How can I erase the shadow from your face
Take us back to yesterday when you were laughing playing
What about those kids
And the cruelty they did
Why no punishment
How do they get away with it

No human can defeat you
Only you can reach you
How do I explain ruleless games?

You ask me dad are people good or bad?
Well what can I say to that
I think we’re good but broken
What about those kids
And the evil that they did?
Well I remember nine
Sometimes it was a jungle

No human can defeat you
Only you can reach you
How can I explain ruleless games?

No enemy can find you
If he’s not inside you
How can I explain ruleless games?

There’s a drone in the canyon sky
With one red and one green eye
For four hours hear it fly
From afternoon right into night
2am – you’re awake in bed
all those crazy things he said
lit a fire in your head
left a belly full of dread

Strange signs darling
hard to know what’s starting
strange signs up ahead

So you write your daily song
Call to defuse the daily bomb
Go downtown with your home made sign
Fall right into the rabble line
You’re a face in the cheering crowd
And you shout it right out loud
A stone cold amazing sight:
A million voices come to life

Strange signs stirring
All the lines are blurring
Strange times up ahead

Home when the day is done
Just want to talk or have some fun
But he’s out there with his hot-mouth gun
Singing the devil’s favorite song

Strange signs darling
Hard to know what’s starting
Strange times up ahead, strange signs up ahead

Remember how we used to dance?
craze-kid flopping before the band
cigarette and beer in hand
Remember how we used to dance?

Smoky room in cast off bar
PA speaker beat and scarred
Ha! she laughs then hard guitars
shake us til we fall apart

Afternoons we used to roll
Right down Kirkwood boulevard 
with our holy hearts

Remember how we used to love
Face to face touch to touch
Closer wasn't close enough
Remember how we used to love

Remember how we used to dance?
Fumble flogging for the band
We’ll make it back,
Remember how we used to dance?
Remember how we used to dance?
Remember how we used to dance?
Remember how we used to dance?

JAMES: This my body he ain’t done yet
There’s a few more miles on the Chevrolet
These my legs they got a ways to go,
Gonna keep on walking while the rodeo blows
I’m just gonna stop
I just gonna slow ride
I’m just gonna watch
Until this old wave rolls by

APRIL: This my body she ain’t done yet
Gonna put on that magic amulet
Read a little book, do a little dance –
It’s gonna be a long haul precious chance
I’m just gonna stop
I’m just gonna slow my mind
I’m gonna sit and watch
Until this old wave rolls by

TOGETHER: We’re just gonna stop
We’re just gonna slow ride
We’re gonna sit and talk
Until this old wave rolls by

Look away look away look away
The point is to look away
Make amends make amends make amends make amends
The point is not to make amends
True believer, true believer
It's not the story they say
It's not the story they say

Understand understand understand understand
The measure of a man
Is not to understand.
Heal the wounds heal the wounds heal the wounds heal the wounds
Is not a thing that we do.

True believer, true believer
It's not the story they say
True believer
It's not the story they say
True believer

Races running always through you
Mirrors facing always to you
Move the needle in the groove now
But it keeps turning back to you now
The finish line is just the starting line
When circle days strange the ways of time

Every fear that ever slayed you
Every pleasure trip that made you
Every color of your voice now
Every magic terrible choice now
Hear them all in corners of your mind
When circle days strange the ways of time

Talking to her she shows you now
Know your head is just one truth now
It could be days it could be years now
There’s only this, there’s only here now

Tomorrow’s yesterday again now
Hope and sorrow’s endless spin now
But you’ll have to finally face your mind
When circle days strange the ways of time

Talking to her - she helps you now
See your head is just one truth now
It could be days it could be years now
There’s only this, there’s only here now
You’ll have to face your mind
When circle days tangle up your lines
When circle days strange the ways of time

Sunlight feels unreal
Morning on your face and hands
Just when you thought its better not to feel
Try to remember
String on your fingertip
Try to remember
Joy is allowed
Even now

Twilight feels too real
Just when you’re down and maybe out
Hear the redwood owl
And you remember
You remember how
You remember
joy is allowed
right now

Try to remember
String on your fingertip
Love is the answer
And joy is allowed

Let’s cut and run - let’s cut and run
Now’s the time to shake him off – let’s cut and run

Better days ahead - better days ahead
if we make them there will be better days ahead
5x Let’s cut and run
Love is our protection, our protection’s not the gun
Love is our conviction, our conviction’s not the gun
2x Let’s cut and run

Leaving raging dogs to rage In our rearview
The dog has had his day - it’s our purview
Harvesting the power of the sun
Love’s the only war that can be won
5x Let’s cut and run

Love is our connection - our connection’s not the gun
Love is our position - our position’s not the gun
Love is our decision - our decision’s not the gun
Love is our dimension - our dimension’s not the gun
4x Let’s cut and run

Your magic eye has got me mesmerized ASMR-ized
You spin a tale so sweet I almost didn’t know my mind
Voices from the olden days
reminding me of older ways
Come to me when I’m asleep
They talk to me to tell me about spells
That I’m falling under spells

You play a beat that’s so sweet it’s exactly what I want to be.
Sing a song so smart it steals my heart
and makes me wish I wrote it too
Voices from another time
with slower rhymes and clearer signs
Voices with a wiser line
Rushing up to warn me about spells
i’m falling under spells
Spells I’m falling under spells

Everybody inside, everybody inside
woke up from a dream
to the craziest scene
all the trees were ripe with spring
but no one to be seen
outside, outside

Everybody inside Everybody inside
I can hear you sing
we’ll love through the machines
brighter than we are
closer than we seem
untogether we’ll get by, Everybody inside

we can only try

Everybody inside Everybody inside
who could ever tell how we’d finally break the spell
and stop the ride, everybody inside

we can only try

If yours is the only voice I hear this year
So be it, love. So be it, love
If yours is the only touch I know we’ll only grow
I feel it, love. I feel it, love
If we only lie and watch the sky day to night
abide, love
If we only rest head to head, Say whatever we said
It’s alright, love. It’s alright, love.
Going nowhere fast, holding on
Future past, strangest song
Nowhere fast, holding on
Holding on holding on

Let us praise holidays where awake I gaze
Upon you, love, aside you love
Morning creeps in quiet gray then bright blue day
Beside you, love, beside you love
Days are only months and months are days Almost haze
It’s curious,
If we have to stay in this peculiar play, I’m ok
But it’s serious, so serious,
Going nowhere fast, holding on
Future past, strangest song
Nowhere fast, holding on
Holding on holding on