beautiful world

1997 Revolution Records 9 24661-2
Available on Cassette, & CD
                 
1 resignation superman * 2 caroline * 3 crazy mary * 4 helpless * 5 tower * 6 please don't tell her * 7 beautiful world * 8 true lady * 9 heart of wilderness * 10 if you can't slow down * 11 boom boom * 12 These days without you
                                     
resignation superman
He’ll come flying out of this town
 A resignation superman
 And today the bad guys win
 ‘Cause he turned his cape in
 Now, he says
  And I’ll turn my back on this world
   Yes, I’ll turn my eyes from this world
    Oh well ...
                
       Yes, he’s tired of fighting in this town
        All the suffering and vice
         He wants to fall in love
          Maybe settle in and live a life
           And I’ll turn my back on this world
            Yes, I’ll turn my eyes form this world
                     
              Oh I want to believe in you now that I’m suffering
               Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
                   
                 And he keeps an eye upon this town
                  The resignation superman
                   He’ll keep himself amused
                    With the evening news
                     Oh my ...
                      And I’ll turn my back on this world
                       Yes, I’ll turn my eyes from this world
                       Now I broke my back on this world
                       Now I’ll wash my hands of this world
                        
                       Oh I want to believe in you now that I’m suffering
                       Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
                                 
               caroline
                   Caroline, I’ve seen the sun again
                   I’ve felt the summer wind
                 For the first time since your good-bye
               And the thirst I’ve kept inside
             Has swallowed me alive
           You had to fall to take my hand
          You had to leave to make me understand
         Stay on for me my new star, keep on lightin’ up,
        push me on, Caroline
                        
    Caroline,I heard your name again
   Said by a distant friend
 To my surprise she hadn’t heard
When your love flies, you hit the dirt
You know it’s time to rise now
 She had to fall to take my hand
  She had to leave to make me understand
   Stay on for me my new star, keep on lightin’ up,
    Push me on Caroline
                       
      Ah dear light I know you’re with us all
       And you laugh when we fall
        And when we cry, find you everywhere
         Everything, I see reminds me , every care
          You turn it all to air
           She had to fall to take my hand
            She had to leave to make me understand
             Stay on for me my new star, keep on lightin’ up,
              Push me on Caroline
                
                crazy mary
             Baby’s gonna change her life
            She’s made up her mind
           She leaving her girls behind
         And her lovers unkind
        Crazy Mary look back and you’re done
       Just hold on and run
      You’re on your way home
                      
  Ain’t nothin’ gonna break you down Mary
 I’m on your side
Nobody can touch you now Mary
 Though trouble won’t pass you by
                                
   Finding it hard to begin
    To let the sun rise
     To forget what was doing her in
      What was making her blind
       Crazy Mary just keep to yourself
        Your old friends won’t help
         To make your escape
                             
          May you be well on your road
            I know you’ll get by
             Life is the flower that grows
              From the knots we untie
              Crazy Mary look back and
               you’re done
               Just hold on and run
                You’re on your way home
                                      
                 helpless
              Since the first time I can’t take my poor eyes off you
             Though it seems I’ve lost my mind, you make my heart new
            Any fool would run but
           I can’t help myself around you
                    
         You turn my head, and I leave the rest behind me
       Who I am, what I had none can remind me
      My defenses done and
     I can’t help myself around you
                       
  My intentions cannot keep this face from changing
 And surrender all this cold heart has been saving
I can’t help myself around you
                                  
      tower
I want to be your Saturday, your sunrise,
 in an empty space
 Keep you to your lazy ways, dream late
  A love affair, an end too soon, swept away,
   and left unused
    I want to see, if you’re amused
     Or alive
                        
       Walkin’ ‘round the tower of love
        Stuck on the ground
         I can’t climb up Seems like every time I look up
         Rain’s comin’ down
          Storm clouds above
                       
          I want to sleep beside you now,
          and leave behind the world without
          Deep inside and there’s none to count
          or untie
          I want to be the one you break, and take you
          to the higher place
          Just believe and I can make you fly
                        
         Walkin’ ‘round the tower of love
        stuck on the ground
       I can’t climb up
     Seems like every time I look up
    Rain’s comin’ down
   Storm clouds above
                     
 What is done can keep you down, and only love
 can turn around
And yesterday won’t make a sound as you climb
                   
       please don’t tell her
 I always leave her waiting
  I always leave her down
   if she should come my way
    I always turn around
     Please don’t tell her I love her
               
      I always keep her out
       I never let her in
        If she should come my way weeping
         I greet her with a grin
          Please don’t tell her I love her
                       
          if she should discover the colors of my love
          she will fly, fly away
                    
         Now you can try tenderness
        You can try to hang around
       Oh, but I’m sure she’ll love you less
      I’m sure she’ll bring you down
    Please don’t tell her I love her
                                
        beautiful world
Seems you let a lot pass you by
When you let ambition decide
Everything has went up and gone
 And all your money left you alone
                     
  We made a planet, a beautiful world
   Let love surround it, and give it a whirl
    I can’t understand why it’s so hard to keep
    This beautiful world living and free ...
                             
     Time to let the watch unwind
      Tell your heart to make up your mind
       We can’t wait to give at the end
        Wasting all the time we can’t spend
                                
        We made a planet, a beautiful world
          Let love surround it, and give it a whirl
          I can’t understand why it’s so hard to keep
         This beautiful world living and free
                  
        Running after things you don’t need
       Is bound to trip you up with your greed
      Stop your hand from lifting its load
     Tell that traveler ‘come on home’
                       
    We made a planet, a beautiful world
   Let love surround it, and give it a whirl
  I can’t understand why it’s so hard to keep
 This beautiful world living and free ...
                              
       true lady
True Lady over the ocean blue
 Found another I’m imagining
  And as I sail into this distance
   Keeping in my heart your face
    Keeping in my heart your face
                        
     True Lady over the sea
      Beauty as I have never known
       Has it faded in the years
        For someone else to behold
         for someone else to behold?
                         
          True lady in your mansion high
          With many lovers to wait on you
          Has your memory of me died
          Am I just blowing in the wind
         Am I just blowing in the wind?
                 
           heart of wilderness
     If only there were time and tenderness
    Oh, for young hearts of wilderness
   We run to the city we build our nest
  We work, we get drunk, we make love
                             
But your love won’t take me from the grave to the heavens
Your love won’t take me from the grave to the heavens
Before I’m gone your arms will be holding some other man
Before I’m gone your arms will be holding some other man
                              
 Chorus:In this heart of wilderness
  In this heart of wilderness
   Run with me, take my hand, we’ll run and dream
    in this heart
                   
     This time I won’t turn out the light
      Oh, this time I won’t turn out the light
       Make believe every thing’s alright
        and kiss my lover a cold good night
                      
          Morning turns to noon and noon to night
           Oh, Morning turns to noon and noon to night
            My heart is still filled with fright
             I’m still the same broken piece of clay
                     
             Chorus
                    
            I’ve been dreaming of something underneath the hill
          Just around the bin and underneath the hill
         A fortune in wood and steel
        In restaurants and people without names
                        
     Oh sweet Jesus, I’m a broken man
    Oh sweet Jesus, I’m a broken man
  All I did was follow the plan
 But what I wouldn’t do to be loved
                     
Chorus
                       
       if you can’t slow down
You got your whole life for loving
 She ain’t the only girl around
  You can’t achieve by shovin’
   What can’t be shaken down
    I know you got nothing going on
     But you can’t sing a love song
      If you can’t slow down
                  
        You take your heart full of trouble
         For what might happen someday
          you can’t by weeping double
           what you can’t keep or can’t make
            I know you’re tired of waiting for your true love
             but don’t let yourself just settle for a someone
              I know you got nothing going on
               But you can’t sing a love song
                If you can’t slow down
                      
                  If you stop to look you’ll discover
                   What was there all the time
                     You’ll find your sisters and brothers
                     together gonna get it right
                     I want you to open up your eyes ‘cause what you
                    don’t have is gonna make you a little wiser
                   I know you’re tired of waiting for your true love
                 But don’t let yourself just settle for a someone
               I know you got nothing going on
             But you can’t sing a love song If you can’t slow down.
                                     
              boom boom (john lee hooker)
                          
            these days without you
      These days without you let me down slow
     And keep me after what I used to know
    and keep me waiting for your smile
   Sunlight in your eyes
 And deeply hopin’ you’ll be coming home
                 
These days have got me down upon my knees
Amazed at what I never thought I’d need
If I could have you I would try
 Not to let slip by
  For what once seemed so important to me
                       
   And when I wake up
    I reach over for you
     No I won’t stray ‘cause
      I’m troubled for you
                    
       These days I’m counting on the sun to take
        And find me dreaming that you’d gone away
         And wait to hear you grumble along
          Lord, I’ve been so wrong
           And sorry for the things I didn’t say 
                
            And when I wake up
             I reach over for you
              No I won’t stray ‘cause
               I’m troubled for you
                       
                These days without you know
                 they’re gonna end
                 ‘Cause time can’t come between
                 two better friends
                 and what I can’t see I will find
                Cannot lose it’s shine
               and what is broken time is gonna mend
                      
             And when I wake up
            I reach over for you
          No I won’t stray ‘cause
         I’m troubled for you
                        
All songs and lyrics written by Todd Park Mohr
except where noted

  

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