Poison Album

We both lie silently still
In the dead of the night
Although we both lie close together
We feel miles apart inside

Was it something I said or something I did
Did the words not come out right
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that's why they say

CHORUS
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

Yeah it does

I listen to our favorite song
playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say loves a game of easy come and easy go
But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you'd be here somehow
If I could have let you know somehow
I guess

CHORUS

Though it's been a while now
I can still feel so much pain
Like a knife that cuts you the wound heals
but the scar, that scar remains

I know I could have saved a love that night
If I'd known what to say
Instead of makin' love
We both made our separate ways

But now I hear you found somebody new
and that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife
I guess

CHORUS

Will I see him on the TV preachin' 'bout the promised land
He tells me to believe in Jesus
And steals the money from my hand
Some say he was a good man
But Lord I think he sinned, yeah

Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didn't want him back

Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon
Our lawyers took his wife and kids, no regrets
In a time I don't remember, in a war he can't forget
He cried "Forgive me for what I've done there
Cause I never meant the things I did"

CHORUS
And give me something to believe in if there's a Lord above
And give me something to believe in Oh, Lord arise

My best friend died a lonely man
In some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
And they told me the news

I tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
Like a lost soul out of place
And the mirror mirror on the wall sees my smile it fades again

CHORUS

Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then road you gotta take me home

I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the broken old neon sign
That used to read JESUS SAVES

A mile away live the rich folks
And I see how they're living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich is drinkin' from a golden cup

And it just makes me wonder why so many lose, so few win

CHORUS

You take the high road and I'll take the low road

Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in

I felt this before
Now I feel it again
No matter how hard I try
This feeling won't end

So I pretend you're here by my side
Tonight on this lonely ride
I keep telling myself that

CHORUS
Life goes on while you're miles away
And I need you
Time goes on as night steals the day
There's nothing I can do

You heal up my wounds
I tasted your tears
You spilled out your heart
So I let out my fears

But one fear that I kept to myself
Was how I prayed that you'd love no one else
Like you're saying you love me

CHORUS

If you only knew how much I miss you

When my mind plays these tricks on me
It shows me things I don't want to see
That's why I tell myself
I keep telling myself
Just take another piece of me

CHORUS

And this last mile I travel with you

Late at night I close my eyes
And think of how things could have been
And when I look back
I remember some words you had said to me

It's better to have lost at love
Then never to have loved at all

CHORUS
I won't forget you baby
Even though I should
I won't forget you baby
Even though I should, yeah

Sometimes in my head
I can still see pictures of you
And I laugh to myself
When I think of all those crazy things that we used to do

Although miles come between us
Just between you and me

CHORUS

I should let you fade away
But that just wouldn't be me
Oh, baby

Although miles come between us
Just between you and me

I won't forget you baby
Memories slowly fade
I won't forget you baby
And all the plans we made

I won't forget you baby

Well, I calls my baby on the telephone
She says hurry home Bret cause I'm all alone
Oh now giddyap, hurry, and don't be late
Cause a b-b-b-b-baby I just can't wait

She starts talking dirty right in my ear
Making herself so perfectly clear
She needs some good love

So I roll her over in the middle of the night
and I rock my baby 'til the morning light
Getting hot....Good love, yeah.

Well the good people say I'm a sinning man
But if they knew my baby they would understand
The neighbors keep yelling bout all the noise
They say the things you're doin' ain't natural, boy

Well my baby she just loves to play
And I need my baby each and every day
Need some good love

We're hopping and a bobbin' in the old moonlight
Rocking and a rolling til the morning light
Getting hot....good love
Bring it home

Well my baby she just loves to play
And I need my baby each and every day
Need some good love

Well my daddy thinks that I've gone crazy
And my poor boss swears I'm losing my cool
But I just want to play with my baby
If you only knew what she could do

She starts talking dirty right in my ear
Making herself so perfectly clear
need some good love

Baby she just loves to play
and I need my baby each and every day

Start hoppin' bobbin' in the old moonlight

Rocking and a rolling til the morning light

I spent my life waiting
For that famous final scene
I believe you know the one
Where she falls in love with me

As for you,
You've been faking your smile
Filling your time on small talk and cheap wine
Knowing in your heart
There was someplace you'd rather be

So right or wrong
I wrote you this song
To tell you how's I feel
Don't put up no fight
You just turn on the lights
Walk over here to me

CHORUS
Lay your body down on me
Down on me, tonight, oh yeah
Let your tears fall down on me
Down on me tonight, oh yeah

As for me,
I've lied, denied to,
fight with and tried to
Apologize for all my ways
To all the women
Yet they're fool enough to fall in love with me

You played your role, like a movie
Forgot your lines, who is, who was, who would be
Somehow you lost track while real love slipped away

So for tonight, lets turn off the lights
And let those real feelings show
There's no wrong or right, but until you try
You're never gonna know

CHORUS

Before you was mine
I was so lonely
Ain't it a shame,
That I must feel pain
Before you can get back on your feet again

So lets draw the blind
Forget wasted time
Let them old demons die
Take a hold of my hand
And you'll understand
Why love's worth one more try

Lately I can tell that something ain't right
I don't' see the fire when I look in your eyes
One time up and the next time down
This may be the last time that you'll see me around…said

Well it sure seems to me nothing matter tonight
And all those things we worked out
They got lost in the fight
It's not enough, girl, that I gave you my soul
I just want to know if we've got
Anything left at all, and I say

CHORUS
Hold on now baby
This could be the last time we stand
This could be the last time that we say good-bye
The picture shatters
can't find the words to save it
Tell me what to do how can I make it right?
We will always be fire and ice

Well promises made, in the heat of the night
You could sure spit them out, girl
But they've long passed me by
Nobody knows about, the show you put me through
This could be the last time that I get through to you

CHORUS

Well I can't stand to see no more damage done
but you'll never understand until you suffer some

CHORUS

So you want to talk about the pain
Talk to me, please explain
Maybe I know what your going through

You got so much pain to hide
You keep it locked up deep inside
In a room no one gets to

I can't feel the way you feel
Maybe I, I got those same scars
Same scars to heal

This you've got to understand
I want to be the only man to
Ever touch you baby, to ever

CHORUS
I'm be there should your sun go down
Lift you up to a higher ground
Let me in, let me be the one
I'll be there should you fall from grace
Wipe those tear drops from your face
I see no more damage done
Baby, baby, just let me be the one

I want to be the one to shelter you
Should the rains come down
Never let you drown
I'll pull you through

I want to heal you when you scream
Be your prince when you dream
Hold you close when you cry

I want to feel your love, your hate
I'll bear your cross of pain
Love seal your fate

I comfort you in fits of rage
I'll be the book you can turn the page
I'll still love baby

CHORUS

I gotta touch you
I see no more damage done
Oh sweet child, you gotta let me

Play on

I hear the hurt
I hear the scars
Yes I will, baby
You can lay your hand right down
Down upon my heart

Then you'll learn to understand
I want to be the only man to
Ever touch you baby, ever touch you baby ever

CHORUS

I'll be calm in fits of rage
Hold you close in times of pain
I see more damage done
Baby, baby, you got to let me be the one

Of all the words that I've spoken
And lies that I've told
Of all the hearts left broken
Begged for, bought, and sold

Lord I'm feeling lonely
Feel like I can't go on
The streets have all grown cold now
The mysteries all gone

She's all gone
She's all gone, gone, gone
All gone now
She's all...

Well I ain't getting any younger
Can't you see it in my eyes
She sweet has turned to sour
I think it's time for me to fly

Well my vices have turned to habits
And my habits have turned to stone
The lies chipped away at my smile now baby
While the truth ate me down to the bone

One more step and I swear
I'll be over the edge
I've gotta stop living at a pace that kills
Before I wake up dead

CHORUS
Good times, bad times
How life loves a tragedy
Heartbreaks, heartaches
How life loves a tragedy

The nights I spent in danger
With strangers I thought were friends only to wake in anger
For some pleasure they swore they'd send

I think it's time I move on like a rolling stone
Cause I got all the broken dreams I can buy
It's time to sell the ones I stole

CHORUS

Well I paid the price
For every thrill I got
Those thrills are all long gone baby
But I'm still paying for them like it or not

I think it's time I move on like a rolling stone
Cause I got all the broken dreams I can buy
It's time to sell the ones I stole

CHORUS

I just needed someone to hold
When the bottle was empty
and the nights grew cold

In my hour of darkness
In my time of need
You were my angel of mercy
And helped me to believe

You touched my soul when I was lonely
You held me up when I couldn't fly
There's no words could explain
How I feel inside and this I tell you

In a world full of anger
and times gone strange
You held me close
You held me close to you

Lay my head on your shoulder
I finally let it all out
It felt good for a moment
Not living in a shadow of doubt

But everybody needs a little something
To pull them through I gave one for the other
And God know that the other was you

CHORUS
Now only time will tell only time will tell
If our love is scratched in sand
Or if it's etched in stone
Only time will tell only time will tell
If our love will stand or walk the road along

My angel of mercy
Pulled me through somehow
I just hope you know
I need you now

You're the one
That touched my very soul
The one who held on tight
God knows you never let go

Angel of mercy
It's time we closed the door
Put out the lights and burn the fire
Burn the fire inside

Angel of mercy
You pulled me through
And this I tell to you
God know I'd tell it to you

My daddy said
"Son, don't you come to me cryin'
Cause money don't make you a happy man"
He said the grass is always greener
Any place except where you stand

He said some are born to win
And some born to lose
And sing them poor boy blues

Watch out

I've lived uptown, downtown
Lord I've lived everywhere
Almost drowned in the puddle of my own sweat I swear
I believe it's due time I get my mansion in ole Bel Air

CHORUS
But I'm still singin' those poor boy blues
Poor boy blues
You don't know how I'm feeling baby
Until you're wearing my shoes
Sure as I'm standing here
I got them poor boy blues

Friday night I get tanked up
And tossed in the local slam
At least I get three square meals
Until someone gets me out of this jam
In the meanwhile all my green
Is going to Uncle Sam

CHORUS

Walk this dog

CHORUS

On a cold night in a hotel in New Orleans
Came the final blow
And somehow somewhere we lost sight in our
Search for that pot of gold

And all that happened I don't understand
Could somebody here
Somebody here please explain to me
Because I'm dealin' so damn deceived

And I can't run, can't hide can't get nothing right lately
Theatre of my soul
Play on child

Ashes to ashes
Light the good lord lays us down
Dust to dust, oh no

The time has come to lay to rest the years
All the years it took this heart to trust

Maybe to much, too soon
I couldn't get my head on straight
All that worry just wasted time
And now it's much too late to save it

Long forgotten midnight dancer
Plays her final role
The curtain falls and I'm still standing
And the theatre of my should you left in vain
Could someone please explain
And I said

I know that nothing's the same
Riding blind on the winds of change
But in my head that scene keeps on playing

Long forgotten midnight dancer
Plays her final role
Oh yes she does

Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
The curtain falls and I'm still standing
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately

When, time it just keeps on passing
I got to let it go
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately

I keep searching for those long lost answers
In the theatre of my soul
Theatre of my soul

Well it's four o'clock in the morning
And I'm knocking on your door
She says she's tired of me
Don't want me here no more
She said stop your pissin' and moanin' and groanin'
Go sleep outside with them dogs

Now, honey, let me please explain
Because I didn't mean you no wrong

I didn't mean to hurt you, baby
Wouldn't do that to you
She said bite your lip, now, sweet child
You're the bastard son of a thousand blues

Well my daddy was gone by the day I was born
And my mama I've never seen
I was born in the back of a black Cadillac
And raise by a gypsy queen

And as a child I was hell gone wild
Raise in the eye of the storm
By the time I was ten, I was doin' time again
Cause I knew what that gun was for

CHORUS
No, no, no, I'm the bastard son of a thousand blues
Oh, no, no didn't know what I'm going to do
No, no, no I'm the bastard son of a thousand blues
Oh, no, no tell me, mama, what I'm going to do

Ladies have come, ladies have gone
But there's on I remember quite well
Years have gone past, but her memory lasts
But the story I cannot tell

Well I've lived and I've lied
And I've loved and I've tried
To put my soul to good use

Guess I'm shit out of luck
Cause that name, it just sucks
I'm the bastard son of a thousand sons

CHORUS

When I lost my way you were my light
When the others wronged me you did me right

When I look in your eyes don't tell me lies
You tell me the truth your words they get me through

This is all I've got
This is all I'll say
If this were my last day

CHORUS:
This is my last song
It's all I've got
If bare my soul
Don't you break my heart
Won't you sing along
This is my last song
It's all I've got
So don't you break my heart

Wrote down these words put them in this song
I play it for you pray they don't come out wrong

Cause all I've got's my world
I give it to you
Now it may not be much
It's the best that I can do

This is all I've got
This is all I'll say
So please don't walk away

CHORUS

If this were my last breath of my last day
And my last chance
This is what I'd say:

I thank you for the laughter
Sorry for the tears
Time to say good-bye
I say good-bye
After all these years

CHORUS
CHORUS
You shouldn't have broke my heart

I came home from school on Tuesday
To find my mother gone
Why she left I'll never know
It seemed like they got along
One of these days I'd like to know
Just where it all went wrong

A woman torn to tears asks
Who the real criminals are
When they told her her husband died
Fighting in another country's drug wars

She said it isn't the kids on the streets without a dream
Shooting up the dealers smack
It's them red tape politicians taking All the drug lords kickbacks

Isn't it funny what power and money
Can do to the soul of a man?
And give me something to believe in
If there's a lord above
Ah give me something to believe in, yeah
If there's a lord above

I got a second job at night now
Just to help pay the bills
And there he worked for the rest of his life
Because his wife had taken him

Now he lives on a bottle of courage He buys at the liquor store
He did his family real good
Until he couldn't do it anymore

Whatever he found
Why he broke down
No one's really sure…

Just needed something to believe in
If there's a lord above
He needed something to believe in
Oh lord arise

Tracked some of societies race
On the old man's face
His eyes blood red laid to waste

Well the mirror tells a different story
Then the one that's playing in my mind
Every time I swear I'm looking younger
The more lines that I find

I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom And lust in for romance
It's all written in the stages and
Phases in life's little dance

When I want to bitch about growing old,
I think about how many never had a chance…

It gives me something to believe in
Oh lord arise
It gives me something to believe in, yeah
Oh lordy lord arise
Something to believe i
Oh lord above It gives me something to believe in, yeah Oh lord arise

Sometimes I didn't know now
Things I did know then

And give me something to believe in… yeah yeah

We all carry the cross and speak what we're taugh
Lie and money become the white man's god
We've burned all our bridges one too many times
The time has come now to draw the line

CHORUS
You know you've got to
Stand
Stand
Stand for what you believe
You know you've got to Stand
Stand
Stand for what you believe

Oh, you got to Stand for what you believe
Alright, alright
You got to listen now
Express yourself in the face of change
Repress yourself, you surely seal your fate
You got to look inside
The answer lies in wait
Resurrect before it's too late

CHORUS

Somebody rescue me
Come down and rescue me
I know the soul of a good man
Has got to be free
When you stand, stand for what you believe

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