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Rush
03:10
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You watch your baby
And then you let her know
You love your baby
And then you let her go
You’re taking over
Walking her down to the river’s edge
And when you walk on water
And hold her going down the falls
You see your daughter’s daughter
Hear your father’s father call
You watch your baby
Tie her brand new shoe
She’s walking, baby
Walking away from you
She’s taking over
But this child will never leave your world
‘Cause when you walk on water
And hold each other down the falls
You see your daughter’s daughter
Hear your father’s father call
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2. |
One More Paper Dollar
04:09
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I was born in Petaluma
Conceived in Rocky Mount
Ever since those days
I’ve been wondering into town
When I woke up in New Jersey
I felt so insecure
I knew that it was hopeless
But I wanted to be sure
So I bought my 50 minutes and he probed all through my mind
Then I had one more paper dollar
And a few thousand left behind
When I met old Mr. Outbank
By the crossroads selling fruit
He said he had the key to my salvation in his boot
I knew the it was risky when he said it won’t take long
I knew that it was hopeless when he said we can’t go wrong
Still I bought up every fruit and I composted every rind
Now I got one more paper dollar
And a few thousand left behind
Maybe I took the wrong train
Maybe I waited too long
But there’s been too many times
I went and changed my mind
Now I got one more paper dollar
And a few thousand left behind
Now I see your hands are moving
behind the ticket booth
I haven’t found the answer
But I think I know the truth
The key to my salvation is a long way down the line
You say the fare is fifty
And I gave you forty-nine
But won’t you hold it one more minute while I see if I can find
Just one more paper dollar
Was it in my wallet or my mind
Can you front me just one more paper dollar
I got a few thousand left behind
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3. |
Jigaby Argabo
04:32
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I came upon a child of god he was walking
Along the road and I asked him where are you going
And he told me
He told me
The child of god I came upon he was walking
He was walking
Along the road and I asked him where are you going
And he told me
To god I swore I’d fight his war
In again out again down again up you and you
Jigabe Argabo
Gigajabe Ahjio, ah ah
10,000 miles away I sit and I watch him
Wonderin’ if his father he forgot him
And he told me
He told me
The children of god I came upon they were walking
They were walking
Off to war and I asked them why are they going
And they told me
When we were born all love was gone
In again out again down again up you and you
Jigabe Argabo
Gigajaby Ahjio, ah ah
Can you feel the thinking in your head you
Wonder if your children will forget you
When you use the bomb used once in a lifetime
Even if they’ll forgive you
The reason it was used will they forget too?
Jigaby Argabo
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4. |
I'm Whining
03:24
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I’m whining
I’m whining for your love
I know you love me but not enough
That’s why I need more people to love me
Stop driving bigger cars than
Bringing on global warming faster than I do
I'm whining to stop global whining
Because my life hasn’t happened the way I wanted
And what I wanted wasn’t even what I wanted
Not even what my mama wanted
Maybe her mama's mama
I’m even startin to think that I might die like everyone else does
I’m whining
I’m whining for your love
I know you love me but not enough
That’s why I need more people to love me
And see the world in the way than I do
Stop putting number 7 plastic in the recycle bin
Stop eating animals that live in their own shit
I'm whining for your love
I know you love me but not enough
That's why I need more people to love me
I need at least one person to love me more than I do
I’m whining
I’m whining
I’m whining that nobody’s whining with me
I;m gonna keep whining til everyone’s whining with me
I’m whining
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Someday love will be the only way
To answer any question asked
In the meantime we can
Only pray that it will last
Someday love will be the only way
For us to know just what is real
In the meantime I can
Only tell you hoe I feel
Wonder what it’d be like
If this kiss was a final goodbye
And we were flying our last pair of wings
Wonder would you crying
If this song was a last lullaby
And we were flying our last pair of wings
I feel my life is like a tall oak tree
I climb around it as it grows
A bluebird lands on a branch
And she tells me that she knows
She told me that love is the only way
To answer any question asked
You need never fear it
And rest assured that it will last
Wonder what it’d be like
If this kiss was a final goodbye
And we were flying our last pair of wings
Wonder would you crying
If this song was a last lullaby
And we were flying our last pair of wings
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6. |
A Man Loving a Man
04:52
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Why am I so scared
Why am I so blue
Why is it so hard to be close to you
Let me turn away
Let me walk home slow
There’s too much on my mind
So just let me go
But when I get home and turn on the TV
That box expects me to be what it wants me to be
I’m finding it hard to understand
What it means to be a man
I have a place inside
Where no man ever goes
Even my own heart it doesn’t know
It is so well hid
So I can’t get hurt
But now I think that I’m under orange alert
When I was just a boy my very best friend
Touched me like I never wanted it to end
But my friends laughed and they shamed me
Then I grew up to be a man
I wanted every woman I could see
I tried so hard to be what a man is supposed to be
I found it hard to understand
A man loving a man
Why am I so scared
Why am I so blue
Why is it so hard to be close to you
Let me turn away
Let me walk home slow
Right back to that place
No man ever goes
But maybe if I could just set myself free
And be the man that only I want to be
Then maybe I could understand
A man loving a man
Maybe if I could just love myself head to knee
And keep loving myself unconditionally
Then maybe I could understand
A man loving a man
Maybe even I could understand
A man loving a man
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7. |
Shake the World
03:28
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Call your Mama when you need love
Call your daddy when the money is gone
Call your doctor when you don’t feel good
Call me baby, when you wanna shake the world
I say shake the world
Wo, wo wo
Do ya do ya wanna shake the world
Call your sister when you’re all alone
Call your boyfriend when you wanna talk all night long
Call your girlfriend when you wanna pitch and woo
Call me baby when you wanna shake the world
I say shake the world
Wo, wo wo
Do ya do ya wanna shake the world
Are you scared of doin’ time?
Let’s shake it up
The world outside your mind
Call on Dr. Freud
When you wanna figure me out
Call on my man Jesus
When you begin to doubt
Call on Ben & Jerry when you wanna cuddle up
Call me baby when you wanna shake the world
I say shake the world
Wo, wo wo
Do ya do ya wanna shake the world
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8. |
The Fog
06:41
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Sorry that I put you on a leash
Can’t believe I put you on a leash
It was the fog. It was the fog of love
Sorry that I took my own life
Can’t Believe I took my own life
It was the fog. It was the fog of war
I can’t believe all the things we done
It was just like a dream
Was it me who pushed that button
Money, sex, dreams, birds, bombs and bones
They put me in another zone
But it was the fog
It was the fog of love
It was the fog of war
It is sad the things that I’ve been given
Were taken from the ones that I love best
And it’s sad that I must go on living
In pursuit of my happiness
And the war that I keep fighting
A war that nobody ever wins
Just to protect the gifts that I’ve been given
Shows the depth of my ignorance
And the love that I keep giving
A love that everybody wins
Is the same love that helps me be forgiven
For the depth of my ignorance
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9. |
My Sister Martha
02:38
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Don’t jump off this cliff
You might fly away
Don’t ever say if
We might be OK
My Sister Martha
It’s a long way to ride
To Sister Martha
We might be alright
Don’t look in this love
We might fall inside
You know you’re enough
Your inner most child wants
Sister Martha
It’s a long way to drive
To Sister Martha
We might come alive
My Sister Martha
You’re all that I know
There’s always Sister Martha
You’re the only one home
Don’t jump off this cliff
We might fly away
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10. |
Horn & Blow
04:42
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Well I found me a train
With a heart in the middle
Told her my plan
She asked me a riddle
My mind was a blob
Said I’m not into trucks
She said no prob
I just had lunch and I guess you’re wonderin' how
I still got all my teeth
I Went to the super center
Just to get me some honey
They wouldn’t check me out
'Cause I had no money
So I Went to the bank
And I asked for a penny
They opened the drawer
And they didn’t have any and I guess you’re wonderin’ how
I still got all my teeth
Who’ll Do the Bus Stop Laugh?
Next stop we’ll be gettin off
Went to the Hagen Daz
Everybody on the ground
Pantyhose head standin there
Broken cones all around
The man on the chair
With an Uzy in his hand
I said what’s goin on here He said I don’t understand
You still got all my teeth?
Who’ll Do the Bus Stop Laugh?
Next stop we’ll be gettin off
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