Home, Pt 1, 2, 3, 4

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HOME, PT 1 released under artist name, “Impaster”

“HOME, PT 1” LYRICS:

No place like home

Home, I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

Fix my lonely heart with deception

How’s angst as a listener?

How's life as a lesson?

And it’s not teaching me anything

At home where my heart is

Splattered all over the floor

Won’t you take me anywhere but home?

I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

Change is a way to remove the scent of evil

Oh God, I’ll bite my words 

If I could ever truly see you there

It's where I got to be lost to find the moment

Won’t you show me where? 

Take me now

Won’t you show me anywhere but home?

I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

No place like home

Home, I’ll go, I’ll go anywhere but home

Goodnight, tonight I’ll sleep on the red carpet

Sell my life for a pretty penny on the black market

Goodnight

Please take me where my headstone reads:

"I was, but am not any longer. I’m finally home"

Home

No place like home

Home, Pt 2 Featured in DC COMIC’s Doom Patrol

“HOME, PT 2” LYRICS:

Home, home

Got to it 

Fought through it 

And now it's done

Once caught in 

Got lost in 

The setting sun 

Is this it?

All there is 

Who will ever know?

What's done is done 

It's time to go home

Home, it's time to go home

Home, it's time to go home

No more fighting 

No pleading

Just letting go 

Can't trade places

Can't save this  

It's time to go home  

Home, it's time to go home

Home, it's time to go home

“HOME, PT 3” LYRICS:

Tear down walls

A bridge for kindling

And build a home

From what's left of them

Fortune calls

Now I'm answering

Right where I belong

I will begin again

I'll catch the setting sun

I'm breaking free

I won't let anyone

Get the best of me

And now it's finally done

And I can finally breathe

I finally found my home

My home found me

Where the heart is, where the heart is

Where the heart is, where the heart is

Where the heart is, where the heart is

Where the heart is, where the heart is

A lesson from the heart 

Dream big

Shooting for the stars

I can't miss

On my mark 

God's my witness

Fletch the broken arch

For a direct hit

Where the heart is, where the heart is

Where the heart is, where the heart is

Where the heart is, where the heart is

Where the heart is

I'm finally home! 

Never giving up 

Never giving in

Never letting go

I know there's more to this

Finally found my home!

I finally found my home!

“HOME, PT 4” LYRICS:

Home was a place I had never known 

A place I thought I’d never go

Till I was lost, alone

I finally found my home

For so long home was backseat in the cold 

A Ride spinning out of control 

Moving back and forth       

Down a never ending road 

One day home came and found me 

It’s a place where I can be

Just as I Am

There is no us or them

The Ride taught me

How to fly with broken wings

How to land gracefully

And let the bygones go

I finally found my home

Home is the hardest thing to find

All one can do is 

Try to make the most of life

There’s no place like home

Home 

Home was a monster in my dreams

A place where I got beat and nearly buried

Before I found my Sanctuary

There was no love in between my sheets

Bugs sucked the life from me

Until I came undone

Before I finally found my home

Home is a dream that’s coming true

Everything I do

I do to find Truth in life

Home is my beautiful retreat

A place where I can breathe 

With the aspen trees

Trade fate for destiny

And I’ll trade youth

For a truth not soon forgotten

The smell of smog

For cherry blossoms and a clear night sky

Trade bedbugs for butterflies 

Home!

Home is on the earth I love

I caught the setting sun

Now the heart is One

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RIDE

“Let the ride begin”

Ride painting by Robert S. Sallee, LaSalle’s father - features visual portrayals of every song on the album

No Robert LaSalle music was ever released until 2019. By the end of 2020, the artist self-released 200 songs from the previous decade and a half. As of February 2024, 2 persons are known to have streamed this album.

The Canon: RIDE>Lullaby>Night>Awaken

After multiple deals fell through and years of touring relentless dead-end gigs, the artist set out to get a publishing deal in Nashville. Preproduction and contracts began in 2010. The publishers (financiers) picked the most commercially viable songs from the 24-year-old’s extensive catalog. “Side A” would be pop songs and “Side B” would be the artist’s “art.”

2010 began with the death of a good friend, and tragedy upon tragedy followed the artist: tornado in Huntsville, AL; BP oil spill in New Orleans; devastating flood in Nashville. The night before recording was scheduled to begin on RIDE, the artist was mugged, which led to several head surgeries culminating in the artist’s left eye being removed.

In and out of hospitals, now homeless and couch-hopping, with chronic headaches and an addiction to the heavy pain pill regimen prescribed him, recording continued in Berry Hill and Music Row in Nashville. When the time came to record vocals, the artist could not sing. Searching the globe, in 2011 he eventually found a doctor in Atlanta who surgically removed vocal polyps from his throat which required months of silent healing and inspired the instrumental album See No, Say No, recorded alone in a cabin outside Atlanta.

When RIDE was finally completed, the financiers had lost interest in the album. One hundred copies of the album were printed on CDs and given away. In response to the utter disappointment of RIDE, and to try to inspire his collaborators, the artist wrote, recorded and released One More Lullaby entirely alone with no budget, playing every instrument. Neither album ever had the chance to fail, because no one ever heard the albums.

9 years after RIDE began, in 2019 the artist self-released RIDE online to no one. The artist never attempted to make pop music again.

PRODUCED BY: BOBBY HOLLAND & ROBERT LASALLE

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: GARY KRAEN, NOAH GORDON & LESTER TURNER JR. FOR NEW MILLENNIUM MUSIC, LLC

RECORDED & MIXED BY: BOBBY HOLLAND

MASTERED BY: JIM DEMAIN AT YES MASTER

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY: ROBERT LASALLE, EXCEPT “NOBODY NOWHERE” & “WHEREVER YOUR LOVE IS” WRITTEN BY MARK HARRIMAN & ROBERT LASALLE, “SEPIA TONE” WRITTEN BY BOB & NICK SALLEE (LASALLE & HIS DAD, THE PAINTER)

STRINGS ARRANGED BY TIM GROGAN & ROBERT LASALLE, CONDUCTED BY TIM GROGAN

ADDITIONAL RECORDING BY: KYLE MANNER AT OMNISOUND STUDIOS

RECORDED IN: NASHVILLE, TN AT OMNISOUND, THE BROWN OWL, QUAD, SOUTH STREET STUDIOS, SOUND STAGE/BIG STUDIOS & COUNTY Q

SECOND ENGINEER AT OMNISOUND: RORY ROSITAS

SECOND ENGINEER AT THE BROWN OWL: MARK “Z” ZELLMER

ADDITIONAL PIANO & VOCALS RECORDED IN: HUNTSVILLE, AL AT SOUND CELL STUDIOS

SONGS PUBLISHED BY: NMM TUNES / LASTALLION SONGS / LIZZIEROSE MUSIC

COVER ART BY: ROBERT SALLEE

PHOTOGRAPHY BY: EVERETT WASHINGTON

ADDITIONAL ART, DESIGN & LAYOUT BY MEGAN KELLEY

Wherever Your Love Is

Riding south into the misty morning 

I'm soaring, now I'm soaring

I'm gonna meet you at the new day dawning

Love's calling, I hear you calling

You're the fuel in my veins 

As my heart races back to you

I wanna tell you that I love you 

And I'll be there soon

Wherever your love is

That's where i'm going to be

Forever my heart is 

Longing for you to be with me

I won't give in

There's no stopping this 

I'm going wherever your love is

Fighting the sun out on the blue horizon

I'm flying, now I'm flying

My eyes are heavy but I won't pull over

I'm closer, getting closer

You're the words to the song 

In my head singing back to me

I can feel you in the air

You're the ocean breeze

Wherever your love is

That's where i'm going to be

Forever my heart is 

Longing for you to be with me

I won't give in

There's no stopping this 

I'm going wherever your love is

Won't spend one more night

Without you by my side

Not another chance I'll miss

To be wherever your love is

Wherever your love is

That's where i'm going to be

Forever my heart is 

Longing for you to be with me

I won't give in

There's no stopping this 

I'm going wherever your love is

click “Ride” poem originally printed on CD

Tonight

You're on the phone

In a little place you call home

Fretting about

Every little thing you've done

You tell me now

You got no place to go

I tell you, girl

You don't have to be alone

Tonight I'll lay beside you

I'll make it all alright 

Tonight you are all mine, girl

Tonight you are all mine   

Tonight you're mine

I feel for you

For your heart and nothing more

I'm here for you

Knocking at your door

Talk about it

Tell me if you want

Don't fret about it

I won't do you wrong

Tonight I'll lay beside you

I'll make it all alright 

Tonight you are all mine, girl

Tonight you are all mine   

Tonight you're mine

Tonight you're heart is mine

Oh, tonight, your heart is mine

(Tonight I'm here for you)

Tonight, every little thing's alright

Tonight I'll lay beside you

I'll make it all alright 

Tonight you are all mine, girl

Tonight you are all mine   

Tonight you're mine

Love Found Me

Something in my heart wasn't right

I packed my bags and I caught a ride

I didn't know what I would find

But I left on a whim, and I knew why

It was never about where I was going to

It was all for this love that I never knew

I travelled aimlessly for miles all alone

Then I finally turned back and headed home

Maybe that was destined to be 

'Cause, baby, that's where love found me

You were all around me but I travelled the world just to find true love

Baby, you found me, now I have your love and I'll never give up

I found all the places where your love could be

But I could only find my true destiny

When love found me

Before I knew your love was mine

Every second seemed a waste of my time

When left up to the hands of fate

Love is never too far away

It was never about where I was going to

It was all for this love that i never knew

I traveled aimlessly for miles all alone

But destiny could not be provoked

When love seemed like a distant dream

Baby that's when love found me

You were all around me but I travelled the world just to find true love

Baby, you found me, now I have your love and I'll never give up

I found all the places where your love could be

But I could only find my true destiny

When love found me

Now I'm right back here at home

Now I'll never be all alone 

Now I'm right where I'm meant to be

Well I found my destiny

When love found me

You were all around me but I travelled the world just to find true love

Baby, you found me, now I have your love and I'll never give up

I found all the places where your love could be

But I could only find my true destiny

When love found me

LaSalle & Bobby Holland listen to playback - Holland engineered, coproduced, mixed & played on much of the album - photo by Caroline Sallee, LaSalle’s sister

Years after completing RIDE, Everett Washington took the photos for the 100 printed CDs

Nobody Nowhere

Why start over, start all over again

There's a reason I'm still feeling like this

I can't stop you leaving me for someone new

But there will always be a place in my heart for you

I won't ask you where you're going, and no matter what you do

If you walk out of the door I'll leave it open for you

Why you want to lose a love you'll never find again?

You can't tell me this is how you really want it all to end

Nobody nowhere

Can give you love like mine

No matter where you're going

True love is hard to find

You can leave me for someone new

But nobody nowhere loves no one like I love you

I don't know what to say right now, I won't say a word

I know this love, I guess I don't know how it works

I don't know where you're going, and I don't know what you'll find

I don't know why you're leaving, I know what you left behind

Nobody nowhere

Can give you love like mine

No matter where you're going

True love is hard to find

You can leave me for someone new

But nobody nowhere loves no one like I love you

Our love is true love

I'll be here for you love always… I'll be waiting

You can find new love

Someday when you're through

I'll be waiting… I'll be waiting...

Nobody nowhere

Can give you love like mine

No matter where you're going

True love is hard to find

You can leave me for someone new

But nobody nowhere loves no one like I love you

The artist performs “Can’t Give You Up” live with Rae Hering in Hunstville, AL 2015

Can’t Give You Up

I fall in love with you every day

I still pretend that you feel the same way

It's gone but I can't let go

For better or for worse 

I'm numb, but still feel the pain

I'm in love I'll always feel this way

I'm dumb, for letting go

I'm a fool for a broken love

I can't give you up

When I fall in love I expect to stay

I thought it'd always be this way

With you, and only you 

There's no one else in this world I couldn't lose

I'm numb, but still feel the pain

I'm in love I'll always feel this way

I'm dumb, for letting go

I'm a fool for a broken love

I can't give you up

My heart's still hanging on a thread

Still stuck on the last words that you said

You said true love can never die

I'll be hanging here the rest of my life

I'm numb, but still feel the pain

I'm in love I'll always feel this way

I'm dumb, for letting go

I'm a fool for a broken love

I can't give you up

Love, Pt 2

Some kind of love

An angry love

With a wary heart

Any kind of love, but desperate love

Some kind of heart

Some kind of soul 

That begs for more

Any kind of soul, but a lonely soul

Some kind of love

Gets me through this

Some kind of love

Gets me through

Some kind of love

All my love

Was a wasted arrow

It was all in vein, heartless and narrow

Some kind of love

Gets me through this

Some kind of love

Gets me through

Gets me through and through

It was only one love

True love is endless

For love, I’d give it all up

I’d do it all again for some kind of love

Some kind of love

I’m begging for you

Some kind of love

The same kind I showed you

Some kind of love, Same kind I showed you

Some kind of love, Somehow it gets me through

(Never gonna lose my love

Any kind of love 

I’d give it all up

And still have it ‘cause I’m)

Robert S. Sallee, the artist’s father, cowrote & played piano on “Sepia Tone”

Sepia Tone

In a world of sepia tone

A man walks all alone

Stepping in between the lines that he's traced

He walks with pen and ink

He doesn't have to think

Until his dull vacant world is erased

He won't recognize

This brand new scene

Until he unlocks all the passion that he dreams

In his mind

He holds a key

To all the colors in his heart he finally sees

In a world of black and white

He reaches deep inside

And finds his heart in the same place where he left it 

And with an artists touch

He pulls out a brush 

He paints a scene where in his past

He had only sketched it

He won't recognize

This brand new scene

Until he unlocks all the passion that he dreams

In his mind

He holds a key

To all the colors in his heart he finally sees

Over the fields of grey

He paints a clear blue day

And as the sun begins to rise, the colors show

He knows it's not a dream

Because he finally sees

The end of a world of sepia tone

Now he'll recognize

This brand new scene

As he unlocks all the passion that he dreams

In his mind

He holds a key

To all the colors in his heart he finally sees

In his hand he holds

The key to every stroke

As he paints himself a brand new road back home

Robert LaSalle, Kyle Manner & Matt Ross mid-Ride

One-shot music video directed by Aaron Thomas 2014

Thank You for the Moment of Clarity

You came with me, you left with someone else

You left me here all by myself

And I thank you, thank you for carrying me

For the moment of clarity

What the hell is love and why should wait?

When the open road stares back at me

You dropped me off and watched me fall to my knees

Now I'm getting back up on my own feet

I won't wait anymore

Gonna ride, ride the open road

You won the battle, won't wait to win the war

I'm gonna live to live and nothing more

I'll only carry with me what I need

No one else will ever carry me

Don't need you to take my fall

I'm gonna go back where I belong

Where the sky never touches the ground

Where I will never turn back around

I won't wait anymore

Gonna ride, ride the open road

I'm not gonna wait for the sake of winning

I'm gonna live for the sake of living

The way you left me, I was next to nothing

I know what I need, I don't need your loving

I'm gonna leave you forever, every

Time you see me, you'll wish you'd never

Left your true love all alone 

I'm gonna ride, ride the open road

Thank you for the moment of clarity

I won't wait anymore

Bobby Holland & LaSalle mid-ride - Holland engineered, coproduced, mixed & played on much of the album

You Got My Wheels Turning

There was no piano in gym class

As you ran so hard and fast

Throwing footballs in the grass

Don't tell me I'm lucky

Had your eye on girls and money

I had mine on something that would last

This roundabout got my wheels turning

You're down and out, i'm still here working

You got my wheels turning

Way back when ya were too cool for Grissom

In high school I'd pretend ya

Were the fool that you are now

You had ladies, now you have bastard babies

I'm still doing the same thing

Round and round

This roundabout got my wheels turning

You're down and out, i'm still here working

And round and round till my gears are burning

I'll take a bow, it appears that I'm not worthless

You got my wheels turning

I don't have pity on you now

That you're not pretty

Oh, this song has been with me all along,

did you miss me?

Don't tell me I'm born with it

You don't know how hard that I work for this

While you're down and out lying on the ground

I'll catch you on the other side, round and round

Pride is illusive

By the wayside, we're both losing

Round and round, round and round

But my wheels keep turning

Don't tell me you're hurting

You can't see beyond the surface

But my wheels keep turning

This roundabout got my wheels turning

You're down and out, i'm still here working

And round and round till my gears are burning

I'll take a bow, it appears that I'm not worthless

You got my wheels turning

Side B of RIDE mirrors Abbey Rd. stringing songs together with interludes

Now We’re Writing History

We were young and foolish friends

Didn't think that we'd amount to much

The world was so much smaller then

But now that it's a part of us

We set out to prove them wrong

We made it this far somehow

It's time we gotta move along

Through uncharted waters

Now we conquer all our fears

Now we dry up all our tears

As we unveil the mystery

Now we're writing history

The future isn't etched in stone

You know that it is happening when

We make our mark with flesh and bone

As we guide our maker's pen

I bid you farewell, old friend

This river is a flowing loud

I'll see you at the other end

As we head out to the ocean

Now we conquer all our fears

Now we dry up all our tears

As we unveil the mystery

Now we're writing history

Through the Westward Winds

We built our ship with flesh and bone

We hung our flag and filled the hold

We toasted to the best of friends

And set out through the westward winds

Our sails flew high above the blue

We rightfully cast our luck into

A veil of vibrant summer’s breeze

We were the masters of the seas

There you are, and here I am

Won’t you take my word for all it’s worth

We’ll see dry land again

Set your sights through the westward winds

Many years we spent our days

Sailing smooth blue brazen waves, but

All good fortune woefully fades

We blindly cast our luck away

Those cold still nights foresaw no sun

With no more corn and no more rum

The seas were calm, with no more wind, but

We will see dry land again

Here I am, and there you are

On the other side of the wreckage

There’s a place for us to start

There you are, and here I am

Won’t you take my word for all it’s worth

We’ll see dry land again

Set your sights through the westward winds

Half asleep and half awake

Our vessel clashes atop the waves

As I make my way down to you

White water breaks out of the blue

The sky burns bright, the thunder pounds

As lightning strikes our main sail down

When the bow breaks, her cradle is the wind

Until we see dry land again

Now hold your breath, and don’t look back

This ship’s goin’ down into the black

Now hold your head above the waves

We may have cast our luck away, but

Set your sights on the east horizon

Storm will perish, sun will rise

Many miles we’ll slowly drift, but

We will see dry land again

Here I am, and there you are

On the other side of the wreckage

There’s a place for us to start

There you are, and here I am

Won’t you take my word for all it’s worth

We’ll see dry land again

Set your sights through the westward winds

RIP my friend BEN TRUSSELL

For the Good of the Game

The tears are settled now,

they're all just ripples in your wake

Your loss has been the cause of so much pain

There's a clear blue sky you're missing,

and I’m missing you the same

But not a second that we're missing is in vain

You're too good for this old town,

and I told you not to stay

My words are coming back on me today

If there's purpose in this world,

I guess you finally found your place

Well it's all for the good of the game

You're more than just the music to my ears

You're more than all those songs I’ll never hear

Resting with the best of them, with all who have been 

You are my friend, you are my friend

Since the clock is still a ticking,

I’ll keep sticking to what you say

I know all good things must someday meet their fate

If it's better to burn out than to ever fade away

I guess you know you got your 60 of fame

Maybe you are crazy but your life is not a waste

We'll move along, I sing this song now in your name

The cards' still on the table,

I’m still stepping up to play

‘Cause it's all for the good of the game

You're more than just the music to my ears

You're more than all those songs I’ll never hear

Resting with the best of them, with all who have been 

You are my friend, you are my friend

From the taverns to the docks,

there's a big old empty space

No one here could ever take your place

But I’ll play a song without you now

On this old empty stage

It's all for the good of the game

You're more than just the music to my ears

You're more than all those songs I’ll never hear

Resting with the best of them, with all who have been 

You are my friend, you are my friend

One More Lullaby

“for what’s left of the wolves
who still see through the wool

for whom still dream with eyes open
from a hotbed of apathy”

No Robert LaSalle music was ever released until 2019. By the end of 2020, the artist self-released 200 songs from the previous decade and a half. As of February 2024, only three persons are known to have listened to the album.

The Canon: RIDE>Lullaby>Night>Awaken

Robert LaSalle, Nick & PD recorded this treasure trove of petrified gold dust on a zero dollar budget with pirated software on a laptop, played any instrument he could borrow, then wrote, performed, recorded & mixed all 18 songs at age 26 years old.

After many repeated phenomenal failures & tragedies, the artist couldn’t believe he now had 4 albums no one would release. Self-released on Bandcamp around Christmas 2012, it was downloaded by his mom and another guy named Steve. Twelve years later, released on all streaming platforms, Lullaby has earned $0.007 and has had at least 2 streams.

The artist’s favorite work he made entirely alone. One More Lullaby is my favorite album I ever did.

Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Robert LaSalle

All songs written by Robert LaSalle

All songs recorded by Robert LaSalle on a Macbook in various garages, basements, living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms & closets in Huntsville, AL; Murfreesboro, TN; Nashville, TN & a cabin in rural Alabama called Redbug

Piano & organ recorded by Robert LaSalle carrying a laptop into Sound Cell’s piano room in Huntsville, AL

Art & design by Lea Nickels (anagram?)

Cover photos by Elizabeth Tollefson

Mastered by Bobby Holland

Pianos, Organs, Rhodes, Accordion, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Banjo, Dulcimer, Mandolin, Harmonicas, Trombone & Miroslav Philharmonic String Samples Arranged & Performed by Robert LaSalle & his alter egos, Nick & PD

Thanks to those who lent instruments, recording gear & recording space: Bobby Holland, Doug Jansen Smith, Dave Anderson, Rae Hering, Noah, Libbie, Dan & Miranda at “Ground Zero,” The McElhaneys & My Family

Disillusioned Dream

Wake the shepherd, count the sheep 

Lull the Monster back to sleep 

Close your eyes, and I will sing one more… 

For disillusionment 

One more… for my amusement 

One more… before I lose it 

One more… just sleep right through it 

One more... 

What's the use in having dreams 

When everybody's fast asleep? 

As if the world would ever need one more… 

Tortured head-case 

One more… whining about heartache 

One more… who never made the grade 

One more… record to throw away 

One more... 

One more... 

Art is the shepherd 

Pop culture is the mime 

Mediocrity's the monster 

Money's the mastermind 

For the politics and cliques 

That will whore out their pride 

Give me one more! 

...Stint of ambition 

One more... for the passion that lies within it 

One more... attempt at recognition 

But what for?!… for the cold hard living 

What for? This dream's so unforgiving… unforgiving 

But what for? For anyone who's paying attention 

Pay attention 

For one more… 

For anyone who'll listen…

I Cannot Read Between the Lines

I'm drinking tequila in the morning 

I haven't been sleeping through the night 

Now I do not know just what I'm feeling 

Now I cannot read between the lines 

I met her in the morning on a Sunday 

I met her in the pouring summer rain 

Now I cannot tell her what I'm feeling 

Now I don't remember her name 

I got no reason to run away 

I got no reason to stay 

I try so hard 

But now I cannot read between the lines 

I'm drinking tequila in the morning 

I intend to keep her on my mind 

As long as I don't know just where my mind is 

I don't have to read between the lines 

I got no reason to run away 

I got no reason to stay 

I try so hard 

But now I cannot read between the lines 

For all the lover's stories I've forgotten 

For all the summer mornings I can't face 

I know my life is falling into pieces 

All the pieces fall back into place

RIP Stone Anderson

Wait Up for Me

Love is trained anticipation 

Love is feigned collaboration 

For all the love that I have wasted 

Now I'm in love, and love's not waiting 

No room berating accusations 

No one's to blame for interpretation 

Oh take my words the way I say them 

Oh I'm in love, and love's not waiting 

I'll wait up for you 

You're all I hold onto 

I'll wait for forever 

For a love that may never 

Wait up for me 

Oh, wake up with me 

Wait till tomorrow 

And all the days that will follow me 

Wait up for me 

I'm to blame for the inquisition 

You can't face your indecision 

Oh love is vain and unforgiving 

Oh I'm in love and love's not listening 

I'll wait up for you 

You're all I hold onto 

I'll wait for forever 

For a love that may never 

Wait up for me 

Oh, wake up with me 

Wait till tomorrow 

And all the days that will follow me 

Wait up for me 

This is just how two hearts beat 

One heart breaks what the other feeds 

One heart takes what the other needs 

Wait for me 

I'll wait up for you 

You're all I hold onto 

I'll wait for forever 

For a love that may never 

Wait up for me 

Oh, wake up with me 

Wait till tomorrow 

And all the days that will follow me 

Wait up for me

Without Love

Without love, you got no seed 

Got no roots, you got no trees 

You got no branches, got no leaves 

You got no air to breathe 

Breathe 

Love, give me your love 

Tell me where life comes from 

Show me where life comes from 

Love, give me your love 

Give me your love 

Without the air, you got no lung 

You got no heart to feel my love 

You got no mind, you got no tongue 

To tell me now where life comes from 

Love, give me your love 

Tell me where life comes from 

Show me where life comes from 

Love, give me your love 

Oh, give me your love 

Give me your love 

Tell me where life comes from 

Show me where life comes from 

Love, give me your love 

No! Give me your love! 

Without love, you got no life 

Without life, you got no love 

Love... 

All I Ever Wanted

All I ever wanted 

I proudly flaunted 

I framed on the wall 

A picture too small 

I put all my faith into a very vacant place 

All I ever wanted 

Years beat upon it 

Threw me into 

Its impending doom 

All I wanted awaits me 

But all I want is gone 

All I ever wanted 

It shouldn't bother 

To make itself known 

There's no stepping stones 

I put all my faith into a very vacant place 

All I ever wanted 

Is fewer and less often 

I have all I need 

To make my retreat 

All I wanted awaits me 

But all I want is gone 

A stiff drink and a fire 

Take my desires 

All but just one 

All 

But 

Your love

Open No More

And all I know to do 

Is tell myself that I'm over you 

Whether or not I know it's really true 

I'm broke and broken, so I'm through 

What I've become, I know I can't afford 

Well I can't settle, and I can't score 

All I can do is close the door 

And tell myself that I don't need you anymore 

That door will open no more 

That door will open no more 

Open no more 

Queen bee 

You sink your sting deep into me 

You give me temporary relief 

Feels like heaven inside of misery 

You feel like love, I know you're just a fling 

A one night stand with a wedding ring 

A vacant cage, a cardboard box with wings 

Looks like a castle to a desperate king 

My eyes are open no more 

My eyes are open no more 

Open no more 

An amusement park, I think that's what it's like 

It's fun to go there from time to time 

You pay the toll and ride all the rides 

But it's no fun to stay there overnight 

'Cause when the ride ends 

Here come the shakes after the lone binge 

Wake up faceless, I've made the same mistake again 

Let go the reigns the way I lost so many friends 

That ride is open no more 

That ride is open no more 

Open no more 

This ain't the way home 

It's just a detour on a winding road 

When I can't get to where I want to go 

It's better on the sidewalk than the gutter, you know 

I wouldn't be here if I could find my home 

Can't settle down, can't settle for this 

Stuck here, enraged and perilous 

All I've ever wanted was an ounce of respect 

Before all I say and do is done and said 

I won't give in to the temptations of second best 

This road only leads through a life of regret 

Oh, no more no more 

Oh it ain't open no more 

This road is open no more 

That door is open no more 

Open no more 

Open no more 

Open no more...

All Too Human (Training My Broken Heart to Glow)

Don't say to me "I love you" 

Don't "Baby just wait" 

Don't give me your style 

Don't give me your grace 

Don't give me a sign on a dead end road 

Don't give me your heart 

Don't give me your soul 

I'm too broken to do this again 

I'm all too human to let love in 

I don't want a soulmate 

I don't want to hold my broken heart open 

Don't want you to see my soul 

Love, you're shooting in the dark 

I'm turning on my broken heart 

It's blinded by love on a whim 

I'm all too human to let love in 

Training my broken heart to glow 

Red light's stop and green light's go 

There's no love here to block the road 

So I'm training my broken heart to glow 

Maybe I love you from the pit of my soul 

I'm all to human to ever know 

I'm all to human to ever know 

Training my broken heart to glow 

Red light's stop and green light's go 

There's no love here to block the road 

So I'm training my broken heart to glow 

Oh, this is yes and this is no! 

Oh, this ain't no one way road! 

So I'm training my broken heart to glow 

(With one more lullaby) 

I'm training my broken heart to glow 

…Training my broken heart to glow

One More Lullaby

Dry heaves in the underground 

Where my dreams come tumbling down 

But why leave for another town 

To burn more bridges down? 

I bleed for a worthy cause 

Sleep is not all I've lost 

Some dreams' just born to rot 

One more is all I got 

(No, no, no, no, no) It's not over 

(No, no, no, no, no) This is not goodbye 

I'll sing you one more lullaby 

(Wake the shepherd, catch the dreamer 

Falling from the heavens, rotting on the vine… inside) 

One More

One More

One More Lullaby

As a child, I knew what I'd do 

My whole life, gave it all to you 

Lullabies don't make dreams come true 

Now that RIDE is through 

Ten years I'm still counting sheep 

Turned your tears into melodies 

Take my tears, and take my dream 

Lull yourself to sleep 

(No, no, no, no, no) It's not over 

(No, no, no, no, no) This is not goodbye 

I'll sing you one more lullaby 

(Wake the shepherd, catch the dreamer 

Falling from the heavens, rotting on the vine… inside) 

One More

One More

One More Lullaby

If words can never hurt us 

Let's say goodnight 

Every single word was 

Meant to make you cry 

For all it's worth 

Just one more lullaby 

Last but not least 

The time has come to dream 

Fall asleep 

I'll sing one more lullaby 

This will come true 

No matter if your dreams ever do 

I'll sing one more lullaby 

One more, one more, one more, one more 

Lullabies don't make dreams come true... 

Wake up

Feed Me the Fire

I grew up way down in the valley 

I grew up without the lord 

I woke up one day on the mountain 

I woke up out in the storm 

My mother, she gave me thunder 

My father gave me the rain 

The Devil, he gave me lightning 

Before Jesus ever had a chance 

Leave, leave, leave me with the moonshine 

Let me sing, sing, sing long into the night 

Light me up or strike me down 

Not goin' out lyin' on the ground 

Feed, feed, feed me the fire 

Nothing I done is worth forgiving 

I been bought, and I been sold 

I never asked no one to go on living 

I never asked no one to save my soul 

Leave, leave, leave me with the moonshine 

Let me sing, sing, sing long into the night 

If you're gonna' strike me dead 

Get those embers burning red 

Keep on feed, feed, feeding me the fire 

The sky's falling, the thunder's pounding' 

Oh, I got the fury, I got the flame 

I'm goin' back up to the mountain 

To light those embers in the rain 

Leave, leave, leave me with the moonshine 

Let me sing, sing, sing long into the night 

Rather hang my head 

Than see those embers soakin' wet 

Keep on feed, feed, feeding me the fire 

Lead, lead, lead me to great heights 

Don't make me dream, dream, dream now until I die 

I'll never wilt or fade away 

You'll have to take me up in flames 

Feed, feed, feed me the fire 

Keep on feed, feed, feeding me the fire 

Oh keep on feed, feed, feeding me the fire 

Don't you try to take me down softly 

Don't you try to pawn me off on The Lord 

Well I'll die in the same place where you bought me 

If I'm gonna burn out, well I'll burn out in the storm

Between a Sadist and a Masochist

Don't do what he did 

No don't do what he did 

The sadist in his head 

Is all alone 

All alone 

Guess who wins 

Between a sadist and a masochist? 

I've nothing to lose 

Guess who wins? 

Guess who wins? 

When I'm done with him 

The remnants of his face 

Will paint the roses red 

Why'd you let him live? 

Why? 

Don't do what he did 

Leave me to rot 

But let him live 

No don't be there when 

It happens again 

Again 

When I'm done with him 

The remnants of his face 

Will paint the roses red 

Why'd you let him live? 

Why'd you let him live? 

No! No! 

Why'd you let him live? 

Why'd you let him live? 

Why? 

Why'd you let him live? 

Why'd you let him live?

Headache

I am a heartache 

Headstrong 

You are a headache 

Holding on 

I am the dusk and 

You are the dawn 

The moon will rise above us 

We'll both be gone 

Save me from this ever present pain 

Let me lie down with the rain 

Take me from this evanescent plain 

Let it not fade away 

Of the grace which adorns us 

We brake our backs 

For all who will mourn us 

And all they lack 

Save me from this ever present pain 

Let me lie down with the rain 

Take me from this evanescent plain 

Let it not fade away 

Save me… Oh, save me 

The chains that once bind us 

Achilles' heal 

The light that once blinds us 

Soon reveals... 

Save me from this burden of a mind 

Let me fall down with the tide 

Take me from the fury I confine 

The lowest ebb is mine 

I am a heartache 

Headstrong 

You are a headache 

Holding on

It Pours

The rain is pouring 

Lightning strikes over the gulf stream 

Everyone knows where it's going 

Everyone knows where it's been 

Out on the ocean 

No one here needs to know me 

No one knows where the storm's going 

Don't want to know where it's been 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

On dry land I was tripping 

Over holes I was too big to fit in 

With all those regrets, I kept digging 

I fell to the bottom so fast 

Then the rain started pouring 

Carried me back to the ocean 

Washed away all the emotion 

Drowned all that was left of my past 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

Rain, rain, go away 

You've taken me far enough 

Rain, rain, go away 

I can't take it all at once 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

I'm headed inland 

Try and start all over again 

I can't go back to where I've been 

Those bridges are scorched and scorned 

Take the rain as a lesson 

Set my sights in a brand new direction 

Bury all of my regrets 

And dry out till the next thunderstorm 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours 

When it rains, When it rains, It pours

Parables

Fill up all the vacant holes 

With the father, son and holy ghost 

You'll never see them hiding behind the pope 

You gotta believe him, he's the only one who knows 

Oh, he knows 

Preacher, he can't turn a cheek 

The reaper, he's laughing through your teeth 

Eye for an eye, well he don't practice what he preach 

Blind lead the blind, where the one eyed man is king 

He's counting sheep 

Don't waste your parables 

On heaven or on hell 

Don't wait for miracles 

To save you from yourself 

Age old parables 

Hide behind your fear 

Beautiful fairytales 

Falling on deaf ears 

People… living for one another 

Why can't you see us? Why can't it be enough? 

Think your father's deciphering prayer through the guff? 

You can't hold water with all your weight on that crutch 

How's it holding up? 

Don't waste your parables 

On heaven or on hell 

Don't wait for miracles 

To save you from yourself 

Age old parables 

Hide behind your fear 

Beautiful fairytales 

Falling on deaf ears 

Darkness... lies among the lies among you 

Neither was it virtue nor vice that hung him 

Take a good sentiment, flunk it up and rub it in 

Don't waste away, for no one lives and no one dies for sin 

There is no sin

Only marionettes 

Dancing in the night 

Chasing their shadows 

Somehow they find the light 

Virgin marionettes...

I Don’t Want to Know

I've never been more certain of uncertainty 

I'm certainly sure 

That you're uncertain too 

You'll never stop me digging for another world 

I'm searching for truth 

Won't find it in you 

I don't want to know your opinion 

So keep it to yourself 

For evermore, for heaven or for hell 

I don't want to know your opinion 

I'll find out for myself 

For evermore, in heaven or in hell 

In all of this uncertainty 

I have everything I'll ever need now 

I'll never be confused 

I'm not a Shepard, not a sheep 

I believe what I can see now 

Oh, you can see it too 

I don't want to know your opinion 

So keep it to yourself 

For evermore, for heaven or for hell 

I don't want to know your opinion 

I'll find out for myself 

For evermore, in heaven or in hell 

I don't believe it 

I'll never believe it 

No I don't need it 

I'll never need it 

No I don't need it 

Never need it 

I'll never believe ya 

No I don't need ya 

I am forgiven 

Miss HypoChristian 

Don't need religion 

I am forgiven 

I'll save myself, I'll save myself... 

Halleluja 

No one needs ya 

I'll save myself, I'll save myself... 

Halleluja… (Amen, Amen) 

No I don't need it 

I'll never believe it

Sideways

Lately, I don't see the right way 

I like to see things my way 

I like to see them sideways 

I see no place to live or die while trying 

When everyone I know is dying 

And there's no saving grace 

Deep under the soil 

There's a boy for every girl 

And a girl for every boy 

A prize for tears and toil 

It's you, it's you... 

My mind was trained to think that when it rots away 

Somehow I will float away 

That's not how I was made 

Of the many Gods, and I've had plenty 

I lost my fear to pity 

And now I'm truly saved 

Deep under the soil 

There's a girl for every boy 

And a boy for every girl 

A prize for tears and toil 

It's you, it's you... 

No more records for the lightweights 

No one's singing them sideways 

No matter where I look or whether 

I'm looking in the right place 

Don't need to pack a suitcase 

With no choice, every little boy and girl 

Will end up in the same place 

Seeing these things sideways 

We're all sideways 

Oh, we're all sideways

Come Hell or High Water

From day one 

Teach your son 

You can be what you wanna be 

Be all you can be 

In the free land of liberty 

But mother 

What's wrong with these lunatic hypocrites 

Son, don't talk religion 

No don't talk politics 

Why should I bother 

To change the hearts and minds that be 

Come hell or high water 

They'll never see it quite like me 

I could have studied 

Chemistry or biology 

But I spent my time 

Making art and ideology 

No regrets 

I did my best 

Restrained and restricted 

My lips will be sealed 

But my words will live again 

Why should I bother 

To change the hearts and minds that be 

Come hell or high water 

They'll never see it quite like me 

Once, I had a voice 

When the voice was still new to me 

Once, I had a voice, I had a voice 

Why should I bother 

To change the hearts and minds that be 

Come hell or high water 

They'll never see it quite like me 

From day one 

Teach your son 

Who's the lion, who's the lamb 

The dreamer goes down 

Right where he began

Sandpaper

I'm through with all that I could ever do 

Life has always been a little held up 

A farce: the hand from above 

A forced superficial love 

Food and shelter aren't enough 

To keep me tame and humble 

Now I sleep, and now I stumble 

Became weak, and then I crumbled 

I once screamed, but now I mumble 

I won't meet your expectations (Ooh, not good enough) 

Won't bow down to the cliche (Ooh, don't give a funk) 

Let's all rise for the occasion (Ooh)

Oh, this divine realization that I'm through... 

Oh I'm through… Oh, now I'm through… 

I'm through… Oh, now I'm through… 

Lift a glass in celebration

Here's the toast, I'm going to say it! 

I'm through with my shallow muse 

I'm through with you 

I'll waste away, embracing every vice I keep 

Forget my insecurities 

The bottle lifts anxiety 

Can't fix me with sobriety 

I'll drift into oblivion 

Let me drift, don't reel me in 

Don't need responsibility 

The tasks of mere civility (Ooh)

Got me stuck in this vicious (What everybody wants) 

Life of fake ambition (But everybody sucks) 

I'm sick of part-time living (Shake it off) 

Well, I failed at all I attempted 

So I'm through…

Oh I'm through… Oh, now I'm through… 

I'm through… Oh, now I'm through… Oh, now I'm through... 

Refill the bitter with sweet relief 

Cheers to victory masked defeat! 

I'm through… with remnants of roots... I grew 

I wrote that chit for you and all the populous (oooo, funk you) 

Commercial scum that'll rot and rust (funk me too) 

It's in my rear-view mirror 

Well I don't like it either 

Well I'm through… I am through… Oh, now I'm through… 

Oh, now I'm through… I'm through… Oh, now I'm through… 

(Decipher the words of victory masked in defeat) 

Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream

They won't come true 

Oh, now I'm through