Joseph Arthur

[fox69]

"Precious One"

"Precious One"



Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman in the evening sun
Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman you're my precious one

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home

Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman after all we've done
Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman when I'm on my run

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home
Comin' home

Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman in the evening sun
Taste you like a woman
Taste you like a woman you're my precious one

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home

Lights come with fighters and live in dark circles
I've lived in your fires and now I'm comin' home
Comin' home

 

[fox69]

"Prison"

"Prison"



Help me find a reason
In my darkest time
To open up my heart
And survive
Help me gain my vision
As I stand here blind
Looking out for a place to be
helpless and free
where no one will recognize me

A prison inside myself
I look at you
I think I need your help
(I look at you? to get through?)

Can you find the reason
To put it down
But you love the poison
You found
And all that you've been using
To get you through
Soon you'll see
That it was using you
A prison inside myself...

 

[fox69]

"Puppets"

"Puppets"



Give less than I take
Dream you up as anything
I have no memory
Every moment, eternally

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

I cut myself
But no blood came
And no one helped
Strings that we can't see
Puppet you
And puppet me

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

And you don't know
What its like to try
To change where you go
And break the lie
And you never show
What its like inside
To raise your (nose?)
And break your pride

Hearts crack like canes
As children break the spider's legs
Strays out in our yards
Of buried bones and boulevards

I wanna try
To get away from everybody else
To get away from everybody else

 

[fox69]

"Queen Of Brooklyn"

"Queen Of Brooklyn"



Beautiful Woman
Waves of my ocean
Forget about love
It's too early for us
And it's so hard to trust
With a heart of dust

We don't ever want to fight
From the feelings that
Break us down in the night
After we have shown each other
A fragile light
We don't ever want to fight

Powerful woman
Queen of Brooklyn
I know who you are we made it this far
And we both had to starve
To feel our hearts

We don't want to fight
From the feelings that break us
Down in the night
After we have shown each other
A fragile light
We don't ever want to fight

 

[fox69]

"Rages of Babylon"

"Rages of Babylon"



Another time I've been before
fighting in the rich man's war
blood can fill oceans of sand
I no longer possess my hand
Or mind
Or my heart
Or my will

Do you notice, when we are gone
through the rages of babylon
to protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me?

Is my home this ugly place?
When will darkness reveal his face?
To feed the mouth of misery
They ship our bones across the sea
And our lives
And our love
And our kids

Do you notice, when we are gone
through the rages of babylon
to protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me?
Will my family remember me?

Now my wife says she can't see
another time to lay with me
as the bombs fall overhead
If I'm not, wish I was dead
In my mind
In my heart
In my will

Do you notice, when we are gone
through the rages of babylon
to protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me?

Do you notice, when we are gone
through the rages of babylon
to protect the land of the free
Will my family remember me?
Will my family remember me?
Will my family remember me?

 

[fox69]

"Real As Rain"

"Real As Rain"



If I show you who I am
Would you stay?
It's not hard to understand
Why you went away

Reaching out for love
To feel a hide out in your heart
And steal a graceful hand to hold
And help me to regain control
Real as any rain

Must there always be a prayer
To buy or sell
Pretending you were never there
As you crawl out of yourself

Reaching out for love
To feel a hide out in your heart
And steal a graceful hand to hold
And help me to regain control
Real as any rain

I watched you come
And I watched you turn away
With seagulls flying all along the shore
Asking you to stay

Something is always gonna come
Between me and you
Both of us know how to run
More then fallow thru

Reaching out for love
To feel a hide out in your heart
And steal a graceful hand to hold
And help me to regain control
Real as any rain

All your rain is gonna come down
Child of your pain
All you rain is gonna come down
Real As any rain

 

[fox69]

"Redemption City"

"Redemption City"



Redemption city
Is where I live
Redemption city
I got nothing to give

Bide my time
And find you to forgive
Redemption city
Is where I live

Redemption city
Is where I come from
Redemption city
The beat in every drum

Redemption city
The blood that's in my veins
Skyscrapers and sewers
And love that flows down drains

Redemption city
Buildings falling down
Redemption city
Skulls stuck in the ground

Redemption city
Night gives into dawn
As evil fills the streets
The love keeps moving on

Redemption city
I fell but now I'm free
Redemption city
In you there's no more me

Redemption city
I breathe in your air
As destruction and revolution
Are building everywhere

Maybe you wanna come home
Maybe you wanna get away
Maybe you wanna go out
You'll find redemption
Real redemption

Redemption city
Sons and daughters save
Redemption city
Built in every grave

Redemption city
The light in every cave
Freeing every soldier
Every master now a slave

Redemption city
Morning paper trains
Redemption city
Nectar and the stains

Redemption city
Blood on every hand
The cold rain in each eye
Killing every man

Redemption city
No place left to park
Redemption city
Not safe after dark

Redemption city
The fire from each spark
Shooting from the blackness
Born from every heart

Redemption city
Blood runs through the streets
Redemption city
Where saints drink wine with freaks
Redemption city
Salvations naked here
And Satans in the cold speaking with his fear

Redemption city
His fear is made of doves
Redemption city
Sobered up his buzz

Redemption city
Now Satan's falling down
And the people come to stab him
And put him in the ground

Maybe you wanna come home
Maybe you wanna get away
Maybe you wanna go out
You'll find redemption
Real redemption

Redemption city
Is where I live
Redemption city
I got nothing to give

Bide my time
And find you to forgive
Redemption city
Is where I live

Redemption city
Is where I come from
Redemption city
The beat in every drum

Redemption city
The blood that's in my veins
Skyscrapers and sewers
And love that flows down drains

Maybe you wanna come home
Maybe you wanna get away
Maybe you wanna go out
You'll find redemption
Real redemption
You'll find redemption
Real redemption

 

[fox69]

"Redemption's Son"

"Redemption's Son"



I don't know where we've been
Could you tell me where we are again?
And Jesus is my only friend
No one else knows who I am

I know I'll never make it on the cross
Spent my days looking for what my daddy lost
He was too proud to have a boss
Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost

No one knows how he felt
Hung himself in the county jail
There were those who said he would burn in hell
I don't think they knew him very well

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son
Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

Forgive us for what we've done, Lord
Forgive us for what we've done

I don't know were we are
Fearful eyes don't see very far
Drivin' in my daddy's car
Ashtray full of his cigars

Is it real what I see...
His ghost ridin' next to me?
'Till he's gone I won't be free
From the burden of his misery

I know I'll never make it on the cross
Spent my days looking for what my daddy lost
He was too proud to have a boss
Sold himself out then he couldn't afford the cost

All over the neighborhood
Mostly he was misunderstood
In his heart the bad beat the good
Used to be a time I'da killed him if I could

Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son
Angel of love
Shine a light on us
I was born to be
Redemption's son

Forgive us for what we've done, Lord
Forgive us for what we've done, Lord
Forgive us for what we've done..........

 

[fox69]

"Saint Of Impossible Causes"

"Saint Of Impossible Causes"



I need the saint of impossible causes
The saint of no return
I need the saint of scented candles
That never really burn
I need the saint of laughter
I need the saint of tears
I need the saint detective
Who can find my stolen years
I need the saint of needing
I need the saint of loss
The one who gave up wanting
His heart to trash to toss
I need the saint of longing
I need the saint of will
I need the saint of killers
Too afraid to kill

I need the saint of music
I need the saint of love
Only they can save me
Reaching out for you

I need the saint of weapons
That never hurt no one
But struggle towards perfection
To obliterate the sun
I need the saint of drinking
Wine and ice-cold beer
Is there any saint of thinking
Beyond the reach of fear?
The saint of our desire
Is sitting here with me
He says you ain't no Buddha
There ain't no mystic tree
You could sit forever
And never understand
The mind of the creator
Moving mountains in your hand

(I know what you're thinking and you're right)

I need the saint of music
I need the saint of love
Only they can save me
Reaching out for you

I need the saint of music
I need the saint of love
Only they can save me
Reaching out for you

I need the saint of healing
And I need the saint of health
I shot the saint of money
And beat up the saint of wealth
The saint of twisted memory
The saint that sets us free
I saw them run together
They look like you and me
For the saint of falling skies
And the saint of heavy rain
The saint of bored encounters
Was making fun of all my pain
You are a tiny man, he said
With language thumbing low
A hitcher in the whirlwind
Just like the saint of snow

(and then he said…)

I need the saint of music
I need the saint of love
Only they can save me
Reaching out for you

I need the saint of music
I need the saint of love
Only they can save me
Reaching out for you

Only they can save me
Reaching out for you
Only they can save me
Reaching out for you

 

[fox69]

"Satellite Of Love"

"Satellite Of Love"



Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while, I'd like to watch things on TV
Satellite of love, satellite of love, satellite of love.

Satellite's gone way up tomorrow
Soon there will be filled with parking cars
I watched it for a little while, loved to watch things on TV
Satellite of love, satellite of love, satellite of love.

I've been that she's been bold with Harry, Mark and John
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday, Harry, Mark and John.

Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while I'd like to watch things on TV
Satellite of love, satellite of love, satellite of love.