FAREWELL TO THE MASTER
One foot off the platform
Another one stepping on
In this game we’re all playing
Everyone’s but a pawn
We move one at a time
Just a verse in a song
We follow the word by ear
But the speaker now is gone
(chorus)
Farewell to the Master
Fare thee well, fare thee well
Farewell to the Master
For you fell, for you fell
To the hands of the blind
Tolls the bell, tolls the bell
Farewell to the Master, farewell
From across the horizon
You came from afar
All this distance traveled
You came from the stars
From across the horizon
The distance now in vain
All these year’s been travelin’s
Been washed out by the rain
It’s not good bye to anyone else
For it’s good bye to myself
Farewell…
I am the Master
ESCAPE THE MAZE
Restless rats
running in an endless maze
We think the cheese will bring release
But we’re still in the cage
Tell me to collect
But none of it is mine
I can’t connect, I can’t connect
When busy is the new fine
Forget to live today to live tomorrow
A never ending cycle of samsara
Time runs swift
Through the hourglass’s neck
Brace yourselves, here it comes
Going down like a shipwreck
Puppet strings tug and tease
We don’t really mind
As long as we get paid
We promise not to look behind
Forget to live today to live tomorrow
A never ending cycle of samsara
slow down
slow down
smell the roses
slow down
No time, no time
We can’t rehearse
We’re just cattle standing
On the barren pastures of commerce
Swallowing the cud,
the mirrors and smoke
They tell us to chew some more
But we’re just gonna choke
Forget to live today to live tomorrow
A never ending cycle of samsara
slow down
slow down
smell the roses
slow down
CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE
Sometimes we get caught between
All of our habits and wisdom
We’ve collected along the way
Stupid decisions and big mistakes
(chorus)
It’s alright
That’s how we learn
It’s alright
We’re children of the universe
Sometimes we think we find
All the answers to life
Sometimes we think we’re right
Then we come to realize
CHORUS
The best lessons are the ones that hurt
The best bridges are the ones we burn
The best stones are the ones still unturned
The best playground the universe
Sometimes I look around
It’s reassuring and humbling
All these people just like me
Scared, confusing, and stumbling
CHORUS
POOR OL’ TREE
Oh stranger please won’t you tell me a tale
One that doesn’t end in tears
It’s been too long since I’ve heard one
A couple hundred years
Too long for me
This poor ol’ tree
Oh rain cloud please won’t you lend a drop
A drink would do me well
It’s been too long since I’ve had one
In this dry, roasting hell
Too hot for me
This poor ol’ tree
Oh winter hare, don’t you care
It’s freezin’ cold out here
It’s been too long since I’ve felt sun
My sap frozen tears
Too cold for me
This poor ol’ tree
I once knew this child, they were free and wild
They’d climb me way up high
Their life flew by and they flew to the sky
Without a good bye
No, none for me
This poor ol’ tree
Oh Mother Earth what is wrong?
You don’t look too hot
The machines and smoke got you choked
And I’m all you got
Ha! Just look at me
This poor ol’ tree
The sky turned black, no looking back
Life reduced to ash
And here I am, all withered and tan
I think I might be the last
Just let me be
This poor ol’ tree
Oh stranger please tell me a tale
One that doesn’t end in tears
It’s been too long since I’ve heard one
A couple thousand years
Too long for me
This poor ol’ tree
AS BEST WE CAN
Hurry now
The world’s end, the world’s end
Is coming soon
Is coming soon
Don’t look back now
There must be something
Something we can do
Something we can do
Quickly now
Come my friends, come my friends
We must try
We must try
We can mend
As best we can, as best we can
The world
The world
It’s not too late
But maybe it is, but maybe it is
We can’t go back
We can’t go back
To the ways before
Move along, move along
The age of innocence
The age of innocence lost
A different world
The world’s end, the world’s end
A new world begins
A new world begins
HEY, AIN’T THAT JUST LIFE
Unjolly Jack Johnson drove a giant jeep
To wake up he drank coffee, but he could not sleep
Got a second job, cuz the debt was too steep
But hey he has a sick ride
Unjolly Jack bought that car because
He needed a way to get to his two jobs
That he got so that car could be paid off
But hey, ain’t that just life
Unjolly Jill lived up on that hill
A seventeen room mansion she could barely fill
She thought all her credit cards would surely pay the bills
But hey, ain’t that just life
And the two will always be climbing that ladder
Building a house of credit cards, and watching them scatter
And they lived for overtime
But hey, ain’t that just life
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch what they were after
When they got to the top, they heard the sound of laughter
And realized with open eyes that they were falling faster
They’ve been living a lie
But hey ain’t that just life
When they came to the bottom of that very tall hill
Unjolly Jack turned and said to Unjolly Jill
I used to lose sleep over a giant jeep
I think I’m ready to sell
And the two realized what really mattered
It’s not the stuff you buy or the money you gather
But what you let go up on top of the hill
That’s what Jolly Jack and Jolly Jill
Learned at the bottom of that hill
Unjolly Jack Johnson drove a giant jeep
To wake up he drank coffee, but he could not sleep
Got a second job, cuz the debt was too steep
But hey he has a sick ride
Unjolly Jack bought that car because
He needed a way to get to his two jobs
That he got so that jeep would be paid off
But hey, ain’t that just life
Unjolly Jill lived up on that hill
A seventeen room mansion she could barely fill
She thought all her credit cards would surely pay the bills
But hey, ain’t that just life
And the two will always be climbing that ladder
Building a house of credit cards, and watching them scatter
And they lived for overtime
But hey, ain’t that just life
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch what they were after
When they got to the top, they heard the sound of laughter
And realized with open eyes that they were falling faster
They’ve been living a lie
But hey ain’t that just life
When they got to the bottom of that very tall hill
Unjolly Jack turned and said to Unjolly Jill
I used to lose sleep over a giant jeep
I think I’m ready to sell
And the two realized what really mattered
It’s not the stuff you buy or the money you gather
But what you let go up on top of the hill
That’s what Jolly Jack and Jolly Jill
Learned at the bottom of that hill
SCARECROW JOE
Scarecrow Joe, what do you know?
Standing here in the field alone.
Scarecrow Joe, what have you done?
Standing here in the hot noon sun.
No ruby-slippered Kansas girl
To pull you off your stake.
You’re condemned to a life alone,
Scaring all your friends away.
A strong wind will blow you ‘part,
And I hear you have no heart.
Oh but Scarecrow Joe, I know that ain’t true,
I know well what you’re going through.
So Scarecrow Joe, with you I’ll stay,
Stuff my shirt full of hay,
Dress me in thrown ‘way clothes
That dangle from my dry, dry bones.
We’ll tip our hats at a circlin’ crow
It’s just me and Scarecrow Joe
We’ll tip our hats at the circlin’ crows
It’s just me and Scarecrow Joe
GOODBYE YESTERDAY, NEVER MIND TOMORROW
Goodbye Yesterday, never mind tomorrow
I just want to be here
I’m too tired of playing all those same old songs
You’re too tired to hear
I will walk this earth as gently as I can
So my feet will kiss the earth
I will shed the stupidity of all I’ve done
With each lesson learned
Cuz in the end that’s all that I can do
Try to be kind
To all my friends and lovers along the way
I may have lost my mind
I will rise in the morning and scratch my head
Not knowing what to do
Surely I will stumble and surely I will fail
Can you tell me how did I do?
Goodbye Yesterday, never mind tomorrow
I just want to be here
I’m too tired of playing all those same old songs
You’re too tired to hear
DARK AUTUMN WIND
Here it comes now
Dark autumn wind
To steal my covers
Tear at my skin
Starts off with colors
So you it might win
Once it starts, no stoppin’
Dark autumn wind
(chorus)
Here it comes now
Dark autumn wind
Don’t make a sound
Don’t let it in
Stoke the fires
Cover your skin
Here it comes now
Dark Autumn wind
To stay
Dark autumn wind
Boldly it blows
Dark autumn wind
Coldly it knows
We run for cover
We expect snow
There’s no escapin’
Dark autumn wind
Here it comes now
Dark autumn wind
Here it comes now
Don’t let it in
To steal the warmth
Uncover our sins
Here it comes now
Dark Autumn wind
To stay
ARMAGEDDON, RAGNAROK
Some thought it was armageddon
Some thought it was ragnarok
We all ran for our weapons
We didn’t even think to stop
We all heard it on the news
What we do is only right
Hear the war cries from the pews
We can’t lose, God’s on our side
Training children for holy wars
Trade our peace for our pride
Trading children for foreign shores
Win victory with human life
We are the blessed, we are the chosen
To survive the world’s end
Slaughter the foes, they are but demons
That’s what both sides said
That’s what both sides said
That’s what both sides said
When the dust and rubble settled
only ash and blood remained
No one to cry at the gravestones
No tears and no names
Through the rubble and rusted bullets
Stretched an arm green and bright
Reaching up towards the heavens
Reaching up for the light
Over years and mass graves
An ancient forest, it will grow
Shrouding our biggest mistakes
Erasing all we’ve known
Some thought it was armageddon
Some thought it was ragnarok
We all ran for our weapons
We didn’t even think to stop
THE WORLD MOVES ON
(chorus)
World moves on
When we’ve gone
No more songs
The world moves on
Our empty rooms
Strangers’ hands
They comb through
All we’ve ever had
A cardboard box
Full of secrets
Now cast off
Like thrown away trinkets
chorus
What matters most
To a ghost
When they look back
Across the gap
They will see
That yes, the world will mourn
But no waiting,
The world still turns
chorus
All that’s left
Is our bereft
They’ll have to decide
On the day we fly
What to sell
And what to save
What to do with the shadows
And echoes that remain
chorus
But for now
We’ll wait and wonder
As countless souls
Get cast asunder
We’ll wear our suits
And dress in black
We’ll comb their rooms
While they watch from across the gap
chorus
I SHOULDA HAD ANOTHER CUPPA COFFEE
I shoulda had another cup of coffee
I shoulda had another cuppa joe
The day is getting longer
The end is not in sight
And my head is running really, really slow
I shoulda had another cup of coffee
I shoulda had another cup of brew
My cup has long been empty
My thirst cannot be quenched
And I just don’t know what to do
I shoulda had another cup of coffee
I shoulda had another cup of mud
My tank is almost empty
My head it slowly spins
And my body feels just like a dud
I shoulda had another cup of coffee
Another cup of that ol’ dark roast
I’d like some cream and sugar
But I’ll take it either way
Coffee is what I want the most
The coffee pot bubbles and boils
That’s the kinda language I know
It steams and sighs, and I close my eyes
I smell the sweet aroma
And I pour me another cuppa joe
I have myself another cup of coffee
I have myself another cup of mud
The Java runs brown, I drink it down
I feel so alive
And then I pour yet another cup
Barefoot Bran 