"One Lovely Day" (2012)

One Lovely Day lyrics - Citizen Cope

[Verse 1:]
She won't give in,
She won't crack a smile or a grin.
She won't give in,
But she sure is different.

It's written in red
All in her eyes,
There's no disguise.
Well, she lost so much in Tivoli.

[Chorus:]
Together we could go,
To where there ain't no more pain,
Together we could fly,
To where there's time for you and I.
Together we could walk
To the river, stand with the families,
Move to the sound of the band from Atlantis,
One lovely day,
One lovely day,
One lovely day,
One lovely day.

[Verse 2:]
She won't let on,
The feelings she got ain't so strong,
She won't let on,
But I'm never gonna leave her alone.

It's written in red
All in her eyes,
There's no disguise.
Well she lost so much in Tivoli.

[Chorus x2]

Something To Believe In lyrics - Citizen Cope

They say that loving yourself
Is loving someone else
It’s like you've always been right there
When I needed you

Standing in the night
Trying to get it right
Coz this here life will test you
Over and over and over again

You keep giving me
Something to believe in
And I keep giving all
‘Cause the walls are falling down

You keep giving me
Something to believe in
And I keep giving all
‘Cause the walls are falling down

‘Cause the walls are falling down
‘Cause the walls are falling down
‘Cause the walls are falling down

Is it impossible to be learned?
Is it impossible to be taught?
‘Cause everybody could be burned
And anybody could get caught

Standing in the night
Trying to get it right
Coz this here life will test you
Over and over and over again

You keep giving me
Something to believe in
And I keep giving all
‘Cause the walls are falling down

You keep giving me
Something to believe in
And I keep giving all
‘Cause the walls are falling down

‘Cause the walls are falling down
‘Cause the walls are falling down
‘Cause the walls are falling down
‘Cause the walls are falling

Dancer From Brazil lyrics - Citizen Cope

I dreamt of cash in my head
I dreamt of princess in foreign lands
I dreamt of love and affection
My lord’s blessings

I asked answers to the questions
They got so many guessing
And they all point the same direction
The same point that I’m missing

My dancer from Brazil
A love I can’t conceal
I’ve been after love for years
And I think I’m getting near
To my dancer from Brazil
From Brazil

Back Then lyrics - Citizen Cope

Before the laws and the social orders
Before the cause of the lieutenant's orders
Before the rise of pop culture
Before the guards at the borders
Before the expectation led to life's frustrations
Before the path to salvation was cloudy by the deep depths of temptation

[Chorus]
Back then, it was alright to pretend
That all we really had was within and a little sky to spin
Back then, love had a place to stay
And wasn't getting turned away
It took my whole life to realize it's just a blink away to back then

With holy sons, holy daughters, holy sisters, holy brothers, holy skies, holy waters
For those who came before us on the way to what's come before us
Before the expectations led to life's frustrations
Before the path to salvation was clouded by the deep depths of temptation

[Chorus]

DFW lyrics - Citizen Cope

I was at DFW, I had to call you
I had to say goodbye to my baby today
Reminded of the days abode to save the air force base
Well boo, you are a star, you always are
You are so full of grace
And we ain't spoken in so so long, but I think about you everyday
It's been a hard living, 'cuz you never know
When you be lifted from the gift of living
I try to keep it hidden, but the tears burn down my face
She came to me from heaven, but right now I gotta put her on a 727
I promised it'd be different, but it makes me lie today

If all we have is a story to pass and a memory to embrace
And all of this, I had to say goodbye to my baby today
I had to say bye bye to my baby [x2]
Had to say bye bye, goodbye, goodbye to my baby today

I had to say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to my baby today [x4]

Peace River lyrics - Citizen Cope

I come from a place
Run by a man named Mr. Paige
He took everything and he wanted more
A gun and a knife and he'd use the law

He'd smack you in the head in public
He'd kick you down and he'd think nothing of it
Keep your head down, swallow your pride
If you wanna live to see the night and

I guess I had my fill
Of playing from the valley to the top of the hill
And even though I got away
I couldn't shake Mr. Paige

And I've fulfilled all my desires
I couldn't put out the fire
Things going in my head
That I need him put to rest

So I will take off, fly off
Get a little bit of step in my walk
Checked on day been giving me a call
And I'm done fallin'

So I will take off, fly off
Get a little bit of step in my walk
Swimming in the Peace River for more
Oh ho, darling

I packed my bags and went
To a place I promise I'd never been
Coming from a cowarly stance
It turned me into a cowardly man

Y'all wouldn't believe what I've seen
Mr. Paige, he was broke at the knees
Somebody so brave and strong
Just turned weak and worn

The fear, it disappeared
And the hate it followed it
To a place it occupied
Be replaced by love and lies

So I will take off, fly off
Get a little bit of step in my walk
Checked on day been giving me a call
And I'm done fallin'

So I will take off, fly off
Get a little bit of step in my walk
Swimming in the Peace River for more
Oh ho, darling

For A Dollar lyrics - Citizen Cope

Moved to the city to settle a vendetta
Ran from a stellar to the hands of Isabella
Was a good earner, got a little butter
Moved to Calcutta, got rich by the summer
Learned that an eye for an eye made the whole world blind
City by city, they built sin city
Mr. Benjamin must have got or needs a schilling
'Cuz he'd rather not walk in the gobs from the prison

And there ain't nowhere this lonely road
This lonely road won't go
What pleases your heart
It's not always what eases your spirit or your soul
For a dollar, will you heal she?
For a dollar, will you feed he?
For a dollar, would you mind explaining to me why today got bought by tomorrow?
For a dollar, will you hold me?
For a dollar, will you love me?
For a dollar, would you mind explaining to me why today got bought by tomorrow?

Southern Nights lyrics - Citizen Cope

Southern night.
Have you ever felt a southern night?
Free as a breeze, not to mention the tree.
Whistling tunes that you know and love so.
Southern nights, just as good even when close your eye.
I apologize to anyone who can truly say that he has found a better way.
Feels so good, it feels so good,
It’s frightening wish I could, stop this world from fighting.

La da da da da da la da da da
La da da da da da da da da da

Southern skies. Have you ever noticed southern skies?
Its precious beauty lies just beyond the eye.
It goes running through your soul like the stories told of old.
Old man, he and his dog that walked that old hand.
Every flower touches his cold hand,
As he slowly walked by weeping willows they would cry for joy, joy.
Mystery, like there’s so many others in the trees.
Go in the night, in the southern sky.
Southern night, feels so good,
It’s frightening wish I could, stop this world from fighting.

Southern night.

A Wonder lyrics - Citizen Cope

It's been 18 months, you stopped smoking cigarettes
And quit the job, put the serpent to bed
Then you moved, played the Russian Roulette
And now she got the smile, and a skip in her step, and now
It's a fine time just to see your face
It's a fine time, just a touch of shade
It's a fine time just to feel embraced
It's a fine time, such a fine time

[Chorus x2]
A wonder, it would be so nice if I could take you with me tonight
And how, how you add to my quality of life if I can take you with me

I roll dice on a seven, double down on 11
Try to be forgiven for the sins I committed
Wish to include you in my mission
Travel everyday with the lost and the gifted
It would take me to the south of France
Even though I never had a chance
I've gotta go to Mexico just to feed my soul
Wish you would come along, come along

[Chorus x2]

Summertime lyrics - Citizen Cope

From the hot to cold, spring to the fall
You and I was meant to be together in love
Something ‘bout a wound down in my soul
Something on my mind easy be told

3 steps, 3 steps behind these 2 hands
These 2 hands of mine
You’ve got that 1 thing that can make a man blind
And grow in my past fame

In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us
In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us

In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us
In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us

From the hot to cold, spring to the fall
You and I was meant to be together in love
Something ‘bout a wound down in my soul
Something on my mind easy be told

3 steps, 3 steps behind these 2 hands
These 2 hands of mine
You’ve got that 1 thing that can make a man blind
And grow in my past fame

In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us
In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us

In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us
In the summertime, in the wintertime
You talk to us, you talk to us

"The Rainwater LP" (2010)

Keep Askin' lyrics - Citizen Cope

Keep askin'
How long will my love it last
Always
Keep askin'
How long will my days they pass
Always
Keep asking me my love
Keep asking help from above

There comes a time
And a place when
You kind of mind living
Day to day when
Country to country
And state to state where
They all got their leaders
Who all push their wheight
Another mother lost
Another child today
Bet tommorow that will
Be yesterday's
Bet you double that
Some people enraged
On the corner
With their voices
Raising judgement day

Keep askin'
How long will my love it last
Always
Keep askin’
How long will my days they pass
Always
Keep askin’ me my love
Keep asking help from above
Keep askin’ me my love
Keep asking help from above

Healing Hands lyrics - Citizen Cope

I will never forget your healing hands my love
I thought my heart had stopped
I swore I had given up
I will never forget your healing hands my love
You gave me daylight you gave me sunlight

Turn the tape recorder on
He just left Jackie O for Marilyn Monroe
We're all bought and sold
For tobacco, firearms and alcohol
What's a pocket full of gold
Without a woman that you could hold
Can't afford to be on the back burner no more
Now I got a lot of places to go

Cause the actions of a few
Have put a world in harms way
And history has proven
That they killed our leaders dead
And I don't know about your right and wrong
I got a muse
From the east to the west
All I know is if I never said it before
I'm going to say it with my last breath

I will never forget your healing hands my love
I thought my heart had stopped
I swore I had given up
I will never forget your healing hands my love
You gave me daylight you gave me sunlight

Find something you can sell
Set you on a trail
Have a ball and a belle
Buy a ticket out of Hell
Not as far as I could tell
Very Well

Bubba I'm a bust your tail
My uncle Clarence hit
The hammer with nail
Wash your hand before
You come to the meal
Cut out the light
Cause it comes with a bill

Cause the violence of a few
Have put a World in harms way
And history has proven that they
Killed our leaders dead

Well I don't know about your right and wrong
I got a muse from the east to the west
All I know is if I never said it before
I'm going to say it with my last breath

I will never forget your healing hands my love
I thought my heart had stopped
I swore I had given up
I will never forget your healing hands my love
You gave me daylight you gave me sunlight

I will never forget your healing hands my love
I thought my heart had stopped
I swore I had given up
I will never forget your healing hands my love
You gave me daylight you gave me twilight

Never forget...

I Couldn't Explain Why lyrics - Citizen Cope

In a couple of hours
The morning is coming
And I'm hittin' the door runnin,
The gasoline is burning
And I couldn't explain why

The message that I have been given
Could have us drown
In the river
Still I gotta deliver it
And I couldn't explain why

I hold a couple of grudges
Could have had a couple of touches
If I hadn't had a couple of crutches
And I couldn't explain why

The world keeps turning
The sun keeps burning
For all to learn what
Heavens only knows
Why do some
Get taken too young
All these answers
That heaven only knows

The wheels are turning
Churching all types of emotion
Strong as the oceans
And I couldn't explain why

This message that I have been given
Could have me drown by the river
Still I gotta deliver it
And I couldn't explain why

I hold a couple of grudges
Could have had a couple of touches
If I hadn't had a couple on crutches
And I couldn't explain why

Lifeline lyrics - Citizen Cope

When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself
When you're so dead wrong
Let alone no one else

Well the children still dying in the streets
The babies still living with disease
The cops got guns, the poor folks got sons
Who work for Mr. Franklin every week

If you've come looking for hard times
Hard times ain't hard to find
Cause we've been given that lifeline
Only once in a lifetime

Baby we were born
Maybe we were born
To be sure ... to endure
When the storm comes

Got them sad eyes
Got them cat eyes
Got your angels tired
From saving your life

So you would be best
To contain yourself
Before you end up killed

His bare feet
Touch her bare feet
The air breaths sweet
At the mountains peak

And I forgot
What the wise man said
About that ancient thread

Baby we were born
Maybe we were born
To be sure ... to rejoice
When it succumbs

Off The Ground lyrics - Citizen Cope

Life's ride down the river
Everyday getting clearer
All the while getting nearer
We all belong

This place we've been delivered
Take the good with the bitter
Some may dismiss you
We all belong

When you and I
Were so far
We were so far
Away from here
All my life been gambling times
Been evading mines
Away from here

And the roads they'll take you down
And the winds will sweep your feet off the ground
And the wheels they won't turn around
On that road that leads outta town

I've found
When you and I were so far away
We were so far
Away from here

Jericho lyrics - Citizen Cope

Bobbi pins are in her hair
The slip is huggin's her rear
I'm starin' at her life's real clear
Washing her face in the mirror

That's how I like to remember
The saints and the sinners
Nobody could deter her
Nobody could prevent it

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
The woman that I love is so abandoned and alone
And all I have to console me
Is that Joshua fought the battle of Jericho

She's got a country slide a city style
A smile to last a country mile
She's got a light that makes most of us feel alive
She's cries
A grown woman child

That's how I like to remember
The saints and the sinners
Itried to defend her
The jury didn't resemble her.

The Newspaper lyrics - Citizen Cope

The newspaper got some more people killed here
The magazine watched them shoot em' in the field there
The radio they turned another deaf ear
The institutions stole everything near

Segeant Manny's workin' on a lead
From his funky at the doubletree
Five cannon's outside the door
Five badges and a labrador

Born to chase after that dollar bill
Not to race up that forgotten hill
They don't want you but you're still here
And God knows that's a miracle

The newspaper got some more people killed here
The magazine watched them shoot em' in the field here
The radio they turned another deaf ear
The institution stole everything near

They pulled them over on the interstate
In her apartment threw a stun grenade
Found the pistol put the house in flames
And that's was happened in their world today

Born to chase after that dollar bill
Not to race up that forgotten hill
They don't want you but you're still here
God knows that's a miracle

A Father's Son lyrics - Citizen Cope

Look look what you've done
Not to become your father's son
Before that day, day, day is done
You'll get your day, day, day in the sun

In this time we've got here
Between heaven and hell
You'd prefer a motor craft
But your prepared to set sail

The city wants details
The state wants you nailed
The people got they laws
But the lord's got the calls

Since there's cash in the lots
You did what they said you could not
write that song like its all that you got

Look look what you've done
not to become your father's son
Before that day, day, day is done
You'll get your day, day, day in the sun

Do you mind livin' day to day?
you mind livin' day to day

You was found now you're lost
you've got to make up what you cost
That boulder on your shoulder
is that bear that you cross

That stare that you plot
That will that you got
Could never have been bought
In China or New York

Look look what you've done
Not to become your father's son
Before that day, day, day is done
You'll get your day, day. day in the sun

Do you mind livin' day to day?
you mind livin' day to day

"Every Waking Moment" (2006)

Back Together lyrics - Citizen Cope

Been stuck in the middle of a
Vendetta between
Me and myself
I sure could use a witness
But I just ain't found one yet

I sent a message in a bottle
Took another swallow
I heard it didn't get there
I heard that it had missed ya
Well, this is what it said

Too little things they go my way
I'm back together again
I'm staring in the mirror
And it's been so long
Since I've seen you my friend

Too little things they go my way
I'm back together again
I'm staring in the mirror
And it's been so long
Since I've seen you my friend

Yeah, yeah

Cheap women, and cheap wine,
Cheap money, cheap time
These things do not exist
But what makes that temptation
Just so hard to resist?

That stolen Picasso,
The mess above your head
I wish that you could hear me
This is what I said

Too little things they go my way
I'm back together again
I'm staring in the mirror
And it's been so long
Since I've seen you my friend

Too little things they go my way
I'm back together again
I'm staring in the mirror
And it's been so long
Since I've seen you my friend

Yeah, yeah

Every Waking Moment lyrics - Citizen Cope

I watched the country move slow
I watched a city for a dollar get sold
I watched a bella take off her clothes
I watched the miles from the car window

Every waking moment i'm alive
I'm searching for you
Whether i know it or not
Or whather i realize
Every waking moment i'm alive
I'm searching for you
Whether i know it
Or whether i realize
Every waking moment i'm alive

I've been to Paris
I've been to Rome
Never been to Laos
But i'll lie and say i've gone
I've been touched by a woman that i lust
I've been real high
I've been real low

Every waking moment i'm alive
I'm searching for you
Or whether i realize
Every waking moment i'm alive
I'm searching for you
Whether i know it
Or whether i realize
Every waking moment i'm alive
Every waking moment i'm alive..

Friendly Fire lyrics - Citizen Cope

They say help is coming
They say help is on its way
They shot him down
And he was innocent today

They run for cover
They got no answer
Why they left him for dead

They say help is coming
They say help is on its way
They shot him down
And he was innocent today

Help is coming
They say help is on its way
They shot him down
And he was innocent today

They run for cover
They got no answer
Why they left him for dead
Help is coming
They say help is on its way

More Than It Seems lyrics - Citizen Cope

Your so Pure (ah)
Your heart is full of
All i ever need
And i cant take it
I cant speak
So i just sit here and stare

My adorer, let me tell you a story
About someone in me
Now its gunna be surrounding me

Break my silence

Yea its a little bit more than it seems
We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
We can make outside my dreams

My adorer, they say i dont know ya
I sure do know
Sure do miss ya
I can't take it
I can't take it

My adorer, your heart is full of
All ill ever need
I cant take it
I cant speak

Break my silence

Yea its a little bit more than it seems
We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
(We can make it) We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
(We can make it) We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
(We can make it) We can make outside my dreams
Outside my dreams

Brother Lee lyrics - Citizen Cope

On the highway
On the freeway
In the airport
In the airplane
In the airtrain

In Brooklyn U.S.A.
To a Tinsel Town
Where now
What the Dodgers play

And where they fired it
Where they tried it
Where they doubled it
Where they tripled it
Where they flippin' it

And where the car's parked
Where the girls dance naked
Where they know when you're fakin' it

And where the rubber meets the road yea
Where the hot meets the cold
Poor meet the soul
Where the young meet the old
Truth be told
I got somethin' on my mind
Y'all gotta know

I got a brother named Lee
Look just like me
He gotta lotta enemies
Got a brother named Lee
Look just like me
Both sides of the Mississippi [x2]

On the highway
On the freeway
In the airport
On the airtrain
In the airplane

In Brooklyn U.S.A.
To the Tinsel Town
Where now
What the Dodgers play

And when they're searchin' for something
That you will never find
When they lookin' at her and say 'so fine'
When they keep saying it was suicide
When they never seen that look in her father's eye

Where the rubber meet the road
Where the hot meet the cold
The spirit meet the soul
The young meet the old
I say truth be told
I got somethin' on my mind
Y'all gotta know

I got a brother named Lee
Look just like me
He gotta lotta enemies
Got a brother named Lee
Looks just like me
Both sides of the Mississippi [x2]

Both sides of the Mississippi yea
Both sides of the Mississippi yea
Both sides
Both sides
Both sides of the Mississippi yea

107 Degrees lyrics - Citizen Cope

Wanted by the minister
Wanted by the dean
Wanted by the old folks
Wanted by the teens
Wanted by the dealers
Wanted by the fiends
Wanted by the girls in them tight, tight jeans
And wanted by the lawyers
Wanted by the ballers
Wanted by the governor who watches people suffer
Wanted by the princess
Wanted by the kings
Wanted by that driver of their limousine

Your love, your love is 7 feet deep
It's 107 degrees
And I'm walking cause my life ain't free
Cause it's 107 degrees
And your pain is, is killing me
Cause it's 107 degrees
And I'm walking cause my life ain't free
Cause it's 107 degrees

Wanted by the judges
Wanted by the lawyers
Wanted by the dons
Wanted by the cons
Wanted by the mission
Wanted for the cause
Wanted by the people who have to pay the cost
Wanted by the lawyer
Wanted by his daughters
Wanted by the victim who's waiting on an offer
And you're wanted by the princess
And you're wanted by the kings
And you're wanted by that driver of their limousine

Cause your love, your love is 7 feet deep
It's 107 degrees
And I'm walking cause my life ain't free
Cause it's 107 degrees
And your pain is, is killing me
Cause it's 107 degrees
And I'm walking cause my life ain't free
Cause it's 107 degrees

Somehow lyrics - Citizen Cope

[Chorus]

Cause you believe me somehow
You're second to none
And you got my love
You got me under the gun
Cause you will see me somehow
Ill stay with ya, stay with ya, stay with ya tell the end

Cause you believe me somehow
You're second to none
And you got my love
You got me under the gun
Cause you will see me somehow
Ill stay with ya, stay with ya, stay with ya tell the end

You got your coat on
Got me focused on
Dont move and slow motion
Every time I see its just enough
Cause you and me were ment to be together in love

And I said all my life
See I been spending all this time
Everytime I see, its just enough
Cause you and I were ment to be together in love

[Chorus]

You got your coat on
Got me focused on
Dont move and slow motion
Every time I see its just enough
Cause you and I were ment to be together in love

And I said all my life
See I been spending all this time
Everytime I see, its just enough
Cause you and I were ment to be together in love

[Chorus x2]

John Lennon lyrics - Citizen Cope

(La la la) (La la la) (La la la) Without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Without you I'd be all alone

(La la la) Without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone

(La la la) Without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone

(La la la) Without you I'd be all alone (La la la)
Say without you I'd be all alone

(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone

I keep hearin'
That the end is nearin'
Every other week there's another villain

John Lennon tried to help stop the killin'
The sorry thing is that nobody listened

The city and country they divided
They pointin' their fingers
Their callin' each other liar

And it's ashame
Traded on Jesus' name

And since the ages of Abel and Cain
Pleasure and pain
Heroin and cocaine

The father's insane
The son is kinda strange

Self-inflicted shotgun blast to the face

These croked politicians
They ordering the killin' of
Of innocent civilians

They build another prison
For the children to fill them

(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la) Say without you I'd be all alone
(La la la)

All Dressed Up lyrics - Citizen Cope

She's weighin' on my mind and it won't let up
I couldn't get enough of her
She's out on the town and she's all dressed up
I couldn't get enough of her
She walked into the room and the place lit up
I couldn't get enough of her
Distance is lifting me up
I couldn't get enough of her love
I couldn't get enough of her

Here's a song for you I play
From all of my life, from all of my days
Life is short but the summer is long
And we could get together a lot before the fall
And when you get near, close enough to hear, my mind just settles
The thoughts just clear
And I could touch you right
And I could rush you right and
Them walls gonna fall like the full moon-light

Yeah Yeah
She's weighin' on my mind and it won't let up
I couldn't get enough of her
She's out on the town and she's all dressed up
I couldn't get enough of her
She walked into the room and the place lit up
I couldn't get enough of her
Distance is lifting me up
I couldn't get enough of her love
I couldn't get enough of her

Here's a song for you I play
From all of my life, from all of my days
Life is short but the summer is long
And we could get together a lot before the fall
And when you get near, close enough to hear, my mind just settles
The thoughts just clear
And I could touch you right
And I could rush you right and
Them walls gonna fall like the full moon-light

Yeah Yeah
She's weighin' on my mind and it won't let up
I couldn't get enough of her
She's out on the town and she's all dressed up
I couldn't get enough of her
She walked into the room and the place lit up
I couldn't get enough of her
Distance is lifting me up
I couldn't get enough of her love
I couldn't get enough of her

Yeah Yeah
She's weighin' on my mind and it won't let up
I couldn't get enough of her
She's out on the town and she's all dressed up
I couldn't get enough of her
She walked into the room and the place lit up
I couldn't get enough of her
Distance is lifting me up
I couldn't get enough of her love
I couldn't get enough of her

I couldn't get enough of her
I couldn't get enough of her

Left For Dead lyrics - Citizen Cope

Been left for dead
I know it's in the back of your head
Been left for dead
Sister you're better than that

Been sold downstream
Sold down river to the cousin of the king
Been left for dead
Sister you're better than that

A e i o u
A e i o u
A e i o u

Gonna beat him instead
Beat all the odds that you got up ahead
You gonna beat him instead
Cause sister you better than that

A e i o u
A e i o u
A e i o u

"The Clarence Greenwood Recordings" (2004)

Nite Becomes Day lyrics - Citizen Cope

Things have been getting real heavy these days
The media the system
the people chasing pay
Somebody's got a rifle he won't turn the other cheek
Now its his turn

Things have been getting real hectic these days
An eye for an eye
A spade is a spade
They're shooting him down and he's running away
That was their turn

I believe in
The same thing that makes the night become day
Tide and the water
Sons and the daughters
Can't hide it can't fight it
Love
I'm a say it again

It's the same thing that makes the moonlight
Meet up with the sunlight
Can't fight it can't buy it
Love... I'm a say it again

When cut deep the same blood we bleed
We're not immune to addiction or disease
Got violent deaths in our family trees
Now it's our turn

Things have been seeming real ready these days
From the North to the South to the East to the West
Happiness will you put it to your chest
When it's your turn

Pablo Picasso lyrics - Citizen Cope

The woman that I love
Is forty feet tall
She's a movie star
She's all in the papers
And everywhere I go
People hand me quarters
And they pat me on the back
They treat me like I'm famous
I'll never leave her side
'Cause today can be dangerous
And when the night arrives
The light hits her features
And the cars drive by
Just so they could see her
And she never bats an eye
When someone takes her picture

Mr. Officer if you've come to take her
Then that means one of us
Gonna end up in a stretcher, say
Mr. Officer if you've come to take her
Then that means one of us
Gonna end up in a stretcher, say

Gonna end up in the papers,
going end up in the papers, yeah

If I had a pistol
I'd brandish it and wave it
She's the only one alive that knows that I'm not crazy
She's gonna testify on my behalf down at the Navy
So I can get some peace
And provide for my babies
I got a stick and a bottle
I'll pretend I got a razor
Helicopters and cameras all shootin' for the station
They say that a wild man defending his lady
But for some odd reason they keep calling you a painting

Mr. Officer if you've come to take her
Then that means one of us
Gonna end up in a stretcher say [2x]

Mr. Officer if you've come to take her
Then that means one of us
Gonna end up in a stretcher say [4x]

My Way Home lyrics - Citizen Cope

Sometimes I miss a step
I stumble here and there
I'm findin' my way home
If I'm lost then I'll admit
Sometimes i plain forget
I'm findin' my way home
You can try and stand in my way
You can say what you're gonna say
But I'm finding my way home

Son's Gonna Rise lyrics - Citizen Cope

Rollin' down the highway
Like a rocket
God, I'm headed to town now
You can't stop it
Got wheel in my hand
As I stand
On the floor
Of the board
Of this car
On the road
Got this woman in the back seat
Yeah she's my wifey
In the middle of the delivery
Man she saves me
To this day I don't know why
She picked me up
When I was down on the road
With the wind when it blowed

Well a son's gonna rise in a mile
In a mile
You'll be feeling fine
In a mile you will see
After me
You'll be out of the dark, yeah
You'll get your shot

Sideways lyrics - Citizen Cope

You know it ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There's no words to describe it
In French or in English
'Cause, diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you

These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out, babe
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won't go away

But these feelings won't go away

It ain't easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There're no words to describe it
In French or in English
'Cause diamonds they fade (diamonds they fade)
And flowers they bloom (flowers they bloom)
And I'm telling you

These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out, babe
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away

These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away

These feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away

But diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I'm telling you
I'm telling you
Diamonds they fade
Flowers they bloom (flowers they bloom)
I'm telling you
I'm telling you

These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
They've been knockin' me out, babe
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away

These feelings won't go away
They've been knockin' me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away

But these feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away, no
These feelings won't go away
These feelings won't go away

Penitentiary lyrics - Citizen Cope

Well I'm waiting on the day
When the people walk free to see
When the penitentiary is on fire
When there's no need
To bleed
For your mother or your brother
Or the one that bomes before you whoa
Well I'm waiting on a time when people walk free to see
From the penitentiary in our mind
When there's no need to bleed
For your father
Or your son
Or the one that you've become
When the penitentiary is on fire
When the penitentiary is on fire

I'm waiting on the day
When the people walk free to see
When the penitentiary is on fire
there's no need
To bleed
For your father or your son
Or the one that you've become and a
I'm waiting on a time when people walk
free to see
when the penitentiary in our mind
there's no need to bleed
For your mother
Or your brother
or the one that come before ya yea

When the penitentiary is on fire
When the penitentiary is on fire
When the penitentiary is on fire
When the penitentiary is on fire

Hurricane Waters lyrics - Citizen Cope

I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I'll remember you in the blue skies
I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I'll remember you in the blue skies

Something happens when
You're caught searching for an answer
When you're stuck in the middle
Of a place that you don't belong
When you start to lose sight of what's right and wrong
When we started it was innocent
'Cause when we started it was innocent

I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I'll remember you in the blue skies
I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I'll remember you in the blue skies

Until we meet again
Until it's like it was
Until then
Until the answers start raining down
Until the skies open up until the trumpet starts
Until then
Until the city and the county ain't divided
Until then
Until the spirit and the mind ain't fighting
Until the scenes of tomarrow and today finally play

I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I'll remember you in the blue skies
I will carry you through the hurricane waters
And I'll remember you in the blue skies

D'Artagnan's Theme lyrics - Citizen Cope

I've been sinning
I've been livin'
I've been beaten
By Saturdays
On a diamond
I lay on a diamond
On a diamond
I lay awake
D'Artagnan
Good ol' D'Artagnan
He ain't got a thing on me
I've been minding
To my field of timing
Too bad your time in
It just never came

Well I don't know how else to say it
In a diffrent way
But why don't you just fade away
'Cause there's a battle going on
Down south of Babylon
So why don;t you just fade away

I've been dealing
I've been healing
I've been dealing
A crooked game
Thieving pirates

Bullet And A Target lyrics - Citizen Cope

Mr. Dali Lamas
Another sister's shootin' heroin tomorrow
Amputees in Freetown
Sierra Leone's
The church wasn't honest
The state put the youth in a harness
Creatin' hostility among us
Teacher said no college
Still the kid's gotta get a check with a couple commas
People wanna bomb us
More people gotta scatter and run from us
You can blame it on Zeus and Apollo and Adonis

But what you've done here
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target
And it won't be long before
You're pulling yourself away

But what you've done here
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target
And it won't be long before
You're pulling yourself away

I've been knowing her for years
I've been seeing her for years
She got dark, dark wavy hair
With a voice like she just don't care
She got a skirt with a halter top
She's got a dad who never gave a fuck
She drinks a beer with a malted top
She got knocked up in a pickup truck
But she got engaged when she was nineteen
To this dude who was acting insane
Had a .45 that he always cleaned
Said one day one day one too many days
Now she ducked and she ran away
Never to be heard from, never to be seen
I check the cover of a magazine
I'm just wondering how, just wondering how

But what you've done here
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target
And it won't be long before
You're pulling yourself away [4x]

A bullet and a target [4x]

Between a bullet and a target

Fame lyrics - Citizen Cope

Got the law man
The con man
The liquor store man
Got the man at the premiere to "Spider-Man"
Got the old man calling on the young man
Got the soul man
Trying to keep a hold man
I seen the stars lookin in her eyes
So many times I tried
Seen a man who caught the rainbow's end
He claimed
That the pot of gold resided within

For a name in the U.S.A.
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the world today
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
You want to fly high

For a name in the world today
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the U.S.A.
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
You want to fly high

Got the this is your land man
This is my land man
Got the blood on the tracks man
Got the guilty man
Got the innocent man
Got the buffalo soldier
The dreadlock Rastaman
Seen the stars looking in her eyes
So many times I've tried
Talked to a man who caught the
rainbow's end he found
That the pot of gold resided within

For a name in the world today
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the U.S.A.
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly

For a name in the U.S.A.
For a little bit of fame today
For a name in the U.S.A.
You want to fly high
You want to fly high
You want to fly
You want to fly
You want to fly high

"Citizen Cope" (2002)

Contact lyrics - Citizen Cope

You're walking down the street
You've got this white Chevy Lumina undercover
Checking you to see
They're checking your I.D.
'Cause it's a fine time
It's a fine time
It's a fine time
Say just to run a name
'Cause you look the same
As the dude with the rebel in his veins
But while you're checking me
You've got them crooked politicians
Eating up the treasury
And taking our cash
To spend on the prisons
While the youth they fast
Now I'm waiting on the day
When we can all bring
Like Martin Luther King
This is why I sing

[chorus:]
I want some contact contact
I want some contact contact
I want some contact contact
Contact contact
Only because my life depends on it

If There's Love lyrics - Citizen Cope

Where you been hidin'?
I'm believing
You give me life
Life my dear
You give me strength to beat the odds
And overcome my fears
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You never grow old
Because you're forever young

[chorus:]
If there's love...
I just want to have somethin' to do with it
I just wanna feel yours
[repeat chorus]

When I'm alone you make me feel at home
If I give enough of you
To a higher place we'll go
You make me feel like I belong under the sun
You'll never grow old
Because you're forever young
And you know that you got my tomorrow baby
Today and yesterday
Believe that you've got my tomorrow baby
I'll hold you close as far as I can see

[chorus]

Let The Drummer Kick lyrics - Citizen Cope

Let the drummer kick
Let the drummer kick that
[repeat]

Relations
Creation
Incarceration
Determination
Equation
Humiliation
Reincarnation
Situation
Elation
Identification
Retaliation
Education
Inspiration
No substitution
Solution
Conclusion

Let the drummer kick
Let the drummer kick that
[repeat]

Relations (Say Apollo had to break 'em)
Creation (It's a gift, a blessing)
Incarceration (What keeps you down)
Determination (What gets you out)
Equation (When they said you could make it)
Humiliation (What you feel when they say it)
Reincarnation (Say N-A-V)
Situation (Why we've got to sing)
Elation (So many in need)
Identification (Gives you the right to shoot)
Retaliation (What would it do)
Education (Gives you the right to do)
Inspiration (What pulls you through)
No substitution (Try to substitute)
Non-inclusion (Just got to bust through)
Drug infusion (For the chosen few)
Mass confusion (When they say that they died for you)
Delusion (Say that the dreams don't come true)
Solution (It can take a hold of you)
Conclusion
Inspiration (Is what pulls you through)

Let the drummer kick (Inspiration)
Let the drummer kick that (Inspiration)
[repeat]

You don't even have to wait
You don't even have to wait

Let the drummer kick
Let the drummer kick that

Mistaken I.D. lyrics - Citizen Cope

There's this lady around my way
Who sees me like every other day
Who swears and screams a name
She says "Randy where you been?
I remember you were my best friend
Me and you was in it till the end
You was like a son to me back then
You were the son that I never had
I've been huntin' you down man
I'll let you know about my foolproof plan
We can get a crew like we once had
And run from town to town
We'll never ever be found
Say Randy how's that sound?
When I was down
You were always around, I'm so glad
That I finally found you"

[chorus:]
Mistaken me
It seems like you've mistaken me
See you've mistaken me
It seems like you've mistaken me, taken me

Say lady if I seem a way
If my enthusiasm ain't the same
It's just that Randy ain't my name
But I tell you this most every day
There's nothing I can say
To change the way
You're thinking about me
Try but you refuse to hear
Even when I'm walking with my lady
You say "How you doing baby
I like your new girlfriend
You've always attracted them princesses"
I wish I could pretend
I pray you find your friend
And all she said in the end
Is "Randy where you been?"

[chorus]
[repeat verse 1]
[chorus]

200,000 (In Counterfeit 50 Dollar Bills) lyrics - Citizen Cope

One day he's a Greek
One day he's Italian
He's 42 years old
He's George from Baltimore
He's a hustler
Making money on the street every day
What he does with his dough
Is a mystery
It's a shame Petey Reds thinks he's gamblin'
Everybody knows George is gettin' high
But he'll swear on his mother's grave
That he spends all his dough
On the horses at the Pimlico
Hit 'em for 700 last night
Now he's got his hand out
Somethin' ain't right
You can call it profit
You can call it lost
If he gets that train back to Baltimore

[chorus:]
200,000 in counterfeit 50 dollar bills
[repeat]

George can turn a ten to a grand real quick
To spend on his medicine
He ain't gettin' sick
His doc's gotta Benz
A white girlfriend
Now the state's gotta Benz
The country's got a Benz 'cause
She could turn the lights out
Over at the White House
Still George has got to get his
Looking for a pocket for his 50 dollar bills
Looking for a thruway to his thrills
On the train ride back to Baltimore

[chorus]
[repeat]

Salvation lyrics - Citizen Cope

Say Judas came up to D.C.
He'd been down in Georgia for a while
He drove a 944
He bought with the soul
Of a blonde-headed kid
With a left-handed guitar
Now he's lookin' for me
Citizen C-O-P-E
Sign the dotted line please
For the fake 50's
Now Judas answer me
"Since I was the age to speak
Haven't you been listening?"
Salvation

[chorus:]
Salvation
Salvation
Salvation
I'm calling
Salvation

Well he came to town
Found the woman that I love
And he fucked her down
She told him where I live
Off of 9th in the alleyway
Where they say
They got the coke and the dope
Until you end up broken
"You should have let the smack get you" he said
"But now you've got to deal with me instead
I'm downstairs on the Motorola
You know I've got 3 golden bullets
And I'm shooting for your soul"
Salvation

[chorus]

Well I came down with my Martin blazin'
My voice
It was cutting him up
Now he's aiming
His first shot grazed my eye
I lost half of my sight
And my firstborn's life
The second shot grazed off my guitar moon
And it made my guitar kinda play out of tune
But I just kept playing
Like I had nothing to lose
He turned the third on himself
'Cause the bastard knew
Salvation I'm calling
Salvation

[chorus]

Put the gun down
Put the gun down
Put the gun down
Put the gun down
[repeat]

Hands Of The Saints lyrics - Citizen Cope

It all began with this lady
Who wanted a photograph
And a woman who wanted some change
So she could get some bread
She had a scarf on her head
She didn't want to rouse her pigeon friends
And it wasn't too long before her audience danced
The lady said "rise"
She said "rise"

[chorus:]
When the lady came
Her audience sang
The hands of the saint are feeling us today
Oh yeah
[repeat]

Say brother if you wait
For the bath in the spring
We could shine
Yeah we could shine
Say sister if you wait for the bath in the spring
Yeah...we can shine
We can shine
Yeah we can shine

[chorus]

Comin' Back lyrics - Citizen Cope

He was down on his luck
Put his bag in the back of his black Cadillac Coupe DeVille
He had a meeting at the crossroad
But he didn't know that his soul was about to get killed

You can leave me lonely,
You can take my riches,
You can take my life, but my soul been saved.

He felt the cut of a sword, but the pen's mightier
Then he spread his wings and he flew away, Yeah Yeah.
If anything... is happening... I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back

For your ass, mother fuckin' fast is,
How you be running in the day.
Now you're gonna feel how,
how it feels to be running when you can't get away

You can leave me lonely,
You can take my riches,
You can take my life, but my soul been saved.

He felt the cut of a sword, but the pen's mightier
Then he spread his wings and he flew away, yeah, yeah
If anything... is happening...I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back
If anything... is happening...I'm comin' back

I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back

I'm comin' back (yeah)
I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back (yeah)

Well he was down on his luck
Put his bag in the back of his black Cadillac Coupe DeVille
He had a meeting at the crossroad
But he didn't know that his soul was about to get killed

You can leave me lonely,
You can take my riches,
You can take my life, but my soul been saved.

He felt the cut of the sword, but the pen's mightier
Then he spread his wings and he flew away, yeah, yeah.
If anything... is happening...I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back
If anything... is happening...I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back

I'm comin' back (yeah)
I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back (yeah)

I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back
I'm comin' back (yeah)

I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay
I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay
I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay
I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay

I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay
I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay
I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay
I'm comin' back... I'm comin' back to stay

Appetite (For Lightin' Dynamite) lyrics - Citizen Cope

Everybody knows when he's coming to town
They're locking the doors
And they don't make a sound
People want him dead but he won't die yet
First he's got to live
With the things that he did
People want him leaving
But he isn't leaving soon
He gets him some smokes
And some hoes
And a hotel room
Then you best duck when he's through
He's clinching his fists
And he's looking for you

'Cause Darren's got an appetite
For lightin' dynamite
And letting it
Blow up in his hands
[repeat]

Ava's got a Frank Sinatra tune
Ava's got the sun
And the wind
And the moon
Ava's got a lawyer
And a baller
And a full-foot taller
And a bullfighter from Spain too
But I guess you could never forget
The way she moves
She removes your stress
"You ain't got a clue 'bout nothing like this"
That's what she says
And she means what she says

See Ava's got an appetite
For lightin' dynamite
And letting it blow up in her hand
[repeat]

Teresa lyrics - Citizen Cope

This feeling
Don't happen
By yourself
Alone
Is no
Way to live
Breathing
It don't happen
By yourself
Alone
Is no
Way to live
We could love
We can love
One another
We could love
We can love
One another
We could love

Holdin' On lyrics - Citizen Cope

I have been wanting you for so long
I have been wanting you for so long (so long)

I been down
I been down a different road
I been out
I have been out of control

Girl, when you touch me back
yeah, yeah
I get my senses back
Yeah
Girl, when you touch me back
yeah, yeah
I get my senses back
Yeah

So now I'm feeling alright
Cause nothin' feels like
When you're holdin' on
Said, I feel alright
Cause nothing feels like
When you're holdin'
When you're holdin'
I'm feelin' alright
Cuz nothing feels like
When you're holdin' on
When you're holdin' on

I wanna treat you like you wanna be treated (yeah)
I wanna see you as you wanna be seen (yeah)

I been down
I been down a different road
I been out
I have been out of control

Girl, when you touch me back (yeah)
I get my senses back (yeah)
girl, when you touch me back (yeah)
I get my senses back (yeah)
Oohh

So now I'm feeling alright
'Cause nothing feels like
When you're holdin' on
Said, I feel alright
Cause nothin' feels like
when you're holdin'
when you're holdin' on
Said
I feel alright
Cause nothing feels right
When you're holdin'
When you're holdin' on
I feel alright
Cause nothin' feels right
When you're holdin' on
When you're holdin' on

Let yourself go,
Let yourself go