Beautiful World
Beautiful World (1997)
1. Resignation Superman Beautiful World was produced by Jerry Harrison, and is at once an R & B, and modern rock powerhouse. It is a tightly produced, million dollar sounding disc, which is at the same time a very relaxed and uncluttered recording. This collection of songs begins with hard edged, contemporary songs such as "Resignation Superman", and "Caroline", and then journeys into a soul extravaganza featuring funk magician Bernie Worrell, and blues legend, John Lee Hooker.
2. Caroline
3. Crazy Mary
4. Helpless
5. Tower
6. Please Don't Tell Her
7. Beautiful World
8. True Lady
9. Heart of Wilderness
10. If You Can't Slow Down
11. Boom Boom
12. These Days Without You
Resignation Superman

He'll come flying out of this town
A resignation superman
And today the bad guys win
'Cause he turned his cape in
Now, he says
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this world
Oh well ...
Yes, he's tired of fighting in this town
All the suffering and vice
He wants to fall in love
Maybe settle in and live a life
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes form this world
Oh I want to believe in you now that I'm suffering
Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart
And he keeps an eye upon this town
The resignation superman
He'll keep himself amused
With the evening news
Oh my ...
And I'll turn my back on this world
Yes, I'll turn my eyes from this world
Now I broke my back on this world
Now I'll wash my hands of this world
Oh I want to believe in you now that I'm suffering
Oh lord, I need to receive your hand in my heart

Caroline

Caroline, I've seen the sun again
I've felt the summer wind
For the first time since your good-bye
And the thirst I've kept inside
Has swallowed me alive
You had to fall to take my hand
You had to leave to make me understand
Stay on for me my new star, keep on lightin' up,
push me on, Caroline
Caroline, I heard your name again
Said by a distant friend
To my surprise she hadn't heard
When your love flies, you hit the dirt
You know it's time to rise now
She had to fall to take my hand
She had to leave to make me understand
Stay on for me my new star, keep on lightin' up,
Push me on Caroline
Ah dear light I know you're with us all
And you laugh when we fall
And when we cry, find you everywhere
Everything, I see reminds me , every care
You turn it all to air
She had to fall to take my hand
She had to leave to make me understand
Stay on for me my new star, keep on lightin' up,
Push me on Caroline

Crazy Mary

Baby's gonna change her life
She's made up her mind
She leaving her girls behind
And her lovers unkind
Crazy Mary look back and you're done
Just hold on and run
You're on your way home
Ain't nothin' gonna break you down Mary
I'm on your side
Nobody can touch you now Mary
Though trouble won't pass you by
Finding it hard to begin
To let the sun rise
To forget what was doing her in
What was making her blind
Crazy Mary just keep to yourself
Your old friends won't help
To make your escape
May you be well on your road
I know you'll get by
Life is the flower that grows
>From the knots we untie
Crazy Mary look back and you're done
Just hold on and run
You're on your way home

Helpless

Since the first time I can't take my poor eyes off you
Though it seems I've lost my mind, you make my heart new
Any fool would run but
I can't help myself around you
You turn my head, and I leave the rest behind me
Who I am, what I had none can remind me
My defenses done and
I can't help myself around you
My intentions cannot keep this face from changing
And surrender all this cold heart has been saving
I can't help myself around you

Tower

I want to be your Saturday, your sunrise,
in an empty space
Keep you to your lazy ways, dream late
A love affair, an end too soon, swept away,
and left unused
I want to see, if you're amused
Or alive
Walkin' 'round the tower of love
Stuck on the ground
I can't climb up
Seems like every time I look up
Rain's comin' down
Storm clouds above
I want to sleep beside you now,
and leave behind the world without
Deep inside and there's none to count
or untie
I want to be the one you break, and take you
to the higher place
Just believe and I can make you fly
Walkin' 'round the tower of love
stuck on the ground
I can't climb up
Seems like every time I look up
Rain's comin' down
Storm clouds above
What is done can keep you down, and only love
can turn around
And yesterday won't make a sound as you climb

Please Don't Tell Her

I always leave her waiting
I always leave her down
if she should come my way
I always turn around
Please don't tell her I love her
I always keep her out
I never let her in
If she should come my way weeping
I greet her with a grin
Please don't tell her I love her
if she should discover the colors of my love
she will fly, fly away
Now you can try tenderness
You can try to hang around
Oh, but I'm sure she'll love you less
I'm sure she'll bring you down
Please don't tell her I love her

Beautiful World

Seems you let a lot pass you by
When you let ambition decide
Everything has went up and gone
And all your money left you alone
Chorus:
We made a planet, a beautiful world
Let love surround it, and give it a whirl
I can't understand why it's so hard to keep
This beautiful world living and free ...
Time to let the watch unwind
Tell your heart to make up your mind
We can't wait to give at the end
Wasting all the time we can't spend
Chorus
Running after things you don't need
Is bound to trip you up with your greed
Stop your hand from lifting its load
Tell that traveler 'come on home'
Chorus

True Lady

True Lady over the ocean blue
Found another I'm imagining
And as I sail into this distance
Keeping in my heart your face
Keeping in my heart your face
True Lady over the sea
Beauty as I have never known
Has it faded in the years
For someone else to behold
for someone else to behold?
True lady in your mansion high
With many lovers to wait on you
Has your memory of me died
Am I just blowing in the wind
Am I just blowing in the wind?

Heart of Wilderness

If only there were time and tenderness
Oh, for young hearts of wilderness
We run to the city we build our nest
We work, we get drunk, we make love
But your love won't take me from the grave to the heavens
Your love won't take me from the grave to the heavens
Before I'm gone your arms will be holding some other man
Before I'm gone your arms will be holding some other man
Chorus:
In this heart of wilderness
In this heart of wilderness
Run with me, take my hand, we'll run and dream
in this heart
This time I won't turn out the light
Oh, this time I won't turn out the light
Make believe every thing's alright
and kiss my lover a cold good night
Morning turns to noon and noon to night
Oh, Morning turns to noon and noon to night
My heart is still filled with fright
I'm still the same broken piece of clay
Chorus
I've been dreaming of something underneath the hill
Just around the bin and underneath the hill
A fortune in wood and steel
In restaurants and people without names
Oh sweet Jesus, I'm a broken man
Oh sweet Jesus, I'm a broken man
All I did was follow the plan
But what I wouldn't do to be loved
Chorus

If You Can't Slow down

You got your whole life for loving
She ain't the only girl around
You can't achieve by shovin'
What can't be shaken down
I know you got nothing going on
But you can't sing a love song
If you can't slow down
You take your heart full of trouble
For what might happen someday
you can't by weeping double
what you can't keep or can't make
I know you're tired of waiting for your true love
but don't let yourself just settle for a someone
I know you got nothing going on
But you can't sing a love song
If you can't slow down
If you stop to look you'll discover
What was there all the time
You'll find your sisters and brothers
together gonna get it right
I want you to open up your eyes 'cause what you
don't have is gonna make you a little wiser
I know you're tired of waiting for your true love
But don't let yourself just settle for a someone
I know you got nothing going on
But you can't sing a love song
If you can't slow down.

Boom Boom
These Days Without You

These days without you let me down slow
And keep me after what I used to know
and keep me waiting for your smile
Sunlight in your eyes
And deeply hopin' you'll be coming home
These days have got me down upon my knees
Amazed at what I never thought I'd need
If I could have you I would try
Not to let slip by
For what once seemed so important to me
Chorus:
And when I wake up
I reach over for you
No I won't stray 'cause
I'm troubled for you
These days I'm counting on the sun to take
And find me dreaming that you'd gone away
And wait to hear you grumble along
Lord, I've been so wrong
And sorry for the things I didn't say
Chorus
These days without you know
they're gonna end
'Cause time can't come between two better friends
and what I can't see I will find
Cannot lose it's shine
and what is broken time is gonna mend
Chorus