Joseph Arthur

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"Innocent World"

"Innocent World"

We don't know which way we're goin'
Don't know where we are
Find a way out, find a way
Home is somewhere I'm missin'
When I look around
Find a way out, find a way

Hell has no reason to smile
When you're living in an innocent world
You once had a heart like a child
Now it's buried under sadness and guilt

We don't know which way we're goin'
Don't know where we are
Find a way out, find a way
Home is somewhere I'm missin'
When I look around
Find a way out, find a way

Hell has no reason to smile
When you're living in an innocent world
You once had a heart like a child
Now it's buried under sadness and guilt

Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't run away now
Don't run away
Don't run away
Don't run away now (now, oooh ooh ooh......)

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"Invisible Hands"

"Invisible Hands"

There are things we cannot know
Invisable hands which guide the show from up above

Sometimes you are forced to cope
Fall away and shut the door on the one you love

Well I don't know now where you are
Your photogragh sits like a scar up against my wall

Such a pretty face
The sunshine in your eyes
Taking on the days
When all we had was love

Shut the light on me
Shut the light on me

Now Jesus he came down here just to die for all my sins
I needed him to come back here and die for me again
Cuz I cannot forgive myself for what it is I've done
For hating your memory like a vampire hates the sun
And all the wounds you left

Shut the light on me
Shut the light on me

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"It Takes A Lot Of Time To Live In The Moment"

"It Takes A Lot Of Time To Live In The Moment"

It takes a lot of time to live in the moment
To become a thing of no thing
To bleed into emptiness
And be sucked into the cosmos
To reverse aging
And be born again into the arms
Of mother sucking at life
And infinitely charged an infant
It takes a lot of time to live in the moment
To believe without belief
To suffer without grief
To steal the riches without being a thief
By taking it all
The construct
The identity
The ego
And lighting it up with fluid and a match
And as it burns
Throw it to the cops of soul who catch
Arrest it and kick it back
Into the center of the sun
Burning out black hole teeth
Laughing and chewing the moment
It takes a lot of time to live in
As it takes a lot of time to live in the moment

Where dark is light
And blindness sight
And where wrong is right
And the day is night
And there is no more I, or you, or time
Or future
Or need to nickel and dime
Or skin
Or bones
Or thought of rhymes
Just the evil low-end buzz of consciousness fuzz
Blossoming rose to the nose of eternity eternal
And the vast never-was
Sucking all the fire from the old sun
And lighting up the new one
For the generations to come
Who have so much time to live in the moment
It takes a lot of time to live in the moment

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"It's Ok To Be Young / Gone"

"It's Ok To Be Young / Gone"

She puts her dust under your fingers
And plays your strings
And moves with lust in the shadows
Of empty kings
She says, “You lack imagination”
You dream her there
She lifts your heart up like a candle
Burning near

It's ok to be young
Before long
You'll be gone
You'll be gone
It's ok to be gone
Before long
You'll be young
You'll be young

She’s like the nighttime always bleeding
Into the light
And like the love you always need now
To be right
She says, “Give up now surrender”
With empty hands
You hold them up over your shoulder
As she commands

It's ok to be young
Before long
You'll be gone
You'll be gone
It's ok to be gone
Before long
You'll be young
You'll be young

It's ok to be young
Before long
You'll be gone
You'll be gone
It's ok to be gone
Before long
You'll be young
You'll be young

She says, “You lack imagination” [x4]

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"Jumping In With You"

"Jumping In With You"

Help me after the travelling
Come back through
Help me after the travelling
Glad I missed you

Down by the lake
In your heart
I'm making it too
Down by the lake
In your heart
Jumping in with you

Help me after my money's spent
Come back through
Help me after the traveling
Come down next to you
Lie down next to you

Down by the lake
In your heart
I'm making it too
Down by the lake
In your heart
Jumping in with you

I'm still in love with you

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"Junkies And Limousines"

"Junkies And Limousines"

You made a fool of me
By wasting all my love
And now I’m all you’ve got
And I’m not near enough

Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave

I made a fool of you
By wasting all your love
And now you’re all I’ve got
And you’re not near enough

Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave
Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave

Junkies like riding in limousines
Tinted windows and the smell of gasoline
Cheap champagne pouring memories
All the rest will be days like these

Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave
Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave

You made a fool of me
By wasting all my love
And now I’m all you’ve got
And I’m not near enough

Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave
Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave

Junkies like riding in limousines
Tinted windows and the smell of gasoline
Cheap champagne pouring memories
And all the rest will be days like these (yes they will)

Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave
Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave

Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave
Soul sister, soul sister, soul sister, slave
Go sister, go sister, into your grave

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"Kandinsky"

"Kandinsky"

The whole world shakes me down
The Holy Ghost in rags
I've been burning up this town
And flipping tiny bags

Zeus gave a blade
Apollo stuck him up
I committed to the fade
But then drank another cup

It's a dirty song that runs
For your fingers in your chest
Trying to feel for bombs and guns
Or a heart without a vest

Bullet proof, good or not
Wrecked the weekend coming now
I will see you at the spot
With my murdered sacred cow

Shadows are red inside
Shadows they dream in rainbows
Shadows cave into fountains of color
When we close and avert our eyes
Shadows recognize our poverty

Kandinsky is in my room
So is Edgar Allan Poe
The shadows dream in color
And that is their final revenge
When we go under
It's nothing but art deco black and white
Andy Warhol submarines
Frying fish of the ages

Shadows are red inside
Shadows dream in rainbows
Shadows cave into fountains of color
We close and avert our eyes
Shadows recognize our poverty

And even pray over us
With minds full of grey
And rapid eyes scanning the bottom of the ocean
On the middle of the day
Kandinsky is in my room
Smoking a brown cigarette
And I ignore him and read my orange book
Until suddenly he says 'hey'
And as I look up
He turns into a shadow
So that the cigarette falls
And the smoke rises slow
Filling the space where his body once was
Filling the space where his body once was
Filling the space where his body once was

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"King Of Cleveland"

"King Of Cleveland"

We were holy knights
Lit up pretty good on the big streets
You were the King of Cleveland
Playing blues in the back seats
From biker bars to limousines
You had a manager as pretty as she was mean
And I was in high school
Just checking out your scene
In the half-life
You had the flesh
she had the knife
Yeah, you had the flesh
She had the knife

She said
C-c-c-cause you are
A superstar
I will cut you
She said
C-c-c-cause you are
A superstar
I will cut you (and she cut you)

The King of Cleveland
Fell with a thud
A heart as big as the ocean
Just sank in the mud
Of suffering and alcohol
You smoked a joint every time she would call
Burning it down
Until you did fall
And just kept falling
In the dirty east
Everyone feeding until you found out
You’re the feast
And everyone’s bleeding the hallelujah son
The Holy Spirit undressing you in front of everyone
Hollow girls blooming over your shoulder
Until you are done
In the half night
Erasing your past
In the half-life
A crystal falling into glass
We were only half right
A house of love, a flashing light
With the crazier rain, comes the crazier night
The King of Cleveland
Waking up in the half-life
And maybe she had the flesh and you had the knife

Still she said
C-c-c-cause you are
A superstar
I will cut you
She said
C-c-c-cause you are
A superstar
I will cut you (and she cut you)

C-c-c-cause you are
A superstar

We were holy knights
Lit up pretty good on the big streets
You were the king of Cleveland
Playing blues in the back seats

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"King of the Pavement"

"King of the Pavement"

The gods can hear me sing
From inside the basement
It's good to be king
King of the pavement

Our friendship is pure
Like lights inside us pouring
I knew you before
But never in the morning

It's good to be king
King of the pavement
But you can't kiss my ring
Down in the basement

Our spirits will soar
My soul needs a cleansing
I want to explore
Being forgiven

We lay down at night
In darkness together
The moon and you fight
To capture forever

The gods can hear me sing
From inside the basement
It's good to be king
King of the pavement

fox69 · 19.02.2016

"Lack A Vision"

"Lack A Vision"

Because you lack a vision
You've been
Blinded by love

I say a prayer for a stranger
Oh he was
The last soul I see(n)

I want to tell you something
But I
Can barely speak

I turn out the lights
I know
I won't sleep

I love you
And I always will
I want to
Come back home, can I come back home
I hold you
Like I never will
I want to
Come back home, can I come back home

In the eyes of a stranger
I saw
The last part of me

I knew then for certain
We are
Never gonna be free

I think of what she told me
Well I
Know some things you can't teach

Like when you hold me
And I
Stay out of reach

I love you
(everything's different)
And I always will
(nothing has changed)
I want to
(like a pocket of marbles)
Come back home, can I come back home
(at end of the day)
I hold you
(I pick out my favorite)
Like I never will
(and I give it away)
I want to
(everything's different)
Come back home, can I come back home
(nothing has changed)

Because you lack a vision
You've been
Blinded by love