I guess I’ll never make it on my own. No, I guess I’ll never make it on my own
I need your love, I need your love, I need your love, I need your love
All my life I’ve been so lonely, all my life I’ve been so alone
All my days I’ve felt like the lost one with you I feel I’ve been found
Chorus (I need your love 4×)
Lights shining in your eyes. Lights shining in mine
Chorus (I need your love 4×)
I guess I’ll never make it on my own
Chorus (I need your love 4×)
She was the one who loved me. She was the one who cared
She was the one that loved me, She was the one who cared
All those long years ago, long years ago I was a boy
She made me donut holes. I was the only one.
Gave me a tree to climb on the back fence line
Gave me a tree to climb on the back line
Billy Lake and I climbed it high looking out for the bad guys
She made me donut holes. I was the only one
Siblings picked on me, I was the little one
Siblings picked on me, I was the little one
When they put me down she picked me up
She made me donut holes. I was the only one
She was my mom’s mom, we called her Gooma
She was my mom’s mom, we called her Gooma
She taught me how to play. I learned how to win
She made me donut holes, I was the only one
Repeat # one
She made me donut holes, I was the only one
Forgiven, Forgiven
I don’t know what I’m doing, taking a step in an old direction
What do I have to gain but this small bit of pain
What do I have to lose by being so predictable
Chorus (There’s no price to pay to have your sins forgiven forgiven)
Don’t fall back from your best intentions
Don’t fade away from what’s to come
Does it matter where you’ve been to or even matter what you’ve done?
How can I be so stupid as to ask a question like that?
I’m a crippled old geezer with a Netflix habit, a hungry hunter on the way to a rabbit. An afterthought in the realm of reality
Standing on the brink of immortality
Who the hell do I think I am? Another one on the bubble of greatness
Another one on the road to ruin, another one on the road to ruin
Chorus (and repeat chorus with no pause)
Not every mystic has an angel
Not every profit is for good
Not every answer is forthcoming
No one always does what they should
We’re born to be on life’s journey
We’re taught to take a stand
We’re free to make our own decisions
Or we can just not give a damn
This song is for the children
The ones that live inside
The ones that never happened
The ones that never died
They built their dreams in silence
In words no one ever heard
Shrank back in trepidation
From everything they’d learned to fear
And the ones that always hurt them
Were the ones that never knew
All the pain they were causing
Doing the best that they could do
Every life is ever changing
And they’re filled with brand new starts
There’s a good chance for forgiveness
And a healing in the heart.
When you free your inner child
And finally shed a joyful tear
Your life will have fresh meaning
An angel might appear
This song is for the children
The ones that live inside
(I take this song out with a little harmonica - it could be humming or whistling or guitar or whatever)
Woke up this morning, rainwater in my shoes, I woke up this morning rainwater in my shoes. When I woke up this morning, I had the dishdrainer blues
She said she’d love me. She said she always would. She said she’d love me, she said she always would. Well she said she’d love me, now she’s saying I’m no good. I said hey baby is my love in vain, I said hey baby, is my love in vain. She said hey hey mister your love affair's been washed down the drain. The dish drain
She said she’d need me forever and for more. She said she’d need me forever and for more. She said she’d need me now she’s headed out to the candy store. Here’s what she said to me. She said oowee baby you done forgot how to squeeze me, how to please me. Oh baby you done forgot how to squeeze me how to please me. Now I need someone you’re definitely not. Go!
I’m like a rusty cup, got the dishdrainer blues. I’m like a rusty cup, got the dishdrainer blues. I rub and I dub I can’t scrub out my love for you
So when I woke up this morning rainwater in my shoes. When I woke up this morning rainwater in my shoes. When I woke up this morning I had the dishdrainer blues.
Thank you for a little joy today and for anger’s fade away
Thank you for the joy in my heart. Like the wonderful feeling in my heart
I was down but the water I’m afraid to cross. Got to get over before I am lost. I need a hand, I need hand, I need a hand from someone who is not enslaved.
Finally got over, fell by the wayside. Back in the past where I wanted to die. You took my hand I stood there naked got me to see even I am sacred.. oh yeah
Thank you for the blues that you gave me, for your holy words I know they can save me
Thank you. Thank you so much for your gentle wisdom and your healing touch
Thank you for the joy in my heart, this wonderful feeling like a brand new start
Thank you for a little joy today
I’m getting to know you, getting to know you, getting to know you
Getting to know, getting to really know
And I’m starting to show you what I show myself, starting to
Show you what I know, what I really know
So you’re starting to know me like I know myself, starting to know
Me like I do. How I feel, what is right, what is real.
And you’re starting to show me what you show yourself, starting
To show me what you do, how you do it. What you feel, what is
Right what is real
So I’m getting to know you like you know yourself. Starting to know
You like you do. Like you really do
Yeah. I’m getting to know you, getting to know you, getting to know
You, getting to know. Getting to really know
Could have been the right room, might have been the wrong rhyme
Had a different rhythm. beat a little different time made a big ssm
Could have been a good thought, had a little meaning
Got some people thinking, stopped some idle dreaming
Chorus: Life is like a coin flip, heads or tails
Sometimes all smooth sailing, sometimes off the rails
It’s hard to see the picture when the bright light pales
Might have been the first step, could have been the last mile
Could have caused a hard glance, might have made a big smile
Could have been the right foot, might have been left behind
Could have been determined, might have had a change of mind
It’s hard to see the picture when the bright light pales
I thought I had a vision, should have gone fishing
Tried to make a statement but I had to withdraw
Might have been already, I’ve always been the late one
Might have had nothing, now I got some
Chorus: It’s hard to see the picture when the bright light pales
How are we this morning of this promising day
What could be better than to have your way
Would it even matter if you won or lost
You made it to the end zone, then you ran off.
Chorus: It’s hard to see the picture when the bright light pales