Back From Yesterday
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
"Sinking down through sands of my life.
Memories are my reality.
I did my best. I don’t regret it."
My good friend smiled and said to me.
Knowing eyes. Soldier’s whispered words.
He pulled me close so I would hear.
"Look between your reality.
Nothing is there you need to fear."
Chorus
Maybe I will or maybe I won’t.
Maybe I do or maybe I don’t.
Grasp of my dead past lets go.
I’m back. Back from yesterday.
Verse 2
Heat and chaos. Air smells of decay.
Soldiers hunt yet feel like the prey.
Thump of a chopper. Thunder from the sky.
Fresh load of young coming to die.
Metal flying. Innocent dying.
A tinge. A twinge. A tattered shield.
Deadly fight. How can this be right?
Inflicting wounds that will not heal.
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
Past sneaks in through its secret door.
Reliving things that are no more.
Distant moment. Once upon a time.
Feelings inside begin to climb.
Repeat Chorus
Green Eyed Girl
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
In your mind
do we stand
on our own
or hand in hand?
Crazy laugh
needs no words
Subtle smile.
Meaning slurred.
Chorus
Cause you’re a green eyed girl.
You know I can’t explain.
Green eyed girl.
I said hallelujah.
Green eyed girl.
You know I can’t explain.
Green eyed girl…
Verse 2
Pretty face.
It’s a crime.
Close the book.
Break the rhyme.
Can we laugh
at ourselves?
Put our doubts
on the shelf?
Repeat Chorus
Verse 3
Just my kind
Intoxicate.
Hypnotized.
When we relate.
Laughing voice.
Understood.
Drift away
for the good.
Are You Not There?
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Will you be the only one I See?
Far away in time from you I Know.
Little worlds I know will spin some new
crooked maps to try and hide my Way.
Chorus
Are you
Are you not there?
Do you
Do you not care?
Verse 2
Holy mess has me in doubt again
Heading back home to the one I Know.
Little words now I can see through you
Set me free inside the great divide.
Repeat Chorus
Bridge
Vines of knowing bind.
For the better I Know shines.
Now or never time to Be.
I Don’t Mind
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Do you wonder?
Do you know?
When lemmings run by
where do they go?
Are you wrong now?
Are you right?
Follow the leader
into the night.
I don’t mind.
Ignore the warning signs.
Verse 2
Staring blindly
at the sun.
Will never hurt
anyone.
Do you wonder?
Did you try?
Can’t you see now?
Leave the lie.
I don’t mind.
Ignore the warning signs.
Verse 3
Gone tomorrow.
Here today.
I don’t mind.
I go my own way.
I don’t mind
what you see.
If you jump off
don’t land on me
I don’t mind.
Ignore the warning signs.
I don’t mind.
The Cure
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
He sits alone now.
He sits alone.
He sits alone
holding a broken telephone.
Everyone knows now.
Everyone knows.
Everyone knows
he went on hold ten years ago.
Everyone knows
he went on hold ten years ago.
Verse 2
Stuck in the lies now.
Stuck in the lies.
Stuck in the lies
told by the voices in his mind.
He can’t explain now.
He can’t explain.
He can’t explain
the endless chatter in his brain.
He can’t explain
the endless chatter in his brain.
Chorus
Losing all track of time
life’s hanging by a thread
Can’t get away from all the voices in his head.
He knows they’re wrong.
He knows they’re wrong.
He knows they’re wrong for sure.
His answers for his sadness
just aren’t leading to the cure.
Verse 3
He won’t believe now.
He won’t believe.
He won’t believe in all the visions that he sees.
Can’t take them back now.
Can’t take them back.
Can’t take them back
because he sees them as a fact.
Can’t take them back
because he sees them as a fact.
Repeat Chorus
Is This Evil?
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
New found eyes
seeing through our sins.
Exposing our lies
yet I want you again.
Chorus
Is this evil?
Oh I’ve never understood.
If temptation is so bad
Oh then why does it have to feel so good?
Verse 2
Road is long.
Pleasure blurs with pain.
Can I be that strong?
Circle my wagon train.
Repeat Chorus
Fungus Blues
C.Yates
Well I left on a journey
got lost in paranoia
I was in space
wishing that I'd fall back to the ground
Verse 2
Well I stared in my own eyes
without any reflection
I shook my hand
then said I have to be on my way
Verse 3
Well I sat with a ghost
on a bench made from a past life
That ghost told me
you got those old fungus blues again
