LIVING ON THE EDGE
The nighttime shadows take my lead- from now to then they creep
While deep within the light of day tries desperately to sleep
I’m restless, weary- I take my stance
Balanced on the ledge
I realize with no despair I’m living on the edge
Uncertainty invades my life and robs my mind of rest
While right next door my angel lies dreaming with the best
No matter how I try to change- no matter what I pledge
My position remains unstable- I’m living on the edge
Will I fall to avoid it all
Or will I catch myself and live this hell
there's lots of time-The choice is not mine-
The TV glares it’s soothing beam I try to catch it’s spell
The rays fall short- I’ve failed again
And more than time will tell
Me where to go- what the hell can I do?
I’m caught inside this wedge
And thinking just how long I’ll last living on the edge
LYRICS- TONY B
NO ONE LOVES YOU
You left the city with the violence of a hurricane
No looking back just straight ahead
The hound dogs on your tail- you must have seen the devil
He chased you right out of your bed
chorus:
No one loves you
You have to love yourself
If you’re looking for a place of your own
Don’t look around for no one else
Blue collar dollars weren’t worth their weight in boredom
Their currency was way behind
Positions once thought worth the time and pain to strive for
No longer occupy your mind
You’ve broken from the reins that seem to hold the masses
No longer worshipping their gods
An independent point of view is what you’re after
He who knows all sits back and nods
LYRICS- TONY B
WELCOME TO THE NIGHT
You’re sitting at the bar you’re trembling with urgency
You’re calling for a drink as if it’s an emergency
Those other types like you seem to always make me sick
Pouring out their sorrows like some raving lunatic
CHORUS:
Welcome to the night
Welcome to the wondrous view
You’re wiggling at me
They’re dribbling all over you
I’m reading something new In the teardrops on your cheek
I’m hearing different meanings In all the words you speak
You’re coming on like someone off a Philip Marlowe sheet
I’m slipping off my barstool and falling at your feet
Oh I think you’ll get to me
The cue cards you’re following aren’t hard to see
Everyone’s a sucker for modern jealousy
You’ll get to me- get to me
Welcome to the night
We’ll take a new direction
In searching for a cure
We’re found a new infection
LYRICS- TONY B
TARGET ON MY HEART
Looking over my shoulder there really is no defense
Thought I locked it in my sights
It just doesn’t make any sense
Skip the blindfold, I’ll take the final smoke
There’s a target on my heart
How could I have missed my shot
I just can’t believe the luck
Life’s a shooting gallery- It’s no fun to be a duck
Dodging bullets, one is sure to hit the mark
There’s a target on my heart
It’s not luck, it’s what you’ve got
Go ahead take your shot
You can take another chance , I have always tried my best
As your spent your final round, I outlasted all the rest
Today the artful dodger, time will take it’s toll
There’s a target on my heart
You hit a vital spot, I just turned the other way
You have always been the hunter, now I’ve become the prey
Grazed and nicked before, you’ve finally hit the mark
On the target on my heart
LYRICS- TONY B
TOO MUCH TOO SOON
It’s not the worthlessness that’s toughest to endure
It’s just the feeling that the moment is unsure
And when the bother and routine just get you down
It’s not the everyday that makes you come around
There’s more than one way to disguise the fate you’ve seen
Two thousand lovers wondering what’s come of what’s been
When all your running leads to artificial ruins
It’s something special that illuminates your tombs
No it’s not love- no matter how it’s dressed
No it’s not love- you’re hoping for the best
No it’s not love- you’re shooting for the moon
Oh it’s just too much too soon
It just tomorrow that lies just beyond today
It isn’t anything worth lying for in wait
But when the breaking of the dawn assaults your eyes
Prepare yourself for what lies waiting in disguise
Lead the way- this may be your finest hour
Don’t delay- expectations domino
There’s no conclusion drawn from what has come to pass
Premeditation lingers like fingerprints on glass
Your superficial wound has just begun to bleed
The circling vultures are just preparing to feed
LYRICS- TONY B
Another Way
Cigarettes and pots of coffee
Wake me up to face the day
As I gaze into the mirror what’s the use
I think I’d better find another way
Papa taught me what to look for
Mama taught me what to say
Cause the life they led they wanted it for me
But I think I’d better find another way
Set the alarm clock, quarter to eight
Gotta get moving I’m running late
Switch into high gear loaded with fuel
Headed for nowhere, life of a fool…..a fool
Day and night I change my image
Gotta watch the things I say
Can’t let on that I don’t care for 9 to 5
And I think I’d better find another way
As my world it presses onward
Nights are running into days
Seasons I don’t notice any change
And I think I’d better find another way,
I think I’d better find another way
I think I’d better find another way
LYRICS- TONY A
CITY NIGHTS
Took a little ride along the avenue
Stopped upon a hill to get a better view
The backdrop drew a picture from the dark side of my mind
Saw a Nissan where I used to park my Ford
All our jeans wore labels everyone ignored
Measured weight in ounces not in grams
CHORUS
City nights, warm and clear. Making love, sipping beer
I recall summer blues, muscle shirts, pointy shoes
And I remember nights on the avenue
Yeah I remember those nights on the avenue
I stared myself to sleep I had a flashback
I heard voices singing Paint It Black
Ghost long gone paraded past my mind
Idealism toughened by reality
Sold ourselves a bill of goods with guarantee
Parts included labor to be billed
Johnnie’s now playing in heaven’s band
Pat he gave it up, now he’s a union man
Tony’s back in town and I’m still here
LYRICS- TONY A
ADMIT DEFEAT
It hurts me to think ‘tho there’s no other way
I can’t hide from this feeling now that it’s here to stay
Got me running in circles , got me walking the streets
I think that it’s time
Time to admit defeat
Been a long time in coming
Be a long time to leave
Spent too much time worrying, got no time to grieve
I’ve been fighting a battle
Looks like I’ve been beat
Guess there’s nothing to do
But to admit defeat
I thank you for helping me get as far as today
I hope my surrender won’t stand in your way
There’s no need to worry
I just can’t stand the heat
So I’ll be nice and cool
While I admit defeat
LYRICS- TONY B
HEAVEN
Don’t you know it’s heaven
Can’t you see me there?
Walking around with my head in the air
And the clouds they know- they fly so low
In heaven
Can’t believe it’s nothing
Nothing so easy to believe
Finding it out what life means to me
And you see it’s sad-that these people have
This heaven
And the sky so blue are the eyes of you
And how I long to see
Sometimes I talk of lovers
These times you know they’re true
Spending some time with the one you know
And passing it on- to the dreams that have gone
To heaven
lyrics- john s.
HIDEAWAY
Torn up and leveled and given my severance
I’m braced up with nothing but gall
But who gave the bright smile
And who kept the eyes dry
With ever so graceful a fall
Won’t you take me away take me to your hideaway
I feel the pressures they’re measured in rent checks
Bouncing like wicked ground balls
And who’s on the sidelines
And who’s got the last licks
If I should lose the close calls
Won’t you take me away take me to your hideaway
CHORUS:
I feel the (INAUDIBLE)
And I hear the (INAUDIBLE)
Over and over (INAUDIBLE)
And I have no time for a (INAUDIBLE)
Haunted by daydreams I’m preached to by phantoms
On vinyl from studio halls
Cast off in oceans
Please throw me your anchor
Together we’ll sink in the squall
Won’t you take me away take me to your hideaway
LYRICS- STEVE B. WE WOULD ASK STEVE TO FILL IN THE INAUDIBLE BLANKS BUT UNFORTUNATELY HE IS NO LONGER AMONG US
GRAND ARMY LANE
She grew up on Grand Army Lane
Corner of Magnolia with a view of the bay
They met in Oil City where Columbus meets the Boulevard
The barges slowly moving towards the point of decay
She said she was an artist
Lifting her pigment-speckled sweater
He said he was an Engineer
Bound by plans and measured letters
Their lives continued cautiously
In constant evolution
They travelled as one from state to state
Never finding resolution
Nothing seemed to matter
As they charged through life’s progression
From romance to the altar
To the height of their professions
And all along the fissure grew as well as their transgressions
She opened exhibitions in galleries of great renown
Her reputation growing gradually
While his sank fast and steadily
And faded out of bounds
Now he stands alone
Curated dreams up in smoke
Memories of the way it never was
Haunt the words he never spoke
And slowly drift away like wisps of forgotten hope
LYRICS- TONY B.