...To This Day - Lyrics

DARK ANGEL EYES by Robert Burke Warren ©1998 Dark Angel Eyes Watching the world through a window Tasting the blood of a broken heart Dark Angel Eyes Living your life in black shadow Light up the sky like a falling star. CHORUS: You’ve got everything I want You’re leading me astray You’ve got everything I need To help me lose my way... Dark Angel Eyes No crisis of conscience upon you No golden handcuffs to keep you at rest Dark Angel Eyes The powers have got nothing on you Taking desire and making it flesh. CHORUS Dark Angel Eyes I’m watching you dance in the fringes I smell the sweet poison in your sweat Dark Angel Eyes I’m watching you clog up your engines Lips on the luckiest cigarette. CHORUS back to top RUBY RED by Robert Burke Warren © 1998 I remember how you used to be Tender heart and easy flowing tears You and me against this cruel town Secret smiles for all their rage and fear But I was never enough Your pain burst the seams on our ragged love And now you’re gone Like a dream at dawn. CHORUS: Ruby Red - no need to explain Why you changed your face Why you changed your name Why you walked away Why you couldn’t stay You left our love for dead Ruby Red.....ah ah ah ah....... Now you think you’ve finally got control Where lights are cold and darkness sucks you in Smiles for all your clientele - they think they know you well But you’re foolin’ them. The hand you’re dealt seems so hard But you don’t seem to care As long as you hold the cards And you say the deal Is you try not to feel.... CHORUS BRIDGE: I see you on the avenue You won’t come when I call to you You say “She’s not here anymore I knew you when - but that was then.....” back to top JOSEPHUS CRIES by Robert Burke Warren © 1998 Josephus cries for the suffering pines He knows the trees are bleeding For the making of turpentine Josephus cries for the suffering pines The Georgia breeze is sticky sweet in the Indian summertime... CHORUS: Daddy died in the War of Northern Aggression His spirit rose while Dixie played Whiskey flowed from cuts and battle bruises ‘Till the sadness was sown into the red clay. Josephus cries for the falling leaves He knows the trees are weeping For a harvest bittersweet Josephus cries for the falling leaves Descending from the branches Laying whispers at his feet. CHORUS Josephus cries for the midnight train He knows it will be passing The Confederate graveyard gate Josephus cries for the midnight train The Northbound Southern Crescent Heads for land he was taught to hate. CHORUS back to top MILLEDGEVILLE by Robert Burke Warren © 1998 Please don’t send me back to Milledgeville mm mm mm mm mm I’ll be good yeah I promise I will stay well mm mm mm mm mm Won’t sit in the curing shack and weep I won’t go for days without any sleep Please don’t send me back to Milledgeville. Please let me play hide and seek with the neighborhood kids mm mm mm mm mm In the magnolia tree they can never find where I’m hid mm mm mm mm mm I love to lift them up so high ‘Cause they’re not afraid to fall or fly Please let me play hide and seek with the neighborhood kids. CHORUS: Let me stay here with my devils - fallen saints and rebel angels Voices soft as new rose petals in my head Said it’s OK...let me stay. Please let me walk down Alabama Road mm mm mm mm mm I promise I won’t take off a stitch of clothes mm mm mm mm mm I’ll show you where Jesus gave me the sign At the Texaco down by the Georgia State line. Please let me walk down Alabama Road. CHORUS Please don’t send me back to Milledgeville I’ve got a Mason jar full of pills And I’ll dose myself so much you’ll see You won’t have to be ashamed of me. CHORUS back to top FALLING INTO GRACE by Robert Burke Warren and Jack Friederichsen © 1997 CHORUS: I’m falling into grace, slowly sinking to a better place (2x) When nothing goes as I planned I’m gonna be a better man When things fall out of place I’m gonna recognize my face Turning into something that feels alien Watching all of my moves like I’m outside my skin I am a stranger to my new strange ways The dreams don’t begin until I awake. CHORUS When I’m backed against a wall I’ll have another clue for you all When I slip into something wrong I’m gonna sing a new theme song. Here come all the questions that went unanswered All the silence that fell on voices unheard Every wish that wandered down a blind alleyway Like ashes they fall And I sweep them away. CHORUS When nothing goes as I planned I’m gonna be a better man. back to top TOMBOYGIRL by Robert Burke Warren © 1998 Something ‘bout that scent she throws When she wears her Daddy’s clothes Girls and the boys all wanna know her name No makeup to hide behind No high heels, no low neckline Attitude just makes her shine like mad. Denim drops, elastic pops and flannel flies as sweat gets swapped She says it’s not so lonely up on top... CHORUS: Tomboygirl Come and play with all my toys Tomboygirl Let me be your sissy boy. Salt sweet pasion in her pores When she pins you to the floor Work those lips ‘till they are sore and swollen And if you think that you can stand On the borderline of no man’s land Break your plans take her hand and see. She’s the one who can have fun - she don’t need no smokin gun Just what’s on the tip of your tongue... CHORUS With your jeans slung low - so your tattoos show On your bruised-up hips...you got a black and blue kiss.... CHORUS back to top I WANT HER FAITH by Robert Burke Warren © 1997 She lives alone in an old hotel In the worst neighborhood I’ve seen Eighty summers have come and gone And she’s seen her share of pain. From her window she watches quietly As the Devil’s work is done She just smiles when I ask politely Why she goes to church when Sunday comes. CHORUS: I want her faith I want her strength I want to believe in a better place Put my trust in a mystery I want her faith. She says it’s not at all like you think it is Just broaden your mind and see A miracle in an act of kindness The hidden heart of your enemy. She’s no fool she’s not waiting for a spectacle She doesn’t need the sea to part She says it’s not just sweet surrender She says it’s work and the work is hard. CHORUS She lived alone in an old hotel Now she’s gone and I don’t know where If all that she believed was true or false She will find her answers there. And I don’t wait for a sign like I once did I just pray when the day is done Hoping one day I’ll get used to it Having faith that the faith will come. CHORUS back to top RADIO CHURCH by Robert Burke Warren © 1998 I was born again along a Mississippi road Driving towards the Appalachain moon Preacher’s broadcast kissed my soul with tongues of flame Testifying judgement coming soon. White lines of I-20 touched my fevered brain Lead me on like angels in a dream On the Delta straightaway I taste my tears As ecstacy fills up my car with steam CHORUS: Radio, Radio.............Radio Church Show me the way..................... Bonfire in the backyard of all craven things Wake the children up and let them cry Like these flames the truth will burn away our sins Santa Claus and fairy tales and lies.... CHORUS: BRIDGE Embers in tha AM dial Glowing like my Saviour’s smile Through my windshield I can see The world unseen All the bitter grapes that hung on tangled vines Distilled into the sweet blood of my Lord All the things I loved ran straight for Lucifer’s light As I stand in the shadows of the word. CHORUS back to top GIVE ME MY LOVE by Robert Burke Warren © 1996 The face of a stranger wrapped in the dying of the day Back up against the pavement and arms outstretched to say “When I came in this world this was not part of the deal - If I can’t get what I want, give me something I can feel...” CHORUS: Give me my love, give me my love Give me my love, give me my love Give me my love... Pushed out into this world we all have a different map There are so many ways to find the things we lack Sometimes we hold them close or we just push them away I wish I knew if there was a better way to say. CHORUS BRIDGE Looking back on plans mislaid, things unsaid, messes made Try to crack the code we use, things we choose Things we lose... To some it’s the throb of pain and to some a tender kiss To others it’s touched by shame and to some it don’t exist And all I know is every person I’ve ever seen We all say it differently but we’re saying the same thing. back to top CHAOS IN YOUR WAKE by Robert Burke Warren © 1995 After years of practicing I could not feel a thing In between laughter and tears Hours drifting into years. But while I slept with eyes awake You moved in and claimed your stake Shepherding my secret will I let you move in for the kill. CHORUS: And all of the chances that you take You’re leaving chaos in your wake Leaving the scene smiling so mean Everybody’s best mistake. The colored glasses that I wore You took and smahed them on the floor And now I stand outside the crowd Because their voices are too loud. CHORUS I said goodbye to friends and family But since you’re gone I don’t know this new me CHORUS back to top BLUE IMPALA by Robert Burke Warren © 1998 Your paper face, your silent smile Peel back the years, erase the miles Bittersweet scent, cliche cologne Photograph ghost in sepia tone. CHORUS: A blue Impala, one hand on the wheel I will remember you, you were just passing through. Sometimes you rise into my dreams Some strange disguise in mad shifting scenes I’m like you now, back then did you know? Did that make it easier to let go? CHORUS Questions go unanswered, mysteries will remain Wonder why and I ask the sky But all I hear is the rain. Just a wild seed in the tailwind of time Cruel as a storm with calm in your eye You left us all with so very much So much to claim but nothing to touch. CHORUS Questions go unanswered, mysteries will remain Wonder why and I ask the sky But all I hear is the rain. back to top JACKSONG by Robert Burke Warren © 1999 My little night owl, smile in the darkness Breath on my skin, butter soft breeze Sun is a-risin, a fulfilled promise Stand up to it all, fall to my knees. Come on, come on Bring the rain, bring on the sun Come on, come on Now I know I’m the lucky one...the lucky one. Strange little merman, fresh from the sea foam Sent from the deep, teach me belief I’ll lift you skyward, my heart will rise with you Pleasure so strong, pain’s no relief. Come on, come on Let’s take our time, let’s not run Come on, come on Now I know I’ve already won...I’ve already won. back to top