SET LIST NINE (9)

1 We Are the Ones………………………..93

2 Friend

3 Speak………………………..95

4 Applied Faith

5 Slip Stream………………..97

6 Sides

7 Invisible Prison……………..99

8 Better Than It Seems

9 First Glance……………….100

10 Complicated Subject……...101

11 Fate Is a Word………………..102

12 Believe Me (first three stanzas)……..103

WE ARE THE ONES

We are the hunched over old man

who makes your shoes shine

We are the policemen and women

who help reduce crime

We are the ones who cook and

serve your meals at lunch time

We are the bartenders you find

right before closing time

If you're overworked and underpaid

Just nod your head, say you're doing fine

Pick up your shovel, grab your spade

Just nod your head, say you're doing fine

Get back to work, carry on your trade

Just nod your head, say you're doing fine

Quit complaining about making minimum wage

Just nod your head, say you're doing fine

If you're overworked and underpaid

Don't complain just get in line

We are the tracks on which society is laid

Don't complain just get in line

From our broken backs millionaires are made

Don't complain just get in line

It starts when you're a

little kid selling lemonade

Don't complain just get in line

Let us unite from here, there, from everywhere

For now is our time to shine

Scream out if your life's defined

by more than just your career

For now is our time to shine

If you're in your car join our motorcade

For now is our time to shine

Sing the refrain and join our parade

For now is our time to shine

You might drink the wine but we're the ones who

pulled the grapes from the vine

You may own the oil but we're the ones

that built the pipeline

They might worship you

but we're the ones who erected the shrine

You may sing the song…

Sing us a song… sing us a song…

But we're the ones who wrote the rhyme

We are the ones who wrote the rhyme

FRIEND

I spread my words so let them be heard

All across the land...

All across these lands...

My advice is right and nice

I'll have you understand

When it comes to giving

Give as much as you can...

When it comes to women

sure my heart's been broken

Each time I try to fix it

And carry on the best I can...

Suddenly I feel empowered

Get inspired to spend the next hour

Sitting here and making song

Hoping you will come and sing along

A friend told me a story

over coffee one morning

From one of the books she was reading

And, oh, how the pages were turning

Oh my friend is very lovely

If only you had a chance to meet her

You would understand it

How I feel when I see her

She was blessed with one of those faces

Possessed by only those truly lovely people

That when softly caressed it somehow erases

Time itself and everything - all that's evil

Someone once asked me

What the secret to my life is

I answered without thinking

"Learning love is priceless"

Share what you have with everyone:

And send flowers to yourself

Just a little "thank you" for being you

Now go and give them to someone else...

I spread my words so let them be heard

All across the land...

All across these lands...

My advice is right and nice

I'll have you understand

When it comes to giving

Give as much as you can...

SPEAK

Rinse, lather and repeat

When you got blood on your hands

This is no time to retreat…

That’s when you begin to dig in

Stay busy to keep from losing sleep

The war is yours to win

Facts…

Get lost in the mist

I don’t believe this

In betrayal by a kiss

Cracks…

A chink in the armor

Is great cause for alarm

For many things can harm

Both your soul and your will

And your desire to kill

For the sake of a name

When ideas aren’t the same

It’s the lion and the lamb

For things we don’t understand

What’s missing is common ground

Found beneath the line in the sand

One must win at any and all costs

Has become the prevailing thought

The divide between

the worker and the boss

Keeps growing wider

and is now hard to cross

This union is bound to break

And with so much at stake

People everywhere are speaking out

Before it is too late

So I ask what do you say?

Speak.

APPLIED FAITH

Close your eyes

Quiet your mind

And describe to me

What you hope to find

Don’t give it a name

Let it be free

For fear it may change

Or worse never be

Calm your breath

Yes inhale deep

Then pinch yourself

Make sure you’re not asleep

Is life a dream…

Then one day we wake?

To a world brand new

That’s ours to shape

Or is this it…

And at the end of the ride

There’s no more nothing

Just hello, goodbye

What if it’s a question of choice

And it’s up to you to decide

As what you believe in most

That fate will then be applied

Don’t dare waste thoughts

On hollow or empty things

For fear of finding out

What the consequences bring

Behold the power

Of free mind and will

Everything can be unmade

And anything can be built

Conceive, believe, achieve

Imagination is all you need

Yes, you can manifest your destiny

In this world, the next

or whatever world will be

SLIP STREAM

Enter this virtual world

Take an unguided tour

We'll find a cavern in your mind

That has yet to be explored

We'll cause a ripple in the water

Of intuition, space and time

Won't fear a tear in the fabric

Only scared of a flaw in the design

We can take a trip

Slip down stream

Feel free to follow me

Or I could follow you

Just take one of these

You know what to do

Become anyone you want

Let that become the truth

Free yourself from all distraction

For time ain't on anybody's side

I can see by your reaction

The sense of panic in your eyes

There's only shame in me asking

If you need your place to hide

Just take one of these

And you know what to do

Become anyone you want

Let that become the truth

I see a ripple in the water

Or it could be space and time

A small tear in the fabric

I see a flaw in the design

Just take one of these

And you know what to do...

Let everything you see

Become shiny and new

SIDES

There's no well-marked

and measured

Previously charted course

for you in this world

Just doors waiting

to be opened

And new frontiers

to be explored

Are there unknown

galaxies to be found

In what we call

this universe

I've been searching

for another new place

One that lies

between the bounds

of time and material

and sound and space

Where I can live

inside of my own

creative invention

Fueled by just

the energy inside all

of my good intentions

Becoming unencumbered

by this perpetual motion

Of having to ride through

the highs and lows

Like a barrel carried along

in the drift of the tide

Up and then down

and around again on this ride

A human roller coaster

of pre-text and manipulation

I wanna go

where there's no

black and no white

No wrong or right

No sleep

no war no more

no peace

And no reason to fight

No big problems

or great solutions

Only a future fate

which awaits

That your thoughts

and actions

will realize and dictate

An alternative reality

Avoiding impartialities

and ambiguities

That in time you find

Within your own

peace of mind

Then you'll get by

on just your own

ingenuity and intuity

and your innards

and their fluidity

Where a thinking

man's thoughts

Find their way

out of the box

And any other device

That tries to contain them

Where when one's logic is

Sound and strong

Nobody ever has to ask

Which side are you on

Since there's no sides to choose

No winners to lose

No losers to win

Or angels to sin

Nor devils to pray

For eternal life

in the oncoming day

Or even in the seconds

That later lie ahead...

No present

No past

No living

No dead

INVISIBLE PRISON

The dazzling darkness

caresses the silence

The perfect calm

at the edge of the violence

Meant to do us harm

or gently guide us?

Outward and upward

or deep down inside us?

There’s many with ears

that can’t hear through the fear

Those not standing in the light

Remain beyond my line of sight

In an invisible prison

When your spirit is trapped in form

It can’t soar

Listen…

In the kingdom of the blind

The one eyed man is king

But if you can change your mind

Then you can change everything

I believe that space and time are one

And I’ll finish exactly where I begun

What always is always was and always will be

Behold I use my free will to create fate

And mold, make and shape my destiny

Yeah energy, frequency and waves

Can move mountains like Jesus saves

Can part the sea or remove gravity

Can erase mistakes even rewrite history

The secret is that WE are the key:

The problem, the solution,

the question and the answer to the mystery

Hmmm…..What if the magician was the trick?

Then the illusion wouldn’t necessarily be

what we expect...

BETTER THAN IT SEEMS

I am trying to unlearn

What all the teachers have taught me

I am trying to unlock

An original thought but I have no key

I am trying to believe

That it's better than it seems

(Or at least what I can see)

I am trying to achieve

The American Dream

Of leaving a legacy behind me

Look out the man's got the pen again

Pulls it out every now and then

Smokes some pot as your thoughts

Become your friends

Keep on looking for answers

Until the questions end

So what pulls you through?

Is it something bigger than you?

Or is it lesser than you?

It could be that, too

For so many this is true

Oh, so what am I to do?

Lock myself in a vault

And point my finger at you

Screaming everything is your fault

Sure, you're soul searching

Yet you haven't found a clue

Finally my inner turmoil is at peace

I slayed the dragon

I conquered the beast

Fought so many things

That I could and couldn't see

That which I once believed

Would one day get the best of me

Has now been left behind

I always knew it was just a matter of time

Now that I'm finally where I want to be

I still can't really say that I'm doing fine

With all this free time plaguing my mind

I get to dig a little deeper inside

Still afraid of what I'll find

FIRST GLANCE

The ocean acts as the blood of the earth

She’s screaming out in a flood of hurt

Oh misguided one can’t you see what you’ve done?

Taken and forsaken see the red rivers run

With our mother provider in failing health

We could stop dividing and help ourselves

He who seeks paradise just to leave it in ruins…

Finds indeed all good things do end too soon

Visions of your future are found

in the memories of your past

You can trace each face

and place as you look back

A symphony of senses

as you travel

the threads of time

It’s like dreaming

but you’re not sleeping

still you feel so alive

You can feel the current

of energy running through us all

The frequency determines

whether we degenerate or evolve

As free will plays

as big a part as chance

So much more is happening here

than appears at first glance

COMPLICATED SUBJECT

It's such a complicated subject...

this matter of war

Traces back to the beginning of time...

if not before

Intertwined with our destiny

Throughout all our history

As the fate of humanity

Rests within this legacy

The true nature of man...

is not one of understanding

to say the least

The way it now stands...

This violence and bloodshed

shall never cease

There are four words

That'll never be

Our one sole belief

We come in peace

There are four words

That make me nervous

When I hear someone speak

We come in peace

For it seems to me

We'll all eventually

Suffer some kind of defeat

All genders and races

All colors of this crayon nation

All beliefs and creeds

Yet when we fight today

The battle cry is not Semper Fi

It's bleed green for corporate greed

Please take my eyes

Or take away these things

That I don't want to see

Still we try to perceive

all that's unperceivable

Still we strive to conceive

in what's inconceivable

Still we struggle to believe

in the unbelievable

Still we attempt to achieve

What is unachievable

It's such a complicated subject...

this matter of war

Traces back to the beginning of time...

if not before

Intertwined with our destiny

Throughout all our history

As the fate of humanity

Rests within this legacy

FATE IS A WORD by Tom Jensen

Passion's found in

many shapes and forms

Within a tight black dress,

within a uniform

In the eyes of a mother

In the sighs of a lover

At three in the morning

Oh yeah...

Virtue can't be found

in all eyes of men

Nor in their statues

or great monuments

Only through tough

times and trial

Will we find ourselves

without denial

Or false compliments

Oh yeah...

Naked truth often hides

where you least expect

Never in the lavish palace

but in the cellar of neglect

Those of us living in glass houses

should be careful of bricks

For some who are

'the chosen ones'

Aren't the ones we'd pick

Oh no...

Fate is a word made up

by the scared

As the reason

why they failed

Or the reason

they never dared

To summon the courage

to follow the voice

They didn't always

want to hear

Oh yeah...

I am a man who

loves dishing it out

Yet I always have problems

when it comes to myself

When it comes to stepping up

I'm the first one to speak

When it comes to the children

I try my best to teach

They say practice makes perfect

so it's time to practice what I preach

BELIEVE ME

I could tell you all about my life…

But you probably wouldn’t believe me

You find me always doing right…

And you think it comes easy

You, who finds something new…

And becomes afraid

With that view…

There’s not a lot I can say

You’ll find out the hard way

That’s the price that some pay

When you play it too safe

Sometimes you don’t get to play