Joseph Arthur

[fox69]

"Maybe Yes"

"Maybe Yes"



Is God a stripper? Is God a noose?
Is God a drunkard on the loose?
Is God a vulture? Is God in bones?
Is God a beggar sucking stones?
Is God a dealer? Is God the knife?
Is God the footsteps past your life?

Is God for ransom? Is God for sale?
Is God a crime without a jail?
Is God in murder? Is God a saint?
Is God the form in Picasso's paint?
Is God a convict? Is God a worm?
Is God a lesson you can't learn?

Well maybe, maybe yes
Maybe, maybe yes

Is God in fucking? Is God in lust?
Is God in daring not to trust?
Is God rebellious? Is God a punk?
Is God a junkie in need of junk?
Is God a savior? Is God a lie?
Is God the sorrow that cannot cry?

Is God unholy? Is God disease?
Is God surrender upon your knees?
Is God unkind? Is God unsure?
Is God a bastard? Is God impure?
Is God salvation? Is God the light?
Is God the love which haunts the night?

Well maybe, maybe yes
Maybe, maybe yes

Is God the moon? Is God the sun?
Is God too soon? Is God no fun?
Is God a ghost? Is God a song?
Is God unsure which side he's on?
Is God a him? Is God a her?
Is God real sharp? Is God a blur?

Is God a Christian? Is God the hate?
Is God a Muslim? Is God our faith?
Is God a Hindu? Is God a prayer?
Is God a Buddhist or underwear?
Is God the devil? Is God the beach?
Is God the ocean, or out of reach?

Is God our need? Is God repair?
Is God our heart? Is God our hair?
Is God the blackness? Is God too much?
Is God our kindness? Is God our crutch?
Is God the wind? Is God the road?
Is God a bomb that won't explode?

Maybe, maybe yes
Maybe, maybe yes

Is God a sinner? Is God so great?
Is God overrated? Is God the bait?
Is God the fish? Is God the air?
Is God too clumsy to really care?
Is God a monkey? Is God a fool?
Could God surrender the golden rule?

Is God a human? Is God a fly?
Is God an asshole? Is God the sky?
Will God accept me? Is God prepared?

 

[fox69]

"Men Of Good Fortune"

"Men Of Good Fortune"



Men of good fortune
Often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings
Often can't do anything at all

The rich son waits for his father to die
The poor just drink and cry
And me, I just don't care at all

Men of good fortune
Very often can't do a thing
While men of poor beginnings
Often can do anything

At heart they try to act like a man
Handle things the best way they can
They have no rich, daddy to fall back on

Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings

Men of good fortune
Often cause empires to fall
While men of poor beginnings
Often can't do anything at all

It takes money to make money they say
Look at the Fords, but didn't they start that way
Anyway, it makes no difference to me

Men of good fortune
Often wish that they could die
While men of poor beginnings
Want what they have and to get it they'll die

All those great things that live has to give
They wanna have money and live
But me, I just don't care at all

Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings

Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings
Men of good fortune
Men of poor beginnings

 

[fox69]

"Mercedes"

"Mercedes"



I've been next to you for a lifetime
I've been watching you from the start
Always trying to keep yourself put together
Always needing to fall apart

You wanna ride in my mercedes
Tonight we'll dance outside along the seashore
A quarter moon will paint our shadows on the cold sand
You ask me how come we dance
Well there is no reason at all

I hope that you will burn down this old house
And I hope that you will escape right through the front door
Turn around when you're safe
And talk about what they've done to you
Turn around when you're safe
And watch this house burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they've done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they've done
Oh i know you will rise

You wanna ride in my mercedes
Everyday we are closer and far away
Everyday we are closer and far away

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they've done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they've done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I hope that you will rise
When you talk about what they've done
Oh i know you will rise
When you watch yourself burn to the ground

Oh I know you will rise
When you talk about it
You will rise, you will rise

You will rise

 

[fox69]

"Midwest"

"Midwest"



There's nothing to do in the midwest but dream
Like spiders on the walls of abandoned factories
Setting fire to the trash, dance beneath the fog
When the cops come we run like hell
Stealing from our souls born cheap out here
A dream that can't compete up against the fear
Of never getting away
And there's nothing to do in the midwest but dream

There's nothing to do in the midwest but dream
Into the earth and out of the past
We plug in our guitars and begin to feed off the spirits in the air
Flying in our minds, the sound we try to hear
Is so many years from ever being defined
But there's nothing to do in the midwest but dream
But dream

 

[fox69]

"Mikel K"

"Mikel K"



I've been watching you
I liked you right away
Cause you looked like you
Might have something to say
That I would want to hear
Like you looked at me
And liked me right away

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

Well I'll follow you
Anywhere you wanna go
Cause you look like you
Might already know
A place we can be that feels better
Than the hole I have inside of me

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

You're easy for me
To bleed on
I said you're easy for me
To bleed on

 

[fox69]

"Missy Baba"

"Missy Baba"



Give it over, every single pearl
On your shoulder, the weight of the world
Plastic stranger, burning in the sand
Hidden danger under every man
And you

Now I want to go to sleep
Now I want to go to sleep
Now I want to go to sleep
Now I want to go to sleep
With you

Foreign country
The alien and the friend
Always hungry
Hungry for the end
Missy baba
Kissing all the dirt
Missy baba
Holding all the hurt
For you

Now I want to go to sleep
Now I want to go to sleep
Now I want to go to sleep
Now I want to go to sleep
With you

 

[fox69]

"Morning Cup"

"Morning Cup"



Because I love these people
I wanted you to stay
Can we now surrender
The games we used to play
Won't it all come back to
The will to love and treat you right
Ability to hold you
Anytime day and night

And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup

Give up your soldiers
The battle has been won
You fell so far upwards
You fell into the sun
Yesterday's over
So different from today
When nothing is hidden
There's no reason not to stay

And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup

Taking the long way
To where you were before
Your shadow keeps turning
The knob of every door
But none of them open
You're disappearing now
You'll always be lost here
And finding yourself somehow

And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup
And I suppose it's up to you
Drinking a morning cup

Because I love these people
I wanted you to stay

 

[fox69]

"Mother Of Exiles"

"Mother Of Exiles"



Is there a mother of exiles
Is there a father of truth
Is there a shepherd to take us
Through the darkness of youth

Are there words that bring salvation
Is there a sky that never falls
Is there a voice, which moves love
That knows the hollow of your calls

Is there light that sings your heart song
Is there hearts in ghosts that haunt
Do shadows ever whisper
As they die from the weight of want

Did I ever really need you
Or was it an illusion born of time
Will you fade from my memory
Could I recover my lost mind

Is this road never ending
From this life and beyond
Are we always somewhere sending
The signal moving on

And if love itself can't save us
What use the cry of man
If love itself can't save us
What is the master plan

The sky is always falling
My will is dying here
The voices always calling
Behind the waves of need and fear

Give up now surrender
What are you and where
Who are you deceiving
When you pretend to care

A night owl and a carcass
A widow and a snake
A fire burning nothing
Except the will to need and take

A fire reaching higher
It may even lick the sun
God can feel its heat now
As all his humans run

From desire to desire
From need to bleeding need
With mouths still opened skyward
The mother still must feed

Is there a mother of exiles
Is there a father of truth
Will anyone find her way home
Or to the heart and soul of youth

 

[fox69]

"My Home Is Your Head"

"My Home Is Your Head"



You want to be free
Don't act like it's bad
I'm already dead
My home is your head

Hey You and me
Can't get what we need
Hey You and me
Can't get what we need

You're a suicide
Only out for revenge
You can't control my mind
If I don't believe you're gonna try

Hey You and me
Can't get what we need
Hey You and me
Can't get what we need

You want to be free
Don't act like it's bad
I'm already dead
My home is your head

Hey You and me
Can't get what we need
Hey You and me
Can't get what we need

 

[fox69]

"Nation Of Slaves"

"Nation Of Slaves"



We live in a time where we're all gonna fall apart
and chemicals rising up over the sun
A nuclear mind evolution of human heart
Is the creation we're gonna become

Nation of slaves, we all say that
I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't...

Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun

We live in a time where we get fed the same idea
Like junkies addicted to information
and ya go to a new place and you never get anywhere
and I already finished before you begun

Nation of slaves, we all say that
I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't...

Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun
Burned by the sun

Can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you
And I can't find my way without following you.....