WITHOUT A TRIBE

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LYRICS

Going Yesterday

Stay, pray, go away, Makes me no never mind

You can scream 'til you're chokin'

No matter how you stroke it, I will not comply

Jump down, spin around, whatever makes you high

If you want it, go get it

but not me, forget it, I will not comply

Hey, I'm going yesterday

the way we said we'd never cave

a waste, if only words to say, yeah

Stop. Don't kill my time. Better yet, don't try

You can keep on running, but I'm not a-coming

No I won't comply

You, me, I can't believe we broke the chain this time

If it makes you feel better, I mean it, no never

I will not comply

Hey, I'm going yesterday

the way we said we'd never cave

a waste, if only words to say, yeah

Yesterday

When pushing comes to shove, who will bluff?

And who'll have had enough?

I can't understand how they broke your mind

I guess I can't knock you, I'd never try to stop you

but I just can't comply

Right, wrong, whatever song it is I'll claim it mine

That it's reached this minute, we're all stuck in it

makes me want to die

Hey, I'm taking yesterday

the way we said we'd never play

the games that rip our hearts away, yeah

Yesterday

Yesterday

Yesterday

Yesterday

TYPICAL WAY

We take this day, the way we play

the stencil of our lives

We have this way of loving pain

We hardly need to try

But just this once, to break the run,

let's change it and say

"Not today, our typical way."

Could we abide if just one time

we stepped outside the game?

It's almost like we sell our souls

to keep things the same

Let's admit we'd probably die of shock

if we say

"Not today, our typical way."

That once-upon-another-day

if we had heard someone say this our way

our typical way

we'd say, "There's just no way."

You say it takes a hard wind

to knock me to the ground

On the other hand, the slightest breeze

will have you falling down

Bottom line, we're going through

exactly the same

Let's walk away

from our typical ways

(Guitar!)

That once-upon-another-day

if we had heard someone say this our way

our typical way

we'd say, "There's just no way."

Way too long on right and wrong

we're way beyond that show

The up and down and going 'round

it's all getting old

And frankly, I don't have the strength

to do this today

not this way

our typical way

This is our typical way

This way, our typical way

Got to stop it today

We must find a new way

Dealer of Light

Hungry souls, the trapped, the broken, they come

The lost, the loyal, the plebes, the royals, they run

No, it's never never all right

to never take on the fight

to never look in the eyes of a dealer of light

and ask him why

No, no more mystic lines

Never give away the "why?'

Never not be, never don't see

Oh yeah, they told you, condemn and scold you, don't try

They claim the garden but watch them marginalize

No, it's never never okay

to give it all away

to put it all in the hands of a dealer of light

and let him inside

No, no more mystic lines

Never give up the "why?

Never not be, Never gonna see

No, it's never never all right

to never take on the fight

to never look in the eyes of a dealer of light

and ask him why

No, no more mystic lines

Never give up the "why?'

Never not be, never don't see

These Words

All these words flood like water

'neath the troubled bridge

all these words

The truth is blurred

That song has faltered

way beyond its pitch

the rhythm crumbled to a twitch

The day has come

but still you act as if

it were the night

the day has come

The fear has rung

but still you cover up

your face in fright

while the cure is in sight

You don't even know it's happening

but it's happening

right before your eyes

And you don't even see it happening

but it's happening

right before your eyes

All these words

maddening, profane and impure

all these words

The sounds are slurred

Sad and trapped

detained in the unsure

while you hold the cure

You don't even see it happening

but it's happening

right before your eyes

Do you feel the change is happening

'cause they're happening

right before your eyes

And can you feel the change is happening

'cause they're happening

right before your eyes

What a waste of energy, real time

and needless grief

what a waste

Could you replace

your disbelief

with real time sweet relief?

Up to Me

What's wrong is right, day is night, dark is light, come dine

Tossed around, upside down, no one pays no mind

Bad is good, can't is could and we just let it slide

We let it come, the game is done, best enjoy the ride

We talked good game, came up lame then we'd act surprised

Cry, "Here we go!" Bang "Gung ho!" while we're compromised

We trusted you, you had your chance, it was in your hands

You caved, you ran, let it die, could not make a stand

I guess I'm leaving it up to me. I don't need your safety net

Laying it all on me, the cut is clean

By leaving it up to me, I'll ride without a tribe

Facing it, me to me, I told you so

I guess I'm leaving it up to me. I don't need your safety net.

Laying it all on me, the cut is clean

By leaving it up to me, I'll ride without a tribe

Facing it, me to me, I told you so

Yeah, this time I'm leaving it up to me. I don't need your safety net

Laying it all on me, the cut is clean

By leaving it up to me, I'll ride without a tribe

Facing it, me to me, I told you so

What You Gonna Do

Sun up, stars to bed, what you gonna do?

Wake my sleepy head, much too much to do

Cloud comes, blue away, what you gonna do?

I don't hide away, too much to do

Rain comes, wind is high, what you gonna do?

Write a song, perfect time, much too much to do

Wind gone, clouds escape, what you gonna do?

Stepping out and on the way, too much to do

Where are you going?

You should come along

What will we do there?

We'll finish this song

When will we get there?

I promise it won't take too long

'til morning comes, what you gonna do?

Move my feet, love the ride, too much to do

Where are you going?

You should come along

What will we do there?

We'll finish this song

When will we get there?

I promise it won't take too long

'til morning comes, what you gonna do?

Move my feet, love the ride, too much to do

What you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

What you gonna do?

Whether it's deepest cold, warmest night

what you gonna do?

I'll make it mine, make it right

too much to do

Where are you going?

You should come along

What will we do there?

We'll finish this song

When will we get there?

I promise it won't take too long

'til morning comes, what you gonna do?

Anything up ahead... and do it with you

A Man Like Me

When the day, it breaks, it plays

one more time

that her eyes are dead, none shed

cold and dry

she repeats the words as she turns

"Love has died."

and they echo long, prolonged

across my mind

Just a man, you know, like me, keeps trying

When the sun, it falls, the night calls

her to hide

That she cannot try, give, cry

she'd confide

I repeat the words, whisper

"It used to be.

Even love, you'll find, sometimes

needs to dream."

Just a man, you know, like me, keeps dying

If love is sleeping, thats fine.

It may be healing.

No void, no feeling

'cause a man like me has nothing free but time.

When the day is roused, breaks out

from the night

and I lift my eyes, sunrise

and hope to find

that maybe, she'll say to me

"I can see

even love, inside, sometimes,

needs to dream."

Just a man, I know, that's me keeps finding

If love is sleeping, that’s fine.

It may be healing.

No void, no feeling

'cause a man like me has nothing free but time.

If love is sleeping, that’s fine.

It may be healing.

No void, no feeling

'cause a man like me has nothing free but time.

Incognito

My ego's undercover, no telling what I'll find

Don't want to blow my cover, only solely my mind

To meet my opposite twin, where she lies

Searching throughout the within in disguise

My wonder must discover how she's heavenly designed

Beyond the id where she's hidden

Her inner grid where I'm forbidden

So like a kid, I'm oddly driven

to be reunited

incognito

My ego's undercover, no telling what I'll find

Don't want to blow my cover, only solely my mind

Seeking to balance the scale of who I am

I'll find that holy grail or be damned

This unfamiliar other, is she wicked or divine?

Beyond the id where she's hidden

Her inner grid where I'm forbidden

So like a kid, I'm oddly driven

to be reunited

incognito

Anticipation hovers, a path appears to unwind

Don't want to blow my cover, only solely my mind

So, my ego's undercover, I wonder what I will find

Incognito

Incognito

Incognito

Just Because

Traces, best laid plans,

like rainfall in my hand,

like wind-sung peppered sand,

its all that's left to stand...

the wheel rolls on despite me

The "everything," it laughs

at the petty this and that

we dream, believe, conceive.

It snickers while we bleed.

The wheel rolls on despite me.

Whatever, never mind... if this is how we ride... Why then ever try?

Just because

Just because

The wheel rolls on in spite of me.

Whatever, never mind... if this is how we ride... Why then ever try?

Just because

Just because

Bring it Out

Sitting, talking until the dawn

What's next?

Will we be going on?

There is no way we can hide

Let's not let truth be long

We're gonna bring it out

(When we do then we know what we're doing)

We're gonna bring it out

bring it out

(When we do then we know what we're doing)

We're gonna bring it out

bring it out

(When we do then we know what we're doing)

No waiting

No wasting our time

Years of twisting heartbreak

each breath adds on to the ache

There is no way we can

hold it all inside

we have just one choice to make

We're gonna bring it out

(When we do then we know what we're doing)

We're gonna bring it out

bring it out

(When we do then we know what we're doing)

We're gonna bring it out

bring it out

(When we do then we know what we're doing)

No waiting

No wasting our time

Where did all the time go?

It went right out the window

There is no way we could

ever get it back

Tomorrow we'll know if

we have grown

Got it Down

Back before they tore it down, before they raped it of its soul

that waste of space was once the place where cats and dolls heard rock n roll

A cruddy hole where we would go to burn it out and twist and shout

to break it, shake it, through the night until they kicked us out

We would never be satisfied, satisfied, gratified

without rock and roll

killing rock and roll

got that rock and roll

got it down

Back before they shut the door, the amps and blood and gals and thugs

made that heap of slag a gas and everyone just had to come

Back before the walls came down and left behind a soulless slab

The dancin' jammin' masses came to lose what minds they had

They could never be satisfied, satisfied, gratified

without rock and roll

killing rock and roll

got that that rock and roll

got it down

Well, that's the way we played

that's the way we played

that's the way we played

look who's got it down

I still can see and smell and hear it all as if I still were there

We built it up to blow it out, we would not crawl, we did not care

You can take the bash and bam and rip it from the place it stands

but you can never crush the jam, no one can...

We will always be satisfied, we'll testify. we're gratified

to play rock and roll

killing rock and roll

got that that rock and roll

we got it down

Well, that's the way we'd play

that's the way we'd play

that's the way we'd play

look who's got it down

look who's got it down

look who's got it

everyone's got it

look who's got it down

Close to Home

Get me out of here

there's a whisper drawing near

a rhythm almost clear

yet veiled free

These words are slipping in

naked, vague and dim

meandering within

as if to tease

Get me down from here

I'm cold but it's not fear

the voice cradling my ear

is warm and plain

Whisper bends to speech

now well within my reach

I recognixe it's me

and hear it say

Help me through

I'll help you too

we will not be alone

Help me through

it's what we do

when we're this

close to home

Echoes of these fights

conceived in black and white

spin colors now as bright

as all I've seen

For once I faced the shame

of the moment I became

the figment of that I claimed

I'd defeat

These gods, facades, veneers

slip and disappear

like faded pencil smears

on scraps I own

Don't know from where this came

but I won't push back again

the haze begins to wane

this close to home

Help me through

I'll help you too

we will not be alone

Help me through

it's what we do

when we're this

close to home

Lock and Load

From Monterey to Sandy Bay, slam!

From Abaliene to Bowling Green they slam!

Rock and roll is dead, they say, a scam.

But far and wide, them bammin' guitars jam.

Lock, load

Slamming rock and roll

Lock, Load

ready, man, go

that rammin' jammin' guitar rock and roll

Come on, step inside and feel that vibe, slam!

Sling that baby way down low, slam!

Dig that rock, that metal, punk and glam

Yeah, up and won them bammin' guitars jam.

Lock, load

Slamming rock and roll

Lock, Load

ready, man, go

that rammin' jammin' guitar rock and roll

Don't you know I love them keys

the way they cook, damn!

And the bass and drums, the soul of the band

blow them horns, you smokin' cats, slam!

Yeah, up and down and all around they jam!

Lock, load

Slamming rock and roll

Lock, load

that s lamming rock and roll

Lock, Load

ready, man, go

that rammin' jammin' killer rock and roll