HORIZONTAL
Oh lucky day, lucky day , lucky day
She finally walked my way
You know she sauntered up to me
Kissed me on the lips today
Oh hazel eyes, hazel eyes
When you look at me
Oh hazel eyes, hazel eyes
You know you make me feel like a king
I wanna see what you’ve seen
I wanna be who you’ve been
I wanna go where you go
Cause that’s alright
Oh my name is horizontal
I live in hidalgos hair
If I receive any love letters from Galveston
Won’t you please send them there
There will be a thousand guitars
No one’s gonna complain about the noise up there
For it’s the love that we make
The love that we take
And the love that we make
And the love that we take
Chorus x2
And that’s alright x 4
HEARTBEAT SMILE
A fortune I would pay if I thought it would heal
The pile of broken hearts on the top of the hill
Loves like a hurricane a runaway train
We take our chances on the numbers we play
I miss my friend with the heartbeat smile x2
On the east side of the bay we’d watch the parade
I miss my friend with the heartbeat smile
Hear the roar of the crowd the lights from above
Empty seats take their toll all you’ve given is love
The man from japan plays a crooked guitar
And the songs that he sings live in dungeons and bars
I miss my friend with the heartbeat smile x2
On the east side of the bay we’d watch the parade
I miss my friend with the heartbeat
We laughed and we roared
We staggered and fell
We greeted the sun with another tall tale
San Francisco, New York, the alleys of Rome
I wished I’d been there to carry you home
I miss my friend with the heartbeat smile x2
On the east side of the bay we’d watch the parade
I miss my friend with the heartbeat
With the heartbeat
With the heartbeat smile
SUNDAY MORNING FEELING
I got that Sunday morning feeling in the middle of Saturday night
My friends were out drinking I guess they were doing alright
I wanted to join them but I was afraid I would darken their light
So I put on an old record and danced with her ghost through the night
I’m a million miles away
I’ve seen better days
I’ve got nothing left to say
But that’s alright
Yeah that’s alright
There’s living and there’s dying
What I’m doing here is something in between
I’m running and I’m hiding
If you see me I’m only a dream
You can take all your money
Take all of your fortune and fame
For I hang in the balance of all that turns into rain
I’m a million miles
I’ve seen better days
I’ve got nothing left to say
But that’s alright
That’s alright
I’ve got that Sunday morning feeling in the middle of Saturday night
Your silence speaks volumes I guess I started a fight
Was it something I said my memory’s not working right
If i could say it again you know I would make it alright
I’m a million miles away
I’ve seen better days
I’ve got nothing left to say
But that’s alright
Yeah that’s alright
SUIT OF LIGHT
Brought you diamonds
Brought you rain
Brought you disappointment
Broken window panes
Brought you silk
Brought you jade
A bucket of blood in every note i played
Who am I
When you look at me
Sailor with no compass lost at sea
Cowboy who can’t ride anymore
A dancer with no shoes no floor
A baseball loving matador
Who am I when you look at me
Through this prism of possibilities
I see you do you see me
In a suit of lights
Shining in the rain
Watched you shower
Watched you bathe
Put everything i have in every kiss we made
Brought you silk
Brought you jade
A bucket of blood in every note i played
Who am I
When you look at me
Shadow dancing dervish
Lost at sea
A valentine who is waiting to be found
Sentimental man from the south
A father, lover, sister, brother
Who am I
When you look at me
Through this prism of possibilities
I see you do you see me
In a suit of lights
Shining in the rain
In a suit of lights
Shining in the rain
In a suit of lights
In a suit of lights
Shining in the rain
In a suit of lights
REDEMPTION BLUES
Who will fight tomorrow
Who will fight today
Who will fight tomorrow
Who will change their ways
I hear a baby crying all night long
I hear his mother crying all night long
Son it burns like hell
It burns a mother clean
Son it burns a hole
A hole in a baby’s dream
I wish my father would come
I wish my mother would not cry all night long
Someday I’ll find some redemption
I’ll find
A little peace
Blue steel for protection
Blue steel is my guide
Need a little lovin’
From the other side
My ancestors I wish they would come
Help my mother stop from crying all night long
Find some redemption
Someday I’ll find
I’ll find a little peace
SHAVE THE CAT
Let’s get up
Roll one up
Drink some captain beefheart
From my favorite cup
Oh the sun is a dream
To keep dreaming
Feed the dog
Shave the cat
Have a rock n roll party
On a wrestling mat
Oh the moon is a song
We keep singing
So take me home
Like before
Let’s get off, we’ll get off
On the thirteenth floor
Ride your pony, turn me on
Turn me on
Pretty soon we’ll all be gone
It’s a trip
It’s a scream
Another Monday night hanging from the beam
Oh the sun is the one that ain’t showing
Burn the rug
Blast the hits
There’s a baritone sax that just won’t quit
And the moon is the tune
It keeps blowing
So take me home
But not now
I don’t wanna get off
Get off of this cloud
Ride your pony, turn me on
Turn me on
Pretty soon we’ll all be gone
Dat da da dat da da da da
Turn it up
Break it down
Ride your pony
Like a merry go round
Ride your pony
Turn me on
Pretty soon we’ll all be gone
We’ll be gone
Dat da da da da
We’ll be gone
Turn me on
Oh turn me on
Turn me on
Dat da
JOHNNY VOLUME
I’m feeling so much better
It’s time to make amends
You see me on the corner
I’m waiting on a friend
If being straight is boredom
And heroin’s a curse
Strung out or too high to play
Don’t know which is worse
I’m going down to max’s
Fender twin on ten
I’m going back to Jackson Heights
Start all over again
Some people think I’m ugly
Some people think I’m dead
But I’m pretty as a picture
That’s what sable said
So pass me the white rain
I gotta fix my hair
I’m gonna get it right
Not going anywhere
I’m going down to max’s
Fender twin on stun
I’m back to Mercer Street
Before they make me run
Hanging out on Coney Island
Need to take a ride
Gotta get the band together
I’m so alone inside
I’m going down to max’s
Fender twin on ten
I’m going back to St. Marks place
Start all over again
I’m going back to St. Marks place
Start all over again
I’m looking for a kiss
I’m just looking for a kiss
Yeah I’m looking for a kiss
I’m just looking for a kiss
Hey!
BEAUTY OF YOUR SMILE
Rico’s on the corner
Wearing a skirt made of cellophane
Olener’s in the alley
Washing the blood out of his shirt
The candyman and the starman
Are taking tips from the shaman
Who’s working under the webcam
All angles and long shots
No one can take the beauty of your smile
No one can break the beauty of your smile
Billy nightshade owns the corner of eddy and jones
Bambi lives in a room made of clothes
Paris model selling memories at a yard sale
Hit it hard hit it hard
Don’t worry about me slowburn
No one can take the beauty of your smile
No one can break the beauty of your smile
C’mon
No one can break the beauty of your smile
No one can take the beauty of your smile
Methodone is a lonely home
When you’re nodding out
In the lobby of the taylor hotel
The ghosts of the doorman
Still smell like piss and howl for no reason
At the ghosts of long shoremen
Cloud cover passing in the shape of a gun
There’s no safe way home when you’re on the run
I told her not to go
I told her not to go
There’s no safe way home
When you are made of light
No one can take the beauty of your smile
No one can break the beauty of your smile
No one can take the beauty of your smile
No one can break the beauty of your smile
I DON'T WANT TO PLAY GUITAR ANYMORE
Ooh oooh ooh
Ooh oooh ooh
Don’t know if I’m dying
But I can’t catch my breath
I’ve given up on living
Terrified of death
Black wall of smoke
Rolling right through my town
I used to run but now I take it laying down
And I wonder why I don’t even wanna play guitar anymore
If there’s no stories left to say
That’s the end of everything
Ooh oooh ooh
When I was a young man
I made a lot of noise
Messed up every which way
It was all search and destroy
Not proud of it all
But then I’m not ashamed
And lately I can’t stand the sound of my own voice
And I don’t know why I don’t even wanna play guitar anymore
When there’s no stories left to say
That’s the end of everything
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la
Where there’s a will
There’s a dead man close behind
And that’s no way to ease this crippled mind
And I wonder why I don’t even wanna play guitar anymore
When there’s no stories left to sing
That’s the end of everything
When there’s no stories left to sing
Say goodbye to everything
Sha la la la
BEAUTY AND THE BUZZ
Sittin’on a fence
The big fence between time and space
Looking for a clue
I saw it on your face
Found another world
In a grain of sand
You know i left so long
Before i planned
And the answer lies
Where it always does
Somewhere between the beauty and the buzz
Tears will fall out of my mind’s eye
And rain like jet debris down from the sky
Play the guitar son
You’ll always have a friend
Never be alone
The romance never ends
Just an April fool
Running one month late
You know the jokes on me
And the laughter fades
And the answer lies
Where it always does
Somewhere between the beauty and the buzz
The tears will fall out of mind’s eye
Rain like jet debris down from the sky
Once I was an owl
Wide eyed all night long
Up with the larks
We sang an old-time song
Then I heard a voice
Echoing around the room
It’s a pretty short movie
It always ends too soon
Always ends too soon
And the answer lies
Where it always does
Somewhere between the beauty and the buzz
The truth will fall out of my mind’s eye
Rain like jet debris down from the sky
And the answer lies
Where it always does
Somewhere between the beauty and the buzz
The truth will fall out of my mind’s eye
Rain like jet debris down from the sky
LUNA DE MIEL
As I ascend
Up to the mountain top
I had the notion
That you knew the way
But I was wrong
For now we’re lost
The path has vanished
The moon is upside down
Hey! We’ve got to get away
Hey! We’ll never be the same
Hey! Yeah we could of ramble on
But we’ll find a place where we can be
C’mon
I feel the sun
Beating on my back
The birds are flying
And they won’t come back
So take my hand
There’s danger on the rise
I feel the tempest
About to crack the sky
Hey! We’ve got to get away
Hey! We’ll never be the same
Hey! Yeah we could ramble on
But we’ll find a place where we can be
Here comes the wind
It wants to shake us up
But just hang on
Because our loves a shield
Won’t let the fear
Carry us away
Won’t let the waves
Ride our love away
Hey! We got to get away
Hey! We’ll never be the same
Hey! Yeah we could ramble on
But we’ll find a place where we can be
We’ll find a place where we can be
C’mon
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
FAREWELL TO THE GOOD TIMES
Did you wake up to the thunder
Of the dead streets down below
Did you hear the wind a howlin’
Through some demon radio
Oh no I know
It’s so hard to go
If the worlds too fast for living
And dying so easy to do
Look out any broken window
Is it time to see it through
Oh no I know
It’s so hard to go
So say farewell to the good times
There’s nothing else we can do
Farewell to the good times
They never promise to be true
There’s nothing left to believe in
Nothing left here for me and you
I was thinking of the future
I was dreaming of the past
Left so many worlds behind me
Thought some of them might last
Oh no I know
It’s so hard to go
So say farewell to the good times
There’s nothing else we can do
Farewell to the good times
They never promise to be true
There’s nothing left to believe in
Nothing left here for me and you
I was staring at a bottle
My reflection on the shelf
If I blew up my own bridges
Would I only hurt myself
Oh no I know
It’s so hard to go
So say farewell to the good times
There’s nothing else we can do
Farewell to the good times
They never promise to be true
There’s nothing left to believe in
Nothing left here for me and you
Farewell to the good times
Farewell to the good times
Farewell to the good times
THOUGHT I'D LET YOU KNOW
Just thought I’d let you know
The party’s over
There’s no more furniture to break
Glasses left to smash
Children stare into the window
They all have pretty hair
And pretty voices
And sing like their mothers
We’re not alone
We are all alone
We’re not alone
We are all alone
Now the leaves fall down
Leaves are always falling down
These bones are brittle bones
These bones are noisy
We’re not alone
We are all alone
We’re not alone
We are all alone
We’re not alone
We are all alone