John Butler Trio

A star is born like so many before but he shines bright he lightens up all my life How proud I am he made me a real man I curse the days I have to go away from you child Curse the days Curse the days I hold his hand somehow he understands And all...

Hey man why you always give me Attitude? What I, what I ever Done to you? If you got a bone to Pick Step outside step Outside talk about it But I talk with words man I don't talk with my fists I'm sick of all this aggression Hell you know I've had enough of i...

Theres no need to cry Just hold your head up high All you got to do is Believe... In your self Cos there will be no-one else Who will ever leave... You alone anymore Cos in yourself you be sure in who you'd be... Exactly who you are Cos you could go so far All...

All you want is What you can't have And if ya' just look around, man You'll see you got magic So just sit back and relax Enjoy it while you still have it Don't look back on life, man And only see tragedy 'cause chorus You can be better than that Le...

Betterman I am since I Come into contact with you And you taught so many things about myself and you know this is true but now we are apart and its all my fault cos you know I need to be alone Don't know myself so how can I share me with you girl or anyon e D...

Blame it on me, yeah. Blame it on me. Blame it on me, yeah. Yes, you blame it on me. Blame it on me, yeah. Blame it on me. You gonna blame it on me, yeah. Blame it on me. Here's a trick for the new folk, coming down the line being born in these heavy, these h...

I walk for miles. Circumnavigate these lands. Walking blindly, Holding out my hands. And I pass the stones That remind me why I'm here. I follow the setting sun And you were there. Don't you see what she done to me. I was running blind but now I can be An...

I can't believe what happened here tonight. I know those things I said, you know those things were not right Anger coursing through my blood and corroding all my veins I'm hanging on for dear life, I'm just trying to find my reins Cause when you left me girl...

All, all that I know Is that I stand here before you as criminal For what I have done, and for what I still am doing What you see is wrong But I'm just watching the sunset and playing my old song So why did you even have to come along And all, all that am Is...

Got your eyes open, but you cannot see Got what you want, do you got what you need? The one day you see something you cannot bear Telling you girl, yes you better beware Her papa loved her so much you could see Loved her too much if you know what I mean So, sh...

I got to get away man, Got to clear my mind, mind, mind Out of this mundane god-forsaken 9-5 waste of my time. I'm gonna tell the boss man I'm never coming back, back, back I'm just a one way crazy locomotive jumpin' off of my tracks. 'Cause I'm jacked u...

Tell ya little bit of trouble I have cause all I really think about is you Back and forth and around again cause all I really think about is you Pickup a phone and I call my friend and all we really talk about is you Now I wonder if it'll ever end cause...

Cold wind it blows, blowing through you like Sunday morning. Chill in my bones, take me home, take me home. Home is where the heart is, but my heart's been truly stolen. Cold wind it blows, wind it blows. Fire in my gut reminding me that yes I will, great...

* Chorus "Don't call me nigger, whitey" "Don't call me whitey, nigger" "Don't call me nigger, whitey" "Don't call me whitey, nigger" Why's all the time in this world, we stumble in the night When all we have to do is get along, we don't need to fight And in t...

Ben got a job at the mine along the way. He said everything was fine until that fatefulday . That's when his life, started to change. The day he went to help and go blow up that Mountain Range. Ben Moved to town a year ago or maybe more Straight out of Hig...

Take a look around and what do I see It looking like the whole world's goin just a little crazy And I know it can't be all of them and just not me So I guess I'm going just a little crazy Take a look around and what do I see Far too many people watching their...

Where you run is where you hide , Better hope you're hiding well Cause when the angle catches you You know you're damned to Hell Damned to Hell is what you are Can you hear the Church Bells toll and all the money in the world Can't save your sorry soul....

You light me up little girl, like the 4th of July I love you more than every single star man in the sky You are the best damn thing that ever happened to me Want to take you home start making family You are a damn fine lady like no other Want to introduce you...

A sun does rise from distant lands Tears run and fires burning He find first place with dirty hands He graduates man without learning. Agenda set So long ago This son's a puppet with a master The hands stand still right by his side Middle finger on the button...

I said hey ho, baby get away from me 'Cause I'm losing my mind, my head Another man in my bed So go and run, before I live to regret What I'm gonna do to you 'Cause I'm just about to lose my mind Devil woman get the hell away from me I'm sayin' Devil...

Did you ever stop to think about whatcha gonna do With your responsibility? Or did you, Just take this job cause it would Be good for the money And did you Ever stop to think About your duty to mankind Or did you, Think ya take this job do favours Fo...

BOOM yeah Back on the scene Where ya look good by being mean Yeah friend for another round bringing you up while laying it down Damn! like jumping into the ring just a sing but it ain't nothing Yeah man, foe or friend do you got ink or venom in your pe...

Earthbound Child Earthbound Child Come up with the shit I'm the Earthbound Child Earthbound Child Earthbound Child Come up with the shit I'm the Earthbound Child Earthbound Child Earthbound Child Lock onto the shit cause you're the Earthbound Child Ea...

Fire in the sky, outta the blue and into the red depths Time for you and I to try to fall asleep in the bed they've made us All came crumblin' down tears in her eyes as it rained confusion The whole world has changed I don't understand How one can kill a man...

Two atoms, they collide In all the random ways In the heat of you and I Not so random, some might say She walks up close to me She looks me in the eyes She said "Boy, what's it gonna be, Now that it's just you and I?" I'm a fool I'm a fool for you...

Now i dont want to argue i dont want to fight and if theres something wrong yes you know im gonna try to make it right i love you you love me we be one family tonight so get right over here and lets get down get funky to night 'Cause you are my queen and t...

Smile your lovely smile And tell me of tomorrows for a while And hold my hand And tell me, tell me, tell me you understand 'Cos I know your name And there ain't no one else I'd trust now with this shame So, so good woman, open up your heart And I will take it...

All around I see raining Things don’t seem to go my way Got a dark cloud that’s hanging And it seems to follow me Oh won’t you just wake up feel the humming This cool world is giving you better start running Catch up with your life, catch on up Befo...

Way on down where they've been forgotten city just sinking with the whole world watching wading waist deep in water, living on my roof in the land of forgotten hey, to the deaf giant with the big muscles why ya moving so slow con, conquer and dividing, hole in...

Beautiful woman, so sexy Come shake that bottom over, over to me Feel that one drop, feel that skank Brother B playing that Hip Hop It better than a, money in the bank Lights are low, moon is high I want you to know That you're the brightest star in my sky and...

Hello, Hello, whats going through your head, Hell there boy better get it read… You used to be so real And all of your love everybody did feel But now your turning into a fake And all our hearts yeah you do break Cause of all those drugs you do take One big a...

Hard working people from another land looking for a little more Coming to this country for a helping hand You know they sail their ships upon these shores And they are lookin for a freedom that most of us don't appreciate But you know man we can't let them in...

You left your mark on me. I'll leave my mark on you. This war we fight you'll see Scorches all of the truth. Suffered now will the fool. And I've been wondering how long you think this lasts. Do I dare to belive in something more, Do I dare to b...

You tell me what you want girl, You tell me what you need You know you just say the word I'll be right there, yes I'll be right there at your feet Because you know you rock girl And i love how we roll But i left you all alone, all we got is the phone...

I'm going way down Down South Where I feel a little better about myself Gonna find some inspiration real soon Mother Earth and I'm gonna find a way Cos I'm riding through this valley all the way, yeah, on my own Gonna learn to, say, live by myself, I'm gonna...

Johnny's in the backseat of the car Driving, don't know where he's going Yes, we got a full tank, yeah by far But we are empty rolling And we've forgotten so much passenger And you know the car is stolen I'm freaking in the front seat now Yeah, sitting...

Keeper won't you let me in My soul is tired and worn thin And all I want is a place to lay my head So keeper, keep me a while, I said Cos all I want to do is escape this mind So keeper, can I leave that part please behind Cos I don't want to think about life...

I am what I am and I am strong Cause I got my land and I got my song I am what I am and I belong Cause I got my land and I got my song Tell you a story, about a girl named Kimberly Who all the cowboys wanted cause she was wild and free But now theres fussin...

Strange as it may be Sometimes life you know it ain't what it seems Like going to war to make peace Sometimes life you know it ain't what it seems Like the old man out there he lives on the streets And now he is asking for a dollar odff everybody he meets Ne...

Bells are ringing on your long target, six in the morning man the race don't stop. You just shit, shower, shave, make it to the station. Waiting for the train, goddamn the train late again. Hit the streets in day, I see them duck and weaving, begging,...

There are things in this life I would rather not sacrifice. You girl I cannot live without and you know there's no doubt that All I mind's losing you. I don't mind losing sleep Pray the lord my soul to keep I'll get plenty of rest when I am dead but till th...

What you watch, what you read What you percieve is to be truth It is all so subjective So what you believe is up to you But what are we to believe in Between the lies and the truth? Youth Media has vested interest So what you believe is up to you. But how ar...

Well I hope you find your way Through every heart wrenching day With all those shitty decisions that you make Hell I know the games, I know the games you play So do you think you got enough time To open all of your uranium mines Before yes you go and you pois...

I’m in, and I’m out Alien from somewhere else Don’t know what the hell I be yelling about But from here and there belong nowhere Seem so many northern man Now things don’t seem to be the same But they are some how Cause all my life I lived on the outside B...

Old man he looks out the window You know he gets quite a fright. Whole world has gone and changed on him Feels like it was overnight. He saw a world war yeah it came and went The man walked on the moon right there in his living room Saw that TV become a relg...

There's something haunting me, running on thin ice It's nothing you can see, I do all I can to hide And all the rolling days, all the lonely nights You don't know your place, all the fights I keep on reading the same chapter I cannot breathe, holding hid...

Well there's far too many questions to ask, To answer all of them tonight. For I wear, too many masks, To tell if any of them are wrong or right. And confusion casts a shadow upon me, Like a great big cloud in the sky. And now I pray for rain Cause it's been...

So there aint no need to pickapart me Cause what you get aint what you see I said a little fucked up, a little crazy But there aint no need to pickapart me Going down the road nobody gonna get in my way Nothing gonna stop old me from finding myself a new...

I will run, yes I will roll, I will climb your mountains high, Through the valleys of deceit, Through the cold winds of denial, And though you fear the cold dark, I'll be right here by your side, 'Cos until you know just who you are, You'll never know...

So tell me family now what do you think ? Watch it all go down the great big sink. Watch how the scum it rises to the top. Don't you wonder when it's all gonna stop? Sometimes I wonder how we do sleep, serving the dodgy companies we keep. All kicking an...

Why do I deserve such a visit From the one I thought I'd never meet. Beyond my greatest expectations. You exceeded everything. Well here I am Take me for what you see For I'm transparent in the light of you. And look inside, See that fire burning bright Th...

Sista, Sista, why can't you see That I'm a part of you And you're a part of me And all I want is to be your friend So Sista, Sista, won't you let me in Cos all your life I have seen you grow And yes you are, you're a beautiful woman, And all I wanted is the b...

If you just want to know something. All you got to do Is ask me. Cause though the sunsets all around us The truth is often plain to see. I know you been going through some hard times Yes I have been there too before And thought the truth is sometimes hard...

So Spring is in her belly, It's sprouted in her soul, and no one had to tell us, we did just know. and know life seems a little more, somehow, meaningfull and i looked at her like i always do and i see, beautiful Just the thought of you changed us, I remember...

I lost my love, I lost my light I can't find em anymore. And if there's something I could give, what I've given it before now cause I came back a little broken. Things don't fit anymore. And I wait for spring to come. But how long, tell me how lon...

You got your mask on, it's only your cold eyes I see. No, you did not break or enter but when you're leaving you take everything. You're loot is packed and ready the kids are buckled in and weep, And now I'm curled up in this empty shell where our home i...

Sail your ship up on the shore With battered masts and broken oar Let me aboard to play my part By letting me into your heart I've got I've got only good to give I've only got one life to live, and There is no place I'd rather be Then with you on these...

Take, take what you want, Take it all, i know you want my soul And feel, what you want me to feel But i will only conceal just a little more From you You're all alone, you're all alone And you draggin everyone in All alone and you don't even understand Don't e...

Take it from me come take me home I'll be the one for you one for you one for you Trembling skin, right to the bone Bite into me I am ripe for the taking Twist me, turn me, throw me around Drunk in this potion of loaded emotion Beautiful beautiful beauti...

There'll come a time When you may want just a little more Societys luxuries are not what you had in store. They offer no security for your soul. So Mother Eart is what you need Maybe this is what you be looking for. Oh Mother Earth Got to respect her She's...

We like your face, we like your style, everything about you seems so worthwhile. We like your hair, we like your nose everybody gonna get one of those. The bullets for the magazines. Paparazzi shooting like soldiers in their teens. I'm just a teenag...

Don't call me hippy cause the way that I look , Cause I got a recipe and you know I can cook And I come forth with only good intent, You know I am Heaven bound but I'm surely hell bent On getting the job done like I know I should, Get the job done like my mo...

They're cutting down all the trees Can someone stop them please Thank God for people in this world Who dedicate their lives to these Thank God for people in this world Who dedicate their lives to trees Because... Don't they know if they chop them down There...

I used to get high for a living Believing everything that i saw on my tv I used to get high for a living Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me I used to get high for a living Thinking that my destiny was out of my control I used to get high for a livi...

So have you been to the valley lately? Have you noticed that the shepherd is gone? So walk gently lady As you walk along Cos I once fought for his forces But that cross bears nothing now I've seen all but your Crusades succeed And it's growing sour Gonna be a...

What you want to say, Wait till you get home. I'm sick of communicating over the Telephone. But tell me how you feel, For I am lonely too Need you to know I'm just as cold & numb as you. But I could fly away, Or I could be no one. And you could be the...

The wings are wide, so cover me Come cover me beyond the great divide Too long we're waiting, the color has now faded I've come to be at your side Beyond my brain, so rescue me, please rescue me your flesh and flawed design I want to go, so let me float like m...

I could be loud man, I could be silent I could be young man or I could be old I could be a gentleman, I could be violent I could turn hot man or I could be cold I could be just like the calm before the storm boy, waiting for all hell yeah to break loose...