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From the CD: The Unified Theory of Everything (2004)
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All song lyrics are copyrighted 2004, The Monophonics - The Unified Theory Of Everything
All These Roads Lead To You(Music: Jim Holland, Lyrics: Ron Petitto and Jazz)
I see you every night in my smoky dreams
A million faces on the road, but yours is the only one I see
You’re still here in my heart
Won’t you hear my plea?
It’s cold as hell on this interstate
I need your love to rescue me
Give me one more chance to forget the past
Give me one more night to make it last
And all these roads will lead to you
All these roads lead to you
It’s hard to be away when you’re not here
So many mistakes were made; you know I’ve had my share
Another lonely night
Wondering where you are
You know I’ll change my ways
If I can win your heart
Give me one more night and we’ll see things through
Give me one more chance to be with you
And all these roads will lead to you
All these roads lead to you
Every sound I hear echoes your name
All I have are these blues and myself to blame
And all these roads will lead to you
All these roads lead to you
Give me one more night and we’ll see things through
Give me one more chance to be with you
And all these roads will lead to you
All these roads lead to you
Ashes (Music: Jazz, Lyrics: Ron Petitto)
Out of the ashes I come to you back from the living dead
Back from the land where it’s winter all of the time
Feeling nearly human, perfectly willing to take that first giant step
Would you love me if I broke in two?
Would you care if I disappeared all together now?
Would it bother you if I always had to carry this cross?
Out of these ashes I bring to you
I bring to you my very soul
Do you remember me when I carried the torch and I would light
Would light up the night?
My eyes had no expression though they saw perfectly well
My mind was completely blank and I
I would think about the million dreams
Lost across the miles
Lost across the years
Will you help me to get back to that place in time I once knew
Would you love me if I broke in two?
Would you care if I disappeared all together now?
Would it bother you if I always had to carry this cross?
Out of these ashes I bring to you
I bring to you my very soul
Do you remember me when I carried the torch and I would light?
Would light up the night
Gonna light up the night
Here I stand naked before you
I don’t want to be just an option for you
I don’t want to be just another project gone awry
Blink Twice (Music: Jamie Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz)
She wants me pissing sitting down
Because her mind’s wandering around
She’s got me tied up in her worries
She’s flustered in a hurry
I gotta put her feet on the ground
She worries about everything
She doesn’t realize the reason
That I keep telling her
Blink twice and it will be over
She thinks I’m pissing sitting down
She thinks her chains have kept me around
As if she got me running fearful
And my eyes are crying tearful
Anything to keep her man down
She worries about everything
She doesn’t realize the reason
That I keep telling her
Blink twice and it will be over
Don’t Leave (Music: Steve Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz)
It’s a cold day for breaking up
It’s an odd day for giving up
If you leave I know I’ll keep hanging on
I can’t believe it’s ending all so wrong
Baby, please don’t leave
Baby, don’t leave
It’s a hard day for me to turn you loose
It’s hurting my feet putting on these walking shoes
I’ve been your puppy dog for quite some time
Every dog has his day, when do I get mine
Baby, please don’t leave
Baby, don’t leave
Girls Like You (Music: Jim Holland, Lyrics: Jim Holland, Ron Petitto)
You don’t look at me
You never even notice me
Because girls like you don’t look my way
You can’t hear
Those words that won’t escape my lips
Because girls like you don’t look my way
And everybody’s saying that you’ve given up on love
It’s just too hard
But you don’t see the love from me
Is right in your back yard
You won’t put me down
You won’t even push me around
Because girls like you don’t look my way
And everybody’s saying that you’ve given up
That love it leads you astray
But you don’t see the love from me
Is one heartbeat away
You don’t look at me
You never even look at me
Because girls like you don’t look my way
Girls like you don’t look my way
Gotta Love (Music & Lyrics: Ron Petitto)
I’m missing you already and I’m not even out the door
I didn’t quite get my fill of you this time
Well, I think of you like all of the time
This is the stuff that blows my mind
I swore up and down that I’d never get this way
I gotta love and it came on kinda fast
I gotta love and I think it’s gonna last
When you saw me in that gutter land; assorted love and one night stands
I was your basic long shot bad man
But you picked me up
You dusted me off
Turned my head and made me cough
It felt good to be alive again
I gotta love and it came on kinda fast
I gotta love and I think it’s gonna last
I can’t believe it’s true when you can see what love can do
Stupid crazy foolish things time and time again
It’s all high risk, no guarantees
It brings the faithful to their knees
Love is not for the weakened and that’s for sure
I gotta love and it came on kinda fast
I’m missing you already and I’m not even out the door
I didn’t quite get my fill of you this time
Well, I think of you like all of the time
This is the stuff that blows my mind
I swore up and down that I’d never get this way
I gotta love and it came on kinda fast
I gotta love and I think it’s gonna last
Hives (Music: Steve Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz)
I’m in a funk about this girl
She’s got everything to drive me wild
But every time we get too close
The Devil takes the wheel and our worlds collide
I can’t get down from this two week high
I can’t escape the voices in my mind
I don’t need a reason to be with her
There’s no confusion when we’re side by side
She’s giving me hives
She’s getting me high
She’s giving me hives
She’s bleeding me dry
She touches herself as she cries out loud
She keeps me coming back for more
I’m seeing the stars lost in her eyes
Touching her scars deep down inside
Sometimes a paper flame burns too fast
Maybe I’m unlucky and that’s all we have
I don’t need a reason to be with her
There’s no confusion when we’re side by side
She’s giving me hives
She’s getting me high
She’s giving me hives
She’s bleeding me dry
Let It Go (Music: Steve Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz)
It’s a long rainy night
And I’m trying to forget her name
It’s been a while since I’ve been out
A broken heart needs time to mend
You gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
I gotta let it go
I gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
It’s an ugly stormy night
The rain falls long and cold
Away from her, you can take my mind
I’ll hold you here if the night’s ours to share
You gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
I gotta let it go
I gotta let it go
You gotta let it go
It’s a whatever kind of night
For me to let it all go
Do lost souls ever find their way?
These winding roads take us away
Nothing Left To Talk About (Music: Jamie Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz)
When there’s nothing left to talk about
There’s nothing left to talk about
When there’s nothing left to talk about
All we do is shout
I think that last night was it
The bitter end the final straw
Nothing good can come from us
When you’re so damn lost
And it’s too bad ‘cause I felt something for you
And I can’t change those thoughts
When you’re so afraid of relationships
That you turn your feelings on and off
When there’s nothing left to talk about
There’s nothing left to talk about
When there’s nothing left to talk about
All we do is shout
It hurts me to say that I’ve got to go
But I can’t put myself through this again
I’ve walked away twice before
And I can’t keep this up with your indecision
I don’t wish you luck anymore
And I’m through trying to care for you
I would have given you all of my world
But you’re so blind you can’t see it here
You messed up
You messed everything up
And it’s your lose
When there’s nothing left to talk about
There’s nothing left to talk about
When there’s nothing left to talk about
All we do is shout
Oh Yeah (Music: Ron Petitto and Jazz, Lyrics: Ron Petitto)
You and me were meant to be, but I can see the fire burning in your eyes
It's a flame; it's a gas there's no way that things could last between you and me
Yeah? Oh yeah
Take a drink, take a sip you will see after tonight we'll both be free oh yeah
Throw away all of your sorrows, 'cause after tonight there'll be no more tomorrows oh yeah
Yeah? Oh yeah
Leave your porch light on
Your daddy's coming home
I'm gonna do it to you until your eyes bug out your head
The springs pop out your bed
And your little brain it goes insane
And you'll only think of me until you're dead
Yeah? Oh yeah
Make sure you're all alone
When your demon lover gets home
I'm gonna do it to you until the springs pop out your bed
The flames fly out of your head
And everything you thought you knew was wrong
And life is just a big sick joke
Yeah? Oh yeah
Sippin’ On Tequila (Music: Steve Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz)
I’m gonna drink until the sun comes up
‘Cause I can never get my fill
Need some of that Devil’s punch
To grease my wheels
And I’ll have you know
It never goes down slow
I’m just sittin’ here sippin’ on tequila
Makin’ life a hell of a lot easier
I’m just sittin’ here sippin’ on tequila
Makin’ life a hell of a lot easier
I’m gonna have me another round
Until somebody passes out
I’m gonna stay here ‘til the sun goes back down
I’ll show you what drinkin’s about
I’m just sittin’ here sippin’ on tequila
Makin’ life a hell of a lot easier
I’m just sittin’ here sippin’ on tequila
Makin’ life a hell of a lot easier
The Truth Is A Lie (Music: Jamie Linhart, Lyrics: Jazz, Jamie Linhart, Ron Petitto)
I’ve been fine since the cay you left
You said goodbye and I couldn’t care less
It’s true, but the truth is a lie
We shared a lay and I fell apart
You went away and nothing’s all I got
Now I’m blue
I’m as blue as the sky
When you’re up, you don’t want to come down
I’m a little rough with what’s goin’ on
When the truth, the truth is a lie
I’ve been high since you went away
Now I’m up to eight packs a day
It’s true, and the truth really sucks
Eyes opened wide
All I can see is you
Prefer to be blind
So I can’t see the truth
When the truth, the truth is a lie
Cause it’s there
And you can’t always see
Close your eyes
‘Cause the truth
The truth is a lie
Waiting For A Train (Music & Lyrics: Jazz)
It’s a miracle
That you’re standing here
When I’m trying to go, trying to leave this place
You won’t give me space
And I’m waiting
Waiting for a train
Waiting in the rain
Waiting for a train to take me far away from here
So far, so far away from you that I can’t think of you no more
I’m waiting for a train
It’s so typical
That you can’t believe
All the things you’ve said come back around
Now I’m leaving town
And I’m waiting
Waiting for a train
Waiting in the rain
Waiting for a train to take me far away from you
So far, so far away from you that I can’t feel your pain no more
I’m waiting for a train
Everything comes back to haunt us
Every word that you said
Everything leads us to the end
And I’m waiting
Waiting for a train
Waiting in the rain
Waiting for a train
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All songs copyrighted 2004 - The Monophonics - The Unified Theory Of Everything
From the CD: Losers' Day Parade (2007)
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All song lyrics are copyrighted 2007, The Monophonics - Losers' Day Parade
Again, We Try… (words & music:
Jazz)
Hold me tonight, make it last forever
Hold so tight that I’ll leave you never
Tell me; tell me again how you long to keep me
Tell me again that you’ll never leave me
I’m living within you
And if I fall from Earth
Pull me back until it hurts
Keep me warm when I am cold
Again, we try…And if I fall back down
Pick me up and dust me off
Hold my hand as I learn to walk
Again, we try…
Alive (words & music: E. Yurkovich)
Your eyes keep peeking out from behind your hair
Your body’s dancing tooLike you just don’t care
Color me with your sunshine
Baby, I want you all of the time
I’m gonna practice what I preach
No more hide and seek
You’ve got the energy I need
I am alive
When you move with me
I believe
I’m gonna testify so listen to what I say
Raise Hell with me until there’s Hell to pay
Fly with me forever across the stars
There’s no room on Earth for our fire
I’m gonna get down on my knee
No more hide and seek
You’ve got the energy I need
You set me free
Be Your Man (words: E. Yurkovich, music:
Jazz)
I’ve crashed with angels
Laughed with kings
Crawled with snakes
And I’ve drank with queens
I’ve prayed all day and I’ve cursed the night
Now my world is on fire since I touched your light
You walk the edge of the knife
You ride an inch from your life
I’ve been playing your game and it’s no longer right
So raise up your glasses and respect your host
Show me your hands and exorcise your ghost
I think you understand I wanna be your man
Be your man
I’ve run with dogs
Led the pack
Made mistakes
Now I don’t look back
I’ve paid the piper
Gave the Devil her due
I’ve been looking for trouble and I found you
Don’t (words: J. Holland, E. Yurkovich
music: J. Holland)
Night after night I watch you get away with all of your crimes
Now this cat is out of its bag, I’m gonna claw through your disguise
I don’t want to know you
I just want what you do
Yeah, don’t show me you love me
Don’t tell me you’ll always be there until the end of time
Because I can’t believe you
So when you want to show me you love me
Don’t
Take me to that secret place where all your fears come from
Talk me into all that shit that you’ve forgot you’ve done
Girl (words & music: Jazz)
Is the more I get just the more I want?
Is the more I want just the more I get?
You look at the world with great big eyes
The kind that try to hypnotize
As if you’re all there is in this place
Saturday is much too long when Sunday comes calling
The preacher says “You need to save face”
And I know your kind
Should not be in my mind
In my world
You’re all I want
You’re my girl tonight
Tonight we can be as one
If ever I had sympathy
It went rolling down the street
And stopped in some late night bar for a drink
When far away I live from you
Memories will cloud my view
Even if you think that they won’t
(I Can’t Tell You) Goodbye (words &
music: Jazz)
Don’t give up so fast
We were meant to last
In five more days
You’ll be in my grasp
I’ve been watching you come home after school
And I feel your hurt and I feel your pain
Don’t give up this time
You can’t control your life
I can free you from that
I can free you from hate
I’ll always wear these shackles for you
I’ve been watching you
I’ll always be the one who took you
I’ve been wanting you
I’ll always wear these shackles for you
I can free your soul now
I’ll always be the one who took you
Let me free your soul now
I’ll always wear these shackles for you
I can’t tell you goodbye
Don’t give up so fast
We can run away
Let the years go past
And our crimes will fade
Don’t let our love be erased
Just because of age
We’ll go far away
When we leave this place
I can’t tell you goodbye
Jo (words & music: Jazz)
Where can we be where no one will see
Where can we go where no one will know
This secret we keep of you and me
Locked up inside, pent up inside
No one can know and it’s killing me so
I want to tell the world about this love we share
I know it’ll hurt those who are close
So our secret we keep buried low, buried deep
I wanna go drinking in a suit
I wanna dance naked on your roof
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna do all these things to you
How long can it go on before we let on
We know we should stop before we get caught
Where have we been to lead us to now
Don’t know where to go and I can’t see how
This secret will play out for you and me
This secret may break us before it’s set free
So how do we go on knowing what we’ve done
It feels like I’ve lost before I’ve won
I wanna hold you in the night
I want to never make you fight
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna have sex in a restaurant
I wanna go down in a parking lot
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna act out your fantasies
I wanna feel you on top of me
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna hold you in the rain
I’ll let you do anything
I wanna do all these things to you
I wanna do all these things to you
Love Doesn’t Come Easy (words &
music: Jazz)
Taking the ride of my life on love’s merry-go-round
It’ll lift you up, but then it’s gonna bring you back down
Love’s a tough ride on a long and winding road
Driving bumper cars trying to find that tunnel of love
Don’t let it mean nothing
When it’s all said and done
I’ll tell you something
Find someone and hold on
Because it doesn’t come easy
Love doesn’t come easy
You know it doesn’t come easy
Love doesn’t come easy
If we take some time, this time, to get it right
You never know what we’ll find until you open your eyes
When you can’t hold on
And things aren’t as easy as they once seemed
You can’t start overGoing back to where we’ve been
Love You Next Week (words & music: J.
Linhart)
Waiting for the one who just won’t arrive
Hoping that she comes while I’m still alive
Is this the right time for my thoughts to show?
The right place, I guess I’ll never know
The right way to bring my love back to you
But you refuse to give and I refuse to take
I’ve been pounding these walls that will never break
But I will, if you want
If you ask me to
Will we ever get our lives back in sync?
Maybe I will love you more by next week
Tick tock goes the clock
Another day’s pastLiving for today
This will never last
Sitting here with someone and waiting for no one
Better off with no one than waiting for someone
Mystery (words & music: E. Yurkovich)
I finally landed
I’ve been dragging my bags for days
Flew through the night
Slept in cabs and trains
My eyes are exhausted from the Underground
I’m finally here
Take a good look around
There you are
You’re a superstar
Can I be in you conspirousy
My alibi?
The smile that’s on you face
The way you’re looking back at me
I can see what’s up your sleeve
Following the clues you leave
I can solve your mystery
These streets are crowded
I can’t read a signI beat the pavement
I won’t fall behind
My fascination: I need to know her name
My destination: following her flame
I dig the way you’re acting shy
So many forces I can’t deny
Don’t need a break through this company
Don’t need a reasonIt’s right for me
These streets are crowded
I can’t read a signI’m keeping up
I won’t fall behind
No conversation
Words won’t get in the way
My imagination
Pretty Things (words: S. Linhart, Jazz
music: S. Linhart)
I can’t stay here anymore
I got one foot in the kitchen and one out the door
I keep yelling at you and you keep yelling at me
I don’t want to stay and I don’t want to leave
I’ve been thinking of before
When we were slamming the bed instead of slamming the door
But you’re spending all my money and I’m spending too much time
Getting something close to nothing, getting nickeled and dimed
I buy you pretty things
Dance with you in the rain
I fall down to my knees
Every time that you breathe
I can’t keep standing still
Running around in circles always spinning my wheels
I’ve got holes in my socksI’ve got holes in my shoes
Living with you has got me paying my dues
You’re throwing my bank account into the red
Spending all of my money like it never ends
Back and forth and forth and back and back again we go
Why I’m a sucker for your punishment, I’ll never know
Skin (words: S. Linhart, E. Yurkovich ,
Jazz music: S. Linhart)
I keep your letter in my pocket
I can feel you within each and every line
It’s not so hard When I steal kisses off you lip prints
To keep you close
I fly away to that oasis in my mind
And as I walk in this world alone
Wondering if I’ll make home
I’ve been so far away and it’s been too long
Since I’ve felt my skin on you
I keep your picture in my pocket
I carry your smile with me everywhere and all of the time
I will survive
If I tap these boots together
Although alone
Will I be with you when I open up my eyes?
And if I fall, it’d be for youFor everything you gave to me
You made me feel like I was the lucky one
Since I’ve felt my skin on you
St. Patrick’s Day (words & music:
J. Linhart)
I can’t read what you feel inside
Material worlds
We can push aside
Of all the things we want
Of all the things we need
Turn back the clock to a time we see
Try to let your love see through our dreams
Try to make what’s real, not as it seems
And we’ll be standing a long time when it’s gone
Follow me to the place where nothing’s wrong
Beverly Hills might and Holly would
But all you are, is all I need
Heal my soul
Turn me inside out
Peel back the skin and see what it’s about
I’m gonna let you inI’m gonna make you see
All that we have is all we need
Train Wreck (words: Jazz, Music: Jazz, J.
Holland)
I saw a picture of you just the other day
You’re no longer that little slut that I used to date
All grown up will a passport to get away
But you’ll never get out of head alive
I don’t want you
No
Never been one to keep up with the Jones
Never wanted to be in your train wreck
Let’s paint the house a second or third time
Oh yes, I really, really like it
I don’t think so
Never been the one that you wanted then
I’ll never be the one that you want now
Never been one to stand still very long
Went drinking on a binge shortly after you were gone
Don’t need a doctor to diagnose the obvivous
When I heard you were sick I could have told you that
If your heart’s breakin’ down, strokin’ out a couple of times
Don’t come calling on me, I’ll be on the other line
I don’t want you
No
Never cared much for what you thought about me
Never wanted to be in your train wreck
Let’s paint the house a forth or fifth time
Oh yes, I really, really like it
I don’t think so
Never been the one that you wanted then
I’ll never be the one that you want now
Met a couple of ladies who were willing to take your place
Think about that during your next sick day
When you think about me I’ll be somewhere else I think
You’ll be sorry I left you, go ask your shrink
When You Call My Name (words & music:
Steve Linhart)
What is in my heart is not in my head
“This is the last time,” that’s what you said
You don’t come home
You leave me here to cry
When the phone rings, it’s a different guy
These things, they happen all the time
These things will be
You keep saying “Things will change”
And I say “I love you”
When you call my name
It won’t happen again
You say “there’s no harm”
Every time you go out, you bring heartbreak home
Numbers that I found, swim around in my head
My heart can’t see you in another bed
These things, they happen all the time
These things will be
You keep saying “things will change”
And I say “Goodbye”
When you call my name
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All songs copyrighted 2007 - The Monohpnics - Losers' Day Parade