Tales Of An Honest Man album (N2K)
Elliott
So we finally found our way
On our boat in the storm we rise
So the answers are miles away
Tie your life to the mast, don't hide

And we don't sail fine, and we don't fly high
And we don't, no we don't live long

We still try to make deals with time
Call the dealer again, you cry
We can leave this if we don't fight, make tomorrow a given right
Know the boat in our hearts just might

And we don't sail fine, and we don't fly high
And we don't, no we don't live long
And we don't give ground, and we don't touch down
And we don't know, we don't live long


A Little Lie
Well I take my time to change when it's my command
And the farthest things in my mind are my own demands
And I can't be late, again today, no harder than I try

And I don't get tired of telling tales of an honest man
And as fortune fails I have to break the breads of sand
And it's not like days or nights away, take me as you find, (it's my sign)
it's just a little lie

And I mark my time to spare, I'm unaware,
Take all that remains, the hardest words that heaven could say
It's just a little lie

And I mark my time to spare, I'm unaware,
Take all that remains, the kindest thing that heaven could say
It's just a little lie


Easy Target
Lower down the light, I can't see a thing tonight
Paper bullets bite, arrows with the words you write
Fatal in my eyes
You guessed again

Photograph the site, dust for junk, find what you might
Ring around the right, paper thin the air tonight
Fatal in your eyes
Again

Would you want to be an easy target
Just like me

Send me out to fight, I can't change this second sight
Laugh now all you like, this hat with bells is pulled on tight
Fatal in your eyes
Again

So lower down your light, don't make me plead again tonight
Helpless in my life, helpless here as you indict
Fatal in my eyes
Again


Circling The Sun
Falling from the light, sparkle in this mystery
Come out of the fire, and rest inside the night
Make me come alive, run around my history
Sprinkle on my doubt, and turn my world about

I never asked for messages before
I never took the carpet from the floor
I summer in the best that I've become
Circling the sun

Falling from the light, run around this mystery
Come out of the fire, and rest inside the night


Got To Me
I was always running out of reasons
I was always chasing in the dark
In my head I guessed there'd never be one
I was always hungry for a heart

You got to me, baby

Found a copper kettle in a goldmine
Sailed across the ocean for a boat
Ran around a marathon of my time
Waiting for the evidence to show

You got to me, baby

In a moment's attack
In the time looking back at me
So many ways
So badly (poorly) played

I never listen to love when it whispers


Charlie
I fear we have no time, caught in this trial of innocence
Don't seem to have the fire, backing up all my arrogance
And I must have something to say, I've got to have something to say
As I sit here fading away from your life
I need to steal away, left out of love so pitiful
Never was mine to take, made to feel strangely wonderful
And I must have something to say, I've got to have something to say
As I sit here fading away from your life

And I must have something to say, I've always got something to say
As I sit here fading away from your life


The Boy With Sleepy Dust In His Eyes
So much for doubt, I've had my insides facing out
So much for truth, I've never known that much about
Looking around I see those running from their lives
Take all you've found, you'll always want much more besides

Boy, who's the lucky guy
You or the boy with sleepy dust in his eyes?

So stop your doubt, you know I'm happier without
Tighten your mouth with all that worthless spilling out
Your life's a scheme there's a place for you somewhere
I laugh and dream of the time when you're not there

Boy, who's the lucky guy
You or the boy with sleepy dust in his eyes?

Take your time, as you fly by, bye-bye


Holy Child
Holy child you'll never get over getting older, you know why
Holy child you'll never get over getting older, getting old

Holy child you'll never be wiser than the lies you've never known
Holy child you'll never be wiser than the lies you've never known

And all that's rushing through your life
Comes together given time
And all that goes to make your mind
Heaven knows what you will find

Holy child you'll never be finer than the time you have to hold
Holy child you'll never be finer than the time you have to hold

Holy child there's never a feeling like the healing in your soul
Holy child there's never a feeling like the healing in your soul


Smart Mouth
Spotlights on the high wire, breakthrough in the moonlight
Snowblind, see the queue rise, waiting for the "smart mouth"
Running through the mainline, high times on the headlines
Many find the answers fixing with the "smart mouth"

They're going to put you well away
They're going to take a high line today

Road rage in the space age, warnings from the backstage
Back rows jump the main man, no one likes a smart mouth

They're going to put you well away
Taking the high line today, with the "smart mouth"

Night time by the poolside, pressmen take his good side
Naked in the flashlight, "remember I die, you die"


Played
Leaving is like a Catherine wheel with sparks on either side
Loving is like a parasite that seeks and never finds

You let me let you down, you played me

Tracing you through a paper lie leaves holes on either side
Making excuses every time leaves me no place to hide

You let me let you down, you played me all the way

Coming right back where I started out
Looking for a message I can find
Can't believe that's not what it's about
Can't believe I wasted all this time

Harder to watch a challenger steal lines from every page
Easier than the teenager whose tattoo still remains

You let me let you down, you played me all the way

Coming right back where I started out
Looking for a message in my life
Can't believe it's not what I would find


Waiting For Me
Having spent a lot of time alone just trying to breathe
Finding out another endless night has fallen to sleep

Counting on a maybe, looking for that lady
That's waiting for me

Tying to a string of open hearts still failing to see
Wrapping up in couples' broken hearts, pursuing the free

And the talk of the town couldn't take me from here
Resting all my feelings for giving


Billy
Another black spot on our history today, and none of us win
A captain of industry taken today, and none of us win

Forget the future, I'm sure you will, "I don't remember your name"
Fortune is fighting me still, for all that remains

So fly with me, don't look at the clouds that roll on
Fly with me, so long

Shining so bright as a memory today, and all of us win
Sharing a momentary flavour we pray that all of us win

A brightness can shine through the dim, and I won't forget that you came
You started the music of men, and I can again


All titles written by Marcus Shelton
2003/2004 N2K Publishing Limited


(p) & (c) 2004, 2005