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| 01 I Come Out Fighting
Words and music: Bob Halligan Jr. I come out fighting I hear the bell It's time for the first round The daily news It's time for a knock down Some people think It's not their battle To believe the world will be o.k. We gotta strap on the gloves And we may just win When we say I come out fighting I make the vow that I will play this game to win Take on the fight My Trainer to guide me Can't shake the fright That wells up inside me Hit the ring Face the news at Eleven Take the tragedies on the chin And I go down for the count But now I'm back on my feet Screaming Sure I have my days When no great love is lost on life End up on the canvas some days But not without a fight |
| 02 I Don't Know Why
Words and music: Mike Schmitz I don't know why I was just younger then Seemed like everything Would be explained I told myself I'd Turn the tide around My friends and I Would break the chain We're doing things We swore we'd never do Running around Erasing every clue Doing the things We swore we'd never do Look at what's been happening It's happening to you So much we hoped for Went up in flames I guess the smoke Got in my eyes Can perfect passion Stand the light of day These things I know Can I realize |
| 03 Take Me To The End
Words and music: Mike Schmitz I'm afraid I've got nothing To show for the years So many doubts And collections of fears But my heart won't let go of the hope That it's working for good I've decided to change myself So many times All my efforts like The antics of pitiful mimes And the distance seems greater sometimes For the places I've stood There's death anchored deep in my soul But still I hesitate to let You take control Take me to the end of the world I just want to be free Take me to the end of the world Take me to the end of the world I really want to be free Take me to the end of the world in me The world's not a place It's the state of a man When he relies on his senses To understand For the scientist or lawyer that's fine But it won't feed your heart Who is the loser of the games That we play When a man clings to things That are passing away |
| 04 Let The Mountains Fall
Words and music: Mike Schmitz How does it happen Why do I leave these worries in the way I knew better a long, long time ago It seems like things are waiting For a time when we're not looking When we least suspect They choose that moment to fall Gotta keep these cares from exploding The gentle peace of our love So let the mountains fall Let the storm blow me away Let the fortunes call When I can't answer Let the mountains fall And if they fall on me They'll never cover up the way That I feel about You, feel about You You know I chose to love You It's not a thing that just happens Cause I finally learned that Love is worth the pain But there's a place of hurting A place that we don't want to live But one thing is for certain We're learning how to forgive Nothing else can cure the loneliness That hides so deep in our hearts |
| 05 Dream On
Words and music: Steven Tyler Every time I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer The past is gone Then when night, like dusk to dawn Isn't that the way Everybody's got their dues in life to pay Half my life's in book's written pages Live and learn from fools and from sages You know it's true All these things come back to you Well, I know nobody knows Where it comes and where it goes I know it's everybody's sin You got to lose, in order to win Sing with me, sing for the year Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear Sing with me, just for today, never tomorrow Cause the good Lord'll take you away, take you away Dream on, dream on, dream on Dream until the dream comes true Dream on, dream on, dream on Dream until your dream comes true |
| 06 What Will Remain
Words and music: Mike Schmitz We work for our children To raise them right Provide for their days And protect their nights And pass them on We try to instruct them About the right ways And currents of life That can snatch them away Our of our hands What will remain Only the love What will remain Only the love We pour out our lives For a legacy With so little knowledge We rarely can see The real world Devoting our souls To a lofty ideal In searching for one truth In all that we feel That won't turn cold It's treasures of the heart The rose that never fades The womb where love is born The fire never dies The bright unchanging star That guides us to the morning The issues of love come And cannot cease They're much more than memories They're life and they're peace To all who wait, anticipate The end of hate and dying |
| 07 Back Burner
Words and music: Mike Schmitz and Greg X. Volz Some people have it, the winning habit The spark that takes them far Don't know what to name it or how you can tame it But they rise up like a star But you know that you can trust someone Who has really felt the pain Of standing still while the world goes by When time passes it all looks the same Nothing has changed on the back burner There's not much happening here Sometimes I think you must be a slow learner To wake up year after year with Not much to say, not much to do Not much to show that your calling is true, back burner You feel so lonely, your faith goes only As far as you can see Your feet in chains while your heart's in flames And everybody says: 'You gotta think positively' But there's a man who had to rot in a cell Before he ever sat on the throne The only change that'll ever hold up Goes under the skin, clear to the bone Nothing has changed on the back burner There's not much happening here Sometimes I think you must be a slow learner To wake up year after year With nothing to do, nothing to say Nothing to take this old feeling away, back burner One day it's going to be through, this back burner Say man, what are you cooking back there It must be awful good, it's been on there a long time Hey, give it to me, back-back-back-back-backburner |
| 08 Will You Take Me Back
Words and music: Mike Schmitz Took a lot of courage To talk to You today And there's something else I really can't define Like to burn all my bridges But I can't seem to find a light I've got to know Just where You draw the line Will You take me back Will You take me back Didn't know what I was losing Till it was already gone And I realize I never should have let You go I want to feel You with me The way I used to do And get carried off By all the things You say But I can't take it for granted We could have it all again Though it's what I've always hoped for When I pray How do You rebuild What used to reach so high When rubble covers Everything in sight But You can make a way Where there just is no way Please don't leave me Like a blind man in the night Will You take me back Will You take me back Through the tears my eyes are opened And I just have to laugh As I realize You never let me go As I realize You never let me go |
| 09 I Know You Be Heart
Words and music: Mike Schmitz Life's full of things That seem to leave few choices You learn a lot just be necessity You see that good can speak With many voices With many words you hide The faults you see You open up when You think there's safety You run away when The danger is clear And people judge you by What circumstances they hear But I know you better Cause I know you by heart I know you by heart I know you by heart I know you better Than you know yourself You have a memory that Lightspeeds backwards To every pain and pleasure In your heart No one can camouflage Their feelings better For your survival you have Learned the art You flash those eyes They see a beast inside you You sympathize They glimpse a shining saint You show a side for the effect That you calculate But I know you better |
| 10 Up To The Mountain
Words and music: Mike Schmitz Take your past up to the mountain Take your future up there, too Take it all up to the mountain And see if it's true Take your wife up to the mountain Take your children up to see Take it all up to the mountain And get yourself free Get yourself free Take it all up to the mountain Take it all up to the mountain Take it all up to the mountain And get yourself free Gotta get yourself free, yeah |