Ben Harper

Have you ever lost your way have you ever feared another day have you ever misplaced your mind watching this world leave you behind won't you won't you give won't you give a man give a man a home have you ever worn thin have you ever never known where to beg...

I know you wanna leave me; I refuse to let you go If I have to beg, plead for sympathy I don't mind, 'cause it means that much to me Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin Please don't leave me, don't you go Ain't too proud to plead, baby, baby Please don't leav...

"There must be some way out of here" Said the joker to the thief "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth None of them along the line know what any of it is worth." "No reason to get excited" The...

This empty room it fills my mind Freedom it leaves me so confined Every single bone has cracked But in this life, you can't turn back I don't want to live I don't want to live here alone, alone, alone, alone As these words part with my tongue I question why...

What started as a whisper, Slowly turned in to a scream. Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen. I don't know where you came from And I dont know where you've gone. Old friends become old strangers Between darkness and the dawn Amen omen...

I am an old woman named after my mother Old man is another child (that's) grown old If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire This old house would've burned down a long time ago Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery Make me a poster of an old rode...

Yes indeed I'm alone again and here comes emptiness crashing in it's either love or hate I can't find in between cause I've been with witches and I have been with a queen it wouldn't have worked out any way so for now it's just another lonely day hey h...

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust that's what has become of our love and trust Love has no direction cause love has no aim love can leave you as fast as she came Meeting is such sweet sorrow cause someday we may have to part hush don't you make a sound you're...

We have both been here before knockin' upon love's door begging for someone to let us in knowing this we can agree to keep each other company never to go down that road again My beloved one My beloved One Your eyes shine through me You are so divine to me Yo...

You left them swimming for their lives Down in new orleans Can't afford a gallon of gasoline With your useless degrees and contrary statistics This government business is straight up sadistic Now you don't fight for us But expect us to die for you You have no...

Corcovado parted the sky And through the darkness On us He shined Crucified in stone Still His blood is my own Glory behold all my eyes have seen I am blessed to be a witness Some have flown away And can't be with us here today Like the hills of my home Some...

You don't believe that I love you and even if that was true why just to keep our unhappy home I'm gonna try to pretend that I do but I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down I'm breakin' down My baby she left me said she ain't comin' back around I...

When it's on the one you know the funks begun When you are down and out there is no doubt You need the funk, just bring the funk Bring the funk, bring the funk Now whats the problem everybodys got em Just get the whole out your soul And bring the funk, bring...

If I knew being here with you today, Would mean being alone tomorrow. I would gladly trade all of my tomorrows away For a moment with you. Brown eyed blues You can find yourself another fool. Say yeah,yeah,yeah Can you look,can you look into my eyes Or has y...

Let us burn one from end to end and pass it over to me my friend burn it long, we'll burn it slow to light me up before I go if you don't like my fire then don't come around cause I am gonna burn one down yes I am gonna burn one down my choice is what I choo...

We made love until we cried and cried ourselves to laughter Laughed until we realise our hearts were struck with fear How in just a moments time could one see for ever after I gently lie beside you and dream away my tears Won't you let me treat you kind We're...

This morning I woke up in a curfew. Oh- Lord, I said Oh- God, I was a prisoner too - yeah. I did not recognize those faces that are standing over me. These faces of brutality, of brutality - yeah. How many rivers do we have to cross, cross, cross, Before, bef...

Don't you get ahead of me and I won't leave you behind if you get unhappy Won't you show me a sign there's no love like lost love and no pain like a broken heart there's no love like you and me and no loss like us apart promises, promise is only a word and w...

Oh — I sat down upon the church house steps I sat down upon the church house steps I sat down upon the church house Down upon the church house steps With all my hopes and dreams All of my regrets Oh — I sat down upon the church house steps I sat down upon th...

We're gonna make it to the church on time We're gonna make it to the church on time Put on your Sunday best I'll put on mine We're gonna make it to the church on time We're gonna make it to the church on time We're gonna make it to the church on time Need to...

Come on baby click yo' heels Let me know our love is real Cause we're a long way from anywhere But I can really feel it I've been up, I've been down I've been tossed all around But I always seem to come down on my feet So don't think I'm crazy if I wanna sin...

No sun will shine in my day today. The high yellow moon, it won't come out to play Darkness has covered my light - Yeah And has changed my day into night - Yeah Where is the love to be found? Concrete jungle, jungle Where the living is the hardest. Concrete ju...

You sit there and call me a liar and a cheat I just wish you'd pin a rose on me Now you won't even come out and take a bow Crying won't help you now Crying won't help you now So now your poets Have all put down their pens The only songs to sing Are those sun...

I knew a girl Her name was truth She was a horrible liar She couldn't spend one day alone But she couldn't be satisfied When you have everything You have everything to lose She made herself a bed of nails And she's planning on putting it to use She had diamon...

Time, it opens all wounds and trust, gonna put me in the tomb the world isn't mine the world isn't mine to save i can't afford to lose what you resell, throw 'way And i don't even know myself what it would take to know myself i need to change i don't know ho...

You say what's mine is mine And what's yours is mine too Now you've got more than you can spend But all of the money In the whole wide world Is not gonna help you in the end Now while there's still time to be saved Don't take that attitude to your grave Might...

Behind all of your tears there's a smile There's a smile Behind all of the rain there's a sunshine For miles and miles Oh- Everything Everything You mean everything You mean everything Everything to me Everything to me The colors of your garden They're yello...

Excuse me Mr. do you have the time or are you so important that it stands still for you excuse me Mr. lend me your ear or are you not only blind but do you not hear excuse me Mr. isn't that your oil in the sea and the pollution in the air Mr. whose could tha...

I want to hold the hand inside you I want to take a breath that's true I look to you and I see nothing I look to you to see the truth You live your life You go in shadows You'll come apart and you'll go blind Some kind of light into your darkness Color...

You so easily amuse like a pantomime such a silent crime You so easily abuse lack of confidence it's your best offense You so easily confuse you can't deny it still you try to hide it Faded so faded like a memory gone there's no recollection Faded so faded...

I learned to say goodbye too young I learned to duck from words Like bullets from a gun How long can you pray And still not see a change I faithfully remain Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought Then the t...

We stood in the dark With our hands over each others heart And we didn't waste a word Grace is love undeserved When you feel love You remind me I can feel love We sleep and share the same dream love When we feel love I've given up I've given in Giv...

They'll look you in the eyes and stone you then turn and disown you don't let it take the fight outta you they'll walk all over your name till they find someone else to blame don't let it take the fight outta you secrets hide their lies inside hidden alibis do...

If you're gonna live then live it up and if you're gonna give then give it up if you're gonna walk the earth then walk it proud and if you're gonna say the word you got to say it loud you got to fight for your mind you got to fight for your mind while you got...

I have an ability It’s pounding at my door. Screaming for more. In the world that owes you nothing you give everything. Everything. And now I’m caught in between but I can’t leave behind the world I may never find. So fly one time. So fly one time....

It's late and I can't sleep I've made promises that I can't keep Cobblestones and broken bones, has a kingdom but he's got no home Last night is still ringing in my head like that lonesome whistle in the rain I'm a fool for a lonesome train I'm a fool for a l...

Not talkin' 'bout a year No not three or four I don't want that kind of forever In my life anymore Forever always seems to be around when it begins but forever never seems to be around when it ends So give me your forever Please your forever Not a day less wil...

I will wait like nothing I have ever waited for I will catch your tears from falling Until from my hands they fall You can leave me abandoned I'll be here if you want back in Like the rest I have been branded Far beneath the skin So far beneath the skin You s...

Have you ever lost your way have you ever feared another day have you ever misplaced your mind watching this world leave you behind won't you won't you give won't you give a man give a man a home have you ever worn thin have you ever never known where to beg...

I'm more afraid of living than I am scared to die I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high Every moral has a story every story has an end every battle has its glory and its consequence I'm more afraid of loving than I am of being scorned but I wil...

Listen mister brother sister family and friend I fear with each day pass our time grows closer to the end listen stranger passer by and those I never knew there's not one day that you are living has been promised to you I am a God fearing man I'm a God feari...

You look like gold to me and I'm not too blind to see you look like gold you make me wanna sing with all the joy you bring you look like gold like the rays down from the sun when a new day has just begun you look like gold I've been fooled before but now I...

Ground On Down I believe in a few things God the devil and love cause I've looked up from the bottom and I've stared down from above I have faith in a few things divinity and grace but even when I'm on my knees I know the devil prays and you're working your...

The morning sunrise spread her wings While the moon hung in the sky Held the sea in your hands And happy everafter in your eyes Couldn't leave you to go to heaven I carry you in my smile For the first time my true reflection i see Happy everafter in yo...

Nowhere here to call my home no one near to call my own all that's left is for me to roam somebody please help me hang on Homeless child homeless child what is left for the homeless child There is no night and there is no day it is all one shade of gray some...

Exactly how much will have to burn Before we will look to the past to learn We walk along this endless path Which has led us in a circle So here we are right back We can't let the future become our past If we are to change the world Won't you tell me Tell me p...

Ooh, I bet you're wondering how I knew About you're plans to make me blue With some other guy that you knew before. Between the two of us guys you know I love you more. It took me by surprise I must say, when I found out yesterday. Don't you know that.....

It's her hair and her eyes today that just simply take me away and the feeling that I’m falling further in love makes me shiver but in a good way all the times I have sat and stared as she thoughtfully thumbs through her hair and she purses her lips, bats her...

Battered and torn still I can see the light tattered and worn but I must kneel to fight Friend of mine what can't you spare I know some times it gets cold in there When my legs no longer carry and the warm wind chills my bones I reach for Mother Mary and I s...

How I am strong is to know what makes me weak how I am found is to know just whom I seek the gift of a blessing the burden of a sin turn to him I want to be ready ready to put on my long white robe Nailed across from hand to hand for the sin of woman and man...

Give and you give and you give till it's gone then the people you fight hardest for say you're wrong before me flash all of my memories and days so don't stand insincere at the side of my grave I will not be broken I won't be turned away When it's too c...

You may write me down in history With your bitter twisted lies You may trod me down in the very dirt And still like the dust I'll rise Does my happiness upset you Why are you best with gloom Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well Pumpin' in my living room So...

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk When you have awoken from all the dreams broken Come and dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk Dance with me in the co...

Like the wings stolen from an angel Like petals gone from a rose Like a dove caught in a storm Tonight he's in the Lord's Arms The wind it blew straight through us And whispered to me in tongues I was told I was wrong Tonight he would be in the Lord's Arms...

Love, I get so lost, sometimes Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart When I want to run away I drive off in my car But whichever way I choose I come back to the place you are And all my instincts, they return And the grand facade, so soon will burn With...

Tell me do you really know your brother man cause a heart speaks louder than a color can and why would you even shake a man's hand if you're not going to help him stand Jah work Jah work Jah work is never done Every man's actions belong to he if prepared for...

I could give you more But you still wouldn't be happy I could give all you need But you still wouldn't be satisfied I could give to our poor Now what good would that be You'd shake hands with Jesus And you still would not believe If you're happy with nothing...

Life is much too short to sit and wonder Who's gonna make the next move and will slowly pull you under when you've always got something to prove? I don't want to wait a lifetime Yours or mine, yours or mine Can't you see me reaching for the lifeline? You say...

Well Martin's dream Has become Rodney's worst Nightmare Can't walk the streets To them we are fair game Our lives don't mean a thing Like a king, like a king, like a king Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King Like a king, like a king, like a king How I wish yo...

Papa he left home today Said he ain't comin' back again Said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best Just cause mama's got a special kind of friend Papa he left home today Said he ain't comin' back no more Said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat And how cou...

Can you tell me why you're so uptight out of your head and ain't talkin' right Can you tell me why your mind ain't straight out of touch and can't relate Mama's trippin' daddy's slippin' Everybody's talkin' 'bout keepin' it together but I see people splitti...

Goodbye Hasn't been so good to me Stepped out into the night Back against the moon I saw ten thousand hands with candlelight We all think that we're right It's hard to tell If the night is full of hope or doom My eyes Burn with unshed tears My body is weak Fr...

A finger's touch upon my lips It's a morning yearning It's a morning yearning Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark But the sun is burning Sun is burning The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning Soon be earning With hopes of better days to...

There is not a river wide. Not a mountain high. And neither sin nor evil. Could change how I feel inside. Could change how I feel inside. Not all the strength of the ocean. Not all the heat from the sun, from the sun. Now, others have tried, I just can't deny...

Tell me which road are you travelling which road are you travelling on tell me who will you turn to when the light has gone I hear somebody calling I hear somebody calling to me with so many roads to travel there's just one can set you free there's just one r...

Oppression you pray on us when we sleep oppression you chase after the tired the poor the weak oppression you know you mean only harm oppression you reach out with your long arm but oppression I won't let you near me oppression you shall learn to fear me opp...

When the people lead the leaders they will have to follow and all their lies and their alibies they will have to swallow and it's you that has the authority for the one who is right is the majority when the people lead people take the lead children you've got...

It hangs above my altar Like they hung him from a cross I keep one in my wallet For the times I feel lost I feel lost In a wooden frame with splinters Where my family kneels to pray And if you listen close You'll hear the words he used to say I've got a pictu...

Make me feel like a beggar Make me feel like a thief Make me feel like a battle, that cannot end in peace Make me feel like running, as if I've lost my nerve Make me feel like crying, tears I don't deserve Please bleed So I know that you are real So I know th...

Don't do me any favors matter of fact why don't you do yourself a few your presence ain't nobody's blessing I've got plenty of other things I could do oh no, not another excuse your tired silly games for me are just no use and now it's plain for me to see y...

I'm leaving here on the morning train And I will never see this world again Oh, I've felt pleasure and I have felt pain And I know now that I can never be the same How I wonder why the world can be so cold And if only good die young Then left with me cr...

It will make a weak man mighty it will make a mighty man fall it will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all it's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame it is love for hate and pride for shame that's the power of the gospel that's th...

I could have treated you better but you couldn't have treated me worse but it's he who laughs last is he who cries first Sometimes I feel I know strangers better than I know my friends why must a beginning be the means to an end The stones from my enemies th...

Oh- baby now let's get down tonight. Baby, I'm hot just like your oven. Oh- I need your lovin' And baby, I can't hold it much longer Now it's getting stronger and stronger And when I get that feeling I need a sexual healing, sexual healing And makes me feel so...

I know you may not want to see me On your way down from the clouds Would you hear me if I told you That my heart is with you now She's only happy in the sun She's only happy in the sun Did you find what you were after The pain and the laughter brought you to...

You You've been looking at me just a little too long Now I can never look the same Blindness and kindness There's no difference in the two When I can no longer see the good in you So won't you show me a little shame Won't you show me a little shame Now 'caus...

Oh- Once you know you can never You can never turn back Oh- But I understand ' Cause we all fear what we lack Being with you Makes me tired as hell Tired as hell And it's so high so low Oh- So high so low Now if I was strong And you were male You'd be dead A...

I put into Nashville, Tennessee But you wouldn't even come around to see me And since your headin' up to Carolina You know I gonna be right there behind you 'Cause I always have to steal my kisses from you Always have to steal my kisses from you Always have t...

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever. Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It does...

Won't you sing me the Blues Won't you sing me the Blues Sing me something my heart can use Misery loves a symphony Does your face, your pretty face get lost in a crowd And you say no one's there to hear you cry out loud What will you do, Suzie Blue Where did...

I killed a snake with a bible I was living a Johnny Cash song I'm afraid for this I may be liable So its best I be moving - moving along Just a temporary remedy Running through my Running through my veins Summer lasted through November Funny when its gone yo...

All this talk of getting old It's getting me down my love Like a cat in a bag waiting to drown This time I'm comin' down And I know you're thinking of me As you lay down on your side Now the drugs don't work They just make you worse But I know I'll see your f...

I met a girl whose heart was on the right hand side and upon the left an angel did reside they told her mother that she never would survive but she kept the rhythm and is still alive We must all have the will to live you got to have the will to live Then I m...

Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning Showing some kind of sign that you believe Did it fall from your tongue without warning Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve Did I hear you say that you believe in angels I guess I bring the devil out...

wish we could live forever Then melt into the sun Melt into the sun Time is gonna change you Once it gets you on the run Gets you on the run There will be There will be There will be a light There will be a light There will be There will be There will be a li...

Corcovado parted the sky and through the darkness on earth he shined crucified in stone still his blood is my own glory behold on my eyes have seen, have seen i am blessed i am blessed i am blessed to be a witness some have flown away and can't be here with...

If today was not an endless highway If tonight was not a crooked trail If tomorrow wasn't such a long time Then lonesome would mean nothing to me at all Only if my own true love was waitin' And if I could hear his heart a-softly poundin' Only if he was lyin'...

I need to sleep but I'm too tired I need to come down but I'm too wired When the sun comes up I miss the moon Cause I know tomorrow is gonna come too soon Is gonna come too soon She only wants to be wanted But time crumbles blue roses to dust Now I long to fe...

First time that I saw her she had white doves in her eyes She spoke to me but I could not reply, not reply She was a stranger I had known for years She brought to me so many smiles and tears, smiles and tears The two hands of a prayer Together like the two ha...

Well I stand up next to a mountain I chop it down with the edge of my hand Well I stand next to a mountain I chop it down with the edge of my hand I pick up all the tiny pieces and make an island Might even raise just a little sand - Yeah 'Cause I'm a Voodoo...

Look at them working in the hot sun The pilloried saints and the fallen ones Working and waiting for the night to come And waiting for a miracle Somewhere out there is a place that's cool Where peace and balance are the rule Working toward a future like some k...

I've been waiting for you Never found anything else to do But waiting for you I've been calling your name Never found anything else the same Nothing's the same I keep hearing your name Nothing else sounds the same As hearing your name I've been hoping for y...

Waiting on an angel One to carry me home Hope you come to see me soon Cause I don' t want to go alone I don' t want to go alone Now angel won' t you come by me Angel hear my plea Take my hand lift me up So that I can fly with thee So that I can fly with thee...

Oh no Here comes that sun again That means another day Without you my friend And it hurts me To look into the mirror at myself And it hurts even more To have to be with somebody else And it's so hard to do And so easy to say But sometimes Sometimes you just h...

Until the philosophy which holds one race Superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war War - War - Oh... Until there is no longer first class And second class citizens of any nation I got to say War Unti...

Well I woke up this morning it was drizzling rain I heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy he's dead it's been a long time gone Been a long time gone A long time gone If you want to get to heaven got to die You got to put on your coat and tie Want to get...

Welcome to the cruel world Hope you find your way Welcome to the cruel world Hope you find your way It's a cruel world Try to enjoy your stay Yes it is a cruel world When you're tryin' to get by It's a cruel world When you've seen the look in their eye Makes...

The man who stole the water will swim forevermore But he'll never reach the land on that golden shore That faint white light will haunt his heart Till he's only a memory lost in the dark Dig a hole in the ground straight down to hell Till there ain't no more...

You're a prison I can't escape You're a decision I never make Heard me laughing You heard me weep and moan When it's good, it's so, so good When it's gone, it's gone They say time will kill the pain I say pain is gonna kill my time Lord won't you save me Or...

The good Lord is such a good Lord With such a good mother too They have blessed me They have blessed me In the good graces of you Now I I have heard a hundred violins crying And I I have seen a hundred white doves flying But nothing is as beautiful As when sh...

There's no deals to be made with the dawn Now I fear that our time has come and gone They say freedom is just a place to hide Now I'm coming to you with my arms open wide (Oh - won't you tell me) Where could I go to the Lord Take a prayer with you to heaven...

Well you can need me Well I want you to And you can feed me How I like that too But don't you lead me I won't follow you Listen here I don't fear I don't want to be your Whipping boy You can tease me How I want you to And you can squeeze me Baby I like that t...

Mama why does he treat me so cold why do I feel so old how long has he treated me unkind or have I always been so blind I'm the widow of a living man Why can't the times stay the same now I am begging him to change what about all the plans we made now I am s...

I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place Oh- with my Oh- with my own two hands With my own With my own two hands With my own With my own two hands I can make peace on earth With my own two hand...

Your teachin' youths to learn in school How a cow flies over the moon You teachin' youths to learn in school How a dish run away with a spoon, so You can't blame the youth You can't fool the youth You can't blame the youth of today You teach the youths about...

Yeah man, just do it man, just tear it up He's running with it, so go ahead, go ahead man Smooth, little one You like to throw your hand beneath and run Move back to L.A. for some sun Leave us to clean up this mess you done You should have come to me when yo...

Every man gotta right To decide his own destiny And in this judgment There is no partiality So arm in arms, with arms We will fight this little struggle 'Cause that's the only way We can overcome our little trouble Brother you're right, you're right You're ri...