Read My Stuff — Pages 1–50

I've been waiting for a night like tonight For so very, very long Sitting here studying the portrait of my life Wondering just where the artist went wrong So why does my sketch in black and white Contain so many deep, dark shades of gray? My life before today had left me feeling sad and blue When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh I think of you in thoughts so kind I painted your picture, it took me some time You are the one that makes my life worth living Yours is the last face I see before I fall asleep You'll never be the one to break my heart Never leave me alone to weep Now all thoughts of retracing my past They have become erased And I live within your eyes With each new line I'm redefined Every time I draw your face When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh I think of you in thoughts so kind I painted your picture, I could paint it blind I drink to your health as I raise my glass Toasting to a future and time that has not yet passed As time crawls by and I stare above I believe only in you - my muse - my love Now all thoughts of retracing my past They have become erased And I live within your eyes With each new line I'm redefined Every time I draw your face When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh I think of you in thoughts so kind I painted your picture, I hang it in my mind

You watch him come stumbling through the door Find yourself wondering if you can take it anymore The wedding ring bonds until death does part But what’s on your finger is not in your heart After ten years it’s still the same While the love is gone The smell of whiskey still remains You know you can’t let him drag you down That’s why some nights you live in another town You dream of a future where you are free Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be You stare at the door until he comes home Thinking your happiest days are spent alone Its tugging at your heart it replays in your mind When he’s sober he’s one of a kind But that only happens about half of the time After ten years it’s still the same While the love is gone The smell of whiskey still remains You know you can’t let him drag you down That’s why some nights you live in another town You dream of a future where you are free Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be It’s never too late for another start Age doesn’t matter when it concerns the heart You know you can’t let him drag you down That’s why some nights you live in another town You dream of a future where you are free Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be It’s time to say your peace and pray a little prayer To hope he’ll make it on his own when you’re not there Then maybe he’ll take a look down inside himself And realize he’s married to something else.... DEAD END by Tom Jensen I know who you are And who you want to be I know you're entrapped And you want to be free You can't put off until tomorrow What needs to be done today We've had this talk so many times before There's not much more I can say When the days become years You'll know that it's true You'll look back and say Why didn't I listen to you? I've been down that road Let me tell you my friend That sooner or later You'll see a dead end The road will deceive you With its ups and its downs It's so hard to find direction With your head spinning round You found a hole in the sky But it's so lonesome there Even when you gaze down You still feel no fear Come on my darling It's time to turn the page The only way you're not dying Is from old age... I've been down that road Let me tell you my friend That sooner or later You'll see a dead end The road will deceive you With its ups and its downs It's time to get it together Turn your life around Two years later -- I'd hoped to see you again But I couldn't make it So some flowers I'll send I tried to convince you But you wouldn't bend So sorry for you Now you'll never mend I've been down that road I told you my friend But sooner, not later, You saw the dead end The road has deceived you With its ups and its downs It's just so sad I'll never see you around UNITY by Lai Youttitham, Justin Justice & Tom Jensen Sometimes when I look into your eyes I feel I’ve been reborn And yet other times I can feel my heart become Colder, broken and torn There is no greater pain than letting what you want Slip right through your fingertips Sometimes it hurts, sometime it haunts But the burning in your heart still lingers Much like the touch of her lips What I feel I might not always say But I need you tonight just as much as I needed you today Like a river overflowing I know that my love for you is still growing Let us hope it never fades away That is why I say… Unity…you and me together Soon we’ll see if we can be Forever for, for one, for one another Or else never will true love ever be discovered Let me bend you and shape you… Into…. what I want you…to be A soul mate….a friend… A lover of life for your whole life ‘til its end My soul, conscience and my guide A true mirror to my inside My eternal undying spring Remember… From nothing comes everything… Comes everything My delicate flower Giving me a garden in the wintery snow Take me and show me Exactly where you would like to go We both know that I’d follow just given the word And as soon as I cried From the years of lifted sorrow… You’d be given the world Unity…you and me together Soon we’ll see if we can be Forever for one another Unity…you and me together Soon we’ll see if we can be Forever for one another Or else never will true love ever be discovered Or else never will a true love ever be discovered

I will never ask you For what you cannot give Since I always speak the truth I no longer know how to live In a world full of illusions False promises and disguise One that no longer seeks solutions Only places to hide I wouldn't ask you for your heart... Only for some piece of mind I wouldn't ask you for your body Only for some of your time I will never ask you If you'll love me 'til the end I’d just ask you to hold my hand And walk and talk with me and be my friend I will never ask you For that which I'd ever have to take Nor would I want something that wasn't real Hollow, pretentious or fake I wouldn't ask you for your heart... Only for some piece of mind I wouldn't ask you for your body... Only for some of your time I will never ask you If you'll love me 'til the end I’d just ask you to hold my hand And walk and talk with me and be my friend I would ask you… To just be my friend... I would ask you… To just be my friend...

A whirlwind of thought starts spinning around I've been thinking a lot ‘bout what's been going down And about what's been going on as I read the texts of history I see the pages keep repeating… The idea is becoming clear to me I'm noticing a pattern of ebb and flow The rise and fall of man, men and kings As a great chasm seems to keep growing between Self-proclaiming all-seeing beings and those who'll never know I watch castles crumbling while at the same time New statues keep rising as slaves stand side by side Working all day on newly fallen walls And it's our job to keep rebuilding What's not for our own protection Since these structures are used for dividing... All people and states All races and religions It's become the best way to separate Old new ideas from The foundation of tradition First condense them Then convince them to believe it's too late When they know it really isn't Get them to lose their hope For if you can break their faith Maybe they'll all stop searching for what's hidden History's hands of time have told That when there's no buried treasure to behold We all know there'll be no shovels left to be had Nor no more miners to find others out there to help them with their digging.... Ahhh

When they're playing chess with you... The game never lasts very long Still haven't got a clue... why do you... Why do you smile when you take a pawn? Then their bishop overtakes your knight When he wasn't even dressed to fight Soon their queen upends your rook Before you could even look Another smile... your knight just claimed a pawn But now... now your little horsie's gone He didn't run away... he just got sleighed As the king of your castle he numbers his days Yeah, you're wondering and pondering As you're endlessly wandering on and on and on... And you're scribbling and scrabbling Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers You just made a list of things that you need to say About yourself, about the world and all its ways Sometimes you think that it's a lie that hard work pays Now that everything has been numbered – yes even your days Why is everyone... sleepwalking around this globe… This giant wheel? Seems as a whole we can no longer feel While deep in this slumber For the gift of the presence of love we no longer hunger When our dreams are gone... yet we still walk on and on and on and on... You just made a list of the things that you need to say And it 'tis just one... There's hardly no time left for anyone As names and faces keep fading farther away Still, you know you've got so much to give... so with this guilt you live I'm sorry, but there's just too few hours in a day You find your precious time becomes taken up Oh look now how... You're so easily led astray... How'd your life become this way? (sleepwalkers) Is this what you say? (sleepwalkers) While you're wondering and pondering As you're wandering on and on and on and on... As you're scribbling and scrabbling Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn sleepwalkers sleepwalkers EXIT THE SANDMAN By Tom Jensen So the midnight oil Seems to be burning again The sandman's at your door But he can't come in With so much trying your mind Tonight he's not your friend Since there's so much You're still trying to find Before your time comes to an end You used to dream about today But that was back then... Back when... You smiled as a child... Before you got sucked in Back when... You always shared and never cared... About the color of somebody's skin Back when... You didn't try to solve all your problems With the bottom of a bottle Drowning up your sorrows in a pool of sin Back when... You still had time to let the road unwind But now your patience is wearing thin Exit the sandman Why not see it from the other side? Doin' the best I can, man And that ain't no lie that ain't no lie DAYLIGHT AGAIN By Tom Jensen Daylight again… Comes now and again My only friend… That's left in the end The shadows hide as the clouds creep by I take stake in my mistakes in The life I know the one I can't shake Grabs me by the collar and won't let me go There's only one way to live there’s only one way I know I've been taken… I've been shaken And sent out on my way I have tumbled… I have stumbled Just going from day to day The only sunrise ahead Is the one I see when I go to bed I wake up in the dark circled by sharks So I cover my head until there's daylight again I'm trapped in a tunnel while sucked down the funnel The light is dim in either direction When you're only trying to escape and be safe There's no time for perfection From day to day to year to year Somehow, some way I'll get outta here Where I stand my feet are stuck in the mud There's no chance I can rise above With bars on the doors I can't climb out My guide left me when the candle blew out I came to my sense and that was when I knew I'd be down here until there's daylight again

Should I go to San Francisco? I'm getting sick and tired of the snow I've been stuck around here For all my years And I've been thinking I better go There's not much that I'd be leaving Except the one person I believe in And maybe, maybe that's the reason Maybe it's time to let her go? For every day she waits The closer I come to slipping away I thought we were soul mates But I don't feel as strong about her today As I did yesterday And I'm still waiting... But I'm barely hanging on My mind, it keeps debating Over whether I am right or I am wrong But every time I try to write She becomes the subject of my song And I'm still waiting... But I think that this time I might’ve been waiting too long She held the hands that helped mold me Into what I now am She was my inspiration Turned the key that drove me Away from a dark and desolate land She was my motivation But we all know That sometimes life doesn't always go The way in which you had it planned Some mornings you feel... Like you're on top of the world While other times... You're the damned of the damned So this morning I asked myself Should I go to San Francisco? I'm getting sick and tired of the snow I've been stuck around here For all my years And I've been thinking I better go There's not much that I'd be leaving Except the one person I believe in And maybe that's the reason Maybe it's time to let her go? WATCHER by Tom Jensen Hold onto your dreams Tonight could be the night you fall in love Hold onto your dreams Remember there is someone Watching from above He sees the picture complete There’s no need to be discreet Never have to worry about defeat It’s okay to fall down at his feet The watcher will guide you Once you take a look inside you The watcher will hide you When trouble comes to find you He will stand behind you I’ve never seen his face Never looked into his eyes He’s never said a word Never told me a lie He was my spirit guide Who held me by the hand Led me through darkness After day had turned to night Now I’m no longer on my own He removed my blindfold And showed me to the light Hold onto your dreams Tonight could be the night you fall in love Hold onto your dreams Remember that there is someone Watching from above He sees the picture complete There’s no need to be discreet Never have to worry about defeat It’s okay to fall down at his feet I’ve found my way back home Not afraid of the dark… Just don’t feel the same way I used to The watcher gave me a spark… Lighted this path that leads to you The torch has been passed Now it is my turn to watch over you Hold onto your dreams Tonight could be the night you fall in love Hold onto your dreams Remember that there is someone watching from above Remember tonight could be the night… You fall in love

If you stop and listen... You can hear a crying earth With all of life's trivial things It can be hard to measure worth I visited a place That used to be a forest A little girl made a puzzled face No one else noticed the problem She represented brutal honesty My God, I thought they'd outlawed it Yet when she looked back at me I turned away like I never saw it I cleared all those trees myself For you see that I am a logger As each one falls what grows is my wealth Now that land's a factory of her father's If you stop and listen... You can hear a crying earth With all of life's trivial things It can be hard to measure worth I visited a place That used to have a garden Back before the bombs fell down And all this crumbling decay started I used to be able to sleep at night But lately I've been having problems I used to think things would be all right There are so many evils out there And by myself I just can't stop 'em Do we really think we're going to find The hands of the clock unwind If so many people just like me and you Say we have something more important to do Can't change the world by wishing only by trying If you stop and listen... You can hear a crying earth With all of life's trivial things It can be hard to measure worth I visited a place… I visited a place… I visited a place… I visited a place… I visited a place that could have been my Eden If only I had spoken up but unfortunately I didn't I let myself fall back asleep Until now I kept my nightmare hidden I visited a place that no longer exists If only we had woken up... It would never have ended up like this UNWINNABLE by Tom Jensen Culture vultures circling the sky Off our self-doubt is what they thrive It’s either the daily dodge or else face the grind Something finds you every time you hide Given time and sobriety You can reshape your reality In this kaleidoscope world You can clearly see Sometimes you pay a hidden fee On what ya thought was free It’s not all about material goods Talking ‘bout a man all alone in the woods When no one is watching what does he do? Are honor and integrity things that he holds true? What one does to others Will someday be done to you As the company you keep Will one day keep you Given time and sobriety You can reshape your reality In this kaleidoscope world You can clearly see Sometimes you pay a hidden fee On what ya thought was free I bathed in dark energies All the while absorbing light Living in between two planes of existence As the day became my morning And the morning my night Wrong has always been wrong But now it was alright When you become freed from the disease of please Is when you begin to build walls that only others can see You take all you need and often times more An unwinnable game always trying to score An unwinnable game always trying to score OVERRATED by Tom Jensen It's all the same yet so much has changed Since ten years ago There's so much I've learned but still I've returned To what I used to know New strangers appear… Old friends disappear For some reason I've let them go So simply stated: My book no one's read it… My life story nobody knows Though my cover is quite plain My text is full and rich Be it fact or fiction Who knows which is which? I fake my happiness, hold back my tears So I appear elated It's best that I hide behind these hollow eyes While I'm intoxicated It's all the same yet so much has changed Feeling high, then feeling low I've visited here and I've traveled there But what have to show It's all the same yet so much has changed Since ten years ago There's so much I've learned but still I've returned To what I used to know New strangers appear… Old friends disappear For some reason I've let them go So simply stated: Life's too complicated Tired of telling my tale of woe It's suddenly so clear to me That I may never be What I want to be So hopefully being the best Is overrated…….Overrated NAME IN LIGHTS By Tom Jensen When you put it on the poster The shorter the name The bigger the print You’re knee deep in posers Your name in lights You hit the bigs, yeah They say there’s bullets flying down Broadway But you haven’t yet heard the news… You just got to have your piece of cake And now you want to eat it, too You wanna be the next Bobby Dylan Oh, today it’s Johnny Cash I could tell by your cool sun glasses Looks like you lost your funny hat You say your sound’s original I’ve never heard nothing quite like that Well I’ve been around a long time my boy And I’ve got just one question that I’d like to ask… You’re knee deep in posers Your name in lights You hit the bigs, yeah But what happens when you’re exposed By both the paparazzi And the pigs…oh! Will you still say: You love your life with all the stuff You got because of what you said and did? Or will you finally See the light and make right For all the crimes that you commit? When you put it on the poster The shorter the name The bigger the print You’re knee deep in posers Your name in lights You hit the bigs, yeah They say there’s bullets flying down Broadway But you haven’t yet heard the news… You just got to have your piece of cake And now you want to eat it, too

I'm a singer... a songwriter... I'm a lover... and a fighter... I'm a poet... a word dancer... I love asking questions… Though I don't always like the answers Still I do it…Try to see through it Though I know that I don't have to If you were me what would you do? Is the question that I now ask you: I'm a searcher... yes a seeker I'm both a student... and a teacher Yet I'm no prophet... nor a preacher I sit here and I think – But that just leads to more confusion... I live to question…Become a believer Not in self-deception but in something deeper That gives my life meaning… Even more than rhyming And that's the reason that I keep on trying... I try to open minds those that are closed And uncover what needs to be exposed By bringing myself up to the brink Where my head feels like it will explode Boy... I could use a drink But that only adds cloudiness to this great grand illusion... I'm a singer... a songwriter... I'm a lover... and a fighter... I'm a poet... a word dancer... I love asking questions Though I don't always find the answers Still I do it…Try to see through it Though I know that I don't have to If you were me What would you do? Is the question that I now ask you: I'm a singer… a songwriter PUZZLE PIECES By Tom Jensen The newspapers have all gone Been blown away in the wind The magazines have all been bought up Turned to ads for corporate spin As the radio repeats itself So much so that you stopped listening And TV... well not much has changed... It's still the same as it's always been We both look at each other As loneliness starts creeping in Once upon a time we like brothers Now we feel lucky just to be friends All the signs during these times Have been put up to lead us astray So that our views become skewed So that we see the world in a different way For our bonds are becoming broken With every smile that our face keeps hid Every hello that remains unspoken This world becomes a tougher place to live Because everything that for ourselves we take Becomes something that someone else can't give So we better think twice about the choices we make Before it's too late to change this state we're living in That's why I'm moving and shaking Been busy trying to stir things up a bit Rearranging this big jigsaw puzzle So that all the pieces fit RAT PARK by Tom Jensen Like the town witch on fire I’ve become a social pariah I have lost my desire To climb up any higher There’s an energy vampire Now standing right beside ya There’s lots to know that you can’t see Until you crack the code or else find the key I was in rough shape Looking for an escape Started feeling sick Must be time to get fixed Look inside to see what’s broken Hoping it’s not a hopeless situation And that I really am worth saving Since copping is not coping When stopping isn’t an option Oh how can I regain my focus? It seems we cling to our vices In major times of crisis And when we’re feeling isolated Day by day we’re being sedated In a state of constant bereavement Because we’ve failed to have our needs met Hence our only sense of achievement Is when we depart this world and leave it Often it is fleeting and lost after a moment Though you’re taking a beating you try your best not to show it It was when my world was dark I made some friends at rat park They said that I could stay there That there were lots of fun games to play there In lofts, down slides and on wheels we play Oh no more boring lonely days I’ve been growing stronger no longer do I crave Of thinking, drinking or sleeping away the day Yeah, some get lost and some get saved Others find themselves getting thrown away Some are still searching even after all these days You either make your escape or become one with the maze Remember if God grants wishes To all those who kneel and pray That means that somewhere there’s A fallen angel waiting to have his day REHAB By Tom Jensen Sometimes I need a good talking to To set my mind at ease It's not always good for you Doing just what you please When the door is locked You just need the right keys Stop peeking through the keyhole Get up off your knees Just a glimpse of the whole Will never do With the door barred and chained It's so hard to get through Like a deer in headlights Your feet stick like glue Denial is just another lie That you believe is true Yeah... I've been sedated My head played with Medicated Regulated And every word they said dictated I've been questioned and I stated That everything good I had I've traded With every step I've walked been baited A life like mine you begin to hate it Well, the doctor's in And he'll take your money Then when you're not looking He'll call you funny... Names behind your back The nurses are in on it I got a hunch See their crooked smiles While they're serving lunch.... Their white gowns Should be striped with black You gotta pay the bills That'll pay for all the pills They say will cure your ills While they're raking in the mils They locked him in the closet And then they lost the key Twenty years later When they finally found it They finally set him free Though he looked much older He looked okay to me Though he acted much colder Like we all expected him to be Rehab - you never come out The way you came in Rehab - Get drunk off words When they take your gin Rehab - You'll never be the same Rehab - you'll never go there again When he gets home he has a drink Passes out at the kitchen sink Though his liver's fine his mind is bloated Just one drink and his head exploded Rehab - you never come out The way you came in Rehab - Get drunk off words When they take your gin Rehab - You'll never be the same Rehab - you'll never go there again TONIGHT'S MOONLIGHT by Tom Jensen Orange is the color of the trees At least the ones that still have leaves In the coolness of the night I watch a gentle breath take flight I watch it vanish out of sight In the glimmering, glittering moonlight I'll never shiver in the cold For now I have someone to hold In the coolness of the night The skyward birds are taking flight Soon I’ll sit holding my new love tight In the glimmering, glittering moonlight It’s through your calming eyes That I become hypnotized In the coolness of the night My senses, they are taking flight It’s you who takes me to new heights In the glimmering, glittering moonlight The sun could sleep for seven years And still I wouldn't freeze You've become my refreshing Reassuring summer’s breeze Sitting here alone without you I’m just part of the whole But when we are together I feel both my heart and soul Anxiously I’m waiting here My heart, it skips a beat It seems like an eternity, These seconds before we meet Before we reunite… In the glittering moonlight Eyes are magic windows That look inside the mind Through yours I see us together Until the end of time Until the end of time Beneath tonight's moonlight TABLE FOR TWO by Tom Jensen The coffee's on... I used to have coffee with you But you're gone... And now I'll have to find someone new No, I don't like to Drink my coffee alone So I'd call and hope that you'd pick up the phone And we'd talk Until the kids came home And we'd talk Until my coffee it turned cold And we'd talk some more When the kids ran off to play And we'd talk... That's how we'd spend the rest of our day Then you'd cook With the phone held up to your ear As you set the table for only two You knew that I was there... Even though I was here (even though I was here) You knew that I was there (you knew that I was there) Even though I was here (even though I was here) You knew that I was there The coffee's on... I used to have coffee with you But you're gone... And now I'll have to find someone new Table for two Table for two Table for two Table for two LIVING LARGE By Tom Jensen When my fat girl winked at me I smiled back Immediately ‘Cause I’ve learned to like ‘em you see hefty, chunky, bumpy and large You know when obesity Comes running towards me You know I don’t stray far Oh yeah…oh yeah…. I’ve grown to love ‘em large Sure she’s got some pie on the thigh And some rack on the lamb But at least I found someone Who loves me for who I am… Sure she may sag a bed Or perhaps maybe even bend a chair But it’s really good for your head To know she’ll always be there… Sure, she’s got more than just one chin And the girth of two full-grown men But she’s become the center of my earth Not because of gravity but because I know what true love is worth… It’s not weighed by pounds of the flesh Yet it’s so rare that Two people mesh Sure, she fell on me the last time we hugged That’s not how or why I got sucked into the belly button of love… I just felt so cozy so safe, so warm And well-protected from all of this world’s harm So now I live here in this place Living off the crumbs and gravy that runs down The sides of her face… Sure, when she sits she somehow expands But we were meant to become one in God’s great big plan Because I finally found a girl Who loves me for all that I am So when my fat girl winked at me I smiled back immediately ‘Cause I’ve learned to love ‘em you see hefty, chunky, bumpy and large You know when obesity Comes running towards me You know I don’t stray far Oh yeah…oh yeah…. I’ve grown to love ‘em large Oh yeah…oh yeah…. I’ve grown to love ‘em large RAIN by Tom Jensen Rain...it makes the flowers grow Rain...doesn't hide what it doesn't know Rain...leads to floods look out below Rain...don't say I didn't tell ya so Pain...it doesn't always show Pain...fills up what's empty and hollow Pain...remembers names from long ago Pain...better when it's dull and shallow Such a dark and depressing day Only time will tell if it will fade All I know is that I'm uncertain Will it ever lift? This endless cloud... This heavy curtain? A heart once prone to give Can now no longer trust I proved you don't need love to live Yet things inside begin to rust You can dull your senses to suffering If you feel you must If you're like me you've given up on love Now you settle for lust I cut my arm only to watch it bleed Just to see if anyone would take me I spent a month inside a cold dark room Just to see if it would break me I built a house in the middle of the woods Just to see if I could make it I spent a whole year inside that cold dark room Just to see if I could take it And when it rained... Sometimes it was heavy Sometimes it was slow Rain...when it came At least I had somewhere to go When it comes to pain... You can only take so much before all feeling disappears You start to grow numb Soon dreams, reality and your darkest fears All become one And when that day comes... This cold dark room will be waiting here

Perfect imperfections Perfect imperfections I always tried to show you the best of me Sure, I may have lied about the rest of me I should have given me whole For scars make love real What we can't control Is what seals the deal The sharing of fears and weaknesses Helps manifest lovers from friends Can lead to holding each other at night When you don't want the day to end... And I don't want this day to end... No, I don't want this day to end Perfect imperfections Perfect imperfections I long to see your face in the rising sun I long to hold you dear because you're the one (You're the one) I find I found I failed This great test of me I should have told you all about my history With this new day Comes a new way For you and for me Yes, for both of us In this new light Will come tonight As we shall have So much to discuss Perfect imperfections Perfect imperfections Perfect imperfections Perfect imperfections PERFECT WORLD By Tom Jensen I've spent my whole life Looking for what I can't see For what will never be As the only thing that can set me free Is an unknown memory That somewhere lives inside of me Behind a locked door Perhaps you hold the key? This set pattern we follow is just one of their lies A world lacking communion only me's and I's Through competition our brotherhood has been broken As no one's acknowledged these words that I've spoken Everything, even people filed by order and rank Number one built the Titanic And yet down it sank There's still time left to return these ideas you've been sold Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold? The whole world's a fight I can't get no peace My mind gets disrupted When it's at ease The sun and I awake as one Though it's not my first choice I'd prefer to sleep in late I wish I had a voice Some say if winning isn't everything then why keep score? Those same people send other mother's sons to war I could be like you or maybe someone else One step towards them and one away from myself Sometimes they see me and ask me "How I feel?" I respond, "Like a hamster on a rusty wheel" If you feel trapped like a rat in this world so cold Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold? The whole world's a fight I can't get no peace My mind gets disrupted When it's at ease Watching the sunset Is a long forgotten art Feet so busy walking Separate from the heart The brokers in their suits and ties walking down Wall Street The ones with their diamond watches and their hair so neat They get so stressed out playing all their Wall Street games Go home and yell at their wives forget their own kids' names All for the love of money and nothing more If they call that rich then you can call me poor If they tell you the lie "all that glitters is gold" Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold? The whole world's a fight I can't get no peace My mind gets disrupted When it's at ease When was the last time You noticed the moon? I'm surprised You've forgotten so soon As I climb up the mountains and float over the sea I find myself alone and contented alive and free No need to look at my watch or punch a clock And I actually notice my feet when I go for a walk It could be like this if enough people believe Just as the wind blows a flower I'm planting my seed There's so much more than what you've been told Rise up in rebellion could you be so bold?

Look into my heart Look inside your soul Do you see they are the same? Have you ever gazed beneath my eyes? And what I attempt to hide... Just like a children's game? My emotions tell me To tell you I love you But my mind is scared of the pain What if when I tell you You're my sunshine It begins to rain? Since I fell in love with you I've never been the same When the world is quiet I still hear your name When I am by your side I feel no pain I am warm and dry In the pouring rain Look into my heart Take a look into my soul Can you feel the warmth of a fire... Burning out of control? My emotions tell me To tell you I love you But my mind is scared of the pain What if when I tell you You're my sunshine It begins to rain? Since I fell in love with you I've never been the same When the world is quiet I still hear your name When I am by your side I feel no pain I am warm and dry In the pouring rain I could never lose you as a friend Nor could I break my heart again My only fear is if I wait Then maybe it would be too late Since I fell in love with you I've never been the same When the world is quiet I still hear your name When I am by your side I feel no pain I am warm and dry In the pouring rain HIVE MIND by Tom Jensen Weaponized envy surrounds me It’s everywhere I can’t break free Negative energy now grounds me As I’m watching the world so jealously My high anxiety stresses me I’m alone because I fear intimacy So averse to pain I constantly retreat I’m living like a zombie half asleep Some say this outcome was expected Look how everything’s grown hectic Has anyone been left unaffected By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective? Ostracized and placed outside the wall Is where your fellow heroes fall With lasting remains inside an unmarked grave True to themselves at least one was saved Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game In which fact and fiction are one in the same Where truth and lies are often seen on the same side As enemies become friends and your rivals allies You soon realize there’s a great divide Between not only us and them but both you and I Leaves you to scratch your head and wonder why… Or maybe be just like them and not even try And yet that seems like suicide As you boldly claim, “Today’s not your day to die” You then break out with a great big smile Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!” Sacrifice for something Bigger than myself Maybe trade away the day today To make tomorrow great for someone else A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing Tended by a shepherd or led by a king? History has recorded the tales of both Carrying crosses and swearing oaths All of that has led us to here Where honor and faith I watched disappear Become replaced With aggression and fear It’s been happening so long For years and years Soon feels natural So that nobody cares You see me alone and standing here Lying to myself hoping nobody hears They gave up on me so I gave up on my peers I’m the only one who knows… they’re still unaware I turned around again… and there was no one there HAVE NOT By Tom Jensen You only live once... Well at least you've got your name You tried to give once... Got burnt and you were never the same Stay away from this one... You who went from healing to being one of the lame Thy will be done... The only thing you've learned is how to point the blame And now your motivation for waking is slowly stripping You can sense the tubes of morphine still dripping Becoming lost at such a cost That you wonder just Why you should go on Why try to live the dream? When your imagination is gone? For once you lose your inhibitions The hands around you mold you into what they want Shaping and persuading you Into giving what you haven't got Leveling society By changing you from a have into a have not t COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES Home Features Pricing Testimonials Contact Blog COLLABTUNES.COM