Cowboy Mouth--Are You With Me?

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1. Jenny Says

I got no reason for the thngs I fear
the things that plague me whenn I see and hear
a dime's a nickel and a nickel's none
I'll throw myself into the Sunday sun

A summer Sunday when you went insane 
You said you're going and I said I came
I'm throwing oranges in an apple cart
The ties that bind are tearing me apart

Jenny says turn off the radio
Jenny says turn off the lights
Jenny says turn off the video
You beat yourself up to bring yourself down

Let it go, let it go, let it go,
Let it go, let it go, let it go
When the world is coming down on me
I let it go!

I got no reason for the things I say
she turned toward me then she turned away
There's lots of forces in a modern world
That take their toll upon a modern girl

I got no reason for the things I fear
the things that plague me when I see and hear
I'll press my finger on an itchy trigger 
What once was small right now is so much bigger

I got no reason for the things I do
the dealer deals and then the dealer's screwed 
You throw your cards upon a playing table
my name i sCain and I am now unable

REPEAT CHORUS

You beat yourself up 'cause you LOVE it

Life is for living!


2.  How Do You Tell Someone?

Tina says don't talk to me like I'm deaf and dumb
We've broken down and broken up so much that I am nub
Talk about--don't shout about--the people we've become 
There's a little girl who's crying over here

Michael says don't shout at me like I was born a fool
You speak of love and scream of love now dar to treat me cruel 
Nothing's fair in love and war so please let's make some rules
There's a little boy who's crying over here

Did you ever know me?
I swear that I have tried
Did you ever need me? 
I feel like I have died
Did you ever want me?
I swear that I have tried 
How do you tell someone you don't love them?
How do you tell someone you don't care anymore?
How do you tell someone you don't love them anymore?

Tina says the pictures that we took are put away 
Inside a box of memories for cold and reainy days
Poems in pencil rhyming with the things you'd never say
There's a little girl who's crying over here

Michael's old engagement picture's in a wooden box
His wooden heart is tough as nails and solid as a rock
Keeps himself protected with a combination lock
There's a little boy who's crying over here

Fighting makes me tired/in my eyes crying makes me tired
There's a spy hurting makes me tired/hold me tight lying makes me tired

Tina says I wish  that I had never seen your smile 
Your name is written on my soul in alphabetic file
All I've got's my dignity so I will leave in style 
There's a million of us crying over here

Any time aI talk you you there's no one listening every time
I reach for you there's no one there and everywhere I look for you,
You're no where to be found I swear


3.  God Makes the Rain

I should've know thered'd be danger when I saw your face in the crowd 
Now I'm trying to work past my anger 
I should know better by now I used to believe in the love songs that took me so long to write down
Every word that you say takes my breath away but I should know better by now

I've known your sorrow, but everybody's tasted pain
I've known your sorrow since God made the rain
I see tomorrow when God makes the rain
I used to believe in the spirits that turned all your words into sound
but I was your walk on the wild sie 
I should know better by now
And if you see me looking for something or someone who'll never be found
when I look your way, turn your eyes astray 
'cause I should know better by now 
I used to hold my fury and keep it bottled tight and wrestle with the consequences each and every night
But if I put my faith in someone who was only trying to bring me down 
I wouldn't stand where I am standing now

I've known your sorrow, when everybody turned away 
I'll be tomorrow, whe God makes the rain 
Believe


4.  Take It Out on Me

Slow dancing moving to the rhythm of my anger written in stone
There's no reason nobody needs to know sould metting somewhere in the distance 
There's no rain or chill in the air
I feel something you always said was there

I'll be waiting when the storm is over
I'll be waiting when the fever is higgh
Share your anger but swear that you'll never 

Take it out on me, let me see you smile 
Let me hear you scream for a little shile, Don't take it out on me,
Cause there's nobody else around

Heart's beating flowing like a river,
Your safe opening's close to the door, if you feel trouble you don't have to stay no more

Old passions rising to the surface, I look towards the day I was born, I'm SO TORN.


5.  Light It on Fire

It's four a.m., I'm drunk and alone
trying to call you on a public phone
I wanted passion, I wanted desire
My heart is a flame that pains me
if I do not light it on fire

I'm the perfect picture of a perfect fool
You're out doing what I wanted you to
I'm in the heartbreak hotel and there's a desk clerk for hire
My heart is a flame that pains me
if I do not light it in fire

How can I tell you 
just how it feels
How do you make love stay
and how do you know if what's staying is real

I was the one full of whiskey and talk
I was the one with the skip in his walk
You say the truth hurts, yeah well, so does a liar
My heart is a flam ethat pains me
if I do not light it on fire


6. Laughable

Well I stare a the hole in my hands
and I wath you slip away and I feel if
I'd only done better than the maybe 
I could make you stay Then I star at
the hole inn my hands and I can't
remember things I say hour to hour,
sentence to sentence, day to day
Well I could but I don't 
I should but I won't
It's laughable

There's and empty space in my bed
me be's to big these days
even as I hold you I'm letting you go
somewhere there's an empty space in my heart
when my frends say boy now you'rre free
cause freedom's not a ring around your finger I can tell
'em it's a memory Well I could but I don't 
I should but I won't 
Having to tell someone goodbye 
Having to find a place to hide when all you feel these days is empty inside

7. Love of My Life


8. So Sad About me


9. Man on the Run


10.  Louisiana Lowdown


11. New Orleans


12. Peacemaker