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SET LIST SIXTEEN (16)
1 Hypocrites……………...169
2 Tom's Psalm
3 Lost and Found………….170
4 Triangle
5 Crystal Ball…………...172
6 Walking Paradox
7 How and When………….174
8 Kneeling
9 Best Left……………...176
10 Chameleon
11 the Light………………..178
12 Learn From the Masters
13 Never Be………………...180
HYPOCRITES
Well it’s three o’clock in the morning
And I ain’t been to bed
I’m still trying to
sort out all those hopes and dreams
That’ve been floatin’ around in my head
It’s just so hard to focus
When you’re as talented as me
There are about a million things
That if I wanted to then I could be
Well, I’m a born teacher
But I ain’t no preacher
For I’ve never been close to god
I follow the golden rule
I went to Catholic school
But all them people sittin’ in their pews
Whipping out the green to pay their church dues
I think they’re all getting robbed!
You see, I’ve never been a fan
of playing follow the leader
The priest might be a pedophile
And the guy kneeling next to you
You know he’s a wife beater
No I don’t want to raise my kids
To grow up to be hypocrites
Organized religion will give you fits
You know that it might be time to quit
When the time that
you’re sitting in church
Is the only time that
you’re safe from getting’ hit...
TOM'S PSALM
If you believe in lies
Then your hands are tied
Self-crucified
You are still chained
In elders so wise
From them the truth still does hide
Walk in trance hypnotized
Nothing has changed
And their sermons surmise
In faith there is no compromise
Yet the same old problems
Still have not been rectified
Today and yesterday
They are still the same
The day the savior does rise
They shall all stand by his side
Though countless have died
For their religion's name
But what does it symbolize
When the only hope to unify
Is for laws of science to be defied
As the earth's engulfed in flames
And what does it signify?
That man has yet to visualize
Every instrument
Of the orchestra harmonize
When every piece is on stage?
LOST AND FOUND
I see what you have
And I want it
It will be mine
For I'll pay any cost
Someday you'll turn around
And she will not be there
For I will have found
What you have lost
You will begin to hate it
But it was all premeditated
Just when you thought
You had everything together
I finally convinced her
That she can do better
Because no matter
where you go
Pick any corner of the world
There's one thing I know...
There are only
four types of girls:
Either...
For now
For later
Forever
Or forget it
And if she's three of the four
Then you're gonna live to regret it
For now comes and then goes
For later keeps you on your toes
Forget it never shows
But when forever arrives
Then everybody knows
There is no such phrase
As setting standards too high
So be forewarned...
When forever appears
She catches everybody's eye
TRIANGLE
I could tell you
a thing or two about love
I could whisper into your ear
All of the sweet words
you long to hear
Calm and quiet every fear
A soft caress
as we gaze west
Towards the ocean's
reflecting mirror
Love you forever,
for the rest of my years
I'd always be here
to dry your tears
Cherish you above
any other one
Above all else
that I hold dear
If only I didn't have
this cross to bear...
I love someone
but she don't care...
Yes, people come
and people go
But emotions never fade away
Some things will
never happen...
This you know
Yet still you hope and pray
The nature of the beast is cruel
Though acceptance
must be learned
As the dwindling hourglass
of time has taught
That it cannot be turned
Her love came and left
It disappeared into the night
Floated up by the moon
Then vanished out of sight
My love came
But it never went away
It still rattles
around in my mind
It's how I start my day
I heard her voice today
It nearly brought me to my knees
I felt the beating of my heart again
It nearly brought me to my knees
After all the tears I've wiped away
I never thought I'd ever see this day
It only shows that time
goes on to tell:
After one word...
After one breath...
I fallen back under her spell
Let me trade her eyes
for yours
Maybe then she'll see
everything so clearly
Let me trade your ears
for hers
Maybe then she'll
be able to hear me...
CRYSTAL BALL
Indecisiveness has got a hold of me
Should I stay, should I go?
The high road, the low road
So many forces
That push and that pull
They act as they will
And they're acting now still
Just one of the choices
That I have to make
How much more can I take?
Couldn't sleep
For the last month and a half
Need a crystal ball
Because I shattered the glass
Was it half full or half empty?
But I can get it refilled they got plenty
Or at least they tell me so
But just where it is I still don't know
Maybe around the corner
Maybe half-way around the globe
Still feeling like a foreigner
Living the life of Job
I don't feel disgraced
I'm just losing my faith
Finding more questions than answers
As the hour's getting late
WALKING PARADOX
Searching for an escape...
to leave my mind
for just a little while
Praying for eyes brand new...
seeking second sight
through the eyes of a child
When it hurts to reminisce...
the only thing to do
is ask yourself why?
Things can't carry on like this
So your life goes up on trial
I got exactly what I wanted…
And now I'm looking
to give it away
Because I'm being haunted
by the price I had to pay
I pride myself on freedom...
yet I've found myself
slowly turning into a slave
I try to practice what I preach
but I'm a walking paradox by trade
So pay no attention to what you read…
And even less to what you hear
For when you start to hate your life
You act without thinking and without fear
I've got so much left to give...
but it seems I'm a hypocrite
My words may speak of peace and love
and yet my mind is clenching a fist
Everything I have
I'd gladly give away
to take a trip through time
to go back to yesterday
For some thoughts
That you find
flowing through your mind
you know you should never say
I blasphemized to hell
with Adam and Eve
Yet I'll still be apprehensive
on the day that I die
I say I wear
My heart on my sleeve...
and then I proceed
to build a wall ten miles high
I let all the cats out of the bag…
when I’d have been better off to
let sleeping dogs lay
This is the life I have to live
after finding my guide
And then beginning to stray
I found the time to pen this rhyme…
during my wife’s exile from the house
I screamed bitter words of anger...
As buried thoughts dug themselves out
Now I'm the undisputed
king of the castle
but I'm a husband
without a spouse
HOW AND WHEN
Today I lost
my best friend…
So here I am
with just my pen
Alone, here I am
with just these tears
Running down
the side of my face
Wondering how
did I find myself
Here all by myself
in this lonely place?
Wanting, waiting and wishing
for your warm embrace
Seeking to find an escape
from this soulless solace…
I find that I’ve been
Drifting far away
From whom I used to be
Just the other day
I have to pick up the pieces
And carry on again
I have to regain my trust
Have faith in my race again
Yet here I am in isolation
For fear of a broken heart
I have to pick up the pieces
But I know I have yet to start
I can find some
comfort for now
By turning my
hurt into art
And letting you know
that if you feel like me…
We’re are not alone
nor are we apart
I promise you
a better day ahead
Yes, it’s okay to be sad
It’s okay to stay in bed
It’s alright to cry
It’s alright to ask why
It’s alright to sigh
And want to just hide
It’s alright to feel pain
Emotionally broken
and blood-stained
It’s alright to feel doubt
It’s alright to let it out
That’s how and when
We can begin to let love in
For that’s how we become
Stronger and better
Women and men
KNEELING
It's time to inspire
I think that I'm ready
I finally stopped shaking
Though I'm still not
Quite fully steady
It has come that time
To try to walk by myself
If I need some assistance
At least I have someone else
Someone's who's vowed to help
You see I've fallen down
And just laid there
on the floor
I never made a sound
No, I never asked for your help
I thought I could do it by myself
But that just led
to empty feelings
As a deeper sadness
grew inside
When what I needed
was healing
And to gain back
some of my pride
That would bring
back to life
The part of me
that died...
But it never really died
I found it was only sleeping
So, I wasn't afraid to cry
No, I wasn't afraid of weeping
I knew I was
growing cold inside
When my tears
they started freezing
That's when I knew
I had to open my eyes
I couldn't yet stand
So I began by kneeling
And I got to where
the air was warm
As slowly, I went
from the lowly
To where I started
to regain my form
It's time to inspire
I think that I'm ready
I finally stopped shaking
Though I'm still not
Quite fully steady
It has come that time
To try to walk by myself
If I need some assistance
At least I have someone else
Someone's who's vowed to help...
BEST LEFT
One single ray of light
broke through the clouds
Touched down upon the ground
that I was standing upon
My lover right beside me
just stood in my shadow
By the time she made up her mind
to move the light was gone
Though it was never discussed
This scene said so much about us
This strange phenomenon
Either she didn't notice or else didn't care
Just stood there in the cool, crisp air
At six minutes past dawn
But I know another girl
who is made up of sunshine
She's waiting but I'm not sure
if she's been waiting for me
She's someone who knows
Just how I'm feeling
Yet she's uncertain
If we were ever meant to be
So I asked her if
I could come and see her
For it seems
she's now ready to settle down
After five years
of traveling across the country
She picked out a state
And said, "No more moving around"
And I've been searching for inspiration
For a new picture to place inside my frame
I have grown bored with everything around me
But I'm unsure of whom or what I blame
I've been seeking a new set of surroundings
A new life, a fresh face, a new name
I'm getting tired of waiting
For the time to be perfectly right
I'm packing my bags when I get home
And I'll be leaving some time later tonight
I'm unsure of my exact destination
I desire somewhere with a warmer locale
Maybe then I'll kick these winter time blues
And brighten up my entire morale
Yes, I've been searching for inspiration
For a new picture to place inside my frame
I have grown bored of everything around me
I've decided that things just can't stay the same
So I won't say that this story's finished
Only that soon I'll be heading west on a train
Sometimes you can't wait you must create your own fate
Find out if some things are best left...
Unexplained
CHAMELEON
She changes the color of her eyes
Every once and awhile…
But that’s all right with me
Sometimes strangers take her by surprise
So she’s always quick to flash a smile
Because life is full of compromise
And that’s not a bad way to be
She hates it when I preach
And she knows that she was born to teach
And baby, dreams are free
Anything you seek is achievable
Once you convince yourself it’s believable
I think I’ve found it…
And I can’t wait for you to see
I think I’ve found it…
And I can’t wait for you to see
I think I’ve found it…
To any locked door we have the key
Will you take my hand and follow me?
Here and now and eternity?
I think I’ve found it…
And I can’t wait for you to see
To any locked door…
We have the key
Will you take my hand
And follow me?
LIGHT
My world is empty
As strangers pass
I imagine myself
endeared in their eye
They never stop,
just go about their daily routine
Never wondering what
an unknown figure
could ever do for them
Perhaps make every dream come true
Perhaps give them the sun
and place it in their hands
They walk by
and their lives are changed forever,
unknown to them
I could have been their everything
My life remains the same, alone
I am willing to love
Yet they never stop,
just go about their daily routine
Sometimes I try to be noticed,
I shout and wave my hands
And make promises I fully intend to keep
But they do not stop, not for me
Desperate, I keep on searching
Filling my void with whatever
I find to make the day pass
Night falls and covers
my weeping eyes and damp cheeks
Despair fills my heart
just as darkness fills the air
Alone and in the dark
my eyes catch sight of a distant light
So far in the distance
and so high atop the sky
Seemingly a kin to the mountains
it is so unreachable
Yet I must try
What have I to lose
except the pain of tears?
With every step closer
my sorrow is lifted
I walk long miles
yet my legs do not feel heavy
My heart begins racing
as the light does not fade
as I get closer
So many times before my dreams crushed
right before my eyes
Maybe once I will succeed to reach the top
After what seems like
an eternity of traveling I reach the summit
The light, once distant and small,
now encompasses me
I stand before it, anxious to touch it
I extend my hand in friendly greeting
The light enters my fingertips
and explodes into my body
A body once cold regains warmth
Each sense more exited than the next
All pain ever felt before
is exiled back to where it came
My spirit returns and I feel alive
The light I now hold within guides me
Through darkness
Through worry
Now as I have found the light
I will never be alone
The light I have found
is you
LEARN FROM THE MASTERS
Today is the day
I know that I will make it
When I was cast from the mold
Who would know that I'd break it?
In bitter fits of jealousy
There are those who can't take it
Pretend to walk in my shoes
When they know that they fake it
Be yourself don't try to be me
Open the door that'll set you free
My pen name Bob Dylan Junior is gone
I've stepped into the shoes
of a man named Tom
A poet, a writer, who dabbles in song
And learns from the masters
What he's known all along
Since I am a poet
I will fight you only with my pen
I'll drag your name through the mud
And then drag it through again
There's no need for fists
For fighting only leaves you bruised
I've learned that paper cuts never heal
When everybody has heard the news
When made known is your reputation
Then I win and you lose
Since I am a poet
I will try my very best
To separate myself from all others
And try to stand above the rest
Searching for what
hasn't yet been written
Though there's not much
that Dylan left
Be yourself don't try to be me
Open the door that'll set you free
My pen name Bob Dylan Junior is gone
I've stepped into the shoes
Of a man named Tom
A poet, a writer, who dabbles in song
And learns from the masters
What he's known all along
NEVER BE
If you got it then flaunt it
If you don't then fake it
If you think it and want it
If you need it then take it
But I once told myself
That I was willing to wait
To make my mark
But I've been looking up lately
And I notice the sky
is getting dark
If things keep
progressing at this rate
In the sense that
the light is growing dim
It might be...
my destiny...
to be...
A never was...a never be...
As opposed to a has been
Even though I
Live it
Breathe it
Speak it
And eat it
I give all
I have to give
To something
As important as this
I told myself that
I am willing to deflate
My own ego
And try to silence
any feelings of hate
That deep inside of me grow
Though these toxins are innate
I swallow hard
Try to bury them alive
I got nothing but time...
and my mind...
These years in my prime....
And this
dedication to rhyme...
To use as my tools
to allow me to thrive
And I plant it
I seed it
Water it
And weed it
I give all I
have to give
For I am
Not a hypocrite
I told myself that I am
willing to bear
My inner soul
For the more voices
I hear inside my ear
The harder it is
to maintain total control
The more likely I am
to be persuaded by fear
For in this line of work
very few will ever make it
So many much more
talented than me...
Can get driven to the
brink of insanity...
End up losing themselves,
their lives and their family...
When their music
never makes the radio
No videos on MTV...
I must be able to give it
as well as take it
Yet I know it
And I say it
I believe it
And I pray for it
I give all I
have to give
I got one shot
No regrets if I miss
I told myself that I am
willing to share
Won't keep inside
My thoughts, like clothes,
I will openly wear
When you have
nothing to hide
You have no reason
to be scared
When you don't
Cheat or steal
And I...never lie...
Nor do I try...
to portray any
emotion that I...
Don't honestly feel
No fake tears
in my eyes...
Or some false
face of cheer
Only what is real
I could never conceal:
That I strive for it
Survive for it
I live for it
And would die for it
I give all
I have to give
To whatever it is...
And this is
And this is
And this is
IT!