Amos Lee Album

Words & Music: Amos Lee

Well I walked over the bridge
Into the city where I live and I saw my old landlord
Well we both said hello
There was no where else to go
Cause his rent I couldn't afford

Well relationships change
Though I think it's kind of strange how money makes a man grow
Ah, some people they claim if you get enough fame
You live over the rainbow
Over the rainbow
But the people on the street,
Out on buses or on feet
We all got the same blood flow

Oh in society every dollar got a deed
We all need a place that we can go and feel over the rainbow

Some times we forget what we got
And who we are and who we are not
I think we got a chance to make it right
Keep it loose
Keep it tight
Keep it tight

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world
Though I can't help but follow
Though I know someday she is bound to go away and stay over the rainbow
Got to learn how to let her go
Over the rainbow

But sometimes we forget who we got
Who they are and who they are not

There is so much more in love than black and white
Keep it loose child
You gotta keep tight
Keep it loose child
Keep it tight
Keep it tight
Keep it tight

Words & Music: Amos Lee

Go ahead baby, run away again
I'm growing tired of chasing you
I know you only have time to love me
When you got nothing better to do

Who's bold enough to believe
In either love or war
Both just leave you busted, and broken down, and wanting more

Baby I've seen it all before
You know that I've seen it all before
You know that I've seen it all before
I ain't gonna be your fool any more

I can hear my heart pounding
Oh, but I just can't decide
Stuck between the depths of my fears and the peaks of my pride

Repeat chorus

I've seen your tricks and your trade offs
I've seen your evil ways
I've seen every thing your twisted smile conveys

I ain't gonna be your fool, baby
I ain't gonna be your fool, baby
I ain't gonna be your fool, baby
I ain't gonna be your fool baby

Any more

Words & Music: Amos Lee

I am at ease in the arms of a woman
Although now most of my days are spent alone
A thousand miles from the place I was born
But when she wakes me she takes me back home

Now most days I spend like a child
Who's afraid of ghosts in the night
I know there ain't nothing out there
I'm still afraid to turn on the light

I am at ease in the arms of a woman
Although now most of my days are spent alone
A thousand miles from the place I was born
But when she wakes me she takes me back home

A thousand miles from the place I was born
But when she wakes me she takes me back home

I am at ease in the arms of a woman
Although now most of my days are spent alone
A thousand miles from the place I was born
When she wakes me she takes me
Yeah, when she wake me she takes me
Yeah, when she wake me she takes me back home

When she wake me she takes me back home

Words & Music: Amos Lee

I've been waiting a long time
I was just hoping I might find
Ah, the right kind of lover for me

Well you know I've been lonesome
God knows we all been lonesome
Some people think being lonesome really means being free

But, I would give it all up for you
Yes I would give it all up for you
Yes I would give it up
Settle down
Stop looking around
I finally found something true

We live in a world full of confusion
A culture based in illusion
Ah, some people think it's amusing
But its really just fantasy

I would give it up for you
Yes I would give t all up for you
Yes I would give it up
Settle down
Stop looking around
I finally found
Ah, yeah

I would give it all
I would give it all up for you now baby
I would give it all
I would give it all
It would give it all up for you now baby

Words & Music: Amos Lee

My soul is as open as the sky
Often time it's just as blue
People tell me to keep on dreaming
That's just what I'm gonna do

Now everybody want to treat me like a house fly
Turn me around and tell me to shoo
They want to tell me to keep on dreaming
That's just what I'm gonna do

Every moral has a story
Every hand needs a glove
Sometime it's for the glory
Ah, but mostly, it's for the love
It's the love
It's the love
It's the love that pulls me through
So when they tell me to keep on dreaming
That's just what I'm gonna do

That's just what I'm gonna do

Words & Music: Amos Lee

Did you believe them
When they told you they discovered you
And that everything is free as long as you do what they tell you to
You think it's true
But nothing could be further from the truth, my love
Did you even listen
When they told you to change your name
And that nobody wants honesty when looking at a perfect frame
Play the game
But nothing could be further from the truth, my love
And nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world
Play it girl
Play it girl
Play it girl
Does it make you feel good
When they tell you what you want to hear
And after they suck all your soul
Well that's when they'll disappear
Disappear, disappear forever
Like a prince in your little fairy tale
And you will find one day when they put your soul on sale
Nothing could be further the truth, my love
And nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world

Words & Music: Amos Lee

Yesterday I got lost in the circus
Felling like such a mess
Now I'm down I'm just hanging on the corner
I can't help but reminisce
When you're gone all the colors fade
When you're gone no New Year's Day parade
You're gone
Colors seem to fade

Your mama called she said that you're down stairs crying
Feeling like such a mess
Yeah I hear you you're in the background bawling
What happened to your sweet summertime dress

I know we all, we all got our faults
We get locked in our vaults and we stay
But when you're gone all the colors fade
When you're gone no New Year's Day parade
You're gone
Colors seem to fade
Colors seem to fade
Yeah

Words & Music: Amos Lee

I keep on laughing to keep from crying
I keep on dreaming to keep from dying
I keep on trying
Ain't gonna stop
Get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top

We all know someone who's always hurtin'
The sun is shining they draw the curtain
One thing for certain
The pain ain't gonna stop

You get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top

You know the grass is always s greener in someone else's yard
And the world is so much meaner when your heart is hard

I go out walking in any season
It could be rainin' it could be freezin'
I don't need no reason
It's just so pleasing I can't stop

You get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top
You get right down to the bottom of the barrel
And then you float back on top

Words & Music: Amos Lee

Oh, Black River
Gonna take my cares a way
Whoa, Black River
Gonna take my cares a way
Gonna take my cares gonna carry my cares
Gonna take my cares away
Gonna take a my cares gonna carry my cares
Gonna take a my cares away

Oh, dear savior
Gonna take my cares away
Whoa, dear savior
Gonna take my cares a way
Gonna take my cares gonna carry my cares
Gonna take my cares away
Gonna take my cares gonna carry my cares
Gonna take my cares away

Oh, sweet whiskey, lord
Gonna take my cares away
Whoa sweet whiskey lord
Your gone gonna take my cares a way
Gonna take my cares gonna carry my cares
Gonna take my cares away
Gonna take my cares gonna carry my cares
Gonna take my cares away

Your gonna take my bottle, my bible, my mess
Your gonna take all of my empty and my loneliness
Gonna take all of that sadness inside of me
Gonna take it all and set me free

Oh, Black River
Gonna take my cares a way

Words & Music: Amos Lee

I ain't no wide eyed rebel
Oh, but I ain't no preacher's son
And now I see the trouble and all the loving that I've done
And the world ain't no harder than it's ever been
Looking for love in the lies of a lonely friend

So much superstition and so much worry in my heart
I need a new religion it's time to make a brand new start
And the world ain't no easier than it's ever been
Looking for love in the lies of a lonely friend

Remember when we were in California
We were so much happier then
Now we're back in New York City
Looking for love in the lies of a lonely friend

And now the clocks are running
And no one knows where time goes
You know the moon is stunning
It's only shadows that she shows
And the world ain't no harder than it's every been
Looking got for love in the lies of a lonely friend

I ain't no wide eyed rebel
But I ain't no preacher's son

Words & Music: Amos Lee

All my friends
They all live in pain
Longing for the warmth of childhood to bring them home again
All my friends
They got broken hearts
And if the world's a stage we're searching for our parts

We'll face the winds that break the strongest of trees
Beckon for the sweet soft summer breeze

All my friends
They got broken wings
Never will you hear them asking why the caged bird sings
All my friends
They know how to live
Oh, so much sorrow and so much love to give

We'll face the winds that break the strongest of trees
Beckon for the sweet soft summer breeze

Now we all know that the storm is coming
Every body wants to know which way to go
I see the crowds a running
The wind's gonna blow

All my friends are dear to me
Oh when the storm comes they're as close as family
All my friends are the ones I choose
Oh, if I hear them knockin'
You know I can't refuse

We'll face the winds that break the strongest of trees
Beckon for the sweet soft summer breeze

All my friends