LIVE AT THE RÄTSCHE
01. Angel Street
02. 100 Degrees In The Shade
03. Preachin' Blues
04. If You Go Away
05. Sunshine
06. Mindless
07. Don't Know Why
08. Devil's Gate
09. The Snake Song
10. Out Of The Sky
11. The Train Song
12. Freefall
13. Walk On Guilded Splinters
14. Morning Dew
15. Mystery Train
16. Rendition
17. Who's Been Talking
18. Wait And See
ANGEL STREET
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
The darkness is falling
Down on Angel Street
The whores and the junkies are walking around
My life is so beat
My body lies broken
On the cross of your love
There's some kind of evil
Coming down from above
Oh baby, you're using
Your sexuality
Like some lethal weapon
The waters around you run muddy and deep
Oh yeah, but I'm wondering
Just how it'll be
When the devil in you
Meets the devil in me
I sit by my window
Down on Angel Street
The cops and the dealers are nervous
In this summer heat
The moon shines like a mirror
And I'm thinking of you
You're cheating me, baby
I know that it's true
'Cos the devil in me
Knows the devil in you
'Cos the devil in me
Knows the devil in you
100 DEGREES IN THE SHADE
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Woke up Sunday afternoon
With a subterranean coal fire in my heart
TV still blaring from the night before
Woke me with a start
It said half the state is burning
On five one hundred mile long fronts
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And I guess I must be savin' up on luck
Walkin' through a thick yellow heat
Empty molten streets stickin' to my feet
Through suburb after suburb church yards
Fresh cut grass barking dogs and pin-eyed geeks
Searching for my family of friends and loves
I longtime left behind
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And in their turn they've all moved on
And could that be the same opaque sun
That shone on Bohemian fields of ice
The one that I looked in the eye
As I walked upon the water just like Jesus Christ
A frozen lake your hugs and kisses
All wrapped up in your long white fur coat
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And I guess I must be savin' up on luck
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And honey I'm missing you a lot
PREACHIN' BLUES
Music and Lyrics: Eddie J House jr. / DP
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IF YOU GO AWAY
Music and Lyrics: Jacques Brel / Rod McKuen
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SUNSHINE
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Sunshine you look so far away
Going down so slow
Your legs like matchsticks
And your mind completely gone
Sunshine you're turning all the pretty faces
Hearts to stone
'Cos they know that they'll going where you're
Going to help the little flowers to grow
The streets are full of strangers
And every one of them you know
Must be nice to have cut the bullshit
But don't go cutting up your soul
Sunshine you look so sad and lonely
All out on your way
While the lights inside are burning
Your skin and visions keep you warm
Sunshine the twilight's here
And the sky's a velvet glow
And in all your wild colours
I'm gonna miss you when you go
MINDLESS
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
You struck a chord in me
And it's still ringing out
And in your absence
It turns and it weaves
A sweet melody
And when you come back
I'll sing to thee
And you'll see
It's been ringin' all along
Ringin' in your ears
A voice so soft and meek
Wakes me from my sleep
Shines through the drips
Of my melting dreams
Like sun on snowy eaves
Mindless
Like the root of a tree
I penetrate thee
And all the woes this world has seen
They don't mean a thing
They are but the shadow
As the base of this candle you see
The eclipse of this tiny sun
Lighting this tiny scene
DON'T KNOW WHY
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Oh my pretty darling, can't you see?
The love we had is just a memory
I'm so burned out I can't even cry
Crucified beneath the empty sky
I've been bad, I've been untrue
I fooled around, I cheated you
Don't even know the reason why
No excuse, no alibi
No excuse, no alibi ...
Oh my darling, when you're over me
And all this pain is just a memory
Don't sacrifice your heart to bitterness
It's down to me, it's my own emptiness
I've been bad, I've cheated you
Even though your love was true
Yeah, I was born with an evil heart
Cold and fucked up from the start
I feel sad and I feel sorry
It's gone too far for me to change
Your eyes are filled with disappointment
Everything is messed up
It's gone too far to ever rearrange
Oh my darling, I'll make a deal with you
Hurt me bad now, just like I hurt you
Shine a light right down into this hole
Suck the poison, try to cure my soul
I feel sad and I feel blue
I fooled around, I cheated you
Don't even know the reason why
No excuse, no alibi
No excuse, no alibi ...
DEVIL'S GATE
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Outside the gates of Heaven
There's evil going down
I can feel it all around me
It's time that I left town
The Devil walked beside me
With a suitcase in his hand
He said, "Hey son, I'm just like you
I was born a travellin' man ..."
Once I had a woman
Her heart was sweet and true
I filled it up with evil
I left her sad and blue
I walked down to the river
With a pistol in my hand
The Devil sat by my shoulder
He said, "Yeah, you're my man!"
Aboard the ship "Endeavour"
I sailed the seven seas
I put it all behind me
I thought that I was free
Then one day I met a stranger
With eyes as black as sin
He said, "My name is Abadon
But you can call me King ..."
Now my soul it lies abandoned
Kept under lock and key
And I drink to the Devil
Underneath the gallows tree
So I took my sack of silver
And I wandered back alone
I never looked behind me
For years and years I roamed
And all that I held precious
Turned to ashes in my hands
And I'm lost without direction
On the road to the Promised Land
THE SNAKE SONG
Music and Lyrics: Townes Van Zandt
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OUT OF THE SKY
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Love is a river
That flows to the sea
And it closes the distance
Between you and me
Stars keep on falling
Right out of the sky
This love’s forever
Until we die
Oh my darling
I’m so deep inside you
And when you walk away
I walk beside you
We live together
I see you each day
You are my lover
I guess I like it this way
Eyes like an ocean
Deep blue and wide
I’m gonna sail on this ocean
Till the day that I die
And when we touch
A shock goes right through me
And when we kiss
Oh, it moves me
And the river it whispers
Between you and me
And this river keeps rolling
All the way to the sea
And the sky keeps on turning
And the stars up above
Are falling like diamonds
From a velvet glove
Oh my darling
You’re so deep inside me
And when I walk away
You walk beside me
THE TRAIN SONG
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Another train leaves the station
Off to another place I don’t want to be
It’s spinning wheels of destiny
Rolling through my mind
Drives by so close its shinning windows
Strobe light my room
Washed up in another hotel
In another small town
The crowd of strangers
Who all know my name
Have all gone home
I’ve been so far from home so long
That I’m afraid to be alone
Till I wake to see your face
Like a splash of water
Dissolve into the face
Of this sweet refugee
From the night before
Another train leaves the station
With me and my aching head all aboard
The rhythms of steel on steel
Shaking up my soul
Off to another place
You wouldn’t want to grow old
Washed up in another hotel
In another small town
The crowd of strangers
Who all know my name
Have all gone home
FREEFALL
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Crackheads on the corner by the liquor store
My hands are shaking and my body's sore
Cops crawl by, look me in the eye
The sun beats down from the pale blue sky
I got all these scenes going through my head
The things we did and the things we said
I closed that door, threw away the key
Now it's just another faded memory
All my friends have gone away
On this cold and empty day
And I've got nothing left to say
'Cos I've been down
Yeah, I've been down
Sitting in a room with the motel blues
Watching all the killing on the late-night news
Sirens in the canyons of the cities of the night
My dreams are evil and I don't feel right
It seems I left home a long time ago
I'm feeling disconnected and I just don't know...
If life's an illusion and death is a dream
Then I'm just sitting here in between
All my friends have gone away
On this cold and empty day
And I've got nothing left to say
'Cos I've been down
Yeah, I've been down
On the corner with the junkies and the funky whores
I've lived downtown, I've been there before
I know the self-hate and I know the pain
Don't ever want to be back there again
And I don't know where it goes from here
The sky's all hazy and the view's unclear
So many things that I wanted to do
But the plans I make keep falling through
All my friend's have gone away
On this cold and empty day
And I've got nothing left to say
'Cos I've been down
Yeah, I've been down
WALK ON GUILDED SPLINTERS
Music and Lyrics: John Creaux
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MORNING DEW
Music and Lyrics: Timothy Allan Rose / Bonnie Dobson
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MYSTERY TRAIN
Music and Lyrics: Herman Parker jr. / Sam Phillips
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RENDITION
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams / Phil Shoenfelt / Chris Hughes / Yoyo Röhm
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WHO'S BEEN TALKING
Music and Lyrics: Chester Burnett
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WAIT AND SEE
Music and Lyrics: Lee Hazlewood
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OUT OF THE SKY
01. So Glad I Did
02. Black Venus
03. The Looking Glass Song
04. If You Go Away
05. Numb Inside
06. The Train Song
07. Rainy Sunday Morning
08. Out Of The Sky
09. Vivi The Flea
SO GLAD I DID
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Like stepping into the warmth of day
Like slipping into dream
Like diving from the crumbling cliff
Into a living sea
Like a giant leap upon the distant moon
Before a shining blue rising Earth
I fell in love with you
And I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
Like the man in a barrel
Going over Niagara Falls
Like the space walker with his life line baby
Lets go but doesn’t fall
Like the man shot from a cannon
In a world record bid
I fell in love with you
And I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
Like the planets in their orbit
Like the wind, the rain and the sun
Like those things that are simply meant to be undone
Like the armistice, the pardon, your smiling face
I fell in love with you
And I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
BLACK VENUS
Music: Traditional / Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
The light of love is shining in your eyes
You can’t deceive, I see through your disguise
I feel, I bleed and I wait for you
To say you don’t need me anymore
Don’t turn away
I need to feel your touch
Like a flower needs the sun
To keep from dying
Give me something to believe
A kiss or a dagger or a tear
How can you deny all that you feel
And give yourself to those who only steal
You kill my heart with those cruel games you play
I want you, I’ll love you endlessly
Don’t hush your lips
I need to hear you call my name
Like a whisper on the wind
Take this heart
That beats for only you
And crush it like a slave beneath your heel
Don’t walk away
If I lose you now, my dear
How can I go on living
Should I take this dagger to my vein
Or kill you and set my spirit free
THE LOOKING GLASS SONG
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
The ocean bursts
Upon the rocks
And makes its wayward
Journey up
To float across the sky
And fall once more
The icy water
Comes rushing in
And surrounds your broken
And battered skin
Three barnacle-ridden skeletons
Singing to the waves
Above our head
Like you
Don’t your life
All seem the same
In the arms of limbo
Wrapped numb
In its train
From book to book
Day to day
These strange visions
Drift by your way
Like a thunder storm
To a ship without a crew
Looking out
From the darkened past
To the other side
Of the looking glass
And tell me honey
Who do you see there?
Like you
Don’t your life
All seem the same
In the arms of limbo
Wrapped numb
In its train
You come back home
With your fine, fine gifts
And make a rainbow
In a tightened fist
You float away
To fall once more
IF YOU GO AWAY
written by Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen
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NUMB INSIDE
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
I look out of our window
And see the night dissolve
As you lie among the sheets of disarray
And cry for all that shall never be resolved
I imagine I feel just like my father did
All those years ago
I said I’d never be like him
But I guess that’s just how it goes
And all I feel is numb inside
I wander through the autumn leaves
And think of how it could have been
I see a girl who looks just like you
And think of how it would be
If I didn’t feel so numb inside
Numb inside
All those loving things I said I meant
I tried so hard to keep it all aglow
They turned into these empty words I speak
But will never know
And all I know is numb inside
Numb inside
I look out of my window
And see the clouds and land below
On my way to someone somewhere else
I drink a toast to where the future blows
To help me feel
Numb inside
THE TRAIN SONG
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Another train leaves the station
Off to another place I don’t want to be
It’s spinning wheels of destiny
Rolling through my mind
Drives by so close its shinning windows
Strobe light my room
Washed up in another hotel
In another small town
The crowd of strangers
Who all know my name
Have all gone home
I’ve been so far from home so long
That I’m afraid to be alone
Till I wake to see your face
Like a splash of water
Dissolve into the face
Of this sweet refugee
From the night before
Another train leaves the station
With me and my aching head all aboard
The rhythms of steel on steel
Shaking up my soul
Off to another place
You wouldn’t want to grow old
Washed up in another hotel
In another small town
The crowd of strangers
Who all know my name
Have all gone home
I’ve been so far from home so long
That I’m afraid to be alone
Till I wake to see your face
Like a splash of water
Dissolve into the face
Of this sweet refugee
From the night before
RAINY SUNDAY MORNING
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
A rainy Sunday morning
Church bells are ringing
They pull me from some twisted dream
Of the night before
I feel so low-down
My head is spinning
I’ve got to change my stupid life
I can’t do this anymore
I could sail a ship across the ocean
I could take a plane across the sky
And free myself from yesterday
I don’t read those pages anymore
I don’t need those cold and empty feelings
Poisoning my soul
And all the friends I left behind
Love is a faded memory
It slips away between my fingers
There’s nothing left to hold
But if this life is just an illusion
Then there’s nothing left for me to fear
I walked out this morning
The city streets were shining
Some crystal vision filled my soul
And then it slipped away
And all those words I said
Well, I was only dreaming
Now she’s so far from me
And I’ve lost my way
I’m gonna sail right down that river
And let this pain just disappear
OUT OF THE SKY
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Love is a river
That flows to the sea
And it closes the distance
Between you and me
Stars keep on falling
Right out of the sky
This love’s forever
Until we die
Oh my darling
I’m so deep inside you
And when you walk away
I walk beside you
We live together
I see you each day
You are my lover
I guess I like it this way
Eyes like an ocean
Deep blue and wide
I’m gonna sail on this ocean
Till the day that I die
And when we touch
A shock goes right through me
And when we kiss
Oh, it moves me
And the river it whispers
Between you and me
And this river keeps rolling
All the way to the sea
And the sky keeps on turning
And the stars up above
Are falling like diamonds
From a velvet glove
Oh my darling
You’re so deep inside me
And when I walk away
You walk beside me
VIVI THE FLEA
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Vivi the Flea, scars on her hand
Dances in bars from Berlin to Taiwan
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
A diamond and silver pin through her nose
And her dance is the dance of oblivion
Her darkest and truest romance
And her eyes are the eyes of a victim
Of tragical circumstance
Up in her room she closes the door
Drowning her sorrows, her life is a bore
She’s saving one bottle but nobody calls
Her life is a prison and she’s climbing the walls
And her life was the life of a gypsy
Paris, New York and Rome
But now she’s washed up completely
In this hovel that she calls a home
Down by the docks in a smokey old bar
She dances all night and she winks like a star
At Jimmy and Johnny and all of the boys
Lost in a world of chaos and noise
And she waits for the bells of the morning to ring
With fear in her heart for what the daylight will bring
Avoiding the eyes of the strangers who stare
Everywhere…
Vivi the Flea, head like a tree
So many bad apples in her memory
Haunted by visions that come in the night
Abandoned and lost in the pale morning light
She remembers the French Riviera
Champagne and moonlight on the beach
And she wonders just how to get back there
But now it’s so far out of reach
Vivi the Flea
Head like a tree
Dances for you
Dances for me…
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SETTING THE SAILS FOR EL DORADO
01. Wild Is The Wind
02. If You Go Away
03. Dolphins
04. Bird On A Wire
05. My Death
06. Preachin' Blues
07. Who's Bin Talkin'
08. Friday's Child
WILD IS THE WIND
written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington
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IF YOU GO AWAY
written by Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen
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DOLPHINS
written by Fred Neil
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BIRD ON A WIRE
written by Leonard Cohen
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MY DEATH
written by Jacques Brél, Mort Shuman
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PREACHIN' BLUES
written by Robert Johnson
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WHO'S BIN TALKIN'
written by Chester Arthur Burnett "Howlin' Wolf"
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FRIDAY'S CHILD
written by Lee Hazlewood
...
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BIRD ON A WIRE
01. Bird On A Wire
02. Dolphins
03. Friday's Child
BIRD ON A WIRE
Music and Lyrics: Leonard Cohen
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DOLPHINS
Music and Lyrics: Fred Neil
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FRIDAY'S CHILD
Music and Lyrics: Lee Hazlewood
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REAL WORLD
01. Black Venus
02. The Looking-Glass Song
03. Six Miles Deep
04. Between A Heaven And A Hell
05. So Glad I Did
06. Blind Jesus
07. Numb Inside
08. Rainy Sunday Morning
09. Out Of The Sky
10. If You Go Away
11. Faithless
12. Vivi The Flea
13. The Train Song
14. Real World
BLACK VENUS
Music: Traditional / Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
The light of love is shining in your eyes
You can’t deceive, I see through your disguise
I feel, I bleed and I wait for you
To say you don’t need me anymore
Don’t turn away
I need to feel your touch
Like a flower needs the sun
To keep from dying
Give me something to believe
A kiss or a dagger or a tear
How can you deny all that you feel
And give yourself to those who only steal
You kill my heart with those cruel games you play
I want you, I’ll love you endlessly
Don’t hush your lips
I need to hear you call my name
Like a whisper on the wind
Take this heart
That beats for only you
And crush it like a slave beneath your heel
Don’t walk away
If I lose you now, my dear
How can I go on living
Should I take this dagger to my vein
Or kill you and set my spirit free
THE LOOKING GLASS SONG
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
The ocean bursts
Upon the rocks
And makes its wayward
Journey up
To float across the sky
And fall once more
Looking out
From the darkened past
To the other side
Of the looking glass
And tell me honey
Who do you see there?
Like you
Don’t your life
All seem the same
In the arms of limbo
Wrapped numb
In its train
The icy water
Comes rushing in
And surrounds your broken
And battered skin
Three barnacle-ridden skeletons
Singing to the waves
Above our head
From book to book
Day to day
These strange visions
Drift by your way
Like a thunder storm
To a ship without a crew
Like you
Don’t your life
All seem the same
In the arms of limbo
Wrapped numb
In its train
You com’on home
With your fine gifts
And make a rainbow
In a tightened fist
You float away
To fall once more
SIX MILES DEEP
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Seven nights and seven days
Since my baby went away
Now I’m sitting in the ruins of a broken world
All those poisoned words I said
Must be some demon in my head
Oh honey, won’t you come back one more time?
I hear those footsteps walking outside my door
I feel disconnected, I’m sick inside
Ain’t got no future, just a twisted sense of pride
I’ve seen the sun rise in Berlin
I’ve been to Paris in the spring
And I ain’t gonna play that way no more
Life ain’t easy, life is tough
I drink that whiskey and shoot that stuff
I’m getting by, but this ain’t rock & roll
Every day I just sit here in my room
Dead in the water, caught in a spin
There ain’t no cure for the state of mind I’m in
I’m feeling empty, I‘m cold inside
But I ain’t thinking of suicide
I’m just sitting here doing time
My hands are shaking, I got the fear
The demon whispers in my ear
I need protection, nothing feels right at all
I get so lonesome living here by myself
Feel like a killer, feel like a fool
I’m just a shadow of that ghost walking in my shoes
BETWEEN A HEAVEN AND A HELL
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Between a heaven and a hell
Here I am
With the angels and the devils
Dancing hand in hand
It’s mighty pretty
A little lonesome
A little bit sad
To see them fighting
Tooth and nail
To have
You can laugh or you can cry
It’s the same
Love lives on
Both sides of pain
So if you want me
Here I am
But don’t mistake me for your vision
Know who I am
Something shining
All-engulfing
That’s a part of me
Something cruel
And unforgiving
I never wanted to be
You can laugh or you can cry
It’s the same
Love lives spans
Both sides of pain
Like the big bang
Here I am
In the land of the living
And glad I am
SO GLAD I DID
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Like stepping into the warmth of day
Like slipping into dream
Like diving from the crumbling cliff
Into a living sea
Like a giant leap upon the distant moon
Before a shining blue rising Earth
I fell in love with you
And I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
Like the man in a barrel
Going over Niagara Falls
Like the space walker with his life line baby
Lets go but doesn’t fall
Like the man shot from a cannon
In a world record bid
I fell in love with you
And I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
Like the planets in their orbit
Like the wind, the rain and the sun
Like those things that are simply meant to be undone
Like the armistice, the pardon, your smiling face
I fell in love with you
And I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
I'm so glad I did
BLIND JESUS
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Blind Jesus was down on the corner
A white cane in his hand
The mountains of the moon shining in his eyes
Looking for the Promised Land
Along came old Ebeneezer
In a beat up cadillac
He said, “Hey Jim, we’re leaving home
And we ain’t never coming back“
He took Blind Jesus by the hand
And led him to the Miracle Mile
And while the angels wept, Ebeneezer slept
And Jesus he began to smile
The children they all came running
And the women they gathered round
Cos when Jesus sang, the church bells rang
Man, it was a beautiful sound
Down in the square by the market
Stood a man with a big cigar
He joined the crowd and gasped out loud
When Jesus played guitar
He watched those lightning fingers
Dollar signs in his eyes
And when Jesus sang the cash bells rang
He stood there hypnotised
He took Ebeneezer by the arm
And led him to the nearest bar
He said, “Name your price
I’m gonna treat your boy nice
I’m gonna make him a star“
A moment’s hesitation
Then Ebeneezer shook his hand
He said, “A deal’s a deal
I need a set of new wheels
I can see you’re The Man“
Well Jesus he went travelling
All across the land
From honky-tonk bars to the Street of Stars
Playing with a rock & roll band
All the people came to see him
It was a wonder to behold
The sick and the lame, he cured their pain
Chased the evil from their souls
Fame and riches came and went
Wine and women too
The angels cried and hid their eyes
Said, “Jesus, you’re untrue!“
But all those lost believers
They followed him to the end
And when Jesus died the women testified
From Delaware to Bethlehem
NUMB INSIDE
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
I look out of our window
And see the night dissolve
As you lie among the sheets of disarray
And cry for all that shall never be resolved
I imagine I feel like my father did
All those years ago
I said I’d never be like him
But I guess that’s just how it goes
And all I feel is numb inside
I wander through the autumn leaves
And think of how it could have been
I see a girl who looks just like you
And think of how it would be
If I didn’t feel so numb inside
All those loving things I said I meant
I tried so hard to keep it all aglow
They turned into these empty words I speak
But will never know
And all I know is numb inside
I look out of my window
And see the clouds and land below
On my way to someone somewhere else
I drink a toast to where the future blows
To help me feel
Numb inside
RAINY SUNDAY MORNING
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
A rainy Sunday morning
Church bells are ringing
They pull me from some twisted dream
Of the night before
I feel so low-down
My head is spinning
I’ve got to change my stupid life
I can’t do this anymore
I could sail a ship across the ocean
I could take a plane across the sky
And free myself from yesterday
I don’t read those pages anymore
I don’t need those cold and empty feelings
Poisoning my soul
And all the friends I left behind
Love is a faded memory
It slips away between my fingers
There’s nothing left to hold
But if this life is just an illusion
Then there’s nothing there for me to fear
I walked out this morning
The city streets were shining
Some crystal vision filled my soul
And then it slipped away
And all those words I said
Well, I was only dreaming
Now she’s so far from me
And I’ve lost my way
I’m gonna sail right down that river
And let this pain just disappear
OUT OF THE SKY
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Love is a river
That flows to the sea
And it closes the distance
Between you and me
Stars keep on falling
Right out of the sky
This love’s forever
Until we die
Oh my darling
I’m so deep inside you
And when you walk away
I walk beside you
We live together
I see you each day
You are my lover
I guess I like it this way
Eyes like an ocean
Deep blue and wide
I’m gonna sail on this ocean
Till the day that I die
And when we touch
A shock goes right through me
And when we kiss
Oh, it moves me
And the river it whispers
Between you and me
And this river keeps rolling
All the way to the sea
And the sky keeps on turning
And the stars up above
Are falling like diamonds
From a velvet glove
Oh my darling
You’re so deep inside me
And when I walk away
You walk beside me
IF YOU GO AWAY
Original Music and Lyrics: Jacques Brel / English Lyrics: Rod McKuen
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FAITHLESS
Music: Phil Shoenfelt and Yoyo Röhm / Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
You shine like the sun
Before you my life hadn't begun
And you can make me believe
In a soul conditioned to deceive
And you are fresh as the wind
Without you I could never win
Cos the world, oh it murders your heart
You know the game, you've played your part
And tears fall like rain
I kneel to kiss you once again
And my flesh burns with a holy fire
Corrupt and consumed with desire
You are deep as the ocean
While I spin around in perpetual motion
And I've fallen as far as I can
Nobody else could understand
And tears fall like rain
I kneel to kiss you once again
And my flesh burns with a holy fire
Corrupt and consumed with desire
And your eyes look right into me
At my lies and my stupidity
And I know that I've hurt you again
Cold and faithless till the end
And tears fall like rain
I kneel to kiss you once again
And my flesh burns with a holy fire
Corrupt and consumed with desire
Baby don't walk away
Baby don't walk away
Don't walk away
Baby don't walk away
VIVI THE FLEA
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Vivi the Flea, scars on her hand
Dances in bars from Berlin to Taiwan
Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
A diamond and silver pin through her nose
And her dance is the dance of oblivion
Her darkest and truest romance
And her eyes are the eyes of a victim
Of tragical circumstance
Up in her room she closes the door
Drowning her sorrows, her life is a bore
She’s saving one bottle but nobody calls
Her life is a prison and she’s climbing the walls
And her life was the life of a gypsy
New York, Paris and Rome
But now she’s washed up completely
In this hovel that she calls a home
Down by the docks in a smokey old bar
She dances all night and she winks like a star
At Jimmy and Johnny and all of the boys
Lost in a world of chaos and noise
And she waits for the bells of the morning to ring
With fear in her heart for what the daylight will bring
Avoiding the eyes of the strangers who stare
Everywhere…
Vivi the Flea, head like a tree
So many bad apples in her memory
Haunted by visions that come in the night
Abandoned and lost in the grey morning light
She remembers the French Riviera
Champagne and moonlight on the beach
And she wonders just how to get back there
But now it’s so far out of reach
Vivi the Flea
Head like a tree
Dances for you
Dances for me…
THE TRAIN SONG
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Another train leaves the station
Off to another place I don’t want to be
It’s spinning wheels of destiny
Rolling through my mind
Drives by so close its shinning windows
Strobe light my room
Washed up in another hotel
In another small town
The crowd of strangers
Who all know my name
Have all gone home
I’ve been so far from home so long
That I’m afraid to be alone
Till I wake to see your face
Like a splash of water
Dissolve into the face
Of this sweet refugee
From the night before
Another train leaves the station
With me and my aching head all aboard
The rhythms of steel on steel
Shaking up my soul
Off to another place
You wouldn’t want to grow old
Washed up in another hotel
In another small town
The crowd of strangers
Who all know my name
Have all gone home
REAL WORLD
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
I’m just looking for the real world
Real world real world
I’d kill for a little taste
Of the real world real world
Where everything and everyone
Is beautiful
Where no one dies and the future’s rays
Shine so much brighter than today’s
Brother do you know the way
Know the way to the real world
Where everyone is shining
Smiling and so so cool
Brother they take your peace
Piece for piece and make your enemies
I’d kill for a little peace
For a little piece of the real world
I’m gonna get me a real life
Cos the one I got don’t seem right
Everyone is pushing me
And there ain't much room left
Seems to me
Give me some perfection
Real and rerun endlessly
I just want me a little taste
Of the way everything was meant to be
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FREE FALL
01. Free Fall
02. 100 Degrees In The Shade
03. Angel Street
04. Sunshine
05. Don't Know Why
06. Mindless
07. The Fields Of Summer
08. Devil's Gate
09. Closing Time
FREE FALL
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Crackheads on the corner by the liquor store
My hands are shaking and my body's sore
Cops crawl by, look me in the eye
The sun beats down from the pale blue sky
I got all these scenes going through my head
The things we did and the things we said
I closed that door, threw away the key
Now it's just another faded memory
All my friends have gone away
On this cold and empty day
And I've got nothing left to say
'Cos I've been down
Yeah, I've been down
Sitting in a room with the motel blues
Watching all the killing on the late-night news
Sirens in the canyons of the cities of the night
My dreams are evil and I don't feel right
It seems I left home a long time ago
I'm feeling disconnected and I just don't know...
If life's an illusion and death is a dream
Then I'm just sitting here in between
All my friends have gone away
On this cold and empty day
And I've got nothing left to say
'Cos I've been down
Yeah, I've been down
On the corner with the junkies and the funky whores
I've lived downtown, I've been there before
I know the self-hate and I know the pain
Don't ever want to be back there again
And I don't know where it goes from here
The sky's all hazy and the view's unclear
So many things that I wanted to do
But the plans I make keep falling through
All my friend's have gone away
On this cold and empty day
And I've got nothing left to say
'Cos I've been down
Yeah, I've been down
100 DEGREES IN THE SHADE
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Woke up Sunday afternoon
With a subterranean coal fire in my heart
TV still blaring from the night before
Woke me with a start
It said half the state is burning
On five one hundred mile long fronts
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And I guess I must be savin' up on luck
Walkin' through a thick yellow heat
Empty molten streets stickin' to my feet
Through suburb after suburb church yards
Fresh cut grass barking dogs and pin-eyed geeks
Searching for my family of friends and loves
I longtime left behind
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And in their turn they've all moved on
And could that be the same opaque sun
That shone on Bohemian fields of ice
The one that I looked in the eye
As I walked upon the water just like Jesus Christ
A frozen lake your hugs and kisses
All wrapped up in your long white fur coat
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And I guess I must be savin' up on luck
And it's a hundred degrees in the shade
And honey I'm missing you a lot
ANGEL STREET
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
The darkness is falling
Down on Angel Street
The whores and the junkies are walking around
My life is so beat
My body lies broken
On the cross of your love
There's some kind of evil
Coming down from above
Oh baby, you're using
Your sexuality
Like some lethal weapon
The waters around you run muddy and deep
Oh yeah, but I'm wondering
Just how it'll be
When the devil in you
Meets the devil in me
I sit by my window
Down on Angel Street
The cops and the dealers are nervous
In this summer heat
The moon shines like a mirror
And I'm thinking of you
You're cheating me, baby
I know that it's true
'Cos the devil in me
Knows the devil in you
'Cos the devil in me
Knows the devil in you
SUNSHINE
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Sunshine you look so far away
Going down so slow
Your legs like matchsticks
And your mind completely gone
Sunshine you're turning all the pretty faces
Hearts to stone
'Cos they know that they'll going where you're
Going to help the little flowers to grow
The streets are full of strangers
And every one of them you know
Must be nice to have cut the bullshit
But don't go cutting up your soul
Sunshine you look so sad and lonely
All out on your way
While the lights inside are burning
Your skin and visions keep you warm
Sunshine the twilight's here
And the sky's a velvet glow
And in all your wild colours
I'm gonna miss you when you go
DON'T KNOW WHY
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Oh my pretty darling, can't you see?
The love we had is just a memory
I'm so burned out I can't even cry
Crucified beneath the empty sky
I've been bad, I've been untrue
I fooled around, I cheated you
Don't even know the reason why
No excuse, no alibi
No excuse, no alibi ...
Oh my darling, when you're over me
And all this pain is just a memory
Don't sacrifice your heart to bitterness
It's down to me, it's my own emptiness
I've been bad, I've cheated you
Even though your love was true
Yeah, I was born with an evil heart
Cold and fucked up from the start
I feel sad and I feel sorry
It's gone too far for me to change
Your eyes are filled with disappointment
Everything is messed up
It's gone too far to ever rearrange
Oh my darling, I'll make a deal with you
Hurt me bad now, just like I hurt you
Shine a light right down into this hole
Suck the poison, try to cure my soul
I feel sad and I feel blue
I fooled around, I cheated you
Don't even know the reason why
No excuse, no alibi
No excuse, no alibi ...
MINDLESS
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
You struck a chord in me
And it's still ringing out
And in your absence
It turns and it weaves
A sweet melody
And when you come back
I'll sing to thee
And you'll see
It's been ringin' all along
Ringin' in your ears
A voice so soft and meek
Wakes me from my sleep
Shines through the drips
Of my melting dreams
Like sun on snowy eaves
Mindless
Like the root of a tree
I penetrate thee
And all the woes this world has seen
They don't mean a thing
They are but the shadow
As the base of this candle you see
The eclipse of this tiny sun
Lighting this tiny scene
THE FIELDS OF SUMMER
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Another cold and rainy afternoon
The shadows deepen in this empty room
All our promises have some untrue
The fields of summer where we used to play
The icy blast of winter
Stole away
There's nothing left to say
Nothing left to do
As we sit and watch love die
On this cold and empty day
And the leaves fall from the sky
I heard a voice inside me say
"You ain't gonna make it this way
It's time to stop this lying
Something beautiful is dying
You've got to face it some day ..."
The mirror stands amidst this disarray
Our faded lives within its depths portrayed
Tear down the walls my love
Let the light shine in
These swelling waves of sorrow fill my soul
With bitterness and bile
As black as coal
Let's drink to Destiny
We could never win
As we sit and watch love die
On this cold and empty day
And the leaves fall from the sky
I heard a voice inside me say
"You ain't gonna make it anyway
It's time to stop this crying
The light of love is dying
And all the fields of summer fade away ..."
And all the fields of summer fade away
And all the fields of summer fade away
And all the fields of summer fade away
And all the fields of summer fade away ...
DEVIL'S GATE
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Outside the gates of Heaven
There's evil going down
I can feel it all around me
It's time that I left town
The Devil walked beside me
With a suitcase in his hand
He said, "Hey son, I'm just like you
I was born a travellin' man ..."
Once I had a woman
Her heart was sweet and true
I filled it up with evil
I left her sad and blue
I walked down to the river
With a pistol in my hand
The Devil sat by my shoulder
He said, "Yeah, you're my man!"
Aboard the ship "Endeavour"
I sailed the seven seas
I put it all behind me
I thought that I was free
Then one day I met a stranger
With eyes as black as sin
He said, "My name is Abadon
But you can call me King ..."
Now my soul it lies abandoned
Kept under lock and key
And I drink to the Devil
Underneath the gallows tree
So I took my sack of silver
And I wandered back alone
I never looked behind me
For years and years I roamed
And all that I held precious
Turned to ashes in my hands
And I'm lost without direction
On the road to the Promised Land
CLOSING TIME
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
It's closing time
Chairs up dead legs high
Chased all the lovers' butts away
All but yours and mine
And I know you've been waiting half the night
To sit down and talk about
All those things we talked inside out
Over a thousand times over a thousand nights
And it's closing time
Closing time closing time
Nothing lives forever
Not even you and I
And I'll just get that corpse in the toilet out
Count the money lock up lights out
And tonight we'll go our separate ways
'Cos sometimes things they just don't work out
And it's closing time
Closing time closing time
Nothing lives forever
Not even you and I
Goodnight sweet heart
Goodnight
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THE FATAL SHORE
01. Wild Is
The Wind
02. City Of Dreams
03. World Away
04. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
05. Is That You My Lover?
06. My Death
07. Preachin' Blues
08. Who's
Been Talking
09. Town Called Misery
10. The Snake Song
11. Where Are You My Lover?
12. Morning Dew
13. We Had An Island
WILD IS THE WIND
Music and Lyrics: Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington
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CITY OF DREAMS
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
I’m going down to the city of dreams
Where nothing is what it seems to be
The women are evil, the streets are tough
And the boys on the corner of the neighbourhood
Are all looking at me like I’m some freakshow
Hey baby, where do you go?
When the lights go down and the heat is high
And your soul is running dry
You go down to the city
The City of Dreams
Where nothing is what it seems to be
Now I’m sitting here in my room
Where nothing is what it seems to be
The future’s unreal, the past is a dream
Everything else is in between
And the lights from the street are shining through my window
Shadows creeping all around my door
The temperature’s rising and the streets are wild
That low-rent baby, she ain’t got no style
She’s going down to the city
The City of Dreams
Where nothing is what it seems to be
Down in the City of Dreams
Nobody’s who they seem to be
The cop is a dealer, the killer’s a priest
And all of my friends are so indiscreet
And I’m looking down this old stairwell
Hotel blues have got me on the run
And I stick my cash through a hole in the wall
When I get that stuff I don’t care at all
I‘m going down to the city
The City of Dreams
Where nobody’s who they seem to be
I’m going down to the city
Down to the city
Where nothing is what it seems to be
WORLD AWAY
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
A lightning strike
Spreads a silver sky
Across your broken window
The sweat a-drips from my face
And stings your eyes
Like the sweetest torture
The thunder claps
This bombed out city in the irons
That are the memories of survives
And I wrap my self in you
And you wrap yourself around me
And we feel a light
Burning a world away
This heat
This burning heat
Is a fire
A glowing light
Coming
Ever closer
The wind
Brings in the rain
Each tiny drop a kiss
A burning burning kiss
A world a falling world
A kiss
Burning a world away
The thunder claps
This bombed out city in the irons
That are the memories of survives
And I wrap my self in you
And you wrap yourself around me
And we feel a light
Burning a world away
I DREAMED I SAW ST. AUGUSTINE
Music and Lyrics: Bob Dylan
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IS THAT YOU MY LOVER
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Is that you my lover
Anonymously swaying with the crowd on the underground
As we burst from the black to the blinding day
I look at you look at me as if we were staring at the sun
We must look away look away look away look away
Is that you my lover
Staring at the wall of faces around the keller bar
Lovingly clutching and sipping from your long island tea
As the sun begins to paint the sky your tiny hand in mine
We walk away walk away live to love another day
Is that you my lover
Who born me a child and a bitter pain
So you’re living in LA now and I’m thinking of Spain
How’s the kid like to see him call me again
Look away look away
Is that you my lover
I see from my window running through the rain
Knocking on my door jumping all wet in my bed
With your face in my hand we kiss
Don’t look away don’t look away don’t look away
MY DEATH
Music and Lyrics: Jacques Brel and Mort Shuman
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PREACHIN' BLUES
Music and Lyrics: Robert Johnson
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WHO'S BEEN TALKING
Music and Lyrics: Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf)
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TOWN CALLED MISERY
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Oh pretty baby, we’ve been down too long
I’ve got the feeling it’s time that I was gone
Oh pretty baby, you’re looking good tonight
Your eyes are shining in the candlelight
Well I was born in a town called Misery
Between the river and the factory
Yeah, I was born to be a ramblin‘ man
I let the Devil lead me by the hand
Oh I was born in a town called Misery
Yeah, I was born in a town called Misery
And if you let me in then I’ll take you down with me
Well I was cursed with a heart so cold
I’ve been used, I’ve been bought and sold
And I know that I’m no good for you
There’s bitterness in everything that I do
Oh I was born in a town called Misery
Yeah, I was born in a town called Misery
And if you let me in then I’ll take you down with me
Oh pretty baby, you’ve been down too long
Our love was beautiful, but now it’s gone
Last night I heard you crying next to me
Feel like I’m drowning, I’ve gotta set you free
Oh I was born in a town called Misery
Yeah, I was born in a town called Misery
And if you let me in then I’ll take you down with me
THE SNAKE SONG
Music and Lyrics: Townes Van Zandt
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WHERE ARE YOU MY LOVER
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
I‘ve been lost, I’ve been found
I buried my head in the ground
In the streets and the bars
Everybody knew me by name
And I suffered like a saint
For the money I stole and then spent
On the drugs and the booze and the moonlight
That shines when the wind blows
So where are you my lover?
Did you run for cover?
Where are you my lover
When I call your name?
I got down on my knees
I’ve been tossed like a sail on the sea
Through the heartache and struggle
I kept up my side of the deal
And I laughed at my pain
Cos the world is so fucking insane
For the wars of religion
And the wars of self-determination
So where are you my lover?
Did you run for cover?
Where are you my lover
When I call your name?
And I long for your touch
And your carnival smile
Oh I need you so bad now
Even just for a while
So where are you my lover?
Did you run for cover?
Oh my darling, take me down
You’ve been beat up and kicked to the ground
But you stand up so proud and so true
I can’t hope to contend
You don’t care anymore
You dress like a ten dollar whore
But I love you for more than the pain
And the fear that you show
For the wind in your sails
And the moon in your eyes
And the vision of truth
That cuts through my lies
So where are you my lover?
Did you run for cover?
Where are you my lover
When I call your name?
MORNING DEW
Music and Lyrics: Bonnie Dobson, co-written by Tim Rose
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WE HAD AN ISLAND
Music and Lyrics: Bruno Adams
Remember we had an island
Warm wild and blue
An uncharted island
Nobody knew
The sand was a worn away carpet
And the palms of paper and glue
But the shadows of my doubts
Were cast by a love true yes it’s true
But the seas that surrounded us
Betrayed a treacherous reality
But in your arms each night
The sun would rise and that’s all I could see
But the waters were arising
And a letter came from a man of the sea
To the waves of encroaching waters you made love to me
And as I slept you simply sailed away
On a ship built for two
It’s masts made of my bones
It’s sails the skin of my body
And the hull of my soul
Remember we had an island
From its shores I watch the ships go by
On the ocean of your naked body
Laying by his side
Remember we had an island
Warm wild and blue
We had an island
Do you remember it too?
Do you remember it too?
UNRECORDED & UNRELEASED
THE ROAD OF NO RETURN (1997)
Music and Lyrics: Phil Shoenfelt
Down the road of no return
The villages and valleys burn
What the hell is happening down here?
Through the streets the killers roam
House to house and home to home
Like God’s Destroying Angel drawing near
You sacrifice humanity, twisted by the memory
Of old battles lost six hundred years ago
You crave the rule of an iron hand
That brings pestilence upon this land
Who do you really think you’re fighting for?
Who are you fighting for?
Who are you fighting for?
Soldiers spit upon the graves
Of those who sank beneath the waves
Of evil lies and futile bigotry
From pictures on my TV screen
Images I wish I’d never seen
I try to fathom your mentality
The words you say, they make no sense
And I don’t believe it’s self-defense
It’s murder and the Devil’s drawing near
With crooked lies and strategies
With violence and brutality
You can make a million people disappear
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
Well, I don’t respect authority
Or your precious ideology
And I feel the poison of your Evil Eye
Down the road of no return
Is it so hard for us to learn
Or do another million people have to die?
Your culture and your history
Your leaders and their “destiny”
It’s not the kind of place I want to know
So look into the killers’ eyes
And say a prayer for those who died
Lord Jesus died two thousand years ago
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
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