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everybody’s born believing

kiss the ground you walk on /it’s the heart that cradles you/everybody’s born believing everyone is true/oh you get so weary/what’s it gonna take/to keep yourself together?/to see the bough not break?/bless the one you walk with/even everything he’s not/ everybody’s born believing everyone is god/oh you get so weary/when god has gone away/who puts our hearts together/who smiles and lets them break/oh you get so weary/what’s it gonna take/to put us back together?/oh you get so weary/what’s it gonna take/to put us back together?/to heal what had to break?/everybody’s born believing…



spoiling the game

sally looks into the mirror/but she doesn’t see her face/just a wrinkle she despises/needs to be erased/she knows a doctor ‘round the corner/she knows he’ll do his trick again/she can’t resist his magic fingers/no and he won’t spoil her game/billy joe he has a problem/he wants to find his way back home/but the streets all look the same here/no matter where he roams/he’s been walking for so long now/that he’s senile blind and lame/could have always hailed a taxi/but he did not want to spoil his game/eve and adam ate the apple/and the rest was then arranged/there’s a price for every pleasure/a loss in every gain/but there’s no good in throwing stones now/‘cause you and i we’d choose the same/who’d want to go and start from scratch anyway?/who’d want to go and spoil the game?/jesus was a story spinner/at least that’s what the stories say/seems he’d only gotten started/when they took his tongue away/now i just can’t get away from/people spinning in his name/i wish he’d come back shut them all up keep them all from/spoiling the game/‘cause they’re trying to spoil my game



your photograph

because everything is moving/i know nothing is worth proving/is god love is god a monster?/sometimes love feels like a monster/not for you it must be/something your photograph doesn’t see/no one can make you make you believe/something your photograph doesn’t see/because i don’t trust the surface/these two eyes just make me nervous/is she real is she a vision?/‘cause right now she is my religion/not for you she must be/something your photograph doesn’t see/i’ll never make you make you believe/something your photograph doesn’t see/because everything is shifting/i know i can’t keep this with me/all that’s mine is only borrowed/gone today back tomorrow/not for you it must be/something your photograph doesn’t see/i’ll never get through it’s plain to me/something your photograph doesn’t see/something your photograph doesn’t see/something your photograph doesn’t see/it’s something, your photograph



the ground

i know a girl named suzie who channels wisdom from the dead/they sit around mulling over the questions rolling ‘round her head/and the ghosts say “suzie your troubles soon will be gone/along with the hundred haunted memories you don’t want”/and there’s always marshall who dreams about moving up/in the office at midnight sipping on a bitter cup/haven’t seen him in a year now he’s got so many things to do/if you’re gonna get to heaven on earth you gotta push on through/all of these people who want to fly/i can’t blame them so did i/now that i’m up here on this cloud/i just want my feet back on the ground/for sweet maria life has been awful cruel/man if i was in her place i don’t know what i would do/when i drop by to see her i can tell she’s always crying/she’s watering the greener pastures swimming ‘round in her eyes/all of these people who want to fly/i can’t blame them so did i/now that i’m up here on this cloud/i just want my feet back on the ground/i just want my feet back on the ground/i just want to love and lose and hurt like you/i swear there’s nothing wrong/i just want live and die see through your eyes/i swear there’s nothing wrong/there’s nothing wrong/but for you there is a kingdom floating high above your head/and ‘cause you got faith now you’re gonna go there when you’re dead/and then you’re gonna be perfect you’re gonna be without sin/i can hear a billion voices crying “jesus won’t you let me in”/all of you people who want to fly/i can’t blame you so did i/you got me up here on this cloud/i just want my feet back on the ground/i just want my feet back on the ground/don’t keep me up here/don’t keep me up here/don’t keep me up here on this cloud/i just want my feet back on the ground



only you

we put my ugly things away/we sent them to the shadows/for you were coming in to stay/it’s only you that matters/it’s only you that matters/what am i doing with this cross?/ you said i would not suffer/and if i turned away i’m lost/it’s only you that matters/and when the night comes crashing down again/i get this funny little feeling you’re no friend/what is a man to do with all he cannot mend?/it’s only you that matters/forgive this need forgive my fight/forget this useless chatter/don’t look at me don’t look inside/turn up the heat turn off the lights/we’re going undercover/you’ve got to get me through the night/you’ve got to get me through the night/it’s only you that matters/but when the night comes crashing down again/i get this funny little feeling you’re no friend/am i to follow you to hell and back again?/it’s only you that matters/when you took me in there was light /it was wonderful/you were like a bridge to the light/you were wonderful/what am i doing with this cross?/what am i doing with this cross?/what am i doing with this cross?/why don’t you take away my cross?



black cloud

black cloud hanging up above/and i’m thinking ‘bout the flood i’m holding in/she falls soaking into me/and i’m thinking that it’s time that i begin/have i been looking for the key to a door that’s never locked never been?/if it’s really only me/i’m thinking that it’s time to let me in/black cloud hanging up above/and i’m thinking ‘bout the sun i’m holding in/she shines soaking into me/and i’m thinking not to join in is a sin /have i been looking for the key to a door that’s never locked never been?/if it’s really only me/i’m thinking that it’s time to let me in/i’m gonna get out of the way/i’m get out of the mood/i’m gonna get off of this train/i’m gonna get into that big wide room/that big wide room/that big wide room/black cloud hanging up above/but I’m thinking now your love is gonna win/there’s no use digging in the mud/for an answer that’s still blowing in the wind/have i been looking for the key to a door that’s never locked never been?/if it’s really only me/i’m thinking that it’s time to let me in/if it’s really up to me/i’m thinking that it’s time to let me in



yet

happy birthday to you/you made it this far/after so long it’s through/believing nothing/so pleased to meet you/yeah come on in/been waiting for you/i’ll give you love like a newborn feeling/i’ll give you love like you’ve never seen it yet/nanananananana  yet/happy birthday to you/you made it this high/after so long it’s through/believing a lie/so nice to have you/yeah sit right there/been looking forward/i’ll serve you love like a newborn feeling/i’ll serve you love like you’ve never tasted yet/nanananananana  yet/so pleased to meet you/yeah it’s well-known/you’ve been looking for me/i’ve been right at home/so nice to have you/yeah come on in/been looking forward/i’ll show you love like a newborn feeling/i’ll show you love like you’ve never seen it yet/nanananananana  yet



nothing outside

remember this/you came with nothing/only you’re being that’s what you are/so don’t make it big/you’re little drama/here’s something golden no one can touch/here’s something real/don’t put it down/nothing outside your world can turn your world around/when i was small/i looked up to jesus/‘cause he was a big man up in the sky/and he did it all/built all the bridges/left me to keep my spirit denied/and how i was lost/until i found/nothing outside my world could turn my world around/imagine a god/only outside you/keeping you praying for something he’s got/if you ask me/only a devil/would want me to be something i’m not/i am that i am/and i have no bounds/nothing outside my world can turn my world around/because there’s nothing outside/because there’s nothing outside/nothing outside our world can turn our world around



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it was somewhere back in the latter days/when i first became a son/it was beautiful it was frightening/but i could not tell which one/and i fumbled for expression/but the mystery tied my tongue/i looked back once more at the life i knew/knowing life had just begun/it was somewhere down by a waterfall/that i first forgot to feel/i was underneath she was crashing down /and the power was not real/and i floated down unconscious/on her wave of loving grace/‘til i woke up dry full of emptiness/and the echo of her face/must i live a million lifetimes/just to find no reason no rhyme?/i am always running someplace/but i still feel miles behind/it was in a place called the land of god/that i first believed in hell/it was criminal it was everywhere/it was murder if you tell/how we spun our wheel of fortune just to see where fortune would land/and a billion losers left the game/with a stomach full of sand/must i hang with my reflection?/it’s face i swear it’s not mine/it’s a scrambled television/i’m a channel i’m hoping to find/it was yesterday just a moon ago/when the drama came unglued/it has always been very obvious/that the emperor is nude/now he fumbles for redemption/in a cold foreign heart/let the starter load the gun again/let me have another start/it was somewhere back in the latter days



all rights reserved/all songs c 2011 by mark davis/inkling music except “the ground” by mark davis & danette christine, inkling music/strong left hook music, and  “only you” and “nothing outside” by mark davis & david zink, inkling music/papa’s moon publishing​