V1. There’s a promise from the fools,
that your hands will be, always kept clean.
When you can only believe in what,
seems to be, straight from your dreams.
Bridge: Now, take your leave knowing,
your senses will follow you home.
Are there really, those born defending,
or forever, needing to roam.
Chorus: Points with a face filled with hate,
but her eyes are still needing.
There here for the rich, not the poor,
though their backsides are bleeding.
To try to know how,
recollect every move, that sensation made.
Live and still die, with each sigh never heard,
that your laughter breaks.
(Instrumental Break)
V.2: Your mind is in the news of the world,
and you don’t wanna think.
To fall just short of asking, is there really a workable link,
in the critics and the writers,
and the swollen pride of all that black ink.
Bridge: Now, take your leave knowing,
your senses will follow you home.
Are there really, those born defending,
or forever, needing to roam.
Chorus: You’re here for what’s right,
and what’s more, you won’t try forgetting.
Don’t challenge who keeps all the scores,
although their not moving.
On canopy ground, still the mother will kill what the lover takes.
Random sounds fake, what in life cannot shake and truth can’t create.
(OUTRO)
Music and Lyrics by Robert Shawn (copyright PA form- 1994)
credits
from HALLWAY HOTEL,
track released February 20, 2012
Co-production,Vocals, Song and Lyrics by Robert Shawn
All instruments and co-production by Greg Gonzalez
Swirling goth-rock from the big voice behind '90s outfit Sunshine Blind, featuring a who's-who of dark underground denizens. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2020
London's Modern Woman meld proggy folk-rock and wiry post-punk into an adventurous and elastic sound all their own on this new EP. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 21, 2021
The posthumous record by the legendary Tony Joe White is full of rugged, smoky blues & Americana, culled from a trove of demos. Bandcamp New & Notable May 10, 2021