Widespread Panic Album

This is the season
These are the waking days
Throw off your wet sheets
Step into the soft parade

Hollowed and glisten
Like sweat on a moving train
Baby, listen, we're about to be born again

Come down, this is your second skin
Surround, oh, this is your second skin
This is the love inside
These are your fears you hide away

Maybe it's a burden
Maybe it's nature's gift
They stretch and they burn
All the colors you're working with

This is a cleaning
These are the shapes we've taken in
Real life is our dreaming
This is our second skin

Come down, this is your second skin
Surround, oh, this is your second skin
This is the love inside
These are your fears and pride today

This is just another story
Whisper the walk you walk
Magic and glory
This is just flesh from talk

This is a moment
This is the time to choose
This is your hour
Nothing but skin to lose

Come down, this is your second skin
Surround, this is your second skin
This is the love inside
These are your fears you hide away

Come down, this is your second skin
Surround, this is your second skin
This is the love inside
These are your fears, your pride today

We are the good people your friends told you all about
Sure it is, to watch it is, the night before the rising sun
Barefoot, ships in the sea, I'll give them drinking on the shore
If you can find the voice, hear them singing thrills my soul

Louder and louder I feel the thunder roar
Faster and faster I feel the engines burn
Brighter and brighter I see the lightning flash
Closer and closer here are your waters so drink and be home again

The machines that make their rounds, don't care if they ever see the dawn
I will have peace like a river, wait up winter's gone
You weak and wounded, and sick and sore
Like the women at the Well, I hear them singing thrills my soul

Louder and louder I feel the thunder roar
Faster and faster I feel the engines burn
Brighter and Brighter I see the lightning flash
Closer and closer here are your waters so drink and be home again

We are the good people your friends told you all about
One touch of nature digs your whole world again

Louder and louder I feel the thunder roar
Faster and faster I feel the engines burn
Brighter and brighter I see the lightning flash
Closer and closer here are your waters so drink
Here are your waters let's drink
Here are your waters so let's drink and be home again
Again

Black hole, paradise found
somthing so dark and something so bright
Blue skies over our head
Why the hell is everything turning out gray?

All things are not what they seem
The man behind the curtain is probably mean

Deep six keeps the population down
Broke and soaking wet, floating around
Keep your head down, keep your voice down
Ohh listen to the sound
All the races, all the faces
Just might find a winner lying on the ground

Learn to take it, meditate it
Can’t fake it now
From the cradle you’ve been labeled
About as stable as a drunk on shaky ground

Blind luck stumbling into a tree
Would’ve passed by if I could have seen
Got no cares I never felt pressed
I wonder what they’re getting for a pound of flesh?
Hunker down now throwing a shoe
Dogs new tricks Something they can’t use

Deep six keeps the population down
Broke and soaking wet, floating around
Keep your head down keep your voice down
Ohh listen to the sound
All the faces, you can't shake 'em now now
Just might find a winner lying on the ground

Learn to take it, try to shake it
All the faces, you can't shake 'em now now
From the cradle you’ve been labeled
About as stable as a drunk on shaky ground

Well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more

For me He was chastised, for me He was hated,
For me he was rejected by a world that He created.
Nations are angry, cursed are some,
People are expecting a false peace to come

Well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more

It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit
Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it
Using all the devices under the sun.
And He never give up 'til the battle's lost or won

Well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more

Time zones
It doesn't matter where you go or how you wiggle and squirm
We're in a maze, baby

All alone
What doesn't kill you has a momma's way of
Helping ya learn

Blast off!
Five, four, three, baby 'bout to
Push it through

It's a payoff
You can tell cause

Don't tow it away
We'll all be back tomorrow
After today
We'll all come back tomorrow.

Pit stop
We're in the middle, everybody's learnin' to breathe
Leavin' like an

Earthquake
Leaves you shakin' but at least we're not
Shakin' alone

Angel bright, life and death
Up the road gonna salt my bread
Angels fly around my head
All gatherin' at the foot of my bed
Don't believe the lies they said
Keep it simple around

Hot steam
We're in the middle and baby that's a
Beautiful thing

Don't kill the
Mockingbird, who's really just
Learning to sing

Don't tow it away

Angel bright, life and death

One of these days my back won't bend
My fingers might hurt swollen
Live another day, get lucky that way
Sound of thunder when the gods go bowling

Lucky is as lucky does

She was a looker to the right of me
I sidestepped to intercept her
She got mad, but I was looking meaner
She knew I could protect her

Might be fear, but it could be love
Don't try to make it easy
Only makes it harder
Just take it easy, baby
Don't try, don't try, don't try
I'll come home when the clowns come home

Walking side by side down a blind night road
Something's creeping in the woods beside us
Arm and arm we're creatures, two heads and six legs
Ain't nothing gonna try to bite us

I'm going home like the clowns come home
Don't try to make it easy
Only makes it harder
Just take it easy, baby
Don't try, don't try, don't try
I'll come home when the clowns come home

Seen your sister naked
Ain't nothin' I tried to see
I just seen somebody pool there
Ain't nothin' I tried to see

Well, I hope it's not hunt day
And I hope it's not your daddy's shootin' day

Ribs and whiskey makin' my mind feel tight
Whiskey makin' my body feel hot
You won't believe, my love
I'm gonna find new ways to spend my night

I've seen your sister naked
Ain't nothin' I tried to see
I just seen somebody pool there
Ain't nothin' I tried to see

I hope it's not hunt day
I hope it's not your daddy's shootin' day

Ribs and whiskey makin' my mind feel tight
Whiskey makin' my body feel hot
You won't believe, my love
I'm gonna find new ways to spend the night

You won't believe, my love
I'm gonna find new ways to spend the night
You won't believe, my love
I'm gonna find new ways to spend my night

You won't believe, my love
I'm gonna find new ways to spend my night

On a train from Paris to Amersterdam
Windows frame a blurred countryside
Becoming a bit absent minded
A touch of madness aside
A brush with madness inside

Ahhh, ahhh
Go crazy
Ahhh, ahhh
Crazy

All the colors from dog to the paper
Led by the angel's hand to the eye
Still life in perpetual motion
With a short little friend by my side
It's nice to have a friend by your side

They say it just isn't done that way
Like villians too stupid to hide
It's not like we made a big decision
We're just going along for the ride
Ooo, take me along for the ride

Ahhh, ahhh
Go crazy
Ahhh, ahhh
Crazy

The starry night points a light in the firmament
All the truth that the textures confides
You know this paint, it tastes a little bit funny
Like a potion of Jekyll & Hyde
The potion of Jekyll & Hyde

Train take me back to Paris
There are so many loves left untried
In a world with no meaningless details
It's nice to have a friend by your side
It's nice to have a friend by your side

Ahhh, ahhh
Go crazy
Ahhh, ahhh
Crazy

You should be glad
You should be happy to be alive
You should be glad
You should be happy
My blood runs through your veins

Another stormy night up in Memphis
A band of black clouds rides overhead
Slept seven days and nights on an old greyhound dog
Came limping in to Union Station

Now that I have had my fun
It's good to be back again
We finally found the place in time
To call our own

She is uncontrollable
Let her cry, let her cry, let her cry
She is inconsolable
Let her cry, let her cry, let her cry
We don't have to do this
We just walk away from here

You should be glad
You should be happy to be alive
You should be glad
You should be happy
That the day is new

I was dreaming we were floating down the Natchez Trace
Our angels were falling in
I saw the outline of a spirit sliding cross the river
Laughing at cracks about the devil's backbone

Walking in the haze, Sunday's Independence Day
Another good excuse for a celebration
We sang songs of liberty
Kind of takes the sting out of occupation

Now that I have had my fun
It's good to be back again
We finally found the time and place
To call our own

She is uncontrollable
Let her cry, let her cry, let her cry
She is inconsolable
Let her cry, let her cry, let her cry
But you don't have to do this
Just walk away from here

She is uncontrollable
Let her cry, let her cry, let her cry
She is inconsolable
Let her cry, let her cry, let her cry

You should be glad
(You should be happy)
You should be glad
(You should be happy)

You should be glad
(You should be happy)
You should be glad
(You should be happy)

May your family share laughter
Your songs always play
May your wishes come true
Even those left unprayed

Hand on my shoulder
Gentle cloud on the hill
May your heart's doors be open
Forever and ever, may your glass, it be filled

Like a wheel to the river
A mother's moon and songs
Dreams against the wind
Ohh, and lifetimes undone

Over and over
And over again
I was made stronger
Forever and ever, knowing you as my friend

On the streams of tomorrow
Blessed days out swim sorrows
As we float on reawaken dreams

On the streams of tomorrow
Blessed days out swim sorrows
As we float on reawaken dreams

May your family share laughter
Your songs always play
May your wishes come true
Even those left unprayed

Hand on my shoulder
Gentle cloud on the hill
May your heart's doors be open
Forever and ever, may your glass be it filled