CORBY YATES BAND: EP 1996
Guitar Hurricane
Guitar Slim
Verse 1
They call me hurricane
I come to play in your town
They call me hurricane
I come to play in your town
If you don't like my music
It's sure gonna go in your town
Verse 2
I like my pockets full of money
I like my whiskey gin and wine
I like my pockets full of money
I like my whiskey gin and wine
Love my madeira
Love my lovin' all the time
May I have a little talk with you
Howlin' Wolf
Verse 1
Well now now darlin'
May I have a little talk with you
Well now now darlin'
May I have a little talk with you
Because it won't be long
Before our true love will be through
Verse 2
Well now now darlin'
Am I right or am I wrong
Well now now darlin'
Am I right or am I wrong
Because it won't be long
Before our true love will be through
Verse 3
You know I like my coffee sweet in the mornin'
And I'm crazy bout my tea at night
Yea I like my coffee sweet in the mornin little girl
And I'm crazy bout my tea at night
You know you come a come a little better now baby
All I want you do
Treat me right
Tin Pan Alley
Robert Geddins
Verse 1
Went on down to Tin Pan Alley
To see what was goin on
Things was too hot down there
Couldn't stay very long
Hey, Alleys the roughest place I've ever been
All the people down there
Killing for their whiskey wine and gin
Verse 2
I heard a woman scream
And I peeked the door
Some guy was workin on Annie
Lord with a two by four
Hey, alleys the roughest place I've ever been
All the people down there
Killing for their whiskey wine and gin
Verse 3
I heard a pistol shoot
And it was a forty-four
Some guy killed a crap shooter cause a couldn't
Shake rattle and roll
Hey, alleys the roughest place I've ever been
All the people down there
Killing for their whiskey wine and gin
Verse 4
I saw a cop standin'
With his hand on his gun
Said this is a raid boys
Nobody run
Hey, alleys the roughest place I've ever been
All the people down there
Killing for their whiskey wine and gin
CORBY YATES BAND: 1ST ALBUM 2001
Pretty As a Flower (poison' to the touch)
C Yates/ J Yates
Verse 1
Your pretty as flower
But your poison to the touch
Your pretty as a flower
But your poison to the touch
You've used me and abused me
And I can only take so much
Verse 2
I was blinded by your beauty
Captivated all along
I was blinded by your beauty
Captivated all along
Should of seen what I was in for
The very first time that you done me wrong
Verse 3
Baby when's the next time
You gonna turn my life upside down
Baby when's the next time
You gonna turn my life upside down
Your pretty as a flower
But your planted in poison ground
Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
James. H. Moore
Verse 1
Haven't you
Seen my Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
Haven't you
Seen my Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
Haven't you
Seen my Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
Verse 2
Now when you love
When you love me
Now when you love
When you love me
Yes it's true
And too much Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
I Ain't Superstitious
Willie Dixon
Verse 1
Well I aint superstitious
Black cat just crossed my trail
Well I aint superstitious
Black cat just crossed my trail
You know I'm runnen, runnen baby
I might get put in jail
Verse 2
Well the dogs are howlin'
All over the neighborhood
Well the dogs are howlin'
All over the neighborhood
You know I'm runnen, runnen baby
I came as fast as I could
Too Sorry
Doyle Bramhall
Verse 1
I'm to sorry for you
I'm to sorry for you
I can't do what you want me to
Verse 2
I can't do what you want me to
I can't do what you want me to
I'm too sorry for you
Hurtin' Inside
C. Yates/ J. Yates
Verse 1
Hurtin inside
No light on within
Searchin' for answers
It seems there's no end
Cause I'm hurtin inside
When it's you that's the one
Life seems so empty
There's nowhere to run
Verse 2
So many people
Each claiming the key
That there way of thinking
Is best for me
But I don't think that usen
Beliefs as a crutch
Will lead me to the truth
Or help very much
Verse 3
Most of the time
Our masks are put on
Disguising the void
But the ache is not gone
I can't hide from the pain
Or wish it away
Go to bed and I wake up
There for another day
Verse 3
Hurtin Inside
Feelin empty within
Pain has a reason
It's a means to an end
Cause it strips off illusion
Until there's nowhere left to hide
When being nothing feels like something
The pain inside
It died
Testify (instrumental)
Ernie Isley
Common Ground
C Yates/ J Yates
Verse 1
Moven through the world
I'm in a strange place
No one to relate to
Don't even know a face
The people all around me
Are talking in a drone
Don't feel like I belong here
It's not my comfort zone
Chorus
Will I stare at the floor
Will I hang around
You know I'm searchin'
Searchin for some common ground
Verse 2
Waiting for the words
To slip out of my mouth
I got alot to say
But I don't know how
Between a rock and a hard place
The story of my life
I wanna say what I feel
But the fear just stabs me like a knife
Chorus
Verse 3
Just let it be
Please leave me alone
I don't even know you
Just let me go home
Don't know what to say
Don't know who you are
I'm really trying to talk
But it's just to hard
Chorus
Maybe Next Time
C. Yates/ J. Yates
Verse 1
Well I wake up to a new day
But nothings really new at all
I knew just what it was I'd change
But now my mind just can't recall
Put it off until tomorrow
Gotta be right you know
I'm never getting started
So the dead lines come and go
Chorus
Maybe next time
Verse 2
One more tick and I'll do it
The clock tics two more by
One voice says that timings good
But another says it ain't right
So I wait here just like always
While everything stays the same
Waiting for another chance
Like the last one that just came
Chorus
Maybe Next Time
Verse 3
Can ya stay just one more hour
Just let me have one more smoke
Please just give me one more chance
To fix my dirty joke
So won't ya stay just one more minute
And forgive me for my sins
You got your way
But I want mine
So I can put us off again
Chorus
Maybe Next Time
Hear my Train a Comin'
Jimi Hendrix
Verse 1
Went around the train station
Waiting for that train
Waiting for that train
To take me away
From this, Lonesome place
Chorus
It's too bad little girl, it's too bad
It's too bad you had to put me down
Verse 2
I can feel the tears
Burnin inside of me
Burnin in my heart
Burnin in my soul
Way down in my heart
Chorus
It's too bad little girl it's too bad
It's too bad, You had to part
I hear my train a comin'
Verse 3
I'm gonna leave this town
Gonna make a whole lot of money
Gonna be big yea
Come back and buy this town
I give it all to you
Chorus
Give it to me one more time little girl
Lord I might even give a little peace to you
I hear my train a comin'
CORBY YATES BAND: BACK FROM YESTERDAY 2003
Dallas
Johnny Winter
Verse 1
Way to Dallas
Find my razor and my gun
Way to Dallas
Find my razor and my gun
Put it on my baby
She said I'm gonna find me one
Verse 2
Oh my woman left the other day
Oh my woman left the other day
Put it on my baby
She said I'm gonna find me one
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 last words I'd 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
Verse 3
Past sneaks in
Through its secret door
Reliving days that are no more
Distant moment
Once upon a time
Feelings inside begin to climb
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 word
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
Chorus
Verse 3
Just my kind
Intoxicate
Hypnotized
When we relate
Laughing voice
Understood
Drift away
For the good
Chorus
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
Chorus
Bridge
Vines of knowing bind.
For the better I know shines.
Now or never time to be
Are you
Are you not there
Do you
Do you not care
Are we
Are we not there
Do you
Do you not care
Back To You
C Yates/ J Yates
Verse 1
Well I went down south
Because of what you said
Far away is where I'll be
Cause I know we'll never ever
See things the same way
Disagree move on, move on
Chorus
And I know that I can't go back
Yet I know that's what I'll choose
Cause times are slowly taking
Me on back to you
Back to you
So we can move on
Verse 2
And I know are lies will never tell the truth
And the truth is plain to see
All this useless talking's just a waste of time
Can't you see, Move on Move on
Chorus
Bridge
Staring into space
Memories of your face
Are far away
Verse 3
And I do not know if you will understand
Or put it down all on me
Differences don't matter that much anymore
Let it be
Move on
Move on
Salty Pain
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Looking at the smile on your face
As my pain falls to the ground
Can't fill up that empty space
Feels like I'm breaking down
But you'll just stand and watch me fall
In my pool of emptiness
And I know that you don't care at all
When you see me feel like this
Chorus
They say that time will mend this tear
But time has past and it's still there
I'll touch your hand
It don't mean a thing
Can't hide from my pain
Salty pain
Verse 2
Couldn't read the writing on the wall
Was I just to blind to see
That sting you gave it hurt so long
Why won't you let me be
But you'll just laugh and watch me cry
My pain don't bother you
I'm stuck here and it's no surprise
Can't change like you want me to
Chorus
They say that time will mend this tear
But time has past and it's still there
I'll touch your hand it don't mean a thing
Can't hide from my pain
Salty pain
Verse 3
How I tried to ease your mind
Can't remember anymore
And I hope just like the sun does shine
That your heart is feeling torn
Is this Evil
C Yates/ J Yates
Verse 1
New found eyes
Seeing through our sins
Exposing our lies
Yet I want you again
Is this evil
Oh I've never understood
If temptation is so bad
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
Is this evil
I've never understood
If temptation is so bad
Then why does it have to feel so good
Do You Know
C Yates/ J Yates
Verse 1
Feels like a rope
Blind man holds tail
Feels like a wall
Next blind man tells
Oh my my my my
How things have changed
Unseeing eyes
Elephants Rage
Chorus
Do you know
Will you go
My way
Do you know
Will I go
Your way
Verse 2
End of rainbow
Find pot of gold
Join in the chase
Run till your old
Oh my my my my
How things have changed
Eye for an eye
Break from the cage
Verse 3
Glass is half full
Or half empty
Or twice as big
As needs to be
Oh my my my my
How things have changed
Blink of an eye
Mind rearranged
I Don’t Mind
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Do you wonder
Do you know
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
Never hurt girl
Anyone
Do you wonder
Did you try
Can’t you see girl
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
I see the warning signs
I don't mind
The Wrong Song
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Please just let me sit in this chair
There's so many things I need to sort through
My mind just keeps on looking for the answers
Confusion please float away from me
Confusion why don't you float away from me
So I walk through this world with my friend
And I hope that she will stay until the end
Cause my mind has been wandering for to long
I know somethings wrong
Verse 2
Do my best you know I will
Now maybe I'm trying way to hard
Looking for wrong answers in right places
Illusion please float away from me
Illusion why don't you float away from me
So I walk on through time all alone
And I hope that she will be there when I'm home
Cause my mind has been wandering for too long
I know somethings wrong
Somethings wrong with us
Verse 3
When I called up the other day
The static in your voice jangled my ears
Why do we inhale all life's problems
Refusing to let them float away
Refusing to let them float away
So I walk into time until the end
And I hope that you will always be my friend
Cause my mind has been wandering for to long
I know somethings wrong
Somethings wrong with us
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
Answers to 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
Chorus
Angel
Jimi Hendrix
Verse 1
Angel came down from heaven yesterday
She stayed with me just long enough for afternoon tea
And she told me a story yesterday
About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea
And then she spread her wings high over me
She said I'll be back tomorrow
Chorus
And I said fly on my sweet angel
Fly on through the sky
Fly on my sweet angel
Tomorrow I'm gonna be by your side
Verse 2
Sure enough the spark came home to me
Silver wings sillouette against the child sunrise
And my angel she sent home to me
She said this is the day for you to rise
Take my hand your gonna be my man
We gonna ride
And she took me high over yonder
Chorus
CORBY YATES BAND: FUNGUS BLUES 2006
Sweet Fire
C Yates
Verse 1
Close your eyes and feel the sun
Burn so bright it's never done
Leave your mind and thoughts alone
Yellow light becomes your home
Chorus
The fire
Sweet fire
In you
Verse 2
Hearts a blaze this heat won't fade
Warms so fine yet cools like shade
Rise above the outer signs
Precious words light left behind
Chorus
The Fire
Sweet fire
In you
Yea
Yea
Yea
Yea
Verse 3
Years reveal with patience sweet
What it is we really need
Between the things life burns on high
Free your spark and light the sky
Chorus
Yea
Yea
Yea
Yea
Falling Sky
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Chicken told me the sky just fell
Henny penny said
Little yelled that a piece just fell
On the top of his head
Can't believes your worries
Can't believe the hype
Fowly owly just sneered and watched
And knew it would be alright
Chorus
Will the sky start falling on you
Will the sky start falling on you
Verse 2
Catch a star if it helps and then
I cut against the grain
Shoot the moon if it helps transcend
The prison of the game
Can't believe their stories
Can't believe the news
Step right into your space sublime
Acorns under your shoe
Chorus
Will the sky start falling on you
Will the sky start falling on you
Verse 3
Hopefully you see
Hopefully you see
Hopefully you see
Yea
Chorus
High Noon
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Hear comes fear
In our ear
Endless chant
Sycophant
Chorus
High Noon
Shine light
On this
Darkness
Verse 2
Feel the flood
Draw first blood
Lose control
Of our soul
Chorus
High Noon
Shine light
On this
Darkness
Verse 3
Crack of dawn
Fear is gone
Lazy Bones
C Yates
Verse 1
Lazy Bones is me
In a dream I'll be
Sleep all day
Sleep all night
I don't see
The sunlight
Verse 2
Lazy Bones is me
Fast asleep and free
From the world
From the mind
Dreamers run
With no time
Verse 3
Lazy Bones is me
Dozing casualty
Lounging here
Lounging there
Dead asleep
Got no cares
Bats In The Belfry (instrumental)
C Yates
Phony Faith Healer
C Yates
Verse 1
Tell the tale
Breath is stale
Bought the joke
Holy eyes
Dark surprise
Up his sleeve
We'd better leave
Bridge
Because it's wrong
To mess with all are heads
Chorus
Phony faith healer
You let them down
That's all I know
Verse 2
Big cigar
Fancy car
Darkened mind
Leads astray
With his way
In a sold out room
This afternoon
Bridge
Because it's wrong
To mess with all are heads
Chorus
Phony faith healer
You let them down
That's all I know
Verse 3
Weightless words
So absurd
Leave their minds
And don't come back
Frequency
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
She lives for years
Suffering sneers
Inside her head
Amuzing dread
Chorus
Hey my friends
We've lost
That frequency again
Wipe your lens and cough
Out bad deeds start again
Verse 2
He fights the clock
Teeth grind jaws lock
Burns for a clue
Won't leave his room
Chorus
Verse 3
We scrounge for peace
Facing the east
Choke on a myth
Covered the gift
Chorus
Fungus Blues
C.Yates
Verse 1
Well I left on a journey
Got lost in paranoia
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 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
I sat with a ghost on
A bench made from a past life
That ghost told me
You got those old fungus blues again
The Hook
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
We'll I'm getten off the hook now baby
I'm gonna swim down stream again
We'll I'm getten off the hook now baby
I'm gonna swim down stream again
We'll I'm getten off the hook now baby
I gotta leave to save my skin
Verse 2
I'm diven far down deep now baby
Go find another fish to fry
I'm diven far down deep now baby
Go find another fish to fry
I'm diven far down deep now baby
Cause your bait is just a lie
Chorus
Spitten out the hook
I'm spitting out the hook
Verse 3
Don't try to reel me in now baby
You don't float my boat anymore
Don't try to reel me in now baby
You don't float my boat anymore
Don't try and reel me in now baby
Just head on back to the shore
Chorus
Dogma
C Yates/J Yates
Verse 1
Are we really
Goin under
After life
Faith or blunder
On we crawl
Rise another day
As a wannabe saint
Chorus
Will that dogma
Be the way it is
Verse 2
Can we live
Many lifetimes
Wrote in stone
Or nursery rhymes
Do we die
Use another one
Cycle turns
In a universal hum
Chorus
Bridge
But I wonder
Fateful blunder
Will that dogma
Be the way it is
Verse 3
Drink the punch
Spring the trap
Wash your brain
Can't come back
Chorus
