SET LIST TWENTY (20)

1 Undefeated…………………...215

2 Dying Day

3 Fields of Time……………….217

4 Running Free

5 New Sight………………..219

6 Right By Sight

7 Off the Road……………...220

8 Rock Star Dreams

9 Plankton………………...222

10 Perfect World

11 Linear………………………..224

12 Learn From the Masters………….225

13 Another Quarter…………...226

UNDEFEATED

I ain’t got no plans this minute

So I’m seizing the moment - I’m in it

I’m not losing or winning - Just present

Not up, not down - I’m all around

From the cities to the towns

To the horses and the plows

Not the just the black or the white

But every face in the crowd

If you can see it you can be it

If you wish to delete it then don’t repeat it

Some good advice to those who seek it

Though those luckier than me might not need it

Sure you can try to pin for the win

When the argument becomes heated

But a sly guy vies for the tie

Because only Father Time is undefeated

What about space? That’s a whole ‘nother race

We started with the moon

then wouldn’t you know pretty soon

It was on to Mars and that’s just so far

There’s more in store we keep raising the bar

I’d rather not roam

Stick closer to home

Preserve what we have

Before that’s all gone

DYING DAY

I've given up on

feeding my addiction

Wash my bleeding hands clean

From this filthy affliction

Look up at the sky

to guide my direction

Why oh why do I even try

To strive for perfection

Get it up, get it out

Put another on the shelf

Rip in and pull it out

Give away another piece of yourself

Try to show

what so many others hide

In their sense of pride

With their tongues they lied

And then became tongue-tied

And with a cross look they denied

Knowing not which law they abide in

Be it gin... sin... kin?

So they just play pretend

Yet where one man's

rainbow ends...

Another's begins

At least I've found mine...

Never stop trying

Or else face regrets

On the day of your dying

Yes, the times are getting better

They say tomorrow is the day

Maybe then we can live forever

Or at the very least

we can all live together

It sure sounds good –

that much I'll say

For when we live the dream

We may finally sleep in peace

Holding and protecting

What was once so out of reach

The times are getting better

They say tomorrow is the day

Yesterday is history

Time to let it slip away

Let it out, free yourself, it's okay

The times are getting better

They say tomorrow is the day

You built your wall...

now let it fall,

it's okay

The times are getting better

They say tomorrow is the day

For hope and faith

is what we need

The time is right

to take up this creed

Finally something positive

in which to believe

Aside from learning the obvious fact

That we all bleed

For once we have found

the eternal spring

We can sit back and see

what it will bring

Maybe countrymen, maybe kings...

Maybe even better things

The times are getting better

They say tomorrow is the day

Maybe then we can live forever

Or at the very least all together

It sure sounds good

At least that much I'll say

FIELDS OF TIME

I've been growing up

And am slowly

becoming a man

I'm twenty- four years old

And doing the best that I can

I've got big dreams

But I've had to put them on hold

Thus the way it presently

looks to me

Is that my one true calling

might never be

As my big book of poetry

Just keeps on getting

dusty and old

And the people

who I am trying to help

They no longer trust in me

Gave up on waiting for me

To finally fulfill my destiny

Such a waste of a mind like mine

Wasting its time on carpentry

I've got to simply find the time

To collect up my rhymes

If it is still not too late

To change the world's fate

Because some of my stuff

is so great

Somebody has to publish me

Just look at all

the seeds I've sewn

Look and see how they've grown

Throughout the fields of time

It damn near blew my mind

That nearly all

the weeds are gone

Oh see the sun

and how it shines

Not a single cloud left in the sky

Now I don't mean

to sound so surprised...

If there's a God

then he or she knows

Just how hard I have tried

He or she sees the seas

I have swam

And knows all

the mountains I've climbed

Sees how much I have grown

Knows of all the tears

I have cried

Senses every fear that I hide

When no one cares that I am

Sitting here all alone

Pondering how to get

blood from a stone

But lately I have since

changed my tune

I now get to see

the flowers in bloom

Reaping the rewards

of years of hard work

On this lazy afternoon

Feeling the sun and all of its warmth

As if every month is

April, May or June

RUNNING FREE by Tom Jensen

Do you remember what you were

Before the world told you

what you had to be?

Back in the haze of the days

A distant memory of running free

Then what happened to my mom and dad

It came calling for me

I ran for a while and tried to hide

But you see eventually…

Race baiting wars are waiting

For those who get scooped up in the media spin

A tidal wave of hate and fear

Still the celebrities, car wrecks

and sex keep you sucked in

Remember not everyone who smiles at you

really wants to be your friend

Sometimes it resides behind the eyes

another’s true intent

For one might say

It’s not how you play the game

It’s whether you lose or win

Given time everything will change

What you red, your black, your white, your blues

Yeah that’s what I said

So your destiny is yours to choose

Yet let too many voices in your head

And the one you’ll lose belongs to you

It’s alright to hide behind a lie

Yet if you dare share the truth

Hey baby, I’m your guy

Just one look into your eyes

Lacking fire - that’s no surprise

If you sought out the flame of love

What exactly do you think you’d find?

The reason I speak of

Is I think it’s time that you tried

Sometimes it seems that

sir is short for serpent

And miss for misses and mistakes

When the realities of all your dreams

Bring you nothing but heartbreak

And if that’s the case

We can track and retrace

But we can’t go back and erase

So let us relax and embrace

The fact that haste makes waste

The way in which we act we have got to face

Do you remember what you were

Before the world told you what you had to be?

Back in the haze of the days

A distant memory of running free

NEW SIGHT

I got nowhere to go

I got no one to meet

I got no scene to show

Seems the scenery’s bleak…

I got nothing to hide

I got nothing to steal

I got nothing left of value

Except for my glorious ideals…

(crowd cheers!)

I got no status symbols

I got no house, no kids, no car

I got no way to know where to go

Save for the sun, the moon, the stars

I got no anchor in my life

I got no chains to tie me down

I got no incentive to try to fly high

But to take in new sight and sound

I got not one single second

I’m willing to waste or give away – ay - ay

I have yet to fully catch my breath

Before I let that breath escape – ape – ape

So never could I cry out

Or scream as loud as I wanted to…

Yeah, and that’s how species die out

Lost is everything - no more me; no more you…

RIGHT BY SIGHT

I’m a yellow mellow fellow (Hello!)

Oh, you’re right by sight I’m white (aight!)

But surely that’s no guide

if it hides that inside I’m

A flesh and blood creature with a sell-by date

Trapped in something that I don’t know what it is

So I don’t know how to escape

Perhaps it’s too late

Gotta trace fate

Without the playa hate

Still, hating the game is the same as before

If the rich despise the rich

then how do you think they feel about poor?

“We abhor the deplorable!”

It’s a statement that’s categorical

And undeniable but we know that there’s not much

that isn’t pliable, moveable and moldable

and even bendable, breakable and also uncontrollable

Which one am I and what is this?

To be tamed with a brain, a heart or a fist?

It’s said circumstances

don’t make the man they reveal him

But I’m down on this floor

staring up at the ceiling

Getting the shakes from these thoughts

that I’m feeling

Am I praying to something

or cursing at nothing

when asking for healing?

OFF THE ROAD

I'm not changing my name...

And since I can't change my face

I'll still look the same...

But I'll be in a whole 'nother place

I'm changing my ways...

They might have got me this far

All this hard work has paid

It's not a dream I'm a star

I'm changing my place

And my role in this life

I know this time I can't wait

There's no doubt that I'm right

I'm changing my fate

The entire way I view the world

I found I don't need to escape

I said why run when you can hurdle?

Or at least dodge and jump around

So why did I ever try to hide?

Try to creep without sound

When everybody knows I don't lie

I'm changing my plan

To some new unknown

I tried to sit back and wait

For something great to unfold

But I have come to understand

This time I can't wait to be told

Sometimes in order to be a man

You've got to walk off the road…

ROCK STAR DREAMS

I’ve been living for a legacy since seventeen

That’s when music filled my head

with rock star dreams

I’ve been tightrope walking up against

the razor’s edge of infinity

Since perception is just one’s illusion of reality

It’s not strange for my brain to change the scenery

Sure, they say the truth comes with a price

Sometimes you give more than just your life

Paying the ultimate sacrifice

You say you don’t think twice

But we ALWAYS think twice…

I was craving

Retracing my past

There were things worth saving

I see that looking back

What now seems ancient

A newly uncovered artifact

I’ve been contemplating

How best to back track

What will be waiting?

A part of me’s afraid to ask

I’ve been living to be a legend

Since the age of twenty seven

I’m always giving in to the present

That’s the quickest way to get to heaven

Lately I’ve been debating

How much more blood we should keep bleeding

It’s increasingly frustrating

Being forced to follow someone else’s misleading

I’ve been growing nervous of everything I believe in

I don’t wanna be led by rhyme I’d rather be led by reason

Like you, I’m still trying to find more of my kind

I keep hoping for a world that’s fair…

We know it’ll never be even

PLANKTON

Confliction is my currency

Because you see I am made-up of bad energy

Ever since infancy

You filled me up with negativity

With hostility towards those not like me

And especially those just like me

Funny, only the average was safe

We know the middle's no place to escape

You only find your way there when you lose faith

Produce

Consume

Become numb to the hum of the vacuum

You're in the wrong line you realize

When it's not you who says

who does the do in do or die?

Yes... your allies have been compromised!

When it's time to imitate, you are the master

Yet can you innovate during a disaster?

Strapped in a maze you did not create

"I'm stuck in a bad copy"

You say as you drink your coffee

You think like Abraham, You're Linked In

Something else is the whale

while you're just the plankton

In this play, there's lots of action

And there you lay dead. Then you're not acting

Even you believe you're being wrapped in plastic

But at our best we are just energy,

frequency with a little bit of static

Still, you fall for their illusions

as they work their magic

Hocus pocus

You lose your focus

Before you get to try again

The results are tragic

PERFECT WORLD

I've spent my whole life

Looking for what I can't see

For what will never be

As the only thing

that can set me free

Is an unknown memory

That somewhere lives

inside of me

Behind a locked door

Perhaps you hold the key?

This set pattern we follow

is just one of their lies

A world lacking communion

only me's and I's

Through competition our

brotherhood has been broken

As no one's acknowledged

these words that I've spoken

Everything, even people

filed by order and rank

Number one built the Titanic

And yet down it sank

There's still time left

to return these ideas

you've been sold

Rise up in rebellion,

could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight

I can't get no peace

My mind gets disrupted

When it's at ease

The sun and I awake as one

Though it's not my first choice

I'd prefer to sleep in late

I wish I had a voice

Some say if winning

isn't everything then

why keep score?

Those same people

send other mother's

sons to war

I could be like you

or maybe someone else

One step towards them

and one away from myself

Sometimes they see me

and ask me "How I feel?"

I respond,

"Like a hamster

on a rusty wheel"

If you feel trapped like a rat

in this world so cold

Rise up in rebellion,

could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight

I can't get no peace

My mind gets disrupted

When it's at ease

Watching the sunset

Is a long forgotten art

Feet so busy walking

Separate from the heart

The brokers in their

suits and ties

walking down Wall Street

The ones with their

diamond watches

and their hair so neat

They get so stressed out

playing all their

Wall Street games

Go home and

yell at their wives

forget their own kids' names

All for the love of money

and nothing more

If they call that rich

then you can call me poor

If they tell you the lie

"all that glitters is gold"

Rise up in rebellion,

could you be so bold?

The whole world's a fight

I can't get no peace

My mind gets disrupted

When it's at ease

When was the last time

You noticed the moon?

I'm surprised

You've forgotten so soon

As I climb up the mountains

and float over the sea

I find myself alone

and contented

alive and free

No need to look

at my watch

or punch a clock

And I actually

notice my feet

when I go for a walk

It could be like this

if enough people believe

Just as the wind

blows a flower

I'm planting my seed

There's so much more

than what you've been told

Rise up in rebellion

could you be so bold?

LINEAR

Way, way back…

During my younger days

When the picture was abstract

Oh, how the times have changed

All those colored paints

Have changed to black and white

I used to begin my day with play

Now that play has to wait ‘til night

I have friends who never play at all

Or when they can… it’s just pretend

They only look up to check the clock

Like they’re afraid it’s gonna fall off the wall

Well I guess I’m just one of those guys

Who if you looked out from my eyes

You’d see in straight lines

Since I never had nor wanted a prime

I can never say I’m too old and gray

To ever stop what I’m doing and go hide away

Since I could never say with any truth

Maybe I should retire?

Maybe it’s time for me to be quiet?

Maybe my work here is really through…

Nah, I don’t think that’s something

That I’ll ever do

That would make too many people mad

Others would be left confused…

I can never say

I’m too over the hill

To ever lay down

and let time break my will

Know I’m not the kinda guy

who’d go leaving on a lie

Swore not to do it again

after I tried it one time…

I can never say I’m too old and gray

To ever stop what I’m doing

‘til my last breath fades…away.

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

ANOTHER QUARTER

When I am alone

And all by myself

Sometimes I begin

To fill up full of self-doubt

Fills my head

I can’t get it out

And what’s within me

I could live without it

Depression closes my eyes…

Like sleeping

When I feel like life…

Has passed me by

I break down inside…

Start weeping

Yet thoughts of wasted time…

Won’t relieve this cry

The tears I spill…

Are now seeping

Down below the earth…

They’ll soon reside

Soothing this malaise…

That’s been creeping

I’ve looked up and down

And left and right

I’ve gone out searching

In the middle of the night

I have spent my days

Just wandering around

And I’m still looking

For what I haven’t found

I searched for

What I sought to find

Found the fruit

Couldn’t get it off the vine

So I climbed

And climbed and climbed

I’ve tried and tried

But can’t get it off of my mind

When I am alone

And all by myself

Sometimes I begin

To fill up full of self-doubt

Fills my head

I can’t get it out

And what’s within me

I could live without it

I just want to make my mark

Before I lose this spark

And the room gets dark

Then the game is over

Then I’m sure I’d love

To play again

Or else it seems like

Such a waste, such a sin

Ladies and gentlemen

You’ve all become

My special friends

Hopefully we’ve got something

Greater to discover…