Joseph Arthur

[fox69]

"I Am The Witness"

"I Am The Witness"



The world is in me
I am not in the world
Of pleasure and pain where you hang hope and fear
Desire is the fire burning you in hell
Reaching out for nothing, building you a jail oh no
Since before the first birth and until the last death

I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness

And there is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain
And there is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain
And we are one

The world is in me
I am not in the world
I am already dead so there's no way I can die
For nothing I live so I am fearless of life
I am not a person or a product of time

I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness

There is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain
And there is bliss beyond this world of pleasure and pain
And we are one

I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness
I am the witness, I am, I am the witness

 

[fox69]

"I Miss The Zoo"

"I Miss The Zoo"


I miss the drunk, I miss the fiend
I miss the simplicity of addiction and the scene
I miss wandering aimlessly in half dead sewers
With rats for eyes chewing on forgiveness and the will to apologize
I miss the return of no return as I burn in avalanche of white snow and yellow cocaine
I miss talking to brick walls while following the grain
And human dolls as I plagiarize myself like a dummy
Stuffed with counterfeit money for Cairo and black honey
I miss illusions begging to be chased
Even as they disappear into me erased
Until there is no one or nothing but the chase
And a powdery ghost with no face or faith
And the woman of my dream disappearing without grace

I Miss The Zoo
I Miss The Zoo
I Miss The Zoo

I miss evolving into a cloud of blue marijuana
Blown from the lips of hookers and pimps
As they smack each other down in alleys for the dammed but mighty
With no one but the weak around and the beautiful unsightly

I miss numb Neanderthals marching in rows of living dead
From my wisdom teeth to Spain and back again in my head
I miss salvation in syringes and angels of mercy
In blooms of smoke numbing rain which drinks when thirsty
I miss glasses full of spirits who without tongues speak to me of napoleons wild nights
I miss staying up for days and becoming a psychic pretzel flying kites
Chewed on by a Zulu heading with toads to mars
A mysterious prison and one without bars

I Miss The Zoo
I Miss The Zoo
I Miss The Zoo

I miss waking in the arms of strangers like puppies
Just born in the pound to a dead mother with eyes sealed shut
Looking for a tit to suck and other dangers
When only the night before laughter was the only pursuit
Even as knives carved up our backs and demons sat like Buddhas eating fruit
Meditating on hate forever in our minds
I miss exposing my bones and the need that rewinds
Even my burning home, even my gutted inner child
Even my dead grandfather beneath the ground that's wild
Even my criminal family, even my weedwacker thoughts
Whipping a thin plastic string to cut the ears of others as I sing
I miss van Gogh's revenge, I miss his nightly binge
I miss spiders surrounding my bed and lifting me as if an effigy
Or a Dead King or a prophet of doom
A Jesus for the apocalypse wearing dirt like perfume
Or a mother for Satan or a ghost for all the children of abuse
And taking me into the fire watching me burn like a goose
As they sing in spider voices
There goes creation, there goes the moon
There goes the butterfly wanting a cocoon
I miss being a bloom and a goon
[?] too soon, in the afternoon
A doctor of regret
Hanging onto guitar strings in tune
And hanging by a belt wrapped around some pipe to nowhere and felt
My lips too wrapped around what appears to be stained glass
As religious figures dress like rocks with class
Burn into gas to the center of my brain
The euphoria of dying and being born all at once
While wearing the hat that reads 'dunce'

I Miss The Zoo
I Miss The Zoo
I Miss The Zoo

 

[fox69]

"I Used To Know How To Walk On Water"

"I Used To Know How To Walk On Water"



I used to know how to walk on water
I used to be so unafraid
I could save the weakest tyrant
And I could knight the proudest slave
I could give riches to beggars
And give love to the one who hates
I could tempt a whore so frozen
And I could torture the strength of fate
I used to know how to walk on water
A king of kings they knew me well
I could give sight to blind men
And make a mute man sing in hell
But now I watch with awe and wonder
Doubt has now befallen me
I ask the lord to show me mercy
And to give me sympathy

Forgive me now, my useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here and I am humble
For I know not which way to go

I used to know how to walk on water
I could give a dead heart life
I could murder the joy of satan
And make his mistress be my wife
I would be a dream of cowards
And they would never resemble me
I could see them doubt me under
As I set each one free
Now I just sit and wonder
What illness has befallen me
A sicker mind makes me surrender
To this world of vacancy

Forgive me now, my useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here and I am humble
For I know not which way to go

I used to know how to walk on water
Now I sink in the dirt
No kind sun or holy laughter
Seems to reach beyond the hurt
I used to know how to walk on water
I used to be at peace with love
And all its strength and all its power
Would lift me up so high above
A burning star, a holy wonder
Women would rush to be with me
But now I'm lost inside the thunder
Of pain which holds insanity

Forgive me now, my useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here and I am humble
For I know not which way to go
Forgive me now, my useless thunder
When I was such a dynamo
I am here and I am humble
For I know not which way to go

 

[fox69]

"I Will Carry You"

"I Will Carry You"



You/They say love is a lonely word
When it goes unheard
And if those thoughts they aren't spoken for
And the bags that she packed
Are there by the door

I will carry them
For you
I will carry them
For you
I will carry them
For you
My love

You say I could be free
But I don't think you see me
With the way/weight I absorb
You put on me and so much more

I will carry it
For you
I will carry it
For you
I will carry it
For you
My love

You/They say love is a lonely word
When it goes unheard
Those thoughts they aren't spoken for
And the bags that she packed
Are there by the door

I will carry them
For you
I will carry them
For you
I will carry them
For you
My love

 

[fox69]

"I Would Rather Hide"

"I Would Rather Hide"



Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else around
Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else,
and there's no one left you can blame...

In the night I'm on my own
Unglue my mind and burn my telephone

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

I feel a phantom fly from my fear
(ain't goin' nowhere)
follows the voice I sometimes hear
(ain't goin' nowhere)

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else around
Yeah, yeah
I know we're all insane when there's no one else,
and there's no one left you can blame...

I think aliens abducted me
I close my eyes if I want to see

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

I don't wanna go outside
I don't wanna go outside inside
I would rather hide

 

[fox69]

"In Ohio"

"In Ohio"



In Ohio, you were born
You will die alone

I'm gonna wait up
I'm gonna wait up
I'm gonna wait up
For you

 

[fox69]

"In The City"

"In The City"



There’s a slither but no snake
As you wake up cold again
Homeless in the house you make
A dream preparing you to send
To a whisper with no voice
The message clearer than before
As you walk without a choice
Through the richness of the poor
There’s a begging under wealth
The rich are vagrants too
As with sickness in good health
The sky is faded blue
And so lover with no warmth
We lay now in the arms of death
I can taste the air you breathe
As you breathe without a breath

In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace
In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace

There’s a calling with no ears
No message is received
As with falling through the years
Of the lies that you believed
Now just death can change your mind
But maybe then you still will live
As they take it all away
So that you may finally give
There’s a sun without a light
In the darkness beating down
As your bones fill up with death
Dancing skeletons around
There’s a moon without a night
And a knife without a blade
A gun that just shoots roses
And tattoos that will not fade

In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace
In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace

There’s a savior with no damned
There’s a saint who always sins
There’s a candle with no flame
And beginnings without ends
There’s a hunger no one feeds
There’s a sleep that will not wake
There are eyes that will not close
And there is gold you cannot take
There is beauty in the cold
There is freezing when it’s hot
There is youth born in the old
When the truth is all they got
There are roads that just keep going
There are cars that never stall
When the voice inside your heart
Speaks to those who hear the call

In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace
In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace

Give away your hunger
Give away your pain
Keep with you the wonder
That saves you here again
The love it just keeps growing
In the light and all around
The truth as loud as thunder
Shakes the world without a sound
So give away your pain
And give away your hunger
To the battle of the ocean
And the epic child’s wonder
There is beauty all around
In the city there is grace
There is love without an end
From the one without a face

In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace
In the city there is grace, in the city there is grace (hey grace)
In the city there is grace (hey grace)
In the city there is grace (hey grace)

 

[fox69]

"In The Middle Of The Night"

"In The Middle Of The Night"



In the middle of the night
I can feel the sun
In the middle of the night
I think we'll vow our love
It's a terrible secret
That I keep from you
I vacate my soul on the broken hearted avenue.

We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end

In the middle of the night
My heart is never free
In the middle of the night
The truth is easy to see
If I could hold you
Now I would never let you go
But I'm all alone
Knowing that you reap what you sow

We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
After the end
After the end
After the end

In the middle of the night
I think you're following me
In the middle of the night
In the doorway of my memory
I ask how everything is going for you
Between is a wall
Both our hearts see through

We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
After the end
After the end
After the end

In the middle of the night
Is when I start to cry
In the middle of the night
I throw a prayer for you
Across the sky
It's a terrible secret
That I kept from you
I vacated my soul on the broken hearted avenue

We could begin
We could begin
We could begin again
After the end
After the end
After the end
After the end

 

[fox69]

"In The Night"

"In The Night"



And where we live is where we hide
'Cause we can't forgive what's inside
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)

In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind

And when we wake up
It's already dark
And I touch your face,
I feel your heart
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)
We have sweet love (we have sweet love)

In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind
In the night
Voices will fight
Voices of shadows and the runaways
Running from love
And every sorrow left behind

 

[fox69]

"In The Sun"
(originally by Peter Gabriel)

"In The Sun"
(originally by Peter Gabriel)



I picture you in the sun wondering what went wrong
And falling down on your knees asking for sympathy
And being caught in between all you wish for and all you seen
And trying to find anything you can feel that you can believe in

May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you

I know I would apologize if I could see your eyes
'Cause when you showed me myself I became someone else
But I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need
I picture you fast asleep
A nightmare comes
You can't keep awake

May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you

'Cause if I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
If I find
If I find my own way
How much will I find
You

I don't know anymore
What it's for
I'm not even sure
If there is anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand
'Cause I been caught in between all I wish for and all I need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me

May God's love be with you
Always
May God's love be with you