RUN WILD
GOIN' DOWN Walk down that old dirt road, and now Remember we were 12 years old Fallin’ over just to feel something Goin’ down
Grow up tall and strong, we got a Tom Petty sing- along
I don’t need it in my brain We goin’ down
Goin’ Down
Did you ever stop and wonder Is this life a game? Everybody’s going under And I still feel the same
If you love me, set me free, ‘cause I’m Paralyzed by anxiety I don’t need it in my heart We goin’ down
Goin’ Down
Did you ever stop and wonder
Is this life a game? Everybody’s going under And I still feel the same
And now I break, and now I bleed Something so soft, my head can’t take more ... Any more
Did you ever stop and wonder Is this life a game? Everybody’s going under And I still feel the same
RUN WILD
Cut wide open by the sunrise That’s alright Spirit’s dancin’ there in your eyes I feel fine But tonight we leave it all behind As the time rolls by River’s runnin’ dry
They’ve got us running on empty On our darkest nights Will you be my redeemer Just tell me I’m alive
You gotta run wild, all night long You gotta love someone ‘til the break of dawn Our hearts are full, son, but our backs against the wall
Worn and tested by the hard times That’s alright Heard you yellin’ to the red skies I feel fine But tonight we leave it all behind As the time rolls by Embers in the fire
They’ve got us running on empty On our darkest nights Will you be my redeemer Just tell me I’m alive You gotta run wild, all night long You gotta love someone ‘til the break of dawn Our hearts are full, son, but our backs against the wall
As the fireworks fade, we realize All we’ve got left is tonight
You gotta run wild, all night long You gotta love someone ‘til the break of dawn Our hearts are full, son, but our back’s against the wall
MEMORY ELECTRIC
FIND LOVE
Gonna find love / Gonna walk to where you are
When I feel you / Gonna shout from the mountain top
And we’ll drive all night / To that sunset paradise
Gonna breathe in / Fill my lungs with truth and light
And there ain’t nobody gonna take away / The love we build tonight
‘Cause it’s loud as thunder and sure as rain
Our shelter, our fire
Because she’s the one / And nothing’s gonna change
The way I feel about her / And it’s pushing through my veins
TEENAGE AUTUMN NIGHTS
On them teenage autumn nights / The fire’s burning so bright
Park behind the rink / What will mama think
When I bring you home so late
I’m terrified / That my heart might break and die
Remember when I took your hand in mine
It’s a come back, baby, tonight / The music is deafening
Pearl Jam at the bar / Rancid in the car
Singin’ Ruby Soho ‘til the break of dawn
Echoes of reggae through my bedroom wall
Remember when we drove and touched ‘em all
On them teenage autumn nights
Ain’t nothing ever felt so right
Bunch of vandal juveniles
We were in love and out our minds
Woohoo
It’s a throw down, baby, tonight / Drop the gloves it’s time to fight
Walkin’ in the park / Hold you in the dark
Blue and reds are flashin’ now I’m stuck inside
And the cuffs are rather tight
Remember when I took your hand in mine
On them teenage autumn nights
Ain’t nothing ever felt so right
Bunch of vandal juveniles
We were in love and out our minds
Woohoo
RESTLESS FOOL
There’s someone I used to know / Look a lot like him
Memories lost inside these bones / Radiate within
Changing like the ocean / Changing like regimes
I’m gonna sing my song ‘til it’s outta key
Gonna find out what it means
But I feel the same / When you call my name
And these memories, these memories, they make me smile
We got now, then, forever and I bet
Long lives the Restless Fool
Climb the highest mountain / Fall down on your knees
Asking for forgiveness / Asking to be free
THE BRINKMEN
Six billion ticking time bombs / This is how the world will end
No need for pyrotechnics / With a whimper not a bang
The tides are rising fast now / Ain’t no need to wonder why
An apathetic powder keg / We explode toward the sky
But don’t forget it
The place that you came from / The storm is never done
The melting winters / The cuts that time wont heal
The people who’ll disappear
The winds that moved your hair / The crashing of the waves
The spirits and the fog / The words I didn’t say
Forgotten words, we lost the war / Elders crying for the dead
Rhythms of the earth remember / The disaster in my head
But don’t forget it
The place that you came from / The storm is never done
The melting winters / The cuts that time wont heal
The people who’ll disappear
The winds that moved your hair / The crashing of the waves
The spirits and the fog / The words I didn’t say
We’re goin’ away / goin’ away / Goin’ away
Words we didn't say / Words we should’ve said
BETTER DAYS
I’ll be comin’ home / You’ll be on your way
Walk the street ‘til dawn / These are better days
Another late Vancouver night / See them stars burning bright
Walk down Main Street all alone / Street lights buzzin’, shadows growin’
Curse the cars as they pass me by / Your memory electrifies
I’ve been dreaming since I left this morning, this morning
I’ll be comin’ home / You’ll be on your way
Walk the street ‘til dawn / These are better days
I stumbled through a grizzled rain / One more drink to kill the pain
Look so deep in a stranger’s eye / See myself the truth, the lies
So far gone I’ve lost my head / Beat up, dragged down, left for dead
All I need is one more chance in the morning, in the morning
IN YOUR EYES
One early morning / You’ll awake and fear
That everything you’ve built has washed out to the sea
And you’ve been hiding / From the hurt and pain
You walked away from this / It turned out all the same
I’d sail the ocean / I’d climb on high
To see the world the way I see it in your eyes
There ain’t no tomorrow / There ain’t no yesterday
Everything’s a lie / Endless days of rain
My empty wallet / My battered brain
My broken barren heart / The stupid things I say
The sky is falling / The night is grey
I recall faded pasts and yearn for memories
There ain’t no tomorrow / There ain’t no yesterday
Everything’s a lie / Endless days of rain
But where I see nothing / You see fields of green
When the night is darkest, possibility
But where I see nothing / You see fields of green
When my night is darkest, possibility
MONEY GODS
Ridin’ on a wave of smoky dreams
The mountain shakes the people scream
The money gods will swallow earth and trees
Long horizons painted black and green
Don’t you ever wonder what they mean?
Words of war as songs of peace
The new crusade, the lies you can’t believe
Power stays the truth deceives
Voices rising / The mountain echoes
Bye, bye same old song / Been around for way too long
Bye, bye world you know / Never gonna let it go
Fateful eyes set on the Sailish sea
Warriors invade the raven flees
The tar is crude the cash is so obscene
Stack the deck and make away like thieves
Voices rising / The mountain echoes
Bye, bye same old song / Been around for way too long
Bye, bye world you know / Never gonna let it go
Bye, bye days of old / Let down by the hate you sold
Bye bye, liberty / Something ‘bout the way it bleeds
THROUGH THE DARKNESS
When the darkness comes to rest
I feel it deep inside my chest
This old man has seen it all
The darkness falls
Things are different than before
I’m wicked lonely getting old
Leaving this whole thing to fate
It’s enough to make me pray
For yesterday
And the leaves will bow down
When you walk by with me
Those ships will crash and sink into the sea
Before I let you down my love
Oh how simple life becomes
When the darkness comes on by
I hope it misses by a mile
Our brothers saw the darkness rise
Fought my whole entire life
The darkness falls
And the leaves will bow down
When you walk by with me
Those ships will crash and sink into the sea
Before I let you down my love
Oh how simple life becomes
I’ll never let you down, I’ll make you stronger
Lay your head upon my shoulder
Love will never die
Tonight
MILLION MILES
When you find me on the floor
Please remember that I’ve lost it all
Re-align me with the stars
Thoughts forgotten, but I hunger for
All the old days living, just you and I on our own
Great adventures, running far away from home
But I’d give it all away for one more try
When a man regrets his days, forgets his nights
You’re a million miles away
You’ve got time, I’ve got faith
Sometimes when worlds collide, ain’t no need to wonder why
There’s just something that I’ve gotta say
I’m getting old, I’m getting grey
Sometimes when words escape, things will never be the same
All the comforts I knew before, they’re long gone now like them dinosaurs
I was high-class / I was owed
For doing nothing / And I lost the gold
Ain’t no difference / Ain’t no way
I’ll forget you on this cold and lonesome day
THE REVISIONIST
I’m stuck out here and I got no place to go
And I see your love is almost all the way gone
The cars race by / as we walk along the freeway
And the drivers crash before they make their way home
Nobody seems to care who I'm lovin', how I'm livin'
Everybody seems to know what I’ve taken, what I’ve given
And I don’t know if I loved you anyway
The murder flies / turns the sky as black as evening
And the mountains humble all the people below
Nobody seems to care who I'm lovin', how I'm livin'
Everybody seems to know what I’ve taken, what I’ve given
And I don’t know if I loved you anyway
(But I’m a liar)
THAT ONE SONG
IN YOUR EYES
One early morning / You’ll awake and fear
That everything you’ve built has washed out to the sea
And you’ve been hiding / From the hurt and pain
You walked away from this / It turned out all the same
I’d sail the ocean / I’d climb on high
To see the world the way I see it in your eyes
There ain’t no tomorrow / There ain’t no yesterday
Everything’s a lie / Endless days of rain
My empty wallet / My battered brain
My broken barren heart / The stupid things I say
The sky is falling / The night is grey
I recall faded pasts and yearn for memories
There ain’t no tomorrow / There ain’t no yesterday
Everything’s a lie / Endless days of rain
But where I see nothing / You see fields of green
When the night is darkest, possibility
But where I see nothing / You see fields of green
When my night is darkest, possibility
THE ZAMBONI MAN
Woke up lying on the ground / head was spinning
Another night out on the town / don’t remember
Know I’m late the kids are skating on ice that ain’t been cleaned today
I was king of this old forgotten town
I skated faster and was tougher pound for pound
On that night their hearts were broken
Frozen moment in time / I can’t forget
I’ve seen the ice / I’ve scored the goals / I’ve felt the pain
I’ve seen the sun rise on a cold November day
But for all the time that passed away I still recall
The way they looked at me the night I went and lost it all
In thirty years I’ve realized
Just before was the best second of all time
Now I know that in that moment
I controlled everything that would happen in my life
I was king of this old forgotten town
I skated faster and was tougher pound for pound
On that night their hearts were broken
Frozen moment in time / I can’t forget
I’ve seen the ice / I’ve scored the goals / I’ve felt the pain
I’ve seen the sun rise on a cold November day
But for all the time that passed away I still recall
The way they looked at me the night I went and lost it all
I drive alone
ON THE RADIO
My name is Tommy, this is my hometown
If you’ll permit me, I’d like to show you around
There’s the gas station, my parents own the store
My dog is Henry there, sleeping by the door
We live along the highway, Nowheresville, B.C.
The Hope-Princeton Crow’s Nest, Route #3
We’re the only stop one hundred miles around
The lonely silence lingers, hours without a sound
I’m gonna grow up strong / they’re gonna know my name
I’m gonna work real hard / gonna make my way
But momma when I’m gone don’t ever feel alone
Because before too long you’ll hear me
On the radio
I watch the tourists filling up their cars
Coffee and bathroom breaks, chips and chocolate bars
When I get lonely I turn on the CBC
It’s all we get up here FM 91.3
News and weather, feels like they never change
And who needs real friends when you’ve got Stuart McLean
In my dreams, I’m far away from here and when
I read the news to them, the lonely get a friend
I’m gonna grow up strong / they’re gonna know my name
I’m gonna work real hard / gonna make my way
But momma when I’m gone don’t ever feel alone
Because before too long you’ll hear me
On the radio
Ain’t it amazing, how fast the years go by
Time waits for no one and I’m left to wonder why
I’m 33 now and try as though I might
I never left this place, I never took the flight
Mom ain’t feeling well and dad has passed away
I run the store now behind this counter everyday
I’m not a newsman, I never got to go
Still on these lonely days I’ve got my friends
On the radio
I’m gonna grow up strong / they’re gonna know my name
I’m gonna work real hard / gonna make my way
But momma when I’m gone don’t ever feel alone
‘Cause maybe one day still you’ll hear me
On the radio
MY OLD MAN
Take a walk to the water
Take a walk to the sea
My old man, my father
Showed me the man I could be
Had a cough in the winter
Took a walk down the street
Just he and I, in the silence and the fog
My little hand in his
Now the days are getting shorter
And the night skies closing in
Catch a glimpse of my reflection
Staring straight back at him
I said, “dad, is there a god in heaven?”
He said, “son, that’s way beyond me”
All you can do is treat other people well
And what will be, will be
My old man, he’s getting older
Living life strong and free
If there’s one thing that I could leave into this world
Give my kid a dad like him
Now the days are getting shorter
And the night skies closing in
My old man, my father
Always been my best friend
Catch a glimpse of my reflection
Staring straight back at him
I’ll walk in the rain by your side
I’ll cling to the warmth of your tiny hand
I’ll do anything to help you understand
I’ll love you more than anybody can
And the wind will whisper your name to me
Whisper all the joy that is mine
The leaves will bow down when you walk by
And morning bells will chime
THROUGH THE DARKNESS
When the darkness comes to rest
I feel it deep inside my chest
This old man has seen it all
The darkness falls
Things are different than before
I’m wicked lonely getting old
Leaving this whole thing to fate
It’s enough to make me pray
For yesterday
And the leaves will bow down
When you walk by with me
Those ships will crash and sink into the sea
Before I let you down my love
Oh how simple life becomes
When the darkness comes on by
I hope it misses by a mile
Our brothers saw the darkness rise
Fought my whole entire life
The darkness falls
And the leaves will bow down
When you walk by with me
Those ships will crash and sink into the sea
Before I let you down my love
Oh how simple life becomes
I’ll never let you down, I’ll make you stronger
Lay your head upon my shoulder
Love will never die
Tonight