The John Butler Trio Album

So tell me family now what do you think? Watch it all go down the great big sink. Watch how the scum it rises to the top. DOn't you wonder when it's all gonna stop? Sometimes I wonder how we do sleep, serving the dodgy companies we keep. All kicking and scrounging for the very first place - dictionary defintion of a rat race. Pay off those losers we elect to lead. stealing from the mouths that we're meant to fee. Enslaving the very clothes upon my back, I feel the sting but I hear no crack, no crack, I'm sayin

Running through the fire, running through the flame, running through the hatred, pushing through the blame, running through the hopelessness and shame, revolution already underway

Big heavy pirates man digging those holes, messing with something that they can't control. Trespassing lands where they don't belong, all I hear is screaming whee there once were songs. I got my brothers there fighting those wars, fighting over scraps and scraping their sores. Under a blanket of a fire and pride that can't keep us warm for the cold inside, inside, I'm saying

Running through the fire, running through the flame, running through the hatred, pushing through the blame, running through the hopelessness and shame, revolution already underway

So tell me when you think we're gonna rise? Wake from this slumber wipe the tears from our eyes? Yes from this nightmare yes I must now wake, open my fist my destiny I take! Good people sick and tired of being pushed around, we call them kings but I see no crown. Tell me when you think we'll just stand up? Say enough is enough is enough, enough, I'm saying

Running through the fire, running through the flame, running through the hatred, pushing through the blame, running through the hopelessness and shame, revolution already underway

Take back your feet, take back your hands, take back your words, take back your land. Take back your heart, take back your pride. Don't got to hide. Revolution!

They come they take
It's never enough because they can't relate
To the real world
They're thinking that the oyster is just for the pearl
They start those wars
They want to own the land sea and all the stars
And right those wrongs
They change the history with their poison forked tongues.

All right, who's they?
A Maybe it's the government of today
Or B for the big businessmen who think the whole world revolves around them
Or C for the corrupt official for A and B he be the man in the middle
Or D for discoverer for Cook and Columbus and the pirate plunderers.

Doesn't mean I ain't got no fight now just because I don't got a gun
The lyrical is heavier than lead and this guitar is my canon
Just like my Martin and Mahatma I'm gonna love I'm gonna over come
Maybe its E for all of the above but I don't want to be…

Wrong way going down the one-way road wrong way going down the one-way road
Wrong way going down the one-way road gonna turn it all around gonna back it on up
Wrong way going down the one-way road wrong way going on a one-way road
Wrong way going down the one-way road gonna turn it all around gonna back it on up

These men who they say we should follow
But we can't follow men if their hearts are hollow and
Mmmm yes how can we respect puppet regimes that we do not elect?
Straight up straight up straight up like Pinocchio and every time they lie man the fire just grows so
Now's time to be part of the solution raise your fist if you believe in revolution

Doesn't mean I ain't got no fight now just because I don't got a gun
The lyrical is heavier than lead and this guitar is my canon
Just like my Martin and Mahatma I'm gonna love I'm gonna over come
Maybe its E for all of the above but I don't want to be....

Living in a pantomime living in a fantasy
I don't want to be don't want to be I don't want to be don't want to be no
Living in a pantomime living in a fantasy
I don't want to be don't want to be I don't want to be don't want to be...

Wrong way going down the one-way road wrong way going down the one-way road
Wrong way going down the one-way road gonna turn it all around gonna back it on up
Wrong way going down the one-way road wrong way going on a one-way road
Wrong way going down the one-way road gonna turn it all around gonna back it on up

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Verse1

You tell me what you want girl,
You tell me what you need
You know you just say the word
I'll be right there, yes I'll be right there at your feet

Because you know you rock girl
And i love how we roll
But i left you all alone, all we got is the phone
And its never going to be enough

Verse 2

Living in this dug-out
A million miles away
Man, id wish they'd paint these walls
like an institution man I'm going crazy

Because when I;m far away from you girl
I lose myself
You know my train jumps off the tracks
and all my pots fall off the shelf

Chorus

Oh, I'd do anything just to be with you
Oh, I'd do anything just to be with you girl, be with you

Verse 3

It's a little girls birthday
And yeah, we are apart
Aint gonna make a big deal out of it
whatever It's no hard

You tell her papa loves her yeah
And It won't be too long
'Til we're all together
and yes we're singing those songs

Verse 4

I escape into my T.V
I know you understand
Man, they call that shit reality
I'd like to see those fools in Afghanistan

Livin' In this cold damn world
Hell bent one self-destruction
What I need right now is a little bit of love
a little bit of love an affection

Chorus

Oh, I'd do anything just to be with you, girl!

Verse 5/ Outro

You tell me what you want girl,
You tell me what you need
You know you just say the word
I'll be right there, yes I'll be right there at your feet

I will run,
Yes I will roll,
I will climb your mountains high,
Through the valleys of deceit,
Through the cold winds of denial,
And though you fear the cold dark,
I'll be right here by your side,
'Cos until you know who you are,
You'll never know I'm near not far,
I've caught your falls I've helped you rise,
I've damned these torrents from your eyes, I know.
From the bosom to bare bones,
Between the oceans and the sky,
Since before time began,
I have walked your ragged mile,
And I will call like the crow,
I'll be right there by your side,
I am the candle in your darkest night,
Whether you're wrong, whether you're right,
I'll be there in your finest hour,
I'll be there when it all turns sour,
I know who you are, I know who you are
And though at times you'll be at your knees,
It's better than just running blind,
I'll push you straight into the deep,
I'll challenge you boy every time,
And I won't fall and I won't waiver,
I'll be right there by your side,
'Cos until you be just who you are,
I'll neve stop, I'll always call,
I've caught your falls, I've helped you rise,
I've damned these torrents from your eyes,
I know you are, I know you are
know you are... home

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I got to get away man
Got to clear my mind, mind, mind
Out of this mundane, god-forsaken 9-5, wasting my time

I'm gonna tell the boss man
I'm never coming back, back, back
I'm just a one way crazy locomotive jumpin' off of my tracks

Coz I'm a jacked-up, souped up, cut down, thrown around, discarded like a cigarette butt
I'm just a no good excuse for a man, yes you know I've got to pick myself right out of this rutt
But, I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you.

I don't know why we've ever been born
The life we live it is made for more
All this life's just making me sore
Oh don't worry, don't worry don't worry.

Got to get away man,
This moment it wont last, last, last
I got chain up grumpy in my head and it's kicking my ass (yeah)

I'm moving like a dog yeeah
I'm looking for my bone, bone, bone
I got to high-jack my body just to make it my own, my own, my own, my own

Because I'm a jacked-up, souped up, cut down, thrown around, discarded like a cigarette butt
I'm just a no good excuse for a man, yes you know I've got to pick myself right out of this rutt
But, I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you.

I don't know why we've ever been born
The life we live it is made for more
All this life's just making me sore
Oh don't worry, don't worry don't worry.

I don't know why we've ever been born
The life we live it is made for more
All this life's just making me sore
Oh don't worry, don't worry don't worry now, don't worry now, don't worry.

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Take it from me
Come take me home
I'll be the one for you
One for you
One for you

Dry mellow skin
Right to the wall
Back into me
I am ripe for the taking
Twist me, turn me
Throw me around
Drunken disclosure
Of lonely emotion
Yes, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful lies
Lies, lies, oh, lies

Take me, take me, take me
Won't you?
Take me, take me
Won't you, love?

Something so warm
So sweet and cold
You said you loved me
Yes, you said you'd come in
How could you go
Leave me here?
Hungry and haunting
Yes, desperate and lonely

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful lies
Lies, lies, oh, lies
I cannot stand this dumb look in your eye
Ohhh...

Take me, take me, take me
Won't you?
Take me, take me
Won't you, love?

Could have been
Should have been
Back and forth
Running around and round in circles
Been waiting for you, oh I
All of these, in the street
Now I'm praying for mercy, mercy, mercy
I'm pleading with you

Woah.

Take me, take me, take me
Won't you?
Take me, take me
Won't you, love?

Two atoms, they collide
In all the random ways
In the heat of you and I
Not so random, some might say

She walks up close to me
She looks me in the eyes
She said "Boy, what's it gonna be,
Now that it's just you and I?"

I'm a fool
I'm a fool for you
I'm a fool
I'm a fool for you

So I stepped up to the plate
To a place I thought I'd never be
So I'm making new today
Because of you, I am now me

For days are dark and blue
When we was our only friend
For all that we've been through
And go through again

All I say,
I'm gonna come
I'm gonna stand
I'm gonna live my life beside you
I'm a proud
A proud man
I'm the same man

I'm just a fool
I'm a fool for you
I'm a fool
I'm a fool for you

Two atoms, they collide
You and I we make them child
What lovely creatures they are
Something right from the start

And I helped you bring them forth
I offered us a place to land
An overflow of love
Fallen right into my hands

All I say,
I'm gonna come
I'm gonna stand
I'm gonna live my life beside you
I'm a proud
A proud man
A proud man to be walking right next to your shoes
You're the one
The only one
The only one that's just right, just for me
But all the same
You know I... You know I'm...

I'm just a fool
I'm a fool for you
I'm a fool
I'm a fool for you

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