Lyrics
By Hank DeMeerleer
Eternity (Track 1)
I seen her walking, she was all alone
I said can I help you with that load?
I don’t know what it is
But you’ve been a makin’ me smile
You make me feel just like a little child
Oh won’t you walk with me
Just for eternity
You seem to make me smile
You make me feel like a little child
They talk of this feelin’
But sometimes ya never know
It’s gonna craw up beside you
and never let go
Yea, once in a lifetime you’ll begin to fly
Some never come down
Others just ask why
Hey won’t ya fly with me
Into eternity
You’re all I want to know
I’m just gonna keep on lovin you more and more
She looked at me
With those big smilin’ eyes
This middle aged woman
Thought she’d heard every line
We’d talked about places so close to the soul
We had somethin’ in common
We’d lived on the road
Oh won’t you live with me
Just for eternity
I’m never gonna give you them blues
I’m gonna keep on wearin’ My walkin’ shoes
I thought I had the answers and total peace of mind
Then she came along I had to redefine
All of my reasons for walkin’ and the life I’d left behind
I wanna climb aboard and take just one more ride.
Oh won’t you ride with me
Just for eternity
I love you more every day
With you I could never go astray
I been a thinkin’ about the way things might have been
If she’d chose me instead of him
But things aren’t always the way you want them to be
But this is as close to love as I’ve ever seen
Hey why’d ya give me the blues?
What about them walkin’ shoes?
I’m never gonna give ya them blues.
Take Hold (Track 2)
I’ve had all the nightmares
I’m still awakin’ from bad dreams
You know silence is golden
But now it frightens me
I got your message
I got it loud and clear
This fool that you’ve forsaken
Has realized his worst fears
Take hold of your dreams
Take hold of me
You know time, it ain’t constant
It gets shorter by the year
Your love it was the magic that made my word appear
No, life it don’t come easy when you lost most of your dreams
Ya can’t order more from those fancy uptown magazines
Take hold of a dream
Take hold of me
Life goes on
I’m headin’ out there again
I’m gonna count myself lucky if I can find one friend
I spent most of a lifetime on your and love’s dream
I just hope someone’s out there
Lookin’ for some fool like me
Take hold of a dream
Take hold of me
Life, it’s got it’s angles
The highway’s got its bends
Your love is like a shooting star
It just winked out again
But love is a gift, it can make your life whole
But I’ve traveled this timeline
And now I’m left all alone
My Time With You (Track 3)
Time it’s an endless highway
It’s comin’ thru
And I was on that highway
Until I met you
Cuz I’m in love with you
I’m needin’ for all my life
I wanna be with you
Until my time is thru
Well I’ll only be wastin’
My time with you
Life, it has a funny old way of
It can drag you down
But when you find love
In life you’ll drown
Cuz I’m in love with you
I’m needin’ for all my life
I wanna be with you
Until my time is thru
Well I’ll only be wastin’
All my time with you
Dawn, it’s a new mornin’
With all the sights and sounds
But they wouldn’t mean nothin’
Without you around
I’m in love with you
I’m needin’ for all my life
I wanna be with you
Until my time is thru
Well I’ll only be wastin’
All my time with you
Until my time is thru
Well I’ll only be wastin’
All my time with you
Remember The Days (Track 4)
I remember those days
I had freedom on my mind
I had a pretty woman
Makin’ love all of the time
But she went away and left me
Lord, didn’t leave me a dime
14 years on a hard rock drivin’ mine
I had a pretty woman
Ah, she helped pass my time
Them dollars I was savin’
Gonna ease me and mine.
Woke up one mornin’, alone in my bed
Looked for a note and in it’s what it said
It says I’m a leavin’ ya
Oh satisfaction bound
Well I picked my twelve-boy
Lord, I just blew her man down
I remember the days
I had freedom on my mind
I had a pretty woman
Lovin’ her all of the time
But she went away and left me
Turned her back and walked a straight line
Well now I sit all alone in my cell
Death row, going’ straight to hell
There’s a hangman, he says he’s got a rope stretched just for me
By this time tomorrow, I’ll just be history.
Into Reality (Track 5)
I’m lovin’ you babys, In the most peculiar way
Why you make my night dreams
So much better than my day
When we’re alone I get this total peace of mind
I’ve been a lovin’ you this way baby, most all of the time
I’d give up my soul if you would come true
I’d come over to your side baby if you could get me thru
When we’re together ya know the sun’s always gone down
Why, just the thought of you brings me to the strangest ground
I want you this way, you know I want to be in your dreams
I know that you’re out there baby waitin’ just for me
Won’t you tell me lady, what you want to be
Maybe I could change some and become your fantasy.
Won’t you tell me on your own
All about the future that you hold
Or maybe you’re really just on my mind
Or maybe you’re really just too dagoned hard to define
You’ve taken the fun out of every wakeful day
I don’t talk to no one now I wouldn’t know what to say
I’m a keepin’ my eyes closed most all of the time
I hope to catch a glimpse of you baby, an image that’s so fine
Now I’ve taken’ to paintin’ pictures of my memories
I got an image of a night dream that always includes me
Won’t you tell me just how it feels, to be imagined into the world
Ya got no regrets, ya got no memories;
No expectations baby, ya got no responsibilities
Now we’ve all had an image of something that’s so fine
Gonna tell you the truth buddy, I already got mine
I don’t need your lotto, don’t to own those big hotels
I don’t need to be a number one in some big time show and tell
Cuz I got you baby and that’s all right with me
Ya stepped out of my dreams and into reality.
Into Reality (Track 6 - electro edit)
I’m lovin’ you babys, In the most peculiar way
Why you make my night dreams
So much better than my day
When we’re alone I get this total peace of mind
I’ve been a lovin’ you this way baby, most all of the time
I’d give up my soul if you would come true
I’d come over to your side baby if you could get me thru
When we’re together ya know the sun’s always gone down
Why, just the thought of you brings me to the strangest ground
I want you this way, you know I want to be in your dreams
I know that you’re out there baby waitin’ just for me
Won’t you tell me lady, what you want to be
Maybe I could change some and become your fantasy.
Won’t you tell me on your own
All about the future that you hold
Or maybe you’re really just on my mind
Or maybe you’re really just too dagoned hard to define
You’ve taken the fun out of every wakeful day
I don’t talk to no one now I wouldn’t know what to say
I’m a keepin’ my eyes closed most all of the time
I hope to catch a glimpse of you baby, an image that’s so fine
Now I’ve taken’ to paintin’ pictures of my memories
I got an image of a night dream that always includes me
Won’t you tell me just how it feels, to be imagined into the world
Ya got no regrets, ya got no memories;
No expectations baby, ya got no responsibilities
Now we’ve all had an image of something that’s so fine
Gonna tell you the truth buddy, I already got mine
I don’t need your lotto, don’t to own those big hotels
I don’t need to be a number one in some big time show and tell
Cuz I got you baby and that’s all right with me
Ya stepped out of my dreams and into reality.
Daddy (Track 7)
Daddy tell me a story bout this wonderous land
The way the Indians were slaughtered by the white man’s hand
Or the one bout his fishin’ rights
Hey reservations are the red man’s plight
I got to know what way to go
I need the truth, gonna lightin’ my load
Oh tell me daddy bout the black revolt.
Rioting students, Cambodian assaults
Or the one bout their freedom of speech
Young people died on our campus streets
And now that brings us to the National Guard
Professional killers in my back yard
Just who’s to blame? What’s the name of this game?
And the man just said ……… nothin’.
Then there’s the one bout our rise and fall
Yea 1980’s, Lord I read them all
“Well now son”, I just heard him say
“Keep your nose clean boy, troubles blow away”
Well now I know just who started the game.
Daddy you’re the one. You raised me to blame.
How can you say, “yea, that’s my boy.”
When you don’t agree with the things I employ.
Lonesome Planet (Track 8)
His name is Leonard Oscar and in many a year of his life
He sang of the day when he’d be on his way
Buy his life, death couldn’t find
His friends all around him soon passed away
And when they did, you could hear Oscar play
Oh why, oh why do you deny me the truth I’d find in dyin’
I’m a globe so old I got a heart and a soul
Sometimes I think that if man had his way, he’d sooner see me die
He digs my soul, Lord he burns me in the stove
He buries me in the sky
So think about me
When you ban your nuclear weapons please
Keep jumpin’ oil on the sea
Keep dumpin’ oil all over me
Tomorrow is a long, long road.
Today will never grow old.
My power’s so strong I could darken your dawn
But my life must go on
So think about me
When you ban your nuclear weapons please
Keep dumpin’ oil on the sea
Keep dumpin’ oil all over me
Be my epitaph, can’t you see?
Man, be the death of me.
Swampy (Track 9)
I went out for a walk out in the woods
There was evidence of man everywhere I stood
I spotted a fence line to my surprise
There stood a tall lean figure with deep set eyes
Well it shook me a bit, I thought I was alone
I said “hey old timer is that your home?”
Well he invited me in to take a drink of his wine
I had the time
It was really good wine
He said he’d been alone for a thousand years
He didn’t need nobody, but he spoke in tears
He spoke of God every now and then
He needed his lovin’, he had no friends.
Tell me Lord, what cloud is he on?
Save some space for my last days’ dawn.
Now he says that he was about to die, but he staved off dyin’ til I come by
He said he wanted to be buried out behind the shack
I didn’t leave no marker, he’d like it like that.
Well now that’s he’s gone I’m all alone
Can’t face the thought of old Swampy’s home
Livin’ off the land and old memories
Now here was a man that’s stronger than most
Lived without fear, had a handful of hope
I’ll never forget the way he spoke of death,
Like it was some reward instead of a debt.
Tell me Lord, what cloud is he on?
Won’t ya save some space for my last days’ dawn.
If I get there, I know you’ll be there
Won’t ya hang on Swampy, because I care.
Pretty Picture (Track 10)
Woke up one mornin’, to some cold facts of life
It’s taken us forever, now we’re not alright
Intense perception of a reality
Our minds are closed.
What do you see?
Do you feel that sunrise?
How the days unfold
I feel the wind blow
Makes my son grow old
Can’t smell those flowers
Ya hear that rustlin’ in the trees
This sound of silence
That’s my symphony
The secret of survival
They taught us tooth and claw
Now mutualism binds us
Just like the mortar in my wall
We let tomorrow compromise today
I know the toys are precious
They take our breath away
It’s just that heartbeat holds life from death
Organic hardware keeps on a pumpin’ my breath
What was in the beginnin’
Could have brought us to this day
They say survival of the fittest
We traded that away
Now we’re hundled in a corner, an eternity
Hid deep in the mire of our destiny
There’s that pretty picture
We’ve got it hangin’ on the wall
Interestin’ abstraction
I think it says it all
In Your Eyes (Track 11)
Fifty white stars on a field of blue
Red and white strips protectin’ me and you
I mean every word with a tear in my eye
I love my country, I love walkin’ the times
You ask me can I be true?
Oh Mother Nature, you know I always did love you
I love walkin’ on God’s green Earth
I want to reap your harvest, I’d love to quench my thirst
I got a thirst so rare like I never had
It’s made me wonder, it’s made me sad
It took many years just to make me see
The many great wonders Mother Nature left for me
It’s like every story I ever heard told
When they’re young, you wish they was old
Ya give ‘em a lot and ya make ‘em fat
They grow out of the house and they walk on your hats
You give ‘em every chance to make good
Well, I know you would help them, momma, you’d help them if you could.
There’s only one thing I want you to do
Won’t ya think about me in relation to you
I can just see you out there laughin’ with a grin
Yer thinkin’ about the way man began
But I think you understand what I’m tryin’ to say
Because if ya don’t, ya know, we’ll make you our slave
Then comes the day when it’s the end of the line
You killed half a million without even tryin’
You’d think they’d hear what you’re tryin’ to say
But they ignor their fate, they just live for today.
Oh mother nature, where did we go wrong?
Won’tcha take a look around you momma, make right our wrongs
There’s only one thing you must realize
You’re the one that made us in your eyes
And you’re the one that fed us a lot
Ya gimme a reason and taught me to walk
So Mother Nature when the end is clear
Won’t cha take my life lightly and replace it with your tear.
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