TOUGH
I don’t know where you go
When you look at me like that
All I know is…
Is it really makes me sad
Cause I never wanted
To hurt you
But it looks like I did
Anyway
And now I’m left here
With nothing more to say
Now its time for me
To place my pride
Upon the shelf
Cause at the end of the day
I’m left with no-one
But myself
And I know at times
I can seem a little rough
But inside I’m just a little girl
And I’m not all that tough
BAD CYCLES
Why are the bad cycles the only ones we repeat
Why do I let you stay here and defeat me
All I'm guilty of is the wanting of your love
And to show you all the things that I am guilty of
But all you do is criticize all the things that make me happy
And eventually these things won’t even begin to recognize me
I’m losing the love deep inside of me
I look for you but you had to leave
The darkest moment of my life
I”m still more concerned about where you could be
If you love me like you say you do
TELL ME!
How could you tear me down
TELL ME! TELL ME!
No this can’t be happening remember our love was real
And all I was supposed to do now was feel
But you didn’t tell me that fear would overcome me
Make my heart bleed make me feel like I wasn’t free
Making it harder and harder for me to leave
I’m losing the love deep inside of me
I look for you but you had to leave
The darkest moment of my life
I”m still more concerned about where you could be
If you love me like you say you do
TELL ME!
How could you tear me down
TELL ME! TELL ME!
Why are the bad cycles the only ones we repeat
BOY
Every night I see a face that I know so well
Just one of many on the city streets of hell
I see a boy trapped in prostitution
Selling his body and his soul to feed his addiction
Living night to night must wear his soul so thin
You can tell by the way his face has sunken in
I wonder how he ended up in the arms of a demon
But then I wonder if it’s mine to question
Who really cares about this boy
Ooh, why the need to fill the void
He should feel his parents’ love
Instead of finding this through drugs
Some time went by, and then came the night
The night I heard the boy had lost his life
Not beaten by the demon he fought so hard to keep
But murdered by some other broken boy trapped out on the street
Make A Change
A great fellow once said
The time is right to do what is right
And as this plays in my head
I wonder why so many don’t even try
Cause life is about lessons
And what you take from the sessions
Hard as it may be
I hope it’s worth the repercussions
This is where I’ll be
Standing in between
Cause this is me and I’m singing
For a chance at a better place
And I hope and I hope
That the world can make a change
It’s time to wake up
Take off your make up
And listen to the voice
Of another liar saying
What they think we want to hear
As though we don’t have a choice
So stand up and shout
Let the truth ring out
Even a whisper will do
Just make sure your voice
Is heard before you are through
Cause this is me and I’m singing
For a chance at a better place
And I hope and I hope
That the world can make a change
Building out a better world
A better world than this
Building out a better world
We are all at risk
Building out a better world
It’s our time to shine
Building out a better world
One small step at a time
I look around my world
And I see so much
Pain and misery
And I wonder what it takes
For us to be free
And if we learn anything
Let us learn from our own mistakes
We’ve got to ask ourselves
Do we have what it takes
SOMEDAY
Hope… for us all someday
It’s another cold night
On the avenue
And I’m seeing faces
Of the unlucky few
But I know better than to question why
I am on this path
For I know some questions
Are better left unasked
I can see the judgement in your eyes
When you look at me
With my dirty hair and my
Missing teeth
For I’m freezing and I’m starving
But there’s no one I know
Here comes an officer
Telling me I have to go, have to go
Where do you go when there’s no place to call home
And I wonder do you hear me as I moan
I don’t know how long I can live this way
But I hope there will be enough help for us all someday
I know it’s hard to believe when you
Look at me
That this wasn’t how I planned
My life to be
I had a good job, I had a house by the lake
But with the crash came the layoff
And that’s all it takes, all it takes
Hope…for us all someday
It’s another cold night
On the avenue
I CAN'T BELIEVE
I can’t believe the news you shared that night
I can’t believe you thought everything would be alright
And what am I supposed to do
With this information
The truth is a weapon and I felt the blow
Am I supposed to sit here and just let go
And pretend nothing's wrong
Was I supposed to be more forgiving
I see you… the real you…
There's so much about you I didn't know
I feel you… the real you…
I should have seen it all so long ago
But you see I was blind
Maybe I was a little too kind
Maybe this is some kind of sign
That our friendship is ending
For I will never forget the pain
I was supposed to be able to trust you
You were supposed to be a friend
And friends should never need to worry about such things
Though I understand the free spirit you are
And the wings that help you fly
Though I’m very unsure of
Your reasons why
I see you… the real you…
There's so much about you I didn't know
I feel you… the real you…
Now that you let your true colors show
Understand I was a loyal friend
And I would have been there until the end
But now it’s time to let you go
When it came between me and you
You did everything you had to do
Now I know what I need to know
I can’t believe the news you shared that night
NOTHING NEW
Tip toe through the garden of my soul
I may not know where I’m going but I know where I need to go
For every line draws a map to the places that I’ve been
And here I stand once again
Everyday is a good day to face your mirror
Look beyond the cracks and suddenly things become clearer
For I’m moving past the point of resisting
And moving into this little thing called existing
I’m on the outside looking in
I see my own reflection and it’s getting thin
For the bones of my skeleton are all I have left
But I got a few things off my chest
It seems nobody's listening to me anymore
Their arms are folded and their faces bored
And I’m standing in a padded room
With nothing to assume
With the thoughts of
Nothing new
Nothing new
There’s nothing new under the sun
And in that truth we are undone
FEMME FATALE
Face of an angel she gave them hell
Played a high-stake game and she played it well
Heroine in peril damsel in distress
No one could resist her or the promise of her flesh
Led them to the slaughter like the devil’s daughter
She didn’t lack for money it surely wasn’t love
That nurtured this obsession she sported like a glove
Easy to suspicion someone beat her as a child
Harder to believe it was her choice to be so wild
See ya later baby - See ya the next time I’m in town
See ya later baby - See ya next time I’m around
One heart on the line
One day at a time
One heart too many
One day she will be doing fine
She rolled into Denver string of pearls around her neck
The promise of more menace than a bottom dealer’s deck
She wandered into Josie’s and sauntered to the bar
Swaying like a cobra in time with the guitar
She was cocked and ready her aim was always deadly
She never saw it coming it hit her like a train
One more fallen angel standing naked in the rain
Who’d have thought a drifter could take her soul and lift her
Carry her to heaven and then let her fall again
One heart on the line
One day at a time
One heart too many
One day she will be doing fine