Here are the lyrics to RANDOM PERFECT PLAN
Still Alive
I am a man
No more than twenty-five
So alive, so full of pride.
I’m going home
Back to the countryside
Back to where I learned to rope and ride.
The light of day may come
No matter where you run
You may wake in the ruined stash
Of your father’s house of ash
Just try the key you’ll see
It was always meant to be.
I am a man
No more than forty-five
Friends all say I’m starting to slide.
Sliding home with a bouquet for my bride
City lights left me blind left me to die.
I’m going home to the countryside
Where the weather suits my clothes and the crops grow high
Where the snow flies at Christmas time
And the summer sun reflects in my baby’s eyes
Still alive, still alive.
Your heart was once a lock
You kept time like a clock
But you broke the hand of time
Found a little bird inside.
Little bird show the way
Through the tears of yesterday
Meet me out on the road
Cause it’s time to go.
I’m going home to the countryside
Where the sunshine warms my bones and the weeds grow high.
Where the snow flies at Christmas time
And the winter sun reflects in my baby’s eyes
Still alive, still alive, still alive, I’m still alive.
Random Perfect Plan
Waking up before daylight pulling on my clothes
Going out to where my daddy died and I almost froze
Facing my demons like I face a crowd
Staring down a ghost enough to make my daddy proud.
Wind blows through the hickory trees crackle in the leaves
Bone cold and give out I tumble to my knees
But the rosy light of down breaks like a feather on my cheek
In the leaves I finally sleep my coat of arms my only sheet.
And I dreamed of a woman, dreamed of a man
In a random perfect plan.
Like mice we nibble crumbs shaking hands and sucking thumbs
Ship of fools out for a ride a toxic hand to turn the tide.
But I left that job below shucked like corn my old ego
To my wife I raise my face settle down and take my place.
She is the woman, I am the man
In our random perfect plan.
Though I’m sitting still I fly my eyes like stars in the sky
Like a hoot owl in the night I’m watching my own life
Lift off from this tree above I circle silently
Old men will die when their spirits learn to fly.
And flying with the woman is her man
In their random perfect plan
Flying with the woman is her man
In their random perfect plan
Random perfect plan.
When We Were Young
When we were young, when we were young
We swam in the culverts, dried in the sun
There’ll be no trouble no sorrow to come
These things we knew when we were young.
Playing army in the foxholes we dug down by the dump
Neighborhood wasteland was our private run
We swam in the culverts dried in the sun
Brothers in arms walking home to when we were young.
Awake in our bunk beds like stars in the sky
Shining so clearly above the houses we’d fly
To return in the dawn’s light up the rope through the window we’d come
Stars seem so far away and fade away when the day is still young.
Hunting squirrels in the oak trees setting sun in his eyes
Pleasing his father felt his own blood rise
The soldier remembers as he put down his gun
Stood up so clearly shot rang out and now he is gone
To when we were young, when we were young
We swam in the culverts we dried in the sun
There’ll be no trouble no sorrow to come
These things we knew when we were young.
This was determined when we were young.
Save My Soul
Save my soul, gonna save my soul
I’ve everywhere to go and wide open is the door
Step on through choose the wildest ride
If you’re looking for me tonight I’ll be on the other side.
The golden eye of peace illuminates a world asleep
And the fearful hand of war does what it’s always done before
It’s too bad my friend all these dreams had to end
Roll over in bed and start dreaming again.
The monastery bells startle me awake
There is no journey but this one we take
The ferryman carefully packs my clothes
The door is wide open and was never closed.
And the lighthouse light is fading away
If we’re going to the source I’ll steer a course
By the stars in the milky way
The wind takes me in to the mystery
I close my eyes and begin to see
What the world has given, the world has given to me
What the world has given, the world has given to me.
And I miss you, the stars are now faded and blue
The night is removing her shoes and I miss you.
To See My Girl
To see my girl
Walking up to me
Through the wind
And the blowing leaves
To see my girl
Walking up to me.
She got her gray skirt on
And her little shoes
She’s looking at me
Smiling too
Brother everything she says is true.
Brother I’d like to call
Maybe meet in Arkansas
Talk about everything
We ever saw
But heaven don’t take my calls.
Come visit me in my dreams
We’ll sit out on the swing
I never talk too much to anyone but her
But I’ll tell you everything
And you’d understand
And with me you would sing.
To see my girl
Walking up to me
Through the wind
And in memory
To see my girl
Walking up to me
To see my girl
Walking up to me.
Forever Friend
Get out and see the world while you’re still young and sober
Trade the straight and narrow for the crooked and the wide ‘fore it’s all over
Follow the road that leads inside you
Act on what you know to be true
And though it may be hard to find it’ll never leave you behind
Forever friend of my mine.
Wake up the world is growing outside your door
Leave your fear behind it’s a pesticide you don’t need no more
Like a seed seven years in the dark
Love was always there growing in your heart
And now the fruit how it shines hanging low on the vine
For you friend of mine.
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Dying from a lack of green vegetables and the presence of the ocean
I raised my sails for Gibraltar set my world in motion
I brought you dust, once all I knew
Fertile now with your sweet dew
And though the truth was hard to find it’ll never leave us behind
Forever friend of mind.
I cut the rope sail out to you
My little boat your endless blue
And though the truth was hard to find it’ll never leave us behind
Forever friend of mind.
Halfway There
When you’ve fallen to the bottom
You’ve gone as far as you can
And if you get up from that place
You go home a better man.
One day I believed you
Shows how much trust I had
But if believing you’s indication
Trust’ll probably be twice as bad.
So I’m going to cut off your well water
I’m going to starve you off my land
‘Cause before I met you baby
I think I might have been a better man.
And to there I will return
Like honeysuckle in the spring
The forest you may burn
Stronger when it grows again.
I was a spark in the sky
Part of an angel’s wing
My brother let me fly with his wings that night
While my parents watched and sang.
I’m going home to the ocean
You know she finally called me there
But don’t worry my darlin’
I’m only halfway there.
I’m going home to the ocean
You know she finally called me there
But don’t worry my companions
I’m only halfway there.
Peace between Us
Good Life
Living the good life with my sweet wife
Living free in a northern country
Where the wind blows matters not to me
Living free.
Living the good joy with my little boy
He’s the best of me when I’m living free, living free.
No matter where I go or when
I will always meet the wind in the end
No matter what life brings neighbor’s barking dog
Songs to sing, songs to sing
Air is free of memory and debris
Washed clean like after a good rain
Washed clean like after a good rain.
No matter where I go or when
I will always meet the wind in the end
No matter what life brings neighbor’s barking dog
Songs to sing, songs to sing
Air is free of memory and debris
Washed clean like after a good rain
Washed clean like after a good rain.
Camelot
I am master of my own house
Inside and out
But she’s the queen of the castle
She the hat I the tassel.
She makes me more than I am
Like the cream to be churned
Like a duck at the circus
Just beginning to yearn
To be shot and taken home
And loved by a girl
Like the black velvet rabbit
On the wrong side of the world -
A plaid bra bikini, sunset behind
You’re my love you’re so dreamy
America you’re fine.
Yes America I loved you
For your golden shores
Your peaks and your canyons
Your politics galore.
I always just wondered
Where your parents came from
Naming you for a country
Sometimes so stinkin’ dumb
But sometimes so brilliant
Like you brother’s disguise
When last did you see
The southern light in his eyes
The mist on his lashes
In the clouds with our girls
I caught a glimpse of the beauty
Of my brother’s world
We kissed and departed
At seventeen I knew
The four of us lived a life
Known buy a few
“A one time thing,
It just happens a lot” 1
Two of you two of us
Save the whales Camelot.
* Suzanne Vega
Hey I Will
Hey I will be with you
Through the midnight hour to the morning blue
Yeah I will be with you
Someday when we all make it through
Someday when we all make it through.
I saw beauty once in my eyes
Now the beauty’s over there
With a babe in her arms
In our old wooden rocking chair.
Hey I will be with you
Through the midnight hour to the morning blue
Yeah I am still with you
And the dawn’s replacing the midnight blue
And I am still with you, I am still with you.
You roll over with the babe in your arms
Share the morning, share her charm
We are not everything she is
But she is everything we are.
Hey I will be with you
Through the midnight hour to the morning blue
Yeah I am still with you
And the dawn’s replacing the midnight blue
And I am still with you, I am still with you.
The Wonder Of It All
Where you been, come back home begin again
Old routine creaking screen door baby dreaming
I return to my own story the rise and fall
With you through the wonder of it all.
Are you glad to see me with all my faults and desires?
My lack of discipline my love of effort that does not tire
We take our turns cutting doorways and building walls
Working with you through the wonder of it all.
Body ages we turn the pages of our song
Put out fires of our own desires no right or wrong
The four of us like waves we rise and fall
Surfing with you through the wonder of it all
With you through the wonder of it all.
At the End Again
The floodgates have opened
I’m singing in the waves
An eye has blinked a door has closed
I’m dancing on my grave
I looked at the sea
And it stared right back at me.
You are a bird I am a crumb
You are a highway I am a thumb
This path around the stars has no end
Alone again with you my friend.
I watched the fireworks from the shadows of my new yard
My lover watched them from the darkness of our car
The sky exploded like a broken heart.
Love in a crowd should not stand apart
To give your all you’ve got to give your heart.
We are free of cultures clothes and go the way the wild creek flows
Alone again with you my friend
Alone again with you my friend.