GOOD COMPANY CD LYRICS FEELS LIKE TRUTH I DON’T THINK THAT I WILL BE MONITORING MYSELF SO MUCH ANYMORE AND I DON’T THINK THAT I WILL BE COUCHING MY TRUTH FOR YOUR SAKE ANYMORE AND BABY CAN YOU FEEL THAT? AND CAN YOU MAKE IF FEEL GOOD FOR YOU? BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN FEEL IT AND FOR ME IT FEELS LIKE TRUTH YOU LOOK AT THE TRUTH LIKE IT’S SO MUCH CLAY THERE ON YOUR SPINNING WHEEL AND YOU SAY IT WORKS SO WELL FOR YOU BUT FOR ME IT’S JUST A WHOLE LOT MORE LIKE STEEL AND BABY CAN YOU FEEL THAT? AND CAN YOU MAKE IT FEEL GOOD FOR YOU? BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN FEEL IT AND FOR ME IT FEELS LIKE TRUTH WE LIVE IN THIS DREAM THAT WE BOTH WILL WITH ALL OF OUR HEARTS TO BE REAL BUT I DON’T THINK THAT I WILL BE APOLOGIZING ANYMORE FOR THE WAY THAT I FEEL AND BABY CAN YOU FEEL THAT? AND CAN YOU MAKE IT FEEL GOOD FOR YOU? BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN FEEL IT AND FOR ME IT FEELS LIKE TRUTH FUNNY HOW TRUTH UNFOLDS FUNNY HOW TRUTH UNFOLDS FUNNY HOW TRUTH UNFOLDS FUNNY AGONY AND CLAY I have loved a man softer than an angel’s name I have loved a man deeper than my soul I have loved a man rougher than a mountain range I have loved a man but I had to let it go I have loved a man stronger than the lies I’ve heard I have loved a man truer than my own words I have loved a man with more passion than a murderer I have loved a man but now it feels like a curse I had to take my bare hands and dig a grave I had to lay this love inside and fill it in With agony and clay I have loved a man longer than this life I’m leading I have loved a man sweeter than my first kiss I have loved a man louder than my own screaming I have loved a man, but I put an end to it    I had to take my bare hands and dig a grave I had to lay this love inside and fill it in With agony and clay GOOD COMPANY Did you have to have those eyes, like the whole Montana sky That, when you locked them onto mine, took away my will to fight Did you know that I was drawn to the manic way you talk I liked the way you ramble on, I watched you like a telethon    The summer sun, that crowd of liars So raging young, drunk and inspired I don’t know why, can’t tell you why Baby, you were such good company Inside that crowded Irish bar you were leaning in too far I fell like Rome into a time before I memorized all my lines Music like a carnival, and I’d still be there but for last call We jumped the fence at that motel and we all swore that we’d never, never, never tell The summer sun, that crowd of liars So raging young, drunk and inspired I don’t know why, can’t tell you why Baby, you were such good company We sang louder than hurricanes, we swam under stolen waves And I was dodging your gaze It was all whiskey and flattery, I was heartbroken but I was free And darlin’ you did not take me, I wanted to go GIRL Oh girl, didn’t we show each other a bad time Oh child, not a day goes by you’re not on my mind You’ve got to know how I tried You’ve got to know you’re not the only one who cried We both know it was a long, hard ride But I’m missing you tonight, missing you tonight, missing you tonight And I don’t know how to find you I don’t know why I could never hold you close enough to me Like the tide, like a fountain you well up in me Frail little angel in your blue summer dress An angry rebel, now you’re a teenage mess And you want things that I don’t possess But I’m missing you tonight, missing you tonight, missing you tonight And I don’t know how to find you AMERICA He’s there at the corner table alone And he won’t look up, he knows what he’ll see He doesn’t want your goddamn sympathy Oh sweet lord And it’s getting hard to play it tough His fingertips go numb on his knee And he won’t allow himself to feel anything Makes me want to cry for him only, but The home of the brave is full of lonely men Who only want to pay for whatever it is they did They can’t have what does not exist So they’re crying for the airbrushed, television kiss Of America She doesn’t want to leave the house today If she goes out there she knows how she’ll be seen She won’t find anybody’s sympathy Just the shame and pain of failing to be young and lovely It’s getting hard to face the judge She prays every day to the magazine queens She’s saving all her money so she can lay it at their feet Just a knife and a needle and her blood could set her free The home of the brave is full of empty men Who want to make her pay for her innocent sin They can’t have what does not exist But they’re dying for the airbrushed pornographic kiss Of America NEW MOON I don’t like living alone, and I don’t know how anybody does And I know I can’t go home I feel the beat of my heart, the rhythm of breathing So I know I’m alive I’m just hard alone tonight I believe there is someone who can love me more than you The way you swore a thousand times you did I feel the beat of his heart, the rhythm of breathing So I know he’s alive Somewhere alone tonight And there’s a new moon, a new moon, a new moon There’s a new moon tonight BURN FIRE BURN I saw a quarter of a rainbow hanging in the sky Looked just like the corner of an old downtown neon sign Lighting up like a Friday night in a young man’s eyes In the fading time you know the colors were no longer bright Had that amber shine that you love about candlelight It was a picture of the remnant of my life Blow wind blow, Burn fire burn Blow wind blow, Burn fire burn I used to dive right into swirling pools of summer waterfalls Winter nights I burned fall wood and listened to coyotes call And the sound of my children growing tall I have stood naked in the halo of a midnight snowfall I barely made it out alive from a nasty Caribbean squall My colors have across the sky been scrawled Blow wind blow, burn fire burn Blow wind blow, burn fire burn Soaked to the skin I felt the blanket of the Philippines sky come down The wind hits like a bandit in a frozen arctic river town But I’m warm by the glow of this fire now I want to rise up on the smoke of my rose colored memories And hang there in the dying light just like that rainbow did for me Someone might see the wind sing me to sleep Blow wind blow, burn fire burn Blow wind blow, burn fire burn ELEVENTH FRAME Jose works the bar on Fridays It gives him a place to be Las hermanitas all calling out “Jose” Feels like family Everybody knows everybody The barrio is real, real tight In small towns sometimes things get muddy But everybody’s got clean shoes tonight Down at the Eleventh Frame the people say “Come on baby, stay, stay stay one more day” Look at Sobie mixing drinks and watching Taking it in with his eastern eyes Someday I’ll watch that connection Fall in to place like loaded dice Just like a shot glass through a neon window A revelation through the broken pane But tonight he’s got a joke to tell you And don’t he feel like a three hundred game Down at the Eleventh Frame the people say “Come on baby, stay, stay, stay one more day” THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN Do you remember, baby, I said that old song was about God “The Love of My Life,” I think it was, I’m sure it was I know I said it was the congregation’s song But it was all about you all along Do you remember, baby, I said I was strong, wanted you gone Such a faithful lie, I think it was, I ‘m sure it was I know I should not have lied for so long But I told myself it wasn’t wrong (I had this sad dream) I always dreamed that someday you would come back and say (You came here to see me) With tears on your face, you would beg me to take you back (You got down on your knees, Told me you were sorry) Saying baby, my baby, my only true love I was wrong, I have changed, I was wrong Can you see it baby, the mighty now have fallen down The strong have grown pale, the young are old, the story told Life moves along and lies to the faithful And now half of our lives are gone Just yesterday baby, the leaves started to fall, I heard winter call Thought I heard a whisper say, on the wind, like a friend “Don’t lie to the faithful, or to a pure heart And stop singing that old song.” TIME FLIES AWAY Searching for a song big enough to meet this need I know I won’t find one, I know I won’t sing I’ve got to get my shopping or the laundry done I need to help someone I’m sure I just need to help someone Time flies away and leaves you older Dreams change to rain and it’s raining on me Then comes the day when your fight has grown weary Time flies away, time flies away Searching for a way to feel the way I felt before But I know I never will, I know I locked that open door So I’ve got to get my reading or the dishes done I need to see beyond myself I need to offer someone, somewhere some kind of help Time flies away and leaves you older Dreams change to rain and it’s raining on me Then comes the day when your fight has grown weary Time flies away, time flies away These days always find me here I hide away and when they call me I don’t answer I cover my ears and listen to the voices ringing clear GHOST SKINNY LITTLE LOST BOY WITH A CROOKED TOOTH GRIN RUBBER BANDS OVER A SKELETON EATING DINNER FROM A GARBAGE BIN IT’S JUST THE KID AND OLD FAT OPAL WHO ALWAYS HAD TOO MUCH TO DRINK GOT NO MAN AROUND NOW TO CRY ABOUT JUST THIS SON TOO YOUNG TO HELP WITH ANYTHING AND I FEEL KIND OF BAD ABOUT THAT NOW, OLD MAN I HOPE YOU KNOW THERE WAS NOT ONE THING I COULD DO AND I’M SURE THAT’S A BIG PART OF WHY YOU COULDN’T GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON TO LOVE YOU THE TRUTH IS JUST THE TRUTH EVEN HARD WORLDS TURN AROUND AND HE GOT A LUCKY SPIN A UNIFORM FOR AN UNFOUGHT WAR BROUGHT A NAÏVE WOMAN WHO LET HIM IN BUT SHE KEPT ON MAKING DAUGHTERS WHEN ALL HE WANTED WAS A SON HE HAD TO GO THROUGH THREE DAMN GIRLS BEFORE SHE FINALLY GAVE HIM WHAT HE WANTED SKINNY LITTLE GHOST GIRL WITH A CROOKED TOOTH GRIN SHE HAD A WARRIOR’S HEART BUT NO ARMOUR INVISIBLE TO HIM MANY TIMES HE WAS SCARED OF GHOST BECAUSE SHE WAS SMART ENOUGH TO SEE THAT HE WAS NOTHING BUT A PRETEND MAN WITH NOTHING TO OFFER A DAUGHTER BUT A SENSE OF TRANSPARENCY AND A BURNING DESIRE TO BE SEEN All Music and Lyrics by Cindy Lee Sobie Copyright 2007