Mind Over Matter

Music - Hansford Rowe

Lyrics - Kevin McBride / Hansford Rowe

We’re on the downside of the long-term

A circle we both know

Stuck on the outside of the upside

Depends on how it goes

When you know what I mean

You don’t know why I said it

Though I know why you said it

I don’t know if you mean it

You can turn your world upside down

I turn my heart inside out

But it still sounds like insults

And looks like a pout

If it’s a bad day it’s a bad day

We’ll test our good intentions

And see just how uncertain

Is this human condition

The function of the wave

Is to crest and collapse

And in that small moment

We are, perhaps

With you and me it’s complimentary

But not meant to flatter

With you and me

It’s mind over matter

Living in Dread

H. Rowe

Often now he gets the urge

For a taste of that instant surge

The casual call all yes and no's

Got to rendezvous before it shows

A little bit of this, he can't get it right

A little bit of that, even if it takes all night

One more time he hurts her

One more time she cries

('cause he's a)

Double deceiver, living in dread

Of a tiny voice, deep in his head

When he gets back he's oh so sweet

As he confesses all, but still discreet

His dreams are of the highest quality

So easy to forgive his personality

One more promise, one last excuse

It seems so real she can't refuse

One more time he hurts her

One more time she cries

('cause he's a)

Double deceiver, living in dread

Of a tiny voice, deep in his head

Double deceiver, living in dread

Of a tiny voice, deep in his head

The Jersey Pines

H. Rowe

Dickey and Jeanette are really set

Finally out of the hole after years of sweat

The neighborhood watch has it under control

And the president says we got to play our role

Little bumps running down my arm

Turning yellow, cause for alarm?

And all the forms and feelings I wish for

have lost their charm

But the night is warm, the boss is king

Gas is cheap and loving comes easy

And the drugs flow freely

In the Jersey pines

To the left what’s right is terror

To the right what’s left is torture

Square faced people they still run and hide

From high-hill guerrillas and Christian pride

I’m stuck here wondering what it means

And every day is more like a dream

But the night is warm, the boss is king

Gas is cheap and loving comes easy

And the drugs flow freely

In the Jersey pines

But the night is warm, the boss is king

Gas is cheap and loving comes easy

And the drugs flow freely

In the Jersey pines

And everything’s fine

In the Jersey pines

Ali

H. Rowe

Some people never show strain

Some have got too much to gain

Some people just don't have

Much potential for pain

I dream of destruction and bliss

Wake to the same liabilities, wondering what I missed

Wondering what it costs to feel

When it's so easy to hurt and so hard to heal

I want to be, Mohammed Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

If I could be, maybe you'd see

I'm a star without a gazer

A windowless pane

I'm a care without a taker

An empty train

Without you

Some people have nothing to lose

Some have a room just for shoes

Some people don't seem to need

To make an excuse

I see what you mean, but avoid your eyes

And even when you're wrong, have alibis

Ahh... what's love's appeal

When it's so easy to hurt and so hard to heal?

I want to be, Mohammed Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

If I could be, maybe you'd see

I'm a star without a gazer

A windowless pane

I'm a care without a taker

An empty train         

Without you

Vampire

H. Rowe

She shuts her eyes at the break of day

But every night she comes out to play

Stepping out in a rented Rolls Royce

A glass of red wine to help her make her choice

Dressed in black, the diamonds shine

You can hardly see those canines

When she’s moving, it’s like a fire

Dancing flames of burning desire

Vampire on the make

For each thing more there’s another you must take     

Vampire what’s wrong with you?

You’re only going to get what’s coming to you

She was born a thousand years ago

She’s seen things that we will never know

But all her memories fade away in pain

Like teardrops in the falling rain

She looks in the mirror with her bloodshot eyes

Maybe this one time the mirror might lie

And maybe tonight if she tells no lies

She might get a glimpse of herself in someone’s eyes

Vampire on the make

For each thing more there’s another you must take

Vampire what’s wrong with you?

You’re only going to get what’s coming to you

The Things I Do

H. Rowe

I can’t think of all the reasons yeah

And I can’t think of all the reasons no

You were not amused when I fell apart

Please don’t say you knew from the start

I remember when I first saw you

My heart opened up and you came through

No twisted nights, we just let it slide

No demented types, we had nothing to hide

Baby, please don’t ask me

Why I do the things I do

I can’t think of where it starts

From the top of my head to the bottom of my heart

I can’t think about it, let’s wish it away

Every time I’ve been gone all the things that I’ve done I go crazy

You can see it in my eyes

I want to be the one that’s on your mind

You can hear it in my lies

I want to love you one more time

Baby (you don’t want to know)

Please don’t ask me baby

(’cause I don’t even know)

Why I do the things I do

No Other

H. Rowe

In the beginning we were lovers

We bathed ourselves in the sweat of each other

We promised ourselves we'd be true to our lover

We dreamed our love was like no other, no other

I reveled in the magic of your words

You told me there was nothing I couldn't understand

And though it was surely the heat of the moment

Ahh, you make me feel

Like a hero, a hero

Slowly we got to know one another

The good the bad and the ugly together

You learned how much a lover could hurt the other

I learned how much I wanted no other, no other

While I was gone I got a letter

You told me you were proud of my effort to get better

And though it's only words on a piece of paper

Ahh, you make me feel

Like a hero, a hero

Now you say your going to have a baby

That it's my turn to have a family

And though it's a story like any other story

One more time, you make me feel

Like a hero, a hero

Love is Blind

H. Rowe

I was dreaming about a place

A place that I once knew

And all around were people

Just standing around you

They sang a song and waved their hands

I couldn't really understand

And slowly the circle

Closed around you

All I remember

Is all that I've got left to lose

Love is blind

In the morning someone whispers my name

It's really just the same

And my arms close

But not around you

The special places and special names

The coded notes and private love games

But with another

Other than you

All I remember

Is all that I've got left to lose

Love is blind

I wasted so many chances when we were alone

Now even if I telephone

What good would it do

To break the circle around you?

The old date books and smiling photographs

I can't remember what made us laugh

'cause I'm still blinded

But not around you

But by another

Other than you

Love is blind

Love is blind

One World

John Martyn

Some of us live like princes

Some of us live like queens

Most of us live just like me

And don’t know what it means

To take our place in one world

To make our peace in one world

To make our way in one world

To have our say in one world

If you ain’t got two words to say

I can’t talk to you

No use crying, there’s been no crime

I say it’s just the way the wind blows

Just the name of the game

The way of the world

Just the way of the world

Just the way of the world

Cold and lonely, cold and lonely

Cold and lonely world, for some

Cold and lonely, cold and lonely

Cold and lonely, Just a lonely world for some

There’s one world believe it or not

There’s one world

There’s one life, leave it or not

There’s one life, like it or not

There’s one world

Some of us live like princes

Some of us live like queens

Most of us live just like me

And don’t know what it means

To make our place in one world

To take our place in one world

Make our way in one world

To make our peace in one world

To take our place in one world

One World

Rouler

Ivan Doroschuk

Rouler, j'ai roulé

Tomber, je m'suis écroulé

En allant où bon me semblait

Je suis arrivé

Malgré moi à te trouver

Chercher, j'ai cherché

En brûlant mes ponts et mes sentiers

Empruntés, sans vraiment y penser

Je me suis laissé guider

Par le son de ton coeur

De temps en temps on rêve

Et de temps en temps ça va

Mais quelquefois nos rêves

Ne nous suffisent pas

Jouer, oui j'ai joué

Perdu mes nuits et mes journées

À errer pour me retrouver

Là où je voulais

Ici près de toi

In Love

De temps en temps on rêve

Et de temps en temps ça va

Mais quelquefois nos rêves

Ne nous suffisent pas