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White Feather | Carnival Days | Lying and Stealing | Scenes From An American Highway Rest Stop
River to Ocean | Cinderella and the Subway | Low (or Libra) | Goodnight Kiss | No Heart Ache
If I Walk Down Her Path | Believe | Mother's Day (Run)
White Feather
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub.
It was a late Indian summer morning almost fall
Sue St. Therese had it all
Two kids and one on the way
Paul said it’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
9am they run through the street
Watch it all from my TV
Lay in bed and bury my head
Don’t roll me over oh no
Through it all an eagle flies
Some people walk on some look paralyzed
I pray through the glass for heaven tonight
Some ask when do we dance
Hope needs repair faith’s in a trance
Schoolbus window paper heart’s our only chance
10am they run through the street
Watch it all from my TV
Lay in bed and bury my head
Don’t roll me over oh no
I don’t feel like rockin’ tonight
I don’t know if it’ll ever be right
Take this white feather off my arm
Don’t roll me over oh no
And I don’t feel
I don’t feel
I don’t feel
I don’t feel
I don’t feel
I don’t feel
And I don’t feel
10am they run through the street
All I can feel and all I can see is
Same scene that plays in my head
Over and over and over and over and
I don’t feel like rocking tonight
I don’t know if it’ll ever be right
Take this white feather off my arm
And don’t roll me over oh no
It was a late Indian summer morning almost fall
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Carnival Days
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub and Tim Bradshaw.
All of a sudden
I break from my mind
I’m out in the open
Alone tonight
Baby I’m sorry I couldn’t stay
The bittersweet end of
Our carnival days
I keep in touch with all my yesterdays
Though they shine or fade away
Some solid ground beneath my feet
I feel you in a breeze
I feel you when I breathe
But all of a sudden
I break from my mind
I’m out in the open
Alone tonight
Baby so sorry I couldn’t stay
The bittersweet end of
Our carnival days
Looking out on the road in front of me
I can see it rise to where I’m free
Two lovers in a race
One will be replaced
I chase you like a wave
Holding on to what was love
But all of a sudden
I break from my mind
I’m out in the open
Alone tonight
Baby so sorry I couldn’t stay
The bittersweet end of
Our carnival days
All of a sudden
I’m free from my mind
I’m out in an open
Field tonight
The lights and the colors
Are stripped from the midway
The bittersweet end of
Our carnival days
All of a sudden
I break from my mind
I’m out in the open
Alone tonight
Baby so sorry I couldn’t stay
The bittersweet end of
Our carnival days
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Lying and Stealing
Lyrics by Phil Ayoub. Music by Phil Ayoub and Jesse Denson.
Loving you was a full-time job
But I’m not a working man
You told me every night
I didn’t understand
Now and then the rain will fall
The house gets cold and the car will stall
I’m a stranger in a dark hallway
I find the light but its too late
I’m lying and stealing
I’m lying and stealing
Did you want to find a lover
And just have a little fun
To be the cream in your coffee
The shiny ring on your finger
The sugar on your tongue
I’ll tell you baby
That’ll never be me
Take those shades off and take one look in my eyes
And you will see
Now and then the rain will fall
A stranger calling too late to call
Well I hope you take some of what I gave
I hope I made nights less lonely baby
You’re lying and stealing
You were lying and stealing
You can’t have Christmas without a birth
Can’t have a chorus without a verse
You don’t get to makeup without a fight
You gotta walk through the shadow to feel the light
I’m lying my way to your heart
I’m lying to get what I want
I’m lying my way to your heart
And you’re stealing the soul from this house and this heart
We’re lying and stealing
We’re lying and stealing
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Scenes From An American Highway Rest Stop
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub.
If you’ve got some wheels
And you’ve got some time to kill
Take a look like a child
Who hasn’t seen the world
Take an American car
To an American highway rest stop
Take it out too far
Take it out too far
There’s the easy listening
There’s the trucker with shampoo
There’s the Smith College rugby team
Walking awkward in their shoes
An American car
An American highway rest stop
Take it out too far
Take it out too far
Everyone’s watch tells a different time
Everyone’s face rings a different bell
It’s my idea of heaven
It’s her idea of hell
It’s the “Fine Gourmet Dining” at 4 in the morning
It’s a roadside wishing well
It’s the dripping vanilla
It’s the burning smell
It’s the seeing-eye dog in the truck
If God takes you away before you die
This is where you end up
An American car
At an American highway rest stop
Take it out too far
Take it out too far
Just an American car
At an American highway rest stop
Take it out too far
Take it out too far
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River to Ocean
Lyrics by Phil Ayoub and Tim Bradshaw. Music by Phil Ayoub, Tim Bradshaw and Howard Clark.
It’s the alibi you need
When you must go straight
When you leave before the thrill
Throw the dice
Turn your head away
Turn your head and
Light a candle say a prayer
There’s something in this time of year
But summer’s coming its in your ear
We’ll take a taste
Then we’ll disappear and
Release
An emotion
Burning through this rain
The freeway’s open
Like a river
To ocean
And it all lets out
The fever’s broken
Go down and save the city
It’s in need of a rescue
It suffers from a chill
Just a weekend in Vegas
I can hear your heartbeat
I can hear it
Like a secret you meant to keep
When all these things come creeping in
The other side of Sunday morning
A midnight kiss without a warning
A release
An emotion
Burning through this rain
The freeway’s open
Like a river
To ocean
And it all lets out
The fever’s broken
Its quarter four bustin’ down the door
Making love on the beds of the furniture store
What’s wrong is right what’s right is wrong
Pretty pink flamingos out on the lawn
Step outside have a beer or cigarette and relax
Do what you do to relax
Do what you do to relax and
Release
An emotion
Burning through this rain
The freeway’s open
Like a river
Goes to ocean
And it all lets out
The fever’s broken
Release
An emotion
Burning through this rain
Like the rivers
Go to ocean
And it all lets out
Release me
Oh reveal me
Heal me
Feel me
Release me
Oh reveal me
Heal me
Feel me
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Cinderella and the Subway
Lyrics by Phil Ayoub. Music by Phil Ayoub and Tim Bradshaw.
Girl on a train
Drops her slippers at the stairs
Has to slip by the stares
She’s the New York kind
Man on a bus
Equipped with restless eyes
Rests his eyes on a prize
But it don’t add up to love but
Could it be the best day
Could it be the best time
Could it be the best day
Of their lives
Fall out of bed and see
He’s on bended knee
Don’t believe in destiny
Well Broadway
It’s a long way down
You’re looking for lights
But you’re already downtown
Designer girls
With their designs on a love
But Cinderella’s on the subway
And Prince Charming’s on the bus, but
Could it be the best day
Could it be the best time
Could it be the best day
Of their lives
Fall out of bed and see
He’s on bended knee
Don’t believe in destiny
And I know there’s heartache waiting
And I know there’s so much left to do
And I know there’s something about you
That‘ll you’ll never ever ever let through but
Could it be the best day
Could it be the best time
Could it be the best day
Of their lives
Fall out of bed and see
He’s on bended knee
Don’t believe in destiny
Could it be the best way
Could it be the best time
Could it be the best day
Of their lives
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Low (or Libra)
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub.
Lying underground
I watched the lights go down
I wanna be your friend
I’ll love you oh depends
I wanna lead the way
I wanna separate
I wanna light the light
Low
You say it’s been a long time
Low
You see it in a dull shine
Low
You say it’s been a long time
Lying in my head
I’m flying in my bed
Nowhere to land in sight
I’m alone at 29
I wanna save the day
But I lost the bloody cape
Trying still to fly
Low
You say it’s been a long time
Low
You see it in a dull shine
Low
You say it’s been a long time
I lost it
At the church yeah
Disgusted
I wanna save the day
But I lost the bloody cape
Alone at 29
Well what’s the whole damn crime
I wanna walk away
I never let love wait
I wanna feel it
Low
You say it’s been a long time
Low
You see it in a dull shine
Low
You say it’s been a long time
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Goodnight Kiss
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub.
Honey its gotten late
And the sun’s been down for hours
I’m lying in this bed awake
Trying to summon all my powers
Not to run to you on a rail
Not to cover you like rain
Not to give in to the thing I miss
A thousand miles for a goodnight kiss
Well I’d drive all night
Just to kiss your cheek in the morning
The dawn it don’t deserve your light
With the sunrise I’m falling
Oh I’m at your feet
Coming up through the sheets
Lord have mercy on a boy like this
A thousand miles for a goodnight kiss
If I had you now
I’d never leave
Just kiss me now
And you can go right back to sleep
I’m not gonna lie just to argue
Yeah I know sometimes I was guilty of
Spending too much time making music
And not enough time making love
And driving you to another man
With a money-back guarantee
Oh well that ain’t lovin’ honey no
But at least you’ll get more sleep
Every girl thinks it’s about her
But oh I’m only thinking of you
I’ll be warm in your bed like a snow day
We’ll sleep until quarter of two
If you let me be your friendly neighbor
I will be your ice cream man
And you will be my favorite flavor
I’ll have you melt in my mouth and in my hand and
My goodnight kiss
Goodnight kiss
Goodnight girl
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No Heart Ache
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub and Tim Bradshaw.
She’ll bring you home to dinner
But leave you hungry at the table
You can never walk out
Even though you’re good and able
But it won’t last forever she’s the flame and you’re the candle
She’ll tell you that it’s cold outside
And take your only jacket
Her majesty’s a mystery
Perry Mason couldn’t crack it
She’s got all the answers hell she even wrote the questions
She’s just the ache with no heart
She’ll make you wait all night
Then she’ll pay you no mind
You know she’s poison
But you take a shot
She’s just the ache with no heart
She’s literary turpentine
She’s power to the people
She’s personable hopelessness
She’s registered deceitful
She’s the cliffhanger ending when you’re waiting on the sequel
She’ll let you rub her lamp
But she won’t let out the genie
You know exactly what I’m talking about
She don’t believe in L-O-V-E
It ain’t the way it’s supposed to be you’re the lock she’s got the key
She’s just the ache with no heart
She’ll make you wait all night
Then she’ll pay you no mind
You know she’s poison
But you take a shot
She’s just the ache with no heart
She’s the drunk guy sitting next to you
On a never ending train ride
She’s the last line of the poem
When you just can’t get the rhyme right
You don’t stand a chance she’s got a gun and it’s a fistfight
Shoulda gotten out before the start
She’ll make you wait all night
Then she’ll pay you no mind
You know she’s poison
But you take a shot
She’s just the ache with no heart
You know she’s poison
But you take a shot
She’s just the ache with no heart
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If I Walk Down Her Path
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub and Tim Bradshaw.
It was a romance book story
On the cutting room floor
So good with a knife
You showed me the door
Well you can’t blame a man
With a thousand scars
For the things he does
For his broken heart
So if I walk down her path
If I went down her path
She’s in the mind
Of every man
She’s got a diamond on
Both her hands
She’s a mystery
My lover or friend
Tell me would it be
The beginning or the end
If I walk down her path
If I went down her path
Well I get a little cold in the nighttime
And I don’t know what’s mine
There are no rules in the end
There are no rules tonight
She makes me right
When I’ve gone all wrong
She lifts me up
When I can’t hang on
No you can’t blame a man
With so many scars
For the things he does
For himself and his broken heart
If I went down her path
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Believe
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub.
I see my brother on the side of the road but I can’t stop
I see my lover with a smile at another that I can’t stop
I see a mother with a white line in the sight line of her little one
I see the sign of our time of blurred lines between the toys and the guns
Peace love and the rain falls
Sleep sheltered tonight
Peace love and the rain falls
But I believe in a holy gold
And I believe in a desert rose
And I can feel sun in the cold
I believe in going home
I see a holy man incensed with a devil’s heart
A saint’s not a saint if his heart is torn apart
I see a teacher in the street with her feet in ragged shoes
I see a sidewalker flat on his back with his blanket news
Peace love and the rain falls
Sleep sheltered tonight
Peace love and the rain falls
But I believe in a holy gold
And I believe in a desert rose
And I can feel sun in the cold
I believe in going home
I believe in a purest faith
A dog at the bedside at break of day
Over the rainbow a day in May
Brooklyn 42, MLK
And I believe what we leave behind
Is how a man and woman are defined
And I believe in the bowed and straight
All you need is love in 68
And I believe in a holy gold
And I believe in a desert rose
And I can feel sun in the cold
I believe in going home
I believe in a holy gold
I believe in a desert rose
I can feel sun in the cold
I believe in going home
I believe in a destined day
When black and white make a lovely gray
And I believe
I believe an angel’s born
And I believe in her Saad song
And I believe
Believe
And I believe
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Mother's Day (Run)
Lyrics and music by Phil Ayoub and Tim Bradshaw.
You wanna run
How long how far how fast
You wanna run
But you can’t out run the past
You wanna go
To a place where nobody knows
Where the white sand touches your toes
And the garden blooms a red red red red red
Under the cover
It’s yours you discover
The feeling that you might find
The moment it slips your mind
You only go
Under the covers alone
You never know
You shut out the light and the phone
You wanna go
Dance in the cape summer sand
Holding your mothers hand
And let the world keep spinning around and around and around
Under the cover
It’s yours you discover
The feeling that you might find
The moment it slips your mind
Soon you’ll be flying so high
Soon you’ll be flying so high
Soon you’ll be flying so high
Soon you’ll be flying so high
You will
You will
You will
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