Greg Laswell

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19'' Life

Greg, you can't make it go away You cannot block that radio Throw it away, long way It is in the airwaves Like Jesus Christ he's on the phone On his own talk radio show, in a way Long way Campaigning, awaiting My nineteen inch life My room sky-high My ninete...

Amazed

Dropped by your house today My spiral down is over Everyone is gonna say That I am in way over my head My head And I don't think that you'd believe The things that I've been up to Since you went away I think that we are even steven Steven And I'm amazed at h...

And So I Tried to Sleep

I dreamt that You have Problems That only You Can solve I dreamt that You are Not a Hypochondriac At all So I tried my best And went right back to sleep I dreamt that You are Funny And that the joke is On you I dreamt that You are Sunburned...

And Then You

How my thoughts they spin me 'round And how my thoughts they let me down And how my thoughts they spin me 'round And how my thoughts they let me down How my dreams they spin me 'round And how my dreams they let me down And how my thoughts they spin me 'round...

Another Life To Lose

And so it's back to it now Enough turned out to be enough somehow What the f- Are you gonna do That was me it wasn't you I pack light And got right out And left a lot behind no More rhymes and useless words I will keep them tucked under A...

Back To You

Greg) I know now you gave your best That is all I ever really asked And how it all went down I'm all through putting all of that on you And how I threw myself around Trying to find the man I am outside of you And how it goes is like this All that I a...

Bright Ideas

Back down off the sun I need a light to tell the time I'm sure the sky wants it's black back Air attack So in love with the view You bombast It's just like a sunburn but contagious You really are outrageous When you've got your bright ideas on And I believe y...

Carry me through

If the storm so outside Then why does it touch me here Where I stand And if the wind's so high up Then why does it blow me down Where I stand I'll leave it up to you To carry me through That's about all I can do You arrived at just the right moment Later I...

Circle Around Again

All that you got away up your sleeves In and out of me I guess I was hoping that you'd see No need to save me I won't go on I'll wait for you to understand If you don't mind I'll sit this one out Wait for it to circle 'round again You should see the look on...

Come Back Down

Come on all your good friends are here waiting this one out you've gotta come back down you've gotta come back down look around you you're the only one dragging this out you've gotta come back down you've gotta come back down all of your wallowing is un...

Come Clean

All in a day, all in a day I am without you. Just yesterday I was on top of my game with you. Then I should when you were away I think I knew But I refused, I refused to see. Why did you never come clean with me? Why did you never come clean with me?...

Come Undone

Sleep my love while I come undone and I'll brace myself for when you're done Sweet dreams my love Take them all Take them all While I absorb you and what you've done What you've done You never gave it wind You never let me in You shine like winter under sun...

Comes and goes

This one's for the lonely The one's that seek and find Only to be let down Time after time This one's for the torn down The experts at the fall Come on friends get up now You're not alone at all And this part was for her And this part was for her T...

Crank

[Verse 1] I love my superstitious games Running circles in my brain When I'm left smiling And I love to steal this living steam My head in someone's dream I'm tired of sleeping [Refrain] Call me crank, my idea Crank, so superior Crank, my conscience...

Days Go On

I've tried but I couldn't find any warning of you, dear It's hard to make any sense of what I feel here All I know Is that my days go on and on Without you here, without you here My days go on and on Without you here, without you here I beg your pardon, love...

Do What I Can

Oh lady don't you worry I'm just in a flurry now But the wind is picking up now And the new newspaper's all over town And I say what's on my mind from here on out And I am fine Okay yeah, sure Jim is a friend of mine But he is running out of time I'll do what...

Dodged A Bullet

I'm not gonna try and make it even You're way ahead by now I'm not gonna try and make it all even Even though I know how And everyone thinks I dodged a bullet But I think I shot the gun And everyone thinks I dodged a bullet But I think I shot the gun...

Dragging You Around

And what a shot what a blast The night of the gun And to think I never thought I was the lucky one And what a grand waste of time When it's all said and done As for you if you're waiting For your explanation I like dragging you around I Like draggi...

Embrace me

Oh wind, won't you sweep me up into the sky So I can get a better look at this life of mine And pick me up and twist me around So I can see everything around me now Oh, won't you embrace me? Oh, won't you embrace me? Oh, won't you embrace me, me? Oh, w...

Everybody'zzzzz Gay

I wake up and fry and egg And scratch the itch on my leg And then to get coffee And then off to the bank And if I need to I go fill up my gas tank And everywhere I look, I see That everybody is just like me Yeah, everybody is gay I'm gay You...

Farewell

my love i cannot stay my love i am running late my love all has not been a waste in a life that you have brought upon me so farewell love this is goodbye let's not take our time so farewell love this isn't getting any easier and you let go to what the end wil...

Father Of Your Billies

You must've been fading away You must've been wilting away You must've been safe from killing The father of your Billies With the Devil on your heels Everything's all right, all right No one that gets him And no one that sees him No one that gets him And no...

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Came home in the middle of the night My father says, "What you gonna do with your life" Well daddy dear You're still number one Oh Girls They want to have fun Oh Girls They The phone rings in the middle of the night My mother says, "When you gonna live your...

Good Movie

Nothing worth to you Not the mess Or the pills down my drain Takes a brave thing out of me To feel a thing to you Or else a good movie So I could love you again Or else a good movie Nothing worth to you Not the mess Or the pills down my drain Takes a brave...

Goodbye

It was really nice to meet you, goodbye It's high time I quit wondering why 'Cause I have lost all that I can from my side And when you think of me again, no I tried, I tried, goodbye. Forgive me while I lay here But I have nowhere else to be I figure...

Half a Person

Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years on your trail Six long years On your trail Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years on your trail Six full years of my life on your trail And if you have five seconds to spare I'll tell you t...

High And Low

I'm going to see some friends from out of state The very trip that you were supposed to take a while ago But it fell through Like all of you Like all of you Thought I'd make the drive but a free plane ride is in the air And just like that my fear of it disapp...

How The Day Sounds

Oh who would have Ever known this? Could be this easy I was a long, long way off Then just like that it was over Everything I knew of love I was a long, long way off And I think I like How the day sounds Like how the day sounds Through this new song Thank yo...

I'd Be Lying

won't you let me give you a hand i have an extra I'm not using won't you let me lighten your load i mean after all your legs are shaking and i can understand all i need is your hand oh won't you take the fall it is me after all won't you let me match your st...

In Front Of Me

I only know that I was there because I saw the film I often wonder why You always believed I could swim Because I did my very best To drown in this You only wanted me rising, wanted me rising, Here's a firm goodbye to yesterday And the time I wasted In the wo...

In spite of me

Last night I told a stranger all about you They smiled patienty in disbelief I always knew you would succeed no matter what you tried And I know you did it all in spite of me Still I'm proud to have known you for the short time that I did So glad to have been...

Into The Mystic

We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic And when that fog horn blows I wil...

It's been a year

Yeah it's about that time that you contact me to make rhyme and reason of what we did now that it's been a year Don't clutter your head I'm fine Don't clutter your head It's been some time And I'm fine Strange it's almost been a year And you sound so swee...

It's Settled Now

Go on My frame is intact Go on Bring all that you have It's settled now It's settled now Go on Don't spare me a thing Go on Let's break this thing in It's settled now It's settled now I don't know why This light has arrived I will use it all To see you thi...

Landline

I think the tree may fall in the front yard if this storm has it's way I hear you dancing on the floorboards above unaware of what's at stake All I ever needed was a landline just in case the power lines go down All I needed would never be enough for me I thi...

Late Arriving

I helped pack up yesterday And on the drive over you gave way And I realized you're down and out But I've never been more proud Go ahead and take your time While I repay Wasting years of mine I know I'm late Arriving And I know about your elaborate plans A...

Lie to me

What of my escape? What else can I say? I'll play dead and you can stay. And I'll help you kill your time if you help me kill my night, and maybe one day get it right. Go ahead and lie to me, I'll believe in anything you say tonight. Go ahead and lie...

Lifetime Ago

Oh look at you Everyone approves Oh my God, your dream came true Everyone loves you Oh look at you You freeze so soon I might up and move to the sun And outlive you It seems like a lifetime ago now Since you've had your heels on the ground What ar...

Marquee

So now you are a tree Come on lift up your arms high Today you see that you can be Higher than the marquee Buzzing in the city Oh, and that all this is tiny There's nothing you can say That'll be heard over That squealing megaphone Underneath the marquee Buzz...

My Fight (For You)

Show me what is mine, take my finger Drag it through where no one else will find Take your time, I have got all night Take your time, in the morning the sun will have it's fight Everything you see is all for your taking Climb into my dreams and leave not...

New Day

From here on, (I'll leave out) From here on, (I'm about) So go ahead now Swing away at me You throw your arm out (Try ending me) And I've found a new day I've found a new way out of hell, I've I've one day left From here on, no more lines are drawn From here...

New Year's Eves

No matter how far You don't even need to see straight You're an excellent shot At hitting yourself in the foot Maybe sit this one out I'll hold my breath while you breathe out You're in excellent shape Of quitting this while you're ahead And maybe I'...

Nicely Played

I'll add it up again But something is missing To many times around It's making me dizzy Gotta figure out a way to get past this someday But for now it stays Rope in only those that can pull you up Cut loose the ones just beneath you Nicely played While you s...

Not Out

I’m not gonna fall down today, Instead I will buckle my knees and sway Against sweet memories Against memories I’ve gotta get outta here today, today There is too much room in this bed where I lay The street buzzes for me, below, buzzes for me And if the bre...

Not Surprised

Well hello again, my old friend It's been a long while since I've seen you You know I changed my address and my phone How'd you find me here? I keep going over it I'm not surprised Never really said goodbye I'm not surprised You know I up and met th...

Not the Same Man

Leave the radio on I'm alright, I'm alright, We're alright Leave the television on I'm alright, I'm alright, We're alright I'm not the same man since you saw me last I'm not the same man I've got great big plans since you saw me last I'm not the same...

Off I go

Loose ends, they tangle down And then take flight But never tie me down Never tie me down. Loose ends, they tangle down And then take flight But never tie me down Never tie me down. Off I go. Where I fall Is where I land. Off I go. Where I fall. Is where I...

Out Of Line

You left your heart beneath a Christmas tree in '83 I bought a time machine Goddamn, that was so out of line You string up lights year round They drag behind you all over town I tripped just like a clown Goddamn, that was so out of line Line Line Out...

Play That One Again

Well that was fast I wish we had taken more time with ending I've always been quite on your side or maybe not How fitting Play that one again the one with all those strings The world's not listening Play that one again the one where the gang joins in...

Royal Empress

don't know about the legend But my God how we all rambled on At how the Royal Empress spread her arms out Arresting miserly the sun And we all thought everyone was gonna make it out (Alive alive, alive alive) And we all thought everyone was gonna make i...

Salvation Dear

Okay, go ahead and stay But don't sleep in too late, I've got to wake alone It's just that goodnight is easier than goodbye I'm already sold on ending up alone And oh don't you dare pray for my salvation, dear Can't you tell that I'm in love with you here' S...

Sing, Theresa Says

Go to sleep while I gather all my things and I will Call you in a couple of days I can hear the june bugs approaching A god damn army of them in my brain "Sing" , theresa says. "sing happy things" "Sing" , theresa says if I do everything One day a man will sp...

Sweet Dream

If I could write out my own dream For the next time that I sleep You'd be the first one that I see And I the last one that you keep The dream would go on and on While we sway Against all things thrown our way And the morning would be so cruel When it came With...

Take a Bow

Take a bow, 'Cause you played your heart out, And take your time With working the rest out Try and stay out of your head I have seen you invent the damn best things there Oh, so what? Maybe she could not really ever see you Through herself, What doe...

Take Everything

I can't believe your thinking Save everyone, inside you Take everything Fake everything Save everything - about me. All of you, all right Just because, I wanna know Do you still come last night, clear eyes paled You never got there even though you say you wil...

Take Everything 2

You say the sky is green I don't know what you mean Your lies were always clear but I don't mind No, I don't mind, I don't mind Go on and take everything from me and more Go on and take everything from me and more You say the sky is blue As long as I'm with...

That it moves

Heres a song, that I waited Mmm, to write with you do you think i'll finish it in time. Got Enough, from you love, that it finishes itself I regret Chorus: Song Lyrics Oh But do you like the way that it moves oh do you like the way that it moves do you like...

The Killing Moon

Under blue moon I saw you So soon you'll take me Up in your arms Too late to beg you or cancel it Though I know it must be the killing time Unwillingly mine Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to...

The one I love

I'm all packed up now Early in the morning I'll take my leave I'll bring your words along with me Maybe one day they will mean something For now they buzz and crumble down a little bit too easily From a time that I am not quite over What the hell is wrong wit...

This women's work

Pray God You can cope I stand outside this woman's work This woman's world Ooh It's hard on the man Now his part is over Now starts the craft of the father I know you have a little life in you yet I know you have a lot of strength left I know you have a litt...

Through Toledo

Another humdrum grey day i wonder if this rain passed toledo and if so i hope it left a sunny day through your window i can't make shape or form of this new emotion i need a drive up san fransisco bay i'd write this song on the way i'm not sure i belo...

Tirade

Brace yourself, cause Mister Marmelade is on a tirade A born-again friend of mine Traded in his face for a young girl Is it only me Or was Jesus less a mystery than before? Yeah, God's evident here I'm on my way now I'm on my way now to you (I'm barely track...

What a day

What a day to be alive What a day to realize I’m not dead What a day to save a dime What a day to die trying What a way to say goodbye What a wonderful life now all aligned And what a way that you survive What a day to say goodnight Bring on the eve...

Without You I’m Nothing

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide. I'll take it by your side. Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide. I'll take it by your side. Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies. I'll take it by your side. Over saturation c...

Worthwhile

Mary, do what you can Do get me out of this And I'll make it worth your while Hey Tori, all of your stories Make more sense these days And I never wanted them To be worth my while I'll stand still Go around, go around, go around... Loui, do what you can, fr...

You So Bright

You swirl around me You sweep everything away but me Everything away Suddenly, suddenly a miracle Suddenly, a charge [?] that I'm even here now It's where I jump from This is where I jump from Your eyes erase me You, so brightly light me up You so bright,...

Your ghost

if i walk down this hallway tonight, it's too quiet so i pat through the dark and call you on the phone push your old nummers and let your house ring till i wake your ghost let him walk down your hallway it's not this quiet slide down your receiver...

Your Melody

My head rings of you a melody that's hard to sing out twisting around with no cadence and no root by dissonance i sing of you and my ears are deaf to the sound of sense i've tried to beat it in