So much love is waiting here for you
9.
Alone in her room she awaits his arrival Forseeing him walking through the door She dreams of the man she once knew as her lover And wonders, is he still like before Or maybe he has changed Maybe he has rearranged his life For she was just his lover The other girl's his wife Pacing the floor now, she moves to the window She's looking, but he is not in sight Remembering the times when they held to each other She trembles, will he hold her tonight Oh maybe he won't show And maybe he don't know he is her life For she was just his lover The other girl's his wife The other girl don't know what he has done to her And if she found out she couldn't live The other girl don't know what he has took from her While she's give all she had to give Pushing her face further down in the pillow It's too late, tonight is not the night Wiping away what she swears is the last tear She curses, not even a goodbye Oh maybe it's the best 'Cause maybe for the rest of her life She would be his lover The other girl's his wife
10.
Soon you'll be leaving, gotta go Something inside you already knows You're gonna leave this small town behind Get some big city lights in your eyes All this scenery soon will be fading Liberty's waiting, New York lady You'll land in Manhattan on your feet Design you a miracle on 34th street Dress the children up with your style Brighten Brooklyn just with a smile Make the sun shine where it was shady It's your apple baby, New York lady And all of Central Park Couldn't hold your imagination The ideas running through your head It's like Grand Central Station And the Empire State Ain't as high as you're gonna be New York lady
11.
Drain Me 03:08
This must be what it feels like To be the victim of a vampire An uncontrollable craving A dominating desire 'Cause ever since I tasted you It's all I really want to do I want to live inside of you Call my name if you want me to And then in the middle of the night I will take a little bite Please sustain me And you, you can take a bite of me Have more, please take all of me Please drain me This feeling isn't fly by night I felt you with my sonar sight A beautiful vibration A nocturnal delight And if you'll give yourself to me We'll fly on through eternity And I will give myself to you It's all I ever want to do And then in the middle of the night I will take another bite Please sustain me And you, you can take a bite of me Have more, please take all of me Please drain me Drain me, drain me, drain me I can't resist your vampire kiss No I can't resist your vampire kiss I can't resist your vampire kiss No I can't resist your vampire kiss So drain me
12.
Fatal Scream 04:20
Obscurity takes center stage The choirboy vents his rage From the book of death he steals a page He tucks it in his pocket This firecracker will be a rocket Recognition is overdue The shadows hide his crystal view He's the only one he can't see through All else is a vision An apparent apparition So he sails towards the sun In his self made machine As confidence confides in him He's joined by his dream A miniscule and meager man Is larger than he seemed A subtle voice, a quiet choice A fast and fatal scream He pulls the mirror to his face There's no one here in this place It's a classic open and shut case The guilty not suspected Never noticed or corrected Society will pay his price It's up to him to break the ice A true temptation will entice Then he will have his story His quarter hour of glory So he sails towards the sun In his self made machine As confidence confides in him He's joined by his dream A miniscule and meager man Is larger than he seemed A subtle voice, a quiet choice A fast and fatal scream

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released September 24, 2010

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