Lyrics…

“Trouble Enough”

Everybody's got trouble enough
Just keepin' one body strong and tough
Bindin' two bags of life together
[Drags your feet down/Makes going rough] in hard weather
Pullin' two embers from a fire
Burns worse than one before they expire

The only way to get by
Is to keep yourself [hosltered/cocked] at your side
Lovers crowding out the sky
You never breathe the air inside

The only way to stay strong and free
Is to keep yourself cocked [and loaded] at bedside
When lovers crowd the sky, stars, locusts, many
You'll never see the light found inside
When love crowds the horizon ahead
That's your only way out–– I came, I saw, I fled

Happiness is overrated
Fruit of sadness, understated
Darkness exiled, unbought on the shelves
Too much light blinds us to ourselves
Don't wear your life jacket too tightly
Smoke and fire, both live and die lightly

Light is gift only in good measure
Outside of darkness you miss the glow of treasure
The gift of failure left on the shelf
Unbought, untouched by the self

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“Can't Afford”

Everything I can't afford
Is everything I want
Everything I can afford is everything I need
Everything we cannot afford
Is everything we want
Everything that we can afford
Is everything that we need

Hand reaches out to the flame above
Long taught to seek more light, more light
The hand draws back, charred and withered
Didn't know how light must fit us

Careful what you wish for
Cuz it might just get you
Careful who you wish with
Cuz they might just blow you out
Like a candle
On a cake on a table
In a house you never really owned

Time to get out
Go-in-side and get out!
Time to get out
Go out and get what you need
Charred hand in withered hand
With those who need what you've got

Everything I can't afford
Is everything I want
Everything I can afford is everything I need
Everything we cannot afford
Is everything we want
Everything that we can afford
Is everything that we need

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“Times When”

There are times
When my faith
Is but an ember
Flickering in the fire of the Lord saith

There are times
When your face
Is all I can remember
Flickering in the mirror of inner space

There are times
When sometimes
I fear crimes
I hear chimes
And my blood boils while my eyes go icy gray

And sometimes
There are times
That decide
Where I ride
And who shares my air as we rattle and sway
As we sway, down the line
Of time

There are times
When the words
On the page
Read the same either backwards or forwards

There are times
When the silence
Is the only word
That makes sense of what they call divine science

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“Anything, Everything, Something, Nothing”

Anything for you
Anything for you
But not everything
Not everything for you

I've only got something
Only got something for you
Share my share of nothing
If nothing you will take

How much of my nothing
Will you, Can you take?
And some of my something,
How do I know you won't break?

If you don't take my something
At least take my nothing
Cuz at least my nothing
Is something you can't fake
Something you can't break

Everything has its time
Every time offers something
My everything can be yours in time
If your something will eat my nothing in time
But if nothing I have
Is something you want
But if the nothing I have
Is not the something you need
Then everything you promise
Is just some other taunt