LiVE at the Down Home
(2001)
1 - Fallin'
I don't know if I'm drunk
I don't know if it's last night's buzz
But I feel like I'm fallin' in love
Every little thing that she does
Every little glance that I see
I can't stop the feeling that's growin'
inside of me
Every little beat of my heart
feel like a boom boom boom
I could be fallin'
flyin', fallin', flyin', fallin',
cryin', crawlin', flyin',
fallin' in love
You could tell me it's day
but I don't want the night to end
Watch the sun come up
on our guilty smelling skin
Amor es un fuego
Por una vez lo segire
deja me ir ir ir ir
I don't know if I'm drunk
I don't know if it's last night's buzz
But I feel like I'm fallin' in love
For love is a fire
for once I can
follow it higher
let myself go go go go go
2 - Washington Work Song
There's blood on the sidewalk
From someone I don't know
I step around it
So I won't get it on my shoe
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington, DC
My name is America, but I pronounced it George
Some people think I'm rich
But I am mostly poor
And I cover it up to get you to fight in my war
The truth is
I am my own enemy
But I'll buy anything
You advertise on TV
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington, DC
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Every Friday, Karen and Katy
Go to take care of babies with aids
Who were born like their mothers
Addicted to crack
Drinking their bottles
Lying on their backs
Just like their fathers
Mom ain't coming back
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington, DC
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
There's blood on the sidewalk
From someone I might know
Should I step around it
So I won't get it on my soul
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington
On my way to work in Washington, DC
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
Gotta make it look good
3 - Me, Too
her daddy was a soldier in the vietnam war
she was proud to see her father in a fresh pressed uniform
he came home on a stretcher in 1966
welcomed by fellow americans throwing tomatoes and sticks
he said, “darling don't you worry, there are 2 sides to everything
I did what I believed in and I want you to do the same
I stood up for my country, yeah that's a solid bet
and I'll stand up for freedom every chance I get
CHORUS
'CAUSE AMERICA SHINES IN FRONT OF ME
AND ALL THE WORLD COULD SEE IF THEY WANTED TO
I RAISE THIS FLAG FOR YOU, ME, TOO
she grew up on the bible she grew up on love
she grew up thinking she could change the world
if she only worked hard enough
so she became a lawyer hoped to marry a good looking man
then she fell in love with the girl next door
though that wasn't part of the plan...
CHORUS
the years spin by while the corn grows high
for every train you catch you miss one
so much of life just passes by
it was time to tell daddy this one
she sat down in the corner she could still see the door
she said, “daddy I gotta tell you something I've never said before...”
he said, “shhhhhhhhhhh... everybody has a war
You see it's not about oil and it's not about guns
it's not about rainbows it's about daughters and sons
if you believe in tomorrow then I have taught you well
cause if you don't believe in yourself life's a living hell...
AND YOU'LL ALWAYS SHINE IN FRONT OF ME
AND ALL THE WORLD COULD SEE IF THEY WANTED TO
I RAISE THIS FLAG FOR YOU, ME, TOO
I RAISE THIS FLAG FOR YOU, ME, TOO
4 - Moment Of Glory
Nobody's gonna tell me what to feel...
Me and Lisa bought a motorcycle
Strapped my guitar next to her knapsack
She's my lover, she used to be my rival
And I don't want my money back
What I know is I don't know
When I'm sure it's only half the story
What I want is a house on a hill
But I'll settle for a moment of glory
Me and Lisa going down to the ocean
Where the hot sand burns our barefoot skin
She's puttin' on sunscreen 'cause the hole in the ozone's
The same exact size as the American sin
What I know is I don't know...
One man's church is another man's jail
One man's feet go where another man's fall
Tonight I'll throw my hands across steel
Nobody's gonna tell me what I feel
We're on a long ride under the big sky
Lisa's hair is blowing through her baseball cap
I'm holding on tight, gonna ride all night
By dawn I'll be asleep inside her Cadillac
5 - Opinion #33
hey you looking over there (where) I'm looking at you
hey you looking over there (where) you're looking back at me too
shake it to the right shake it to the left
shake it up all night I'm taking what I get
Levi, leather latex boots peace will come to all that choose it
so choose it (x2)
we're just the same we're just the same (x2)
no matter the hemisphere everybody got to disappear fear
disappear fear
and I'll be the first to say, honesty can be so scary
scary baby
CHORUS
opinion #33 everybody got a way to be free
opinion #34 everybody got a secret door
opinion #35 everybody got a reason to stay alive
opinion #36 no such thing as a real quick fix doesn't exist
CHORUS
if you teach your children a sick philosophy
they will come back when you're old and teach you real good
teach you real good
CHORUS
me too me three me four me five me six me seven me eight...
6 - Be The One
Somewhere in the afternoon
Before the call of early june
The earth stood still
And we kissed
It was outside so everyone
Could see and judge but we decided
This was more
I could be the one
I can reach around and run my hand
Across an old scar
To remind myself
Of one day
I know what it's like to give
Your heat and soul to someone
And have them throw it away
I could be the one
Yo pensando de ti
Toda el dia
Esta es bueno
Que tengo
La musica
Porque
Si no lo tengo
Yo muero
I could be the one
7 - Fix My Life
Fix my life
With things I like
See me dance
In your light
Last July it was raining hard
I was cold I was wet I walked into the bar
There you stood
With your t-shirt torn
And your ripped up jeans
What a way to be born
And the ice in my glass
Just like me
Melted, like
Rain rolled over and out to sea
And we ran to my truck
Out of breath, full of luck
And there was something different about the way
That it felt when we touched
Going all through me
And the look in your eye
Seemed to say
Fix my life
With things I like
See me dance
In your lightThat was back in 1987
When love was free
And life was heaven, it was the coldest day in February
We drove down to the cemetery
You said it was a fine day for a funeral
But I couldn't see through
Your cool black case of HIV
Attacking our entire society
Condoms become a way of life
Without it, man
Your dick's a knife
I said it, I said it
Believe it, I mean it
Hearts beating in the hall - laughing at it all
Loving is the key to the future
Hearts beating in the hall - laughing at it all
Nothing is the key to the future
Now, I'm the ghost in everyone
I am your daughter
I am your son
I'm the painter who paints no more
Your doctor, your lover
The boy next door
That Ron ignored and George abandoned
I'm the queer and voiceless champion
And I live inside you
I live inside you
Fix my life
With things I like
See me dance
In your light
8 - (SONiA's Story)
9 - Dance All Night
I know a way to make you dance all night
With me
I gotta go go go to the right
I gotta go go go to the left
I gotta go go go everywhere my baby tells me to
I know a way to make you get an 'a' at school
You gotta open that big bad book
And take one big long look
'Cause that's your future staring back at you
I love dancing - that's no problem
When we're moving - it's so positive
I know a way to make you kiss me
All night long
I gotta go go go to the right
I gotta go go go to the left
I gotta go go go everywhere my baby tells me to
I love dancing - that's no problem
When we're moving - it's so positive
10 - The Missing Song
Most of my family lives in Maryland
That's where I was raised and went to school
Now I'm one hour from Baltimore
And two thousand miles from you
I like the way the leaves smell in the autumn
The way the trees are set into the hills
I like drinking coffee with you in the morning
Watching the steam rise, sitting on a window sill
Then you came and now my world is
Tipping over
This is nice but it's so dark inside
This is nowhere
How am I to measure these feelings
What the hell is one heartbeat away
The distance doesn't care, it's completely unaware
Only the pounding of my heart is here to stay
Then you came and now my world is
Tipping over
This is nice but it's so dark inside
This is nowhere
11 - 2 Eggs Over Easy
Here is my story once upon a time
I was a runner for the railroad
I didn't have a dime
I was living in a penthouse
full of Roach Powder
it was owned by a Vietnam Vet who had a lot of
pictures of himself and his buddies from the war
decorating every single wall and floor
in between the wallpaper that was curling down and turning brown
I tried to stay and make it but I had to leave New York town
I was hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make m
two eggs over easy
So I go to California
got a brother living there for 69 dollars go Greyhound anywhere
glad I brought my camera it was all I could carry disguised as a guitar
I kept looking at they kept looking back
4 blond headed children ages 4 to 10
her ex-husband would come and she'd get pregnant again
every year for 4 years in between the cold beers
she didn't know she had a choice
she didn't know another alphabet
Still she was hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make her
two eggs over easy
Now I'm down in Baltimore
I'm trying to make my rent
I back up without looking put a big fat dent
I was driving my mother's car
not looking going backwards like my life
funny thing about insurance
if you use it you lose it
So I sit down by an Oak Tree
to read a book of love
it was written by 2 doctors who were guilty of
divorce two times each
who makes who the expert qualified to teach
I kept looking at they kept looking back...
Still I'm hungry for oatmeal
and some car
fast and breezy
and someone who might make me
two eggs over easy
No alarm clock warning just get up in the morning and run
and run away with you and run and run is all I want to do
I wish I had a dollar for every time we'd holler oo oo oo...
12 - Sink The Censorship
Callin' that boy to the dinner table
Callin' this girl, because she's just as able
All we do is decorate our minds
That's so significant
Fallin' down the same old sinking staircase
Narrow minds are generally two-faced
We must sink the censorship to find
What truth is
Tonight
I see you out there
I'm sending you white light
I can see a great big halo all 'round you
Someone shot imagination up my veins
Jesse, you can masturbate your mind
Who decides what dirty words define
We must sink the censorship to find
What truth is
Hey, Jess, just take one black man
Or one lesbian, one Lithuanian
Or any U.S. senator
Cut open their hearts - it's the same, it's the same
Someone shot imagination up my veins
Shalom
It's up to you, it's up to me
13 - Box Of Tissues
I put a box of tissues by my bed
'cause I knew that I'd be up forever
Waiting for...you...
I left the light on in the hall
'cause I knew that you'd be fallin'
When you finally come home
And anybody with a heart
Would've been alone
But you brought her
And anybody with a brain
Would've left you then
But I stayed...I stayed...
I gathered all the photographs
In the hope of takin' one long
Steamy bath alone
All the water on my skin
Could not wash away the years of
Tryin' to get in
Even though my love life was
Fast asleep and my heart was
Breakin' to a million pieces, I stayed
I stayed awake, I stayed awake
Even though my love life was
Fast asleep and my heart was
Breakin' to a million pieces
14 - Who's So Scared
Once riding in old Baltimore, head filled, heart filled with glee
I saw a Baltimorean, keep looking straight at me
I was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger
And so I smiled but he poked out his tongue and called me a nigga
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
When I was fourteen I took a bus to San Francisco
I was full of hope and joy, till this girl called me a boy
But I was already on my way so frightened to be gay
Just like in 1942, the world screaming
"Something's wrong with you, Jew"
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
But what I discover
Lover after lover
There's nothing wrong with me
That's just a lie by society
So I start looking at the world, we have
And while it's not completely bad
There's a lot of room for improvement
People of color and the gay movement
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Who's so scared
Once riding in old Baltimore, head filled, heart filled with glee
I saw a Baltimorean, keep looking straight at me
When I was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger
And so I smiled but he poked out his tongue and called me a nigga
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember
Concerned about my own people
Won't you explain to me that pain of your life?
Won't you explain to me that pain of your life?
Won't you explain to me that pain of your life
Of your life?
Of your life
15 - Sexual Telepathy
All of the fire burning inside ya, be true now
All of the moment, it's yours you can own it
Be true now
Sometimes when we're talking I can feel you walking
Through my mind
Just like now today I don't have much to say
But I will in time
All of the pretense, no reason for pretense
Be true now
Sexual Telepathy, Sexual Telepathy
Ah, ah, ah
Right now